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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on outstanding issues in coastal environment affairs. Discusses scientific, legal, economic, and technical aspects of coastal issues and intergrates them into problem-solving exercises.
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4.00 Credits
Discusses the cycle by which racism in our institutions helps form our attitudes and the manner in which our attitudes, in turn, shape our institutions. Emphasizes the practical, day-to-day aspects of racism, rather than the theoretical and historical.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the impact that our daily consumptions and purchases make on the environment and our health. Examines major themes related to eating and the environment, including agriculture, soil resources and pollution, water and air pollution, pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, deforestation, food additives, and nutritional supplements. Aims to encourage students to develop smarter consumer habits by providing them with the skills necessary to choose the most environmentally friendly and healthy food available, leading to a higher quality of life.
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4.00 Credits
Uses selected films to investigate psychological subjects including human development over the life cycle (particularly childhood and adolescence), family dynamics, sexuality, and psychopathology (trauma, anxiety and eating disorders, and psychosis).
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the field of urban studies. Focuses on these central issues: how cities and suburbs evolve, what makes a city or suburb a good place to live, and how cities and suburbs are (or are not) planned. Students review the ways in which urban scholars and practitioners study cities and suburbs, their research methodologies, definition of issues, and division of labor among different disciplines. Students explore the roles of individuals, communities, the private sector, and government in planning and shaping the city.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to pressing urban issues: urban sprawl, poverty, education, transportation, economic development, and housing, through an intensive analysis of the Boston metropolitan area. The course is cotaught by university faculty and practitioners in government, community, and nonprofit organizations throughout the metropolitan area. Offers students the opportunity to analyze Boston data, go on outings to see development in progress, talk with urban practitioners about what they do, and conduct research on an urban issue of their choice.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an arts and technology experimental studio lab in qualitative research. Provides advanced experimentation in new media innovation. Students interested in interdisciplinary careers in the arts, sciences, and the impact of new arts and media technologies work in a collaborative learning environment on individual and group projects. The learning environment is called Model IMP (Intergenerational Mentoring Program). Students are offered an array of existing research projects linked with research-active faculty or arts professionals in visual and performance arts media. While final research projects are a projected outcome, a major learning component is the observation of how knowledge is transmitted across generations, cultures, and disciplines.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2005; replaced by CIN U520. Introduces studio production techniques. Covers the creative and technical elements of video production, camera operation, floor direction, editing graphics, lighting, picture, composition, and directing methods.
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4.00 Credits
Covers special topics in Chinese studies.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the evolution, systematics, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of freshwater, marine, and anadromous fishes from temperate to tropical environments. Examines the diversity of fish interactions in aquatic communities; predator/prey relationships, host/symbiont interactions, and the various roles of fishes as herbivores. Studies inter- and intraspecific predator-prey relationships among fish populations in aquatic communities and integrates principles of ecology. Provides access to the collection of the New England Aquarium resulting in an extraordinary opportunity to understand principles of ichthyology through the study of living fish. Hosted each year by a consortium member institution, this Massachusetts Bay Marine Studies Consortium is an intermediate-level survey course.
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