Courses

Survey of urban public programs. Analysis of selected examples (taken from health, transport, housing, education, welfare, protective, and other services). Comparison of analytical approaches to the analysis of institutions. Role of private, voluntary, and labor organizations in service delivery.

The application of economic principles to the problems of business decision- making. Topics considered include decisions under risk and uncertainty; economic forecasting; estimation of demand and cost functions; price strategy under monopoly, oligopoly, and competition; diversification and conglomeration; and productivity analysis in worker and executive compensation.

Study of marine organisms and biological oceanography. Short trips scheduled on oceanographic research vessels.

A study of the nature of scientific research methods applied to the solution of marketing problems. Emphasis on planning projects and formulating the problem; methods of gathering data, including applications of sampling; interpreting data; and presentation of the results. Some attention is given to a discussion of the essential features of the applied areas of motivation research, advertising research, product research, and sales research.

This course focuses on mass communications, such as the popular press, radio, television, and motion pictures, as institutions that both reflect and influence society. New technologies and video-computer technologies will be examined.

Readings in English translation of outstanding works in Hebrew literature from the Bible to the modern period, illustrating a variety of genres and themes.

Readings in English translation of some outstanding works of Hispanic literature from its beginnings to the twentieth century, illustrating a variety of genres. The specific works to be considered will vary from semester to semester and from section to section, and will be announced in advance.

Aims to provide a general overview of Western literature to students who have already studied some of it, and who would like to have an upper-level general course in literature. Works will range from Gilgamesh to the present.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this course combines research, writing and material culture investigation to examine one period in the history of fashion and how it functions intrinsically as a part of history, culture and society. Garments, textiles, and accessories from the historic Queens College Fashion and Textiles Collection are explored and used as a point of departure for writing projects.

MATH 115 Exempt