First part: historical transformations in family life (relationships between husbands and wives, position and treatment of children, importance of kinship ties); second part: the contemporary family through life course (choice of a mate, relations in marriage, parenthood, breakup of the family unit). (Gen.Ed. SB, U)

This class will provide students with an understanding of the major processes and influences of forest ecosystems and major conservation issues which threaten them. Focus is on northeast forests.

Structure and function of biological molecules, especially proteins, lipids and carbohydrates. Important concepts include bioenergetics, biological catalysis, and metabolic pathways as interacting regulated systems.

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An Honors introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

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See Department's website for description. (Gen.Ed. AL)

This course focuses on the ideological origins of the American Revolution and the political theory underlying the Constitution. We will also study American political thought comparatively, with reference to England and France. Primary source readings will include Blackstone, Montesquieu, Paine, Madison, Jefferson, and the Anti-Federalists. But the main primary source will be Madison's notebook capturing the speeches at the Constitutional Convention, which we will read in its entirety. Secondary sources will include Akhil Amar, Peter Baehr, Joan Landes, and Gordon Wood.

This course provides an introduction to Business Intelligence and Analytics, including the processes, methodologies, infrastructure, and current practices used to transform business data into useful information and support business decision-making. Business Intelligence requires foundation knowledge in data models and data retrieval, thus this course will review logical data models for both database management systems and data warehouses. Students will learn to extract and manipulate data from these systems.