First-Year Courses

An introduction to economic data and statistical concepts. Topics covered include:  measures of location and dispersion and introduction to probablility theory; characteristics of probability distributions; sampling theory, point estimation and hypothesis testing.  Correlation analysis and the linear regression model are treated with special emphasis placed on the construction, estimation, and interpretation of economic models.  Emphasis is placed on understanding and using statistical concepts rather than on proving theorems. As most decisions are made under uncertainty, the increasing availability of data has led to a greater role of statistics and econometrics in decision making. This course presents a framework for thinking about problems involving uncertainty, and develops tools for tackling these problems. We will consider applications of these tools and framework to a variety of areas, includingeconomics, finance, and marketing. The goal of this course is to sharpen your quantitative andanalytical skills, and to provide a foundation in probability, statistics, and econometrics forsubsequent courses and for your career. Although technical expertise and computation are essential to understanding statistics and analyzing information, our focus will be on understanding statistical concepts and being able to interpret analyses; we¿ll focus on understanding, and not on plugging numbers into formulas. In short, our emphasis is on applying the concepts rather than on their theoretical development.
 
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Introduction to Economics is designed to provide the student who has had no previous exposure to economics with an introduction to current economic issues.  This course introduces the non-major student to the theories of macro-and microeconomics and its application to the real world. The main objective of this course is to enhance students¿ understanding of the economy such as economic problems and efficiency, laws of demand and supply, the organization of production, inflation, unemployment rates and the cycles of business, as well as competition and monopoly. Students learn of the national GDP and its measurement as well as international trade and the impact of global economic issues on everything.

This is a CGS web course delivered entirely online through the CANVAS learning management system (LMS). The course consists of a combination of online and off-line activities and participation in asynchronous and/or synchronous meetings and discussions. Online interaction is required each week as outlined in the class syllabus and schedule. Students must have reliable internet access to take this course. Students complete the course requirements within one term and move through the course materials as a cohort.
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This course is designed to give students learning English as a foreign language an opportunity to develop their ability to write in English and their confidence in performing academic inquiry, analysis and argument. Students write in response to weekly assignments, and instruction focuses on helping students to extend, revise, and edit their work.
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This course is a series of tutorial sessions designed to help students with their writing at the sentence and paragraph levels.  Students work one-on-one with a consultant in the writing center, using the papers they produce in ENGCMP 0200 as materials for discussion.
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This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal and iconographic analysis.  It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage.  It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms--narrative, experimental, documentary, etc.--And connects the cinema to visual arts (like painting and sculpture). Combined Section:
FMST 0150
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This course examines the relations between literature and race. It views race as an idea `an 'invention' that works as a mechanism for organizing the world `which, though it emerged during the enlightenment, continues to have far-reaching implications for the literature produced in the us. It will consider the ways in which categories such as race and nation affect literary representations of different groups of people in us society. It will also look at a variety of narratives of race and racialized experiences, and how these are explored in different literary contexts, asking to what extent such discourses of race are both critical and formative elements in us American literature and culture.
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