Neoclassical microeconomic theory. Consumer behavior, theory of the firm, markets, income distribution, general equilibrium, welfare economics. This course differs from Economics 203 in its more extensive use of mathematics and its broader and deeper coverage of those topics.

This course is an interdisciplinary approach to studying sexuality, reproduction, politics, and social inequality that draws on literatures in gender and sexuality studies, public health, sociology, and public policy. The key objective of this course is to identify how racism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of social oppression shape sexual and reproductive health. We will also explore the relationship between social movements, law, and public policy with regards to sexual and reproductive freedom.

Introductory economic analysis of inequality by race. A range of topics: from colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to wealth, income and earnings inequality, immigration reform and environmental racism today. Econ 103 or 104 recommended but not required.
(Gen.Ed. SB, U)

The culture and legislature of the United States shape discourses that produce the rights, recognitions, relations, im/mobilities, in/visibility, and mis/understandings of LGBTQIA persons and groups. In the context of history and from various social positions, these changes are read and enacted in multiple ways.

This course looks at the ways race, racial identities, and interracial relations are formed through and by communication practices in present-day U.S. America. Though focusing on U.S. America in the current historical moment, the course takes into account the ways history as well as the transnational flows of people and capital inform and define conversations about race and racial identities. Race will be discussed as intersectional, taking into account the ways race is understood and performed in relation to gender, sexuality, class, and nation.

Focus on a range of concepts and techniques key to understanding how remote sensing data are acquired, displayed, restored, enhanced, and analyzed. Hands-on experience using the image processing software ITT ENVI.

This course introduces the principles of digital image analysis for interpreting remotely sensed data for environmental, resource and urban studies. Emphasis will be given to the processing and information extraction from optical and thermal imagery.

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An introduction to Consumer Economics and the role that consumers play including their decision-making and market and non-market consumption activities. Focus on contemporary consumer economic issues in addition to topics such as consumer rights and responsibilities, the impact of advertising, use of consumer credit, product safety, consumer fraud, and legal protections available to consumers. (Gen.Ed. SB)

Descriptive and inferential statistics through hypothesis testing. This course differs from ResEcon 212 in that students use additional statistical tools to understand the properties of estimators and the theory behind confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing. Students also focus on a deeper understanding of statistical methods. Students will apply statistical tools and concepts to real world experimental or survey data.