S-Postcolonial Poli Thought

This is a survey of the major texts of postcolonial political thought, including Franz Fanon, Edward Said, Partha Chatterjee, Uday Mehta, and others. These texts will help us explore the following questions about political life in postcolonial societies: More generally, this course explores the following questions: how do postcolonial thinkers conceive of freedom, reason, equality, and political emancipation in the wake of a colonial domination that has fundamentally (if diversely) re-shaped their modes of living and producing?

ST-Financial Math & Risk Mngt

This is the second course of the series. We will introduce the concepts of arbitrage, state price densities and equivalent martingale measures. European and American claims. Optimal stopping. We will study admissible strategies, pricing and hedging in Markovian models. Admissible strategies. Pricing and hedging in Markovian models. We will consider different ways of of modeling markets with uncertain volatility. We will cover stochastic volatility models, auto-regressive models as well as recently derived nonlinear pricing models.

ST- History Communication

This graduate level course introduces students to the dynamic emerging field of history communication. It is based on the premise that, just as the sciences have prepared a generation of scientists to be Science Communicators, translating insights gained in lab to wide public audiences, so too should history prepare History Communicators to communicate new historical scholarship to non-experts in today's complex media environment.

ST-Text Mining& Analytics/MKTG

This is a hands-on course taught by a leading scholar and scientist who makes accessible and clear the highly sophisticated field of text mining and analytics for a) detecting and revealing hard-to-see patterns in unstructured textual data, such as social media conversations and online brand content, b) uncovering powerful market insights concerning customer sentiments/emotion, trends, segments and other aspects related to customer contexts, and c) identifying and monitoring online brand-communication strategies.

SuicidePreven/MultiplePerspect

In the United States, suicide is one of the leading causes of death, and represents a health disparity for particular populations such as young Indigenous and older white men. Despite growing attention to the issue in recent years, suicide has been difficult to prevent or reduce in the United States. This 3-credit suicide prevention course is experiential, and designed to provide students from a variety of disciplines with a working knowledge of a range of meanings associated with the act of suicide at various historical periods and in different disciplinary and cultural contexts.
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