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  • MET EC 102: Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis
    One semester of a standard two-semester sequence for those considering further work in management and economics. Includes national economic performance; problems of recession, unemployment, inflation, and trade and budget deficits; money creation, government spending, and taxation; economic policies for full employment and price stability; and international trade and payments.
  • MET EC 201: Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
    Determination of commodity and factor prices under differing market conditions of competition and monopoly.
  • MET EC 202: Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
    Determination of aggregate income and employment. Analysis of fiscal and monetary policy. Inflation and income policy. Problems of the open economy.
  • MET EC 203: Empirical Economics I
    Statistical techniques are presented and applied to a variety of economics problems. Extensive use of the statistical software package STATA.
  • MET EC 204: Empirical Economics II
    Builds on the material in MET EC 203, developing more complex statistical techniques and applications.
  • MET EC 332: Market Structure and Economic Performance
    Discussion of selected makets determined by instructor. Introduction to antitrust and regulatory policy.
  • MET EC 341: Monetary and Banking Institutions
    Survey of commercial and central banking institutions. Examination of macro relations between financial organizations and principal objectives of stabilization policy. Recent monetary policy.
  • MET EC 356: Economics of the Labor Market
    Application of current theories of labor supply and demand, wages, education and experience, immigration, labor efficiency, discrimination, and unemployment. Appraisal of the effects of government policies on labor markets.
  • MET EC 391: International Economics I
    The pure theory of international trade. Comparative advantage, gains from trade, and tariff and nontariff barriers to trade. Case studies in international economic policy.
  • MET EC 392: International Economics II: Problems and Policy
    This course covers the basic issues of international finance. Topics include the balance of payments, balance of payments adjustments, theories of exchange rate determination, and case studies in international economic policy. 4 (four) credits, Prereqs: EC202.
  • MET EN 104: English Composition
    Required for all undergraduate degrees. Reinforces basic skills in communication necessary for college work. Instruction and practice in fundamentals of critical writing, reading, and thinking. Lectures combined with seminars on vital current social, political, psychological, and philosophical issues. Students choose their seminars. Frequent papers; individual conferences.

    MET EN104 Section Descriptions for Fall 2018:

    Section A1 -- Bennett - "Contemporary Fiction's Otherworldly Glow"
    In this course, our reading will take us to Africa and the Middle East, regions more culturally different from each other and ours than we could have imagined. Our close reading, however, will reinforce the universality of the human condition as we examine issues of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. We will encounter colonialism, war, love, and political intrigue in two twenty-first century novels: Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Hala Alyan's Salt Houses. We will learn to write (and rewrite!) captivating, well- developed, well-organized essays relatively free of grammatical errors.
  • MET EN 125: Readings in Modern Literature
    Representative fiction, poetry, and drama from modern Continental, British, and American writers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
  • MET EN 127: Readings in American Literature
    Selected American writers from the Colonial period to the present. Prose and poetry representative of the American tradition. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
  • MET EN 141: Literary Types: Fiction
    Representative English and American novels from the eighteenth century to the present. Required papers. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
  • MET EN 142: Literary Types: Poetry
    Critical reading of representative English and American poems. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
  • MET EN 143: Literary Types: Drama
    Critical reading of representative plays from the ancient Greeks to the present. Primarily for students not concentrating in English.
  • MET EN 175: Literature and the Art of Film
    Survey and analysis of cinema as an expressive medium from the silent period to the present. Films are screened weekly and discussed in conjunction with works of literature.
  • MET EN 201: Intermediate Composition
    Does not give concentration credit. Practice in writing narration, exposition, argument and persuasion, the critical essay, and the research paper. Related readings. Class discussion of papers. Individual conferences. Students enroll in specific seminars. Limited enrollment.

    MET EN201 -- Section Descriptions for Fall 2018

    Section B1 (Barents) -- "Boston Zeal, Insanity, and Lawlessness"
    Boston has captivated the imagination of locals and outsiders alike for centuries, not only as The Hub or The Athens of America but also as "Suck City" and the town with "dirty water." In this seminar, we will look at Boston as subject and setting of a number of very different short works in order to understand the social, political, historical, and artistic forces that have shaped this American city and to figure out whether its often negative portrayal is deserved. We will debate, discuss, and question how such influences shape a culture or define a city, examining nonfiction from Michael Patrick MacDonald, Nick Flynn, and Susanna Kaysen; fiction by Dennis Lehane, Sylvia Plath, and Henry James; and poetry by Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. We'll also view film excerpts from Good Will Hunting, The Departed, Spotlight, Gone Baby Gone, and The Town.

    Section C1 (Grabianowski) -- "Imagining the Landscape, Imagining Technology"
    Can humans muster the imagination and the ethical grit necessary to create a sustainable and livable future where freedom, equality and human rights are respected? How can scientific insight, technological advancement and the humanities find common ground in creating such a world? Could revisiting the powers of imagination provide some answers? Could insights derived from thousands of years of living in a natural landscape help humans to better understand the opportunities and limitations of our current technological landscape? In this section of English 201, we will consider what the long history of the imagination can teach us about how human insight into the awe-inspiring wonders of nature has contributed to our understanding of the hidden capacities of the human mind as much as it has unlocked the secrets of nature. We will first take a look at the deep currents of imagination going back to the ancient philosophers like Heraclitus. We will then, over the course of the semester, consider how 19th- and 20th-century writers like Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, E.M. Forster, Albert Einstein, Aldo Leopold, David Bohm and Gary Snyder have addressed the practical and ethical issues that arise out of the intersection of nature, technology, and society. We will explore topics like imaginative engineering, the difference between imaginative insight and imaginative reason, ecological consciousness, cyborgs, sustainable business models, monoculture and permaculture, genetics, ecological economics, big data, wild writing, social media, fake news, genetics and topics of particular interest to students. We will discuss how contemporary scientists, poets, technology industry leaders, and writers like Arnold Pacey, Herman Daly, Sherry Turkle and David Kelly seek to re-discover the imaginative capacities that will allow us to grapple with the rapid transformation of our technological existence.

    Section D1 (Jackson) -- "The Sixties"
    This course examines the 1960s, a tumultuous decade of political, social, and cultural change in the United States, through a range of readings that include poems, song lyrics, manifestos, autobiographies, speeches, essays, stories, and the "non- fiction novel." The major movements of the era (anti-war, civil rights, feminist, environmental, sexual liberation, and expanded consciousness) constituted a wide-ranging revolution. Literary critic Fredric Jameson characterizes the period with "the widely shared feeling that in the 60s, for a time, everything was possible: that this period, in other words, was a moment of a universal liberation, a global unbinding of energies." Some of the key players and events were in and around Boston (Martin Luther King, Jr. living in Myles Standish Hall, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton meeting Robert Lowell at the other end of Bay State Road, Huston Smith expanding consciousness in Marsh Chapel, Malcolm X growing up in Roxbury). We will read these writers as well as others including Rosa Parks, Betty Friedan, Bob Dylan, and Rachel Carson. We will write about what these writers meant in their time and about the reverberations and reactions that continue to affect how we live today.
  • MET EN 202: Introduction to Creative Writing
    Designed mainly for those with little or no experience in creative writing. An introduction to writing in various genres: poetry, fiction, and plays. Students' works discussed in class. Limited enrollment.
  • MET EN 220: Proseminar: Literacy Study
    Fundamentals of literary analysis and interpretation. Intensive study of selected literary texts. Frequent papers. Limited class size.

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