ENCODED MATTER

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 1 p.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Ezio Blasetti
  Info
• 3 points

FIELD STUDY-STAGE PRODUCTION I

• Department: Theatre Arts
• Instructor: Michael Passaro
  Info
• 3-6 points

SECULAR & SPIRITUAL AMERICA

Are Americans becoming more secular or more spiritual (not religious), or both? What are the connections between secularism and what is typically called non-organized religion or the spiritual in the United States?  We will address these questions by looking at some of the historical trajectories that shape contemporary debates and designations (differences) between spiritual, secular and religious.

• Department: Religion
• W 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Courtney Bender
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 4 points

ARTIFICAL ORGANS

Analysis and design of replacements for the heart, kidneys, and lungs. Specification and realization of structures for artificial organ systems.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• F 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Edward F Leonard
  CULPA: 9 Info
• 3 points

RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The resurgence of religion over the past three decades has had a transformative influence globally and within nations. Religious nationalism, fundamentalism, and communalism have arisen to forcefully compete with secular democracy. With the fall of the Soviet bloc and the bilateralism of the Cold War, ethnic particularism, often of a religious character, has emerged as the locus of identity for people on all continents. These rapid changes engendered by a new, often commanding, role for religion challenge the very concept of individual and universal human rights. They raise difficult theoretical and painfully practical questions as to the preservation of individual human rights, and the relationship of democracy to religion. At the same time, recent currents such as economic globalization, the triumph of the free market, and the communications revolution promote individual autonomy, a cornerstone of human rights. There can be no doubt that religion will occupy an increasingly salient role in the social and political life of nations during the course of the 21st century. The relevance of religion to human rights in our time cannot be undervalued. The course examines the relationship of religion to human rights from several standpoints, including religion's role in abetting intolerance, religious minorities as victims of human rights violations, and religion as a framer of human rights ideals which inspire action.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Joseph N Chuman
  Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT

Prerequisites: Department Permission plus a knowledge of Matlab or equivalent
Introduction to human spaceflight from a systems engineering perspective. Historical and current space programs and spacecraft. Motivation, cost and rationale for human space exploration. Overview of space environment needed to sustain human life and health, including physiological and psychological concerns in space habitat. Astronaut selection and training processes, spacewalking, robotics, mission operations, and future program directions. Systems integration for successful operation of a spacecraft. Highlights from current events and space research, Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope, and International Space Station (ISS). Includes a design project to assist International Space Station astronauts. Registration is subject to instructor approval. Students interested in registering for this course should submit a registration form here: http://goo.gl/forms/qK7Q3uVw5H

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• W 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Michael J Massimino
  Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED SANSKRIT II

Prerequisites: Two years of Sanskrit or the instructor's permission.
The two levels of advanced Sanskrit are given in alternate years. In 2015-2016, court literature (fall) and literary criticism (spring) will be offered; in 2016-2017, philosophy. Close reading of major works, exploring both philological and literary-theoretical aspects of the texts. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.

• Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
• TR 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Guy Leavitt
  Info
• 4 points

INTEGRATED PARAMETRIC DELIVERY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John Lee
  Info
• 1.5 points

HACKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John H Locke
  Info
• 1.5 points

RANDOM SIGNALS & NOISE

Prerequisites: IEOR E3658 or equivalent.
Characterization of stochastic processes as models of signals and noise; stationarity, ergodicity, correlation functions, and power spectra. Gaussian processes as models of noise in linear and nonlinear systems; linear and nonlinear transformations of random processes; orthogonal series representations. Applications to circuits and devices, to communication, control, filtering, and prediction.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Irving Kalet
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 12 Info
• 3 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & INT ORGANIZATNS

This course examines the role of international organizations in the promotion and protection of internationally recognized human rights norms. In particular, the course surveys contending approaches on the importance of international organizations in world politics; explores the constitution, history and function of various international organizations for the promotion/protection of human rights and studies the way in which the human rights discourse has been increasingly intersecting with the peace and security and the sustainable development discourses in the work of these organizations; provides an overview of the growing interaction between international organizations and NGOs; and assesses the record of these organizations' monitoring and enforcement mechanisms in the area of human rights.

• Department: Institute for Study of Human Rights
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: George Andreopoulos
  Info
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL METHODS I

Prerequisites:
STAT W4105
,
STAT W4840
.
This course covers the non-stochastic process portions of the MLC/3L exam, and is about pricing and reserving of life insurance. Topics include actuarial present value, the equivalence principle, premiums, three methods of calculating reserves, joint life and multiple hazard.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL METHODS I

ACTUARIAL METHODS I (ONLINE)

Prerequisites:
STAT W4105
,
STAT W4840
.
This course covers the non-stochastic process portions of the MLC/3L exam, and is about pricing and reserving of life insurance. Topics include actuarial present value, the equivalence principle, premiums, three methods of calculating reserves, joint life and multiple hazard.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 8:10 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL METHODS II

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL METHODS II

ACTUARIAL METHODS II (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL MODELS

Prerequisites:
STAT W4840
,
STAT W4107
.
This course covers portions of the C/4 exam not covered elsewhere in the curriculum. Topics may include Bayesian statistics, credibility, and risk measures.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• 3 points

ACTUARIAL MODELS

ACTUARIAL MODELS (ONLINE)

Prerequisites:
STAT W4840
,
STAT W4107
.
This course covers portions of the C/4 exam not covered elsewhere in the curriculum. Topics may include Bayesian statistics, credibility, and risk measures.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• R 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites: CSEE W3827 or equivalent.
Focuses on advanced topics in modern computer architecture, illustrated by recent case studies. Fundamentals of quantitative analysis. Pipelined, out-of-order, and speculative execution. Superscalar, VLIW and vector processors. Embedded processors. Memory hierarchy design. Multiprocessors and thread-level parallelism. Synchronization and cache coherence protocols. Interconnection networks.

• Department: Computer Science
• R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Simha Sethumadhavan
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

SUSTAINABILITY AND PRESERVATN

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• R 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Erica C Avrami
  Info
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC PROC-ACTUARIAL SCI

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• W 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
• 3 points

STOCHASTIC PROC-ACTUARIAL SCI

STOCH PROC ACTU (ONLINE)

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

Introduction to the mathematical tools and algorithmic implementation for representation and processing of digital pictures, videos, and visual sensory data. Image representation, filtering, transform, quality enhancement, restoration, feature extraction, object segmentation, motion analysis, classification, and coding for data compression. A series of programming assignments reinforces material from the lectures.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Christine P Hendon
  Wikipedia h-index: 21 Info
• 3 points

LINES NOT SPLINES

DRAWING IS INVENTION I

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch
  Info
• 1.5 points

FUNCTIONAL IMAGING BRAIN

Prerequisites: APMA E2101, APMA E4200, ELEN E3801, or instructor's permission.
Fundamentals of modern medical functional imaging. In depth exploration of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), arterial spin labeling (ASL), and positron emission tomography (PET). Human brain anatomy, physiology, and neurophysiological bases underlying each functional imaging. Statistical and digital signal processing methods specific for functional image analysis. Final cumulative project requiring coding in MATLAB, Python, R, or C.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• M 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Qolamreza Razlighi
  Info
• 3 points

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Prerequisites:
CSEE W4823
.
Embedded system design and implementation combining hardware and software. I/O, interfacing, and peripherals. Weekly laboratory sessions and term project on design of a microprocessor-based embedded system including at least one custom peripheral. Knowledge of C programming and digital logic required.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Stephen A Edwards
  CULPA: 21 h-index: 35 Info
• 3 points

THEORY OF INTEREST

• Department: Statistics
• T 6:10 p.m.-8:55 p.m.
• W 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Duncan Szeto
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: Tahir M Qadir
  Info
• 3 points

ALGORITHMS & URBANISMS:SIMCITY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
  Info
• 1.5 points

ALGORITHMS & URBANISMS II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• M 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
• Instructor: Luc B Wilson
  Info
• 1.5 points

PLAY

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
• Instructor: Farzin Lotfi-Jam
  Info
• 1.5 points

NAT SECURITY STRAT OF MID EAST

At the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East is home to many diverse peoples, with ancient and proud cultures, in varying stages of political and socio-economic development, often times in conflict. Now in a state of historic flux, the Arab Spring has transformed the Middle Eastern landscape, with great consequence for the national security strategies of the countries of the region and their foreign relations. The primary source of the world's energy resources, the Middle East remains the locus of the terror-WMD-fundamentalist nexus, which continues to pose a significant threat to both regional and international security. The course surveys the national security challenges facing the region's primary players (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinians and Turkey, Jordan) and how the revolutions of the past year will affect them. Unlike many Middle East courses, which focus on US policy in the region, the course concentrates on the regional players' perceptions of the threats and opportunities they face and on the strategies they have adopted to deal with them. It thus provides an essential vantage point for all those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of a region, which stands at the center of many of the foreign policy issues of our era. The course is designed for those with a general interest in the Middle East, especially those interested in national security issues, students of comparative politics and future practitioners, with an interest in "real world" international relations and national security.

• Department: Political Science
• M 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Charles D Freilich
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

QUANTITATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• 3 points

MUSEUM PRAC/WRITING-CATALOGUES

• Department: Art History and Archaeology
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Marcus Burke
  Info
• 4 points

HACKING THE URBAN EXP II

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• T 7 p.m.-9 p.m.
• Instructor: John H Locke
  Info
• 1.5 points

ORAL COMM FOR ACTUARIAL PROF

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• F 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• 3 points

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS: BUSINESS

• Department: Business
• MW 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandy L Singer
  Info
• 3 points

COGNITIVE MECH & ECON BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites:
ECON W3211, W3213; STAT 1201.

Standard economic theory seeks to explain human behavior (especially in "economic" settings, such as markets) in terms of rational choice, which means that the choices that are made can be predicted on the basis of what would best serve some coherent objective, under an objectively correct understanding of the predictable consequences of alternative actions. Observed behavior often seems difficult to reconcile with a strong form of this theory, even if incentives clearly have some influence on behavior; and the course will discuss empirical evidence (both from laboratory experiments and observations "in the field") for some well-established "anomalies." But beyond simply cataloguing anomalies for the standard theory, the course will consider the extent to which departures from a strong version of rational choice theory can be understood as reflecting cognitive processes that are also evident in other domains such as sensory perception; examples from visual perception will receive particular attention. And in addition to describing what is known about how the underlying mechanisms work (something that is understood in more detail in sensory contexts than in the case of value-based decision making), the course will consider the extent to which such mechanisms --- while "suboptimal" from a normative standpoint that treats perfect knowledge of one's situation as costless and automatic --- might actually represent efficient uses of the limited information and bounded information-processing resources available to actual people (or other organisms). Thus the course will consider both ways in which the realism of economic analysis may be improved by taking into account cognitive processes, and ways in which understanding of cognitive processes might be advanced by considering the "economic" problem of efficient use of limited (cognitive) resources.

• Department: Economics
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Michael D Woodford
  Wikipedia Info
• 4 points

THESIS DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

Prerequisites:
EEEB G4850
.
Incoming M.A. students aiming for the thesis-based program are guided through the process of defining a research question, finding an advisor, and preparing a research proposal. By the end of the semester the students will have a written research proposal to submit to potential advisors for revision. Subject to a positive review of the research proposal, students are allowed to continue with the thesis-based program and will start working with their advisor. The course will also provide an opportunity to develop basic skills that will facilitate the reminder of the student's stay at E3B and will help in their future careers.

• Department: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua A Drew
  Info
• 3 points

MEASURE

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• W 8 p.m.-10 p.m.
• 1.5 points

SOC OF CHOSON KOREA 1392-1910

Major cultural, political, social, economic and literary issues in the history of this 500-year long period. Reading and discussion of primary texts (in translation) and major scholarly works. All readings will be in English.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• M 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Jungwon Kim
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 4 points

U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS

• Department: Political Science
• T 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Justin Reeves
  Info
• 4 points

CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY

The course describes the major elements of Chinese foreign policy today, in the context of their development since 1949. We seek to understand the security-based rationale of policy as well as other factors - organizational, cultural, perceptual, and so on - that influence Chinese foreign policy. We analyze decision-making processes that affect Chinese foreign policy, China's relations with various countries and regions, Chinese policy toward key functional issues in international affairs, how the rise of China is affecting global power relations, and how other actors are responding. The course pays attention to the application of international relations theories to the problems we study, and also takes an interest in policy issues facing decision-makers in China as well as those facing decision-makers in other countries who deal with China.

• Department: Political Science
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Andrew J Nathan
  CULPA: 44 Wikipedia h-index: 40 Info
• 4 points

RUSSIA AND THE WEST

International Relations
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 30 students. L-course sign-up through
eBear
.
Exploration of Russia's ambiguous relationship with the Western world. Cultural, philosophical, and historical explanations will be examined alongside theories of domestic political economy and international relations, to gain an understanding of current events. Select cases from the Tsarist, Soviet, and recent periods will be compared and contrasted, to see if patterns emerge.

• Department: Political Science @Barnard
• MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kimberly Marten
  CULPA: 71 Wikipedia h-index: 19 Info
• 3 points

ECOLOGY & ECON IN MODERN CHINA

This seminar examines the historical processes of China’s engagement with its natural environment from the pre-modern period to the modern era. China’s rapid economic growth during the last three decades has generated immense wealth and opportunities. Yet, it has also caused serious environmental degradation within and beyond the Chinese borders, including soil contamination, air and water pollution, and deforestation and desiccation. In recent years, the magnitude and global nature of China’s environmental problems have drawn growing attention and rais3d concerns over health risks worldwide. At the same time, there has also been a renewed interest in better understanding China’s past and the historical roots of the environmental challenges in present-day China. This course aims to situate China’s contemporary environmental changes in a broader historical context and examines the relationships between the state, society, and the environment over the last three millennia of Chinese history Themes covered will include visions of the environment in early Chinese thought, irrigation and flood control, and population growth and urbanization. The general course format combines critical reading and active discussion. Some background knowledge of Chinese history will be helpful, but is not required.

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• T 12:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
• Instructor: Masato Hasegawa
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 4 points

SKILLS PRACTICUM

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• U 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Anderson
  h-index: 77 Info
• 2 points

HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA II

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Eugenia Lean
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

CHEMISTRY OF CONTINENTL WATERS

Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a solid background in basic chemistry.
Introduction to geochemical cycles involving the atmosphere, land, and biosphere; chemistry of precipitation, weathering reactions, rivers, lakes, estuaries, and groundwaters; students are introduced to the use of major and minor ions as tracers of chemical reactions and biological processes that regulate the chemical composition of  continental waters.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Sciences
• TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Robert Anderson
  h-index: 77 Info
• 3 points

APPLIED RESEARCH

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• U 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Instructor: Naira Musallam
  Info
• 2 points

BIOPHARMACEUTICALS PRODUCT DEV

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• R 4:10 p.m.-6:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Haro Hartounian
  Info
• 3 points

MUSIC SIGNAL PROCESSING

Prerequisites: ELEN E3801, ELEN E4810, or the equivalent.
An investigation of the applications of signal processing to music audio, spanning the synthesis of musical sounds (including frequency modulation (FM), additive sinusoidal synthesis, and linear predictive coding (LPC)), the modification of real and synthetic sounds (including reverberation and time/pitch scaling), and the analysis of music audio to extract musical information (including pitch tracking, chord transcription, and music matching). Emphasis is placed on practical, hands-on experimentation, with a wide range of software implementations introduced and modified within the class.

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel P Ellis
  Info
• 3 points

PROSEMINAR IN ACTUARIAL SCI

Industry representatives conduct a series of noncredit seminar sessions designed to expose students to the actuarial profession as well as to address a range of topics in actuarial science.

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• TR 4:10 p.m.-6 p.m.
• Instructor: Lina Xu
  Info
• 2 points

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOC-GRAD

INTRO TO COMP LIT & SOCIETY

This course introduces beginning graduate students to the changing conceptions in the comparative study of literatures and societies, paying special attention to the range of interdisciplinary methods in comparative scholarship. Students are expected to have preliminary familiarity with the discipline in which they wish to do their doctoral work. Our objective is to broaden the theoretical foundation of comparative studies to negotiate a conversation between literary studies and social sciences. Weekly readings are devoted to intellectual inquiries that demonstrate strategies of research, analysis, and argumentation from a multiplicity of disciplines and fields, such as anthropology, history, literary criticism, architecture, political theory, philosophy, art history, and media studies. Whenever possible, we will invite faculty from the above disciplines and fields to visit our class and share their perspectives on assigned readings. Students are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities and explore fields and disciplines outside their primary focus of study and specific discipline.

• Department: Comparative Literature and Society, Center for
• M 2:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 4 points

MASTERS RESEARCH OR PROJECT

Prerequisites:
approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.

Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• Instructor: Shipra Agrawal
  h-index: 24 Info
• Instructor: Daniel Bienstock
  h-index: 38 Info
• Instructor: Jose Blanchet
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Agostino Capponi
  h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Maria Chudnovsky
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Antonius B Dieker
  CULPA: 10 h-index: 19 Info
• Instructor: Adam N Elmachtoub
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• Instructor: Emanuel Derman
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Guillermo M Gallego
  CULPA: 10 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Donald Goldfarb
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Vineet Goyal
  h-index: 21 Info
• Instructor: Martin Haugh
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Xuedong He
  CULPA: 3 Info
• Instructor: Garud Iyengar
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 30 Info
• Instructor: Soulaymane Kachani
  CULPA: 12 Info
• Instructor: Steven Kou
  CULPA: 13 Info
• Instructor: Siu Tang Leung
  Info
• Instructor: Mariana Olvera-Cravioto
  CULPA: 11 Info
• Instructor: Jay Sethuraman
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• Instructor: Clifford Stein
  CULPA: 31 Wikipedia h-index: 53 Info
• Instructor: Van Anh Truong
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ward Whitt
  CULPA: 9 Wikipedia h-index: 102 Info
• Instructor: David D Yao
  CULPA: 5 Info
• Instructor: Yuan Zhong
  Info
• Instructor: Jenny S Mak
  Info
• 1-3 points

TOPICS IN JAZZ STUDIES

JAZZ & THE LIT IMAGINATION

(Lecture). This course will focus on the ways that jazz has been a source of inspiration for a variety of twentieth-century literatures, from the blues poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary fiction. We will consider in detail the ways that writers have discovered or intuited formal models and political implications in black music. Rather than simply assume that influence only travels in one direction, we will also take up some literary efforts (including autobiography, poetry, historiography, and criticism) by musicians themselves. What are the links between musical form and literary innovation? How can terms of musical analysis (improvisation, rhythm, syncopation, harmony) be applied to the medium of writing? How does music suggest modes of social interaction or political potential to be articulated in language? How does one evaluate the performance of a poem (in an oral recitation or musical setting) in relation to its text? Materials may include writings and recordings by Jacques Attali, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neale Hurston, Sterling Brown, Kurt Schwitters, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Ella Fitzgerald, William Melvin Kelley, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Gayl Jones, Michael Ondaatje, Ed Pavlic, Joseph Jarman, Nathaniel Mackey, and Harryette Mullen, among others. Requirements: weekly response papers, a 5-7 pg. midterm paper and a 9-12 pg. final paper.

• Department: Jazz Studies, Center for
• TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
• Instructor: Brent H Edwards
  CULPA: 6 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CAPSTONE PROJECT

• Department: School of Professional Studies
• Instructor: Craig Irvine
  Info
• 2-4 points

ADV TPCS-EARLY MOD PHILOSOPHY

DESCARTES

Focuses either on an important topic in the history of early modern philosophy (e.g., skepticism, causation, mind, body) or on the philosophy of a major figure in the period (e.g., Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Gassendi, Conway).

• Department: Philosophy
• T 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Elliot S Paul
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

ADV TPCS-EARLY MOD PHILOSOPHY

LOCKE & HIS INTERLOCUTORS

John Locke has been described as "the least consistent of all the great philosophers." Since his own day scholars have worked to understand the relation between Locke's contributions to a diversity of fields, including natural, political, and moral philosophy. Premised on the notion that philosophical inconsistency can sometimes be resolved by a careful appraisal of motives, this seminar examines several major themes in Locke's work by reading him alongside his influences, his interlocutors and his later critics. Focusing on his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), we will concentrate on Locke's empiricism; his ontology, paying particular attention to his theory of personal identity; his views on rational religion; and his contributions to education.

• Department: Philosophy
• R 10:10 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Kathryn C Tabb
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

UNPAID INTERNSHIP

• Department: Statistics
• Instructor: Demissie Alemayehu
  h-index: 14 Info
• 1 points

DIRECTED READINGS

Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.

• Department: Classics
• Instructor: Collomia Charles
  CULPA: 6 Info
• Instructor: Helene P Foley
  CULPA: 18 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Joseph A Howley
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth K Irwin
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: John T Ma
  CULPA: 4 Info
• Instructor: Paraskevi Martzavou
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Ellen Morris
  CULPA: 10 Info
• Instructor: Dan-El P Peralta
  Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Elizabeth W Scharffenberger
  CULPA: 20 Info
• Instructor: Seth R Schwartz
  CULPA: 1 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: Katharina Volk
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Gareth Williams
  CULPA: 7 Info
• Instructor: Nancy Worman
  CULPA: 23 Wikipedia Info
• Instructor: James E Zetzel
  CULPA: 8 Info
• Instructor: Francesco de Angelis
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

PROJECTS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

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.

• Department: Computer Science
• 0 points

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Basic microbiological principles; microbial metabolism; identification and interactions of microbial populations responsible for the biotransformation of pollutants; mathematical modeling of microbially mediated processes; biotechnology and engineering applications using microbial systems for pollution control.

• Department: Earth and Environmental Engineering
• TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
• Instructor: Kartik Chandran
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 51 Info
• 3 points