Courses

Infectious diseases are serious threats to global public health. Patient-based and epidemiological approaches to managing infectious diseases have shown tremendous success as well as serious limitations (e.g., inability to predict pathogen emergence, virulence, or resistance evolution). The study of infectious disease evolutionary ecology promises to remedy some of these limitations.

This is a basic survey course on China's economic development from a historical perspective. After a short review of some of China's pre-1949 economic history, the course focuses on the People's Republic, with roughly half the semester devoted to the period of Mao's leadership (1949-1976) and the balance devoted to the post-Mao period of reform and transition to a market economy (1978-present).

Economic principles and relationships that serve as the foundation for many of the valuation tools used in finance. The first half of the course develops the microeconomics behind classic valuation theory, equilibrium pricing, and decision- making under uncertainty. The second half covers topics in international macroeconomics including interest rate determination and monetary policy, foreign exchange rates, money and banking, and international capital flows and financial crises.

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A course designed for the nonmajor who wishes an introduction to economic reasoning and policy-making. The major concepts of modern economics will be discussed along with applications of the theory to important contemporary problems such as inflation, recession, productivity, income distribution, economic concentration, and the U.S. role in the world economy. Accounting majors should take ECON 101. Not open to students who are enrolled in or who have received credit for ECON 101.

Economic statecraft is the use of economic tools to achieve foreign policy objectives, including national security objectives. For a long time, the primary focus in foreign policy analysis was on the use—or the threat of the use—of force and the tools for economic statecraft were more or less seen as symbolic gestures of little consequence. However, in the last three decades, there has been a remarkable surge in the utilization of the tools for economic statecraft.

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This course is concerned with theoretical and historical explanations of stratification by class, race, sex, and ethnicity. Specifically, it is concerned with explaining differential rates of progress among ethnic groups; the economic position of the black population versus the white one; black/white males vis-à-vis black/white females; and finally, males and females.

This course is concerned with theoretical and historical explanations of stratification by class, race, sex, and ethnicity. Specifically, it is concerned with explaining differential rates of progress among ethnic groups; the economic position of the black population versus the white one; black/white males vis-à-vis black/white females; and finally, males and females.

Description of economic effects of climate change. Theory of externalities. Benefit- cost analysis and intergenerational accounting. Methods of economic valuation. Economic policies to address consequences of climate change.