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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will consider race and gender as they influence and are reflected in decisions about schooling, work, and family. It will also examine trends in population and consider how and why they might change over time. We will use microeconomic models of fertility, migration, decisions to work, and decisions to invest in human capital in an effort to analyze and explain observed outcomes. Drawing on well-established literatures in the fields of labor economics and economic demography to provide frameworks for our discussions, we will consider the theoretical and empirical findings in light of their potential contributions to policy. Prerequisite: Economics 201. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Applications of microeconomic theory focused on common law and the legal system. Topics include the effect of the legal system on resource allocation, the establishment and scope of property rights, allocation of risk and efficient investments in precaution, product liability, and an economic analysis of criminal behavior and punishment. Prerequisite: Economics 201. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The economic problems and policy concerns of poor countries with applications of economic analysis to explain and understand observed outcomes. Substantial attention is paid to the structure and the decisions of households in developing countries with supplemental focus on the market and nonmarket environments under which they operate, including their access to land, credit, and insurance, as well as their labor employment opportunities. Additional topics include population growth and its determinants, the role of technology, inequality and poverty, structural change, and trade and globalization. Case studies are used to motivate and illustrate the theories discussed. Prerequisite: Economics 201. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course analyzes the causes and consequences of international trade. The theory of international trade and the effects of trade policy tools are developed in both perfect and imperfect competition, with reference to the empirical evidence. This framework serves as a context for a discussion of several important issues: the effect of trade on income inequality, the relationship between trade and the environment, the importance of the World Trade Organization, strategic trade policy, the role of trade in developing countries, and the effects of free trade agreements. Prerequisite: Economics 201. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will compare and contrast plan-to-market transition processes across several Asian countries noted for their economic size and significance, including China, Japan, and India. We will take a sectoral approach, noting variation in policy objective, design, implementation, and outcome. Among the sectors we will consider are agriculture, industry, banking and finance, foreign trade and investment, and the public sector. Our focus will be contemporary rather than historical, although the roles of initial conditions and historical legacies also are relevant to our discussions. Prerequisite: Economics 201. Conference.
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1.00 Credits
One-half course for one semester. A detailed examination of a topic of current theoretical or policy interest. The course may be repeated when topics vary, up to a maximum of one unit of credit. Prerequisite(s) will vary according to topic; they will be announced in the class schedule. This course may not be used for Group B or divisional requirements. Conference. Jobs, Technology, and Trade Investigation of the causes and consequences of changing patterns of labor demand. We will seek to understand how technological innovation and a rising volume of trade influences the structure of labor demand and the organization of the workplace. Effects on wage levels, wage inequality, and patterns of employment will be examined. The role of worker representation, in various forms, will be considered along with an analysis of factors that contribute to labor organizing efforts and outcomes. We will focus our attention on the U.S. labor market, although comparative analysis with the experiences of other industrialized countries will enhance our understanding. Prerequisite: Economics 201.
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3.00 Credits
One-half course for one semester. This course focuses on preparing students for economic research. Topics include choosing a research question, conducting a literature review, locating and collecting data, economic theorizing, writing, research design, hypothesis testing, and presentation skills. Prerequisites: Economics 304, 313, or 314, or consent of instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one year.
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1.00 Credits
One-half or full course for one semester. Credit in proportion to work done. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Form, Style, and Meaning in Cinema Full course for one semester. This course considers the cinema as a particular media form and explores issues and methods in cinema studies. The class focuses on questions of film form and style (narrative, editing, sound, framing, mise-en-scène) and introduces students to concepts in film history and theory (industry, auteurism, spectatorship, the star system, ideology, genre). We will pay particular attention to principles of film narration and film form that are instrumental across the study of literature: plot vs. story, dramatic development, temporal strategies, character development, point of view, symbolism, reality vs. illusion, visual metaphor, and so forth. Students will develop a basic critical vocabulary for examining the cinema as an art form, an industry, and a system of culturally meaningful representation. Prerequisite: Humanities 110 or sophomore standing. Lecture-conference. Not offered 2009-10. Graphic Novel Full course for one semester. In this course we will consider the historical development of the genre and techniques of the graphic novel in America. Authors will include Lynd Ward, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Marjane Satrapi, Lynda Barry, Gene Luen Yang, and others. Our reading of the graphic novel will be contextualized within postmodernism and the changes in the notion of childhood, heroism, and evil in 20th- and 21st-century American culture. This course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental elements of narrative and will include analysis of genre, panels, framing devices, layout, speech, plot, and characterization. The course will emphasize close reading of the texts, and there will be frequent writing assignments. Prerequisite: Humanities 110 or sophomore standing. Conference. Not offered 2009-10. Literary and Visual Culture in 18th-century Britain Full course for one semester. This course is designed to introduce students to the literary and visual cultures of 18th-century Britain and their connections. We will read prose by Defoe, Johnson, Walpole and Austen, poetry by Pope, Swift, Gray, Goldsmith, Blake, Collier and Duck, and drama by Gay. We will also study discussions of aesthetics by Burke and Reynolds and the work of artists Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffman and Wright of Derby, as well as the role of patrons such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Throughout our readings and viewings we will return to the following guiding questions: how are stories narrated, in images as well as in words What are the major aesthetic categories of this period and how do they operate to construct aesthetic experience Do these categories span literary and visual culture, or are they different in each form What are their modern legacies Prerequisite: Humanities 110 or sophomore standing. The Making of the Twentieth Century Full course for one semester. This course will focus on American writing produced between 1890 and 1910. Though much of our time will be spent reading novels and short stories-in particular, examples of realist, naturalist, and modernist fiction-we will approach the novel as just one of many narrative arts that played a crucial role in defining the nascent twentieth century. Other genres that we will consider include life writing, the tale, aesthetic and cultural criticism, reportage, photojournalism and the photo book, and protest writing. Our readings will be grouped into five units-"American Life, Writing, and Life Writing," "Race after Reconstruction," "Narrating City Life," "Between Asia and America," and "Modern Women"-and will be drawn from writers such as Henry Adams, Abraham Cahan, Charles Chesnutt, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sui Sin Far, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry James, Okakura Kakuzo, Jack London, Frank Norris, Jacob Riis, and Gertrude Stein. Prerequisite: Humanities 110 or sophomore standing
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