Develops the ability to read, understand, analyze and interpret a company's financial statements. Also develops decision-making skills based on accounting information that may vary according to perspective, such as investor, creditor or manager.

Introduces concepts and methods used to report business performance information to data users and managers. Assists students in making sound business decisions needed to manage organizations effectively. Students will learn the skills required for collecting, analyzing, and presenting internal financial information.

This is a course in financial accounting (reporting). As the second of a two-course Intermediate Accounting sequence, it examines investments; current and long-term liabilities; leases; pensions; shareholders' equity; stock-based compensation; earnings per share; and the statement of cash flows.

Students will learn about the use of various advanced functions of spreadsheets to become more efficient and effective in making accounting and business decisions in the corporate environment. Students will develop skills and gain knowledge through the use of hands-on exercises to be completed outside of class.

This course incorporates a behavioral perspective into ethical decision-making that encourages students to identify with their values and learn how to voice them in the workplace when conflicts arise and ethical dilemmas exist. We build on traditional philosophical reasoning methods by converting ethical intent into ethical action. Students will use the "Giving Voice to Values" (GVV) approach to provide a framework for ethical reasoning. In addition, knowledge of professional values and ethical standards as well as understanding the attributes for exercising professional skepticism are also encompassed.

Introduces the history of art based on the worldclass museum collections in the Boston area. Introduces Ancient Egyptian, Asian, Islamic, Native and South American art, as well as European art. Includes class discussion and weekly field trips to museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Counts towards the art minor.

Drawing requires developing awareness of how and what you see - perceptually, personally and culturally. In this introductory course, students develop formal/technical skills, learn to use various wet and dry media and drawing processes, and stretch the imagination while exploring the complexity of vision.

This introductory studio course immerses you in the evocative and complex world of color and its applications in art, design and culture. Students learn color theory and develop technical, perceptual and conceptual skills through hands-on weekly assignments, both formal and experimental. Working in paint and mixed media, you will explore the interdependent relationship between color and issues of visual communication.

Introduces students to hands-on experience with the design and creation of small abstract and representational sculpture. Explores a broad range of natural and manufactured materials (such as found and neglected objects, cardboard, wire, and plaster) to create mobiles, wall hangings, reliefs, and freestanding sculptures.

Like a poem, the art photograph often uses metaphor, allusion, rhythm, and profound attention to detail. In this course students learn to create artful photographs while acquiring the skills and craft of using a 35mm camera, developing black and white film and making gelatin silver prints in the darkroom. 35mm cameras available for students.

Introduces painting, sculpture, and architecture from Europe and the United States made between 1600 and the present. Explores the careers of key artists and interprets objects from this period, considering such issues as obstacles and opportunities for women artists at various periods, changing views on what art should accomplish in society, and the development of unconventional approaches to art during this century. Uses the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Gardner Museum to study the work of such important artists as Rembrandt, Leyster, Vigee-Lebrun, Cassatt, Monet, O'Keeffe and others.

Offers a more animated perspective to a spatial environment than ART 111. Covers techniques and concepts that may overlap basic drawing. Includes work with a live model in numerous contexts and explores a broad range of media and techniques. Relates the figure to other figures, an environment, or more conceptual interpretations.

Introduces students to the silk-screen process and to its historical roots in advertising, promotion, and propaganda. Students will learn a variety of techniques for screen printing as they study the way artists, communities, and political groups have used silkscreen to get their message across to a wide audience.

Recycle and transform your raw materials into art! This course explores a variety of forms of representation from the 1950s to the present, focusing on painting, mixed media and collage. Students work with traditional (ex: paint, drawing media) and non-traditional materials (ex: recycled and found materials) emphasizing experimentation, culminating in an independent body of work.

Students expand their camera and darkroom skills by engaging in advanced exposure ideas and fiber printing techniques. Students also experiment with darkroom painting and large format Holga cameras. Each student produces a final portfolio of gelatin silver fiber prints. 35mm cameras and a variety of lenses and filters are available.

Examines social constructions of gender in the visual arts from the Renaissance through today, focusing on artists including Artemisia Gentileschi, Rosa Bonheur, Georgia O'Keeffe, Elizabeth Catlett, Judy Chicago and Vaginal Davis. Considers the intersections of race and class with gender, the power dynamics inherent in seeing and being seen, and the role of arts institutions in the creation and reception of art.

Examines the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in depth: the patron who built it, the artworks it holds, and its professional practices today. Using the Gardner as a case study, explores historical and current approaches to curation, connoisseurship, collection building, education, archives, and community outreach. Includes multiple site visits.

What does it mean to be both Black and American? This course examines Black identity, community, and culture from past to present through a range of popular cultural expressions (art, literature, music, TV/film, sports, fashion), considering how Black culture has shaped American culture more broadly.

Examines the unique perspective of health care from the cultural lens appropriate to women of color. Historical, social, environmental, and political factors that contribute to racial and gender disparities in health care are analyzed. Students will develop cultural competency tools for more effective health care delivery.

This course aims to introduce students to key themes, questions, and debates in the field of African American political thought in the United States. Together in discussion, we will explore issues that are so often ignored or displaced in conventional canons of political theory. Some of these subjects include slavery and its aftermath; Black feminism and intersectionality; and concepts of freedom and resistance associated with the Black American political tradition.

The course examines the long Black freedom movement from its early origins in the 1930s and 1940s, through the classical civil rights period of nonviolent direct-action, the Black Power Movement, urban politics of the 1970s and 1980s and mass incarceration, up to contemporary politics in the age of #BLM.<b> </b>

This course focuses on contemporary Black queer poets as conscience, witness, and scribe. We will examine the legacies with whom poets are in conversation and what poets offer in times of profound social distress. Close readings of several key poets will deepen our understanding of what makes social transformation possible; how my survival depends on yours. As June Jordan writes, �These poems/they are things that I do/ in the dark/reaching for you/whoever you are.&#34;

Consent of instructor required.

Examines the scope and variety of violence in the family from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes: (a) a theoretical framework of economics, law, public policy, psychology, and sociology; (b) a cross-cultural understanding of family violence against girls and women; and (c) an exploration of the sociopolitical, legal, and cultural response to family violence. Discussion of the theories used to describe and research family violence that include: violence against women, children, intimate partners, and elderly family members.

Examines the scope and variety of violence in the family from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes: (a) a theoretical framework of economics, law, public policy, psychology, and sociology; (b) a cross-cultural understanding of family violence against girls and women; and (c) an exploration of the sociopolitical, legal, and cultural response to family violence. Discussion of the theories used to describe and research family violence that include: violence against women, children, intimate partners, and elderly family members.