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One of the defining elements of modern life is that we spend a great deal of time working in or interacting with organizations, as an employee, vendor, volunteer, customer, client or citizen. Understanding the behavior of individuals and teams in organizations, and the ways organizational structure and culture shapes that behavior, will make you more effective in all of these roles.

(Internship and Service Learning Placement Hours 100)This seminar actively helps you to evaluate your development in the workplace through discussions of organizational theory, employment best practice and inter-cultural skills for business.

This intensive course is part of a three-class complementary curriculum, including Second Year Spanish Writing and Conversation, which together fulfill the second year of Spanish studies. The Grammar course covers a variety of concepts, such as irregular verbs, past tenses, subjunctive, etc.

This course examines the relationship between food and identity in the Pacific, with a particular focus on themes of migration and home. A powerful symbol of cultural values, foods bind people to particular places and help to shape new communities. Perhaps in island environments especially, an understanding of foodways can unlock key insights into historical and current events such as war, decolonization, environmental changes, transitions to tourism-based economies, and concepts of health.

Oceans of History:  Humans and Environments in the Pacific examines the environmental history of the world’s largest geographical feature – the Pacific Ocean.  This class is simultaneously an investigation into the origins of the Pacific’s current ecological crises, the foundations of oceanic identities, and the multiple ways of understanding the ocean.  We will be reading historical, anthropological, and scientific research and weighing the merits of each approach.  Lectures will be supplemented by several site visits and guest speakers.