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This course provides students with a knowledge and understanding of crimes of the powerful. It includes a wide range of crimes of the powerful with a broad focus on corporate crime and state crime. It addresses the nature of corporate crime, white collar crime, and state crime and conceptual discussions surrounding these concepts. It considers which criminological theories are most relevant when we try to explain the crimes of the powerful. 

Personnel Economics studies the economics of the workplace using simple but formal economic models. Models of employee motivation, compensation, and selection are melded with real-world examples and with field studies of actual workplaces. Personnel economics takes an economic approach to the two key problems of human resource management (HRM): employee selection and employee motivation. The course approach combines elements of microeconomic theory, behavioral economics, and evidence from lab, field, and natural experiments. Familiarity with intermediate microeconomic theory such as budget constraints and indifference curves is presupposed. Familiarity with basic probability and regression analysis is helpful but not essential. 

This course provides students with a theoretical and practical appreciation of the role of "integrated marketing communication" (IMC) in today's business environment. IMC differs from traditional advertising and promotion programs by using zero-based planning, data-driven communication and brand touch points. The program focuses on using strategic mix of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, event marketing and direct response promotions along with mass and two-way communication.

This course is for absolute beginners or for students who have no substantial prior knowledge of Spanish. It focuses on the basic vocabulary and grammar necessary to introduce and talk about yourself and other people, and communicate successfully in simple everyday situations, both by speaking and in writing. It also introduces elements of the history, society and culture of the Spanish-speaking countries.

Study the development of cognition through a neuroscientific lens, examine how the nervous system starts out wired for every possible contingency to eventually prune (tune) itself towards an efficient functioning for the environment it resides it, study the neural network structure and functioning of the brain, its common properties that support efficient cognitive functioning, and how disruptions to these networks can impair cognition. The course also covers the theory of neuroplasticity, focusing on the role of the brain’s lifelong ability to rewire itself. In addition, study mirror neurons, atypical developmental processes (including autism, schizophrenia, and trauma), and the intersection between developmental cognitive neuroscience and society. A mandatory field trip to Amsterdam is included, where the Van Gogh museum is visited to study Van Gogh’s art as a clinical case and experience immediate neuroplasticity first-hand by dining in complete darkness during a three-course meal. Motivated and dedicated students have the opportunity to co-author a paper with the course coordinator for potential publication in well-respected journals (topics of interest can be discussed). Students should have completed at least two Psychology courses and should be interested in brain development and neuroscientific methods that can be used to uncover developmental processes.

This course examines both traditional and exoteric religious practices from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. 

In 1394, John Rykener, having been detected in women’s clothing and calling themself 'Eleanor’, was arrested in London for ‘committing that detestable, unmentionable, and ignominious vice’ with John Britby. This case went unremarked for decades despite the printing of a calendar of these records, because the editor summarized it only as ‘Examination of two men charged with immorality’. This course takes this case as a starting point and asks: was Eleanor Rykener a trans woman? Was John Rykener a man in drag? Were they genderfluid? Are these terms applicable in the Middle Ages? Did this case even happen or was it all a political satire? Students read comparable cases from elsewhere, recent scholarship on the issue, other sources relating to queer identities in the Middle Ages, and historical fiction focusing on Rykener as a character.

This course introduces machine learning and deep learning, which are the most widely used methods for implementing artificial intelligence systems. It also covers a broad range of foundational topics to help students understand machine learning and deep learning systems, making the course accessible to students of all majors.  

This course is intended for students with no background in AI or deep learning. Thus, the topics are broad and on an introductory level. Topics include Deep Learning, Linear Algebra Fundamentals, Artificial Intelligence Basics, Machine Learning Fundamentals, Neural Network Basics, Deep Learning Fundamentals, Optimization, Convolutional neural networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Latest Deep Learning Topics as time allows. 

Prerequisite: Linear Algebra 

This is the concurrent lab course for BIOL 125 HUMAN ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. It provides a comprehensive overview of the gross and microstructure and function of the major organs and systems. Activities investigate the respiratory, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and nervous system structure and functions.

This course discusses language in classical and contemporary sociological theory. It also provides a preliminary understanding of how language is studied in fields outside of sociology, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and history. It covers the role of language in social life, challenging its traditional marginalization within sociology. While language is often treated as a reflection of race, class, and gender, the course examines how it actively constructs these and other social and symbolic boundaries. It also explores why language has been largely left to fields such as linguistics and linguistic anthropology, and argues for sociology’s distinct contribution to its study. Drawing on interdisciplinary readings and recent sociological research, the course analyzes language as a key force in shaping social relations and social change. Students design a research project on an original case of their own choosing.