English

This course examines the literature of the people who lived in the British Isles in the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500), including: the transformations of myth and legend in this period; the study of different medieval approaches to storytelling; intersections between history and the imagination; the treatment of gender roles and relations; and Christian influences on pagan stories.

Understanding the systems that control the circulation of water between the atmosphere, soil, and plant is clearly important for a general understanding of the hydrological cycle and the way that the ecosystem operates and survives. This course consists of two sections. The first section deals with the basics of plant-water relations and water fluxes in forests. The second section explores the soil moisture dynamics and its effect on plant ecophysiology and hydrological processes. This course explores the fundamentals of ecohydrology in forest ecosystems, with a special emphasis on plant-water relations and soil moisture dynamics. This course also covers the issues of climate change, based on the forest-atmosphere interaction through soil moisture.

The course is designed to prepare students for leadership in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse workforce. Throughout the course, students are challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to the issues they observe and encounter in the internship setting, and the designated city in general. Students have the opportunity to cultivate the leadership skills as defined by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), such as critical thinking, teamwork, and diversity. Assignments focus on building a portfolio that highlights those competencies and their application to workplace skills. The hybrid nature of the course allows students to develop their skills in a self-paced environment with face-to-face meetings and check-ins to frame their intercultural internship experience. Students complete 45 hours of in-person and asynchronous online learning activities and 225-300 hours at their internship placement.

This course is a rigorous examination of the key analytical frameworks and tools that are essential to building an effective marketing strategy. Students cover concepts including segmentation, targeting and positioning; product management and diffusion; pricing, placement and promotion; customer behavior; customer lifetime value, and marketing relationships. Students learn to apply these concepts as part of a comprehensive and sophisticated marketing strategy. They employ these elements across a variety of industries and functions, in ways that add value for consumers and extract value for businesses. 

This course gives a broad overview of biological foundations of behavior. The role of certain brain areas, neurotransmitters, and hormones on brain function are discussed. The course consists of nine topics; the first is an introductory topic regarding the link between brain and behavior. The following topics involve several types of specific behaviors ant their links to the brain anatomy. The topics are: gender development, emotion, memory, sleep, mental illnesses, addiction, hunger and thirst, and language.