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  • CAS EC 551: Economics of Labor Markets
    Economic behavior of labor markets and labor market institutions in the United States. Wage determination, labor allocation, discrimination, economics of trade unions, and industrial relations. Implications of labor market behaviors for public policy.
  • CAS EC 561: Public Economics I
    Quantitative and microeconomic analysis of public-policy decisions worldwide, by means of applied welfare economics or cost-benefit analysis. Applications include project evaluation, taxation, regulation, shadow pricing, privatization, policy impact analysis, and valuation of external effects such as pollution and congestion.
  • CAS EC 565: Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective
    Historical development and role of institutions underlying market economies. Topics include contract enforcement and trading institutions, financial institutions, property rights in land, environmental resources such as water management and fisheries, economic infrastructure, regulation of labor, and capital markets.
  • CAS EC 571: Energy and Environmental Economics
    Environmental resources and markets characterized from physical, economic, and legal standpoints. Welfare arguments for public sector intervention. Methodologies for policy assessment and simulation analyzed, including project analysis, new technology, evaluation models, deterministic and econometric models.
  • CAS EC 572: Public Control of Business
    Examines economic theory and case studies of antitrust policy, government regulation of private industry and operation of state owned enterprises. Case studies are drawn from both industrialized and developing countries.
  • CAS EC 581: Health Economics I
    Quantitative analyses of demand for insurance and healthcare, moral hazard, adverse selection, healthcare supply, quality and price competition. Physician agency, payment systems, capitation, risk management and managed care. Emphasis is on U.S. institutions, but concepts and methodology are applicable worldwide
  • CAS EC 591: International Economics
    Quantitative theory of international trade; empirical evidence from both industrialized and developing economies. Factor content of trade, technology and trade patterns, scale economies and imperfect competition, economic geography. Policy interventions: tariffs, exchange rates, trading blocs, and political economy of reform.
  • CAS EC 595: International Finance
    Applies economic tools to open-economy macroeconomics. Topics include the determinants of the current account, exchange rate management, international capital markets, and growth in the world economy. Topical issues: the formation of the Euro; debt and financial crisis in developing countries.
  • CAS EC 597: MAEP Internship
    (For students starting the program in spring, the prerequisites may be abridged to CASEC501 and CASEC507 by departmental approval.) With departmental approval, MAEP students may work in an off- campus internship lasting six weeks or more, receive on-the-job training complementing their academic studies, and earn academic credits towards their degrees. Grades are based on reports from student and workplace supervisor.
  • CAS EC 598: The Economics of Globalization
    Analyzes various facets of globalization from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, using tools from international trade theory. Topics include firm-level trade patterns, multinational production, foreign direct investment, the creation of global vertical supply chains, outsourcing, and offshoring.
  • CAS EE 395: Sustainability Science: Earth House Practicum 1
    Learn and live sustainability through theory and practice in BU's Earth House. Explore and enact options to enhance sustainability through technology, policy and behavioral change. Propose specific actions toward achieving the longer-term goal of a carbon-neutral Earth House.
  • CAS EE 396: Sustainability Science: Earth House Practicum 2
    Learn and live sustainability through theory and practice in BU's Earth House. Explore and enact options to enhance sustainability through technology, policy and behavioral change. Propose specific actions toward achieving the longer-term goal of a carbon-neutral Earth House.
  • CAS EI 501: The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing
    An introduction to the theory, practice, and principles of editorial decisions, such as questions of modernization, revision, and annotation. Featuring a dozen visiting speakers and attending to notable editorial achievements.
  • CAS EI 503: Textual Scholarship
    Fundamentals of textual scholarship: bibliography, paleography, typography, textual criticism, and annotation.
  • CAS EI 505: Manuscripts at Mugar
    Manuscripts, letters, literature, film, etc-inspire our Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. This course explores these for understanding and enjoyment. At Gotlieb and the Editorial Institute, undergraduate and graduate students have their hands on originals, on presentation, and on individual interests.
  • CAS EI 506: Topics in Textual Scholarship and the History of Western Society
    Topics vary by semester. Topic for 2018/2019: The State of the Language.
  • CAS EN 120: Freshman Seminar
    Limited enrollment. Variable topics. Through discussions and frequent writing assignments, students develop skills in the close reading of literary texts and learn to express their interpretive ideas in correct and persuasive prose. Satisfies CAS WR 120 requirement. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: First-Year Writing Seminar.
    • First-Year Writing Seminar
  • CAS EN 121: Reading World Literature
    Study of literature in English or English translation -- poetry, drama, and prose narrative -- outside of British and American traditions. Attention to such topics as cultural self-construction, relationships of historical context to artistic expression, and development of literary forms. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy
    • Research and Information Literacy
  • CAS EN 122: Medieval Worlds
    Why does the deep medieval past continue to haunt our dreams? In novels, games, and on TV? Medieval literature and its afterlives. Topics may include Arthurian romance, otherworld visions, monsters and heroes, women's lives and writing, modern medievalism. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Teamwork/Collaboration.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Historical Consciousness
    • Teamwork/Collaboration
  • CAS EN 125: Reading Modern Literature
    Introduces key concepts for understanding major developments in modern literature. Readings in poetry, drama and fiction from varying traditions, designed to motivate an interest in some of the most engaging, and challenging, works of our time. Topics vary by instructor. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Writing-intensive Course.
    • Aesthetic Exploration
    • Writing-Intensive Course

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