Prerequisites: approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
A second-level independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design. May be repeated for credit, but not for a total of more than 3 points of degree credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
Topic: Mobile App Development with Android.
Topic: IOT - Intelligent Connected Systems.
This course is required for all applied mathematics majors in the senior year. Prerequisites or corequisites: APMA E4200 and E4204 or their equivalents. For 4 pts. credit, term paper required. Examples of problem areas are nonlinear dynamics, asymptotics, approximation theory, numerical methods, etc. Approximately three problem areas are studied per term.
This course is required for, and can be taken only by, all applied physics majors in the senior year. Discussion of specific and self-contained problems in areas such as applied electrodynamics, physics of solids, and plasma physics. Formal presentation of a term paper required. Topics change yearly.
Prerequisites:
LING W3101.
Syntax - the combination of words - has been at the center of the Chomskyan revolution in Linguistics. This is a technical course which examines modern formal theories of syntax, focusing on later versions of generative syntax (Government and Binding) with secondary attention to alternative models (HPSG, Categorial Grammar).
For more than forty years, second language acquisition (SLA) has been emerging as an independent field of inquiry with its own research agenda and theoretical paradigms. The study of SLA is inherently interdisciplinary, as it draws on scholarship from the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology. This course explores how Chinese is acquired by non-native speakers. Students will learn about general phenomena and patterns during the process of acquiring a new language. They will become familiar with important core concepts, theoretical frameworks, and research practices of the field of SLA, with Chinese as the linguistic focus.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required. Preference to JUNIOR and SOPHOMORE Majors. Fulfills General Education Requirement (GER); Historical Studies (HIS); Reason and Value
Confronts a set of problems and questions attached to the writing of good history by examining the theories and methods historians have devised to address these problems. Its practical focus: to prepare students to tackle the senior thesis and other major research projects. The reading matter for this course crosses cultures, time periods, and historical genres. Fulfills all concentrations within the history major.
In their research, scholars of religion employ a variety of methods to analyze "texts" ranging from historical documents to objects of visual culture. This course acquaints students with both the methods and the materials utilized in the field of religious studies. Through guided exercises, they acquire research skills for utilizing sources and become familiarized with dominant modes of scholarly discourse. The class is organized around a series of research "scavenger hunts" that are due at the start of each week's class and assigned during the discussion section (to be scheduled on the first day of class). There will be an additional class meeting on Thursdays.
Prerequisites: introductory biology sequence, including organismal biology.
A survey of vascular plants with emphasis on features of greatest utility in identifying plants in the field to the family level. This will be coupled with a survey of the major plant communities of northeastern North America and the characteristic species found in each. The course will consist of one lecture and one laboratory per week with several lab sessions extended to accommodate field trips to local and regional natural areas.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. Preregistration required.
Comparative, cross-cultural examination of social organization and historical construction of human reproduction, with emphasis on 20th century. Topics include role of states and local and transnational "stratification" of reproduction by race, class, and citizenship; eugenics; population politics; birth control; kinship as social and biological relationship; maternity; paternity; new reproductive technologies.
Advanced Turkish I is designed to use authentic Turkish materials around projects that are chosen by the student in a research seminar format where students conduct their own research and share it in class in a friendly atmosphere. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Introduction to the use of quantitative techniques in political science and public policy. Topics include descriptive statistics and principles of statistical inference and probability through analysis of variance and ordinary least-squares regression. Computer applications are emphasized.
Both the theory and the practice of international relief and development raise a host of normative as well as descriptive issues. This course will examine recent analyses of the impact of assistance programs on the social and cultural conditions in the developing world. While the focus will be on the economic and political developments, the role of religious communities will also be considered (on both the giving and the receiving ends of the aid transactions).
Prerequisites: four years of college Russian or the equivalent.
Workshop in literary translation from Russian into English focusing on the practical problems of the craft. Each student submits a translation of a literary text for group study and criticism. The aim is to produce translations of publishable quality.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in microeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites: basic data analysis and knowledge of basic calculus and matrix algebra OR concurrent enrollment in
POLS W4360
.
Examines problems encountered in multivariate analysis of cross-sectional and time-series data. Covers fundamentals of probability and statistics and examines problems encountered in multivariate analysis of cross-sectional and time-series data. More mathematical treatment of topics covered in <i>POLS W4910</i> and <i>W4911</i>.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Selected topics in macroeconomics. Selected topics will be posted on the department's webpage.
Based upon the most current understanding of our planet our interactions, and how we make decisions, a new knowledge-based "green" framework is developed for our relationship to our planet and to each other as well as its general implications for human stewardship of our planet. This new knowledge-based framework is explored using case studies, class participation, and term papers on specific current scientific and policy issues like global warming that impact the sustainability and resilience of our planet.
Prerequisites:
ECON 3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
, and sign-up in the department's office. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Analyzing data in a more in-depth fashion than in ECON W3412. Additional estimation techniques include limited dependent variable and simultaneous equation models. Go to the department's undergraduate Seminar Description webpage for a detailed description.
Because the beginnings of jazz and film both date to the last years of the nineteenth century, the two art forms essentially grew up together. The history of both is inseparable from the technological revolutions of the twentieth century, and at least in the United States, from histories of racial representation. We will explore the racial issues raised by American films along with how filmmakers represent gender, American humor, discourses of art and the popular, and the conventions of narrative. We will pay special attention to how all of this changes dramatically throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. After establishing what is most American about jazz and cinema, we will move on to documentary films as well as to films from Europe where many of the dominant American myths about jazz are both perpetuated and transformed. The goal of the course is to understand jazz as a music as well as a cultural practice that has been in constant flux during the last 120 years. The representation of the music and its practitioners in cinema is crucial to an understanding of the music at each of its many cultural moments.
Prerequisites: two years of modern Turkish.
Elementary Ottoman Turkish aims to focus on reading selected authentic print materials that are enjoyable and interesting, such as authentic detective novels, historical documents, and literary materials. The class materials are designed according to the interests of students in a fast-paced learning environment. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a solid background in mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
Physical properties of seawater, water masses and their distribution, sea-air interaction influence on the ocean structure, basic ocean circulation pattern, relation of diffusion and advection with respect to distribution of ocean properties, ocean tides and waves, turbulence, and introduction to ocean dynamics.
Prerequisites: Elementary Ottoman Turkish.
Intermediate Otttoman deals with authentic Ottoman texts from the early 18th and 19th centuries. The class uses Turkish as the primary language for instruction, and students are expected to translate assigned texts into Turkish or English. A reading packet will include various authentic archival materials in rika, talik and divani styles. Whenever possible, students will be given texts that are related to their areas of interest. Various writing styles will be dealt with on Ottoman literature, history, and archival documents. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
Science and technology of conventional and advanced microfabrication techniques for electronics, integrated and discrete components. Topics include diffusion; ion implantation, thin-film growth including oxides and metals, molecular beam and liquid-phase epitaxy; optical and advanced lithography; and plasma and wet etching.
This course is designed to introduce students to the history of emotions. We look at classical and contemporary philosophy and history as well as art and poetry on “the passions” – defined variously as emotions, feelings, physical or non-rational sensations or states of consciousness or affects. We begin by asking what is an emotion, and by considering the various historical and philosophical responses to that question. We then look at a number of key emotions from a similarly eclectic, episodic historical perspective. Among those we look at are such classic affective states as love, pleasure, pain, compassion, anger, and fear and terror, and the rise of later more contemporary ones like stress and anxiety, paranoia and trauma.
Prerequisites: EAEE E4901, E4003, CIEE E4252 or the instructor's approval.
Qualitative and quantitative considerations in engineered environmental biochemical processes. Characterization of multiple microbial reactions in a community and techniques for determining associated kinetic and stoichiometric parameters. Engineering design of several bioreactor configurations employed for biochemical waste treatment. Mathematical modeling of engineered biological reactors using state-of-the-art simulation packages.
This course examines the history of the body in the Atlantic world with a focus on race and gender in North America and the Caribbean. It is designed primarily for students with some background in history, as we will examine a number of primary sources. We will analyze these sources in the context of secondary readings on health and disease, class and labor, transgression and punishment, and the relationship between people and their environment. Through all of these readings we will consider the ways in which race, gender, and bodily difference are constructed over time and space, and reflect on how these categories of difference and power were(and are)culturally specific and subject to change.
This seminar explores the flourishing world of medieval science and scientists in the Byzantine and Islamic empires. Scholars read and wrote books on astronomy, medicine, alchemy, and other subjects in a variety of changing social and political contexts. What was the nature of the relationship between science and empire, between knowledge and power, in Byzantium and the medieval Islamic world? How did specialized knowledge and its bearers serve, subvert, and complicate imperial agendas? What was science understood to entail, and to what end? The course is designed for students interested in the history of science, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern empires, and/or the pre-modern world. It introduces students to medieval Greek and Arabic science and political contexts, from roughly the 7th to the 12th century. Readings from primary sources (in translation) and modern scholarship will be analyzed and discussed with respect to several interrelated themes, including: knowledge in the service of empire; communities of knowledge-producers (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and other); narratives of the history of science and their political significance; and taxonomies of the sciences.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
This course will help guide E3B Ph.D. students towards candidacy by teaching them the skills necessary to be effective and independent scientists. Students will conduct an extensive literature review, write a preliminary dissertation proposal, and present their research ideas to the group on multiple occasions. Students will learn how to give and receive constructive written and oral feedback on their work.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
This course may be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, and other fields.
Supervised, structured noncredit internships provide students with industry experience key to professional advancement in the field.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Special topics arranged as the need and availability arises. Topics are usually offered on a one-time basis. Since the content of this course changes each time it is offered, it may be repeated for credit. Consult the department for section assignment.
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Provides students with the experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects. A list of available research positions is distributed each semester on the major listserv.
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Designed for graduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.