Course Catalog

This course familiarizes students with concepts and methods that are used in the analysis of the interaction between the economy, the environment and society, and studies the range of policies that can be applied to environmental and social problems. The key issue is how markets can be made to work for sustainable development.

Introduces game theory as used in many different disciplines, with an emphasis on economics. The course will focus on finding Nash equilibrium of non-cooperative games. The reasonableness of various kinds of equilibria will also be discussed, as well as departures from the usual assumptions of rational behavior. Students will describe a situation as a game and solve for its equilibria.

Studies the economic functions and structures of financial asset markets, financial intermediaries, and money. It also presents the role of the central bank in macroeconomic performance of open economies.

Provides the economic rationale for public intervention in markets (public goods, externalities, and distribution), and presents public expenditure issues, such as anti-poverty programs, health care, social security, and revenues, e.g., personal and corporate income taxes, as well as the political economics of public finance.

Courses on different and emerging topics in the discipline, enriching the present course offerings. These classes are taught by permanent or visiting faculty.

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

This course is designed for students involved in editing, writing and producing The Planet and The Peacock. It offers basic instruction and hands-on experience in newspaper and magazine composition. The course will cover everything that comes up in the process of producing a publication, from reporting, writing and editing to page design to working according to a production schedule. A constant concern will be the challenge facing print editors in the Internet age: how to create reader-friendly publications that are informative and attractive enough to appeal despite the draw of the Web. The production of The Planet and The Peacock will be the main work of the course.

A Senior Project is an independent study representing a Major Capstone Project that needs to be registered using the Senior Project registration form.
(Download: https://fd10.formdesk.com/aup/SeniorProjectApplication)

This is a six-week course for people who speak English but who have never learned how to talk or think about how the language is structured. This course will be particularly helpful for students having trouble with grammatical aspects of their writing and for those trying to learn another language but who lack the concepts and vocabulary to discuss how language, even their own, is structured.