How many Maidans did Ukraine have in the last 30 years and how did they shape the current agenda in Ukraine? Is Ukraine a culturally diverse country? How is the attitude of Ukrainians towards the environment and their ecological history connected with socio-political life? How do fictional representations open up new ways of thinking about catastrophic events in Ukraine (Holodomor, Chornobyl, 2022 war) and social problems (corruption, poverty, gender inequality, and discrimination)? This course will help you find the answers to these questions and come up with more ways to understand and learn from Ukrainians and their exceptional invincibility. 

The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. It is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by managers and professionals. By focusing on the hehavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations, the course will allow students the opportunity to develop negotiation skills experientially in useful analytical frameworks (e.g.- simulations, cases).

The purpose of this course is to understand the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings. It is designed to be relevant to the broad spectrum of negotiation problems faced by managers and professionals. By focusing on the hehavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations, the course will allow students the opportunity to develop negotiation skills experientially in useful analytical frameworks (e.g.- simulations, cases).

General theory of zero-sum, two-person games, including games in extensive form and continuous games, and illustrated by detailed study of examples.

A comprehensive survey course in statistical theory and methodology. Topics include descriptive statistics, maximum likelihood estimation, non-parametric methods, introduction to optimality, goodness-of-fit tests, analysis of variance, bootstrap and computer-intensive methods and least squares estimation. The laboratory includes computer-based data-analytic applications to science and engineering.

A comprehensive survey course in statistical theory and methodology. Topics include descriptive statistics, maximum likelihood estimation, non-parametric methods, introduction to optimality, goodness-of-fit tests, analysis of variance, bootstrap and computer-intensive methods and least squares estimation. The laboratory includes computer-based data-analytic applications to science and engineering.

A comprehensive survey course in statistical theory and methodology. Topics include descriptive statistics, maximum likelihood estimation, non-parametric methods, introduction to optimality, goodness-of-fit tests, analysis of variance, bootstrap and computer-intensive methods and least squares estimation. The laboratory includes computer-based data-analytic applications to science and engineering.

We seem to have available to us more and more information about individuals, groups, and whole societies, but this does not always lead us to cite facts more accurately or hold more justifiable opinions. This course provides students with skills to evaluate claims about social life by examining whether they are based on good evidence, sound reasoning, and ethical practices. It does so by surveying the ways that professional social researchers ask and answer empirical questions. Students will learn the basic principles and practices that guide good empirical research, how to decide whether others have followed them, and how to follow them themselves. By the end of the course students will have acquired skills that will make them more responsible consumers of social science and debates about social trends and public policy.

This course is designed to familiarize students with major topics and events of the cultural history of the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian peoples and lands. We will start with their ancient origins and move forward chronologically, ending with 21st century issues of identity and socio-politics. Students will expand their historical knowledge and think critically about accepted portrayals of this region in relation to the wider world (especially “the West” and “the East,” “Europe” and “Asia,” “modernity,” and “socialism”). Students will also develop their ability to interpret and understand different kinds of cultural documents, including canonical works of art and literature, and situate these documents with respect to their region’s broader cultural history. Readings will come from a variety of genres and include artistic literature, non-fictional primary sources, and scholarship from several disciplines. Besides written texts, we will also consider works of visual arts, architecture, music, and film.

Human beings may be unique among animals in that they are both dependent on their environment as well as capable of radically reshaping, extracting from, and destroying it. Our course will explore the complex relationship between the human and the nonhuman by looking closely at its literary and cinematic representations. In the early twentieth century, a number of revolutionary political projects were unfolding across Eastern Europe and Central and Northeast Asia, and the leaders of these movements were convinced of the importance of material factors in molding the political sensibilities of the masses. In this course, we will explore how various configurations of socialism sought to transform the natural environment and design a space in which “ideal” socialist subjects could flourish. The building of socialist settlements was a disruptive process that displaced indigenous communities, challenged traditional systems of water and energy provision, and left behind indelible environmental scars. To understand how the foundations of socialism were laid in different regions, as well as the ideological underpinnings of each project, we will turn to the personal testimonies of the writers, artists and filmmakers who sought to document their newly engineered realities. Readings will include literary works by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov and the North Korean prose writer Bandi, film from the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, as well as a selection of works from contemporary environmental history. Online instruction, synchronous.