An introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. The videotape-based method French in Action provides a lively story line and cultural context for the acquisition of basic grammatical structures with a conversational focus. The course includes frequent composition writing. French 101/102 is recommended for students with no previous training in French or a maximum of one year of French at the high school level.

An introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. The videotape-based method French in Action provides a lively story line and cultural context for the acquisition of basic grammatical structures with a conversational focus. The course includes frequent composition writing. French 101/102 is recommended for students with no previous training in French or a maximum of one year of French at the high school level.

An introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. The videotape-based method French in Action provides a lively story line and cultural context for the acquisition of basic grammatical structures with a conversational focus. The course includes frequent composition writing. French 101/102 is recommended for students with no previous training in French or a maximum of one year of French at the high school level.

This course guides thesis students through the thesis process. We will discuss how to do economic research, how to do a research proposal, and how to write a literature review. Students will then complete a proposal and write their own review. Over the course of the semester, they will be matched with advisors in the department and will complete their theses in a section of Economics 395 with their advisor in the spring.

A topical coverage of development economics used in conventional textbooks does not do justice to the evolution of integrated thinking in the field. A topical organization also does not do justice to the topic linkages or to the important debates in the field. This course adopts a history of macro development economics thought approach with an emphasis on alternative approaches right up to the current debates. While the field started in the 1940s, the influence of classical economists including Marx on the pioneering development economists and the field will also be traced.

This seminar looks at both recent and potential future economic and political developments in the G-20, comprising nineteen of the world's most important economies plus the European Union. Together these countries represent roughly two-thirds of the world's population, eighty percent of international trade, and ninety percent of global GDP. This international body has taken on a new prominence that will shape the debates over the direction the global economy should take in the coming decades.

Monetary theory and policy. Overview of financial markets and institutions. Explores the nature of money and the effects of changing money supply on the economy, theories of money demand, the various methods by which monetary policy can be conducted and the advantages and disadvantages of each, methods of banking regulation and the attendant problems that arise, and important episodes in monetary history (e.g., the Great Depression).

A study of advanced statistical methods in quantifying economic theory. Emphasis on the practical application of regression analysis to test economic theory, especially where the assumptions underlying ordinary least squares analysis are violated. Examines several different subjects that illustrate empirical economic research.