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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by mhemesath · returned 8 results
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ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics 6 credits
This course gives students a foundation in the general principles of economics as a basis for effective citizenship and, when combined with 111, as a preparation for all advanced study in economics. Topics include analysis of the measurement, level, and distribution of national income; the concepts of inflation and depression; the role and structure of the banking system; fiscal and monetary stabilization techniques; implications of and limits to economic growth; and international economic relations.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ECON 110.03 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael Hemesath 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 8:15am-10:00am
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ECON 110.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Michael Hemesath 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 205 Race & Inequality: Policing Policies 2 credits
An ongoing issue in criminal justice in the United States concerns policing practices and their differential impact on racial groups. The recent book Transforming the Police takes an evidence-based approach to examine policing practices. In this course, we will read Transforming the Police and other empirical research for deeper insights into current policing practices and evidence-based reforms. There will be a final paper and students will be expected to lead discussions, which form part of the basis for evaluation of their participation.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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ECON 205.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Michael Hemesath 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 221 Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy 6 credits
The course focuses on the development of the British economy since the inter-war period. The approach integrates economic and historical analysis to discuss the development of the structure of the British economy, economic policy, and the institutions affecting economic performance. Students majoring in economics, political science, and history are particularly encouraged to apply, but the seminar is open to students of all majors.
Participation in OCS Economics Program
- Summer 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Students who have completed Economics 110 and 111 by the end of spring term 2023 are eligible to participate in the seminar.
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ECON 222 Cambridge Program: The Industrial Revolution in Britain 6 credits
Economic growth only became an expected part of modern life during the Industrial Revolution. This course will explore the origins and implications of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Why did this revolution start in Britain? How did it change life for British citizens, and how did the many changes move beyond Britain? The course will use readings, lectures and visits to industrial sites and museums in and around Manchester. Students majoring in economics, political science, and history are particularly encouraged to apply, but the seminar is open to students of all majors.
Participation in OCS Cambridge Program
- Summer 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Students who have completed Economics 110 and 111 by the end of spring term 2023 are eligible to participate in the seminar.
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ECON 223 Cambridge Program: The Economics of Multinational Enterprises 3 credits
Among the most important economic institutions in the world today are multinational enterprises. This course will explore the theory and practice of MNEs. Lectures and reading will be supplemented with visits to British multinationals. Students majoring in economics, political science, and history are particularly encouraged to apply, but the seminar is open to students of all majors.
Participation in OCS Cambridge Program
- Summer 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Students who have completed Economics 110 and 111 by the end of spring term 2023 are eligible to participate in the seminar.
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ECON 224 Cambridge Program: J.M. Keynes and the Bloomsbury Group 3 credits
Britain has nurtured some of the most important economists in the world and Cambridge was the intellectual home of the foremost of these, J.M. Keynes. This course will explore the economic theory and social thought of Keynes and the influence of his contemporaries in the Bloomsbury group on post-WWI Britain. Students majoring in economics, political science, and history are particularly encouraged to apply, but the seminar is open to students of all majors.
Participation in OCS Cambridge Program
- Summer 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Students who have completed Economics 110 and 111 by the end of spring term 2023 are eligible to participate in the seminar.
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IDSC 238 Vaccines: Science, Skeptics, and Stakeholders 6 credits
Vaccines are often touted as one of humankind’s greatest biomedical achievements. They have undoubtedly prevented hundreds of millions of deaths from infectious diseases since their discovery. Yet, there remain many obstacles that prevent their wider development and dissemination. Among these are the technological challenges associated with vaccine development, the well-funded anti-vaccination movements that often thrive on and spread misinformation, and economic hurdles that affect the production and equitable distribution of vaccines. Through an interdisciplinary lens that incorporates material from biology, psychology, and economics, this course will allow students to reach an integrated understanding of vaccines.
- Spring 2024
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OCP 013 CARLETON ECON SEM-CAMBRIDGE 18 credits
- Summer 2023