Courses

An overview of the business of health, emphasis on evaluating the challenges facing health care organizations using competitive analysis, identify their past responses, and explore the current strategies they are using to manage these challenges (and emerging ones) more effectively.

Introduction to the business aspects of broadcast, cable and media industries. Explores techniques and skills needed to manage modern media organizations. Subjects studied include programming, production, advertising, regulation, and theeffects of new technologies.

Discussion, research, and implementation of the practices necessary to be successful as a freelance artist in the current performing arts field.

From the Empire's apogee to its fall: the Crusades and the dismemberment of the Empire; last recovery; conquest by the Ottoman Turks.

The history of the Byzantine Empire to the end of the Golden Age; the founding of Constantinople; the transfer of the Imperial Capital to the East; Christianization of the Empire; barbarian invasions; wars with the Persians and the Arabs; expansion and cultural renaissance.

Euler necessary condition for local extremum, Euler-Lagrange equation, Weierstrass necessary condition, Jacobi's necessary condition, corner conditions, problems of optimal control, Pontryagin maximum principles, transversality conditions, applications.

This course will provide an overview of genomic organization transcription and translation, prior to commencing an in-depth study of cancer genetics and the roles of oncogenes, tumor suppressors, RNA, DNA methylation, gene amplification and the control of gene expression and the viral causes of cancer. Students will also be introduced to basic concepts in bioinformatics and database mining using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) as a model.

A history of the Caribbean region from pre- Columbian times to the present. Topics will include the indigenous population, European colonialism and its legacy, the impact of slavery and racial diversity in the region, cultural and political revolutions, and the area's relationship with the United States.

Explores the history of the island Caribbean from the onset of European rule to the present.

This course studies the Hispanic Caribbean: Cuba, The Dominican Republic and Puerto background of these three Caribbean islands and study a sample of their literary production.