This course is designed to increase student awareness of various ethical situations and responsibilities around the professional practice of public relations. Students will learn how to identify, explore and develop their ability to make responsible strategic communication and business decisions.

There is an old debate among historians of the United States over whether to consider the US an empire; the answer turns, basically, on how you define "empire." This course is not very interested in that question. Rather, it begins with the problem of how to collapse two very different faces of the analysis of US imperialism. One is public/boy/policy/official: the military, diplomacy, NGOs, and medicine and science. The other is private/girl/racialized/marginal: questions of gender, children, race, indigeneity, sexuality.

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This class is designed to provide an introduction to the field of global health. We will first acquire some historical and analytical tools, including a familiarity with a set of social theories, which will help us identify relevant issues and understand the complexity of situations we will examine over the course of the semester.

In this course, we will investigate how incomes are distributed in our society, why income inequality has risen so dramatically in recent years, and what public policy tools exist to counter inequality increases. The course will consider various normative approaches to answering the following question: should we care about inequality?

Description and analysis of deformation and deformation processes at scales ranging from minerals to mountain belts. Emphasis on three-dimensional visualization of geologic features and practical solutions to structural problems relevant to industry and research. Students within the honors section take on individual or group projects that delve further into issues explored within the course. These projects typically culminate with presentations within the classroom or on the outcrop.

The honors colloquium that accompanies Geosciences 311 is a once-a-week meeting during which a paper about a timely topic in the field of mineralogy is discussed informally. Previous topics discussed during the honors colloquium include medical mineralogy, forensic mineralogy, supervolcano eruptions, mineral toxicity, mass extinction theories, and the illegal diamond trade.

This will be a one credit reading seminar focused on current topics in oceanography and marine science. Students will read one short paper from the current literature (newspapers, magazines, journals) or one book chapter per week. Topics will be chosen to focus particularly on issues of public interest such as global warming, coastal policy, marine ecology, etc. Students must also be enrolled in Geology 103. Seminars will be devoted to discussing the weekly readings and other topics of current interest. Recommended for first-year students and sophomores.