How and how well do markets work? What should government do in a market economy? How do markets set prices, determine what will be produced, and decide who will get the goods? We consider important economic issues including preserving the environment, free trade, taxation, (de)regulation, and poverty.

This is a full-year course.

By permission of the chair, for senior majors.

Development of high intermediate proficiency in speech and reading through study of varied prose pieces and audio-visual materials. Prerequisite: 221 or permission of the instructor.

Building on the skills and vocabulary acquired in Chinese II, students will learn to read simple essays on topics of common interest, and will develop the ability to understand, summarize and discuss social issues in contemporary China. Readings will be supplemented by audio-visual materials. Prerequisite: CHI 221 or permission of the instructor.

Offered both semesters, with the permission of the instructor and of the program director.

The interpretation of literary and other cultural texts by psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist and post-structuralist critics. Emphasis on the theory as well as the practice of these methods: their assumptions about writing and reading and about literature as a cultural formation. Readings include Freud, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida and Foucault. Enrollment limited to 25.

For majors, by arrangement with a computer science faculty member.