The rise of human civilization is marked by the development of ever more advanced materials: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. How will future historians refer to our time? The Silicon Age, or Perhaps the Age of Polymers? Polymers encompass a broad spectrum of our world from the mundane, such as plastics for packaging, to the cutting edge, such as the wings of advanced aircraft, or flexible electronic devices. The DNA that encodes the blueprints for life, and the proteins that build our bodies, are also polymers.

Are you interested in fiction writing but don?t know where to start? In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer?s workshop geared for beginners. With the guidance of the instructor, an award-winning graphic novelist and ethnographic writer, they will read seminal short fiction and instructive texts and participate in group and individual writing exercises. Students will learn to talk about and analyze short fiction and will develop their own pieces through formal workshopping with peers and consultation with the instructor.

This seminar will look at the use of clothing for communicative expression and cultural meaning, and the way it has been represented in the media. Our interdisciplinary approach will be informed mainly by cultural studies and film/media studies but will draw in other discourses and fields such as journalism, cultural anthropology, visual rhetoric/semiotics, gender and sexuality studies, performance theory, and design practices. Our main examples will include cinema, television, street-style and personal style blogs, fashion journalism, and advertisements.

This course introduces students to the main communication strategies to promote social change. Departing from a theoretical overview of communication campaigns for social change, the course will focus on application of the frameworks for understanding the production and critically examine strategies such as social marketing, entertainment-education, media advocacy, and peer-to-peer and group education.

Theories of determination of national income, employment, and the price level. Monetary and fiscal policy. Income inequality and economic instability. The course will emphasize the use of economic theory to understand current developments and policy issues in the U.S. and international economy. It will differ from a standard Econ 204 course by providing more opportunities to develop research and writing skills. The course will be especially useful for students interested in doing a senior capstone or thesis.

With lab. Overview of microbiology principles as applied to food safety. Emphasis on the control of microbial food-borne illnesses in institutional and industrial settings. Labs teach basic techniques used for microbial testing of foods. (Planned for Spring 2007)

With lab. Overview of microbiology principles as applied to food safety. Emphasis on the control of microbial food-borne illnesses in institutional and industrial settings. Labs teach basic techniques used for microbial testing of foods. (Planned for Spring 2007)

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