ARTS 617
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Music and Downtown New York, 1950-70
Charry,Eric S.
Since the early 20th century, downtown New York has been one of the most artistically vital and creative geographic areas in America, known for its avant-garde, counter, and alternative cultural
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ARTS 649
Monday
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Cancelled
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Performing Latin America(s): Politics, Culture and Society Onstage
Nascimento,Claudia Tatinge
As Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez remarked in his Nobel Prize acceptance lecture, Latin America's violent history includes colonization and seventeen military coups. For economic and political reasons, many of
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HUMS 630
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Epic Tradition from Homer to Milton
Friedberg,Harris A.
This course will study how our ideas of human nature--categories like life and death, body and soul, shame and guilt, love and sex, honor and glory--evolve while exploring the most
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HUMS 634
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Major Authors of the Postcolonial World
Karamcheti,Indira
This course will meet over two weekends: February 22-24 and March 29-30. Literature is often seen, in the First World, as separate from the public sphere of politics
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HUMS 635
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Art for Art's Sake in Victorian Britain
Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk
This course focuses on two groups of artists and intellectuals whose ideas about art and society were deliberately and self-consciously dissident and experimental: the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed at Oxford in
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HUMS 640
Wednesday
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Cancelled
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Contemporary African American Narratives of Slavery
Rushdy,Ashraf H.A.
This course will primarily be concerned with examining in some detail the recent proliferation of African American fiction about slavery. After a preliminary discussion of some notable antebellum slave narratives,
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HUMS 644
Tuesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Murder in the Cathedral: The Assassinations of Bishop Gaudry, Charles of Flanders, & Thomas Becket
Rider,Jeff
In the Middle Ages, a church was a particularly effective venue for murder. Once inside a church, a victim would find escape difficult. In addition, by killing somebody in a
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MTHS 632
Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Linear Algebra through Geometry
Fieldsteel,Adam
Linear algebra is a subject with a dual nature; the central ideas are both algebraic and geometric. While the power of the subject comes from the algebra, the ideas are
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MTHS 644
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Foundations of Analysis
Reid,James D.
A classical trichotomy splits mathematics into three parts -- Algebra, Analysis, and Geometry -- and this classical view still has a certain validity. Broadly speaking most people might view Algebra
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SCIE 622
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Psychology and the Law
Carney,Sarah Kristin
As we enter the 21st century, topics that fall under the heading of "forensic psychology" have attracted a great deal of popular attention. Issues such as eye witness testimony, false
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SCIE 634
Wednesday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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The Biology of Sex
Powzyk,Joyce Ann
As we study the biology of sex in the animal world, it is apparent that there is a multitude of ways in which organisms mate and reproduce. Sex is often
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SCIE 636
Monday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The Universe
Herbst,William
A particular theory of the universe, known popularly as the Big Bang Theory, is the working model for all serious modern cosmology. What is the Big Bang Theory? How did
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SCIE 681
Tuesday
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Cancelled
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The Genetic Basis of Inherited Disorders
McAlear,Michael A.
Over the last two decades, advances in modern molecular genetics have provided insights into the underlying genetic basis for many of humankind's inherited disorders. The information associated with the sequencing
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SOCS 618
Note: Special Schedule
09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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The End of the World: End Times in American Religious Thought
McAlister,Elizabeth
This course will meet over two weekends: January 12-13 and January 19-21. This course examines how some religious groups in the U.S. herald the hastening of the End
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SOCS 621
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Prelude to Political Choice: American Politics & the 2008 Elections
Eisner,Marc A.
How does one make sense of contemporary American politics? The past fifteen years have witnessed an historic shift in the control of Congress, with Republicans claiming majorities in both chambers
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SOCS 628
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Civil Liberties
Finn,John E.
Civil Liberties is designed to introduce students to a uniquely American, and to some ways of thinking, a wonderfully naive contribution to politics: The written specification of individual liberties and
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SOCS 639
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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Inside Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Grimmer-Solem,Erik
This course analyzes the processes that led to Hitler's rise to power, the nature of the National Socialist regime, and the origins and implementation of its policies of aggression and
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SOCS 641
Tuesday
07:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Islam and Muslim Cultures
Gottschalk,Peter S.
This course introduces students to the empirical study of Islam and some of the religious perspectives of Muslims. It seeks to provide familiarity with some of the basic teachings and
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