Prerequisites: (BMEN E4894) and (PHYS UN1403) or instructor's permission.
This course provides a broad-based introduction into the field of Biophotonics. Fundamental concepts of optical, thermal, and chemical aspects of the light-tissue interactions will be presented. The application of these concepts for medical therapy and diagnostics will be discussed. The course includes theoretical modeling of light-tissue interactions as well as optical medical instrument design and methods of clinical data interpretation.
Prerequisites: Approval by a faculty member who agrees to supervise the work.
Independent work involving experiments, computer programming, analytical investigation, or engineering design.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
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.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Topics chosen in consultation between members of the staff and students.
Prerequisites: Pre-requisites: Thermodynamics (any), or General Chemistry
Students must be engineering juniors or seniors, engineering graduate students, or PhD and undergraduate students in the sciences, e.g. chemistry or biology.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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.
The later English Middle Ages bear witness to an astonishingly intense period of literary experimentation. Almost all this experimentation is in poetry; nonrhythmic prose is not a coherent medium (with cultural prestige, genres, and so on) in literary English composition until after the invention of the printing press in about 1450. The experimental impulse originates from a fundamental ling. change: in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest (1066), French poetic practices collide with Anglo-Saxon practices to produce the first flowering of Middle English poetry. New forms arise both in narrative and lyric poetry and in both religious and secular contexts, though one upshot of the experimental energy of the period is that both of these oppositions—narrative versus lyric, religious versus secular—are examined and reinvented by the end of the Middle Ages, particularly in the large-scale narrative fictions of the major poets of Edwardian, Ricardian, and Lancastrian England.
In this course, we’ll read some of the most prominent and influential of these poetic experiments—including Piers Plowman, some of Chaucer’s works, the Confessio amantis, and some late medieval verse dramas. We’ll be thinking at all turns about how these poems encounter literary tropes, forms, traditions, and problems, and how they device formal and thematic ways of addressing, reshaping, and sometimes radically reinventing those problems for a new, emerging vernacular readership in the Late Middle Ages.
But we will pair these experimental poems, throughout the semester, with more obviously experimental poetry—poems written in the late 20th and early 21st century by American and Canadian writers. Indeed, when we think of “experimental” poetry, we often reflexively think of contemporary poetic works, works that are experimental with comparison to current literary conventionality. In this class, we will try to think with but also beyond historical situatedness, since our juxtaposition of medieval and contemporary poetry will reveal not only how experimentation is historically conditioned, but also how it sometimes attains its most iconoclastic height precisely by doing a kind of formal or thematic work that seems, somehow, transhistorical, or at least historically nonspecific. To promote this kind of transhistorical thinking, I’ve divided our readings into five sections, each of which represents a rich vein of experimental ore, both in the late Middle Ages and in the contemporary American/Canadian literary landscape.
Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and ECON UN3412 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 UN3412
. Additional estimation techniques include limited dependent variable and simultaneous equation models. Go to the department's undergraduate
Seminar Description
webpage for a detailed description.
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.
Prerequisites: introductory college-level biology and chemistry.
An overview of the biology and ecology of the oceans with a focus on the interaction between marine organisms and the physics and chemistry of the oceans.
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.
This course introduces students to the emerging methodologies that combine geographic information systems (GIS) with historical thinking. Students will study and evaluate the benefits and limitations of key works in historical GIS, become familiar with basic principles of cartographic design, and learn technical skills to create their own HGIS project.
The body is an unstable object. It leaks, bleeds, swells, mutates. It is also historically unstable, in the way it is understood and represented by men and women, patients and practitioners, scholars and laypeople. This course explores cases of the volatile body across historical and geopolitical contexts. By comparing how different people understand and inhabit the body, you will develop new research questions to rethink what it means to study the body at all. Each week takes on different themes of practice, process, classification, ontology, technology, techniques, and theory to offer new genealogies of reading the body. While the body is not a universal entity across time and space, similarities still emerge. What role can history play in conceptualizing emerging fields of “global” studies?
Prerequisites: Recommended preparation: one year of chemistry.
Factors controlling the concentration and distribution of dissolved chemical species within the sea. The physical chemistry of seawater, ocean circulation and mixing, gas exchange and biogeochemical processes interact to influence the distribution and fate of elements in the ocean. The course examines in some detail the two-way interaction between marine ecosystems and their chemical environment, and the implications of these interactions for distributions in the ocean of carbon, nutrients and trace metals.
Prerequisites: Elementary Ottoman Turkish.
This course 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.
This seminar will cover various issues, debates, and concepts in the international law of armed conflict (known as international humanitarian law), particularly as it relates to the protection of non-combatants (civilians and prisoners of war). In doing so, we will examine how international humanitarian law and human rights law intersect. Both sets of legal norms are designed to protect the lives, well-being, and dignity of individuals.However, the condition of armed conflict provides a much wider set of options for governments and individuals to engage in violent, deadly action against others, including killing, forcibly detaining, and destroying the property of those designated as combatants. At the same time, the means of waging war are not unlimited, but rather are tightly regulated by both treaty and customary law. This course will examine how these regulations operate in theory and practice, focusing on the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity.
Prerequisites: college-level geology helpful but not required.
Introduces the physical, chemical and biological processes that govern how and where ocean sediments accumulate. Major topics addressed are: modes of biogenic, terrigenous and authigenic sedimentation, depositional environments, pore fluids and sediment geochemistry, diagenesis, as well as biostratigraphy and sediment stratigraphic principles and methods. Second half of the semester focuses on major events in Cenozoic paleoceanogrpahy and paleoclimatology including orbital control of climate, long-term carbon cycle, extreme climate regimes, causes of ice ages in Earth's history, human evolution, El NiƱo evolution, and long-term sea level history.
This course examines themes and changes in the (self-)representation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people in cinema from the early sound period to the present. It pays attention to both the formal qualities of film and filmmakers’ use of cinematic strategies (mise-en-scene, editing, etc.) designed to elicit certain responses in viewers and to the distinctive possibilities and constraints of the classical Hollywood studio system, independent film, avant-garde cinema, and world cinema; the impact of various regimes of formal and informal censorship; the role of queer men and women as screenwriters, directors, actors, and designers; and the competing visions of gay, progay, and antigay filmmakers. Along with considering the formal properties of film and the historical forces that shaped it, the course explores what cultural analysts can learn from film. How can we treat film as evidence in historical analysis? We will consider the films we see as evidence that may shed new light on historical problems and periodization, and will also use the films to engage with recent queer theoretical work on queer subjectivity, affect, and culture.
Prerequisites: advanced calculus and general physics, or the instructor's permission.
Methods and underpinnings of seismology including seismogram analysis, elastic wave propogation theory, earthquake source characterization, instrumentation, inversion of seismic data to infer Earth structure.
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.
Prerequisites: Advanced calculus and junior year applied mathematics, or their equivalents.
This course may be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors from the Applied Mathematics Committee and the staff change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and other fields.
Prerequisites: Advanced calculus and junior year applied mathematics, or their equivalents.
This course may be repeated for credit. Topics and instructors from the Applied Mathematics Committee and the staff change from year to year. For advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, and other fields.
Prerequisites: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.