Introduction to Australian society, history, culture, politics, and identity. Social and cultural framework and working understanding of Australia in relationship to the focus on coastal environment in other program courses. Field trips.
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Key features of Chinese society and their applications to Chinese business culture from a sociological perspective. Structural differences between Chinese and U.S. societies and their social, economic, and cultural implications. Emerging patterns in areas such as retailing and consumer behaviors, work relations and management, and business negotiation and collaboration.
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Attend one to two performances each week; perhaps meet some of the theater artists involved; conduct extensive debates about the plays viewed, the achievements of the director, the designer, the music employed (if applicable), and the performers.
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Archaeology, history and ethnography of the aboriginal hunter gatherers of southern Africa, the San people. Formative development of early modern humans and prehistory of hunters in southern Africa before the advent of herding societies; rock paintings and engravings of the subcontinent as situated in this history. Spread of pastoralism throughout Africa. Problems facing the descendants of recent hunter gatherers and herders in southern Africa, the Khoisan people.
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Influence and position of women in the history of Florence as revealed in its art. Sculptural, pictorial, and architectural sources from a social, historical, and art historical point of view. Themes: the virgin mother (middle ages); the goddess of beauty (Botticelli to mannerism); the grand duchess (late Renaissance, Baroque); the lady, the woman (19th-20th centuries).
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How various segments of Japanese society view the war in Asia, where fault lines lie, and what attempts have been made to achieve reconciliation. Topics include: origins of the Asia-Pacific War; foreign and domestic images of Japan's wartime actions; American Occupation policy and the Tokyo war crimes trial; impact of peace movements and the Cold War; the emergence of conflicting postwar narratives about the war; Asian perceptions of postwar Japan; the institutionalization of public memory; attempts and failures at reconciliation with Japan's neighbors; comparisons with Europe.
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May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: three years of Spanish at Stanford or placement.
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Relations between Russia and the U.S. since the eighteenth century with an introduction covering the period prior to the American Revolution.
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Key periods in the development of the learned book, including medieval manuscripts, the onset of printing and incunabula, the Bible, early modern scientific works, periodicals, and reference books. The author's economic and legal status, evolution of the book's form and structure, role of publishing technologies, economics of publishing, and the nature of the readership. Recent developments in digital access to related scholarly resources and the contribution that these networked and collaborative environments are making to developments in scholarship.
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Students participate in every aspect of theater presentation, including study of texts, scene work, stage management, and acting. Possible-end-of quarter performance in a Parisian theater house. Objectives: explore French theater and texts through dramatic processes; improve French language skills and pronunciation; immersion in a collaborative and bicultural project with French students from other institutions in Paris. No experience required. In French.
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Physical, ecological, and human geography of Chile. Perceptions of the Chilean territory and technologies of study. Flora, fauna, and human adaptations to regional environments. Guest lectures; field trips; workshops.
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Three quarter sequence; restricted to and required of SLE students. Comprehensive study of the intellectual foundations of the western tradition in dialogue with eastern, indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives. The foundations of the modern world, from late antiquity through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution. Authors include Dante, Descartes, Shakespeare, and texts from Chinese and Islamic traditions.
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Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include how activists, nutritionists, food scientists, chemical companies, and legislative bodies articulate their concerns and argue their positions and how agribusiness and government respond to consumer concerns about food produced with the aid of chemicals. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
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Political, social, and cultural events from the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of WW I. Key literary texts and pictorial representations; the development of the main trends of this period, idealism and realism, as artistic and moral principles of a fecund cultural era.
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This course gives you perspective on key accounting concepts and role of accounting in markets and firms. You will learn the structure of financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements, and the accrual basis of accounting. In addition, you will cover the role of accounting numbers in providing information to investors and managers. Finally, you will assess the value created by a business or business segment, and the distinction between economic and accounting profitability.
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This course develops students' ability to read, understand, and use corporate financial statements. The course is oriented toward the user of financial accounting data (rather than the preparer) and emphasizes the reconstruction and interpretation of economic events from published accounting reports. The advanced sections are geared toward students with some familiarity in dealing with financial statements and allows for deeper coverage and discussion in class.
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A characteristic of business is the extensive use of accounting data. The financial accounting course has the general objective of developing students' understanding of the nature, scope, and limitations of accounting information. To achieve this objective the course attempts to: (1) develop students' understanding of the conceptual accounting framework, including the objectives of financial reporting, and (2) develop students' ability to understand and critically evaluate the financial disclosures made by corporations. An issue of particular interest will be the managerial incentive aspects of accounting information and disclosures.
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This course covers microeconomic concepts relevant to managerial decision making. Topics include: demand and supply analysis; consumer demand theory; production theory; price discrimination; perfect competition; partial equilibrium welfare analysis; externalities and public goods; risk aversion and risk sharing; hidden information and signaling; moral hazard and incentives; game theory; oligopoly; and auctions.
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