University of the West Indies

This course introduces non-majors to dance as an expression of culture that involves aesthetic awareness, technical training (formal and informal), and social interaction. It emphasizes foundational movement skills and historical and anthropologic studies. A variety of dance forms will be examined in terms of their power to heal, celebrate, tell stories, and resolve conflicts. 

This course examines the use of spreadsheets and databases for business management and analysis. It develops basic computer skills through the use of various features of Microsoft Excel such as Scenario Manager, Solver, Pivot Tables, and
Macros to solve complex business problems. It will also develop basic spreadsheet skills in Excel using basic functions, logic and reference functions, statistical functions, and charting to solve complex business problems. Moreover, it explores basic SQL (the most common database language) for business analytics.

This course examines the design and execution of market research projects and the presentation of these results in a form useful for decision makers. Specific attention is paid to: planning a research project; use of experiments; identification of the research problem, selection of sample frame, and data collection methods; design of data collection instruments; data analysis and presentation.

This course examines the psychological approach to personality. It covers how is personality defined and measured via a comparison of selected theories in personality (e.g. Erikson, Freud, Rogers), as well as the relationship between the social environment and personality formation.

This course will guide students toward an understanding of the intellectual challenges and debates of gender in the discipline of philosophy. It will seek to explore how the assumptions of gender have shaped philosophical discourse, and how feminist thought has destabilised and reconfigured the parameters of debates in epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

This course examines seminal feature films and documentaries by such filmmakers as Perry Henzell, Humberto Solas, Euzhan Palcy, Felix de Rooy, Raoul Peck, as well as a number of new and young filmmakers, many working in video. The films will reflect the diversity of the region and its diaspora, and will include films in French, Dutch, Spanish, English and Creole. The course will explore representations of race, culture and landscape, migration and nation, as well as the impact of history, economics and politics of the region on the development of Caribbean cinema. 

The course provides an elementary introduction to probability and statistics with applications. It covers statistical methods often used by decision makers to present and describe data and how to draw conclusions about populations and make reliable forecasts. In addition, since many statistical calculations are only feasible when one uses computers, students will also learn how to use Microsoft Excel to perform statistical analyses.