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Through current events and their historical background, I learned about some concepts essential to French and Francophone Studies, among which French slavery, colonialism, decolonization, migration, race relations, globalization, gender, and sexuality. I learned these concepts through reading and writing in French.

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Assignments: 

1. Essai de la République française

In this one-credit course, I learned about the fossil record to shed light on the origin, rise, and fall of dinosaurs. 

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There were no written assignments for this course. 

In this course, I learned about the processes that have shaped human evolution. I looked at the basic principles of evolutionary biology (adaptation, natural selection, and genetics), focused on the ecology and behavior of nonhuman primates, and also learned about the fossil record and how the study of human prehistory informs our understanding of modern humans. 

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Assignments: 

1. Paper 1 – A 300,000-Year-Old Stick: Is It Worth Talking About?

In this one-credit course, I learned about the Earth's climate system and how t times its various components operate to produce ice sheets that cover larger parts of the earth's surface. 

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There were no written assignments for this course. 

In this one-credit course, I learned how to make the most of the University of Michigan by researching resources that the university provides and meeting new people. This was an excellent course to help me get acclimated to the university during my first year. 

 

There were no papers for this course. 

In this one-credit course, I learned about the sciences of global warming, including global radiation balance, geochemistry of natural and anthropogenic greenhouse gases, climate feedbacks, and historical and geological records of climate change. 

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There were no written assignments for this course. 

In this course, I was introduced to the concepts and methods of calculus. 

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There were no written assignments fo this course.