I realize that "Modes of Assertion" is a rather cryptic title for …
I realize that "Modes of Assertion" is a rather cryptic title for the course. What we will explore are ways of modulating the force of an assertion. This will engage us in formal semantics and pragmatics, the theory of speech acts and performative utterances, and quite a bit of empirical work on a not-too-well understood complex of data. It is obvious that he made a big mistake. If you're like me you didn't feel much of a difference. But now see what happens when you embed the two sentences: We have to fire him, because he obviously made a big mistake. We have to fire him, because it is obvious that he made a big mistake. One of the two examples is unremarkable, the other suggests that the reason he needs to be fired is not that he made a big mistake but the fact that it is obvious that he did. We will try to understand what is going on here and look at related constructions not just in English but also German (with its famous discourse particles like ja ) and Quechua and Tibetan (with their systems of evidentiality-marking, as recently studied in dissertations from Stanford and UCLA).
This course focuses on financing tools and program models to support local …
This course focuses on financing tools and program models to support local economic development. It includes an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development; business accounting; financial statement analysis; federal economic development programs; and public finance tools. Program models covered include revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro enterprise funds, and the use of the Community Reinvestment Act to leverage bank financing.
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Digital …
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets are designed to help students develop their critical thinking skills and draw diverse material from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Each set includes an overview, ten to fifteen primary sources, links to related resources, and a teaching guide. These sets were created and reviewed by the teachers on the DPLA's Education Advisory Committee.
Through a combination of lectures, cases, and class discussions the subject examines …
Through a combination of lectures, cases, and class discussions the subject examines the economic and political conflict between transportation and the environment. Investigates the role of government regulation, green business and transportation policy as a facilitator of economic development and environmental sustainability. Analyzes a variety of international policy problems including government-business relations, the role of interest groups, non-governmental organizations, and the public and media in the regulation of the automobile; sustainable development; global warming; politics of risk and siting of transport facilities; environmental justice; equity; as well as transportation and public health in the urban metropolis. Provides students with an opportunity to apply transportation and planning methods to develop policy alternatives in the context of environmental politics.
The main objective of this course is to give broad insight into …
The main objective of this course is to give broad insight into the different facets of transportation systems, while providing a solid introduction to transportation demand and cost analyses. As part of the core in the Master of Science in Transportation program, the course will not focus on a specific transportation mode but will use the various modes to apply the theoretical and analytical concepts presented in the lectures and readings. Introduces transportation systems analysis, stressing demand and economic aspects. Covers the key principles governing transportation planning, investment, operations and maintenance. Introduces the microeconomic concepts central to transportation systems. Topics covered include economic theories of the firm, the consumer, and the market, demand models, discrete choice analysis, cost models and production functions, and pricing theory. Application to transportation systems include congestion pricing, technological change, resource allocation, market structure and regulation, revenue forecasting, public and private transportation finance, and project evaluation; covering urban passenger transportation, freight, aviation and intelligent transportation systems."
This Trinity College Library collection comprises more than 1500 images of people, …
This Trinity College Library collection comprises more than 1500 images of people, places and events related to Hartford, CT, and its history. A large portion of the collection resulted from efforts of the former Trinity College Hartford Studies Project to preserve the abandoned photographic archive of a now defunct Hartford newspaper. At that time the photographs were reproduced on slide film, with the slides later digitized by Trinity College Library for this collection. The photographs reside at Hartford Public Library.
What is economics and why should you spend your time learning it? …
What is economics and why should you spend your time learning it? After all, there are other disciplines you could be studying, and other ways you could be spending your time. As the Bring it Home feature just mentioned, making choices is at the heart of what economists study, and your decision to take this course is as much an economic decision as anything else.
Economics is probably not what you think it is. It is not primarily about money or finance. It is not primarily about business. It is not mathematics. What is it then? It is both a subject area and a way of viewing the world.
This course is for students who want to know how the dollars …
This course is for students who want to know how the dollars we spend on national security relate to military forces, systems, and policy choices, and who wish to develop a personal tool kit for framing and assessing defense policy alternatives.
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Describe the terms of the Wilmot ProvisoDiscuss why the Free-Soil Party objected to the westward expansion of slaveryExplain why sectional and political divisions in the United States grewDescribe the terms of the Compromise of 1850
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain why …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain why American settlers in Texas sought independence from MexicoDiscuss early attempts to make Texas independent of MexicoDescribe the relationship between Anglo-Americans and Tejanos in Texas before and after independence
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the significance of the Louisiana PurchaseDescribe the terms of the Adams-Onís TreatyDescribe the role played by the filibuster in American expansion
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the causes of the Mexican-American WarDescribe the outcomes of the war in 1848, especially the Mexican CessionDescribe the effect of the California Gold Rush on westward expansion
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain why …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain why the North and South differed over the admission of Missouri as a stateExplain how the admission of new states to the Union threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in Congress
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how economic power helped to expand America’s empire in ChinaDescribe how the foreign partitioning of China in the last decade of the nineteenth century influenced American policy
Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of EmpireThe Spanish-American War and Overseas EmpireEconomic …
Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of EmpireThe Spanish-American War and Overseas EmpireEconomic Imperialism in East AsiaRoosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign PolicyTaft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain the meaning of “big stick” foreign policyDescribe Theodore Roosevelt’s use of the “big stick” to construct the Panama CanalExplain the role of the United States in ending the Russo-Japanese War
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how …
By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how William Howard Taft used American economic power to protect the nation’s interests in its new empire
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