Treatment of traditional and transitional China, followed by analysis of the political system of the People's Republic of China. Discussion centers on such topics as problems of economic and social change, policy formulation, and patterns of party and state power.

This course will look at the eight years of the Bush presidency, including his election, domestic issues such as tax cuts, response to 9/11, the lead up to and conduct of the war in Iraq, the controversies around the "unitary presidency," the response to Hurricane Katrina, and the financial destabilization of 2008. The purpose will be to bring perspective to those years. Enrollment limited to 20. Prerequisite is at least one other course in American Government.

The fundamental problems in summarizing, interpreting, and analyzing empirical data. Topics include research design and measurement, descriptive statistics, sampling, significance tests, correlation, and regression. Special attention will be paid to survey data and to data analysis using computer software.

The fundamental problems in summarizing, interpreting, and analyzing empirical data. Topics include research design and measurement, descriptive statistics, sampling, significance tests, correlation, and regression. Special attention will be paid to survey data and to data analysis using computer software.

The fundamental problems in summarizing, interpreting, and analyzing empirical data. Topics include research design and measurement, descriptive statistics, sampling, significance tests, correlation, and regression. Special attention will be paid to survey data and to data analysis using computer software.

Topics course. During the brief period between the fall of the Kaiser and the rise of the Nazis, Germany was a hotbed of artistic and intellectual innovation, giving rise to an internationally celebrated film industry. With an eye to industrial, political and cultural forces, this course explores the aesthetic experience of modernity and modernization through formal, narrative and stylistic analyses of feature films from the ?Golden Age? of German cinema. Films by Wiene, Lang, Murnau, Pabst, Ruttmann, Sternberg, Sagan, Riefenstahl. Conducted in English.

A fast-paced introduction to German that allows rapid acquisition of speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills as well as cultural knowledge about German-speaking countries. Daily oral and written practice through multi-media, role-playing, dialogues, poems, and short stories. This course is particularly appropriate for students who want to acquire a solid foundation in the language quickly. Students complete the equivalent of two semesters? work in one semester and are prepared to enter GER 200 or to study on the Hamburg Green program in the following year.

The study of landforms and their significance in terms of the processes that form them. Selected reference is made to examples in the New England region and the classic landforms of the world. During the first part of the semester laboratories will involve learning to use geographic information system (GIS) software to analyze landforms. During the second part of the semester laboratories will include field trips to examine landforms in the local area. Prerequisite: 101, or 102, or 108, or FYS 103.

Same as GEO 180y. This is an interdisciplinary research immersion course investigating biogeochemical cycling in the Avery Brook watershed with a particular focus on mercury ? its deposition on and movement through the watershed, its methylation by the microbial communities in watershed beaver ponds and its bioaccumulation. The questions asked and techniques applied will span the disciplines of biological science, geoscience, chemistry and environmental science.

Same as BIO 180y. This is an interdisciplinary research immersion course investigating biogeochemical cycling in the Avery Brook watershed with a particular focus on mercury ? its deposition on and movement through the watershed, its methylation by the microbial communities in watershed beaver ponds and its bioaccumulation. The questions asked and techniques applied will span the disciplines of biological science, geoscience, chemistry and environmental science.