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The course provides a detailed examination of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the Korean peninsula. It discusses the ways the DMZ affects the population, the effects on the local environment, and how people navigate the existence of the DMZ in their daily lives. It also looks at the controversies or tensions between the two sides in the zone and how the international community can help to create a more stable environment in the region. 

This course examines the science of marketing. It focuses on the role of marketing and its importance in contemporary organizations and society. 

This course covers a range of substantive topics and issues, such as the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab-Israeli relations; the influence of non-state actors such as Hamas and Hezbollah; regional balances between Saudi Arabia and Iran; and the 7 October 2023 war and its regional consequences. Students dive deeply into domestic political developments, including those that have emerged in the decade since the "Arab Uprising”. More broadly, the course places the region at the intersection of global and local politics, examining the roles played by the United States, Russia, and Europe.

This is a course in single-variable calculus. It introduces precise definitions of limit, continuity, derivative, and the Riemann integral. It covers computational techniques and applications of differentiation and integration. This course concludes with an introduction to first order differential equations. Major topics include functions; limit and continuity; derivative; Intermediate Value Theorem; chain rule; implicit differentiation; higher derivatives; Mean Value Theorem; Riemann integral; Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; elementary transcendental functions and their inverses; techniques of integration; computation of area, volume and arc length using definite integrals; and first order differential equations.

This course provides a thorough introduction of the range of behaviors found in animals, and of scientific methods used to study animal behavior in the field and in the lab. It integrates knowledge from a range of fields, including ecology, evolutionary biology, physiology, and psychology. The course covers the main genetic, physiological, and developmental mechanisms underpinning individual behavior; the main historical developments leading to the current state of the field of animal behavior, including the role of the nature-nurture debate; central evolutionary theories used to explain animal behavior; and concepts and theories, such as proximate and ultimate explanations, fitness, altruism, optimality, and game theory. It develops skills in critical reading of scientific literature, ability to design experiments to study animal behavior, and making an ethogram from observing animal behavior. 

This course focuses on the international politics of the Middle East taking as its starting point the end of the colonial rule in the region and the formation of new nation-states. The first part of the course is devoted to a methodological introduction of the study of the region and provides the conceptual frameworks and theories needed to define the Middle East. Focusing on a more empirical analysis of the Middle East political history, the second part of the course introduces and analyzes the impact of Cold War dynamics on the region and the political, economic, and social transformations the region faced at the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a New World Order. In order to provide a clear understanding of the recurrent patterns and trajectories of international and regional political dynamics, a session is devoted to an in-depth examination of
the origins, causes, and consequences of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the most significant and enduring crisis of the region. Later sessions focus on diplomacy in the Arab world taking the USA-Jordan relations as a case study. The last part of the course examines important themes and debates in international politics of the Middle East/North Africa region, including ideological movements, gender, and globalization. Finally, the course examines current uprisings and their impact on the politics of the region.

This course enables students to understand one of the core purposes of finance: the setting of prices in a market. The first half of the course works at a market-level, dealing with risk-management and diversification. The second half of the course works at the security-level, thinking about bond, stock, and derivative valuation.

This course provides some intellectual pathways from GY100. Human Geography is a broad subject and there may be changes in the particular topics from year to year. Topics to be discussed include Imperialism, East and West; contemporary geopolitics; concepts of “home” and Patriarchy; material aspects of globalization such as containerization and shipping; non-economic aspects of agglomeration in cities;  biopolitics and the geography of disease and viruses; the geography of affect or feelings; soundscapes and music.

This course is a theoretical and practical introduction to Green Marketing, a concept that describes the marketing of products, production methods, or business practices that are environmentally benign or otherwise sustainable. 

The course covers the following subtopics and associated themes of Green Marketing: 
1) Background on sustainability and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2) The three dimensions of sustainability and their connections to business
3) Specific marketing techniques
4) Best & worst practices
5) Greenwashing
6) Measurement & accountability
7) Other smaller, related concepts and topics

Aside from teaching concrete and specific techniques and communication tools, the course aims to serve as a holistic introduction to sustainable business practices and the communication thereof. 

Music is a fundamental activity found in all human societies and at all periods of history. This course introduces different methods of studying music as an academic subject, and considers the many ways that music intersects with other aspects of society. The course is recommended for potential music majors and any other students interested in music.

The course covers the following topics:

• Why study music?
• Histories of music
• Music theory and analysis
• The Sociology of music
• The musical mind – music and psychology
• The new ‘musicologies’
• Decolonization of music studies
• The economics and business of music