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The cultural, economic, social, legal, political, or organizational forces that influence multinational marketing operations. Prerequisite: MARKETNG 300 or 301.

What are the roots of ethnic prejudice and racism? DNA and genetics, neuroscience and environmental studies, classical studies and anthropology?all have contributed to this important question. Students will learn how definitions of ethnicity arose in the Mediterranean world. This involves two interrelated questions. First, how did people construct their own sense of peoplehood, and second, how did people construct that of others?

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This course explores representations of passion, obligation, and love from the ancient Roman world to sixteenth-century France, in a broad range of literary and historical texts read in translation. In particular, we focus on the formal ways in which relationships were organized under the rubric of "marriage", on the relationship (or lack thereof) between marriage, love, and sexual passion, and the role of homosocial and homosexual desire within this complex set of relationships.

Topics include: biophysical signals, frequency content, Fourier series, Fourier analysis, principles of data collection, data smoothing, electromyography, amplifier response characteristics, software data manipulation. Prerequisites: KIN 305 or 430 and 531 or equivalent. (formerly Exercise Science)

Review of major contemporary approaches to rhetorical theory. Includes formalism, structuralism, phenomenology, marxism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.

An overview of causes, dynamics, and consequences of natural resource and environmental conflicts. Analysis of the form of natural resource and environmental conflict. Critical examination of theories and assumptions surrounding the study of environmental conflict and conflict resolution. Discussion and practice application of the methods and tools used to manage, diffuse, an d resolve environmental and natural resource conflict.

Veteran Scholars is a tailored course for veterans and military service members joining the UMass community as students. The purpose of the course is two-fold: first, the course is a first exposure to the small class size and quality instruction available to students who join the Commonwealth Honors College; second, the course picks up where the TAP program ends and serves as a transition medium for veterans reintegrating into civilian society. Theoretical and practical application coursework will help veterans maximize their educational experience at UMass-Amherst.