Writing Seminar: Up until the Civil War, the United States was a slaveholding republic. Most of the nation's leaders were slaveholders, and in 1857 six of the nine judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution protected slave property. Four million Americans were slaves, and they were worth over three billion dollars on the open market, seven times the amount of money invested in manufacturing. Thus outlawing slavery, even in the midst of the bloodiest war in American history, was a major undertaking.

The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from Native American settlements to 1876. Topics include Puritanism, slavery and antislavery, Indian relations, religious reform as well as such events as the Revolution and Civil War. (Gen.Ed. HS)

We are now living in the throes of the "Arab Spring" and the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. This General Education IE course seeks to integrate students' contemporary understanding of these events against the backdrop of analogous moments in world history over the past three centuries. The core mission of the course is to examine why economic underdevelopment, in combination with weak or dependent state formations, often induces popular instances of rebellion and revolution in the modern era.

This course is designed to help students contemplate the skills and knowledge they have acquired through general education courses and through the process of designing and completing an individualized degree program in the context of a world that is changing dramatically.

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This course surveys the history of Cuba from European contact with the native population to the present. It emphasizes the development of Cuban nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In acknowledging the critical role of the United States in the island's history, this transnational course also crosses geographical borders to explore the culture and politics of the Cuban diaspora. This includes the establishment of ethnic enclaves, changes in foreign policy and immigration law, and patterns of assimilation.

Economic theory of the macro-economy. Determinants of unemployment rates, inflation rates, national income, GDP. Tools of public policy available which can be used to promote macroeconomic goals. (Gen.Ed. SB)

Economic theory of the macro-economy. Determinants of unemployment rates, inflation rates, national income, GDP. Tools of public policy available which can be used to promote macroeconomic goals. (Gen.Ed. SB)

This course focuses on the basic functionality of example ECE systems and explores the technological and scientific principles on which they are based. The goal is to provide a deeper understanding of the operation of these systems and to spark interest in some of the more advanced topics in ECE.

Systems abound in nature whose operation is governed by physical laws. Our human body is comprised of a multitude of systems that operate without our conscious intervention and there are many man-made systems that operate based on man-made principles and rules. In this course students gain a fundamental understanding of the structure of some such systems, learn how to analyze their operation, explore methods for controlling them and become aware of the importance of feedback.