Prerequisite: the qualifying examination for the doctorate. Required of doctoral candidates.
Open to doctoral candidates, and to qualified M.S. candidates with the instructor's permission. Theoretical and experimental studies of semiconductor physics, devices, and technology.
Each week invited speakers present seminars and have conferences with graduate students after each presentation.
Graduate research directed toward solution of a problem in mineral processing or chemical metallurgy
Graduate research directed toward solution of a problem in mineral processing or chemical metallurgy
Graduate research directed toward solution of a problem in mineral processing or chemical metallurgy
Department's permission.
A written report prepared by the prospective doctoral candidate defining the proposed research for the dissertation, and oral defense of the proposal at the time of the qualifying examinations.
The aim of the course is to introduce students to key problems in modern German historiography focusing on the period from the late 18th century to the present. Germany is one of the homelands of the philosophy of history. So en route we will address a series of more general problems in the writing of modern history. These include the relationship of history to the critical project of the enlightenment in all its forms, the conceptualizations of the role of the individual actor in history, questions of the state and revolution, the concept of crisis, and the origins of our contemporary neoliberal order. The course is intended for PhD level graduate students.
Open only to students in the department. Presentation of selected research topics.
Prerequisites: Instructor Permission REQ
This is a reading seminar in Islamic ethical literature, written in Arabic during the formative and classical periods (2nd-9th c. AH/8th-15th c. CE). We will examine some of the vast literature produced by pre-modern Muslims dedicated to (i) investigating the theoretical bases of ethical norms and (ii) offering moral edification and practical advice on how to lead a virtuous life. Our aim will be to understand how different strands of the tradition elaborated on questions of ontology (“Do moral norms have an objective existence?”), epistemology (“How do humans know what morality requires?”) and practical ethics. Pre-req: minimum 3 years of Arabic.
Discussion of selected issues and topics in social and personality psychology.
Prerequisite: member of the department’s permission
This seminar explores the history and historiography of consumer capitalism in modern Europe, from the eighteenth through the middle of the twentieth centuries. We will trace the devleopment of a market culture and society, with a focus on the evolution of commercial practice as well as shifting attitudes towards commerce and consumption. The course will emphasize Britain and France, but we will be thinking and reading comparatively as well. Topics include the domestic and imperial origins of modern consumption, consumption in social thought, debt, credit, and social trust, attitudes towards risk and speculation, and the relationship between consumption and democratic citizenship. Historical studies will be complemented with readings from social theory and fiction.
Prerequisites: one of the instructors' permission.
Prescribed for M.S. and Ch.E. candidates; elective for others with the approval of the Department. Degree candidates are required to conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry and to submit a thesis describing the results of their work. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit, and this credit is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis. The concentration in pharmeceutical engineering requires a 2-point thesis internship.