This course introduces core political economy concepts from both classical and modern thinkers while engaging in contemporary debates about the relationship between states and markets. Students will read Smith, Marx, List, Polanyi, Keynes, Hayek, and others, as well as engage with questions such as: What is political economy? Why and how do capitalist systems differ? Why are some countries wealthier and more prosperous than others? What is the role of the state in the economy, market, and development?

This course introduces core political economy concepts from both classical and modern thinkers while engaging in contemporary debates about the relationship between states and markets. Students will read Smith, Marx, List, Polanyi, Keynes, Hayek, and others, as well as engage with questions such as: What is political economy? Why and how do capitalist systems differ? Why are some countries wealthier and more prosperous than others? What is the role of the state in the economy, market, and development?

How computers work, including digital logic, arithmetic, data path, and memory. Students build circuits with prototyping boards; program microcontrollers in assembly language and C to work with various I/O devices. Honors section provides opportunity to work at a deeper level with hardware.

How computers work, including digital logic, arithmetic, data path, and memory. Students build circuits with prototyping boards; program microcontrollers in assembly language and C to work with various I/O devices. Honors section provides opportunity to work at a deeper level with hardware.

"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend," writes Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri, in The Namesake. What are the particular ways that Asian Americans look back, accept (or refuse to accept), interpret, and comprehend, their lives, individually and collectively, and how are these ways of remembering and comprehending refracted through gender?

Scandinavian literature and film have always reflected on the impact of violence and chaos in human affairs. Today's increasingly multicultureal communities complicate their reflections in unprecedented ways.

Modern governance is carried out by specialized administrators who are invested

This course focuses on the shifting historical constructions (from biblical to contemporary times) of women's and men's gender roles and in Judaism and their cultural and social consequences.

Survey of antisemitism through its various stages of historical development, from ancient times to the present. Primary focus on the intellectual, religious, political, and social roots of Jew-hatred. Special attention to its impact on Jewish life and thought, and to the range of Jewish re-sponses to anti-semitism. Topics include: the Jews in Graeco-Roman society; medieval Christendom and Islam; the emergence of modern political and racial anti-semitism. (Gen.Ed. HS, G)

The course will investigate and critique the term "mid-century modern" as an example of "branding" in the history of culture in view of the seismic shifts the world experienced in the period marked by WWII, the Holocaust, and the early Cold War. Case studies will include Scandinavian architecture and design and the international style; MoMA, modern art and the CIA; expressionism and abstract expressionism; jazz; corporations and foundations; Disneyland and suburbs; film noir, neorealism, beat poetry; early 1950s fiction.