English

This course examines the diversity in animal behavior and the means of understanding animal behavior. It examines the underlying mechanism and function of behavior, and how did a particular behavior develop and evolve. Topics include behavioral ecology; behavioral genetics; reproductive behavior; mating system; parental care; communication; foraging; learning; migration and biological rhythms; evolutionary stable strategies; sexual selection; altruism; and sociality in vertebrates and invertebrates. 

This course will provide students with an overview of astronomical research covering a wide range of topics, including the history of astronomy, the planets in our solar system, the birth, life and death of stars, black holes, galaxies, the Big Bang theory, cosmology, the search for extraterrestrial life, and space exploration. 

What is the state’s final frontier? How and why have governments around the world been vested with the authority to manage the most intimate aspects of our existence: from the food we eat to our sexual behavior? What has the impact of this encroachment been on our sense of self? Engaging with these questions from an historical perspective provides a critical lens for re-evaluating our own relationship to society and the state, as well as furnishing a context for considering the extent to which we are ever fundamentally “free” to possess our own bodies. Exploring the birth of “surveillance society” enables us to reflect upon – and challenge – the inherited assumptions which underpin our reliance on government and our aspirations for personal autonomy. This course ranges from the formation of the modern state in Europe and the techonologies it developed for managing populations, to global health surveillance and recent biomedical advances which have resulted in progressively interventionist governmental measures, with profound social, political and ethical implications. Topics include: surveillance; “medical police” and state-sponsored interventions in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Europe; the invention of the “population” as a collective body; colonialism and the global exportation of ideas about what is “normal”; “healthy citizens”: the coercive state and the democratization of society; and, finally, the limits of public health in the twenty-first century.

This course examines the design of effective marketing strategies from a general management perspective. It examines the marketing management concepts underlying both consumer and industrial marketing strategy and tactics. Strategic marketing focuses on the concepts and processes involved in developing market-driven strategies. The key challenges in formulating market-driven strategies include: (1) acquiring a shared understanding throughout the organization about the current market and how it may change in the future, (2) identifying opportunities for delivering superior value to customers, (3) positioning the organization and its offerings to best meet the needs of its target markets, and (4) developing a coordinated marketing program to deliver superior customer value.

In this course, students gain a broad understanding of the roots and character of the international trade in illicit drugs, and the difficulties in restricting its strength and influence. The course goes over the origins and history of the global drugs trade, relationships between the international drugs trade, globalization, and capitalism. Students learn about the spatial distribution and general economics of the drugs trade globally and the social harm to populations of this trade. They gain knowledge on the efforts to regulate, control, and eradicate the international trade, and evaluation of those efforts.

This course examines marketing research methods. This course will focus on how both qualitative and quantitative aspects of marketing research can help managers to address substantive marketing problems This course emphasizes the basic methodologies, as well as introduces a variety of techniques, and demonstrates how research applies to strategy.

This course will focus on the short detective fiction of Agatha Christie (1890-1976), the most successful twentieth-century author of detective novels. While Christie developed two well-known sleuths, Hercules Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, who featured in novels and whose cases have frequently been translated into the medium of film as well into more than 100 languages, this course will concentrate on the early short stories that were published in the 1920s and that predate the Miss Marple novels. Students will be introduced to the study of character and narrative, as well as the genre conventions of detective fiction, at the same time that they will be furnished with tools to understand the various techniques used in crime fiction. Particular attention will be devoted to reading Miss Marple as a moral standard against which aberrant behavior is tested by Christie. 

The course focuses on the major aspects of the basic physiological functions and the factors in relation to plant growth and development. The course provides a background in plant biology to gain a deeper understanding of processes that are important for agriculture, horticulture and industry, as well as further tools to further study plant biology. The course discusses plant hormones in detail, as well as how plants respond to changes in their environment, for instance to light, or to stress.  

This course requires a background in botany, plant biology or nutrition.  

This course examines techniques of video shooting and editing. During the course, students produce short news stories. The emphasis is on the mechanics of shooting and editing for TV news.

This course introduces students to different methods of reading literature historically. In order to learn how to place specific textual representations in their wider social and intellectual contexts, students examine a range of literary genres, encompassing both canonical and non-canonical texts from the medieval period to the late 18th century. The texts have been selected to encourage critical engagement with the global dimensions of "English Literature." Students must have passed Literary Studies 1A and 1B (or equivalent if visiting student).