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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Real estate involves long-term relationships that are struc - tured through legal documents. This advanced course, building on the knowledge developed in LAW 3301/RES 3000, focuses on understanding transactional law and the underlying economics of transactions. It analyzes problems relating to legal documents for leasing, lending, and brokerage, and also discusses topics in environmental law, federal income tax, entity structuring, and negotiation. Students will develop a thorough grounding in the types of legal issues that businesspeople typically negotiate in real estate transactions. They will also develop ethical awareness through a consider - ation of the issues involved in negotiating aggressively, but honestly. (This course is cross-listed with RES 4000.) Pre- or corequisite: LAW 3301 or RES 3000.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The events of September 11, 2001, profoundly altered the way New Yorkers think about their city and its future. This course addresses the lessons learned from 9/11 and their implications for public policy in the future. The purpose of the course is to analyze the function of the various components of the city-the business, public health, and planning communities; cultural and artistic institutions; and governmental and social service agencies-and how they interact to shape the city we live in. This course builds on the knowledge base acquired in the three previous honors seminars and encourages students to pursue in greater detail a topic first encountered in one of them. In view of the multidisciplinary nature of the course, it is assumed that this seminar will be taught in team format with a variety of guest lecturers. The course emphasizes experiential learning and involves students in the practical application of knowledge gained in previous semesters. Prerequisite: IDC 3002H.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Each semester, this seminar in the humanities focuses on a general theme, an epoch, or a movement from the point of view of two or more different disciplines in the arts and sciences. The course stresses the study of primary sources and student and faculty exchange; outside lectures, field trips, or other assignments utilizing the cultural resources of the city may be required. The subject or theme, the format, and the faculty and student members of the seminar change each semester. The seminar is open to excellent students of junior and senior standing who have completed at least 6 credits in humanities and have obtained the permission of the director of the seminar program. The seminar is required for certain scholarship students. Admission is restricted to 15 to 20 students. An excellent student may enroll in more than one seminar. With formal permission from both the Feit Seminar director and an advisor from the relevant department, students may use a Feit Seminar as the capstone in their Tier III minor field provided that they have already completed two 3000- or 4000-level courses in that field. Prerequisites: ENG 2150, junior or senior standing, 6 credits in the humanities (preferably a base course in each of the disciplines of the course), a minimum 3.4 grade point average, and permission of the director of the Feit Seminar Program.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Courts, legislators and regulators routinely address contro - versial matters of social and public policy. This course will teach students about the major schools of legal theory and constitutional interpretation, including formalism, law and economics, originalism, feminist legal theory, and critical legal studies. By the end of the course, students will be capable of engaging in a sophisticated discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of competing approaches to legal decisionmaking about significant public policy issues. Prerequisite: This is a capstone course for the interdisciplinary law and policy Tier III concentration. Students must have satisfied the 3000-level course requirements for this Tier III minor prior to enrollment in this course. This course is deemed an arts and sciences course for purposes of satisfying a student's general education requirements.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course reviews and analyzes contemporary U.S. immi - gration, naturalization, and citizenship law and the policy and politics behind it. Students will gain an understanding of the law and will study proposed changes to it. Through lectures, readings, and guest presentations, we will study the history of our immigration laws and how immigration laws are made, including both the legislative process and how that process is influenced by current events, politics, and immigrant commu - nities and the organizations that represent them. Finally, we will study the impact of immigration on U.S. culture and economy. Prerequisite: This is a capstone course for the interdisciplinary law and policy Tier III concentration. Students must have satisfied the 3000-level course requirements for this Tier III minor prior to enrollment in this course. This course is deemed an arts and sciences course for purposes of satisfying a student's general education requirements.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits An introduction to theory and research in the areas of business and economics. Studies include the basic techniques of research design and execution.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Advanced work in research methodology in the areas of business and economics. Work is built around individualized projects in accordance with the major of the student. Prerequisite: BUS 5000.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits An interdisciplinary course concentrating on the problems that confront the chief administrative officers of an enter - prise. The course stresses the overall company point of view in dealing with top management problems. Working in teams designed to represent the executive management of competing companies, students are confronted with the tasks of analysis and decision-making in a variety of case studies. An integral part of this course involves participation in a computerized interactive business simulation. Open only to graduating seniors (part-time students must have at least 115 credits completed; full-time students need a minimum of 107 completed credits). ( This course is under the direct supervision of the Department of Management.) All students in the Macaulay Honors College take four required seminars, one each during their first four semesters: The Arts in New York City, The Peopling of New York, Science and Technology in New York City, and New York in the Twenty-First Century. These four interdisciplinary Honors College seminars are designed to stimulate interest in and deepen understanding of the institutions and people of New York City. Each seminar entails a serious research project that students carry out with University Scholars from their own and other campuses. The research teams present their results to the entire class at the end of each semester. The curriculum of the seminars is enhanced by special events connected to the subject of the seminar, by visits to New York City cultural institutions, and by the opportunity to meet and work with artists, cultural experts, scientists, and other distinguished professionals.
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4.00 Credits
3-4 hours; 3-4 credits per semester The IDC honors thesis option is available to outstanding students whose research interests span and integrate more than one discipline. Prerequisites: Permission of Honors Committees in each of the relevant departments or disciplines and permission of College Honors Committee.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits This advanced-level oral/aural communicative course aims to improve comprehension and develop accurate, idiomatic oral expression in French. Students learn techniques of selfexpression and expand their vocabulary, while participating in informal conversations, role-play, and skits. They also discuss, debate, and write essays about readings from sociocultural, literary, and film documents about France and other French-speaking countries. This course may serve as a capstone course for the Tier III French minor requirement.
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