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This course focuses on the development of a better understanding of marketing management and supply chain issues through the analysis of real-life problems and decision-making in an international context. In today's internationally-oriented business environment it is crucial for prospective managers to familiarize themselves with concepts and issues related to marketing and supply chain management. Students develop a thorough understanding of basic concepts such as market segmentation, market research and marketing strategy, and methods for using the supply chain in international competitive markets. Prerequisites are an introductory marketing course.

This course explores and ascertains the issues that Americans are grappling with today. The seminar offers examinations and explanations of the major issues facing American society, including the role of race, gender, and class in contemporary America. The course also addresses issues of education and mobility; whether the nation is as polarized as some commentators have claimed; the consequences of mass migration; the salience of religion; technology and changing media; the social and economic effects of regionalization and globalization; and where America's security starts and finishes in an age of fluidity. These factors are important components of contemporary American society. One theme of the course to be considered is the idea and application of the American Dream.

n this course, students investigate the growing literature on the legal application of medical and scientific expertise. The course contextualizes contemporary understandings of and interest in forensics and its popular representations, and considers the history of forensics as a practical example of the dynamics of public understanding of science. Topics include "determining sanity"; "poison and the Victorians"; and "DNA fingerprints, proof, and persuasion."

This course is a study of genetics, which covers all aspects of genes, from the molecular to the population level, that affect biologically inherited traits. Students learn basic terms and concepts in genetics through a personal approach utilizing the web service 23andme. This service is central to the study of causes and consequences of human sequence variation. This course includes the opportunity for students to sequence and analyze their own genome, and addresses the ethical impact of acquiring such information. Students explain the basic genetic processes in eukaryotes; summarize basic genetic methods; recall tools and methods to study gene expression; recall general genetic terms from the textbook; design, explain, and interpret genetic experiments; analyze and judge the use of genetics in societal questions; and interpret ethical aspects of genome wide sequence information.

In this course, students explore the evolution of modern China's political and economic system; the Chinese state in comparative perspective; and issues and problems of China's political and economic development.

This course explores the principles and practice of sustainability and sustainability planning. The workshop format combines reflection on the notion of sustainability with development of a sustainability planning and design project. Students collect data and develop research proposals in the course Field Methods for Examining Socio-Ecological Systems. They use that information in this course to discuss socio-ecological problems and design practical solutions based on sustainability principles.

This course explores how peace and war are represented, constructed, remembered, and memorialized in relation to one another in the literature and culture of the late 19th and early 20th century. This course considers canonical war literature in dialogue with more marginal or marginalized writing by women, conscientious objectors, and anti-war campaigners, asking how the written, visual, and oral are used to create or challenge powerful ideas of identity in times of war and in its aftermath. This course examines a range of literary, visual, and journalistic material in its cultural context, paying particular attention to the construction, use, and interrogation of narratives of heroism, sacrifice, and manliness, alongside concepts of nation, religion, gender, and class.

After introducing the scope of health psychology, this course explores the biopsychosocial and lifespan perspectives to the maintenance of health and prevention of disease. The course introduces participants to the dominant theories, models, and paradigms current in the field. The influence of some of the broad domains of psychology (developmental, social, individual differences, biological) on health are explored, and how these shape and inform the practice of public health, health promotion, and approaches to addressing the social disparities in health.

Sport has profoundly impacted Pacific peoples and cultures, playing critical roles in colonialism and education in the past, to migration and commercialization in the present. Sport has changed Pacific cultures and been changed by Pacific cultures. Pacific cultural encounters with globalization, race, capitalism, migration, and public discourse are explored through the experience of sport.