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Independent Research Projects integrate theory and practice through planned, supervised field research experience. A key component of a student’s academic development is the ability to apply what is learned in the classroom to research conducted in the world around them. This course offers students individualized, applied learning opportunities to explore and clarify career goals, apply theory, acquire new skills, gain experience, further investigate topics of interest, and improve Spanish language proficiency.

This is an introductory course on contemporary Chinese politics, government and public policy for international students. This course examines China from a variety of perspectives to enlighten our understanding of China today. All through the course, we will try to tackle the following questions: To what extent did the communist/revolutionary legacy affect reform-era politics and policy in China? Why has China been able to achieve such significant economic growth in the past three decades?

The course content focuses on the analysis of the basic linguistic characteristics of the Spanish language. It introduces students to the study of the Spanish sound system (phonetics and phonology), formation of words (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), as well as the evolution of the different Spanish varieties (historic, regional, and social). This class will prepare students for higher-level courses in Hispanic linguistics and others in which Spanish is used in formal academic contexts. This course requires students to have completed two years of college-level Spanish.

El objetivo de esta clase es lograr proveer un panorama general e introductorio sobre la lingüística del español a través de un proceso dinámico en donde el alumno pueda experimentar con el español y aprender sobre aspectos generales que lo componen como los sonidos, los morfemas, partes importantes de la oración así como teorías sobre la adquisición del lenguaje entre otros temas relacionados.

This course provides an introduction to how key aggregate variables such as real economic activity, economic growth, unemployment, and inflation are determined. You will learn to apply Classical and Keynesian theories to these issues, exploring governmental monetary and fiscal policies in the process.

You will gain an understanding of the basics of confidence intervals and hypothesis testing in this course. You will learn to recognize the appropriate hypothesis test, carry out tests, and compute corresponding confidence levels. You will learn the two sample t-test, two sample proportions, z-test, as well as others, and how to carry out these tests and interpret results. The course will also cover data collection and sampling.

Five quarter credits.This course will be taught by linguistics instructors from UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), and will provide an essential foundation in Wolof vocabulary and grammar that you will use on an everyday basis.

This course will offer an introduction to this contemporary period of Irish film history, sometimes known as the “Second Wave, focusing particularly on its most recent decade.

China's transition to a market economy and return to the global community has huge impacts over the lives of its people, as well as the rest of the world. While covering other fields such as anthropology, political science, gender studies and urban studies, this course mostly employs a sociological perspective to examine issues in contemporary Chinese society.

The first level course will introduce you to the Italian language, covering the basic communicative tools that are useful for everyday interaction in Italy. You will be taught the linguistic system, and given strategies and techniques that facilitate the learning process.