Same AS MTH 190 An overview of the statistical methods needed for undergraduate research emphasizing methods for data collection, data description, and statistical inference including an introduction to study design, confidence intervals, testing hypotheses, analysis of variance and regression analysis. Techniques for analyzing both quantitative and categorical data will be discussed. Applications are emphasized, and students use SPSS and other statistical software for data analysis. Classes meet for lecture/discussion and a required laboratory that emphasizes the analysis of real data.

This course examines the conscription of children into labor and the sex trade, indentured in employment or bought and sold as commodities in the United States. It explores the causes of trafficking with particular attention to cultural influences in the U.S. that promote, or encourage willful blindness to, the practice. Specific topics include labor trafficking and its intersection immigration issues, sex trafficking with a focus on how runaways and children leaving the foster care system are induced to enter prostitution, and concerns about trafficked children in adoption.

Humanitarian assistance such as emergency food aid, establishment of refugee camps, disaster relief, and military interventions to protect civilians has become a pervasive feature of international relations. This course explores the complex governance and economic distribution networks that have evolved around humanitarian assistance, networks which include national governments, NGOs, international organizations, and private donors.

By permission of the director. Variable credit.

By permission of the department, normally for senior majors.

Topics course. A Focus on Film from the Portuguese-Speaking World. This course will introduce the intertwined histories and diverse cultures of Portuguese-speaking communities spread across three continents through a survey of films from Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guine-Bissau, and Portugal. We will discuss through these films and a selection of short, critical readings, questions of colonialism and post-colonialism, immigration and diaspora, and the historical and contemporary contours of a Portuguese-language globalization. Course taught in Portuguese.

This course will focus on developing skills in both spoken and written Portuguese and is designed for students who have already mastered the fundamentals of grammar. Topics for compositions, class discussions, and oral reports will be based on short literary texts as well as articles from the media, music, and film. Prerequisite: POR125 or POR200 or permission of the instructor.

A one-semester introduction to Brazilian Portuguese designed for speakers of Spanish, aimed at basic proficiency in all four language modalities: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Classes will be in Portuguese and students' individual knowledge of Spanish will support the accelerated pace of the course, with contrastive approaches to pronunciation and grammar. The course will also provide an introduction to aspects of the cultures of Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa, with discussion of authentic audio-visual materials and short texts.

A one-year elementary course in spoken and written Brazilian Portuguese. Emphasis first semester will be on development of oral proficiency and acquisition of reading and writing skills. Second semester will also include the use of music and videos to improve listening comprehension, as well as readings and discussion of short texts by modern writers of the Portuguese-speaking world from Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde.

By permission of the department.