Monday
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ARTS 640
Monday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Sumi-e Painting
Shinohara,Keiji
Sumi-e is a style of black-and-white calligraphic ink painting that originated in China and was introduced into Japan by Zen monks around 1333. Concentrating on the four basic compositions of
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SCIE 636
Monday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
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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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HUMS 623
Monday
07:00 PM - 09:30 PM
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Distinguished Writers/New Voices: Models for Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
Greene,Anne F.
Offered in conjunction with the spring 2008 Distinguished Writers series, this writing course will study--for technique and inspiration--the work of contemporary writers whom the program brings to speak on campus.
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ARTS 649
Monday
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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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Tuesday
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ARTS 624
Tuesday
06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
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Photographic Vision: A Workshop
Plageman,Laura
This studio course is designed to help students advance their personal photographic vision and develop a focused body of work. Students will look at new techniques for making photographs, explore
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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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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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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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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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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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Wednesday
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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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SOCS 621
Wednesday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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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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ARTS 639
Wednesday
06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Monster Drawings: Large Scale Rendering
Waite,Peter
In this course, we will make drawings on a large scale, typically in the four by six foot range, with these objectives: To consider what happens to one's field of
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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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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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Thursday
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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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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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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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HUMS 618
Thursday
06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
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The Craft of Writing the Personal Essay
Bobrick,Elizabeth A.
In this course, we will focus on short narrative nonfiction, or the personal essay. Although such essays are often categorized by theme or genre--as memoir, say, or cultural criticism--those boundaries
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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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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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