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This course provides the tools for analyzing and understanding poverty, inequality and well-being. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the main approaches to poverty, inequality and well-being will be critically presented and discussed: from the conventional monetary view to multidimensional approaches. The course also introduces students to sources of data, indicators and current empirical evidence regarding both global and national poverty and inequality, including a focus on the USA.

The purpose of this course is to develop an understanding of the various business management decisions involved in the organization and operation of an animal-related firm for continuous profit and production efficiency. Students will acquire knowledge and proficiency in applying the various economic principles and business management analysis concepts which aid an owner/operator in the decision-making process for an animal-related business operation. Prereq: ANIMLSCI 103 or permission of instructor.

This course will be taught by a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program, D. Song and supervised by K. Johnson. Students entering this class will be expected to have completed Intermediate Chinese or the equivalent of an intensive college-level second year Chinese language course. The main text for the semester will be Reading Into A New China. Emphasis will be placed equally on speaking, reading, and writing.

Elementary Chinese I: This course will be taught by a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program and supervised by Professor Kay Johnson. It will cover the second semester of beginning Chinese. The course will follow the Integrated Chinese textbook series. The class will cover speaking, reading, and writing Chinese characters. Required books are: Integrated Chinese Textbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Workbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, Level 1, Part 2.

Climate Change: Exploring the Science and Solutions: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and widespread changes in the different components of the climate system. Students in this course will examine the causes and impacts of past, present, and future climate change. Climate change is clearly an issue of increasing concern because of its potentially escalating and far-reaching impacts. This has brought the topic of "global warming" very much into the public eye and to the forefront of political debate.

In his introduction to Poetry Like Bread, Martin Espada writes, "Poetry of the political imagination is a matter of both vision and language. Any progressive social change must be imagined first, and that vision must find its most eloquent possible expression to move from vision to reality. Any oppressive social condition, before it can change, must be named and condemned in words that persuade by stirring the emotions, awakening the senses.