Sustainability Courses

Structure of US money and capital markets, the impact of monetary and fiscal policies on the funds flows and interest rates in these markets, and the policies of financial institutions participating in these markets.

Read more about FINC-5110 : Financial Institutions and Markets

Course emphasizes portfolio construction rather than security selection. Topics include setting portfolio objectives and constraints for individual and institutional investors, efficient diversification, asset allocation, style analysis, international diversification, performance measurement and attribution.

Read more about FINC-5120 : Portfolio Management

Introduces the major factors (legal, political, economic, competitive, socio-cultural, technological and natural) of global environments and examines their individual and interrelated effects on organizational and managerial practices. Provides a framework for anticipating global effects on individuals and organizations and for understanding organizational actions within increasingly global environments.

Read more about GBUS-3200 : Global Environments of Business

Investigates the role of management in developing and executing international and global business strategy. Emphasis is on theories of organizational roles in society; how culture shapes both organizational and individual behaviors; how firm-specific and country-specific elements relate to competitive advantages.

Read more about GBUS-5310 : Global Management

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Core requirement. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills that will help you develop a historical understanding of the world and the systems of power and privilege that have shaped it in the pre-modern era. The course particularly focuses on issues of politics at multiple scales, social hierarchy, slavery, and imperialism, as well as race, class, and gender relations. You will learn to critically examine an array of concepts that are h...

Read more about HIST-1200 : Constructing Past and Present I

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Core requirement. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills that will help you develop a historical understanding of the world and the systems of power and privilege that have shaped it in recent centuries, particularly issues of human rights, slavery, and colonization, as well as race, class, and gender relations. You will learn to critically examine an array of concepts that are historical constructs, such as "the West," "East," "Globa...

Read more about HIST-1210 : Constructing Past and Present II

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Core requirement. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills that will help you develop a historical understanding of the world and the systems of power and privilege that have shaped it in recent centuries, particularly issues of human rights, slavery, and colonization, as well as race, class, and gender relations. You will learn to critically examine an array of concepts that are historical constructs, such as "the West," "East," "Globa...

Read more about HIST-1210 : Studies in Modern Civilization

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Core requirement. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills that will help you develop a historical understanding of the United States and the systems of power and privilege that have influenced its history. You will be introduced to the social, economic, political, and cultural developments that have shaped the American experience from earliest times up to today, including indigenous cultures, settler colonialism, racial slavery, white ...

Read more about HIST-2310 : Survey of the United States

This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences Core requirement. It is designed to provide knowledge and skills that will help you develop a historical understanding of the United States and the systems of power and privilege that have influenced its history. You will be introduced to the social, economic, political, and cultural developments that have shaped the American experience from earliest times up to today, including indigenous cultures, settler colonialism, racial slavery, white ...

Read more about HIST-2310 : US in the World

We examine crucial debates in African American history in the aftermath of the era of Reconstruction (1865-1877).  Was the Reconstruction a success?  Why the glut of narratives of the proverbial Race Men at the dawn of African Americans' entry into the American body politic and not enough interrogation of the equally vital Race Women?  Do we measure progress via the advancement of individual agency and subjectivity or community advancement?  Is it through the embrace of European modern cultures ...

Read more about HIST-3460 : Great Debates in African American History