This course prepares students to understand and construct mathematical models for applied microeconomic analysis. The course covers both mathematical techniques and their economic applications. Emphasis particularly on the use of constrained optimization and comparative statics to undertake positive and normative analysis of selected government policies. Prerequisites: MTH 111, 112, 211, 212 and ECO 250 or permission of instructor.

The evolution and operation of the sports industry in the United States and internationally. The course explores the special legal and economic circumstances of sports leagues, owner incentives, labor markets, governance, public subsidies and other issues. Prerequisite: ECO 150; Recommended: ECO 220.

Why would countries give up their own currencies to adopt a common new one? Why can citizens of Belgium simply move to France without any special formalities? This course investigates such questions by analyzing the ongoing integration of European countries from an economic perspective. While the major focus is on the economics of integration, account is taken of the historical, political and cultural context in which this process occurred.

Topics course. This course examines the close relations between East Asian traditions of garden design, pictorial representations of gardens, and landscape painting. It focuses on historic gardens in China and Japan, from the third century to the present. Key topics include nature vs. artifice in landscape; gardens as social, political, and religious sites; and the experience of landscape in painting, poetry and other artistic forms. We cover readings from landscape and garden texts in translation, as well as selections from the secondary literature dealing with these themes.

Reinventing tradition for political and cultural legitimacy is an integral part of the forward thrust of modernity itself. In the case of colonial Korea (1910-45), historical writings built the modern state of the Japanese empire at the same time as they formed the spiritual, ethnic nation of the colonized. State institutions, royal pageantry, archaeology, literature, mass culture, film, food, and tourism reveal how tradition was represented in historical texts, popular memory and nationalist politics.

An interdisciplinary, dynamic and experimental approach to the city of Seoul, tracing its transformation from a royal/imperial capital (1392-1910) to a colonial one (1910-45) and, since 1945, to the economic hub of a divided peninsula. Underneath the glitter of modernity and globalization visible in contemporary Gangnam Style lie forgotten stories, stratified claims and a tumultuous history including Japanese rule, civil war and the ongoing presence of United States troops.

This colloquium explores how China and Taiwan recollects, reflects and reinterprets its past, and how Chinese history and its literary and cultural traditions are represented in a new light on the world stage through film and literature. We also examine closely how tradition and the past are integrated and transformed into modern Chinese society and life. Topics include literary texts and films about Confucius and the First Emperor of China; the Chinese concept of hero; the representation of Mulan; heroine Qiu Jin; and most recent Taiwan films. All readings are in English Translation.

This course focuses on the writings of Japanese women from the 10th century until the present. We examine the foundations of Japan's literary tradition represented by such early works as Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji and Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book. We then move to the late 19th century to consider the first modern examples of Japanese women's writing. How does the existence of a "feminine literary tradition" in pre-modern Japan influence the writing of women during the modern period?

This class examines the continuum between subject and object in Chinese fiction, drama, art and material culture from the 16th through the 18th centuries, discussing how individuals participate as agents and objects of circulation; how objects structure identity and articulate relationships; the body as object; and the materiality of writing, art, and the stage. We think about historical constructions of class and gender and reflect on how individuals constructed gendered social identities vis-a-vis objects and consumption. All readings in English translation.

This survey of traditional Chinese fiction and drama from roughly 800?1900 reading classical tales of the strange, vernacular stories, novels, zaju and chuanqi drama alongside official narratives such as histories and biographies, as well as popular genres like ballads, baojuan (precious scrolls) and tanci (plucking songs). We consider the ways individuals, family, community and government appear in literature, along with the conflicting loyalties presented by romance, family and the state.