In this course, you will think like a river scientist, evaluate societal issues related to rivers, and learn to communicate these points to a general audience. The course is organized around broad topics in river science: river migration, floods, deltas, human water usage, river ecology, and dams. Case studies will include the Yellow River in China, the Mississippi River and Hurricane Katrina, water rights in the southwest U.S. and Mexico, and the Elwha River dam removals in the Pacific northwest (with Skype lectures from Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe scientists).

In this course, you will think like a river scientist, evaluate societal issues related to rivers, and learn to communicate these points to a general audience. The course is organized around broad topics in river science: river migration, floods, deltas, human water usage, river ecology, and dams. Case studies will include the Yellow River in China, the Mississippi River and Hurricane Katrina, water rights in the southwest U.S. and Mexico, and the Elwha River dam removals in the Pacific northwest (with Skype lectures from Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe scientists).

This course, rooted in an analytical philosophical approach, is an interdisciplinary investigation of emotions. The course goals are to understand emotions, how different academic disciplines approach the study of emotions, and how these perspectives can inform each other. Are emotions primarily bodily responses? Feelings? Thoughts? What role does culture play in shaping emotions? What functions do emotions serve? What can neuroscience tell us about emotions?

This course, rooted in an analytical philosophical approach, is an interdisciplinary investigation of emotions. The course goals are to understand emotions, how different academic disciplines approach the study of emotions, and how these perspectives can inform each other. Are emotions primarily bodily responses? Feelings? Thoughts? What role does culture play in shaping emotions? What functions do emotions serve? What can neuroscience tell us about emotions?

Who speaks in a text? What relationship exists between literature, images and identity? How can we portray ourselves in specific socio-political contexts? How do women writers build themselves as authors in the context of a patriarchal literary tradition? How do they address problems of subjectivity, self-representation and self-legitimation?

Neglected tropical diseases are a set of infectious diseases arising from a diverse group of parasites that affect an estimated 1.4 billion people worldwide. These diseases affect the world's most vulnerable populations, almost exclusively poor and powerless people living in rural areas and urban slums of low-income countries. In this course, we will cover the diversity of parasitic organisms, the historical significance of parasitic diseases, and the often-complicated relationships involving parasites.

In this course, we will cover the biology, ecology, classification and identification of fungi and fungal-like organisms. We will consider fungi as causes of diseases in animals, humans, and plants, and their uses in biotechnology applications. We will additionally have in-class discussions and engage with the primary literature.

Understanding and solving environmental problems requires interdisciplinary perspectives. This course links tools from economics with tools from ecology and environmental sciences to design effective policies for protecting the environment. We will examine topics such as the protection of rare and endangered species, rainforest conservation, climate change and others. We will also study important domestic and international policies related to these topics.

This course provides a comprehensive background of the mathematical tools used by economists and applies them to business decisions. A few of the tools that will be utilized in the course are optimization, constrained optimization, and game theory.

Theory of the Firm explores why firms exist, the boundaries of firms, and the organization of firms. Some of the theories that will be looked at are the transaction cost theory, assest specificity, and property rights. We will also explore principal-agent modeling, which looks at how firm owners can incentivize managers to take specific actions.