Forms of Autobiography

This courses examines the rise and transformations of autobiographical literature, from its origins in philosophical inquiry and religious confession, to life-writing experiments in prose and verse, to the autofictions of contemporary writers like Maggie Nelson, Ben Lerner, and Rachel Cusk. Our guiding concern will be the human impulses to explore, invent, and reveal ourselves through writing. We are autobiographical creatures! The will to question, interpret, and represent our experience is central to what it means to think and to live. To this end, our survey of autobiographical writing will consider a number of topics that are fundamental to the humanities in its project of self-study and self-cultivation: the mysteries of interiority, personhood, and identity, and how the forces of gender, race, and class may bear on these conceptions; notions of privacy and publicity; the entanglements of individual and social life, and the relationship between personal and historical experience; exemplarity and its discontents; forms of truth and fiction; narrative, and the elements of storytelling; personal and literary autonomy. Questions we’ll ask along the way include: Just how well can we know ourselves? and how well might we really want to? What kind of knowledge is self-knowledge, and how does compare with other modes of wisdom? What liberties do autobiography and autofiction permit their authors? What specific constraints and moral responsibilities do they enjoin? Many of the texts we’ll study were and are highly controversial, so we’ll also think about the conditions of literary scandal, and the extent to which writing about one’s life, and the lives of others, always entails certain risks.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Daniel Braun
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• 3 points

FIELDWORK

• Department: Electrical Engineering
• Instructor: Xiaofan Jiang
  h-index: 24 Info
• 1-2 points

SUPERVISED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH

Prerequisite: the written permission of the staff member under whose supervision the research will be conducted.

• Department: Anthropology
• Instructor: Neil J Savishinsky
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• Instructor: Ellen Marakowitz
  CULPA: 1 Info
• Instructor: David Scott
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 72 Info
• Instructor: Maxine Weisgrau
  CULPA: 24 Info
• Instructor: Maria F Malmstrom
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• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3-6 points

PROJECTS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGIN

Independent projects involving experimental, theoretical, computational, or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points of this or any other projects or research course may be counted toward the technical elective degree requirements as engineering technical electives.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Elham Azizi
  h-index: 10 Info
• 1-3 points

PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: Approval by faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Normally not to be taken in a students final semester. Independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points may be counted toward degree requirements. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Arvind Narayanaswamy
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 26 Info
• Instructor: Jeffrey W Kysar
  CULPA: 9 h-index: 37 Info
• Instructor: Matei T Ciocarlie
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• Instructor: Sunil Agrawal
  Wikipedia h-index: 65 Info
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• Instructor: Hod Lipson
  Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 1-3 points

PROJECTS IN MECH ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: Approval by faculty member who agrees to supervise the work. Normally not to be taken in a students final semester. Independent project involving theoretical, computational, experimental or engineering design work. May be repeated, but no more than 3 points may be counted toward degree requirements. Projects requiring machine-shop use must be approved by the laboratory supervisor. Students must submit both a project outline prior to registration and a final project write-up at the end of the semester.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• 1-3 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128credit degree requirement. Only for APAM undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and nontechnical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
• Instructor: Lorenzo M Polvani
  CULPA: 6 h-index: 69 Info
• Instructor: Kyle Mandli
  h-index: 14 Info
• Instructor: Latha Venkataraman
  CULPA: 4 Wikipedia h-index: 55 Info
• Instructor: Marc W Spiegelman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 1-2 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. BMEN undergraduate students only. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for BMEN undergraduate students who include relevant off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Biomedical Engineering
• Instructor: Lance Kam
  CULPA: 7 h-index: 38 Info
• 1-2 points

UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Restricted to Chemical Engineering undergraduate students. Provides work experience on chemical engineering in relevant intern or fieldwork experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. A written report describing the experience and how it relates to the chemical engineering core curriculum is required. Employer feedback on student performance and the quality of the report are the basis of the grade. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited. May not be used as a technical or non­technical elective. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points total of CHEN E3999 may be used for degree credit.

• Department: Chemical Engineering
• Instructor: Vivian F McNeill
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• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

CEEM undergraduate students only. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. Final reports required. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited. International students must also consult with the International Students and Scholars Office.

• Department: Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. Only for IEOR undergraduate students who need relevant work experience as part of their program of study. Final reports are required. This course may not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• 1-2 points

FIELDWORK

Prerequisites: Obtained internship and approval from faculty advisor. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 total points may be used toward the 128-credit degree requirement. Only for MECE undergraduate students who include relevant on-campus and off-campus work experience as part of their approved program of study. Final report and letter of evaluation required. Fieldwork credits may not count toward any major core, technical, elective, and non-technical requirements. May not be taken for pass/fail credit or audited.

• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Instructor: Kristin Myers
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 25 Info
• 1-2 points

Online Math Tutorial for New SIPA Studen

SIPA Online Math Tutorial

• Department: International and Public Affairs
• 0 points

Contemporary Migrations in the French &

In this course we explore the social and political history of migration between France and Africa with particular emphasis on its representation in the arts, especially literature and film. We examine the political, economic and social forces that have underpinned migration in the nations of the Mediterranean rim since the 1950s and observe major transitions in policy and legal frameworks. Though migration is often treated in mainstream media as an object of policy and legislation, it is better approached as a ‘total social fact’ involving political, social, economic and cultural dimensions. With this in mind, we look at different media, genres and narrative forms in which migration has been represented and debated and grapple with questions about the relationship between politics and art and between life experience and representation.    The sources examined in the course include novels and feature and documentary films as well as political and legal discourses and analyses grounded in anthropological, sociological, and philosophical methodologies. Combining empirical with theoretical approaches, we consider both the specific political, legal, social and economic contexts of contemporary migration and broader conceptual questions about the status of ‘immigrants,’ ‘migrants’ and ‘refugees’ as social and cultural figures and political actors. Taking the view that local dynamics have to be situated in broader regional/global frameworks and vice versa, we examine national framings of migration in countries including France, Morocco and Algeria as well as transnational and cross-regional dynamics.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Madeleine Dobie
  CULPA: 14 Info
• 3 points

INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS

This course will provide a wide-ranging survey of conceptual foundations and issues in contemporary human rights. The class will examine the philosophical origins of human rights, contemporary debates, the evolution of human rights, key human rights documents, and the questions of human rights enforcement. This course will examine specific civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights and various thematic topics in human rights.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sandra L Sirota
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• 3 points

CINEMA & SOC IN ASIA & AFRICA

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

CINEMA & SOC IN ASIA & AFRICA

CINEMA & SOCIETY AFTER 9/11

• Department: School of Professional Studies (SPS)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Hamid Dabashi
  CULPA: 30 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

SCREENWRITING I: INTRO

Modern feature-length screenplays demand a specific architecture. In this class students will enter with an idea for a film, and during the first eight sessions build a coherent treatment; that is, a summary of the events and major emotional arcs of the film's three acts. In the final four sessions students will begin and complete the first act of their feature-length screenplay.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Loren-Paul Caplin
  CULPA: 2 Info
• 3 points

ARCH ELECTIVE INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Leslie Kuo
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• 1.5 points

UP ELECT INTERNSHIP

• Department: Architecture, Planning and Preservation
• Instructor: Michael A Montilla
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• 1.5 points

INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS I

Prerequisites: MATH S1202, MATH S2010, or the equivalent. Students must have a current and solid background in the prerequisites for the course: multivariable calculus and linear algebra. Elements of set theory and general topology. Metric spaces. Euclidian space. Continuous and differentiable functions. Riemann integral. Uniform convergence.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• TR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Dobrin Marchev
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• Instructor: Fabio Nironi
  CULPA: 17 Info
• 3 points

INTRO TO MODERN ANALYSIS II

Prerequisites: MATH S4061, or the equivalent with the instructor's permission. Equicontinuity. Contraction maps with applications to existence theorems in analysis. Lebesgue measure and integral. Fourier series and Fourier transform

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Dobrin Marchev
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• 3 points

Independent Study in Nursing

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN NURS

Provides an opportunity for students to engage in independent study in an area of interest. A mentor is assigned.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Heidi Hahn-Schroeder
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• 1-8 points

STOCHASTIC MODELS

Prerequisites: (IEOR 4150 or equivalent) This graduate course is a core course for MSIE and MSOR students. This is also required for students in the Undergraduate Advanced Track. Some of the main stochastic models used in engineering and operations research applications: discrete-time Markov chains, Poisson processes, birth-and-death processes, and other continuous Markov chains, renewal reward processes. Applications: queueing, reliability, inventory, and finance.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

Food and the Body

FOOD AND THE BODY

This course will use an evolutionary perspective to focus on what humans need to eat for survival and health. We will examine how and why sufficient and optimal diets can be obtained through a range of dietary patterns, and how those patterns were rooted in different geographic and cultural regions.  We will also compare current patterns with those of humans from 200,000, 12,000 and 100 years ago, and where it is instructive, we will compare the food intake and food system of other animals.  Throughout the course, the environmental impact of a given dietary pattern will be considered, and where possible, the economic determinants of individual food intake will be reviewed. We will incorporate a lifespan perspective throughout the course.

• Department: Nursing
• 3 points

Human Anatomy & Physiology I

This introductory course is the first of a two-course-series on human anatomy and physiology. Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body. Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics. Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation. The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course. This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum. This is a four (4) credit course.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

Human Anatomy & Phys II

Human Anatomy & Physiolog

This introductory course is the second of a two-course series on human anatomy and physiology.  Using a body systems approach, we will study the anatomical structure and physiological function of the human body.  Foundational concepts from chemistry, cell biology, and histology are reviewed and built upon through the progression of topics.  Each of the body systems will be studied for their structure, function, and mechanisms of regulation.  The core concepts of levels of organization, interdependence of systems, and homeostasis will be emphasized throughout the course.  This beginner level course will lay the foundation for further advanced study of physiology and pathophysiology within a nursing curriculum.

• Department: Nursing
• Instructor: Sally W Aboelela
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 4 points

MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT

Prerequisites: (CHEN E3120) CHEN E3110X and CHEN E3120Y or the equivalent Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Christopher J Durning
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

COMPUTER NETWORKS

Prerequisites: Comfort with basic probability. Programming fluency in Python, C++, Java, or Ruby (please see section course page for specific language requirements).  Introduction to computer networks and the technical foundations of the Internet, including applications, protocols, local area networks, algorithms for routing and congestion control, security, elementary performance evaluation. Several written and programming assignments required.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Gil Zussman
  CULPA: 3 h-index: 39 Info
• 3 points

WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

WATER RESOURCES & CLIMATE

• Department: Sustainability Management
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• 3 points

WATER RESOURCES AND CLIMATE

• Department: School of Professional Studies (SPS)
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Laia Andreu
  h-index: 28 Info
• 0 points

HUM RIGHTS/GLOBAL ECON JUSTICE

The world economy is a patchwork of competing and complementary interests among and between governments, corporations, and civil society. These stakeholders at times cooperate and also conflict over issues of global poverty, inequality, and sustainability. What role do human rights play in coordinating the different interests that drive global economic governance? This seminar will introduce students to different structures of global governance for development, trade, labor, finance, the environment, migration, and intellectual property and investigate their relationship with human rights. Students will learn about public, private, and mixed forms of governance, analyze the ethical and strategic perspectives of the various stakeholders and relate them to existing human rights norms. The course will examine the work of multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and the International Financial Institutions, as well as international corporate and non-governmental initiatives.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rainer Braun
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• 3 points

WOMEN & GENDER IN SOUTH ASIA

This course is an ethnographic and historical introduction to the construction of gender and feminist theory in the South Asian context. We will focus on textual and visual material, primarily ethnographies and films, to provide a critique of normative representations of the 'South Asian woman'. These readings will be used to reveal the complex social and historical configurations that institute and obscure gendered experiences and representations within the colonial imagination and their colonized others. A significant motif of this course will be to develop alternative ways of knowing and understanding gender construction, sexual relations, and community formation in South Asia.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

WOMEN & GENDER IN SOUTH ASIA

This course is an ethnographic and historical introduction to the construction of gender and feminist theory in the South Asian context. We will focus on textual and visual material, primarily ethnographies and films, to provide a critique of normative representations of the 'South Asian woman'. These readings will be used to reveal the complex social and historical configurations that institute and obscure gendered experiences and representations within the colonial imagination and their colonized others. A significant motif of this course will be to develop alternative ways of knowing and understanding gender construction, sexual relations, and community formation in South Asia.

• Department: School of Professional Studies (SPS)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
• Instructor: Sonia Ahsan
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 0 points

HUMAN RIGHTS & VISUAL CULTURE

This course examines the relationship between visual culture and human rights. It considers a wide range of visual media (photography, painting, sculpture), as well as aspects of visuality (surveillance, profiling). We will use case studies ranging in time from the early modern period (practices in which the body was marked to measure criminality, for example), to the present day. Within this framework, we will study how aspects of visual culture have been used to advocate for human rights, as well as how images and visual regimes have been used to suppress human rights. An important part of the course will be to consider the role played by reception in shaping a discourse around human rights, visuality, and images. Subjects to be addressed include: the nature of evidence; documentation and witness; censorship; iconoclasm; surveillance; profiling; advocacy images; signs on the body; visibility and invisibility.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Susan M Merriam
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• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MGMT

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• Department: Sustainability Management
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Heil
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• 3 points

ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT

ECON OF SUSTAINABILITY MG

This course builds on core economics courses and addresses issues of environmental, resource and sustainable economics. It focuses on the interaction between markets and the environment; policy issues related to optimal extraction and pricing; property rights in industrial and developing countries and how they affect international trade in goods such as timber, wood pulp, and oil. An important goal of the class is to have students work in groups to apply economic concepts to current public policy issues having to do with urban environmental and earth systems. The use of the worlds water bodies and the atmosphere as economic inputs to production are also examined. The economics of renewable resources is described and sustainable economic development models are discussed and analyzed. Some time will also be devoted to international trade and regulation, and industrial organization issues. Students not only learn economic concepts, but they will also learn how to explain them to decision-makers. The instructor will tailor this course to the skill level of the students in order to most effectively suit the needs of the class.

• Department: School of Professional Studies (SPS)
• TR 6:10 p.m.-8 p.m.
• Instructor: Alexander Heil
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• 0 points

PROBABILITY THEORY

Prerequisites: MATH V1101 Calculus I and MATH V1102 Calculus II, or the equivalent, and STAT W1111 or STAT W1211 (Introduction to Statistics). Corequisites: MATH V1201 Calculus III, or the equivalent, or the instructor's permission. This course can be taken as a single course for students requiring knowledge of probability or as a foundation for more advanced courses. It is open to both undergraduate and master students. This course satisfies the prerequisite for STAT W3107 and W4107. Topics covered include combinatorics, conditional probability, random variables and common distributions, expectation, independence, Bayes' rule, joint distributions, conditional expectations, moment generating functions, central limit theorem, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Young S Kim
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL INFERENCE

Prerequisites: STAT W3105 Intro. to Probability or STAT W4105 Probability, or the equivalent. Calculus-based introduction to the theory of statistics. Useful distributions, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, point estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, maximum likelihood, likelihood ratio tests, nonparametric procedures, theory of least squares and analysis of variance.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 6:15 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
• Instructor: Marco Avella
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• 3 points

STAT COMP & INTRO DATA SCIENCE

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 and GU4205 or the equivalent. Introduction to programming in the R statistical package: functions, objects, data structures, flow control, input and output, debugging, logical design, and abstraction. Writing code for numerical and graphical statistical analyses. Writing maintainable code and testing, stochastic simulations, paralleizing data analyses, and working with large data sets. Examples from data science will be used for demonstration.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 4:30 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Thibault Vatter
  h-index: 8 Info
• 3 points

ELEM JAPANESE LANG PEDAGOGY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWRF 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

ELEM JAPANESE LANG PEDAGOGY

• Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
• MTWRF 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
• 3 points

THIRD YEAR ARABIC I

Prerequisites: MDES UN1214-UN1215, or the equivalent $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $10.00 = Materials Fee Improvement of writing and speaking skills through compositions, class discussions, and presentations in Arabic on topics such as areas and cultures of the Middle East; classical and modern Arabic literature; and current, authentic materials available from Middle Eastern sources. Review of grammatical and syntactic rules as needed.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Taoufik Ben-Amor
  CULPA: 11 Info
• 5 points

THIRD YEAR ARABIC II

Prerequisites: MDES UN1214-UN1215, or the equivalent. $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $10.00 = Materials Fee The continuation of S4210, above.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWRF 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Youssef Nouhi
  CULPA: 7 Info
• 5 points

CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL DOCUMENTAR

Documentaries are increasingly proliferating across small and large screens around the world. They circulate as market commodities, forms of entertainment, and vehicles for social change. In this seminar we will compare different national and regional contexts of contemporary documentary production, including projects created within the media industries of Mexico, Peru, India, China, Cambodia, and Israel. We will also examine how documentaries resonate locally, but can still transcend geographic borders and engage viewers across the globe. Crucial to our course will be the close analysis of how documentaries actively address civil rights struggles, oppressive government regimes, cultural trends, environmental crises, and progressive social movements to create more inclusive, equitable communities. So, too, will we examine emerging technologies (such as VR/AR), strategies of international co-production, star-studded film festivals, as well as the global reach and impact of mega studios such as Netflix and Wanda. This course fulfills the Global Core requirement.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 2 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
• Instructor: Joshua L Glick
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• 3 points

NGOS&THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The human rights movement is one of the most successful social justice movements of our time, establishing universal principles that govern how states should treat citizens and non-citizens. The movement strengthens, and is strengthened by, a complex web of institutions, laws, and norms that constitute a functioning global system that builds on itself progressively, animated by strong NGOs. The course will address the evolution of the international human rights movement and on the NGOs that drive the movement on the international, regional and domestic levels. Sessions will highlight the experiences of major human rights NGOs and will address topics including strategy development, institutional representation, research methodologies, partnerships, networks, venues of engagement, campaigning, fundraising and, perhaps most importantly, the fraught and complex debates about adaptation to changing global circumstances.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Louis Bickford
  CULPA: 1 h-index: 13 Info
• 3 points

THE NEW YORK THEATRE EVENT

We will be looking at the rich legacy of the Off-Broadway theater – the groups, writers, directors, actors and other theater artists who were nurtured and sustained in its fertile soil, and who continue to shape the landscape of contemporary theater: Off-Broadway, regional theater, and Broadway itself. We will look at the two churches and two cafes where the movement in the 60’s kickstarted as well as the numerous venues, theaters, producing organizations, and producers who continue to sustain the Off Broadway innovative sensibility. We also read and view examples of seminal theater artists and their works: Maria Irene Fornes, David Greenspan, Ntozake Shange, Larry Kramer, Tony Kushner and others. This is a whirlwind journey through Off-Broadway history taught by someone who has been a part of it since the 1970s and has worked with and known many of its players!

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• WF 7 p.m.-10 p.m.
• Instructor: Morgan Jenness
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• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and problems of international human rights law. What are the origins of modern human rights law? What is the substance of this law, who is obligated by it, and how is it enforced? The course will cover the major international human rights treaties and mechanisms and consider some of today's most significant human rights issues and controversies. While the topics are necessarily law-related, the course will assume no prior exposure to legal studies.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Belinda Cooper
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

BAYESIAN STATISTICS

Prerequisites: STAT GU4204 or the equivalent. Bayesian data analysis: building, fitting, evaluating and improving probability models. Prior information, hierachical models and combining information. Linear and nonlinear models. Simulation of fake data and evaluation of methods. Computing using R and Stan.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ronald Neath
  CULPA: 13 Info
• 3 points

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS I

Prerequisites: (COMS W3134 or COMS W3136COMS W3137) and (COMS W3203) Introduction to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Topics include models of computation, efficient sorting and searching, algorithms for algebraic problems, graph algorithms, dynamic programming, probabilistic methods, approximation algorithms, and NP-completeness.

• Department: Computer Science
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Eleni Drinea
  CULPA: 8 Info
• 3 points

STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING

Prerequisites: STAT GU4206 The course will provide an introduction to Machine Learning and its core models and algorithms. The aim of the course is to provide students of statistics with detailed knowledge of how Machine Learning methods work and how statistical models can be brought to bear in computer systems - not only to analyze large data sets, but to let computers perform tasks that traditional methods of computer science are unable to address. Examples range from speech recognition and text analysis through bioinformatics and medical diagnosis. This course provides a first introduction to the statistical methods and mathematical concepts which make such technologies possible.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 2:45 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Banu Baydil
  CULPA: 10 Info
• 3 points

US IMMIGRATION:RGHTS,FRAMING,

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Ted Perlmutter
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• 3 points

CLIMATE CHANGE: RESILIENCE & ADAPTATION

CLIMATE CHANGE:RESILIENCE

This course will offer a focused study of climate change adaptation policy, exploring dimensions of adaptation across sectors and scales. With a thematic focus on pervasive global inequities, students will also consider challenges associated with international development and disaster risk management. An inter-disciplinary framework will enrich the course, and students will learn about perspectives from the natural sciences, law, architecture, anthropology, humanitarian aid, and public policy. The online intensive version of this course will combine synchronous and asynchronous learning: twice weekly live discussion sessions will be matched with assigned readings, recorded lectures and videos.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 11 a.m.-noon
• Instructor: Lisa Dale
  CULPA: 6 Info
• 3 points

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 The study of industrial behavior based on game-theoretic oligopoly models. Topics include pricing models, strategic aspects of business practice, vertical integration, and technological innovation.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 12:30 p.m.-2:05 p.m.
• Instructor: Utkarsh Kumar
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• 3 points

CORPORATE FINANCE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213 and STAT UN1201 An introduction to the economic principles, theories and basic tools underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include financial statement analysis, net present value analysis, time value of money, valuation of perpetuities and annuities, opportunity cost of capital, weighted average cost of capital, valuation of bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, capital structure, Modigliani-Miller theorem, option valuation and risk management. Every effort would be made to relate the course material to real-world financial applications.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Steven Ho
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• 3 points

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMNT I

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Economic development is a complex and multifaceted process. Once considered a goal in itself, more recently it has become to be viewed as the fundamental means to world poverty alleviation. Today, about half of the world population still lives on less than $2 /day. Why? What does it mean to be poor? What are the forces that prevent so many people from enjoying a higher standard of living? The course opens on some fundamental macroeconomic models of economic growth and the recent debate on the geographical or institutional nature of the ultimate causes of growth or arrested development. Then we will move into the most recent microeconomic literature that sheds light on the lives of the poor and on the forces - in particular the market distortions and the market failures - that keep billions in poverty. Among others, we will discuss interesting topics like nutrition and health, the cultural origins of corruption, the effect of global warming, and the design of effective anti-poverty programs.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Wendy A Morrison
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• 3 points

ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

Prerequisites: (MECE E3301) Advanced classical thermodynamics. Availability, irreversibility, generalized behavior, equations of state for nonideal gases, mixtures and solutions, phase and chemical behavior, combustion. Thermodynamic properties of ideal gases. Applications to automotive and aircraft engines, refrigeration and air conditioning, and biological systems.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles). 3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses. Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution. The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 3 points

VIROLOGY

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy. The strategy is simple: 1. Viral genomes are contained in metastable particles. 2. Genomes encode gene products that promote an infectious cycle (mechanisms for genomes to enter cells, replicate, and exit in particles). 3. Infection patterns range from benign to lethal; infections can overcome or co-exist with host defenses. Despite the apparent simplicity, the tactics evolved by particular virus families to survive and prosper are remarkable. This rich set of solutions to common problems in host/parasite interactions provides significant insight and powerful research tools. Virology has enabled a more detailed understanding of the structure and function of molecules, cells and organisms and has provided fundamental understanding of disease and virus evolution. The course will emphasize the common reactions that must be completed by all viruses for successful reproduction within a host cell and survival and spread within a host population. The molecular basis of alternative reproductive cycles, the interactions of viruses with host organisms, and how these lead to disease are presented with examples drawn from a set of representative animal and human viruses, although selected bacterial viruses will be discussed.

• Department: School of Professional Studies (SPS)
• MTWR 10:45 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
• Instructor: Vincent R Racaniello
  CULPA: 11 Wikipedia Info
• 0 points

WRITING CHILDREN'S BOOKS

There are many misconceptions as to what makes an appealing story for children and how to get a story published. Many novice writers are simply relating an incident as opposed to creating a story. This course will show beginner and experienced writers how to mine their lives and imaginations for ideas and how to develop those ideas into children's stories-a step by step process from inspiration to finished manuscript for picture books, early readers, emerging readers and chapter books. Students will also learn the importance of reading their writing out loud-a process that helps both reader and listener develop a better ear for the story's pace, cadence and structure. Writing for children has become incredibly popular in the past fifteen years and publishing houses have been inundated with manuscripts. Many houses have ceased accepting unsolicited manuscripts all together. This course will disclose other avenues to getting your manuscript into the hands of agents and editors.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Peter Catalanotto
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• 3 points

TRAVEL WRITING

How does the traveler become the travel writer? What makes good travel writing? Why does it matter today? This course examines and breaks down the very specific craft of travel writing. Simply because we like to travel, does it qualify us to write about it? Everywhere has been written about, so how do we find something fresh to say about… Paris, or even Patagonia? In this course, we both dispel, and prove, some of the myths of travel writing. Students learn to find an angle in order to uncover destinations anew and make them personal— it’s in the personal that the universal is revealed. From crafting a compelling lede and understanding the need for a strong “nut graph,” to knowing the value of dialogue in propelling the story forward, and then finding the ideal kicker to send the reader away satisfied, students dissect published stories and are sent out into “the field” (of New York City) to craft their own. Travel writing is more than, “I went here, I did this, I ate that.” From front-of-book and service pieces, to destination features, we discuss magazine and newspaper travel writing in depth, as well as touch on longer form travel writing. Finally, through exercises and assignments, students learn to craft a compelling pitch in order to approach editors.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Porter T Fox
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• 3 points

WRITING THE YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Young adult fiction is a relatively new category in book publishing, but it is growing fast. The readers of YA books are between 12 and 18 years of age. However, its popularity can sometimes extend well beyond the intended age range; Harry Potter being the best-known example. The YA category spans a number of subgenres, including paranormal romance, dystopian sci-fi, and coming-of-age realism. The best YA novels feature fully realized characters and a level of emotional complexity that appeal to teens. And yet, YA books can include frightful displays of violence and can be unabashed about sex. They also feature swiftly moving plots combined with a young person's unique world view-pairings that are unlike anything found in traditional literary fiction. In this workshop, we will embark on writing our own YA novels. With our work always at the center of discussion we will explore the essence of what makes it YA in terms of narrative point of view and subject matter while also challenging the conventions of genre fiction. By way of example, we will look at the work of Sherman Alexie, Lois Lowry and Megan McCafferty. For examples of 'new adult' or 'crossover' fiction we will read excerpts from books such as those by Curtis Sittenfeld, J.D. Salinger, and others. Course work will include selected readings, but the emphasis of the workshop will be on writing and critiquing our own work. Students will write up to three chapters of an original YA or crossover novel along with a partial chapter outline for their book in progress. The class will also include visits from published YA authors who will speak about craft, audience, and getting published.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 5:30 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• Instructor: Rachel E Carter
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• 3 points

CONSUMER CULTURE IN MOD EUROPE

The development of the modern culture of consumption, with particular attention to the formation of the woman consumer. Topics include commerce and the urban landscape, changing attitudes toward shopping and spending, feminine fashion and conspicuous consumption, and the birth of advertising. Examination of novels, fashion magazines, and advertising images.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 9 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Lisa Tiersten
  CULPA: 45 Info
• 4 points

THERMOFLUID SYSTEMS DESIGN

Prerequisites: (MECE E3100) and (MECE E3301) and (MECE E3311) Theoretical and practical considerations, and design principles, for modern thermofluids systems. Topics include boiling, condensation, phase change heat transfer, multimode heat transfer, heat exchangers, and modeling of thermal transport systems. Emphasis on applications of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics to modeling actual physical systems. Term project on conceptual design and presentation of a thermofluid system that meets specified criteria.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Sinisa Vukelic
  CULPA: 2 h-index: 11 Info
• 3 points

ADVANCED RUSSIAN I

Prerequisites: RUSS UN2101 and RUSS UN2102 or placement test $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Curriculum evolves according to needs and interests of the students. Emphasis on conversation and composition, reading and discussion of selected texts and videotapes; oral reports required. Conducted entirely in Russian.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Alla Smyslova
  CULPA: 20 Info
• 4 points

ADVANCED RUSSIAN II

Prerequisites: RUSS GU4333 or placement test $15.00= Language Resource Fee, $15.00 = Materials Fee , Continuation of RUSS S4333H.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
• Instructor: Julia Trubikhina
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• 4 points

POLITICAL ECONOMY

The objective of this course is to develop understanding of how political institutions and behavior shape economic outcomes, and vice versa. Starting from the micro level study of political behavior, we will build up to analyze the internal workings of institutions and ultimately macro level economic and political outcomes. During the course we will cover the following topics • Limits and potential of markets • Public goods provision • Voting • Redistribution

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 3 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Bozidar Plavsic
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• 3 points

LABOR ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. This course examines labor markets through the lens of economics. In broad terms, labor economics is the study of the exchange of labor services for wages—a category that takes in a wide range of topics. Our objective in this course is to lay the foundations for explaining labor market phenomena within an economic framework and subsequently apply this knowledge-structure to a select set of questions. Throughout this process we will discuss empirical research, which will highlight the power (as well as the limitations) of employing economic models to real-world problems. By the end of this course we will have the tools/intuition to adequately formulate and critically contest arguments concerning labor markets.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Michelle Y Jiang
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• 3 points

SIMULATION

Prerequisites: (IEOR E3658) and (IEOR E4307) or (STAT GU4001) and computer programming. Corequisites: IEOR E3106,IEOR E4106 This course is required for MSIE and MSOR. Graduate students must register for 3 points. Undergraduate students must register for 4 points. Generation of random numbers from given distributions; variance reduction; statistical output analysis; introduction to simulation languages; application to financial, telecommunications, computer, and production systems. Students who have taken IEOR E4703 Monte Carlo simulation may not register for this course for credit. Recitation section required.

• Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• MWF 6:10 p.m.-8:40 p.m.
• None None-None
• Instructor: Yi Zhang
  CULPA: 2 Info
• Instructor: Karl Sigman
  CULPA: 15 Info
• 3 points

GAME THEORY

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4415. Introduction to the systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: David A Rosenkranz
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• 3 points

TOPICS-NEUROBIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Examines current topics in neurobiology and behavior.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Svetlana Rosis
  CULPA: 3 Info
• 3 points

COMIC THEATRE: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO THE N

Why do we still laugh at comic works from nearly 2500 years ago, comedies that have outlived their generations? An examination of the different forms of staged comedy throughout the centuries, beginning with foundational texts from Ancient Greece, especially Aristophanes. We consider how today's playwrights are still building on, and making reference to, primary works from the Western canon. Texts we will read range from Shakespeare, Jonson and Restoration comedies, to Wilde, Beckett, Hansberry, Tennessee Williams, Pinter, and Churchill. We will also cover contemporary work seen on the stages of New York, including short comic plays, stand up, and physical comedy. Attention will be given to comic characters, comic pretense, wit, humor, comedy of errors, comic gestures, comic archetypes, farce, cross-dressing, satiric comedy, comic relief, tragicomedy, romantic comedy, and theatre of the absurd. This course will be of special interest to serious students of comedy. When possible, class outings make use of current New York City productions.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Jonathan Robinson-Appels
  CULPA: 4 Info
• 3 points

PUBLIC ECONOMICS

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Types of market failures and rationales for government intervention in the economy. Benefit-cost analysis and the theory of public goods. Positive and normative aspects of taxation. The U.S. tax structure.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10:10 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
• Instructor: Daniel K Johnson
  CULPA: 1 Info
• 3 points

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Prerequisites: ECON UN3211 and ECON UN3213. Equivalent to ECON UN4500. The theory of international trade, comparative advantage and the factor endowments explanation of trade, analysis of the theory and practice of commercial policy, economic integration. International mobility of capital and labor, the North-South debate.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 1 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
• Instructor: Ceyhun Elgin
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• 3 points

BIOCHEM I-STRUCTURE/METABOLISM

How does life work on a molecular level? Why do we succumb to disease, and how can we create new cures? This course will explore the biochemistry of life and how this knowledge can be harnessed to create new medicines. You will learn how cells convert environmental resources into energy through metabolism, how cellular molecules function, and how to use this biochemical knowledge for drug discovery related to neurodegeneration, cancer,and the current SARS-CoV-2 COVID19 pandemic. At the conclusion of the course, you will be able to diagram the major metabolic pathways and compare how these pathways are dysregulated in normal tissues in and disease states, and to design your own drug discovery program to create therapeutic for diseases such as COVID-19. In addition, you will know what techniques are used to uncover biochemical knowledge and how to design and interpret relevant experiments. You will be capable of collaborating with other people in the analysis and interpretation of biochemical data, and be able to communicate, defend and refute interpretations of data. You will learn how to create an original research proposal in the form of a research grant application. Having completed one year of college-level biology and one year of organic chemistry will be helpful to maximally benefit from this course. This course satisfies the requirement of most medical schools for introductory biochemistry, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, and beginning graduate students; this replaces the previous UN3501 course.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• TR 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
• Instructor: Brent R Stockwell
  CULPA: 14 Wikipedia h-index: 79 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RES IN BIOTECHNOLGY

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RES IN BIOTECHNOLGY

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 6 points

SUPERVISED RES IN BIOTECHNOLGY

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 3 points

SUPERVISED RES IN BIOTECHNOLGY

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 6 points

Intensive Laboratory in Biotechnology

INTENSIVE LAB BIOTECH

Prerequisites: (BIOL UN2401 and BIOL UN2402 and Chem UN1403 and CHEM UN1404) Intense laboratory exercise where students meet MTWR, 5 hours a day for eight weeks in the summer term participating in experimental design, bench work, data analysis and safe laboratory practice. Grades depend on preparation, participation in the laboratory, lab reports, and experimental skill. Class starts Tuesday after Memorial Day. Open to MA in Biotechnology students (GSAS) and Postbac Certificate in Biotechnology students (SPS). This course is only offered in the summer. Students from other schools or programs may enroll if with instructor approval if space is available. NOTE: Previously listed as BIOL G4310.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MTWR 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Instructor: Lili Yamasaki
  CULPA: 5 Info
• 6 points

APPLIED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Prerequisites: B.S. in Engineering or Applied Sciences; Professional experience recommended; Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra. Introduction to fundamental methods used in Systems Engineering. Rigorous process that translates customer needs into a structured set of specific requirements; synthesizes a system architecture that satisfies those requirements; and allocates them in a physical system, meeting cost, schedule, and performance objectives throughout the product life-cycle. Sophisticated modeling of requirements optimization and dependencies, risk management, probabilistic scenario scheduling, verification matrices, and systems-of-systems constructs are synthesized to define the meta-work flow at the top of every major engineering project.

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
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• 3 points

DEFINING LIFE

LIT PHIL & HUMAN EXP

(Lecture). In the period since 1965, fiction has become global in a new sense and with a new intensity. Comparison is built into it. Writers from different national traditions have been avidly reading each other, wherever they happen to come from, and they often resist "national" and regional labels altogether. If you ask the Somali writer Nuruddin Farah whether the precocious child of Maps was inspired by Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, he will answer (at least he did when I asked him) that he and Rushdie both were inspired by Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Grass's The Tin Drum. At the same time, the human experiences around which novelists organize their fiction are often themselves global, explicitly and powerfully but also mysteriously. Our critical language is in some ways just trying to catch up with innovative modes of storytelling that attempt to be responsible to the global scale of interconnectedness on which, as we only rarely manage to realize, we all live. This course will begin with the Sudanese classic Season of Migration to the North, a rewriting of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," and will end with the British novelist Zadie Smith. In between we will discuss novels by Gabriel García Márquez, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, W.G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, and others. Requirements: two short papers (6-8 pages) and a final for undergraduates; one longer paper (12-15 pages) and no final for graduate students.

• Department: Summer Session (SUMM)
• MW 6:15 p.m.-9:25 p.m.
• Instructor: Ala Alryyes
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• 3 points

SYSTEM ENGI TOOLS/METHODS

• Department: Video Network
• Instructor: Ebad Jahangir
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• 3 points