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Game Theory provides a framework for analyzing strategic situations. Where to put your first serve in tennis, why some professors will never accept late submissions, and why do Circuit City and BestBuy offer price matching guarantees are examples of strategic situations. Here each participant's action can affect the outcome for others. The course teaches how to build models of strategic situations and introduces techniques to solve them. The solutions provide benchmark predictions of behavior observed in our lives. Prerequisite ECO 205. Dasgupta
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Tutorial for students who have completed ECO 201, 205, and 207. Students who have a special interest may arrange a tutorial with a faculty member. Enrollment is conditional on instructor's permission.
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An introduction to statistical analysis of economic data, with a balance of theory, applications, and original research. The Classical Linear Regression Model is covered in detail, along with typical departures from its assumptions including heteroscedasticity, serial correlation, and non-stationarity. Further subjects can include instrumental variables, limited dependent variables, and advanced time-series topics, depending on time and student interest. Prerequisites: ECO 210 or MAT 216. A'Hearn, White
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Ongoing research project on local (Lancaster City, County, and region) economic issues and trends. Students choose from specific topics on which to conduct supervised research. Permission of instructor required. Callari, Flaherty
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Independent research directed by the Economics staff. Permission of the instructor.
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Readings in selected topics. Writing assignments closely linked to the readings will explore rhetorical strategies and the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, and editing essays. Use and documentation of outside sources. Recent topics include: Food and Identity, American Idol, and Making It in America. Staff
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A first-year seminar that investigates the varied cultural meanings of the American Dream. Examines the classic definition of success as expressed in the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Alger, Jr., and Booker T. Washington. Explores competing definitions, as well as critiques, of America's cultural mythologies of success. Syllabus has included literary and popular fiction and non-fiction by E. L. Doctorow, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Nixon, Norman Vincent Peale and films by Robert Altman and Michael Moore. Same as AMS 107. Frick
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In this seminar we explore the bad dreams that scared the Victorians even as they enjoyed vastly improved daytime lives made possible by unprecedented developments in technology and industry. What gave rise to those political, domestic, and sexual anxieties that haunt Victorian literature Readings for nightmares are drawn from 19th-century British literature, science, anthropology, and economics. We begin with a portrait growing old in the attic and close with a vampire flying in the bedroom at night. In between we encounter all manner of things what went bump in the night. Permission of the instructor required. O'Hara
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This course explores 20th century drama and performance from around the world. We will read works written in English from Nigeria, South Africa, Ireland, England, and America. We'll also watch several performances as videos. Along the way, we will persistently pose the questions of how performance can address important social issues and how it can offer insight for change. Abravanel
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Comprising a broad survey of 20th and early 21st century science fiction, our readings will include 4 novels and numerous works of short fiction. Although science fiction has its roots much earlier in literary history, we'll begin in the so-called "Golden Age" of science fiction (beginning in the '30sthen move through the "New Wave" that begins in the '60s, Cyberpunk, and mor e. Muelle
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