Course Catalog

ACC7040 Advanced Accounting (General Credit) Theory and problem solving in special accounting areas, including partnerships, foreign operations, consolidations, business combinations, accounting for nonprofit institutions, and government units. Prerequisites: ACC3501. ACC3501can be taken as a co-requisite. This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring and Summer I

LAW3661 American Constitutional Law (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) Explores the specific limitations imposed upon federal, state, and local governments by the United States Constitution in the areas of civil and political rights. These include the rights to free speech and a free press; the right to practice one's religion; the rights of the criminal defendant to counsel and trial by jury, and against self-incrimination, cruel and unusual punishment, and unreasonable searches and seizures; the rights of privacy and due process; and the right to equal protection under the law. Students will study significant United States Supreme Court cases of the past, as well as cases currently pending. Prerequisite: LAW1300, LAW 1301, LAW 1003, or LAW 1004 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

ACC7035 Auditing (General Credit) This course examines the interrelation of audit standards, procedures, and internal control techniques with the final auditor's certificate; auditing techniques, statistical sampling methods, and the impact of electronic data processing (EDP) procedures on the auditor. Prerequisite: ACC3501 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

LAW 3573 Building Contracts for New Ventures (General Credit) Every business operates in a supply chain in which it buys and sells goods and services. The links to these suppliers and customers are formalized in contracts, which is why all managers should know something about how to read and write a contract. This course will teach you how to do that. We will review basic principles of contract law and apply them in a wide variety of transactions. The course will be writing intensive, and will equip you to do on the spot drafting and to understand drafts produced by your counterpart. This skill will enhance your ability to negotiate and structure deals. The foundation law course is a prerequisite, as is a solid ability to write. Prerequisites: (LAW1003 or LAW1004) or (LAW1300 or LAW1301)

LAW1300 BUSINESS LAW Foundation Requirement This course is an introduction to the legal system. Survey of agency employment, torts, crimes, and contracts; formation, management, and financing of corporations and partnerships; sales; consumer protections; and securities law. Prerequisite: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring This course is a prerequisite to: Integrated Strategic Management (ISM)

LAW3500 Commercial Law (General Credit) Investigates the Uniform Commercial Code as it relates to sales, commercial-paper-secured transactions, and bankruptcy; fundamentals of personal, intellectual, and real property; estates and trusts; banking; insurance; and leases, mergers, and acquisitions. Prerequisite: (LAW 1300 or LAW1301) or LAW 1003 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

LAW3515 Entertainment Law (General Credit) The entertainment industry is by far one of the most lucrative sectors of the global business economy. It encompasses everything from the latest Oscar winning film and Tony award winning play to books on the New York times best seller list and start up rock bands with their own free on line music downloads. This course will explore legal and business issues relating to the development, production, exploitation and regulation of the entertainment industry. Topics to be addressed will include such things as the intellectual property rights of artists, producers and publishers; negotiation and formation of entertainment business contracts; fiduciary responsibilities of agents, managers and lawyers; and 1st amendment issues relating to free speech and obscenity laws. All of this will be covered against the backdrop of examining entertainment products such as films, DVDs, live/recorded/on line music, and printed/on line books and other forms of new media. Prerequisite: LAW13XX or LAW1XXX

LAW693 Ethical, Legal, Political and Business aspects of the World Cup (2 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits) More than half the planet's population watches World Cup soccer. The passion accompanying the sport's globalization has led, both on and off the field, to political confrontation; to both unity and divisiveness; to nationalist and racist issues and to a host of ethical issues. Through the prism of World Cup soccer and its organizing body, FIFA, this course examines ethical, legal and societal issues facing businesses and other organizations. We will study concepts relating to rule-making and rule-compliance, fairness, evidence, culpability, apology and punishment. We will probe questions of national and ethnic identity. We cover some tort, contract and intellectual property law issues. Finally, we examine questions relating to public relations and sports marketing, as well as the extent and limitations of gaining competitive advantage in sports and business. Prerequisite: LAW1300 or LAW1003

ACC3510 Financial Planning and Cost Control (General Credit) Explore cost systems and control for operations in profit and nonprofit organizations, and budgetary considerations and variance analysis, including their relation to fiscal planning and administration. Prerequisite: IME 3 or OEM This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

LAW1301 Honors Business Law This course is the honors version of the required introduction to the legal system. Survey of agency employment, torts, crimes, and contracts; formation, management, and financing of corporations and partnerships; sales; consumer protections; and securities law. Prerequisite: NONE This course is a prerequisite to: Integrated Strategic Management (ISM) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

LAW3675 Innovation and the Law: A Critical Examination 4 credit Advanced Liberal Arts The legal system has long attempted to encourage business and technological innovation. This course inquires whether current intellectual property laws effectively do encourage innovation or whether their property rights approach might actually restrict innovation and the enjoyment of innovation by consumers. We also will examine laws that regulate the implementation of innovation (trademark, antitrust and safety law) to see if they might do more harm than good. This course constantly asks the question, should any of these laws be changed and if so how? Prerequisites: LAW130%

ACC3500 Intermediate Accounting I (General Credit) Broadens the base of financial accounting concepts introduced in ACC1300 and delves more deeply into accounting concepts, techniques and procedures. Topics include inventory, tangible and intangible assets, statement of cash flows, accounting changes, revenue recognition and current and long-term debt. This course is essential for those who plan a career in accounting and recommended for anyone whose career will involve the extensive use of financial statements. Prerequisite: (ACC 1300 or ACC1301) or IME2310 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

ACC3502 Intermediate Accounting for Finance (General Credit) This course is especially designed for finance majors who want to become more proficient in the financial accounting skills necessary to effectively read and interpret financial reports. The course is recommended for students interested in careers in financial management and Wall Street. Topics such as inventory, deferred taxes, inter-corporate investments, and pensions will be explored through study of accounting principles, transaction analysis, financial statement disclosure, and through financial statement analysis as it applies to corporate finance, credit analysis, and aspects of investment banking Prerequisite: (ACC1300 OR ACC1301) AND MCE AND OEM OR IME2320 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

ACC3501 Intermediate Accounting II (General Credit) This course extends the in-depth study of accounting concepts and techniques which began in Intermediate Accounting I. Topics include earnings per share, leases, pensions and investments. Prerequisite: ACC3500 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

LAW3560 International Law for Business (General Credit) This course explores the basic principals of law as they affect international business. Examines the basic instruments and institutions of the international legal system and cultural underpinnings of major world legal traditions, such as the European Union and the World Trade Organization. Students learn how to structure and execute basic international commercial transactions in goods, services, and technology, including the impact of import-export issues, contract issues, and trade issues on business transactions. The course also examines the structure and regulation of foreign direct investment, including strategic choices for business structures and the impact of regulation on strategy. Finally, the course examines the ethical dimensions of corporate conduct in a transnational setting. This course uses materials from many countries and traditions, and makes extensive use of the World Wide Web. Prerequisite: (LAW 1300 or LAW 1301) or (LAW 1003 or LAW 1004)

LAW3610 Intolerance, Culture and the Law (Advanced Lib Arts) The course will explore the many ways in which the law reflects, challenges and shapes cultural attitudes that people hold about difference. There will be a special focus on how differences based on religion, race, gender, and sexual orientation have been addressed in the courts. We will gain further insight into these issues by examining legal and historical texts, and readings on cultural criticism. Although the main focus will be on US law, we will also study the international aspects of these issues from time to time. This is a writing intensive course, so class size is limited. Prerequisites: Foundation Law course, (LAW1003 or LAW1004 or LAW 1300 or LAW 1301) Permission of the professor required if student has not had business law. This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

ACC1300 Introduction to Financial Accounting Foundation Management ACC 1300 is the required introduction to financial accounting course. Financial accounting involves the complete range of activity a company uses to prepare the financial statements it provides to people outside of the company, including shareholders, creditors, the government, customers, and suppliers. Students will learn how financial events (transactions) are identified, recognized, classified, recorded, and summarized into financial reports. These financial reports consist of the income statement, the balance sheet, the statement of cash flows, and the statement of stockholders' equity (as well as the associated explanatory statement footnotes). Students will learn both how to prepare and how to analyze and interpret these financial reports. Students will learn the language and terminology used in financial accounting that is prevalent in the financial press. Finally, the role ethics plays in the reporting of financial results will often be discussed. Many business scandals (such as Enron, WorldComm, and Tyco) result from falsifying financial accounting reports. Course offered each fall and spring.

ACC4510 Management Planning and Control General Credit) ACC4510 is not a technical accounting course! It is a management-oriented examination of the development and use of strategic planning and control systems. Thus, classroom discussions incorporate knowledge of strategy, marketing, finance, operations, and organizational behavior as well as accounting. This course is especially relevant for students who expect to pursue careers as entrepreneurs, as consultants, or in general management. Also, students interested in management positions in functional areas like corporate finance, management accounting, operations, and human resources are likely to face issues related to strategic control and performance measurement systems throughout their careers. Prerequisites: IME 3 or (OEM and MCE) or permission of instructor

LAW3520 Marketing Law.com (General Credit) This course explores the importance of effectively managing laws and regulations in managing the marketing function. Specifically, we will examine U.S. laws affecting product, price, distribution, and promotion strategies. As time permits, U.S. law will be contrasted with that of other countries and the differences between legal and ethical analysis of marketing strategies also will be examined. E-comerce issues are emphasized. Prerequisite: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

LAW3601 Public International Law and World Order (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) This course explores the meaning of the "rule of law" in a global context by exploring three themes. First, the classic form of international law, including the concept of statehood and sovereignty, the relationship of nations to each other, and the growth of international organizations. Second, the role and responsibility of individuals in international law, especially in the area of human rights. Third, the developing international law of the earth's common areas, specifically the oceans, space, and the environment. Prerequisite: Foundation Law course, (LAW1003 or LAW1004 or LAW 1300 or LAW 1301) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

LAW3616 The Role of Animals in Technology, Law and Society 4 Credit Advanced Liberal Arts The course will explore the various roles that animals play as contributors to industry and technology, the quality of human life and as part of the natural world around us. Learning about the role of animals in technology, law and society will help students cultivate entrepreneurial thinking that incorporates greater awareness of the impact that business development has on the natural world and the sustainability of the planet. The role of animals in a wide variety of industries will be examined, such as food production, gaming, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, fashion, and the pet industry. Topics covered will include property law relating to animals, the development of prevention of cruelty to animals laws, debates about the relationship between endangered species laws and environmental sustainability v. business development; how animals relate to the world of identity politics, and how ethical theories can help us develop ideas about our relationship to animals. All of these issues will be covered by examining court cases, cultural and legal developments and ethical theories from a current and historical perspective. We will also explore global cultural and legal issues relating to animals, including the phenomena of international animal trafficking. This is a writing intensive course. Prerequisite: LAW1300

EXP3550 RUSSIAN BUSINESS AND CUTURE IN TRANSITION (4 credit, General Credit) This course will provide you the opportunity to learn about Russian business and culture as Russia continues her transition from Communism to Capitalism and struggles to build new political, economic, and social institutions. The course will begin with a series of pre-departure meetings at Babson in February and April followed by two weeks in St. Petersburg, hosted by the International Relations Faculty at St. Petersburg State University (SPSU). The pre-departure sessions will provide students with the historical background needed to understand how Russians are coping with the transition to a new business environment and a new political, sociological, and economic system. While in St. Petersburg, you will visit many of the famous cultural and historic sites in the city (including The Hermitage and Peterhof), the Mayor's office, and the regional headquarters of the largest bank in Russia. You will break into industry groups so that you can more intensively learn about that industry. Examples of previous industry groups have been arts management, marketing, entrepreneurship, import/export, tourism, banking, high tech, and telecommunications. Companies visited in the industry groups were big and small, foreign companies and Russian companies that are either brand-new or Soviet-era companies that needed to adapt to the new economic climate, and owned by Russians or with participation of foreign investment. Students were able to see how Russian companies are run and what opportunities and obstacles for growth and development exist. Focusing on the 20th century backdrop, the liberal arts component of the course will address the cultural and historical aspects of this transition. However the most unique aspect of the course is the work you will do with students from SPSU. The SPSU students will be your interpreters, your tour guides, your restaurant and menu consultants, your friends, and they will teach you about Russian life better than any professor ever could. This course will count as EITHER 4 credits of general management -or- 4 credits of advanced liberal arts, dependent upon the topic of your final paper. The GPA requirement for this course is 2.5. Applications with lower GPAs will be considered on a case-by-base basis.

TAX3500 Taxes (General Credit) Studies tax administration; income, deductions, and credits; treatment of gains and losses; income taxation of individuals, businesses, estates, and trusts, with an emphasis on income taxation of individuals; and estate and gift taxation fundamentals. Prequisites: IME2330 or (OEM and MCE)

VSA3602 19th Century European Art (Advanced Liberal Arts) Examines the genesis of Impressionism and the development of early modern art. Presents the historic basis and the meaning of contemporary art by examining the contexts(social,economic, and artistic) from which it developed. Discusses neoclassicism, romanticism, and Realism in terms of their contributions to Impressionism and various Post-Impressionist styles. Major artists, sculptors, and architects of this period are given special attention. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

AHF1300 (Fall) Dwellings: Body, Home, and City (A&H Foundation) Dwellings are physical structures that house us and provide the external conditions for our development: We dwell in a body, a home, and a village, town, or city. Paradoxically, however, dwelling is also a mental and emotional activity. When we dwell on an idea, an event, a person, or a place, we find it difficult to let it go: it quite literally occupies us. Our dwellings-both in space and in time-shape the ways we identify with ourselves and others. In this course we will analyze works of art and philosophy that help us explore questions about dwelling: How do our bodies as lived in and as represented influence how we view ourselves and are viewed by others? What is the nature of home? What do our dwellings have to do with our own and others' sense of belonging in the world? How do the forms and voices that artists and philosophers invent encourage new ways of understanding dwelling in relation to such structures as family, education, class, gender, and race? Prerequisite: NONE AHF1300 (Spring) Nature, Culture, Progress (A&H Foundation) Humans are part of nature yet distinct from it in complex ways. Our natural instincts do not completely define us; we are also cultural beings with traditions, identities and technologies that distinguish us from nature. This distinction has led to the claim that humans are superior to nature and so are entitled to manipulate it. Humans' divergence from nature also suggests that we are capable of progress: of bettering ourselves intellectually, morally, technologically. In this course, we will examine these claims by asking questions such as: to what extent are humans a product of nature and to what extent are we formed by culture? How does our answer to this question affect our perception of ourselves, others, and the world around us? When is progress good, and when does it instead decrease the quality of human life and harm nature? We will explore these questions through readings of literature and philosophy, and through film and the visual arts. Prerequisite: NONE

FRN1200 Accelerated Elementary French (General Credit) Accelerated Elementary French. This course is based on the belief that effective use of a language requires cultural understanding as well as a command of linguistic structures and vocabulary. It is designed to develop basic skills in understanding, communicating, reading and writing authentic French. Utilizing the innovative, web-based multimedia course, Parallèles: communication et culture, assignments will include extensive video experiences, listening exercises, and exercises requiring a creative use of spoken French. Web-based activities such as audio programs, self-tests, on-line flashcards, and games accompany the text. This course is ideal for students with some previous exposure to French and/or the motivated Beginner. Prerequisite: NONE.

SPN1200 Conversations and Culture: Accelerated Elementary Spanish (General Credit) Accelerated Elementary Spanish is a fast-paced, introductory course which prepares students for Intermediate Spanish in the subsequent semester. Through engaging, meaningful activities that develop real-world skills and abilities, the course integrates a wide variety of interactive materials to put language into practice. Accelerated Elementary Spanish is the first course in the Proficiency Sequence, a program of study designed to bring students to proficiency in 3 semesters. As the course adopts an intensive approach, it is recommended for students with some previous exposure to language learning and/or the highly motivated rank beginner. Prerequisite: None

ART1173 Acrylic Painting (General Credit) This is an introductory course which is designed for students who have either no or minimal painting experience. It will focus on the basic elements of acrylic painting, both in theory and practice. There will be an emphasis on the familiarization of materials and techniques through assignments, which will be given throughout the semester. Examining color, value, composition, volume, light and space - the goal of the course will be to provide a sound foundation in the elements of acrylic painting, contributing to the development of the individual student's vision. Prerequisite: NONE

SPN3600 Advanced Spanish: Cinema, Culture, Conversation Advanced Liberal Arts This course is designed as an advanced-level conversation class, with a strong cultural component. The major course materials are contemporary Latin American and Spanish films and supplementary readings. Through the contents of the films, students study issues relevant to the history, culture, and politics of contemporary Latin America and Spain. Films and readings serve as the basis for debate, discussion, and written analysis. This course aims to ease the path towards greater fluency through improvements in accuracy and more spontaneous communication. Films will be on reserve at Horn Library, and screenings will be scheduled. This course can be applied to satisfy one of the four required courses for the Global Business Management Concentration. Prerequisites: SPN2601 (Intermediate Spanish II at Babson, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test. Not open to fluent speakers of Spanish.)

PHL3610 Aesthetics: Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder Advanced Liberal Arts This course uses philosophical theory to evaluate our experience of art forms such as film, painting, literature, and music. Through these theories, we will consider questions such as: Is art simply a matter of taste, or can it be held to objective standards? What is beauty? Are artworks that are not beautiful still art? Is art valuable because it gives us pleasure, or because it educates us? How do various forms of art-painting, music, literature-differ from each other? Does art have social or political value, or is its value purely in the delight it gives the individual? Our study of philosophical theory will be supplemented by consideration of specific works of art. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Art Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2458 After the Dictator (INTDIS) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) In this course, we will look at artistic responses (film, narrative, art, music, popular culture) that reflect and inform the post-dictatorship societies of Spain and two Latin American countries. Through films and texts that explore questions of history and the representation of national and individual identities, we will consider cultural responses to the consequences of dictatorship and the new political, economic, and social realities that have emerged. Scholars, policymakers, and business leaders are among those interested in addressing the causes, character, and possibilities of these transformations. The democratic transition in Spain, which began with the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, provides a valuable point of comparison to the political transitions in Argentina and Chile. What are the differing strategies used to come to terms with the past and the legacy of dictatorship? What elements remain unresolved, and how do they continue to play out or find expression in the culture and society? Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LVA2446 American Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course is a survey of three major movements in American literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Romanticism is thematically concerned with nature and the common man, the frontier, and immigration. Our study may include Thoreau and Whitman, as well as the genres of the gothic story and the slave narrative. Realism and Naturalism arose as reactions to Romanticism and are thematically concerned with man-made reality, objectivity, and Darwinian ideas. Our study may include James, Twain, Wharton, and Dreiser. We will work to develop a clear understanding of these movements in literature. Additionally, students will develop and practice the skill of literary analysis. Prerequisites; Foundation Program

LVA2409 American Film History (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course offers an overview of American film history and explores the basic techniques used by film directors to express their ideas and tell their stories. The goal of the course is to introduce students to film history, theory, and terminology while simultaneously discussing the relation between cultural values and popular culture forms. As an introduction to cinema studies, the course will teach students to "read" filmed texts and to consider popular culture as a gauge of collective values. Through readings, discussions, and weekly screenings, students will consider film's influence on American cultural myth and on individual and social identities. This is a writing intensive course that addresses the following competencies: Creativity, Ethics, and Rhetoric. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

FLM3672 American Independent Film (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course is a survey of American independent cinema of the last 50 years. Examining the history of the independent movement both inside and outside of Hollywood, we will analyze the cultural and historical contexts in which independent films were created. More importantly, we will scrutinize the ways in which the films either deviate from or depend upon conventional, traditional or standard filmmaking practices. Ultimately, the course will challenge current definitions of the independent label promulgated by the big studios and smaller production companies alike-a label that is often nothing more than a marketing strategy to promote what are essentially big-budget films. Possible films to be screened include Martin Scorsese's Who's That Knocking At My Door, Brian DePalma's Hi, Mom!, Roger Corman's Bloody Mama, Barbara Loden's Wanda, Jon Jost's Bell Diamond, John Cassavetes' Shadows, Rob Nilsson's Need, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, and Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2457 American Supernaturalism (LIT) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) America has long displayed a degree of contempt for its supernatural literature, often regarding such writing as being at odds with America's championing of rationality, skepticism, and pragmatism, as well as with its Judeo-Christian roots. Yet American supernatural literature has often been quite well-written, and many examples of such literature have worked their way into the American literary canon. Perhaps more importantly, such ghostly texts have been consistently popular among readers; consider, for example, the new and recent crop of (occasionally) high-quality, supernatural-themed television shows and films. In this course, we will try to come to terms with America's ambivalent relationship with its supernatural literature by surveying the origins and evolution of such writing over the last 200-odd years. Readings may be from among such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edith Wharton, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Rice, and Stephen King; we will also likely consider a few filmed or televised "texts." To more fully explore the breadth of American supernatural literature, we will discuss our texts from a variety of critical perspectives. Prerequisite: Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

LVA2405 Art as a Visual Language (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Develop experience in learning to read the visual language of art painting, sculpture and architecture and develop personal aesthetic standards through study and discussion of slides, field trips, readings and museum visits. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

VSA3610 (formerly VSA3672) The End of Certainty: Early 20th Century Art (Advanced Liberal Arts) Between 1900 -1938, artists grappled with; the discovery of the subconscious, Einstein's physics, a war of unprecedented scope and destructiveness that was followed by the collapse of social and economic order. Styles such as Symbolism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressivism, Dada and Surrealism were created by artists responding to enormous changes in established ways of thinking and being that marked the beginning of the 20th century. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

VSA3672 The End of Certainty: Early 20th Century Art (Advanced Liberal Arts) Between 1900 -1938, artists grappled with; the discovery of the subconscious, Einstein's physics, a war of unprecedented scope and destructiveness that was followed by the collapse of social and economic order. Styles such as Symbolism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressivism, Dada and Surrealism were created by artists responding to enormous changes in established ways of thinking and being that marked the beginning of the 20th century. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

VSA3600 Art Religion & Politics in Ancient Egypt Advanced Liberal Arts This course will present major monuments, sculptures and paintings of Ancient Egypt and Kush. In order to understand their meaning and their (to us) sometimes unusual appearance, Egyptian and Nubian religion, history and philosophy will also be closely examined. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

VSA3670 ARTS OF THE RENAISSANCE: PATRONS, POLITICS AND PIETY (Advanced Liberal Arts) This is an advanced level course in the area of Literature and the Visual Arts. This course examines some of the major paintings and sculptures and architecture from Italy and Northern Europe that shaped modern culture. The Renaissance was a period of discoveries. New concepts of the self, new markets, new technologies, new devotions changed the shape of Europe. Works of art document many of the transformations that occurred between the Black Death and the Protestant Reformation. It will develop skills in interpreting visual images and build competence in creative thinking. Class lectures and discussions will be based primarily on slide presentations. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ITL1290 Beginning Italian for Culture and Conversation (General Credit) Beginning Italian for culture and conversation is an introductory course in ?survival? Italian designed for students with little or no prior exposure to the language. The primary aim of the course is to provide students with a sound basis for learning Italian as it is spoken and written today. Practice in all four skills--listening, speaking, reading and writing-- is given, and every effort is made to provide students with opportunities for self-expression in concrete situations. By the end of the course, students should be able to actively use the basic structures of the language in everyday conversation and writing. Prerequisites: None

LVA 2453 Top Performers: Business in American Drama Intermediate Liberal Arts (3 credits) Ever since Willy Loman walked on stage with his sample cases in Arthur Miller's 1949 masterpiece Death of a Salesman, it has been thought axiomatic that American playwrights have painted a bleak portrait of sales professionals in particular and businesspeople generally. But a close look at American dramatic treatments of business shows something more complicated. Over the past century American playwrights have located in the world of business and the world of drama a shared preoccupation with the sometimes tricky distinctions between word and act, authenticity and performance, the "real" and the symbolic. This course will look at a selection of American plays from the early twentieth century to the present, focusing on those plays' treatment of business and economic life. In addition to close scrutiny of dramatic texts and theatrical performances, we will also explore the role of performance in business. In other words, we'll look at both business in American drama and drama in American business. Your performance will be assessed through two papers, a mid-term and a final exam. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H H&S

FLM3691 Class, Gender, and Romance in American Comic Film (2 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits) As a narrative form, comedy serves purposes beyond making us laugh. This course will explore how American film comedy reflects cultural values about romance, class, and gender. Through film viewing, reading, and discussion, we will consider how American cinema from the silent era to the present has reflected and presented American class consciousness and mobility, the romance myth, and gender representation. The readings will explore narrative theories and analytical models that address the purposes and strategies of comic form. Course requirements include response journals, class presentation and discussion, one short paper and a final exam. Prerequisites: AHF13%% and HSF13%% and completion of 3 intermediate liberal arts courses (CVA, LVA, or HSS)

PHL3605 Contemporary Ethics (Advanced Liberal Arts) The fact that contemporary society attempts to embrace a wide range of cultures and religions presents ethical theory with a problem. Given that we cannot assume a common religious or cultural morality, on what should morality be based? Should it be based on a universal respect for human dignity, on an assessment of what would benefit society at large, or on what fosters desirable character traits in the individual? Should more attention be paid to the outcome of a person's decision, or to whether the person makes the decision for the right reasons? Our answers to these questions determine in turn how we address the difficult questions in modern society: questions for instance concerning stem-cell research, technology in warfare, and world poverty. This course will first discuss three major movements in current ethical theory, namely, utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics. We will then take up selected challenges in contemporary society and attempt to address them philosophically. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LIT3673 Contemporary Irish Writing (Advanced Liberal Arts) In "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" (1932), Irish poet W.B. Yeats writes, "Out of Ireland have we come/ Great hatred, little room,/ Maimed us at the start." Some seventy years later, songwriter Sinéad O'Connor appropriates these lines, adding "Now home just breaks my heart". In this course, we will study the space - the "room" - that is Ireland at the end of the twentieth century. In her 1990 inauguration speech, President Mary Robinson spoke of "a new Ireland, open, tolerant, inclusive [....] a new pluralist Ireland..." reflective of the consolidation of Ireland's post-independence post-nationalist condition. The 1980s and 1990s have been a period of rapid and profound cultural and economic change - with the discontents attendant on such acute transition. This transformation finds expression in the literature of the period, where the "hatred" of Yeats and O'Connor's heartbreak take new forms. Through a selection of poetry, fiction, drama and song, we will investigate representations of 'Ireland' and the articulation of Irish identity. Our readings will be informed by considerations of language, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and politics. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2439 Curiosity in Literature (Intermediate Liberal Art) Curiosity contains within it a contradiction; it is our drive to know battling against our fear of the unknown, and it has played a major role in literature for a very long time. In this course, we will read texts that span several continents and centuries as we study curiosity and ask ourselves myriad questions. Why did the definition of curiosity change from negative to positive in the 14th century? Is curiosity hubristic tinkering or social responsibility? How is curiosity valued? Is the valuation of curiosity dependent on what is being sought? Is curiosity linked to gender? Who is rewarded for possessing it? Who is punished? If curiosity killed the cat, why? We will study Greek Myths and Fairy Tales as well as the following authors: John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Sigmund Freud, Agatha Christie, Anne Sexton, and Patricia Highsmith. We will also view Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LIT3694 Deformity and Conformity: The Grotesque in Art and Literature (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will challenge the normative reading of the grotesque (as that which is perverse, ugly, deformed) by exposing the student to the historical development of the grotesque's definition and usage, from its inception as a neutral term ("grotto-like") through its highly pejorative use by Kayser to its more celebratory use in the writings of Bakhtin. With this definitional complexity in mind, we will explore the grotesque's relevance to literature film and painting. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS) Students who have taken LVA2435 this past summer can not take this course

LVA2459 "I know that you know that I know": Dialogue, Self-Definition, and Narrative (LIT) Intermediate Liberal Arts Whether they induce fear and shame or yearning and intimacy, we define ourselves in relation to what significant others recognize in us. This course will assume that our identities are formed in dialogue with others and that literature contributes to developing the possibilities for that dialogue. Through techniques that represent not just external but also internal dialogue, literature models the intersubjective creation of the self. Literature can convey the complex interplay of characters through a series of nested awarenesses one critic has characterized by the phrase "I know that you know that I know." We will consider such narrative techniques as reliable, unreliable, and suppressed narrators in fiction, the discrepancy between audience and character knowledge in drama, and point-of-view shots and edited linkages in film. Likely texts include Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Kafka's Letter to My Father, and Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss, as well as film and short story texts. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (CVA, LVA, HSS)

FLM3600 Documentary, Experimental, Animated Film (Advanced Liberal Arts) Reality television shows, fractured narratives, and computer animations have become increasingly prevalent popular culture forms that raise intriguing questions about the correspondence between images and that which they would represent. This course explores films that fall outside of the conventional movie-going experience and test the limits of their medium. In each of the three units -- documentary, experimental, and animated film -- students will consider the artistic capabilities and distinctiveness of these modes of cinema, as well as the ethics of representation. The course includes film screenings and readings on film history and theory. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CHN1211 Elementary Chinese II General Credit A continuation of the fall semester, an introduction to practical and functional knowledge of modern Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis on developing proficiency in fundamental language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, using basic expressions and sentence patterns. Computer programs for pronunciation, listening comprehension, grammar and writing Chinese characters will be used extensively. Prerequisite: CHN1210

CHN1210 Elementary Chinese Language I General Credit An introduction to practical and functional knowledge of modern Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis on developing proficiency in fundamental language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, using basic expressions and sentence patterns. Computer programs for pronunciation, listening comprehension, grammar and writing Chinese characters will be used extensively. Prerequisite: None

JPN1200 Elementary Japanese Language and Culture I (General Credit) An introduction to a practical, and functional knowledge of Japanese as it is used in contemporary society. Students will learn the fundamental use of the Japanese language by exercising all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Two basic writing systems, hiragana and katakana, are taught to promote literacy in Japanese environments. An introduction to Japanese culture, which is inseparable from learning the language, is provided through demonstrations, videos and films. Prerequisite: None This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

JPN1201 Elementary Japanese Language and Culture II General Credit A continuation of the fall semester, this course develops students? language skills in practical, functional Japanese as it is used in contemporary Japanese society. Exposure to Japanese culture is provided through various media, activities, and participation in off-campus cultural events. Students learn approximately 150 Kanji writing symbols and use hiragana and katakana extensively in the classroom and with computer word processing. 4 Liberal Arts elective credits Prerequisite: JPN1200 (Elementary Japanese I at Babson, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test.) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

CVA2401 Introduction to Ethics (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Discussions relate morality to the life and circumstances of contemporary society by offering a solid grounding in the major concepts of ethical theory and in the basic skills for analyzing ethical issues and making sound moral judgments. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

LVA2438 Exile and Writing (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course examines how 'exile' informs the writing lives and thematic preoccupations of a wide variety of authors. Ovid was exiled from Rome to the small town of Tomis in 9A.D., amid mysterious circumstances; we will investigate his poems from that period for clues to cause and condition. Other writers under scrutiny include Russian poet Marina Tsetaeva, exiled in the 1920s and 1930s for her political views, and Poland's Czeslaw Milosz, who defected to the West in 1951 and had his writings banned by the communist regime. We will study exile in its various forms - forced and voluntary exile as conditions for writing, as well as themes of alienation, imprisonment, banishment and sexual/emotional exile. We will look to Irish writers James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, who sought exile in Europe as a necessity for their literary careers; Joyce created characters who defy and sever themselves from social conventions, while Beckett presents us with figures who are exiled to the prison of their own consciousness. Writers such as Ariel Dorfman and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill will help us to analyze the adoption of a new language as a function of exile, as well as the exiling of one's native language into minority status, and the consequences for literature in both cases. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

PHL3607 Existentialism (Advanced Liberal Arts) Existentialism is a philosophical movement loosely held together by sensitivity to the paradoxes and meaningful ambiguities of human experience. With a common emphasis on the tension between freedom and the fateful power of circumstance, existentialist tend to view the practice of life from the standpoint of the challenges facing the construction of individual and intersubjective identity. Some existentialists are deeply religious, while others are fervently atheistic. All, however emphasize the significance of the situated nature of freedom, which translates into a philosophy of responsibility and engagement with the world. Be prepared to question yourself. That is not a joke. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ENG3600 Expository Writing: Writing for Media 4 Credit Advanced Liberal Arts This course will help you communicate in a succinct, captivating, and incisive way. To do this, we will tap into the power of media writing, which will both hone and amplify your personal voice. Through a variety of exercises - newspaper op-eds, magazine articles, blogs - you will learn how to adjust the style and tone of your writing, how to assess the needs of readers, and how to maintain the interest of an audience. We will also review the fundamentals of grammar and syntax, which are essential ingredients in any type of written communication. Ultimately, this course will prepare you to face writing situations in the business/professional world with confidence. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2467 Film and the City Intermediate Liberal Arts The birth of cinema coincided with a period of urbanization and a new sense of life in the modern metropolis. From the beginnings of film history to the present, movies have come to grips with the complexities of the urban environment. They have shaped our sense of cities as symbolic sites signifying opportunity, progress, and the promise of social integration but also danger, alienation, and the collision of distinct cultures. Ranging from neon-lit wonderlands to post-apocalyptic wastelands, cinematic cities have mapped our cultural aspirations and anxieties. This course will explore how cities have been represented in movies from the silent era onward. Weekly film viewing assignments will be complemented by readings in film and urban history. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation AH & HS

FLM 3671 Film Comedy (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will explore the history and theory of comic form as it applies to movies from the past eighty years. Beginning with silent era comedies and progressing to contemporary films, we will consider such topics as comedy's roots in ancient ritual; recurring comic character types and genre conventions; irony, satire, anarchy, and surrealism as comic principles; and dark comedy. Course readings will introduce students to narrative theories, philosophical questions, and analytical models that address the purposes and strategies of comic form. All students enrolling in the course are required to attend the weekly screening session (Tuesdays, 3:25 - 5:25). Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2432 Foundations of Western Art (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course is designed to introduce students to painting, architecture, and sculpture from the Renaissance to the early 20th century and to give students an understanding of the general principles governing the visual arts. Topics such as the role of the artist, the functions of art in society, and the nature of visual language, among others, will be discussed as major artists and their works are presented in this survey of Western art. Class lectures and discussions are based on the presentation of slides. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LVA2408 Foundations of Western Art (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course is designed to introduce students to painting, architecture, and sculpture from the Renaissance to the early 20th century and to give students an understanding of the general principles governing the visual arts. Topics such as the role of the artist, the functions of art in society, and the nature of visual language, among others, will be discussed as major artists and their works are presented in this survey of Western art. Class lectures and discussions are based on the presentation of slides. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LVA2455 French Novel into Film: Lust in Translation? (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course examines the film adaptations of four short, classic French novels by Balzac, Zola, Duras and Queneau. It is conducted in English, using translated texts and subtitled French films. The theme of lust appears in all four novels: lust for power, lust for the city of Paris, lust for non-traditional relationships. What happens when these novels move to film? Is the uniqueness of the original text preserved or transformed? Does the film measure up to the literary work? And how does the role of the reader differ from that of the viewer in assigning meaning to the text or film? We will address these questions as both readers and viewers in this course. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

LIT3610 Gender and Economics in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels Advanced Liberal Arts This course explores issues of gender, domesticity, and industry in three nineteenth-century British novels. Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot all wrote about men, women, and work (factory work, authorship, domestic management, teaching, matchmaking -- even participation in the marriage market constituted a species of "work"), and they set this gender-based industry against a backdrop of larger economic and cultural concerns. We shall read Emma (Austen), Villette (Bronte), and Middlemarch (Eliot), considering the interplay of domestic and public social spheres and the roles of women and men in an increasingly money-based economy. 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (LVA, CVA, HSS)

Course Description CVA2405: Gender Theory CVA2405 Gender Theory Intermediate Liberal Arts (3 credits) When we talk casually, we assume that "man/woman," "male/female," and "masculine/feminine" are self-evident terms. After all, we think we know what manly behavior is when we see it. In addition, we assume that the terms on one side of the "/" (i.e., "man," "male," and "masculine") are equivalent and that, taken as a whole, they represent the opposite of the terms on the other side of the "/". But throughout the modern age, such labels and compartmentalization have been repeatedly challenged (take, as one example, the stay-at-home dad), and such challenges have been rigorously and systematically routed out. (Witness how quickly American culture transformed Rosie the Riveter into June Cleaver.) In this course, we will look at history, visual art, literature, and philosophy so as to explore the ways that individuals and groups have challenged gender norms as well as the ways that culture contests or (even more insidiously) uses such challenges for its own normalizing agenda. Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation H&S & A&H

VSA3601 The Role of Art in Ancient Greece and Rome (Advanced Liberal Arts) In ancient Greece, art was often an extension of philosophical inquiry. In ancient Rome, it was often an extension of state policy. This course presents the ways in which these two different agendas for art affected the development of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

PHL 3601 Ancient Greek Philosophy (Advanced Liberal Arts) The Greek philosophers of the fifth and fourth centuries BC produced the founding works of the Western philosophical tradition. Establishing the parameters for a genuine love of wisdom, these thinkers challenge us to seek true justice, beauty, and goodness, while cultivating intellectual rigor and personal discipline. Searching tirelessly for insight into the nature of knowledge, being, and the human soul, they seek also a relationship to the divine and, accordingly, an understanding of our proper place in the cosmos (world-order). This course concentrates on several influential works by Plato and Aristotle, considering also the Presocratic background of their thought and their legacy in the Neoplatonism of Plotinus. The course emphasizes metaphysics, epistemology, and ontology, with some consideration of philosophical ethics, and it requires extensive student participation, including student presentations. Because of the difficulty of the material, this course is not recommended for newcomers to philosophy. At least one course in philosophy or philosophical ethics, and a working knowledge of Plato's Republic and/or Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics are strongly recommended. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

AHF1311 (Fall) Dwellings: Body, Home, and City (A&H Foundation) Dwellings are physical structures that house us and provide the external conditions for our development: We dwell in a body, a home, and a village, town, or city. Paradoxically, however, dwelling is also a mental and emotional activity. When we dwell on an idea, an event, a person, or a place, we find it difficult to let it go: it quite literally occupies us. Our dwellings-both in space and in time-shape the ways we identify with ourselves and others. In this course we will analyze works of art and philosophy that help us explore questions about dwelling: How do our bodies as lived in and as represented influence how we view ourselves and are viewed by others? What is the nature of home? What do our dwellings have to do with our own and others' sense of belonging in the world? How do the forms and voices that artists and philosophers invent encourage new ways of understanding dwelling in relation to such structures as family, education, class, gender, and race? Prerequisite: NONE AHF1311 (Spring) Nature, Culture, Progress (A&H Foundation) Humans are part of nature yet distinct from it in complex ways. Our natural instincts do not completely define us; we are also cultural beings with traditions, identities and technologies that distinguish us from nature. This distinction has led to the claim that humans are superior to nature and so are entitled to manipulate it. Humans' divergence from nature also suggests that we are capable of progress: of bettering ourselves intellectually, morally, technologically. In this course, we will examine these claims by asking questions such as: to what extent are humans a product of nature and to what extent are we formed by culture? How does our answer to this question affect our perception of ourselves, others, and the world around us? When is progress good, and when does it instead decrease the quality of human life and harm nature? We will explore these questions through readings of literature and philosophy, and through film and the visual arts. Prerequisite: NONE

HFE1311-01 Honors Foundation Experience: Equality, Persuasion, and Ethics: The Practice of Democracy This two-semester, 9-credit course satisfies the first-year requirements for AHF, HSF, and Rhetoric B. This uniquely designed course explores the ways democracy is enacted in the face of natural, social, economic, and cultural inequalities. How can individuals and citizens agree on what is just and good? How can democracy retain the support both of the masses and of powerful elites, such as aristocrats, the wealthy, or those with special knowledge. What role does dissent play in the practice of democracy and how can political equality coexist with the right of individuals to make choices for themselves? How are personal and intimate relations affected by the practice of democracy? We will explore these themes in two ways. First we will examine the works of relevant artists, philosophers, and other writers. Then we will try to practice democracy in the classroom itself by re-enacting two charged moments in history when democracy was being shaped and tested: fall semester will focus on Athens in 403 B.C. and spring semester will focus on Paris in 1791. Students will be assigned roles to play and will give speeches and write position papers based on the issues critical to the assemblies of that time. During these sections of the course, which last from 4 to 6 weeks, the class will be run entirely by you, the students, as you attempt to advance the objectives of your particular roles and as the instructors offer advice and guidance. This unique approach improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts, and builds a strong learning community.

HFE1312 Honors Foundation Experience 5 credit Foundation Liberal Arts Honors Foundation Experience: Equality, Persuasion, and Ethics: The Practice of Democracy This two-semester, 9-credit course satisfies the first-year requirements for AHF, HSF, and Rhetoric B. This uniquely designed course explores the ways democracy is enacted in the face of natural, social, economic, and cultural inequalities. How can individuals and citizens agree on what is just and good? How can democracy retain the support both of the masses and of powerful elites, such as aristocrats, the wealthy, or those with special knowledge. What role does dissent play in the practice of democracy and how can political equality coexist with the right of individuals to make choices for themselves? How are personal and intimate relations affected by the practice of democracy? We will explore these themes in two ways. First we will examine the works of relevant artists, philosophers, and other writers. Then we will try to practice democracy in the classroom itself by re-enacting two charged moments in history when democracy was being shaped and tested: fall semester will focus on Athens in 403 B.C. and spring semester will focus on Paris in 1791. Students will be assigned roles to play and will give speeches and write position papers based on the issues critical to the assemblies of that time. During these sections of the course, which last from 4 to 6 weeks, the class will be run entirely by you, the students, as you attempt to advance the objectives of your particular roles and as the instructors offer advice and guidance. This unique approach improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts, and builds a strong learning community.

LIT3687 Imagining England (Advanced Liberal Arts) How do nations define themselves both to their own citizens and to the citizens of the world? This course will look at literary and film imaginings of England and "Englishness," from Shakespeare to Salman Rushdie, and investigate the ways in which the arts reflect and reveal ideas of cultural and national identity. We will look at the way literature and film have represented the aristocracy and social class, the idyll of the country house, and the reality of ethnically diverse, cosmopolitan London. Texts MAY include Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 , Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, E.M. Forster's Howard's End, P.G. Wodehouse's What Ho Jeeves, Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, Julian Barnes's England, England, and Salman Rushdie's short stories, East West. Films may include, Gosford Park, East is East, My Beautiful Launderette, I'm British But? Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2457 Imagining Sustainability: Nature, Humanity, Business and the End of Sorrow (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The primary focus of this course is on the exploration of the concept of sustainability as a juncture of both environmental and social concerns. Historically, the fields of environmental justice and social justice have been at odds, the former charged with championing the environment at the expense of humanity and economic growth, and the latter accused of myopic definitions of what constitutes both "social" and "justice," since it ignores the very real and intensifying environmental pressures both on disenfranchised communities and their members (human and nonhuman) and, by extension, on the human economy itself. With the rapid expansion of globalization, and the attenuating environmental and social crises that accompany it, the contested terrain between these two ideologies begs for reexamination, in the interests of all. Future business and public policy leaders, therefore, will be at the vanguard in determining how best to effect the union of these two heretofore incommensurable approaches to structuring and/or understanding our world. To that end, this course will examine a variety of sources in the consideration both of what constitutes sustainability and what prohibits it--from business case study to philosophical analysis to literary memoir--in an attempt to begin a reconciliatory dialogue between those approaches. Within this context, students will be invited to examine what we mean when we talk about "justice," "ethics," and "profit," and to envision how the concepts of individual and communal responsibility might be revisited and redefined in the effort to create a world which offers sustainable economic opportunity for all, ensured within a commitment to environmental stewardship.

LIT3682 In the Extreme: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human Rights (Advanced Liberal Arts) The history of basic human rights originates with the earliest records of humans, and humans have struggled to define and defend these most basic rights ever since. In the wake of the events of September 11, 2001, the international community faces urgent and increasingly complex problems of defining and defending human rights. This course will focus upon "grave" human rights abuses: torture, disappearance, genocide. We will begin with philosophical definitions of human rights, then move quickly to specific cases, paying special attention to the role of art, literature, and film in addressing human rights. Authors and artists studied may likely include Marjorie Agosin, Claudia Bernardi, Assia Djebar, Ariel Dorfman, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Alicia Partnoy, Nawal El Saadawi, Desmond Tutu, and Thich Nhat Hahn. We will study human rights cases from places such as Sri Lanka, Morocco and Egypt, Chile and Argentina, Iraq, South Africa, and the U.S. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

FRN2600 Intermediate French Language and Culture I (Advanced Liberal Arts) Active use of contemporary spoken and written French through dialog practice, oral presentations, class discussions, and written exercises. By becoming more aware of the French speaking world and the relationship between culture and language, students increase their ability to communicate in international environments. The program features web-based audio and video interaction with native speakers. Prerequisite: FRN1200 (Equivalent of one year of college French as demonstrated through a required placement test) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

FRN2601 Intermediate French II (Advanced Liberal Arts) A continuation of the fall semester, this course integrates the feature-length film "Le Chemin du retour" with a high level intermediate textbook. The film provides students with an immersion in French language and Francophone culture as they follow the story of a young television journalist in her search to find out more about her grandfather's hidden past during the German occupation of France in World War II, one of the most important historical events in 20th century France. It provides students with opportunities for linguistic and cultural growth, as well as a context for critical thinking. Prerequisite: FRN2600 (Intermediate French I) at Babson, or equivalent program demonstrated through a required placement test, or permission of the instructor. Not open to native speakers of French. This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring Prerequisite: FRN2600 (Intermediate French I at Babson, or equivalent program demonstrated through a required placement test, or permission of the instructor. Not open to native speakers of French.) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

JPN2600 Intermediate Japanese Language and Culture I (Advanced Liberal Arts) The course teaches effective communication with the Japanese as well as cultural awareness. Using an interactive approach, students learn to converse on non-technical topics, write and read 100 Kanji symbols, recognize additional symbols, and become fluent in using approximately 200 hiragana and katakana symbols. Prerequisite: JPN1201 (Elementary Japanese II at Babson, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test.) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

JPN2601 Intermediate Japanese Language and Culture II Advanced Liberal Arts A continuation of the fall semester, this course develops students? language skills in practical, functional Japanese as it is used in contemporary Japanese society. Exposure to Japanese culture is provided through various media, activities, and participation in off-campus cultural events. Students learn approximately 150 Kanji writing symbols and use hiragana and katakana extensively in the classroom and with computer word processing. 4 Liberal Arts elective credits Prerequisite: JPN2600 (Intermediate Japanese I at Babson, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test.) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

SPN2600 Intermediate Spanish Language and Culture I (Advanced Liberal Arts) Grammar review and an in-depth cultural exploration of the Hispanic world supports active use of spoken and written Spanish. Selected readings and films provide a point of departure for conversation, discussion, group work, skits, and class presentations based upon research. Prerequisite: SPN1200 (Accelerated Elementary Spanish II at Babson, or equivalent proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test. Not open to fluent speakers of Spanish.) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

SPN2601 Intermediate Spanish II (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course focuses on conversation and communication in Spanish at the advanced intermediate level. Through grammar review, films, and readings, we will explore issues involving the culture, literature, history, and contemporary culture of the nations that form the Hispanic world. Except on rare occasions when a complex explanation requires the use of English, this course is conducted entirely in Spanish. Discussions focus on the exploration of socio-cultural issues and business language and contexts in the Spanish speaking world. Prerequisite: SPN 2600 (Intermediate Spanish at Babson, or equivalency proficiency as demonstrated through a required placement test. Not open to fluent speakers of Spanish) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

LVA2407 International Cinema (Intermediate Liberal Arts) International Cinema provides an overview of the history and aesthetics of films from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Students will analyze films as cultural artifacts, tied to and influenced by the cultures that give rise to them. Weekly film screenings will be complemented by readings in the history and theory of various national cinemas. ALL FILMS ARE IN THEIR ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

CVA2425 Introduction to LGBTQ Cultural Studies (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Cultural Studies borrows from history, political science, psychology, literature, sociology, anthropology, film studies, media studies, and other disciplines to dismantle and thereby understand the cultural forces and variables which work together to construct meaning. In this course, we will look specifically at how LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning) identities and meanings have been and continue to be constructed, primarily but not exclusively in U.S. culture. We will actively consider how we, as human beings and agents of construction ourselves, contribute to or resist cultural meanings of LGBTQ. In our course of study, we will read theory, study film and other visual media, and interrogate texts, such as television shows, from popular culture. Each student will have an opportunity to develop a short individual project tailored to his or her interests. Prerequisite: RHT and Foundation HSF and AHF

CVA2407 Introduction toPhilosophy (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Introduction to Philosophy treats the most basic and pervasive human questions: Does God exist? What is the nature of the self? What is the relationship between our mind and our body? Do human beings have an immortal soul? Do we have free will? What is the difference between a human being and a computer? How can value judgments be justified? What is the proper relationship between the individual and the community? What is the best kind of human life? Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

ART1172 INTRODUCTION TO SCULPTURE General Credit This is an introductory level studio art course designed to engage you with basic sculptural concepts and processes through the creation of your own sculpture. Working with basic materials such as plasticene, plaster, wood, and wire, we will learn carving, modeling, and other methods of construction as we explore assignments that parallel historical approaches and processes. As a means of developing a full range of approaches towards making sculpture, we will examine paleo-lithic sculpture; Egyptian, Greek, and Renaissance bas-relief sculpture; abstract, kinetic, and minimal sculpture; and installation and conceptual art. Students will be asked to keep a sketchbook for the development and critique of visual ideas. Through visualization, drawing, design, construction, and critique of sculpture, students will expand their skills of observation, critical analysis, and creative problem solving.

PRF1100 Introduction to Acting (General Elective) Through the exploration of theatre as an art and a craft, this course develops the fundamental technical skills and emotional resources required for acting. Students will study stage technique and discipline, vocal and physical movement, acting theory, and elements of performance. Students will also practice rehearsal methods, including the "magic if," "emotion memory," and the "unbroken line." The focus of the course moves from an emphasis on spontaneous acting exploration, to developing more analytical methods for working on text. Assignments will include acting exercises, scene work, reading and discussion of required texts, journal entries, written critiques, and reviews of theatrical productions. There will also be regular work on breathing techniques, relaxation, energy, eye focus, articulation, and projection. No experience is necessary, but experienced students of acting are welcome. Prerequisites: NONE

PHO1190 Introduction to Black and White Photography (General Credit) Students who have completed PHO1100 are ineligible to register for this course. Students who complete this course will be ineligible to register for PHO1100 An exploration of the fundamental technical issues in black and white photography beginning with proper exposure and development of film and continuing to an understanding of rendering the gray tone scale in printmaking. At first the emphasis will be on developing technical competence, but with the understanding that technique must be in service to creating evocative images. Each assignment leads to a better understanding of the aesthetic and technical issues. Lectures will address the history of photography as well as specific artists. The final project, of the student's choosing, demonstrates the advancement of technique and an appreciation of how the camera transforms the seen world into a photograph. School has several 35 mm cameras appropriate for this class. Supply cost: approx $75.00 Prerequisites: None

LVA2423 Introduction to Poetry (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course offers and introduction to the pleasures of reading and analyzing poetry. In addition to the study of cultural and historical contexts for poetry, emphasis will be placed on understanding the means by which it communicates. The course will include discussions of language, rhythm, sound, form, and voice, and extensive readings of poetry in English, with comparisons of poems from other traditions and a selection of readings in critical texts. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

JPN1190 Japanese Business Culture & Language (General Credit) The course has two components, Japanese business culture and Japanese language. Business culture deals with basic intercultural awareness, human relations in Japan, business protocols, professional lifestyles, decision making, negotiation, critical problem solving and business organization. The language portion introduces basic, yet practical communicative spoken language to be used in daily life as well as in business occasion. The topics include: introducing yourself and others, exchanging business cards, appropriate greetings, downplaying your ability, ordering food, asking locations etc. Prerequisites: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semester: Winter

LVA2456 Laughter and the Comic Form Intermediate Liberal Arts (3 credits) This course offers a serious study of works that provoke serious, and sometimes not so serious, laughter. We will look at a wide range of works that incorporate comic technique for different purposes-from comedy to parody, satire to farce, comic fiction to stand up. How do these varieties of comic forms relate to each other and what sorts of commentary do they make on more serious works and ideas? We will also consider critical and theoretical studies of laughter, humor, and comedy. Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation A&H and H&S

LIT3663 Limit Cases: International Literature, Film, and Economic Rights (Interdisciplinary Advanced Liberal Arts) This interdisciplinary course in literature and human rights will take as its main focus literary and cinematic representations of economic rights problems, and the contribution of literary artists to discourses on economic rights in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will begin by examining the challenges of ensuring economic rights in customary international law and policy, and will then study specific problems of land, resource, and wealth distribution. Cases and authors likely to be studied include water and mega-dams in India (Arundhati Roy); oil in Nigeria (Ken Saro-Wiwa); sugar in the Caribbean (Toni Morrison; Alan Cambeira); urban and rural land use (Rigoberta Menchu, Fernando Mereilles, Ann Petry, Mike Davis); the global trade in humans (Kevin Bales, Rohinton Mistry, Stephen Frears). Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2419 THE LITERATURE OF FEAR (Intermediate Liberal Arts) In this course, we will be reading literature that stems from the emotion of fear-not just "horror stories" or "Gothic literature" but poems, short stories, novels and journalism that deal in various ways with the way fear is explored, exploited, or overcome. Readings will include works such as the true crime stories of William Roughead, the poetry of World War I, the Gothic comedy of Flannery O'Conner, and contemporary fiction such as Publish and Perish by James Hynes. Our goal will be an understanding of the uses of fear in all sorts of writing. We may also read a book on fear, such as Ernest Hartmann's Dreams and Nightmares. We won't be reading Stephen King. There will be, of course, papers, a midterm and final. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LIT3620 Literature and the Ascent of Money 4 credit Advanced Liberal Arts Lending and borrowing, booms, busts, and bankruptcies are as much the stuff of literature as they are of economics. This course examines such economic concepts as credit, debt, and investing as they are represented in literary texts. Using Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money as our guide, we will consider the rise of the cash nexus in history and literature, and the ethical and aesthetic implications of capitalism. Course readings will include drama, fiction and non-fiction by Shakespeare, Dickens, David Mamet/Harley Granville-Barker, and of course, Ferguson. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2446 Joy, Beauty, Justice: Literature of the Black Atlantic Intermediate Liberal Arts "The Black Atlantic" is a term used to describe the deep cultural and artistic connections among people of African descent relocated by the slave trade throughout the Americas and Europe. While it often evokes the horrors of the Middle Passage, slavery, and ongoing racist legacies, literature produced by African peoples in Africa, Europe, and the Americas also constitutes an archive of strength, resistance, and even joy in the face of injustice and oppression. We will read literature from the Black Atlantic with this transformative potential in mind. Beginning with the slave narrative, the course will sample literary production from the three continents, noting shared formal and imaginative characteristics, and ending with the most vibrant work by contemporary literary artists of the African diaspora. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation HSF & AHF

LIT3662 Literature of Witness Advanced Liberal Arts The film Ararat, by Atom Egoyan, contains testimony from a woman who has witnessed a massacre of young brides. She asks, "Now that I have seen this event, how shall I dig out these eyes of mine?" This woman occupies the most direct position-the eyewitness-in relation to an event; however, the question of who constitutes a witness also extends to literary and artistic production. We will study novels and other literature of witness by international writers such as Pat Barker, Nadine Gordimer, Gunter Grass, Primo Levi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Toni Morrison, and Virginia Woolf in order to investigate the following questions: What kinds of events generate or require witnesses, and how does witnessing differ from simply seeing? What effects does the event have upon the witness, and vice versa? What does it mean for literature to act as a kind of witness? How can literature ethically represent or "witness" extreme events? What do we do with the energy created by our witnessing of events on global and local scales? Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LIT3681 Literature and World War One (Advanced Liberal Arts) Although there has been a recent resurgence in interest in World War Two (Spielberg´s "Saving Private Ryan" and Tom Brokaw´s "Greatest Generation"), it may be argued that the First World War has had more far-reaching historical significance. This conflict, the first general European land war in a century, was of an unprecedented scale. In this course, we will examine the literary response to what was called at the time "The Great War" and investigate its impact the rest of the twentieth century. List of key readings might include: Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier Pat Barker, Regeneration Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2402 LIVELY LITERARY MASSACHUSETTS 3 Credit Intermediate Liberal Arts (Students who have taken LIT3691 Lively Literary Massachusetts may not take this course) Up until the early 19th Century, most American writers mimicked the style and substance of European writers. There was nothing uniquely ?American? about their work. That was all to change after a Massachusetts resident, the poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous essay The American Scholar. In it, Emerson argued that in order for there to be such a thing as American culture and real American Literature, there must be a uniquely American subject as well as a new way of writing. Emerson proposed that that subject was Nature. The great Naturalist Henry David Thoreau heeded Emerson?s call and headed out to Walden Pond to live in relative solitude for two years. In a quiet house in Amherst, Emily Dickinson ignored the popular sonnet form and iambic pentameter and revolutionized poetry. In Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne confronted the history of the Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials in short stories and novels. In western Massachusetts, Herman Melville looked up at Mount Greylock and conceived hi s most famous novel, Moby Dick. Together, in less than 50 years, these five writers composed some of the most famous works of American Literature. In this course, we will not only read essays, poems and novels by these writers, we will also get out of the classroom and go to several of the historic sites that inspired them. We will take a few separate exciting field trips: on one day, we will go to Concord where we?ll walk out to Walden Pond, visit the Writer?s Section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, tour Emerson?s house and visit the Concord Museum; on the other, we will journey to Salem where we will see The House of the Seven Gables, the oldest surviving 17th century wooden mansion in New England, in which Hawthorne based his novel of the same name and the Custom?s House, where Hawthorne worked. We?ll also try to schedule a day to go west to Amherst to see Emily Dickinson?s house. On the days we spend in the classroom, we will discuss a plethora of these author?s great works. Students will be responsible for admission and parking fees, which will run about $50. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LIT3691 Lively Literary Massachusetts (Advanced Liberal Arts) Up until the early 19th Century, most American writers mimicked the style and substance of European writers; in other words, there was nothing uniquely "American" about their work. That was all to change after a Massachusetts resident, the poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his famous essay The American Scholar. In it, Emerson argued that in order for there to be real American Literature, and by extension American culture, American scholars must focus on the uniquely American subject of Nature as well as constructing new forms through which to represent that subject. His call was heeded by the great Naturalist Henry David Thoreau, who moved to Walden Pond; the poet Emily Dickinson, who revolutionized poetry in a quiet house in Amherst; and the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who confronted the history of the Puritans and the Salem Witch Trials in short stories and novels. Together, Emerson and these three writers composed some of the most famous works of American Literature. In this course, we will not only read essays, poems and a novel by these writers, we will also go to several of the historic sites that inspired them. We will take two separate field trips. On one day, we will go to Concord where we'll walk out to Walden Pond, visit the Writer's Section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and visit the Concord Museum. On the other, we will journey to Salem where we will see The House of the Seven Gables, the oldest surviving 17th century wooden mansion in New England, in which Hawthorne based his novel of the same name, and the Custom's House, where Hawthorne worked for a time. If time permits, we'll stop into the Library at the Peabody Essex museum. On the days we spend in the classroom, we will discuss the texts in depth. Students will be responsible for admission and parking fees, which will total less than $30. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2444 Lives of Artists in the Contemporary Novel (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course examines the representation of fictional visual artists in contemporary novels. We will examine the image of the tortured/ torturing artist; the intimate and conflictive relationship between art historian/ critic/ artist; depictions of the 'hunger artist'; mentoring relationships and artistic jealousy; the figure of the 'disappearing artist' and the recluse. Our readings will be informed by studies in artistic form - for example, Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes as recreated in novelist Michael Redhill's prose - as a means of studying fictional form. We will study not only how the making of art informs the lives of the novels' characters, but also how their authors use the devices of visual art as a means to making narrative meaning. Authors include Australian novelist Patrick White (The Vivisector), Irish novelist Deirdre Madden (Authenticity) and American novelist Siri Hustvedt (What I Loved). Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation AHF and HSF

CVA2460 Living La Vida Latina: From Life on the Hyphen to "Hip Hop Hoodios" 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts Through the study of examples from fiction and nonfiction writing, film, music, and other forms of art and popular culture, this course provides students with a critical overview of some of the central trends and issues that have shaped the experiences of U.S. Latino/a populations. Hispanics are the largest minority group in the U.S. and according to Census Bureau estimates will comprise nearly one-fourth of the U.S. population by mid-century. Moreover, Latino culture is not only crossing national borders, but redefining the cultural panorama from within, as U.S.-born Latinos now account for more than sixty percent of all Latinos in the country. This course will examine the historical and contemporary influences on these shifting demographics and explore their significance within U.S. culture. What does it mean to experience a hyphenated sense of culture? How do artistic groups such as the Hip Hop Hoodios, whose self-described "Latino-Jewish madness" combines a mash-up of hip-hop, klezmer, and Latino genres, extend or revise this concept of "life on the hyphen"? Do they reflect awareness of a broader multiculturalism among authors, artists, and audiences? Issues to be considered include: the social and cultural factors in the construction and assertion of identity; immigration, cross-culturalism, and the experience of the exile or refugee; the role of geographic space, borderlands, and localities; the politics of language and bilingualism; media and popular culture, and the marketing of Latino/a identity. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

LIT3686 Love, Sex and the Family in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Literature (Advanced Liberal Arts) "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage." This childhood ditty seems to inculcate the "right" order of things in the act of family-making in America. But lives played out in times of cultural transition aren't always as neat as nursery rhymes. Mid-twentieth-century America was characterized by changing gender roles and definitions, geographic and demographic shifts, war, and burgeoning technology, among other things. This course looks at fiction and drama to see how great American authors such as Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor and Richard Yates portrayed and, perhaps, shaped the mid-century American understanding of love, sex, and family. We will supplement literary readings with relevant non-fiction from the time period. Students will propose, research, and develop a major essay about an author and/or a concept related to the course materials. Students will also formally present their ideas to the class. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2461 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Rebels and Anti-Heroes 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts When Lady Caroline Lamb described her former lover, the poet Lord Byron, as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," she vividly captured a widespread fascination with figures who reject society's norms. Simultaneously alluring and threatening, rebels and anti-heroes unsettle the outer limit of acceptable behavior through their transgressions. This course will examine how rebels and anti-heroes shape a society's identity while living at - or beyond - its margins. We will also pay particular attention to questions of gender when considering these figures' own identities. We will read novels, plays, poetry, and cultural critique in order to trace the development of rebels and anti-heroes in western literature, as well as to understand them in their specific cultural and historical contexts. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

LVA2458 Ethnic Identities: Magical American Stories Intermediate Liberal Arts In this course, we will examine works of fiction and film that use magical realist techniques to portray ethnic American experiences. Magical realism allows a narrator to represent both the natural and supernatural (e.g., ghosts, cognizant butterflies) together, as normal parts of the same world. Concentrating on ethnicity and magical realism gives us the opportunity to identify and discuss the multicultural composition of the United States, while exploring the boundaries of the filmic and fictive forms. We will examine the work of scholars, writers, and filmmakers from the 19th Century to the 21st Century. These artists may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Woody Allen, Ana Castillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jim Sheridan. RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

ENG3690 Mid-20th Century American Drama (Advanced Liberal Arts) Mid-20th Century American Drama introduces students to the theater as a space of major cultural and literary impact. Emphasis is on plays of this era (1934-1962) as part of a significant 20th Century American literary genre as well as part of the shifting culture at large. Thematically, we will focus on representations of family life and political issues. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ART1171 Mixed Media Drawing (General Credit) Course Description: This is an introductory level course designed to bring students through basic aspects of drawing in a wide range of media. No previous experience is required. Issues such as line, tone, mark making, gesture form, light sources, figure/ground relationships, and perspective to overall compositions will be addressed separately and in the many ways that they relate to one another in a drawing. Students will draw observationally from life and from their own drawings, learning how to use each of these concepts as tools in order to draw and see more analytically. We will work with a wide range of materials from basic graphite pencils and charcoal, to ink washes, conte crayon on gesso treated paper, silverpoint, collage, and printmaking. Slides of various artists' work will be discussed in relation to concepts and processes explored in class. Student work will be discussed in group critiques with full class participation. Students should be committed to expanding their skills and can expect project deadlines. There will be some expense for materials. Prerequisites: NONE

"Marketing the Male Body: or The Metrosexual in History" Given the historical moment in which they lived, men whose grooming drew attention to itself have either been praised as a paragon of virility or condemned as the quintessence of effeminacy. In this course, we will explore what accounts for such a discrepancy in how the spectacularized male body is received. As we come to understand the history of how men used such flamboyancy to barter for political prestige, social status, and erotic encounters, we will gain a better sense of such current phenomena as the Metrosexual and the Abercrombie and Fitch model. Readings on Beau Brummel, Benjamin Disraeli, and Quintin Crisp will help guide us through the ways in which men, then and now, have used their bodies as bargaining chips.

LVA2425 Modern American Drama (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course invites you to read and explore American drama from the 1920s to the present. Although the course focuses mainly on the art of this genre, it also discusses the cultural history of the United States. Representative writes include Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Tennessee Williams, Marsha Norman, David Mamet, and August Wilson. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LIT3600 Modern Drama (Advanced Liberal Arts) This is a survey of Western drama from the late nineteenth century to the present day. We'll study representative works of major dramatists of this period such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, O'Neill, Pirandello, Beckett, O'Casey, Soyinka, Churchill, Wilson, Stoppard, Mamet, Kushner, and Parks. You'll research and report on theatre movements such as symbolism, expressionism, realism, naturalism, epic theatre, and theatre of the absurd. We'll consider the play as both text and performance, making use of theatre reviews, director's notes, interviews, photographs, videos, and, when possible, live performances. Grades will be determined by two papers, a midterm and a final exam, a group performance project, and a thoroughly researched oral presentation. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

PHL3603 Modern Philosophy (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course examines the changes in philosophy that took place due to the emergence of Europe from the Middle Ages into the modern era. Includes selected readings from the leading philosophers who established new systems of thought in response to the degeneration of scholasticism, the rise of science, and the development of new political organizations. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2445 Modernism and the Making of the New (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The British novelist Virginia Woolf declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on or about December 1910." The first few decades of the twentieth century are characterized by a fervent desire to break with the past and to reject traditions that seemed outmoded and too genteel to suit an era of psychological and technological breakthroughs and violence on a grand scale. This class will look at works that reflect ideas of experimentation, in both form and content, and that engaged new understandings of time, space, and human subjectivity. We will read writers such as Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E.M. Forster, Djuna Barnes, and Katherine Mansfield, as well as the theories of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein (this is a tentative list). Be prepared; there is a lot of reading. These are difficult and challenging texts that do not rely on straightforward plot and narrative; they require careful analysis and critical engagement. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LVA2463 Outsiders & Adventure in British Fiction 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will focus on the British response to the Outsider--commonly seen in tales of high adventure--which both set the stage for the development of Post-colonial Literature as well as reveal the anxiety of empire and imperialism. (An anxiety which we continue to deal with in today's world.) The authors we examine will include Aphra Behn, RL Stevenson, Evelyn Waugh, Bram Stoker, and Caryl Churchill. And we will answer the seemingly bizarre question of how a schoolteacher is like a vampire in terms of adventure AND outsider-dom. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

PHL3615 Philosophical Problems of Economic Justice 4 credit Advanced Liberal Arts This course examines philosophical foundations of three fundamentally different economic systems - capitalism, socialism and the welfare state. Through the selection of readings we will think critically about the prospects for economic justice introduced by each system. The main questions will focus on what features an economic system and a society ought to have in order to be economically just, and what sorts of claims the different classical economic systems advance in the name of economic justice. In addition, we will critically examine opportunities for and obstacles to economic justice in the current global economy - under conditions that did not exist for any of the three classical economic systems. We will at all times reflect upon requirements of a good life, the grounding of claims for a good life, the problem of poverty, and the ways in which economic systems materially and culturally set conditions for a productive, fair and just life for all members of the global community. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

PHL3606 PHILOSOPHIES OF EVIL Advanced Liberal Arts This course investigates the notion of evil in works of philosophy, literature, and film. The topic of evil has long been a source of frustration for philosophers because attempts to explain and conceptualize evil often result in theories that may reassure and comfort us, but are far removed from the experience of evil suffered. Throughout the history of western thought, philosophers have tried to "explain away" evil, defining it as an imperfection, part of God's plan, or something that is only a matter of perspective. But evil, other thinkers have argued, will always escape the theorizing mind; the kind of evil that fits within a theory is no longer truly evil but something "merely" imperfect or unfortunate. This course offers both an historical overview of different philosophical, literary, psycho-analytic and cinematic approaches to evil and an exploration of contemporary (perceived) evils related to terrorism, alienation, demonization, and hatred of what is other and different. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (LVA, CVA, HSS)

PHL3602 Philosophy of Religion (Advanced Liberal Arts) What is God like? How can an all-powerful, wholly good God permit evil? Why do some religions and denominations tolerate the beliefs of other faiths, while others do not? If my religion is "true", does that mean other religions are "false"? How can I have free will if God knows what I am going to do? The goal of this course is to encourage clear thinking about some of the major philosophical issues in religion and religious belief. This is NOT a comparative religions course, nor is it a history of religions class. It is, rather, a course that considers some of the problems that arise from a variety of religious doctrines and teachings. Some of those problems include claims about the attributes of God, the existence and nature of evil, the nature of scriptures and revelations, free will and responsibility, religious pluralism and exclusivism, and some others. We will focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition, but we will consider problems from other traditions, as well. The course will involve serious analytic philosophical tools and reading from some classic texts and articles. We will have regular, in-class evaluative exercises and write two papers. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

PHO1100 Photography (General Credit) Introduction to the Art of Photography: While learning basic photography practice, students in this studio arts course will be introduced to the history and range of photographic practice, the ethics of representation, and the aesthetics of visual art forms. ***Special equipment required - check with division.*** You may not take this course if you have taken PHO1190 Prerequisites: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

LVA2449 Seeking Enrichment: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Literature (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The novelist Joyce Carol Oates has said, "To be an American is to be a kind of pilgrim ... a seeker after truth. The pilgrim is our deepest and purest self." In this course we'll explore the character of the pilgrim in selected fiction, essays, and poems, using questions such as: What inspires someone to take and retake pilgrimages: long, often difficult journeys far from home? What friendships and other communities form along the way and why? What besides self-enrichment do pilgrims hope to find, or possibly lose? Through close reading, discussion, and written analyses, we'll study how writers use setting, plot, and theme to consider these questions. There will also be one field trip, which will serve as a local pilgrimage. Course texts may include contemporary works by Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, and Curtis Sittenfeld, as well as selections from Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Basho, and Thoreau. Prerequisite: RHT and Foundation HSF and AHF

LVA2430 Reading Place and Landscape in American Literature (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course investigates the ways American writers use place and landscape in their art. Reading fiction, essays, and poetry beginning in the 19th century and moving to contemporary works, we will explore the nature of place and landscape as physical, social, and intellectual and consider what it suggests about American culture and ideas. We will also look at several theoretical texts by cultural geographers, ecologists, and scholars of landscape architecture and regional planning. Ultimately, we will consider how place and landscape, both real and imagined, influence selected American writers' use of theme, imagery, character, and style, and reflect as well on how these concerns influence our own lives as readers, writers, thinkers, and dreamers. Reading Place and Landscape in American Literature is an intermediate level course and part of the Literary and Visual Arts category of the Liberal Arts Curriculum. Courses in this category focus on frameworks for understanding and appreciating the practice of representation, the creative process, and diverse modes of aesthetic expression. They also consider individual, historical, cultural, and formal factors in artistic creation and make manifest the multiple vantage points from which art can be interpreted. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

LIT3689 Poetic Elegy: Shaping Cultural and Personal Loss Advanced Liberal Arts An elegy is a poem of mourning, a lament that can express both private and public grief. Reading elegies offers insight into cultural attitudes towards life and death while featuring the resilience of poetic form. From antiquity to the present, poets have used this shaping form to memorialize, describe, reflect, critique, and witness. In this course we will examine the origins of the form and study pivotal poems and poets in its development. We will also explore the contemporary elegy-certainly in the shadows of 9/11 and the war in Iraq-both as a private expression of feeling and as a public need for decorum and custom. Texts may include poetry by John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Yusef Komonyakaa, Carolyn Forché, Mark Doty, Marie Howe, and Brian Turner, as well as lyrical prose elegies by Joan Didion and Philip Roth. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

LVA2429 When the West Left: An Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Film Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will analyze a range of literary and visual works that try to represent the often "extreme" experience of regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America that were colonized by Western European countries. How does a Pakistani-British filmmaker tell the story of a torturer by day who "speaks of love in the evening?" How does a Nigerian author represent one family's battle during the violent process of national independence from British rule? How do literary artists from around the globe struggle to retain their own language and culture and yet participate in the increasingly globalized contemporary world? Throughout the course we will explore the ways in which the legacies of colonialism continue to dramatically influence culture and politics in the present. We will examine novels and films by artists including J. M. Coetzee, Hanif Kureishi, Mina Nair, Ben Okri, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie, among others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

ENG3602 Practicum in Peer Consulting and Writing (Advanced Liberal Arts) Students learn to act as peer consultants in writing and work on improving their own writing, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. They accomplish these objectives by addressing their writing problems; writing extensively; developing criteria to evaluate the writings of others; studying various writing processes and theories of composition; examining pedagogical approaches to teaching writing; reading extensively about, and becoming acquainted with, the dynamics of peer tutoring; and working in the Writing Center as peer consultant trainees. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS) and instructor permission

CVA2402 Rebel Iconography: Depicting Adolescent Discontent (Intermediate Liberal Arts). Youth rebellion has been a popular theme in fiction, advertising, music, and films since the 1950s. This course will examine the concept of the "teenager," delving into debates about its meaning and analyzing "young rebel" texts from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. We will question the notion of a universally shared adolescent experience and investigate how cultural and historical contexts shape rebel imagery. Texts may include the sociological study Generation on Hold: Coming of Age in the Late Twentieth Century, the novels Tea in the Harem, Wild Kids, and A Clockwork Orange, the graphic novel The Complete Persepolis, and the films Rebel Without a Cause, La Haine, and Boys Don't Cry. Globalization provides a backdrop for looking at variations in rebel iconography, which ranges from an overused marketing device to a powerful tool for opposing repressive regimes, hostile institutions, racism, and inflexible gender roles. At the same time, the rebel icon frequently represents a surrender to nihilism and despair. This is not surprising, since adolescents are consistently blamed for social ills rather than recognized as their victims. Drawing on novels, graphic novels, films, music, theories of adolescence, and cultural critique, we will gain knowledge about rebel imagery and the dilemmas faced by actual adolescents. "There will be required evening film screenings of Rebel Without a Cause, Boys Don't Cry, and La Haine. They will be held in the Foc'sle room (Park Manor North) on [dates TBA]." Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation AHF & HSF

RHT1301 Rhetoric A (Foundation Lib Arts) Rhetoric A develops students' abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and promotes understanding of the dynamic relations among these processes. Students will learn approaches to understanding, analyzing, and responding to texts, both in speech and writing, and will learn to assess the nature and conventions of academic discourse. Prerequisite: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

RHT1303 Rhetoric A w/AHF (Foundation Liberal Arts) Rhetoric A develops students' abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and promotes understanding of the dynamic relations among these processes. Students will learn approaches to understanding, analyzing, and responding to texts, both in speech and writing, and will learn to assess the nature and conventions of academic discourse. Prerequisite: Must be taken with AHF1300 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

RHT1302 Rhetoric A w/HSF (Foundation Liberal Arts) Rhetoric A develops students' abilities in reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking, and promotes understanding of the dynamic relations among these processes. Students will learn approaches to understanding, analyzing, and responding to texts, both in speech and writing, and will learn to assess the nature and conventions of academic discourse. Prerequisite: Must be taken with HSF1300 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

RHT1311 RhetoricB (Foundation Liberal Arts) Rhetoric B will continue to develop the same rhetorical abilities, as Rhetoric A but assignments will require more complex and sophisticated analysis, research, and argument. Prerequisite: RHT1300 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

RHT1313 RhetoricB w/AHF (Foundation Liberal Arts) Rhetoric B will continue to develop the same rhetorical abilities, as Rhetoric A but assignments will require more complex and sophisticated analysis, research, and argument. Prerequisite: RHT1300 and must be taken with AHF1300 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

RHT13112 RhetoricB w/HSF (Foundation Liberal Arts) Rhetoric B will continue to develop the same rhetorical abilities, as Rhetoric A but assignments will require more complex and sophisticated analysis, research, and argument. Prerequisite: RHT1300 and must be taken with HSF1300 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

BRC3602 Russia in Modernity: History, Politics, and Culture 4-cr Advanced Liberal Arts A component of the 16-credit Russia-China course, this two week, 4-credit liberal arts course in St. Petersburg, Russia will include a general overview of modern Russian history and politics, but will focus primarily on modern Russian culture as expressed in literature, film, fine arts, and architecture. Students should be prepared to be extremely busy. We will begin with brief attention to the 18th century, and specifically to the figure of Czar Peter the Great, who founded St. Petersburg. The remainder of the first week will emphasize 19th century literature. The second week will emphasize the 20th century and the Soviet period, with attention to philosophy, literature, film, and visual art. During the course of these intensive two weeks, we will supplement classroom activities with excursions to cultural sites, including museums, shrines, palaces, and, in connection with the siege of Leningrad during WWII, a cemetery. If it is feasible, we may take a one-day field trip via overnight train to Moscow to visit the Kremlin, Red Square, the iconic St. Basil's Cathedral, and the equally iconic Lenin's Tomb. For historical reasons that we will discuss while there, we may also take a day-trip to the ancient city of Veliky Novgorod. Prerequisites: Completion of 3 intermediate liberal arts courses (HSS, CVA, LVA) Co-requisites: BRC3501, BRC3502, BRC3601 Concentration: one of several courses from required list for Global Studies and International Business concentrations

EXP3650 RUSSIAN BUSINESS AND CUTURE IN TRANSITION (4 credit, Advanced Liberal Arts Credit) This course will provide you the opportunity to learn about Russian business and culture as Russia continues her transition from Communism to Capitalism and struggles to build new political, economic, and social institutions. The course will begin with a series of pre-departure meetings at Babson in February and April followed by two weeks in St. Petersburg, hosted by the International Relations Faculty at St. Petersburg State University (SPSU). The pre-departure sessions will provide students with the historical background needed to understand how Russians are coping with the transition to a new business environment and a new political, sociological, and economic system. While in St. Petersburg, you will visit many of the famous cultural and historic sites in the city (including The Hermitage and Peterhof), the Mayor's office, and the regional headquarters of the largest bank in Russia. You will break into industry groups so that you can more intensively learn about that industry. Examples of previous industry groups have been arts management, marketing, entrepreneurship, import/export, tourism, banking, high tech, and telecommunications. Companies visited in the industry groups were big and small, foreign companies and Russian companies that are either brand-new or Soviet-era companies that needed to adapt to the new economic climate, and owned by Russians or with participation of foreign investment. Students were able to see how Russian companies are run and what opportunities and obstacles for growth and development exist. Focusing on the 20th century backdrop, the liberal arts component of the course will address the cultural and historical aspects of this transition. However the most unique aspect of the course is the work you will do with students from SPSU. The SPSU students will be your interpreters, your tour guides, your restaurant and menu consultants, your friends, and they will teach you about Russian life better than any professor ever could. This course will count as EITHER 4 credits of general management -or- 4 credits of advanced liberal arts, dependent upon the topic of your final paper. The GPA requirement for this course is 2.5. Applications with lower GPAs will be considered on a case-by-base basis.

EXP3665 S. AFRICA: EPS, CULTURE, & SOC IN DEVELOPING ECONOMY 4 Credits (Advanced Liberal Arts) This experiential, global service learning course will introduce students to the culture, history, politics, and economy of South Africa. Students will engage in in-depth study of South Africa's culture, history, politics, and economy before leaving for a 3 week in-country experience. The pre-trip phase will consider the effects of colonialism and apartheid rule on South Africa, as well as its development in the post-apartheid period (1994 - present). We will pay particular attention to the role of small-scale entrepreneurship in restoring balance to the segregated, oppressed communities of people classified as "black" and "colored" under the apartheid regime. Students will consider approaches to economic development in the post-apartheid period, including the effects of community and government programs and policies. While in South Africa, students will teach two week-long developmental entrepreneurship classes to students at eight local high schools in impoverished communities. We will travel to Capetown to visit major cultural, geographic, and historical sites on the weekend between teaching sessions, and students have the option of doing a safari experience at the end of the trip. Course credits will be divided into pre- and post-trip work: half of the credits will be earned through reading, writing, and other coursework in preparation for the in-country experience, and half of the credits will be earned through a reflective research essay to be produced upon returning from the trip. Prerequisites: Completion of 3 intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

MUS3610 Ethnography of Music Advanced Liberal Arts In this course, students will consider the ways in which contemporary folk and popular musics interact with broader contexts of culture and society in the world today. Students will first examine ethnographic representations of a variety of musics, in a number of different media, to critically evaluate methods and practices in contemporary ethnomusicological scholarship. Having a critical perspective on the effectiveness of ethnographic methods, students will then be responsible for their own ethnography of a music-making community in Boston. A series of tasks including video recording, audio recording, interview transcription, and a written ethnography, will result in a variegated representation of a musical community from an analytical perspective. By the end of the course, students will be familiar with a basic repertory of musics from around the world, and will have a practical and through-going understanding of ethnographic methods in the study of music.

PHL3611 Social and Political Philosophy (Advanced Liberal Arts ) This course will be concerned with efforts to explain the legitimacy of political institutions and of their role in society, and with images of a better world (as well as criticisms of existing worlds). With a long history in the Western philosophical tradition, these issues have as much to do withsocial formations and ideas about these formations as they do with politics as a practical affair. Along the way, we will necessarily encounter a variety of attending, fundamental philosophical issues. What is the relation between state and society? What is politics about? What legitimates a political community? Who or what is "represented" in representative democratic assemblies? That is, what is the identity of the political subject, what is the "who" that democracy is about? Is this open to change? What is its relation to power? What is power? What is freedom? Through a consideration of these questions in connection with the historical texts we will be reading, the aim is to help develop our resources and our imagination for thinking about society and politics in the present and the future. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2448 Sports and Literature 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts The Ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar wrote victory odes for winners in the Olympic Games, their "prizes won in trials of strength." In doing so he forged a powerful connection between literature and the capturing of sporting achievement: "It is from there that the song of praise, plaited of many voices/ Is woven into a crown by the subtle thoughts of poets." This course will examine the intersections of sport and literature, guided by the many and varied representations that fiction writers, poets and essayists have made of individual and team sports and their players. We will study theoretical examinations of sport and its roles and values in culture; for example, Roland Barthes's critical question "What is Sport?" and Theodor Adorno's assertion that "sport is the imageless counterpart to practical life". We will study a portrait of boxing and gentlemanly conduct in William Hazlitt's nineteenth-century The Fight; "people who risk death for a living" in Alison Kennedy's On Bullfighting; Conor O'Callaghan's poems about the socio-political perils of playing cricket in Ireland, where English games were banned for a long time. In this course you will work with such topic areas as sport, nationalism and fascism; sportswriting and gender; sport and violence; sport and class distinctions. Above all you will examine the efforts of diverse writers to capture the workings, euphoria and 'meaning' of sport in their work. Other texts include Nick Hornby's novel of soccer fanaticism in Fever Pitch; Laurent Mauvignier's multilayered representation of sports violence in In the Crowd; and yes, baseball through John Updike's writing on the Boston Red Sox. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

CVA2427 Strangers is Strange Lands 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts Strangers in Strange Lands We will explore the phenomenon of displacement on the human condition. For instance, in 1789, the English began transporting people (the poor, the petty criminal, the politically-minded ) to Australia, a country on the other side of the world whose physical environment was completely foreign to them. Henry Lawson, who became Australia's great frontier poet, called it the home of "everything weird." Winter in England meant summer in Australia; even the stars in the sky were different! Other examples will include an Englishwoman growing up in colonial Kenya, an Indian transplanted to London, and others who feel disassociated even while seemingly "at home." Through texts fictional and historical, film and art, we'll explore how we respond and adapt to dramatic dislocation against a backdrop of modern globalization in all its forms (economic, technological, political and cultural). Prerequisites: RHT and foundation A&H and H&S

LVA2462 Suburban America in Literature and Culture 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts American suburbs are simultaneously reviled as physical spaces comprised of "little boxes made of ticky tacky," churning out homogeneous values and people, and revered as mythically perfect imagined spaces in television sitcoms and advertising. This class aims to examine the American suburbs as constructed through popular texts, classic literature, and contemporary art. We will consider how the tension between utopia and dystopia is imagined and re-imagined over time and across genres and texts, reading and analyzing works such as the poetry of Anne Sexton, Richard Yates' novel Revolutionary Road, and the short stories of John Cheever. We will also examine representations of the suburbs in science fiction and film. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H & H&S

LVA2460 Tales of the City: Exploring Urban Literature 3 CREDIT Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will focus on the changing and diverse portrayals of cities and urban life in western literature from the earliest days of industrialization to the present. Inspired by Plato's observation, "this City is what it is because our citizens are what they are," we will explore the mutually-constructed relationship between a city and its citizens, asking such questions as: What does it mean to be an urban dweller? How does a city shape its residents' identity, and how do its residents influence a city's development? What are the delights and dangers of urban life? Where does one's sense of community/neighborhood overlap with - and diverge from - living in a particular city? We will read novels, short stories, poems, and essays, focusing primarily on London, but also likely including Dublin and New York City. To what extent can the concerns of a community within a city diverge from the concerns of the city as a whole? Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation A&H and H&S

PHL3609 Technology, Nature and Values Advanced Liberal Arts) Investigates the ways in which our increasing technological capabilities have influenced our values and the reciprocal influence of beliefs and conceptual systems upon technological progress. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2454 : The Big House in Literature Intermediate Liberal Art (3 credits) From "the dance-like glory that those walls begot" (W.B. Yeats) to John Banville's Birchwood wherein a bathroom falls through a rotting floor, this course will examine Anglo-Irish, Russian, Anglo-Indian and contemporary Irish literature for representations of the Big House. In many nineteenth century novels, the 'Big House' figures as an emblem of colonial power; as the imposing country mansion of the upper class; as the bricks-and-mortar separating landowning gentry from peasantry; and, consequently, as the locus of incendiary political tensions. This course will then trace the predicaments of these Big Houses once the fortunes of their families, in financial and political terms, began to wane in the early twentieth century. We will also attend to the work of contemporary authors who take the phenomenon of the decaying Big House and use it as the backdrop for their historical fictions, with tragi-comic outcomes. Authors will likely include Maria Edgeworth, WB Yeats, Anton Chekhov, Elizabeth Bowen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, John Banville, Anita Desai. Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation A&H and H&S

LIT3693 Play, Performance, Perspective: The London Stage in Winter (Advanced Liberal Arts) Prerequisite: Instructor Permission

FLM3690 The Matrix: Film & Philosophy 2 credit Advanced Liberal Arts "Welcome to the desert of the real," says Morpheus in The Matrix, the 1991 film that has achieved cult status. Its technological innovations and dazzling visual style reinvigorated the science-fiction film genre. The Matrix raises many philosophical questions: How do we perceive the external world? How can we know if our experiences are illusory? Would it matter if they are? What is the relationship of dreams to waling life? How do our actions express moral choices? What is self-knowledge? These and other questions explored by ethics, metaphysics, Existentialism, mysticism, Buddhism, and postmodernism permeate the film. This class will analyze the philosophical issues raised by the film and relate them to its densely layered visual style. Readings will include the book Philosophers Explore the Matrix (Christopher Grau, ed. Oxford UP, 2005) and the chapter titled "Postmodernism and Aesthetic Production" from the book Screening Space (Vivian Sobchack, Rutgers UP, 1999). Our analysis will center on The Matrix, which will be screened, and not its two sequels. Prerequisites: (3 Intermediate Liberal Arts; HSS, LVA, CVA)

LIT2447 The Stranger in Literature Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will explore the allure -- and perceived danger -- of "the stranger" in literature. Many authors have considered the question of the Other, exploring the meaning of difference (e.g. racial, gender, class) and defining themselves in relation to what they are not. A foray into unknown regions can be both threatening and exhilarating, an act of daring and of joy. We will examine the different ways in which several works of literature construct interactions with strangers, and the "social work" undertaken by these texts. Our discussions may include such topics as nationalism, gender identity, racial difference, colonialism and sexuality, as we read texts by such authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, John Keats and Flannery O'Connor. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation HSF & AHF

LIT3602 Industrial Fortunes: Work, Money, and Class in Victorian Literature 4 credit Advanced Liberal Art This course explores the profound impact of industrial capitalism on English writers of the nineteenth century. Many novels, poems, and essays of the period consider the acquisition and management of money: how are fortunes made and what are the ethical implications of making them? We will read texts that represent both the middle and working classes caught in the machinery of industrial capitalism, by such authors as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and George Eliot. Themes to be explored include: money and art, class and power, the ethics of labor, and the Victorian Captain of Industry. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (LVA, CVA, HSS)

LIT3671 Warriors and Lovers: Gender & Identity in Literature of Middle Ages (Advanced Liberal Arts) It was an age of chivalry and courtly love. It was an age of violence and torture, of abduction, adultery, and rape. It was an age of piety and promise. It was an age of despondency and despair. It was an age of God. It was an age of war. In this course, we will explore these and other topics that feature so prominently in much of the rich literature of the Middle Ages. We will read about warrior-heroes like Beowulf, chivalric knights like Yvain and Gawain, and tragic lovers like Abelard and Heloise, and Lancelot and Guinevere. As well as reading this exciting medieval literature, we will look at some of the art of the Middle Ages and at some contemporary films that so vividly represent that time. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LIT3688 Women and Comedy (Advanced Liberal Arts) Women have historically been seen as incapable of humor because it requires an aggression that might be considered "unfeminine." Because of stereotypes about female humorlessness and other myths about femininity, women's humor and comedy has until recently received little attention. This course will explore British and American women's comic expression and will look at the pressures that humorous women have worked against. We will pay particular attention to how women have utilized comedy as a vehicle for social criticism. Our primary readings will range from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and critical essays will help us investigate theoretical perspectives on women's comedy. We will be looking at the comedic strategies used by women writers, but this does not mean that all of the texts studied will be a laugh riot. Writers might include, Aphra Behn, Jane Austin, Virginia Woolf, Fay Weldon, Muriel Spark, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

LVA2411 Literary Culture of the U.S. (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This is an "American literature" course informed by recurring questions: what do we mean when we say "literature"? How is the concept "American" defined and problematized? How do we construct such a slippery term as "culture"? The course assumes a plurality of cultures, not a single, hegemonic "American" culture, and the cultures in question are limited geographically, to the territory of what is now the United States. Texts range from the 17th to the 20th century, are organized by topic rather than by chronology, and form a narrative that includes "classic" as well as recently discovered voices. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

ENG3605 Writing Fiction (Advanced Liberal Arts) Flannery O'Connor said there is "a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once." This class (while not demanding that you cultivate stupidity!) develops and nurtures close attention to how short fiction is made. You will study the art and craft of making short stories. This course emphasizes reading, whereby we will study practitioners of the short story form in order to understand the elements of fiction: character, dialogue, place/setting, plot, and so on. In class, we will take stories apart to see just 'how they tick'. In addition, we will (as pleasure-seekers) look for enjoyment in what we read. By and large, this course runs on writing. You will write short stories of varying lengths, aiming for authority over language, characterization and plot, and authenticity. Your fiction will be closely analyzed by your peers and professor. So you must be a willing, open and active participant, prepared to discuss the work of others, and to reflect on responses to your own work. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ENG3604 Writing Poetry (Advanced Liberal Arts) A poet is a maker, an architect of words, spaces, and ideas and seeks expression through the use of various poetic techniques. This course challenges students to make original poetry through the study of contemporary American poetry and poetics. In addition to exploring the creative process through the crafting of poems, students read the poetry and essays of a wide variety of modern poets, work collaboratively to respond to peers' poems, attend poetry readings, and pursue independent study in an area of their own choice. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

LVA2470 Writes of Passage: The Literature of Reaching (for) Maturity (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course will explore both the formation and deformations of one of literature's most standard genres: the bildungsroman, a novel (or, in French, a roman) that chronicles the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth from childhood to maturity (bildungs loosely translates as "formation"). Although this term is usually reserved for novels that chronicle the coming of age of a young man or woman, this course will look at narratives that question how coming-of-age stories often leave their heros/heroines less than "mature." Possible authors include Rita Mae Brown, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Geroge Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ursula LeGuin, Oscar Wilde, J. D. Salinger, David Foster Wallace, Joseph O'Malley, J.M. Barrie, and Freud. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

ECN3645 (formerly ECN3674) Business and Economic Policy in Developing Countries (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will examine the economic environment that businesses face in developing countries and policies that governments in these countries can adopt to promote economic growth. Topics will include macroeconomic policy, exchange rate policy, how to avoid or to survive financial and exchange rate crises, international trade, foreign direct investment, industrial policy, taxation, population, health, and education policies, corruption, and state enterprises and privatization. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321)

ECN3676 Competitiveness Challenges of the New Europe "Competitiveness Challenges of the New Europe" will explore an in-depth look at the EU and its institutions, and will focus on recent challenges to its competitiveness. While this course has a strong analytical perspective, discussion of day to day issues in the lives of Europeans as well as operational and strategic issues of companies conducting business in Europe are at its core. The course will consist of 2 mandatory pre-departure sessions on campus to study EU institutions and policy-making in the EU, followed by a week in Milan, Italy. The course will conclude with a final class on campus following the group's return. The pre-departure sessions will focus on analysis of benefits of trade, and consequences of EC and EMU for companies in the EU, as well as review major works of art positioned in the art history of Milan in preparation for discussion during the visit to Italy. While in Europe, students will continue to explore the EU under the guidance of professors at Bocconi University - one of Babson's strongest strategic partners, and the number one ranked business school in Italy. Special emphasis will be placed on the study of consequences of the EU on businesses that are present in the EU markets. Classes will consist of lecture and discussion, with significant student participation. The group will visit several Italian businesses, and students will be asked to apply principles introduced in the classroom at Babson as well as at Bocconi University to these visitations. Prerequisites: (MCE and ECN2300) or (IME2311 and IME2321)

ECN3650 Contemporary Economic Systems (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) Economists marvel at the incredible growth record of entrepreneurial capitalism. This course identifies the basic institutions of free-market economies, such as (1) private property rights and the trading of those rights, (2) human rights and limitations on contracting imposed by a rule of law that recognizes individual autonomy (3) the role of the price system in facilitating entrepreneurial venturing and rivalrous competition. Different places in the world have embraced these institutions in different ways and at different times. We understand the importance of these institutions when we examine regions of the world where these institutions are outlawed or severely impaired. The historical record of the 20th century, offers us many examples and "case studies" of how living standards can be changed by miserable economic ideologies. A major focus of this course is central planning communism and the ideologies it spawned in Russia and China. The transition processes now underway are discussed in great detail. Prerequisite: ECN2300 or IME2311 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

ECN 3625 - Business Environment of the New Europe 4 Credit-Advanced Liberal Arts Elective This course examines the history and development of the economic and political integration of the European Union. Beginning with a detailed review of the treaties and agreements upon which the EU is based, we look at the institutional structure of the EU including the Commission, the Court of Justice, the European Council and the European Parliament. We will also focus on the EU budget process, the policy process, agricultural policy, external relations between the EU and non-member nations, and on the key questions of EU enlargement, common defense, and national sovereignty vs. EU integration. There will be several short analytical papers, a final exam, and a term paper. The course is both reading and writing intensive, and is recommended for students interested in international trade, international finance, global management, or economics concentrations. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) Linkages: International Trade, International Finance, Multicultural Studies, and Macroeconomic Policy

ECN3620 Econometrics (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) Econometrics is a science of estimation and evaluation of economic models by applying mathematics, statistical inferences, and economic theory. In addition to economic analysis, this course provides students with valuable knowledge base for management decision making, conducting market research, and carry out in-depth financial data analysis. The course also enhances students' quantitative and computer skills which are relevant for other disciplines. Linkage: finance, market research, management Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) and QTM2420 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

ECN3666 The Economics of Competitive Strategy (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) For anyone studying all functional areas of business and planning to go into business, this course is very important. The course explores the economic foundations of formulating and evaluating business strategy. Various influences upon the successful implementation, market and competitive position, strategic position within the market environment, and sustainability of competitive advantage, are all considered. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring & Fall

ECN3671 The Economics of Labor Markets Labor is the key factor of production for virtually all firms, and households' sale of their labor provides most household income, driving the U.S. economy and economies around the globe. The theoretical foundations for analyzing labor demand and supply will be the starting point for examining a range of labor market topics such as human capital investment, wage determination and inequality, the choice between work and household production, the effect of unions on the labor market, labor mobility and migration, labor market discrimination, and the effects of taxation, regulation, unemployment insurance and other government policies on labor market outcomes. Prerequisite: MCE2312

ECN3675 Environmental Economic - Policy and Analysis Provide students with the knowledge, skills, and tools for building an environmentally sustainable economy. Basic aim is to educate students about economic systems and human choices as they relate to environmental resources and business operations. It aims to identify and provide an understanding of the tradeoffs inherent in managing natural systems, particularly within the global framework. Finally, we will concentrate on how markets and policies affect economic and environmental outcomes. Prereq: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321)

ECN3636 Understanding the 2008-2009 Financial and Economic Crisis from the Inside Out and Outside In Advanced Liberal Arts Course Objectives: To understand the U.S. and global financial framework within which the 2008-2009 crisis occurred. To understand the linkages among the financial sector (e.g., interest rates and money supply), real sector (e.g., real GDP and employment), and international sector (e.g., exchange rates and balance of payments). To understand the chain of economic causes and effects that occur when a financial economic shock, like the subprime crisis, hits a nation and then spills over to the rest of the world. To learn how the mismanagement credit and underestimation of market risks helped to precipitate the financial crisis. To understand managerial accounting principles and methods for quantifying risks, and then to use this understanding to develop thoughtful financial strategies based on expected risk-adjusted returns. To strengthen analytical and problem-solving abilities using the 2009-2009 financial crisis as the context Students are expected to know how to use a financial calculator and EXCEL. Pre-requisites: QTM1310, MCE, ECN2300

ECN3630 Industrial Organizn & Public Policy (Advanced Lib Arts) This course explores the link between market structure and a firm's decisions and strategies: how market structure imposes exogenous parameters on firms, and also how firms can endogenously affect market structure to their advantage. Topics such as vertical integration/separation/restrictions, barriers to entry, product proliferation and preemption, R&D, pricing, advertising, antitrust, and information are discussed. The course integrates theory with other disciplines through discussion of "industry modules" based on HBS cases. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

ECN3610 Intermediate Macroeconomics (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) Why has the Federal Reserve been changing interest rates lately? Will the budget and trade deficits of the US have negative effects on the economy? The answers to these and other policy issues are analyzed in this course. Many of the subjects mentioned in Foundations of Economics are studied in considerable depth with the objective of providing the student with the analytical tools to understand fluctuations in macroeconomic variables and be able to comprehend the relationship among such concepts as income determination and employment theory, economic growth and business cycles, aggregate analysis, inflation, exchange rates, and balance of payments. Linkage: finance, political science, further study in economic Prerequisite: ECN2300 or IME2311 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

ECN3665 INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course provides broad and deep exposure to the (a) global financial institutions and markets, (b) quantitative and analytical tools, which are valuable for firms operating in the global marketplace, and (c) the costs and benefits of living in an increasingly interdependent world. This is a very valuable course for anyone with international interests and/or anyone who would like to work in a globally oriented job. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME232) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring and Summer I

ECN3660 International Trade Theory and Policy (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) This course explores the theory behind international trade relationships, exchange-rate mechanisms and trade policies among the various major trading economies of the world. As international trade becomes a more important consideration for all countries, it is important to understand the rationale, costs, and benefits of trading relationships, as well as the incentives (often conflicting) behind trade policies. This course combines very nicely with ECN3665 for a more complete coverage of international economics. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

ECN3655 Managerial Economics (Advanced Lib Arts) Whereas ECN3615 provides a more thorough understanding of the financial institutions, which are a very important sector of the macro economy, ECN3655 provides the analytical tools for managerial decision making and policy formulation for businesses and governments. Quantitative skills are emphasized and strengthened throughout the course of study. Many of the skills learned in this course are applicable to marketing research, financial analysis, and management strategy. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring and Summer I

ECN3615 Money, Banking, and the Economy (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) This course builds on the Foundations of Economics core, examining the macroeconomy. It explains in greater detail the banking system, credit, money and interest rate determination, as well as exploring the interrelationship between domestic and international financial markets and institutions. For anyone in business, it is important to understand the influence that domestic and global financial markets have on the business environment and its associated volatility. Students learn to interpret the business and financial press and inform decision-making through a deeper understanding of the banking system, macro policy debates, and the drivers of interest rates, economic growth, exchange rates, international trade and capital flows, prices, and employment stability. Prerequisite: ECN2300 or IME2311 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring and Summer I

ECN3662 Political Economy of Latin American Development and Underdevelopment (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) This course is for any individual interested in the political, financial, historical, and social determinants of economic development in Latin America. Both theoretical and policy issues in development are covered. Analyzing the characteristic volatility of the region's business environment, the course provides an in-depth examination of the workings of Latin America's economies, which in combination with courses in the liberal arts, leads to a greater appreciation of this region's global distinction and diversity. Prerequisite: ECN2300 or IME2311 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

ECN2300 Principles of Macroeconomics (Intermediate Liberal Arts Elective) Macroeconomics is concerned with developments in the national economy such as the level of output, prices and employment, and with the behavior of the national economy and the business cycle. Students will study national account aggregates such as GDP, GNP, exports, imports and balance of trade, and will learn about the US banking system, money creation and the use of monetary and fiscal policy to combat inflation and unemployment and manage stable growth. Prerequisites: None

ECN3677 Regional Economies: Prospects and Tensions in Latin America's Southern Cone 3 credit Advanced Liberal Arts This course provides an introduction to the Latin American business environment, with special focus on Mercosur nations, Uruguay and Argentina. There will be two oncampus meetings followed by a week in Montevideo, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Students explore the emerging power of the Southern Cone economies through extensive country site visits and classroom sessions at host institutions, Universidad ORT (Uruguay) and Universidad San Andres (Argentina). In Uruguay, we examine the country's economic stability and recent prominence in world pulp and paper production. Additional themes include environmental and water rights debates, regional mining and infrastructure investment projects, and review of SouthSouth trade initiatives. In Argentina, we examine the country's emergence from the volatile swings of agricultural commodity booms, international debt, and financial turbulence. Additional themes explore ebusiness, entrepreneurship, the "Tango" as a cultural reflection of early economic development, concluding with an appraisal of the region's prospects in the face of the adversity of the impending global slowdown. _____________________________________________________

ECN3670 Role of Government in Market Economy (Advanced Liberal Arts) Understanding of the environment in which business is conducted is the key to successful business operations. Government policies and regulations directly or indirectly influence the business environment. Both high level and lower-level managers are faced with a wide range of regulations and rules in domestic arenas and often unfamiliar regulatory environments abroad. This course is designed to enhance student understanding of how government policy influences business activity. We will examine broad range of issues likely to determine the relation between business entities and government in the new century. These issues will be evaluated from the perspective of the company decision maker concerned with national regulation and incentive policies, to the home government policy maker, to the host government policy maker in the emerging markets, each dimension is considered and analyzed in light of the others. Finally we will evaluate the role of additional stakeholders such as labor groups, shareholders, non-government organizations, local governments, and regional organizations. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321)

ECN3631 SCAMS AND FRAUDS (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course offers a rigorous analysis of the "deceptive act" or the patterns of "deceptive acts" typically encountered in business settings. This course breaks new ground as an economics major course by departing from the traditional equilibrium approaches (1) of dealing with equilibrium as a "moment in time" and also (2) assuming that all parties have complete and accurate information. This departure from the traditional equilibrium approach is no better illustrated than by the scientific work of George Arthur Akerlof whose insights are especially relevant to the problems of consumer protection and the financing and promotion of entrepreneurial ventures. A business manager should take this course because it will make him or her much more "street smart" about how the business world operates. Prerequisite:(ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Summer I

ECN3667 Strategic Game Theory Advanced Liberal Arts Game theory provides a simple, but rich, framework for analyzing once-off and repeated interplay between people or firms, where the manner in which each reacts depends upon the other's reaction: strategic interaction. These interactions occur in markets, in organizations, and in the household. This course-through lectures, experiential learning, and computer simulations-will attempt to provide students with understanding of many interactions they may encounter as managers, including price wars, wars of attrition, the value of cooperation interactions, and the value of information. Prerequisite: ECN2300 and (MCE3212 or IME2321)

ECN3635 Technological Entrepreneurship and the Market Economy (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) This course explores the importance of technological entrepreneurship in its rule in ending poverty, reducing mortality and raising living standards. Of special interest is the role government intervention plays in encouraging research and development and securing patent monopolies for selected inventors. The issues surrounding global property rights systems and their extension to the third-world economies are considered in some detail, especially by way of the student projects and presentations. Students with an interest in entrepreneurial studies and the linkages between engineers, inventors and innovators in market settings, will find much of interest in this course. Prerequisite: (ECN2300 or IME2311) and (MCE2312 or IME2321) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

EPS3550 Corporate Entrepreneurship (General Credit) This course focuses on entrepreneurship in existing organizations, taking the position that, in order to compete in today's dynamic, highly competitive business environment, organizations will need to spur and promote entrepreneurship as a way of doing business. The three main topics covered are: (1) how established organizations can be entrepreneurial, (2) how the corporate entrepreneurship process works, and (3) the role of individuals in promoting entrepreneurship in their organizations. Students will study the various approaches leading companies in the US and elsewhere use to create entrepreneurial businesses within their organizations. We will also examine how entrepreneurs can recognize and investigate business opportunities for established firms. In addition, we will study how entrepreneurs gain support for their ventures, given an organizational context with various enablers and inhibitors to entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE) and EPS350% This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

EPS3535 Creative Destruction & Technology: Bringing New Ideas to Market 4-credit general credit This course introduces you to state-of-the-art theory and practice on knowledge/technology transfer and adoptions. Technology transfer is one of the major sources of wealth creation and job creation in America, and is at the center of what we call "creative destruction." Students are introduced to technologies from public laboratories (e.g. NASA, DOD) and laboratories at major research universities. At the core of technology transfer is the entrepreneurial process. Thus the course introduces the entrepreneurship process and how that process enhances the movement of technology to the market. Students are placed in teams as they explore public laboratories and begin to understand how wealth is created. Case studies, live case studies and a book are the major resources of the course. Students are evaluated on class participation, a "technology transfer" plan and the final team presentation. Pre-req: IMC2 or IME2 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3591 The Creation of Entrepreneurial Culture within your Organization (2 General Credits) The Creation of Entrepreneurial Culture within Your Organization: A Serious Game Approach By the time most enterprise founders start thinking about ensuring a healthy culture in their business, it is usually too late. The culture has already emerged and is not always the most conducive to the health of the founder and employees, or even the enterprise itself. The culture of the enterprise emerges from the mind, values, and practices of the founder(s) while the business is being created, a time when the founder generally places more priority on the creation of economic value than the creation of culture. This course uses a Serious Game approach to draw from a combination of organization and entrepreneurship theory in order to investigate the core values, assumptions, interpretations, and approaches that combine to define the culture of a new venture. We will first explore existing organizational culture teamworks and then move to explore the concept of innovation in designing a new business. The course will be offered in a blend of physical and virtual space. Prerequisite: Completion of OEM

EPS3515 Entrep: Key to Success Family Business Enterprises (General Credit) We at Babson believe that entrepreneurship is the key to family business success. We also believe that to be successful, a family business enterprise must view each challenge from a multigenerational perspective. The business must also examine its goals, objectives, ability to reinvent itself and its growth. This is a unique course in that: a. It is designed by the students, who are the customers for this class; b. It is also 100% case method; c. The students form teams and grades are team scores; d. Most of the case studies come from actual experiences of family businesses or start ups. The students decide on what subjects are stressed. The course is most useful for students interested in the issues, challenges and unique concerns of family business involvement and management and in starting up businesses with family members. It is intended for those who are now affiliated with family firms or may be in the future. The course draws heavily on the personal experiences, cases, videos, and guest speakers, and it focuses on the critical aspects of family business success. The course is organized around the following themes: mentoring, reinvention, individual development and career planning; management of family structure, conflicts, and relationships; and organizational issues including succession and estate planning, strategic planning, and formalizing the firm. It is designed for those students who will be entering a family-owned business, now or in the future, or expect to someday establish a business which they can leave to their children. The classes emphasize the tools and techniques that provide the entrepreneur with the greatest opportunity for success. The foundation of learning for the classes comes from case studies, readings, and lively class discussions that focus on practical methods of handling the challenges unique to business owned and managed by families. No formal textbook is used and the students make the decisions as to what subjects will be covered and how the class is graded. Some of the topics covered in prior classes include succession planning, handling conflicts, dealing with non-family members, re-invention of the business, management styles, strategy, leadership, SWOT analysis, performance expectations, family risk profiles, the family issue, building teams, fairness, taxes, estate planning, negotiation, passing the baton, etc. We also spend considerable time on the practical challenges facing our students, involving the evolution of the enterprise from the first generation entrepreneurial stage into the family business of the second, third and succeeding generations. We work hard to find methods whereby these entities will be successful in the future. The students will have "one on one" time provided with the professor. The students will also participate in a "Real Business World Computer Simulation" event. A special feature is a Family Business Weekend involving students, siblings, friends, alumni, family and professors in which actual situations are discussed and solutions offered. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (MCE and OEM) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring.

EPS4510 Entrepreneurial Finance (formerly EPS3511) (General Credit) This course focuses on the various aspects of funding and managing entrepreneurial ventures through the various stages of business growth and focuses on understanding business models and kinds of organizations and the various ways these can be financed (i.e corporate, technology, non-profit). Students will learn: 1) the value of pro forma financial planning and what if analysis; b) the various ways to fund and manage the growing firm from inception through harvest with a particular emphasis on deal structure and risk/reward scenarios for different investor types. The class will utilize cases based on real world companies from various industries to cover topics in investment analysis, financing the entrepreneurial firm, managing the growing business and harvesting. Frequent guests ranging from entrepreneurs, private equity venture capital, banking and legal professionals will bring the entrepreneurial experience to life in this course Prerequisite: MCE and OEM & EPS3501 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

EPS3590 Entrepreneurial Nonprofits (General Credit) This practitioner-oriented course focuses on innovative, values driven organizations which have explicit civic missions or social purposes and which are most typically associated with the nonprofit sector of the economy. The sector includes such organizations as foundations, schools and colleges, arts and cultural organizations, as well as advocacy and community development groups. The nonprofit sector plays a significant role in the economy. It has been growing at a rate four times that of the overall U.S. economy since 1970 (America?s Nonprofits, 1999). The chief aims of the course are 1) to understand and appreciate the role of the nonprofit sector in creating societal wealth in the American economy; 2) to engage participants in institutional efforts to create a good society through exposure to the work of these organizations; 3) to consider a variety of forms of involvement available to aspiring entrepreneurs in preparing for leadership roles in their communities. Course materials include cases, readings, films and, when available, speakers. Prerequisite: IME 3 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3502 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (ACE) (General Credit) EPS3501, EPS3502 and EPS3503 are equivalent courses. Students can take only ONE of these courses. This course is only for the students accepted into the ACE program. Course concentrates on starting and growing new businesses. There are three primary course objectives: 1. To investigate the components, tools, and practices of entrepreneurship. We will concentrate on: - identifying new venture opportunities, - evaluating the viability of a new business concept, - writing a business plan, and developing an investor presentation - building a team that possesses the attributes necessary for success, - obtaining appropriate financing, - creating an entrepreneurial culture that increases the odds of success, and - creating liquidity for shareholders. 2. To identify and exercise entrepreneurial skills through classroom debate and assignments. 3. To introduce students to a variety of entrepreneurs. Case studies are used as the primary tool for discussion, and are augmented with readings, guest speakers, videos, and software simulations. Student teams will write a business plan for a new venture. Prerequisite: FME1000 OR MIS1000 AND MOB1000 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

EPS3501 Entrepreneurship and Opportunity (General Credit) This course concentrates on identifying and evaluating opportunities for new business. The primary purpose is to investigate concepts tools and practices associated with identifying or creating new venture opportunities. Students will explore ways to shape and evaluate the viability of these opportunities by understanding key industry factors, market and competitive factors and customer needs. Students will gain a better understanding of personal entrepreneurial capacity, team building and management, and are augmented with readings, guest speakers, videos, and software simulations. Student teams will do at least two opportunity feasibility assessments. Prerequisites OEM and MCE

EPS3572 Entrepreneurship in Asia Free Elective (4 credits) This course focuses on starting new ventures in East and South Asia. We will study characteristics influencing entrepreneurship in a diversity of countries, ranging from highly developed but low GDP growth Japan, to low income, high GDP growth Myanmar. We will compare companies within groups of income/growth categories, and draw some conclusions about the similarities and differences across categories and countries. We will then do a feasibility study of a venture opportunity for an Asian market. Upon completing this course, you will have a better understanding about the unique elements associated with starting a new venture in an Asian country. Prerequisite: EPS3501 or EPS3502 or EPS3503

EPS3522 Entrepreneurship in Latin America (General Credit) This course focuses on the characteristics of entrepreneurship in Latin America. In particular it will examine approaches and opportunities for starting and growing entrepreneurial businesses in the region. The course will examine how structural characteristics drive differences in approaches and numbers of new ventures given the different structural and institutional characteristics (for example Chile, Costa Rica, vs. El Salvador, Haiti) and the implications for wealth creation and development. Prerequisites: (IME2 and LAW100%) or (OEM, MCE, ECN2300 and LAW130%)

EPS4523 Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (FORMERLY EPS3523) 4 credit (General Credit) Like never before, corporations and consumers around the world are confronting the realities of climate change, energy consumption, and economic growth. At its most fundamental level, humanity's demand for energy in order to grow and prosper is set hard against the realities of climate change and the impacts of business-as-usual on the environment. A new generation of opportunity obsessed, environmentally passionate entrepreneurial leaders will go beyond business-as-usual and identify and commercialize the green, sustainable businesses of the future. Many believe this green transition will be the equivalent to what information technology was when it was booming. The course will guide students through a historical "walk" which will provide the context of how we got here, understand what the drivers of change are in environmental businesses and understand how the carbon economy will affect business. Students will be better able to analyze, identify and shape opportunities in key industries as they relate to the environmental economy: energy (wind, solar, geothermal, etc), water, waste, food, etc. This course will be carbon neutral and students will calculate their carbon footprint. Prerequisites: EPS3501 or EPS3502

BRC3501 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures in China 4-cr General Credit (Note: This course is a variation of EPS3501, 02, and 03 and as such satisfies the pre-requisite EPS350x and in meeting the Entrepreneurship concentration requirement of EPS350x.) This four-credit entrepreneurship elective is part of the 16-credit Russia-China program. The course will introduce students to the nature and process of assessing and shaping entrepreneurial opportunities in China. It will build on the Liberal Arts China elective, enabling students to apply their understanding about China's cultural, political, social and economic environment to understand drivers of entrepreneurship and to identify and assess entrepreneurial opportunities. Near the end of the 1970s, entrepreneurship was introduced as a supplement to China's socialist economy, and the government has increasingly acknowledged the key economic role played by the private sector. This provides a relevant and unique context through which to study entrepreneurial activity. We will examine the distinct qualities of entrepreneurship, and the factors that influence new venture creation in this diverse and rapidly changing economy. We will accomplish this, not just through discussions, readings and cases, but also through immersion in the culture and direct contact with Chinese entrepreneurs. We will visit entrepreneurial firms and to other entities involved with entrepreneurship, such as investors and government officials. Students will maintain a journal reflecting on their visits and experiences from an entrepreneurship perspective. They will write a paper analyzing an entrepreneur and their own entrepreneurial capacity. They will work in teams to conduct a qualitative assessment of customers and write a feasibility plan for a entrepreneurial opportunity in China. Prerequisites: OEM & MCE Co-requisites: BRC3502, BRC3601 and BRC3602 Concentration mandatory course for Entrepreneurship, equivalent to EPS 3501

EPS3545 Family as Entrepreneur (General Credit) This course will explore the entrepreneurial process within the context of the family. It will examine the requisite mindset and methods that families must adopt in order to function as entrepreneurs, as well as topics such as the family as the entrepreneurial team, creating urgency in the organization for venturing and renewal, funding new ventures as a family, sharing value with the entrepreneurs, partnering for creating new ventures, and the challenges facing families who want to act like an entrepreneur. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3576 Powerful Practices in Family Enterprising: Strategies and Structures for Stimulating Innovation in Family Groups (General Credit) This course will explore innovation strategies and structures in the context of family firms and assess how this is related to transgenerational wealth creation. It will provide students with a framework for understanding the family form of business organization and allow them to investigate the innovation and growth practices of real family companies in light of that framework. The class will function as a live learning laboratory. Students will conduct literature investigation which they will share with each other as the "text book" for the class. They will conduct live research on innovation practices and family firms which will become their class deliverable. The professor will direct, supplement and participate in the investigations, but the students will have the responsibility to drive the class. The goal for the class is to investigate companies in order to produce a powerful practices report specific to the company and to compile a summary that might be useful to family groups as a whole. The class will provide students with a significant experiential learning opportunity and a leading edge knowledge base to take back to their family and or business. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3505 Great Entrepreneurial Wealth: Creation, Preservation and Destruction General Credit This course will explore the stages of great entrepreneurial wealth creation, preservation and destruction. Topics will cover geographical and sector concentrations of great wealth formation, along with socio and economic conditions prevailing at the time of generation. Particular emphasis will cover the detailed paths of notable entrepreneurs from the past century, along with the ethical dilemma and social contributions attributed to each of them. The course also discusses the rise and fall of great family dynasties in the section of wealth destruction. Current practice of wealth generation, preservation and destruction methodologies will be reviewed, covering hedge funds, family offices and entrepreneur impropriety. Participants of this course will be expected to enhance skills in identifying market opportunity and wealth generation techniques as well as gain greater insight on interpersonal and market forces that contribute to wealth evaporation. Ethical dilemma, including a thorough discussion of high profile industry scandals, will be explored along with factors contributing to fraud and investor impropriety Prerequisites: none

EPS3530 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience (Corporate Focus) General Credit Living the Entrepreneurial Experience is about being in action, individually or in pairs, while executing upon a real entrepreneurial opportunity. Building on the foundation created in EPS3501, students put entrepreneurial thought into practice by engaging customers, experts, suppliers, competitors and investors to develop and implement a business plan as part of the launch of their venture. Core to the class experience is the question - how do you build and lead an entrepreneurial organization? Students work independently as well as interdependently with other entrepreneurs in the course. Students are guided by the instructor, but are expected to provide most of the initiative to identify and deliver upon the key outcomes of the course. Contact time for this course will be split between in-class sessions and out-of-class individual meetings with the instructor. Prerequisite: (OEM and MCE), EPS3501

EPS3534 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience (Family Focus) General Credit Living the Entrepreneurial Experience is about being in action, individually or in pairs, while executing upon a real entrepreneurial opportunity. Building on the foundation created in EPS3501, students put entrepreneurial thought into practice by engaging customers, experts, suppliers, competitors and investors to develop and implement a business plan as part of the launch of their venture. Core to the class experience is the question - how do you build and lead an entrepreneurial organization? Students work independently as well as interdependently with other entrepreneurs in the course. Students are guided by the instructor, but are expected to provide most of the initiative to identify and deliver upon the key outcomes of the course. Contact time for this course will be split between in-class sessions and out-of-class individual meetings with the instructor. Prerequisite: (OEM and MCE), EPS3501

EPS3530 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience (General Focus) General Credit Living the Entrepreneurial Experience is about being in action, individually or in pairs, while executing upon a real entrepreneurial opportunity. Building on the foundation created in EPS3501, students put entrepreneurial thought into practice by engaging customers, experts, suppliers, competitors and investors to develop and implement a business plan as part of the launch of their venture. Core to the class experience is the question - how do you build and lead an entrepreneurial organization? Students work independently as well as interdependently with other entrepreneurs in the course. Students are guided by the instructor, but are expected to provide most of the initiative to identify and deliver upon the key outcomes of the course. Contact time for this course will be split between in-class sessions and out-of-class individual meetings with the instructor. Prerequisite: (OEM and MCE), EPS3501

EPS3530 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience (Social Focus) General Credit Living the Entrepreneurial Experience is about being in action, individually or in pairs, while executing upon a real entrepreneurial opportunity. Building on the foundation created in EPS3501, students put entrepreneurial thought into practice by engaging customers, experts, suppliers, competitors and investors to develop and implement a business plan as part of the launch of their venture. Core to the class experience is the question - how do you build and lead an entrepreneurial organization? Students work independently as well as interdependently with other entrepreneurs in the course. Students are guided by the instructor, but are expected to provide most of the initiative to identify and deliver upon the key outcomes of the course. Contact time for this course will be split between in-class sessions and out-of-class individual meetings with the instructor. Prerequisite: (OEM and MCE), EPS3501

EPS3530 Living the Entrepreneurial Experience (Technology Focus) General Credit Living the Entrepreneurial Experience is about being in action, individually or in pairs, while executing upon a real entrepreneurial opportunity. Building on the foundation created in EPS3501, students put entrepreneurial thought into practice by engaging customers, experts, suppliers, competitors and investors to develop and implement a business plan as part of the launch of their venture. Core to the class experience is the question - how do you build and lead an entrepreneurial organization? Students work independently as well as interdependently with other entrepreneurs in the course. Students are guided by the instructor, but are expected to provide most of the initiative to identify and deliver upon the key outcomes of the course. Contact time for this course will be split between in-class sessions and out-of-class individual meetings with the instructor. Prerequisite: (OEM and MCE), EPS3501

EPS3520 Managing Growing Businesses (General Credit) This course covers the growth phase of an entrepreneurial business, focusing on the nature and challenges of entrepreneurial businesses as they move beyond startup. The primary task for entrepreneurial firms in their growth phase is to build an organization capable of managing this growth, and then ensure the organization can sustain growth as the market and competitive environment changes. The entrepreneur needs to create a professional organization both responsive to external change and entrepreneurial enough to continually create new businesses through innovative thinking. Issues of particular importance to rapidly growing companies include: getting the right people and systems in place, managing with limited resources, cash flow planning, leadership and delegation, professional zing the business, turning around a troubled business, establishing and communicating culture, and creating a vision to drive the organization toward the future. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE) and EPS350%

EPS 3580 Marketing for Entrepreneurs (General Credit) This course provides an in-depth study of entrepreneurial marketing strategies for the 21st century. It examines how start-up and small/medium-size companies reach the marketplace and sustain their businesses, within highly-competitive industries. Recognition is given to the need of management to operate flexibly, make maximum effective use of scarce resources in terms of people, equipment and funds, and the opportunities that exist within new and established market niches. Classes focus on a combination of brief lectures, extensive case study analyses and a term-long group assignment involving student-generated entrepreneurial product or service offerings. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (OEM AND MCE) and EPS350%

EPS3503 New Technology Ventures (General Credit) EPS3501, EPS3502 and EPS3503 are equivalent courses. Students can take only ONE of these courses. Creating a new venture that has technology as a basis for its products or services presents special challenges. On one hand is the "push" of new technology, as evidenced by the plethora of scientific invention and technological innovation. On the other hand is the "pull" of the market as it presents new entrepreneurial opportunities. Other key challenges present themselves in areas of intellectual property protection, team building and funding opportunities. In this course we will explore entrepreneurship in technology industries in depth with the hope of penetrating the popular veneer, and uncovering the guts of starting a growing new technology ventures. Of course, there is a lot about new technology venturing that is common to all new venture creation, and also the qualities entrepreneurs demonstrate are valuable in a wide spectrum of life's activities. A unique aspect of this course is its desire to include students from both Babson as well as the F.W. Olin College of Engineering. Particular value from this intermingling will be evidenced in the true interdisciplinary nature of the course field project teams that are formed, and the ability for students to begin to develop networks of relationships outside their individual domains of business or engineering. Primary Course Objectives: 1. To investigate the components, tools, and practices of technology entrepreneurship: identifying new venture opportunities, evaluating the viability of a new business concept, calibrating risk of successful technology development, protecting intellectual property, building a team that possesses the attributes necessary fro success, obtaining appropriate financing, writing a business plan, and developing an investor presentation, creating an entrepreneurial culture that increases the odds of success, and creating liquidity for shareholders. 2. To identify and exercise entrepreneurial skills through classrooms debate and assignments. 3. To introduce students to a variety of technology entrepreneurs. Case studies are used as tools for discussion, and are augmented with readings and guest speakers. The core project for this course will be the development of a technology based business plan. Students will form teams to explore a business opportunity, and develop a business plan and investor presentation. Prerequisites: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3540 Raising Money-VC, Angels & Incubators (General Credit) This class concentrates on developing a knowledge of the asset classes in early stage funding, both equity and debt, including money from family and friends, angels- both individual and networks- early and mid stage VC, private equity, incubators- both for profit and not for profit- and debt from venture debt funds and special commercial banks. Much of the class is taught from the entrepreneur's perspective but it will also cover the dynamics of starting and running a VC fund since many of the investor classes rely heavily on the VC when making investment decisions. Case material, lectures, frequent exercises/presentations and guest speakers will provide future entrepreneurs with a detailed understanding how investors think, analyze and behave so that entrepreneurs can understand the deals they make with investors and how to manage the process to a mutually beneficial conclusion. Prerequisite: None

EXP3555 S. AFRICA: EPS, CULTURE, & SOC IN DEVELOPING ECONOMY 4 CREDITS (GENERAL CREDIT) This experiential, global service learning course will introduce students to the culture, history, politics, and economy of South Africa. Students will engage in in-depth study of South Africa's culture, history, politics, and economy before leaving for a 3 week in-country experience. The pre-trip phase will consider the effects of colonialism and apartheid rule on South Africa, as well as its development in the post-apartheid period (1994 - present). We will pay particular attention to the role of small-scale entrepreneurship in restoring balance to the segregated, oppressed communities of people classified as "black" and "colored" under the apartheid regime. Students will consider approaches to economic development in the post-apartheid period, including the effects of community and government programs and policies. While in South Africa, students will teach two week-long developmental entrepreneurship classes to students at eight local high schools in impoverished communities. We will travel to Capetown to visit major cultural, geographic, and historical sites on the weekend between teaching sessions, and students have the option of doing a safari experience at the end of the trip. Course credits will be divided into pre- and post-trip work: half of the credits will be earned through reading, writing, and other coursework in preparation for the in-country experience, and half of the credits will be earned through a reflective research essay to be produced upon returning from the trip. Prerequisites: OEM and MCE

EPS4427 Social Entrepreneurship by Design (formerly EPS3527) General Credit This course integrates user oriented collaborative design and entrepreneurship for the purpose of developing new products or services that contribute to the solution of a social problem. User oriented collaborative design is a proven six phase process designed to help you create products or services based on user needs; understanding the user is central to the design process. Yet designing new products and services for social sectors adds layers of complexity. The user is one among many stakeholders to which your product must provide value. Thus you will design products that uield both an economic and social value for multiple stakeholder groups, but you must determine who the most important stakeholders are and include these in the design process. Determining economic and social value is an entrepreneurship exercise. In Social Entrepreneurship by Design evaluation of design process, functionality, users, markets industries, and other stakeholders demonstrates potential value for all critical stakeholders. Keep in mind that solving social problems typically requires collaboration, partnerships, alliances and even special funding. As a result, understanding the problem from multiple stakeholder perspectives is an essential component of the entrepreneurship process. The course focuses on one broad social problem each semester. Co requisite: EPS3501

EPS3525 (formerly EPS3575) Social Enterprise Management (General Credit) This course is about the opportunities and challenges of using your managerial skills and entrepreneurial talents creatively and appropriately to help solve social problems and to make a difference in the lives of others. To that end, we focus on organizations with an explicit civic mission or social purpose, from well known nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and City Year to widely regarded for profits like Ben & Jerry's, Newman's Own, and Timberland. Course materials include readings, cases and films (where relevant). Periodically throughout the semester leaders of social enterprise organizations will join the class to explore the subject matter in more detail and from a practitioner's perspective. The chief aims of this course are to: (1) provide a historical context for considering social enterprises; (2) engage participants in institutional efforts to create a good society through direct exposure and experience with the work of these organizations; (3) develop the skills and competencies necessary to respond positively to the managerial challenges faced by these organizations; and (4) prepare participants for leadership roles in their communities. Social Enterprise Management is offered as a four-credit entrepreneurship elective to upper level students who have completed all management core requirements. Students who have taken EPS3575 INTRO TO SOCIAL ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT may not take this course. Prerequisite: IME 2 or (OEM and MCE)

EPS3620 The Enlightened Entrepreneur: Changemakers, Inspired Protagonists, and Unreasonable People Advanced liberal arts The goal of this undergraduate course is to engage students in an exploration of the culture of social entrepreneurship. Students will address the following questions: Are social entrepreneurs born or made? Is there a common "world view" among social entrepreneurs? What are their assumptions? What were their transformative experiences? What are they reading? Students will first explore relevant applied ethnographic literature to develop a critical understanding of culture and how it is observed. Through a combination of interviews and readings, they will develop an understanding of the meanings of social entrepreneurship as the term is used by leaders in the field. They will learn the principles and develop skills of applied anthropological observation by shadowing a local social entrepreneur. Ultimately, they will acquire an in-depth understanding of the culture of effecting positive change through entrepreneurship Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (LVA, CVA, HSS) and EPS3501 (may be taken at the same time)

EPS3610 The Enlightened Observer Advanced Liberal Arts The goal of this undergraduate course is to engage students in observational research methods with the aim of training them to see opportunities to develop business in response to social issues. Students will address the following questions: What are the most pressing issues confronting today's global citizens? How do those issues affect the lives of people living in the local area? Is it possible to see business opportunities among significant and complicated social problems such as health, environmental, and community social issues? Students will first explore relevant literature to develop a critical understanding of the most pressing issues confronting the world today, including education, poverty, global warming, gender equality, and malnutrition. They will learn the principles and develop skills of applied anthropological observation by conducting local fieldwork on a global social issue of their choosing, as small teams. Ultimately, they will apply their new understanding of the chosen problem to be able to identify unique opportunities for effecting positive change through entrepreneurship. Prerequisite 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (HSS. LVA, CVA) EPS3501 (can be taken at the same time)

EPS1210 THE ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEURIAL CHALLENGE (Free Elective) Formerly EPS3510 and EPS3579 This highly competitive course, patterned after the Donald Trump TV show, "The Apprentice," involves intense TEAM competition and problem solving of "real world businesses." Students will be divided into teams and compete for ten weeks to determine the ultimate winner. Subjects include marketing, negotiation, management, finance and "out of the box thinking." The assignments will be based on actual Business and case studies with the entrepreneurs, or their representatives involved in that particular case present in class to judge the students on their solutions. Details It will be open to both graduate and undergraduate students who possess "out of the box thinking" abilities and are creative and want to be successful entrepreneurs. The class will utilize the case method and some advice from experts in that field. The class will utilize teams that will be in direct competition with each other. Answers to solutions will be discussed in class. The students will have "one on one" time provided with the professor. Subjects to be covered: 1. Starting and Growing a Business 2. Creating the Entrepreneurial Team 3. Obtaining Capital 4. Selecting the Right Management Style for Yourself 5. Negotiations 6. Ethics 7. Eureka Ranch Creativity 8. Financial Analysis and Tax Planning 9. Guerrilla Marketing 10. Succession 11. Harvesting 12. Real Business Computer Simulation Event Prerequisites: FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000)

EPS3526 Value Selling for the Entrepreneur General Credit The Entrepreneur's success is directly related to their sales performance in both business and personal situations. This course will teach students a value-based framework that will assist them in successfully selling and achieving their desired result in any situation. By achieving their desired result, the entrepreneurs greatly increase their likelihood of success in the risky world of Entrepreneurship. During the term, we will take a personal inventory of our selling skills and work to modify and enhance them to get the most out of every entrepreneurial selling situation. Value Selling is a ten-step process that can be applied to any situation and will increase the likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, by applying a value-based methodology to these situations, it will give the student a deeper understanding of the problem or issue facing the entrepreneur and will insure a solution that includes a mutually beneficial value proposition and plan for the different stakeholders. The student will design a customized framework that will fit with their personality and skill set resulting in a life-long tool that will be one of the main components of their problem solving process. Students will create solutions that will build an emotional hook with their respective stakeholders. In Value Selling, students will learn to connect the dots for their audience, learn to ask the right questions, craft a differentiated vision match, develop both business and personal value, identify the power players, develop a mutual plan and close for a successful outcome. The output will be the implementation of their personalized value selling solution framework for their business and personal interactions. Keep in mind that creating value-based solutions requires preparation, practice, listening and a thorough understanding of their stakeholders business and personal needs. As a result, Value Selling is one of the most important skill sets needed for a successful entrepreneur. Prerequisites: IME2 or (OEM and MCE), EPS3501, 02 0r 03 may be taken concurrently.

EPS 4521: VENTURE GROWTH STRATEGIES General Credit The course focuses on the opportunities and challenges involved in the management of growth in entrepreneurial settings, either in an individual company or as part of a larger corporation. Growth is the ultimate resource constrainer, stretching all systems in a company to the limit and often beyond. Consequently, this course will emphasize management "at the limit" of what students may have already learned in other functional courses. It will provide students with a series of frameworks, analytical skills and techniques, and decision-making tools that can be used in growing entrepreneurial businesses. The course relies on non-traditional, experiential learning methods in addition to the usual case-based method. While some classroom meetings will include case discussions involving growth-related issues, the central part of the course is a sophisticated international simulation exercise known as the Sigma Challenge. This simulation is used by leading companies worldwide as an innovative training tool because of the rich experience it provides to participants. The Sigma Challenge is different from most other simulations because in the Sigma Challenge the teams start with a "clean slate" in planning their strategies and, equally important, the simulation is extremely responsive to the different strategies undertaken by the participating teams, thus providing participants with a dynamic learning experience which reflects real-world conditions and outcomes. The simulation takes place during eight of the regular weekly classroom meetings. During the simulation students work in teams. Each team is asked to manage the growth of a multi-product company from a single undifferentiated, imported product to a portfolio of differentiated products. Management decisions will involve strategy, marketing, finance, production, technology, R&D, and other functional areas. The course thus provides students with an opportunity to apply functional skills they have learned in other courses to build a growing company in an exciting, highly competitive, and rapidly changing environment. Guest speakers will provide further insight into the opportunities and challenges of growth. The course is particularly useful to students who have interests in one or more of the following areas: (1) growing their own entrepreneurial companies, (2) managing the growth of existing companies in an entrepreneurial fashion by emphasizing innovation and opportunity capture in a dynamic environment, and/or (3) helping companies manage their growth through consulting assignments. Prerequisite: EPS 3501 A lab fee will be required for the simulation materials and use of the simulation software. This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

FIN4520 Babson College Fund 1 (General Credit) The Babson College Fund is a student managed portion of the Babson College endowment. The Trustees of the Babson College Fund select undergraduate and graduate students to be portfolio managers. Undergraduate students may apply to be portfolio managers in the spring of their junior year. If selected, students may receive up to six credits for this activity. Further information and applications can be obtained from Professor Steven Feinstein (Babson College Fund Office). Prerequisite: (IME2320 or MCE) and Instructor Permission This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

FIN4521 Babson College Fund II (General Elective) The Babson College Fund is a student managed portion of the Babson College endowment. The Trustees of the Babson College Fund select undergraduate and graduate students to be portfolio managers. Undergraduate students may apply to be portfolio managers in the spring of their junior year. If selected, students may receive up to six credits for this activity. Prerequisite: IME2320 or MCE Further information and applications can be obtained from Professor Steven Feinstein (Babson College Fund Office).

FIN3515 Corporate Financial Management (General Elective) This course is designed for students interested in corporate financial management. Its principal goals are to provide the concepts and techniques required to make long-term investment and financing decisions within the firm. At the end of the course, students will be able to make real asset investment decisions by valuing a proposed investment project or acquisition. Students will also be able to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the appropriateness of a firm's financing policy. Topics covered include alternative valuation methods, estimating cost of capital, real options, capital structure, and corporate payout policy. Recommended: ACC3502 Prerequisite: IME 2 or MCE

FIN4510 Corporate Finance Modeling and Decision Tools (General Credit) This course is designed to provide a practical application of corporate finance skills to a variety of analyses commonly performed by investment bank and commercial bank financial analysts. Mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, private equity placements, senior and mezzanine debt issuances, leveraged buyouts, and other common financial transactions will be covered. We will explore the process of each transaction and place heavy emphasis on the role of the financial analyst in analyzing each situation. Students will gather source data, and build and apply models typically used in practice by investment banks, commercial banks, and corporate finance consultants. The course is designed for those interested in careers in investment banking, commercial banking, corporate finance consulting, and strategic planning. Prerequisite: (IME2320 or MCE) and any 3000 level Finance Course. This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

FIN4540 Corporate Financial Strategy (General Elective) With the quickening rate of technological, demographic, institutional, and political change and globalization, managers, consultants, and investment bankers face increasingly turbulent and complex business environments. This course investigates the use of financial instruments and strategies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and create value. The course explores the relationships among corporate strategy, corporate finance, and financial innovation, and should be of interest to managers who aspire to use financial strategy and tools to support their strategic choices and to those who will be advising corporations on how to achieve their financial goals. Recommended: ACC3502 Prerequisite: (IME2 or MCE) and any 3000 Finance course and senior status

FIN3560 Financial Markets and Instruments (General Elective) This course provides the student an understanding of the role the financial markets can play in managing the firm. The topics covered include the major financial markets and their associated structures, quantitative techniques for valuing various financial securities and their cash flow streams, and factors affecting interest rates. This course also provides an introduction to derivatives and risk management. Topics include: instruments/markets, issuing securities, organized exchanges vs. OTC, stock valuation, bond valuation, cost of equity capital, interest rate determination (term structure), risk management, an introduction to derivatives, pay off profiles, binomial option pricing techniques, and an introduction to Black-Scholes. FIN3560 is a prerequisite to many advanced finance elective courses. This is also a good course for students who do not intend to pursue Finance as a specialization but want to supplement their IME coursework with additional Finance. Prerequisite: IME2320 or MCE

FIN3593 Financial Trading Strategies Credits: 2 cr Advanced general credit - This course does NOT count towards any concentration Meeting times: First class Wednesday January 7, 2009 Last Class: Friday January 16, 2009 Class Meeting Time: 2:45pm - 4:45pm Class Meeting Dates: 1/7, 1/8, 1/9, 1/12, 1/13, 1/14, 1/16 Final Exam: Tuesday January 20, 2009 2:45pm - 5:15pm Course Description This course does NOT count towards any concentration. The purpose of this course is: (i) To develop trading strategies associated with various securities and investment objectives; and (2) To identify and manage risks associated with those strategies. These objectives require us to understand how financial markets work, for example: how traders generate liquidity, volatility, and profits/losses; and how security prices reflect information, news, and investor behavior. We also will need to understand the role of various market participants, including dealers, brokers, arbitrageurs, buy-side traders (institutions) and retail investors, and different order types, such as market versus limit orders, and stop orders. Cases will cover various securities (fixed income, equity, futures and options) and a range of investment objectives, including strategies associated with security choice (valuation risk, default risk), implementing trades (liquidity and price risks), performance evaluation and rebalancing (market risks, interest rate risks), speculation (trading volatility), and risk management (diversification, hedging).

FIN4535 Fixed Income and Structured Products General Credit This advanced quantitative course is designed for students interested in the sales and trading of fixed income securities and their related structured products, as well as students interested in fixed income portfolio management. Topics covered include: (i) bond pricing and day count conventions; (ii) relative value and yield curve construction; (iii) duration, basis point value, and convexity; (iv) pricing and hedging of interest rate / currency swaps; (v) Treasury bond futures, conversion factors, and the concepts of cheapest-to-deliver and implied repo; (vi) the repo (GC and special) market; (vii) credit risk and the pricing of high yield bonds and credit default swaps; and (viii) securitization, mortgage-backed securities, and collateralized mortgage obligations. Course enrollment will be limited to enable extensive in-class usage of Bloomberg and other Cutler Center resources. During the course, students will be required to obtain the Bloomberg Essentials (Fixed Income) certification. Prerequisites: MCE and any 3000 level finance class.

FIN 4570 Global Financial Management (General Elective) The central theme of this course is how to manage the finances of a multinational firm. It devotes attention to managing the short-term finances of a multinational, including topics like centralizing cash management, netting, and transfer pricing. It then deals with long-term financial management of the multinational. That section includes capital budgeting in the multinational context, capital structure decisions, and also studies how a multinational can sometimes have a lower cost of capital than a single-country firm of the same size. The third major theme is how the multinational can optimize its relationship with the capital markets, including the national stock markets where its subsidiaries operate. This section includes a discussion of the opportunities created for multinational companies by international portfolio investment. If time permits there will be a section on how to operate in countries with inconvertible or hyperinflationary currencies. The course deals with the international financial environment, meaning topics such as exchange rates, balance of payments, and cross-border capital flows, only to the extent necessary to put the financial decisions for firms operating in more than one currency into proper context. Prerequisites: (IME2 or MCE) and any 3000 level Finance course

FIN4530 Investments (General Credit) This course is designed for students interested in investment or portfolio management. Students explore the simultaneous management of multiple securities, using statistical and other mathematical tools. Topics covered include: risk and return, allocation of risky assets, setting portfolio objectives and strategy, portfolio optimization, risk crafting, and portfolio performance evaluation. Through case studies, investment tools, projects, and readings, students will explore investment and portfolio theory and practice. Prerequisites: (IME 2 or MCE) and any 3000 level Finance course. This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

MFE3534 Finance Management Consulting Field Experience (General Credit) The Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) course provides an excellent opportunity for students to apply the finance principles that they learn in the classroom to real?world consulting projects. The students gain practical experience by solving actual business situations. Students also develop key skills in negotiation, group dynamics, organization, and planning. There have been projects in financial advisory, corporate finance, and investment management. Current projects include the opportunity to pitch stocks and create a long?term financial budget plan. Teams of three to five undergraduate students work as a consulting group for a sponsor company. The students meet with the managers of the company, analyze the problem, and explore possible solutions. The project concludes with a formal report and a presentation to the sponsor company comprising the group's recommendations. Prerequisite: IME2320 or MCE

FIN4560 Options and Futures (General Credit) This course is an introduction to options, futures, and other derivative securities. We examine the nature of the instruments, the theory of how they are priced, and strategies in which they are used. Cases address applications in both investment management and corporate finance, covering such topics as risk management, financial engineering, speculation, and arbitrage. Recommended: ACC3502. Prerequisites: IME2 or MCE and any 3000 level Finance course and senior status This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

FIN3565 Real Estate Development (General Credit) This course reviews the process by which value is created through real property improvement and modification. The course examines that real estate development process, exposing students to the critical steps and key decisions required to create, secure approvals, construct, lease, finance, and manage property improvements. Through case studies, related readings, and a final team project, students examine the perceived risks and potential returns of real estate development. Prerequisite: FIN3555 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

FIN3555 Real Estate Investment (General Elective) This course is designed for students interested in learning to evaluate real estate investment opportunities. The focus is on commercial property, not single-family homes, and on U.S. real estate. Using readings and case studies, students examine real estate as an asset class and explore its similarities and differences from other investment types.The foundation for this course involves understanding the industry terminology, legal rights and restrictions, and basic techiques for financial projections and analysis. Expanding from this base, students explore the use of debt and the implications of taxes on real estate investment returns. Prerequisite: IME2320 or MCE

FIN3520 Security Valuation (General Elective) This course is designed for students interested in investment banking, fixed-income valuation or equity analysis. Students develop tools and techniques for the valuation of different securities. Topics covered include: bond pricing, bond duration, the term-structure of interest rates, financial statement analysis, equity valuation models, and firm valuation. A major focus of this class is the valuation of specific firms and securities using finance theory and applications. Recommended: ACC3502 Prerequisite: IME 2 or MCE

FIN3591 Special Topics in Finance 1 This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to study a topic of their choice related to Finance during either the winter or the summer time frames. Students do not have to be on campus to take this course, which will follow an independent study framework under the guidance of a faculty member from the Finance Division. Prerequisite: IME2320 or MCE

FIN3592 SPECIAL TOPICS IN FINANCE 2 This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to study a topic of their choice related to Finance during either the winter or the summer time frames. Students do not have to be on campus to take this course, which will follow an independent study framework under the guidance of a faculty member from the Finance Division. Prerequisites: IME2320 or MCE and FIN3591

AMS3610 9/11 Culture: American Arts after the Fall (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will examine the many ways that American popular artists (musicians, filmmakers, comedians, writers, and others) have responded to the 9/11 attacks. From the angry patriotism of country singer Toby Keith, to the complex grief articulated by Native American writer Sherman Alexie, the range of artistic expressions has been broad and challenging. In this class students will be asked to examine these specific contributions as well as more general questions about cultural trauma and recovery. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

AMS3691 9/11 Culture: The Response on Film (2 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits) In this course we will examine the many attitudes and strategies that American filmmakers have brought to the question of how to respond to the events of 9/11. From the high seriousness of Steven Spielberg to the high comedy of Team America, students in this course will be exposed to a range of ways that 9/11 has entered the American film vocabulary. The class will require some out of class viewing, as well as a number of research-oriented essays. Other films to be studies might include Spike Lee's 25th Hour, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, and the Showtime miniseries Sleeper Cell.

THIS COURSE IS NOW INACTIVE 3/1/06 AMS3675 9/11 Culture: American Arts after the Fall (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will examine the many ways that American popular artists (musicians, filmmakers, comedians, writers, and others) have responded to the 9/11 attacks. From the angry patriotism of country singer Toby Keith, to the complex grief articulated by Native American writer Sherman Alexie, the range of artistic expressions has been broad and challenging. In this class students will be asked to examine these specific contributions as well as more general questions about cultural trauma and recovery. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

PSY3600 Abnormal Psychology 4 credit Advanced Liberal Arts Mental health problems disrupt the lives of millions of Americans every day. This advanced psychology course will examine major mental illness from various perspectives. Primarily discussion-based, students will learn the symptoms, etiology, course, prevalence, and treatment of various forms of psychopathology, including anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD, Asperger's disorder, and bipolar disorder. Students will also learn about the history of disorder in Western thought, and explore contemporary clinical practices such as diagnosis, case formulation, and treatment. Students will also be expected to research a specific disorder, and present their findings in class. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, HSS, LVA)

LVA2410 African American Literature (Intermediate Liberal Arts) In this course, we will take a thematic approach to twentieth century African American literature. Rather than track through the century chronologically, we will explore a number of major topics including migration to the city, authenticity, gender role, and the influence of music on literature. We will read novels, poems, short stories, and plays, and also do brief investigations of paintings and other visual arts. The emphasis in the class will be on close, intense reading of primary texts. Authors on our reading list may include Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Cade Bambara, Paul Beatty, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

CVA2414 African American Studies (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The aim of this course is to explore what W. E. B. Du Bois called "the strange meaning of being black" in the United States. In doing so, we will also inquire about the meaning of being "American." We will attend to the specificity and to the heterogeneity of African Americans' experiences, noting how they have shaped and been shaped by American experiences as a whole. Among the questions we will ask and attempt to answer are the following: Who is an African American? What unites the women and men identified as African Americans? What divides them? What is their relationship to Africa? What is race? What is racism? We will raise these questions by examining how African Americans have survived extraordinary hardship and how they have transformed their history into a rich variety of cultural expression. After addressing the central themes of the course through our reading and discussion of Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, we will organize our course around three major themes: race and racism, the question of gender, and the cultural life of African Americans. Our goal will be to understand how African Americans have given voice to their experiences in literature, in religion, in music, in film, and in politics. Because the authors we will encounter are not only novelists and poets and historians but also social critics, we will pay special attention to their demands that American society live up to the ideals of freedom and equality it professes. Their work will push us to consider what would be required to make the dream of multi-racial democracy possible. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2416 American Cultural History (Intermediate Liberal Arts) With a broad reach and an eclectic method, this course will introduce students to some of the major issues in studying American cultural history. Rather than a chronological march through 400 years, the course will be organized thematically and is meant to give students tools and routes of access to American cultural history rather than the encyclopedic knowledge or comprehensive narratives. Possible subject matter includes the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s, domestic work (in times of slavery and after), the invention of Hollywood by Jewish immigrants and uses of plastic surgery in American life. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2411 American Politics (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course provides an introduction to American politics and the American political system. Throughout the course the principles and institutions of American politics will be critically approached, with a view to such concerns as the relationship between liberty and obligation, politics and culture, and democracy and governance. Since this is a Presidential Election year, we will begin with the primary process, focusing on the Democratic primaries that begin less than a week after our first class and continue throughout the semester. We will follow the primaries throughout, and by the end of the semester will likely know which Democratic nominee will oppose Republican George W. Bush in November, 2004. So, we start the semester with some basic questions: What is the primary process? How does it work? Who are these candidates and what are their positions on various issues? How do their positions compare to those of President Bush? With the primary process and impending Presidential election as the consistent background for our semester, we will work towards understanding the foundations, processes, and cultural basis of American politics. From this basis we can have an informed debate about some of the more controversial domestic and foreign policy issues of our time. Along with the required texts and on-line readings for the course, all students must read the newspaper on a daily basis to stay up to date on current events relevant to our discussions and debates about American politics. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2423 Anthropology of Europe (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course seeks to familiarize students with the societies and cultures of Europe from an anthropological perspective. Historical material provides for the understanding of current cultural, linguistic, religious and ethnic variation. Major emphasis is placed on the analysis of a range of contemporary communities from peasant to urban, East to West, and from North to South. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

ANT3615 The Anthropology of Food (Advanced Liberal Arts) This four credit advanced Liberal Arts elective uses food and food practices as a lens through which to look at human culture/s. The need to produce, organize and consume food is a human universal. Although universal, this enterprise in its diverse manifestations is a spectacularly articulate vehicle for expressing distinct religious ideas; social boundaries between groups, social hierarchies within groups; dynamics of power and powerlessness; health and medical beliefs and beliefs about family, gender and the body. Among the topics we will focus on to get at the role of food in human culture/s are: food taboos and restrictions; voluntary hunger (fasting) and involuntary hunger (famine); meals, manners and etiquette; cuisine as ethnic and national symbolism and the globalization of agribusiness and food industries. This course will involve active field research as well as a study of our own food symbol systems. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ANT3620 Anthropology of Media Advanced Liberal Arts The goal of this course is twofold: (1) to examine the historical role of anthropology in constructing and representing cultural difference through a range of media and (2) to investigate the socio-cultural significance of diverse media practices for societies and communities around the world. To ground our analyses we will consider concepts such as cultural difference, national identity, postcolonialism, and globalization. For the first part of the course we will survey early 20th century ethnographic film and its (mis)representations of "the Other". We will then analyze how media technologies have been taken up by indigenous peoples as a powerful form of cultural and political expression. The second part of the course explores the heterogeneous meanings media have come to hold in far-flung locales and societies. Media from radio to film to cyberspace have been variously deployed as instruments of nation-building and as a mode of expression for diasporic communities. In exploring a spectrum of media production and reception practices, we will also examine the industrial production of media in shifting geopolitical contexts. We will focus on postcolonial and postsocialist East Asian media industries which are converging through cross-border treaties. This course will build upon the foundational knowledge of various media acquired in Introduction to Media Studies. However, this course will interrogate theoretical concepts such as culture, colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalization and methodologies such as ethnography in order to pursue more substantive analyses of diverse media practices in an increasingly complex world. Additionally, whereas Media Studies focuses primarily on North American and Western societies, many of the case studies for Anthropology of Media will derive from cross-cultural, non-Western settings and include the activities of marginalized peoples. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (HSS, LVA, CVA)

CVA2419 The Anthropology of Turkey (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The Anthropology of Turkey is designed to give students an idea of what it is like to try to study another culture, using Turkish culture as an example. Students will be exposed to the history, social life, music, art, food, language, religion, and cultural geography of modern-day Turkey. They will also gain an understanding of the role of the participant observer. By the end of the course, students should be equally knowledgeable about contemporary Turkish culture and the daily life of an anthropologist in the field. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HIS3686 BEIJING: EMPERORS TO OLYMPICS 2 Credit Advanced Liberal Arts This advanced history course will focus on the city of Beijing to assess the history of late imperial China (Ming and Qing dynasties) through the beginnings of the 21st century. Some topics we will analyze are The Forbidden City as political center and home to emperors and as art and architecture, the effects of imperialism and nationalism, the rural poor in Beijing pre-1949 and today, Beijing culture, Tiananmen and student protests, and Beijing as an Olympic city. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

AMS3615 Borderlands Advanced Liberal Arts This American Studies course draws from history, cultural studies, and ethnic studies to examine subjects that defy easy categorization. It focuses on the concept of "borders," shedding light on the forces that separate groups of people; it also focuses on the concept of "borderlands," highlighting the imagined nature of national (and other) borders and emphasizing the contested, heterogeneous and fluid nature of national, group and individual identity. We will study physical means of crossing national borders-such as migration and adoption-as well as the role of technology and liberation movements in breaking down borders among groups of people. Using new insights from scholarly conversations and multiple media sources (including sound, film and artwork, as well as historical, biographical, and autobiographical written texts), we will seek to render more careful portraits of life on the borderlands. Each unit employs borderlands theory to investigate the nature of these encounters and the identities that emerge from them, and considers the themes of race, religion, national politics, gender identity, and sexuality Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2413 Business, Values and Ethics in History (HIS) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) From the Renaissance and Adam Smith to Enron and Ken Lay, this course will examine the way in which ideas and values have shaped the practice of business. We will also explore the relation between particular cultural and technological moments in history and the transition of business organizations from sole proprietorships to partnerships to managerial corporations. The challenge to democratic values and to managers' personal character from the development of modern theories of management and leadership will be a special focus of the course. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS24333 Comparative Politics (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course will use comparative methods to explore a variety of issues at the heart of modern politics. Through investigating the politics, economics, and societies in a wide variety of countries, including Britain, Russia, China, Iran, and Brazil, the course will examine the impacts of different political institutional structures, the relationship between capitalism and democracy, causes of revolutions, the role of ideas in politics, and how strong communal identity can strengthen or weaken states as well as other related topics. Prerequisites: Foundation Program

BRC3601 CONTEMPORARY CHINA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 4-cr Advanced Liberal Arts A component of the 16-credit Russia-China course, this advanced history course will develop your knowledge and understanding of contemporary China as a developing economy within the context of its imperial past of the Ming-Qing period (1368-1912). The focus will be on history, politics, and culture blended with cultural activities in China. Our learning will never stop in this course whether we are in class or bringing Chinese history and culture to life through walking tours, visits to museums, temples, historical sites; through cuisine, art and architecture, and observations of the changing urban landscapes of Beijing and Shanghai. Both on the Babson campus (Aug. 24-28, 2009) and in China we will learn from conversations with Chinese people and residents of China in addition to more traditional historical writings, films, art, literature, and language. Prerequisites: Completion of 3 intermediate liberal arts courses (HSS, CVA, LVA) Co-requisites: BRC3501, BRC3502, BRC3602 Concentration: one of several course from required list for Regional and Global

HIS 3687 CONTEMPORARY CHINA 2 Credit Advanced Liberal Arts This advanced history course analyzes the impact of the Chinese Communist Revolution on the state and culture of the Peoples' Republic of China (P.R.C.) from 1949 to the present. We will focus on attempts during the Mao period to transform China through campaigns of social mobilization, industrialization, rural collectivization, and cultural policies. The second half of the course examines the Economic Reform Era, including the rise of consumer culture, development of a modern legal system, and increased tension between the majority Han Chinese and minorities, particularly in Tibet and Xinjiang. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

HIS3685 Cross-Cultural Trade in Asian-Pacific Histories Advanced Liberal Arts This interdisciplinary course examines the role of trade and trade routes in the movement and transformation of cultural traditions in the Asian-Pacific region. We will investigate the transmission of ideas and material goods across overland and maritime trade networks, including the so-called Silk Road extending from East Asia to the Mediterranean, the monsoon routes across the Indian Ocean, and the long-distance sea lanes that linked seemingly isolated Pacific Island cultures. This historical journey will interrogate the first-hand accounts of mobile merchants, castaways, pilgrims, monks, missionaries, scholars, soldiers, and other trade mediators to discover why movement and contact united, rather than divided, world trade history. Themes and topics include trading diasporas, migrations, "first contact" between Europeans and non-Europeans, and the roles of merchants and missionaries in colonialism and globalism. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

CVA2408 Cultural Anthropology (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology is a three-credit intermediate History and Society course. The central focus of this course is the phenomenon of culture, that remarkable accomplishment that makes humans unique among all other species. We will use the concept of culture to investigate the question of what it means to be human. A major area of focus will be upon the ways cultural meanings are generated, shared, symbolized, ritualized, contested and altered in the face of different types of challenges. We will also study the relationship of cultural meaning to different economic, kinship and political systems. Throughout the course, as we study a variety of unfamiliar societies, we will continually refer back to our own societies with the goal of looking at our own ways of doing things with a new frame of mind. This frame of mind, or anthropological perspective, searches for the internal logics and constellations of values and beliefs that underpin all societies and subcultures. Central to this course is a succession of small fieldwork projects. This course will particularly strengthen your multicultural and rhetorical competencies Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

CVA2409 East Asian Cultures (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Welcome to Cultures and Values 2409, an intermediate level Liberal Arts course which will introduce you to the cultures of East Asia. This course builds on the themes and techniques in the H&S and A&H Foundation courses to analyze our subject using the materials and methodology of history pursued in an interdisciplinary manner. We will focus on the cultures of East Asia, China, Japan, and Korea; with thematic examples from ancient, medieval and modern periods. East Asia is integrated due to location and the influence that China had on the cultures of Japan and Korea. We will begin our study with the major ways of thinking in ancient China-Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, with some consideration of Legalism, and Militarism. The ethical structures, ideas, concepts and vocabulary in part one will inform and be assumed in our study of Japan and Korea. We will next study the uses of Chinese Ethics in Japan and Korea, Shinto in Japan, and Shamanism in Korea. Although these three cultures have elements in common, Japan and Korea developed in unique ways and in no way should be seen as pale imitations of Chinese culture. We begin our study analyzing written (Chinese) classical texts, which became classics throughout East Asia. These are elite cultural documents, but we will also consider their impact on popular culture. The fourth section of the course will consider East Asia as a cultural unit. We will interrogate the cultural constructions of identity and meaning in these cultures and the political and social contexts in which these were found. We will consider the impact of modernization and globalization, and the change and continuity within East Asian cultures. Some attention will be given to the cultural impact from and on the West. We approach this course through readings in philosophy, religion, anthropology, art, literature, film, and music. Prerequisites:RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3610 Ethno-Political Conflict (Advanced Liberal Arts) Students who have taken HSS2432 cannot take this course. After beginning with theories of communal identity, this class will explore the origins, dynamics, and settlement of ethno-political conflict. Cases such as Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Islamic communities in Europe will be used to examine the role of socio-economic factors and political institutions, conceptions of justice, and actions by international actors in determining when and why ethnic violence occurs. The course will conclude with a focus on current developments in Iraq. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (LVA, CVA, HSS)

SOC3677 Examining Urban Poverty Advanced Liberal Arts The goal of this course is to examine a small selection of the work on urban poverty in the United States. The study of stratification/inequality generally, and that of urban poverty in particular, is one of the cornerstones of sociology. The course will examine in depth theories behind the evolution of the urban poor, as well as the impact of poverty upon individuals, from both the left and the right, both structural and cultural. The class will begin with an examination of poverty research, starting with Kenneth Clarke and continue through to contemporary theorists William Julius Wilson, Doug Massey, and Nancy Denton. We will also examine ethnographic work on life in poor urban neighborhoods, as well as what dislocations come about because of urban poverty. And finally, how does this tie in to policy issues. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS LVA CVA)

HIS3693 Food in Chinese Culture (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course studies Chinese food in the context of Chinese history and culture. Topics will include geographical variations, class and ethnic food differences, festival food, food in ritual and religion, yin-yang cosmology, food and medicine, basic ingredients and how to buy them in the Boston area, analysis of local restaurant menus, and a cooking class to make dumplings (jiaozi) to celebrate Chinese New Year. Course objectives include: 1. Students will appreciate the change and continuity in Chinese history and culture through an analysis of its cuisine. 2. This course will enable students to expand their international and multicultural perspectives and experiences (I.E) In our consideration of Chinese cuisine in the U.S. students will "appreciate the contributions of different cultures and traditions to society and the workplace Kandice Hauf, Associate Professor at Babson College, is a teacher and scholar of Chinese cultural history, specializing in the 15th-17th centuries. When not hunched over abstruse Chinese documents, she often shops, chops, cooks and eats Asian cuisine at home and throughout Asia. Her food credentials include being a founding member of the Chi Huo Hui (Fire Eaters) at Yale, and studying under Fu P'ei-mei (Taiwan's Julia Child). Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Art Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2410 Gender Studies (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to gender studies. Designed as an intermediate course, Introduction to Gender Studies aims to identify and critically examine the interactive relationships among gender, cultural/social institutions, and individuals in contemporary American society. This implies two foci of attention. First, through readings and discussion, we will explore gender roles and resulting power inequities in contexts such as families, the music industry, conceptions of both race and sexuality, and novels. Equally important, we will analyze how the behaviors of individuals reflect, sustain and sometimes alter social conceptions of gender. In concert, these two emphases serve to underline the relationships among gender, culture, and individuals. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

HIS3603 Germany: Bismark to Hitler (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will examine the development and disastrous course of German history from unification under Bismarck to division after Hitler. It will consider issues of industrialization and nationalism and their impact on both domestic and foreign policies. The origins and consequences of the First and Second World Wars will stand in the center of the course, but issues such as the dilemmas of modernization and the reaction against democratization will also be explored. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2422 (POL) Global Citizenship (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Are you a global citizen? What does it mean to think about global citizenship? This course will explore ongoing political, economic and cultural transformations from the vantage points of recent debates regarding globalization and citizenship. Among the topics we will consider: patterns of international migration, corporate citizenship initiatives, the evolution of global governing institutions, the rise of international advocacy networks, the global impact of the Internet on political and social mobilization, and the role of the United States in the world. Prerequisistes: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2428 Global Politics (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This intermediate course will begin by examining different perspectives on the role of power, anarchy, institutions, and identity in the international system. These ideas will then be used to explore a wide range of current global issues, including war, trade, human rights, humanitarian intervention, and environmental problems. The goal of this course is to learn how various theories can bring both a richer understanding of the nature of international problems and of the motivations and perspectives of various international actors. Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation H&S and A&H

POL 3678 Global politics: Conflict and Collaboration (Advanced Liberal Arts) What ultimately drives global politics: inevitable conflict among competing powers or the pursuit of common goals such as peace, democracy and economic growth? This course will explore these competing explanations and approaches to world politics through the ages. Both in theory and in practice, the push and pull of conflict and collaboration intersect constantly in the global arena, and we will study this across a variety of topics: war, terrorism, genocide, international law, international trade, economic development, democratic transitions, and environmental protection. The course also will examine the roles of international institutions and non-governmental organizations in mediating conflict and fostering collaboration. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSF1310 History & Society Foundation with Rhetoric A (Foundation Liberal Arts) This six-credit course will achieve the objectives of both the H&S Foundation and Rhetoric A course in a single, theme based course. Prerequisites: None

HSF1300 Crises in Community and Citizenship (Fall Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) In this History and Society foundation course, students will explore the challenges that individuals face as they struggle to exercise personal agency in the face of social, cultural, political, economic, and historical structures. Focusing on the tensions between and within communities, as well as those that are internal to the individual, this course asks a series of related questions: How is identity socially constructed? How do individuals negotiate belonging in communities defined by nation, region, race, religious affiliation, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality? How do these identities affect one's ability to be recognized as a citizen of these communities? What strategies do individuals apply to reconcile the self with social expectations? What impact do these struggles have on the way community boundaries are redrawn over time? How do we resolve the multiple vectors of identity and the multiple sites of citizenship? To answer these questions, we will draw on the work of historians, documentarians, graphic artists, environmentalists, philosophers, journalists, cultural critics, and memoirists. Prerequisites: NONE HSF1300 HUMAN AGENCY AND COMMUNITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD (Spring Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) Over the past century human societies have changed at an unprecedented rate and with an unprecedented scope. These changes have been often traumatic, sometimes revolutionary and nearly always unpredictable. This course examines the impact of a number of different kinds of upheavals and transformations on individuals, communities and nations, as well as transnational formations. The course will focus on periods of dramatic change in different parts of the world. As we move from one historical and geographic context to another, we will address the following set of related questions. What are the different ways that individuals can "belong" to a society? How is social identity constructed and deconstructed? How do individuals exercise human agency in the face of institutional oppression? What are the possibilities for individual and communal healing from historical trauma? What is the relationship of memory to history? What does citizenship mean in a globalizing world? Prerequisite: NONE

HSS2404 Harry Potter and Politics (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Political science is increasingly recognizing how popular culture reflects and helps shape politics. This course will use the Harry Potter books both to explore issues of political culture and as an object of political culture. The first part of the course will focus on how the books address such issues as identity, including discrimination and ethnic conflict, and governmental power, including the role of the bureaucracy and the media. The second part will look at the book itself, examining efforts to remove the book from public schools, the reaction to the book in different countries, and how the book is enmeshed in global trade issues. It will be assumed that all students registering for the course have already read the Harry Potter series. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3680 Harry Potter & Politics Advanced Liberal Arts (4 credits) Political science is increasingly recognizing how popular culture reflects and helps shape politics. This course will use the Harry Potter books both to explore issues of political culture and as an object of political culture. The first part of the course will focus on how the books address such issues as identity, including discrimination and ethnic conflict, and governmental power, including the role of the bureaucracy and the media. The second part will look at the book itself, examining efforts to remove the book from public schools, the reaction to the book in different countries, and how the book is enmeshed in global trade issues. It will be assumed that all students registering for the course have already read the Harry Potter series. Prerequisites: 3 intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3606 The History and Culture of American Business Advanced Liberal Arts How have generations of Americans used business to define their ambitions and identities? How has commerce influenced the nation's mythology and ideals? What are the social and personal costs of the U.S.'s veneration of the marketplace? In this advanced-level history course, students will examine how business has shaped American culture and society. Selected subjects for the class include the rise of the corporation, the icons of American business, the power and politics of consumption, ethnic and immigrant entrepreneurship, and the role of the marketplace in the nation's economic and cultural development. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (CVA, LVA & HSS)

HIS3670 The History of Capitalism Advanced Liberal Arts This course deals with the history of capitalism from early modern times to the present. It is concerned not just with the story of capitalist enterprise but with the cultural values and social institutions accompanying capitalism. It addresses the tension as well as the affinity between capitalism on the one hand and, on the other, contextual cultural values and social institutions. It especially focuses on the way that capitalist power subverts as well as supports the free market economy and democratic political processes with which it is often identified. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSS2402 History of China (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course is a broad survey of Chinese history and the ways that the Chinese have responded to this history in their daily lives. It does not merely catalog the phenomena of Chinese civilization but studies how Chinese civilization came to be what it was and is, and why. Focus is not on memorization an assimilation of historical facts, but on the understanding of historical process. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

HIS3677 The History, Culture and Economy of Modern Mexico Advanced Liberal Arts Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS) or Instructor Permission

HSF1311 Crises in Community and Citizenship (Fall Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) In this History and Society foundation course, students will explore the challenges that individuals face as they struggle to exercise personal agency in the face of social, cultural, political, economic, and historical structures. Focusing on the tensions between and within communities, as well as those that are internal to the individual, this course asks a series of related questions: How is identity socially constructed? How do individuals negotiate belonging in communities defined by nation, region, race, religious affiliation, class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality? How do these identities affect one's ability to be recognized as a citizen of these communities? What strategies do individuals apply to reconcile the self with social expectations? What impact do these struggles have on the way community boundaries are redrawn over time? How do we resolve the multiple vectors of identity and the multiple sites of citizenship? To answer these questions, we will draw on the work of historians, documentarians, graphic artists, environmentalists, philosophers, journalists, cultural critics, and memoirists. Prerequisites: NONE HSF1311 HUMAN AGENCY AND COMMUNITY IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD (Spring Semester) (Foundation Liberal Arts) Over the past century human societies have changed at an unprecedented rate and with an unprecedented scope. These changes have been often traumatic, sometimes revolutionary and nearly always unpredictable. This course examines the impact of a number of different kinds of upheavals and transformations on individuals, communities and nations, as well as transnational formations. The course will focus on periods of dramatic change in different parts of the world. As we move from one historical and geographic context to another, we will address the following set of related questions. What are the different ways that individuals can "belong" to a society? How is social identity constructed and deconstructed? How do individuals exercise human agency in the face of institutional oppression? What are the possibilities for individual and communal healing from historical trauma? What is the relationship of memory to history? What does citizenship mean in a globalizing world? Prerequisite: NONE

HSS2417 Human Communication (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course examines some dimensions of human communication in contemporary societies and throughout history. Topics include: the structure or language, the development of written language systems, language and the brain, non-verbal communication, miscommunication and lying, political industrialization or communication technologies, including themes of social cohesion, social identity and change. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

CVA2426 Immigrants, Race and the American Promise (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This intermediate course will consider the nature of American culture and identity through the experiences of the nation's immigrants and its ethnic citizens. What sacrifices have immigrants and ethnic Americans made in order to become members of the national community? How have they contributed to the development of modern America? How have they re-shaped the culture, politics, and economy of the U.S.? How have immigrants and citizens of color adapted the mythology of the American Dream to achieve success? What does the larger narrative of immigration, race, and ethnicity tell us about our nation's values and our own identity as citizens? Throughout the semester, students will use historical texts, novels, and selected works of film and music to consider these questions. Selected themes for the course include the "Melting Pot" and multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, anti-immigrant agitation and legislation, the nature of the American Dream, and the development of ethnic communities and businesses. The class will cover the time period from the late nineteenth century to the present. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

SOC3675 Inequality in Everyday Life: A Sociological Perspective (Advanced Liberal Arts) Inequality is often studied with an emphasis on social infrastructure, economics and education. Gender, race and class are the major categories around which inequality is perpetrated in modern societies. Rather than focus directly on structure, we explore the symbolic dimensions of gender, race and class as they are represented in everyday life. We investigate language, images and social perspectives that create, maintain or challenge social inequality. At the same time, we critically evaluate the tendency of societies to create divisions of status based on the assumption of limited resources. The focus is on the workplace, mass media and the family as three main social arenas where definitions of gender, race and class are constructed and perpetuated. Through theoretical and empirical texts, this course challenges students to examine their own conceptualizations about gender, race and class while offering foundation for reinterpreting the social representations that have informed their conceptualizations and experiences. Through critical examination of social symbols, students can develop their understanding of and participation in the construction of meaning Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSS2401 Introduction to Psychology (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course offers a survey of psychology, the scientific study of human thought, feeling, motivation, and behavior. Among the subtopics to be explored are: perception, learning memory, emotion, stress & coping, social influence, personality (normal and abnormal), and psychotherapy. This is primarily a lecture course, with class time occasionally devoted to in-class demonstrations discussion, and films. Final grades are based on frequent (around 6) objective tests, an analytic paper, and a comprehensive final examination. The course addresses competencies such as: understanding the individual and the relationship between individual and social realities; understanding and critically appreciating and weighing quantitative and qualitative information from scientific sources; and applying these types of information to the task of reflecting on oneself and others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2418 Introduction to Sociology (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Sociology explains human behavior in terms of group activities. The solidarity of a social group allows group members to work cooperatively towards common goals. But the dark side of group solidarity is that it often leads members to feel hostility towards individuals who are not a part of the group and for non-members to experience feelings of resentment towards the group and its members. How is solidarity achieved? How is the formation of social identity affected by group solidarity? How do groups competing for scarce resources construct a view of their group's needs, hopes, and desires? Where are group members and nonmembers situated in this view of social life? This course examines the relationship between group solidarity, resource scarcity, and the formation of social identity in everyday life. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring and Summer I

CVA2411 Introduction to Western Culture (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This cultural history course explores rational and non-rational ways of knowing in the Western tradition. We look at literature and art to focus upon four moments in the history of the West where these antithetical tendencies are conspicuous: Ancient Greece; the High Middle Ages; Europe during the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution; and the Early 20th Century. We read Greek tragedies by Aeschylus and Euripides, medieval romances such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and contemporary plays about the lives of Galileo and Luther. Essays by Freud and Jung frame our discussions. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

CVA2453 Islam in Southeast Asia (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia has more Muslims than any Muslim nation on Earth. Yet Westerners rarely associate Islam with Indonesia, or Asia for that matter. This course explores the historical and contemporary role of Islam in Indonesia, the world's largest Islamic nation. It will examine the origins and basic tenets of the religion in Southeast Asia, the differences with Middle Eastern Islam, sectarian conflicts with Christians, Hindus, Chinese, and indigenous peoples, and the most pressing question for the nation today: should and will Indonesia join the wave of Islamic fundamentalism sweeping the Muslim world? Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

Journalism and Society (COM) HSS2427 (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course examines the role of the news media in a democratic society. Through analytic texts and contemporaneous articles we will explore the relationship between public policy decisions and media coverage of the major issues of the day. We will consider whether corporate ownership, the entertainment culture, political bias and the rise of the Internet influence news coverage of everything from political campaigns to national security. Issues that arise during the course of the semester will be incorporated into our studies, underscoring the importance of students developing a daily news habit that includes but is not limited to The Boston Globe. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3675 Justice, Revenge and Defeat (Advanced Liberal Arts) This political theory course examines the intricate connections between three important political concepts; justice, revenge and defeat. Most examination of political and cross-cultural histories center on the victor, and to a smaller extent resistance. The experience of defeat or domination, however, scarcely elicits examination, in spite of its prevalence. In this course, we are interested not only in the factors contributing to defeat in political and social relations, but also in how it is interpreted in terms of new or reconfigured ideas of justice, and how the widely observed desire for revenge is based on a conception of defeat as a violation of justice. By addressing these issues, we will be able to grapple with the complex political matter of how defeated or dominated people conceptualize and practice resistance, if they can at all. The course examines these concepts and concerns in terms of their immense presence in political and social history, and with regards to how they function in our time. We will make this theoretical journey through texts such as Tzvetan Todorov?s The Conquest of America, Friedrich Nietszche?s On the Genealogy of Morals, Carols Friere?s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Aeschylus?s The Oresteia, Rigoberta Menchu?s I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Taiaiake Alfred?s Peace, Power and Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto and James Scott?s The Weapons of the Weak. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ANT3610 LANGUAGE & SOCIETY (Advanced Liberal Arts) The purpose of this advanced course is to explore human communication, focusing on the relationship between linguistic performance and social identity. The course begins with a look at how language developed in humans, the difference between human language and animal communication, the basic structural aspects of language, and how grammatical structures and vocabulary influence a speaker's "world view." We will also unpack some of the popular misconceptions about language and language change. We will examine the relationship between linguistic identity and nationalism. We will also look at variables such as class, ethnicity and gender and how they affect speech style and listener perception. By the end of the course, students should have a clear understanding of how communication is culturally constructed, and how linguistic performance is an integral part of human social identity. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

HSS2403 Latin American History (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course will be an introduction to the main themes, actors, and ideas in Latin American history. The central focus will be on Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, with an attempt to develop a comparative understanding of the Latin America's diversity, as well as common patterns, from pre-Columbian times to the present. In other words, this course is not an exhaustive history of Latin America; rather, it intends to develop familiarity with key concepts, developments, and issues in the region's history. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semester: FALL

HSS2435 LGBT BOSTON: A HISTORY, WITH MAPS (AMS) 3 credit Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will draw from gay and lesbian studies, music and theater history, gender studies, American cultural history, and literary history as it challenges students to leave Babson Park and immerse themselves in Boston's gay and lesbian past and present. The course encourages students to investigate the multiplicity of identities that have formed a central part of Boston's social and cultural life since at least the middle of the 19th century. In doing so "LGBT Boston" will not simply invite students to learn about individual lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgendered lives in our region, but will encourage Babson undergraduates to reconsider what we mean when we say "Boston" to begin with. "LGBT Boston" will require students to map their academic inquiry onto an actual place and, among other things, assumes that students will leave campus and see people and places that they might not in an average semester. The course will use the city as an adjunct to the campus, and make it possible for students to explore histories of diverse identity where they actually unfolded. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H & H&S

CVA 2456 Making Ethnic Selves: The Stories of American Immigrants and Their Children (AMS) Intermediate Liberal Arts In this course we will explore the many ways that immigrants to America (and their children) have explained themselves to other Americans and to each other. Exploring multiple forms of expression--including films, journalism, novels, popular songs, graphic novels, literature for children, graffiti, and so on--we will make an effort to do justice to the innovative ways that the newest Americans have engaged in public acts of self-creation. The aim is to understand, ultimately, how immigrant and ethnic narratives have acted as central players in the formation of a wider American identity. Prerequisite: RHT & Foundation A&H and H&S

HSS2400 MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA(HIS) The Making of Modern America: The 1920s (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The decade of the 1920s witnessed the birth of much of that we consider "modern" in the United States. Students in this course will examine this decade closely, focusing on several key moments and developments: anti-immigrant hysteria and the Braintree, Massachusetts trial of Sacco and Vanzetti; the rise of queer communities; competing visions of Black Liberation and the art of the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of big business, the decline of small town America, and the mass appeal of the Ku Klux Klan; women and men and their roles in the new economies of sex and work. We will use historical sources, among them film and fiction, to explore the currents of the twenties and draw connections to the social and political debates of the contemporary U.S. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HIS 3676 Summer 2006 (Advanced Liberal Arts) Germany: An Introduction In the four weeks that make up this summer course, you will experience a blending of the study of German cultural history and cultural activities in Germany with the classroom study of European management perspectives and on-site visits to Bavarian companies. The objective of the course is to expand your thinking about management and business beyond the borders of the United States, and to introduce you to the connections and synergies of German history and culture with the distinctiveness of German commerce and German business practices. One week of classes on the Babson campus will be followed by three weeks in Nuremberg, Germany, with classes at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. This preliminary week will provide an introduction and companion experience to the International Management modules you will be taking at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg this summer. It is a discrete and yet connected part of the culture program that has been created to support and embed the management modules. While in Germany, we will engage in a variety of activities to bring German history and culture to life for us - through walking tours, visits to museums, churches, and historical sites; through cuisine, study of architecture and landscape, and various introductions to the local and regional ways of thinking and feeling. In this course, learning never stops and is definitely not limited to the classroom. During the pre-departure week at Babson, we will immerse ourselves in an intensive introduction to German history and culture. You will receive several handouts in class, and will supplement these with Web resources. While these sources will provide plentiful information about Germany in a variety of aspects (history, geography, politics, society, economics, etc.), the general focus of the course will be to look at Germany's changing identity among the nations of Europe and the world. How has this country re-invented itself in the second half of the 20th century? What are the issues and challenges it confronts today? What is its place in the world community? How do its traditions and practices fit into a world of globalized markets and political commitments? Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

ANT3671 Material Culture (Advanced Liberal Arts) The purpose of this course is to focus on the social and cultural context of economic activity in a range of different kinds of societies, including our own. We will look at the "embeddedness" of all economic systems in the power relations, social networks, and value structures of their societies. In addition to studying how different kinds of local economies work, we will also investigate how global economic processes are impacting indigenous economies around the world. Many of the activities of this course will involve field-based investigations of the structures of reciprocity and redistribution in our own societies that lie largely outside the monetized market system such as gift-giving, household redistribution, reparation payments, adoption, and blood and organ donation. This course will enhance your rhetorical and multicultural and global competencies. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

MDS3600 PRODUCING 'INDIA': MEDIA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIAN SOCIETY Advanced Liberal Arts This advanced undergraduate course will examine the impact of the media in shaping understandings of national identity in postcolonial India. Following independence from colonial rule in 1947, the media have played a central role in representing and refashioning ideas of what it means to be Indian. From popular cinema to online communities, from political cartoons to televised productions of Indian epics, the products of postcolonial Indian media are sites of competing and complementary visions of Indian modernity. They reflect profound contestations over ideas of self and society and individual and community, dynamics of class, caste, gender, and ethnic relations, and logics of national and global belonging in the eras of Nehruvian socialism and global capitalism. Drawing on this conceptual framework, we will critically evaluate the role of print media, television, film, and the internet in contributing to the complex negotiations over postcolonial Indian identity. Course materials will be drawn from a range of disciplines, genres, and media, and will cover print media, cinema, television programs, calendar art, and websites. We will also examine the assumptions underlying various disciplinary and interdisciplinary modes of media analysis. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSS2420 Media Studies (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course explores the structure and functions of the mass media in contemporary society, looking at social, cultural, economic and political issues relevant to television, film, radio, recorded music, books, newspapers, magazines, internet and new communication technologies. Exploration of relationships between media and individual, media structure, media policy, law and ethics, and globalization of communications media is emphasized. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

MDS 3605 Mediated Cultures and Consumer Identities Advanced Liberal Arts In this advanced course, we will investigate case studies of mediated cultures that represent the interplay of the people who use them in everyday life and the consumer identities through which they are positioned by the media companies. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we will employ social and cultural theories to interpret the meaning and significance of various expressions of popular culture from folk activities to industrially-produced mediated cultures. The case studies will include the following: television and the child as consumer; celebrity cultural productions and fan identities; mobile phone communities and various consumers; mediated environments and the experiences they promise to deliver to consumers. In the process we will address questions such as the following: What are the social and experiential consequences of people's interactions -- including resistance and subversion -- with mediated popular cultures? How do structures of authority such as governments and industries influence the individual's everyday use of media technologies? How are mediated cultures invested in issues of collective and individual identities and people's experience of personal and/or community agency? Students will have the opportunity to examine their everyday use of media technologies and study how they are implicated in specific mediated cultures. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (HSS, LVA, CVA)

SOC3610 Minority Voices in Entrepreneurship: The Democratization of Resources and Influence (Advanced Liberal Arts) Though entrepreneurship is ordinarily situated in a business context, in this advanced Sociology class we examine the ways in which businesses, products, services and monetary exchanges are contextualized in a matrix of self-identity and societal values. Therefore, we investigate entrepreneurship within and outside of the realm of economic exchange. The postmodern, democratic emphasis on the inclusion of a multiplicity of perspectives resonates with entrepreneurship: each provides an opportunity for the valuation of minority voices encourages and relies upon, diverse, even subversive, views. Entrepreneurship can be understood not only as accessing the economy, but also as promoting self-expression and the representation of group values as they are communicated in philosophies, analyses, cultural understandings, practices, products, and services. Entrepreneurial visions reflect subjective, but not individual, ways of interpreting and imagining the world. These visions are informed by a range of group identities and by various configurations of minority and majority perspectives. Through the collaborative processes of peer review and class discussion, we will work to create an understanding of entrepreneurship as a way of thinking, responding and interacting that can be applied within enterprise development and beyond - to the construction of personal identity and to approaches in relationships, community involvement and political activism. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3680 Modern China (Advanced Liberal Arts) A Century and a Half of Modernization and Revolutionary Transformation Course encompasses the history of China's development from a tradition-oriented nation to a modern society in the turbulent century and a half since the 1830's. Topics include background of the traditional order, China's encounter with the West, imperialism and rebellion, growth of political and cultural radicalism, the politicizing of the masses, and the establishment and character of successive revolutionary regimes in the 20th century. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2412 Modern European History (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The course features The French Revolution, The Russian Revolution, World WarI and World WarII in order to examine the processes and consequences of modernization and nationalism in the West. At the end of the 18th Century, the individual and the nation state were constructed as sources of meaning and identity and were legitimated naturally and politically. Since then, conflicting concepts of human, natural, civic and political rights have contributed to much of our history. We will examine such issues in relation to the major geopolitical events mentioned above and in the works of important writers and political activists such as Rousseau, Marx, Dostoevsky and Lenin, among others. Finally we will consider the meanings of personal and national identities as we enter the new millennium. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS2434 Modern European History (formerly CVA2412) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The course features The French and Russian Revolutions, World Wars I and II, Imperialism and the Cold War in order to examine the processes and consequences of modernization and nationalism in the West from the end of the 18th century to the present. We will read Marx, Dostoevsky and Lenin, among others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3676 European Politics at the dawn of the 21st Century (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will explore the many forms of political change that continue to sweep across Europe following the end of the Cold War. Among the topics we will investigate: the evolution of the European Union and the quest for a European constitution; the progress of the single European currency; the role of the European Court of Human Rights; the resilience of nationalist allegiances; the resurgence of extremist political parties; and the challenges in strengthening democracy not only in post-Communist countries but also throughout the continent. We also will study how European countries interact with the rest of the world, paying particular attention to the strained transatlantic alliance with the United States. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3600 Modern Japan (Advanced Liberal Arts) An introduction to Japan's modern transformation from a late feudal society into a powerful nation-state between the 17th and 21st centuries. Major subjects include the Tokugawa and its legacy, Shinto and Zen Buddhism, rapid economic growth, changes for women, Western perceptions of Japan, nationalism and militarism, World War II, the meaning of defeat, and the unfolding of a postwar society and culture that is both modern, and distinctly Japanese. Our sources for studying this fascinating society include historical texts, biographies, novels and poetry, art, theater, and film. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3610 Moral Leadership in Countries and Companies 2-credits Advanced Liberal Arts In politics and business, leadership is a fundamental key to success. This course uses cases from business, history, and politics - from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama, from Mahatma Gandhi to Martin Luther King, and business leaders from around the globe to explore the relation between ethics and leadership. Does history offer a way of critiquing our contemporary ideas about leadership, identifying good ideas while spotting mistaken notions of leadership and protecting ourselves against them? Can leaders on the national and global scale, whether in government or business, learn anything about leadership from "ordinary" people who serve as leaders in "ordinary" life, and vice versa? Above all, what is the role of values in leadership? Does honesty pay? Or was Machiavelli right that successful leaders must be deceivers? Or does the truth lie somewhere between and if so, how can Babson students, as future leaders, aim to achieve effective leadership while preserving their personal integrity? Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts (HSS, LVA, CVA)

HSS2426 A Multicultural History of America (HIS) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) In this class, students will survey the broad currents of American history through the lens of immigration, race and ethnicity. Beginning with the colonization of North America, we will study the experiences of Native Americans and immigrants from diverse points of origin across four centuries. We will pay special attention to the challenges of assimilation and cultural preservation, group identities, and political and economic responses to an increasingly heterogeneous nation. Drawing on first-hand narratives, period novels, contemporary journalism, and historical scholarship, we will interrogate the shifting nature of American identity from "contact" through the present day. The class will conclude with a broad debate over what it means to be part of a multicultural nation in an increasingly global society. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3673 Native American Politics and Policy (Advanced Liberal Arts) This upper-level History and Society class explores the political concerns, actions and experiences of Native Americans in the United States. But what does that mean? Native Americans are most often viewed in specifically cultural terms, like exhibits in a museum, or as subjects consigned solely to history, as if they were no longer relevant to the North American political landscape. These views are, at best, incomplete or, at worst, dead wrong. While they have certainly suffered great hardships, which we will discuss in this class, Native Americans persist as an active political presence in and beyond U.S. politics. This course seeks to advance our understanding of Native Americans as political actors who, in their complicated legal, cultural and historical relationship with the United States, occupy a unique political status in the U.S. context. Most Native American tribes legally retain and seek to enhance their own sovereignty within and sometimes at odds with the political boundaries of the United States, and this has been the case for centuries. Given this deep historical relationship it is fair to say that you cannot adequately understand American politics unless you also understand the politics of and policy directed towards Native Americans in the United States. As such, this course both introduces you to the subject of Native American politics while also deepening and advancing your understanding of American politics as a whole. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2455 Peoples and Cultures of the Americas (formerly HIS3671) Intermediate Liberal Arts This course examines U.S. relations with Latin America since U.S. Independence. We will investigate this broad issue from the parameters of diplomatic, political, and economic history, and we especially will focus on an array of accompanying cultural questions. Diplomatically, United States policy toward Latin America has gone through distinct phases, from neglect in some periods, to alliance and cooperation in others, to military conflict and intervention in still other eras. The Latin American response to the numerous U.S. activities in the region also has varied. Overt and covert political goals (often based on domestic developments), powerful economic agendas, and deeply rooted cultural perceptions and stereotypes, all have contributed significantly to intra-hemispheric policies and conduct. Scholars have posited various interpretations over the years, each emphasizing one set of motivations as being paramount. The role of the United States in Latin America has not always been clear nor is there unanimous agreement on its impact. Yet, there are a number of common themes that characterize the relationship between the "colossus to the north" and its neighbors to the south. This course seeks to identify these common themes and to provide a basis for understanding contemporary and future cultural, political, and economic relations in the Americas. Prerequisites: RHT & A&H & H&S Foundation

HIS3671 People and Cultures of the Americas (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course examines United States diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations with Latin America since the American Revolution. United States policy toward Latin America has gone through distinct phases, from neglect in some periods, to alliance and cooperation in others, to military conflict and intervention in still other eras. The Latin American response to the numerous U.S. activities in the region has varied as well. The U.S. role in Latin America has not always been clear, nor is there unanimous agreement on its impact. There are numbers of common themes that characterize the relationship between the "colossus to the north" and its neighbors to the south. This course seeks to identify these common themes and provide a basis for understanding contemporary and future relations between the Americas. To accomplish these goals, the course uses lectures, reading (both historic scholarship and fiction), discussions, and writing. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS) This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

CVA2415 Political Thought (Intermediate Liberal Arts) What is politics, and what does it mean to say that we are political actors, individually and collectively? On what basis might we view politics as a positive and/or negative force in our lives? To address these questions we must investigate how our sense of who we are politically is continually produced through our struggle to express and fulfill the freedoms and obligations seemingly secured through such notions as ideology, the law, the state and the government. Engaging such an investigation means that we will have to learn how to think politically; to refine our ability to have and express political thought. In so doing, we will ask ourselves such questions as: Are political commitments and communities shaped in a way that serves particular interests or groups, and if so how does this occur and what are its implications? Are we obliged to obey laws we have not made? When, if ever, is disobedience to ideology, the law, the government, or the state justified? These questions about the basis for and limits to political community have challenged thinkers from ancient times to the present, and they will provide a basis for this intermediate-level course. Among the writers whose work we will consider are Sophocles, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and Emma Goldman. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

HSS2429 POPULAR CULTURE IN AMERICA (AMS) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course will serve as an introduction to the diversity and complexity of 20th-century American popular culture. We will focus on the major cultural industries and productions of some important locations and moments, including the "classic" cinema of 1930s Hollywood; the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in the 1940s; the Disneyworld "kingdom" in Orlando in the 1990s; and the hip-hop scene in the Bronx of the 1980s. Required texts include compact discs as well as books and articles; in addition to these assigned readings/listenings, there will be important materials presented in class (such as movies, TV shows, artwork, advertising, etc.). All of these texts are of equal importance, so it is crucial to commit to full attendance and participation. Through the "case study method," this course will introduce the major concerns and methods of popular culture studies. We will focus on such issues as audience patterns and marketing, technology, gender, race and ethnicity, and others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H & H&S

PSY3605 Psychology of Personality Advanced Liberal Arts This course will examine major theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of personality within the different domains of psychology. Classic theories of personality (e.g., psychoanalytic, behavioral, trait, humanistic, cognitive, and social roles) are explored and evaluated through lectures, readings, case materials, and films. Lectures will expand upon ideas and concepts presented in the text. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3601 Sexuality, Gender, and Identity: A Cultural History of the European Renaissance (Advanced Liberal Arts) According to many, it was during the Renaissance that Europeans created the "modern self." We will use literature, art, autobiography and memoirs, love letters and court cases to help explore this "self," whose identity was problematically constructed in regard to issues of class, gender and sexual transgression. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3665 Revolution and Terror In Modern Latin America (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course enables students to gain an understanding of historical events in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean through an examination of revolutions. Topics include such events as the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and the role of the United States in the region. In addition to addressing theoretical issues concerning the definition and nature of revolutions, the course covers the historical causes and results of specific upheavals. Because the class is a seminar, the amount of reading is substantial, discussion is prevalent, and students are required to offer individual presentations and papers about specific revolutions. Moreover, we will attempt, with theoretical models as our guideposts, to make connections among the various historic events in order to see how these revolutions are part of a larger historical process in the Caribbean and Latin America as a whole. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSS2454 Southeast and South Asian History from 1500: Outside In (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Did you ever wonder about Mexico or Canada's take on their dominant neighbor's past? This course will ask similar questions of Asian history. Asian minority cultures and small states on the so-called "periphery" of world history helped to create the dynasties, sultanates, and kingdoms that Westerners associate with pre-colonial Asia. Those same Asian minorities and marginal states altered colonial and post-colonial history, and remain a challenge to all the governments in the region today. Using visual, aural, and documentary media, this course will introduce students to Asia's dynamic cultural diversity, from the outside in. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HIS3604 Sexuality and Power in Modern Society (Advanced Liberal Arts) Why is it that in Western society alone, over the past two centuries, sex has come to be understood as a focus of our being, the means by which we measure and identify ourselves? What is sex? What is sexuality? How can we say that sexuality is historical? How is it a function of power, of political ideology? The course treats these broad issues by examining specific subjects such as sexuality, Victorian marriages and morality, feminism, love and intimacy. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2454 Introduction to Consumer Society This course addresses long-standing debates about consumer society: How does advertising work? Are consumers manipulated by marketing? Why are consumer choices so important in the constitution of identity? How is consumption affecting the environment? How is consumer culture going global? Special attention will be paid to the ways in which consumer culture structures division by class, gender, and race. Readings by Adorno and Horkheimer, Galbraith, Friedan, Bourdieu, Veblen, Baudrillard, hooks, Bordo, and others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation HSF & AHF

SOC3690 The Sociology of Entrepreneurship: Society and Entrepreneurial Behaviors (Advanced Liberal Arts) Entrepreneurial behaviors vary by race/ethnicity, gender, and religion. The purpose of this course is 1) to investigate entrepreneurial behaviors in a societal context, focusing upon factors that prompt individuals and groups to move toward entrepreneurship, and 2) identify the questions and assumptions underlying what we think we know about entrepreneurship. The course will be conducted in an interactive seminar style with class discussion based upon readings of assigned texts and popular press articles. One outcome of the course will be to better understand entrepreneurial choices by both individuals and groups and the impact of those decisions upon societies. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CVA2423 Sociology of Family Intermediate Liberal Arts This course analyzes sociological theories and research on families with particular attention to (1) families in relation to the broader society; (2) changes in gendered expectations and behavior; (3) comparisons of family life by gender, social class, race and sexual identity; (4) families and the life cycle; (5) contemporary alternatives to the good provider/cult of domesticity family common between 1830 and 1980; and (6) policy. Readings by Engels, Hochschild, Stacey, Gerson, Jacobs, Hondagneu-Sotelo, Schor, Cott, Lewin, Weston, hooks, Coontz, Baca Zinn and others. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation HSF & AHF

SOC3605 Sociology of Sexuality Advanced Liberal Arts In 1959 C. Wright Mills conceptualized a sociological imagination as that which "enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society"(6). This course employs the sociological imagination in the critical analysis of sexuality, a deeply personal and historically specific social construct more often discussed as a biological process. The first half of the course will address the major theoretical perspectives in the study of sexuality and the various research methods used by social scientists in sexuality research. We will also examine sexual acts, identities and the body via intersections with gender, race, and class. The second half of the course looks at sexuality through the lens of social issues and debates, including: virginity loss, slut/stud dichotomy, popular culture, sex work (including prostitution and tourism), pornography, dominance and submission, STDs and safer sex, and sexual violence. Prerequisite: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

POL3679 Soviet and Russian Politics (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will examine the rise and fall of communism in the Soviet Union as well as process of moving from communism to capitalism and democracy. The first third of the course will focus on how communism actually worked, why it lasted so long, and why it collapsed when and how it did. The second third will concentrate on understanding political, economic, and social developments in Russia over the past fifteen years. The final section will compare the very different trajectories of the other former Soviet republics, examining why some are more authoritarian and others are members of the European Union. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

HSS2431 Sports and Society (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The goal of this course is to examine how sports fit in to our society. Billions of dollars are invested every year into sports, not only at the professional level, but also at the collegiate and amateur levels. Yet studying sports is often viewed as trivial. Nevertheless, some of the biggest issues that confront society-gender and race in particular-are played out both at a micro (individual) level and macro (societal) level through sports. What we will try to do is examine how sports tie in with other sociological issues through articles and books, and understand how and why sports are so important both in the U.S. and globally. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

POL3677 American Presidency (Advanced Lib Arts) In this course we will examine the origins, development, and political power of the US presidency, the institutional context in which presidential leadership takes place, and the role of the president as a symbolic figure. The Constitutional basis of the American Presidency is the same today as it was in George Washington's time, but the role the president plays today is very different than it was in 1789. We will look at the success of presidents from Washington to George W. Bush in meeting the country's leadership expectations and will analyze why some presidents have been more successful than others. The accomplishments of different presidents will be reviewed and the contributions they made to the development of the office evaluated. Given that that the Presidential campaign will be taking place during this semester, with the election in early November, we will pay close attention to the campaign as it occurs, including assessing the status of the race, the major issues, and the complicated politics and strategies pursued by the major candidates in 2008. This class will expose students to a variety of perspectives and methods that can be employed to analyze the institution of the Presidency, the decision-making process of its occupants, and the effectiveness of specific presidential administrations. Among the questions we will explore are the following: How did the founders conceive the role of the presidency, and how has that role changed over time? How does the institutional context expand or constrain presidential power and influence? How does presidential rhetoric shape national priorities? By what standard do we measure any particular presidency to have been great, near-great, unsuccessful, or a failure? In particular, what assessment might we make of the Presidency of George W. Bush now that we have almost two terms of his administration to analyze? Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

The History of Boston HSS2459 Intermediate Liberal Arts In this intermediate course, students will explore Boston's history, from the seventeenth century to the present, and consider how the city's religious values, economic leadership, and intellectual traditions shaped American identity. Selected topics for the class include the city's Puritan heritage, its place in the American Revolution, Boston's intellectual and social movements, the creation of its museums and civic institutions, and the city's struggles with immigration and race. As part of the course, students will make field trips to some of Boston's most hallowed sites. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Art Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HSS2430 The Making of Early America, 1607-1877 (Intermediate Liberal Arts) In this class, students will survey the broad currents of American history from the first British settlements of North America to the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The course will introduce students to the major themes of early American history: cultural contact and conflict; the contested notion of freedom; the flourishing of ideas and technologies; the battles fought - on paper and on the ground - over the creation and development of an American nation. Drawing on first-hand narratives and historical scholarship, we will study the people, events, and ideas that shaped early American political institutions, economic systems, and social identities. By interrogating historical documents as well as the work of historians, we will work toward our own interpretations of the American past. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&F & A&H

CVA2418 The Middle East: Peoples and Cultures (Intermediate LiberalArts) This course will give you basic geographic and cultural literacy about the complex and importantregion called the Middle East. Common overgeneralizations and stereotypes will be replaced with knowledge and perspective. In the first half of the course we will master the physical and political map, the nation-states and major ethnic, linguistic and religious groups. In the second half of the course, using a variety of different kinds of resources including ethnography, fiction, music, film, food and guest speakers, we will pursue an in depth study of two specific societies in the Middle East. We will explore how the dynamics of gender, family, religion, politics and economics impact the real lives of real people in the Middle East in dramatically different ways. By the end of the course, you will be able to understand current events in the Middle East in a more sophisticated way and you will also have the tools of inquiry to become geographically and culturally literate about other regions of the world. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H

HSS 2458 The Modern American City (HIS) Intermediate Liberal Arts In this intermediate course, students will analyze how urban centers such as Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles have served as catalysts for major developments in nineteenth and twentieth-century American history. The course will consider how these cities have spurred the nation's economy, politics, and culture, and have shaped American identity by welcoming millions of immigrants, artists, intellectuals, and bohemians. Selected subjects include Boston's institutions of culture, Chicago's factory system, the popular amusements of Coney Island, the architecture and music of "Jazz Age" New York, the development of public housing, the counterculture in San Francisco, and the urban crisis in Los Angeles. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S

CST3670 Topics in Cultural Studies: Whiteness (Advanced Liberal Arts) For most Americans, whiteness operates as an absence of color--as the neutral standard that defines and marks all other racial groups, while itself remaining somehow raceless and invisible. However, whiteness has always been visible to those whom it marks and marginalizes. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and genres, this course aims to deconstruct whiteness as a racial category. How did the notion evolve, historically? What does it mean to be white? How do we define white culture? What do such color-coded stereotypes as "red-neck," "blue-blood" and "white trash" imply? How must we qualify our definitions the moment we gender whiteness? We will also consider the ways in which the recent academic emphasis on whiteness is both necessary and dangerous. Contextualizing our discussions within a range of racialized spaces, we will study how whiteness is represented in our cultural productions, such as movies, and in literature, especially by writers of color. At the same time, we will consider what constitutes the whiteness of white texts. This course is intended to have a strong theoretical component, including such works as: Valerie Babb, Whiteness Visible, Ruth Frankenberg, White Women, Race Matters: the Social Construction of Whiteness; Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, and David Roediger's edited volume, Black on White. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3674 US Women's History (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course focuses on women's experiences in interaction with major themes in U.S. History by examining the changing roles of women in shifting social contexts throughout the century. Students use primary sources-including letters, narratives, political texts, films, and popular culture artifacts-to study the intersections of "womanhood" with identity categories of class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in women's lived experiences. Topics include the role of women in the formation of public policy and in social movements, competing definitions of motherhood and families, and women as workers. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

This course focuses on women's experiences in interaction with major themes in U.S. History by examining the changing roles of women in shifting social contexts throughout the century. Students use primary sources-including letters, narratives, political texts, films, and popular culture artifacts-to study the intersections of "womanhood" with identity categories of class, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality in women's lived experiences. Topics include the role of women in the formation of public policy and in social movements, competing definitions of motherhood and families, and women as workers. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

CST3671 War and Cultural Studies (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will focus on war as it is experienced and processed in our cultural productions, such as literature, art, and film. Traditional divides between battle-front and home-front are becoming ever more blurred, as war comes to us at home and on our television screens. Since this calls for a reappraisal of the masculinized rhetoric of war, we will consider a variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminist theories of war. Our attempt will be to understand how war affects us as individuals, how the experience of war is mediated by gender, class, and race, why the media remain fascinated with it as a theme, and to what extent war can be an agent of social change. We will also look closely at the links between war and personal as well as national identity, both for those who experience war first-hand and for successive generations that grapple with its legacies. As Americans living in the 21st century, we will examine U.S. military entanglements since Vietnam from a cultural studies perspective. Our readings will include such texts as Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003), Saira Shah, Storyteller's Daughter (2003), Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003), Nuha Al-Radi, Baghdad Diaries (2003), and Art Spiegelman, In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

HIS3683 Wealth, Want and Power (Advanced Liberal Arts) This upper-level History and Society course combines political and cultural history to explore the forces that have controlled access to wealth and contributed to economic inequality in the United States over the last 150 years. Students will gain historical perspective on topics that include American business culture, consumption, the politics of economic growth, the rise of the American social welfare state, and the shifting role of the government in the marketplace. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (HSS, LVA, CVA)

GDR3610 Topics in Women's Studies (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course provides a forum to examine and discuss contemporary women?s and girls? roles and positions. The course will address the following topics: first and second waves of feminism, sexuality, psycho-social influences on gender construction, paid work and structures of inequality, women and social protest and family configurations. At the beginning of the course, we will read some historic documents as background to the women?s movement in the United States. Although the main focus will be on women and girls in the United States, we will also discuss women?s positions in other countries as well. Because femininity and images of women are balanced, and often countered, by masculinity and images of men, we will spend time discussing men in relation to women. Integral to this course is recognition of how race, class, ethnicity and sexuality converge to influence how women negotiate their political, social and cultural roles. Finally, we will attempt to become ?enlightened witnesses? to the social construction of femininity and masculinity, and use our understanding to notice stereotypical portrayals as well as new, liberating images of women and men. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

ANT3611 World Religions in Everyday Life (Advanced Liberal Arts) The focus of this course will be on the lived experience and worldviews of diverse religions vital in the world today. By looking at world religions in specific cultural contexts, we will gain an understanding of the diversities within a religion as well as among them. Among the kinds of questions we will address are: How do particular religions influence ideas and practices concerning gender, marriage, family, child rearing and aging? How do they influence health practices and the symbolic presentation of the body? How do they impact career, workplace and economic practices? How do particular religions in different cultural contexts interact with political structures and ideologies? In addition to using fiction and non-fiction, film, music, visual arts and architecture to explore contemporary religious expression, we will also do field research in the many world religions represented in the greater Boston area. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

AMS3612 Working in America: Labor History in U.S. since 1892 (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course focuses on the experiences of American workers across the twentieth century to today. Using historical works as well as personal narratives, films, and period journalism, we will consider the changing nature of work, workers' unions, and workplace cultures, both blue collar and white collar. Students will look at the impact of industrialization and globalization with special attention to work's intersection with gendered, class, ethnic, and racial identities. We end the course with broad discussions of the ramifications of global and national developments for contemporary American workers' lives. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

AMS 3672 Working in America: Labor in the US since 1892 (Advanced Lib Arts) How has blue, white, and pink collar work changed in the U.S. across the past century? This course focuses on the historical experiences of American workers, beginning with the Massachusetts mills of early industrialization and ending with the global corporations and big box chain stores of the contemporary U.S. We will study workers' unions, and also look at how workplaces have changed with the liberation movements of women, people of color, and gay and lesbian workers. We will use histories, autobiographies, films and paintings to look at the impact of industrialization and globalization, and we will conclude the semester with a unit on college students and their role in shaping the new economies of labor. Prerequisites: 3 Intermediate Liberal Arts Courses (CVA, LVA, HSS)

FME1000 Foundation Management and Entrepreneurship (2 semesters) (Foundation Mgmt) This full-year, introductory course exposes students to key management and information systems principles, vocabulary, and techniques. Central to the course is a "learn by doing" approach and sensitivity toward social responsibility and ethical behavior. Students organize into groups of 30 and are responsible for developing and implementing an actual business that the College funds. Profits generated by the business activity are used to support a charitable project that the students must coordinate as well. Students are introduced to the central concepts of finance, accounting, management, operations, and human resource management. In addition, they learn how information systems are used to manage and control business organizations and how to use productivity tools such as spreadsheet and database programs to manage business organizations more effectively. Prerequisites: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall

FME1001 Foundation Management & Entrepreneurship (2 semesters) This full-year, introductory course exposes students to key management and information systems principles, vocabulary, and techniques. Central to the course is a "learn by doing" approach and sensitivity toward social responsibility and ethical behavior. Students organize into groups of 30 and are responsible for developing and implementing an actual business that the College funds. Profits generated by the business activity are used to support a charitable project that the students must coordinate as well. Students are introduced to the central concepts of finance, accounting, management, operations, and human resource management. In addition, they learn how information systems are used to manage and control business organizations and how to use productivity tools such as spreadsheet and database programs to manage business organizations more effectively. Prerequisite for IMC I Prerequisite: FME1000 and ACC1300 (may be co-requisite) This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

IMH2512 Honors Seminar II - This Seminar will meet every other week beginning 1/21 Honors Seminar II is designed to guide Honors Program students through the writing process for their honors project proposal. In this seminar students will identify a research topic, develop a research question, learn how to do a scholarly literature search and use research in their writing, and write a final, polished version of the honors project proposal. The course will be run as a workshop so attendance at all sessions and adherence to all deadlines is essential. This course is required for all junior Honors Program students. Prerequisite: IMH2511, Instructor Permission

IME2310 IME 1: UMR FIN Acc/Finance (Intermediate Mgmt) IME1 UMR focuses on the accounting and finance disciplines and builds on the basics of financial reporting introduced in the Foundation Management Experience (FME). You will first learn how to prepare financial reports. Using that knowledge, you will learn how to analyze these reports, and to develop projected financial statements in order to assess the financial health of an organization and the viability of its strategic plans. Accounting choices will be discussed throughout the semester giving you the opportunity to see how differing accounting methods and estimates can influence reported profit and the appearance of the balance sheet. This is essential to an understanding of earnings quality. Emphasis will be on both an income and a cash flow view of the company. UMR addresses the five general competencies. The nature of the course makes numeracy the most relevant of the competencies. Ethics and social responsibility will be considered especially as it relates to the use of financial statements by the general investing public. Where applicable, international issues associated with financial statement presentation and practices will be discussed. Through class discussions, the rhetoric competency will also be addressed. Prerequisites: Foundation Program

IME2311 IME1: Macro Economics (Intermediate Mgmt) IME One consists of two foundation courses, Macroeconomics and Financial Accounting. Course Objectives for Macroeconomics: To become familiar with the fundamental concepts and terminology associated with macroeconomic theory and applications. To learn how to apply the various tools of economic analysis and to understand how economists measure and evaluate economic performance at the national and global levels. To examine the relationships among key economic variables such as the money supply, interest rates and exchange rates. To identify the different schools of macroeconomic thought and to examine areas of agreement and disagreement relating to basic macroeconomic relationships. To understand the importance of the national and global economic policies and their impact on economic growth, employment, inflation, and international commerce. To appreciate the interrelations between accounting, finance, macroeconomics and the operation of market economies. To practice business-oriented communications skills. Prerequisites: Foundation Program

IME2321 IME 2 Micro Economics (Intermediate Mgmt) Microeconomics is basically the study of "scarcity". Raw materials are not available in infinite quantities; neither is human labor or productive capital. The reality is that managers must deal with real-world constraints in making decisions about what to produce, how to produce it and who to produce it for. The question is then, what rules or principles do we have to help us make allocation decisions? Basically, there are five: 1. First there is the development of the demand curve by analyzing consumer preferences. Given a limited budget, and enough information, consumers can be counted on to try to "maximize" welfare in their purchasing decisions. We will examine this decision process and show how it leads to the important principles of individual and Market Demand. 2. Second is Market Supply. Here the costs of operating firms are explicitly considered. Firms may experience short-term cost problems (diminishing returns) relating to their inability to adjust all inputs or to maintain optimal input combinations. Over the long term, firms will experience economies of scale as they expand their productive processes. Ultimately, however, firms will experience diminishing marginal returns to productive inputs, unless organizational adjustments are made. This means that unit costs will rise as output increases, which helps explain the unique shape of the supply curve. 3. Third is the idea of market equilibrium. This is the notion that the sum of all the activities of producers and consumers will, in a "free" market, lead to a natural equilibrium in which prices and output are determined by the interaction of supply and demand. 4. Fourth is the principle of profit maximization. How do the managers of a firm know when their decisions to allocate scarce resources in a particular way will lead to profit? How can fixed costs and variable costs be compared with revenues so that a profit maximizing level of output and price is chosen? 5. Finally, microeconomic analysis of markets leads us to the key understanding that markets we rely on to make allocation decisions are not always efficient or equitable. We will see what effects imperfect markets have on individuals and firms, and we will see what kinds of "policy" remedies are available to address imperfections in the competitive environment. The scope of these impacts is enormous, as, a look at Microsoft's market will attest. What is the impact on the software industry of such a dominant competitor? Is this good for the industry? For consumers? For the nation? The language of economics is part of the every-day business environment. Each morning in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe you will find references to markets, prices, costs, profits and consumer demand. This stream of your IME2 curriculum introduces you to these important ideas, and gives you analytical frameworks and tools to help you interpret the economic world around you. At the same time we will explore the many key links between economic analysis and marketing, strategy, accounting, finance, operations and organizational behavior. Prerequisites: IME 1 and QTM2420 (may be taken as a corequisite) More information regarding the overall IME sequence can be located in the other IME 2 course descriptions.

IME2320 IME 2 Finance (Intermediate Mgmt) The finance stream of IME 2 is designed to develop student understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Effective financial management, whether performed by the general manager in a small business, or by the finance organization in a large corporation, is necessary if a venture is to succeed and grow. A successful financial manager must have skills, abilities, tools, and a theoretical understanding in many areas, including financial analysis, financial forecasting, valuation, capital budgeting, investor expectations regarding risk and return, the cost of investor supplied capital, and financial strategy. Student skills will be developed in all of these areas in the IME 2 finance stream through readings, lectures, class discussions, exercises, and analytical projects. A successful financial manager must also understand the venture's economic environment, its products, services, and market position, its operational capabilities, and its organizational behavior characteristics. The IME 2 finance stream will link financial management analysis and decisions to these other critical functional areas, so the student will understand its part in achieving overall success for the venture. Prerequisites: IME 1 and QTM2420 (may be taken as a corequisite) IME2 in the overall IME sequence All managerial situations and choices can be viewed from a variety of perspectives and considered at various levels of depth. In IME1, Business Information and the Environment, you learned to understand a firm?s operating results and understand the larger economic environment within which it operates. In IME2, Business Analysis and Tactics, you will learn the appropriate tools or skills to make decisions about a firm?s choices. IME2 is focused on providing you with the basic tools and skills required to analyze choices, be they opportunities or problems, to diagnose managerial situations, and to recommend possible responses. In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned in IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. Course Objective The overall objective of IME2 is to make you familiar with the complex inter-relationships which must be managed when organizations choose among courses of action in pursuit of strategic initiatives. IME2 prepares you to act as managers: identifying problems and opportunities, analyzing the variety of actions which must be coordinated and aligned, and designing solutions to meet objectives within specific functional areas. Course Description IME2 is split into four streams: (1) Finance, (2) Microeconomics, (3) Marketing and (4) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. The Finance stream develops your understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Microeconomics focuses on rules / principles that can help you make resource allocation decisions in an environment of ?scarcity?. The Marketing stream concentrates on all processes involved in facilitating exchanges. The Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior stream helps you understand how people, technology and operational systems can be put together to produce high quality organizational outcomes. The Company Project represents a major integrative exercise. It provides you with the opportunity to combine the finance, marketing, technology and operations management, organizational behavior and marketing tools and skills you learn in the course and apply them to a specific company.

IME2322 IME 2 Marketing (Intermediate Mgmt) The emphasis of the Marketing stream of IME 2 will be on the best practices of marketing professionals in leading businesses. Our study will examine how marketers can recognize and utilize changes in the political, economic, social, and technological environments as well as the 5 Cs Framework (customers, collaborators, competition company and context) to identify opportunities. In addition, controllable variables essential to developing successful marketing strategy will be emphasized including market analysis and the Four Ps (product, pricing, place, and promotion). Students will also be introduced to the analytical tools and methods crucial to manipulating controllable variables to achieve marketing goals. By the end of this stream, students will be able to identify, explain, and apply important concepts in marketing and critically evaluate the role that marketing plays in the business and non-business sectors. They will be able to explain similarities and differences between physical goods and services; between business-to-business and consumer marketing; and between large and small firm marketing. Finally, students will understand the relationship of marketing to other business and social science disciplines. Prerequisites: IME 1 and QTM2420 (may be taken as a corequisite) IME2 in the overall IME sequence All managerial situations and choices can be viewed from a variety of perspectives and considered at various levels of depth. In IME1, Business Information and the Environment, you learned to understand a firm?s operating results and understand the larger economic environment within which it operates. In IME2, Business Analysis and Tactics, you will learn the appropriate tools or skills to make decisions about a firm?s choices. IME2 is focused on providing you with the basic tools and skills required to analyze choices, be they opportunities or problems, to diagnose managerial situations, and to recommend possible responses. In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned in IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. Course Objective The overall objective of IME2 is to make you familiar with the complex inter-relationships which must be managed when organizations choose among courses of action in pursuit of strategic initiatives. IME2 prepares you to act as managers: identifying problems and opportunities, analyzing the variety of actions which must be coordinated and aligned, and designing solutions to meet objectives within specific functional areas. Course Description IME2 is split into four streams: (1) Finance, (2) Microeconomics, (3) Marketing and (4) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. The Finance stream develops your understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Microeconomics focuses on rules / principles that can help you make resource allocation decisions in an environment of ?scarcity?. The Marketing stream concentrates on all processes involved in facilitating exchanges. The Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior stream helps you understand how people, technology and operational systems can be put together to produce high quality organizational outcomes. The Company Project represents a major integrative exercise. It provides you with the opportunity to combine the finance, marketing, technology and operations management, organizational behavior and marketing tools and skills you learn in the course and apply them to a specific company.

IME2324 IME 2 OB/TOM (Intermediate Mgmt) The Technology and Operations Management / Organizational Behavior stream in IME2 is designed to help you understand how people, technology, and operational systems come together to produce high quality organizational outcomes. In Technology and Operations Management, we will examine how companies develop, deliver, and improve products and services. In IME2 we'll particularly focus on service organizations like banks, retail shops, and airlines, and understand how technology and operations are at the heart of their ability to compete. Some topics we'll explore include such topics as service strategy, the impact of technology on services, service maps, service quality, the design of service delivery systems and value networks. In organizational behavior we'll study how individuals and groups interact inside firms, and understand how human nature affects organizational processes and outcomes. In IME2 we'll focus primarily on how individuals can be successful contributors in work groups, exploring topics like emotional intelligence, culture, motivation, ethics, managing, and group dynamics. Together, we'll explore how technology and operations affect how people work inside firms, and in turn how individual personalities and group cultures affect how companies develop and deliver products and services. Prerequisites: IME 1 and QTM2420 (may be taken as a corequisite) IME2 in the overall IME sequence All managerial situations and choices can be viewed from a variety of perspectives and considered at various levels of depth. In IME1, Business Information and the Environment, you learned to understand a firm?s operating results and understand the larger economic environment within which it operates. In IME2, Business Analysis and Tactics, you will learn the appropriate tools or skills to make decisions about a firm?s choices. IME2 is focused on providing you with the basic tools and skills required to analyze choices, be they opportunities or problems, to diagnose managerial situations, and to recommend possible responses. In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned in IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. Course Objective The overall objective of IME2 is to make you familiar with the complex inter-relationships which must be managed when organizations choose among courses of action in pursuit of strategic initiatives. IME2 prepares you to act as managers: identifying problems and opportunities, analyzing the variety of actions which must be coordinated and aligned, and designing solutions to meet objectives within specific functional areas. Course Description IME2 is split into four streams: (1) Finance, (2) Microeconomics, (3) Marketing and (4) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. The Finance stream develops your understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Microeconomics focuses on rules / principles that can help you make resource allocation decisions in an environment of ?scarcity?. The Marketing stream concentrates on all processes involved in facilitating exchanges. The Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior stream helps you understand how people, technology and operational systems can be put together to produce high quality organizational outcomes. The Company Project represents a major integrative exercise. It provides you with the opportunity to combine the finance, marketing, technology and operations management, organizational behavior and marketing tools and skills you learn in the course and apply them to a specific company.

IME2330 IME3 Managerial Accounting (Intermediate Mgmt) Business Strategy and Implementation In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned earlier in IME1 and IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. IME3 encourages you to think as leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset and an integrated view of the entire organization. There are three streams: (1) Strategy, (2) Managerial Accounting and (3) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. Course Description Managerial Accounting Managerial Accounting builds off of Financial Accounting in IME1. Where Financial Accounting is focused on use of financial statements by external constituencies, Managerial Accounting is focused on providing information to managers inside the company for decision making and performance measurement. We will start by understanding cost - cost type, cost behavior, cost of products and services, cost analysis - and then move to use of revenue and cost information for decision analysis. We will then study management control processes that allow company managers to plan and execute their business strategies and operations and provide a basis for evaluating management performance. During the semester, we will integrate Management Accounting with Strategy, Operations and Organizational Behavior through a series of five industry focused integration days. Prerequisite: IME2

IME2332 IME3 OB/TOM Business Strategy and Implementation (Intermediate Mgmt) In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned earlier in IME1 and IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. IME3 encourages you to think as leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset and an integrated view of the entire organization. There are three streams: (1) Strategy, (2) Managerial Accounting and (3) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. Course Description Technology and Operations Management / Organizational Behavior The Technology and Operations Management / Organizational Behavior stream in IME3 builds on material you learned in IME2. The technology and operations management piece shifts its focus to product design, production and delivery. Typical product organizations we consider may include manufacturers of computers, automobiles, clothes or food products. We will dig into the differences between service and manufacturing companies and study topics such as process analysis, six-sigma, supply chains and new product development. The organizational behavior portion will focus on the frameworks and skills required to become effective leaders and managers in organizations. This builds on what you learned in IME2 where you gained an understanding of organizations and becoming effective team members. Topics include leadership, job and group design, culture, human resource fundamentals, managing change, and negotiation skills. Prerequisite: IME2

IME2331 IME3 Strategy Business Strategy and Implementation (Intermediate Mgmt) In IME3, Business Strategy and Implementation, you will develop an understanding for setting the strategy for the business and recognize how the tools learned earlier in IME1 and IME2 can be used to support the implementation of that strategy. IME3 encourages you to think as leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset and an integrated view of the entire organization. There are three streams: (1) Strategy, (2) Managerial Accounting and (3) Technology and Operations Management and Organizational Behavior. Course Description Strategy This is a foundational course in strategy. Using in-depth case discussions, background readings, and a final project, the course will familiarize you with essential and widely used concepts in strategy analysis. We will move from macro to micro analysis as the semester progresses: from considering factors external to a company to those internal to it; from focusing on the environment, industry, and competition to looking at a company's resources, capabilities, structure, systems, and processes; from competitive interactions to business and corporate strategy; and from issues of strategy content to those dealing with strategy execution. Prerequisite: IME2

MCE: Finance Intermediate Core (3 credits) The finance stream of MCE is designed to develop student understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Effective financial management, whether performed by the general manager in a small business, or by the finance organization in a large corporation, is necessary if a venture is to succeed and grow. A successful financial manager must have skills, abilities, tools, and a theoretical understanding in many areas, including financial analysis, financial forecasting, valuation, capital budgeting, investor expectations regarding risk and return, the cost of investor supplied capital, and financial strategy. Student skills will be developed in all of these areas in the MCE finance stream through readings, lectures, class discussions, exercises, and analytical projects. A successful financial manager must also understand the venture's economic environment, its products, services, and market position, its operational capabilities, and its organizational behavior characteristics. The MCE finance stream will link financial management analysis and decisions to these other critical functional areas, so the student will understand its part in achieving overall success for the venture. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))

MCE2313 MCE: Marketing Intermediate Core (3 credits) The emphasis of the Marketing stream of MCE will be on the best practices of marketing professionals in leading businesses. Our study will examine how marketers can recognize and utilize changes in the political, economic, social, and technological environments as well as the 5 Cs Framework (customers, collaborators, competition company and context) to identify opportunities. In addition, controllable variables essential to developing successful marketing strategy will be emphasized including market analysis and the Four Ps (product, pricing, place, and promotion). Students will also be introduced to the analytical tools and methods crucial to manipulating controllable variables to achieve marketing goals. By the end of this stream, students will be able to identify, explain, and apply important concepts in marketing and critically evaluate the role that marketing plays in the business and non-business sectors. They will be able to explain similarities and differences between physical goods and services; between business-to-business and consumer marketing; and between large and small firm marketing. Finally, students will understand the relationship of marketing to other business and social science disciplines. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 AND MOB1000))

MCE2312: Microeconomics Intermediate Core (3 credits) Microeconomics is basically the study of "scarcity". Raw materials are not available in infinite quantities; neither is human labor or productive capital. The reality is that managers must deal with real-world constraints in making decisions about what to produce, how to produce it and who to produce it for. The question is then, what rules or principles do we have to help us make allocation decisions? To that end, the microeconomics stream of the MCE module looks at the interaction of supply and demand in the determination of prices, the role of government in redressing issues of market failure and other externalities, the responsiveness of consumers to changes in prices and income, the behavior of consumers in the market place and through rational choice theory, costs and efficient methods of production, the structure of product and service markets, and the application of microeconomic principles to important issues such as labor negotiations, wage determination, game theory and firm interdependence, and pricing strategy. This stream of your MCE curriculum introduces you to these important ideas, and gives you analytical frameworks and tools to help you interpret the economic world around you. At the same time we will explore the many key links between economic analysis and marketing, strategy, accounting, finance, operations and organizational behavior. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or MIS1000 and MOB1000))

"Managing in a Competitive Environment" (MCE) is one of the two sophomore-year core curriculum modules to be taken by all undergraduates. Its purpose is two-fold. The first is to teach students the fundamental principles of marketing, microeconomics and finance, and how to apply those principles to specific decisions and problems faced by firms in a competitive business environment. The second purpose is to expose students to the common themes shared by these three disciplines, and to teach them to view problems in an interdisciplinary manner. This is the heart of what we mean by "integration". The following list describes the specific areas of integration that constitute the integrated learning objectives for this module. " Demand Curve Link - Microeconomics and Marketing " Price Elasticity of Demand Link - Microeconomics and Marketing " Industry Analysis Link - Microeconomics and Marketing " Product Attribute Model and Market Segmentation Link - Microeconomics and Marketing " Sales and Financial Forecasting Link - Marketing and Finance " Capital Budgeting Link - Marketing and Finance " Wealth Creation Link - Finance and Microeconomics Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))

OEM2311 MAC: MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING The Managerial Accounting stream in OEM builds upon the learning of the subject you started in Financial Accounting. While Financial Accounting focused on the use of financial statements by external constituencies, Managerial Accounting is focused on providing information to managers inside the company for decision making and performance measurement. We will start by understanding some basic cost concepts (e.g., cost type, cost behavior, cost of products and services). The stream will then move to the use of costs data to evaluate the design of operations and to make strategic managerial decisions. Some of the issues we explore are: how to select right mix of product and services, how to perform cost analysis for new product introduction, when to outsource some of the internal activities. You will also study how to prepare budgets to manage costs and how to use cost data to evaluate management performance. Throughout the semester we will explore interconnections between management accounting data, operations and organizational behavior. You will learn how the design of management accounting systems can support operations management and drive ethical behavior in organizations. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))

OEM2313 OEM: Organizational Behavior The Organizational Behavior stream in OEM is designed to help you improve your effectiveness as an individual contributor, team member, and leader in an organization by introducing you to frameworks for understanding human life in organizations, and by providing you with opportunities to apply these frameworks. We focus on understanding the root causes of human behavior in organizations and we use this understanding as a basis for developing action plans that resolve organizational challenges in an ethical manner. Examples of individual, group and organizational level topics that will be explored include: emotional intelligence, behavioral styles, power and influence, negotiations, leading change, and managing diversity. Throughout the semester we will also explore the interconnections between organizational behavior and other subject streams, including technology and operations management, managerial accounting, and strategy. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))

OEM2300 OEM Overall Description This is the required advanced management course that builds on the required foundation (FME, Business Law, Microeconomics, Financial Accounting, and Probablity, Statistics and Quantitative Methods) and intermediate management courses previously taken (OEM and MCE). The course develops skills in critical and integrative thinking and strategic problem solving. After introducing essential concepts and frameworks in strategy, the course will introduce problem solving techniques. The latter part of the course provides occasion for practicing these skills. A project is an important part of the course to further apply and demonstrate these skills. ASM3300 is a new pre-requisite for all strategy electives as IME is phased out. Students concentrating in strategy are urged to take this course in the fall of their junior year. Students who have completed IME3 are ineligible to register for this course. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300 or QTM2300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))

ASM3300 Strategic Problem Solving 4 credit (general credit) This is the required advanced management course that builds on the required foundation (FME, Business Law, Microeconomics, Financial Accounting, and Probablity, Statistics and Quantitative Methods) and intermediate management courses previously taken (OEM and MCE). The course develops skills in critical and integrative thinking and strategic problem solving. After introducing essential concepts and frameworks in strategy, the course will introduce problem solving techniques. The latter part of the course provides occasion for practicing these skills. A project is an important part of the course to further apply and demonstrate these skills. ASM3300 is a new pre-requisite for all strategy electives as IME is phased out. Students concentrating in strategy are urged to take this course in the fall of their junior year. Students who have completed IME3 are ineligible to register for this course. Pre-requisites: OEM, MCE, ECN2300, LAW13xx, QTM2420, ACC1300

MOB3535 Strategy to Action: Implementing Strategy Change (General Credit) Accomplishing Strategy helps students to achieve superior results for themselves and for their organizations by exploiting the natural processes that create the future of a business. Fundamentally, the course recognizes strategy as the result of indigenous dynamics in and around a business rather than those directed only from top managers or by the execution of a plan. Course participants learn how to detect opportunities and how to determine what actions to pursue. A distinctive approach is presented that enables students to take initiative proactively and to pursue actions preemptively. Practical tools are introduced that apply to all types of businesses and at almost all levels of an organization. Most of the concepts, tools, case studies, workshops, readings, and presentations are original and the intellectual property of the instructor. A course project that addresses strategy at an ongoing business is an important part of the course. Prerequisite: ASM3300

MOB3577 Advanced Economies and Emerging (General Credit) Core course for Australia Trip Prerequisite: IME3 or OEM

MOB33518 Arts & Entertainment Management: Balancing Creative Passion & Business Savvy 4 General Credit (advanced management) Arts and entertainment organizations share one important aspect - they are born of the dreams, ideas, and passions of creativity and vision. Their products and services are driven by emotional impact and inspiration. They leave a lasting historical legacy that few other industries can. To remain sustainable, both nonprofit visual and performing arts organizations and corporate entertainment and media entities must have business models that have the right "return on investment" - economic, social, educational, and aesthetic. But nonprofit and corporate entities differ in their business models, legal structures, channels of distribution, and many other social, artistic, and business practices. This course looks at how arts and entertainment organizations are created, managed, sustained, and operated and the delicate balance that must be achieved between artistic integrity and best business practices. Students will learn what goes on behind-the-scenes in these institutions and what types of artistic, human, technological, and financial resources are required to ensure their sustainability in both good economic times and bad. A wide variety of topics will include social and corporate entrepreneurship, strategy, fundraising, audience development, marketing, branding, finance, governance, negotiations, operations, and measuring organizational effectiveness. The course will be taught via a combination of lectures, case studies, video/audio examples, guest speakers, and group work. By the end of the course, students will have greater insights into the arts and entertainment industries and will be able to: 1. Understand and appreciate the delicate balance between artistic sensitivity and business savvy that exists in these organizations; 2. Identify and evaluate the human, technical, and financial forces that inspire ideas, create challenges, and impact decision making; 3. Develop broader and deeper knowledge of non-profit and corporate structures, strategies, business models, strategies, and brand building techniques; 4. Learn about various forms of involvement available to students personally and professionally, from Board participation to career options, in these creative industries. This course is not associated with a concentration Prerequisites: OEM and MCE,

BRC3502 The Business Environment in Russia 4-cr General Credit A component of the 16-credit Russia-China course, this two week, 4-credit advanced general credit course in St. Petersburg, Russia will build upon the work done in the preceding two weeks in the Russia in Modernity: History, Culture and Politics course taught by Prof. Brian Seitz. One premise of the course is that you cannot understand the business environment of a country without understanding and having an appreciation of the history, politics and culture of that country. So although this is a course about the business environment of Russia, it will explicitly build upon the foundation laid by Prof. Brian Seitz. By the time this course starts the students would have spent two weeks in Russia. So students will be familiar with their surroundings. They will see how things appear but they will not have an appreciation of the immense change in the business environment in a period shorter than they have been alive. So the course will start with a history of the transformation of the communist centrally planned Soviet Union to capitalistic Russia. They will see how Russia had to change its economic and legal system entirely. Areas such as the formation of a legal code, the creation of a banking system, and the privatization of existing companies and the creation of newly created companies will be explored. Then students will start to consider the current business environment. The role of oil and natural gas and other commodities will be analyzed on how it affects the economy of Russia. Business sectors such as retail and manufacturing will be considered. Tourism and trade, customs and import/export issues will be analyzed. Imbedded within the course will be discussions about the ethical business environment in Russia and the cost of corruption to the economy and to society. Students will also have the opportunity to visit a number of companies to illustrate and provide concrete examples of issued raised in class. Proposed company visits would be in the banking, retail, information technology and manufacturing sector. Prerequisites: OEM and MCE Co-requisites: BRC3501, BRC3601, BRC3602

MOB1000 General Management A survey of organiztion management designed to give students a broad view of the environment and techniques of business and to provide an introduction to the various business disciplines, including operations mangement, accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management, and economics. Course includes lectures, gaming, case analyses, and experimetal learning. Prerequisite: NONE This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MOB3582 Global Management Communication General Credit Effective communications are at the core of all international business relationships. So this course combines theory with practice in order for students to discover best practices in cross-cultural communication and then to apply them to the challenges of the global business leader. To become successful in this role, students will study the relationship between issues of culture, gender, and ethnicity and successful business communications. MOB3582 will be taught using lecture/discussion sessions, short case analyses, simulations, self-assessments, and the development of coaching skills that build collaboration across cultures and identities. Students will also have the opportunity to enhance their oral and written communication competencies established within multi-cultural contexts. Prerequisite: IME3 or OEM

MOB3515 Human Resource Management (General Credit) Provides an in-depth exploration of the challenges of managing through people. This course is appropriate for any student interested in serving in a management role, and particularly for those interested in careers in human resource management. Topics covered include huma resource planning, personnel selection, interviewing, résumé construction, and performance management. Uses text, lectures, case studies, films, and experiential exercises. Prerequisites: IME 3 or OEM This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

MOB3560 International Business Enterprise (General Credit) This course provides a broadly based introduction to management of international business ventures and the strategies and operations of multinational corporations. Prerequisite: ASM3300

Issues in Leadership and Ethics Instructor(s): Miller; Schlesinger; Bottomly Credits: 2 general credits Pre-requisite: students in their final semester of their undergraduate program This course examines the intersection of leadership and ethics in business, engineering, and more general contexts. Readings will include material on the definition and history of ethics and morality in the U.S., the definition and development of leadership skills in a professional context, the role of ethics in the professions, and case studies involving the intersection of leadership and ethics. The course will be structured as a seminar, involving guest speakers and interactive case studies. Enrollment will be limited to 8 Babson students, 8 Olin students, and 8 Wellesley students in the final semester of their undergraduate program. If you are interested in taking this course, please fill out the application that was sent by email and return it to jericson@babson.edu by Tuesday, November 15, 2008. You cannot enroll in this course through the normal registration process. You must apply, and only 8 students will be selected!

MOB3512 Leadership (General Credit) Characteristics of effective leadership and the dilemmas of leadership, organizational structure and leadership, power and influence strategies, theories of leadership and leader's personality. Students will gain practice in leadership situations. Prerequisites: IME 3 or OEM This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring and Summer I

MOB3525 Management Communications (General Credit) Effective management communications are essential to discovering creative solutions to business problems. This course combines principle with practice so that students will first understand the theories which inform business communication and then demonstrate its best practices. Prerequisite: IME3 or OEM

MOB4572 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 4 CREDITS Advanced Management This rigorous course is designed for seniors who are considering entering the management consulting field. Specifically, this course should help prepare students for roles as analysts in management consulting firms. The objective of this course is to communicate the basic skills and functions of the management consulting industry and to make students aware of the key issues and factors driving the business of consulting. This will be accomplished by inculcating the perspective of the client and helping students develop skills in problem analysis and communications used by consulting firms to assist clients. The course will also allow students to experience some aspects of the consulting process itself in the course. Enrollment is limited to 30 students Prerequisite: ASM3300

MOB3574 Managing in the New Europe: The German Perspective (General Credit) As one of the leading countries in the global economy, Germany is home to many of the world's most successful and technologically advanced companies. It has been a leader in European economic and political integration and, during the last decade, the site of a daring political experiment, the unification of a long-divided nation. This course, taught overseas at the Nuremberg Business School at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, will combine three weeks of intensive coursework on European management and economics with a focus on contemporary Germany. Classroom work will be combined with company visits and cultural experiences. Prerequisite: IME 3 or OEM

MFE3574 Management Consulting Field Experience (General Credit) The Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) course provides an excellent opportunity for students to apply managerial principles learned in the classroom to real-world consulting projects. Projects focus on business development, strategy, business planning, and competitive analysis. Teams of three to five undergraduate students work as a consulting group for a sponsor company. The students meet with the client, analyze problems, and explore possible solutions. Students apply for acceptance into the four-credit course. The students gain practical experience by solving actual business situations. Students also develop marketable skills by learning the consulting process and working in growing fields such as e-business. The project concludes with a formal report and a presentation to the sponsor company comprising the group's recommendations.

MOB3580 Negotiations (General Credit) This course explores the many ways that individuals think about and practice conflict resolution. Students will have a chance to learn more about their own negotiating preferences and the consequences of the choices they make. The course requires both intensive involvement in negotiation and mediation simulations/exercises and thoughtful application of theory through class discussion and written analysis. Class materials will reflect a variety of contexts from the workplace, including interpersonal, global, and cross-cultural interactions. Prerequisite: IME 3 or OEM This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MOB3570 RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND BUSINESS IN TRANSITION "A" General Credit This is an off shore program to St. Petersburg, Russia that examines Russia's transition to a "democratic, capitalistic" country. Complementary course: LAW3670 RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND BUSINESS IN TRANSITION "B". Prereq: IME 3 or OEM or permission of instructor

MOB4510 Strategic Decision Making (General Credit) This course is an extension of the core courses IME 3 focusing on strategy formulation and execution. It draws upon the insights from the field of strategy, economics, decision making and corporate financed and is suited for students interested in management consulting, investment management or corporate planning. It is intended to complement the course, Economics of Competitive Strategy, by focusing on how strategies are formulated and executed in specific competitive situations. Prerequisite: ASM3300

MOB3590 Strategic Management, in the business of Professional Sports (General Credit) This course is designed to illustrate the use of strategic management concepts and principles and their implementation in a real world situation ? the business of Professional Sports. Professional Sports is chosen as the context for this course because it offers a subject matter that is familiar to a large population of students and the huge amount of money generated and spent leaves little doubt that is truly Big Business. Additionally, Professional Sports offer a microcosm of the issues, trials and tribulations of the society in which we live. Prerequisite: IME 3 or ASM3300 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MKT4515 Brand Management Brand Management is an advanced marketing course that will prepare students to lead a brand- centered marketing team in the consumer products/services arena. The emphasis in the course is on marketing plans and day-to-day decision-making. Marketing decisions are usually made in a context of imperfect information, decision models that combine analysis with judgment, and a marketplace that is fast-changing. The course will prepare students to operate successfully in this real world environment. The concept of "brand equity" will be a unifying theme throughout. ***If you have taken Consumer Marketing, do not sign up for this course. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MKT3520 Business Marketing (General Credit) Over 80% of marketing positions are involved with marketing to businesses, while less than 20% are marketing to consumers. The objective of this course is to explore the distinctive dynamics of business-to-business (B2B) marketing and develop students' understanding of the most up-to-date methods and approaches. Major emphasis will be on assessing high potential business markets and developing marketing strategies to take advantage of targeted opportunities. By the end of this semester you should be able to systematically analyze a business segment and develop a value proposition and promotional plan which supports your company's strategic objectives. You will learn both traditional and non-traditional marketing techniques. You will work in teams to develop and present marketing plans for actual companies. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MKT3550 Consumer Behavior (General Credit) This interdisciplinary course discusses the consumer as the focus of the marketing system. Course stresses the use of knowledge about consumer behavior in marketing decisions. Examines the contributions of anthropology, sociology, psychology, strategy, and economics to the understanding of consumer buying behavior. Explores individual behavioral variables (needs, motives, perceptions, attitudes, personality, and learning) and group influences (family, social groups, culture, and business) as they affect the consumer decision-making process. Analyzes how marketing programs, especially the communications mix, can be developed to reflect a commitment to providing consumer satisfaction. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring, and Summer I

Developing and Marketing New Products (General Credit) The objective of this course is to familiarize students with new product techniques that are commonly used in the consumer product and service industries. The focus will be on the marketing function's input to the new product process during the pre-launch and launch stages. The course will cover a wide range of issues such as market definition, concept generation and evaluation, product design, product positioning, test marketing and product launch and tracking. The course will be based on lectures, case discussions and project assignments. The lectures will provide an overview and cover issues included in the assigned readings. It is essential that you are familiar with the readings before every class. The case discussion (student participation is vital here) will provide an application setting to test the concepts learned in the lectures. The project assignments are designed to give you hands-on-experience with new product development tools and techniques. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313

MKT4560 Global Marketing Management (General Credit) The purpose of this course is to understand the nature of marketing in a global context, specifically marketing to many countries simultaneously. The course will expose students to many different cultures and environments. Students will analyze global market opportunities and develop global marketing strategies which leverage experience, knowledge and investments across multiple countries. As a result of the course students will develop a global mindset. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MKT3574 Managing the Sales Process (General Credit) Many Babson graduates become sales professionals, sales managers, or in positions which depend upon the success of the sales effort. This course is designed to understand the sales process and how to manage the sales process. Each participant will obtain the knowledge and experience to undertake the following items by the end of the semester: Assume the role of a salesperson for a firm, understanding the tasks of managing a territory, locating and evaluating customers, and selling a product or service. Assume a first level sales management position, understanding the concepts of sales management, the techniques required to manage a sales force, and the process of analyzing and solving sales management problems. Be able to use management tools and statistics to conduct data analysis for Sales Management. Also, be able to measure the cost and effect of sales management decisions. Be able to understand the potential impact of information technology on sales. Be able to initiate, manage and implement change in a sales organization and a prospective sales situation. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313

MKT3500 Marketing Communications (General Credit) Examines the nature and role of communications in marketing, focusing on the goals and uses of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, direct marketing, and personal selling in achieving the communications objectives of marketing. Explores the design, organization, and implementation of the communications mix, and the economic, social, and ethical implications of promotion. Involves determining the promotional budget, creating a message strategy, planning the media mix, targeting communications to selected market segments, executing the promotion program, and measuring promotional effectiveness. Considers the relationship and integration among the various elements in the marketer's communications program. Students form agency teams to create a comprehensive integrated marketing communication plan for a product or service. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring, and Summer I

MKT4505 Marketing Management (General Credit) Integrates other marketing courses, emphasizing the development and application of creative problem-solving techniques to a wide range of marketing problems. Explores proven methods of generating fresh ideas that can be applied to marketing problems. Intensive analysis of marketing decisions faced by organizational marketing management, including product policy, channel development, promotion and communication policy, pricing strategy, as well as competitive, social, legal, and ethical factors that affect marketing decisions. Explores the analysis and building of coherent marketing programs designed to achieve marketing and organizational objectives. Prerequisite: (IME2322 or MCE2313) & 1 Marketing Elective This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring, Summer I

MKT3510 Marketing Research (General Credit) This course provides students with hands-on experience with marketing research and analysis. Marketing research is simply an organized way of developing and providing information for decision-making purposes. The quality of information depends on the care exercised at each step of the marketing research process. These steps include: problem definition, research design, data collection methods, questionnaire design, measurement, sampling, data analysis, data interpretation. The class will discuss key elements and issues in marketing research including sources of data, data collection techniques and analytical approaches for providing information to be used in managers' decision. The first part of the class will focus on research process and design. In this section students will learn how to formulate a research problem, determine a research design, evaluate methods for data collection and develop instruments for data collection. The second part of the class will focus on how to analyze the data and recommend the appropriate action to management. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall and Spring

MKT3540 Retailing Management Retailers lie at the end of the supply chain. They interface with the ultimate consumer as well as with suppliers. Retailers make investments in real estate and solicit funds from the investment community. Importantly, most of the major retailers in the United States are involved in multichannel strategies that involve selling over the Internet. As a result, this course should appeal to students with varied interests: retailing management, suppliers to retailers (or any business selling inventory), entrepreneurs, retail services, real estate, IT e-commerce, and finance. The objective of the course is to familiarize students with all of the major decisions retailers make, e.g., developing strategies, buying, financing, locating stores. The course is designed around experiential learning exercises-We get out and do it! Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313

MKT4510 (formerly MKT4570) Services Marketing (General Credit) The primary objective of this course is to help prepare students to function as effective marketers in a services economy. Students taking this course will become more aware of the nature and characteristics of services, and have more knowledge about service quality, the foundation of services marketing. Students completing the course will understand the success factors in services marketing. Prerequisite: IME2322 or MCE2313 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

MKT3526 Value Selling for the Entrepreneur (formerly EPS3526) 4 credit - General Credit The Entrepreneur's success is directly related to their sales performance in both business and personal situations. This course will teach students a value-based framework that will assist them in successfully selling and achieving their desired result in any situation. By achieving their desired result, the entrepreneurs greatly increase their likelihood of success in the risky world of Entrepreneurship. During the term, we will take a personal inventory of our selling skills and work to modify and enhance them to get the most out of every entrepreneurial selling situation. Value Selling is a ten-step process that can be applied to any situation and will increase the likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, by applying a value-based methodology to these situations, it will give the student a deeper understanding of the problem or issue facing the entrepreneur and will insure a solution that includes a mutually beneficial value proposition and plan for the different stakeholders. The student will design a customized framework that will fit with their personality and skill set resulting in a life-long tool that will be one of the main components of their problem solving process. Students will create solutions that will build an emotional hook with their respective stakeholders. In Value Selling, students will learn to connect the dots for their audience, learn to ask the right questions, craft a differentiated vision match, develop both business and personal value, identify the power players, develop a mutual plan and close for a successful outcome. The output will be the implementation of their personalized value selling solution framework for their business and personal interactions. Keep in mind that creating value-based solutions requires preparation, practice, listening and a thorough understanding of their stakeholders business and personal needs. As a result, Value Selling is one of the most important skill sets needed for a successful entrepreneur. Prerequisites: IME2 or (OEM and MCE), EPS3501, 02 0r 03 may be taken concurrently.

QTM1301 ADVANCED APPLIED CALCULUS - HONORS (Formerly Applications of Calculus and Finite Mathematics - Honors and Modeling Change - Honors) The material in QTM1301 is designed for those students who have taken a high school calculus course. The course covers the core quantitative methods subject matter that is used in follow-on courses in QTM and is prerequisite to Babson's integrated core business offerings. In addition, students are introduced to applications and mathematical models using the calculus, linear programming and supporting software. Technology and the use of spreadsheets are integrated throughout so that students learn the effective use of computer software as a problem solving tool and decision-making aide. This course carries an honors designation for students in the honors program. Prerequisite: High School Calculus

QTM1300 Applied Calculus with Quantitative Methods (Foundation Liberal Arts) The Regular sections of QTM1300 are designed for those students who had no high school Calculus course. These students also must have a "passing" score on the Mathematics Skills Test. The course covers the necessary core quantitative methods subject matter that is prerequisite to follow-on courses in QTM and in Babson's integrated core business offerings. Technology and the use of spreadsheets are integrated throughout so that students better comprehend the importance of using modern technological tools for model building and decision making. Prerequisites: NONE

QTM2601 APPLICATIONS OF DISCRETE MATH (Advanced Lib Arts) Discrete mathematics is used whenever objects are counted, when relationships between finite sets are studied, and when processes involving a finite number of steps are analyzed. The kind of problems solved include: How many ways are there to choose a valid password on a computer system? What is the shortest path between two cities using a transportation system? How can a circuit be designed that adds two integers? How can you send secret messages? You will learn the discrete structures and techniques (found in mathematical logic, combinatorics, graph theory, Boolean algebra, and cryptology) needed to understand and solve these problems. You will develop mathematical maturity and problem solving skills by studying models in such diverse areas as computer science, data networking, business, engineering, chemistry, and biology. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM1301 or QTM2300 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

QTM3610 (formerly QTM2610) Applied Multivariate Statistics (Advanced Lib Arts) This course extends the modeling tools presented in prior statistics courses and focuses on the application and validation of models developed using real data in the context of finance, economics, and marketing research. Examples of applications include modeling the impact of advertising on sales, admission yields for business schools, patterns of voting behavior and a variety of survey data. This course focuses on implementing data analysis techniques using a statistical software package and interpreting the results in a decision-making environment. Emphasis is placed on understanding the limitations of modeling approaches, as well as the diversity of potential applications in business Prerequisite: QTM2420 or QTM2421 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

QTM2420 Applied Quantitative Modeling (Intermediate Lib Arts) This course explores ill-defined problems using algebraic, spreadsheet, graphical, and statistical models. The focus is on understanding basic mathematical and modeling principles through the analysis of real data. The course emphasizes communicating in context interpretations of the results of analysis in written, visual, and oral form. A foundation in introductory statistics, linear optimization, and use of spreadsheets is essential because these concepts are extended and reinforced throughout the course. Topics include applied multiple linear regression, basic time series analysis (including decomposition techniques), linear programming, basic decision analysis, and simulation. The course emphasizes the use of appropriate software and the latest technological methods for accessing data. This course is typically offered in fall and spring semester and summer session. Prerequisite: QTM1310 or QTM1311

SCN1340 Biodiversity and the Environment 3.0 Credits Foundation Liberal Arts This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of how nature operates. We will discuss the basic principles of biology, chemistry and physics as they relate to the natural world, focusing on the physical environment, the organisms in it, and how they interact. Interestingly, nature uses many of the same basic principles found in economics, so we will explore the role of economic theory in explaining how organisms function within an environment at scales ranging from the individual organism up to ecosystems and the entire biosphere. We will also discuss the role of humans in nature. Pre-req NONE

SCN2420 (formerly SCN2472) BIOTECHNOLOGY (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Biotechnology is a rapidly growing field, encompassing numerous subtopics including stem cell research, cloning, forensics, genetic engineering, and drug discovery. Advances in biotechnology also affect the foods we eat, the medical treatments we receive, and the social environments in which we live. In this course, we will explore the science and ethics of various topics related to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. We will also examine the misconceptions and scientific distortions regarding life science and technology which are prevalent in popular culture. By the conclusion of this course, you will be familiar with the potential of the life sciences industries and how current and future biotech advances affect us as individuals and as humans, as well as other diverse species on Earth. Prerequisite: SCN 13% % - Wildcard

SCN3697 2 credit Advanced Liberal Arts Climate Change, Business, and Society This course will introduce you to global warming and provide a basic knowledge of what controls the earth's climate. We will examine the scientific evidence for human-induced changes to the climate and the role of global warming in politics, the business world, and popular media. We will discuss the current and potential future impacts of climate change for our natural ecosystems, human health, food supply, and the global economy. In addition we will explore how scientists study climate change, large-scale engineering Earth projects, green technology, carbon emissions trading, carbon sequestration, and ethical concerns for the environment and the global population. You will be able to apply this knowledge and assess the probable ecological impacts of your own lives, specifically business developments, and the major global developmental trends of human society.

SCN3690 Crime Science (Advanced Lib Arts) Criminal Investigators have long utilized Forensic Scientists to fight crime. Now they have the advantage of modern technology to continue their age-old battle. But, what can and cannot be entered into a court of law under the label of science? This course begins by examining the unique qualifiers that our legal system requires of forensic science. Next, we will survey the forensic field, from its limited beginnings to its modern capabilities. From the many disciplines of Forensic Science, this course will concentrate on Toxicology, Criminalistics, and DNA. Throughout, we will examine how science helped solve historical criminal cases as well as those ripped from today's headlines. Some lab work will supplement the lectures. Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

QTM2670 Cryptology (Advanced liberal arts) This course introduces students to elementary yet challenging mathematics from several different branches of the subject including number theory, abstract algebra, matrix algebra, probability and statistics, all of which play a role in enciphering and deciphering secured messages. Topics covered will include a short history of Cryptology, the One Time Pad, the Vigenere Cipher, Modern Symmetric Ciphers, Block Ciphers, Complexity and Public Key Ciphers. As the internet becomes the primary channel for personal and commercial intercourse, it is of paramount importance that information and transactions are protected and secure. You will examine and evaluate various schemes for securing information and exchanges, and simultaneously study contemporary techniques for breaking security ciphers. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM1301 or QTM2300

QTM3612 Data Mining & Competing Analytics Formerly Applied Data Mining (Advanced Lib Arts) This course will examine the methods and challenges faced in competing on analytics in business. As databases become data warehouses, extracting meaningful information to successfully compete is essential. You will accomplish this by learning new techniques for data gathering and data analysis as well as in discussion with companies currently trying to turn the information in their databases into increased business opportunities. We will examine the changing data privacy landscape and learn a variety of new methodologies for finding patterns in large datasets as well as how to create data warehouses from internet data and legacy systems. Guest speakers will be executives and consultants in the field of competing analytics. We will discuss both the methodologies and software they are using as well as the ethical issues they face in using this data. Prerequisite: QTM2420 or QTM2421

QTM2620 Decision Support Models Application-oriented introduction to the modeling techniques used to make informed decisions. Possible methodologies considered in the course are decision analysis, simulation, project scheduling, fundamentals of matrix algebra, optimization, and sensitivity analysis. Spreadsheet models are developed with applications to finance, operations management, logistics, and resource allocation. The focus is on how to develop decision support models and on the use of these tools to enhance decision making. Prerequisite: QTM2420 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Fall

SCN3692 Diet and Disease - Til Health do us Part (Advanced liberal arts) Every day we are bombarded with information about diet and health, often confusing and contradictory. As consumers, it is difficult to separate fact from fad, truth from fiction. This course will provide a foundation in basic nutrition, including anatomy and physiology of the digestive tract and the development of disease. We will also explore the impact of nutrition on social policy. Ultimately, our goal is to apply this information to aid in making informed choices in the treatment and prevention of nutrition related disease. Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

SCN3615 ECOLOGY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR (Advanced Lib Arts) The study of the nature, variety and function of the fundamental types of animal behaviors. Communication, habitat selection, predation and antipredator defense, reproductive strategies, tactics and mating systems, and play and social behaviors will be compared and analyzed, and applications to human behavior will be discussed. Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

SCN3630 Economics Botany (Advanced Liberal Arts) This course will investigate the relationship between plants and society. Without plants and plant products humans would be hungry, naked, and lacking oxygen to breath. We will begin by exploring the basics of different plant parts and how plants grow and reproduce. We will then examine plants as sources of food, materials, perfumes, drugs, and medicines. Throughout the course we will discuss the role plants have played in influencing economics, language, politics, and religion. Current topics of particular interest for this course include the debate over genetically engineered crops, the development of new pharmaceutical medicines, the changes in human diet, and the use of plant products in new technologies. This course will emphasize the development of skills in critical thinking, synthesis of information, science literacy, hand-on exercises, and current topical issues in plant biology. Prerequisite: Science A

The study of the electronic games business and the impact of computer and video games on society. History, business models, marketing, virtual economics, ethical and legal issues, international gaming, games and gender, addiction and violence will be analyzed, and gamers as business managers will be discussed Prerequisites: None

This course gives an overview of the electronic game development process. We will design and implement simple games with emphasis on the characteristics that make games fun and entertaining. Initially we will use icon based environments to create and "mod" simple 2D video games. After learning basic programming concepts and C#, we will generate puzzle games, such as Sudoku. Next we examine both single and multiplayer modern 3D games and their basic elements: how these elements are designed, rendered, moved, and controlled. The role of music and sound effects to enhance games will be explored. Prerequisites: Experience with using Windows, some exposure to programming will be helpful.

SCN2430 (formerly SCN2473) Electronic Technology (Intermediate liberal arts) Study of the application of basic scientific principles and computational skills that allow the understanding of current and potential future thrusts in electronics, computing, microsystems and nanotechnologies. Prerequisite: SCN 13% % - Wildcard

SCN3698 Energy: Past, Present and Future; Promise and Reality 2 credit Advanced Liberal Arts The importance of having a reliable safe supply of energy has been made apparent by the recent extreme volatility in price and vulnerability in supply. New technologies such as electric cars, LED lighting, and alternative supplies are forcing us as individuals and as a society to make choices that will have a profound effect on shaping the future. To aid in making informed choices this course explores the fundamental principles necessary to understand energy: its nature, types, production, transportation, storage, conversion, measurement, and use. We examine new technologies in such areas as biological processes, nanomaterials, solar cells, and battery technology and discuss how these will widen our choices. There will be a combination of virtual and physical labs. Each student will select a company and report on the likely impact of its ongoing research and emerging products. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM2300

SCN2410 Environmental Technology (Intermediate Liberal Arts) Study of the interrelationships between environmental science, technology and the environment. Technological causes and solutions to environmental problems , including climate change, air and water pollution, pest control, toxic substances and endangered species. Prerequisite: Foundation Science

Student will select a loudspeaker design to conduct in the first class following an introduction to the business. We shall proceed from the components of a transducer evaluating the equations for combining them into a working model meeting certain design specifications. That speaker will be built into a system using the LspCAD program to achieve the specified parameters. Issues of manufacturing, sales & marketing, and finance will be taken up in writing our business plan. The output of the course will be the loudspeaker system and a competitive plan describing where it would be made, how much it would cost, and where it would be sold among other things. All students would have a unique role to play in this process yet each of us would be able to do any other's job.

SCN3625 ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY (Advanced Lib Arts) The study of ethical problems faced by researchers in dealing with each other, with the organizations for which they may be developing products, and with society at large. Specific topics will include plagiarism, medical/genetic research, useless or dangerous industrial products, and weapons of mass destruction. Prerequisite: SCN13% %=wildcard

QTM3676 Financial Mathematics 4 credit Liberal Arts This course provides an understanding of the fundamental concepts of financial mathematics and how those concepts are applied in calculating present and accumulated values for various streams of cash flows for future use in reserving, valuation, pricing, asset/liability management, investment income, capital budgeting and valuing contingent cash flows. Topics include: inflation, force of interest, term structure of interest rates, equivalent measures of interest, yield rate, annuities, spot rates, forward rates, duration, convexity, immunization, and short sales. This course is designed to prepare students for Exam FM administered by the Society of Actuaries Prerequisite: QTM2420

QTM3625 (Formerly QTM3673) Financial Modeling Using Simulation and Optimization with Applications to Finance, Marketing, and Management (Advanced Liberal Art) This course is an introduction to quantitative techniques that enable marketing, finance, and management professionals to make optimal decisions under uncertainty. While theoretical background for these techniques is provided, the focus is on their applications and mastering software that is widely used in industry, such as Excel, Solver, and @RISK. Topics include simulation of important probability distributions, bootstrapping, random walks, linear and nonlinear optimization. Lectures draw on examples such as asset allocation under different definitions of risk; index tracking; scenario approaches to project and portfolio management; hedging and arbitrage; and derivative pricing. Prerequisite: QTM2420 or QTM2421

QTM2300 APPLIED CALCULUS II Intermediate Liberal Arts (3 credits) QTM2300 is designed for students who have taken a prior Calculus I course, or the Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus AB/BC course and not received calculus credit or a 4 or 5 on the AP test. The material covers the core quantitative methods subject matter that is used in advanced electives in Quantitative Methods (QTM) and is prerequisite to Babson's integrated core business offerings. Students are introduced to the applications and mathematical models that use linear optimization, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential equations, and infinite series. Technology and the use of spreadsheets are integrated throughout, so that students learn the effective use of computer software as a problem solving tool and decision-making aide. Pre-req: AP Calculus or QTM1300 (Students who took AP Calculus, but did not score a 4 or 5 on the AP Exam, may take this course before QTM2420/QTM2421 to earn calculus credit.)

QTM1311 Probability and Statistics HONORS SECTION This data-oriented course exposes students to basic statistical methods, their conceptual underpinning, such as variability and uncertainty, and their use in the real world. Topics include data collection, descriptive statistics (tabular and graphical displays and numerical summary measures), elementary probability rules and distributions, sampling distributions, elementary inference (confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing), simple linear regression, and the chi-square test for independence, along with additional selected topics. QTM1311 students will be expected to carry out a complete statistical analysis project. Students are required to use technology for developing conceptual understanding through simulations, analyzing real data by producing tables, graphs, and numerical results of statistical procedures for interpretation, and producing displays for presentations. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM1301or QTM2300 QTM1311 (or QTM1310) is a prerequisite for OEM, MCE, QTM2420 and ECN3620. This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Spring

QTM2421 Honors Applied Quantitative Modeling (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course explores ill-defined problems using algebraic, spreadsheet, graphical, and statistical models. The focus is on understanding basic mathematical and modeling principles through the analysis of real data. The course emphasizes communicating in context interpretations of the results of analysis in written, visual, and oral form. A foundation in introductory statistics, linear optimization, and use of spreadsheets is essential because these concepts are extended and reinforced throughout the course. Topics include applied multiple linear regression, basic time series analysis (including decomposition techniques), linear programming, basic decision analysis, and simulation. The course emphasizes the use of appropriate software and the latest technological methods for accessing data. This course is typically offered in fall and spring semester and summer session. Prequisite: QTM1310 or QTM1311

QTM2600 DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS & CHAOS THEORY (Advanced Lib Arts) This course introduces dynamical systems, that is, it investigates how quantities (such as the size of a population, the supply and demand for a certain product, the amount of money in an account, and the amount of a certain drug in the bloodstream) change over time, by analyzing a mathematical relationship between the "present" and the "near future" to make predictions about the "distant future." You will use the mathematical models developed to study problems in finance, cost accounting, economics, population fluctuations, arms race, gambling, fractals, and chaos theory among others. In developing these models we introduce the foundations of Linear Algebra and Markov chains. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM1301 or QTM2300

SCN3674 Making Babies (Advanced Liberal Arts) Since the birth of the first "test-tube baby" in 1978, assisted reproductive technologies have been utilized and perfected for the treatment of human infertility. Along the way, related technologies have also emerged, such as embryonic stem cell research and preimplantation diagnosis of genetic disorders. The advancement of such technologies has now given us a new scientific framework within which to consider how we value human embryos, how we define parents and families, and how we might define sexual and reproductive freedom. In this course, we will use scientific, ethical, and legal history to explore various topics related to the technology of "making babies". Prerequisite: SCN13% %=wildcard

SCN3610 METEOROLOGY ADVANCED LIBERAL ARTS The Meteorology course at Babson College is designed to help students become knowledgeable about the science behind the physical atmospheric phenomena which dramatically affect their own daily lives and the lives of peoples all over the planet. In addition to causing minor joys and annoyances from day to day, atmospheric phenomena such as ozone depletion, air pollution and the potential for global warming present us with challenges to our basic existence. It is hoped that students will emerge from this course with a better understanding of atmospheric phenomena and how, as future managers, their actions can affect our environment. In addition, students will learn how to apply the scientific principles they have learned to create competent and accurate weather forecasts. Prerequisite: SCN 13% % - Wildcard

SCN3620 Natural Disasters (Advanced Lib Arts) Natural disasters can affect us wherever we go. Disasters might be localized or far-reaching, and may come from severe weather, seismic events, biological catastrophe, or outer space. In this course we will examine the causes of different types of natural disasters, the regional and global effects of disasters, and the recovery process after a disaster occurs. We will also assess risks of disaster and explore how preparation can mitigate the effects of some disasters. Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

SCN1330 Oceanography (Foundation Liberal Arts) Study of physical processes and biological communities in the ocean. Subjects considered include the origin and evolution of the ocean, the nature of seawater, ocean currents, tides, deep sea, coastal and reef communities, and human use of marine resources and impacts of man on the sea. Prerequisite: NONE

QTM3620 Operations Research (Advanced Lib Arts) The focus of this course is upon the development, solution, analysis, and implementation of optimization models and their applications within business, government, education, and sports. The topical emphasis is primarily upon mathematical programming, optimization of flows across networks, and the interrelationships between these two classes of methodologies. The learning process is oriented toward problem solving. There typically is a problem statement leading into each topic followed by the construction of a mathematical model, solution of the model, and the resulting analysis. Many of these illustrative examples are supplemented with the discussion of a journal article relating how a larger-than-classroom scaled model has been successfully implemented in practice. Prerequisites: QTM2420 or QTM2421

QTM1310 Probability and Statistics (Foundation Lib Arts) QTM1310 is designed for students who have not had a previous statistics course. This data-oriented course exposes students to basic statistical methods, their conceptual underpinning, such as variability and uncertainty, and their use in the real world. Topics include data collection, descriptive statistics (tabular and graphical displays and numerical summary measures), elementary probability rules and distributions, sampling distributions, elementary inference (confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing), simple linear regression, and the chi-square test for independence. Students are required to use technology for developing conceptual understanding through simulations, analyzing real data by producing tables, graphs, and numerical results of statistical procedures for interpretation, and producing displays for presentations. Prerequisite: QTM1300 or QTM1301 or QTM2300 QTM1310 (or QTM1311) is a prerequisite for OEM, MCE, QTM2420 and ECN3620. This course is typically offered in the following semesters: Fall, Spring, Summer I

QTM3675 Probability for Risk Management The fundamental objective of this course is to prepare students for the successful completion of the first level probability examination (Exam P) of the Society of Actuaries. While the necessary theory is addressed, this course focuses on problem solving, so it is well suited for any student with an interest in applied probability concepts and how they are related to a wide variety of situations within and beyond actuarial science, finance, and economics. Topics include general probability and univariate and multivariate probability distributions. Prerequisites: QTM2420

SCN1310 SCIENCE OF LIFE (Foundation Liberal Arts) This course explores many of the diverse topics in life science, primarily focusing on the human body. We will look at the most recent knowledge of many concepts in human biology and see how they apply to major research trends. With the knowledge you gain from this class, you should be able to navigate through the myriad of medical, environmental and social issues that confront us as our world becomes an ever more complex place in which to live. Prerequisite: NONE

SCN1320 Search for Life in the Universe (foundation liberal arts) Study of the information necessary to make estimates of the probability of extraterrestrial life, what characteristics it might have and how we might expect to communicate with it if it exists. Subjects considered are the structure/origin/evolution of the universe, galaxies, stars, our solar system and the Earth; and biological and chemical signatures of life. Prerequisite: NONE

SCN3691 Space Satellite Technology: From Sputnik to Space Station (Advanced liberal arts) "An introduction to the science of orbiting space satellites and to their practical scientific and economic applications here on Earth. Topics explored (and questions raised) will include: orbital mechanics (how do satellites stay up?), orbital decay (why do some satellites come down?), useful satellite orbits (useful for what?), satellite communication and broadcasting (do you hear me now?), global positioning systems (where on Earth am I?), weather prediction (oh no, what's next?), remote sensing (what makes a good "eye in the sky"?), and terrestrial and oceanic exploration (how can we learn about here from way up there?). Tracking software will be used to follow satellites in orbit, to simulate the effects of orbital parameters on orbital characteristics, and to predict satellite acquisition. Data from operating satellites and ground stations, as well as from current and historical scientific investigations, will be accessed via the Internet, and will be used to explore a variety of satellite technologies and their practical implications here on Earth. " Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

SCN3696 Sports doping: The unfair advantage The use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and technologies in sports has been publicized by allegations and admissions of doping by high-profile athletes. This course will explore the science and ethics of performance enhancement, including exercise physiology, the various drugs and procedures used by athletes in various sports, how testing is done to expose doping (and how reliable the testing is), the inconsistent rules and sanctions governing drug use in diverse sports, and financial and other pressures that encourage illegal means of performance enhancement. Focus will be placed on those professional and amateur sports notorious for drug abuse, such as cycling, baseball, and the Olympics. Additional topics include legal uses of biotechnology for athletes, drug use in college sports, and future "hi-tech" methods of performance enhancement. Prerequisite - SCN13%% %=wildcard

SCN3693 Sports Science (formerly Sports Doping) (Advanced Liberal Arts) The use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and technologies in sports had been publicized by allegations and admissions of doping by high-profile athletes. This course will explore the science and ethics pf performance enhancement, including exercise physiology, the various drugs and procedures used by athletes in various sports, how testing is done to expose doping (and how reliable the testing is), the inconsistent rules and sanctions governing drug use in diverse sports and financial and other pressures that encourage illegal means of performance enhancement. Focus will be placed on those professional and amateur sports notorious for drug abuse, such as cycling, baseball, and the Olympics. Additional topics include legal use of biotechnology for athletes, drug use in college sports, and future "hi-tech" methods of performance enhancement Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard

SCN2601 Technology in America's Future (Advanced Liberal Arts) Analysis of the major technological developments expected in the next two decades, with consideration of their social, cultural and political implications. Discusses the impact of technology on business. Prerequisite: SCN13% % - Wildcard This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

QTM3630 Time Series Analysis (formerly QTM 3671 Forecasting Methods) (Advanced Lib Arts) This course will introduce time series models and discuss advanced forecasting methods in the context of real financial data and decision-making situations. The objectives of the course are to provide experience in using time series data (e.g., sales, profits, stock prices, economic indicators, industry sector indicators) to explain the impact of various internal and external factors and predict future trends; to provide a framework for comparing alternative forecasting models for validity, accuracy, and feasibility; to enhance an appreciation for the limitations of forecasting models; to provide exposure and experience in using statistical software to develop forecasting models; and to develop skills at communicating statistical results, and inferences effectively in a managerial context. Teamwork and professional presentation of analysis and recommendations will be required during this course. Prerequisite: QTM2420 or QTM2421 or permission from instructor

QTM3615 TIME SERIES AND FORECASTING (formerly QTM3671) 4 credit hours (Advanced Lib Arts) This course will introduce time series models and discuss advanced forecasting methods in the context of real financial data and decision-making situations. The objectives of the course are to provide experience in using time series data (e.g., sales, profits, stock prices, economic indicators, industry sector indicators) to explain the impact of various internal and external factors and predict future trends; to provide a framework for comparing alternative forecasting models for validity, accuracy, and feasibility; to enhance an appreciation for the limitations of forecasting models; to provide exposure and experience in using statistical software to develop forecasting models; and to develop skills at communicating statistical results, and inferences effectively in a managerial context. Teamwork and professional presentation of analysis and recommendations will be required during this course. Prerequisite: QTM2420 or QTM2421 or permission from instructor

Business Practicum course for internship

This course ID is used for Cross Registration courses at Olin College for students who are taking a course, but will not receive credit at Babson for the course. All these students will receive a grade of NCP ( No Credit Pass) and the number of credits the course is worth at Olin should be reflected on the students transcript.

EPF 1000 Electronic Portfolio For: first-year students (capacity: 20 students) This course will provide first-year students with training in Web development tools and Web site design. You will develop a web site as a place for you to chronicle your work and activities over your four years at Babson College. At the end of your first semester, a competition will be held in order for you to receive feedback on your work. Although strong computer skills are helpful, the willingness and desire to work independently is key. You will be required to bring your lap top to every class.

FYS1300 The First Year Seminar The First Year Seminar provides students an opportunity to become engaged members of the Babson community. This course will challenge students to critically examine important aspects of college student life, such as engaging in scholarly discussion, living in a global community, and managing life as and adult learner. Students will also be asked to reflect on their own abilities and how they can make an impact on campus. Additionally, students will develop important relationships with fellow students, peer leaders, faculty and administration. Students will earn one academic credit for their successful participation in this program. Participation in the First Year Seminar (FYS 1300) is required for all Babson students

FYS1301 The First Year Seminar The First Year Seminar provides students an opportunity to become engaged members of the Babson community. This course will challenge students to critically examine important aspects of college student life, such as engaging in scholarly discussion, living in a global community, and managing life as and adult learner. Students will also be asked to reflect on their own abilities and how they can make an impact on campus. Additionally, students will develop important relationships with fellow students, peer leaders, faculty and administration. Students will earn one academic credit for their successful participation in this program. Participation in the First Year Seminar (FYS 1300) is required for all Babson students

New Student Computer Lab (FCL1000) For: All new students The New Student Computer Lab will introduce, reinforce and complement the technical skills needed to be successful at Babson College. You will learn the basics of Microsoft Access and Excel, as well as other computer applications that are necessary in Babson?s intermediate curriculum. You will be required to bring your lap top to every class.

This section of the Honors Seminar will meet every other week beginning on The first semester of the Honors Seminar is designed to accomplish three complementary goals. The seminar provides an opportunity for sophomore honors students to continue to build their community by meeting every other week to discuss an important issue from the perspectives of a number of different disciplines. These discussions will be led by various members of the Babson faculty and will include reference to some preliminary research done by students prior to the class. Secondly, the seminar will expose students to a wide variety of research methodologies and protocols in the contexts of these important issues, so students may become familiar with the processes they will undertake in completing their Honors Projects in their junior and senior years. Thirdly, students will meet a number of different members of the Babson faculty who may serve as important resources in future semesters. The Honors Seminar is a requirement for all students in the Honors Program, will be graded, and carries one credit for the semester. A second Honors Seminar semester must be taken in either the fall or spring of the student's junior year. Prerequisite: Permission by: Instructor Permission

IMH2512 Honors Seminar II - This Seminar will meet every other week beginning 1/21 Honors Seminar II is designed to guide Honors Program students through the writing process for their honors project proposal. In this seminar students will identify a research topic, develop a research question, learn how to do a scholarly literature search and use research in their writing, and write a final, polished version of the honors project proposal. The course will be run as a workshop so attendance at all sessions and adherence to all deadlines is essential. This course is required for all junior Honors Program students. Prerequisite: IMH2511, Instructor Permission

IND4601 Independent Research

IND2503 Independent Research

WRT1000 Intensive Rhetoric Writing Tutorial (Foundation Lib Arts) Prerequisites: NONE

LSE3001 LSE Study Abroad Program (HNRS)

PRT2700 Portfolio Learning Plan (Intermediate LibArts) Students write a self-designed learning plan for their advanced program using their advanced credit, field experiences, competencies and co-curricular activities. Prerequisite: PRT1700

PRT1700 Self-Reflection (Foundation Lib Arts) Students build a portfolio of work in each of the five across-the-curriculum competency areas and write a self-reflective piece at the end of the foundation level. The competency areas are ethics and social responsibility; international and multicultural perspectives; leadership, teamwork, and creativity; numeracy; and rhetoric. Requirement for Graduation

SYE2000 Sophomore Year Experience For: second-year students (capacity: 20 students) The Sophomore Year Experience (SYE) Seminars are designed to assist Babson students with assessment of their future. Through a series of workshops, presentations, meetings with faculty and class discussion, you will receive information that will assist you in achieving your personal, academic, and professional goals. The Center for Career Development will administer instruments that can clarify potential career tracks, as well as provide assistance with resume writing and cover letters. In addition, the Office of Class Deans will provide you with assistance with your academic endeavors. You will also receive valuable information about the resources available to you and explore the range of opportunities offered in the field of business.

MIS3672 Advanced Web Development (Advanced Liberal Arts Elective) 4 credits This course explores the design and development of dynamic web sites (sites that do not use static html pages but instead create unique, data-driven pages on-the-fly). The course builds on your HTML and JavaScript skills, to explore the methodologies and technologies that are required to create dynamic web experiences that will attract and keep visitors. During the semester you will explore creating personalized web sites, ones where each visitor has a different experience based on their preferences. You will look at techniques to gather and store information from the users and then leverage that information during future site visits. You will also explore non-HTML user interfaces that provide a potentially richer web experience. Through a combination of hands-on programming, lecture, and presentations, you will learn how to design and build sites that are appealing and useful. During the semester you will generate dynamic pages that can interact with databases using Microsoft's Visual Studio ASP.net and learn programming using the Visual Basic.net programming language. You will also explore other technologies such as XML and XSL that allow you to store and present information to a range of formats. Prerequisite: MIS1110 or MIS3690

MOB3522 BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 2 credits Advanced General Credit Every individual who would engage in business development and management in this century will need to have an understanding and appreciation of the implications of environmentalism for corporate activities. Environmentalism offers a new approach to view conceptions of who is driving competitive and environmental concerns, the implications of those concerns for the corporation, how those implications alter product and process development, and what their future form may be. This course is intended to familiarize students with relevant facts and analyses on the interaction of businesses with the environment. It outlines reasons why businesses would want to and have to care about environmental issues, introduces environmental assessment and management tools, and visits topics from various business functions. Pre-req OEM2312 Currently this course is not associated with a specific concentration.

MIS3572 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE 2 CREDIT (General Credit) MIS3572 teaches students about the value provided by business intelligence systems. Business intelligence systems help managers make fact-based decisions by allowing them to quickly and efficiently analyze data Used in any business area including finance, marketing, sales and operations, these systems are increasingly commonplace, but managers are often limited in terms of their understanding and skill in using them. In this course, students will make use of business intelligence systems and experience how these systems facilitate effective and timely decision-making. These uses and experiences are taught through advanced features of tools that are used in real companies. These tools may include Microsoft Excel and Access among others. This course emphasizes hands-on computer skill development, and involves reading about present-day business intelligence practices that are used in real companies. Prerequisite: NONE

MIS3620 Computer and Network Security Advanced Liberal Arts Teaches students the relevance of, purpose to and means behind establishing higher security levels for computers and associated networks. The nature of various security breaches including hacker attacks, email worms and computer viruses are explored. Management's responses including policy and procedure creation, risk management assessment and personnel training program design among others are examined. The tools of both security violators and protectors are explored. This course probes deeply into technical aspects of the hardware and software required to support computer networks. The course uses a combination of readings, case studies, class discussion and guest speakers for learning. Prerequisites: FME1001 or MIS1000 and QTM1300 or QTM2300 Students who have taken MIS3671 (Computer and Network Security) cannot take this course.

MIS3650 Data Communications (Advanced Liberal Arts) Introduces students to various topics related to data and voice communications. The primary goal of this course is to help students understand the role that data and voice communications plays in the broader context of alternative communication forms that are used in firms. Topics include the design and management of data and voice communications networks, with special attention lent to designing networks for small businesses and homes. Another topic involves identifying and discussing assorted software and hardware communication products that are commercially available. The course uses a combination of readings, case studies, class discussion, technology demos and guest speakers for learning. Prerequisite: MIS1000 or FME1001 This course is typically offered in the following semester: Spring

MIS3520 Database in a Client/Server Environment (General College Credit) MIS3520 teaches students how to design and implement databases. This course involves various aspects of database design, including how to organize information and keep it secure. Additional contemporary topics such as data mining and data warehousing practices are also explored. These design and implementation concepts are taught through current tools that are used to design and implement databases. These tools may include Microsoft Access and Sequel Server among others. This course emphasizes hands-on computer skill development in a computer lab setting. Prerequisites: (FME or MIS1000) and MIS3660

MIS3575 E-Business Architecture (4 credits) General Credit This course takes a technology strategy perspective to the emerging new economy, examining business designs that are enhanced or enabled by the Net, and the architecture that supports these business des