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Interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture. Focus on issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Readings drawn from literature, history, the social sciences, philosophy and fine arts. Supplemented with audio-visual materialsofilms, slides of paintings, architecture, photography and material culture, and music. Required for students with a concentration in American Studies. (Gen. Ed. AL, U)

Disability explored through literature as an identity, an experience, and a construct, and through humane approaches to imperfect bodily conditions.

Orientalism in Western Art, explores the impact of the arts of Islamic West, Central and South Asia, North Africa and Iberia, on the art, architecture and intellectual history of Europe and the Americas. Historically, it covers material from the Mozarab and Romanesque periods in Europe, through the late Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and post-Baroque arts of Europe and European colonies, down to our own times. No prerequisites; all students, graduate and undergraduate, are welcome.

This course examines Renaissance notions of the self in relation to the genre of portraiture. We will begin by studying theories of Renaissance subjectivity, as well as the rise of the portrait in fifteenth-century Italy. The bulk of the course will focus on the first half of the sixteenth century?after Mona Lisa (c. 1505)?a period of great creativity and expansion in the genre. Artists include Leonardo, Raphael, Titian, Lotto, Parmigianino, and Bronzino. Student research projects may address the concept of portraiture outside art history and/or outside the Renaissance period.

The biological aspects of being human. Evolution, how and where the human species originated, and biological similarities and dissimilarities among contemporary human groups. (Gen.Ed. BS)

The risk management concept and the associated insurance-related financing tools. Emphasis on the corporate risk handling function from a financial perspective. The insurance industry, pertinent trends, and the products offered.

Application of financial models in the business environment. The use of computer-based spreadsheet and simulation packages in business analysis.

Application of financial models in the business environment. The use of computer-based spreadsheet and simulation packages in business analysis.

Application of financial models in the business environment. The use of computer-based spreadsheet and simulation packages in business analysis.