<p>Government 4: Comparative Politics
MWF 10:00 - 11:05</p>
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This course will introduce students to the field of comparative government and politics through an examination of selected political systems. Special attention will be given to analytic techniques involved in the study of the field and to certain basic concepts, such as power and political culture, decision-making, and communications.
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<p>Biology 2: Human Biology
MWF 11:15 - 12:20</p>
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A course designed to help students (biologists and non-biologists) understand the biological basis of human health and disease. The course will emphasize the fundamental aspects of biochemistry, genetics, cell and molecular biology, physiology, anatomy, reproductive biology, and function of various organs as they relate to humans. Particular emphasis will be placed on specific topics in human health and disease and how these issues affect us all individually in our own health and collectively in our international society.
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<p>Studio Art 29: Photography I - I've done black and white photography before, but this is a requirement for the upper-level courses.
TuTh 10:00 - 11:50</p>
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An introductory course concentrating on the fundamentals of operating and understanding a camera: black and white film processing and printmaking techniques, and the use of the camera as a tool of creative expression. Assignments in landscape, portraiture, and still life will be used to introduce a broad range of photographic problems.
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<p>Government 59: Foreign Policy Decision Making -- I didn't get into this course, but I'm on the waitlist, and since I don't have anything else that time I think I'll just keep showing up to class until the professor lets me in. I really don't want to be taking all introductory courses this fall!
TuTh 14:00 - 15:50</p>
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The objectives of this course are to introduce the most influential theoretical approaches to the study of strategic decision-making in political science and to apply and evaluate these approaches in a series of historical and contemporary case studies of foreign policy. These immediate objectives serve a larger purpose: to make you a better strategist and more sophisticated analyst of foreign policy. The empirical focus of the course is on states and their problems, but its basic precepts are applicable to other domains as well. Each of the decision-making theories we study represents a venerable tradition of social science scholarship. Mastering them can contribute to the acquisition of extremely useful analytical and critical skills. The first four sections of the course introduce the four most basic models of strategic decision-making and explore them in selected case studies. The last section provides an opportunity to integrate the different models in a series of case studies and simulations exercises involving the foreign policies of major powers.
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