Courses

This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic theoretical and practical approaches to understanding the national security and foreign policy components of the relationship between the United States and its allies along the Atlantic Ocean.

As the Biden administration's Department of Labor was more assertive, unionization campaigns among Starbucks and Amazon workers gained momentum, and the media discussed a "great resignation," organized labor's importance to American democracy became increasingly apparent.

In this course we will examine one of the most enduring social problems in the United States – poverty. The course is divided into three sections. In the first section, we will primarily focus on the conceptualization and measurement of poverty, as well as the demographic groups that are most likely to suffer from high poverty rates. In the second part of the course, we will review in detail the major government programs aimed at alleviating poverty.

This course deals with the relationship between international politics and international economics. It pays particular attention to the increasing political significance of international trade, global competition, and the international division of labor. Students will examine such issues as the role of states in the world economy, the activities of inter-governmental organizations such as the IMF and the World Bank, and the problems of inequality and unequal development.

This course examines the issues of political economy prominent in American public life. Emphasis will be placed on the constitutional, partisan, and sectional aspects of such issues as the Bank of the United States, slavery, gold standard, the Great Depression, banking, income distribution, and the Affordable Care Act.

In this course, students will study the history of voting rights in the United States and the impact that election laws have had (and continue to have) on inequalities in voter participation and representation. In Part 1 of the course, students review the history of voting rights in America, including an in-depth analysis of the political struggles that led to the enfranchisement of women through the 19th Amendment, and racial and language minorities through the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The growth and development of the popular arts in America, with particular emphasis on such forms as popular literature, photography, film, and advertising. The course will consider how popular art affects large audiences, how it succeeds as art, and how it yields a broad range of insights into our national life. The emphasis of the course will vary from semester to semester, but it may not be repeated for credit.

This course will examine works published after the age of "high cyberpunk," roughly post-1988, to examine how ideas about what it means to be a nationstate, a citizen, and a human and how such stable identifiers may undergo radical change in response to ecological and/or technological pressures in strange futures, alternative presents, and pasts that might have been to look at the post-colonial, postcyberpunk novel.

A comprehensive introduction to artificial intelligence accessible to students across all disciplines. Addresses fundamental principles of AI, key concepts like knowledge representation, reasoning, machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networks. Topics such as AI’s impact across various fields, critical analyses of the benefits and limitations of the state of the art, ethical considerations, and hands-on experience in leveraging AI technologies will be covered.

This course explores how companies use their brands to create awareness, shift perceptions, gain market share and connect emotionally to consumers.