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Summer 2008 Courses Open to Auditors
HUMS 651
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
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Tales of Resistance: Modernity and the Latin American Short Story
Conn,Robert T.
Latin American writers from the early twentieth century forward have regarded the short story as a vehicle through which to make their mark and engage the great cultural issues of
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MTHS 630
Tuesday & Thursday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Single Variable Calculus
Mulvey,Irene
This course will cover all the topics in Differential Calculus in all their detail: limit, continuity, derivative, differentiation rules, implicit differentiation, extreme values, Mean Value Theorem, curve-sketching, and optimization. Also,
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MTHS 640
Tuesday & Thursday
01:00 PM - 03:30 PM
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A Mathematical Sampler
Fieldsteel,Adam
We will present a wide variety of topics from elementary mathematics, chosen for their striking beauty, but also for their bearing on issues of considerable importance. Some of the topics
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SCIE 612
Tuesday & Thursday
06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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Topics in Neuroscience and Behavior
Naegele,Janice R; Lombroso,Paul
Neuroscience is a discipline that seeks to understand how the brain and nervous system works to control behavior and emotions. It is a highly interdisciplinary field that draws from psychology,
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SOCS 612
Monday & Wednesday
09:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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Religion, Science, and Empire
Gottschalk,Peter S.
The Age of Discovery not only coincided with the rise of European imperialism, it was abetted by it. The development of modern science —and of modernity itself —depended in part
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SOCS 627
Tuesday & Thursday
01:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Fully Enrolled
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"Ten Photographs that Shook the World": Technologies of Historical Memory
Tucker,Jennifer
This seminar examines the process by which photographs become icons, revealing that once a photo is published, social forces are at work beyond the photographer's control. The course focuses on
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SOCS 639
Monday & Wednesday
09:00 AM - 11:30 AM
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Europe In the Age Of Violence, 1914-1945
Greene,Nathanael
We will study the history of Europe during a period of unprecedented conflict and nearly uninterrupted turmoil. Two world wars, revolutions, social and national antagonisms, ideological combat, racial hatreds, and
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SOCS 641
Tuesday & Thursday
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM
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Jews under Christian and Muslim Rule
Teter,Magda
This course will focus on mutual attitudes and interaction between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the premodern period. We will examine how each religious tradition constructed "the Other," trying to
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