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This course provides holistic and comprehensive coverage of the development and implementation of business and functional action strategies for firms in manufacturing and service industries. It investigates the recent changes in platform business models and strategies related to the advances in IoT, AI, blockchain technologies, industry 4.0, smart factory, digital transformation, etc. It also delves into enterprise risk management (including COVID-19 pandemic) and sustainable ESG management issues. Specifically, the course covers: 1) Business model and strategy development, including environment, capability and resource analyses, corporate vision, competitive strategy and priority, operating pipeline and platform business models, and performance management and assessment, 2) Details of technology and innovation strategies, operations and supply chain strategies, procurement and supply management strategies, and enterprise risk management strategies, 3) Corporate growth strategies and required capabilities and resources in different growth stages, including the 4th industrial revolution and blue ocean shift strategies, and 4) Social value and sustainability management strategies based on the triple bottom line. 

This course offers a sample of Irish traditional cultural expressions, focusing on the three main areas of oral literature, custom belief and tradition, and folk life. Students are introduced to storytelling, storytellers, stories, calendar customs, traditions, festivals, rituals, and fascinating aspects of popular belief and religion, such as fairies, Irish Saints, the Otherworld, Wake "amusements" and the Pattern Day. Folk life includes a survey of Irish vernacular architecture, furniture, objects of everyday life, traditional boats, and much more. 

This course examines the history of Palestine and Israel from the 19th century until the present. Rather than studying Israeli and Palestinian history in isolation, the course explores the relationship between the two national groups and the emergence of the Israeli state alongside the prolonged statelessness of Palestinians. Some of the topics include: contrasting narratives of Palestinian and Israeli history, the constituents of identity in late Ottoman Palestine and the formation of Palestinian and Israeli nationalism, Hebrew culture and the Arab encounter with Zionism, the impact of the Mandate period, the Arab revolt of 1936-39, the 1948 War and the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem, the political disappearance of the Palestinian question in Israel’s early decades, the rebuilding of Palestinian identity and institutions, and the fate of the two state solution.

This course, taken prior to departure for the Costa Rica Tropical Biology Program, provides a supplemental seminar so the students may meet semester contact time/unit requirements. This directed reading course provides an introduction to current ideas about the origin, maintenance, uses and conservation of tropical biodiversity. Topics, selected by students, could include comparisons of terrestrial vs. marine biodiversity, analysis of the costs and benefits of bioprospecting, and patterns found in Old World vs. New World Tropics. Students ask and address a question in a written paper based on the literature. They also give an oral presentation of their findings to others in the class. *Course includes 75 hours of contracted independent study.

This course examines the macroscopic properties of solids, such as electrical conductivity and heat capacity, by learning about the motion of periodic lattices and the behavior of electrons moving within the lattices.