Topic: Machine Learning.
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:
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.
As of academic year 2016-17, this course is now MDES W3902. No P/D/F or R credit is allowed for this class.
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.
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: M.A. standing.
The student will complete the dissertation for CLPH G4915 under the guidance of one assigned professor, meeting with the professor regularly thought the semester in question. At the semester’s end, the dissertation-work will be graded not just by the professor-in-charge, but also by at least one other departmental professor; where appropriate, the professor-in-charge will be able to require the student to defend the dissertation in a viva voce examination that will involve at least two examining professors. There will be no additional midterm or final examination, but the student will receive a letter grade based on assessment of the finished dissertation alone.
Prerequisites: M.A. standing.
The student will complete the dissertation for CLPH G4915 under the guidance of one assigned professor, meeting with the professor regularly thought the semester in question. At the semester’s end, the dissertation-work will be graded not just by the professor-in-charge, but also by at least one other departmental professor; where appropriate, the professor-in-charge will be able to require the student to defend the dissertation in a viva voce examination that will involve at least two examining professors. There will be no additional midterm or final examination, but the student will receive a letter grade based on assessment of the finished dissertation alone.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
(or
POLS 4711
),
W4370
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Required for majors in the joint program between political science and economics. Provides a forum in which students can integrate the economics and political science approach to political economy. The theoretical tools learned in political economy are applied: the analysis of a historical episode and the empirical relation between income distribution and politics on one side and growth on the other.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
W3213
,
W3412
(or
POLS 4711
),
W4370
. Registration information is posted on the department's Seminar Sign-up webpage.
Required for majors in the joint program between political science and economics. Provides a forum in which students can integrate the economics and political science approach to political economy. The theoretical tools learned in political economy are applied: the analysis of a historical episode and the empirical relation between income distribution and politics on one side and growth on the other.
This course will examine the history of innovation in plants, animals, and human genes and the arrangements that innovators have devised through the law and by other means to establish and protect intellectual property rights in the fruits of their labors. Attending mainly though not exclusively to the United States, it will probe the history of these two subjects both in their own right and their connections to each other and the larger social, economic, and political context from the late eighteenth century to the present. In the first half of the course, which will run to about 1950, we will consider the history of plant and animal breeding and the role in establishing and maintaining intellectual property rights in plants and animals of devices such as breeder's associations, paintings, contracts, trade secrets, and the Plant Patent Act of 1930 which provided the first patent coverage of any type of living organisms in the world. The second half of the course, which will run from c. 1950 to the present, will cover in part advances in plant breeding and the enlargement of intellectual property protection for plants both in the U.S. and Europe through the creation of the plant variety protection system. The bulk of the second half will be devoted to the rise of genetic engineering, statutory and case law establishing patent protection for living organisms in the U.S. and Europe, the biotechnologies of medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture, and the controversies surrounding these developments, including the legal battles over the patenting of human DNA, in the context of globalization.
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: Physics W1201, Chemistry W1403, Calculus III, or equivalent or the instructor's permission.
EESC W2100
preferred.
Physical and chemical processes determining atmospheric composition and the implications for climate and regional air pollution. Atmospheric evolution and human influence; basics of greenhouse effect, photolysis, reaction kinetics; atmospheric transport of trace species; stratospheric ozone chemistry; tropospheric hydrocarbon chemistry; oxidizing power, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, mercury cycles; chemistry-climate-biosphere interactions; aerosols, smog, acid rain.
How did Asians abroad contribute and respond to key challenges of international society and global politics from the 19th century to the present? This course offers a panoramic comparison of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Vietnamese and Russian transnationalism, its promise as well as its perils. Through a combination of historical primary sources and interdisciplinary literature, we will discuss how adults, students and children engaged with transnational crises: planning revolutions overseas, experiencing expulsion, exile and other dilemmas. No prior historical knowledge is required; those with an incipient interest in migration, refugee studies and humanitarian disasters are particularly welcome.
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.
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: a good background in the physical sciences.
Physical properties of water and air. Overview of the stratification and circulation of Earth's ocean and atmosphere and their governing processes; ocean-atmosphere interaction; resultant climate system; natural and anthropogenic forced climate change.
For the Greeks, a pharmakon could be both medicine and poison. The German alchemist Paracelsus went even further: ”All things are poisons,” he famously wrote, “and nothing is without poison.” Today, we tend to use different words to differentiate “medicines,” “poisons,” and “drugs” - but as this class will explore, the histories of these three categories have more in common than we might think. Readings for this class will range from the “Poison King” Mithridates I of Pergamum to the theories of Paracelsus, the techniques of early modern assassins, the use of poisons as a form of resistance by African slaves, and finally the emergence of the discipline of toxicology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. No prior knowledge in poisons is required, but students should have an interest in premodern history and/or the life sciences.
Prerequisites:
ECON W3211
,
ECON W3213
,
ECON W3412
. Students will be contacted by the Economics department for pre-enrollment.
Explores topics in the philosophy of economics such as welfare, social choice, and the history of political economy. Sometimes the emphasis is primarily historical and someimes on analysis of contemporary economic concepts and theories.
For students who want to do independent study of topics not covered by normal departmental offerings. The student must find a faculty sponsor and work out a plan of study; a copy should be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies.
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.
Common sense tells us that cold is a basic fact of existence: cold can be seen registered on a thermometer, or felt by stepping out of doors on a winter’s day. But what is cold? This is a question that has fascinated scientists and engineers for at least the last few hundred years. Beginning with Francis Bacon’s famous experiments on frozen chickens, this course follows a frosty trail through experimental science, polar exploration, and social and environmental engineering from the seventeenth century to the present day, asking along the way, how cold itself functioned as an object of scientific inquiry, a basic element of the natural world, and a potential source of economic profit. We will ask, how did lay observers and scientific experts define cold, and how did these understandings change over time? To what extent did temporal and geographic context shape understandings of cold? Was cold the same entity or experience for ocean voyagers becalmed in the tropics in the 1840s as it was for Antarctic explorers at the turn of the twentieth century? What was the relationship between embodied experience and experimental knowledge for people interested in making sense of cold? Between sensation and measurement? Above all, what is cold? And what does it mean to contemplate it in an age of global warming? Students in this course will explore these questions in the context of the expansion of the West and the globalization of western science during the early modern and modern period.
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 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.
Designed for graduates who want to do directed reading in a period or on a topic not covered in the curriculum.
Prerequisites: the director of undergraduate studies' permission.
Prerequisites: Requires approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used for degree credit. Substantial independent project involving laboratory work, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.