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This unit focuses on the interplay between gender, culture and politics in the Arab world. Representations of gender and sexuality, and their politicization, are studied through feminist, literary, and historiographical criticism, permitting a deep historical understanding of current debates.

This course examines weight loss by tracing every atom one eats into and out of the body while investigating the fate of fat during weight loss. There will be a focus on how humans convert food into useful energy, why energy is important, what exactly happens in the body during weight loss and weight gain, and how one can change their lifestyle in subtle ways to live a healthier life.

 

This course introduces students to a range of diversity issues informed by race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, and disability, and the importance of cultivating respect for difference. Diversity has become one of the most important issues in contemporary society. This course appeals to students with an interest in social, economic, and cultural marginalization.

Ethics explores the relationship between self and other, the moral dimensions of human behavior, and the question of how one ought to act under certain circumstances. This course investigates the significance of these topics in relation to international politics. The lectures introduce students to a variety of normative approaches that have come to shape issues of peace, morality, and justice in international politics. Topics include human rights, humanitarian intervention, hunger, and inequality.

This course provides an introduction to 20th and 21st century physics, and its place as the basis of much of modern technology. The content includes electromagnetism from which photonic and RF/microwave communications were developed; relativity required for GPS navigation; and quantum physics critical for lasers and semiconductors, and hence computers and many other technologies.

This course provides understanding of the theory of negotiation as it is practiced in a variety of strategic settings. The course is relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems that are faced by managers and specific examples from international strategy such as M and A and joint ventures are used. The course provides an opportunity to develop skills experientially and to understand negotiation in useful analytic frameworks. Considerable emphasis is placed on role-playing exercises and case studies. This course requires participation in a number of negotiations. Preparation for these negotiations, which are a large part of the final grade, requires time-pressured reading of material in class.

This course examines socities' understanding of violence and how representations of violence may be both compelling and confronting. It focuses on the interconnections between categories of sex and violence within culture.

This course provides an overview of the most significant evolutionary transitions in relation to the environmental changes associated with them; details the processes that contributed to these changes; and thus develops an understanding of the principles of evolutionary biology. Human evolution is explored in relation to this background and in relation to the evolution of language and disease. This course covers the fundamentals of evolutionary biology, both in terms of recognizing and interpreting evolutionary patterns and understanding the processes that are thought to drive evolutionary change. The course examines evolutionary theory and explores evolutionary processes, on both micro and macro scales, using a range of organisms from bacteria through to metazoans (plants and animals).

Latin American music has become a powerful force in today's music industry, but its rich diversity and cultural contexts are not always known or acknowledged. This course surveys a number of Latin American popular, folk, and indigenous musical traditions in terms of their cultural milieu and historical development. These include Afro-Cuban traditions, samba, salsa, tango, and Andean music. Various musical, historical, and cultural concerns are examined alongside a practical and creative involvement with the compositional characteristics and the repertoire pertinent to these traditions.