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Designed to prepare advanced learners for work in the U.S. college classroom. The focus is on learning to read faster and more analytically, as well as to broaden vocabulary. Topics include essay structure, paraphrasing and summarizing, and learning how to critically respond to what is read.
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Designed for students who need to concentrate on improving their English-language ability and are considering a future working in a business or academic setting. Focuses on discussion, presentations, reading, and vocabulary, with emphasis on grammar. Students develop skills by making presentations, developing marketing plans, researching companies, discussing current business trends, and creating virtual stock portfolios, which they track and present the results of at the end of the term.
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Focuses on developing all of the reading skills through a business context. Students read, summarize, skim, scan, infer, predict, and discuss all materials read. Discussion topics include management, marketing, advertising, and the stock market. In addition, there is vocabulary expansion and timed readings for increasing reading speed. Students are responsible for two or three 10-minute presentations based on summaries of business articles.
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Provides intensive practice in writing for business, with an emphasis on grammatical accuracy and clarity of content. Focuses on writing well-organized and effectively developed paragraphs as well as giving attention to individual writing needs. Identifies and reviews problematic grammar areas. All assignments focus on the needs of written language in a business context.
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Focuses on aspects of English pronunciation, including the sounds of vowels and consonants, as well as the patterning of stress and intonation, that aid nonnative speakers in speaking intelligibly in English. Develops active-listening strategies to improve comprehension. Provides a variety of speaking activities and directed laboratory practice.
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Retired August 31, 2005. Provides extensive practice and review of major grammatical points with the goal of increasing command of the structures of English and improving writing skills.
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4.00 Credits
Offers nonscience students an opportunity to obtain practical knowledge of our present use of the Earth's energy resources and the environmental consequences. Topics include solar energy, nuclear energy, global warming, oil politics, pollution, and electric cars. Draws upon current events, multimedia presentations, a tour of MIT's fusion reactor, and Web-based sources. No knowledge of physics is assumed.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces Central American environmental issues from a human perspective. Describes the rich biodiversity of this land bridge between the Americas and highlights the interaction of its people with their environment. The course points out some of the most immediate threats to environmental safety and includes examples of strategies and best practices in the search for sustainable management of the area's natural resources.
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3.00 Credits
Develops tools and techniques of financial analysis and valuation to support financial decision making. Presents future managers with actual business problems to learn to apply the tools of financial analysis to strategic decisions faced by the firm, such as capital budgeting, capital structure, use of derivatives, and currency exposure management. Highlights the role of financial management as a source of value creation in a competitive environment characterized by rapid technological, personal, and market changes.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the fundamentals of financial decision making. Introduces students to the basic framework of corporate finance. Topics include tools and applications of financial asset valuations, the risk-return tradeoff, modern portfolio theory, methods of calculating the risk of financial assets, tools and applications for analyzing a firm's capital investment decisions, capital structure and dividend policy issues, theory and evidence concerning corporaterestructuring, such as mergers and hostile takeovers, and issues concerning international financial management and the legal, ethical, and regulatory environment of financial management.
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