Courses

This comparative study of women writers from Africa, the Caribbean and the United States will examine the ways in which these writers re-envision history and challenge traditional conceptions of gender, race, and class.

Understanding exactly what a blockchain is, why it matters for business activities with emphasis on the financial sector. Blockchain’s role as a decentralized distributed ledger is analyzed through use cases in technology, business, and enterprise products and institutions. Topics include the governance and regulatory issues surrounding blockchain’s applications.

Exploration of interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to Korean humanities by engaging with critical discourses on race, ethnicity, and gender involved in the transnational production, consumption, and reception of contemporary South Korean cultural works, including cinema, K-pop, television dramas, and other types of television shows.

Introduction to the design and production of printed books.

Exploration of how brand identities systems are created to visually represent organizations, products and services to their audiences and users. Through individual projects students will develop logos, typography, color schemes, and other design elements to create brand identity systems, and sets of guidelines for how these various attributes are used in the design of products, packaging, digital interface design, social media, and other communications.

A historical study of the diversity of British literature from the beginnings through the seventeenth century, encompassing a range of writing by women and men from various cultural, ethnic, and popular traditions.

A historical study of the diversity of British literature from the century to the twentieth century, encompassing a range of writing by women and men from various cultural, ethnic, and popular traditions.

A study of the literature of the British Romantic period, late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. Topics may include nature, consciousness, fantasy, revolution, sentiment, political reform, and poetic form, while writers may include Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Hemans, Keats, Landon, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft, Edgeworth, de Quincey, Godwin, Hazlitt, and Rousseau.

Buddhist art and architecture from India, China, Korea, Japan as well as Southeast Asian countries including Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, emphasizing the cultural and artistic links between the predominantly Buddhist countries.

Examination of business firms as political actors, providing a political perspective on the legislative and economic environment in which business operates. Specific topics include the way in which business firms and organizations participate in the political process; the place of business power in democratic theory; the politics of economic policy, regulatory policy, corporate governance, and labor market.