Courses

An examination of the history and evolution of the European Economic and Monetary Union and its impact on the United States and the global economy.

Europe in the early modern era, focusing on the cultural and political history of the Renaissance, the development of overseas empires and the evolution of a scientific world view.

This course examines the history of social policy in the European Union, and the course focuses on the current social policy arrangements in Europe and in the European Union. We will examine gender policy, education, child care, elder care, and other policies in the context of improving social conditions in the domestic policy arena.

An examination of EU science and technology policy compared to that of the United States. The course examines how governments can encourage scientific and technological innovation and whether government can (or should) try to limit or control technological innovation.

A capstone course for students in the EU Studies certificate program. The course explores selected topics in a way that allows students to synthesize their knowledge of the EU. Film

This course introduces students to event planning requirements. Topics include fundamentals of event planning; selecting event dates and venues; developing agendas, time lines, budgets, and contracts; marketing events, and facilitating events.

In this course, you will learn the building blocks of hosting and managing safe, effective events. This course covers topics such as planning, risk management, site selection, contracts, marketing, and budgeting of various event types.

The principles and mechanisms of evolution in plants and animals, covering population phenomena, specification, sexual selection, life history strategies, behavior, adaption, systematics and biogeography.

This course is designed to familiarize all Biology majors with the most important principles of evolution and ecology, including natural selection, molecular evolution, population genetics, phylogenies, species and speciation, climate, population ecology, interspecific interactions, communities, and ecosystems.

This course covers the techniques by which genome sequences and genome functions are analyzed. This course also examines topics in evolutionary genomics such as comparative genomics, evolution of duplicate genes, evolution of genome structure and organization, evolution of protein function and evolution of gene expression.