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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'https://privacy.uconn.edu/privacy-notices/website'}) and 6 missing columns ({'Prerequisites', 'Course_Description', 'Course_name', 'Credits', 'Grade_Status', 'Department'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/zdemanche/UConn_SearchAI/uconn_urls.csv (at revision 7cef30cc9bc6b57fafbc81c5d09f2af55523a024)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2011, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 585, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2302, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2256, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
https://privacy.uconn.edu/privacy-notices/website: string
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 461
to
{'Department': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Course_name': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Credits': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Prerequisites': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Course_Description': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Grade_Status': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1321, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 935, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1027, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1122, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1882, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2013, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 1 new columns ({'https://privacy.uconn.edu/privacy-notices/website'}) and 6 missing columns ({'Prerequisites', 'Course_Description', 'Course_name', 'Credits', 'Grade_Status', 'Department'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/zdemanche/UConn_SearchAI/uconn_urls.csv (at revision 7cef30cc9bc6b57fafbc81c5d09f2af55523a024)
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Open a discussion for direct support.
Department
string | Course_name
string | Credits
string | Prerequisites
string | Course_Description
string | Grade_Status
string |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ACCT | 2001. Principles of Financial Accounting | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Not recommended for first year students. May not be taken out of sequence after passing ACCT 2101, 3005, or 3260. | The study of the generation and interpretation of accounting information as a basis for financial statement analysis and management decision-making. | Graded |
ACCT | 2101. Principles of Managerial Accounting | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 2101 | Internal reporting to managers for use in planning and controlling operating systems, for use in decision making, formulating major plans and policies, and for costing products for inventory valuation and income determination. Formerly offered as BADM 2710. | Graded |
ACCT | 3005. Introduction to a Profession | 1.00 credits | Prerequisites: ACCT 2001 which may be taken concurrently; open only to Business majors of sophomore or higher status. Required for Accounting majors. | Designed to help students (1) understand the professional responsibilities of accountants, (2) enhance one's knowledge of the structure of the accounting profession and the reporting process, (3) evaluate alternative accounting careers, and (4) prepare for accounting internship and career opportunities. Consists of a series of evening seminars. Topics include (among others): alternative accounting careers, accounting standard setting, professional certification for accountants, and analysis and interpretation of accounting information. The course will also introduce and allow students to interact with UConn accounting alumni in a variety of accounting careers. | Graded |
ACCT | 3201. Intermediate Accounting I | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 3201 | An in-depth study of financial accounting, giving particular emphasis to balance sheet valuations and their relationship to income determination. | Graded |
ACCT | 3202. Intermediate Accounting II | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 3202 | A continuation of ACCT/BADM 3201. | Graded |
ACCT | 3210. Introduction to Accounting Analytics | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ACCT 2001. | In Introduction to Accounting Analytics, students will develop their ability to ask and answer meaningful accounting questions through data analytics. Using different types of data analysis software, students will identify business questions that can be answered using data, prepare data for analysis, perform tests, and analyze and communicate the results of testing. Students will learn to think critically about what makes a good accounting question and how data can be used to answer those questions. Students will apply these skills within an accounting framework, in areas such as financial reporting, auditing, and managerial accounting. | Graded |
ACCT | 3221. Cost Accounting | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 3221 | The study of (1) product costing as a basis for income determination and inventory valuation and (2) accounting concepts for planning and controlling organizational operations. | Graded |
ACCT | 3260. Federal Income Taxes | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 3260 | A study of the underlying concepts of federal income taxation. Emphasis to be placed upon the impact of taxes on business decisions. | Graded |
ACCT | 3265. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance for Preparers | 2.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 3265 | IRS Certification in Basic Domestic and International Student and Scholar tax returns. Research and analyze current tax issues, interview a diverse group of real taxpayers, prepare real returns and respond to immediate feedback while working in a controlled setting under the supervision of a CPA. Students learn practical accounting and tax skills and procedures, while providing a valuable service to our community. Gives students the rare opportunity to gain technical industry experience in an academic environment. ACCT/BADM 4265 can be taken for one credit subsequent to ACCT/BADM 3265. Students in ACCT/BADM 4265 serve as qualified reviewers. | Graded |
ACCT | 4203. Advanced Accounting | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ACCT 3202 or BADM 3202; open only to Business majors of junior or higher status. Not open for credit to students who have passed or are taking ACCT 5603. | An in-depth study of accounting for business combinations. Coverage will also be given to accounting for nonprofit entities and contemporary issues in financial accounting. | Graded |
ACCT | 4204. Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Instructor consent; open only to Business majors of junior or higher status; recommended for Honors students. Recommended preparation: ACCT 3202 or BADM 3202. | Advances the understanding of financial information to analyze and value firms. Involves the application of accounting, economics, finance and other skills to better understand information contained in financial reports. | Honors Credit |
ACCT | 4243. Assurance Services | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: BADM 4243 | Focuses on issues relevant to the public accounting profession, such as legal liability and ethics, audit risk analysis, planning of audit engagements, audit reports, and other assurance services and reports. Students will learn to think critically about issues facing the accounting profession, primarily by analyzing cases and completing a number of individual and group research projects. | Graded |
ACCT | 4261. Taxation of Business Entities | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ACCT 3260 or BADM 3260; open only to business majors of junior or higher status. | Application of basic tax concepts to business entities, with particular emphasis on C corporations and partnerships. At the end of the course, students should be able to identify and address the tax issues faced when forming, operating, and liquidating a business entity. | Graded |
ACCT | 4265. Advanced Volunteer Income Tax Assistance for Reviewers | 1.00 credits | Prerequisites: ACCT 3265 or BADM 3265; open only to Business majors of sophomore or higher status. Not open for credit for students in or who have completed BADM 4265. | Advanced IRS Certification in Domestic and International Student and Scholar tax returns. Research and analyze current tax issues on an advanced level, with supervisory responsibility, while working in a controlled setting under the supervision of a CPA. Students develop mentoring skills as well as supplement practical accounting and tax skills, while providing a valuable service to our community. Gives students the rare opportunity to gain technical industry experience in an academic environment. | Graded |
ACCT | 4881. Internship in Accounting | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: ACCT 2101 or BADM 2101; ACCT 3201 or BADM 3201, and at least three credits of 3000-level ACCT courses; consent of instructor and department head; open only to Business majors of junior or higher status. | Designed to provide students with an opportunity for a supervised internship. Students will work with one or more professionals in their major academic area. Student performance will be evaluated on the basis of an appraisal by the field supervisor and an appropriate summative activity submitted by the student. Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory). | Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory |
ACCT | 4893. Foreign Study | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for a total of 6 credits. | Prerequisites: Open only to business majors of junior or higher status. | Special topics taken in a foreign study program. | Graded |
ACCT | 4895. Special Topics | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary by section; open only to business majors of junior or higher status. | Classroom course in special topics as announced in advance for each semester. Credit and hours by arrangement. | Graded |
ACCT | 4899. Independent Study | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Open only to business majors of junior or higher status. | Individual study of special topics as mutually arranged between a student and an instructor. | Graded |
ACCT | 4997W. Senior Thesis in Accounting | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; open only to Accounting Department honors students; open to juniors or higher. | null | Graded |
AFRI | 3995. Special Topics | 1.00 - 3.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: None. | null | Graded |
AFRI | 3999. Independent Study | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Instructor consent. | null | Graded |
AFRA | 1100. Afrocentric Perspectives in the Arts | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: FINA 1100 | Lectures and discussions about assigned readings focus on historical and aesthetic perspectives of African American Arts and their African sources, with emphasis on how social and aesthetic context impacts on creative expression by African American artists. Presentations by guest lecturers and University of Connecticut faculty plus small group discussions. CA 1. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2211. Introduction to Africana Studies | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: May not be taken out of sequence after passing AFRA 4994. | Interdisciplinary overview of Africana studies, giving consideration to the artistic, intellectual, political and cultural experiences of black people in the United States, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Significant movements, ideas, people and events that have shaped and continue to shape Africa and the Diaspora. | Graded |
AFRA | 2214. African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 2214 | Critical and historical examination of the literature of African American writers from Phyllis Wheatley to the present. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2214W. African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 2214W | Critical and historical examination of the literature of African American writers from Phyllis Wheatley to the present. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2222. Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Power of Looking | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: AAAS 2222, ARTH 2222 | A beginning investigation into the issues of what constitutes visual culture and how race, gender, and sexuality are seen and not seen. The goals of the course include engaging with the history and scholarly dialogues around visual studies, becoming more active and critical visual consumers and critics, and understanding personal stakes and diverse positions in dialogues about visualizing gender and race. CA 1. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2250. Racial Disparities in Health | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: SOCI 2250 | Social determinants of health. Racial differences in health outcomes. Social, economic, and political structures and their impacts on health organization and inequalities in care delivery. Patient-provider interactions; meanings of illness. CA 2. | Graded |
AFRA | 2345. Language and Racism | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: COGS 2345 | Examines the relationships between language use, both historically and across the lifespan, and the social construction of race, racism, and racial identity, with particular emphasis on racial politics in the United States. | Graded |
AFRA | 2461. Race, Gender, and U.S. Health Care | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: SOCI 2461 | Factors of race and gender at work in U.S health care. Focus on African Americans and Black immigrants as care recipients and care providers in health care institutions. CA 2. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2510. Ethnicity and Race | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: SOCI 2510 | Ethnic groups, their interrelations, assimilation, and pluralism. Culture, and identity that arise from differences in race, religion, nationality, region, and language. Formerly offered as AFRA/SOCI 3501. | Graded |
AFRA | 2520. White Racism | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HRTS 2520, SOCI 2520 | The origin, nature, and consequences of white racism as a central and enduring social principle around which the United States and other modern societies are structured and evolve. Formerly offered as AFRA/HRTS/SOCI 3505. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 2530. African Americans and Social Protest | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HRTS 2530, SOCI 2530 | Social and economic-justice movements, from the beginning of the Civil Rights movement to the present. Formerly offered as AFRA/HRTS/SOCI 3825. | Graded |
AFRA | 2621. Cuba in Local and Global Perspective | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 2621, LLAS 2621 | Major themes in Cuban politics and culture. Local and global perspective. Key topics include race, gender, class, cultural movements and practices, slavery, political economy and movements, nationalism. CA 1. CA 4-INT. | Graded |
AFRA | 2622. History of Gender and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 2622, LLAS 2622, WGSS 2622 | Topics may include: empire and colonialism/anti-colonialism; slavery, science, and the state; cultural practices and institutions; feminisms and masculinities; law and public policies; immigration; forms of labor and political mobilization; sex and reproduction; and human rights from historical perspective. Formerly offered as AFRA/HIST/LLAS/WGSS 3622. | Graded |
AFRA | 2752. Africa in Global History | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 2752 | Broad historical survey of civilizations in Africa, including origins of human life in Africa, economic livelihoods, socio-economic and political structures, state formation, trade, commerce, urbanization, and indigenous systems of belief and world religions. Formerly offered as AFRA/HIST 3752. CA 1. CA 4-INT. | Graded |
AFRA | 2753. History of Modern Africa | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 2753 | The history of African perceptions of and responses to the abolition of the slave trade, Western imperialism and colonialism, and the development of nationalism and struggle for independence. CA 1. CA 4-INT. Formerly offered as AFRA/HIST 3753. | Graded |
AFRA | 3025. Contemporary Africa | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ANTH 3025 | Africa since its partition in 1884. Urbanization, social stratification, racial and ethnic conflict. | Graded |
AFRA | 3033. Race and Policy | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: POLS 3633, PP 3033 | Examination of contemporary public policy through the lens of race. | Graded |
AFRA | 3042. Baseball and Society: Politics, Economics, Race and Gender | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: AMST 3042, HDFS 3042, WGSS 3042 | Baseball in historical, political, sociological, and economic contexts. Topics may include: impact on individuals and families; racial discrimination and integration; labor relations; urbanization; roles of women; treatment of gay athletes; and implications of performance-enhancing drugs. | Graded |
AFRA | 3050. African-American Art | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ARTH 3050 | The artistic and social legacy of African American art from the eighteenth century to the present day. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3050W. African-American Art | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ARTH 3050W | The artistic and social legacy of African American art from the eighteenth century to the present day. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3106. Black Psychology | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: PSYC 3106 | Empirical and theoretical literature on psychological experiences of African Americans. Impact of race, culture, and ethnicity on psychological development. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3131. African-American Theatre | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: DRAM 3131 | The significant developments in African American theatre and its antecedents and an examination of selected play scripts that exemplify those developments. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3132. African-American Women Playwrights, 1900 to the present | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: DRAM 3132 | African American women's playwriting in relationship to social, historical, and political contexts. CA 1. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3152. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ANTH 3152 | Popular and scholarly theories of human group identity and diversity, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Topics include: an overview of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in Western thought, ethnic group formation and transformation, political mobilizations of group identity, and systems of inequality. CA 2. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3155. Anthropology of the African Diaspora | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ANTH 3155 | An exploration of the racial, political, and social similarities and differences within and between the communities constituting the African Diaspora from an anthropological perspective. | Graded |
AFRA | 3206. Black Experience in the Americas | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3206 | Major themes in recent scholarship of African-descended communities in the Americas and their interconnection beyond geopolitical boundaries; race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, cultural movements and practices, slavery, political economy, political movements, and African consciousness, from historical perspective. CA 1. CA 4-INT. | Graded |
AFRA | 3208. Making the Black Atlantic | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3208, LLAS 3208 | Recent scholarship on the central role played by African-descended communities in shaping the early history of the Americas and their interconnection beyond geopolitical boundaries; race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, cultural movements and practices; slavery, political economy, and political movements. | Graded |
AFRA | 3213. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 3213 | Broad historical survey of African American literature from its origins through the turn of the twentieth century. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3213W. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 3213W | Broad historical survey of African American literature from its origins through the turn of the twentieth century. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3215. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 3215 | Broad historical survey of African American literature from the twentieth and twenty-first century. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3215W. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African American Literature | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ENGL 3215W | Broad historical survey of African American literature from the twentieth and twenty-first century. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3217. Studies in African American Literature and Culture | 3.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Also offered as: ENGL 3217 | Focused study of a theme, form, author, or movement in African American literature or culture. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3217W. Studies in African American Literature and Culture | 3.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Also offered as: ENGL 3217W | Focused study of a theme, form, author, or movement in African American literature or culture. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3224. History of Pan Africanism | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3770 | The development of ideas of Pan-Africanism, beginning with the proto-Pan-Africanists in the nineteenth century; examination of the linkages between those ideas in Africa and the evolution of Pan-Africanism as a movement in the African Diaspora. | Graded |
AFRA | 3252. Politics In Africa | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: POLS 3252 | The political systems in contemporary Africa; the background of the slave trade, imperialism, colonialism, and the present concerns of nationalism, independence, economic development and military rule. Emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. | Graded |
AFRA | 3293. Foreign Study | 1.00 - 15.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Consent of director required, normally to be granted prior to student's departure. Recommended preparation: Introductory courses in African history. | Consent of Director required, normally to be granted prior to student's departure. | Graded |
AFRA | 3295. Special Topics | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: None. | Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary. | Graded |
AFRA | 3299. Independent Study | 1.00 - 6.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Instructor consent. | Supervised reading and writing on a subject of special interest to the student. | Graded |
AFRA | 3320. Race, Culture, and Reproductive Health | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ANTH 3320 | An examination of the reproductive health experiences of women in the United States, including those focused on sexuality, birth, and motherhood. An exploration of the complex relationship between women’s reproductive experiences and their contemporary racial and socioeconomic locations in American society. | Graded |
AFRA | 3512. African Archaeology | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: ANTH 3512 | An archaeological perspective on more than three million years of human social and behavioral change in Africa, from Stone Age societies that are the earliest in the world to sweeping changes brought about by the development and spread of cattle and crops, sophisticated metallurgy, and the later rise of kingdoms and complex polities situated at a global crossroads of trade and interaction. | Graded |
AFRA | 3563. African American History to 1865 | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3563, HRTS 3563 | History of African-American people to 1865, from their West African roots, to their presence in colonial America, through enslavement and emancipation. Adaptation and resistance to their conditions in North America. Contributions by black people to the development of the United States. | Graded |
AFRA | 3564. African American History Since 1865 | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3564 | History of African-American people since the Civil war. Contributions by black people to American development. African-American activity in international arenas. | Graded |
AFRA | 3565. African American Women’s History: From A’r’nt I a Woman to Black Girl Magic | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3565, WGSS 3565 | African American women's history in the United States, including black women's activism and leadership; roles within the larger African Diaspora; engagement in local, national, and international freedom struggles; and redefinitions of identities as wives, mothers, leaders, citizens, and workers. Special attention given to the diversity of black women’s experiences, and to the dominant images of black women in America from Mumbet (the first enslaved woman to sue for her freedom and win) to contemporary issues of race, sex, and class. | Graded |
AFRA | 3568. Hip Hop, Politics and Youth Culture in America | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: AMST 3568, HIST 3568, MUSI 3568 | History of hip-hop, its musical antecedents and its role in popular culture. Race, class, and gender are examined as well as hip-hop's role in popular political discourse. | Graded |
AFRA | 3569. Slavery in Film | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3569 | Depictions of chattel slavery in cinema and popular media over time. Topics include histories of slavery, race and identity, media studies, and cultural studies. | Graded |
AFRA | 3575. Black Documentary Film Archival Practices | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: JOUR 3575 | Critical and historical examination of Black American archival usage through documentary films and media. | Graded |
AFRA | 3618. Comparative Slavery in the Americas | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3618, LLAS 3618 | The rise and fall of trans-Atlantic slavery. Topics include resistance, migration, antislavery mobilization, abolitionism, empire, revolution, cultural production, political economy, labor, gender, race and identity formation. | Graded |
AFRA | 3619. History of the Caribbean | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3619, LLAS 3619 | Encounter experience; slavery, antislavery mobilization, and abolitionism; colonialism; citizenship and nation building; race and gender; political cultures and movements; migration/immigration; cultural production; and political economy; topics will be examined from a historical perspective. CA 1. CA 4-INT. | Graded |
AFRA | 3619W. History of the Caribbean | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3619W, LLAS 3619W | Encounter experience; slavery, antislavery mobilization, and abolitionism; colonialism; citizenship and nation building; race and gender; political cultures and movements; migration/immigration; cultural production; and political economy; topics will be examined from a historical perspective. CA 1. CA 4-INT. | Graded |
AFRA | 3620. Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Spanish Caribbean | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: HIST 3620 | Discovery and settlement, slavery and plantation economy, recent political and economic developments, and United States relations with the Spanish Caribbean. | Graded |
AFRA | 3642. African-American Politics | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: POLS 3642 | Political behavior, theory, and ideology of African-Americans, with emphasis on contemporary U.S. politics. CA 4. | Graded |
AFRA | 3647. Black Leadership and Civil Rights | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: POLS 3647 | Black leadership, emphasizing the principles, goals, and strategies used by African-American men and women to secure basic citizenship rights during the civil rights era. | Graded |
AFRA | 3652. Black Feminist Politics | 3.00 credits | Also offered as: POLS 3652, WGSS 3652 | An introduction to major philosophical and theoretical debates at the core of black feminist thought, emphasizing the ways in which interlocking systems of oppression uphold and sustain each other. | Graded |
AFRA | 3898. Variable Topics | 3.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary. | null | Graded |
AFRA | 4100. Experiential/Service Learning Seminar | 4.00 credits | Also offered as: AAAS 4100, LLAS 4100, WGSS 4100 | Interdisciplinary examination of the history of social justice organizing in the U.S.; theories, strategies, and practice of community organizing movements such as those for immigration, environmental, reproductive, and racial justice. Includes practice in community organizing and political advocacy. | Graded |
AFRA | 4994W. Senior Seminar | 3.00 credits
| May be repeated for credit. | Prerequisites: AFRA 2211; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; course is required for majors and is generally taken in the senior year. | Critical training and comprehensive examination of African American studies, using primary and secondary sources. | Graded |
AFRA | 4996. Honors Thesis Preparation | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: AFRA 2211; open to honors students, juniors or higher; instructor consent required. Recommended preparation: Students complete several courses in the disciplinary field of their research interest. | Preliminary reading in primary and secondary sources or key texts in research field in consultation with thesis advisor. | Honors Credit |
AFRA | 4997W. Senior Thesis in Africana Studies | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; AFRA 2211 and 4996; open to students in the Honors Program; instructor consent required; may be open to non-honors students with consent of instructor. | Honors Research and writing in the major with close supervision of multiple drafts. | Honors Credit |
ARE | 1110E. Population, Food, and the Environment | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: None. | The role of agriculture in the growth and development of societies throughout the world. Economic, social, and environmental problems of food production and resource needs in developing and advanced societies. CA 2. | Graded |
ARE | 1150. Principles of Applied and Resource Economics | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Not open for credit to students who have passed ECON 1201. | An introduction to microeconomic analysis with applications to food, nutrition, health, natural resources, and the environment. Topics include consumer and firm behavior, supply, demand, markets, and economic policy. CA 2. | Graded |
ARE | 2150. Intermediate Applied and Resource Economics | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or ECON 1201. May not be taken out of sequence after passing ARE 3223. | Applications of intermediate level microeconomic theory to problems and policy issues in agriculture, natural resources, and the environment. Topics include supply, demand, market equilibrium, consumer and producer behavior, perfect competition, and welfare economics. Emphasis will be placed on using the theory in applied and computational exercises. | Graded |
ARE | 2155. Imperfect Competition and Behavioral Economics | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 2150 or ECON 2201 or 2211Q. | Extension of intermediate microeconomic theory to include noncompetitive markets and psychology to consumer behavior. Topics include monopolies and oligopolies (and their welfare implications); game theory (including adverse selection and moral hazard); and behavioral economics (such as time inconsistency, loss aversion, and pro-social preferences). Emphasis will be placed on real-world applications of theory in agriculture, health, natural resources, and the environment. | Graded |
ARE | 2210. Essentials of Accounting and Business | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: None. | An analysis of basic business principles, fundamentals and concepts for agribusiness entrepreneurs. Taught with SARE 460. | Graded |
ARE | 2215. Business Management | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: None. | Analysis of marketing, management, and financial decision-making tools in agribusiness. Formerly offered as ARE 3215. | Graded |
ARE | 2235. Marine Economics and Policy | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or ECON 1201. | Fundamental theory, methods, and policy implications of environmental and resource economics, with an emphasis on coastal and marine environments. Topics include pollution policy, fisheries, water quality and allocation, international trade, wildlife and biodiversity, land use, and economic valuation. Designed for students with diverse departmental affiliations. CA 2. | Graded |
ARE | 2260. Food Policy | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or 1201; basic skills in Excel. | Analysis of food and agricultural policies in the United States and abroad. Designed for students with diverse departmental affiliations. Formerly offered as ARE 3260. | Graded |
ARE | 2261W. Writing in Food Policy | 1.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 2260, may be taken concurrently; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; open to Applied and Resource Economics majors, others with instructor consent. | A writing intensive course on issues related to food policy, integrated with course content in ARE 2260. Formerly offered as ARE 3261W. | Graded |
ARE | 2434E. Environmental and Resource Policy | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: None. | Emergence of environmental policies from the local, legal, and regulatory angles. Formalization and structure of environmental policy with a focus on the hurdles, design, and implementation of policy, particularly air and water policy. Suitable for all majors. | Graded |
ARE | 2435W. Writing in Environmental and Resource Policy | 1.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 2434E, which may be taken concurrently; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011; open only to Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Economics of Sustainable Development and Management, and Applied and Resource Economics majors, others by consent. | A writing intensive course integrated with course content in ARE 2434E. Formerly offered as ARE 3440W. | Graded |
ARE | 2464. Measuring Impact of Programs that Raise Human Well-being | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or 1201. Not open to students who have completed ARE 3464. | The theory and practice behind measuring impacts and costs of programs that raise human welfare through poverty alleviation, economic development, and social and environmental justice. Case studies will show how governments and organizations can best optimize programming. Examples include how to increase incomes and farm productivity, how to decrease disease and child mortality, and how to improve resilience to climate change. Topics include survey design, performance indicators, the logical framework and results matrix, sample design, impact evaluation methodologies and project appraisal. Formerly offered as ARE 3462. | Graded |
ARE | 2525. Sustainability Policy and Management | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: None. | What factors do we need to consider for evaluating sustainability and its implementation? How do those factors depend on the topic at hand? This course is an effort to answer these two questions and to provide perspectives and tools to better evaluate whether we should or should not pursue a particular sustainability option. We will discuss a wide array of topics in sustainability, such as waste, healthcare, energy, food, climate, and the production of animal agriculture. | Graded |
ARE | 3221. Managerial Economics and Business Strategies | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or ECON 1201. Recommended preparation: MATH 1071Q or 1110Q or 1120Q or 1131Q or 1151Q; or STAT 1000Q or STAT 1100Q. | The application of microeconomic analysis to decision-making techniques of businesses and management units with a particular focus on the food industry covering topics such as electing or developing products, deciding on product output and pricing, organizational design, promotional strategies, worker hiring and training, and investment and financing. | Graded |
ARE | 3222. Marketing and Consumer Behavior | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or ECON 1201. | This course focuses on principles of contemporary marketing, including consumer behavior, social media, product, promotion, distribution and pricing strategies, with special emphasis on food and health. | Graded |
ARE | 3223. Business Organization and Labor Markets | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 2150 or 3150. | Analytical tools that economists use to evaluate the organizational and hiring decisions of firms. Emphasis on the effect of government policies and programs on how many workers are hired, how much they are paid, and how other forms of compensation are structured. Specific areas of consideration may include: minimum wages, federal income tax, payroll and self-employment taxes, unemployment insurance, immigration, health insurance, retirement account contributions, the use of contractors in place of employees (the so-called "gig economy"), legal form of organization, and business liability. Special emphasis on using original sources, including federal statistical agency data products, reports from federal oversight bodies, US Code, and IRS publications. | Graded |
ARE | 3225. Price Analysis and Futures Trading | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or ECON 1201; STAT 1000Q or 1100Q or equivalent. | Principles and applications of market price determination, with special emphasis on the use of futures markets for profit and price risk management. Includes food and energy case studies, internet applications, and a futures simulation exercise. | Graded |
ARE | 3305E. Economic Development, Environment, and Policy | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: ARE 1150 or ECON 1201 or ECON 1200. | Integrating the topics of economic development and the environment. Overview of economic development and growth in developed and developing nations. Classical and modern theories of economic growth and measures of economic inequality. Population growth, sustainable economic development, rural-urban interactions, agricultural transformation, and impacts on the environment. The role of education and health, policies for economic development, and climate adaptation. | Graded |
ARE | 3333. Computational Analysis in Applied Economics | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: STAT 1000Q or STAT 1100Q, or similar; laptop computer in class. Recommended preparation: ECON 1200 or ECON 1201 or ARE 1150. | Learn fundamental concepts of statistics and economics through analysis of economic data using computer spreadsheets. | Graded |
ARE | 3436. The Economics of Integrated Coastal Management | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Recommended Preparation: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or 1201. | Explores the theory and practice of integrated coastal management (ICM); introduces major concepts, processes, tools and methods of ICM; and analyzes United States and international experiences with ICM. | Graded |
ARE | 3437E. Marine Fisheries Economics and Policy | 3.00 credits | Prerequisites: Recommended Preparation: ARE 1150 or ECON 1200 or 1201. | Explores the various natural, human and management components of the fishery system and presents the application of economic and policy analysis for the optimal allocation of resources to a fishery. | Graded |
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