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Placement: Please visit the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for the language placement guidelines.
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A close look at youth and the construction of adult identity in the French novel of the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussion of instruction vs. education, family structures, friendship, love relationships and sexuality, gender roles and society, and the transformation of narrative forms. Authors may include Balzac, Sand, Zola, Rachilde, Colette, Gide and Duras. Taught in French.
Prerequisite:
FREN 131, FREN 136 or above, or permission.
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An introduction to the study of industrial geography and regional development. Uncovers the hidden spatial logic behind the emergence of manufacturing zones, shopping malls, financial centers and suburban residential zones. Explores how these locational patterns are being affected by globalization. Discussions will focus on the role of technological progress, industrial organization and government policy in shaping the locations of production and services, and how they affect regional growth and decline. Assignments include an in-depth research report on globalization that focuses on one or more aspects of multinational corporation's strategic and locational behavior and its impacts on regional economies. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective.
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Explores the reasons behind the rapid rise of Asian economies and their sudden crises. Discussions include the impacts of rapid industrialization on the standard of living, housing, role of the state, multinational corporations, urban problems and ethnic relations in east, southeast and south Asian countries. Examines the role of Japan and the United States in Asia's industrialization, the impacts of colonialism in socio-economic-political transformation in the Asia-Pacific region, business-government relations in Newly Industrializing Economies, and the recent phenomenal growth of China and India. Fulfills the Global Comparison Perspective.
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Introduces the most standard methods of statistical analysis, which are essential for serious research. Considers data sampling and descriptive and inferential statistical techniques for analyzing geographic data. Includes graphic techniques, tests of hypotheses and regression. Students use computer spreadsheets for statistical analysis. No prior exposure to statistics is assumed. The course is one for which graduate students may receive credit. A skills course for geography majors. A statistics course for environmental majors. Fulfills the Formal Analysis requirement.
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Overview of what governs the hydrological cycle's major components of precipitation, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, surface water, and groundwater. Core principles of physical hydrology will be introduced including rainfall-runoff processes, surface and subsurface storage and flows, and land-atmosphere exchange. Students will also learn about human influences on the water cycle, and consider management of water resources at field to watershed scales. Labs typically last 2.5 hours but three or more field trips will require the full time reserved.
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Understanding how ecosystems function and how they change in response to human activities and normal Earth system fluctuations are important themes in contemporary natural sciences. Beyond having inherent scientific value, such knowledge has become integral to national and international policies and practices of ecosystem management. This course will provide an important foundation in forest ecology by considering the function, structure, and composition of forest ecosystems. Specific topics will include forest succession, historical ecology, disturbance ecology, nutrient cycling, and the influence of climate and environmental heterogeneity on forest patterns and dynamics.
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Why do some people die from too much consumption yet others at the opposite corner of the world perish from poverty and starvation? Development theories try to answer fundamental questions like this. This course critically examines these development theories, including classical, neoclassical and Keynesian economies; modernization theory; dependency, Marxist and neo-Marxist and world systems theories; post-developmentalism; feminism and feminist critiques of development; and critical modernist theories. The course quickly takes students with an initial interest in development to a high level of critical understanding. Fulfills the Global Comparison perspective.
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We now live on a City Planet: the majority of the world's population are ‘urbanite' and their numbers continue to grow. Yet this symbolic tipping point in human settlement comes with significant challenges. Most people within this urban majority live in ‘slums', with many of the economic and cultural opportunities associated with cities in western thought being pure fantasy in the face of daily struggles for survival. Furthermore, given cities are the primary emitters of greenhouse gases, all urban dwellers are united, if not equally, in being responsible for climate change and its potential mediation. This course examines the emergence of a City Planet throug an examination of the ways in which geographers have understood cities and their relationships in an era of globalization; the tracing of global urban relations with respect to capital, labor, communications and culture; and the consideration to two of the major challenges currently faced: growing social inequalities and mounting sustainability requirements. A core course in Globalization, Cities and Development in the geography major. Fulfills the Global Comparative (GP) requirement.
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Type of course: Lecture, Discussion Integrates ecology and political economy from local to global scale through case studies. Starts from a view of people in environmental “hot spots,” following links to world economy and planetary ecosystems. Explores connections of international environmental and economic policy with everyday realities and possible ecological futures of people from the Amazon rain forest to the streets of Worcester. Fulfills the Values Perspective (VP) requirement. Offered occasionally as First year seminar, in which case the VE or VP requirement can be fulfilled.
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