Courses

Exploration of the principal theoretical perspectives, paradigms, and schools of thought that can help our understanding of such urban phenomena as gentrification, urban poverty, urban activism, neighborhood development, segregation, city politics, suburbanization, economic restructuring, and urban planning. Urban theory encompasses many interdisciplinary points of view, and we will explore the work of geographers, sociologists, economists, historians, political scientists, and anthropologists.

This course focuses on content and language integrated learning (CLIL), which is an approach in which children learn the subject areas and a new language in an integrated manner. Students examine and have hands on experiences with current research-based practices for integrating content and new language instruction in math, science and social studies.

A theoretical analysis of modern Russian contrasted with English.

For students who want to refine their fluency in current idiom. Designed to build self-confidence in social situations. Practice in expressing and defending an opinion through group discussions and short presentations on general topics. May not be taken by a native speaker of German.

An examination of major concepts such as justice, equality, freedom, sovereignty/ governmentality, and power/resistance in the history of political thought. The course may be organized to emphasize the work of specific thinkers, thematically or historically.

An analysis of the major funds flows of the firm. Development of the principles for determining specific assets a firm should acquire, as well as the least-cost methods of financing those assets. Topics considered include the management of cash, inventories, receivables, and fixed assets; alternative sources of available funds, including short-, intermediate-, and long-term sources of financing; the cost of capital; optimum capital structure; and corporate dividend policy.

Introduction to tools and methods used in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The students will learn about basic NLP tasks (part-of- speech tagging, tokenization, parsing, entity recognition, sentiment analysis) and how to perform these tasks and train machine learning models, using off-the-shelf software (NLTK, sckit-learn, spaCy, pytorch, etc.).

The concepts and procedures used to account for the cost of manufacturing and selling, with their practical application in different types of cost accumulation systems (i.e., job-order costing, process costing, joint- product costing, standard costing, and direct costing).

An introductory study of the fundamental principles of costume design for liveperformance. Includes workshop hours in the costume shop. Not open to studentswho have completed DRAM 213.

Advanced study of the principles of costume design for live performance. Expands on topics covered in Drama 213. Includes a workshop on costume construction and assisting on a departmental production.