This course provides an overview of statistical analysis and inference. The language and methods of statistics are used throughout the MBA curriculum, both in the classroom and in assigned readings. In addition, the language and methods of statistical analysis have permeated much of academic and professional writing as well as media reporting, both inside and beyond the business community. The goal is to present a broad introduction to statistical thinking, concepts, methods, and vocabulary. The course has an emphasis on business applications.

Vivek Murthy, the former Surgeon General of the United States, describes loneliness and a major public health problem that has reached epidemic levels worldwide. In this class we will define loneliness and the resulting disconnection and isolation. We will discuss the importance of social connectedness at a community, national, and global level. By exploring issues of identity, race, displacement, and aging, we will gain a deeper understanding of the issues surrounding loneliness. In this course, we will also include strategies for social change to create a more connected world.

This seminar will explore the brain structures and functions that underpin mental disorders emerging early in life and across the lifespan. Topics include how brain architecture develops from before birth through adulthood, how the environment and caregiving shape the brain in at-risk children, and important and recent neuroscience discoveries that are moving the field away from a siloed, DSM-centric view of mental illness and toward a more dimensional, transdiagnostic framework.

This course takes a comparative, historical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of law as part of society and politics. It provides theoretical and methodological training for students interested in learning about law and society, political sociology, as well as domestic, international, and comparative public law. Our focus will be on classic texts within law and society, paired with contemporary work applying earlier theories in both the US and countries in the Global South.

All organisms must cope with a variety of natural and anthropogenic challenges in order to survive, grow, and ultimately reproduce. Physical conditions and biotic interactions vary immensely across habitats, and organisms must possess the appropriate suite of physiological adaptations for success. Understanding the traits that permit animals to cope with various conditions can provide great insights into evolutionary processes, comparative physiology, and behavior.

This course combines instruction in research techniques in a variety of Humanistic and Social Science disciplines, and hands-on experience with those techniques, with substantive materials focusing on the long struggle of minority populations for full participation in American cultural and public life. (Gen. Ed. HS, DU)

This course will examine the development of Afro-American music during the twentieth century with an especial focus on links to the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. In particular, the class will survey the variegated styles and productions of artists, including Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, James P.

Latinos in the United States and the U.S. in Latin America. This course introduces students to the political history, identities, behavior, and activism of Latinx (Latino/a, Hispanic) populations of the United States, placed within the broader context of U.S. engagement with Latin America.

Overview of major approaches to the study of Latin American politics and survey of historical and contemporary democratic, populist, authoritarian, and revolutionary regimes. Special attention to local, national and global forces shaping development strategies and public policies; changing institutional arrangements and shifting discourses of domination; and, social movements and strategies of resistance among subaltern social groups and classes.

This course examines the relationship between environmental conditions and social justice. Students will consider the social and political forces that differentially distribute vulnerability and contribute to health and socioeconomic disparities between populations. In this course, students will consider both local and global struggles for environmental justice, with case studies that focus on historically marginalized communities in the United States as well as in other countries.