OH007 - Honors US History and Geography (10 units)Currently in development
OH008 - Honors History and Literature through the Ages (10 units) Currently in development; Requirement: Must be concurrently enrolled in OE008 – Expository Writing.
OH010 AP World History (Seminar: 10 units)The AP World History course introduces students to human history, emphasizing the period from about 8,000 B.C.E. to the present. The course explores the economic, social, and political life of the world's peoples with a focus on three themes: technology and the environment; diversity and dominance; and interactions and networks. Students broaden and deepen their knowledge of world history, analyze sources and historical accounts, and answer historical questions. Course materials include a textbook, interpretative essays, and primary sources. Student achievement is evaluated on the basis of quizzes, a notebook, participation in discussions, analytical exercises, examinations, and papers. The course helps students arrive at a better understanding of today’s world based on their knowledge of the past. Co-requisite: OE010 or consent of the instructor
OH011 AP United States History (Seminar: 10 units) The AP US History course introduces students to American history, covering the period from the seventeenth century to the present. The course focuses on political life in America with an emphasis on three main influences on its development: the structure of society, ideas of freedom, and external relations. The lectures highlight the specificity of the American experience by situating national developments in a global context. Students broaden and deepen their knowledge of United States history, analyze primary sources and historical accounts, and create their own interpretations. Course materials include a textbook, interpretative essays, and primary sources (documents, images, sound recordings and film). Student work is evaluated on the basis of a notebook, participation in discussion sections, analytical exercises, examinations, and papers. The course helps students arrive at a better understanding of today’s United States based on knowledge of the past. Prerequisite: OE010 or consent of the instructor
OH030 International and Global History I (Seminar: 5 units, may be repeated once for credit)This advanced course introduces students to selected problems in recent international and global history. Each year the course focuses on a different problem, such as the evolution of the interstate system; the emergence of a global economy; political revolution and stabilization; conflict and peacemaking; nationalism and ethnic identity; and migration and diasporas. The course is taught as a tutorial with few, if any, formal lectures. Historical methods employed in the empirical analysis of international and global issues are covered, and students are required to prepare short written essays to present in class. The course typically begins with a small number of general texts that establish a framework for analysis before turning to particular events or developments. Students may take this course alone or as part of a year-long sequence. Prerequisite: consent of instructor
OH031 International and Global History II (Seminar: 5 units, may be repeated once for credit)Continuation of OH30 International and Global History I. Students who desire to prepare a research paper in history or social sciences may elect to do so, typically completing the bulk of the writing during the spring semester. Prerequisite: OH030 International and Global History I and consent of instructor
UEC20 Economics (Seminar: 10 units)This university-level Economics course (currently under review for approval by Stanford University) focuses on fundamental microeconomics concepts at an early undergraduate level. The course is divided into three sections. Section one focuses on the consumer by first introducing the concepts of utility functions, indifference curves, and firm supply then culminates in the study of market equilibrium and price determination. Standard issues such as taxation, consumer and producer surplus, and Slutsky and Hicksian decompositions are covered. The second section focuses on the producer, introducing the concepts of production function, profit maximization, and the dual problem of cost minimization, factor demand functions, cost curves, competitive market price setting, and monopolistic markets. The third section focuses on the following advanced microeconomic topics: net present value; basic game theory and the prisoner's dilemma; elements of general equilibrium theory, including the Edgeworth box, Pareto efficiency, and elements of welfare theory; and market failures, including externalities and public goods. Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in calculus and consent of the instructor