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4.00 Credits
This seminar, a requirement for all majors in the Film and Electronic Arts Program, is an opportunity to share working methods, knowledge, skills, and resources among students working on Senior Projects. The course includes sessions with visiting film and videomakers, who discuss their processes and techniques; a life-after-Bard skills workshop; a review of grant opportunities; and critiques of works in progress.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys financial and managerial accounting. The concepts and methods of financial accounting following generally accepted accounting principles and the effects of alternative principles on the measurement of periodic income and financial status are covered. Recent changes in accounting methods such as those stimulated by manufacturing advances are examined, as are concerns about ethical standards.
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4.00 Credits
This course analyzes the major financial decisions facing firms. Topics include capital budgeting, links between real and financial investments, capital structure choice, dividend policy, and firm valuation. Additional topics may include issues in value and risk; debt financing; risk management; corporate governance; managerial incentives and compensation; and corporate restructuring, such as mergers and acquisitions. Prerequisite: Economics and Finance 230. Environmental Studies 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies Land is a basic source of life and sustenance. For humans, it is a finite and contested resource, and many observers worry that human impacts on the land gravely threaten other species. This course considers such topics as the ecological impacts of agricultural subsidies, political struggles over the management of public lands, geology pertinent to landfill remediation, the effects of habitat fragmentation on species extinction rates, trends in deforestation and reforestation, and the impacts of and possible alternatives to the "Green Revolution." Occasional guestspeakers and widely varied readings provide the foundation for class discussion, lectures, student presentations, and writing assignments. Environmental Studies 382 China's Environmental Studies, Planning, and Management Asian Studies As economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization have accelerated in recent years, China faces new challenges in balancing this growth with environmental protection and natural conservation, even as it has committed itself to a sustainable development policy. This Upper College seminar considers the extensive literatures on China's environment and urban ecology. Among the questions addressed are: What is the extent and variety of environmental pollution and ecological degradation in China? How have urbanization and industrialization affected China's environmental quality? What strategies and actions are being used in China to promote sustainable development and international cooperation? Environmental Studies 399-400 Environmental Studies Research Seminar American Studies, Social Policy This seminar is required for students moderated in Environmental Studies. Students and faculty share tips on research methods and sources, academic writing, and strategies for designing and executing a successful project. Students are expected to take the seminar twice, during their junior and senior years.
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10.00 Credits
This course is for students with little or no experience of French who wish to acquire a strong grasp of the language and culture in the shortest time possible. Students complete the equivalent of three semesters of college-level French in a semester course that meets 10 hours a week and is followed by a four-week stay at the Institut de Touraine (in Tours, France), where students continue intensive study of French while living with local families.
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4.00 Credits
This course, designed as an introduction to contemporary French civilization and culture, is for students who have completed three to five years of high school French or who have already acquired a solid knowledge of elementary grammar. Students reinforce their skills in grammar, composition, and spoken proficiency, through the use of short texts, newspaper and magazine articles, and video.
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4.00 Credits
This course helps students fine-tune their command of French and develop a good sense of the most appropriate ways of communicating ideas and facts in French. The course emphasizes translation as an exercise, as well as a craft in its own right, and addresses grammatical, lexical, and stylistic issues. Translation is practiced from English into French (and vice versa) with a variety of texts from different genres (literary and journalistic). Toward the end of the semester, students may embark on independent projects.
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4.00 Credits
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is about an elaborate internal journey, at the end of which the narrator discovers the unifying pattern of his life as a writer and human being. Famed for its style and its distinctive view of love, sex, cruelty, reading, language, and memory, Proust's epic broke new ground in the invention of a genre that lies between fiction and autobiography. Through a semester devoted to the close reading of Swann's Way and Time Regained in their entirety and several key excerpts from the other volumes, students explore the complex nature of Proust's masterpiece and, among other things, examine the ways by which it accounts for the temporality and new rhythms of modernity. They also question the narrative and stylistic function of homosexuality, discuss the significance of the massive social disruption brought about by the GreatWar, and see how the arts are represented and why they are seminal to the narration. Additional readings include philosophy, art criticism, and literary theory. In English.
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4.00 Credits
Students in this intermediate course explore major themes of French culture and civilization through the study of individual films ranging from the silent era to the present and covering a wide variety of genres. Students also examine the interaction between the French and their cinema, in terms of historical circumstances, aesthetic ambitions, and self-representation.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights If we act morally, French moralists believed, it is because we know we are being watched. If we believe in fidelity, it is because we are afraid of being betrayed. If we weep at our friend's funeral, it is because we are afraid nobody will weep at our own. This cynical portrayal of humanity, by the 17th-century moralistes, permeated much of French literature and philosophy. Course readings include excerpts from Pascal ( Pensées), Molière (Misanthrope), La Fontaine (Fables), Laclos ( Liaisons dangereuses), Rousseau ( Vicaire savoyard), Proust ( Un Amour de Swann), Gide ( L'Immoraliste), Balzac (Père Goriot) , Célin( Mort à crédit) , de Beauvoir (Mémoires d'ujeune fille bien rangée), and Sarraute (L'Usage dela parole). Conducted in French.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the ways the adult world, and society at large, are seen from a child's perspective. Students explore the specifics of that type of literature-writers turning toward the past and reminiscing, and adults writing from the point of view of a child-and discuss what those strategies imply. The main focus is on the following aspects: reconstruction of the past as utopia or dystopia; ritual(s) of passage to adulthood; and social and historical satires. Texts include works by such celebrated 20th-century African and Caribbean Francophone writers as Camara Laye, Maryse Condé, and Joseph Zobel.
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