This course examines the use of financial information in creating, understanding, and analyzing financial statements. Focuses on developing the ability to prepare and interpret financial statement.

Examination of the investment and financing issues facing domestic and multinational business firms. Hands-on analysis using Harvard Business School cases.

Understanding the basics of management, including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Discusses concepts concerning business environments, international business, ethics, financial responsibility as it relates to managers.

Discusses decisions marketing managers must face in  determining a  products: price, promotion, distribution and segmentation. Emphasis on understanding the  external marketing environment and its role in business.

Integrates basic theory and experience in a variety of communication contexts including public speaking, small groups, and interpersonal communication. Examines human differences in order to develop more effective communication skills.       

Introduction to engineering. Problem solving.

Introduction to techniques of film practice, film history, genres, analysis of film texts, and reading of film images in their aesthetic, cultural and literary context. (Lec. 2, Lab 2)

Emergence and growing notoriety of rap music and hip-hop culture in the US, France, and the francophone world.

This course will look at stories people tell about bodies: about what the body can do, what it cannot, how it enlightens, when it betrays. We will focus on fiction, the body’s abilities and disabilities are not only a source of insights into diverse experiences and social constructions of marginality and normalcy, but a vehicle for exploring the nature of humanity and its limits. The novels, stories, and films we will encounter in this course will explore what it means to live with an exceptional sense of smell, with a deformed arm, with autism. And we will ask questions like these: What is an ability? How are our abilities different from our disabilities? How are our abilities and disabilities the source of knowledge about others and about ourselves.

Why Spain expelled the Jews and how the inquisition worked. How secret Jews survived and how many got to Newport. Why mono-culturalism does not work.

The science behind obtaining and analyzing computer evidence in crimes and civil cases. Basics of computer hardware, software, and networking as related to finding evidence. Computer security. Personal Property. Tracking offenders. Legal issues.

In a technological democracy, the citizenry requires scientific knowledge to understand and evaluate complex issues like DNA evidence, biowarfare, genetically engineered food, etc. Through case studies, students will learn how to analyze such issues.

Following a brief introduction to the history of engineering, the process of engineering design will be studied by tracking the design and construction of objects encountered in everyday life including a bridge, an automobile, a toy and some household objects. Common calculations used in engineering and common manufacturing processes will be examined.  Students will learn to design using the computer.  Careers in engineering will be explored and practicing engineers will meet with the students to discuss their work.

We will use the original scientific literature and a hands-on experimental approach to examine fundamental concepts in soil science. Emphasis will be placed on the principles of physical and biological sciences underlying these concepts

This course will ask you to write your way around the ocean state, exploring it through interdisciplinary writing. Projects will allow you to combine creative and scientific elements while writing for different audiences in different genres. LIMITED TO FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS

Interdisciplinary approach t the study of individual and societal determinants in the development, integration, and expression of human sexuality and a code of sexual behavior.

A wide variety of problems will be  posed, including puzzles, paradoxes, challenging games such as nim, and questions from graph theory and number theory. No specific math background is required, but for many of the problems ingenuity is needed to find the elegant solution.

This course will examine and analyze the history of the visual arts from around 1300 to the 20th century.

In this course we will read, analyze, and discuss "serious" science fiction: novels and stories that do not just present adventures in space, but deal critically with our contemporary society. By extrapolating contemporary trends, these texts predict and describe what the future may hold for humankind: visions that range from utopian ideals of a perfect world to apocalyptic scenarios that envision the end of the world.

Experiential course that provides students the opportunity to learn how administrative decision-making is practiced. and to develop research skills in an administrative setting. Students must have a cumulative 3.5 GPA, junior standing and must complete an application before registering. Applications are available in the Honors Center.

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Europe in transition during the 14th through the early 16th centuries. The economic, social, and religious backgrounds of the Renaissance.

Examines the political and economic effects of globalization on national and international political stability, regime change, resource distribution, equality and related. topics.

Explores the human experience of dying and the issue of quality of life. Group discussion focuses on the effect that individual and social values, medical and social structures have on one’s grief response and bereavement process

This is a mathematics seminar with an eye on the Putnam competition. We will focus on problem-basEd. learning. Topics will deepen understanding and show unity and beauty of mathematics. Particular topics will be chosen in accord with the interest of the audience. Prerequisite: MTH 215 and MTH 243.

This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the relationship between invertebrates and medicine, emphasizing the biological aspects of invertebrates in relation to the microbes they harbor. The focus will be twofold: One part of the course will examine microbial pathogens of invertebrates and their impact upon aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates; the second part will center upon bio-transport mechanisms in invertebrates which vector disease microorganisms to humans.

Independent research or creative project with a faculty mentor selected by the Student. Enrollment pending approval of proposal.          

A continuation of Honors Project  I for additional credit

This new seminar will be a philosophical study of tragic theater. We will study one play from the Greeks, one from Shakespeare, and one contemporary, and consider their philosophical meanings and what philosophers have had to say about them: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, etc. Possible playwrights include Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Checkhov, O’Neill, Beckett, etc. Plays will be chosen that have famous film interpretations and the course will include study of these films as well as attendance at local theater productions (Trinity, Gamm, URI). 

Examines the major controversies associated with human impacts; what roles and responsibilities do humans have to the earth?

Structured academic work in an educational setting under the supervision of a faculty advisor (Practicum). Pre: permission of faculty advisor and Honors Director. 

This is a survey course that will introduce students to the creation and global impact of the mass media. Not for major credit in Journalism.

Introduction to Newtonian mechanics, KINEMATICS, and dynamics of particles and systems of particles. Motion of rigid bodies and oscillatory motion. Conservation principles. Pre: credit or concurrent enrollment in MTH 141; concurrent enrollment in PHY 275H. Intended for science or engineering majors. Not open to students with credit in PHY 213.

(Honors section of PHY 205) Elementary Physics III is the third semester of elementary physics for students majoring in a physical science. Topics include thermodynamics, vibrations and waves, sound, and optics.

Labratory exercises related to topics in PHY 203H. Pre: concurrent enrollment in PHY 203H.

Labratory exercises related to topics in PHY 205H. Pre: concurrent enrollment in PHY 205H.