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due to civil war, poverty and/or economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AAS instability. AAS 547: Directed Reading in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian & Asian American Contemporary Asian and Asian Studies AAS 534: English in Asia American Studies Study of the expanding roles of English in This course provides an opportunity for AAS 500: Intellectual History of East South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. graduate students in Contemporary Asian and Asia With more non-native speakers than native Asian American Studies to pursue readings This course examines the major intellectual speakers, and more in Asia than elsewhere, in an area of their interest as part of their traditions of East Asia with an idea that English has acquired new identities. We graduate program studies. Independent intellectual movements not only reflect but will study functions of English in colonial readings in graduate topics in Contemporary also influence historical developments. It and post-colonial times; how it competes Asian and Asian American studies. May be is designed to help students enhance their with, and complements local languages in repeated. Prerequisites: Approval by Director understanding of East Asian thoughts, history, business, advertising, media, education, of Graduate Studies and culture. Topics will cover the intellectual research, administration, judiciary, creative 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) movements in China, Japan, and Korea from literature, call centers, and on the Internet; the May be repeated for credit. ancient times to the early 20th century. evolution of dynamic new Asian Englishes, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such as Indian English, and their social and AAS 555: Heritage Languages of Asian cultural contexts; controversies regarding Americans AAS 501: Proseminar: Topics & English medium education and its impact English has long been the dominant language Methods in Contemporary Asian and on local languages, relevance of native used in the United States, while the languages Asian American Studies English standards, and implications for of numerous indigenous and immigrant This course introduces students to qualitative theory, description, and method in diverse communities have declined and many and quantitative research methods disciplines, such as, business communication, have died. At the same time, the United commonly used in social sciences and cultural studies, English, lexicography, States¿ extensive global role, the rising humanities, including narrative research, speech recognition, journalism, media studies, geopolitical rise of Asian powers, such as phenomenological research, ethnographic sociolinguistics, teaching English as a second China, India, Japan, South Korean, and others research, case study research, correlational language, and Asian Studies. has highlighted the need to foster greater research, and survey research. Students are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Asian language and cultural skills among expected to identify a topic of interest of their Americans. In that context, maintaining own choosing within Contemporary Asian AAS 540: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies the existing diversity of languages spoken and Asian American Students and develop a This course is an examination of the critical among American immigrant populations pilot research project. The instructor plays the theory on Inter-Asia cultures and phenomena. becomes as important and effective as role of a facilitator by leading methodological Emphasis is placed on the role of culture teaching the languages to new populations. as well as thematic discussions on research within the writing, documentation,2021 and There is an increasing recognition that the topics initiated by students. This course takes evidencing of history. Attention may be advantages of such multilingualism are not the formats of lectures, workshops, student focused on a particular era, group, institution, only cultural, but also cognitive, diplomatic, presentations, peer critique, and one-on-one type of object, or event. security, commercial, social, and political as well. Retaining knowledge of the home instructor-student conferences. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language is found to promote the minority AAS 545: Acquisition of Asian individuals¿ psychological well-being, AAS 505: The Pacific, Travel and Languages facilitate communication and bonding across generations, and ease the process of adjusting Empire This course will analyze the cognitive to life away from the home country, while This cultural studies course examines the Fallprocesses involved in the acquisition of Asian promoting a pluralistic outlook and providing cultures of travel (i.e. fiction, memoirs, languages as second or foreign languages. globally valuable job skills. Still, the brunt photography , and filmmaking) in narratives We will start with discussion of first language of the actual effort to foster multilingualism by and about the Pacific, South and Southeast acquisition and compare it with second has been left to individual families despite the Asia. We will student ¿empire¿ by analyzing language acquisition (SLA). Methodologies known fact that parental effort at maintenance narratives about the former colonies of Spain, such as contrastive analysis and error analysis, alone are not enough to prevent an eventual France, Britain and the United States. As we and concepts such as interlanguage, native and shift to English. This new course is a critical discuss the metaphors or tropes of empire, non-native competence, bilingual competence, examination of the nature and extent of we will also examine the concept of empire acceptability, correctness, standard language available support (institutional, social, family, as a historical and contemporary formation, will be critically examined. We will also and other) for maintaining this valuable or what an empire meant in the 19th century consider the variables that affect SLA, resource of Asian immigrants languages. and what is means today in the early 21st including age, context, exposure, attitude, Students learn through through in-depth century. The course begins with the premise cognition, attention and motivation. Special readings, class lectures and discusssions, and that travel narratives and modern visual attention will be given to the applicability of directed research in language communities of culture illuminate the relationship between the current research paradigms and findings to their choice. violence and romance of travel. The course the acquisition of languages such as Chinese, includes modern travel narratives (i.e. novels Japanese, Korean, and Hindi, both in terms 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by Asian Americans) that focus on the lives of their structural characteristics and in their of those who are forced to travel or migrate socio-cultural context.

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AAS 560: Empire, Memory and East lies within the Asian continent, and the multilingualism; functional distribution of Narratives of Asian America vast majority of Muslims over the centuries languages in education, media, social media, Asian American literary scholars have focused have been non-Arabic speakers, living across and business; diglossia, code-switching on the tropes of immigration and settlement as south and central Asia into India, China, and and code-mixing, psycholinguistic and major paradigms for mapping the landscape Indonesia. We will survey the importance of neurolinguistic models of multiple language of Asian American writing. The late 1990s, Island as the todays¿ largest Asian religion representation and processing in the brain; however, witnessed the emergence of novels , (numerically speaking) and look at some of synchronic and diachronic dimensions of memoirs, narrative and experimental films the distinctive features of its local variants. language contact and interaction in the the departed from current notions of Asian We will pay special attention to the manner individual and society: accents, interference, American literature and films. A distinct in which teachings were presented in the transfer on various linguistic levels; cohort of writers and filmmakers, who languages besides Arabic that became Islam¿s borrowing, linguistic convergence, emergence are first-generation immigrants, created vehicles, in particular Chines, which witnessed of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, styles, cultural forms that focus on the heimat or the a remarkable synthesis of the Islamic and and non-native varieties; multilingualism homeland, narrating history, the legacies of Confucian worldviews. as a pragmatic and stylistic literary device war, violence, personal and national memory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) speech acts and multilingual creativity; socio- The seminar considers how these fictional political dimensions of multilingualism: and non-fictional narratives engage with new AAS 572: Topics in Asian Philosophy I multilingualism and identity; accommodation aesthetic and political questions regarding This course presents in-depth student of and assimilation; language maintenance and Asian American writing, filmmaking and the specific topic in an Asian philosophical shift; language rivalry and conflict; spread limits and the possibilities of memory in the tradition. Students are expected to demonstrate of languages of wider communication and digital age. knowledge through mastery of native terms minority languages¿ anxiety about hegemony and endangerment; cross-cultural case students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and concepts from that tradition. May be repeated as the topics changes. of pluralistic models of synergistic co- existence. AAS 565: Food, Labor and Asian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) America May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ¿An authentic taste of Asia¿ is a marketing AAS 585: Translation Studies of Asian phrase haunted by the violent histories of AAS 573: Orientalism Languages Orientalism, Western expansion and wars in Edward Said¿s Orientalism, written in 1978, Asia. In truth, the success and popularity of was a polemical attack on the discipline Inquiry into issues in the translation of Asian some Asian food is more than the celebration of Orientalism and the representations of languages into/from English. This course of the immigrant work ethic. Behind the the ¿orient¿ in western thought. Almost introduces the recent theories and concepts popularity are geopolitical and labor issues. thirty years later, the debate still rages: are of translation studies and applies them to the The consumption of beef and poultry in the all western scholars writings¿ about Asia analysis of a variety of Asian texts as source U.S., for example, is intimately connected complicit in imperialism? Is there such a texts or target texts. Students are expected to to the exploitation of immigrants from the thing as objective scholarship,2021 or are power gain insights into the lexical, grammatical, global south. Undocumented immigrants and knowledge so deeply intertwined that all cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural and refugees from Southeast Asia, East intellectual activity is inherently political? characteristics of Asian languages as well Africa and the Americas perform the dirty Taking our start from Said¿s ideas, we will as social and political issues that surround task of slaughtering millions of animals: look at authors who extended Said¿s critique translation of Asian texts. Texts to be analyzed chickens, turkeys, pigs, ducks, sheep, lamb, to the fields of South Asian and East Asian include, but are not limited to, literary works, calves. In 2009 alone, 33,300,000 cattle were Studies, and also examine some of Said¿s most newspaper articles, advertisements, brochures, killed for their meat in the United States. outspoken critics. In investigating these issues, and business letters. Advanced skills in one of Immigrant laborers of American industrial students will learn about some of the major the Asian languages are required. slaughterhouses carry out dirty and dangerous Fallfigures in the history of Asian students. We 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) work, killing and dismembering animals even will conclude the semester by exploring the as the laborers themselves live in crowded, possibilities for ¿post-orientalist¿ approaches AAS 587: Supervised Research unsanitary quarters. Similarly, the cooks of to the study of Asian cultures and religions, in Contemporary Asian and Asian America¿s kitchens are immigrants from Asia and by examining the pervasiveness of American Studies and other parts of the world. This new MA orientalist themes in popular culture. This course provides thesis credit for students course focuses on the emerging field known 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the graduate program, Contemporary Asian as ¿food studies,¿ in particular the politics and and Asian American Studies. Thesis credit. histories of Asian food and its popularity in the AAS 575: Multilingualism & Independent graduate research under the United States. If the old adage is ¿we are what Communication in Asia supervision of a faculty member. May be we eat,¿ what does it mean that Asian food in Survey of multilingualism as a cognitive repeated to a limit of 6 credits. Prerequisites: the U.S. is intimately connected to the histories phenomenon and communication strategy with Approval of Director of Graduate Studies of wars in Asia, undocumented labor, and the special reference to traditionally multilingual 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) exploitation of immigrant food workers? societies. Structural, sociolinguistic, cultural, May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and cognitive models are evaluated for their adequacy in representing multilingualism AAS 571: Islamic Thought in Asia in Western and especially non-Western ACC Islam is commonly considered a Middle- (Asian and African cultures. Topics include Accounting Eastern religion, but most of the Middle concepts of multilingualism, typology of

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ACC 529: Managerial Accounting and reorganization and dissolution of C and will learn through case studies, classroom Decision Making S corporations. Topics associated with discussions, and projects. The course will also This course covers cost accounting concepts partnerships and LLCs entities are also cover contemporary issues in auditing. and theories and the implementation of an reviewed. Students will be exposed to other 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) accounting system as a source of information areas of our Federal tax system, including for decision making, planning, control, and U.S. multi-national, gift, estate, and fiduciary ACC 591: Internal Auditing the evaluation of organizational performance income tax topics. State nexus and financial This course is designed to introduce the by management. Other topics include cost- accounting for income taxes concepts are also student to the goal of internal auditor, i.e., volume-profit analysis, overhead rates, introduced. to understand, audit and report on an entity's budgeting and statement of cash flows. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) financial, compliance and operational control 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) systems. The course will discuss how the ACC 562: Accounting Information internal auditor accomplishes this goal through ACC 542: Accounting for the Small Systems professional standards and the best industry Business Entrepeneur A managerial approach to the concepts, issues practices. This course will present information This course is designed to introduce the and techniques used to successfully manage that will enable the student to understand how student to accounting and other financial and maintain an "Accounting Information the internal audit process improves ethical concepts that the small business entrepreneur System." Topics will include business behavior and operational efficiencies within needs to know in order to be successful. The processes such as the revenue and expenditure the business environment. These sessions course will reinforce accounting concepts cycles; business transactions including include discussions about the history of the already introduced in the Financial Accounting replenishment procedures and customer internal audit function. Other topics discussed course with an emphasis on the small business. loyalty programs; general ledger output and will be application in the banking industry, the Other business/financial concerns such as bank compliance requirements as well as interfaces Enron fraud and the resulting Sarbanes-Oxley reconciliations, payroll preparation, payroll to OLAP environments. legislation and application to local government and sales tax compliance, maintenance of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environments. Finally, there will be discussion installment debt, and utilization of sales and about the audit committee and how it relates to purchase discounts will be reviewed. Since ACC 580: Contemporary Issues in the internal audit. most small business entrepreneurs need to Financial Accounting, Auditing and Prerequisite: MBA 590 either do their own bookkeeping or at least be Regulation Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, intimately involved in the process this course The focus of this course is on contemporary etc.) requires the student to become familiar with issues facing the accounting profession. two different accounting software packages It serves as an academic culmination that ACC 594: Governmental and Not for (Quickbook and Peachtree). draws upon other courses in the accounting Profit Accounting and Reporting Prerequisite: G-1 Standing curriculum. In exploring contemporary This course is designed to introduce the Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, issues, students will more deeply consider student to generally accepted accounting etc.) the theoretical underpinnings2021 and practical practices (GAAP) for both governmental and application of accounting principles generally not-for-profit entities. The different accounting ACC 543: Corporate Governance accepted in the United States (GAAP); rules for each type of entity will be explored This course aims to enable students to auditing procedures and auditing standards and compared to typical corporate accounting understand legal arrangement and social generally accepted in the United States practices. The course will examine standards economic theories that are necessary for (GAAS); federal taxation guidelines; and and issued by the two rule making bodies, i.e. analyzing core issues of modern corporate the profession's ethical, professional and the Financial Accounting Standards Board governance. The role of accounting in legal responsibilities. Pedagogy includes (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting corporate governance is emphasized. extensive use of newsworthy accounting Standards Board (GASB) and how they affect issues and the Financial Accounting Standards the accounting and financial reporting for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall Codification, American Institute of Certified the two types of entities. These sessions will ACC 544: Financial Statement Analysis Public Accountants Auditing Standards, and include explanation of typical accounting the IRS Tax Code, Regulation, and Guidelines. transactions and the resulting financial Financial statement analysis is central to Course is team taught by three accounting statements. There will also be discussions fundamental analysis of business. This course instructors. about current financial events affecting both is about the analysis of financial statements environments. for making investment decisions. It integrates 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) key elements from accounting, finance, and Prerequisite: MBA 562, MBA 590, MBA 591 ACC 590: Advanced Auditing and business strategy and applies them to financial Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Assurance decision-making. The course will be taught ACC 596: Financial Accounting Theory using a combination of lectures, case analyses, This course builds on the foundation from class discussions, and student presentations. an undergraduate Auditing and Assurance This course explores the historical course, using case studies to motivate and development and refinement of the conceptual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develop a thorough understanding of how audit framework of accounting theory as it relates ACC 545: Entity Taxation standards (GAAS), processes, and techniques to financial reporting. The implications of facilitate the auditor's role of validating that the convergence of International Accounting Introduces fundamental income taxation financial statements are presented fairly Standards, and Generally Accepted concepts for business entities. Coverage and in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in a global includes the formation, operation, Accounting Principles (GAAP). Students environment are discussed. Current accounting

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 3 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 practices are analyzed and evaluated in the texts will be read in conjunction with each Specialized in-depth exploration of topics context of the conceptual framework of other. So for example, Fanon's seminal test related to Africana Studies core themes GAAP along with the discussion of research Black Skin White Masks, a text that seeks based on a contractual relationship between methodologies. to explain the racialization of society, the individual student and faculty. Student must Offered double consciousness of black people, and the gain permission of selected faculty to enroll in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) superiority complex of white people will be their section of this course. The course can be read against Paul Gilroy's Against Race, a text taken only twice in fulfillment of requirements ACC 597: Advanced Accounting arguing for the deconstruction and recognition for the M.A. This course provides the students with an of race as a cultural construct. Other topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in-depth, up-to-date coverage of accounting for discussion focus on how "newer" writers for consolidations, governmental, not-for- delve into questions of sexuality from a fresh AFH 599: Thesis profit entities, and other key advanced topics. perspective. Comparing Morrison's Sula with This course is intended to prepare students in The course links theory and practice with Cheryl West's play Before it Hits Home, for developing a sustained and mature (nuanced) constant emphasis on the logic of procedures. example, demonstrates that writers are now argument for their M.A. thesis. The class is for Prerequisite: MBA 594, MBA 596 exploring questions of sexuality in more credit with flexible attendance requirements. provocative ways. West's uncovering of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The student must have an AFS faculty sponsor "downlow" life-style lived by Black men, and (thesis director) who will be responsible for ACC 598: Forensic Accounting the health concerns related and the dangers assigning a course grade. The class is available of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/ beginning in the second term of a student's The aim of this course is to explore and master AIDS. Permission from advisor required. the professional skills necessary to detect, enrollment in the M.A. program and in the investigate and prevent fraud. Students will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) summer upon approval of the Director of learn how and why fraudulent activities are Graduate Studies. AFH 528: Contemporary Black committed, and how allegations of fraud 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Literature and Cultural Criticism should be investigated and resolved. The use of technology to proactively detect fraud will This course introduces students to some of be discussed. The following areas such as the major contemporary literary and cultural AFS theorists from the twentieth and twenty- financial investigations, financial statement Africana Studies/Social and fraud, tax fraud, business valuation, resolution first centuries (Fanon, Baker, Christian, and litigation services will be covered. Gilroy, Mercer, Morrison, Gates, Patterson, Behavioral Sciences CLR James, etc). Earlier scholars from Prerequisites: MBA 585, MBA 590, MBA 591 the nineteenth century such as Anna Julia AFS 500: Foundations in Africana Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Cooper or Du Bois will also be referenced. Studies, I etc.) Through an examination of major literary Core course required of all students pursuing and cultural movements such as Negritude, a master's degree in Africana Studies. The AFH the Caribbean Artists Movement,2021 The Black two-semester foundations sequence will Arts Movement, and the Post- Black Artists introduce students to the theoretical issues Africana Studies/Humanities Movement, students will gain insight into how and historiography of the Africana Diaspora. black scholars both critique and contribute The parameters of African Diaspora studies AFH 520: The Caribbean and the to the artistic, political, and social discourse and will cover the historical, literary, socio- Literary Imagination of the day. An application of Postcolonial, political, cultural, and economic themes of An examination of the literary representation Feminist/Womanist, and Cultural Criticism the black experience. The course will provide of the Caribbean through an extensive study of will aid the students in their reading of the critical examination of the global experience selected fictional and theoretical writings. This critical materials. and promote an understanding of the Black seminar will include an examination of the FallOffered Diaspora. Students will read the works of representations of the Caribbean by African Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded scholars who shaped the broad intellectual American as well as Caribbean writers. (A, A-, B+, etc.) world. The required readings will emphasize 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the canons of Diaspora literature, including AFH 564: Seminar in Francophone works by and about W.E.B. Du Bois, George AFH 524: Contemporary African Literature Padmore, C.L.R. James, Marcus Garvey, and Diasporic Literature and Film Close examination of the literature written in others. Contemporary African American Diasporic French of the Francophone world outside of Permission of advisor required. Literature and Film offers a comparative France, with special emphasis on the literature Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis of twentieth and twenty-first century of the Caribbean and Africa. This course will African Diasporic writers and filmmakers pose and explore questions such as: What AFS 501: Foundations in Africana and their explorations of race, class, and is Francophone literature and what are the Studies, II gender. To establish the shifting nature of implications of a literature considered as Core course required of all students pursuing African Diasporic intellectual thought, we "Francophone"? What are the functions of a Master's degree in Africana Studies. The shall consider how each successive generation writing in French in a "postcolonial" context? two-semester foundations courses will of writers and filmmakers builds upon Permission of advisor required. introduce students to the theoretical issues discussions of racial identity, black sexuality, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and historiography of the Africana Diaspora. and social mobility. To demonstrate how The parameters of Africana Diaspora studies discussions of race have evolved over time AFH 585: Independent Studies will cover the historical, literary, socio-

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 4 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 political, cultural, and economic themes of This is a selective introduction to African and global political and economic forces the black experience. The course will provide music, and the music of the African Diaspora. for emerging African social formation, the critical examination of the global experience We will read from major scholars in the viability of African states and societies, new and promote an understanding of the Black field of African music studies such as Simha migration patterns, transnationalism, and Diaspora focusing on scholarly works by Paul Arom, Christopher Waterman, Gerhard Kubik, diasporic connections especially since the Gilroy, Chinua Achebe, Henry Louis Gates, Michele Kisliuk, Ruth Stone, Kofi Agawu, and decolonization process in the 1950's. Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, and others. others. Students will get a broad overview of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Permission of advisor required. the music of the major regional subdivisions etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of Africa (for instance North Africa, Central etc.) Africa, South Africa, etc.), as well as a AFS 540: The Black Power Movement historical perspective on the musicological This course examines the Black Power AFS 502: Research Methods in issues that have been central to Africanist Movement. Stokely Carmichael's call for Africana Studies musicology and ethno musicology. There will "Black Power!" broke through the commotion This course introduces students to basic be regular reading, listening, and short writing of everyday politics during 1966's Meredith concepts of research methodology, specifically assignments, occasional quizzes, a book March Against Fear. Soon after, and for as they pertain to studies of the African review, and a final research project of 16-18 the next decade, Black Power galvanized diaspora. Students will be exposed to a variety pp. For the book review, students will write African American politics, engendering radical of critical approaches across such disciplines about a monograph on African Music such movements for social, political, and cultural as history, literature, political science, and as John Miller Chernoff's African Rhythm transformation that impacted blacks in the sociology in the context of Africana studies. and African Sensibility or Paul Berliner's The United States and beyond. An emerging Students will examine the ways in which Soul of Mbira. Students will present their historiography traces the roots of Black Power theoretical, ideological, and philosophical research to class towards the end of the term. in the postwar black freedom movement, assumptions about race, class, and gender Permission from course instructor required. finding cultural and political touchstones shape the kinds of research questions we 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for future Black Power activism among ask and the types of instruments we use to civil rights renegade, trade unionists, and investigate and evaluate the experiences and AFS 530: Slavery and the Atlantic black nationalists. We will examine works contributions of people from the African World produced during the Black Power era and diaspora. This course will examine the experiences of new scholarship to analyze the Black Power Permission of advisor required. people of African descent as participants in Movement's legacy in the politics and culture Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a coerced migration that created the African of African Americans. Permission of advisor Diaspora. The transatlantic slave trade led to is required. This course is offered as both HIS AFS 504: Racialized Oppressions and an enduring image of black men and women 540 and AFS 540. the Idea of Humanity as transported commodities. Therefore, it has 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) When one reads accounts of slavery, genocide, had the greatest impact on the construction the systematic denial of rights to a group of the African Diaspora giving2021 rise to new AFS 541: Music and Race: Black Music because of a racial identity, the question communities of people across the globe. (Cross Cultural Study of Music) always arises whether the oppressors view the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This seminar will examine how certain widely racialized other as fully human? This course held conceptualizations about race (and in will explore this question and what it means to AFS 533: Race, Gender, and some instances ethnicity) are articulated, view an individual or group as "fully human." Globalization reinforced, or challenged in music making How have philosophical understandings of the This seminar explores current issues and and consumption, on the one hand, and in moral importance and the moral meaning of debates relating to the racialized and gendered scholarship about music on the other. Writings "humanity" served to exacerbate, moderate effects of globalization. Topics include an on race and music have tended to be about or fight against racial oppression? How does Falloverview of the sociology of globalization "black" culture(s). In this course we will racial and gender oppression compare in this and theories of globalism/the global system, critique this focus and the construct of black respect? Is there a comparison to be made transnational classes and a transnational state, music in great detail. The course requires between racial oppression and the treatment global culture and ideology, transnational extensive readings on these topics; listening accorded to disabled people with respect to the migrations and the new global labor market, to musical examples (in-depth knowledge of understanding of what it is to be human? Does globalization and race/ethnicity, women music theory is not necessary); vigorous class shifting the ground from a biologically-based and globalization, local-global linkages, and discussion and written reaction papers; a final concept such as "humanity" to a philosophical resistance to globalization. research paper and class presentation. Students concept of "personhood" serve to justify or Offered may choose to explore other aspects of music serve as a tool against these identity-based Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and race besides black music in their final oppressions? Does shifting the ground justify B+, etc.) papers (for example, how Orientalism has been the analogy of racism with the abuse of constituted in music and musical criticism and animals, as in the idea of "speciesism"? We AFS 536: Africa and Globalization scholarship). Permission of advisor required. will explore as many of these questions as This seminar will discuss the interconnection 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interest dictates and time permits. Permission between this enduring crisis of the modern from advisor required. African state and the impact of globalization, AFS 542: Caribbean Transnational Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) especially after thecallpase of communism Identity in the US in Eastern Europe. We will critically explore This course seeks to examine the strategies AFS 507: African Music the implications of these complex regional some immigrants from the Caribbean utilize to

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To do so, it sheds light neo-colonies. of colonial rule in the late nineteenth century. on the ways in which the US construction of Offered Drawing from monographs and journal articles race and ethnicity influences the immigrants' Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, on twentieth century African social and search for an identity in the United States. etc.) political history, and the recent scholarship on Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Graduate state/society relations, the seminar will explore Certificate Program AFS 570: The Black Radical Tradition the interactions between state institutions Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the black radical and structures of society in colonial and tradition from slavery to the present, paying post-colonial Africa. The seminar is broadly AFS 550: Women of Color in The particular attention of twentieth-century social structured around key themes which are Modern World: Shifting Identities and movements and the intersection between trade presented in chronological order. These themes Feminist Visions unionism, black nationalism, internationalism, are divided into three major sections. The first This course explores the various ways in and Marxism. Black radicalism has a long section which deals with the colonial period which gender, race, and class, along with history in the United States and beyond. At will examine the following themes: partition other aspects of identity, shape the lives and its core, this tradition has housed diverse, and conquest; African resistance to early experiences of women of color in the United at times conflicting, ideological strains, colonialism; the historical processes of state States and globally. It presents the ongoing personalities, and organizations ranging from formation in Africa; the colonial economy; debates concerning the interconnections black feminists, Marxists, socialists, liberals, and the interaction between the world religion of gender, race, and shifting identities. It trade unionists, artists, and intellectuals. In (Christianity and Islam) and colonial rule. will examine the relationships between the the process this tradition has run afoul of The second section on the postcolonial era construction of personal identities, identity more mainstream expressions of Black protest examines the following themes: the historical statuses, cultural and ideological meaning (although in certain eras, such as during the processes of state formation in Africa; systems, and the search for alternative images. Black Power Movement, it has represented communal identities and social change since Permission from advisor required. the mainstream), and black radicals are often decolonization; the patriarchal society and the crisis of the state; and the new debates on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) marginalized as wild-eye dreamers, naive to the ways of the world. democratization and civil society in the post- Cold War era. The final section examines the AFS 555: Sociology of Gender and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Development international politics of African states from AFS 585: Independent Studies both theoretically and historical perspectives. The 1960's marked a transition in global The relevant themes here include the impact economic relations from one characterized Specialized in-depth exploration of topics of the major powers on African subregions by colonial extraction and exploitation, related to Africana Studies core themes in the Cold War and post-containment eras; to sustainable development emphasizing based on a contractual relationship between the impact of multilateral agencies on African economic growth and the alleviation of individual student and faculty. Student must political, economic and social developments; poverty. It was quickly discovered, however, gain permission of selected faculty to enroll in regional organizations and African states. that the effects of development were beneficial their section of this course.2021 The course can be The structure of the course is intended to for some but devastating for others, especially taken only twice in fulfillment of requirements be coherent but flexible, so that we can poor women. The discovery led many scholars for the M.A. identify some basic trends in the reading and practitioners, especially those who 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments and construct consistent themes embrace feminist ideologies, to demand that May be repeated for credit. on the interplay of political transformation in development agencies and policies be sensitive the twentieth century. Permission of advisor is to gender issues. This seminar will focus AFS 599: Thesis required. on gender and development, in theory and This course is intended to prepare students in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice, in the global South. It will promote developing a sustained and mature (nuanced) students' Fallargument for their M.A. thesis. The class is for understanding of the central role that gender credit with flexible attendance requirements. AMS plays in the success and assessment of The student must have an AFS faculty sponsor development strategies. (thesis director) who will be responsible for Applied Mathematics and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, assigning a course grade. The class is available Statistics Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) beginning in the second term of a student's enrollment in the M.A. program and in the AMS 500: Responsible Conduct of AFS 560: Sexualities: African and summer upon approval of the Director of Research and Scholarship (RCRS) Caribbean Perspectives Graduate Studies. Fall and Spring This course is designed to introduce students This seminar is designed to introduce students 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the major issues in the ethics of science and to the complexities of human sexuality May be repeated for credit. research. Using a combination of readings- from a perspective that places subaltern written and web-based-videos, and case individuals at the center of the analysis. It AFS 616: Twentieth Century African discussion, students will investigate the moral locates these individuals, and their sexual Political History values intrinsic to science and the professional practices, in the Tropics (particularly in Africa This seminar is an extensive exploration of and social values with which scientists and the Caribbean) first in those man-made African political history in the twentieth- must comply. Each class will begin with an communities where sexuality was one of century. It examines the major themes that introductory lecture or video followed by the (unspoken) exigencies of the slave and have shaped the formation and the decline of colonial economies, and later in the modern

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AMS 501: Differential Equations and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Boundary Value Problems I Examples of initial and boundary value AMS 507: Introduction to Probability AMS 513: Financial Derivatives and problems in which differential equations The topics include sample spaces, axioms Stochastic Calculus arise. Existence and uniqueness of solutions, of probability, conditional probability and Further development of derivative pricing systems of linear differential equations, and independence, discrete and continuos random theory including the use of equivalent the fundamental solution matrix. Power variables, jointly distributed random variables, martingale measures, the Girsanov Theorem, series solutions. Sturm-Liouville theory and characteristics of random variables, law of the Radon-Nikodym Derivative, and a eigenfunction expansion. Green's functions. large numbers and central limit theorem, deeper, more general understanding of the Spring Markov chains. Arbitrage Theorem. Numerical approaches 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to solving stochastic PDE's will be further developed. Applications involving interest AMS 502: Differential Equations and AMS 510: Analytical Methods for rate sensitive securities and more complex Boundary Value Problems II Applied Mathematics and Statistics options will be introduced. Whenever Analytic solution techniques for, and Review of techniques of multivariate calculus, practical examples will use real market data. properties of solutions of, partial differential convergence and limits, matrix analysis, vector Numerical exercises and projects in a high- equations, with concentration on second order space basics, and Lagrange multipliers. level programming environment will also be assigned. Prerequisite: AMS 511. 3 Credits PDEs. Techniques covered include: method Prerequisite: A course in linear algebra and in of characteristics, separation of variables, multivariate calculus 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) eigenfunction expansions, spherical means. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Green's functions and fundamental solutions, AMS 514: Computational Finance and Fourier transforms. Solution properties AMS 511: Foundations of Quantitative Review of foundations: stochastic calculus, include: energy conservation, dispersion, Finance martingales, pricing, and arbitrage. Basic dissipation, existence and uniqueness, Introduction to capital markets, securities principles of Monte Carlo and the efficiency maximum and mean value principles. pricing and modern portfolio theory, including and effectiveness of simulation estimators. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the organization and operation of securities Generation of pseudo- and quasi-random market, the Efficient Market Hypothesis and numbers with sampling methods and AMS 503: Applications of Complex its implications, the Capital Asset Pricing distributions. Variance reduction techniques Analysis Model, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and such as control variates, antithetic variates, A study of those concepts and techniques in more general factor models.2021 Common stocks stratified and Latin hypercube sampling, complex function theory that are of interest for and their valuation, statistical analysis, and and importance sampling. Discretization their applications. Pertinent material is selected portfolio selection in a single-period, mean- methods including first and second order from the following topics: harmonic functions, variance context will be explored along methods, trees, jumps, and barrier crossings. calculus of residues, conformal mapping, and with its solution as a quadratic program. Applications in pricing American options, the argument principle. Application is made to Fixed income securities and their valuation, interest rate sensitive derivatives, mortgage- problems in heat conduction, potential theory, statistical analysis, and portfolio selection. backed securities and risk management. fluid dynamics, and feedback systems. Discussion of the development and use of Whenever practical examples will use real market data. Extensive numerical exercises Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, financial derivatives. Introduction to risk Fallneutral pricing, stochastic calculus and and projects in a general programming etc.) the Black-Scholes Formula. Whenever environment will also be assigned. AMS 504: Foundations of Applied practical examples will use real market data. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Mathematics Numerical exercises and projects in a high- AMS 515: Case Studies in An introductory course for the purpose of level programming environment will also be Computational Finance developing certain concepts and techniques assigned. that are fundamental in modern approaches 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Actual applications of Quantitative Finance to to the solution of applied problems. An problems of risk assessment, product design, appropriate selection of topics is based on AMS 512: Capital Markets and Portfolio portfolio management and securities pricing the concepts of metric spaces, compactness, Theory will be covered. Particular attention will be sequences and convergence, continuity, Development of capital markets and paid to data collection and analysis, the design differentiation and integration, function portfolio theory in both continuous time and implementation of software, and, most sequences, contraction mapping theorem. and multi-period settings. Utility theory importantly, to differences the occur between Strong emphasis on proofs. and its application to the determination of "theory and practice" in model application, and to the development of practical strategies Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) optimal consumption and investment policies. Asymptotic growth under conditions of for handling cases in which "model failure" AMS 505: Applied Linear Algebra uncertainty. Applications to problems in makes the naive use of quantitative techniques strategic asset allocation over finite horizons dangerous. Extensive use of guest lecturers drawn from the industry will be made.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course explores in depth the fundamentals Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of the Bayesian methodology and the use etc.) AMS 516: Statistical Methods in of the Bayesian theory in portfolio and risk Finance management. It focuses on, among other AMS 530: Principles in Parallel The course introduces statistical methods in topics, incorporating the prior views of Computing quantitative finance. Financial applications and analysts and investors into the asset allocation This course is designed for both academic statistical methodologies are intertwined in process, estimating and predicting volatility, and industrial scientists interested in parallel all lectures. The course will cover regression improving risk forecasts, and combining the computing and its applications to large- analysis and applications to the Capital conclusions of different models. Numerical scale scientific and engineering problems. It Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing exercises and projects in a high-level focuses on the three main issues in parallel models, principal components and multivariate programming environment will be assigned. computing: analysis of parallel hardware and analysis, statistical methods for financial time 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) software systems, design and implementation series; value at risk, smoothing techniques and of parallel algorithms, and applications of estimation of yield curves, and estimation and AMS 523: Mathematics of High parallel computing to selected problems modeling volatilities. Frequency Finance in physical science and engineering. The Prerequisite: AMS 586 or permission of the Elements of real and complex linear spaces. course emphasizes hands-on practice and instructor Fourier series and transforms, the Laplance understanding of algorithmic concepts of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, transform and z-transform. Elements of parallel computing. etc.) complex analysis including Cauchy theory, Prerequisite: A course in basic computer residue calculus, conformal mapping and science such as operating systems or AMS 517: Quantitative Risk Mobius transformations. Introduction to architectures or some programming Management convex sets and analysis in finite dimensions, experience. Quantitative Methods for risk management the Legendre transform and duality. Examples Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, problems including market risk, credit are given in terms of applications to high etc.) risk, operational risk and Basel II accord. frequency finance. AMS 531: Laboratory Rotations in Multivariable models; extreme value theory; Offered Computational Biology structure and reduced-form models of default; Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and copula-based models. This is a two semester course in which first 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 526: Numerical Analysis I year Ph.D. students spend at least 8 weeks in Direct and indirect methods for solving each of three different laboratories actively AMS 518: Advanced Stochastic simultaneous linear equations and matrix participating in the research of participating Models, Risk Assessment, and inversion, conditioning, and round-off errors. Computational Biology Faculty. At the end of Portfolio Optimization Computation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. each rotation, students give a presentation of The course provides a thorough treatment Corequisite: AMS 510 and AMS 595 their lab activates and accomplishments. The primary goal of rotations is to help students of advanced risk measurement and portfolio Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded2021 (A, A-, B+, etc.) optimization, extending the traditional choose a research advisor and to help faculty approaches to these topics by combining AMS 527: Numerical Analysis II members choose students. Students register for AMS 531 in both the Fall and Spring distributional models with risk or performance Numerical methods based upon functional semesters of the first year. measures into one framework. It focuses on, approximation: polynomial interpolation and among others, the fundamentals of probability approximation; and numerical differentiation 0-3 credits, S/U grading metrics and optimization, new approaches and integration. Solution methods for ordinary May be repeated for credit. to portfolio optimization, and a variety of differential equations. AMS 527 may be taken AMS 532: Journal Club in essential risk measures. Numerical exercises whether or not the student has completed AMS Computational Biology and projects in a high-level programming Fall526. environment will be assigned. The goal of this course is for students to Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, hone critical reading and analytic skills 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) through discussions of literature in the area AMS 519: Internship in Quantitative AMS 528: Numerical Analysis III of Computational Biology. Participants Finance take turn being a "discussion leader" who An introduction to scientific computation, informally guides the group through a peer- Supervised internship in financial institution. this course considers the basic numerical reviewed manuscript for which all Journal Students will typically work at a trading techniques designed to solve problems of Club members will have to read in advance desk, in an asset management group, or in physical and engineering interest. Finite of the meeting. Meetings in the Spring a risk management group. Students will be difference methods are covered for the three semester will include in Person Training supervised by a faculty member and a manager major classes of partial differential equations: (IPT) in Responsible conduct of Research and at their internship site. Written and oral reports parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic. Practical Scholarship (RCRS) on topics that comprise will be made to both supervisors. implementation will be discussed. The student (1) Integrity in Scholarship, (2) Scientific 3-6 credits, is also introduced to the important packages Misconduct, (3) Mentoring, (4) Ownership May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. of scientific software algorithms. AMS 528 and Authorship, (5) Plagiarism, (6) Data may be taken whether or not the student has Management, (7) Journalism and Science, (8) AMS 522: Bayesian Methods in completed AMS 526 or AMS 527. Finance Human Subjects, and (9) Laboratory Animals. 0-1 credits, S/U grading

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May be repeated for credit. project report will be required. Familiarity with 0-1 credits, S/U grading Unix (Linux) is desirable but not mandatory. AMS 533: Numerical Methods and AMS 540: Linear Programming 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Algorithms in Computational Biology Formulation of linear programming An in-depth survey of many of the key AMS 537: Biological Dynamics and problems and solutions by simplex method. techniques used in diverse aspects of Networks Duality, sensitivity analysis, dual simplex computational biology. A major focus of this This course will provide a solid foundation algorithm, decomposition. Applications to the class is on how to successfully formulate a in key theoretical concepts for the study of transportation problem, two-person games, statement of the problem to be solved, and dynamics in biological systems and networks assignment problem, and introduction to how that formulation can guide in selecting at different scales ranging from the molecular integer and nonlinear programming. the most suitable computational approach. level to metabolic and gene regulatory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examples will be drawn from a wide range networks. Topics of this course include of problems in biology, including molecular but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; AMS 542: Analysis of Algorithms modeling, biochemical reaction networks, Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; Techniques for designing efficient algorithms, microscopy and systems biology. No prior Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; including choice of data structures, recursion, knowledge of biology is required. Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, branch and bound, divide and conquer, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) bifurcations, pattern development; Noise dynamic programming. Complexity analysis in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; of searching, sorting, matrix multiplication, AMS 534: Introduction to Systems Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period and graph algorithms. Standard NP-complete Biology doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; problems and polynomial transformation This course is geared towards teaching Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of techniques. This course is offered as both essential concepts and computational skills in nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- AMS 542 and CSE 548. Systems Biology. The course is centered upon Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized Prerequisite for CSE 548: CSE 373 two key programming languages: Matlab for tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological recommended modeling applications and the R language for networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, statistical analysis and sequence manipulation. metabolic nets; Known biological circuits etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and their behaviors; How networks evolve: etc.) Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power AMS 544: Discrete and Nonlinear laws; Fluxed through networks; Information Optimization AMS 535: Introduction to and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux Theoretical and computational properties of Computational Structural Biology and analysis; Artificial and Natural selection discrete and nonlinear optimization problems: Drug Design for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population integer programming, including cutting plane This course will provide an introduction dynamics. and branch and bound algorithms, necessary to Computational Structural Biology with Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and sufficient conditions for optimality of application to Drug Design. Methods and etc.) 2021nonlinear programs, and performance of applications that use computation to model selected nonlinear programming algorithms. AMS 538: Methods in Neuronal biological systems involved in human disease 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be emphasized. The course aims to foster Modeling collaborative learning and will consist of Presentation of the mathematical modeling AMS 545: Computational Geometry presentations by the instructor, guest lecturers, approach to information processing in nervous Study of the fundamental algorithmic problems and by course participants with the goal systems, from the level of individual ionic associated with geometric computations, of summarizing key, methods, topics, and channels to large-scale neuronal networks. including convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, papers relevant to Computational Structural The course covers kinetic models of synaptic triangulation, intersection, range queries, Biology. Grades are based on the quality of the Falltransmission, cable theory and compartment visibility, arrangements, and motion presentations, participation in class discussion, models for neurons, multiple channels and planning for robotics. Algorithmic methods attendance, quizzes, and a final exam. calcium dynamics, spike-train analysis and include plane sweep, incremental insertion, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) modeling small neuron networks. randomization, divide-and-conquer, etc. This 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course is offered as both AMS 545 and CSE AMS 536: Molecular Modeling of May be repeated for credit. 555. Biological Molecules Prerequisite for CSE 555: CSE 373 or CSE AMS 539: Introduction to Physical and This computer-based lab course is designed for 548 Quantitative Biology students who wish to gain hands an experience Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, modeling biological molecules at the atomic This course is a seminar series organized etc.) level. In conjunction with individual interests, by the Laufer Center for Physical and Molecular Mechanics, Molecular dynamics, Quantitative Biology and is aimed at any AMS 546: Network Flows Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), incoming graduate students who might be Theory of flows in capacity-constrained or Quantum Mechanics software packages interested in doing research in computational, networks. Topics include maximum flow, can be used to study relevant biological mathematical or physical biology. Each feasibility criteria, scheduling problems, systems (s). Projects will include setup, seminar will be given by a different faculty matching and covering problems, minimum- execution, and analysis. Course participants member about their research and will span a length paths, minimum-cost flows, and will give literature presentations relevant to range of topics including computational cell associated combinatorial problems. the simulations being performed and a final biology and evolutionary models.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Elements of cooperative and non-cooperative in real systems. The goal of the course is to games. Matrix games, pure and mixed provide rigorous foundations for the study of AMS 547: Discrete Mathematics strategies, and equilibria. Solution concepts smart energy management for sustainability. This course introduces such mathematical such as core, stable sets, and bargaining sets. Offered in the Spring Semester tools as summations, number theory, binomial Voting games, and the Shapley and Banzhaff 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) coefficients, generating functions, recurrence power indices. This course is offered as both relations, discrete probability, asymptotics, ECO 604 and AMS 552. Prerequisite for ECO AMS 560: Big Data Systems, combinatorics, and graph theory for use in 604: Graduate standing in the Economics Algorithms and Networks algorithmic and combinatorial analysis. This Department or permission of the Graduate Recent progress on big data systems, course is offered as both CSE 547 and AMS Director. algorithms and networks. Topics include 547. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the web graph, search engines, targeted Prerequisite for CSE 547: AMS 301 advertisements, online algorithms and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, AMS 553: Simulation and Modeling competitive analysis, and analytics, storage, etc.) A comprehensive course in formulation, resource allocation, and security in big data implementation, and application of simulation systems. Offered in the Spring Semester AMS 548: Optimization techniques in models. Topics include data structures, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biomolecular simulations simulation languages, statistical analysis, This practical hands-on course will teach basic pseudo-random number generation, and design AMS 561: Introduction to techniques for building mathematical models, of simulation experiments. Students apply Computational Science algorithms, and software for biomolecular simulation modeling methods to problems of This course provides a foundation of simulations of macromolecular interactions. their own design. This course is offered as knowledge and basic skills for the successful The topics of this course include, but are not CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. application in graduate research of modern limited to: the basics of statistical mechanics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques in computational and data science and its connection to the sampling algorithms; relevant to engineering, the humanities, and the origin of and approximations for the AMS 555: Game Theory II the physical, life and social sciences. It is computation of molecular forces; geometry Refinements of strategic equilibrium, games consciously crafted to provide a rich, project- of the molecular configuration search space with incomplete information, repeated games oriented, multidisciplinary experience that and multidimensional optimization; basics with and without complete information, and establishes a common vocabulary and skill of software development and programming stochastic games. The Shapley value of games set. Centered around the popular programming for high performance computing (HPC). with many players, and NTU-values. This language Python, the course will serve as an During the course, the students will develop course is offered as both ECO 605 and AMS introduction to programming including data a multiscale approach for modeling protein- 555. structures, algorithms, numerical methods, protein interactions from the ground up. No Prerequisite for AMS 555: AMS 552/ECO 604. basic concepts in computer architecture, special background is required. Offered in the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and elements of object-oriented design. Spring Semester etc.) 2021Also introduced will be important concepts 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and tools associated with the analysis and AMS 556: Dynamic Programming management of data, both big and small, AMS 549: Computational Biology Stochastic and deterministic multistage including basic statistical modeling in R, This course focuses on current problems in optimization problems. Stochastic path aspects of machine learning and data mining, computational biology and bioinformatics. problems. Principle of optimality. Recursive data management, and visualization. No Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on and functional equations. Method of previous computing experience is assumed. discovering appropriate combinatorial successive approximations and policy Students are assumed to have taken some algorithm problems and the techniques to iteration. Applications to finance, economics, introductory courses in two of these three solve them. Primary topics will include DNA Fallinventory control, maintenance, inspection, math subjects: linear algebra, calculus, and sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence and replacement problems. probability. comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and protein folding, and phylogenic trees. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 559: Smart Energy in the AMS 562: Introduction to Scientific Information Age Programming in C++ AMS 550: Operations Research: Energy and sustainability have become critical This course provides students with Stochastic Models issues of our generation. While the abundant foundational skills and knowledge in practical Includes Poisson processes, renewal theory, potential of renewable energy sources, such scientific programming relevant for scientists discrete-time and continuous-time Markov as solar and wind, provides a real opportunity and engineers. The primary language is C+ processes, Brownian motion, applications for sustainability, their intermittency and + since it is a widely-used, object-oriented to queues, statistics, and other problems of uncertainty present a daunting operational language, includes C as a subset, and is a engineering and social sciences. Prerequisite: challenge. This course studies how to use powerful tool for writing robust, complex, AMS 507 or equivalent Information Technology (IT) to improve high-performance software. Elements of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sustainability in our energy-hungry society. Python, Bash, and other languages will be In particular, topics include the applications introduced to complement the capabilities AMS 552: Game Theory I of mathematical modeling, algorithm design, of C++, and essential tools for software optimization, game theory, and control theory development and engineering will be employed throughout the course (e.g.,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 10 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 makefiles, version control, online code such as the t-test and chi-square test. This course will first review classical linear repositories, debugging, etc.). Procedures to verify that assumptions are and generalized linear models such as Linear Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) satisfied. Extensions of simple procedures Regression, and Linear Discriminant Analysis. to more complex situations and introduction We shall then study modern Resampling AMS 565: Wave Propagation to one-way analysis of variance. Basic Methods such as Bootstrapping, and modern Theory of propagation of vector and scalar exploratory data analysis procedures (stem variable selection methods such as the waves in bounded and unbounded regions. and leaf plots, straightening regression lines, Shrinkage Method. Finally, we shall introduce Development of methods of geometrical and techniques to establish equal variance). modern non-linear statistical learning methods optics. Propagation in homogeneous and Offered as AMS 572 or HPH 698. such as the Generalized Additive Models, anisotropic media. Prerequisite: AMS 312 or permission of Decision Trees, Random Forest, Boosting, Bagging, and, Support Vector Machines. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 566: Compressible Fluid Dynamics AMS 573: Categorical Data Analysis AMS 581: Analysis of Variance Physical, mathematical, and computational Measuring the strength of association between Analysis of models with fixed effects. The description in compressible fluid flows. pairs of categorical variables. Methods for Gauss-Markov theorem; construction of Integral and differential forms of the evaluating classification procedures and inter- confidence ellipsoids and tests with Gaussian conservation equations, one-dimensional rater agreement. Analysis of the associations observations. Problems of multiple tests of flow, shocks and expansion waves in two among three or more categorical variables hypotheses. One-way, two-way, and higher- and three dimensions, quasi-one-dimensional using log linear models. Logistic regression. way layouts. Analysis of incomplete designs flow, transient flow, numerical methods for Prerequisite: AMS 572 such as Latin squares and incomplete blocks. steady supersonic flow, numerical methods for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis of covariance problems. transient flow. etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, AMS 575: Internship in Statistical AMS 582: Design of Experiments etc.) Consulting Discussion of the accuracy of experiments, AMS 569: Probability Theory I Directed quantitative research problem in partitioning sums of squares, randomized Probability spaces and sigma-algebras. conjunction with currently existing research designs, factorial experiments, Latin squares, Random variables as measurable mappings. programs outside the department. Students confounding and fractional replication, Borel-Cantelli lemmas. Expectation using specializing in a particular area work on response surface experiments, and incomplete simple functions. Monotone and dominated a problem from that area; others work on block designs. Offered as AMS 582 or HPH convergence theorems. Inequalities. Stochastic problems related to their interests, if possible. 699. Prerequisite: AMS 572 convergence. Characteristic functions. Laws of Efficient and effective use of computers. Each 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) large numbers and the central limit theorem. student gives at least one informal lecture to his or her colleagues on a research problem AMS 583: Applied Longitudinal Data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021 and its statistical aspects. Analysis AMS 570: Introduction to Mathematical 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Longitudinal data takes the form of repeated Statistics May be repeated for credit. measurements of the same subject (humans, Probability and distributions; multivariate animals, plants, samples, etc) over time (or AMS 577: Multivariate Analysis distributions; distributions of functions of other conditions). This type of data has a random variables; sampling distributions; The multivariate distribution. Estimation of broad range of applications, including public limiting distributions; point estimation; the mean vector and covariance matrix of the health, medical research, pharmaceutical confidence intervals; sufficient statistics; multivariate normal. Discriminant analysis. studies, life sciences, agriculture, engineering FallCanonical correlation. Principal components. and physical sciences. Longitudinal data Bayesian estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; statistical tests. Factor analysis. Cluster analysis. analysis allows one to study the changes in mean response over time and answer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other scientific questions pertaining to the AMS 571: Mathematical Statistics AMS 578: Regression Theory relationship between the response and time. Classical least-squares theory for regression This course aims to introduce statistical Sampling distribution; convergence concepts; models and methods for the analysis of classes of statistical models; sufficient including the Gauss-Markov theorem and classical normal statistical theory. longitudinal data. Both the classical (univariate statistics; likelihood principle; point and multivariate repeated analysis of variance) estimation; Bayes estimators; consistence; An introduction to stepwise regression, procedures, and exploratory data analysis and more recent approaches (1) general linear Neyman-Pearson Lemma; UMP tests; UMPU models for correlation, random coefficient tests; Likelihood ratio tests; large sample techniques. Analysis of variance problems as a subject of regression. Brief discussions of models, linear mixed effect models for normal theory. Offered as HPH 697 or AMS 571. repeated measurements; (2) generalized Prerequisite: AMS 570 robustness of estimation and robustness of design. Prerequisite: AMS 572 linear models for non-normal response and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) population-averaged models (generalized 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) estimating equations) for non-normal repeated AMS 572: Data Analysis I AMS 580: Statistical Learning measurements, of analyzing longitudinal data Introduction to basic statistical procedures. will be covered in this course. Offered in the Survey of elementary statistical procedures Spring Semester

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) substantially from our old forms. In our models of prediction for asset-pricing, pricing current program, students from many tracks, of derivative products and term-structure of AMS 585: Internship in Data Science especially in statistics and in quantitative interest rates assuming stochastic volatility. Directed data science problem in conjunction finance, need this updated course as a highly Statistics necessary for analysis is incorporated with currently existing research programs relevant and important elective. This same in the course. outside the department. Students specializing subject is generally referred to as `Survival Prerequisite: AMS 592 in a particular area work on a problem from data analysis¿ in biostatistics, but `Failure data Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) that area; others work on problems related analysis¿ in finance. This updated title will to their interests, if possible. Efficient and reflect the content of the course clearly for AMS 595: Fundamentals of Computing effective use of computers. Each student students from all tracks. Introduction to UNIX operating system, gives at least one informal lecture to his or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) C language, graphics, and parallel her colleagues on a research problem and its supercomputing. statistical aspects. AMS 589: Quantitative Genetics Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Definition of relevant terminology. Statistical May be repeated for credit. and genetic models for inheritance of AMS 596: Fundamentals of Large- quantitative traits. Estimation of effects of Scale Computing AMS 586: Time Series selection, dominance polygenes, epistatis, and Overview of the design and maintenance Analysis in the frequency domain. environment. Linkage studies and threshold of large scale computer projects in Periodograms, approximate tests, relation to characteristics. applied mathematics, including basic regression theory. Pre-whitening and digital Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, programming techniques for massively parallel fibers. Common data windows. Fast Fourier A-, B+, etc.) supercomputers. transforms. Complex demodulation, Gibbs' Prerequisite: AMS 595 or permission of phenomenon issues. Time-domain analysis. AMS 591: Topics for M.S. Students instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Various topics of current interest in applied Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mathematics will be offered if sufficient AMS 587: Nonparametric Statistics interest is shown. Several topics may be taught AMS 597: Statistical Computing This course covers the applied nonparametric concurrently in different sections. Introduction to statistical computing using statistical procedures: one-sample Wilcoxon 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SAS and S plus. tests, two-sample Wilcoxon tests, runs May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Kendall's tau, Spearman's rho, Hodges-Lehman estimation, AMS 592: Mathematical Methods of AMS 598: Big Data Analysis Friedman analysis of variance on ranks. The Finance and Investments I The rapid advancement of modern course gives the theoretical underpinnings A broad-based course in mathematical technologies in all walks of research and to these procedures, showing how existing modeling and quantitative analysis of financial business has introduced tremendous amount techniques may be extended and new transactions and investment2021 management of data and the related big data mining tasks techniques developed. An excursion into the issues such as debt and equity, measures of such as real-time credit card processing and new problems of multivariate nonparametric risk and returns, efficient markets and efficient fraud detection, high dimensional RNA inference is made. set mathematics, asset pricing, one-factor and sequencing analysis, and risk management Prerequisites: AMS 312 and AMS 572 or multiple-factor models, portfolio selection, of high frequency trading data measured in equivalents futures and options. milliseconds. Traditional data processing and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis techniques are no longer adequate -- they have to be revised and customized to AMS 588: Failure and Survival Data AMS 593: Interest Rate and Credit parallel computing paradigms, at the same Analysis FallModeling time, modern data mining tools are being This course introduces both parametric Introduction to most commonly used interest created and evolved, at their own fast pace, and non-parametric statistical models for rate models: Heath-Jarrow-Morton, Brace- to accommodate the analysis of various big analysis of the failure and survival data Gatareck-Musiela, etc. Cap, Floor, European data problems. This course is subsequently ¿ a critical topic in quantitative finance, and Bermudian option pricing. Credit created to enable the timely education of a econometrics, and biostatistics. Different Modeling: Merton structural approach vs. new generation of competent data analysts. censoring mechanisms will be discussed. Intensity approach. Corporate bonds, CDS, This course introduces the application of the The course will mainly cover Kaplan-Meier securitized products (CDO, CLO, mortages), supercomputing to statistical data analyses, estimator for characterizing the distribution of Credit value adjustment (CVA, XVA). particularly on big data. Implementations the failure and survival data, non-parametric 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of various statistical methodologies log-rank test for comparing multiple groups, within parallel computing framework are and the accelerated failure time model and AMS 594: Mathematical Methods of demonstrated through all lectures. The course Cox regression model uncovering various Finance and Investments II will cover (1) parallel computing basics, predictor/explanatory variables to survival/ This course employs the techniques of including architecture on interconnection failure. Applications to finance, economics mathematical statistics and empirical finance, networks, communications methodologies, and biomedicine will be illustrated. We have e.g., estimation theory, linear and nonlinear algorithm and performance measurements, revised the course title and content to better regression, time series analysis, modeling and (2) their applications to modern data suit our current graduate programs in Applied and simulation to examine critically various mining techniques, including modern variable Mathematics and Statistics that have evolved

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 12 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 selection/Dimension reduction, linear/logistical high reward. Risks facing investors in BRIC: AMS 644: Special Topics in Applied regression, tree-based classification methods, strategic, operational, political, market risk, Probability Kernel-based methods, non-linear statistical credit risks. Cultural barriers: family owned The course is designed for second- and third- models, and model inference/Resampling businesses, lack of business professionalism, year graduate students with a background methods. Prerequisites: AMS 572, AMS 573 poor transparency and disclosures of business in probability and stochastic modeling who and AMS 578 practices, shallow and volatile markets, wish to pursue research in applications of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) unstable macro-economics policies, tardy the probability theory. Several topics may be legal system. Responsibilities of investors taught concurrently in different sections. AMS 599: Research in the BRIC countries: helping the BRIC Prerequisites: AMS 550 and permission of governments and corporations in smooth Thesis research for Doctoral students who instructor transition to global markets and to developed have not yet advanced to candidacy. Master's Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) status, providing co-ordination and transfer students may also enroll, but must have May be repeated for credit. approval from a faculty advisor before of business knowledge and technology from registering. Pre-requisite: Student must obtain risk professionals in developed countries to AMS 651: Nonlinear Analysis and consent from individual faculty advisor in emerging markets. Offered in Fall. Optimization order to register for AMS 599 under his/her 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Iterative methods for solving nonlinear section. 1-12 credits, S/U grading, may be operator equations. Frechet differentials. The AMS 603: Risk Measures For Finance repeated for credit. Newton-Raphson method in function space & Data Analysis 1-12 credits, S/U grading and nonlinear boundary value problems. The May be repeated for credit. Risk analysis is important to quantitative Courant penalty concept and constrained finance, insurance, commercial credit and optimization. General multiplier rules. AMS 600: Socially Responsible many areas of data analysis. We emphasize Variable metric gradient projection for Investing risk analysis methods that capture observed nonlinear least-square methods, with Introduction to a scope of investments features of risk, such as heavy tails, and applications. validation of risk models against observed which are socially responsible because of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the nature of the business the company data. Students will be graded on the basis conducts, including but not limited to: of project drawn from multiple asset classes AMS 652: Special Topics in Game avoiding investment in companies that considered in the course work, including fixed Theory income, options, portfolio optimization and produce or sell addictive substances (like The course is designed for second- and third- foreign exchange. Professional standards for alcohol, gambling, and tobacco) and seeking year graduate students who wish to specialize software development will be followed. Guest out companies engaged in environmental in the mathematical theory of games. sustainability. The course includes analysis lectures by industry leaders are anticipated. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of investments strategies maximizing Participation via conferencing software will be May be repeated for credit. financial return as well as social goods, available as an option to class attendance. such as: (i) Negative Screening: excluding 3 credits, Letter graded (A,2021 A-, B+, etc.) AMS 670: Special Topics in Probability securities with potentially social and/or May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and Mathematical Statistics environmental harmful characteristics; (ii) The course is designed for second- and Shareholder activism: activities steering the AMS 621: Finite Element Methods for third-year graduate students with a strong management towards enhancing the well being Partial Differential Equations foundation in analysis and statistics who wish of the stockholders, customers, employees, Variational form of the problem, Ritz to pursue research in mathematical statistics. vendors, and communities. (iii) Positive Galerkins, collocation, and mixed methods; Several topics may be taught concurrently in investing: making investments in activities triangular, rectangular (2-D), and tetrahedral different sections. and companies believed to have a positive (3-D) elements; accuracy, convergence, and impact on issues such as social justice and Fallstability; solutions of linear, nonlinear steady- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the environment through stock selection, that state, and dynamic problems; implicit and May be repeated for credit. guarantees sustainability, in environmental and explicit time integration; equivalence of finite- humanitarian sense, and providing a company's element and finite-difference methods. AMS 675: Special Topics in Applied Statistics long term potential to compete and succeed. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered in Fall. The course is designed for second- and third- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 641: Special Topics in year students with a strong foundation in Mathematical Programming statistical analysis who wish to pursue research in applied statistics. AMS 601: Risk Management and The course is designed for second- and Business Risk Control in BRIC third-year graduate students with a strong 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Countries foundation in linear algebra and analysis May be repeated for credit. Introduction to the challenges and who wish to pursue research in applied opportunities in investing in the BRIC mathematics. Varying topics from nonlinear AMS 676: Internship in Applied countries Brazil, Russia, India, and China, programming and optimization to applied Mathematics with emphasis in the risk assessment, control graph theory and applied combinatorics may Directed research and/or practical experience and management. Opportunities in investing be offered concurrently. in industry, financial and consulting firms, in BRIC: growth in infrastructure, middle 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and research institutions. Students are required class demand, educated cheap workforce, May be repeated for credit. to have a department faculty adviser who potential for outsourcing work, high risk/

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 13 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 coordinates and supervises the internship. 0-3 Credits, S/U Grading, May be repeated for AMS 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Submission of the final report is required. credit. May be repeated for credit. 1-9 credits, S/U grading 0-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. ANT AMS 683: Biological Physics & AMS 698: Practicum in Teaching Biophysical Chemistry: Theoretical Undergraduate teaching to be supervised by a Anthropology Perspectives faculty member of the Applied Mathematics This course will survey a selected number and Statistics program. Course to be identified ANT 501: Development of of topics in biological physics and by the student and Graduate Program Director. Anthropological Theory biophysical chemistry. The emphasis is on May be repeated for credit Survey of the development of anthropological the understanding of physical organization 3 credits, S/U grading theory from the 19th century to the present. principles and fundamental mechanisms May be repeated for credit. This course is offered as both ANT 501 and involved in the biological process. The DPA 501. potential topics include: Protein Folding, AMS 699: Dissertation Research on Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Protein Dynamics, Biomolecular Interactions Campus etc.) and Recognition, Electron and Proton Transfer, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Motors, Membranes, Single Molecules and (G5). Major portion of research must take ANT 502: Social Ecology Single Cells, Cellular Networks, Development place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, This course explores theoretical and and Differentiation, Brains and Neural or at the Brookhaven National Lab. methodological issues in the study of Systems, Evolution. There will be no Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U human social activity and its relationship homework or exams. The grades will be grading to ecological systems and the environment. based on the performance of the term projects. May be repeated for credit. Readings include both classic studies as well Crosslisted with PHY 680 and CHE 683. as contemporary research, with particular 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) AMS 700: Dissertation Research off emphasis placed on the various dimensions Campus - Domestic and scales of social organization and activity, AMS 690: Special Topics in Differential Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy and on the role of cultural, religious, and Equations and Applied Analysis (G5). Major portion of research will take place political institutions in shaping ecological The course is designed for second- and off-campus, but in the United States and/ relationship as well as economic behavior. third-year graduate students with a strong or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) foundation in analysis who wish to pursue National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab research in applied mathematics. Several are considered on-campus. All international ANT 503: Social Organization topics may be taught concurrently in different students must enroll in one of the graduate This course explores theoretical models sections. student insurance plans and should be advised and empirical observations of human social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by an International Advisor.2021organization in a comparative perspective, May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading including such topics as demography and May be repeated for credit. behavioral ecology, kinship and marriage, AMS 691: Topics in Applied reciprocal exchange, and political dimensions Mathematics AMS 701: Dissertation Research off of resource mobilization in small-scale as Varying topics selected from the list below Campus - International well as complex societies. Organized around if sufficient interest is shown. Several topics Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy different layers of human sociality, the may be taught concurrently in different (G5). Major portion of research will take course examines social dependence among sections: Advanced Operational Methods in place outside of the United States and/or humans and nonhuman primates, evolutionary Applied Mathematics Approximate Methods Fall explanations for human mating strategies, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the in Boundary Value Problems in Applied option of the health plan and may also enroll cooperation in child-rearing, paradigms of Mathematics Control Theory and Optimization in MEDEX. International students who are descent and affinity, and the dynamics of Foundations of Passive Systems Theory Game in their home country are not covered by hierarchy and alliance in egalitarian cultures as Theory Mixed Boundary Value Problems mandatory health plan and must contact the well as stratified states. in Elasticity Partial Differential Equations Insurance Office for the insurance charge to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Quantitative Genetics Stochastic Modeling be removed. International students who are 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not in their home country are charged for the ANT 504: Ecology of the Turkana Basin May be repeated for credit. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be This course introduces students to the covered by another insurance plan they must fundamental principles and techniques of AMS 695: Special Topics in Numerical file a waiver be second week of classes. The field ecology in the context of the modern Analysis and Scientific Computing charge will only be removed if other plan is East African Lake Turkana environment. Analysis and Scientific Computing deemed comparable. The course includes a mixture of fieldwork, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All international students must received lectures, seminars, readings, presentations, and May be repeated for credit. clearance from an International Advisor. independent research and writing assignments. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Emphasis will be on identification of common AMS 696: Applied Mathematics May be repeated for credit. and important species around and near the Seminar Turkana Basin Institute (TBI) at Turkwel

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 14 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 as well as the recognition of important this discovery reshaped views of the human ANT 509: Seminar in European evolutionary and ecological patterns and past; 4) what new directions it catalyzed in Ethnography issues. Fieldwork focuses on plants and human evolutions research. Class activities Investigation and discussion of selected topics insects and aims to generate useful baseline consists of lectures, field and laboratory and problems concerning European societies data for longer term studies. Students will exercises (reconstructions, measurements) and cultures. The perspectives of culture be introduced to some basic ecological using casts of a wide range of primate fossils, history and current fieldwork are employed. monitoring methods for plant and insect and field trip to locations. Students will learn This course is offered as both ANT 509 and communities such as topics including how to classify and identify fossils. Graded DPA 509. mutualism, phenology, invasive species work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading and restoration ecology. We will be looking independent research assignments, quizzes May be repeated for credit. closely at adaptation to heat stress/high and a final exam. Semesters offered- Fall and temperatures during this module as well as Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and ANT 510: Environments, Ecosystems simple systems around TBI. Students will be recitation. and Evolution: Evidence from the exposed to a variety of habitats including the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Turkana Basin riverine forests and dryland grassland areas An introduction to the ways scientists use around the Turkana Basin Institute as well ANT 507: Archaeology of the Turkana the fossil and archaeological records to learn as the rich freshwater and island systems of Basin about past changes in Earth's climates and Lake Turkana. Semesters offered- Fall and This course familiarizes students with environments, and how humanity's ancestors Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and Africa Stone Age archaeology through class responded to those changes physiologically recitation. lectures and lab exercises. Students learn and technologically. Interdisciplinary lectures 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how archaeologists document the behavioral will show evidence from the Turkana Basin's characteristics of early humans in Africa paleoenvironmental, fossil and archaeological ANT 505: Vertebrate Paleontology & through study of material cultural evidence. records of the dynamic interactions between Paleoecology of the Turkana Basin During field excursions, they learn diverse the climate, environment, local food webs, Vertebrate fossils are important sources of methods of survey and excavation techniques and ancient human populations. This information about the appearance, evolution, appropriate for different sites and contexts. background will prepare students for training and extinction of major organisms. As Primary areas of discussion throughout in paleoanthropological and archaeological such, they provide a valuable window onto the coursework include the question of the field methods. changes in climate and selection pressures, cognitive status of early humans implied by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and organisms' diverse adaptive responses to their technologies and the evolution of human May be repeated for credit. these changes. They are also significant in adaptation from an evolutionary perspective, placing hominid discoveries within a relative exploring the relationship between stone tool ANT 511: Paleolithic Archaeology local chronology, and helping reconstruct technology, paleoenvironments, hominin A survey of the archaeological record of environments associated with hominid species, and cognitive evolution. Graded foraging peoples in Africa, Europe, and fluids. This course acquaints students with work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, 2021Asia prior to the emergence of agriculture. laboratory and field methods of paleontology independent research assignments, quizzes The course emphasizes particular problems employed in different chronological contexts and a final exam. Semesters offered- Fall and including the relationship between behavioral of the Turkana Basin, used to solve diverse Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and and biological change, different adaptive theoretical questions. Graded work includes recitation. strategies in temperate and tropical zones, the fieldwork and lab assignments, independent 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) origins of modern humans, and the emergence research assignments, quizzes and a final of complex hunter-gatherer societies. This exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Spring. ANT 508: Paleoanthropological Field course is offered as both ANT 511 and DPA Components- laboratory, lecture, and Methods in the Turkana Basin 511. recitation. This course is one of three that constitutes the Fall Prerequisite: Any other archaeology course. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Turkana Basin Institute Summer Field School, Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an opportunity to participate in all aspects ANT 506: Human Evolution the of a paleoanthropological research project, ANT 512: Comparative Civilizations Turkana Basin focusing on practical aspects of vertebrate A comparative study of the processes of The Turkana Basin is home to many paleontology, geology, zooarchaeology sociocultural evolution from the beginnings paleoanthropological discoveries that and taphonomy. Students are trained in of sedentary life to the achievement of early fundamentally reshape ideas about human field reconnaissance, fossil survey, plotting, civilization in the Near East, Egypt, the evolution. Important finds from the Turkana preservation, and collection, analysis and Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and the Basin, including Nariokotome ("Turkana interpretation. Hands-on examination of fossils Andean area. The seminar covers such topics Boy") and KNM-WT 17000 (the "Black from Plio-Pleistocene or Holocene sites around as urbanization, demography, irrigation, Skull") will be highlighted in lectures and lab Lake Turkana will teach students how human craft specialization, militarism, and trade and activities, and their relevance to the larger ancestors and other animals adapted to the exchange. This course is offered as both ANT picture of human evolution will be explored. environments around them. Experts from TBI, 512 and DPA 512. Lectures and readings for each discovery Stony Brook, and other institutions provide will cover: 1) the research questions and instruction in lectures, labs, and via fieldwork Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission strategies that led to the find; 2) the kinds of within the context of on-going projects. of instructor Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, analyses that have yielded the most important 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) interpretive conclusions about the find; 3) how May be repeated for credit.

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ANT 513: Origins of Agriculture archaeologists use both ethnographic and An introduction to the use of aerial and This course will trace the history of experimentation to shed light on prehistoric satellite imagery in environmental analysis and anthropological thought on the origins of human technological adaptations. Techniques the manipulation of geographic data sets of all agriculture and will assess the evidence from for making and using primitive tools are types using Geographic Information Systems. the Old and New worlds for this economic practiced in weekly laboratory sessions. This course is designed to teach students revolution. The course will not only explore Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded in archaeology, physical anthropology, areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but (A, A-, B+, etc.) and related disciplines, how satellite will also contrast these areas with those where May be repeated for credit. imagery combined with various maps can be agriculture was a later development. Emphasis manipulated using GIS software to perform will be on the environmental, technological, ANT 518: Lithic Technology powerful geographic analysis. Although biological, social, and cultural processes A detailed overview of the methods students are eventually likely to use these associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." archaeologists use to extract behavioral tools in many different parts of the world, this This course is offered as both ANT 513 and information from prehistoric stone tools. course focuses on Long Island as a research DPA 513. The course examines raw material economy, area, and each student designs and completes a research project on a particular section of Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) technological strategies, tool use, and discard behavior. Analytical methods are practiced the area, focusing on the habitats of local ANT 514: Human Osteology through the computer-assisted analysis of stone wildlife, the locations of archaeological sites, coastal regimes, etc. This course presumes A detailed study of the anatomy of the tools from simulated archaeological sites. computer literacy and familiarity with database human skeleton with special emphasis on Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, management. Offered as ANT 526 and DPA the interpretation of skeletal remains from etc.) 526 or HPH 658. archaeological contexts. Consideration is given to the growth, structure, and function ANT 519: Archaeozoology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of bones, and to forensic aspects such as An introduction to the study of animal bones etc.) the determination of age, sex, stature, and from archaeological sites. Special emphasis ANT 527: Field Methods and pathology from skeletal remains. Students is on identification of fragmented bone, Techniques in Archaeology conduct a research project on a human identification of bone surface modification, skeleton. calculation of indexes of abundance, and The course will be held during the summer only. It consists of field and laboratory work 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurement and metrical analysis of mammal on an aspect of Long Island's archaeological May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. bone. Computer analysis is stressed, and the class seeks to synthesize traditional archaeo- heritage. Students' time is divided between ANT 515: Theory and Method in zoology and actualistic studies. This course is surveying and excavation in the field and Archaeology offered as both ANT 519 and DPA 519. artifact analysis in the laboratory. Such techniques as map and air photo reading, Theoretical and methodological approaches Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, survey, instruments, stratigraphy, conservation, employed in archaeology. The goals of the B+, etc.) typology construction, etc. are taught. course are to provide an historical perspective 2021 Students are exposed to the full range of on the growth of theory and method in ANT 520: Principles of Social and excavation, survey, and laboratory methods archaeology and to examine in detail some Cultural Anthropology and techniques. This course is offered as both of the pertinent research topics being studied Concepts and principles of social and cultural ANT 527 and DPA 527. today. This course is offered as both ANT 515 anthropology; historical background, structure and DPA 515. and function, social processes, transactions, Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) culture, communication, continuity, and other change; topics and problems of contemporary Summer, even years, 3-9 credits, Letter graded ANT 516: Research Design in interest. Some ethnographic monographs are (A, A-, B+, etc.) Archaeology Falldiscussed in terms of their relevance to the ANT 536: Advanced Biostatistics and general concepts and principles treated in the An examination of the ways in which Phylogenetic Comparative Methods archaeologists develop successful research seminar. This course is offered as both ANT The course will give an overview of strategies for arriving at answers to the key 520 and DPA 520. fundamental biostatistical approaches in R. questions in the field. Students will analyze Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The first 6 courses give students in-depth grant proposals that received funding from knowledge about developing quantitative the major sources of funding for archaeology ANT 525: Research Areas in research designs using standard parametric, before developing research proposals of their Anthropological Sciences non-parametric and data reduction analyses in own. The aim of the course is to provide the An overview of the current research areas of R. The next 8 courses introduce phylogenetic class with the skills needed to plan their future the Anthropological Sciences as represented comparative analyses, including approached and compete successfully for funding both for in the Master's Program of the Department to account for phylogenetic relatedness in their thesis research and in their future careers. of Anthropology. All first-year students are standard parametric tests and ways to infer Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded expected to participate. Semesters offered: Fall the evolutionary history of traits using rate (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-2 credits, S/U grading analysis. Students are expected to become May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. proficient in R programming. The course will ANT 517: Primitive Technology involve substantial preparation and included 10 An introduction to the technology of ANT 526: The Use of Remote Sensing take-home assignments. and GIS in Environmental Analysis hunter-gatherers. The course examines how 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. environmental and cultural processes affecting and to those in other disciplines who make all of northeastern North America. inferences about past ways of life. ANT 550: Theory and Methodology in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Primatology etc.) etc.) Comprehensive overview of the theory and methodology used in the study of primate ANT 564: Primate Evolution ANT 573: Archaeology of Human behavioral ecology. Includes ecological field The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary Dispersals methods, behavioral observations, analytical history of primates as documented by their A survey of the archaeological evidence for techniques, nonparametric statistics as well as fossil record and structural and chemical the dispersal of Homo sapiens during the Late planning, presenting, and reviewing research. evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the Pleistocene epoch (128,000-130,000 years Offered as both ANT 550 and DPA 550. origin of the human lineage. This course is ago). Topics include African origin of Homo Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. sapiens, dispersals into Eurasia, Australia, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, and the Americas, large mammal extinctions, A-, B+, etc.) origins of art, music, and symbolic behavior, ANT 559: Archaeology of Food emergence of hunter-gatherers. Explores the archaeological study of food ANT 565: Human Evolution Offered and foodways. The emphasis is on the social A survey of the fossil record of hominid Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) aspects of food, particularly its roles in evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene past power structures, social relationships, with emphasis on the morphological structure ANT 582: Comparative Anatomy of conceptions of identity, ritual practices, and and function of locomotor, masticatory, Primates gender roles. Also covers the theoretical and and neural systems. Includes utilization of The comparative anatomy of living primates. methodological approaches archaeologists use comparative anatomical material and an Laboratory work including evaluation of to study food in the past. extensive cast collection. This course is offered skeletal material and dissection (when Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. possible) with emphasis on relating structural (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, diversity to behavior and biomechanics. This A-, B+, etc.) course is offered as both ANT 582 and DPA ANT 560: Ancient Mesopotamia 582. An examination of the cultural history of ANT 567: Primate Behavior and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Mesopotamia based on the archaeological, Ecology May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. textual and art historical record. Focusing A comparative approach to the behavior on the fourth through second millennia, and ecology of living lemurs, monkeys, and ANT 583: Human Demography this course investigates both the long term apes. Emphasis is placed on sociobiological The study of human demography has had developmental process of this civilization, theory; life history strategies; morphological a long standing focus in anthropology, and ways to understand its settlement adaptations; comparisons of primate archaeology, economics and sociology for systems, urban structure, social and political communities in Asia, Africa,2021 Madagascar, and the simple reason that the distribution and organization, economic structure and the role South America; and primate conservation. This density of people fundamentally shapes played by religion. course is offered as both ANT 567 and DPA many other aspects of the human condition. Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded 567. Human Demography gives students an (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, overview of population dynamics both as B+, etc.) they change through time and differ across ANT 561: Peasant Societies and cultures. The course starts with outlining the Cultures ANT 568: Hunters and Gatherers history of population studies. Following this The concept of peasantry is examined from The course focuses on the relationship between introduction, the three major components political, religious, and social class viewpoints Fall of population change - fertility, mortality ecology and adaptation to explore the cross- as well as from the more traditional economic cultural diversity of hunter/gatherers. The and migration - are explored in depth. We view. These agricultural peoples, who are first part of the course looks at a number of then survey the seminal transitions in human essentially preliterate and preindustrial, are key theoretic issues and debates that surround demographic history from hunting and described and analyzed especially in relation the study of hunter/gatherers. Once this gathering to domestication and through to the national societies of which they form a foundation is laid, students learn about modern modern postindustrial times. Drawing from the part. This course is offered as both ANT 561 and historic hunter-gatherers from all the ethnographic, human ecology, demographic and DPA 561. major geographic regions of the world. This and archaeological literature, students read and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, overview draws on studies from behavioral discuss human demography from a variety of etc.) ecology, ethnoarchaeology and cultural perspectives. The course includes some simple anthropology. The focus of the course is computations and a lab. ANT 562: Long Island Archaeology both to explore hunter/gatherer variation Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Life on Long Island and the surrounding in relationship to their environment, and to etc.) area from its first settlement by Native give students an appreciation of the ways in Americans 12,000 years ago until the end of which hunter-gatherers have been historically ANT 585: Prehistoric Peoples of the the nineteenth century. Trends and changes in documented. The course is designed to be Americas human behavior are studied in the context of applicable to archaeologists, anthropologists ANT 585 Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas

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Life in the Americas from the first settlement particular expertise in these various areas lead May be repeated for credit. at the end of the Ice Age until the arrival these discussions. of the Europeans in the 15th and 16th 0-1 credits, S/U grading centuries. The culture, history, and evolution May be repeated for credit. ARH of prehistoric peoples of North, Central, Art History and South America are treated. Specific ANT 599: M.A. Thesis Research topics covered include settlement by North Fall, 0-6 credits, S/U grading ARH 501: Criticism, Theory, Practice: Americans, hunting-gathering lifeways, plant May be repeated for credit. From Artes Mechanicae to Artes and animal domestication, the origins of Liberales village life, and state-level societies. ANT 602: Research Seminar in An introduction to the history of art criticism Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Anthropological Theory A-, B+, etc.) and theory from Greek and Roman antiquity This course is offered as both ANT 602 and through the High Renaissance. The writings of ANT 591: Professional Skills in the DPA 602. artists, historians, theologians, philosophers, Anthropological Sciences, I. Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading and theorists will be considered not as abstract An overview of the skills necessary for May be repeated for credit. and independent concepts but in relation to scientific professionalism, with special artistic practice. Changing aesthetic values, reference to successful performance in the ANT 610: Individual Research whether expressed verbally, or in patronage Anthropological Sciences. Topics covered Research supervised by faculty. Students must acts, will be explored. Attention will be in this course include: use of basic software have permission of instructor and enroll in given to such theoretical concerns as the tools, research design, data collection and appropriate section. This course is offered as paragone, the disegno-colorito debate, the management, dissertation proposal and journal both ANT 610 and DPA 610. nature of artistic creation, and aesthetic values reflected in basic principles regarding form, article writing, oral and poster presentations, Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading color, composition, etc. In addition, we shall and professional conduct. This course is not May be repeated for credit. an alternative to GRD 500. Recommended for investigate the particular strategies, if any, students of G0 through G4 status. Permission ANT 620: Research Seminar in Topical employed by artists over the centuries to by Instructor Problems elevate their social, economic and intellectual status, in short, to promote the shift from This course is offered as both ANT 620 and 0-1 credits, S/U grading simple craftsman to divine genius. May be repeated for credit. DPA 620. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading etc.) ANT 592: Professional Skills in the May be repeated for credit. Anthropological Sciences, II. ARH 502: Methods & Interpretation in A development of additional professional skills ANT 630: Research Seminar in Early Modernist Art Criticism & Theory necessary to master research and teaching Physical Anthropology A survey of European art criticism, theory, in the Anthropological Sciences including This course is offered as both ANT 630 and 2021methodologies, and interpretation from 1750 career options and employment. Topics in DPA 630. this course include: the dissertation writing to 1890, stressing relationships between Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading process, review processes, job applications art and the history of ideas. Study of visual May be repeated for credit. and negotiations, tenure process, and teaching materials will rely heavily on close readings of primary sources assigned weekly. The strategies. Recommended for students of G5 ANT 640: Research Seminar in principal goal of the course is to familiarize status. Permission by Instructor Ethnography and Ethnology students with the most important writings 0-1 credits, S/U grading This course is offered as both ANT 640 and on art from the period as a foundation for May be repeated for credit. DPA 640. the study of modern art. Secondary goals, FallFall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading pertinent to the study of art history any period, ANT 593: Ethics in the Anthropological Sciences May be repeated for credit. are to acquire analytic skills in interpreting source material by explicating such writings This course familiarizes students with the ANT 650: Research Seminar in closely, to place them in context with each major issues in the ethics of anthropological Archaeology other (intertextuality) and the science, research and teaching. Students discuss scientific and academic values 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ANT 680: Special Seminar and how best to comply with them in ARH 503: History of 20th-Century Art academic, field, and laboratory environments. Selected topics in cultural and social Criticism and Theory Overarching research ethics topics addressed anthropology. Topics reflect current interests include data management, scientific of faculty and graduate students. This course is The literature of art has expanded enormously misconduct, plagiarism, authorship, and offered as both ANT 680 and DPA 680. in the 20th century-far beyond attempts to mentoring. This portion of the course Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading organize it developmentally or conceptually. incorporates videos and readings from GRD May be repeated for credit. An attempt is made to define types of criticism 500. Anthropology-specific topics include both in relation to the critics and their relation fieldwork, museum work, animal research, US ANT 800: Summer Research to the support system for the arts of which they are part. and international laws (biodiversity; cultural This course is offered as both ANT 800 and & natural heritage), and public anthropology. DPA 800. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Anthropological Sciences faculty with S/U grading

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ARH 540: Methodologies of Art History artistic ideas between northern and southern the transformations of these arts during the This graduate seminar is designed to engage Europe, and Renaissance sources in antiquity colonial period, issues of identity and the students with the history and methods of and the Middle Ages. consequences of dislocation versus sense the discipline of art history. Through close Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, of place in the diaspora, and contemporary readings and focused discussions, the course Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) expressions of non-Western artists on the examines issues raised by aesthetics, the May be repeated for credit. global scene. problems of biography and 'periodization', Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, and the role of canon formation. Particular ARH 544: Topics in Early Modern Art Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) focus is directed towards the interpretive This seminar examines methodological May be repeated for credit. tools that have developed from within the developments and historical issues related to discipline of art. In addition, also stressed the art and visual culture of the early modern ARH 548: Museum Studies is the interdisciplinary nature of art history period. Though we are concerned with objects, Through a combination of field trips, visiting through readings that discuss how lines discourses, and practices emerging in the lecturers, group discussion, and student of thought and critical inquiry emerging seventeenth century, we also approach these projects, the course surveys the diverse aspects within other disciplines have had enormous through the perspective of contemporary of the museum field, including management, influence on art history and criticism in the critical tools (for example, theories of curatorship, exhibitions, public relations, last two decades: semiotics, feminist theory, urban space, spectacle, and representation; conservation, and other areas of administration psychoanalysis, anthropology and post colonial psychoanalysis, sexuality and subjectivity; and professional practice. theory, cultural studies, theories of mass coloniality and the encounter with New world 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) culture and the post-modern, and the current otherness; semiotics and the construction of debates about visual culture. absolutist power). Students are encouraged to ARH 549: Topics in American Visual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) engage with these issues through the study of Culture traditional high art objects as well as through This course examines selected issues in the ARH 541: Topics in Ancient Art other forms of representation emerging in the history of American art and material culture. This course deals with a variety of topics early modern period-for example, scientific The course focuses upon, but is not necessarily relating to ancient art and its influence illustration, more ephemeral forms of print limited to, the United States. Topics include on later European art and artistic theory. culture, and even urban and courtly spectacle. public art and public culture; approaches Areas explored include ancient art history, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, to the study of material culture; art and aesthetics, and comparative criticism; Roman Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) commercial and/or popular culture; art and uses of Greek art; pagan imagery in early May be repeated for credit. regional locations; realism; imaging the West; Christian and medieval art; antique art cross-cultural exchanges in art of the United and the Renaissance (use of prototypes); ARH 545: Topics in 19th-Century Art States. (May be used to fulfill 20th-century collecting antiquities (from the Medici Selected topics in 19th-century art with an requirement when material deals with 20th- to Getty); archaeological exploration and emphasis on century art.) publication in the 18th and 19th centuries; 3 credits, Letter graded (A,2021 A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, French neoclassicism; and the calligraphy May be repeated for credit. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of Greek vases (Hamilton, Blake, Flaxman, May be repeated for credit. Ingres, Picasso). ARH 546: Topics in 20th-Century Art Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Twentieth-century art considered as an ARH 550: Inquiries into Art Criticism Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) international movement, European and and Theory May be repeated for credit. American, although national groups may This course deals with the theoretical be studied. Emphasis varies with topics approaches to the study of art that cross ARH 542: Topics in Medieval Art ranging over stylistic analysis, iconographical historical boundaries. Topics vary from A topic in medieval art or architecture, such Fallinterpretations, and theoretical studies. semester to semester. They may be an as early medieval manuscript illumination, Students are expected to undertake original expansion of one of the areas generally ornament and design, or the Gothic cathedral, research and interpretation. covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of is selected and explored during the semester Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, art or the iconography of architecture. Other in lectures, discussions, and student reports or Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) investigations may focus on subjects requiring papers. May be repeated for credit. a special methodological approach, such as the Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, theory and history of ornament and design or Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ARH 547: Topics in Global, Colonial, the role of public art. May be repeated for credit. and Diasporic Art Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This course examines various issues in the B+, etc.) ARH 543: Topics in Renaissance Art appreciation, interpretation and appropriation May be repeated for credit. This course, usually a seminar, deals with of non-Western art. Emphasis is on developing one or several of the following aspects of a critical approach to these arts and the manner ARH 551: Topics in Performance Renaissance art: iconographic problems, style in which they have been represented and The histories and theories of performance and connoisseurship (including the study of misrepresented in the Western imagination. are explored. Topics may be the performing individual works at the Metropolitan Museum Topics vary, but may include exploration body, performance and political action, avant- or the Frick), patronage and its effect on the of themes in the so-called traditional arts of garde performance, performing and artifact, form and content of a work, the exchange of Africa, Oceania, Native and Latin America, virtual performance, performance and identity.

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Depending on the topic, there may be a Among the topics that may be addressed Instruction in the department by advanced performance and/or computer based projects. are architectural theory and the theories of graduate students under the supervision of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language; the history of proportion and the faculty. construction of gender; and Orientalism. 3 credits, S/U grading ARH 551: Theories of Performance Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. This course examines different theories of Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) performance as they relate to theatre and May be repeated for credit. ARH 690: Directed Readings for everyday life. Students explore ways of Doctoral Candidates thinking about the performing body and ARH 580: Art Criticism or Gallery An independent reading course to be arranged different modes of cultural expression. There Internship with a particular faculty member. Normally, is a performing component to the course in An internship offering practical experience this course is reserved for advanced PhD. addition to a final paper. in some aspect of the field of art history and students who have fulfilled most of their 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) criticism, such as gallery and curatorial work course requirements and for whom the May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. in an on-campus or off-campus gallery or proposed program of study cannot be museum, or journalistic experience with an completed within other existing course ARH 552: Topics in Contemporary Art art or criticism publication such as the Art structures. The course will examine the latest department journal Art Criticism. Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, developments in visual art and architecture, Prerequisite: Good standing in the graduate A-, B+, etc.) beginning with the Neo-Expressionism art history and criticism program May be repeated for credit. and Neo-Conceptualism of the 1980s Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading and extending to installation and video May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. ARH 699: Dissertation Research on art. Postmodernist and activist art will Campus be examined in particular detail, and ARH 591: Practicum in the Writing of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy contextualized in terms of the broader patterns Art Criticism (G5). Major portion of research must take of 20th century art. This course is designed as a practicum in the place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) writing of art criticism under the supervision of or at the Brookhaven National Lab. May be repeated for credit. the faculty. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading grading ARH 553: Contemporary Art in New May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit. York A systematic survey of contemporary art ARH 592: Practicum in Teaching ARH 700: Dissertation Research off on view in museums and galleries in New Instruction in the department under the Campus - Domestic York. The class would alternate between supervision of the faculty. (This course may Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy gallery/museum visits and interpretative not be included more than once in the courses (G5). Major portion of research will take place analyses of the work in the classroom. A taken in fulfillment of the 202136 credit hour off-campus, but in the United States and/ variety of theoretical approaches will be used requirement.) or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven and the full range of contemporary pluralism Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab will be examined. Contemporary art will are considered on-campus. All international be understood as both a manifestation of ARH 595: Directed Readings in Art students must enroll in one of the graduate contemporary society and in terms of its larger History, Criticism, and Theory student insurance plans and should be advised art historical context and significance. The An independent reading course to be arranged by an International Advisor. New York art scene is the richest in the world. with a particular faculty member. Normally, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading The class offers the student the opportunity for this course is reserved for second year May be repeated for credit. direct, informed contact with it. Fall Masters Students who have fulfilled most 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of their course requirements and for whom ARH 701: Dissertation Research off the proposed program of study cannot be Campus - International ARH 554: Topics in Visual Culture completed within other existing course Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy This class examines issues in the structures. (G5). Major portion of research will take interdisciplinary field of visual culture. Visual Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, place outside of the United States and/or culture studies look at the dynamic state of A-, B+, etc.) U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the visual media in contemporary life and their May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll historical origins, seeking to relate art and film in MEDEX. International students who are to the mass media and digital culture. ARH 598: Thesis in their home country are not covered by Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Prerequisite: Completion of all degree mandatory health plan and must contact the B+, etc.) requirements Insurance Office for the insurance charge to be removed. International students who are May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring and not in their home country are charged for the Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading ARH 570: Issues in Architectural mandatory health insurance. If they are to be May be repeated for credit. History and Criticism covered by another insurance plan they must This course examines a series of topics that ARH 602: Teaching Practicum, file a waiver be second week of classes. The link architecture with other critical disciplines. Advanced

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 20 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 charge will only be removed if other plan is known artist's studio, or related facility or May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable. institution. ARS 551: Graduate Painting Studio All international students must received Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. clearance from an International Advisor. Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Studio and theory in painting and related visual Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. forms, with instruction and facilities available May be repeated for credit. in all media and techniques; emphasis on ARS 531: Graduate Teaching individual development as an artist. Models ARH 800: Summer Research Practicum and space for environmental and conceptual works available. This course has an associated May be repeated for credit. Supervised teaching practicum in undergraduate studio or studio, theory course. fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/ coursefees for more information. Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. ARS Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission Art, Studio of department ARS 532: Thesis Project Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, ARS 520: Special Projects for M.F.A. Preparation of thesis under the program A-, B+, etc.) Candidates advisor. May be repeated for credit. Advanced projects in areas that may not be included in the M.F.A. curriculum, utilizing Prerequisites: Accepted candidate for M.F.A., ARS 560: Graduate Sculpture Studio review board passed the unique talents of regular and visiting Theory and practice of sculpture for the Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading faculty, the facilities of the Art department, or graduate student, with instruction and May be repeated for credit. other aspects of the university environment, facilities available in all media and techniques; and possibly facilities at other locations or ARS 535: Projects in Studio Art emphasis on individual development as an institutions. This course has an associated fee. artist. Studio facilities include air, electric, and Projects in studio art, field and media to be Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees hydraulic power equipment; TIG, MIG, Arc, determined on a per semester basis by the for more information. Prerequisites: Faculty and flame welding; forging; woodworking; individual instructor. sponsor, permission of graduate studies modeling, molding, and casting facilities for director. 1-6 credits, clay, wax, plaster, and plastics; and metal Fall, Spring and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. casting capabilities in investment, shell, sand, Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and centrifugal. This course has an associated ARS 540: Graduate Photo Studio etc.) fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/ May be repeated for credit. Photographic studio, theory, and laboratory coursefees for more information. emphasizing individual development as a Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; ARS 525: Electronic Media photographer. Color and black-and-white accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission An exploration of the experimental artistic studios and darkrooms. Fine arts, reportage, of department illustration, commercial, and2021 industrial. This practices utilizing computer and electronic Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, technologies: digital imaging, video and course has an associated fee. Please see A-, B+, etc.) audio, web and CD-Rom production, and www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more May be repeated for credit. interactive installation. It will provide practical information. Prerequisites: Demonstration of instruction in the use of computer media with appropriate level of proficiency, permission of ARS 561: Graduate Ceramics and/ or an orientation towards relating this to the instructor. Ceramic Sculpture Studio graduate student's own practice. It will also Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Theory and practice of ceramics and ceramic analyze the unique possibilities of this hybrid A-, B+, etc.) sculpture for the graduate student with and developing art form through theoretical FallMay be repeated for credit. emphasis on individual development as readings and examination of recent works, an artist. Advanced studio instruction in exhibitions, festivals, and the worldwide web. ARS 550: In Process Critique handbuilding: coil, slab, pinch; wheelthrowing; This course has an associated fee. Please see Graduate theory and practice of art, casting, inclusive of multipiece plaster pour- www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more investigating historical and contemporary molds; various firing techniques: reduction, information. concepts, concentrating on individual oxidation, raku, and high- and low-fire glaze Prerequisite: Accepted candidate for M.F.A. development as an artist. Conceptual, techniques. This course has an associated fee. or permission of department environmental and wide ranging solutions are Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, encouraged. Required for first year MFA's, more information. A-, B+, etc.) this course culminates in a body of work for Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; May be repeated for credit. the end of the year First Year Exhibition. The accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission course also provides students with vigorous of department ARS 530: Professional Experience critical feedback throughout this process, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Internship augmenting it with readings and discussions of A-, B+, etc.) Internship in the professional art world of New related New York City exhibitions in galleries May be repeated for credit. York City and its environs. Depending on the and museums to inform the development of career objectives of the M.F.A. candidate, the their work. ARS 570: Graduate Printmaking Studio student may choose to intern at a foundry, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Graduate studio in the theory and practice printmaking atelier, art gallery or museum, etc.) of printmaking. Color, black-and-white,

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Various topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stone lithography, serigraphy, relief, and will be covered such as protein purification intaglio, emphasizing the student's individual and characterization using spectroscropic BDA 510: Advanced Data Analysis and development as an artist. and thermodynamic techniques as well as Decision Making Prerequisites: Permission of instructor; gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting; By successfully completing this course, the accepted candidate for M.F.A. or permission identification of metabolites by mass student will have an understanding of the ways of department spectrometry; bioinformatics analysis of in which advanced statistical methods are Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, DNA deep sequencing data; electron and used to address significant decision-making A-, B+, etc.) fluorescence microscopy and the use of problems as they arise in the business setting. May be repeated for credit. zebrafish and nematodes to understand Specifically, the student will understand the biological processes. various ways in which decision problems can ARS 580: Visual Arts Seminar 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be formulated and solved and how to deal with Required seminar and critique throughout the violations of the assumptions commonly found M.F.A. curriculum. Guest speakers, artists, and BCB 559: MS Research Practicum in in standard methods. The student will have a critics; demonstrations and lectures; seminars; Biochemistry and Cell Biology greater understanding of multivariate models individual and group critiques. The M.F.A. The student will be introduced to modern and ways to build them, and how to handle candidate, as part of this seminar, regularly biochemical and cell biological research data collected over time in looking for trends participates in critiques in which his or her techniques through participation in ongoing and in making predictions. work is analyzed by guest faculty and art research in the laboratory of a Biochemistry 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) history/criticism faculty and graduate students, and Cell Biology or associated faculty as well as by his or her peers. The visual arts member for one semester. Student must obtain BDA 513: Decision Analysis under seminar, where applicable, includes field trips permission to register from the sponsoring Uncertainty and assignments of special lectures, panels, faculty member. This is a hands-on course on computer seminars, and other events of the professional Prerequisite: Matriculation in MS program or simulation and other probabilistic modeling art world. permission of instructor approaches to analyze and improve business, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-4 credits, S/U service, and manufacturing systems that A-, B+, etc.) grading are subject to risk. The course takes the May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. perspective of the consultant whose job is to analyze managerial decision based on ARS 800: Summer Research BCB 599: MS Thesis Research in imperfect observations and unknown outcomes Biochemistry and Cell Biology to understand the behavior of the system and Thesis research will be conducted in the explore the effects of alternative decisions. BCB laboratory of a Biochemistry and Cell Biology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or associated faculty member, including Biochemistry and Cell Biology potentially an internship under2021 the guidance of an approved mentor in the laboratory of a BEE BCB 551: Introduction to Research in local biotechnology company. Student must Biochemistry and Cell Biology identify and obtain permission to register from Ecology and Evolution A series of talks, discussions, and practical the sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite: BEE 500: Directed Readings in exercises to address topics related to research Matriculation in MS program or permission of Population Biology in biochemistry and cell biology including instructor Offered Directed readings in topics of current interest, laboratory etiquette, the laboratory notebook, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3-6 credits, S/U under supervision of a faculty sponsor, experimental design, critical evaluation of grading the literature, analysis and presentation of Fall culminating in one or more critical review data, ethical issues, and basic experimental papers. techniques used in biochemistry and cell BDA Prerequisites: Sponsor and approval of biology. master's program executive committee Prerequisites: Matriculation in MS program or Decision Analytics Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. BDA 508: Advanced Analytics Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course introduces students to challenging BEE 501: Directed Readings in the BCB 552: Advanced Laboratory business problems in distribution, routing and Biology of Organisms Methods in Biochemistry and Cell scheduling, and to the solutions strategies for Directed readings in topics of current interest, Biology such problem via discrete optimization. The under supervision of a faculty sponsor, This course introduces theoretical principles topics include integer programming techniques culminating in one or more critical review and experimental techniques used to such as cutting plane and branch and bound, papers. investigate the properties of biological special purpose algorithms for distribution and Prerequisite: Sponsor and approval of molecules and their interactions. Students network problems, and heuristic optimization master's program executive committee will familiarize themselves with the techniques for combinatorial optimization, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading instrumentation and techniques used to such as Simulated Annealing, Tabu Search, May be repeated for credit. investigate different biochemical and cell Evolutionary Algorithms, Ant Colony biological problems through a combination of Optimization.

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BEE 510: Biology Education Research: BEE 552: Biometry BEE 559: Individual Studies in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment An intensive course in statistical theory and Organisms Introduction to core policy documents, methodology. The analysis of real biological A detailed study of the biology of a selected standards, concepts, and empirical methods data is emphasized. Topics include analysis systematic group chosen by the graduate in biology education research and their of variance, simple multiple and curvilinear student and a faculty member. This is applications to undergraduate classroom regression analysis, correlation analysis, and conducted as a tutorial course. settings. Appropriate for graduate students in goodness of fit tests. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, the biological sciences and/or those enrolled in Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A-, B+, etc.) the Ph.D. Program in Science Education. etc.) May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 553: Multivariate Analysis in BEE 560: Advanced Ecology BEE 520: Advanced Human Genetics Biology This course will provide students with an An advanced course in human genetics. Topics An introduction to multivariate statistical understanding of the theoretical basis and include the genotype/phenotype association, analysis for biologists. Topics include general empirical tests of diverse advanced topics in genetic architecture of disease/phenotype, least squares analysis, MANOVA, cluster the field of ecology. The format includes both human population genetics, coalescent theory, analysis, and factor analysis. lectures and student-led discussions of primary methylation, and ancient DNA. The course Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent literature. will emphasize hands-on engagement with Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) genetic data and critical reading of scientific May be repeated for credit. papers. Computer laboratory analysis/ BEE 554: Population Genetics and assignments will make up a major component Evolution BEE 562: Concepts and Methods in of this class. Students will be evaluated based A general introduction to mathematical Evolutionary Biology on computer assignments and a final individual population genetics and evolutionary theory. The course aims at achieving two related research project. The effects of mutation, recombination, objectives: first, to provide graduate students Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, selection, and migration are studied. Modern in Ecology & Evolution, other biology etc.) concepts in both theoretical and experimental departments, as well as Philosophy, with a population genetics are covered. basic understanding of the varied methods BEE 521: Genomics Lab Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent, and a (both experimental and statistical) that make This course provides a computer lab-based course in evolution up the body of evolutionary quantitative introduction to comparative genomics, Spring, odd years, 0-3 credits, Letter graded biology. The focus will be in particular on molecular evolutionary analysis, and next (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative genetics and its interface with generation sequencing (NGS) data and more modern approaches, including QTL analysis. Activities will include familiarization BEE 555: Mathematical Methods in mapping, bioinformatics and the various with both web-based and command-line tools Population Biology "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). for analyzing genomic data and summarizing/ This course covers a variety2021 of mathematical Second, students will become familiar with visualizing results. Lectures and background methods used in modern theoretical biology. the fundamental concepts of philosophy reading will provide an introduction to basic Topics include linear algebra and applications, of science, in particular as they relate to principles of genomics to inform computer- ordinary and partial differential equations, the conceptual analysis of the ideas that based hands-on activities. A weekly recitation and stochastic processes. Examples from shape modern evolutionary and ecological will promote discussion. Students will be population biology, i.e., mathematical ecology theory. In this respect, the focus will be evaluated based on computer lab assignments, and population genetics, are used throughout. both on philosophical concepts such as as well as a final individual project that applies falsificationism, induction, deduction, Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, learned concepts and approaches to a novel hypothesis testing and the nature of evidence, A-, B+, etc.) research question. Fall as well as on the meaning of key ideas in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, BEE 556: Research Areas of Ecology evolutionary ecology, like natural selection, etc.) and Evolution genetic drift, and constraints. A description of the current research areas of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 550: Principles of Ecology ecology and evolution, broadly conceived. All BEE 564: Geometric Morphometrics Population dynamics, interactions of first-year ecology and evolution students are organisms, theoretical concepts of community expected to participate. An introduction to theory and methods used structure and their biological and evolutionary in geometric morphometrics. Image analysis, Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, S/U grading implications. outline methods, landmark methods, and shape May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor statistics are covered. Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 558: Tutorial Readings Prerequisite: BEE 552 or equivalent; BEE 553 Individual tutorial study with an instructor recommended BEE 551: Principles of Evolution in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Biological evolution, including the genetics Evolution for the purpose of background A-, B+, etc.) of populations, speciation, evolution of higher reading in an area of ecology and evolution. taxa, and the fossil record. BEE 566: Horizons in Ecology and Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, S/U grading Evolution Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

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The course is designed to provide beginning the scientific foundations of conservation Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graduate students in Ecology and Evolution biology, along with examples from real- with an extended perspective on current and world conservation. The course reviews the BEE 577: Ecological Genetics developing trends in this field. It will be based biological concepts that underlie conservation An introduction to the concepts, research on readings (empirical and review papers) and including habitat requirements, population questions, and methods involved in modern discussion on diverse topics. The hour-long dynamics, biogeography, and population ecological genetics and genomics. The class will meet on a weekly basis. Each class genetics. Analysis of case studies on the course will provide a strong foundation and session will be led by the faculty member with effects of human activities on biological broad conceptual framework for students expertise in the scheduled topic of study. diversity and ecosystem services will be used planning to engage in empirical work in Offered: to explore the interdisciplinary nature of the conservation, management, ecology, and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading practice of conservation. This course will evolutionary biology. The course will cover prepare students for careers in environmental basic Mendelian genetics, meiosis, and mating BEE 567: Molecular Diversity sciences and ecology. systems, standard population genetics methods Laboratory Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, for describing variation within and between This course will provide hands-on experience A-, B+, etc.) populations, basic quantitative genetics, in established and recently developed methods methods for molecular marker genotyping, of detecting and analyzing molecular variation BEE 574: Landscape Ecology bioinformatic and genomic concepts, and (DNA, RNA, Proteins) in nature. Natural Laboratory organism-specific methods and case studies, populations of Drosophila melanogaster will A computer lab course focusing on spatial including plant and animal ecological genetics. be the model material for this laboratory. The concepts, methods, and tools for addressing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) main theme of this course is that molecular environmental problems. The course will be May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. variation is abundant in nature and is an based on fundamental concepts in ecology important tool for understanding adaptive and environmental science and extend that BEE 585: Research Design and evolution and species relationships. knowledge, as well as teaching technical Analysis in Ecology and Evolution Prerequisite: permission of instructor skills, including the use of geographic This course covers topics relevant to statistical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information systems (GIS) software, image aspects of carrying out research in ecology processing, spatially explicit modeling, and evolution as well as interpreting the BEE 569: Bayesian Data Analysis and and spatial statistics. The lab exercises will results of one's own and others analyses, Computation introduce a variety of spatial approaches particularly in field data and for experimental An applied course in Bayesian analysis for addressing problems in environmental data in the lab and field. The topics include and hierarchical modeling for advanced protection, ecotoxicology, natural resource quantification of spatial pattern and spatial graduate students in Ecology & Evolution management, conservation biology and heterogeneity, recognizing and accounting or related sciences. Topics will include wildlife management. for indirect effects and artifacts, design and probability theory, Bayesian analysis, and Offered analysis of experiments, meta-analysis and MCMC methods such as Gibbs, sampling Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded2021 (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative research synthesis. This course and Metropolis-Hastings sampling, as well as will also provide an introduction to ecological applied issues regarding the choice of prior BEE 575: Evolutionary Ecology niche modeling and bioinformatics (focused distributions, posterior convergence, censored The approach is to understand the theoretical on species and traits). We will review a and missing data, and model checking and basis and review empirical tests of diverse synthetic set of tools useful for a broad range comparison. The course will be taught topics. The format includes both lectures and of questions in ecology and evolution. Offered using WinBUGS and JAGS as accessed via student-led discussions of primary literature. Fall, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the R packages R2WinBUGS and R2jags, Prerequisite: BEE 550; BEE 551, or B+, etc.) respectively. Offered in the Fall. permission of instructor BEE 586: Introduction to Ecological 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FallFall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Modeling (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 571: Ecology Laboratory This course will provide students with a This course stresses the collection, analysis, BEE 576: Principles and Applications familiarity of the major concepts, approaches, and interpretation of ecological data, mostly of Ecology and Evolution and underlying rationale for modeling in in terrestrial settings. Laboratory and field An overview of the principles of ecology and the ecological sciences. Topics will include exercises demonstrate the operation of general evolutionary biology, and the applications reviews of theoretical and empirical models, ecological principles in specific populations of these principles in conservation biology, the use of models in adaptive management, and communities. environmental and health sciences, and and how to confront models with data to evaluate alternative hypotheses. Roughly Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) resource management. The course will cover fundamental concepts and research questions 1/3 of the course will be devoted to the BEE 572: Conservation Biology in population, community, and ecosystem use of models in management, focusing on the problems of fitting models to data and Society and individual lives are increasingly ecology; population genetics; and evolutionary management pitfalls that follow. Course work affected by environmental degradation at ecology. These principles will be discussed will consist of readings, in class exercises, different scales. From the decline of local in the context of contemporary issues, such and group assignments that involve the fisheries to global climate change, multiple as global climate change, biodiversity loss, construction, analysis, and interpretation of crises threaten the biodiversity and ecosystems environmental contaminants, infectious ecological models. that sustain us humans. This course introduces diseases, invasive species, and management of ecological resources. Offered

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Prerequisite: BEE 550, BEE 552; MAT 131 or Seminars on selected topics concerning Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U equivalent; any statistics course. ecological, genetical, and evolutionary grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, problems in the marine environment. May be repeated for credit. etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, BEE 700: Dissertation Research off Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BEE 587: Applied Ecology and Campus - Domestic May be repeated for credit. Conservation Biology Laboratory Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy A computer laboratory course introducing BEE 690: Seminar on Evolutionary (G5). Major portion of research will take place students to ecological risk analysis and Processes off-campus, but in the United States and/ conservation biology. Laboratories are based Seminars on selected topics concerning or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven on interactive software. Computer simulation evolutionary processes. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab techniques for addressing problems in applied are considered on-campus. All international Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, ecology are emphasized. This course is co- students must enroll in one of the graduate Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) scheduled with BEE 353 for Spring 2012. student insurance plans and should be advised May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: A year of calculus; one-year by an International Advisor. undergraduate biology course for majors BEE 691: Seminar on Systematics and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Spring, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Phylogeny May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) Seminars on selected topics in systematics. BEE 701: Dissertation Research off Topics will include the theory of classification BEE 588: Current Topics in Ecology Campus - International and numerical taxonomy, both phenetic and and Evolution cladistic. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Subject matter varies from semester to (G5). Major portion of research will take Fall or Spring, alternate years, 0-2 credits, semester, depending upon the interests of place outside of the United States and/or Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students and staff. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading option of the health plan and may also enroll May be repeated for credit. BEE 692: Seminar on the Environment in MEDEX. International students who are and Human Affairs in their home country are not covered by BEE 599: Research mandatory health plan and must contact the Student seminars on selected topics concerned Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Original investigation undertaken with the with the effect of man on the environment. be removed. International students who are supervision of a member of the staff. Application of ecological and evolutionary not in their home country are charged for the Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading theory to the solution of human problems. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, covered by another insurance plan they must A-, B+, etc.) BEE 670: Informal Seminar file a waiver be second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is Presentation of preliminary research results 2021 deemed comparable. and current research problems by students and BEE 693: Seminar on Population and faculty. Community Ecology All international students must received clearance from an International Advisor. Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading Student seminars on selected topics in Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. population and community ecology. May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, BEE 671: Ecology and Evolution A-, B+, etc.) BEE 800: Full-Time Summer Research Colloquium May be repeated for credit. A weekly series of research seminars presented Fall May be repeated for credit. by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. BEE 695: Seminar on Ecological Required every semester of all ecology and Processes BGE evolution graduate students. Seminars on selected topics concerning Fall, 0-2 credits, S/U grading ecological processes at the individual, Genetics May be repeated for credit. population, community, ecosystem, and global levels. BGE 501: Foundations of Science BEE 672: Ecology and Evolution Communication I Offered Colloquium Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, In this team-taught, immersive science A weekly series of research seminars presented A-, B+, etc.) communication training, students will build by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. May be repeated for credit. skills to passionately communicate in a Required every semester of all ecology and way that excites, engages, and encourages evolution graduate students. BEE 699: Dissertation Research on audiences to want to learn more about Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading Campus their work. Improvisational theater-based May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy techniques are combined with message design (G5). Major portion of research must take strategies like distilling and storytelling, BEE 689: Seminar on Adaptations of place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, enabling healthcare professionals, scientists, Marine Organisms or at the Brookhaven National Lab. and researchers to use strategy and spontaneity

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The course is centered upon critiquing the draft proposals presented by JRN 501 will continue their foundations in two key programming languages: Matlab for other students in the course science communication with explorations into modeling applications and the R language for 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) engaging with key audiences and the media, as statistical analysis and sequence manipulation. well as creating a presentation accompanied by Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, BGE 699: Dissertation Research on compelling visuals. etc.) Campus 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). BGE 550: Genetics Outside Seminar Major portion of research must take place on BGE 510: Graduate Genetics Outside seminars and special topics courses in SBU campus. This course investigates fundamental aspects areas relating to genetic studies. 1-9 credits, S/U grading of the transmission and expression of genetic 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. information in prokaryotic and eukaryotic May be repeated for credit. systems. The course is organized in a way that BGE 700: Dissertation Research off allows the students to appreciate the breadth BGE 599: Graduate Research Campus - Domestic of genetics research, while also gaining an Original investigation undertaken with the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy in-depth understanding of selected important supervision of a member of the program. (G5). Major portion of research will take place topics. Students explore the use of both Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading off-campus, but in the United States and/or classical and molecular genetic approaches to May be repeated for credit. U.S. provinces. All international students understand biological processes in genetics must enroll in one of the graduate student model systems including yeast, flies, worms, BGE 657: Principles of Development insurance plans and should be advised by an mouse, and man. This course deals with developing systems International Advisor. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, at all levels from the morphological to the Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading etc.) molecular. Illustrative material from both May be repeated for credit. animal and plant kingdoms is used. Special BGE 530: Laboratory Rotation attention is given to gametogenesis, genetic BGE 701: Dissertation Research off The student rotates through laboratories control of early development, transcriptional Campus - International of four different genetics program faculty and translational control of protein synthesis, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy members during the first year. The selection the role of cell division and2021 cell movements, (G5). Major portion of research will take of the laboratories is made by the student, in and cell-to-cell interactions in defining place outside of the United States and/or conjunction with individual faculty, and with developing systems. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the the approval of the program director. By taking Prerequisite: MCB 656, matriculation in option of the health plan and may also enroll part in ongoing projects, the student will learn graduate program or permission of instructor. in MEDEX. International students who are experimental procedures and techniques and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in their home country are not covered by become acquainted with research opportunities mandatory health plan and must contact the in the participating programs. Prerequisite: BGE 691: Readings in Genetics Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Permission of instructor Journal Club on thematic topics in different be removed. International students who are Fall not in their home country are charged for the Fall and Spring, 1-8 credits, S/U grading areas of current genetics research May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Prerequisite: Permission of instructor covered by another insurance plan they must Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, BGE 531: Graduate Student Seminar in file a waiver by second week of classes. The B+, etc.) Genetics charge will only be removed if other plan is May be repeated for credit. Students have the opportunity to present deemed comparable. their research to other students and faculty BGE 693: Research Proposal All international students must received on an annual basis. Students in the first or Preparation in Genetics clearance from an International Advisor. second year will present brief seminars as A course, based upon literature in the broad Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading part of a one-day symposium with all of field of Genetics, to instruct in scientific May be repeated for credit. their classmates. Advanced students present writing and the preparation of research BGE 800: Summer Research research seminars as part of a weekly research proposals. In the first section of the course, seminar series that is attended by faculty and students will become familiar with the May be repeated for credit. students. Although the first and second year components of a research proposal and will students do not present in this weekly seminar read and evaluate proposals written by the series, they should attend these seminars as it training faculty. Discussions guided by the BIO provides an excellent mechanism for learning course co-directors will cover the basics Biology about current areas of research interest. of scientific writing, research proposal

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BIO 511: Topics in Biotechnology BIO 542: Model Systems for the Living term goal is to help apply their knowledge of An introduction to the field of biotechnology. Environment molecular and cellular phenomena and the The course will survey the history of Introduction to microbial model systems used analytical techniques learned in this course the development of genetic engineering, in biological research such as yeast, nematodes to design and development of products and methodologies used in biotechnology, and slime molds. Particular attention will be processed for improving help and/or medical applications of biotechnology in medicine, given to using these systems in the classroom care. Therefore, a major component of this agriculture and manufacturing, and the to illustrate key concepts in introductory course will be an individual project requiring implications of these technologies for biology. Students will read and discuss the development of a patent for a biomedical society. Intended for the students in the research papers selected from the current device or process, which relies on one or more MAT Science and MALS programs. This scientific literature. Topics to be covered of the biological (cell and molecular level) and course has an associated fee. Please see include: life cycle, laboratory techniques and engineering principles covered in class. www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more design of inquiry-based investigations. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information. Offered Offered BME 502: Advanced Numerical & Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Computation Analysis Applied to etc.) etc.) Biological Systems BIO 515: Current Topics in BIO 558: Biological Basis of Human Numerical analyses of Biological Data. A Microbiology Evolution and Behavior unified mathematical/time series framework A survey of microbiology with an emphasis on A exploration of biological theories of human for modeling and mining biological data. microbial ecology, the role of microbes in the evolution, properties, and behavior. We build Applications range from cardio-respiratory, biosphere and the methodology used to explore an understanding of evolution of complex renal blood pressure/flow and sequence these areas. The course is organized around organisms by natural selection, followed by the (DNA,RNA, proteins) to gene expression two resources available online: Unseen Life emergence of humans as a uniquiely complex data. Tools of data analysis include linear on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology, species. Scientific hypothesis formation and algebra, interpolation and extrapolation, which was produced by The American Society testing using the extensive multidisciplinary parametric and nonparametric spectral for Microbiology (http://www.learner.org/ empirical record of the 1.8 million years estimation with the FFT and singular value resources/series121.html) and the New of human history is developed throughout. decomposition, statistical description of York State core curriculum for The Living Implications of human evolutionary biology data and integration of ordinary differential Environment (http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ for contemporary social and sexual behavior equations. Special focus will be placed on the mst/sci/ls.html) . Intended for the students are also investigated. use of linear and nonlinear numerical methods for the identification of physiological system in the MAT Science and MALS programs. This course is co-scheduled with BIO 558. dynamics and the development of computer This course has an associated fee. Please see Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B simulation techniques to study dynamic www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more +, etc.) response of physiological systems. Cannot be information. May be repeated for credit. repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021 BIO 600: Practicum in Teaching Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, BIO 520: Topics in Genetics etc.) Fall and Spring, S/U grading A survey of genetics organized around a May be repeated for credit. BME 503: Cell and Molecular Imaging particular topic, including gene regulation, developmental genetics, cancer genetics, BIO 601: Practicum in Teaching This course will cover basics of optics, epigenetics with emphasis on areas with microscopy, spectroscopy and fluorescence Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading emerging new insight. The methodology used in the context of imaging at the cellular May be repeated for credit. to study these areas will also be explored. and molecular level. Recently developed Intended for students in the MAT Biology and Fall advanced imaging techniques for probing PhD Science Education programs. protein interactions and live cell functions are BME also discussed. The course is organized in 3 Offered modules: Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biomedical Engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BIO 521: Laboratory Science BME 501: Engineering Principles in Curriculum Development Cell Biology BME 504: Biomaterials Science and Analysis Development of curriculum materials Course content is directed toward describing appropriate for a secondary school biology the physico-chemical and biological Course content is directed toward providing classroom. Students may take this course in interactions within cells, and between cells an introductory treatment of the engineering their second semester of the Master of Arts in and their environment. The course has issues implicit in understanding living Teaching Science program. two main objectives: 1) to equip students tissue interactions with processed materials. Emphasis on identifying and eliminating Offered with essential knowledge and stimulate surface contamination, corrosion, and Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, intuitive understanding of molecular and cell optimizing material surface properties and A-, B+, etc.) biology; 2) to introduce and develop common compatibility. May be repeated for credit. engineering concepts and approaches for quantitative analysis of physical-chemical Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, systems in context of cell biology. The long- etc.)

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BME 505: Principles and Practice of normal function and in disease processes. This Fourier optics, ultrafast time-domain and Biomedical Engineering course focuses on the physiology of tissue and terahertz spectroscopy and imaging. The Introduces first year students to the basic organ systems in the context of mechanics, emphasis will be on connecting theory to and clinical research at the cutting edge of stress, strain, viscoelasticity and material modern technological advancements and their biomedical engineering. The course has behavior, and the constitutive equations and biomedical applications. The course consists of two key components: the first is a seminar the field equations governing fluids and fluid the following four general modules: Review of series presented by internationally renowned flow, with an emphasis on the cardiovascular fundamental Optics; Nonlinear Optics; Fourier bioengineers. An interactive discussion of and musculoskeletal systems. Emphasis Optics; Ultrafast and Terahertz Optics topic-specific scientific literature precedes the is placed on the utilization of engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) formal presentation. The second component of principles to analyze processes at the tissue the course is teaming up with a physician, in and organ levels, covering soft and hard tissues BME 515: Biomedical Optical Imaging rounds, the operating theater, clinics, etc., to and organs (blood, cardiovascular system, An introduction to the principles and get exposure to the real-life problems which bone, cartilage, etc.) and to understand how applications of biomedical optical imaging, face the medical community. It is hoped these principles could be applied towards the with an emphasis on high-resolution imaging that the mix of science and clinic will move design and development of prosthetic devices. and spectroscopy. This course provides students towards determining how they can 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a conceptual overview, along with basic make contributions to health and society. mathematical theory (assignments), of BME 511: Fundamentals of the 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) some of the key concepts that are relevant Bioscience Industry to biomedical optical imaging, including BME 508: Molecular and Cellular This course will provide students with a Gaussian beams, refraction, total internal Biomechanics comprehensive introduction to the bioscience 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Course content revolves around the effects business environment by examining the and interactions of mechanical forces at the commercialization process ¿ how an idea BME 517: Radiation Physics cellular and molecular level. The topics range becomes a product. This includes evolving This graduate offering provides an initial from describing the molecular and cellular business models, product development physical background required for the study basis of the adaptation of tissues to physical cycles, regulatory issues, finance, managerial of the Medical Physics. Sources of ionizing signals, to prescribing specific mechanical challenges and future trends in the life radiation including radioactivity (natural and environments for improved tissue engineering, sciences. Special focus will be placed on manmade) and x-ray producing devices are to delineating relevant molecular, cellular, preparing students to translate concepts studied as well as sources of nonionizing and biomechanical techniques, to issues presented in the course into commercial radiation such as radiofrequency and involved in the development and approval analysis of a technology. Must be either BME ultrasound. The physical aspects of these of diagnostics and therapeutics in molecular or MBA Graduate Student (West Campus) radiations are characterized by their interaction engineering. Course format is based on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with matter and methods for their detection. lectures and discussion of the current literature. Each student will select and present a proposal For a deeper understanding of the scientific BME 512: Fundamentals2021 of Bio- for solving a clinical medical physics problem. Entrepreneurship literature, this course will contain a module on Prerequisites: Modern Physics or equivalent the design and analysis of experiments (i.e., This course will build on topics presented in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) applied biostatistics). BME-511: Fundamentals of the Bioscience Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Industry Program, and is a pre- or co-requisite BME 518: Radiobiology A-, B+, etc.) for enrollment. Students will work through The biological consequences of irradiation modules addressing each component of (ionizing, ultrasound, laser, RF, etc.) will be BME 509: Fundamentals of the the commercialization process including examined. Interaction mechanisms will first Bioscience Industry intellectual property strategy, market analysis be examined followed by examination of the A 4-module course set up to provide students Falland opportunity, regulatory pathway and radiation impact at the molecular and cellular with a comprehensive introduction to the technology financing. Students will work level. The use of radiation for therapeutic gain complexities of the bioscience business in groups to develop commercialization will be considered. As well, models will be environment. reports based on real intellectual property developed for risk estimates. Topics to be disclosures, preforming due diligence to Prerequisite: Must be either a BME or MBA covered will include: target theory, biological identify areas of opportunity and challenges graduate student (West Campus). All other response, NSD and risk estimates. of their technologies. Based upon the students must obtain permission from the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, commercialization report, students¿ groups instructor. etc.) will create a hypothetical company, and evolve Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, their technology analyses into investor-like etc.) BME 519: Medical Health Physics presentations delivered at a mock pitch session at the end of the term. This course discusses the health physics and BME 510: Biomechanics safety issues associated with radiological This course emphasizes the application of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) devices, facilities and procedures. continuum mechanics to living tissues and BME 513: Introduction To Optical & Prerequisite: BME 517. organs in order to describe the material Terahertz Imaging Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, properties and their behavior under loading etc.) and stress. The interrelationship between This course provides the foundations for biomechanics and physiology is examined in advanced topics in modern optical imaging BME 520: Lab Rotation I techniques, including nonlinear optics,

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BME 521: Lab Rotation II microarrays, and tools for determining gene BME 550: Mathematical Models of function by perturbation of gene expression. Physiologic & Biophysical Systems BME 525: Tissue Engineering Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, An introduction to mathematical modeling of Course deals with basics of biomaterial etc.) cell and tissue function. Topics include the formulation that are relevant to tissue derivation and numerical solution of models BME 540: Radiation Oncology Physics engineering, leading to the principles and of cell homeostasis, membrane transport and practice of designing an engineered tissue, This course provides a background in excitability, and cell signaling and metabolism. which will be facilitated by a design project. therapeutic instrumentation, dosimetry and Grading is based on problems, student treatment planning. presentation, and completion of a modeling Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, project. etc.) Prerequisite: BME 517 Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BME 526: Biological Systems Engineering BME 546: Statistical Analysis of BME 558: Physical & Quantitative Physiological Data Biology This course is a hands-on study of systems engineering in biology, using computer Statistical methods useful in analyzing ¿¿This is a course on the principles of physical modeling to conceptualize and simulate a wide common types of physiological data. Topics chemistry. We describe the nature of the forces variety of applications. All skills taught in include probability, data distributions, and energies and entropies that drive molecular class. Appropriate and applicable to all BME hypothesis testing, with parametric and non- systems toward their states of equilibrium. tracks. May not be repeated for credit. parametric methods, ANOVA, regression and We consider a broad range of applications correlation and power analysis. Emphasis is on throughout chemistry, biology, materials Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experimental design and appropriate, efficient engineering and nanoscience. This course aims BME 530: Medical Image Formation use of statistical software. to give students an understanding of how the 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) actions and behaviors of materials arise from This course covers the physical aspects of their atomic and molecular structures. Co- medical image formation. Image receptor BME 547: Model-Based Analysis of listed with PHY 558 and CHE 558. design/optimization, reconstruction Physiological Data techniques, device hardware and performance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characteristics are considered. The analysis of common biochemical and physiological data by non-linear BME 571: Microfluids in Biological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) regression of data models and biophysical Systems BME 531: Biosensing and Bioimaging models of physiological and biochemical This course will outline theory and processes. Examples include binding kinetics, applications of special fluid handling Basic concepts of biosensing and bioimaging, compartmental mass transfer and spectral conditions associated with living systems. which include the elements of biological analysis. systems and bioimmobilizers, traditional Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) electrode and novel optical transducers, and 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021BME 572: Biomolecular Analysis advanced biomedical optical imaging systems. BME 548: Measurement and Analysis This interdisciplinary course is intended Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in Physiological Research for graduate students and advanced BME 532: Time Series Modeling of The acquisition and analysis of data-arising undergraduates in departments such as Biological Systems from common biochemical and physiological Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, measurements. Topics include computer- Biology and Chemical Engineering. This A unified mathematical/time series framework based data acquisition and processing, course will give an introduction to single for modeling and mining biological data. densitometry, microscopy, and image analysis molecule experiments using fluorescence, Applications range from cardio-respiratory, and processing. Emphasis is on experimental optical traps, AFM cantilevers, microneedles, renal blood pressure/flow and sequence (DNA, Fall design and strategies for optimizing signal to magnetic microbeads as well as micro and RNA, proteins) to gene expression data. Tools noise ratio of measurements. nanofluidic devices. of analysis include neural networks, time- invariant and time-varying spectral methods, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: BME 501 and 502, or instructor fractal and nonlinear dynamics techniques, approval. BME 549: Experimental Techniques in hidden Markov Model, clustering analysis, and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Systems Physiology various system identification techniques. A series of lectures and laboratory exercises BME 573: iPhone Programming for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, designed to introduce students to invitro Medical Applications etc.) experimental techniques used in systems iPhone Programming for Medical BME 534: Functional Genomics physiology. Emphasis will be placed on Applications. the ethical use of rodents in biomedical Course provides foundation in concepts of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research and the measurement of physiological functional genomics and proteomics. Topics variables. Data acquisition and analysis BME 581: Biomedical Nanofabrication include organization and complexity of procedures used in cardio-vascular, the mammalian genome and mechanisms This one-semester, three section course, respiratory, neural and renal physiology will of expression of genes, gene expression serves as an introduction to the applications of also be covered. analysis technologies with a strong focus nanofabrication to various fields of importance on construction and utilization of DNA 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to biomedical engineering. This will be done by a combination of examining how nature has

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 29 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 accomplished nano-scale feats, how we can topics in fuzzy logic and neural networks Co-scheduled with BME 402 measure this, and whether we can duplicate and their applications, in biomedical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nature¿s functions in vitro. A significant devices. Applications include drug delivery, portion of the course includes technical diagnostics, management information BME 610: Magnetic Resonance communications, in the form of a written handling. Students utilize simulation software This course provides a comprehensive study report and oral lecture component to class. to develop algorithms to deal successfully with of magnetic resonance and its applications in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) training data sets of their own choosing. medical imaging. An introduction of NMR is Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded followed with development of the hardware BME 590: Biomedical Engineering (A, A-, B+, etc.) and processing aspects required for MR image Seminar formation. An overview of basic and advanced A weekly meeting devoted to current graduate BME 603: Advanced Quantitative MR imaging techniques is provided. Each student work in the program in Biomedical Human Physiology student will select a topic in MR imaging for Engineering. Enrolled students present seminar This course is intended to provide a deep and presentation at the conclusion of the course. each week throughout the semester, participate rigorous understanding of human physiology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in seminars and responsible conduct of using a quantitative approach. This course research training. will develop the physical, chemical and BME 611: Positron Emission Tomography 0-1 credits, S/U grading mathematical foundation of physiology, which May be repeated for credit. is then applied to membranes, transport, Positron emission tomography (PET) is a metabolisms, excitable cells and various organ unique and powerful functional imaging BME 595: BME MS Project systems. A major component of this course method used in the clinic and in medical This course is taken M.S. students who select will be an individual project requiring mastery research. It is a multidisciplinary endeavor MS Project track. Conducted jointly by of concepts developed in class. involving the fields of chemistry, physics, graduate students and one or more members 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mathematics and medicine. This course of the faculty. A final project report must addresses the disparate areas of science be submitted to the advisor as well as to the BME 604: Finite Element Modeling in underlying PET imaging, including Graduate Program Director. Without the Biology and Medicine radioisotope production, radiotracer submitted report, credits from this course Both finite difference and FEM are applied synthesis, the physics of the imaging cannot be applied toward the MS degree. to solve the equations of incompressible and process, quantitative data processing, image reconstruction approaches, data analysis, and 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) compressible fluid flow in porous media with tracer kinetic modeling to extract quantitative May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. emphasis on flows in skeletal tissues, i.e., bone and cartilage. Steady-state, transient flow, physiological parameters. Radioactive BME 599: Biomedical Engineering permeability and surface boundary conditions validation and applications of PET will also be Research are discussed. Practical and recent studies in covered including the area of drug addiction. There is a hands-on component in which Research to be supported by a faculty member the field are also discussed. Programming students will visit an active PET research of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. using FORTRAN or C languages2021 will be center and acquire and manipulate PET data. Students must have permission of instructor required. The student is also introduced to to enroll in appropriate section. Faculty to be commercially available software packages. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) identified by the student. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter BME 612: Biomedical Engineering graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Aspects for the Use of Radiation in May be repeated for credit. BME 605: Biomechanics of Tactile Medicine BME 601: Cardiovascular Fluid Sensory Systems This course provides a comprehensive study Mechanics Detailed study of the biomechanics of tactile of the use of radiation in medicine. Physical Fallneurophysiology for engineers entering the aspects of the interaction of radiation with The course will cover the application of fluid matter and for the radiation production mechanics principles to the analysis of blood field of haptics and robotics manipulations. are initially considered. The underlying flow in the cardiovascular system under Anatomy and electrophysiology of transducer principles of current radiation based medical normal and pathological conditions. It will cells and neurons starting at the fingertips imaging is considered next. Topics include follow an historical time line by beginning and extending to the somatosensory cortex. radiography, fluoroscopy, radionuclide with the most basic models of arterial blood Characteristics of the external stimulus and imaging and computed tomography. The use flow, and proceed to the most advanced its peripheral transformation. Relations of of radiation for the treatment of malignancy theories related to physiology and pathology these topics to perceptual and/or behavioral is considered with the focus on required flow phenomena, including an examination of responses. technology. Finally advanced applications the most up to date research in the area and the Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter of radiation are considered with focus on development of devices and implants. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) imaging and treatment. Each student will Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter BME 608: Contemporary select a topic examining the engineering or graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biotechnology technical application of radiation in medicine for presentation at the conclusion of the General discussion on the nature of BME 602: Topics in Biomedical course. Applications of Neural Networks biotechnology and its historical development, applications, impact, consequences, and some Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, This is a project based course which includes etc.) weekly seminars discussing advanced of the social and ethical considerations.

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BME 615: Clinical Nuclear Imaging in collaboration with BNL. The material is Prerequisite: Students must be advanced to This course is designed to prepare the Medical oriented to cover basic and state of the art candidacy (G5); permission of instructor and Physics graduate student in the area of clinical concepts in space radiation environment, enroll in appropriate section. Major portion Medical Imaging. In this clinical rotation, physics and radiobiology. Content includes of research must take place on SBU campus, medical physics methods for: planar film, DR, basic concepts in physics, dosimetry, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven CR, mamography, fluoroscopy, CT, ultrasound radiobiology, space radiation problems and National Lab. and MRI performance evaluations will be accelerator operations. Concurrent sessions are Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter introduced. In addition, basic medical ethics, provided to complete specific BNL training graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) radiographic anatomy and radiation safety will and plan and prepare experiments for low- and May be repeated for credit. be covered. A total of 200 clinical hours will high-LET radiation exposures. Students are be completed in this program trained in NSRL operations and are able to BME 700: Dissertation Research off run control experiments using gamma rays in Campus - Domestic Prerequisites: BME 517; BME 518; BME 519; preparation for NSRL runs, and subsequently BME 530 or BME 540. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy experiments at the NSRL using heavy ions. Fall, 4 credits, S/U grading (G5). Major portion of research will take place Data are obtained from different endpoints are off-campus, but in the United States and/ BME 616: Clinical Nuclear Medicine discussed and analyzed with the instructors. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Imaging Homework are used to test the student's National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab level of comprehension of the lectures and This course is designed to prepare the Medical are considered on-campus. All international laboratory activities. The write up of a full Physics graduate student in the area of clinical students must enroll in one of the graduate BNL beam time request proposal is required of Nuclear Medicine Imaging. In this clinical student insurance plans and should be advised each student. rotation, the students will be exposed to by an International Advisor. radionuclide processes, radiopharmaceuticlas 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading including radioactive gases and aerosols- May be repeated for credit. BME 670: Special Topics in Biomedical prepartio, characteristics and radiation Engineering dosimetry, in vitro and in vivo radiation BME 701: Dissertation Research off detection systems, imaging systems and their Varying topics covering current active research Campus - International performance evaluations. In addition, basic projects and professional development skills Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy medical ethics, clinical interpretations and for Biomedical Engineers. This course is (G5). Major portion of research will take radiation safety will be covered. A total of designed to give the necessary flexibility to place outside of the United States and/or 150 clinical hours will be completed in this students and faculty to introduce and refine U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the program. new material into the curriculum before it option of the health plan and may also enroll has attracted sufficient interest to be made Fall, 4 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are part of the regular course material. Topics in their home country are not covered by BME 617: Clinical Radiation Oncology include biomedical engineering, regenerative mandatory health plan and must contact the Physics medicine, bioimaging, biomechanics,2021 career Insurance Office for the insurance charge to planning, negotiation, communications, long- This course is designed to prepare the Medical be removed. International students who are range planning, among others. Physics graduate student in the area of clinical not in their home country are charged for the radiation oncology physics. In this clinical 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health insurance. If they are to be rotation, the student will learn by observation May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must and participation some of a selection of file a waiver be second week of classes. The BME 690: Biomedical Engineering the following medical physics procedures: charge will only be removed if other plan is Research LINAC Beam Dosimetry (ion chamber deemed comparable. measurement techniques, film dosimetry Biomedical Engineering research for doctoral All international students must received (radiographic and radiochromic), diode Fallstudents who have already received their clearance from an International Advisor. dosimetry, TLD dosimetry, water phantom M.S. degree, but have not yet advanced to Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading scanning), implementation of photon and candidacy. May be repeated for credit. electon beam calibration protocols (AAPM Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, TG51), LINAC beam data measurement and A-, B+, etc.) BME 800: BME RESEARCH tabulation, commissioning a TPS system, May be repeated for credit. Full-time summer research. LINAC, acceptance testing, LINAC monthly S/U grading BME 698: Practicum in Teaching QA, HDR QA and planning, and IMRT May be repeated for credit. inverse planning and IMRT clinical QA. A Undergraduate teaching to be supervised by a total of 120 clinical hours will be completed in faculty member of the Program in Biomedical this program. Prerequisite: BME 517 and BME Engineering. Course to be identified by the BMI 540 with a B+ or better. student and graduate studies director. Spring, 4 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, Biomedical Informatics B+, etc.) BMI 501: Introduction to Biomedical BME 620: Space Radiation Biology May be repeated for credit. Informatics An extensive series of lectures, training sessions and laboratory activities sponsored BME 699: Dissertation Research on This course introduces the unique by the NASA's Radiation Health Program Campus characteristics of clinical and life science data and the methods for representation

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 31 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and transformation of biomedical data, including sequential and decision logic and Imaging Informatics is a multidisciplinary information, and knowledge to improve loops. Data and file operations are explained field which intersects Clinical Informatics, human health. The course will provide an including processing arrays, sorting, stacks, medical physics, engineering, computer and overview of basic concepts and will serve queues, linked lists, and binary trees. Object- information sciences. It touches concepts as a Launchpad into other more focused oriented programming and sequential file across the whole imaging chain, including courses that explore the computational and applications are discussed. Can be used for image creation and acquisition, image analytics needs of BMI, as well as the clinical, credit toward masters or doctoral degree distribution and management, image storage research and translational applications of in BMI only with permission and NOT in and retrieval, image processing, analysis informatics. There will be three major themes: addition to BMI 502. Can NOT be used and understanding, image visualization and Information representation, management and for credit toward certificate in Biomedical interpretation. The goals of the course are sharing: biomedical data representation and Informatics. to gain familiarity with the terminology, management; standards, terminologies, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) core concepts, and standard practices, ontologies such as HL7, IHE, SNOMED, understand the current state of the field and ICD-9; Privacy, confidentiality and data BMI 511: Translational Bioinformatics enable critical reading of the literature and sharing. Clinical Informatics: Health care This course will provide students with to perform research. The course will cover environment and processes; electronic an integrative computational toolbox both radiological imaging and pathology health records and management; clinical at the intersection between Biomedical imaging. Topics include: radiological decision making clinical information retrieval and Quantitative Sciences. Students will imaging modalities, DICOM standards, clinical natural language processing. Imaging develop storage, analytic, and interpretive image management and PACS systems, informatics: radiological image modalities; methods to optimize the transformation image exchange and IHE, image processing DICOM and PACS systems; computer- of large biomedical and genomic datasets, techniques, content based image retrieval, aided diagnosis; digital pathology; analytical into proactive, predictive, preventive, and structured reporting and annotations, image pathology imaging. This course will provide participatory health information. Applying visualization, digital pathology and analytical hand-on assignments for the participants a working knowledge of Computational pathology imaging. The course will also cover to familiarize the concepts. Prerequisite: Statistics in a Biomedical/Biomolecular emerging technologies in Imaging Informatics. Graduate standing in BMI or permission of context, students will gain the ability 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor. integrate those Computational Tools and Big 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Data resources in the Biomedical research BMI 514: Imaging Informatics Analysis enterprise as well as in the clinical workflow. This course will give an overview of BMI 502: Life Sciences for Biomedical Accordingly, this course will familiarize the analytical aspects of the Biomedical Informatics the participants with the data processing Imaging Informatics. Topics include image This course presents the fundamentals of methodologies associated with a range of visualization, enhancement, processing and human cell biology, biochemistry, genetics biological signals that spans from Biological analysis, with focus on the applications in and cell/organ physiology. The biochemical sequences to Histology images, and from medical fields. It covers a broad spectrums of and molecular bases of cell structure, energy mining medical records to2021 Genome Wide biomedical image analysis techniques: image metabolism, gene regulation, heredity, and Association Studies (GWAS) and gene enhancement, segmentation, registration, development are discussed, as are the structure prioritization. texture analysis, morphometry, and and function of cell membranes and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) tractography. Their applications in diagnostic physiology of cell to cell signaling, cellular and therapeutic imaging will be extensively respiration, and homeostasis of organs and BMI 512: Clinical Informatics discussed. The course will also cover a individuals. Can be used for credit toward This course offers a comprehensive study of wide range of image modalities: Magnetic masters or doctoral degree in BMI only with Clinical Informatics. It provides a holistic resonance imaging (with its various subtypes), permission and NOT in addition to BMI 503. review of the health care delivery system Computed tomography, Ultrasound, Positron Can NOT be used for credit toward certificate Fallboth historically and presently. It presents emission tomography, Single-photon emission in Biomedical Informatics. Clinical Informatics and its legal and ethical computed tomography, etc., with an emphasis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) issues, followed by an overview of Clinical on the interplay and fusion of multi-source Informatics. This includes data content and information. The computation/analysis will be BMI 503: Computer Science for structures; nomenclatures and classification carried out using languages such as Matlab, C+ Biomedical Informatics systems; quality, performance, utilization, +, Python, Java, etc., based on well tested open This course presents the fundamentals of and risk management; Clinical Informatics sources algorithm packages such as the Insight computer science and problem solving for databases; and a review of statistics and Toolkit. Moreover, softwares more geared computer programming. Students learn how research. Clinical informatics management towards end-users, such as 3D Slicer, ImageJ, computers store and manipulate data using principles and theories presented include FreeSurfer, etc. will also be introduced. programming languages and algorithms and change, project, and knowledge management. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how computers are controlled by operating Aspects of human resources and financial systems and networked. Software engineering, management, including reimbursement BMI 517: Current Research in data abstractions, and database management methodologies are presented as these relate to Signaling Pathways, Biochemistry, and systems are described. Applications include Clinical Informatics. Tissue Morphology of Disease computer graphics and artificial intelligence. A 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) In this seminar course, students will explore theory of computing is presented. Approaches current knowledge and lines of research to devising solutions to problem are discussed. BMI 513: Imaging Informatics inquiry for a disease of their choice, with Structured programming tools are presented respect to Signaling Pathways, Biochemistry,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 32 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and Tissue Morphology. Students will learn to will put these concepts into practice through classification, computer systems, and data analyze and synthesize research literature for a the development of small software projects. set; quality improvement, utilization and risk particular disease topic and propose a testable Groups of one to three people per project management, and legal issues; the role of the hypothesis for a research project that would development team will be configured to Clinical Informatics professional, and changes advance one or more lines of research inquiry develop software that solves problems brought and trends. for the disease. Students will provide feedback to the class by the participants, preferably, but 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for other students¿ literature reviews. not necessarily, as contributions to manuscripts 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and/or funded research. Prerequisite: BMI 503 BMI 551: Case Studies in Clinical and programming experience, BMI 520, or Informatics BMI 520: Data Analytics and Software permission by instructor (face-to-face meeting This course presents cases based on real- Stacks required). life challenges in Clinical Informatics. This course will cover cutting-edge data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Critical thinking is essential for the Clinical analytic applications, infrastructure, and Informatics professional and case studies analytic methods. Students will have the BMI 540: Statistical Methods in demand that students develop thought and opportunity to analyze real (de-identified) Biomedical Informatics action plans and then, in class, present and healthcare datasets and spatio-temporal Recent advances in high-throughput defend their choices. Each case exposes the and molecular datasets drawn from cancer experimental technologies generate enormous student to a complex Clinical Informatics research. Each class session will include amounts of data. In order to extract insights scenario, requiring the student to synthesize discussions of applications, infrastructure, and from such large-scale data sets, robust information and strategically solve problems algorithms. Students will present papers, and statistical models and efficient computation using Clinical Informatics principals. Learning there will also be guest lectures from visiting methods are indispensable. This course through the case method helps students to experts. Students will attend lectures, present introduces probability and statistical modeling ¿bridge the gap¿ from content knowledge for and critique papers, and work with a team of and analytical methods commonly used in previous and/or current courses to on-the-job students on a substantial project throughout the biomedical-informatics. Basic probability Clinical Informatics experience. semester. Students are expected to demonstrate theory will be briefly reviewed and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a high level of independence, critical thinking, course will focus on the construction and and initiative. solving of statistical modeling based on real BMI 552: Quality Improvement 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biomedical data sets. The methods covered Methods for Clinical Informatics include maximum likelihood estimation, Teaches health care management professionals BMI 530: Software Development in Bayesian inference, dynamic programming, how to perform improvement projects and Biomedical Informatics Markov Models, Monte Carlo simulation, incorporate quantitative measurement into This is an advanced topic in the BMI series, classification and clustering. Students will daily work routines to form the foundation designed for participants with plans to develop learn to use statistical programs and related for a quality improvement-oriented culture. Biomedical Informatics software applications. resources locally and on the Internet, with Using Minitab software, provides strategies The BMI530 course is divided in two parts. an emphasis on the computational2021 aspects to gather and analyze the data needed to plan, The first part will provide an overview of of the statistical models in order to harness implement, monitor, and evaluate health care approaches to software development in a the ever-growing hardware power. Upon quality improvement initiatives. finishing the course, the students will master Biomedical context, where reproducibility, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) governance and availability are particular advanced applications of statistical computing concerns. The participants will be introduced, in a wide range of biological and biomedical BMI 560: Personalized Medicine hands-on, to practices such as the use of problems. PREREQUISITES: BMI 501; Basic knowledge in probability theory, algorithms This course is focused on the multidisciplinary version control services (such as GitHub), research and clinical context associated collaborative development models (such as and programming experience in R/MATLAB/ C/C++ are expected. Knowledge in biology is with the development of personalized agile programming, extreme programming, Fall health care delivery solutions. It will place a plus but not a must. unit testing, continuous code review, pair particular emphasis on assessing opportunities programming etc) and software architectural 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) identified by translational and operational patterns (such as Model-View-Controller, research of the clinical settings that define BMI 550: Clinical Informatics Practice MVC, and Model-View-Adapter, MVA). the practical utility of personalized medicine. Patterns The increasing reliance on Cloud Computing Accordingly, the clinical decision support infrastructure and Web 3.0 technologies for This course provides detailed information on systems (CDS)[JA1] being developed for both software development and deployment Clinical Informatics in a variety of practice clinical pharmacogenomics, specifically will be object of particular attention. The settings including hospitals, freestanding those that establish pharmacotyping in drug increasing reliance on Big Data resources ambulatory care, managed care, dialysis, prescription, will play a central role in this in Biomedicine, and the broadening use of correctional facilities, long-term and acute course. Its content will cover innovative Web Computing will be approached as part mental health, substance abuse, developmental drug formulations and nanotheranostics, of the exercise of configuring class projects disabilities, long-term care, rehabilitation, molecular imaging and signatures, medical for the second part of the course. Accordingly, home health, hospice, dental, veterinary, and genomics[JA2] , translational nanomedicine a particular focus will be put on the use consulting. The role of Clinical Informatics and informatics, stem cell therapy approaches, of Representation State Transfer (REST) in each setting is described with respect modeling and predictability of drug response, architectures and hands-on familiarization to regulatory issues; documentation; pharmacogenetics-guided drug prescription, with REST APIs (Application Programming reimbursement and funding; information pediatric drug dosing, pharmacovigilance Interfaces). The second part of the course management, including data flow, coding and and regulatory aspects, ethical and cost-

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 33 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 effectiveness issues, pharmacogenomics graduate students and one or more members of topics will be discussed, particularly those of knowledge bases, personal genome the faculty. current interest. sequencing, molecular diagnostics, as well as 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information-based medicine. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BMI 598: M.S. Capstone Project in BMI 690: Independent Study in BMI 590: Independent Study in Biomedical Informatics Biomedical Informatics Biomedical Informatics M.S. Independent Capstone project planning Independent study in Biomedical Informatics. Independent study in Biomedical Informatics. and project execution under the supervision Must have the approval of the Research and Must have the approval of the Research and of a Biomedical Informatics faculty member. Directed Study Committee of the Department Directed Study Committee of the Department Only open to M.S. students in Biomedical of Biomedical Informatics prior to registration. of Biomedical Informatics prior to registration. Informatics who will do a Capstone project. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Graduate standing in BMI, or Credits earned from BMI 599 may not be permission of instructor used to fulfill requirements for students in BMI 691: Independent Reading in 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biomedical Informatics who will write an M.S. Biomedical Informatics May be repeated for credit. thesis and not do a Capstone project. Supplementary specialized readings in 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biomedical Informatics for graduate students BMI 591: Independent Reading in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. under faculty supervision. Must have the Biomedical Informatics approval of the Research and Directed Study Supplementary specialized readings in BMI 599: M.S. Research and Thesis in Committee of the Department of Biomedical Biomedical Informatics for graduate students Biomedical Informatics Informatics prior to registration. under faculty supervision. Must have the M.S. Research and Thesis project under the 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) approval of the Research and Directed Study supervision of a Biomedical Informatics Committee of the Department of Biomedical faculty member. Only open to M.S. students BMI 692: Biomedical Informatics Informatics prior to registration. in Biomedical Informatics who will write an Candidates Seminar 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) M.S. thesis. Credits earned from BMI 599 This course is designed to expose students to May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. may not be used to fulfill requirements for current research and other topics in Biomedical students in Biomedical Informatics who will Informatics. Speakers are invited from both on BMI 592: Biomedical Informatics do a Capstone project and not write an M.S. and off campus. Masters Pre-Candidates Seminar thesis. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is designed to expose students to 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. current research and other topics in Biomedical May be repeated for credit. Informatics. Speakers are invited from both on BMI 695: Special Topics in Biomedical and off campus. BMI 620: Advanced Topics in Clinical Informatics Informatics 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021Examination of special topics in Biomedical May be repeated for credit. The subject matter of each special topics Informatics, by one or more members of the course varies from semester to semester, faculty. BMI 595: Special Topics in Biomedical depending on the interests of students and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Informatics faculty. Advanced topics and specialized May be repeated for credit. Examination of special topics on artificial topics will be discussed, particularly those of intelligence in Biomedical Informatics. We current interest. BMI 696: Special Problems in BMI present and critique literature on artificial 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examination of special problems in intelligence in biomedicine, including but not FallMay be repeated for credit. Biomedical Informatics, conducted jointly by limited to machine learning, signal processing, graduate students and one or more members of BMI 622: Advanced Topics in and deep learning. The literature will span the faculty. different fields of biomedical informatics such Translational Bioinformatics 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) as imaging informatics, computational biology, The subject matter of each special topics clinical informatics etc. Students are required course varies from semester to semester, BMI 697: Practicum in Teaching I to review articles and connect the presented depending on the interests of students and techniques to a bigger picture context within faculty. Advanced topics and specialized An introduction to teaching Biomedical the different fields of biomedical informatics. topics will be discussed, particularly those of Informatics, including course design, learning Following the article presentation, the thoughts current interest. theory, evaluation of teaching, and teaching with technology. that the article provoked will be discussed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) together. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BMI 698: Practicum in Teaching II May be repeated for credit. BMI 625: Advanced Topics in Imaging Informatics Graduate students assist the faculty in teaching BMI 596: Special Problems in The subject matter of each special topics by conducting recitation or laboratory sections Biomedical Informatics course varies from semester to semester, that supplement a lecture course. Examination of special problems in depending on the interests of students and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biomedical Informatics, conducted jointly by faculty. Advanced topics and specialized

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BMI 699: Dissertation Research-On BNB 552: Neurobiological Techniques and systems mediating higher order, cognitive Campus A series of laboratory exercises designed functions in the nervous system. Independent research conducted on campus to give students hands-on experience in the 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) under the supervision of a Biomedical basic laboratory techniques of contemporary Informatics faculty member in support of the neuroscience. Includes intracellular and BNB 563: Advanced Topics in Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission to register extracellular recording, neuronal tissue culture, Neuroscience: Individual Learning requires the agreement of the faculty member neuroanatomical techniques, and integrative Plans to supervise the research. May be repeated physiology. In this 12 hour module course, students will 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) work with an identified faculty preceptor on May be repeated for credit. an agreed upon topic of interest. Agreement BNB 555: Laboratory Rotations in of preceptor and an outline of the topic must BMI 700: Dissertation Research-Off Neuroscience be submitted to and approved by the Course Campus, Domestic Course for doctoral students in Neuroscience Director in order for students to register for Independent research conducted off campus, in which students participate in three formal this class. Students and preceptors will work in the United States, under the supervision of laboratory rotations in program faculty together to develop a reading list (minimum a Biomedical Informatics faculty member in laboratories during the first year. Student 6-10 papers) from the primary literature that support of the Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission make oral presentations for each rotation. adequately covers the topic. Students will to register requires the agreement of the faculty Instruction is provided in how to organize and present two or more of these papers in journal member to supervise the research. May be present material in a seminar format, including club format to the preceptor and to a larger repeated the proper use of visual aids. Enrollment group, e.g., a lab group, as applicable. Students will also synthesize their readings into a 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) restricted to students in the Graduate Program written report that follows one of the following May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in Neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience formats (below, Fall and Spring, 0-5 credits, Letter graded (A, but strict adherence to word limits, reference BMI 701: Dissertation Research-Off A-, B+, etc.) numbers, etc., is NOT expected). NOTE: Campus, International May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Students and their research faculty mentors Independent research conducted off are strongly encouraged to consider using campus, outside the United States, under BNB 560: Introduction to Mammalian this as a vehicle for beginning to develop the the supervision of a Biomedical Informatics Neuroanatomy Introduction to the thesis/thesis proposal. faculty member in support of the Ph.D. This course consists of visual presentations Offered: Dissertation. Permission to register requires and supplemental lectures providing an the agreement of the faculty member to overview of the structural organization of the Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supervise the research. nervous system. The mammalian nervous May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. system and its sensory, motor and cognitive 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) BNB 564: Advanced Topics components are emphasized. Opportunities May be repeated for credit. in Neuroscience: Curriculum for examination of whole brains2021 and historical Development BMI 800: Full-Time Summer Research sections, and some hands-on experience with In this 12 hour module course, students will Independent research conducted off campus, basic neuroanatomical techniques may also be work with an identified faculty preceptor on in the United States, under the supervision of available. an agreed upon topic of interest that addresses a Biomedical Informatics faculty member in 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a gap in the current Graduate Program in support of the Ph.D. Dissertation. Permission Neuroscience curriculum. Agreement of to register requires the agreement of the faculty BNB 561: Introduction to Neuroscience preceptor and an outline of the topic selected member to supervise the research. May be I must be submitted to and approved by the repeated. First of a two semester core course introducing Fall Course Director in order for students to students to basic principles of neuroscience. 0-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) register for this class. Students and preceptors The major focus is cellular and molecular May be repeated for credit. will work together to develop a course neurosicence. Topics covered include the based on the selected topic. Students will ionic basis of resting potentials and electrical first investigate principles of curricular excitability, the structure, function and BNB design. They will follow these in generating molecular biology of voltage- and ligand-gated a course description, a list of overall learning Neurobiology and Behavior ion channels, exocytosis, cellular networks, objectives, and a detailed syllabus that and gene regulation. BNB 551: Writing Neuroscience identifies the titles, learning objectives and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) required background readings for each of Seminar course for doctoral students in the course¿s sessions. Required readings Neuroscience providing practical instruction BNB 562: Introduction to Neuroscience much include both texts and the primary in written communication in Neuroscience. II literature. Students will also generate the in- Topics include writing effective abstracts, Second of two-semester core course class materials for at least two class sessions. cover letters, figure captions, and grant introducing students to basic principles of One must be a Powerpoint for a standard specific aims, among others. neuroscience. The major focus is systems lecture, and one must be any materials needed 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neuroscience. Topics covered include analyses for some form of active learning (individual May be repeated for credit. of all major sensory systems, motor systems, or group) of the material. Finally, students must identify the means that students will be

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 35 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 evaluated, and identify how these methods will synaptic, imaging, spike and behavioral) May be repeated for credit. demonstrate achievement of the stated learning in the MATLAB (or similar) computing objectives, keeping in mind that the form of environment. BNB 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic evaluation will differ depending on whether 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) objectives are related to knowledge, skills, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy etc. NOTE: Students and their research faculty BNB 568: Statistics and Data Analysis (G5). Major portion of research will take place mentors are strongly encouraged to consider in Neuroscience II: Applications off-campus, but in the United States and/ using this as a vehicle for delving deeply into a or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven topic or technique of interest that is relevant to BNB 597: Seminar Themes National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab the thesis/thesis proposal. Offered: are considered on-campus. All international This course focuses on current research topics students must enroll in one of the graduate Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in neuroscience and is integrated with the student insurance plans and should be advised May be repeated for credit. Neuroscience Seminar Series. It is centered on by an International Advisor. a common research theme. Students discuss BNB 565: Advanced Neuroscience manuscripts, attend seminars and meet with Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading A modular course introducing concepts in the outside speakers. May be repeated for credit. development of the nervous system. Topics Offered Fall/ can include neuroembryology, neuronal BNB 701: Dissertation Research off Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differentiation, synapse formation, and Campus - International May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. specificity and plasticity of connections in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy vertebrates and invertebrates. BNB 599: Research (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or Offered Original investigation undertaken with U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supervision of a member of the staff. May be repeated for credit. option of the health plan and may also enroll Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are BNB 566: Neurobiology of Disease May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the This advanced seminar course is coordinated BNB 655: Neuropharmacology with the Neurobiology of Disease lecture Insurance Office for the insurance charge to series hosted by the Program in Neuroscience An advanced course for graduate students be removed. International students who are each Spring semester. The Program invites interested in developing an understanding not in their home country are charged for the 5-6 distinguished scientists to present of neuropharmacology and research on this mandatory health insurance. If they are to be research seminars organized around the broad topic. Following a general introduction to the covered by another insurance plan they must topic of neurobiological and neurological nerve cell structure, synaptic and chemical file a waiver be second week of classes. The diseases. Students read and discuss papers transmission, three themes receptors, receptors charge will only be removed if other plan is recommended by the guest speakers. This as channels, and G-protein-coupled receptors deemed comparable. course also provides students the opportunity are developed. Recent advances in cell and All international students must received molecular biology provide2021 the framework to meet with the guest seminar speakers. clearance from an International Advisor. for instruction and discussion. This course Offered Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading is offered as both HBH 655 and BNB 655. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisiste: Admission to Graduate Health May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Sciences Center Program. BNB 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, BNB 567: Statistics and Data Analysis May be repeated for credit. in Neuroscience I: Foundations etc.) This course will introduce students to the BNB 697: Neuroscience Seminar fundamental principles and methods of the Fall BSB Series statistical analysis of neural and behavioral data. A major focus of the course will be Seminar presentations delivered by faculty, Biochemistry and Structural on how to properly design experiments associates, students and visiting speakers. Biology to test hypotheses, how to avoid common Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading misconceptions and errors in data analysis May be repeated for credit. BSB 509: Experimental Biochemistry and how to report statistics correctly in and Structural Biology manuscripts submitted for publication. BNB 699: Dissertation Research on An introduction to modern biochemical This course will am at providing a rigorous Campus research techniques. The student spends a foundation of general statistical principles that Original investigations undertaken as part of half-semester in the laboratory of each of can be applied generally, with an emphasis the Ph.D. program under the supervision of four different members of the faculty. In on material of high relevance to biology the dissertation committee. Prerequisite: Must each laboratory, the student participates in and neuroscience. A companion course be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion some aspect of the research being pursued (¿statistics and data analysis for neuroscience of research must take place on SBU campus, by the faculty member. Prerequisite: Must II: Applications¿) will turn to selected at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven be matriculated in BSB Graduate Program or applications to neuroscience. The students National Lab. permission of instructor. Fall will also have the opportunity to hone their Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) statistics skills by analyzing different types grading of datasets (genetic, molecular, cellular,

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BSB 510: Experimental Biochemistry determination, including sample preparation, Biology. Attendance is mandatory. Visitors are and Structural Biology data collection and processing. In each of the welcome. An introduction to modern biochemical modules, students will be guided through a Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB research techniques. The student spends a complete structural determination project. Graduate Program or permission of instructor. half-semester in the laboratory of each of A final project report per module will be Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading four different members of the faculty. In required. Familiarity with Linux is desirable. May be repeated for credit. each laboratory, the student participates in Students are encouraged to contact instructors some aspect of the research being pursued prior to enrolling. Crosslisted as BSB580 and BSB 604: Student Seminars in by the faculty member. Prerequisite: Must HBH585. Biochemistry and Structural Biology be matriculated in BSB Graduate Program or Spring, 0-4 credits, S/U grading Seminars given by graduate students on permission of instructor. Spring the progress of their own thesis research. BSB 581: Teaching Honors 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Required of all students every semester in Selected students whose performance in which they are registered in the Graduate BSB 512: Structural Biology and the basic required courses for the graduate Program in Biochemistry and Structural Spectroscopy program is in the top 10 percent conduct Biology. Attendance is mandatory. Visitors are Theoretical principles and experimental tutorials for first-year graduate students in the welcome. methods used in the study of proteins and program and other students taking graduate Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB nucleic acids, e.g., spectroscopy, magnetic courses for credit. The tutors are supervised Graduate Program or permission of instructor. resonance and diffraction. and graded by faculty of the graduate program. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading Successful completion of this course makes Prerequisites: MCB 520, or undergraduate May be repeated for credit. students eligible to receive "Honors in physical chemistry course, plus matriculation Teaching" on their transcripts. BSB 699: Dissertation Research on in graduate program or permission of Campus instructor. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Original investigations undertaken as part BSB 599: Research of the Ph.D. program under supervision of a BSB 515: Computational Methods in Original investigation undertaken with the research committee. Biochemistry and Structural Biology supervision of a faculty member. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). Computational methods used in sequence Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB Major portion of research must take place on searching and analysis, bioinformatics, Graduate Program or permission of instructor SBU campus, or at the Brookhaven National graphical analysis of proteins, and nucleic Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading Laboratory. acids. Prerequisite: This class is restricted to May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U first year BSB, HBM, MCB PHD, & HBH grading PhD students. Exception requires approval BSB 601: Colloquium in Biochemistry May be repeated for credit. from the course instructor. and Structural Biology BSB 700: Dissertation Research off Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading A weekly series of talks and2021 discussions by visiting scientists covering current research Campus - Domestic BSB 532: Journal Club in Biochemistry and thinking in various aspects of structural Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy and Structural Biology biology and biochemistry. (G5). Major portion of research will take place Provides students with a forum for acquiring Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB off-campus, but in the United States and/ skills involved in the critical analysis and Graduate Program or permission of instructor. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven presentation of scientific data by active Fall, 0-1 credits, S/U grading National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab participation in seminars of major topics in May be repeated for credit. are considered on-campus. All international structural biology and biochemistry, and students must enroll in one of the graduate FallBSB 602: Colloquium in Biochemistry student insurance plans and should be advised critical discussion of selected topics with presentation of papers from the literature. and Structural Biology by an International Advisor. Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB A weekly series of talks and discussions by Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB Graduate Program or permission of instructor visiting scientists covering current research Graduate Program or permission of instructor 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and thinking in various aspects of structural Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. biology and biochemistry. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB BSB 701: Dissertation Research off BSB 580: Advanced Structural Biology/ Graduate Program or permission of instructor. Campus - International Structural Methods in Drug Discovery Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading This course is designed for students that want May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy to gain theoretical and practical experience (G5). Major portion of research will take in macromolecular structure determination BSB 603: Student Seminars in place outside of the United States and/or through NMR spectroscopy and/or X-ray Biochemistry and Structural Biology U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the crystallography. The course is organized Seminars given by graduate students on option of the health plan and may also enroll into two modules: NMR spectroscopy and the progress of their own thesis research. in MEDEX. International students who are X-ray crystallography. Students may elect Required of all students every semester in in their home country are not covered by to take one or both modules. Emphasis will which they are registered in the Graduate mandatory health plan and must contact the be placed on practical aspects of structural Program in Biochemistry and Structural Insurance Office for the insurance charge to

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 37 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 be removed. International students who are relevant institutions, enforcement regimes, not in their home country are charged for the etc., but also normative and ethical questions. CAR mandatory health insurance. If they are to be The course will rely heavily on current affairs covered by another insurance plan they must and case studies drawn from the headlines. Career Development file a waiver be second week of classes. The Although the course will focus predominantly charge will only be removed if other plan is on international regimes and U.S. laws and CAR 510: Career Planning deemed comparable. policies, we will, when appropriate, compare This course provides graduate students with in- Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB U.S. legal regimes and policies to those in depth examination of the essential components Graduate Program or permission of instructor other countries. of the career development process, including Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contemporary theories of career decision May be repeated for credit. making, job market intelligence, networking, BUS 554: The Lean Launch Pad: and professional branding. Students will BSB 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Turning a great idea into a great learn about the career readiness competencies Prerequisite: Must be matriculated in BSB company employers require, and refine their leadership Graduate Program or permission of instructor This course provides real world, hands-on skills through a semester-long experiential learning of what it's like to actually start a mentoring project. By the end of the course S/U grading students will have a professional portfolio to May be repeated for credit. high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a business plan, and the end result showcase their abilities and accomplishments. is not a PowerPoint presentation to venture 0-1 credits, BUS capitalists. Instead, students will get their hands dirty talking to customers, partners Business Management and competitors as they encounter the chaos CHE and uncertianty of how a startup actually Chemistry BUS 510: Biotechnology Startups and works. Students work in teams learning how Operations to turn a great idea into a great company. CHE 501: Instrumental Methods in A startup is not a smaller version of a large They will learn how to use a business model Chemistry biotech company. Instead, it is a team testing to brainstorm each part of a company and a business plan for viability. In this course, customer development to get out of the Practical and theoretical aspects of students will learn about the operational side of classroom to see whether anyone other than instrumentation in chemistry. The primary a biotech startup, with particular focus on the themselves would want/use their product. emphasis is on contemporary methods of first steps an entrepreneur must take through Finally, they will see how agile development molecular structure determination such as X- to the initiation of a Phase I clinical trial. The can help them rapidly iterate their product to ray crystallography, NMR, IR, and MS. Other goal of this course is not to gain expertise in all build something customers will use and buy. topics may also be presented. areas; rather students will be familiar with all Offered in Fall and Spring. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of the varied topics a startup must consider and 3 credits, Letter graded (A,2021 A-, B+, etc.) etc.) be better prepared to work holistically within a startup environment. Future CEOs will have a BUS 567: Intellectual Property Strategy CHE 502: Mechanisms and Strategies in Organic Synthesis better understanding of the myriad topics they Concepts and techniques of strategic must form a team to address, patent attorneys management are examined and applied to This course will focus on (1) the meaning will understand regulatory needs, and clinical relevant cases involving the management and practice of writing organic reaction trial coordinators will recognize the needs of intellectual property as applied to a wide mechanisms and (2) standard synthetic of the marketing department. For additional range of industries and innovations. From reactions, their mechanisms, and modern information on evaluating technologies and targeted genomic medications based on refinements. Examples and applications marketing strategies, students are encouraged Fallnew nanotechnologies to the Harry Potter will be presented. The course will also to take BME-511 and BME-512 as part of series, the monetization of the creative output discuss biomimetic syntheses and the use of the Bio-Based Entrepreneurship Advanced of scientists, artists, designers, writers, mechanism in designing total syntheses. Graduate Certificate (BBE-AGC). publishers, product designers, directors and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) so on all involve the use of one or more forms of intellectual property. The course will CHE 503: Synthetic Organic Chemistry BUS 520: Law and Foreign Policy in begin with a brief overview/review of some A survey of the most important organic International Business principals of management strategy. There will reactions from the viewpoint of synthetic Law and Foreign Policy in International then be a survey of the types of intellectual utility, including many recent innovations in Business is designed to provide MBA property, and some of the laws that support this field. Throughout the discussion of these candidates with an appreciation for the legal exclusivity in intellectual property rights. methods, emphasis is placed upon their use in regimes and foreign policy issues affecting Students will explore the use and importance the synthesis of complex organic structures. international business in the 21st Century. of intellectual property rights by companies Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The course is designed for non-lawyers, and and individual innovators in building and etc.) does not require any previous legal training or sustaining a competitive advantage, as well familiarity with legal concepts. For each topic, as strategies used to realize the highest value CHE 504: Structure and Reactivity in students will consider not only descriptive from intellectual property. Offered in Fall and Organic Chemistry and practical considerations, such as the Spring. 3 credits. Prerequisite - MBA 501. Electronic and stereochemical theories relating substance of a law, the mechanics of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to organic structure and reactions. Topics such

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 38 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 as bonding, strain, aromaticity, MO theory, (iii) An overview of the important synthetic in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and molecular rearrangements, pericyclic reactions, methods for preparing solid state materials in potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical and photochemistry are covered. This course is nanocrystalline, powder, thin film, and single double layer, corrosion and passivation. intended to provide a foundation of knowledge crystal form. (iv) A survey of the important Relevant applications such as fuel cells, at the beginning graduate level as preparation techniques for assessing the composition, batteries, and supercapacitors will be for advanced subjects in CHE 502 and CHE homogeneity, and crystallinity of materials discussed. 503, and is complementary to CHE 501. (such as SEM, TEM, AFM, STM), with an Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emphasis on powder x-ray diffraction. etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 511: Structural Inorganic CHE 521: Quantum Chemistry I Chemistry CHE 517: Structural Chemistry Quantum theoretical concepts are discussed. Properties and reactions of inorganic Much of chemistry is concerned with the Schrodinger wave mechanics and related compounds are considered from the viewpoint properties of atoms and molecules that are too mathematical techniques are illustrated by of molecular and electronic structure. The small to see directly. This course will cover a treatment of systems of chemical interest. modern bonding theories used in inorganic variety of advanced techniques for elucidating Designed to form the theoretical basis for chemistry including molecular orbital, the atomic-scale structure of molecules the study of chemical bonding, molecular valence bond, and ligand field theories are and periodic solids. A central technique is structure, spectroscopy, and molecular developed using symmetry and group theory. diffraction, which probes periodic arrays. collision phenomena. Selected main group, transition metal, and The mathematical basis for diffraction will be Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) organometallic compounds are discussed. An presented, followed by practical examples of introduction to crystallography and solid-state obtaining atomic coordinates from diffraction CHE 522: Molecular Spectroscopy structure is included. data (powder and/or single crystal). Other A detailed description of the theory and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques that may be covered include the practice of molecular spectroscopy. Topics analysis of local structure in partially ordered include the interaction of molecules with CHE 514: Transition Metal Chemistry or disordered solids (via techniques such electromagnetic radiation and the time A survey course with an emphasis on the as PDF, EXAFS, small angle scattering, evolution of molecular energy states. or solid state NMR), and the basis of more transition metals. Reaction mechanisms, Prerequisite: CHE 521 complex diffraction experiments (neutron/ synthesis, and structure are covered. Specific Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, electron diffraction, energy-dispersive/Laue areas of concern include coordination etc.) chemistry, organometallic chemistry, diffraction, and diffraction under extreme bioinorganic chemistry, and selected topics pressure/temperature conditions). CHE 523: Chemical Thermodynamics from solid-state and non-transition metal Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A rigorous development of the fundamentals chemistry. etc.) of thermodynamics and its application to a Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, number of systems of interest to chemists, CHE 518: Materials Chemistry etc.) 2021such as electrochemical cells, gases, and Our high technology world is driven homogeneous and heterogeneous equilibrium. CHE 515: Advanced Inorganic forward by advances in materials chemistry. An introduction to statistical mechanics will Chemistry This class will discuss the origin of this also be included. technology, covering the synthesis, structures, A topical course with an emphasis on the Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and properties of advanced materials. current literature. Subject matter varies and etc.) is announced in advance. Possible subjects These materials will be studied from a include reaction mechanisms, organometallic multidisciplinary perspective, since the CHE 524: Magnetic Resonance knowledge required for their development chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, and This course provides an introduction to the physical inorganic chemistry. May be repeated Fallspans more than one traditional academic fundamental quantum mechanics of the as the subject matter varies. discipline. This class will focus on broad topics with great current societal importance magnetism of spin-1/2 (and higher) particles. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, (energy, computing, nanoscience, etc.), and It includes a study of the Bloch equations (the etc.) will discuss the materials at the heart of our responses of the magnetism to continuous- May be repeated for credit. present technology as well as novel classes wave and pulsed irradiation) and a discussion of the experimental hardware and techniques CHE 516: Solid-State Chemistry of materials being developed for future technology applications. Specific topics may commonly employed. Topics covered include This course will provide an introduction to include batteries, fuel cells, catalysts, metallic the basics of the spin Hamiltonian (chemical structure and bonding in solid materials. This conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, shifts, J, dipolar, and quadrupolar couplings), class will survey the important structural permanent magnets, magnetic films. dynamics and relaxation 1-D spectroscopy classes of periodic solids and will discuss (spin and chemical exchange, lineshapes, spin space groups and the crystallographic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, echos, etc.), 2-D spectroscopy (homonuclear symmetry elements important to these etc.) and heteronuclear correlation), techniques materials. Topics that will be covered for studies of solids and liquid crystals CHE 519: Electrochemistry and may include, but are not limited to: (i) (magic angle spinning, cross polarization, Electrochemical Materials Science The mechanisms by which crystals grow quadrupolar echo), and the principles of and common types of defects. (ii) An This course will survey electrochemistry and magnetic resonance imaging. Applications to introduction to the basics of band theory. electrochemical materials science. Topics will include fundamental measurements

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 39 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the biological and material sciences, as well as biological systems involved in human disease The use of molecular concepts and chemical problems, will be discussed. will be emphasized. The course aims to foster methodology to solve problems in biology Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter collaborative learning and will consist of and medicine. The course covers methods graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presentations by the instructor, guest lecturers, to elucidate and control biological systems. and by course participants with the goal of Possible topics include chemical genomics, CHE 525: Theoretical Chemistry summarizing key methods, topics, and papers metabolomics, and chemotherapeutics. This course stresses the physical theory relevant to Computational Structural Biology. Prerequisite CHE 542 underlying chemical phenomena. Special Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emphasis is given to advanced topics in etc.) electronic structure theory, molecular CHE 558: Physical Biology dynamics, condensed matter and surfaces, CHE 536: Molecular Modeling of This is a course on the principles of physical many-body and quantum ensemble theory, and Biological Bolecules chemistry. We describe the nature of the forces the interaction of light and molecules. This course is designed for students who and energies and entropies that drive molecular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) wish to gain hands-on experience modeling systems toward their states of equilibrium. biological molecules at the atomic level. In We consider a broad range of applications CHE 528: Statistical Mechanics conjunction with the individual interests, throughout chemistry, biology, materials Statistical theory of equilibrium systems and Molecular Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics, engineering and nanoscience. This course aims rate processes. Ensemble theory, spatial and Monte Carlo, Docking (virtual screening), to give students an understanding of how the time correlation functions. Model systems or Quantum Mechanics software packages actions and behaviors of materials arise from and methods of estimating their properties. can be used to study relevant biological their atomic and molecular structures. Co- Designed to enable the student to use the system(s). Projects will include setup, listed with PHY 558 current literature dealing with application of execution, and analysis. Course participants Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, statistical mechanics to problems in chemistry. will give literature presentations relevant to etc.) the simulations being performed and a final Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, project report will be required. Familiarity with CHE 559: Biological Dynamics and etc.) UNIX (Linux) is desirable. Networks CHE 530: Physical Chemistry of Prerequisite: CHE 535 or permission of This course will provide a solid foundation Macromolecules instructor in key theoretical concepts for the study of An investigation of the gross and fine Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, dynamics in biological systems and networks structures of macromolecules and etc.) at different scales ranging from the molecular molecular aggregates in solution as level to metabolic and gene regulatory CHE 541: Biomolecular Structure and revealed by hydrodynamic behavior (e.g., networks. Topics of this course include Analysis ultracentrifugation, viscosity), light scattering, but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; spectroscopic properties (e.g., ultraviolet The structures of biological macromolecules Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; hypochromism, circular dichromism, Raman, and the relationship of their2021 structure Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; fluorescence, magnetic resonance spectra), and to biological function are described. Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability, the thermodynamics and kinetics of interaction Methodology employed to study bifurcations, pattern development; Noise with small molecules and ions. Theory of macromolecules is also discussed. Topics in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; conformation changes and phase transitions. include chemical and physical properties Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period of cell and tissue constituents, including doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, proteins Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of CHE 534: Computing in Chemistry and peptides. Prerequisite: Strong foundation nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- in physical and organic chemistry. Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized The basic elements of scripting, design of FallFall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological computer programs, and numerical analysis are networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and discussed within the framework of solving a CHE 542: Chemical Biology metabolic nets; Known biological circuits variety of exciting problems chosen from all The reactivity and physiological function of and their behaviors; How networks evolve: areas of chemistry. Topics include automation Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power of repetitive tasks, fitting of data, numerical biological macromolecules and their cofactors are described at the chemical biochemical laws; Fluxed through networks; Information integration of rate equations, signal and image and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux analysis, and quantum chemistry. No previous level. The emphasis of this course reflects recent advances in chemical biology. Possible analysis; Artificial and Natural selection knowledge of computer programming is for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population assumed. topics include catalysts, reaction mechanisms, correlation between three-dimensional dynamics. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) structure and reactivity, receptor-ligand Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 535: Introduction to interactions in extracellular and intracellular signaling, protein folding in vitro and in vivo. Computational Structural Biology and CHE 581: Departmental Research Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Drug Design Seminar etc.) This course will provide an introduction Meetings in which first-year graduate students to Computational Structural Biology with CHE 543: Chemical Approaches to learn about the research activities of the application to Drug Design. Methods and Biology departmental faculty. applications that use computation to model

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Fall, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit Offered CHE 582: Literature Seminar CHE 596: Teaching and Learning Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-12 credits, S/U Chemistry Students select and discuss topics from the grading current literature. The objective of CHE 596 is to better prepare May be repeated for credit. Spring, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students for the kinds of interactions they are likely to have in their careers when CHE 599: Research CHE 586: Professional Skills for communicating their chemistry. Specifically, Fall, Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading Scientists this course will help students to: (i) develop May be repeated for credit. Development and refinement of the competency with research-based approaches professional skills used by scientists: An to facilitating discourse that is generative CHE 602: Special Topics in Physical exploration of more sophisticated presentation for improving scientific understandings of Organic Chemistry chemistry phenomena; (ii) recognize the skills used in oral and poster presentations; The subject matter varies depending on importance of representations in chemistry incorporatyion of collaborative problem interests of students and staff. It may cover and to incorporate a more explicit modeling solving that mimics real world situations, such areas as photochemistry, theoretical perspective and approach for developing including simple proposal writing; exposure organic chemistry, and the chemistry of scientific literacy; (iii) develop teaching to professional societies and meetings; an unstable intermediates; the emphasis is strategies to effectively communicate abstract exploration of career options and employment on fundamental considerations and recent and complex chemical concepts to advise resources; tips for resume preparation and developments. interviews. Recommended for upper divsion expert and non-expert audiences; (iv) develop 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) endergraduates and masters students. Winter, 2 curricular interventions aimed at improving May be repeated for credit. credits, ABCF Grading individual and community practice of challenging conceptual ideas; (v) incorporate 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) historical and philosophical perspectives on CHE 603: Special Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry CHE 588: Graduate Workshop the development of fundamental chemical principles into the teaching of those topics The subject matter varies depending on Additional problem solving and team learning in diverse settings; (vi) become aware interests of students and faculty. Possible on topics from a concurrent formal graduate of recent developments in the learning topics include asymmetric synthesis and course. Topics vary. progressions literature to inform understanding natural product synthesis. Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading of appropriate curriculum planning and Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. implementation; and (vii) develop an identity etc.) towards reflective practice and empowerment May be repeated for credit. CHE 589: Directed Study of fellow chemistry educators into positions of Subject matter varies according to needs of leadership. CHE 606: Special Topics in Synthetic student. 3 credits, Letter graded (A,2021 A-, B+, etc.) Chemistry Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, Letter graded May be repeated for credit. (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 597: M.S. Research Thesis May be repeated for credit. Development CHE 607: Modern Drug Design & This course provides a structured environment Discovery CHE 590: M.S. Term Paper for students to develop their research project A seminar course covering modern aspects Seminar leading to a term paper on a selected into a written thesis. Students will receive and approaches to drug design. This course topic in chemistry, chemical applications, or instruction and guidance in performing combines presentations by faculty and by chemical pedagogy. literature research related to their project and industry representatives to provide a cross- Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Fallin developing this background material along disciplinary view of the development of +, etc.) with their own research into a properly written pharmaceuticals. document. Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, CHE 591: Chemistry of the 3 credits, S/U grading etc.) Environment May be repeated for credit. This course provides an overview of the CHE 610: Practicum in Teaching CHE 598: Professional Masters chemistry of environmental processes, Practice instruction in chemistry at the Internship environmental degradation, remediation and undergraduate level, carried out under faculty abatement processes, and energy production. Participation in private corporations, public orientation and supervision. A minimum of Past actions and current efforts of the chemical agencies, or non-profit institutions for research two semesters of CHE 610 or 611 is required enterprise in both exacerbating and addressing and other experiential training activities related of all candidates for graduate research degrees anthropogenic environmental degradation are to the completion of a Master term paper. in chemistry, unless explicitly waived by the discussed. Students will be required to have a faculty chairperson. coordinator as well as a contact in the outside 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, organization, to participate with them in A-, B+, etc.) CHE 593: Chemical Demonstrations regular consultations on the project, and to May be repeated for credit. The design and implementation of successfully complete CHE 590. Prerequisites: demonstrations to illustrate modern concepts Permission of Master's Program Director. 0-12 CHE 611: Practicum in Teaching of chemistry.

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Practice instruction in chemistry at the Supervised curricular training in dissertation- Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy undergraduate level, carried out under faculty related research. Prerequisite: For full-time: (G5). Major portion of research will take orientation and supervision. A minimum of Summer session or advancement to candidacy; place outside of the United States and/or two semesters of CHE 610 or 611 is required Permission of Graduate Program Director. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the of all candidates for graduate research degrees Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading option of the health plan and may also enroll in chemistry, unless explicitly waived by the May be repeated for credit. in MEDEX. International students who are chairperson. in their home country are not covered by Fall and Spring, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 693: Physical Chemistry Seminar mandatory health plan and must contact the Insurance Office for the insurance charge to May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading be removed. International students who are May be repeated for credit. CHE 619: Critical Readings of Current not in their home country are charged for the Topics in Chemistry CHE 694: Biological Chemistry mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Recent research papers from the literature Seminar covered by another insurance plan they must will be analyzed in depth. These papers may file a waiver be second week of classes. The Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading originate from the inorganic, organic, physical, charge will only be removed if other plan is May be repeated for credit. and/or biochemical literature. The exact topic deemed comparable. All international students must received of the course is announced in advance. Fall and CHE 695: Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Spring clearance from an International Advisor. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.

CHE 625: Molecular Structure and CHE 696: Organic Chemistry Seminar CHE 800: SUMMER RESEARCH Crystallography Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Experimental methods in the determination of May be repeated for credit. molecular structure. The emphasis is on the determination of structure in the solid state, CHE 697: Seminar in Physical and CHI Quantitative Biology particularly by X-ray crystallography. Students Chinese Language complete a single-crystal molecular structure Fall and spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading. determination using modern diffractometer 0-1 credits, S/U grading CHI 501: Advanced Chinese I techniques. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. An advanced course in Chinese as a foreign 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CHE 698: Colloquium or heritage language to strengthen their ability CHE 641: Organometallic Chemistry to understand, speak, read, and write Chinese Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading beyond the intermediate level. Students learn A systematic presentation of the chemistry May be repeated for credit. to read and comprehend a variety of texts of organometallic compounds, particularly 2021 from Chinese newspaper/magazine articles, those of the transition metals. Topics include CHE 699: Dissertation Research on TV/films, and literary works and to write structure, bonding, reaction mechanisms, Campus creatively and professionally in Chinese synthesis, and applications in catalysis and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy using sophisticated vocabulary and advanced organic synthesis. (G5). Major portion of research must take Chinese characters. Student will also be trained 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, to comprehend authentic spoken Mandarin or at the Brookhaven National Lab. Chinese, using a variety of audio-visual CHE 682: Special Topics in Inorganic Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U materials and to communication in Mandarin Chemistry Fallgrading Chinese, applying appropriate socio-cultural Subject matter varies, depending on interests May be repeated for credit. norms. of students and staff, but covers recent 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) developments in inorganic chemistry. CHE 700: Dissertation Research off 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - Domestic CHI 502: Advanced Chinese II May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy The second part of an advanced course in (G5). Major portion of research will take place Chinese as a foreign or heritage language CHE 683: Special Topics in Physical off-campus, but in the United States and/ to strengthen their ability to understand, Chemistry or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven speak, read, and write Chinese beyond the Subject matter varies, depending on interests National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab intermediate level. Students learn to read and of students and staff, but covers recent are considered on-campus. All international comprehend a variety of texts from Chinese developments and advanced topics in physical students must enroll in one of the graduate newspaper/magazine articles, TV/films, and chemistry. student insurance plans and should be advised literary works and to write creatively and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by an International Advisor. professionally in Chinese using sophisticated May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading vocabulary and advanced Chinese characters. May be repeated for credit. Students will also be trained to comprehend CHE 690: Internship in Dissertation- authentic spoken Mandarin Chinese, using Related Research CHE 701: Dissertation Research off a variety of audio-visual materials and to Campus - International communicate in Mandarin Chinese, applying

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 42 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 appropriate socio-cultural norms. This course and operation. Emphasis will be placed on the technique for a given project and deliver a is not intended for students who already speak development of models to demonstrate the detailed design of the selected technique. Chinese natively. core concepts involved in network distribution 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strategies, discrete facility location design, vehicle routing and scheduling, and inventory CIV 522: Introduction to Coastal CHI 526: Structure of Mandarin management. Engineering Chinese 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Basic hydrodynamics of water waves. Topics Mandarin Chinese is only one of a very few include linear wave theory, energy, power contemporary languages whose history is CIV 510: Advanced Foundation and energy propagation, wave refraction, documented in an unbroken tradition extending Engineering shoaling and breaking in the nearshore, back to the second millennium BC. At the The course is designed to provide students diffraction by breakwaters and gaps, reflection same time, it has more speakers than any with the theory and experience-based and basin oscillations, wave statistics and other language spoken in the modern world. knowledge necessary to evaluate and estimate spectra, wind-wave hindcast/forecast, wave This course provides an introduction to the soil properties and earth pressure for analysis forces on piles and pipes. Some coastal phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and design of retaining walls, anchored processes due to nonlinearity, including and writing system of the Mandarin Chinese bulkheads, and excavation bracing systems. wave set-up/set-down, nearshore circulations language. It is designed to familiarize students Bearing capacity and settlement of shallow and storm surges. Physical interpretations with some fundamental knowledge of the foundations are also covered. Semesters of mathematical formulas are particularly structure of spoken and written Mandarin Offered: Fall emphasized. Semesters Offered: Spring Chinese. Specifically, it aims to enable the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students to acquire an understanding of basic May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. methods used by linguists to observe and CIV 511: Advanced Shear Strength of gather Mandarin Chinese data, to delineate Soils CIV 523: Coastal Engineering Planning stmctural prope1ties with regard to the sound, This course covers topics related to advanced and Design tone, word, grammar, and discourse of the analysis for shear strength of soils including The basic principles involved in the planning language, and to develop a basic typological stress-path, shear strength of cohesive soils, and design of various types and functions comparison between Mandarin Chinese and and shear strength of granular soils. of coastal structures and shore protective English. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measures will be discussed. Topics will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include review of linear wave theory, CIV 513: Seepage and Slope Stability considerations of site conditions; design This class will expose students to water flow in processes; design of sloping- and vertical- CIV soils and the associated seepage forces applied front costal structures; scour and scour Civil Engineering on underground structures. Also included protection; coastal sediment transport; shore in this class is a detailed discussion about protection measures such as coastal armoring, beach restoration, and beach stabilization; and CIV 505: Transportation Network determining the soil hydraulic2021 properties introduction to harbor and marina. Analysis in the lab and in the field. Additionally, the Traffic flows on networks; Deterministic and course will discuss the stability of earth slopes 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) user equilibrium traffic assignment problems; forming natural and manmade slopes using various analysis methods. CIV 524: Coastal Processes and Transportation networks and optimality; Sediment Transport Transportation network design and reliability; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Vulnerability of transportation networks This course describes processes associated CIV 515: Analysis of Deep Foundations with water and sediment movements close to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course covers topics related to the shoreline. The topics covered in this course May be repeated for credit. Fall includes: sediment characteristics; long-term analysis and design of deep foundations processes, hydrodynamics of coastal zone; CIV 507: Transportation Economics including the design of vertically loaded drilled shafts and driven piles, the analysis field measurement techniques and analysis, Microeconomics principles applied in the equilibrium beach profiles, sediment transport, transportation field. Transportation demand of laterally loaded piles, and in-situ pile load tests. modeling of beaches and shorelines, shoreline and supply. Transportation costs (fixed modification and analysis including soft and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) costs, variable costs) and externalities. hard engineering approaches and tidal inlets. Economic and social benefits of transportation. Economic principles for transport pricing , CIV 516: Soil and Site Improvement 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This class will expose students to techniques e.g. toll pricing. Cost benefit analysis of a CIV 526: Environmental Biotechnology transportation project. History of government currently used in practice to improve the regulation of transportation. properties of soils in-situ. These techniques This graduate course covers the fundamental concepts of biological processes that 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will include shallow and deep compaction, overexcavation and replacement, deep are important in natural and engineered environmental systems. The course will CIV 509: Transportation Logistics replacement, drainage and dewatering, incorporate basic fundamental microbiology Systems preloading, deep soil mixing, and fill into a quantifiable engineering context in order This course provides a deep understanding of reinforcement. At the end of the class, students will be able to perform preliminary analysis to to describe, predict and control behavior of logistics systems by introducing the models environmental biological system. and analytic techniques to evaluate their design select the most appropriate soil improvement

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assessment; comprehensive source-to-design and sediment contamination, and even some actions project. applications to biological systems. CIV 530: Structural Mechanics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course deals with fundamentals of May be repeated for credit. the theory of structures with the objective CIV 544: Environmental Fluid of providing proper understanding and Dynamics CIV 548: Organic Pollutants in knowledge on structural analysis methods Free surface flows of water and air occurring Environmental Systems and structural behavior. The subject treatment in natural fluid systems and influencing This course covers topics in theoretical and is in the context of truss, beam, frame, and environmental transport and mixing. applied environmental organic chemistry. We plate structural elements. A key objective is to Fundamental principles of fluids, covering the will focus on physical/chemical properties provide the necessary knowledge and skills for scales relevant to both engineering and geo- of organic pollutants and the processes that capturing structural behavior through simple physical applications. Topics include waves, govern their fate and transport, particularly models. The course will extend concepts in instability, stratification, turbulent boundary in air and water, as well as their interactions matrix structural analysis by presenting a layers, jets and plumes, and river hydraulics with soil and biota. Topics include equilibrium general framework for analyzing complex 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) partitioning, molecular diffusion, air- structural systems. A brief introduction to the water exchange, sorption, bioaccumulation finite element method and nonlinear structural CIV 545: Computational Fluid and biomagnification, and transformation analysis is provided. Dynamics reactions. We will also touch on emerging 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Computational methods in hydraulics and issues involving novel organic contaminants. coastal engineering, Incompressible flows, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CIV 532: Structural Dynamics Turbulence modeling, Coupled hydrodynamics Analysis of the dynamic response of structures and Morphodynamics, Computational methods CIV 551: Sensing and Learning for and structural components to transient loads for modeling contaminant transport, Numerical Smart Cities and foundation excitation; single-degree-of- algorithms for solving Navier-Stokes An introductory course on practical freedom and multi-degree-of-freedom systems; equations, Introducing parallel programing and applications and challenges of sensing, data response spectrum concepts; numerical high-performance computing in computational analytics and machine learning in the context methods for integration of the equations of fluid dynamics. of physical urban systems. Background is motion; simple inelastic structural systems; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) provided on data analysis and associated systems with distributed mass and flexibility. challenges specific to smart cities applications, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CIV 546: Environmental Aquatic insights behind signal representation, statistical Chemistry modeling, and machine learning, and critical CIV 533: Intermediate Steel Design This course introduces the application of interpretation of outcomes. The course is Metal members under combined loads; physical chemistry to solve problems related suitable for students without prior experience connections, welded and bolted; moment- to natural water systems (both freshwater in probabilistic and statistical modeling, resistant connections; plate girders, and seawater) and anthropogenic2021 impacts on or working with data. Topics include data conventional behavior, and tension field these systems. We will cover thermodynamics visualization, noise cleansing, frequency action. and kinetics and how they can be used to domain analysis, forward and inverse 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understand the distribution and cycling modeling, feature extraction, sampling bias, of chemical species in natural waters and statistical modeling, machine learning, and CIV 534: Intermediate Reinforced related processes, including dissolution and error analysis. Concrete Design precipitation, oxidation and reduction, acid- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Strength, behavior, and design of base interactions, and complexation. We will indeterminate reinforced concrete structures, also cover special topics related to current CIV 595: Independent Study in Civil with primary emphasis on slab systems; Fallissues in water quality. Engineering emphasis on the strength of slabs and on the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students can register this course in order to available methods of design of slabs spanning conduct research or participate in a project in two directions, with or without supporting CIV 547: Enviromental Pyhsical- under the supervision of one or more members beams. Chemical Processes of the Civil Engineering faculty. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physical-chemical processes that affect 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environmental quality in natural and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. CIV 535: Earthquake Engineering engineered systems. The focus is on Source mechanisms, stress waves, and site developing a qualitative understanding of CIV 596: MS Project response of earthquake shaking; effect on mechanisms as well as quantitative tools This course is taken by M.S. students who the built environment; nature of earthquake to describe, predict, and control physical- select MS Project track. Conducted jointly by actions on structures; fundamental structural chemical processes. Topics include reactor graduate students and one or more members response characteristics of stiffness, strength, mixing and reaction kinetics, gas transfer, of the faculty. A final project report must and ductility; representation of the earthquake sorption, particle dynamics, filtration, be submitted to the advisor as well as to the input in static and dynamic structural analysis; membranes, and disinfection. Most of the Graduate Program Director. Without the modeling of steel and concrete structures applications are in the water quality sub- submitted report, credits from his course under earthquake effects; outputs for safety domain, but overlap exists with air quality, soil cannot be applied toward the MS degree. 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) take place off-campus, but in the United May be repeated for credit. States and/or U.S. provinces. All international CIV 599: M.S. Thesis Research students must enroll in one the graduate This course is taken by M.S. students for their CIV 685: Special Topics in Materials student insurance plans and should be advised thesis research work. Engineering by an international advisor. 1-12 credits, S/U grading The subject matter of special topics course 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. can vary semester to semester depending on May be repeated for credit. the interests of the students and the faculty, CIV 680: Special Topics in and the contemporary topics in materials CIV 701: Dissertation Research Off Transportation Engineering engineering field. Campus-International The subject matter of special topics course can 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Major Portion of research will take place vary semester to semester depending on the May be repeated for credit. outside of the United States and/or U.S. interests of the students and the faculty, and provinces. Domestic students have the option the contemporary topics in transportation field CIV 691: Civil Engineering Seminar of the health plan and may also enroll in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is designed to expose students MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. to cutting-edge research and development in their home country are not covered by activities in civil engineering. Speakers are mandatory health plan and must contact the CIV 681: Special Topics In invited from both on and off campus. Fall Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Geomechanics and Geotechnical and spring. 0 credits, S/U grading. May be be removed. International students who are Engineering repeated. not in their home country are charged for the The subject matter of special topics course S/U grading mandatory health insurance. If they are to be can vary semester to semester depending on May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must the interests of the sudetns and the faculty, file a waiver be second week of classes. The and the contemporary topics in geotechnical CIV 695: Civil Engineering Internship charge will only be removed if other plan is engineering field. Participation in off-campus engineering deemed comparable. All international students practice in private corporations, public must receive clearance for an International 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Advisor May be repeated for credit. agencies, or non-profit institutions. Student will be required to have faculty coordinator as 1-9 credits, S/U grading CIV 682: Special Topics in Ocean and well as a contact in outside organizations, to May be repeated for credit. Coastal Engineering participate with them in regular consultations The course is designed for the discussion of on the project, and to submit a final report to topics of special interest on demand that may both. A maximum of 3 credits can be accepted CLT not be covered in regularly scheduled courses. toward the M.S. degree. Comparative Literature Varying topics from ocean wave mechanics, 1 credit, S/U grading offshore structures, coastal processes, May be repeated 3 times FOR2021 credit. CLT 501: Theories of Comparative sediments and morphology to estuarine Literature CIV 697: Practicum in Teaching I dynamics may be offered concurrently. This course provides a survey of literacy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Every TA must register for this course theory and its role in the formation of May be repeated for credit. Fall, S/U grading comparative literature as a discipline. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CIV 683: Special Topics in Structural Engineering CIV 698: Practicum in Teaching II CLT 509: History of Literary Criticism The subject matter of special topics course FallPracticum in teaching under faculty A history of literary theory from classical can vary semester to semester depending on supervision 3 credits, S/U grading Greece to Freud. Offered Fall/ the interests of the students and the faculty, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and the contemporary topics in structural etc.) engineering field. CIV 699: Dissertation Research On 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus CLT 597: Directed Readings for M.A. May be repeated for credit. Students have to register for this class during Students their dissertation research after advancement to A student and faculty member agree on a CIV 684: Special Topics in Water candidacy. Major portion of research must take corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly Resources and Environmental place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be Engineering or at the Brookhaven National Lab. filed with the program's form before the add/ The course is designed for the discussion of 0-9 credits, S/U grading drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. topics of special interest on demand that may May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading not be covered in regularly scheduled courses. May be repeated for credit. Varying topics from water treatment, solid CIV 700: Dissertation Research Off waste management, urban and watershed Campus-Domestic CLT 598: Thesis Research hydrology, stormwater management, water Students have to register for this class during quality modeling to environmental fluid Research and writing of M.A. thesis their dissertation research after advancement supervised by faculty advisor. mechanics may be offered concurrently. to candidacy. Major portion of research will

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Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading West," and "European Realisms." Offered Fall The practicum is required of all students May be repeated for credit. and Spring 3 Credits, ABCF Grading during their first year. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CLT 599: Independent Study May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A student and faculty member agree on a topic not offered in any seminars and a reading CLT 608: Cross-Cultural Perspectives CLT 699: Dissertation Research on list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. Key topics in genre, literary criticism, Campus A final research paper or major annotated and methodology from a cross-cultural Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). bibliography will be required. The syllabus perspective. Emphasis will be placed on A portion of dissertation research must take must be filed with the program's form before an examination of differences as well as place on SBU campus. the add/drop period ends. May be repeated for similarities. Presuppositions of specific literary Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U credit. traditions will be questioned within the broader grading Only three credits of Independent Study can be perspectives of philosophical and religious May be repeated for credit. counted toward the M.A. requirements, and a valences. maximum of six toward the Ph.D 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CLT 700: Dissertation Research off Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Campus - Domestic A-, B+, etc.) CLT 609: Advanced Topics in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated for credit. Comparative Literature (G5). Major portion of research will take place A variable topics seminar in Comparative off-campus, but in the United States and/ CLT 600: Seminar in Stylistics Literature. 3 credits, Letter graded (A,A-,B+, or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Changing topics in the study of stylistic and etc.) Course may be repeated as topics vary. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab structural elements of the literary text. Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring are considered on-campus. All international 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students must enroll in one of the graduate May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised by an International Advisor. CLT 601: Seminar in Literary and CLT 680: Cultural Studies Research Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Cultural Theory Seminar May be repeated for credit. Changing topics in the specialized In addition to readings on issues, debates, and examinations of recent or historical trends problems within the profession and field of CLT 701: Dissertation Research off such as semiotics, Marxism, reader-response, Cultural Studies students will develop research Campus - International psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, deconstruction. for publication while engaging with practices Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of professionalization. (G5). Major portion of research will take May be repeated for credit. Offered Fall/ place outside of the United States and/or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the CLT 602: Interdisciplinary Seminar etc.) 2021option of the health plan and may also enroll Specific problems in the relations between May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. in MEDEX. International students who are literature and other disciplines. in their home country are not covered by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CLT 690: Directed Readings for mandatory health plan and must contact the May be repeated for credit. Doctoral Candidates Insurance Office for the insurance charge to A student and faculty member agree on a be removed. International students who are CLT 603: Comparative Studies in corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly not in their home country are charged for the Literary History or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Changing topics in the study of literary periods filed with the program's form before the add/ covered by another insurance plan they must Fall file a waiver be second week of classes. The and styles. drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. All international students must received CLT 604: Comparative Studies in CLT 696: Self-Directed Readings clearance from an International Advisor. Genre For doctoral students who have completed Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Changing topics in the study of the history and all course requirements and wish to dedicate May be repeated for credit. themselves to full or part-time preparation for theory of literary genres. CLT 800: SUMMER RESEARCH 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Comprehensive Examination. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. CLT 607: Major Authors in CLT 850: SUMMER TEACHING Comparative Context CLT 698: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. Critical and comparative examination of two The course is divided into two parts: one half or more major figures from different literary or is normally given in the fall, one in the spring. other aesthetic traditions. Recent topics have The first part deals primarily with matters of CME included "Kristeveva," Dostoevsky and the pedagogy. The second part is designed to help students plan their own undergraduate courses.

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Chemical and Molecular material and energy conservation to the design derivation of stress and relaxation modulus, Engineering of idealized homogeneous chemical reactors discussion on the relaxation behavior, the operating both in batch and continuous deGennes reptation model, and contour length modes and under both isothermally and non- fluctuation in polymer chains. In addition to CME 501: Fluid Mechanics isothermally conditions. To introduce the the text, the student will be exposed to classic This course aims to provide graduate-level analysis of non ideal flow and, using the flow and current literature in the field. students with fundamental concepts of fluid model, to quantify its effect on an idealized 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mechanics; mass, energy and momentum reactor design. balances; fluids flow in pipes; Couette flows, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CME 514: Characterization Methods Poiseuille flows, unsteady flows; viscous flow; (Microscopy and Spectroscopy) fluid flow in porous media; laminar boundary CME 511: Transport Phenomena layer and other unidirectional flow; turbulent This course aims to provide graduate-level flow; fluctuations and time-averaging, two This course covers topics in advanced students with an in-depth acquaintance phase flow and fluidization; non-Newtonian transport phenomena. Topics include, with important characterization methods fluids; microfluidics and electro-kinetic flow equations of change for isothermal systems, that are applicable to surface science, soft effects; compressible flows and computational viscosity, momentum transport, laminar materials, thin films and nanotechnology. fluid dynamics. and creeping flow, multi-variable velocity Topics include techniques such as atomic potential, turbulent flow, Interphase transport, force microscopy (AFM) including contact- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) friction factors, rheology of polymeric liquids, mode, tapping-mode and lateral-force AFM, non-Newtonian viscosity and generalized scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), CME 502: Mathematical Analysis & Newtonian models, equations of change electrostatic force microscopy (EFM), Modeling for non-isothermal systems, temperature magnetic force microscopy (MFM), AFM- This course aims to provide graduate- distributions and unsteady heat conduction in based nano-lithography, surface force and level students with a practical approach to solids, temperature distributions in turbulent adhesion measurement, as well as molecular computational methods for the development flow and heat flux, diffusivity and mass recognition, Xray photon spectroscopy (XPS) of various modeling approaches to a variety of transport, mass and molar transport by and ultraviolet photon spectroscopy (UPS), relevant chemical, physical and engineering convection. including basic principle, instrumentation processes. The course will cover linear 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) configuration, data interpretation and analysis, algebra, nonlinear algebraic systems, matrix chemical shift, quantification, and depth- eigenvalue analysis, initial value problems CME 512: Non-equilibrium profiling; time-of-flight secondary ion mass numerical optimization, boundary value Thermodynamics spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), Fourier-transform problems; probability theory and stochastic This course provides in depth graduate level infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Raman simulations, Bayesian statistics and parameter spectroscopy, attenuated total reflection estimation and Fourier analysis. instruction in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics include a (ATR), diffuse reflectance, and polarization 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) qualitative comparison of equilibrium and modulation-infrared reflection-adsorption non-equilibrium systems, the description spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) and finally, CME 503: Chemical Engineering 2021 of thermodynamic ensembles, the concept scanning and transmission electron microscopy Thermodynamics of system fluctuations, Brownian motion, (SEM and TEM). In addition to the text, the This course aims to provide graduate- fluctuation-dissipation processes, Markov student will be exposed to classic and current level students with understanding on processes, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation, literature in the field. the equilibrium thermodynamics and the Fokker-Planck equation, the Einstein- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) classical statistical thermodynamics, Smoluchowski equation, stochastic processes and to apply them to analyze chemical and boundary conditions, auto-catalytic CME 515: Complex Fluids engineering problems down to molecular- chemical reactions, bistability, transport This course aims to provide graduate-level scale. It contains mainly the following Fallprocesses, relaxation time approximation, students with a unified approach to complex subjects: Fundamentals of Equilibrium stability of far-from equilibrium systems; fluids. Complex fluids, also referred to as Thermodynamics; Thermodynamic Properties pattern formation and self-assembly. soft materials, are materials which have the of Fluids and Fluid Mixtures; Phase Transition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) capability to self-organize to form complex and Critical Phenomena; Classical Statistical structures that may be manipulated to exhibit Mechanics; Statistical Thermodynamics of CME 513: Rheology a variety of properties essential for specific Ideal Gases and Liquid Mixtures; and Other functional requirements. The materials Topics of Interest. This course aims to provide graduate-level students with an in-depth acquaintance with considered under this definition are the various 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) important topics in rheology. Topics include classes of colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, a discussion of the role of rheology in science liquid crystals and biological molecules. CME 504: Chemical Reaction and engineering, the definition of viscosity, the Topics covered include an overview and Engineering classification of various types of viscous fluids definitions of soft matter and complex Introduce the students to the fundamental and flows, deformation and stress, relaxation fluids; Intermolecular interactions; Phase principles of reaction engineering in order to functions, relaxation time, conversion among transitions and order parameters, scaling enable them to handle kinetics and kinetic- response functions, complex modulus, glass laws and polydispersity; Polymer systems, transport interactions in a variety of situations. transition, time-temperature superposition rule, thermodynamics of polymer solutions; To introduce students to the analysis of the WLF equation; stress expression in polymers, Polymers at interfaces, adsorbed polymer kinetics of homogeneous chemical reactions. tension, free-energy and distribution-function layers, polymer brushes; self-assembly in To apply this analysis and the concepts of of subchains, the Rouse and Zimm models, bulk, weak and strong segregation, microphase

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 47 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 separation; Self-assembly in solution, manufacturing techniques of nanocomposites. parameters, and thermodynamic stability/ polymeric micelles, surfactant micelles, In addition to the text, the student will be instability mechanism of emulsions, creaming, planar assemblies, microemulsions; Colloidal exposed to classic and current literature in the flocculation and coalescence will be discussed. systems, forces, and stability, interaction field. In addition, steric and depletion stabilization between charged surfaces, colloidal dynamics, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be discussed as well as double emulsions, diffusion and sedimentation; Amphiphilic their characterization and stabilization by systems, surface activity, surfactants and CME 524: Chemical Processes in Cell biopolymers. Foams and ¿solid in liquid¿ will monolayers, membranes; Liquid crystals, Biology be explored and compared to emulsions. In applications in microelectronics; Biological The course specially designed for chemical the entire course examples from the cosmetic, systems; Macromolecular and supramolecular engineering students to provide an introduction cosmeceuticals and dermal and transdermal assemblies. to the various aspects of cell biology. The applications will be discussed. In the last 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ideas of cell biology, including biochemistry prat industrial and practical problems will be and bioenergetics, DNA and protein synthesis, discussed. CME 519: Electrochemistry and and mechanisms of cancer will be introduced. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Electrochemical Materials Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will survey electrochemistry and CME 591: Sustainable Future Through electrochemical materials science. Topics CME 525: Chemical and Biological Renewable Energy- Advanced will include fundamental measurements Sensors The course will expose students to the role in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and Introduction to the field of chemosensor of engineering, chemistry, climate change potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical and biosensor, as well as an in-depth and in defining energy options, and a basic double layer, corrosion and passivation. quantitative view of the sensor design understanding of chemical engineering and Relevant applications such as fuel cells, and performance analysis. Fundamental technology in developing broad energy options batteries, and supercapacitors will be application of chemo/biosensor theory will in developing countries. The course combines discussed. be demonstrated including recognition, lectures with utilization of carbon management 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transduction, signal acquisition, and post tools to calculate carbon footprint in a specific processing/data analysis. Topics are selected country in a virtual environment. CME 522: Heterogeneous Catalysis & to emphasize biomedical, bioprocessing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Surface Reaction environmental, and energy application. CME 599: Research Heterogeneous catalysis is central to the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) petroleum chemical industry and it is Offered Fall and Spring directly related to products efficiency. This CME 526: Computational Methods 0-9 credits, S/U grading course will emphasize the fundamental and This course aims to provide graduate-level May be repeated for credit. application of heterogeneous catalysis and students with an in-depth acquaintance introduce the catalytic reaction mechanism. with use of modern computational and CME 695: Graduate Internship Students who complete the course will have mathematical techniques in2021 chemical Participation in private corporations, public attained the following outcomes: 1) Basic engineering including applied numerical agencies, or non-profit institutions for ongoing of heterogeneous catalyst and catalysis 2) analysis, programming algorithms using research activities related to thesis research. Kinetics of heterogeneously catalyzed reaction mathematical software, and applications of Students will be required to have a faculty 3) Surface characterization by spectroscopic computational methods to the solution of coordinator as well as a contact in the outside techniques 4) Knowledge of supported metal mechanical engineering. Topics include a organization, to participate with them in oxide and zeolites 5) Application of theoretical discussion of the different analytical methods regular consultations on the project, and to calculations 6) Industrial applications of and algorithms and how to apply these using submit a final report to both. heterogeneous catalyst. Matlab. In addition to the text, the student will Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fallbe exposed to classic and current literature in the field. CME 696: Special Topics in Chemical CME 523: Nanocomposites 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Molecular Engineering This course aims to provide graduate-level This course will provide an introduction to students with an in-depth knowledge of the CME 590: Surfactants, dispersion numerical methods for engineering problems main types of nanocomposite materials and technology and novel delivery vehicles in Python. You will learn the foundations of their specific physical and chemical properties In the first part of the course the students scientific computing that can be applied to a required in applications. Topics include a will learn the structures of monomeric, broad range of engineering problems. We will discussion of the methods of preparation and polymeric, and biopolymeric surfactants. cover the fundamental mathematical bases of characterization of specific physical properties Students will be taught how to prepare numerical methods used to describe physical of nanocomposite materials. The current state and characterize surfactants. In the second phenomena encountered in chemical processes of theory and modeling of nanocomposites part students will learn how surfactants and will then describe how to implement them will be presented. At the end of the course, arrange on surfaces and how they self- using Python. The course will introduce you students will have enough understanding of assemble in solution. Micellar solutions and to Python programming language and some the main concepts in nanocomposites physics, their properties such as interfacial tension, of the benefits it offers. Topics covered basic understand advantages and disadvantages aggregation number, and solubilization will be data structure, solution of equations, data of different thermoplastics and thermoset studied. Also, preparation of micro emulsions; fitting, plotting, function minimization, and polymers as matrix materials. In addition solubilization of bioactives; stability/instability students will gain the knowledge of different

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 48 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 differential equations. No previous computing to attend another institution while receiving CSE 506: Operating Systems experience is assumed. financial aid through Stony Brook. It is This course is an in-depth study of important 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a process which is to be utilized only in concepts and techniques found in modern extenuating situations. A student who feels computer operating systems. An undergraduate CME 697: Chemical and Molecular that his/her situation can be documented and course in operating systems is a prerequisite. Engineering Colloquium therefore warrants the use of this option should The course focuses on in-depth study of A weekly series of lectures and discussions by contact the Financial Aid Office. such important issues as virtual memory, visitors, local faculty, and students presenting 0-12 credits, file systems, networking, and multiprocessor current research results. May be repeated for credit. support, with an eye to recent directions 0-3 credits, S/U grading in these areas. Textbook readings are supplemented where appropriate by papers CME 698: CME 698 Practicum in CSE from the research literature. An important Teaching Computer Science part of the course is the case study of an Practicum in teaching under faculty actual operating system. Students study the source code for this operating system and supervision. CSE 502: Computer Architecture do programming exercises and projects that 0-3 credits, S/U grading Topics covered include instruction pipelines involve modifying the operating system and May be repeated for credit. and memory caches to improve computer measuring its performance. performance; instruction-level parallelism; Prerequisite: CSE 306 CME 699: Dissertation Research on machines: superscalar versus VLIW; cache Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Campus and main memory hierarchy design tradeoffs; etc.) Major portion of research must take place on compiler optimizations to speed pipelines; SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at low-power computer system design: processor, CSE 507: Introduction to Brookhaven National Lab. OS, and compiler support; graphics, DSP, Computational Linguistics and media processor design; disk I/O system 0-9 credits, S/U grading Overview of computational approaches May be repeated for credit. design; interconnections and networking; and introduction to parallel architecture. Advanced to language use. Core topics include mathematical and logical foundations, syntax, CME 700: Dissertation Research off topics include asynchronous microprocessors; semantics and progmatics. Special topics may Campus FPGA-based reconfigurable computing; system on a chip; embedded processors; include speech processing, dialog system Major portion of research will take place off- machine translation information extraction and campus, but in the United States and/or U.S. intelligent RAM and superconducting computers. information retrieval. Statistical and traditional provinces. approaches are included. Students will develop 0-9 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: CSE 345 familiarity with the literature and tools of the May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, field. etc.) 2021Prerequisites: CSE 537; CSE 541 CME 701: Dissertation Research off recommended Campus-International CSE 504: Compiler Design Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, This course covers advanced topics in Major Portion of research will take place etc.) outside of the United States and/or U.S. compilation, including memory management, provinces. dataflow analysis, code optimization, just-in- CSE 508: Network Security time compilation, and selected topics from 0-9 credits, S/U grading compilation of object-oriented and declarative Principles and practice of Computer Network May be repeated for credit. languages. Security. Cryptography, authentication protocols, public key infrastructures, IP/www/ CME 800: Full Time Summer Research FallPrerequisites: CSE 304 and CSE 307 E-commerce security, firewalls, VPN, and This course may be only taken by Ph.D. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, intrusion detection. Limited to CSE graduate candidates who are defending in the summer etc.) students. Others; permission of instructor. Prerequisite: CSE/ISE 310, or CSE 346 or S/U grading CSE 505: Computing with Logic equivalent. The course explores logic-based computing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) COM and logic programming. It includes an introduction to programming in logic, covering CSE 509: Computer System Security Communications basic techniques for solving problems in a logic programming system. Particular Principles and practice of building and attention will be paid to user interface issues administering secure systems. Authentication CONSTRM and how a logic system can provide a useful and access control. Operating system security. computing environment. The course covers Program security, database security. Key Consortium Agreement implementation issues, emphasizing how a management. Information flow. Assurance. logic programming system generalizes both Vulnerability analysis and intrusion detection. CONSTRM AGRMNT: Credit earned as traditional programming language systems and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transfer. traditional database systems. CSE 510: Hybrid Systems The procedure, which involves the completion 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of a Consortium Agreement, permits a student

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Hybrid Systems combine discrete state- analysis management systems that target the DTS departments conduct case studies of machines and continuous differential equations scientific domain such as ADIOS, sciDB; existing ST or design and implement new ST and have been used as models of a large streaming systems such as IBM System S/ under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit number of applications such as real-time DataCutter. Systems, data structures and 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) software, embedded systems, robotics, algorithms to support management and mechatronics, aerospace systems, process analysis of spatio-temporal data from video CSE 517: Science for Society II control and biological systems. The course cameras, satelliteds, telescopes or beamlines. This is part two of an interdisciplinary course will cover modeling, design, analysis, and We will study statistical methods, machine sequence (1 credit each) is designed for verification methods for hybrid systems. learning and image anlysis/reconstruction students in computer science (CS) and students Topics may include SAT/SMT solvers, methods used in big data/data analytic of technology and society (DTS). Students timed automata, formal logics for system problems. Finally, we will survey big data/ taking this course will enhance their abilities specification, verification algorithms and data analytic problems from several domains to critically think and build awareness for closed-loop neural network control systems. including biomedical analysis of multi science and technology (ST) and their societal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) scale, multi-modal biomedical imaging aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing data, next generation genetic and demonic important questions such as: what should I CSE 511: Brain and Memory Modeling data, analysis of electronic medical record/ focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, An introduction to brain modeling. population heath data; internet,internet search, what policies are required or can be taken Neuroscience topics include major brain recommender systems; and engineering and advantage of, how can I possibly influence structures, constituent glia and neurons, and physical science,analysis of experimental policy, and finally, what are the dangers synapses connecting neurons; how excited and simulation data associated with design of when developing new ST. To teach these neurons send ionic firing spikes to other energetic materials, oil reservoir simulation, topics the course takes a practical approach. neurons; synapse changes during learning nuclear fusion and self-driving cars. The first section of the sequence examines and forgetting; connection structures for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) historical science and technology successes stable ionic activity in neural networks; and failures. Then, in the second section, teams and distributed firing patterns underlying CSE 515: Introduction to Transaction composed of students from both the CS and memory, perception, and thought. Computing Processing Systems DTS departments conduct case studies of topics include efficient methods for modeling Discusses transaction processing systems. existing ST or design and implement new ST electrical activity in single neurons using Topics covered include models of transactions, under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit NEURON and in networks of millions of including nested transactions and workflow; 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neurons using discrete event simulation. architectures of transaction processing Participants will code simulations OR use systems, including client-server, two-tiered CSE 518: Foundations of Human neuroscience experience to refine brain and three-tiered architectures; concurrency Computer Interactions models. controls for conventional and relational The focus of this course is on the design, Offered Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded databases including two-phase locking and the evaluation, and implementation of interactive (A, A-, B+, etc.) SQL isolation levels; logging2021 and recovery; computing systems for human use and on the distributed transactions including the two- study of major phenomena surrounding them. CSE 512: Machine Learning phase commit protocol; replication; Internet This course will provide the students with a A course on the fundamentals of machine commerce, including encryption, the SSL and strong grounding in the guidelines, principles, learning, including basic models, formulations SET protocols, goods atomicity, and electronic methodologies, tools, and techniques for and modern methods. Topics include cash. Fall analyzing, designing, and evaluating user validation, classification, regression, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interfaces and interaction techniques. Topics clustering, component analysis and include: 1) Human Information Processing graphic models.Students are expected to CSE 516: Science for Society I System 2) Interaction Behavior Modeling have the following background:Working FallThis is part one of an interdisciplinary course 3) Computational Interface Design 4) User knowledge of probability theory and sequence (1 credit each) is designed for Centered Design 5) Sketching and Prototyping statistics,Working knowledge of linear students in computer science (CS) and students 6) Usability Testing 7) Heuristic Evaluation 8) algebra and algorithms,Working knowledge of technology and society (DTS). Students Natural User Interfaces & the Future of Uls 9) of basic computer science principles at a level taking this course will enhance their abilities State-of-the-art research within HCI sufficient to write a reasonably non-trivial to critically think and build awareness for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computer program in a language of preference science and technology (ST) and their societal Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing CSE 519: Data Science Fundamentals A-, B+, etc.) important questions such as: what should I Knowledge discovery in data is the non-trivial focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, process of identifying valid, novel, potentially CSE 514: Data Analytics Software what policies are required or can be taken useful, and ultimately understandable patterns Stacks and Algorithms advantage of, how can I possibly influence in data (Fayyad et al. 1996). Large-scale Architecture, and design of data analytics policy, and finally, what are the dangers data generated by humans and machines software stacks. We will cover MapReduce/ when developing new ST. To teach these is available everywhere. Acquiring the Hadoop/Dryad/Twister, Hadoop File System topics the course takes a practical approach. fundamental skills on how to 1) analyze (HDFS), HBASE, NOSQL tools such as The first section of the sequence examines and understand as well as 2) manage and MongoDB, Cassandra, HIVE; column historical science and technology successes process these large datasets are crucial in oriented database systems such as Vertica and failures. Then, in the second section, teams today¿s date-driven world, for producing data and MonetDB. We will also cover data composed of students from both the CS and products that solve real-world problems. This

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 50 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 course will cover the fundamental concepts Part 2 of a 2-semester advanced research clipping, panning, and zooming; geometrical in date science, to equip students with the key and development project undertaken by transformations in 2D and 3D; algorithms for skillset toward becoming good data scientists. MS students under the supervision of a CS raster displays (scan-line conversion, polygon Major topics include scoping projects, data graduate program faculty member. The student fill, polygon clipping, etc.); hidden line and preparation, statistics basics, visualization, starts the project in one semester by registering hidden surface removal, shading models; user statistical learning, data mining, various types for CSE 523 and completes the project in a interaction. The students will implement a of structured and subsequent semester by registering for CSE substantial graphics application program. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 524 under the supervision of the same faculty Prerequisite: CSE 328 member. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 521: Data Mining Concepts and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Techniques May be repeated for credit. CSE 529: Simulation and Modeling Data Mining is a new, promising and A comprehensive course in formulation, flourishing interdisciplinary field drawing CSE 525: Introduction to Robotics implementation, and application of simulation work from areas including database This course introduces fundamental concepts models. Topics include data structures, technology, artificial intelligence, in Robotics. In the first half of the course, simulation languages, statistical analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, basic concepts will be discussed, including pseudo-random number generation, and design high-performance computing, and data coordinate transformation, kinematics, of simulation experiments. Students apply visualization. It focuses on issues relating dynamics. Laplace transforms, equations of simulation modeling methods to problems of to the feasibility, usefulness, efficiency motion, feedback and feedforward control, their own design. This course is offered as and scalability of techniques for automated and trajectory planning. These topics will be CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. extraction of patterns representing knowledge exemplified with Matlab/Simulink simulation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implicitly stored in large databases, studies. The second half of the course will warehouses, and other massive information focus on applying the knowledge from the CSE 530: GEOMETRIC FOUNDATNS repositories. The course gives a broad, yet in- initial lectures to various motor systems, This course will focus on mathematical depth overview of the field of data mining and including manipulators, artificial eye systems, tools, geometric modeling techniques, and presents one or two techniques in rigorous locomotory systems, and mobile robotics. fundamental algorithms that are relevant detail. Prerequisite: Database course There will be homeworks for Matlab/Simulink to graphics, visualization, and other visual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and a final project, a midterm and a final. computing areas. The goal is to provide May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graduate students with a comprehensive knowledge on geometric concepts and CSE 522: Special Project in Computer CSE 526: Principles of Programming demonstrate the significance of these Science Languages mathematical tools and geometric algorithms Project in a sub-discipline of Computer Discusses programming language concepts in graphics and relevant areas. Course Science, including but not limited to, computer and design, with emphasis on abstraction topics include geometric algorithms for architecture, operating systems, programming mechanisms. Topics include2021 language both polygonal and curved objects, theory languages, compliers, artificial intelligence, paradigms (procedural, object-oriented, of parametric and implicit representations, networking, computer graphics, data mining, functional, and logic), language concepts modeling methods of curves, surfaces, and databases, computer vision, visualization, (values, bindings, types, modules), and solids, in-depth spline theory, rudiments computer security, mobile computing, foundations (lambda calculus, denotational of wavelet theory and multi-resolution parallel processing, logic programming, semantics). Examples will be drawn from shape representations, differential geometry hybrid systems, simulation and modeling, several representative languages, such as C, fundamentals, and other sophisticated topics computational biology, and multimedia. Java, Standard ML, and Prolog. and latest advances in the field. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: CSE 307 Prerequisites: CSE 328 and CSE 332 May be repeated for credit. FallSpring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) CSE 523: Advanced Project in Computer Science I CSE 527: Introduction to Computer CSE 531: Performance Analysis of First part of an advanced project in computer Vision Systems science that will extend over two semesters. Introduction to basic concepts in computer This is a new course that covers topics in the The student starts the project in one semester vision. Low level image analysis, image performance analysis of computer systems. by registering for CSE523 and completes the formation, edge detection, segmentation. The contents of the course should prove very project in a following semester by registering Image transformations for image synthesis helpful for computer science students who for CSE524. CSE523/524 sequence must be methods for 3D scene reconstruction, motion wish to analyze computer systems and learn on the same project under the direction of the analysis, object recognition. more about how to improve the performance same advisor. The student must identify a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of systems. Existing courses do not cover this faculty advisor before registering. material. The course is targeted primarily at 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 528: Computer Graphics PhD and Masters students in the Computer May be repeated for credit. This course emphasizes a hands-on approach Science Department, however upper-level to the use of computer graphics. The undergraduates can take the course as well. In CSE 524: Advanced Project in topics covered include models, picture addition, students from AMS, Math and ECE Computer Science II description, and interaction; c windowing, would also benefit from the course contents.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A substantial project requiring the design, techniques of optimization and matching implementation, and evaluation of a user- learning (clustering and prediction). CSE 532: Theory of Database Systems interface will be required 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course will cover advanced topics in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) modern database systems, including object- CSE 545: Big Data Analytics oriented databases, rule-based databases, CSE 537: Artificial Intelligence The course will cover concepts and standard temporal and active databases, parallel and A comprehensive introduction to the problems tools used to analyze, so called, Big Data. distributed databases, distributed object model, of artificial intelligence and techniques for Specifically, it will cover algorithmic data mining, online analytical processing, data attacking them. Topics include problem approaches to analyzing large datasets: warehousing, multimedia databases. representation, problem-solving methods, MapReduce, graph analytics, text analytics, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, search, pattern recognition, natural language steaming algorithms, as well as modern A-, B+, etc.) processing, learning, expert systems, AI distribution analysis platforms (e.g. Hadoop, programming languages and techniques. Spark). CSE 533: Network Programming Covers both theoretical methods and practical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics include Unix and Linux socket implementations. API programming at the TCP, UDP, IP Prerequisites: MAT 371 or CSE 541 CSE 546: Cryptography (raw sockets) and datalink access (Linux Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Cryptography studies how to perform PF_PACKET sockets, libpcap & libnet computational tasks securely in adversarial libraries) levels, in the context of developing CSE 538: Natural Lang Process environments. It plays an important role and implementing client-server applications, in designing secure systems. This is an reliable data transfer using TCP-like rdt and CSE 540: Theory of Computation introductory course that covers basic concepts flow control mechanisms, routing protocols, Topics include models of computation: and proof techniques in this area, as well address resolution protocols, multicasting, finite-state machines, stack machines, Turing as some recent research trends. The course DNS protocols. machines, Church's thesis; computability is theoretical in nature, with emphasis on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theory: halting problem and unsolvability, proofs and algorithmic reductions, even when introductory recursion theory; complexity discussing applied topics. No prior background CSE 534: Fundamentals of Computer theory: complexity measures, time and space in cryptography is assumed. However, students Networks hierarchy, NP-complete problems. should have mathematical maturity and be Internet protocol layers. Internet Architecture. comfortable with definitions and proofs. Prerequisite: CSE 303 Link layer and multiple access protocols. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Local area networks including wireless LANs. Routing on the Internet. Intra- and Inter- CSE 541: Logic in Computer Science CSE 547: Discrete Mathematics domain routing. Mobile routing. Transport A survey of the logical foundations of This course introduces such mathematical layer and TCP congestion control. Scheduling mathematics and the relationships to computer tools as summations, number theory, binomial and fairness. Application layers. Overlay and science; development of propositional2021 calculus coefficients, generating functions, recurrence P2P networks. Content distribution networks. and quantification theory; the notions of relations, discrete probability, asymptotics, Network performance modeling. a proof and of a model; the completeness combinatorics, and graph theory for use in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theorem. algorithmic and combinatorial analysis. This course is offered as both CSE 547 and AMS Pre- or co-requisite: MAT 313 and CSE 213 CSE 535: Distributed Systems 547. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Discusses asynchronous systems, their etc.) Prerequisite for CSE 547: AMS 301 description using concurrent and distributed Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, programming languages, and their verification. CSE 542: Big Data Systems, etc.) Topics include concurrent programming using Fall Algorithms and Networks shared memory and message passing, formal CSE 548: Analysis of Algorithms Recent progress on big data systems, semantics of communication, reliability, and algorithms and networks. Topics include Techniques for designing efficient algorithms, concurrent algorithms. the web graph, search engines, targeted including choice of data structures, recursion, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advertisements, online algorithms and branch and bound, divide and conquer, and competitive analysis, and analytics, storage, dynamic programming. Complexity analysis CSE 536: Introduction to User-Interface resource allocation, and security in big data of searching, sorting, matrix multiplication, Development systems. and graph algorithms. Standard NP-complete Survey of user-interface systems, includes problems and polynomial transformation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) command language, windowing, multiple techniques. This course is offered as both input/output devices, architecture of user CSE 544: Probability and Statistics for AMS 542 and CSE 548. interface management systems, toolkits for Data Scientists Prerequisite for CSE 548: CSE 373 designing user-interface, human factors, The course will cover core concepts of recommended standards, visual languages. The course also probability theory and an assortment of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, includes discussion of emerging technologies, standard statistical techniques. Specific etc.) such as systems for cooperative work, topics will include random variables and physically distributed user-interfaces, CSE 549: Computational Biology distributions, quantitative research methods parallelism and user-interfaces, virtual reality. (correlation and regression), and modern

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This course focuses on current problems in and Modeling/Analytics (e.g., modeling a systems. It covers fundamentals of X-ray computational biology and bioinformatics. server's power consumption). This course radiography, X-ray computed tomography Our emphasis will be algorithmic, on covers the recent research trends in energy- (CT), ultrasonic imaging, nuclear imaging, discovering appropriate combinatorial efficient computing, focusing specifically on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and algorithm problems and the techniques to themes and techniques for achieving efficiency functional MRI (fMRI), as well as more solve them. Primary topics will include DNA in computer systems. general concepts required for these, such as sequence assembly, DNA/protein sequence 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) linear systems theory, the Fourier Transform, comparison, hybridization array analysis, RNA and numerical optimization. Popular and protein folding, and phylogenic trees. CSE 555: Computational Geometry techniques for the visualization, segmentation, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Study of the fundamental algorithmic problems and analysis of medical image data will also be associated with geometric computations, discussed, as well as applications of medical CSE 550: Quantum Computing and including convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, imaging, such as image-guided intervention. Applications triangulation, intersection, range queries, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is an introduction to and survey visibility, arrangements, and motion of the Quantum Computing, an emerging planning for robotics. Algorithmic methods CSE 581: Computer Science interdisciplinary field of science which has the include plane sweep, incremental insertion, Fundamentals: Theory potential to revolutionize computation over randomization, divide-and-conquer, etc. This The course consists of two parts. The first the next ten years, to transform chemistry, course is offered as both AMS 545 and CSE part covers discrete mathematics -- a division medicine, engineering and communications, 555. of mathematics that is extensively used in as well as to change our understanding Prerequisite for CSE 555: CSE 373 or CSE computer science. The topics covered include: of physical world. The course will build 548 logic (propositional logic and predicate logic), intuitive approach to quantum computation Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, proof techniques, sequences (mathematical and algorithms, but also will advance relevant etc.) induction and recursion), and functions. The vocabulary and skills for faculties and graduate second part covers the theory of computation students in engineering, computing, applied CSE 564: Visualization -- a division of theoretical computer science mathematics, chemistry, physics and related The course emphasizes a hands-on approach that deals with what can be computed and sciences. to scientific, medical, and information what cannot be computed on a computer. The 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) visualization and visual analytics. Topics topics covered include: computational models include: traditional visualization techniques, (FA, PDA, and Turing machines), grammars CSE 551: Smart Energy in the the visualization process, visual perception accepted by different computational models Information Age and cognition, basic graphics and imaging (regular grammars, context-free grammars, and Energy and sustainability have become critical concepts, visualization of sampled, observed, unrestricted grammars), languages accepted issues of our generation. While the abundant and computed data, volume and flow by different computational models (regular potential of renewable energy sources, such visualization, information visualization, languages, context-free language, and Turing- as solar and wind, provides a real opportunity human-computer interaction,2021 and the coupling acceptable languages), Turing-complete for sustainability, their intermittency and of intelligent computing with visualization systems, and algorithmically unsolvable problems. uncertainty present a daunting operational 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) challenge. This course studies how to use 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Information Technology (IT) to improve CSE 566: Virtual Reality sustainability in our energy-hungry society. CSE 582: Computer Science In particular, topics include the applications Fundamentals: Data Structures and CSE 570: Wireless and Mobile Algorithms of mathematical modeling, algorithm design, Networks optimization, game theory, and control theory The course consists of two parts. The first in real systems. The goal of the course is to FallWireless communication fundamentals: part covers data structures to efficiently store, provide rigorous foundations for the study of wireless signal transmission, coding, organize, modify, and access data. Topics smart energy management for sustainability. multiplexing. Link, network and transport include: arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, layer protocols for wireless and mobile 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) trees, sets, hash maps, priority queues, and networking: medium access control, graphs. The second part covers the design and transmission scheduling, wireless capacity, CSE 552: Energy Efficient Computing analysis of algorithms for solving computer protocols for wireless multi-hop networks. Energy is an important resource for a wide science problems. Topics include: algorithm Cellular networks. Wireless LANs: mobile analysis, exhaustive search algorithms, divide- range of computer systems from laptops IP, TCP over wireless networks. Mobile to data centers and clouds. There has been and-conquer algorithms, greedy algorithms, applications. Localization and location and dynamic programming algorithms. considerable recent research on the topic management, Network coding. Wireless of of improving energy efficiency, cutting security. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) across different areas of Computer Science Offered including Computer Architecture (e.g., energy CSE 587: Proficiency Requirement Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) efficient processor design), Networking (e.g., This course is used by students to fill any putting the network to sleep), Storage (e.g., CSE 577: Medical Imaging gaps in key CS proficiency background) areas exploiting idle I/O periods to spin down identified at the time of admission. This course disks), Distributed Systems (e.g., capacity This course presents an introduction to the is done under the supervision of a faculty provisioning), Mobile Systems (e.g., putting mathematical, physical, and computational member teaching an undergraduate course in the radio receiver to sleep in a smartphone), principles underlying modern medical imaging

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 53 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the needed proficiency area. By permission of CSE 594: Advanced Topics in CSE 600: Research in Modern the Graduate Program only. Computer Science Computer Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An advanced lecture course on a new topics A survey of current computer science research May be repeated for credit. in computer science. This course is primarily areas and issues. This course comprises designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by lectures by faculty members and visitors, CSE 590: Topics in Computer Science Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements selected readings, and introductory-level An advanced lecture course on a new topic to this Bulletin contain specific description research problems. Prerequisite: Permission of in computer science. The course is primarily when course is offered. May be repeated as the instructor designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by topic changes, but cannot be used more than 0-1 credits, S/U grading Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements twice to satisfy the CSE major requirements May be repeated for credit. to this Bulletin contain specific description for the M.S. when course is offered. May be repeated Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter CSE 602: Advanced Computer for credit as the topic changes, but cannot graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Architecture be used more than twice to satisfy CSE May be repeated for credit. The focus will be on the architectural rather major requirements for M.S. Limited to than micro-architectural issues, and a systems CSE graduate students; others permission of CSE 595: Advanced Topics in approach to computer architecture taking instructor. Computer Science into account the interaction between the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, An advanced lecture course on a new topic architecture and the compiler, operating etc.) in computer science. This course is primarily system, database, and networking. The course May be repeated for credit. designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by starts with superscalar/VLIW processor Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements architecture and proceeds to memory CSE 591: Topics in Computer Science to this Bulletin contain specific description hierarchy, storage systems, network hardware, An advanced lecture course on a new topic when course is offered. May be repeated for graphics processor, and database machines. in computer science. The course is primarily credit as the topic changes, but cannot be used The emphasis will be on hands-on evaluation designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by more than twice to satisfy the SCE major of architectural ideas, the exploration of Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements requirements for the M.S. software/hardware design trade-offs, and the to this Bulletin contain specific description Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter articulation of experimental procedures and when course is offered. May be repeated graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) performance analysis. A publication-quality for credit as the topic changes, but cannot May be repeated for credit. class project will be required. be used more than twice to satisfy CSE 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) major requirements for M.S. Limited to CSE CSE 596: MS Internship Project Off- graduate students; others, permission of Campus CSE 605: Performance Evaluation of instructor. Participation in internships at private Computer Systems Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, corporations, public agencies, or non-profit The purpose of this course is to provide etc.) institutions. Students will be2021 required to have background and training in understanding and May be repeated for credit. a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the evaluating performance of computer systems, outside organization to participate with them including centralized, distributed, parallel, CSE 592: Advanced Topics in in regular consultations on the project, and to client/server based systems, and computer Computer Science submit a final report to both. This course is communication networks. The goal is to An advanced lecture course on a new topic intended for MS students interning off campus. develop a perspective on how the performance in computer science. The course is primarily 1 credit, S/U grading of computer systems or networks should be designed for M.S. students, but can be taken by May be repeated for credit. evaluated in order to decide on various design Ph.D. students as well. Semester supplements alternatives. The course will include various to this Bulletin contain specific description FallCSE 597: MS Internship Project on analytical techniques, mainly based on Markov when course is offered. may be repeated Campus models and queuing theory, and simulation for credit as the topic changes, but cannot Participation in internships at private modeling. be used more than twice to satisfy CSE corporations, public agencies, or non-profit Prerequisites: Limited to CSE graduate major requirements for M.S. Limited to CSE institutions. Students will be required to have students; others permission of instructor. graduate students; others, permission of a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor. outside organization to participate with them Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in regular consultations on the project, and to CSE 608: Advanced Computer Security etc.) submit a final report to both. This course is Advanced course on principles and May be repeated for credit. intended for MS students interning on campus. practice of engineering secure information 1 credit, S/U grading systems. Topics covered include threats and CSE 593: Independent Study in May be repeated for credit. vulnerabilities, counter measures, legal policy Computer Science issues, risk management and assurance. In- Research and/or project work under the CSE 599: M.S. Thesis Research depth coverage of various research problems, supervision of a Computer Science graduate Thesis research under supervision of CS which will vary from one offering of the program faculty. graduate program faculty for MS students. course to another. 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: CSE 508 or CSE 509 or May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. permission of instructor.

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Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Formal specification and verification of A-, B+, etc.) asynchronous systems. Topics include CSE 610: Parallel Computer May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. concurrent programming, process algebras, Architectures logics for describing the properties of Topics include parallel computer systems; CSE 620: Virtual Reality concurrent systems, and formal semantics of important parallel applications; parallel Practical issues in the design and communication. computation models; interconnection implementation of virtual environments. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) networks; SIMD and MIMD architectures; Topics include system requirements, hybrid architectures; memory management; transformations, user-interaction models, CSE 626: Switching and Routing in cache coherence; distributed shared memory; human vision models, input/output devices Parallel and Distributed Systems synchronization methods; operating systems; and techniques, tracking systems, augmented This course covers various switching and compilers; and programming tools. reality, and virtual-reality applications. The routing issues in parallel and distributed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course will involve a substantial programming systems. Topics include message switching project to implement an immersive virtual techniques, design of interconnection CSE 613: Parallel Programming reality system. networks, permutation, multicast and all-to- Algorithms and technique for programming 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) all routing in various networking nonblocking, highly parallel computers. Trends in parallel and rearrangable capability analysis and and distributed computing; shared address CSE 621: Physics-based Modeling for performance modeling. Visual Computing space and message passing architectures; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design issues for parallel algorithms; A unified approach to various fields such converting sequential algorithms into as graphics, visualization, computer-aided CSE 628: Natural Language equivalent parallel algorithms; synchronization geometric design, biomedical imaging, Processing and data sharing; improving performance of vision, and virtual environment. The course The course offers computationally-oriented parallel algorithms; interconnection network will explore select research topics centered introduction to natural language processing topologies, routing, and flow control; latency on physics-based modeling methodology (NLP). The focus is on modern quantitative limits on speedup of algorithms by parallel and associated computational methods techniques in NLP: algorithms and statistical implementations. for theoretical and practical problems in approaches to word-level, syntactic, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) widespread areas of visual computing. The semantic processing of natural language. emphasis will be on geometric and solid The choice of topics includes practically CSE 614: Advanced Programming modeling, geometric design techniques, motivated questions in NLP such as (1) can Languages wavelets and multi-resolution analysis, we teach computers to automatically detect Selected topics on advanced programming deformable models based on mathematical authorship of a document? (2) can computers languages technology. Program analysis and physics, variational analysis, optimization automatically suggest paraphrases (phrases transformation, program optimization and methods, numerical simulation with finite- with similar meaning) to help with writing? program manipulation systems. Very high- difference and finite-element2021 algorithms, Prerequisite: Familiarity with either Artificial level and declarative languages such as sets differential equations for initial-value and Intelligence or Machine Learning is strongly and relations based languages and deductive boundary-value problems, force-driven recommended, but not absolutely required. and object-oriented languages. interaction with constraints, dynamic sculpting Limited to CSE Graduate Students system, and a large variety of applications for Prerequisite: CSE 526 or CSE 504 Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, visual computing. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 633: Computability and CSE 615: Advanced Computer Vision CSE 624: Advanced Operating Undecidability Systems Survey of methods used for the analysis of Fall Computability theory based on Turing images by computer, including computer Students will study advanced operating system machines and recursive functions; proof by vision and pattern recognition. Topics to topics and be exposed to recent developments diagonalization and reducibility; unsolvable be covered are image formation, image in operating systems research. In addition to problems in set, group, number and language segmentation and edge detection, binary being conversant in classic and recent research theory; reducibility orderings and degrees images and shape analysis, shape from papers, this course aims to teach students of unsolvability; priority methods and Post's shading, motion field and optical flow, surface to read research papers critically, formulate problem. Prerequisite: CSE 540 or consent of inference, classification techniques. new research questions, and evaluate these instructor. questions experimentally. Topics to be covered 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) typically include: distributed systems, cloud CSE 617: Advanced Topics in Wireless computing and data centers, operating system CSE 638: Advanced Algorithms design, virtual machines, OS interaction with Networks This is an advanced course in the design and the hardware architecture, synchronization and analysis of combinatorial algorithms, focusing Advance topics taken from ad hoc wireless communication, file systems, and security. networks and sensor networks. Will comprise on recent material and special topics, including of lectures, presentations and/or a project. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) randomized algorithms, approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems, Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate CSE 625: Advanced Asynchronous string algorithms, amortized analysis of data students; others, permission of instruction. Systems structures, and heuristic methods such as

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 55 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 simulated annealing. Material will be selected Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate May be repeated for credit. to have little or no overlap with traditional students; others need instructor consent introductory algorithms courses. Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading CSE 670: Special Topics in Languages 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit.

CSE 639: Seminar in Advanced Topics CSE 657: Seminar in Design Analysis CSE 671: Special Topics in Artificial in Computer Science Methods for constructing reliable and Intelligence efficient computer systems. Topics include: May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. modeling and specification, analysis and CSE 641: Seminar in Logic in verification, design and optimization, code CSE 672: Special Topics in Image Computer Science generation, simulation and testing. Tool Processing support. Applications and case studies. May be repeated for credit. CSE 642: Seminar in Algorithms Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate students; others need instructor consent CSE 674: Special Topics in Operating May be repeated for credit. Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading Systems May be repeated for credit. CSE 643: Seminar in Concurrency May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 658: Seminar on Mobile and Wireless Networking CSE 677: Special Topics in User CSE 644: Seminar in Databases This seminar course will draw topics from Interfaces mobile and wireless networks of current May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. interest. The main focus will be multi-hop CSE 645: Seminar in Languages wireless networks. It will cover topics on CSE 681: Special Topics in Computer mobile routing, multiple access and transport Vision May be repeated for credit. protocols for such networks. It will also cover Advanced research topics course. topics from micromobility architectures and CSE 646: Seminar in Artificial Prerequisite: Limited to CSE graduate pervasive computing. Intelligence students; others need instructor consent Prerequisites: Limited to CSE graduate Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students; others permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. CSE 648: Seminar in Graphics Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 684: Special Topics in Computer Security CSE 659: Seminar in Computer CSE 649: Seminar in Operating Special topics course, covering selected Security Systems research areas in computer security. Seminar course, covering various research May be repeated for credit. 2021Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, problems in computer security. etc.) CSE 650: Seminar in Architecture Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 686: Special Topics in Data CSE 660: Seminar in Media Networks CSE 651: Seminar in Secure Privacy Computation Graduate seminar that covers recent work on Advanced research topics course. multimedia and networks. May be repeated for credit. Limited to CSE graduate students; others, FallFall, 1 credit, S/U grading permission of instructor. CSE 652: Seminar in User Interfaces May be repeated for credit. Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. CSE 661: Seminar in Data Privacy Current research in Data Privacy. CSE 687: Special Topics in Applied CSE 653: Seminar in Virtual Reality Limited to CSE graduate students; others, Cryptography May be repeated for credit. permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading CSE 654: Seminar in Visualization May be repeated for credit. CSE 690: Advanced Topics in May be repeated for credit. Computer Science CSE 662: Seminar in Medical Imaging An advanced lecture course on a new topics CSE 655: Seminar in Natural Language May be repeated for credit. in computer science. This course is primarily Processing designed for PhD students, but can be taken by May be repeated for credit. CSE 665: Special Topics in Theory of M.S. students as well. Semester supplements to Computing this Bulletin contain specific description when CSE 656: Seminar in Computer Vision May be repeated for credit. course is offered. May be repeated for credit Current readings in computer vision and image as the topic changes, but cannot be used more understanding. CSE 669: Special Topics in Databases than twice to satisfy CSE major requirements

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 56 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 for M.S. Limited to CSE graduate students; a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the in their home country are not covered by others permission of instructor outside organization to participate with them mandatory health plan and must contact the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in regular consultations on the project, and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to etc.) to submit a final report to both. This course be removed. International students who are May be repeated for credit. is intended for PhD students interning off not in their home country are charged for the campus. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be CSE 691: Advanced Topics in 1-3 credits, S/U grading covered by another insurance plan they must Computer Science May be repeated for credit. file a waiver be second week of classes. The An advanced course on a new topic in charge will only be removed if other plan is computer science. This course is primarily CSE 697: PhD Internship Project On deemed comparable. designed for Ph.D. students, but can be Campus All international students must received taken by M.S. students as well. Semester Participation in internships at private clearance from an International Advisor. supplements to this Bulletin contain specific corporations, public agencies, or non-profit Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading description when course is offered. may be institutions. Students will be required to have May be repeated for credit. repeated for credit as the topic changes, but a faculty coordinator as well as a contact in the cannot be used more than twice to satisfy outside organization to participate with them CSE 800: FT SUMMER RESEARCH CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to in regular consultations on the project, and May be repeated for credit. CSE graduate students; others permission of to submit a final report to both. This course instructor. is intended for PhD students interning on Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, campus. CSM etc.) 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Center for Science and Mathematics Education CSE 692: Advanced Topics in CSE 698: Practicum in Teaching Computer Science Supervised teaching in a course identified by CSM 510: Biology Education Research: An advanced lecture course on a new topic the student and the Graduate Program Director. Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in computer science. This course is primarily 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to core policy documents, designed for Ph.D. students, but can be May be repeated for credit. standards, concepts, and empirical methods taken by M.S. students as well. Semester in biology education research and their supplements to this Bulletin contain specific CSE 699: Dissertation Research on applications to undergraduate classroom description when course is offered. may be Campus settings. Appropriate for graduate students in repeated for credit as the topic changes, but Thesis research for PhD students who have the biological sciences and/or those enrolled in cannot be used more than twice to satisfy advanced to candidacy (G5 status). This course the Ph.D. Program in Science Education. CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to is taken by students when a major portion of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE graduate students; others permission of the research is done on campus,2021 at Cold Spring instructor. Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Lab. CSM 545: The Nature of Science Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 1-9 credits, S/U grading The nature of science refers to the values and etc.) May be repeated for credit. assumptions inherent in the development, May be repeated for credit. understanding and interpretation of scientific CSE 700: Dissertation Research off knowledge. Scientific knowledge is CSE 693: Advanced Topics in Campus - Domestic empirically based, culturally embedded, Computer Science Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy tentative, and incorporates subjectivity An advanced lecture course on a new topic in (G5). Major portion of research will take place and creativity. This course will address Computer Science. This course is primarily Fall the following: What is science? What off-campus, but in the United States and/ designed for Ph.D. students, but can be or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven distinguishes science from other ways of taken by M.S. students as well. Semester National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab knowing or as being basic science, applied supplements to this Bulletin contain specific are considered on-campus. All international science or technology? What philosophical, description when course is offered. May be students must enroll in one of the graduate social, ethical and historical perspectives repeated for credit as the topic changes, but student insurance plans and should be advised are important in understanding the nature of cannot be used more than twice to satisfy by an International Advisor. science? CSE major requirements for M.S. Limited to Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE graduate students; others permission of May be repeated for credit. instructor. CSM 546: Topics Biotechnology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSE 701: Dissertation Research off An introduction to the field of biotechnology. May be repeated for credit. Campus - International The course will survey the history of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy the development of genetic engineering, CSE 696: PhD Internship Project Off- (G5). Major portion of research will take methodologies used in biotechnology, Campus place outside of the United States and/or applications of biotechnology in medicine, Participation in internships at private U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the agriculture and manufacturing, and the corporations, public agencies, or non-profit option of the health plan and may also enroll implications of these technologies for institutions. Students will be required to have in MEDEX. International students who are society. Intended for the students in the

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MAT Science and MALS programs. This The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has An examination of the interactions of living course has an associated fee. Please see become an indispensable tool in biology. organisms with their physical and biological www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more PCR has revolutionized our approach to environments. Special attention is given to information. Offered medical diagnostics, basic research, and population dynamics and the interactions Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, forensic applications. This laboratory and among organisms that determine the structure, etc.) lecture course is designed to teach a solid function, and evolutionary development of theoretical and practical framework for PCR, biological communities. In addition, teacher CSM 547: Topics in Genetics including primer and application protocol candidates will conduct an independent A survey of genetics organized around a design, trouble-shooting, and interpretation of project consisting of either a research paper particular topic, including gene regulation, results. or development of an ecology laboratory for a developmental genetics, cancer genetics, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) secondary school science class. epigenetics with emphasis on areas with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emerging new insight. The methodology used CSM 552: Current Concepts in to study these areas will also be explored. Neurobiology CSM 557: Forensic Science Intended for students in the MAT Biology and Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's Forensic science is focused upon the PhD Science Education programs. and Alzheimer's have been the center of application of scientific methods and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) much media attention recently. This lecture techniques to crime and law. In this course, and laboratory course is designed to provide scientific methods specifically relevant to CSM 548: Current Topics in students with a basic overview of the brain and crime detection and analysis will be presented. Microbiology nervous system. Course participants will also Emphasis is placed upon understanding A survey of microbiology with an emphasis on utilize current approaches taken by research the science behind the techniques used in microbial ecology, the role of microbes in the scientists to investigate the properties of the evaluating physical evidence. Science MAT biosphere and the methodology used to explore nervous system and its disorders. Laboratory students or permission of the instructor. these areas. The course is organized around activities that can be used in secondary school 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) two resources available online: Unseen Life curricula will be emphasized. Prerequisite: on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology, Undergraduate degree in Biology CSM 560: Life Sciences for Grades 5-8 which was produced by The American Society 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This is an integrated lab/lecture course for Microbiology (http://www.learner.org/ designed to increase confidence and resources/series121.html) and the New CSM 553: Biology and Human Social enthusiasm while building fundamental York State core curriculum for The Living and Sexual Behavior knowledge of middle-level science teaching Environment (http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/ A biological theory of human uniqueness and learning in the Life Sciences. Topics mst/sci/ls.html) . Intended for the students is presented and explored through the include chemical basis of life (biochemistry), in the MAT Science and MALS programs. examination of empirical evidence from cell structure and function, vital life process This course has an associated fee. Please see a mulitidisciplinary prospective including (respiration and photosynthesis), genetics, www.stonybrook.edu/course fees for more insights from ethnology, human2021 social and evolution and ecology. This course includes information. sexual behavior, evolutionary biology, history, standards-based curriculum design and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) economics, the humanities and political research-based teaching strategies as well as science. hands on laboratory experiences. It focuses CSM 549: Laboratory Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on developing and presenting inquiry-based Curriculum Development lessons designed to encourage students Development of curriculum materials CSM 554: Current Topics in to investigate science using educational appropriate for a secondary school biology Immunology technologies to support science lessons, classroom. Students may take this course in This is a comprehensive course in integrated other subject matter areas with their second semester of the Master of Arts in FallImmunology designed to be taught to science, designing differentiated lesson that Teaching Science program. secondary school teachers and it will address include all students in learning science, and assessing student understanding of science and 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the new living environment curriculum the nature of science. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. standards for Immunology. The proposed course will combine lectures in Immunology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSM 550: Independent Study in with practical laboratory exercises. Laboratory Biology activities will be provided that can be modified CSM 562: Chemistry for the Pre-High School Teacher A research project or body of readings will be for secondary school education. Emphasis selected with an instructor. It is expected that will be made on recent developments in This course provides participants with the participants will gain current information in a Immunology and the essential role of the necessary chemistry content needed to teach topic of interest with applicability to middle immune system in protection from infections physical science applications at the upper school or high school curriculum. Prerequisite: and cancer. Concepts to be covered include elementary and middle school levels. The New Permission of instructor how the immune system distinquishes York State Science and Learning Standards self from non-self, how it handles various (NYSSLS) are utilized to provide a structure 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pathogens and why it sometimes fails. for the topics that teachers are required to CSM 551: Polymerase Chain Reaction: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) teach within the new standards. In addition, the Theory and Practice science and engineering practices and cross- CSM 556: Ecology cutting concepts addressed in NYSSLS are integrated within the discussion of chemistry

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 58 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 content. During each lesson, chemical safety Introduction to the major theoretical CSM 699: Dissertation Research on requirements are addressed and discussed. This frameworks and paradigms in societal issues Campus course is designed to provide teachers with (gender, culture, and diversity). Students will Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy chemistry content required for the disciplinary be required to critique research papers in the (G5); major portion of the research will take core ideas of the NYSSLS standards through field and will conduct a literature review in place on SB campus, at Cold Spring Harbor; integration of activities, hands on learning and their general thesis area. or at Brookhaven National Lab. Semesters reading assignments. Offered offered: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. CSM 599: Graduate Research in Science Education CSM 635: Qualitative Research CSM 700: Dissertation Research Off Research to be supported by a faculty member Methods in Science Education Campus-Domestic in the Program in Science Education. Introduction to qualitative research methods in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Prerequisite: Permission required. science education including a) its purposes, b) (GS); major portion of the research will Fall, 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, data collection techniques, c) methods of data take place off Campus, but in U.S. and/or etc.) analysis, and d) preparing appropriate research U.S. provinces.All international students May be repeated for credit. reports. must enroll in one of the graduate student 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) insurance plans and should be advised by an CSM 600: History and Philosophy of International Advisor. Science Education CSM 640: Directed Study in Science Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Education An introduction to the history of the field of May be repeated for credit. science education and the related philosophical In their fifth semester students will underpinnings. The course will survey the individually complete a directed study with a CSM 701: Dissertation Research Off major events, ideas and philosophies and how faculty advisor. The intent of this course is to Campus-International these have changed over time. Particular focus prepare the students for the doctoral qualifying Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy will be on the time period from 1890 to the examination and assist them in refining their (GS). Major portion of research will take present day. research topics. place outside of the United States and/or Offered Offered U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, Letter graded (A, option of the health plan and may also enroll A-, B+, etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are CSM 610: The Nature and Practice of May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by Science mandatory health plan and must contact the An overview of the nature and practice of CSM 645: Introduction to Quantitative Insurance Office for the insurance charge to be science through the analysis of current issues Research Methods removed. International students who are not in in science. Through the extensive use of This course will provide doctoral2021 student with their home case studies, students will address questions an introduction to various quantitative research country are charged for the mandatory such as: What is science? What distinguishes methods (non-experimental, experimental, health insurance (if they are to be covered science from other ways of knowing? and quasi-experimental designs) and the by another insurance plan they must file a What standards of evidence and scientific corresponding data analysis/statistical waiver be second week of classes. The charge explanations, processes, and conventions procedures used for conducting empirical will only be removed if other plan is deemed are used in science? What philosophical, research in science education. Appropriate comparable); all international students must social, ethical, and historical perspectives are statistical analysis associated with each receive clearance from an International important in understanding science? research method will be discussed and SPSS Advisor. Fallassignments included. Students will develop Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Offered Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, a research proposal for a peer reviewed May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) conference of journal. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) CSM 620: Science Teacher Education CST CSM 650: Introduction to Measurement Introduction to the historical, philosophical Cultural Studies and pedagogical issues surrounding science and Assessment in Science Education teacher education. Introduction to the nature CSM 650: Introduction to Measurement and CST 502: Theories in Cultural Studies of the research that has been conducted on Assessment in Science Education. 3 Credits. teacher education in the past and current Introduction to core standards, concepts, This course examines the role of theory in the trends. and empirical methods in educational practice of cultural studies. 3 credits. Offered measurement and assessment; introduction 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, to the development, use, and evaluation of May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. etc.) measurement instruments in science education. Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring CST 510: History of Cultural Studies CSM 630: Science Education Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will examine the intellectual and Seminar May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. disciplinary stakes of raising the question, "what is Cultural Studies?" The intention is

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 59 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 not so much to define Cultural Studies as to CST 690: Directed Readings for mandatory health plan and must contact the study the polemics and histories that sparked Doctoral Candidates Insurance Office for the insurance charge to its delineations. A student and faculty member agree on a be removed. International students who are Offered Fall/ corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly not in their home country are charged for the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be mandatory health insurance. If they are to be etc.) filed with the program's form before the add/ covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. file a waiver be second week of classes. The charge will only be removed if other plan is Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading CST 597: Directed Readings for M.A. deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. Students All international students must received A student and faculty member agree on a CST 696: Self-Directed Readings clearance from an International Advisor. corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly For doctoral students who have completed Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be all course requirements and wish to dedicate May be repeated for credit. filed with the program's form before the add/ themselves to full or part-time preparation for CST 800: SUMMER RESEARCH drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. the Comprehensive Examination. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. CST 850: SUMMER TEACHING CST 598: Thesis Research CST 698: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. Research and writing of M.A. thesis The course is divided into two parts: one half supervised by faculty advisor. is normally given in the fall, one in the spring. Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading The first part deals primarily with matters of CWL May be repeated for credit. pedagogy. The second part is designed to help students plan their own undergraduate courses. Creative Writing and Literature CST 599: Independent Study The practicum is required of all students CWL 500: Introduction to Graduate A student and faculty member agree on a topic during their first year. Writing not offered in any seminars and a reading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A seminar that introduces students to one list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A final research paper or major annotated another, the faculty, the program in Writing bibliography will be required. The syllabus CST 699: Dissertation Research on and Literature, and to issues in contemporary must be filed with the program's form before Campus writing. Offered in conjunction with the Writers Reading Series. Students will attend the add/drop period ends. May be repeated for Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). credit. Only three credits of Independent Study the regular series of readings sponsored by the A portion of dissertation research must take can be counted toward the M.A. requirements, Writing program and meet at weekly intervals place on SBU campus. and a maximum of six toward the Ph.D 2021under the direction of a faculty advisor to Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Offered discuss and write about topics raised in the grading lecture series, as well as issues generated from Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. seminar discussions. A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. CST 700: Dissertation Research off Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded Campus - Domestic (A, A-, B+, etc.) CST 609: Advanced Topics in Cultural Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Studies CWL 510: Forms of Fiction (G5). Major portion of research will take place A variable topics seminar in Cultural Studies. Regular submission, discussion, and analysis Falloff-campus, but in the United States and/ of students' work in one or more of the modes 3 Credits, Letter graded (A,A-,B+,etc.) Course or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven of fiction, including the short story, the may be repeated as topics vary. Semesters National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Offered: Fall and Spring novella, and the novel. Writing assignments are considered on-campus. All international may include exercises, imitations, responses, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students must enroll in one of the graduate and original work. Students will examine May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised relevant works that illustrate point of view, by an International Advisor. CST 680: Cultural Studies Research character development, dialogue, plot, setting, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Seminar theme, motif, and other aspects of fiction. May be repeated for credit. Specific mode or topic to be studied will be In addition to readings on issues, debates, and announced in the course schedule. problems within the profession and field of CST 701: Dissertation Research off Cultural Studies students will develop research Campus - International Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or departmental consent for publication while engaging with practices Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy of professionalization. Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (G5). Major portion of research will take (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered Fall/ place outside of the United States and/or May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the etc.) option of the health plan and may also enroll CWL 520: Forms of Poetry May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. in MEDEX. International students who are in their home country are not covered by

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Regular submission, discussion, and analysis Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or simultaneously being exposed to the work of of students' work in one or more of the modes departmental consent others in varying genres. Regular writing is of poetry. Writing assignments may include Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, required, and vigorous analysis and discussion exercises, imitations, responses, and original etc.) are encouraged. Strongly recommended for work. Students will examine relevant works May be repeated for credit. students preparing for the thesis. that illustrate structural principles, metrical and Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded CWL 550: Forms of Professional and syntactical rhythm, sound and rhyme, formal (A, A-, B+, etc.) Scientific Writing and stanzaic organization, the use of figurative May be repeated for credit. language, and other aspects of poetry. Regular submission, discussion, and analysis Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or of students' work in one or more of the CWL 575: Writers Conference Program Director contemporary modes of professional writing, The Southampton Writers Conference Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded including technological writing, writing is an intensive program of workshops in (A, A-, B+, etc.) about science, and writing for advertising, contemporary writing that includes lectures, May be repeated for credit. business, and public relations, as well as for readings, workshops, and panels featuring governmental, educational, and professional nationally distinguished authors who join CWL 530: Forms of Scriptwriting organizations. Writing assignments may the department's summer faculty. Graduate Regular submission, discussion, and analysis include exercises, imitations, responses, and students in the program will assist in planning of students' work in one or more of the original work. Students will examine relevant and running the Conference, and will have contemporary modes of scriptwriting, works that illustrate the strategies available in the option of taking a Conference workshop including writing for film, theater, radio, modern professional communication. Specific for credit. The Writers Conference will also and television. Writing assignments may mode or topic to be studied will be announced encourage participation by visiting students include exercises, imitations, responses, and in the course schedule. ¿ new writers, established writers, teachers of original work. Students will examine relevant Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or writing and editors ¿ who will be admitted by works that illustrate point of view, character departmental consent application and may receive academic credit development, dialogue, plot, setting, and other Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded upon request. techniques vital to scriptwriting. Specific mode (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or topic to be studied will be announced in the May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. course schedule. CWL 560: Topics in Literature for Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or CWL 580: Practicum in Arts Writers departmental consent Administration Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded A seminar for writers concentrating on the Practicum in Arts Administration Under the (A, A-, B+, etc.) study of one area of literary study, to be guidance of a faculty advisor, students will May be repeated for credit. announced in the course schedule. The course learn the essentials of Arts administration. may examine a contemporary or historical This may include assisting in the coordination CWL 535: Writing in Multiple Genres trend in literature, the rise 2021of a specific genre, of reading and lecture series, conference Regular submission, discussion, and analysis a social issue expressed in literature, an organization, or other writing and arts of students' work in two or more genres of issue in literary theory, or any other topic of administration activities. 1-4 Credits. May be creative writing. Topics include Truth and relevance and concern to students of writing. repeated for credit Prerequisites: Permission of Humor; Three Characters in Search of an The emphasis will be on scholarly analysis. instructor and program director SEMESTER: Author; Imagining What You Know; What Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded On Demand We Write About When We Write About (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Love; Fiction, Fact and the Heart of the Story; May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Writing about Place; Writing Everything; and Writing on Location. Semesters Offered: Fall FallCWL 565: Special Topics in Writing CWL 581: Practicum in Teaching & Spring Campus: Manhattan & Southampton A seminar concentrating on a specific topic Writing 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or concern in writing. The particular theme Students take the seminar in conjunction with May be repeated for credit. of the course will be announced in the course teaching a section of first year composition. schedule. Topics may include, among others, This course provides hands-on experience and CWL 540: Forms of Creative Nonfiction studies of character development, the uses instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of humor, writing about place, finding one's including designing writing assignments, of students' work in one or more of the voice, and narrative style. Written work will be sequencing assignments, motivating writing, contemporary fields of non-fiction writing, supported by the reading of related texts. writing skill development and evaluating including biography, autobiography, memoir, Offered Fall, Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded writing. Students will also be given a expository writing, and social commentary. (A, A-, B+, etc.) preliminary overview of the major theories Writing assignments may include exercises, May be repeated for credit. driving composition pedagogy. 3 Credits. imitations, responses, and original work. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and Students will examine relevant works that CWL 570: Advanced Writing Workshop program director SEMESTER: On Demand illustrate the methods and techniques available The focus is on work in progress and the 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the non-fiction writer. Specific mode or extension of the manuscript. The workshop May be repeated for credit. topic to be studied will be announced in the is open to students interested in any form course schedule. of writing. Students are encouraged to CWL 582: Practicum in Publishing and pursue their own writing interests while Editing

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Under the guidance of the faculty advisor, Independent reading, writing, research on medicine, engineering and communications, students will be exposed to the hands-on topics or problems related to work on the MFA as well as to change our understanding process of editing and publishing a literary Thesis. of physical world. The course will build journal. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and/or intuitive approach to quantum computation Offered Fall, Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded program director and algorithms, but also will advance relevant (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, S/U grading vocabulary and skills for faculties and May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. graduate students in engineering, computing, applied mathematics, chemistry, physics and CWL 588: Independent Study related sciences. The key questions of the Independent studies in topics chosen by the DAN quantum computing will be introduced. How to describe quantum systems and quantum student are arranged through an individual Dance instructor. operations? What is a quantum computer and what are the limits of quantum power? 1-6 credits, S/U grading DAN 501: Yoga and Somatics What is the difference between classical and May be repeated for credit. A practicum in the ancient Indian philosophy quantum computation? Quantum teleportation? CWL 599: Thesis of yoga approached from the somatic Quantum entanglement and supersposition? perspective of equally conditioning the How to mitigate errors and decoherence Every student in the M.F.A. program in physical, psychical, and discriminating and transmit information through noisy Writing must complete a thesis that is a mental body. Moments of harmonious action channels? What are business applications publishable, book-length work. It may be within the human system will be investigated and engineering challenges of the quantum fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or a script for the through the physical challenges of Hatha computers? What are the gains in running visual media. It may be a collection of short Yoga. Participants will learn dynamic quantum vs. classical algorithms? What are pieces. Its subject matter may be scientific movement sequences, static poses, and the physical principles of the current quantum or literary. It may be business-oriented or breathing techniques, as they relate to the computers hardware and what are technology academic. The thesis is judged solely on the varied historical lineages from India. The requirements for realistic quantum computers? quality of its intelligence and its writing. Every student will gain experiential knowledge of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student will, with the assistance of the program yoga as used for healing pain, improving body director, choose a thesis supervisor to provide image through somatic awareness, prevention DCS 521: Introduction to guidance and criticism in the completion of of mental and physical disease, muscular Computational and Data Science the project. At the same time that the thesis control, and as training to balance strenth and This course provides a foundation of supervisor is chosen, the program director flexibility. Although the course will focus will also guide the student in the selection knowledge and basic skills for the successful primarily on the physical experience, related application in graduate research of modern of a thesis committee, which will consist texts will be used to contextualize modern of the thesis supervisor, one other member techniques in computational and data science practices and familiarize the student with the relevant to engineering, the humanities, and of the faculty in Writing, and one outside extent of varied methodologies available. reader knowledgeable in the student's field of 2021the physical, life and social sciences. It is interest. Progress toward the completion of the Offered Fall and consciously crafted to provide a rich, project- thesis will be reviewed not only by the thesis Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, oriented, multidisciplinary experience that supervisor but also by members of the thesis etc.) establishes a common vocabulary and skill committee, at which point student will submit set. Centered around the popular programming DAN 568: Dance Improvisation a bound copy of the thesis to the department. 1 language Python, the course will serve as an - 9 Credits. The practice and movement investigation introduction to programming including data through discipline, spontaneity, and awareness. structures, algorithms, numerical methods, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Skills in improvisation will be developed basic concepts in computer architecture, May be repeated for credit. Fallthrough creative projects and experiments in and elements of object-oriented design. CWL 600: Post MFA Creative Writing dance. Also introduced will be important concepts Fellow Prerequisite: DAN 165, 166, or 167 and tools associated with the analysis and management of data, both big and small, CWL 600 provides students who have Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including basic statistical modeling in R, successfully completed the MFA in Creative aspects of machine learning and data mining, Writing and Literature degree requirements data management, and visualization. No access to an intellectual community of writers. DCS previous computing experience is assumed. Participants will be allowed to participate in Students are assumed to have taken some one workshop or course per semester on a Data and Computational introductory courses in two of these three space available basis. The program office will Science math subjects: linear algebra, calculus, and communicate with enrollees prior to the start probability. of the semester the workshops and courses DCS 501: Quantum Computing and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) available. Applications S/U grading This course is an introduction to and survey DCS 522: Introduction to Scientific May be repeated for credit. of the Quantum Computing, an emerging Programming in C++ interdisciplinary field of science which has the CWL 800: Summer Research This course provides students with potential to revolutionize computation over foundational skills and knowledge in the next ten years, to transform chemistry, practical scientific programming relevant

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 62 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 for scientists and engineers. The primary using WinBUGS and JAGS as accessed via This course explores theoretical and language is C + + since it is a widely - the R packages R2WinBUGS and R2jags, methodological issues in the study of used, object-oriented language, includes respectively. human social activity and its relationship C as a subset, and is a powerful tool for 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to ecological systems and the environment. writing robust, complex, high-performance Readings include both classic studies as well software. Elements of Python, Bash, and other DCS 572: Geophysical Simulation as contemporary research, with particular languages will be introduced to complement Basic equations and boundary conditions. emphasis placed on the various dimensions the capabilities of C++, and essential tools Linear and nonlinear instabilities. Finite and scales of social organization and activity, for software development and engineering difference and time integration techniques and on the role of cultural, religious, and will be employed throughout the course for problems in geophysical fluid dynamics. political institutions in shaping ecological (e.g. makefiles, version control, online code Numerical design of global atmospheric and relationship as well as economic behavior. repositories, debugging, etc.). ocean models. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) DPA 503: Social Organization DCS 525: Fundamentals of Computing DCS 581: Phase Transformations This course explores theoretical models Introduction to several modern approaches Thermodynamics and kinetics of solid and empirical observations of human social for developing computer programs state phase transformations. Mathematical organization in a comparative perspective, and their use to to solve mathematical formulation of equilibrium conditions and including such topics as demography and problems. It will cover the fundamentals of application to multicomponent homogenous/ behavioral ecology, kinship and marriage, programming in MATLAB, Python, and C/C heterogeneous systems using chemical reciprocal exchange, and political dimensions ++, including scripting, basic data structures, potential surfaces and free energy diagrams. of resource mobilization in small-scale as algorithms, scientific computing, performance Common tangent construction involving well as complex societies. Organized around optimization, software engineering and multiphase equilibria and miscibility different layers of human sociality, the program development tools. No previous gaps. Kinetics of phase transformations course examines social dependence among programming experience is required. This is including classical nucleation theory followed humans and nonhuman primates, evolutionary a project-based, 3-credit course. Homework by diffusion and diffusionless growth explanations for human mating strategies, projects will focus on using computation mechanisms. cooperation in child-rearing, paradigms of to solve mathematical problems (e.g. linear descent and affinity, and the dynamics of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algebra and differential equations), data hierarchy and alliance in egalitarian cultures as management, data analysis, etc. DCS 697: Computational Linguistics 2 well as stratified states. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to the theoretical foundation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of computational linguistics. The course DCS 544: Computational Methods in DPA 505: Vertebrate Paleontology & emphasizes the importance of algorithms, Physics and Astrophysics Paleoecology of the Turkana Basin algebra, logic, and formal language theory in An introduction to procedural and object- the development of new tools2021 and software Vertebrate fossils are important sources of oriented programming in a high-level language applications. Empirical phenomena in information about the appearance, evolution, such as C++ or modern Fortran with examples phonology and syntax are sampled from a and extinction of major organisms. As and assignments consisting of rudimentary variety of languages to motivate and illustrate such, they provide a valuable window onto algorithms for problems in physics and the use of concepts such as strictly local string changes in climate and selection pressures, astronomy. Students will use the UNIX/ languages, tree transducers, and semirings. and organisms' diverse adaptive responses to Linux operating system to write programs and Students will develop familiarity with the these changes. They are also significant in manage data, and the course will include an literature and tools of the field. placing hominid discoveries within a relative introduction to parallel computing and good local chronology, and helping reconstruct 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) programming practices such as version control Fall environments associated with hominid and verification. The course will prepare fluids. This course acquaints students with students for courses in algorithms and methods laboratory and field methods of paleontology that assume a knowledge of programming. DPA employed in different chronological contexts 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Doctoral Program in of the Turkana Basin, used to solve diverse Anthropological Sciences theoretical questions. Graded work includes DCS 569: Bayesian Data Analysis and fieldwork and lab assignments, independent Computation DPA 501: Development of research assignments, quizzes and a final An applied course in Bayesian data analysis Anthropological Theory exam. Semesters offered- Fall and Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and and hierarchical modeling for advanced Survey of the development of anthropological recitation. graduate students in Ecology& Evolution theory from the 19th century to the present. or related sciences. Topics will include This course is offered as both ANT 501 and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) probability theory, Bayesian analysis, and DPA 501. MCMC methods such as Gibbs sampling and DPA 509: Seminar in European Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Metropolis-Hastings sampling, as well as Ethnography etc.) applied issues regarding the choice of prior Investigation and discussion of selected topics distributions, posterior convergence, censored DPA 502: Social Ecology and problems concerning European societies and missing data, and model checking and and cultures. The perspectives of culture comparison. The course will be taught history and current fieldwork are employed.

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This course is offered as both ANT 509 and conduct a research project on a human An introduction to the study of animal bones DPA 509. skeleton. Prerequisites: Previous course in from archaeological sites. Special emphasis Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading human or vertebrate anatomy and permission is on identification of fragmented bone, May be repeated for credit. of instructor. Alternate years, 4 credits, Letter identification of bone surface modification, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) calculation of indexes of abundance, and DPA 511: Paleolithic Archaeology 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measurement and metrical analysis of mammal A survey of the archaeological record of May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. bone. Computer analysis is stressed, and the foraging peoples in Africa, Europe, and class seeks to synthesize traditional archaeo- Asia prior to the emergence of agriculture. DPA 515: Theory and Method in zoology and actualistic studies. This course is The course emphasizes particular problems Archaeology offered as both ANT 519 and DPA 519. including the relationship between behavioral Theoretical and methodological approaches Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and biological change, different adaptive employed in archaeology. The goals of the B+, etc.) strategies in temperate and tropical zones, the course are to provide an historical perspective origins of modern humans, and the emergence on the growth of theory and method in DPA 520: Principles of Social and of complex hunter-gatherer societies. This archaeology and to examine in detail some Cultural Anthropology course is offered as both ANT 511 and DPA of the pertinent research topics being studied Concepts and principles of social and cultural 511. today. This course is offered as both ANT 515 anthropology; historical background, structure Prerequisite: Any other archaeology course. and DPA 515. and function, social processes, transactions, Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) culture, communication, continuity, and other change; topics and problems of contemporary DPA 512: Comparative Civilizations DPA 516: Research Design in interest. Some ethnographic monographs are A comparative study of the processes of Archaeology discussed in terms of their relevance to the sociocultural evolution from the beginnings An examination of the ways in which general concepts and principles treated in the of sedentary life to the achievement of early archaeologists develop successful research seminar. This course is offered as both ANT civilization in the Near East, Egypt, the strategies for arriving at answers to the key 520 and DPA 520. Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica, and the questions in the field. Students will analyze Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Andean area. The seminar covers such topics grant proposals that received funding from as urbanization, demography, irrigation, the major sources of funding for archaeology DPA 525: Research Areas in craft specialization, militarism, and trade and before developing research proposals of their Anthropological Sciences exchange. This course is offered as both ANT own. The aim of the course is to provide the An overview of the current research areas of 512 and DPA 512. class with the skills needed to plan their future the Anthropological Sciences as represented Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission and compete successfully for funding both for in the IDPAS. All first-year students of of instructor their thesis research and in their future careers. Anthropological Sciences are expected to Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded participate. Semesters Offered: Fall Grading: etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021S/U 0-2 credits, S/U grading DPA 513: Origins of Agriculture DPA 517: Primitive Technology May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. This course will trace the history of An introduction to the technology of anthropological thought on the origins of hunter-gatherers. The course examines how DPA 526: The Use of Remote Sensing agriculture and will assess the evidence from archaeologists use both ethnographic and and GIS in Environmental Analysis the Old and New worlds for this economic experimentation to shed light on prehistoric An introduction to the use of aerial and revolution. The course will not only explore human technological adaptations. Techniques satellite imagery in environmental analysis and areas where early agriculture is evidenced, but for making and using primitive tools are the manipulation of geographic data sets of all will also contrast these areas with those where Fallpracticed in weekly laboratory sessions. types using Geographic Information Systems. agriculture was a later development. Emphasis Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded This course is designed to teach students will be on the environmental, technological, (A, A-, B+, etc.) in archaeology, physical anthropology, biological, social, and cultural processes May be repeated for credit. and related disciplines, how satellite associated with the "Neolithic Revolution." imagery combined with various maps can be This course is offered as both ANT 513 and DPA 518: Lithic Technology manipulated using GIS software to perform DPA 513. A detailed overview of the methods powerful geographic analysis. Although Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) archaeologists use to extract behavioral students are eventually likely to use these information from prehistoric stone tools. tools in many different parts of the world, this DPA 514: Human Osteology The course examines raw material economy, course focuses on Long Island as a research A detailed study of the anatomy of the technological strategies, tool use, and discard area, and each student designs and completes human skeleton with special emphasis on behavior. Analytical methods are practiced a research project on a particular section of the interpretation of skeletal remains from through the computer-assisted analysis of stone the area, focusing on the habitats of local archaeological contexts. Consideration is tools from simulated archaeological sites. wildlife, the locations of archaeological sites, coastal regimes, etc. This course presumes given to the growth, structure, and function Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, computer literacy and familiarity with database of bones, and to forensic aspects such as etc.) the determination of age, sex, stature, and management. Offered as ANT 526 and DPA pathology from skeletal remains. Students DPA 519: Archaeozoology 526 or HPH 658.

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Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, planning, presenting, and reviewing research. and physiology of muscle as it relates to etc.) Offered as both ANT 550 and DPA 550. adaptations of the musculoskeletal system. Fall, even years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, This course is offered as both HBA 563 and DPA 527: Field Methods and A-, B+, etc.) DPA 563. Techniques in Archaeology Prerequisites: Introductory physics and The course will be held during the summer DPA 559: Archaeology of Food biology or permission of instructor. only. It consists of field and laboratory work Explores the archaeological study of food Spring, odd years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, on an aspect of Long Island's archaeological and foodways. The emphasis is on the social A-, B+, etc.) heritage. Students' time is divided between aspects of food, particularly its roles in surveying and excavation in the field and past power structures, social relationships, DPA 564: Primate Evolution artifact analysis in the laboratory. Such conceptions of identity, ritual practices, and The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary techniques as map and air photo reading, gender roles. Also covers the theoretical and history of primates as documented by their survey, instruments, stratigraphy, conservation, methodological approaches archaeologists use fossil record and structural and chemical typology construction, etc. are taught. to study food in the past. evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the Students are exposed to the full range of Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded origin of the human lineage. This course is excavation, survey, and laboratory methods (A, A-, B+, etc.) offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. and techniques. This course is offered as both Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, ANT 527 and DPA 527. DPA 560: Ancient Mesopotamia A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission An examination of the cultural history of of instructor Mesopotamia based on the archaeological, DPA 565: Human Evolution Summer, even years, 3-9 credits, Letter graded textual and art historical record. Focusing A survey of the fossil record of hominid (A, A-, B+, etc.) on the fourth through second millennia, evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene this course investigates both the long term with emphasis on the morphological structure DPA 536: Advanced Biostatistics and developmental process of this civilization, and function of locomotor, masticatory, Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and ways to understand its settlement and neural systems. Includes utilization of The course will give an overview of systems, urban structure, social and political comparative anatomical material and an fundamental biostatistical approaches in R. organization, economic structure and the role extensive cast collection. This course is offered The first 6 courses give students in-depth played by religion. as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. knowledge about developing quantitative Fall, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter graded Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, research designs using standard parametric, (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) non-parametric and data reduction analyses in R. The next 8 courses introduce phylogenetic DPA 561: Peasant Societies and DPA 566: Studies in Functional comparative analyses, including approached Cultures Morphology to account for phylogenetic relatedness in The concept of peasantry is examined from Introduction to the theory and methods of standard parametric tests and ways to infer political, religious, and social2021 class viewpoints functional morphology. Various methods of the evolutionary history of traits using rate as well as from the more traditional economic analysis and the application of experimental analysis. Students are expected to become view. These agricultural peoples, who are techniques such as electromyography or bone proficient in R programming. The course will essentially preliterate and preindustrial, are strain analysis are discussed as they pertain to involve substantial preparation and included 10 described and analyzed especially in relation the understanding of the interaction between take-home assignments. to the national societies of which they form a form and function. Special emphasis is placed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) part. This course is offered as both ANT 561 on the analysis of human and nonhuman May be repeated for credit. and DPA 561. primate morphology, and the application of this analysis to interpretation of the fossil DPA 541: Evolutionary Anatomy Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall evidence for human and nonhuman primate etc.) A lecture and laboratory with emphasis on evolution. This course is offered as both HBA dissection of the entire human body. Includes DPA 562: Long Island Archaeology 566 and DPA 566. functional and comparative anatomy with Life on Long Island and the surrounding Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. special emphasis on the musculoskeletal area from its first settlement by Native Spring, even years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, morphology of humans and higher primates. Americans 12,000 years ago until the end of A-, B+, etc.) This course is offered as both DPA 541 and the nineteenth century. Trends and changes in HBA 541. human behavior are studied in the context of DPA 567: Primate Behavior and Prerequisite: permission of instructor environmental and cultural processes affecting Ecology Fall, 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) all of northeastern North America. A comparative approach to the behavior and ecology of living lemurs, monkeys, and DPA 550: Theory and Methodology in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, apes. Emphasis is placed on sociobiological Primatology etc.) theory; life history strategies; morphological Comprehensive overview of the theory and DPA 563: Aspects of Animal adaptations; comparisons of primate methodology used in the study of primate Mechanics communities in Asia, Africa, Madagascar, and behavioral ecology. Includes ecological field An introduction to biomechanics. Covers South America; and primate conservation. This methods, behavioral observations, analytical freebody mechanics and kinetics as applied to course is offered as both ANT 567 and DPA techniques, nonparametric statistics as well as vertebrate locomotion. Considers the structure 567.

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Fall, odd years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, they change through time and differ across 0-1 credits, S/U grading B+, etc.) cultures. The course starts with outlining the May be repeated for credit. history of population studies. Following this DPA 568: Hunters and Gatherers introduction, the three major components DPA 593: Ethics in the Anthropological The course focuses on the relationship between of population change - fertility, mortality Sciences ecology and adaptation to explore the cross- and migration - are explored in depth. We This course familiarizes students with the cultural diversity of hunter/gatherers. The then survey the seminal transitions in human major issues in the ethics of anthropological first part of the course looks at a number of demographic history from hunting and science, research and teaching. Students key theoretic issues and debates that surround gathering to domestication and through discuss scientific and academic values the study of hunter/gatherers. Once this modern postindustrial times. Drawing from the and how best to comply with them in foundation is laid, students learn about modern ethnographic, human ecology, demographic academic, field, and laboratory environments. and historic hunter-gatherers from all the and archaeological literature, students read and Overarching research ethics topics addressed major geographic regions of the world. This discuss human demography from a variety of include data management, scientific overview draws on studies from behavioral perspectives. The course includes some simple misconduct, plagiarism, authorship, and ecology, ethnoarchaeology and cultural computations and a lab. mentoring. This portion of the course anthropology. The focus of the course is Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, incorporates videos and readings from GRD both to explore hunter/gatherer variation etc.) 500. Anthropology-specific topics include in relationship to their environment, and to fieldwork, museum work, animal research, US give students an appreciation of the ways in DPA 585: Prehistoric Peoples of the and international laws (biodiversity; cultural which hunter-gatherers have been historically Americas & natural heritage), and public anthropology. documented. The course is designed to be ANT 585 Prehistoric Peoples of the Americas Anthropological Sciences faculty with applicable to archaeologists, anthropologists particular expertise in these various areas lead Life in the Americas from the first settlement and to those in other disciplines who make these discussions. at the end of the Ice Age until the arrival inferences about past ways of life. of the Europeans in the 15th and 16th 0-1 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, centuries. The culture, history, and evolution May be repeated for credit. etc.) of prehistoric peoples of North, Central, DPA 600: Practicum in Teaching and South America are treated. Specific DPA 573: Archaeology of Human topics covered include settlement by North May be repeated for credit. Dispersals Americans, hunting-gathering lifeways, plant A survey of the archaeological evidence for and animal domestication, the origins of DPA 602: Research Seminar in the dispersal of Homo sapiens during the Late village life, and state-level societies. Anthropological Theory Pleistocene epoch (128,000-130,000 years Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, This course is offered as both ANT 602 and ago). Topics include African origin of Homo A-, B+, etc.) DPA 602. sapiens, dispersals into Eurasia, Australia, Fall and Spring, 0-12 credits, S/U grading and the Americas, large mammal extinctions, DPA 591: Professional Skills in the 2021May be repeated for credit. origins of art, music, and symbolic behavior, Anthropological Sciences, I. emergence of hunter-gatherers. An overview of the skills necessary for DPA 610: Individual Research Offered scientific professionalism, with special Research supervised by faculty. Students must Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) reference to successful performance in the have permission of instructor and enroll in Anthropological Sciences. Topics covered appropriate section. This course is offered as DPA 582: Comparative Anatomy of in this course include: use of basic software both ANT 610 and DPA 610. Primates tools, research design, data collection and Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading The comparative anatomy of living primates. management, dissertation proposal and journal May be repeated for credit. Laboratory dissection with emphasis on Fallarticle writing, oral and poster presentations, and professional conduct. This course is not relating structural diversity to behavior and DPA 620: Research Seminar in Topical an alternative to GRD 500. Recommended for biomechanics. This course is offered as both Problems HBA 582 and DPA 582. students of G0 through G4 status. Permission by Instructor This course is offered as both ANT 620 and Prerequisites: HBA 364 and previous DPA 620. course in human or vertebrate anatomy and 0-1 credits, S/U grading permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) DPA 592: Professional Skills in the Anthropological Sciences, II. DPA 630: Research Seminar in Physical Anthropology DPA 583: Human Demography A development of additional professional skills The study of human demography has had necessary to master research and teaching This course is offered as both ANT 630 and a long standing focus in anthropology, in the Anthropological Sciences including DPA 630. archaeology, economics and sociology for career options and employment. Topics in Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading the simple reason that the distribution and this course include: the dissertation writing May be repeated for credit. density of people fundamentally shapes process, review processes, job applications many other aspects of the human condition. and negotiations, tenure process, and teaching DPA 640: Research Seminar in Human Demography gives students an strategies. Recommended for students of G5 Ethnography and Ethnology overview of population dynamics both as status. Permission by Instructor

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This course is offered as both ANT 640 and May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, DPA 640. etc.) DPA 800: Summer Research Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading ECO 520: Mathematical Statistics May be repeated for credit. This course is offered as both ANT 800 and DPA 800. The first semester of a one-year course in DPA 650: Research Seminar in S/U grading quantitative methods. Statistical methods and Archaeology May be repeated for credit. their properties of particular usefulness to economists. Topics include probability theory, DPA 680: Special Seminar univariate and multivariate distributions, limiting distributions, point and interval Selected topics in cultural and social ECO estimation, hypothesis testing. anthropology. Topics reflect current interests Economics of faculty and graduate students. This course is Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Economics Department or permission of the offered as both ANT 680 and DPA 680. ECO 500: Microeconomics I Graduate Director. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading The first semester of a one-year course in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. microeconomic theory. Deals with decision- making of economic agents in different choice ECO 521: Econometrics DPA 699: Dissertation Research on environments using the analytical approach Campus A continuation of ECO 520. The application of duality theory. Topics include theory of the of mathematical and statistical methods of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy consumer, theory of the firm, decision-making economic theory, including the concept of (G5). Major portion of research must take under risk and uncertainty, intertemporal an explanatory economic model, multiple place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, choice, aggregation, and capital theory. regression, hypothesis testing, simultaneous or at the Brookhaven National Lab. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the equations models, and estimating techniques. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Economics Department or permission of the Prerequisite: ECO 520, Graduate standing in grading Graduate Director. the Economics Department or permission of May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Graduate Director. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, DPA 700: Dissertation Research off ECO 501: Microeconomics II etc.) Campus - Domestic A continuation of ECO 500, focusing Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy on theories of equilibrium and market ECO 522: Applied Econometrics (G5). Major portion of research will take place structure. Topics include general competitive A continuation of ECO 521. The application off-campus, but in the United States and/ equilibrium, imperfect competition and game and extension of econometric techniques or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven theory, imperfect information, theory of public developed in ECO 521. Emphasis on the National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab goods, and social choice. relationship among economic theory, are considered on-campus. All international Prerequisite: ECO 500, Graduate standing in econometric modeling and estimation, and students must enroll in one of the graduate 2021 the Economics Department or permission of empirical inference. Computer usage for student insurance plans and should be advised the Graduate Director. calculation of estimators. Critical examination by an International Advisor. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of econometric studies in current journals. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading etc.) Prerequisite: ECO 521, Graduate standing in May be repeated for credit. the Economics Department or permission of ECO 510: Macroeconomics I DPA 701: Dissertation Research off the Graduate Director. The first semester of a one-year course in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International macroeconomic theory. Deals with theories Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Falland determinants of income, employment, and ECO 531: Introduction to (G5). Major portion of research will take inflation. Topics include static equilibrium Computational Methods in Economics place outside of the United States and/or models, theories of money demand and A first course in the computational and U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the monetary phenomena, theories of the graphical techniques for finding numerical option of the health plan and may also enroll labor market and unemployment, rational solutions to a set of economic models (from in MEDEX. International students who are expectations and stabilization policy, more elementary models such as Edgeworth in their home country are not covered by consumption, and investment. Box to a more general competitive equilibrium mandatory health plan and must contact the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) model to finding the policy function of a Insurance Office for the insurance charge to dynamic growth model) based on concepts and be removed. International students who are ECO 511: Macroeconomics II constructs presented in the 1st year graduate not in their home country are charged for the A continuation of ECO 510, focusing on theory courses. Includes the foundations mandatory health insurance. If they are to be dynamic models. Topics include models of programming (using a symbolic algebra covered by another insurance plan they must of economic growth, optimal growth and language), and finding maxima of functions, file a waiver be second week of classes. The efficiency, overlapping-generations models, finding equilibria of markets, and exploring charge will only be removed if other plan is rational expectations, and optimal policy. and fitting functions graphically and through deemed comparable. Prerequisite: ECO 510, Graduate standing in finite difference and projection methods. All international students must received the Economics Department or permission of Emphasis is put on understanding the clearance from an International Advisor. the Graduate Director. connections between the concepts, the algebra, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading the algorithm of the computation and the

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These include Prerequisite for AMS 555: AMS 552/ECO 604. methods relying on dynamic programming ECO 590: Mathematical Foundations of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, techniques, linear approximation methods, Contemporary Economic Theory etc.) and non-linear methods that can be A one-semester course dealing with applied to models with distortions and mathematical concepts and techniques relevant ECO 606: Advanced Topics in heterogeneous agents. The different methods to economic theory. Topics in set theory, Strategic Behavior in Economics will be explained and their application to topology, linear algebra, and optimization An analysis of varying topics in strategic macroeconomics will be illustrated with theory. Applications to economic theory behavior in economics. One or more of the examples from various areas such as Real developed as time permits. following topics and others will be dealt with Business Cycles, Asset Pricing with Complete and Incomplete Markets, and Recursive Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the each week: repeated games with incomplete Contracts. Economics Department or permission of the information; stochastic games; bounded Graduate Director. rationality complexity and strategic entropy; Prerequisite: ECO 612, Graduate standing in Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, values of non-atomic games; strategic aspects the Economics department or permission of the etc.) in the telecommunication industry; general Graduate Director equilibrium and financial markets; auction Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ECO 597: Masters Project in mechanisms; knowledge, common knowledge, etc.) Economics and strategic equilibria. ECO 615: Advanced Macroeconomics In this required course students will work Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 604, ECO 605, workshop with an adviser of their choice to write a paper or permission of instructor, Graduate standing to be submitted by the end of the semester. in the Economics Department or permission of This course is designed for PhD students This research piece will be a well-structured the Graduate Director. in their 2nd year and above who are and coherent article on an economic research Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, thinking about writing a dissertation in question in a field of the student's choice, B+, etc.) macroeconomics. The course will provide the with some elements of originality. The paper May be repeated for credit. students with research methods for finding cannot be just an extended example that carries a PhD topic as well as for developing their out known techniques on a problem that has ECO 610: Special Topics: Advanced preliminary ideas for their dissertation topic. known answers even if those techniques are Macroeconomics Theory The course will complicated. The approval of the master's Topics in macroeconomic 2021theory, including involve presentations not only from faculty project advisor and the Graduate Program microfoundations of macroeconomics, members but also from students, allowing them Director are required to register for this class. temporary general equilibrium and to obtain direct feedback and direction for Offered fall and disequilibrium, monetary theory, equilibrium future research from all the faculty members Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading theory of business cycles, implicit contracts, in macroeconomics. The course will also rational expectations, and econometric provide students with reviews of the most ECO 599: Research in Special Topics implications. Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO important literature through discussions Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the 511, Graduate standing in the Economics and presentations by the faculty members of Economics Department or permission of the Department or permission of the Graduate seminal papers in the cutting edge research Graduate Director. FallDirector Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring areas in macroeconomics. Some examples of these areas are consumer bankruptcy, Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Housing Markets, Social Security Reform, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. Health Care reform and Tax reform. The ECO 604: Game Theory I ECO 612: Computational Economics course will deal with stochastic, dynamic and Dynamic Modeling general equilibrium models which do not have Elements of cooperative and non-cooperative An analysis of the theory and applications a close form solution. Students will have to games. Matrix games, pure and mixed use these models to study their question of strategies, and equilibria. Solution concepts of the dynamic modeling literature using computational methods, and on the methods interest and the course will also provide them such as core, stable sets, and bargaining sets. with direction as to which numerical methods Voting games, and the Shapley and Banzhaff themselves. Dynamic Modeling and Computational Economics are possibly are more appropriate to solve their particular power indices. This course is offered as both problems. ECO 604 and AMS 552. Prerequisite for ECO the fastest growing areas of interest in the profession due to its suitability to model, solve Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading 604: Graduate standing in the Economics May be repeated for credit. Department or permission of the Graduate and also estimate realistic decision making problems in most areas of economics. Director. ECO 623: Data Analysis and Economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Applications Economics Department or permission of the Survey of major sources of data in economics Graduate Director ECO 605: Game Theory II and theoretical hypotheses and statistical

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It utilizes recently developed presentation methods that provides an effective etc.) techniques in economics and demography mechanism for learning about current areas of to deal with questions concerning marriage, research interest. ECO 629: Studies in Quantitative divorce, fertility, contraception, the Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the Methods intrafamily distribution of resources, and the Economics Department or permission of the Prerequisite: ECO 521; Graduate standing in intergenerational distribution of resources. Graduate Director the Economics department or permission of the Students will do original theoretical and Fall or Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Graduate Program Director. empirical research under the professor's A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) supervision. Prerequisite: ECO 501; Graduate May be repeated for credit. standing in the Economics department or ECO 636: Industrial Organization I permission of the Graduate Program Director. ECO 690: Seminar in Applied Economics Applications of microeconomic theory to the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, determinants of market structure. Relationships etc.) Preparation, presentation, and discussion between market structure, firm behavior, and of student and faculty research in applied allocational efficiency. Econometric estimation ECO 643: Demographic Economics II economics. Topics covered by student papers and testing of some hypotheses suggested by This course is a continuation of ECO 642. are usually related to students' long-term the theory. It deals with the same questions and tools research interests. Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 521; Graduate as ECO 642, but emphasizes developing Fall or Spring, 0-6 credits, S/U grading standing in the Economics department or economies. The connections between May be repeated for credit. permission of the Graduate Program Director. population growth and development are ECO 695: Research Workshop Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stressed. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Designed to direct students to the selection ECO 637: Industrial Organization II of dissertation topics. Oral and written This course is a continuation of ECO 636. ECO 645: Health Economics II presentation of student papers with active It deals with the same questions and tools Critical reviews of research in health faculty participation. Several sections may as ECO 636, and provides an introduction economics topics of current interest, such as be offered each semester in areas of broad to antitrust policy and to public policy empirical and conceptual models of physician research interest. toward industry, including regulation and behavior, competition in the2021 pharmaceutical Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the deregulation, the design of optimal regulation, industry, the economic impacts of managed Economics department or permission of and the effectiveness of current regulation. care, and the causes and consequences of the Graduate Program Director and three Prerequisites: ECO 501, ECO 521; Graduate unhealthy behaviors. Students will present semesters of coursework in the Ph.D. program. standing in the Economics department or and critique original research and produce a Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading permission of the Graduate Program Director. research paper on a topic of their interest.. May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ECO 698: Practicum in Teaching etc.) ECO 646: Health Economics II Prerequisite: Graduate standing in the ECO 640: Labor Economics I Fall Economics department or permission of the Theoretical and econometric analysis of This is the first course in the graduate selected aspects of the health care delivery Graduate Program Director. sequence in labor economic theory and system, such as the demand for medical Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading empirical applications. Topics include services, the supply and distribution of May be repeated for credit. human capital theory, labor supply, life cycle physician services, the utilization of non- behaviors, and the behavioral effects of social physician medical personnel, alternative ECO 699: Dissertation Research on insurance programs. The emphasis is on up to models of hospital behavior, third-party Campus date treatments of these topics in the literature. insurance reimbursement, national health Prerequisite: Have declared thesis advisor in Offer insurance and cost, and price inflation in the Economics Ph.D. program (G5). Major portion Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hospital and long-term care sectors. Offered as of research must take place on SBU campus, ECO 646 or HPH 664. at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven ECO 641: Labor Economics II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) National Lab. This is an advanced course in labor economics Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U which continues ECO 640. Topics include ECO 647: Research Methods in grading both theory and estimation of job search, Applied Microeconomics May be repeated for credit. matching, dynamic discrete and continuous Presentation, discussion and analysis of choice models of the labor market. Special student and faculty research in the areas of ECO 700: Dissertation Research off emphasis will be given to the role of economic applied microeconomics, labor economics, Campus - Domestic

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Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy EGL 509: Studies in Language and Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (G5). Major portion of research will take place Linguistics (A, A-, B+, etc.) off-campus, but in the United States and/ May be repeated for credit. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven EGL 510: Old English Language and EGL 585: Topics in Cultural Studies National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Literature are considered on-campus. All international Changing issues in the interdisciplinary study students must enroll in one of the graduate of culture, including literature, popular culture, student insurance plans and should be advised EGL 515: Middle English Language discourse studies, media studies, etc. Focus is by an International Advisor. and Literature on the analysis of historical contexts and on Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading methods derived from contemporary cultural May be repeated for credit. EGL 520: Studies in the Renaissance theory. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B ECO 701: Dissertation Research off EGL 525: 17th-Century Literature +, etc.) Campus - International May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy EGL 530: Studies in Restoration EGL 586: Topics in Gender Studies (G5). Major portion of research will take Literature place outside of the United States and/or Changing historical or theoretical focus on U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the issues in gender studies, sexuality, queer EGL 535: Studies in Neoclassicism option of the health plan and may also enroll studies, or women's writing. in MEDEX. International students who are Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B EGL 540: Studies in Romanticism in their home country are not covered by +, etc.) mandatory health plan and must contact the May be repeated for credit. Insurance Office for the insurance charge to EGL 545: Studies in Victorian be removed. International students who are Literature EGL 587: Topics in Race, Ethnic, or not in their home country are charged for the Diaspora Studies mandatory health insurance. If they are to be EGL 547: Late 19th-Century British Changing historical or theoretical focus on covered by another insurance plan they must Literature issues of race or ethnicity, on U.S., British, or file a waiver be second week of classes. The global ethnic literatures, or on experiences, charge will only be removed if other plan is histories, or theories of colonization, EGL 550: 20th-Century British deemed comparable. decolonization, empire, globalism, or diaspora. Literature All international students must received Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded clearance from an International Advisor. (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 555: Studies in Irish Literature Fall, Spring, 0-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. EGL 560: Studies in Early2021 American EGL 588: Writing Workshop ECO 800: Summer Research Literature Changing focus on various forms of writing, Prerequisite: Pre-approved participation in including poetry, drama, fiction, the essay, etc. Economics dept. activity. EGL 565: 19th-Century American Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B S/U grading Literature +, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. EGL 570: 20th-Century American EGL Literature EGL 592: Problems in Teaching Fall Writing or Composition English EGL 575: British and American This course provides an overview of writing Literature pedagogy as applied to tutoring in a Writing EGL 501: Studies in Chaucer Center or in an English classroom. Included in the course is fieldwork in the campus Writing EGL 582: Drama Workshop EGL 502: Studies in Shakespeare Center. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 583: Nonfiction Workshop EGL 503: Studies in Milton Participants will learn to compose, critique EGL 593: Problems in Teaching and revise nonfiction forms such as essays and Literature EGL 505: Studies in Genre memoirs, incorporating narrative techniques May be repeated for credit. that will make their work accessible and EGL 594: Contexts of Literary Study engaging to general readerships. EGL 506: Studies in Literary Theory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 597: Practicum in Methods of Prerequisite: Matriculation in a graduate Research program or the composition studies certificate. EGL 584: Topics in Genre Studies 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Changing issues in the historical study of EGL 598: Thesis Research particular genres, such as the novel, lyric poetry, film, drama, etc.

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Research and writing of M.A. thesis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and expand a paper they have previously supervised by faculty advisor. May be repeated for credit. written for a graduate seminar. Please note that Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading this course cannot be taken until students have EGL 608: Problems in the Relationship May be repeated for credit. completed at least one semester of the doctoral of Literature to Other Disciplines program. EGL 599: Independent Study This seminar will encourage the 3 credits, interdisciplinary focus of our program by May be repeated for credit. examining the intersection between textual EGL 690: Directed Readings studies and other forms of inquiry. EGL 600: Proseminar: The Discipline May be repeated for credit. of Literary Studies 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Pro-seminar: Introduction to critical analysis, May be repeated for credit. EGL 695: Methods of Teaching English including theoretical and methodological EGL 611: Critical Theory approaches, and an orientation to the EGL 697: Practicum in Teaching profession both in the academy and other A seminar on influential theoretical approaches English Literature to texts. careers. Faculty members will speak on their Teaching workshop for introductory courses in own scholarship and professional experiences. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) poetry, fiction, and drama. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, S/U grading EGL 612: Theories in Composition EGL 601: Problems in History and EGL 698: Practicum in Teaching Structure of the English Language This course explores the relationship between Writing reading and writing skills, the differences A survey of the English language from its This course provides hands-on experience and between speech production and writing historical beginnings through the present. instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, production, and the relationship between 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including designing writing assignments, literacy, culture, and language politics. sequencing assignments, motivating writing, EGL 602: Problems in Bibliography, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, writing skill development and evaluating Editing, and Textual Criticism etc.) writing. Students will also be given a An introduction to the study of manuscripts preliminary overview of the major theories EGL 613: Research in Composition and printed books, with special emphasis on driving composition pedagogy. This course provides an introduction to the editorial and textual problems and decisions. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nature of empirical research in Composition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Studies. Students will survey landmark EGL 699: Dissertation Research on EGL 603: Problems in Literary Theory research studies, learn how to read research Campus reports critically, and conduct a mini-research and Criticism Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). project in their own classrooms or tutoring A seminar on any of the current theoretical Major portion of research must take place on situations to analyze underlying2021 causes of approaches to texts. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the students' writing problems. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U etc.) grading EGL 604: Problems in Literary Analysis EGL 614: Topics in Composition and May be repeated for credit. An introduction to the explication of texts. Writing EGL 700: Dissertation Research off 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will consist of directed readings Campus - Domestic May be repeated for credit. in particular areas of interest in rhetoric, the Fall Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy history of rhetoric and pedagogy, and teaching (G5). Major portion of research will take place EGL 605: Problems in Convention and strategies for teachers. Genre off-campus, but in the United States and/ Offered or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven An examination of literary types and Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, categories. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. students must enroll in one of the graduate May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised EGL 615: Independent Study by an International Advisor. EGL 606: Period and Tradition Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring An examination of the major issues that pertain Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. to particular historical literary periods. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EGL 701: Dissertation Research off May be repeated for credit. EGL 620: Literary Studies Research Campus - International and Writing Seminar EGL 607: Individual Authors Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy This course focuses on the research and (G5). Major portion of research will take In depth study of specified writers, from Old writing skills necessary to submit work for place outside of the United States and/or English to Contemporary World Literatures in publication. In addition to shared readings, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the English. students will conduct substantial new research

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 71 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 option of the health plan and may also enroll Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) influencing attitudes and changes in in MEDEX. International students who are organizational behavior, group influence on in their home country are not covered by EHM 504: Environmental Justice behavior, formal and informal organizational mandatory health plan and must contact the This course will examine a wide range structures, conflict and conflict resolutions, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to of environmental issues such as climate and the dynamics of planned change. be removed. International students who are change, toxic pollution, water and food Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not in their home country are charged for the rights, and more--within socioeconomic and mandatory health insurance. If they are to be racial contexts. The course will look at how EMP 502: Engineering Economics covered by another insurance plan they must underprivileged and nonwhite socioeconomic This is a course in advanced cost justifications file a waiver be second week of classes. The communities are most adversely impacted by for business and projects. The objective is charge will only be removed if other plan is environmental degradation in the U.S. and to give the student a better understanding of deemed comparable. around the world. Semesters Offered: what is required to justify, budget, plan and All international students must received Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) carry out technological projects in industry clearance from an International Advisor. today. The student will also understand how Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading EHM 505: Environmental Narrative management decisions are influenced by May be repeated for credit. Nonfiction financial analysis when making budgetary A study of the literary genre of environmental project plans. EGL 800: SUMMER RESEARCH narrative nonfiction, which includes a blend 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of scientific and historical fact and creative expression and memoir. Students will read EMP 504: Quantitative Methods a wide variety of creative nonfiction and This course will lay the foundation for an EHM narrative nonfiction books and articles, understanding of basic quantitative methods research a particular environmental issue Environmental Humanities for solving business questions. A working in depth, and write their own original work knowledge of these quantitative methods can of environmental narrative nonfiction help managers optimize true value-added EHM 501: Environmental Humanities & (incorporating both their research and personal for company stakeholders. In this course Ecoliteracy voice). Semesters Offered: we will explore probability theory, decision This course will provide an introduction to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science and linear programming among other the multidisciplinary field of environmental basic mathematical principles as a way of humanities through the study of ecocritical EHM 560: Topics in Sustainability and quantifying the decision-making process, but concepts and theories, including environmental Study Abroad will not forget the basics of good management. justice, social ecology, ecofeminism, deep This course offers students the opportunity We will also discuss several quantitative ecology, conservationism, and biocentrism. to study abroad in a foreign setting and methods for analyzing and controlling cost, Readings will include historical, literacy, and learn about another culture's approaches to lead time, and quality of the goods or services philosophical sources. Environmental film and environmental sustainability.2021 The course will being produced. visual art will be included. Semesters offered: focus on one or more of the following subject 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B areas: environmental creative writing, eco- +, etc.) aesthetics, renewable energy, environmental EMP 506: Strategic Technology policy and design, environmental politics Analysis EHM 502: Environmental Media, Film, and history, environmental advocacy, This course will lay the foundation for an Writing permaculture, horticulture and landscape understanding of Operations Management An examination of a variety of genres - design. Participants will be assigned readings principles for Engineers. Operations social media; advertising; film; video; and research assignments prior to departure. Management is the art of transforming ideas photojournalism; fiction; children's literature; FallCommunity service may be included. While and materials into true value-added for and non-fiction - in order to understand ways traveling abroad, student will participate in company stakeholders. In this course we will in which these texts are utilized to inform lectures, readings, workshops, and site visits, explore the entire value chain from design and manipulate public opinion regarding the and the course will culminate in a research to forecasting to supply chain management, environment. The culmination of the course capstone project. production and quality control. We will will be a final research project using multiple 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) look at the latest trends in global Operations genres. Semesters offered: May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. theory, but will not forget the basics of good Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B management. We will use several case studies +, etc.) to get real-world experience and emphasize EMP situational learning. We will also discuss EHM 503: Ecofeminism several quantitative methods for analyzing and The course will examine ecofeminist critical Engineering Management controlling cost, lead time, and quality of the theory from it's inception in the early 1970s goods or services being produced. EMP 501: Behavioral and to the present. Ecofeminist thought will be Organizational Aspects of Management 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) utilized as the lens through which students read, research and study a wide variety of This course provides an understanding EMP 507: Research and Special Topics fiction and nonfiction literature, history, film, of the management process by analyzing in Global Industrial Management media and culture. Semesters Offered: organizational behavior. Topics include behavior in two-person situations, factors

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An individual study course for students performance will be compared and contrasted environment. This course covers all the investigating special topics relating to global and critical trade-offs will be explored. Other logistical, ethics, and outsourcing issues in industrial management. topics will include planning, organizing, and strategic and global ways. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) controlling resources; monitoring progress 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. toward objectives; identifying and managing risks; communicating effectively; setting EMP 525: Technology Assessment for EMP 509: Enterprise Information and priorities; and writing engineering proposals. Emerging Technologies Knowledge Systems Management The systems approach will be emphasized. This course will address the technology This course covers the different types of Finally, we will identify future trends and assessment for emerging technology through enterprise systems, how they are used to take a look at various case studies that will four basic components of technology manage an organization's processes, re- sharpen our problem-solving skills for when assessment: scope, technology, impact, and engineering the business with enterprise we undergo a "live" engineering project. policy. Emerging technology will cover systems, and the relationship among 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information technology, energy, and medical technology, organization, and management. technology. EMP 521: Developing New Products Knowledge-based and web-based features in Offered modern enterprise systems will be emphasized. This course covers how to manage enterprise Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Database Management, Security, Control, innovation, corporate innovation cultures, etc.) Ethical, and Social issues of enterprise systems ideation and creative thinking, product design May be repeated for credit. will be discussed. and development processes and phases, issues Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in product design, collaboration between R&D EMP 530: Intro of Big Data & Data etc.) and operations/marketing. Also, this class will Science for Technological Management focus on how to use forecasting to ensure the This course is an introduction to big data EMP 511: Starting a Business Venture successful launch of a technology product. techniques, its applications and its challenges. This course covers the necessities of beginning Case studies will be discussed. We will analyze customer relationship a business from turning a concept into a new 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management processes using software venture and developing a business plan for management tools such as DFD and UML and a venture. Topics include how to identify EMP 522: Strategic Marketing: Lean & Six Sigma management to improve and evaluate the product and its market Planning and Process applications or services in a cloud computing potential; management and organization This course will examine the vital role that environment. Data modeling, mining and issues; production and channels of distribution; strategic marketing and planning plays in visualization tools will be introduced for and how to present a plan to the financial all businesses, as well as non-profit and developing business intelligence, predictive community. Specific case studies and guest government organizations. Marketing's role analytics and decision support applications. speakers are utilized. in our economy, society and the appropriate Technologies in related areas such as data Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, marketing target and mix of media will also be warehousing, data sharing, data security, etc.) presented. The various careers2021 which exist in networking, and operating systems will also marketing and the structure of marketing plans be included to support big data applications in EMP 517: Quality and Value and departments are studied. The class will cloud computing environments. Management create a marketing plan based on real products 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Modern management's approach to quality and present it. has changed radically in the last 20 years; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EMP 531: Data Mining for this course explains why and how. It covers Technological Management methods used by both manufacturing and EMP 523: International Business and Data mining can be used to extract meaningful service organizations to achieve high quality: Management and actionable information from large data how each organizational function is involved FallThis course covers the world's marketplace, sets and then used for business intelligence, in quality; how improving quality can international environment, managing predictive analytics and decision support. reduce costs; importance of communication; international business, and managing Supervised and unsupervised machine importance of involving all employees; need to international business operations. Additional learning techniques, such as linear regression, measure quality; and introduction to statistical topics include cultural issues in a global classification, decision trees, support vector quality control and how it is used. marketplace, the impact of law and legal machines, and clustering, will be discussed. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, differences in the world marketplace compared These techniques and associated tools will etc.) to the U.S., and addressing competitive issues be introduced in the context of customer related to items such as a need for local relationship management (CRM), supply chain EMP 518: Technology Projects contact. management (SCM), and global operations This course will lay the foundation for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management applications. Semesters Offered: an understanding of project management Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B principles for Engineers. We will delve into EMP 524: Modern Transportation +, etc.) conflict resolution and time management Systems and Logistics and spend a good deal of time talking about The integration of the activities that procure EMP 532: Big Data Systems for the importance of management support materials and services, transform them into Technological Management in engineering companies. Quantitative intermediate goods and final products, and The infrastructure requirements and challenges approaches to planning, time, cost and deliver them to the customers in a global of big data systems to support large-scale

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Other at the unique network protocol challenges topics including advanced data mining and ESE 502: Linear Systems and opportunities presented by wireless visualization techniques as they relate to Development of transfer matrices and state- communications and host or router mobility. customer relationship management (CRM), space equations from the concepts of linearity, The course will give a brief overview of supply chain management (SCM), and global time-invariance, causality, and lumpedness. fundamental concepts in mobile wireless operations management applications will also Op-amp circuit implementations. Solutions systems and mobile computing, it will then be discussed. Semesters Offered: and equivalent state equations. Companion cover system and standards issues including Fall, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and modal forms. Stability and Lyapunov second generation circuit switched and third B+, etc.) equations. Controllability, observability, and generation packet switched networks, wireless their applications in minimal realization, LANs, mobile IP, ad-hoc networks, sensor EMP 572: Special Topics state feedback, and state estimators. Coprime networks, as well as issues associated with This multidisciplinary course provides a fraction of transfer functions and their designs small handheld portable devices and new comprehensive overview of emerging topics in in pole-placement and model matching. Both applications that can exploit mobility and society from both policy and technology point the continuous-time and discrete-time systems location information. This is followed by of view. Topics include energy, smart city, big will be studied. several topical studies around recent research publications in mobile computing and wireless data, disaster, bio-medical, and security. The Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) goal of the course is to assist students to gain networking field. This course will make the insights into different special topics to solve ESE 503: Stochastic Systems system architecture and applications accessible to the electrical engineer. Prerequisites: ESE challenging problems and discover new ones. Basic probability concepts and application. 505 and ESE 546 or ESE 548, or permission of Offered Spring & Fall Probabilistic bounds, characteristic functions, instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and multivariate distributions. Central limit theorem, normal random variables, stochastic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) processes in communications, control, and ESE 507: Advanced Digital System ESE other signal processing systems. Stationarity, Design and Generation Electrical Engineering ergodicity, correlation functions, spectral densities, and transmission properties. This course focuses on languages, tools and Optimum linear filtering, estimation, and abstractions for design and implementation ESE 500: Introduction to Engineering prediction. of digital systems. Course material is divided Education roughly into three categories: Limitations Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded2021 (A, A-, B+, etc.) This graduate course provides an in-depth and constraints on modern digital systems; examination of engineering knowledge and ESE 504: Performance Evaluation Hardware design abstractions, languages, practices in the context of secondary science of Communications and Computer and tools (including the SystemVerilog content and instruction. The focus is on Systems hardware description language); and new engineering design principles and how they architectures and paradigms for digital design. Advanced scheduling theory, queuing models may be applied to biology, chemistry, and Coursework will be primarily project and and algorithms for communication and physics disciplinary domains. Key concepts assignment based; there will also be reading computer systems. Transient analysis and M/ of effective engineering education will and discussion of published papers in these G/1 queue models. Networks of queues, mean be introduced: design-based approaches, areas. Students should have experience with Fallvalue analysis and convolution algorithms. optimization, STEM integration, assessment, hardware description languages (VHDL, Petri networks. Bursty and self-similar traffic. and transfer of science principles to technology Verilog, or System Verilog) and software (C, Divisible load theory for scheduling and solutions. Students will participate in C++ or Java). parallel computer performance evaluation. engineering education opportunities through Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) project design, research, and/or curriculum Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of instructor. opportunities at the secondary and post- ESE 509: Modern Energy Technologies 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) secondary levels. This course cover a broad array of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 505: Wireless Communications technologies that are essential to the modern energy industry, specifically focusing on the This course covers first year graduate ESE 501: System Specification and most contemporary topics and ¿hot¿ areas level material in the area of wireless Modeling of research, development, and deployment. communications: Wireless channels, overview A comprehensive introduction to the field Students will gain a quantitative understanding of digital communications and signal of System-on-Chip design. Introduces basic of selected energy generation technologies, processing for wireless comm., voice and concepts of digital system modeling and energy storage technologies, and pollution data applications, design basics for wireless simulation methodologies. Various types control technologies. modems, analysis of system issues like of hardware description language (HDL) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be studied, including Verilog, VHDL, resource management and handoff, cellular and wireless LAN systems. and SystemC. Topics include top-down and ESE 510: Electronic Circuits

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This is a course in the design and analysis of physics of solar cells, the operating principles Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, analog circuits, both discrete and integrated. of the major commercial photovoltaic etc.) The first part of the course presents basic technologies, the current challenges and topics related to circuit analysis: laws, primary areas of research within the field of ESE 518: Advanced design of low theorems, circuit elements and transforms. photovoltaics, and a basic understanding of noise and low power analog circuits Fundamental semiconductor devices are the role of photovoltaics in the context of the Students will learn state-of-the-art circuit introduced next. A number of aspects of circuit global energy system. techniques for low-noise and low-power design beginning with basic device operation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) amplification and processing of signals through the design of large analog functional from sensors. Examples of circuits are low- blocks including amplifiers, oscillators and ESE 514: MOSTransistor Modeling noise amplifiers, filters, peak directors filters are discussed. An overview of the metal-oxide semiconductor and discriminators. Applications range Cannot be used to fulfill any ESE degree (MOS) transistor and its models for circuit from medical, to security, safety, industrial requirements. analysis. The course is modular in structure. measurements and physics research. As a Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) In a common first part, CMOS fabrication, course project, students will develop part of device structure and operation are introduced. a front-end circuit from transistor level to ESE 511: Solid-State Electronics Starting from basic concepts of electrostatics, physical layout using industry-standard CAD A study of the electron and hole processes MOS field-effect transistor operation is tools, and will participate in the experimental in solids leading to the analysis and design presented in an intuitive fashion, and no characterization of those similar circuits. At of solid-state electronic devices. Solutions to advanced background in solid-state theory the end of the course the student will own a the Schrodinger representation of quantum is required. Analytical models of increasing solid background and the basic instruments to effects, perturbation techniques. Simple band complexity and their SPICE Implementations design low-noise and low-power amplifiers structure, effective mass theorem. Derivation are discussed. The second part of the course and processing circuits. and application of the Boltzmann transport allows students to focus on their field of Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, theory. Electrical and thermal conductivities preference: Device physics; digital circuits; B+, etc.) of metals and of semiconductors, and their Analog circuits. The course includes a project application to electronic devices. Properties of in one of these subtopics. ESE 519: Semiconductor Lasers and Photodetectors semi conductors and the theories underlying Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the characteristics of semiconductor devices. The course provides an introduction to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 515: Quantum Electronics I performance, testing and fabrication Physics of microwave and optical lasers. techniques for semiconductor lasers ESE 512: Introduction to Quantum Topics include introduction to laser and photodetectors. The topics include Systems Engineering concepts; quantum theory; classical radiation fundamentals of laser and detector operation, A study of fundamental properties theory; resonance phenomena in two-level devices band diagram, device characteristics, of homojunction and heterojunction systems; Block equations-Kramers-Kronig and testing techniques for analog and digital semiconductor devices. Derivation of the relation, density matrix; rate2021 equation and edge emitting and surface emitting lasers, characteristic equation for p-n junction diodes, amplification; CO2 lasers; discharge lasers; avalanche and PIN photodetectors. Special for the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and for semiconductor lasers. attention is given to the design and working characteristics of transmitters and pumping the heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT); Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the device parameters for low- and high- lasers for telecommunication networks. frequency operation, the effects on the device ESE 516: Integrated Electronic Devices 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characteristics of fabrication methods and of and Circuits I ESE 520: Applied Electromagnetics structural arrangements. The development of Theory and applications: elements of the large-signal and small-signal equivalent semiconductor electronics, methods of Wave phenomena and their importance in circuits for the p-n diode and the BJT and Fallfabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, electromagnetic engineering. Harmonic waves. HPT devices, with emphasis on models used MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and Phase and group velocities. Dispersive and in prevalent computer-aided analysis (e.g., resistors. Design techniques for linear digital nondispersive propagation. Transmission SPICE). Consideration of the devices in integrated electronic components and circuits. lines. Maxwell Equations. Uniform plane integrated-circuit applications. Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, waves, waveguides, resonators. Scattering Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and LSI. matrix theory. Introduction to antenna theory. Electrostatics and magnetostatics as special etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cases of Maxwell equations. ESE 513: Introduction to Photovoltaics ESE 517: Integrated Electronic Devices Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Introduction to the basic concepts of and Circuits II etc.) photovoltaic solar energy conversion, Theory and applications: elements of ESE 522: Fiber Optic Systems including: 1. The solar resource in the semiconductor electronics, methods of context of global energy demand; 2. The fabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, This course covers the essential components operating principles and theoretical limits of MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and of a modern optical fiber communication photovoltaic devices; 3. Device fabrication, resistors. Design techniques for linear digital system: (I) wave propagation in optical fiber architecture, and primary challenges and integrated electronic components and circuits. waveguides, (II) transmitter design, (III) practical limitations for the major technologies Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, receiver design, (IV) single wavelength fiber- and materials used for photovoltaic devices. and LSI. optic networks, and (V) wavelength division Students will gain knowledge of the device multiplexing networks.

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Prerequisite: ESE 319 and novel sensor technologies as well as Optimum receivers, efficient signaling, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems of interfacing various sensors with comparison classes of signaling schemes. electronics are discussed. Channel capacity theorem, bounds on ESE 523: Quantum Computing and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) optimum system performance, encoding Applications for error reduction, and the fading channel. This course is an introduction to and survey ESE 526: Silicon Technology for VLSI Source coding and some coding algorithms. of the Quantum Computing, an emerging This course introduces the basic technologies Prerequisite: ESE 503 interdisciplinary field of science which has the employed to fabricate advanced integrated Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) potential to revolutionize computation over circuits. These include epitaxy, diffusion, the next ten years, to transform chemistry, oxidation, chemical vapor deposition, ion ESE 533: Convex Optimization and medicine, engineering and communications, implantation lithography and etching. The Engineering Applications as well as to change our understanding significance of the variation of these steps is Introduction to convex optimization and its of physical world. The course will build discussed with respect to its effect on device applications. Convex sets, functions, and intuitive approach to quantum computation performance. The electrical and geometric basics of convex analysis. Linear and quadratic and algorithms, but also will advance relevant design rules are examined together with the programs, second-order cone and semidefinite vocabulary and skills for faculties and integration of these fabrication techniques to programming, geometric programming. graduate students in engineering, computing, reveal the relationship between circuit design Duality theory and optimality conditions. applied mathematics, chemistry, physics, and and the fabrication process. Unconstrained minimization methods. Interior- related sciences. The key questions of the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) point methods. Nondifferentiable problems. quantum computing will be introduced. How Decomposition methods. Applications in to describe quantum systems and quantum ESE 528: Communication Systems engineering fields including statistical signal operations? What is a quantum computer This course provides a general overview processing, communications, networking, and what are the limits of quantum power? of communication theory and addresses energy systems, circuit design, and machine What is the difference between classical and fundamental concepts in this field. After a learning. quantum computation? Quantum teleportation? review of signals and systems representations, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Quantum entanglement and superposition? various continuous and digital modulation How to mitigate errors and decoherence schemes are analyzed. Spread spectrum ESE 534: Cyber Physical Systems and transmit information through noisy systems and their application to multiuser As computers and communication bandwidth channels? What are business applications communications are also addressed. Advanced become ever-faster and ever-cheaper, and engineering challenges of the quantum communication systems are described and computing and communication capabilities computers? What are the gains in running general concepts of wide and local area will be embedded in all types of objects quantum vs. classical algorithms? What are networks are introduced. and structures in the physical environment. the physical principles of the current quantum Applications with enormous societal impact computers hardware and what are technology Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and economic benefit will be created by requirements for realistic quantum computers? ESE 530: Computer-Aided2021 Design harnessing these capabilities in time and 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course presents techniques for analyzing across space. We refer to systems that bridge the cyber-world of computing and ESE 524: Microwave Acoustics linear and nonlinear dynamic electronic circuits using the computer. Some of the communications with the physical world as Continuum acoustic field equations. Wave topics covered include network graph theory, cyber physical systems (CPS). This course equation, boundary conditions, and Pointing generalized nodal and hybrid analysis, covers important areas from the research vector. Waves in isotropic elastic media: companion modeling. Newton's method in n- literature on SPS. Three application domains plane-wave modes, reflection and refraction dimensions and numerical integration. are emphasized: medical devices for health phenomena, bulk-acoustic-wave (BAW) care, smart transportation systems, and Prerequisite: B.S. in Electrical Engineering waveguides, surface acoustic waves (SAW). Fall smart buildings. Several key cross-cutting Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Plane and guided waves in piezoelectric media. principles, independent of the application etc.) BAW transduction and applications: delay-line domain, are also covered, including formal and resonator structures, the Mason equivalent modeling, embedded systems, real-time circuit, monolithic crystal filters, IM CON ESE 531: Detection and Estimation Theory systems, feedback control and sensor dispersive delay lines, acoustic microscopes, networks. Prerequisite: Background in SAW transduction and applications: the Hypothesis testing and parameter estimation. embedded systems and computer networking is interdigital transducer, band-pass filters, Series representation of random processes. necessary. dispersive filters, convolvers, tapped delay Detection and estimation of known signals in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lines, resonators. white and nonwhite Gaussian noise. Detection of signals with unknown parameters. Prerequisite: ESE 319 ESE 536: Switching and Routing in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of Parallel and Distributed Systems instructor This course covers various switching and ESE 525: Moden Sensors Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, routing issues in parallel and distributed etc.) Sensors are devices that convert physical systems. Topics include message switching values into electrical signals. This course will techniques, design of interconnection provide practical information on diversified ESE 532: Theory of Digital Communication networks, permutation, multicast and all-to- subjects related to the operation principles, all routing in various networking nonblocking, design and use of various sensors. Established

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 76 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and rearrangable capability analysis and used to illustrate the discussed issues. Topics ESE 544: Network Security performance modeling. include design hierarchy and top-down Engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design, introduction to hardware description An introduction to computer network languages, computer-aided design and digital and telecommunication network security ESE 537: Mobile Sensing Systems & synthesis, basic building blocks like adders, engineering. Special emphasis on building Applications comparators, multipliers, latches, flip-flops, security into hardware and hardware working This is a graduate course focusing on recent registers etc, static and dynamic random with software. Topics include encryption, advances and developments in mobile sensing access memory, data and control buses, public key cryptography, authentication, systems and their applications, especially fundamental techniques for combinational intrusion detection, digital rights management, those leveraging modern mobile devices circuit analysis and design, sequential circuit firewalls, trusted computing, encrypted and embedded sensors. Topics include: design procedures, and programmable logic computing, intruders and virus. Some projects. devices. Testing of digital designs is addressed conventional mote-class sensor networks, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded throughout the course. A mini project will participatory sensing leveraging mobile (A, A-, B+, etc.) devices, intelligent hardware and Internet-of- complement the course. Things, location sensing, future information Cannot be used to fulfill any ESE degree ESE 545: Computer Architecture centric networking, and applications in smart requirements. The course covers uniprocessor and pipelined homes, buildings, transportation, environment Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, vector processors. Topics include: hierarchical and health/fitness. Student need to read latest etc.) organization of a computer system; processor literature and write reviews, work on research design; control design; memory organization ESE 542: Product Design Concept problems and develop solutions, present their and virtual memory; I/O systems; balancing Development and Optimization work and write formal reports. The practice of subsystem bandwidths; RISC processors; the basic research skills are major components. This graduate course will concentrate on the principles of designing pipelined processors; This course intends to be self-sufficient and design concept development of the product vector processing on pipelines; examples of prior experiences in programming, mobile development cycle, from the creative phase of pipelined processors. The course involves a devices and embedded systems is a plus. solution development to preliminary concept system design project using VHDL. evaluation and selection. The course will then 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: ESE 218 or equivalent cover methods for mathematical modeling, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESE 538: Nanoelectronics computer simulation and optimization. The etc.) The major goals and objectives are to concept development component of the course provide graduate students with knowledge will also cover intellectual property and patent ESE 546: Networking Algorithms and and understanding of physical background issues. The course will not concentrate on Analysis the development of any particular class of and applications of nanoelectronics. The An introduction to algorithms and analysis for products, but the focus will be mainly on course will cover electrical and optical computer and telecommunication networks. mechanical and electromechanical devices and properties of materials and nanostructures, Continuous time and discrete time single systems. As part of the course, each participant fabrication of nanostructures, nanoelectronic 2021queue analysis. Algorithms from public key will select an appropriate project to practice devices including resonant-tunneling cryptography, routing, protocol verification, the application of the material covered in the devices, transistors, and single-electron multiple access, error codes, data compression, course and prepare a final report. transfer devices, as well as applications of search. nanotechnologies in molecular biology and Prerequisites: Undergraduate electrical Prerequisite: ESE 503 or permission of medicine. or mechanical engineering and/or science instructor. training. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ESE 540: Reliability Theory ESE 547: Digital Signal Processing ESE 543: Mobile Cloud Computing Theory of reliability engineering. Fall A basic graduate course in Digital Signal Introduction to the basic concepts of mobile Mathematical and statistical means of Processing. Sampling and reconstruction cloud computing, including 1. The mobile evaluating the reliability of systems of of Signals. Review of Z-Transform theory. computing technology used in modern smart components. Analytical models for systems Signal flow-graphs. Design of FIR and IIR phones; 2. The cloud computing technologies analysis, lifetime distributions, repairable filters. Discrete and fast Fourier transforms. used in existing data centers; 3. The synergy systems, warranties, preventive maintenance, Introduction to adaptive signal processing. of mobile and cloud computing and its and inspection. Software reliability and fault Implementation considerations. tolerant computer systems. Prerequisite: ESE applications; and 4. Programming on smart Prerequisite: Senior level course in signals 503 or permission of instructor phone utilizing data center services. Students will gain knowledge of the fundamental and systems 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles of mobile cloud computing, the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. major technologies that support mobile cloud ESE 548: Computer Networks ESE 541: Digital System Design computing, the current challenges and primary areas of research within the field of mobile Basic theory and technology of computer The course provides an introduction to digital cloud computing, and a basic understanding communications. Introduction to performance and computer systems. The course follows of the role of mobile cloud computing in the evaluation, error codes and routing algorithms. a top-down approach to presenting design context of the everyday living. Other topics include Ethernet, wireless of computer systems, from the architectural- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) networks including LTE and 5G, fiber optic level to the gate-level. VHDL language is networking, software defined networking,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 77 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 networking on chips, space networks, data theorem; ideal ND and D/A converters; A number of different topics in digital signal centers, grids and clouds, and network specifications and testing of data converters; processing will be covered, depending on security. 3 credits , grading ABCF. basic building blocks in data converters: class and current research interest. Areas to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) current sources and mirrors, differential be covered include the following: parametric gain stages, voltage references, S/H circuits, signal modeling, spectral estimation, multirate ESE 549: Advanced VLSI System comparators: Nyquist D/A and ND converters: processing, advanced FFT and convolution Testing principles of data conversion and circuit design algorithms, adaptive signal processing, This course is designed to acquaint students techniques; oversampling data converters: low- multidimensional signal processing, advanced with fault diagnosis of logic circuits. Both pass and band-pass delta-sigma modulators, filter design, dedicated signal processing chips, combinatorial and sequential circuits are decimation and interpolation for delta-sigma and signal processing for inverse problems. considered. Concepts of faults and fault data converters. The attending students must Students will be expected to read and present models are presented. Emphasis is given to test be acquainted with principles of transistor current research literature. generation, test selection, fault detection, fault operation, function of simple analysis. Prerequisite: ESE 547 or permission of location, fault location within a module and Familiarity with SPICE is required. instructor fault correction. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: BS in Electrical Engineering etc.) ESE 554: Computational Models for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Computer Engineers ESE 558: Digital Image Processing I etc.) This course covers mathematical techniques Covers digital image fundamentals, ESE 550: Network Management and and models used in the solution of computer mathematical preliminaries of two-dimensional Planning engineering problems. The course heavily systems, image transforms, human perception, This course provides an introduction to emphasizes computer engineering application. color basics, sampling and quantization, telecommunications and computer network Topics covered include set theory, relations, compression techniques, image enhancement, management and planning. Network functions, graph theory and graph algorithms, image restoration, image reconstruction from management is concerned with the operation and algebraic structures. projections, and binary image processing. of networks while network planning is Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: B.S. in Engineering or Physical concerned with the proper evolution of or Mathematical Sciences network installations over time. Network ESE 555: Advanced VLSI Systems Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management topics include meeting service Design requirements, management operations, Techniques of VLSI circuit design in the MOS ESE 563: Fundamentals of Robotics I management interoperability, and specific technology are presented. Topics include This course covers homogenous architectures such as Telecommunications MOS transistor theory, CMOS processing transformations of coordinates; kinematic Management Network (TMN), and Simple technology, MOS digital circuit analysis and and dynamic equations of robots with their Network Management Protocol (SNMP). design, and various CMOS circuit design associated solutions; control and programming Network planning topics include planning techniques. Digital systems2021 are designed and of robots. problem modeling, topological planning simulated throughout the course using an Prerequisite: Permission of instructor design, heuristic and formal solution assortment of VLSI design tools. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques. Prerequisite: B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Computer Science ESE 565: Parallel Processing Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Architectures ESE 552: Interconnection Networks etc.) This course provides a comprehensive Formation and analysis of interconnect introduction to parallel processing. processing elements in parallel computing ESE 556: VLSI Physical and Logic Topics include types of parallelism, organization. Topics include: SIMD/MIMD FallDesign Automation classification of parallel computers, functional computers, multiprocessors, multicomputers, Areas to be covered are Physical Design organizations, interconnection networks, density, symmetry, representations, and Automation and Logic Design Automation. memory organizations, control methods, routing algorithms. Topologies being discussed Upon completion of this course, students will parallel programming, parallel algorithms, include: Benes, Omega, Banyan, mesh, be able to develop state-of-the art CAD tools performance enhancement techniques and hypercube, cube-connected cycles, generalized and algorithms for VLSI logic and physical design examples for SIMD array processors, chordal rings, chordal rings, DeBruijn, design. Tools will address design tasks such as loosely coupled multiprocessors, and tightly Moebius graphs, Cayley graphs, and Borel floor planning, module placement and signal coupled multiprocessors. A brief overview of Cayley graphs. routing. Also, automated optimization of dataflow and reduction machines will also be Prerequisite: ESE 545 or equivalent combinational and sequential circuits will be given. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contemplated. Prerequisite: ESE 545 or equivalent Prerequisite: B.S. in Computer Engineering/ Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESE 553: A/D and D/A Integrated Data Science or Electrical Engineering etc.) Converters Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This is an advanced course on analog ESE 566: Hardware-Software Co- integrated circuit design aspects for data ESE 557: Digital Signal Processing II: Design of Embedded Systems converters. Topics include: continuous and Advanced Topics This course will present state-of-the-art discrete-time signals and systems; sampling concepts and techniques for design of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 78 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 embedded systems consisting of hardware development of application-specific VLSI technologies. After a brief review of VLSI and software components. Discussed topics architectures for current and future generation design methodologies and current IC include system specification, architectures for of wireless digital communication systems. An trends, fundamental challenges related to embedded systems, performance modeling and experimental/research project is required. the conventional CMOS technologies are evaluation, system synthesis and validation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) described. The shift from logic-centric to The course is complemented by three interconnect-centric design is emphasized. mini-projects focused on designing and ESE 576: Power System Dynamics Primary aspects of an interconnect-centric implementing various co-design methods. The course provides the background for design flow are described in four phases: Prerequisite: ESE 545, ESE 554 and ESE 333 understanding power system dynamics and (1) general characteristics of on-chip Fall numerical simulation techniques. Topics interconnects, (2) on-chip interconnects for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include the numerical integration for large- data signals, (3) on-chip power generation and scale power networks, numerical oscillation distribution, and (4) on-chip clock generation ESE 568: Computer and Robot Vision and its solution, power system component and distribution. Existing design challenges Principles and applications of computer modeling, frequency-dependent transmission faced by IC industry are investigated for and robot vision are covered. Primary network, nonlinear elements, network each phase. Tradeoffs among various design emphasis is on techniques and algorithms equivalents, power network stability, and criteria such as speed-power-noise-area are for 3D machine vision. The topics include microgrid stability & control. The area of highlighted. In the last phase of the course, image sensing of 3D scenes, a review of 2D real-time simulation for cyber-physical power several post-CMOS devices, emerging circuit techniques, image segmentation, stereo vision, infrastructures will also be discussed. styles, and architectures are briefly discussed. At the end of the course, the students will optical flow, time-varying image analysis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) have a thorough understanding of the primary shape from shading, texture, depth from May be repeated for credit. defocus, matching, object recognition, shape circuit and physical level design challenges representation, interpretation of line drawings, ESE 579: Advances Topics in with application to industrial IC design. and representation and analysis of 3D range Translational Bioinformatics Prerequisites: ESE555 or ESE330 and ESE 355 data. The course includes programming This course introduces the current applications projects on industrial applications of robot of machine learning and data mining Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, vision. techniques in biomedical data science, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discusses the latest translational research ESE 586: Micro Grids areas and progresses, and provides the hands- ESE 569: Translational Bioinformatics on team projects for graduate students to This course will discuss techniques useful for Advanced technologies have driven rapid explore, design and practice their ¿data- the grid modernization from a unique angle increases in the quantities of biomedical driven¿ solutions for the cutting-edge research of microgrid design, analysis and operation. data. Translational bioinformatics develops topics in biomedical data science. It will cover smart inverters, microgrid architectures, distributed energy resources the specified computational and analytic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) methods to transform these large-scale datasets 2021modeling, microgrid hierarchical control, into biomedical applicable information and ESE 581: Microprocessor-Based microgrid stability, fault management, resilient knowledge. It is one of major applications Systems Engineering II microgrids through programmable network, of machine learning and data mining. This reliable networked microgrids, and cyber This course is a study of methodologies and security. course introduces large-scale biomedical techniques for the engineering design of data resources and management, data microprocessor-based systems. Emphasis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) processing and modeling, data mining and is placed on the design of reliable industrial May be repeated for credit. machine learning approaches in translational quality systems. Diagnostic features are ESE 587: Hardware Architectures for bioinformatics, and provides the hands- included in these designs. Steps in the design Deep Learning on projects for students to practice these Fallcycle are considered. Specifically, requirement approaches for real-world biomedical data. definitions, systematic design implementation, This course focuses on the design and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) testing, debugging, documentation, and implementation of specialized digital maintenance are covered. Laboratory hardware systems for executing deep learning ESE 575: Advanced VLSI Signal demonstrations of design techniques are algorithms. The course is divided into Processing Architecture included in this course. The students also three sections. First, students will study This course is concerned with advanced obtain laboratory experience in the use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) aspects of VLSI architecture in digital signal microprocessors, the development of systems, and related tools. Second, the course will processing and wireless communications. The circuit emulation, and the use of signature and present an overview of modern deep learning first phase of the course covers the derivation logic analyzers. algorithms and applications (e.g., visual object recognition, or speech recognition). Third, of both data transformation and control Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, students will apply this knowledge to complete sequencing from a behavioral description etc.) of an algorithm. The next phase reviews the a significant design project implementing and general purpose and dedicated processor for ESE 585: Nanoscale Integrated Circuit optimizing a deep learning algorithm on an signal processing algorithms. This course Design FPGA. focuses on low-complexity high-performance This course describes high performance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) algorithm development and evaluation, system and low power integrated circuit (IC) ESE 588: Pattern Recognition architecture modeling, power-performance design issues for advanced nanoscale tradeoff analysis. The emphasis is on the

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Basic concepts of pattern recognition ESE 597: Practicum in Engineering - ESE 697: Ph.D. Practicum in Teaching techniques are introduced, including Internship The course provides hands-on experience statistical pattern recognition, syntactic This course is for part-time and full-time in classroom teaching. Other activities pattern recognition, and graph matching. graduate students, relating to their current may include preparation and supervison of Topics on Bayes decision theory, parametric professional activity. Participation is in private laboratory experiments, exams, homework and nonparametric techniques, clustering corporations, public agencies or non-profit assignments and projects. Final report that techniques, formal languages, parsing institutions. Students will be required to have summarizes the activities and provides a algorithms, and graph-matching algorithms are a faculty advisor as well as a contact in the description of the gained experience and a list covered. outside organization to participate with them in of recommendations is required. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Stochastic processes and data regular consultations on their project. Students G5 status and Permission of Graduate Program structures are required to submit a final written final Director Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, report to both. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) The maximum credits which can be accepted towards the M.S. degree is 3 credits. ESE 698: Practicum in Teaching ESE 589: Learning Systems for Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U grading This course enables graduate students to Engineering Applications May be repeated for credit. gain experience in teaching and interacting The course presents the main methods with students enrolled in an electrical and used in automated (machine) learning ESE 599: Research Master's students computer engineering course. Students for engineering applications. The course Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading enrolled in ESE-698 are expected to perform discusses representation models for learning, May be repeated for credit. various teaching duties required by the course extraction of frequent patterns, classification, instructor, such as attending lectures, providing clustering and application of these techniques ESE 610: Seminar in Solid-State office hours, holding review/recitation for diverse engineering applications, such Electronics sessions, assisting in lab sections and grading, as Intranet-of-Things, electronic design Current research in solid-state devices and etc. automation, and healthcare. The covered topics circuits and computer-aided network design. Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter include an overview of learning systems, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) learning representations i.e. ontologies, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. regression models, stochastic models and A-, B+, etc.) symbolic models, data preparing techniques, ESE 670: Topics in Electrical Sciences ESE 699: Dissertation Research on different frequent pattern extraction methods, Campus supervised and unsupervised classification, Varying topics selected from current research Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). and basic and advanced clustering algorithms. topics. This course is designed to give the Major portion of research must take place on The course is organized as three modules, necessary flexibility to students and faculty SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the each module being centered on a specific to introduce new material into the curriculum Brookhaven National Lab. theme. Students will learn the characteristics before it has attracted sufficient interest to be made part of the regular2021 course material. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U of the enumerated topics, and devise and implement software programs for discussed Topics include biomedical engineering, grading techniques as part of their project work for the circuit theory, controls, electronics circuits, May be repeated for credit. course. Student projects will be assessed using digital systems and electronics, switching standard benchmarks. theory and sequential machines, digital ESE 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) signal processing, digital communications, May be repeated for credit. computer architecture, networks, systems Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy theory, solid-state electronics, integrated (G5). Major portion of research will take place ESE 590: Practical ML Fallelectronics, quantum electronics and lasers, off-campus, but in the United States and/ communication theory, wave propagation, or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven The course provides a broad introduction to the integrated optics, optical communications and National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab state-of-the-art of machine learning methods information processing, instrumentation, and are considered on-campus. All international through lectures and labs, where the lectured VLSI computer design and processing. students must enroll in one of the graduate summarize the theoretical foundations of the student insurance plans and should be advised methods. Students work in teams and utilize Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, by an International Advisor. modern tools to develop a specific application A-, B+, etc.) in areas like computer vision, biomedical May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading engineering and social sciences. May be repeated for credit. ESE 691: Seminar in Electrical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Engineering ESE 701: Dissertation Research off Campus - International ESE 591: Industrial Project in OEMS This course is designed to expose students Engineering to the broadest possible range of the current Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy activities in electrical engineering. Speakers (G5). Major portion of research will take A student carries out a detailed design of an from both on and off campus discuss topics of place outside of the United States and/or industrial project in OEMS engineering. A current interest in electrical engineering. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the comprehensive technical report of the project option of the health plan and may also enroll and an oral presentation are required. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. in MEDEX. International students who are Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in their home country are not covered by

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 80 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 mandatory health plan and must contact the Required of all students who use the SEM in ESM 513: Strength of Materials Insurance Office for the insurance charge to their research. A unified approach for all solid materials be removed. International students who are Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be used with regard to the correlation not in their home country are charged for the between microstructure and their macroscopic mandatory health insurance. If they are to be ESM 503: Electron Diffraction mechanical properties. The course deals with covered by another insurance plan they must A quantitative discussion of electron various testing techniques for delineating file a waiver be second week of classes. The diffraction as a means of micro- mechanical properties of materials, considering charge will only be removed if other plan is characterization of materials and as a basis elasticity, inelasticity, plasticity, dislocation deemed comparable. for understanding image contrast in the theory, cohesive strength, fracture, and surface All international students must received transmission electron microscope. Topics wear. Attention is given to strengthening clearance from an International Advisor. covered include atomic, kinematical, and mechanisms for solids, metals, ceramics, and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading dynamical scattering; indexing diffraction polymers. May be repeated for credit. patterns; and convergent-beam diffraction. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESE 800: FULL TIME SUMMER etc.) ESM 514: Technical Writing for RESEARCH Materials Scientist May be repeated for credit. ESM 508: Impact of Materials on Students will examine writing as it appears in Environment published and draft format, taking into account This course will focus on several concepts different audience needs. Processes we will ESL underlying the impact of materials on cover include: planning, organizing, writing, English as Second Language the environment and various methods of review, editing and rewriting. Grammar issues, minimizing them, More specifically this particularly those that challenge non-native course will explore the concepts of air and speakers, will also be addressed. We will be ESL 593: Advanced Composition water pollution associated with product working with Professor Gerald Graff's idea Advanced training in writing for ESL students manufacturing, various concepts of hazardous of "They Say/I Say," a cornerstone strategy who need to concentrate on paragraph materials impact on human health, several of academic conversation, in which newer development. The first half of the semester topics of sustainable developments and colleagues in a field (i.e., undergraduate and deals with paragraph construction, stressing selected methods of contaminated water and graduate students) learn by apprenticeship how concepts of the main thesis and supporting air treatment. Additionally this course will to engage their peers in the discussion of ideas arguments. Some advanced grammar is be addressing the issues of how to minimize through written format. Offered reviewed, but the assumption is that basic the environmental pollution by product Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading structures and mechanics of writing have substitution and by decreasing the energy input already been mastered. The second half of into materials production. It will also give an ESM 519: Electrochemistry and the semester stresses combining paragraphs overview of the concepts of green chemistry, Electrochemical Materials Science into short compositions. Both descriptive green engineering and industrial2021 ecology. This course will survey electrochemistry and and argumentative writing are practiced. Diagnostic test during first week of classes Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, electrochemical materials science. Topics determines placement in the course. A through A-, B+, etc.) will include fundamental measurements C/Unsatisfactory grading only. in electrochemistry, galvanostatic and ESM 511: Thermodynamics of Solids potentiostatic methods, the electrochemical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Current knowledge regarding the double layer, corrosion and passivation. thermodynamic properties of condensed Relevant applications such as fuel cells, phases is discussed. The thermodynamic batteries, and supercapacitors will be ESM treatment of ideal, regular, and real solutions is discussed. Fallreviewed. Estimation of reaction-free energies 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Materials Science and equilibria in condensed phase reactions ESM 501: Teaching and Mentoring such as diffusion, exication, and phase ESM 521: Kinetics of Materials Techniques transformations; thermodynamic analysis of This Kinetics of Materials course will Discussion of various phases of teaching, phase equilibrium diagrams. discuss important kinetic phenomena in including preparation, classroom technique, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) materials science and engineering. The and student evaluation. Also exploration studies of kinetics explore how materials of skills and understanding necessary for ESM 512: Structure of Materials evolve and change in structure, morphology mentoring of undergraduates and others The structure of solids can be studied using and composition. The understanding involved in research. X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction of kinetics in materials leads to a broad Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading techniques. Topics covered are coherent impact in all scientific and engineering and incoherent scattering of radiation, fields concerning materials design and ESM 502: Scanning Electron structure of crystalline and amorphous solids, processing. This course will cover topics Microscopy Skills stereographic projection and crystal orientation ranging from core knowledges such as Practical introduction to the operation of determination, the concept of reciprocal vector various diffusion phenomena and motions scanning electron microscopes, including space. Laboratory work in X-ray diffraction is of defects and interfaces, to more complex energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometers. also included. subjects such as phase transformations and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) development of microstructure. It emphasizes

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 81 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the comprehension of fundamentals, leading to Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) nuclear detection, devices to safeguard nuclear a better understanding of processing-structure- materials from terrorist threats, needed property relationships. ESM 534: Advanced Laboratory physical protection for safe handling and its 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students perform a series of advanced relevance to Homeland Security. The course materials experiments which involve some combines lectures with hands-on experience at ESM 522: Imperfections in Crystals independent research. The results are then the newly installed nuclear detection facility The characteristics of point defects in metals, written in a report suitable for publication in a located at the nearby United States Department semiconductors, and ionic solids are described, journal or proceeding. of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. and the thermodynamics of point defects is Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: undergraduate equivalent developed. Dislocation theory is introduced physics and chemistry. and the structures of internal boundaries are ESM 537: Cellular Interactions Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B described. Finally, interactions between lattice This course is intended to introduce cellular +, etc.) imperfections are discussed, with emphasis on and biological concepts and principles for plasticity and fracture. graduate students in chemical engineers ESM 554: Chemical & Biological Weapons: Safeguards and Security Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, related to their research projects that involve etc.) cellular interactions with materials as possible This course deals with the fundamentals of scaffolds in bioengineering. This course may chemistry and biochemistry related to chemical ESM 523: Solid-State Electronics be counted as either CSE 370 or ESM 537. weapons (CW) and biological weapons (BW) A study of the electronic processes in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, that could be used by terrorists. Topics include solids leading to the analysis and design of etc.) CW and BW history, production, control, materials and devices. Crystal structures, detection, identification, and emergency binding, electrical and thermal conductivities, ESM 542: Modern Electron Microscopy response measures to deal with intended or diffusion, galvomagnetic, thermomagnetic, Principles and practice for transmission and unintended release and escape, and security and thermoelectric effects. Hall effect and scanning transmission electron microscopes. measures to protect and control stockpiles. magnetoresistance. Conductivity in thin films. Instrument design. Specimen preparation. Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Instrument operation. Electron diffraction chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology. and imaging theory. Microanalysis using X- Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B ESM 531: Phase Transformations ray and electron spectra. Typical electron +, etc.) Kinetics and Transformations II changed microscope investigations are outlined and ESM 555: Synchrotron Techniques in to Phase Transformations. A review of the used as examples. Materials Science processes by which structures are changed Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the solid state. Classical nucleation theory A short course in a selected synchrotron including homogeneous and heterogeneous ESM 550: Introduction to Homeland analytical technique as applied to problems in mechanisms. Diffusion and diffusionless Security Materials Science. May include demonstration growth mechanisms. Transformation kinetics. The course is a combination2021 of lectures and hands-on experience at the national synchrotron light source at Brookhaven Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and laboratory experience to introduce National Laboratory, and synchrotron safety etc.) students to critical issues and assess needs for homeland security. The course includes training. ESM 532: Materials Processing invited lectures by experts on special topics 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A study of manufacturing processes used such as fundamentals of nuclear, chemical, ESM 560: Risk Assessment, in the semiconductor industries. Topics and biological weapons and the associated Regulation, and Homeland Security include single crystal growth, compound threat to the transportation of goods and the formation, zone refining, epitaxial growth, public. The students will learn about cyber The course focus is on risk assessment Fallsecurity, devices to safeguard materials from associated with nuclear, chemical and doping techniques, thin film techniques, thick film techniques, passivations, isolations, lead terrorist threats, safety of nuclear power plants biological weapons as it relates to Homeland bonding techniques, cleaning and etching, and and water supply, forensics and emergency Security. Topics include air dispersion, failure analysis; discrete devices and integrated preparedness. The students will submit a term uncertainty analysis, exposure measurements, circuit devices; various modern concepts in IC paper on a selected topic in lieu of the final epidemiology, toxicology, regulatory issues, processing. exam. risk management, risk communication, risk perception, and risk preparedness. The course Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: undergraduate level biology, chemistry and physics. will also cover laws and regulation, and ESM 533: Polymeric Materials Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B disaster preparedness, various acts passed by +, etc.) the U.S. Congress to regulate water, air, and Introduction to the physical properties of controlled substances. polymeric materials. Conformations, phase ESM 553: Nuclear Safeguards and diagrams, and flow properties of polymers Prerequisite: undergraduate or equivalent Security and polymer solutions. Rubber elasticity of physics, math and chemistry. polymer networks and melts. Flory-Huggins The course is intended to familiarize students Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B lattice model for concentrated solutions. with the fundamentals of nuclear physics, +, etc.) Applications to diffusion, segregation, and radiation, mining, weapons and fuel cycle, ESM 561: Crystal Growth Technology spinodal decomposition in polymer blends. other than producing electricity, as it pertains Experimental methods. to nuclear power plants. Topics include

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The main goal of this course is to introduce and explore the cosmic significance of our ESM 695: Graduate Internship graduate students to the fundamentals and existence. Participation in private corporations, public physical principles that govern the process of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) agencies, or non-profit institutions for ongoing crystal growth and show them how to apply research activities related to thesis research. those principles to design and engineer growth ESM 599: Research Students will be required to have a faculty systems for different crystalline materials. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading coordinator as well as a contact in the outside While microscopic theory of nucleation and May be repeated for credit. organization, to participate with them in growth kinetics will be an essential part of this regular consultations on the project, and to course, its core will mainly focus on applying ESM 604: Seminar in Ultrasonic submit a final report to both. Not accepted for transport phenomena and thermodynamics of Methods and Internal Friction in Solids credit toward the M.S. degree. chemical reactions to the design of processing 1-3 credits, S/U grading reactors. As part of the academic requirements Review of advanced measurement techniques May be repeated for credit. associated with this course, students will form in the field of ultrasonics coupled with teams and work on the virtual design of crystal quantitative descriptions of experimental variables related to the sample microstructure. ESM 696: Special Topics in Materials growth reactors using software packages for Science transport phenomena modeling. Applications to optical, electrical, and mechanical properties are discussed. Use of Supervised reading and discussion of selected Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ultrasonics for nondestructive evaluation is publications in particular fields of Materials considered. Science. This course is designed primarily ESM 562: Traditional Fossil Fuels Prerequisite: ESM 513 for advanced graduate students who are, or The course will focus on the original and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, expect to be, involved in research in these history of traditional fossil fuels, coal, etc.) areas, although other students may enroll with petroleum and natural gas. Discuss mining permission of the instructor. methods and the role of fossil fuels play in the ESM 608: Seminar in Catalysis Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, post-industrial revolution era. A comparison A-, B+, etc.) of the three fossil fuels with respect to their Introduction to homogeneous and May be repeated for credit. energy content, CO2 output and associated heterogeneous catalysis. Geometric factors environmental impact tied to global warming. in catalysis. The kinetics of heterogeneous catalysis. Electronic factors in catalysis: ESM 697: Materials Science Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) metals, semiconductors, and surface species. Colloquium Preparation and properties of metal surfaces. A weekly series of lectures and discussions by ESM 566: Fuel Combustion Porosity. Typical industrial processes, e.g., visitors, local faculty, and students presenting The course will focus on combustion process Fischer-Tropsch, ammonia synthesis, ammonia current research results. for heat and power generation. Describe both oxidation, etc. Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading fundamentals and actual systems involving Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. fossil feuls and upcoming CO2-neutral biofuels. Emphasis on fuel combustion in ESM 614: Seminar in Diffusion2021 in ESM 698: Practicum in Teaching stationary equipment, emissions characteristics Solids of burning fuels and challenges in developing Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading the next-generation combustion equipment. Diffusion in solids is considered in detail, May be repeated for credit. including solution of the transport equations Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, for volume, grain boundary, and surface ESM 699: Dissertation Research on etc.) diffusion. Kirkendall effect and other diffusion Campus phenomena, atomic mechanisms of diffusion, ESM 569: Biofuels Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). correlation effects, etc. Next, the theory Major portion of research must take place on The course will focus on biofuels- a promising of processes in which diffusion plays an SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the option to replace fossil fuels. Topics to be Fall important role is considered, such as ionic Brookhaven National Lab. covered include crop-growth cycle and its conduction, oxidation of metals, and the Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U impact on land-use, biomass to various fuel sintering of solids. options, their integration into the exiting grading Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading energy delivery infrastructure and potential May be repeated for credit. benefit in CO2 reduction. ESM 694: Directed Studies in Materials ESM 700: Dissertation Research off Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Science Campus - Domestic etc.) This course is designed for research on special Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy topics in Materials Science and is directed by ESM 575: The Material World (G5). Major portion of research will take place a faculty member. Designed for students who off-campus, but in the United States and/ The evolution of the Material World starting want to research areas that are not typically or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven from the Big Bang, the creation of stars and covered by regular coursework. Registration National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab galaxies, the nucleosynthesis of the elements in requires the faculty member's and departmental are considered on-campus. All international supernova explosions, formation of the Earth approval. Cannot be repeated for credit with students must enroll in one of the graduate and Solar System, human adaptation of Earth the same faculty member. student insurance plans and should be advised resources to create the Modern World will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) by an International Advisor. discussed. In this process we will discover the May be repeated for credit. fundamental laws governing material behavior Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit.

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ESM 701: Dissertation Research off deep-space missions, modern astronomical Offered Campus - International instrumentation, and exoplanet discoveries. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Emphasis will be placed on topics contained ESS 533: Global Climate (G5). Major portion of research will take in the Earth Science curriculum in New place outside of the United States and/or U.S. York State. A research report is required. This course explores the fundamental physical provinces. This course is intended for science teachers processes associated with various weather and science education students and requires phenomena: tropical cyclones, extratropical Domestic students have the option of the knowledge of trigonometry, algebra and cyclones, fronts, convective storms, and local health plan and may also enroll in MEDEX. introductory college level physics. air-sea and mountain flows. The latest analysis International students who are in their home techniques, datasets, and tools will be used countries are not covered by the mandatory Offered to understand the climatology and structural health plan and must contact the Insurance Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evolution of these weather phenomena. Basic Office for the insurance charge to be removed. ESS 523: Collisions in the Solar forecasting techniques will be applied using International students who are not in their System observations and numerical model output. home countries are charged for the mandatory Research report required. This course is health insurance. If they are to be covered by A discussion of the evidence that comet and intended for science teachers and science other insurance plans they must file waivers asteroid impacts have played a significant education students. by the second week of classes. The charge part in the evolution of the Earth, and other will only be removed if the other plans are planets of the solar system, as well as an Offered deemed comparable. All international students assessment of the actual and perceived hazard Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) must receive clearance from an International posed by terrestrial impacts and discussion ESS 534: Air Pollution and Control Advisor. of what can be done about it. Research report Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading required. This course is intended for science This course provides an overall picture of air May be repeated for credit. teachers and science education students and pollution caused by gas phase species and requires knowledge of trigonometry, algebra airborne particulate matter. The sources of air ESM 800: FULL TIME SUMMER RSH and introductory college level physics. Offered pollution and the transport of air pollutants will be discussed. We will study the underlying May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) chemical processes which can lead to the formation of secondary air pollutants. Their ESS ESS 524: The Universe effect on an urban, regional, and global The origin, evolution, and ultimate fate of the scale and on human health will be assessed. Earth and Space Sciences universe. The course begins with a historical National and international air quality policy approach with emphasis on the evolution regulations will be discussed. The causes and ESS 501: Foundations of Earth Science of cosmological ideas from geocentric consequences of the stratospheric ozone hole Comprehensive analysis of the New York universes to the Big Bang. Consideration of will be outlined. The international efforts in State Earth Science Curriculum taught by an the evolution of the universe2021 from the earliest form of policy protocols to stop stratospheric experienced Earth Science teacher. This course moments after the Big Bang to the distant ozone depletion will be discussed. The natural is intended for science teachers and science future, including the formation of the galaxies, greenhouse effect will be introduced and our education students. stars, and planets. Research report required. current understanding of global warming will be presented. Research report required. This Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is intended for science teachers and science education students and requires course is intended for science teachers and ESS 511: Pine Barrens Sustainability knowledge of trigonometry, algebra and science education students. The ecologically diverse Long Island Pine introductory college level physics. Offered Barrens region provides a habitat for a large Co-scheduled with AST 304 The Universe. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, number of rare and endangered species, but FallSpring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) faces challenges associated with protection of etc.) ESS 536: Principles of Weather a natural ecosystem that lies in close proximity Analysis and Forecasting to an economically vibrant urban area that ESS 532: Atmospheric Fundamentals exerts intense development pressure. In this This course considers: the principles of This course explores the fundamental physical course we will consider the interaction of atmospheric thermodynamics to assess processes associated with various weather the ecological, developmental and economic adiabatic and saturated adiabatic processes; phenomena: tropical cyclones, extratropical factors that impact the Pine Barrens and the the concepts of radiative transfer such as cyclones, fronts, convective storms, and local effectiveness of decision support systems in blackbody radiation, scattering, absorption, air-sea and mountain flows. The latest analysis promoting sustainability of the Pine Barrens. and emission by molecules and particles will techniques, datasets, and tools will be used to understand the climatology and structural 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be discussed; tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry with its subsequent effects on air evolution of these weather phenomena. Basic ESS 522: The Planets pollution and chemical cycles; meteorological forecasting techniques will be applied using observations and numerical model output. A study of present knowledge of planets and physical concepts such as geostrophic and Research report required. This course is their satellites, the interplanetary medium, gradient winds, and general circulation; and intended for science teachers and science asteroids, meteorites, comets, and the Sun. the microphysics of cloud formation and education students. Emphasizes the methods of science including precipitation. Research report required. This the history of astronomical sciences, ongoing course is intended for science teachers and Offered science education students.

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Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Special studies directed by various faculty technology throughout the school and/or etc.) members to be taken for variable and repetitive district. Students will explore and discuss credit. critical issues surrounding technology ESS 541: Earth's Surficial Environment Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter in education. Students will understand This course includes creating and using graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) administrative technology applications, web topographic maps, weathering, soil May be repeated for credit. 2.0 presentation tools, Internet protocol, cyber development, stream systems, groundwater, safety and cyber bullying, Google Apps, social glacial geology, mass movement, erosion and ESS 589: Research for Earth Science networking, collaboration tools, portable deposition,. Instruction will include lectures Teachers devices and apptivities. The semester project and laboratory exercises. Research report This course is intended to provide science for this course is the development of a needs required. This course is intended for science teachers or graduate students in the Science assessment and research of an educational teachers and science education students. Education program an opportunity to obtain technology for your school/district. Offered research experience. A written report is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) required. EST 501: Educational Technology Fall, Spring and ESS 542: Tectonic Environment Integration for Administrators Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The use of maps in recognizing, describing etc.) This course is designed to teach administrators and interpreting tectonic features in New York May be repeated for credit. how to integrate educational technology State and around the world; understanding the within their school/district. Students will origin of structural features of the earth's crust ESS 600: Independent Research understand ISTE Technology Standards for and interior; using seismic data to understand This course is required for students in MAT Administrators, the National Technology Plan the tectonic significance of earthquakes and Earth Science and MS in Geosciences with and the Common Core Standards in relation to describe the earth materials through which a concentration in Earth and Space Sciences to educational technology. Students will seismic waves travel; and understanding the to document that the student has completed explore distance education, media streaming role of plate tectonics in the earth's geologic an independent research project as part of a and communication tools such as Twitter and evolution. Instruction will include lectures and graduate earth science academic or research Facebook. They will review management laboratory exercises. Research report required. course. systems, data collection/analysis tools and This course is intended for science teachers technology funding resources. Students S/U grading and science education students. Offered will also learn how to evaluate technology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, ESS 601: Topics in Earth and Space integration throughout their school and/or etc.) Sciences district. The semester project for this course is the development of an implementation This course is intended for science teachers or ESS 543: Rocks and Minerals plan and the evaluation of an educational science education students. Identification, properties, formation and technology that may be used in your school or Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter occurrence of rock-forming minerals: district. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021 characterizing igneous, sedimentary and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. metamorphic rocks including the diverse geologic settings in which they occur EST 508: Projects in Global Operations ESS 610: Capstone Project in Earth Management with emphasis on their occurrence in the and Space Sciences Metropolitan New York area. Instruction will This is a capstone course. Students will This required capstone project considers include lectures and laboratory exercises. demonstrate what they have learned during unifying themes or "big ideas" such as scale Research report required. This course is their masters studies. This course will review and structure, models, stability, and change, intended for science teachers and science several significant research areas in modern systems and interactions, energy and time education students. Fall Global Processing Management Operations. as they apply to astronomy, atmospheric Topics include Performance Management, Offered science and geology. This capstone course Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Lean Management, Six Sigma Management integrates "big ideas" across the earth and in conjunction with Cloud Computing and space sciences. Students should have taken at ESS 544: Geology of New York Cloud computing applications. The students least two undergraduate or graduate courses in The course will explore the geologic will be given a selected case study and each of astronomy, atmospheric science and asked to demonstrate their knowledge by development of New York from the geology. Mesoprfoterozoic to the present and will proposing a comprehensive technical and 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) also explore how the rocks were dated using management solution. Students will use radiometric methods and fossils. Research software engineering tools such as Data report required. This course is intended Flow Diagram (DFD) and Unified Modeling for science teachers and science education EST Language (UML) to analyze and design an students. Technology and Society implementation plan using cloud computing infrastructure, platform and services. Offered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, EST 500: Foundations of Educational 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Technology for Administrators EST 510: Fundamentals of Technology This course is designed to teach administrators in Higher Education ESS 585: Directed Studies basic principles surrounding educational

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Higher education is impacted by technology The first section of the sequence examines technology locally in our current educational on an ever changing scale. Students are historical science and technology successes system. bringing in new technology every day. This and failures. Then, in the second section, teams Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter course will show higher education instructors composed of students from both the CS and graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) what technology is available, how higher DTS departments conduct case studies of education students are using technology and existing ST or design and implement new ST EST 522: Integrating Educational offer innovative ways to use that technology under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit Technology into Social Studies and to motivate students to learn. Throughout 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Language Arts the course students learn about best practices Students will learn how to integrate technology in higher education, a number of web based EST 517: Science for Society II into Social Studies and Language Arts productivity and course management tools, This is part two of an interdisciplinary course curriculum using the ISTE/NETs standards cyber-ethics and digital footprint, organization sequence (1 credit each) is designed for and National Technology Plan to aid in the of your digital world, collaborating with students in computer science (CS) and students delivery of instruction. Students will develop technology, social media, virtual worlds as of technology and society (DTS). Students a push-in training model focused on the Social well as presentation strategies and tools. The taking this course will enhance their abilities Studies and Language Arts Core Curriculum culminating project for this course is the to critically think and build awareness for and subject related needs. Students will research, assessment, analysis and presentation science and technology (ST) and their societal meet with a Social Studies and Language of a college student profile. Semesters offered aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing Arts educator, assess their needs, design Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B important questions such as: what should I an educational technology push-in around +, etc.) focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, those needs and push-in the training with what policies are required or can be taken the educator to their class. The culminating EST 511: Infusing Technology into advantage of, how can I possibly influence activity for this course is to conduct the push- Higher Education Curriculum policy, and finally, what are the dangers in training with a Social Studies and Language The power of technology allows higher when developing new ST. To teach these Arts educator and their class. After the push-in education instructors to teach and motivate topics the course takes a practical approach. training students will work with the instructor students to learn in ways never thought The first section of the sequence examines to evaluate the delivery and content of the possible. This course will show students historical science and technology successes lesson as well as assess the outcome and how to fully integrate technology into the and failures. Then, in the second section, teams results of educator learning. curriculum. For the semester project, students composed of students from both the CS and Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter will review and modernize an existing course DTS departments conduct case studies of graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to make learning more effective and exciting existing ST or design and implement new ST for the higher education student. Students under the perspectives of the course. 1 credit EST 523: Integrating Educational will learn the best way to update courses 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology into Mathematics and by understanding different instructional Science design models, content management systems EST 521: The Social and2021 Global Impact Students will learn how to integrate technology and the Google Apps for Education suite. of Technology in Education into Math and Science curriculum using ISTE/ Students will enhance his/her web presence This course will explore educational systems NETs standards and the National Technology and digital profile by harnessing the power of and practices globally and how the use or lack Plan to aid in the delivery of instruction. social media and personal learning networks. of use of technology within education impacts Students will develop an educational Students will also explore potential technology society. Inversely students will research technology workshop focused on the Math and grant opportunities for his/her curriculum, how society dictates the use or lack of use of Science Core Curriculum and subject related department or instructional area. Semesters technology in education within the specified needs. Students will meet with a group of offered, educational system. Throughout the course, Math and Science educators, asses their needs, Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Fallstudents will focus on one region of the world design an educational technology workshop +, etc.) and research the current educational system around those needs and deliver the workshop and specifically how they use technology to the educators. The culminating activity EST 516: Science for Society I within education. In their research they for this course is to conduct the developed This is part one of an interdisciplinary course will find out what technology is available workshop to a group of Math and Science sequence (1 credit each) is designed for within the educational system, how that educators. After the delivery of the workshop, students in computer science (CS) and students technology is used, explore the effectiveness students will work with the instructor and of technology and society (DTS). Students of the technology and research the social classmates to evaluate the delivery and content taking this course will enhance their abilities impact of that technology use. Students will of the lesson as well as assess the outcome and to critically think and build awareness for connect with a global participant via distance results of educator learning. science and technology (ST) and their societal communication or video conferencing to Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter aspects. They will learn strategies for assessing gain real world knowledge of the educational graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) important questions such as: what should I system and the use of technology for the focus my efforts on, where are societal needs, specified region. The culminating project is a EST 524: The Role of Educational what policies are required or can be taken research based project that assesses the use of Technology Specialist advantage of, how can I possibly influence technology within the selected global region, In this course students will learn the role and policy, and finally, what are the dangers offers solutions on how to improve the use responsibilities of an Educational Technology when developing new ST. To teach these of technology and compares that system and Specialist. Students will connect with an topics the course takes a practical approach. the use of technology with our own use of administrator and work with the course

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 86 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 instructor to develop a year-long technology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics addressed in this course include: integration plan. The development of the plan technology infrastructure, business models will include: a data driven needs assessment EST 527: Google for Education: and concepts, technological skills needed to based on current goals and technology Professional Development build an E-Commerce web site, marketing, available, use of that data to address specific Students will explore educational best communications, security and encryption, technology/curriculum needs, the integration practices and examples of materials needed payment systems in E-Commerce/M- plan proposal, creation of a professional to submit the application to become a Google commerce. Financial transactions, advertising development plan using workshops, push-ins Certified Trainer. Students will thoroughly models, content ownership and the prospects or one-on-one sessions to deliver instruction review Google for Education best practices, for E-Commerce are also covered. and a peer evaluation of the effectiveness organize additional training materials and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of the proposed technology integration create their portfolio. Through the delivery of etc.) plan. In addition, students will learn how to training sessions or lessons, students will focus infuse the ISTE Standards and the National on the power of Google for Education tools EST 531: Virtual Distance Management Technology Plan into the curriculum, research and their use in PK-12 education. Students Course new technologies and educational resources, will also create, run their own workshop. In today's global corporations, the challenges and understand the social, political, ethical The culminating activity of this course is the associated with leadership and management and legal issues surrounding educational completion of the portfolio with a screencast has grown increasingly difficult and technology. and the submission of the application to complex. More and more, companies are Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter Google. This class cannot be used to satisfy using networked organizational models to graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) master¿s degree requirements. deliver work and interact with customers. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) As globalization and diffused networks EST 525: Google for Education: of people and companies combine, issues Foundations EST 528: Teaching with Interactive related to virtual/distributed employees, Google for Education (GfE) is a powerful suite Whiteboards and Immersive partners and customers have moved front that now seamlessly integrates into curricula Technologies and center. Implications for leadership has and district technology goals. In this course, Interactive whiteboards and other immersive grown beyond current skill sets drawn from students will learn the tools necessary to technologies have changed the way educators traditional academic fields and training become a Google Certified Trainer. Students deliver instruction. They are a technology programs. The Virtual Distance Management will create and learn how to use Google for that has enormous potential to impact student course offers business students a powerful Education tools in their classroom. They will learning in a hands-on, kinesthetic way. model and a set of proven practices to address also develop a comprehensive knowledge Throughout this course students will explore these challenges in a unique way. Students of a number of different products within best practices using immersive technologies will learn to: Understand and diagnose Google Apps including - Drive, Calendar, within education. Students will learn how to barriers to effective communication Develop Gmail, Sites, Classroom and more. Students effectively integrate interactive whiteboards, ways to work with others using virtual will focus on skills necessary to become a interactive projectors and cameras,2021 learner technologies and social media Contribute Google Certified Trainer through hands-on responses systems, document cameras as well to high performance, cross-discipline and coursework, review and preparation for the as other technologies. The culminating project cross-cultural teams Management strategies Google for Education Exams. The culminating for this course a comprehensive lesson plan for the globally distributed workforce activities for this course are a showcase utilizing immersive technology hardware and Virtual Distance, pioneered by Karen of best practices highlighting Google for the associated software within the curriculum. Sobel Lojeski, is a conceptual as well as Education tools, the preliminary work for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative approach that helps to explain your portfolio, and the completion of the organizational behavior changes when much certification requirements. This class cannot be EST 529: Supporting Common of our communications are electronically used to satisfy master's degree requirements. FallCore Standards Using Educational mediated. Understanding these changes and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology how they impact organizational outcomes In this course students will learn how to is critical to leaders and managers around EST 526: Google for Education: support Common Core Standards through the world. During this course, students will Curriculum Integration the infusion of educational technology by be exposed to both theoretical models and In this course, students will learn how to fully identifying, sharing, and exploring technology real-life case studies to more fully develop integrate the Google for Education products tools that support all curricula. Students knowledge and skills for working in the beyond the core apps, including Google will unpack the Common Core Standards digital age. Students will gain an in-depth Groups,Earth, Scholar, Blogger, and Google and analyze and discuss best practices understanding of Virtual Distance and how this +. Students will complete the Google modules that effectively integrate technology to growing phenomenon impacts critical success as well as they develop their portfolio. They promote rigorous teaching and learning. factors such as productivity, innovation, will begin to deliver training by conducting a The culminating assignment for this course and employee engagement and satisfaction. live webinar session which highlights Google is the design, delivery, reflection, revision Students will also get hands-on experience tools or apps and sharing best practices. The and presentation of your technology infused with Virtual Distance Index data. Drawing culminating activities for this course are the Common Core lessons from over 700 project teams from around the world, students will learn how to interpret development of a portfolio highlighting the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) lessons or trainings they conducted throughout Virtual Distance data this program. This class cannot be used to EST 530: Internet Electronic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) satisfy master¿s degree requirements. Commerce

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EST 534: The Lean Launch Pad: This course will cover basic groundwater technology innovation; at business-and public- Turning a great idea into a great concepts in unconsolidated sediments, and administration students and at mid-career company examine contamination issues in light of Long professionals who want to develop innovative This course provides real world, hands-on Island's particular hydrogeology, land use, financing solutions to real-world energy and learning of what it's like to actually start a and waste management history. Mathematical environmental problems. Offered: Summer high-tech company. This class is not about principles will be discussed but not stressed; Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B how to write a business plan, and the end result scientific and technical papers discussing +, etc.) is not a PowerPoint presentation to venture particular concepts or problems, including capitalists. Instead, students will get their important local examples, will be closely read. EST 547: Advanced Problems in hands dirty talking to customers, partners Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Offered Integrated Planning: Theory, Practice, and competitors as they encounter the chaos as MAR 521 or HPH 673. and Analytical Tools and uncertianty of how a startup actually Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This course explores in depth new theories and works. Students work in teams learning how B+, etc.) practical applications of integrated planning to turn a great idea into a great company. through the lens and land use, transportation They will learn how to use a business model EST 542: Water and Wastewater and urban infrastructure systems. A series to brainstorm each part of a company and Engineering Practices of problem sets is undertaken in close customer development to get out of the This course will provide basic engineering coordination with the instructor to produce a classroom to see whether anyone other than concepts and practices associated with water portfolio of networked research which, with themselves would want/use their product. supply and wastewater management, with further research, can be publishable quality. Finally, they will see how agile development an emphasis on New York metropolitan area Offered can help them rapidly iterate their product to technologies. Topics covered will include Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, build something customers will use and buy. water supply and distribution, wells, water etc.) Offered in Fall and Spring. quality testing and regulation, onsite, package 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and standard wastewater treatment, and EST 551: The Atom and Environmental stormwater collection. Policy issues considered Radiation in the Nuclear Age EST 535: Electric Power Systems will include source water protection and This course will address technical and societal This course introduces concepts in the design wastewater impact mitigation programs. aspects relating to nuclear power and the and operation of electric power systems Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, general issue of environmental radioactivity. including generation with focus on renewable B+, etc.) It will cover basics of the nuclear industry and power, transmission and distribution, and the nature of radioactivity. This includes the end use; key issues and challenges facing EST 546: Integrating Technology, production, storage, and disposal of diverse electric power industry. Topics include Policy and Financing Instruments to radionuclides emanating from the nuclear electric and magnetic circuits, fundamental Catalyze Climate Finance fuel cycle and nuclear weapons testing. The of electric power, circuit and load analysis, The sums involved in a shift to a low-carbon properties of major radionuclides will be reliability, planning, dispatch, integration society are daunting but not2021 impossible to explored. The course will also consider the of renewable power, organizational design, achieve. The world is planning to invest complex issue of biological risks posed by regulations, environment, end-use efficiency, over $15 trillion in fixed-asset investments radionuclides at different doses to living new technologies, and other cross-cutting in the next 10 years. Rather a problem of organisms, including man. Economic and issues capital generation, the key challenge of political constraints on nuclear power 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) financing the transition towards a low carbon generation will be discussed for the US society is to redirect existing and planned and other countries, as will the actual and EST 540: Environmental Management capital flows from traditional high-carbon perceived risks associated with environmental This is an introduction to environmental to low-carbon investments. This course is radioactivity. management, and will focus on the interplay Falldesigned to allow students to: (1) Review 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) between science and public policy. Concepts a number of public policies, public finance include problem identification and definition, mechanisms and market-based instruments EST 553: Nuclear Security collection and analysis of relevant data designed to shift investments from fossil fuels The course will familiarize students with the to produce information, and the roles of to more climate friendly alternatives over the fundamentals of nuclear physics, radiation, public perception and action in ultimately past few years; (2) Gain knowledge of the mining, weapons and fuel cycle, other than determining outcomes when consensus is global commercial, political, innovation and producing electricity, as it pertains to nuclear not reached. Specific fields to which these technological challenges and opportunities power plants. Topics include nuclear detection, concepts will be applied will be solid waste in the transition to a low-carbon society; devices to safeguard nuclear materials from management and coastal management. Current (3) Develop and practice professional skills terrorist threats, needed physical protection for local problems will be used to illustrate the in raising and spending public finance to safe handling and its relevance to Homeland broader conceptual issues. Offered as MAR catalyze capital towards low carbon and Security. The course combines lectures 514, EST 540 and CEY 501. Prerequisite: climate resilient development; and (4) with hands-on experience at the newly Permission of instructor Develop and practice professional skills installed nuclear detection facility located in accessing carbon finance and designing Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, at the nearby United States Department of innovative financing instruments. This course A-, B+, etc.) Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. is aimed at engineering students who are Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent physics EST 541: Long Island's Groundwater interested in the energy challenges in a carbon- and chemistry. constrained world and their implications to

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Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B nuclear power plant. These applications This course will explore three themes: [1] +, etc.) include medical and industrial isotope current and future trends of development production, research reactors, particle and digital information technology toward EST 554: Chemical & Biological accelerators, propulsion reactors, and nuclear mobility, [2] combined with many other Weapons: Safeguards and Security weapons. Supporting these applications is technologies increasingly repurposed and This course deals with the fundamentals of a complex infrastructure involving several adapted toward mobility and sustainability chemistry and biochemistry related to chemical diverse scientific, engineering, and industrial (wearable, lOT), [3] along with skills required weapons (CW) and biological weapons (BW) processes. One of the key processes is the for employing such arrangements effectively that could be used by terrorists. Topics include nuclear fuel cycle, involved principally in toward the part they play in risk assessment CW and BW history, production, control, civil nuclear power and related civil nuclear and in advancing risk reduction whether in detection, identification, and emergency activities, from uranium mining to spent natural hazards and/or human disasters and response measures to deal with intended or fuel reprocessing. However, the same set inequitable development. unintended release and escape, and security of technologies can be used to manufacture 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) measures to protect and control stockpiles. nuclear weapons ¿ thus these technologies Prerequisite: Undergraduate equivalent become a double-edged sword. This course EST 560: Risk Assessment, chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology. provides a comprehensive first look at this Regulation, and Homeland Security Fall, Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B complex of technologies for those interested in The course focus is on risk assessment +, etc.) nuclear weapons proliferation, nuclear energy, associated with nuclear, chemical and or nuclear safety. It is directed at those with biological weapons as it relates to Homeland EST 555: Preventing Weapons no foundation in nuclear physics or nuclear Security. Topics include air dispersion, Proliferation engineering, but who seek to understand these uncertainty analysis, exposure measurements, The student will learn: what some of the technologies in terms well beyond those of epidemiology, toxicology, regulatory issues, key international tools to stem weapons the layman, but short of the nuclear engineer. risk management, risk communication, proliferation are, how they have developed Individuals interested in taking this course risk perception, and risk preparedness. The over the last 50 years, and how they work; should have completed a course in algebra. course will also cover laws and regulation, the kinds of technologies used to develop Students should be familiar and comfortable discouraging terrorism, and disaster nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons & working with exponents and logarithms. preparedness, various acts passed by the U.S. missile delivery systems; and the complexities Higher levels of math such as calculus will not Congress to regulate water, air, and controlled & methods of controlling these technologies. be utilized in this course. substances. Offered as EST 560 or HPH 656. The student will also learn about the use of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Undergraduate or equivalent UN Security Council sanctions, and about physics, math and chemistry. EST 558: Digital technologies in multilateral [e.g., EU, ECOWAS) and national Fall and Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, disaster risk reduction sanctions; and about how interdicting illicit A-, B+, etc.) transfers does or does not work. The course The course explores the use of a variety of will emphasize how technology, international sensing technologies for public2021 safety and EST 561: Sensing Technologies for law, and international and domestic politics all disaster management and risk reduction. Disater Risk Reduction play important roles in the evolution, current These include national and commercially This graduate seminar will survey the practice, and effectiveness of the international available satellites, manned and unmanned main topics in the emerging field of digital nonproliferation regime. aerial "drone" systems (sUAS), closed technology management for disaster risk 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) circuit cameras, small-footprint remote- reduction. Throughout it will introduce sensor monitor"tng in wireless networks, relevant theoretical concepts and relate them EST 556: Nuclear Nonproliferation & and a wide number of IP-based (loT) to policies and practices. Topics will include International Safeguards systems. Technically, the course starts the evolution of next-generation public The student will learn the history of the Fallwith the fundamental character"1stics of safety networks, related digital technologies nuclear nonproliferation regime since 1946, electromagnetic radiation and how these such as robotics, augmented and virtual with emphasis on the evolution of concepts energies interact with Earth materials such reality, big data, mobility, innovation and & practice. The student will also learn the as vegetation, water, soil and rock, as well as entrepreneurship as well as conceptual variety and complexity of motivations for humans. It describes how the energy reflected approaches to distorters and the relationship governments to seek nuclear weapons, and in or emitted from these materials is recorded of disaster to broader environment and many cases, to foreswear nuclear weapons. using a variety of sensing instruments (e.g., sustainable development issues. Departmental The course will emphasize how nuclear cameras, multispectral scanners, hyperspectral faculty and guest lecturers from partner energy technologies, verification technologies, instruments, RADAR). The course also teaches organization (UN office for Disaster Risk international legal practice, and politics all how to interpret fundamental biophysical or Reduction, Korean Red Cross, International play important roles in the evolution, current land use information from the sensor data. The Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent practice, and effectiveness of the international history of sensing technologies, the principles Societies, SafeNet Forum) will participate. of visual photo-interpretation, and issues of nuclear nonproliferation regime. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) surveillance are also presented. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EST 562: Decision Support Systems EST 557: Nuclear Energy-the nuclear A decision support system (DSS) is a computer EST 559: Mobile Revolution in Disaster fuel cycle & technologies system that combines, data, analytical tools, Risk Reduction Nuclear energy has many applications beyond and models to support decision making. A the well known (and controversial) civil DSS may be model-driven or data-driven. A

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 89 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 model-driven DSS is a stand- alone system that based Web 2.0 applications within school First, the world is undergoing a wave of urban uses some type of model to perform ¿what- curriculum. The culminating activity for this growth. Second, the pace of technological if¿ and other kinds of analysis. A data- driven course is the design and a presentation of a change is quickening and, with it, the pace of DSS is a system that supports decision making micro-lesson using one these applications as social change and even social transformation. by allowing users to extract and analyze useful they would in the classroom. Course modules will cover technology and information that was previously buried in large Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded society in urban contexts with particular databases. In this course, both model-driven (A, A-, B+, etc.) attention to: 1) energy, 2) environments, 3) and data-driven decision support services transportation, and 4) health and human safety will be considered. Students will identify EST 567: The Internet, Social (including security). This class will involve an appropriate engineering or management Networking and Collaborative trips to sites in New York City, and will application. By collecting relevant data, Environments involve the use of IT technologies in creative building suitable mathematical models, In this course students will learn the basic ways to advance our learning. designing an accessible user interface, and principles of using the Internet for instruction, Offered Fall, Spring and connecting these components via computer the science and engineering concepts Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, code, students will develop a deliverable DSS. behind modern communication systems etc.) Through a series of presentations, they will and their impact on education as well as demonstrate how their DSS addresses the the evolution of the Internet in education. EST 570: Educational Technology stated engineering or management problem. Students will design and create a website Lesson Development In doing so, students will gain insight into the and explore the use and social impact of In this course students will learn principles of interrelationships among information systems, collaborative learning environments and instructional design and how to fully integrate statistics and management science. social networking. Students will learn how technology into daily curriculum. Throughout Prerequisite: EMP 504 or permission of to evaluate and effectively integrate a variety the course students will plan, develop and instructor of educational resources, such as web 2.0 evaluate a lesson plan that demonstrates an Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, tools and modern communication devices for expertise in the integration of educational etc.) active learning. Students will also develop a technology. Students will apply the skills, clear understanding of the issues surrounding techniques, resources and research necessary EST 563: Computer Literacy for cybersafety, cyberbullying, and the ethical to effectively create an educational technology Educators issues raised by the use of technology in inspired lesson plan. The lesson plan may This course is an introduction to computer and education. The culminating activity for this include the use of emerging technologies, software basics and was formally listed as EST course is the development and publishing of distance learning, multimedia projects, 583. Students will develop an understanding a collaborative website that showcases the collaborative environments, computer of the underlying concepts and principles material and skills mastered throughout this applications and Internet resources. The behind computers. Students will gain sufficient course. culminating project for this course is the knowledge to successfully navigate the digital Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded completion of a lesson plan in a specific world. Emphasis will focus on computer (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021content area that incorporates multiple literacy areas used in education and other modalities of technology into pedagogical professional environments. Students will leave EST 568: Networked Communication practices. this course with the ability to grasp the risks Technologies Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and benefits surrounding new and current EST 568 Network Communication Wired and computer technologies. The following skills Wireless EST 571: Educational Technology will be addressed; electronic communication, Research Methodologies This course examines the range of application-based projects, information technologies used in teaching, learning, and This course evaluates the impact and value of management, assessment, and the societal communication. Instructional technologies educational technology uses through detailed impacts of computer based technologies. Fallboth stand-alone and networked are surveyed research based on a number of current topics. Students having completed EST 565 in a prior with a focus on how they can be used Course goals include understanding research semester can not receive credit for EST 563. effectively to enhance learning. Students will methodology and literature and exploring EST 563 and EST 565 may be taken in the learn fundamental hardware and software assessment design and implementation. same semester. principles underlying the development of the The course includes class discussions and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Internet and other networked communications project work based on student learning with tools. Emphasis will be placed on assessment technology, access and the digital divide, EST 565: Foundations of Technology of these technologies in terms of societal the National Education Technology Plan, in Education impacts and learning outcomes. This course Internet literacy, emerging technologies, Throughout this course students will explore combines topics from EST 565 and EST 567. virtual schools, and data driven research. the basic pedagogical issues and social impact Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter of using technology in education. This course (A, A-, B+, etc.) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) examines the basic principles of integrating technology and computer applications into EST 569: Technology in the City EST 573: Interactive Multimedia the curriculum. Students will learn how to use Will technology transform our cities, making Curriculum Design and Development and integrate word processing, spreadsheet, them more livable, efficient, and desirable? This course allows students to learn how and presentation applications for educator Will technology erode our cities, making them to use a variety of multimedia tools for the planning and student project work. Students more dangerous, chaotic, and insufferable? classroom. Principles of user interface and will also learn how to use a number of online This course is at the intersection of two trends. interaction design will be covered. Throughout

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 90 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the course students design an interactive unit They design and test scientific inquiry-driven This course has a two-fold objective: (1) plan using multimedia authoring software. educational modules and/or visualizations to help students develop strong conceptual Students will work with audio/video editing for research and analysis on global and local foundations for understanding and addressing software, collaborative learning software, and geography, for use in economics, earth science, issues at the intersection of science, learn how to embed online games, activities politics and civic action, history and sociology, technology, public policy, and business and video within their unit plan. Development global studies, and environmental planning and strategy; and (2) to provide students with of the interactive multimedia unit requires assessment. Prerequisite: EST 565 or EST 595 knowledge of analytical frameworks and tools students to: submit a proposal, use graphic or permission of instructor.) that are essential to technology assessment organizers to plan and design, create a draft Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in business, government, and government, version, create assessment tools, test market etc.) and other organizations with understanding with a specific target audience, then evaluate of their strengths, limitations, and underlying the unit before the final version is completed. EST 577: Environmental Information assumptions. Topics covered include utility/ The culminating activity is the presentation Systems (EIS) profit maximization theory, its limitations and and delivery of the finished interactive Due to the complex nature of environmental alternative theories, business and government multimedia unit. and spatial data, these systems require state- interactions, technology innovation and Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter of-the-art computer technology to achieve management, technology forecasting, impact graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environmental science and information assessment, technology valuation, and basic technology. This course will address the tools for technology assessment (monitoring, EST 574: Distance Learning and Virtual technical and conceptual bases of data capture, simulation, expert opinion, scenario analysis, Environments data storage, data analysis and decision cost-benefit analysis, AHP method, etc.). Web-based distance learning applications support, and metadata management. Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, are quickly growing within higher education This course will address the technical and etc.) institutions, K-12 schools, and corporate conceptual bases of data capture, data EST 581: Heuristics and Quantitative environments. The focus of this course storage, data analysis and decision support, Decision-Making is on the underlying theories, design, and and metadata management. Environmental implementation of effective modes of e- Information Systems are concerned with the Complex problems (choices) need to be learning. Students will explore virtual schools, management of data about the rock of soil, the resolved in the course of socio-technical virtual learning, virtual environments and water, the air, and the species around us. processes. Quantitative decision-making other forms of distance education. The Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, techniques have been evolved to address social differences between face-to-face and etc.) these situations. We will investigate a virtual learning will also be examined and May be repeated for credit. number of these techniques in detail, in order discussed throughout the course. Students to understand the advantages that can be will explore virtual learning resources and EST 578: Human-Computer Interaction gained by using them. We will also discuss design their own virtual learning lesson. The Design for Construction common criticisms and issues associated with culminating project for this course will be the Principles of human-computer2021 interaction these methods, and consider the heuristic demonstration and write up of the experience. applied to the design of educational methods that are often used instead to resolve Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter courseware. Usability engineering, with a complicated problems. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) focus on the audience and learning objectives. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Interface design principles. Human computer EST 575: Developing Grants and dialogs. Multimedia as a communication tool, EST 582: Introduction to Systems Managing Projects using images, audio and video. Multimodal Concepts This course will develop the skills necessary input devices and strategies. Students will Understanding phenomena as "systems" to take a program proposal from idea through use a multimedia authoring tool to create a requires some changes in overall analytical reality with an emphasis on new technological Fallprototype of an educational application or approaches, and a new vocabulary. General resources available to help with this process. learning tool. systems theory concepts such as feedback, Topics include: techniques for successful 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stability, tipping point, resilience, recursion, fundraising, grant writing, program design, hierarchy, and complexity will be discussed, staffing, publicity and outreach, and reporting EST 579: Educational Games with regard to complex systems drawn from and evaluation. It is designed for current Simulations and computer games as a learning nature, business, technology, and education. educators and administrators as well as tool. Traditional game and simulation genres, The course will address the use of feedback, students about to enter the education, social and their appropriate uses in education. information and communication, structure, service and health fields. Gameplay design. Game development process, and cybernetics in the management of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) from storyboarding to delivery. Assessing complex systems. The role and importance games as learning tools. Students will use a of "agents" in current systems thinking will EST 576: Geographic Information multimedia tool to prototype an educational be emphasized. Students will prepare a study Systems in Education and Research game or simulation of their own design. of a complex system and its management incorporating these general concepts. Students use Geographic Information Systems 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (GIS) software to create, manipulate and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interpret layers of interactive maps and EST 580: Advanced Technology databases. Students collect and modify assessment: Business, Government EST 583: National Energy Decision geographical materials from the Internet, and Strategy Making satellite and aerial imagery, and field data.

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Today's decision about fuel exports, power The primary objective of independent study 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) plant siting, and R&D support for emergent is to provide a student with opportunities to technologies often hinge on underlying interact with faculty members who can be EST 595: Principles of Environmental priorities tied to self-sufficiency and markets, of assistance in his or her master's project. Systems Analysis among possibilities. Such dimensions are Students should consult individually with This course is intended for students interested examined in this graduate course through the faculty members on workload and credit(s). in learning systems engineering principles lens of diverse players in the national energy 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relevant to solving environmental and waste system. Competing interests in infrastructure, May be repeated for credit. management problems. Concepts include cost, equity, and societal buy-in will be compartmental models, state variables, evaluated with technology systems and policy EST 592: Sustainable Energy: optimization, and numerical and analytical frameworks. Takeaways will provide a basis Technologies, Systems, Markets, and solutions to differential equations. for work in the private or public sector. Policies Prerequisites: MAT 132 and one year Graduate Students in engineering and science, The ample supply and appropriate use of of quantitative science such as physics, social sciences and humanities, as well as energy is critical to the well being of human chemistry, or geology; or permission of management are encouraged to join. Semesters society. Energy plays an enormous role in instructor. Offered as EST 595 or HPH 688. Offered: Fall environmental degradation, national insecurity, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) international conflict, and in solutions to these problems. This course aims to introduce the EST 597: Waste Management: Systems EST 585: Assessment of Technology in major energy issues to students in engineering, and Principles Learning Environments business, and public policy areas. It discusses Students will learn about the technologies This course is designed to provide educators the energy choices to meet regional and and policy options in waste management, with an overview of the uses of technology global energy needs. Major renewable and emphasizing recycling, incineration, to improve instruction. Students will conventional energy sources, energy supply landfilling, and source reduction options understand the design and function of learning technologies, and end-use efficiency options for municipal solid waste on Long Island. environments, individual applications related will be assessed in the context of political, Problems concerning paper, glass, plastic, to the student's area of professional practice, social, economic, and environmental goals. organic materials, and other waste stream and assessment of educational uses of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) components will be explored. Environmental technology today and tomorrow. Students will impacts and economics of landfills, materials chose a current technology used in a specific EST 593: Risk Assessment and Hazard recovery facilities, and waste-to-energy learning environment and analyze and evaluate Management systems are examined. The institutional its effectiveness within instruction including A case-study approach to the assessment and regulatory climate, current and planned practical classroom use and staff development of risk and the management of natural and practices in the region, and hazardous waste for the particular technology. Students will technological hazards, with emphasis on those will be discussed. Cross-listed as CEY 597 or then research and make recommendations that can harm the environment. The course HPH 663 or EST 597. on how the particular technology could be focuses on technological hazards2021 involving 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) integrated most effectively to increase teacher energy, transportation, agriculture, natural understanding and enhance student learning. resources, chemical technology, nuclear EST 598: Teaching Practicum Students then present their findings about the technology, and biotechnology, and on natural Designed to give graduate students teaching current use of the chosen technology, possible hazards such as climactic changes, droughts, experience. improvements on its use as well as future floods, and earthquakes. The first part of the 3 credits, S/U grading technology recommendations. course consists of readings on risk assessment Fall, Spring, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter and hazard management and discussions of EST 599: Special Projects and Topics graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) published case studies. During the second part A technology assessment laboratory for Fallof the course, students conduct Offered as EST emerging problems and focused research. May EST 590: Seminar for MS, TSM 593 or HPH 686. Students be run as a hands-on, group research study 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of an important educational, environmental This seminar is a forum for the discussion or waste problem (perhaps to provide of research methods, project ideas, proposal EST 594: Diagnosis of Environmental an assessment to a regulatory agency or preparation and the written and presentation of Disputes administrative system). research proposals and results. It is designed Diagnosis of disagreements about to meet the needs of early career researchers at 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environmental and waste problems. Tools for May be repeated for credit. both the Masters and Ph.D. level. For Masters evaluating disputes about (a) scientific theories students, final product of this seminar is an and environmental models, (b) definitions EST 600: Technology, Policy, and approved master¿s project proposal. Ph.D. and analytical methodologies for estimating Innovation: Theory and Practice students will present progress on their own risk, "real" cost, net energy use, and life- research. All students will participate in peer This course provides students with frameworks cycle environmental impact, (c) regulatory and models for analysis of issues at the review of each others¿ work and learn the and legal policy, (d) siting of controversial basics of the responsible conduct of research. intersection of science, technology and public environmental facilities, and (e) fairness and policy, and business strategy; and helps 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other ethical issues. These diagnostic tools are students develop skills to work on policy brought to bear upon case studies of pollution EST 591: Independent Study in issues that require deep understanding of prevention, recycling, nuclear waste disposal, the technical details. Topics include utility/ Technology and Society and climate change.

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 92 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 profit maximization theory, its limitations and empower students to contribute in the energy to maximize rewards and minimize risks (i.e., alternative theories, business and government nexus debate and policy design. our individual and collective health, well- interactions, technology innovation and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, being, and happiness). managements, policy process (agenda setting, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, EST 603: Energy Modeling and Energy EST 605: Economics and Public Policy evaluation of policy outcomes). Cases drawn Systems Analysis The course is the first in a two part economics from energy and environmental policy, "All models are wrong, but some are useful". sequence for students in Technology, Policy, educational technology, STEM education will This class offers a systems analysis approach and Innovation. This first course is designed to be used to illustrate stakeholders and their and introduces useful modeling tools to prepare policy analysts to learn the conditions value structures, high levels of uncertainty, capture and reveal the complexity of energy necessary for markets to function well, and multiple levels of complexity, and their systems. The scope of this class includes main how the central government intervenes influence on policy intervention. This course forms of energy, major energy production, when markets fail. Micro economic tools emphasizes quantitative policy analysis conversion, and consumption activities, are developed and applied to markets for methods, and critical thinking. and technology innovation and transition public goods. The impact of these markets Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) embedded in the energy systems. We'll on the marco economy is also examined. Fall first discuss the theoretical and empirical semester, 3 credits, A,B,C,F EST 601: Grand Challenges in Energy knowledge base and data sources to understand 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Environmental Policy the energy-environmental and climate The survey course will be taught by the faculty problems. The class will then introduce the EST 606: The Economics of of Technology and Society and provide modeling tools and skills to analyze energy Technology, Policy, and Innovation an introduction to the major energy and systems or individual energy projects so This course is the second in a two part environmental issues of our time. The course to understand energy systems and enable economics sequence that applies the tools will take an interdisciplinary perspective evidence based decision making. This class from Part 1 to evaluate sectors of the economy drawing from policy, engineering, social encourage students to design research projects, related to technology, public goods, and and physical sciences, the course will cover using the modeling tools, and presenting innovation. Readings cover the literature challenges and opportunities related to results. The objective of this course: Develop related to the cross between public economics society's demand for energy and resources, comprehensive understanding of energy and technology / innovation. Policies related to and resulting environmental impacts. It is a systems, i.e. the interaction of technological, technology and innovation enhancements will required course for all elective for all PhD social, economic, and regulatory forces that be assessed using the criteria of effectiveness, candidates and advanced Masters students shaping energy production, conversion, and efficiency, equity, economic growth, and outside of the energy and environmental consumption; Gain an understanding of economic stability. How technology and program who may take the course with the main data sources and key methods used to innovation impact the economy and industry, permission of the senior faculty member analyze energy systems and their strengths and how well advances are being implemented, responsible for the course. The course will weaknesses; Get introduced2021 to major analytical will all be examined from the economist¿s be conducted in a mixture of lecture and concepts and modeling tools used in energy perspective. Pre-Requisite: EST 605, seminar styles. An extensive reading list systems and policy analysis; Develop basic Economics and Public Policy with a grade of C will be provided on each issue. Responsible analytical skills to translate energy systems + or better Fall semester, 3 credits, A, B, C, F. Instructor: Gerald Stokes Co-instructors: analysis into effective policy discussion and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Elizabeth Hewitt, Gang He debate. Prerequisite: Some programming 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge recommended. Offered Spring EST 607: Energy and Environmental 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Economics and Markets EST 602: Energy, Technology and The landscape of global energy markets Society: Energy Nexus Research EST 604: Grand Challenges in English, Fall over the past decades has largely driven by Frontiers Education, Management & Policy economics and regulations. This course will Energy is at the center of the nexus challenges- New technologies are created by and for draw the theories and tools of economics energy, water, food, land, environment and people. In this course, we examine how and regulations to study the evolution of development-that human being faces, critical that happens¿or fails to happen. We will the energy and environmental markets and linkages between those issues demand system examine policies at the organizational, the policy implications of such evolution. integrative thinking and of growing interest in community, sectoral, national, and cross- This course will examine the development research and policy communities. This course national levels and how they influence of effect of organized energy markets, the will provide a deep working knowledge, the lives and work of the many and varied industry structure and evolution of competition technically and socially, of the energy people who create, use, benefit from, and in the energy and environmental markets, technologies, policies, and transition. This suffer from new technologies. We will the political economy of regulation and course will survey the energy nexus concepts cover six grand challenges in engineering deregulation, market power and antitrust, and principles, introduce tools of analysis, education, management and policy (EEMP): climate change and environmental policy and and engage students in case studies of critical Educating wisely with technology (i.e., their impacts in energy and environmental energy nexus issues: energy and development, effectively and efficiently); Ensuring markets. This course will also discuss the energy and water, energy and food, energy and equity; Sparking and sustaining innovation; emerging markets for clean energy, energy land, energy and environment, and energy and Managing, organizing, and leading engineering efficiency, and transport and storage of energy. climate change. This course aims to explore enterprises; Harnessing the power of emerging This course aims to analyzing the rationale for the frontier of energy nexus research and technologies; and Coexisting with technology

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 93 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and effects of public policies in energy and Individual studies under the guidance of to theory development. There is much less environmental markets. a faculty member. Subject matter varies guidance for those who want to build a theory Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, according to the needs of the student. May be for managerial and behavioral studies-Yet etc.) repeated for credit. every researcher must do so to develop a 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) good research proposal. This seminar aims EST 610: Data Analysis for May be repeated for credit. to fill that gap by focusing on theory types Technology, Policy and Innovation and evaluation criteria, theory development This course covers many of the common EST 680: Teaching, Learning, and processes, and theoretical writing. empirical tools used for research in Technology Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Technology, Policy, and Innovation. Topics A professional development seminar that is A-, B+, etc.) include: descriptive statistics, clustering, designed to help Ph.D. students develop the discrimination analysis, estimation, hypothesis competencies needed to become effective EST 691: Seminar on Innovation, testing, and regression analysis. To learn these teachers in colleges and universities. Students Invention, and Diffusion topics, students will use modern statistical will learn relevant teaching and learning Innovation is viewed as central to progress software programs to analyze data sets with theories and their applications to teaching for any individual, organization, nation or socio-technological applications. After this courses and laboratory sessions. Students will global effort. In this seminar we will discuss course, students will have the tools to conduct learn methods for the design and assessment invention, the two main phases of innovation, robust data analyses and present the work of courses, including courses that integrate exploration and exploitation, the notion of in written and visually appealing formats. appropriate technologies to enhance learning diffusion of innovation and finally innovation This course assumes that students have basic and teaching. Students will learn how to policy as well as policy innovation. We will knowledge of statistics or data analysis. create learning environments that build on the explore a number of types of innovation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strengths and address the varied needs of a including radical versus incremental, diversity of learners. technological versus administrative, product EST 620: Decision Making in Socio- Restricted to Ph.D. students registered in the versus process and more. Using relevant case Technological and Global Contexts Certificate Program on College Teaching. studies and selected readings from the most Methodologies and applications to enhance Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, influential voices on innovation, including students' abilities to use qualitative and A-, B+, etc.) those in academia, corporate America as quantitative approaches to examine decision well as policy-making organizations, we will problems within socio-technological and EST 688: Internship in Research explore the many different sides of innovation, global contexts. Psychological, social and Participation in private corporations, why it is one of the most critical issues of cultural influences on decision making in public agencies, or non-profit institutions. our time and how seminar participants can organizations. Power and limitations of the Students will be required to have a faculty contribute to overall innovative efforts. theories, models and tools of decision analysis. coordinator as well as a contact in the outside Offered Applications to decision problems in a variety organization to participate with them in regular Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of areas, including energy and environmental consultations on the project,2021 and to submit a systems, educational technology and education final report to both. At most one credit can be EST 692: Research Seminar in science and engineering, technology accepted toward the degree. This seminar is a forum for the discussion management, and science and technology 1-3 credits, S/U grading of research methods, project ideas, proposal policy. May be repeated for credit. preparation and the written and presentation of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research proposals and results. It is designed EST 690: Seminar in Theory Building to meet the needs of early career researchers at EST 625: Advanced Theory and Science is about discovering facts as well both the Masters and Ph.D. level. For Masters Practice in Technology and Policy as explaining what the facts mean. Theories students, final product of this seminar is an Technology change entails more than the Fallprovide explanations and interpretations approved master¿s project proposal. Ph.D. commercialization of an invention. Likewise, of empirical phenomena and building and students will present progress on their own policy making encompasses much more than modifying theories are at the heart of core research. All students will participate in peer cost-benefit analysis and regulation. This scientific activities. Good theory is essential review of each others¿ work and learn the advanced, graduate level course examines to many new fields for several reasons. basics of the responsible conduct of research. critical theory for both subjects by drawing First, good theory provides guidance for 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on ideas from systems and science, policy and practical action and therefore should be May be repeated for credit. management, economics, and STS. Emphasis at the foundation of curricula. Second, is placed on deconstructing theoretical without good theory in any particular field, EST 694: Energy and Buildings: applications in the context of policy-based researchers must borrow theories from other Technology, Policy, and Behavior problem-solving and innovation objectives. academic disciplines. While this can be Graduate Seminar (PhD students preferred; Topics will include policy cycles, regulatory useful, sometimes these theories might not fit Masters students welcome w/permission of capture, innovation systems, dimensions of our subject matter well. For example social instructor) Buildings consume vast amounts technology change, and lock-in, among others. theories based on behavioral assumptions of energy and resources, and are one of Students will develop skills to work in roles at stemming from non-digital communications do the largest contributors to greenhouse gas the interface of technology and management. not fully address substantive features of social emissions. Major advances in building design 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) behavior in a digital age. Research courses and technology over the past decade have commonly emphasize empirical research given us tools to make buildings more energy EST 650: Directed Study methods and formal modeling approaches efficient, but buildings lag far behind their

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 94 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 potential. There are many avenues to green students enrolled in Technology, Policy, and the built environment sector, including Innovation courses. Students enrolled in EST EUR technological innovations, occupant behavior 698 are expected to perform various teaching programs, retrofits of existing buildings, duties required by the course instructor, such European Languages, and innovative building codes. Ultimately, as attending lectures, providing office hours, Literatures, and Cultures reducing energy consumption in the building holding review/recitation session, proctoring stock will require an interdisciplinary approach exams, grading, etc... EUR 501: Historical and Cultural and some combination of a range of program Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-3 credits, S/U Frameworks of Europe and policy types. This course will introduce grading Intended as a General Introduction to students to the many interdisciplinary issues May be repeated for credit. European Civilization and Cultures, this surrounding energy use in buildings, with course begins with the "idea" of Europe and a particular focus on the intersection of EST 699: Dissertation Research on traces how it developed over the course of policy with technology, economics, social Campus 25 centuries. Through the juxtaposition of science, and behavior. The course will Dissertation research under direction of historical, philosophical and creative texts, as combine lectures, student-led practicum advisor. well as images, it will cover key points from discussions, and guest speakers. Possible field 1-9 credits, S/U grading ancient Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean trip(s) to green buildings will be explored, May be repeated for credit. cultures through the Middle Ages and the depending on scheduling. Topics covered Early Modern period, examine various social, will include: Regulatory schemes such EST 700: Dissertation Research Off religious, political and artistic configurations as tax incentives, mandates, and building Campus - Domestic through the XIX and XX centuries, and end codes,Voluntary certification schemes such with the creation of the European Union. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy as LEED, EnergyStar, and their international Approaches may vary from the philosophical (G%). Major portion of research will take counter parts,Equity and environmental justice to the artistic/literary, from the socioeconomic place off-campus, but in the United States and/ issues surrounding access to/affordability of to the political. green buildings,Economic issues: Rebound or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Fall & effects, principal-agent misalignments, National Labs and Cold Spring Harbor Lab Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, elasticity of demand,Architecture, design and are considered on-campus. All international etc.) engineering innovations,Occupant behavior students must enroll in one of the graduate May be repeated for credit. challenges,Retrofits and energy efficiency student insurance plans and should be advised by an International Advisor. for existing buildings,Distinctions in scales EUR 502: Methods of Research and of actors: Individual, household, building 1-9 credits, S/U grading Theories of Interpretation management, organization,Distinctions in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. An introduction to research techniques in sectors EST 701: Dissertation Research Off philology and manuscript retrieval, including 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International an acquaintance with major libraries and collections throughout Europe and the United EST 695: Topics in Technology, Policy, Prerequisite: Must be advanced2021 to candidacy States. This includes basic digital humanities and Innovation (G5). Major portion of research will take research techniques. Students will also be place outside of the United States and/or Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the introduced to the major currents of criticism U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the graduate program and research interests of the in literature, history and philosophy, including option of the health plan and may also nroll staff. the basic concepts of structuralism, Marxism, in MEDEX. International students who are reception aesthetics, historiography, and 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in their home country are not covered by hermeneutics. Students will be required first to May be repeated for credit. mandatory health plan and must contact the locate, identify, and describe certain texts, and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to EST 696: Advanced Topics in then to analyze them according to of the given Fallbe removed. International students who are Technology, Policy and Innovation theories of interpretation. 3credits. ABCF not in their home country are charged for the grading. Advanced topics selected on the basis of the mandatory health insurance. If they are to be needs of the graduate program and research covered by another insurance plan they must 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interests of the staff. file a waiver by the second week of classes. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The charge will only be removed if other EUR 503: Perceptions and Inventions May be repeated for credit. plan is deemed comparable. All international of Europe students must receive clearance from an This seminar will focus on the problematic of EST 697: Directed Study International Advisor. May be repeated for how Europe dealt with the rest of the world, Individual studies under the guidance of credit. Offered every semester, 1-9 credits, S/U taken mainly in a historical perspective, and a faculty member.. Subject matter varies Grading stressing different aspects of the relation. The according to the needs of the student. 1-9 credits, S/U grading running thread is represented by the triple 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. topics of contact, conflict, and exchange, using May be repeated for credit. various types of travelers, such as explorers, EST 800: Summer Research geographers and merchants, as the starting EST 698: Practicum in Teaching points, but extending it scholars, artists, May be repeated for credit. emigrants and exiles. Course will also look at This course enables graduate students to gain how non-Europeans first met, described, and experience in teaching and interacting with

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 95 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 reacted to Europeans. Several media used. 3 Jagannathan bounds; Option pricing and credits. ABCF grading. EXT Black-Scholes Formula; Term Structure of Interests Rate; Numerical methods for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Externships May be repeated for credit. derivative pricing. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) EUR 504: European Arts, Poetics, EXT 588: Grad Externship Culture An externship is a form of experiential FIN 525: Portfolio Management The aim of this course is to make an in-depth learning in which knowledge gained in classes This course will give students an overview of critical assessment of the signal contribution is applied to an authentic, real-world setting. the basics of investing, portfolio management, of French, German, Italian and British thinkers With guidance from a faculty sponsor, each and risk management, from the perspective and artists to two major turning points: student sets learning goals and works with a of efficient markets theory. Topics covered Romanticism and Postmodernism, debates site supervisor to create a mutually beneficial will include the institutions of the modern which raged in Europe (and by reflection experience. During the semester, externs financial system and the types of assets the US), the first from the 1790s through reflect upon their learning experience through available for investment; models of risk, the 1830s, the second from the post-World journaling. An externship also provides the risk-return tradeoff and utility; optimal War Two period through the late Nineties. opportunity for personal and professional portfolio choice; the Capital Asset Pricing Among the topics: the nature, ideologies and growth, and increased understanding of a Model; multifactor models of return; portfolio structure of the attack on traditional (i.e.: career field from the insider perspective. evaluation metrics; basic dynamic portfolio Enlightenment, and/or Modernist) modes of Prerequisite: Only matriculated SBU students management strategies; the efficient markets thought and organization; the theories and may enroll in EXT. Minimum overall GPA hypothesis, and possible departures from methods proposed in turn; and implications for of 3.0 with at least G1 standing and at least market efficiency. one semester of graduate school completed literary theory, education, politics and history; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the evolving features of selected works of art at Stony Brook University; acceptance by a faculty sponsor and permission of the Career 3 credits. ABCF grading. May be repeated for FIN 536: Financial Management Center credit if syllabus or instructor is different. How managers should interface with 0-3 credits, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) accounting and finance departments and how May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit. firms meet their financial objectives. Financial tools and techniques, which can be used to EUR 571: Special Topics In European help firms maximize value by improving Studies FIN decisions relating to capital budgeting, capital Course will focus on the imaginative Finance structure, and working capital management are construction of other worlds as a critique of explained. Related topics include multinational or alternative to the existing one in specific FIN 523: High-Frequency Finance financial management, risk management, and moments of Europe's social and cultural This course will give students an overview of mergers and aquisitions. development. Each utopistic project manifests theories and models useful2021 in understanding 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) striking different stylistic, social, symbolic and processing automated trading. The and philosophical takes on what the different fundamental theories and models of market FIN 539: Investment Analysis authors conceive as an alternative to Europe's microstructure such as the Glosten-Milgrom Modern investment and traditional approaches complex history. Actual texts may vary model, Roll model and Kyle models are to investment valuation, selection and depending on Instructor, and different covered. Then the implementation of management. Modern investment theory, mediums may be used. automated trading strategies such as adverse including asset pricing models and efficient 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) selection models and detection of informed market hypotheses are explained. Traditional May be repeated for credit. trading are introduced. The nature of high approaches to stock and bond selection, Fallfrequency data in various markets is discussed, including fundamental analysis and technical EUR 581: Independent Individual and mathematical and statistical techniques analysis, will be explained in detail. Studies commonly used in modeling such data (such Investment management strategies for both Studies in specialized topics under the as ARIMA models, logit regression, Kalman individual and institutional investors will be direction of a designated faculty. Fall, Spring filter and cointegration) are covered. developed and discussed. or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FIN 524: Asset Pricing FIN 540: Probability and Statistics for May be repeated for credit. This course will give students an overview Finance of asset pricing theory, estimating asset A survey of probability theory and statistical EUR 599: Thesis Research pricing models, pricing options and other techniques with applications to finance Research and writing of MA Thesis supervised derivatives. Topics covered will include situations. Topics covered include regression; by faculty advisor. Consumption-Based Pricing Model and binomial, Poisson, normal, exponential, Fall, Spring, or Discount Factors; Mean-Variance Frontier and chi square random variables; tests of Summer, 3-6 credits, S/U grading and Beta Presentations; Factor Pricing hypotheses; confidence intervals; tests; and May be repeated for credit. Models(Capital Asset pricing Models and analysis of risk, variance, regression, and Arbitrage Pricing Theory); ) Speci¿cation contingency tables. Offered in Fall. and testing of linear factor models; Hansen- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. disciplines. The course texts focus on pure of this course are: (1) to review the classical risk, or the use of insurance products to financial models and statistical models; (2) FIN 541: Bank Management reduce risk and financial risk management, to teach the concepts of data mining with a The goal of the course is to introduce students including commodity price, exchange rate, focus on financial applications; (3) to provide to the banking industry, and develop skills interest rate, and credit risk management. students extensive hands-on experience necessary to effectively manage a financial Financial derivative products will be used in applying the concepts in financial data institution. We will start with an overview extensively; however, the focus will be more applications. of the banking industry and its regulatory on the appreciation of derivative products 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) environment. Then we will learn how to to hedge risk, rather than the valuation of analyze bank performance, how to measure derivatives. FIN 576: Real Estate Finance and manage various risks associated with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is not a lesson on how to get rich financial intermediation, and how to maximize quick in real estate with no money down. bank market value. FIN 551: Cases in Finance It will be a study of the major aspects of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Application of finance concepts to cases real estate finance, user decision making involving financial decisions in a corporate or and investment from the perspective of FIN 545: Capital Markets and Financial institutional setting. Students will be asked to corporate, private, and public owners; Institutions perform the work of a manager or analyst in investors; and users. Commercial properties Financial institutions and capital markets form a professional capacity, direct their attention will be emphasized. The course begins with an the basis of the financial system in our global to specific questions raised and report back overview of the fundamentals of commercial economy. Capital markets are the conduits with analysis and recommendations from the real estate and builds on these concepts as we in which capital flows through financial perspectives of the CFO, the Lending Officer, consider the forces that influence the cyclical, institutions to a network of organized and and other managerial positions. Prerequisite: fragmented, and inherently local business over the counter markets. Students will learn MBA 502 and MBA 504 of real estate. These foundation concepts how many of these markets work in tandem to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are further considered in detail in a series propel our economy forward. Topics include of four case studies that will be completed money markets, foreign exchange markets, FIN 552: Mergers and Acquisitions by the students and discussed in class by the derivative markets, the banking industry and The focus of this course is on buying a instructor. The course will expose students to the business of banking. The role of money in controlling stakes in firms. The main topics to current ¿real world¿ real estate finance, user the capital markets and a variety of financial be covered are: Growth through acquisitions, decision making and investment situations. products offered by financial institutions will Critical Steps in the M&A Process, financial The course is case-based, and students will be explained. valuation of mergers and friendly acquisitions, be challenged to think on their feet in class. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hostile takeovers and buyouts. The course Students will have the opportunity to develop should be of interest to students interested in their business presentation skills through case FIN 547: Fundamentals of Fixed pursuing careers as private equity investors, discussions and project presentations. Income Analysis advisors in investment banking2021 and corporate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A concrete understanding of the fundamentals managers. FIN 578: Behavioral Finance of fixed income security analysis. Study Prerequisite: MBA 502, MBA 504 of the basics of bond analysis, such as the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Behavioral Finance examines how individuals' relationship between the price and yield attitudes and behavior affect their financial of a bond, the sensitivity of a bond's price FIN 562: Data Analysis for Finance decisions. This course reviews recent research to changes in yield, and measuring the Recent innovation of information technology on possible mispricing in financial markets total return on a bond. We will analyze the along with the fast growth of applications on due to the nature of psychological biases. determinants of interest rates and how different the Internet have resulted in an explosion of Moreover the course deals with behavioral market participants interact. Trading strategies, Fallfinancial data, new ways of data collection and finance models explaining investor-behavior evaluate their risk, and perform ex-post storage, as well as additional opportunities for or market anomalies when rational models analyses will be discussed. business and research based on the data. This provide no sufficient explanations. Topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course enables students to analyze financial will include among others overconfidence, data based on traditional financial models. prospect-theory, heuristic-driven biases and FIN 549: Risk Management The major topics include asset pricing, capital frame dependence. This course introduces students to risk budgeting, risk management, pension fund 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management primarily from the perspective management, portfolio analysis, and stock on non-financial corporations. Focus will hedging. Students will learn (review) the FIN 580: Finance Research Practicum be placed on why firms should or should models with a focus on their implementation The Finance Research Practicum is a graduate- not manage risk, while demonstrating how using Microsoft Excel, Matlab, or other level finance capstone course in which risk management can be used to reduce the programming languages. In addition, the basic students work in teams on projects proposed probability that a firm will encounter financial statistical models, such as regression, time by external sponsors. A goal of this course distress or earnings volatility, and whether series models and probability models will be is to provide students with an outstanding such activities can enhance shareholder value. used. ¿Big Data¿ (data mining) technology opportunity to work with leading industry The course offers an integrated approach to will be introduced with a focus on financial practitioners on important business problems, risk management by combining concepts, data analysis. The main topics include while helping students bridge the gap between tools, and techniques which derive from the classification, clustering, association analysis theory and practice, and introducing them to financial risk management and insurance and anomaly detection. The key objectives

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 97 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the broader financial community. This course FLA 549: Field Experience Students enrolled in Track B of the MA is only for Master of Science Finance students. Observation, inquiry, and practice in foreign program in European Languages (French, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language education at the secondary level German, Italian or Russian) or the MA in including 50 hours of documented visitations Hispanic Languages complete an independent and observations at approved sites. Field project in the area of Foreign Language FLA experience writing logs are the basis of group Teaching. The content and scope of this discussion. S/U grading. project must be approved by the Director of Foreign Language Teacher Foreign Language Pedagogy. Possible projects 1 credit, S/U grading Preparation include a fully developed professional teaching FLA 550: Field Experience portfolio (in print and/or electronic version), FLA 505: Methods: Foreign Language an action research study or a classroom-based Observation, inquiry, and practice in foreign research study culminating in a publishable An in-depth exploration of the methods and language education at the secondary level paper. Fall or spring materials for the teaching of foreign languages, including 50 hours of documented visitations literatures, and cultures. Special attention and observations at approved sites. Field 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is given to the theories of first and second experience writing logs are the basis of group May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. language acquisition and to the techniques discussion. S/U grading. for teaching listening, speaking reading and writing skills. This course gives students the 1 credit, S/U grading FLM opportunity to conduct observations/field FLA 551: Supervised Student Teaching Film experiences in grade level (7-12) settings. 7-9 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 500: Introduction to Graduate Studies FLA 506: Curriculum Development FLA 552: Supervised Student Teaching 10-12 This seminar course will introduce graduate Drawing on theories of first and second film students to each other, to graduate faculty language acquisition and research into the across disciplines, and will encourage new best practices of language teaching, this FLA 554: Student Teaching Seminar collaborations and projects for development course trains future language teachers in the Seminar on instructional planning and during the students¿ graduate careers. Film development of well-articulated language assessment in World Languages, grades students will meet to discuss the role of each programs (grades 7-12). Students have the 7-12, aligned with current state, national, and artist, with emphasis on the changing nature opportunity to enjoy clinical experiences in professional standards. Focus is on delivering of collaboration and the expanding art form school settings. Special attention is given to proficiency-based instruction and meeting the in today¿s film profession. Readings, written the development of a professional teaching needs of diverse learners. Variable credits (1-3 assignments and collaborative projects are portfolio including lesson plans, assessment credits) required. 4 credits. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, instruments, and technology-based activities. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021Southampton and Manhattan. Semesters FLA 570: Introduction to Media for Offered: Fall & Spring. FLA 507: Critical Pedagogy Language Teaching 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This graduate seminar is intended to introduce Course open to non-D.A. students. Gives the ideas, theories, and practices that together students an introduction to all of the FLM 501: Film Tools constitute the field known as critical pedagogy. technology used in teaching languages; audio, This course will give students an overview of Critical pedagogy assembles numerous forms video, computer, and Internet. Emphasis is on production essentials; covering safety, basic of academic approaches to teaching and hands-on use and practical applications. Fall or movie-making equipment and basic editing. curriculum that are informed by critical social spring Student will spend time in the classroom and theory. As the educational arm of critical Fall3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on set, shooting various exercises, paying social theory, critical pedagogy engages special attention to set safety, proper handling educators in understanding the relationships FLA 571: Foreign Language of the gear, the ins and outs of a selection among knowledge, ideology, and power. We Technology and Education of cameras, sound equipment and lighting. will read works from several critical pedagogy Course open to non-D.A. graduate students. In addition, the basics of cinematography theorists (Freire, Shor, Giroux, McClaren, Assumes knowledge of material taught in and framing, audio techniques and basic set Apple, hooks) to explore some of the key DLL/FLA 570. Addresses more globally and protocol will be covered. The course will cover themes within critical pedagogy (relationship more theoretically the intersection between the basics of non-linear editing; including: of education to power; issues of difference and technology and languages. Issues of cognitive creating new projects, media management, pluralism; transformative education; the social learning theory and educational psychology sequence settings, importing, transcoding, construction of knowledge; dialogic relations addressed. Offered as DLL 571 and FLA 571 sound, JKL cuts, titling, mixed file format in the classroom; teaching for social justice). Prerequisites: FLA 505 and FLA 506 editing, export settings and delivery. Learning through collaborative inquiry, we Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, will translate the theories in these readings 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) into practice and will test ideas and concepts FLM 505: Film Management I: unique to teaching and learning "critical FLA 581: Foreign Lang Teach Project Production Development (second/foreign) language" in a school setting. (Ind. Study) Instruction and training in art direction and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design which may include exploration of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 98 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 a particular approach, review of current cinematography and framing, audio techniques FLM 526: Topics in TV Writing techniques, experiments in style, hands-on and basic set protocol. This is the first step to A seminar for writers and filmmakers exercrised, intensive production periods, etc. properly capturing the stories students have to concentrating on one area of study or topic The particular theme of the course will be tell. Course takes place in the classroom and in Television. The particular theme of the announced in the course schedule. Beneficial on the set. course will be announced in the course for writers, directors, and producers. Suitable 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) schedule. Topics may include, among others, for film and television. the showrunner, producing the web series, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 510: Film History I international TV, producing the comedy May be repeated for credit. Film as text in the context of its time. A study sketch, a survey of American television. of Film History with attention to specific 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 506: Film Management II: Literary topics in the lexicon, theories, movements and May be repeated for credit. Management genres of the field. It may be repeated as an In this course, students will be guided through independent study with the permission of the FLM 530: Directed Readings in Film a deeper dive examination of best-practices, instructor.¿3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Students read and evaluate the literature on a a changing landscape, and strategies for +, etc.)¿May be repeated for credit. Semesters topic of special interest under the supervision marketing, distribution, financing, legal Offered: Spring. of a faculty member. What makes a good and post-production in film, television, & 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) script? What makes a producible script? What digital content. The class is structured as an May be repeated for credit. makes a feature film, a television series, a independent study for students to workshop made-for-tv movie, or a webisode. May be their ongoing individual projects and receive FLM 520: Film History II repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of one-on-one mentoring from class instructors. Course surveys films of a specific period or instructor. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Throughout the semester this course will also movement. May be repeated once. 3 credits, +, etc.). Semesters Offered: Fall % Spring. include provocative in-class conversations Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)¿ 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with working industry professionals such as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. producers, agents, lawyers, financiers, and May be repeated for credit. distributors. This is a highly interactive and FLM 536: Forms of TV Writing practical application class where students will FLM 523: Film in New York Regular submission, discussion, and analysis work throughout the semester individually and of students work in one or more contemporary collaboratively on building an executable plan The course delves into a field survey of areas of television writing. Topics may include for one film, tv, or digital content project of film and television offerings in New York writing for mini-series and limited-series, their choosing in preparation for its creation City, festival by festival and organization by unscripted television, writing for documentary, and release. organization. Students will become acquainted with the status of film in New York, including, writing for short form, writing the webisode, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) but not limited to The Film Society of Lincoln writing for international TV, writing the pilot, May be repeated for credit. Center, The Tribeca Film Fest, New York writing the spec, among others. Film Festival, New York Shorts2021 Festival, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 508: Editing I IFC, Doc NYC, Women¿s International May be repeated for credit. This course will focus on the editing process Film Festival, New York Women in Film and how a film is shaped during editing. and Television, New York Mayors Office of FLM 537: Production I Tools of editing will be explored as well as Film and Television, New York Governor¿s In this course, writing, directing, editing and the theory behind their use. Through film Office of Film and Television, and New York cinematography training will be synthesized, examples, articles, books and hands on lessons, Production Alliance. Additionally, all students focused, and put into practice. Students students will learn the craft of editing. The will serve as jurors on the SUNYWide Film work from the scripts developed in previous language and purpose behind every cut will be Fest. semester. In the first weeks, students review examined. Working with cutting-edge digital Fall 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) camera, sound, lighting, casting, scheduling, editing software, the course will cover the May be repeated for credit. safety, and running a set, while preparing basics of non-linear editing; including: creating shot lists, story boards, call sheets, shooting new projects, media management, sequence FLM 525: Topics in Film schedules, talent agreements and location settings, importing, transcoding, sound, JKL releases necessary to bring their visions to cuts, titling, mixed file format editing, export Intensive studies of selected forms of film the screen. Then the production cycle begins: settings and delivery. and filmmaking from various countries and periods, designed to supplement rather than intense breakout sessions coupled with camera 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) repeat areas of study already undertaken in the blocking prepare students for the rigors of curriculum. Topics may include producing, a film shoot. To make the experience truly FLM 509: Cinematography I directing, writings in film, the ins-and-outs of immersive, students crew on all productions, This course will focus on the fundamentals financing, genre screenwriting, films without so expect to spend many days on set. of camera, sound, safety, and proper use of words, films in the noir tradition, the spaghetti 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) basic production equipment. Students will western, among others. May be repeated for be introduced to the tools necessary to shoot credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. FLM 550: Teaching Practicum their short films, shooting various exercises in 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). Supervised student teaching of undergraduate a classroom and on the set, including safety, Semesters Offered: Fall and Spring. courses accompanied by a seminar in proper handling of the gear, the ins-and-outs of 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) methods and strategies of teaching film at the a selection of cameras, sound equipment and May be repeated for credit. University level. An independent teaching lighting. In addition we will cover the basics of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 99 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 project, in which the student works with a Fall, Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. particular faculty member, may be substituted. B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). May be repeated for credit. FLM 638: Directing I - Principles of Southampton and Manhattan. Semesters Directing Offered: Fall & Spring. FLM 591: Independent Project This course will focus on the analytical 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Special project allowing advanced individual organizational and creative processes May be repeated for credit. work in an area of film study or practice under necessary to be a director. Topics include: the supervision of a faculty member. Must visualizing your story, storyboarding, scene FLM 560: Acting Theory and Practice be scheduled by arrangement with instructor. construction, shooting to the turn in the Course surveys the field of acting-its history, Should result in longer form screenplay, scene, shot lists, shoot schedules, framing, formal principles, primary techniques, and production package or film, episode, or composition, script analysis and interpretation; contemporary practice. Students develop webisode. Can include technical, trade, or visual interpretation (narrative, evocative course papers and, or projects in conjunction business school study. image) and working with art directors, with advanced readings and instruction. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) set designers, wardrobe, sound and light designers; casting, and the actor / director Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. process. Preparation, leadership, scheduling. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FLM 608: Editing II Students will gain a practical, hands-on May be repeated for credit. Horror, comedy, drama and action. Four understanding of the topics covered through FLM 575: Adaptation Workshop different genres, four different editing styles. exercises, various directing assignments, and a final project. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B This course is an intense examination of a This course will cover the styles used to +, etc.). stage play, a work of fiction (novel, novella, edit the various film genres and why each short story, poem) or a work of non-fiction and every cut has a purpose. Focus on the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (memoir, autobiography, poem), with the tools of editing as well as editing theory. FLM 639: Directing II: Advanced object of preparing an adaptation for the Through the analysis of film clips, class Directing screen. Valuable for writers, directors and discussion, and hands on lessons, students producers. The course will study other text will learn the fundamentals and the processes This course will build upon the work covered to screen adaptations and film versions. of reconstructing these styles. Working in Directing I and will focus on advanced Students will submit an outline or rough draft with editing software, students will have the problems in Directing, including advanced of their new version at the end of the course. 3 opportunity to edit various scenes, which will scene work, choreographing the action credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). May be range in style and tone. Student will learn to scene, directing within a style or period, repeated for credit. Semesters Offered: Fall & think critically about all aspects of filmmaking, directing with f/x, incorporating fx into Spring. including blocking, framing, locations and shot scenes, alternative forms, and the challenges selection. of contemporary film and/or filmmaking. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics may change. Prerequisite: THR 638 May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.2021or permission of instructor. 3 credits. Letter FLM 576: Film Workshop graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). FLM 609: Cinematography II The workshops are intensive classes in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) various aspects of the craft of film, including This course will introduce you to the advanced May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. producing, directing, editing, cinematography, cinema tools at your disposal. We will FLM 640: Film Design Workshop lighting design, sound design, screenwriting, spend time in the classroom and on set, directing, acting, scheduling, budgeting, shooting various exercises, utilizing a wide Advanced assignments in film design. May writing/directing webisodes, writing, variety of advanced camera/lighting and grip include understanding set design, sound producing and directing within the Dogme equipment. In addition to on-set exercises, design, light design, art direction, music tradition, and episodic television, sitcoms, Fallwe will study a variety of current and former supervision, and shooting within a style, dramas, mini-series, and distribution; together cinematographers, analyzing their work from period, genre, era. Prerequisite: Permission of with lectures, readings, seminars, and panels film to film. instructor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-B+, featuring nationally distinguished artists. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) These workshops encourage participation by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) visiting students, new theatre and film artists, FLM 637: Production II May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. established film artists, and teachers who will The primary goal of this flexible workshop be admitted by application and may receive is to foster students' individual visions while FLM 650: Screenwriting Workshop I academic credit upon request. Graduate expanding the scope of their production Students write, discuss and receive feedback students may take any Film Workshop knowledge and experience. Participants on writing exercises, original scenes, and sponsored by the MFA program for academic should bring a draft of a 5-12 page script to short or full-length screenplays, teleplays, credit. Study may occur in Southampton, the first class. Classes will focus on directors' episodic television, sit coms, long form Manhattan, or abroad. A submission of a preparation- both creative and practical. dramas or webisodes. Advanced students may workshop application, and permission of For the shoots, students will choose their develop material for production. Prerequisite: instructor are required. 1-6 Credits. Letter collaborators and run their own sets. The final Permission of instructor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ¿May be repeated for weeks of the class will be preparation for graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) credit. Semesters Offered: Dogme shoots. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

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FLM 651: Screenwriting Workshop II for writers, directors, and producers. Suitable Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Emphasis on a particular aspect or genre of for film and television. A-, B+, etc.) screenwriting, including comedy, drama, noir, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) FRN 501: Contemporary Culture and crime, dogme, period, action, writing within May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Civilization a high or low budget; character, dialogue, structure, and experimental forms. Emphasis FLM 690: Professional Internship Analysis of contemporary French civilization also on workshopping whole drafts of longer A full-term internship at a production company through the study of the development of form projects. Prerequisite: FLM 650 or or on a production. Students identify a Film its historical, cultural, political, and social permission of instructor. 3 credits. Letter company or artist whose work interests them. characteristics. Designed for potential teachers graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The student is expected to articulate his/her of French at the college level as well as in secondary schools, this course will emphasize 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) goals, research companies and inquire about and trace the evolution of the character and May be repeated for credit. internship opportunities at those institutions. A faculty advisor may help point students institutions of contemporary France and FLM 652: Screenwriting Workshop III in the right direction; but is incumbent upon French-speaking countries. Advanced problems in writing of original the student to do the research and secure an Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, screenplays for film, television, web and other internship. Students then present a written B+, etc.) media platforms. Emphasis on whole drafts proposal to the faculty advisor for approval. FRN 502: French Civilization in Its and revision. Students will also submit an internship description in the first month of work, then a Historical Perspective 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) journal or evaluation of their work experience. In this course, students study historical May be repeated for credit. ¿ Prerequisite: Permission of MFA Director. 3 French civilization concentrating on those FLM 660: Acting Workshop for credits. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) features which have created France today Filmmakers 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and its current culture. Political and social developments are considered as well as major Intensive study in acting in a particular May be repeated for credit. trends in the arts. approach or technique. Rehearsals outside FLM 691: MFA Project of the scheduled class time may be required. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. 3 This is a long form produced project. All etc.) credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.). May be proposals for projects must be submitted in FRN 507: Stylistics repeated for credit. writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate program director for approval through FLM Stylistic theory and analysis. Contrastive 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 692. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) stylistics French/English. Exploration of the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) connotative level of written message. Designed FLM 669: Advanced Tools May be repeated for credit. to develop and refine written expression in French and analysis of literary and non-literary In this hands-on workshop course, students FLM 692: MFA Thesis Paper texts. will focus on five specific areas of film 2021 making...Advanced Cinematography, Line Independent study and research for M.F.A. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Producing, Script Supervising, Production students, on special topics related to the MFA B+, etc.) Design and Sound Design. Each class will Project, which may result in a screenplay, FRN 510: Phonetics be led by a working professional, and at the webisode, episodic series, documentary conclusion of this course students will emerge proposal or production package, realized in The pronunciation of French with emphasis with a greater understanding of each discipline. FLM 691. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on intonation and articulation. Theory and practice of linguistic and phonetic factors 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of the sound system. Coursework includes Fall phonetic transcriptions, oral and aural FLM 670: Directing Workshop transcriptions, as well as pronunciation. The Advanced training in directing, which class is entirely conducted in French. may involve intensive production periods, FRN experiments in style, exploration of a particular French Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, technique and approach, such as day for B+, etc.) night, etc. May be repeated once for credit. FRN 500: Techniques of Reading for FRN 511: Business French Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Graduate Research A course designed to provide efficiency in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Through intensive study of language structures spoken and written business French with an May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. and idiomatic usage, with extensive practice emphasis on bilingual translation. This course in written translation of literary and scholarly FLM 680: Art Direction Workshop will also familiarize students with French texts, candidates for advanced degrees are business domestically, in the context of the Instruction and training in art direction and able to attain the proficiency level of the European Union, and in contrast to America. design which may include exploration of graduate French reading requirement. Several Issues of current importance as well as a particular approach, review of current departments grant exemption from further institutions will be studied. Students will also techniques, experiments in style, hands-on examination for successful completion of this carry on individual projects such as comparing exercrised, intensive production periods, etc. course. (Not for graduate students in French.) marketing strategies of an American company The particular theme of the course will be announced in the course schedule. Beneficial

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 101 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 in the US and in France or profiling a major Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, FRN 570: Special Topics in French French company. B+, etc.) Literature 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Courses given in the past have covered a single FRN 552: Studies in 19th-Century author, French women writers, French poetry French Literature FRN 513: Romance Linguistics of 1664-1674 and other topics. Close reading of selected works by major This course examines the linguistic evolution 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the Romance languages from the classical novelists of the period, such as Balzac, period through modern times. The synchronic Stendhal, Flaubert, Zola; themes such as Paris FRN 571: Free Seminars versus the provinces, money and decadence; or grammars of Italian, French, and Spanish are Courses given in the past have covered a single 19th-century poetry by Baudelaire, Mallarme, examined. author, genre, and other topics. Verlaine, and Rimbaud, with an introduction Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, to some important critical approaches to these Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) texts. B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. FRN 531: Studies in 17th-Century Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, French Literature B+, etc.) FRN 581: Independent Individual Analysis of some of the major literary genres May be repeated for credit. Studies of 17th-century French literature such as FRN 561: Seminar in 20th-Century May be repeated for credit as the topic tragedy, and comedy, novels or poems, French Literature changes. or focus on some of the major themes of Prerequisite: must be enrolled in a graduate 17th-century literature in general. , Mme de Special attention to a literary trend, a program. Lafayette, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère, movement of ideas, or a single author of the Fall, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.The class is entirely conducted in French. first half of the century. Topics are considered in parallel with the political and social etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, contexts, and with other artistic mediums May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) such as cinema, painting, or photography. FRN 591: Language Acquisition I FRN 532: Seminar in 17th-Century Possible topics: Avant-garde & Surrealism, Elementary French I intended for graduate French Literature Existentialist writers, War Literature, Marcel Proust, Jacques Prevert, etc. students from other programs. Special topics in 17th-century French 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) literature. Intensive reading and analysis of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) selected texts by authors such as Descartes, FRN 592: Language Acquisition II Pascal, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucauld, La May be repeated for credit. Elementary French II intended for graduate Bruyere, Mme de Sevigné, and Mme de FRN 562: Studies in 20th and 21st- students from other programs. Lafayette, among others. Changing topic. The Century Literatures class is entirely conducted in French. 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Focused examination of contemporary French Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 2021 literary texts and recent Francophone writings FRN 593: Language Acquisition III B+, etc.) of Belgium and Switzerland. Questions may May be repeated for credit. Intermediate and Advanced French intended address the limits of fiction and representation for graduate students from other programs. FRN 541: Studies in 18th-Century in the novel, the status of modern theater The requirements for the course will include a French Literature and poetry, the new impact of visual and graduate-level component to be determined by technological devices, human relationships in a the instructor. May be repeated for credit. A study of the major texts of the 18th-century global world. expressing the struggle between absolutism 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the emerging forces of Enlightenment, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated for credit. FallB+, etc.) preromanticism. It may include the works of Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, May be repeated for credit. FRN 595: Practicum in Teaching Beaumarchais, and Laclos, among others, as FRN 564: Seminar in Francophone Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading well as the works of lesser-known authors who Literature May be repeated for credit. also helped reshape the literary scene during that time Close examination of the literatures written FRN 599: Thesis Research in French of the Francophone world outside Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall and Spring of France. This course will pose and explore B+, etc.) questions such as: What is Francophone 1-6 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. literature? What is the function of writing in May be repeated for credit. French in a Francophone context? Attention is FRN 542: Seminar in 18th-Century FRN 800: Summer Research French Literature paid to the issue of critical approaches to these texts. Topics vary from year to year and may May be repeated for credit. Special topics in 18th-century literature, include texts from any of the French-speaking such as "Le roman initiatique," and "Eros territories outside of France. in fiction," are studied through the works of FSY major writers of the period as well as those Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of lesser-known figures, in particular women B+, etc.) Study Abroad writers. May be repeated for credit.

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FSY 540: Study Abroad resolution of geochemical and petrological GEO 506: Theoretical Petrology problems. Begins with the first law and May be repeated for credit. Theory of phase diagrams, Schreinemaker's continues through phase transitions, properties rules, heterogeneous equilibria, experimental FSY 582: OVERSEAS: GERMANY of fluids, definitions of fugacity and activity of systems of petrologic interest, and properties major and trace elements in fluids and molten of solutions. May be repeated for credit. solutions; configurational entropies; models Prerequisites: Metamorphic and igneous quantifying nonideal mixing in solid solutions. petrology and physical chemistry or FSY 588: Overseas: Spain Additional topics include interpretation of thermodynamics; or permission of instructor calorimetric studies and/or solubilities of May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, minerals in aqueous solutions. etc.) FSY 591: OVERSEAS KONSTANZ Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and May be repeated for credit. thermodynamics, or permission of instructor GEO 507: Petrogenesis Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Discussion of the origin and evolutionary FSY 592: OVERSEAS TUEBINGEN (A, A-, B+, etc.) history of selected types of igneous and metamorphic rocks by integrating the May be repeated for credit. GEO 504: Geology of the Turkana principles of heterogeneous phase equilibria, Basin FSY 594: OVERSEAS: ROME trace-element and isotopic geochemistry, Students are introduced to the current crystal chemistry, and geologic occurrence. May be repeated for credit. perspectives on the origins and evolution The laboratory component, GEO 527, must be of the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Students FSY 595: OVERSEAS: PARIS taken concurrently; a common grade for both learn how to apply fundamental geological courses will be assigned. Fall May be repeated for credit. concepts to the sediments and rock units 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to provide a foundation for the chronology FSY 597: Study Abroad: Japan Kyoto- and context for recorded events in human GEO 508: The Rock-Forming Minerals Sangyo evolution. Emphasis is given to sedimentation, Study of the crystal chemistry, intracrystalline statigraphy, volcanism, and tectonics, as they May be repeated for credit. cation distribution (homogeneous equilibria) apply to local geology, including training in stability, and paragenesis of the rock-forming field methods. Modern terrestrial processes minerals. Special emphasis is placed on and landscape evolution are examined GEO amphiboles, feldspars, micas, and pyroxenes. using features present in the Turkana Basin. Geosciences Consideration is also given to broader geologic Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) events spanning the Oligocene to he present. GEO 500: Geosciences Research Geologic concepts are linked to modern GEO 510: Dimensions of Global Seminar and ancient environments, archaeology, and Change Meetings in which first-year graduate students paleoanthropology in northern Kenya. It This course is designed to be an intense 2021study in global climate change science. The and undergraduates with senior standing learn is a field-based course involving visits to about the research activities of the Geosciences important geological and fossil sites. Graded emphasis will be on modern climate change faculty. work includes fieldwork and lab assignments, however, by studying the contributions of paleoclimatology we can gain insight Fall, S/U grading independent research assignments, quizzes and a final exam. Semesters offered-Fall and into how the climate system operates. To GEO 502: GIS for Geologists Spring. Components- laboratory, lecture, and understand modern climate change and recitation. predictions, it is necessary to develop an A practical introduction to geographic understanding of natural climate forcing, information system software. Participants learn 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) natural variability and feedbacks in the climate to use direct measurement and mathematical Fall systems. Adding to natural variation are the techniques to compute the location of features GEO 505: Experimental Petrology impacts of anthropogenic forcing. The course and gain practical experience in rendering Laboratory will examine the measured and predicted imagery and tabular geographic data as layers The course is designed to give the student consequences of these anthropogenic forcing. on maps. The course consists of two three-hour experience in some or all of the following sessions per week for the first five weeks of techniques of experimental petrology: Offered Fall and semester, which include fieldwork, lectures, evacuated silica-glass tube experiments, one- Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, demonstrations and software-based analysis of atmosphere quenching experiments (with and etc.) data. without controlled atmospheres), 1- to 5- kbar hydrothermal systems (using oxygen buffers GEO 511: Computer Programming for This course meets with GEO 588 (Geological the Geosciences Field Methods for Earth Science Teachers) for where necessary), gas-media experiments up An introduction to object-oriented the first five weeks of the semester. Students to 7 kbar, and solid-media, piston-cylinder programming in Java for geoscience may not take GEO 502 and GEO 588 for experiments. students. Participants are required to develop credit. Requirements: Completion of a project interactive programs to serve as educational Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) involving several of the above techniques; written report or research tools pertaining to topics within GEO 503: Mineral Equilibria Spring, alternate years, 1 credit, Letter graded the geosciences. These programs, or applets, include a graphical user interface that enables Covers the basics of the application of the (A, A-, B+, etc.) users to control parameters and observe results. principles of chemical thermodynamics to the

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The applets are posted on the World Wide GEO 517: Crystal Chemistry Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Web. The structure/property/composition graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Geosciences graduate standing relationships in solids. An introduction to GEO 522: Planetary Sciences Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the common structure types and how they etc.) illustrate principles useful in understanding The chemical, physical, and petrologic more complex solid-state materials. properties of meteorites are reviewed. These GEO 512: Structure and Properties of Applications of modern scattering techniques data and data for the moon and the terrestrial Materials to the study of solids, particularly Earth planets are used to form a picture of the origin, An introductory course that will explore materials, are also included. chemical evolution, and accretion of planetary material. materials from the viewpoint of their Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) structure and chemistry and how these Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) affect applications. Different states of matter GEO 518: Carbonate Sediments GEO 523: Geodatabase and Design (crystals, quasicrystals, glasses, liquids) An intensive study of the formation, will be discussed and their similarities and deposition, lithification, and diagenesis Concepts of geodatabase design and differences, focusing on the crystalline state. of carbonate sediments. Lectures and management in geographic information Nanomaterials and their peculiarities in seminars emphasize principles of carbonate systems (GIS), SQL statements, geographic terms of structure and properties will also be deposition, facies relationships, and chemistry. data types and functions, data entry, and considered. Particular attention will be paid Laboratories emphasize binocular and techniques of geographic information structure to (1) Materials for energy and environment petrographic analysis of recent and ancient applications. applications, (2) materials for technological carbonates. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) applications, and (3) Earth and planet-forming Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. materials. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 524: Organic Contaminant GEO 519: Geochemistry of Natural Hydrology GEO 513: GIS Fundamentals I Waters There are a host of chemical, biological, and This course provides the basic concepts A comprehensive quantitative treatment of the physical processes that affect the transport underlying modern geographic information processes controlling the chemistry of polluted and fate of organic chemicals in natural science and technology. Emphasis is placed on and unpolluted surface and groundwaters. waters. This course concerns understanding the principles of GIS for collecting, storing, Topics covered include thermodynamics these processes and the structure-activity characterizing, and maintaining data and and kinetics of water-rock interaction; relationships available for predicting their computer-based techniques for processing and mineral solubility; chemical speciation; redox rates. The major focus of this class is on analyzing spatial data. The course includes reactions; adsorptions; carbonate chemistry; contaminant hydrology of soil and aquifer three hours of lecture, in class exercises and speciation, mobility, and toxicity of metal environments, and includes the principles and homework projects each week. This is ions. Based on a knowledge of these processes, behind remediation and containment a computer based class with the majority the chemical composition 2021of a wide variety technologies. This course is offered as both of students work involving GIS computer of surface and groundwaters is interpreted. MAR 524 and GEO 524. software. Prerequisite: working knowledge of Water-quality criteria and their application are Prerequisite: GEO 526 or MAR 503 or spreadsheet software also discussed. permission of instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. etc.) etc.)

GEO 514: Introduction to Physical GEO 520: Glacial Geology GEO 525: GIS Fundamentals II Hydrogeology History of glaciation on earth, formation and GIS Fundamentals II will introduce the applied Surface hydrology. Principles of groundwater Fall use of Geographic Information Systems dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets; processes flow. Well hydraulics. Geology of of glacial erosion and deposition; and the (GIS) which is now used extensively in groundwater occurrence. Water quality and nature of glacial sediments and landforms analytical studies. The course emphasizes groundwater contamination. Hydrologic site particularly relating to the development of the applications of GIS in solving real-world evaluation. Long Island. problems. Students are expected to gain an understanding of GIS theory, methodology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Physical Geology and most importantly application. Students are etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, also expected to demonstrate abilities of spatial etc.) GEO 515: Geohydrology thinking, spatial analysis, and be able to solve Dynamics of fluids in porous media. GEO 521: Isotope and Trace Element practical spatial problems utilizing a GIS. Fundamentals of physical hydrogeology. Geology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Quantitative analysis of regional groundwater Application of radiogenic isotopes and trace May be repeated for credit. system and well hydraulics. Introduction elements to the petrogenesis of igneous, GEO 526: Low-Temperature to numerical simulation techniques. metamorphic, and sedimentary systems Geochemistry Hydrodynamic dispersion and basic concepts including water-rock interaction in diagenetic of contaminant transport. and hydrothermal systems. Evaluation of Fundamental principles of chemical Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, radiogenetic techniques for determining the thermodynamics and kinetics, including etc.) ages of rocks and minerals. isotope effects, as they pertain to geochemical

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Spring Three hours of laboratory per week that their cores, mantles, crusts, and where Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical geology corresponds to the content of GEO 507 relevant, sedimentary shells. and one year of undergraduate chemistry 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 528: Carbonate Geochemistry GEO 547: Remote Sensing in GEO 535: Regional Structure and Geosciences Examination of the mineralogical and chemical Tectonics characteristics of the rock-forming carbonates Comprehensive study of commonly with emphasis on stabilities in the geological Formation and development of continental used image analysis methods in earth, environments. Includes study of phase crust in Phanerozoic mountain belts. The environmental and planetary sciences. relations; trace and minor element chemistries; structure and origin of ocean crust, magmatic Discussion of physical principles that are and mechanisms of growth, dissolution, arcs, and continental margin sequences are the basis for remote sensing techniques. and replacement. Use of current research studied using geophysical, geochemical, Participants gain practical experience in techniques as applied to carbonate minerals. and geologic data from ancient and modern geologic and environmental problem-solving examples. using satellite imagery. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) GEO 530: The Geology of Mars GEO 540: Solid Earth Geophysics GEO 549: Structural Geology Overview of Mars as a planetary system. Evolution of the planet and its atmosphere An overview of solid earth geophysics. Principles of structural geology, including through time. Detailed discussion of processes Topics include earthquake and exploratory the recognition and the mechanics crustal that have shaped the martian surface, including seismology, gravity, magnetics, geochronolgy, structural features. Topics include folding and erosion, sedimentation, volcanism, impact and heat flow. There is an emphasis on how all faulting, stress and strain, and the nature of cratering, physical and chemical weathering. of these techniques shed light on the nature of brittle and ductile lineations and foliations Comparison of geologic processes on Mars the Earth's interior and dynamics. in the crust. Three hours of lecture per week. and Earth. Discussion of past and future Prerequisite: Physical geology, undergraduate The laboratory component, GEO 569, must be spacecraft missions to Mars. Three hours of physics and calculus taken concurrently; a common grade for both lecture per week. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses will be assigned. Spring Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical geology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 542: Inverse Theory20213 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 531: Crystalline Solids Introduction to the basic concepts of inverse GEO 550: Global Tectonics Principles of symmetry, single-crystal, and theory and its application to the study of the powder X-ray diffraction techniques and internal structure of the Earth and related Geological, geochemical, and geophysical elements of crystal structure determination problems. evidence related to the concepts of plate are considered. Use of crystallographic data Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded tectonics and mantle convection. Kinematics in the study of mineral systems. Laboratory in (A, A-, B+, etc.) and dynamics of plate motions. Origin of first- diffraction techniques includes extensive use order crustal structures of continents and ocean of digital computers. GEO 543: Stratigraphy basins. Geochemical and thermal evolution of Fall the Earth. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded The history and practice of defining units (A, A-, B+, etc.) layered rocks and interpreting their spatial Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, relationships. Topics include the basis for the etc.) GEO 532: Solid-State Geochemistry geologic time scale, lithostratigraphic versus GEO 551: Physics of the Earth I The application of crystallographic techniques chronostratigraphic units, biostratigraphy, to problems in mineral chemistry. Concepts magnetostratigraphy, facies patterns and Study of the internal structure and properties of the crystalline state, order-disorder, atom Walther's law, subsurface stratigraphy, and of the Earth as revealed by field and laboratory radii, chemical bonding, atom coordination, the application of stratigraphy to geological investigations. Topics include the rotation solid solutions, and physical properties of problems. The laboratory component, GEO and figure of the Earth, gravity anomalies, minerals. Emphasis on silicate and sulfide 563, must be taken concurrently; a common solid-earth tides, geomagnetism and crystal structures. grade for both courses will be assigned. Spring paleomagnetism, electromagnetic induction, Prerequisite: GEO 546 or undergraduate and heat flow and the Earth's present and past Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded mineralogy and petrology thermal states. May be taken independently of (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GEO 552. GEO 533: Geochemistry of the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Terrestrial Planets GEO 546: Mineralogy and Petrology GEO 552: Physics of the Earth II A brief overview of basic principles of An introduction to mineralogy and petrology, geochemistry, including origin of the elements, including crystallography, crystal chemistry,

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Study of the Earth's structure and properties terms of provenance and sedimentary history anisotropy; poroelasticity; electrical, magnetic based on evidence from seismology and (e.g., weathering, diagenesis, recycling). and hydraulic transpost properties. high-pressure geophysics. Topics include Relationships between sediment composition Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded fundamental principles of elastic wave theory, and tectonic setting is also examined. (A, A-, B+, etc.) body and surface wave propagation in layered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, media, earthquake source mechanisms, free etc.) GEO 581: Coastal Engineering oscillations of the Earth, and rheological Geology properties of the Earth's interior. May be taken GEO 569: Structural Geology Concepts of the mechanics of earth materials independently of GEO 551. Laboratory and the physics of surficial processes with Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Three hours of laboratory per week that applications to the coastal environment and (A, A-, B+, etc.) corresponds to the content of GEO 549 engineering. This course is also offered as mar 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 581. GEO 556: Solid-State Geophysics Prerequisites: Enrollment in MESP or OEN Application of lattice dynamics and equations GEO 570: Earthquake Mechanics program or instructor of state of solids to studies in high-pressure, A survey of fundamental mechanics aspects Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) high-temperature geophysics. Reviews of earthquake rupture; reviews concepts of experimental data from physical acoustics, fracture mechanics, elastodynamics, and GEO 585: Directed Studies static and shock wave compression, and experimental rock mechanics. Topics include Special studies directed by various faculty theoretical results from finite strain and state of stress in the lithosphere, theoretical members. atomistic models. models of earthquake instability, energetics Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter Prerequisites: GEO 551 and 552, or of faulting, representation of dynamic elastic graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) permission of instructor field generated by earthquakes, and relation of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, seismic signals to the kinematics and dynamics GEO 587: Hydrogeology Capstone etc.) of seismic source. Project Prerequisite: GEO 552 or permission of Students will complete an in-depth capstone GEO 562: Early Diagenesis of Marine instructor report based on analysis of original, Sediments Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter independent research conducted by the student The course treats qualitative and quantitative graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on a faculty supervisor-approved topic in aspects of the early diagenesis of sediments. hydrogeology. Topics include diffusion and adsorption GEO 571: Mechanics of Geologic S/U grading of dissolved species; organic matter Materials decomposition and storage; and diagenesis of Elastic, thermal, and anelastic properties of GEO 588: Geological Field Methods for clay materials, sulfur compounds, and calcium geological materials. The course emphasizes Earth Science Teachers carbonates. The effects of bioturbation on a thermodynamic characterization of sediment diagenesis are also discussed. This Geologic mapping techniques, geochemical these properties including 2021irreversible analytical approach, and hydrological course is offered as both MAR 562 and GEO thermodynamics and nonhydrostatic 562. methodologies applied in the field to examples thermodynamics. Specific applications to the on Long Island. These approaches are designed Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Earth's environment are discussed. for developing research projects for secondary (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: GEO 551, 552, or permission of students in earth science. instructor GEO 563: Stratigraphy Laboratory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Three hours of laboratory per week that (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) corresponds to the content of GEO 543. Laboratory work emphasizes practical FallGEO 572: Advanced Seismology GEO 589: Research for Earth Science techniques in stratigraphy. Course is intended to expose the student Teachers 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to topics that are at the forefront of current This course is intended to provide earth seismological research. Examples include science teachers or students in the M.A.T. GEO 566: Mineralogy and Petrology wave propagation in heterogeneous media, in Earth Science program an opportunity to Laboratory earthquake source studies, tsunami generation, obtain research experience. A written report is Three hours of laboratory per week that and seismic network data analysis. required. corresponds to the content of GEO 546 Prerequisite: GEO 552 Prerequisite: Permission of instructor 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Summer, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) GEO 567: Sedimentary Rocks and Crustal Evolution GEO 573: Physics of Rocks GEO 590: Research Project An examination of major and trace elements Fundamentals of the physical properties of Independent research and isotopic composition of terrigenous rock in relation to seismology, hydrogeology, Fall,Spring, sedimentary rocks within a framework of geophysical prospecting and geotechnical Summer, 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B tracing the composition and evolution of engineering. Topics include: composition, +, etc.) the continental crust. Emphasis is placed on pore structure and fabric of rocks; elasticity, May be repeated for credit. interpreting sedimentary compositions in anelasticity and plasticity; seismic velocity and

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GEO 599: Research GEO 699: Dissertation Research on This course is designed for graduate students Independent research for those students Campus in other programs to understand German prose. established in a research group. Independent research for Ph.D. degree. Open Students learn the basic structures of German grammar, acquire general and specialized 1-12 credits, S/U grading only to candidates for the Ph.D. who have vocabulary, and translate a variety of texts, May be repeated for credit. passed the preliminary examination. including some from their academic areas Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). of interest. In certain programs, successful GEO 600: Practicum in Teaching Major portion of research must take place on completion of this course satisfies a language SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading requirement, while in others it serves as Brookhaven National Lab. May be repeated for credit. preparation for their own foreign-language Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U exam or testing procedure. GEO 603: Topics in Petrology grading May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) GEO 700: Dissertation Research off May be repeated for credit. Campus - Domestic GER 506: Advanced Stylistics Advanced stylistics and discourse analysis. GEO 604: Topics in Planetary Science Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will take place Designed to deepen the advanced student's May be repeated for credit. off-campus, but in the United States and/ knowledge of the syntax, structure, and or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven stylistic versatility of the German language. GEO 605: Topics in Sedimentary National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Geology-Paleontology are considered on-campus. All international etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, students must enroll in one of the graduate A-, B+, etc.) student insurance plans and should be advised GER 539: Contrastive Structures: May be repeated for credit. by an International Advisor. German-English Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Contrastive study of the phonological, GEO 607: Topics in Geophysics May be repeated for credit. morphological, syntactic, and semantic structures of German and English. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, GEO 701: Dissertation Research off A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy GER 541: Literature of the Goethe GEO 609: Topics in Mineralogy and (G5). Major portion of research will take Period Crystallography place outside of the United States and/or A study of the literature and culture of U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Germany during Goethe's lifetime, 1749-1832. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, option of the health plan and may also enroll A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, in MEDEX. International students2021 who are etc.) May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by GEO 696: Geoscience Colloquium mandatory health plan and must contact the GER 544: German Fiction Insurance Office for the insurance charge to A weekly series of research seminars presented Major authors of modern German fiction be removed. International students who are by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. are read and discussed. Texts many include not in their home country are charged for the Required every semester of all geoscience works from 19th and 20th century authors. The mandatory health insurance. If they are to be graduate students. course may also focus on works by a single covered by another insurance plan they must author. Fall and Spring, S/U grading file a waiver be second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. Fallcharge will only be removed if other plan is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deemed comparable. GEO 697: Geoscience Seminar GER 545: 20th-Century German Poetry All international students must received Intensive reading and discussion of 20th- Presentation of preliminary research results clearance from an International Advisor. and current research problems by students century German poetry, including works by Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Rilke, Trakl, Brecht, Benn, and Kirsch. The and faculty. Required every semester of all May be repeated for credit. geoscience graduate students. course may also focus on a single poet or movement in the 20th century. Fall and Spring, S/U grading GEO 800: SUMMER RESEARCH May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) GEO 698: Geoscience Special Seminar GER 546: 20th-Century German Drama A weekly series of specialized seminars in GER which graduate students and faculty discuss A survey of representative plays of the 20th specific topics within the subgroups of Germanic Languages and century, including works by Hauptmann, geology. Research is reviewed, and theses are Literature Hofmannsthal, Kaiser, Sternheim, Toller, discussed. Fleisser, Horvath, and Brecht. The course may also focus on the works of a single dramatist. Fall and Spring, S/U grading GER 500: Intensive Reading German May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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GER 547: Special Author Studies GER 593: Language Acquisition III GRD 510: Career Planning for Tutorial Intermediate and Advanced German intended Graduate Students Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, for graduate students from other programs. GRD 510 engages students in the PhD Career A-, B+, etc.) The requirements for the course will include a Ladder Program, which leads graduate May be repeated for credit. graduate-level component to be determined by students through the essential components of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. career development following the general steps GER 548: Special Period Studies 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of an Individual Development Plan (IDP). Tutorial May be repeated for credit. The steps include: self-assessment, career research, skill identification and building, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, GER 595: Practicum in Teaching informational interviewing, CV/resume A-, B+, etc.) crafting, networking, and goal setting. Each May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading section¿s discussion are led by a graduate May be repeated for credit. GER 557: History of the German student leader. Students will cultivate the Language GER 599: Thesis Research career readiness competencies employers expect and gain a career development Proceeding from several characteristics of GER 599 Thesis Research. One-six credits. S/ framework that they can apply to any career language in general and from the position of U grading. May be repeated for credit. goal, academic and non-academic, now and in German within the Indo-European language 1-6 credits, the future. By the end of the course, students family, this course addresses: the periodization May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. will have gained enhanced knowledge of their of German language history; internal skills, values and interests and how these developments from Indo-European to modern GER 601: Special Author apply to a career of interest, a customized CV German; the most important cultural events on Tutorial to be arranged with appropriate staff or resume for a job of interest, a broadened the path of German from the tribal dialects to member. professional network, and finally, an IDP a unified language; and relations of borrowing Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, outlining goals for their next steps. between German and other languages. Texts A-, B+, etc.) from the different periods are examined for 0-1 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. their linguistic features as well as for content. GRD 520: Introduction to Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GER 602: Special Period Policy for STEM Tutorial to be arranged with appropriate staff GER 558: Middle High German Science, technology and innovation (STI) member. are ubiquitous part of life and we must An introduction to Middle High German Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, understand these concepts in order to develop grammar with representative reading from the A-, B+, etc.) effective policies. This 1 credit hour course Middle High German classics. May be repeated for credit. is designed to teach engineering and science Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graduated students the main concepts in GER 800: Summer Research2021science, technology and innovation policy. GER 562: Historical Germanic 0-1 credits, S/U grading Linguistics May be repeated for credit. An introduction to the principles and methods GRD of historical linguistics as applied to problems GRD 550: CEAS Placeholder in the Germanic branch of Indo-European The Graduate School Placeholder course for students in special (early tribal movements, attempts at dialect programs in CEAS. Specific programs grouping, dialect geography, etc.). Part of GRD 500: Responsible Conduct of designated by course topic. the course will be devoted to readings in Research and Scholarship Gothic, Old Norse, and Old High German with 0-12 credits, S/U grading FallThis course is designed to introduce students May be repeated for credit. a comparison of the morphologies of these to the major issues in the ethics of research languages. and scholarship. Using a combination of Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, readings - written and web-based - videos, GSS etc.) lectures, case discussion and other exercises, students will investigate the moral values Geospatial Science GER 581: Independent Study intrinsic to research/scholarship/creative GSS 509: Digital Cartography May be repeated for credit. activity in their discipline and the professional and social values with which members of Maps portray spatial relationships among GER 591: Language Acquisition I the discipline must comply. Each class will selected phenomena of interest and Elementary German I intended for graduate begin with an introductory lecture or video increasingly are used for analysis and students from other programs. followed by discipline-based, small group synthesis. Cartography is the knowledge discussions with the participation of faculty associated with the art, science, and 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) from the department or program from which technology of maps. Digital computer GER 592: Language Acquisition II the graduate students come. cartography still follows the same fundamental principles and still requires a broad Elementary German II intended for graduate 0-3 credits, S/U grading understanding of graphicacy as a language (as students from other programs. May be repeated for credit. well as numeracy and literacy). This course 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will provide an introduction to cartographic

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This course provides the basic concepts GSS 526: GIS Project Management The course will include a mixture of core underlying modern geographic information This course will enable students to addresses geospatial techniques and recently released science and technology. Emphasis is placed on issues unique to a GIS operation such as: methodology. Course will include a diversity the principles of GIS for collecting, storing, identify implementation issues for a GIS of Geospatial topics including discipline characterizing, and maintaining data and project or program; be prepared to assist in specific topics relevant to majors in physical computer-based techniques for processing and decision making procedures that involve sciences, social sciences, business and analyzing spatial data. The course includes management; incorporate strategies for success engineering. three hours of lecture, in class exercises in your workplace; understand some of the 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and homework projects each week. This is legal issues about the use of GIS data; and May be repeated for credit. a computer based class with the majority be aware of the GIS industry outlook for of students work involving GIS computer employment and education. GSS 575: Geospatial Teaching Practicum software. Prerequisite: working knowledge of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) spreadsheet software May be repeated for credit. The teaching practicum provides teaching 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experience, carried out under faculty May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. GSS 550: Applied Spatial Analysis supervision. Student will work with a faculty The specific focus is on spatial data analysis, member as assistant in a regularly scheduled GSS 517: Geospatial Narratives: Deep such as the analysis of autocorrelation, course and student will be assigned a specific Mapping for Humanities and Social principles of geostatistics and analysis role to assist in teaching the course. The Sciences methods that are relevant in the fields of student will meet with the instructor on Building on formal methods in qualitative public health, environmental/earth science a regular basis to discuss intellectual and reasoning, spatial and temporal representation and social science. An important aspect of pedagogical matters relating to the course. and geospatial science, this course will explore the course is to gain hands-on experience 0-3 credits, S/U grading state-of-the-art methods for humanities and in applying these techniques with GIS and May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. social sciences students to visualize and spatial analytical software, and essential drill down data. Hands-on exercises of deep methodological and practical issues that are GSS 587: Geospatial Research mapping will cover how to collect, analyze involved in sophisticated spatial analyses. 3 This course is intended to provide graduate and visualize quantitative and qualitative credits. 2021students in the Geospatial Science program data, spatial data, images, video, audio, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an opportunity to obtain research experience. other representations of places and artifacts in A written report is required. Prerequisite: humanities and social sciences. This course GSS 554: Geospatial Science for the Permission of instructor 1-3 credits, Letter will also discuss models of reasoning about Coastal Zone graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) events, actions and changes that are spatially The use of spatial date is becoming 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contextualized. Only GSS517 or GSS513/ increasingly critical in the decision May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. GEO513 will count the Graduate Certificate. management process and planning of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) coastal zone. This course will use GIS and GSS 588: GIS Internship FallRemote sensing tools to collect and analyze The GIS Internship is designed to provide GSS 523: Geodatabase and Design data for intergrating into the management, students experience in the real workplace. Concepts of geodatabase design and planning, and monitoring of the coastal Interns are expected to function as a GIS management in geographic information geomorphology and ecosystems. Offered in professional and work within the existing host systems (GIS), SQL statements, geographic Fall. facility structure or on a free standing project. data types and functions, data entry, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Interns will complete assigned tasks by hosting techniques of geographic information structure facility such as GIS data entry, data retrieval, applications. GSS 555: GIS and Remote Sensing GPS field work, documentation, or general 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides a basic overview of the GIS facility duties. These activities will be May be repeated for credit. technology by which aircraft and satellite monitored by both a representative of the host data are produced and utilized in analyses facility and the instructor. GSS 525: GIS Fundamentals II to answer questions within a geographic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) GIS Fundamentals II will introduce the applied context. Students will learn to identify sources May be repeated for credit. use of Geographic Information Systems of remotely sensed imagery appropriate for (GIS) which is now used extensively in common applications; acquire, manipulate, analytical studies. The course emphasizes and interpret aerial photographs and satellite HAX the applications of GIS in solving real-world imagery/data; and incorporate remote sensing problems. Students are expected to gain an data into Geographic Information Systems.

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Health and Rehabilitation of future coursework in rehabilitation and HAX 631: Electro/Neurophysiology: Sciences movement sciences. Topics for Rehabilitation Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduces basic methodology of clinical HAX 600: Doctoral Seminar electrodiagnostic measures of EEG, EMG, HAX 626: Outcome Measurement in nerve conduction velocity studies (NCV), H- Provides a venue for faculty and doctoral Rehabilitation Research reflex and evoked potentials. Interpretation students to discuss all aspects of their of these measures provides access to the research. Researchers will present different Introduces outcome measures relating to physiological basis of disability in peripheral branches of translational science and discuss impairments, functional limitations and or central nerve damage and potentials for linkage between research agendas. Provides disability, general health status, and patient/ recovery. Examines the interventions using opportunity for data to be viewed and analyzed client satisfaction. These outcome measures peripheral and central electrical stimulation by investigators with different perspectives and are used to guide research outcomes. Explores modalities on muscle, bone, cardiovascular and tools for analysis. Offered in the measurement properties and discusses strategies to appropriately assess and select autonomic systems. Includes lab activities of Fall, S/U grading various outcome measurement scales. Critical selected modalities such as E-stim, FES, TMS, May be repeated for credit. appraisal of the literature will provide the basis EEG, EMG, NCV, and H-reflex. for making research methodological decisions HAX 602: Frameworks, Models and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) regarding selection of the most effective Classification Systems in Health and May be repeated for credit. outcome measures. Rehabilitation Sciences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HAX 632: Teaching and Learning Examines the dynamic interaction between May be repeated for credit. This course will introduce students to adult health, disability, and community and learning principles and strategies for effective contextual factors as identified using different HAX 629: Evidence Based Pediatric teaching of cognitive psychomotor and frameworks and models. These frameworks Rehabilitation Research affective skills and behaviors in academia. and models will be expounded to recognize Individual teaching/learning philosophical the influence of each solely and collectively Provides students an opportunity to develop orientations, characteristics of the adult in terms of health and rehabilitation research, an overview of issues related to the health learner, learning styles, self-directed learning, disability studies, and behavioral and of America's children and adolescents. and reflective practice will be explored. community health research. Explores parallels Emphasizes chronic disease and disability, and divergences in approaches with particular nutrition, fitness, educational accommodations, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) attention to analyzing how students in varied and trends in long term health services and May be repeated for credit. concentrations can work together to engage in health policy. Explores the growing need meaningful translational research within the for evidence based practice and outcomes HAX 634: Motor Learning and Motor domains of historical and present-day society assessment necessary for the development Control and research paradigms. of strategies for optimal function of children This course will introduce the various theories with disease/disability and their families. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) underlying human motor control. Students Students will review and analyze2021 evidence will actively synthesize and analyze current for interventions for a specific pathology/ HAX 605: Research Ethics theory and research related to motor control disability. and skill acquisition through examination of Presents a broad overview of research ethics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relevant literature. This course places emphasis and regulation. Conveys the moral bases May be repeated for credit. on determining the implications of this work of scientific ethics, the historical evolution for future research, educational and/or clinical of social science and biomedical research HAX 630: Exercise Physiology and practice. Includes early and contemporary ethics, and the development, implementation Physical Activity theory, skill acquisition facilitation, practice, and limitations of U.S. human subjects feedback, transfer of training, modeling, part regulations. Includes ethics and morality Provides key elements of exercise physiology Falland instructs students in measurement vs whole training, imagery, implicit learning, in science; science in society; scientific explicit learning and memory systems. integrity; misconduct; whistle blowing; techniques for the assessment of exercise conflicts of interest; collegiality; publication capacity and physical activity. Reviews normal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and authorship; peer review; history and physiology of the cardiopulmonary system May be repeated for credit. development of human experimentation and presents normal immediate response to ethics and regulations (HHS, FDA); exercise, and long-term effects of exercise in HAX 635: Biomechanics and Institutional Review Boards; informed consent, the healthy individual. Explores foodstuffs for Movement I waivers, vulnerable populations; privacy and energy production, metabolic pathways for Introduces students to principles and confidentiality of records; epidemiology; and production of ATP, and energy systems used interrelationships of biomechanics and research using animal subjects. in aerobic and anaerobic activities. Principles movement. Includes physical biomechanics of physical activity assessment and body 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the extremities as a foundation from composition and examines qualitative and which to apply biomechanical principles. quantitative measurement techniques across HAX 620: Rehabilitation and Disability Involves learning to use mathematical the lifespan and in disability. Assimilates, approaches to solving static problems and Introduces the Science of Rehabilitation and via lab manual, literature reviews of articles lay the groundwork for solving dynamic the Science of Disability. Presents models addressing measurement. biomechanical problems. Reinforces of rehabilitation and disability research and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biomechanical theoretical concepts and discusses controversies and commonalities May be repeated for credit. mathematical models with lab experiments between these areas. Forms the groundwork

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Reviews evidence supporting or of care, and the rising costs associated with Provides advanced concepts of kinetics in the refuting the sensitivity of these techniques in the US healthcare model. Discusses ways field of biomechanics. Explores biomechanical determining outcomes in rehabilitation. to improve upon the system, importantly concepts during lecture and reinforces those 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) including the Affordable Care Act, and applications with associated lab experiments. May be repeated for credit. how this legislation was enacted with close Provides viscoelastic characteristics of attention paid to the policymaking process, biological tissues as a foundation applied to HAX 640: Community Health and roles of political actors, and the importance of human motion. Includes mathematical models Community Based Participatory policy analysis. of the musculoskeletal system and analysis Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the dynamics of human motion. Collection Provides an overview of critical issues in May be repeated for credit. and analysis of gait and other movement conducting research in community settings kinematics, kinetics and muscle activation by including models of community-based HAX 644: Ethics, Health Disparities electromyography (EMG) are components of services. Covers the general principles of and Social Justice lab activities. community-based participatory research, and Examines aspects of inequality and health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practical and ethical issues in collaborating status as an injustice within the context May be repeated for credit. with communities, quantitative and qualitative of ethical theories (utilitarian, libertarian, techniques used in community-based deontological, equalitarian). Determines the HAX 637: Orthopedic and Anatomical participatory research, evaluations, and influence on case studies of health disparities Principles I interventions. Prerequisite: 24 credits of and inequalities. Discusses cases such as Provides advanced concepts of orthopedics HAXPH core courses or Permission of global and U.S. racial, class and gender and anatomy. Focuses on best evidence of Instructor¿ disparities and in developing countries. examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Presents ethical issues relative to different and procedures used for a variety of orthopedic methods of measuring health inequalities and conditions of the spine and pelvis. Requires HAX 641: Community Mental Health related policies. active engagement in problem solving by Explores the policies and programs that 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) identifying research problems, searching for address mental health needs of individuals May be repeated for credit. evidence, and evaluating and synthesizing with a community health focus. Students will the evidence to answer research questions. apply models of behavior and2021 health to explore HAX 645: Organizational Theory, Includes examination of select advanced topics of mental health including stigma, Management and Leadership procedures and principles to enhance research marginalization, self-determination. Discusses Examines theoretical and conceptual investigations. challenges to service provision. Focuses on framework for understanding leadership and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the ethics of research with this population as a management styles of health and human May be repeated for credit. central theme. services organizations and how they operate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in a broader community. Identifies and applies HAX 638: Orthopedic and Anatomical strategic models to analyze organizational Principles II HAX 642: Participation and Health in problems, organizational behaviors and Continues and expands on advanced concepts FallPediatric and Educational Settings processes, formulate strategic solutions, and of orthopedic interventional research. Focuses Explores policies and programs that inform make sound decisions. This knowledge is on best evidence of examination, evaluation, pediatric services and community based critical for the behavioral and community diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention of research. Focuses on pediatric programs that health field to understand how individuals orthopedic conditions of the extremities. influence health and community participation. influence and are influenced by organizations. Requires active engagement in problem Includes programs that support health, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) solving by identifying research problems, wellness, and community participation as May be repeated for credit. searching for evidence, and evaluating and well as those influenced by the Individuals synthesizing the evidence to answer research with Disabilities Education Improvement Act HAX 646: Social Behavior and questions. Student directed pilot study will (IDEA) that supports children with disabilities Community Health Change incorporate knowledge of select advanced from Birth to 21 years. Prerequisites: 24 Examines the nature of the behavior that techniques and technologies. credits of HAX core courses or permission of takes place within social systems and how to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Instructor. effectuate change in these systems. Analysis May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of behavior and possibilities for change will be placed in the context of health and public HAX 639: Technology and Medical HAX 643: Healthcare Systems and health questions and will draw upon theories Imaging in Rehabilitation Policy Analysis of organizational behavior, leadership, and mechanisms for action.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disability inequity as it related to other forms to personal narratives? How does description May be repeated for credit. of inequality and disadvantage. Themes and perception influence the practice of include all permutations of the concept of professionals and quality of life for people HAX 647: Policies and Ethics in occupy;disability justice/decolonization; with disabilities? What assumptions about Behavioral and Community Health [participation and training for collaborations; disability are revealed through rhetorical Explores health care policies of the US health marginalization and minoritization; analysis? These questions will frame our care system and the influence on public health technology; struggle, creativity, and change. attention to representations of disability in and programs in behavior and community 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a variety of texts: academic, professional, health. Includes access and utilization of health literary, clinical, personal, and visual. Not to care, barriers to care, prevention programs, HAX 664: Conceptual Foundations of be taken for credit with ESL 592 and health disparities and ethics. Addresses the Disability Studies 1890s-1990s 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) perspectives of the consumer, provider and the Present conceptual foundations of disability institution. studies beginning with the 19th and early 20th HAX 668: Emerging Topics in Disability 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) century theories and scholarships. Theorists Studies from the 1960s and 1970s who influenced the Focues on the intersections of disability with HAX 653: Research Methods: Design theoretical development of the new field of other emerging area studies such as gender, and Statistics disability studies will be discussed. The course class, sexuality, race and global studies. This course presents process and skills will explore foundational disability studies Encompass study of different emerging needed to develop independent research scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s as the field disciplinary areas of disability studies in the studies, including but not limited to, established itself first in the social sciences and social sciences, health sciences, humanities, formulating a research question or hypothesis, then the humanities. business, and technology. Explores the conducting literature searches, critically 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) connections between disability activism, art, appraising scientific literature, and selecting and scholarship in the 21 century. Traces appropriate research designs and methods. HAX 665: Disability, Participation and emerging regional distinctions in disability This information will be presented in the Justice studies research and scholarship, especially context of protecting human subjects and Explores concepts of "Participation" and between Northern and Southern Countries health information based on the policies and "Justice" as they relate to disability experience. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) procedures of the Committee on Research Introduces research strategies, participatory May be repeated for credit. Involving Human Subjects (CORIHS) and methods and methodologies for disability IACUC. studies research in the applied social and HAX 669: Disability and Health in Local 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health sciences. Discusses ethical issues and Global Contexts May be repeated for credit. in disability research and what it means to Critically examines the experiences of disabled people in daily life. Examines social people with disabilities in a local and global HAX 656: Qualitative Research analysis, healthcare discourse, and research on context and examines the connections Students will learn the basic principles the evolution of healthcare2021 practices, cultural between the two contexts. Utilizes policy and techniques of effective analysis and beliefs, and social structures influencing documents, ethnographies, memoirs, program interpretation of the merits of qualitative data. the treatments, services, and opportunities evaluations, and multi-media and provides Examines how qualitative research captures available to disabled people in the United the tools to critically evaluate local and global complex phenomena that span the international States and internationally. disability experiences as well as programs and classification of function (ICF) and impact 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interventions. on quality of life, illness/injury experience May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and recovery. Students will learn the strengths and limitations of qualitative analysis and HAX 667: Disability Studies Language, HAX 690: Independent Study in Health how it complements quantitative analysis. FallNarrative and Rhetoric and Rehabilitation Sciences Emphasizes several methods to represent Focuses on how language and rhetoric frame Independent study proposals in health data, such as the mixed method approach, how disability is perceived, experienced, and rehabilitation sciences. Approval of and students will apply a range of analysis and treated. Included critical and rhetorical independent study proposal and credit hours techniques through research exercises. analysis of professional discourses as required prior to registration. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) well as personal disability narratives and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. memoirs. The society for Disability Studies, May be repeated for credit. an interdisciplinary organization, says in its HAX 663: Disability, Occupation and mission statement, disability is a key aspect HAX 693: Directed Readings Community of human experience.So is language. This Provides faculty directed readings and guided Inspired by disability justice social movements course explores the interdisciplinary nature of discussion to synthesize selected content in the US and abroad, this course presents disability studies and the roles language and related to the current course curriculum politically engaged critical approaches rhetoric play in representations of disability. and/or to the students' research interests. to disability that intersect community Some questions to be explored include: Through the guided readings, the students organizations, the arts and academic fields In what ways do clinical or professional will learn foundational and advanced including occupational therapy, disability discourses and personal narratives reveal theoretical constructs that will be important studies and anthropology. Broader than a experience of power and powerlessness? underpinnings of their future studies and medical category, disability identity recognizes How is the bodily experience of disability doctoral research. Specifically, studies the political and economic dimensions of described in professional contexts as compared

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Anatomical Sciences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBA 542: Advanced Human Anatomy HBA 521: Gross Anatomy of Head, May be repeated for credit. for Physical Therapists Neck, and Trunk Regional approach to the gross anatomy of HAX 699: Dissertation Research On Tutorial laboratories with emphasis on the lower limb for physical therapy graduate Campus dissections of the human head, neck, and students (DPT). The course is presented in Dissertation research under direction of trunk. conjunction with HYA519, Kinesiology for advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Physical Therapists. This module will offer candidacy (G5). Major portion of research an exopanded view of the functional anatomy must take place on SBU campus. HBA 531: Nervous System and arthrology of the hip, thigh, leg and foot. 1-9 credits, S/U grading This course provides an integrative overview Labs will be three hours, one day per week. May be repeated for credit. of the structure and function of the mammalian Enrollment will be limited to DPT students. nervous system with an emphasis on the S/U grading HAX 700: Dissertation Research Off human brain, the cranial nerves and the Campus- Domestic neurobiology relevant to the oral cavity. HBA 550: Vertebrate Evolution Dissertation research under direction of It begins with a series of lectures centered Survey of the fossil record of vertebrate an advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to on cellular foundations, basic principles of evolution. The course emphasizes the origin, candidacy (G5). Major portion of research cell signaling/neurophysiology and nervous phylogeny, comparative and functional will take place off-campus, but in the United system development. The major structures morphology, biogeography, and paleontology States and/or U.S. provinces. All international of the central and peripheral nervous system of vertebrate animals. Laboratory included. students must enroll in one of the graduate and their functions are also introduced. The lectures and laboratories will utilize an student insurance plans and should be advised These sessions build foundations for more extensive collection of comparative anatomical by an International Advisor. in-depth investigations at systems levels; material, fossil casts, and slides. sensory, motor, higher order, homeostatic 1-9 credits, S/U grading and cranial systems are emphasized. For Prerequisite: Previous course in human May be repeated for credit. most topics, basic principles are reinforced or vertebrate anatomy and permission of instructor. HAX 701: Dissertation Research Off using clinical examples from different dental disciplines and the interactive lectures are Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter Campus International 2021graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) complemented and extended in student Dissertation research under direction of an working group sessions that use the primary HBA 551: Phylogenetic Systematics, advisor. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to literature, case-based problem solving and candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will Biogeography and Comparative other forms of active learning to solidify Methods take place outside of the United States and/ learning and make clinical connections. This or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have course represents a coordinated teaching effort This course will provide students with a the option of the health plan and may also from the Departments of Neurobiology and familiarity in the practical application of enroll in MEDEX. International students who Behavior, and Anesthesiology. modern phylogenetic methods and the use are in their home country are not covered by of phylogenies in framing evolutionary mandatory health plan and must contact the Fall8 credits, S/F graded hypotheses. The course will have both a Insurance Office for the insurance charge to lecture and laboratory component with lectures HBA 540: Human Anatomy for Physical be removed. International students who are including in-class discussions of assigned Therapists not in their home country are charged for the readings. Lab exercises will be devoted to mandatory health insurance. If they are to be A lecture and laboratory course that includes hands-on experience with available software covered by another insurance plan they must dissections of the entire human body. The for phylogenetic and comparative methods. file a waiver by the second week of classes. course is organized in three modules: (1) Comparative methods examined will include The charge will only be removed if other thorax and abdomen, (2) head and neck, a focus on historical biogeography as well plan is deemed comparable. All international including neuroanatomy, and (3) limbs. It as ancestral state reconstruction, rates of students must receive clearance from an covers regional and conceptual information evolution and diversification, and analysis of International Advisor. on the gross anatomy of all organ systems in adaptation and key innovations. the human body. Prerequisite: permission of 1-9 credits, S/U grading instructor for students that are not enrolled in 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Stony Brooks Physical Therapy Program. HBA 560: Advanced Regional Anatomy HAX 800: Summer Research 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Advanced human gross anatomy for graduate Prerequisite: Pre-approved participation students or advanced undergraduates in HBA 541: Evolutionary Anatomy in health rehabilitation sciences (HAX) biology, anthropology and other life sciences. A lecture and laboratory with emphasis on dissection of the entire human body. Includes Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

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Fall, Summer, 3-8 credits, Letter graded (A, strain analysis are discussed as they pertain to Original investigation under supervision of A-, B+, etc.) the understanding of the interaction between thesis adviser and committee. form and function. Special emphasis is placed Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5); HBA 561: Human Gross Anatomy on the analysis of human and nonhuman permission of thesis advisor. Major portion A lecture and laboratory course that includes primate morphology, and the application of of research must take place on SBU campus, dissections of the entire human body. The this analysis to interpretation of the fossil at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven course is organized in three modules: (1) evidence for human and nonhuman primate National Lab. thorax and abdomen, (2) head and neck, evolution. This course is offered as both HBA Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U including neuronatomy, and (3) limbs. It 566 and DPA 566. grading covers regional and conceptual information Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. on the gross anatomy of all organ systems in Spring, even years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, the human body. Prerequisite: permission of A-, B+, etc.) HBA 700: Dissertation Research off instructor for students that are not enrolled Campus - Domestic in Stony Brook's Occupational Therapy, HBA 582: Comparative Anatomy of Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Physician Assistant or Respiratory Therapy Primates (G5). Major portion of research will take place programs. The comparative anatomy of living primates. off-campus, but in the United States and/ Summer, 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Laboratory dissection with emphasis on or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven etc.) relating structural diversity to behavior and National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab biomechanics. This course is offered as both are considered on-campus. All international HBA 563: Aspects of Animal HBA 582 and DPA 582. students must enroll in one of the graduate Mechanics Prerequisites: HBA 364 and previous student insurance plans and should be advised An introduction to biomechanics. Covers course in human or vertebrate anatomy and by an International Advisor. freebody mechanics and kinetics as applied to permission of instructor. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading vertebrate locomotion. Considers the structure Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. and physiology of muscle as it relates to graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) adaptations of the musculoskeletal system. HBA 701: Dissertation Research off This course is offered as both HBA 563 and HBA 590: Projects in Anatomical Campus - International DPA 563. Sciences Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Prerequisites: Introductory physics and Individual laboratory projects closely (G5). Major portion of research will take biology or permission of instructor. supervised by faculty members to be carried place outside of the United States and/or Spring, odd years, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, out in staff research laboratories. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. option of the health plan and may also enroll Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are HBA 564: Primate Evolution May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by The taxonomic relationships and evolutionary 2021mandatory health plan and must contact the history of primates as documented by their HBA 690: Graduate Seminar Insurance Office for the insurance charge to fossil record and structural and chemical Seminars by graduate students on current be removed. International students who are evidence. Emphasis on primates prior to the literature in the areas of the anatomical not in their home country are charged for the origin of the human lineage. This course is sciences. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be offered as ANT 564, DPA 564 and HBA 564. covered by another insurance plan they must Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. file a waiver be second week of classes. The Spring, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading charge will only be removed if other plan is A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. deemed comparable. HBA 565: Human Evolution FallHBA 692: Advanced Topics in All international students must received A survey of the fossil record of hominid Anatomical Sciences Literature clearance from an International Advisor. evolution through the Pliocene and Pleistocene Tutorial readings in anatomical sciences with Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading with emphasis on the morphological structure periodic conferences, reports and examinations May be repeated for credit. and function of locomotor, masticatory, arranged with the instructor. and neural systems. Includes utilization of HBA 800: Full-Time Summer Research Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. comparative anatomical material and an Full-time laboratory research projects Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, S/U grading extensive cast collection. This course is offered supervised by staff members. May be repeated for credit. as ANT 565, DPA 565 and HBA 565. S/U grading Fall, even years, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, HBA 695: Practicum in Teaching May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) Practical instruction in the teaching of anatomical sciences carried out under faculty HBA 566: Studies in Functional supervision. HBC Morphology 1-4 credits, S/U grading Biochemistry Introduction to the theory and methods of May be repeated for credit. functional morphology. Various methods of HBC 531: Molecular Foundations of analysis and the application of experimental HBA 699: Dissertation Research on Medicine techniques such as electromyography or bone Campus

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An integrated course covering the important vignettes and clinical case discussions. The May be repeated for credit. aspects of biochemistry, cell biology, human multidisciplinary course faculty will include and molecular genetics, and histology. physicians, scientists, educators, nurses and HBH 531: Pharmacology-Dental Includes lectures, small group conferences and pharmacists. Enrolled students will have the Basic principles that underlie actions of drugs laboratories and stresses the clinical relevance opportunity to ask questions directly through on physiological processes with particular of the basic science material. online chats. reference to their therapeutic and toxic actions. 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, S/U grading For medical and dental students. Prerequisites: Physiology, biochemistry, permission of HBH 506: Graduate Pharmacology instructor and admission to Graduate Health HBH Colloquium Sciences Center Program. Modules 4-6, Pharmacology Research seminars in pharmacology 5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and toxicology presented by faculty and distinguished scientists from academic and HBH 545: Biochemical Laboratory HBH 501: Principles of Pharmacology industrial institutions. A 1 hr. Journal Club/ Techniques Basic principles and mechanism of drug Discussion Session precedes seminar to Introduces theoretical principles and distribution, absorption, metabolism review a reference paper relevant to the experimental techniques used in modern and elimination. Principles of chemical research concepts to be presented. Students biochemical research. Lectures and homework carcinogenesis and tumor promotion. are expected to develop an understanding assignments explore topics in basic molecular Autonomic, Smooth Muscle and CNS of the scientific principles given in the and cellular techniques. Prerequisites: Pharmacology. Pharmacology of specific colloquium. Students are required to give a Admission to Health Sciences Center program. drugs of historical interest including alcohol, formal presentation. Co-scheduled with BCP Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) antibiotics, aspirin, nicotine and morphine. 406. Offered Review of anticoagulants & thrombolytic May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. agents, antiparasitic, and drugs for the Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, HBH 546: Biochemical Laboratory treatment of allergic conditions and gout. etc.) Techniques Includes discussion of specific cases taken May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. from clinical practice and a presentation based Continuation of HBH545. Lectures HBH 510: Practical Clinical Exposure and demonstrations present topics in on a set of selected readings. Crosslisted with for Translational Basic Scientists BCP 401 chromatography, mass spectrometry, protein Hospital Clinical Rotations-Physician sequencing, sedimentation, electrophoresis, Fall, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Course faculty will arrange two, two- ligand binding, basic pharmacological methods week-long rotations (four weeks total). HBH 502: Advanced Principles of and statistical analysis of data. Includes The following services are committed to Pharmacology procedures for the safe handling of toxic participate: Anesthesiology-students will be chemicals and radioisotopes. Prerequisites: Advanced concepts of drug metabolism, offered opportunities in operating room (OR) Permission of instructor, admission to graduate pharmacokinetics, biochemical and molecular observation; pre-admission2021 patient evaluations; Health Sciences Center program. mechanisms of drug action and drug resistance pain management clinic; and others depending in human disease states. Toxicological Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) upon availability. Internal Medicine-students May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. agents and environmental pollutants. will be offered opportunities in the medical The pharmacology of autocoids, anti- intensive care unit (MICU); coronary care HBH 549: Legal & Regulatory Issues in inflammatories, immunosuppressants and anti- unit (CCU); medical oncology; and others Clinical Research combined with Ethics asthmatics. Rational drug design and drug depending upon availability. Others-depending &Professionalism in Clin. Rsrch. receptor interactions using computer molecular upon availability. Student will be expected to Some of the sessions are part of the SBU modeling techniques. Includes discussion of spend 3-4 hours daily in their assigned clinical specific cases taken from clinical practice course on Responsible Conduct of Research Fallactivates (15-20 hours weekly; 60-80 hours and Scholarship (RCRS, formerly known and a presentation based on a set of selected for the course). In addition, they will be asked readings. Cross-listed with BCP 402 as GRD 500). During the course, major to participate in special medical exercises contemporary issues in legal and regulatory Spring, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, arranged for them on an ad hoc basis by course arenas associated with scientific research are etc.) faculty, both in the hospital pharmacy and discussed. The course introduces students elsewhere. Finally all students will attend HBH 505: Pharmacology to Pharmacy: to the history behind the regulations that weekly case conferences, 2hr each for all 4 safeguard human subjects, and educates Practical Clinical Aspects for Non- weeks. At these conferences, students will Clinicians (Didactic) students in detail about their responsibilities be asked to prepare and present two clinical as clinical investigators. Using an interactive This course, to be offered exclusively online, cases, based on two of the patients they have case based format the topics covered include: is designed for students interested in health seen on their clinical rotations. It is expected justification for human research and reasonable care (either basic medical science-oriented or that each student will be responsible for at balance of risk versus benefits; the use of clinical). The class introduces many aspects least two presentations during the four-week animals in research; informed consent; the of clinical pharmacology, but is geared course. Presentations will be graded by course ethical challenges of clinical research; ethical toward non-clinicians. Clinical Vignettes and faculty, S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory). concerns associated with genetic testing and case discussions will be presented. Several The final grade for the course, also S or U, will screening; research in minors and adults of medical procedures will be first described be determined both by these grades as well as questionable capacity to consent; conflict and then demonstrated. Understanding these by overall attendance at all course activities. of interest; investigator responsibilities with procedures will be integral to appreciating the 0-3 credits, S/U grading regard to fulfilling government regulation;

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 115 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 scientific fraud and whistle blowing; the Students are encouraged to contact instructors resistant organisms. The anti-cancer lectures scientific community and mentoring; prior to enrolling. Crosslisted as BSB580 and begin with a comprehensive analysis of the authorship and attribution; special populations HBH585. molecular basis of cellulartransformation and inclusion of minorities; and emergency Spring, 0-4 credits, S/U grading leading to neoplastic disease. Lectures on research-related special requirements. cancer therapy emphasize the contrast between 1 credit, HBH 590: Pharmacology Seminars conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy and Advanced research seminars by staff and novel therapeutic approaches guided by recent HBH 550: Statistics in Life Sciences visiting lecturers. developments in cancer research. Novel computational biology and structural biology This course covers statistical concepts and Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology approaches are featured throughout the course. issues in the life sciences. Basic algebra is graduate status Each student is expected to make two formal assumed as a prerequisite. Topics covered Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading journal-club style presentations during the include: descriptive statistics, foundation of May be repeated for credit. statistical inference, sampling distribution, course and to actively participate in group point estimate and confidence internal, HBH 599: Graduate Research in discussion. comparison of independent and paired Pharmacological Sciences 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) samples, analysis of categorical data, Original research projects under faculty May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. correlation, ANOVA, linear regression, and supervision. nonparametric test. HBH 633: Quantitative Methods in Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology Pharmacology 1 credit, S/U grading graduate status This course introduces second-year graduate May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-12 credits, Letter students to the quantitative approaches that graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HBH 560: Proposal Preparation in underlie modern research in Pharmacology. May be repeated for credit. Regulatory Biology Students will be exposed to tools and A literature-based course focusing on major HBH 601: Practicum in Teaching techniques that are widely applied in different research areas in molecular and biochemical Pharmacology fields of biomedical research. Students will receive an introduction to the command line, pharmacology. The first part of the course Practical experience and instruction in the will expose students to a series of examples coding and statistics, and learn to apply these teaching of pharmacology carried out under tools to pharmacokinetic compartmental of recent grant proposals. The second part of faculty orientation and supervision. the course will feature student presentations analysis, molecular modeling, image analysis, Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology of their research proposals. Due to the structural biology, biological big data analysis graduate status coordination of this course with the Qualifying and genomics. Students will be actively Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Exam, registration is limited to Pharmacology engaged in data analysis and will be expected May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. graduate students. to participate in group discussion. 3 credits, Fall and Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading HBH 631: Graduate Pharmacology I May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Basic principles of pharmacology2021 will be HBH 655: Neuropharmacology discussed including pharmacokinetics and HBH 580: Selected Topics in An advanced course for graduate students pharmacodynamics in both normal and Pharmacology interested in developing an understanding various disease states. Major problems in of neuropharmacology and research on this Student seminars and readings on topics human pharmacology will be considered arranged through consultation with staff. topic. Following a general introduction to the including obesity, diabetes, hypertension nerve cell structure, synaptic and chemical 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and heart failure. Underlying physiology as transmission, three themes receptors, receptors May be repeated for credit. well as pathophysiologic background will be as channels, and G-protein-coupled receptors presented. Drug design and development will HBH 585: Advanced Structural Fall are developed. Recent advances in cell and be discussed from both scientific and socio- molecular biology provide the framework Biology/Structural Methods in Drug economic perspectives. Discovery for instruction and discussion. This course Prerequisites: Graduate Biochemistry, is offered as both HBH 655 and BNB 655. This course is designed for students that want Physiology HBY 561 or consent of instructor. Prerequisiste: Admission to Graduate Health to gain theoretical and practical experience Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Sciences Center Program. in macromolecular structure determination A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, through NMR spectroscopy and/or X-ray May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. crystallography. The course is organized etc.) into two modules: NMR spectroscopy and HBH 632: Graduate Pharmacology II HBH 656: Cell Biology X-ray crystallography. Students may elect This course introduces second-year graduate Introduction to the structural and functional to take one or both modules. Emphasis will students to chemotherapy agents used to be placed on practical aspects of structural organization of cells and tissues and to combat bacterial and viral infections as well the way structure relates to function. determination, including sample preparation, as cancers. The course develops a detailed data collection and processing. In each of the Particular emphasis is placed on nuclear and understanding of the strategies involved in chromosomal structure, signal transduction, modules, students will be guided through a identifying drug targets in these two diverse complete structural determination project. protein translocation, the cytoskeleton and therapeutic settings. The antibacterial lectures the extracellular matrix. The interaction of A final project report per module will be emphasize the problem of drug resistance and required. Familiarity with Linux is desirable. cellular structures and components and their the need to develop new agents to combat regulation is stressed as is the organization

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 116 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 and interaction of cells in tissues. The course All international students must receive Spring, 1-8 credits, S/U grading is comparative and includes examples of cells clearance from an International Advisor. and tissues from vertebrates, invertebrates, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading HBM 522: Biology of Cancer plants, and prokaryotic systems. Prerequisite: May be repeated for credit. A short course with the emphasis on cancer matriculation in graduate program or as a disease of man. Lectures address human permission of instructor. HBH 800: Full-Time Summer Research cancer as seen by the clinician and as basic Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Full-time laboratory research projects research relates to human disease. This etc.) supervised by staff members. Summer Term. course provides students with a link between May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Full-time pharmacology courses in cell and molecular biology and the graduate status. application of this basic information to tumor HBH 699: Dissertation Research in S/U grading management. Offered as HBM 522 and HPH Campus May be repeated for credit. 659. Offered Spring Original investigation undertaken as part 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the Ph.D. program under supervision of thesis adviser and committee. Prerequisite: HBM HBM 599: Graduate Research in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Advancement to candidacy (G5); permission Molecular Genetics and of thesis advisor. Major portion of research Original investigations under faculty must take place on SBU campus, at Cold Microbiology supervision. Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National HBM 503: Molecular Genetics Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Lab. Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Full-time pharmacology Introduces the classical work and current May be repeated for credit. graduate status developments in lower and higher genetic Fall, Spring, and Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U systems. Covers gene structure and regulation HBM 640: Molecular Mechanisms of grading in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, Microbial Pathogenesis May be repeated for credit. mutational analysis and mapping, transposable This course covers the principles and elements, and biological DNA transfer molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of a HBH 700: Dissertation Research off mechanisms. Bacteriophage as well as lower selected group of the best understood viral Campus - Domestic and higher eukaryotic systems are used and bacterial pathogens. A major focus of the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy to illustrate aspects of molecular genetic course relates to pathogen modification of (G5). Major portion of research will take place structure and function. This course is offered host extracellular and intracellular signalling off-campus, but in the United States and/ as both MCB 503 and HBM 503. Prerequisite: events, as well as pathogen-host interactions or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven matriculation in graduate program or pertaining to the innate, humoral and cellular National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab permission of instructor responses to infection. The material is are considered on-campus. All international Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) presented by invited lecturers who are leaders students must enroll in one of the graduate 2021in their fields. This courses is directed to student insurance plans and should be advised HBM 509: Experimental Molecular graduate students, post-doctorate and medical by an International Advisor. Genetics and Microbiology fellows, and advanced medical students, who Prerequisite: Full-time pharmacology An introduction to modern microbiological are are contemplating careers in infectious graduate status research. The selection of laboratories is made disease research. Prerequisite: HBM, BMO Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading in consultation with the student's advisory 503 and BMO 520 May be repeated for credit. committee. By taking part in ongoing projects 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the student will learn experimental procedures HBH 701: Dissertation Research off and techniques and become acquainted with HBM 690: Molecular Genetics and Campus - International Fallresearch opportunities in the department. Microbiology Seminar Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Prerequisites: Matriculation in a graduate A weekly meeting devoted to current work (G5). Major portion of research will take program and permission of the graduate in the department. Enrolled students present place outside of the United States and/or studies director and the lab director seminars each week throughout the term. U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Fall, 1-8 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. option of the health plan and may also enroll HBM 510: Experimental Molecular Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by Genetics and Microbiology mandatory health plan and must contact the An introduction to modern microbiological HBM 691: Readings in Molecular Insurance Office for the insurance charge to research. The selection of laboratories is made Genetics and Microbiology Literature be removed. International students who are in consultation with the student's advisory Readings in microbiology literature covering not in their home country are charged for the committee. By taking part in ongoing projects areas of molecular biology and genetics. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be the student will learn experimental procedures covered by another insurance plan they must and techniques and become acquainted with Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. file a waiver be second week of classes. The research opportunities in the department. Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is Prerequisites: Matriculation in a graduate deemed comparable. program and permission of the graduate HBM 692: Experimental Methods in studies director and the lab director Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

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The goal of this course is to introduce students perspectives on pandemics, which are of global HBP 511: Pathobiology for Graduate to the rationale underlying the wide array of concern, while measures against them are Health Care Practitioners new methods in biology, as well as to promote usually taken on a national level. For graduate students who have obtained the critical analysis of scientific literature. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) primary health care baccalaureate degrees Lectures will be given about various scientific May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. through the case study approach. Covers the methods and approaches, and journal articles underlying principles of modern experimental relating to the concepts introduced will be HBM 699: Dissertation Research on pathology. Focuses on the clinical aspects of assigned. A separate discussion section will be Campus the body system, including relevant underlying held to review and critique the articles, to be For the student who has been advanced to biochemistry, structure, or pathophysiology at led by the students. candidacy (G5); permission of dissertation the organ, tissue, cell or molecular level. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advisor. Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree, health Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U care experience, biochemistry or cell biology, HBM 693: Reseach Proposal grading anatomy and microbiology. Preparation in Molecular Genetics and May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Microbiology A-, B+, etc.) A course, based upon the literature in HBM 700: Dissertation Research off molecular genetics and microbiology, to Campus - Domestic HBP 533: Immunology instruct students in scientific writing and the Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Principles of immunology for graduate preparation of research proposals. The course (G5). Major portion of research will take place students in the biological sciences, including will be organized in three parts. In the first off-campus, but in the United States and/or definition of antigens and antibodies, section of the course, students will become U.S. provinces. All international students specificity of the immune response, familiar with the components of the research must enroll in one of the graduate student immunoglobulin structure, the genetics proposal and will read and evaluate proposals insurance plans and should be advised by an of immunoglobulin synthesis, cellular written by the training faculty. Lectures given International Advisor. cooperation in the immune response, by the course co-directors will cover the Fall, Spring, Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U grading hypersensitivity, tolerance immunogenetics. basics of scientific writing, research proposal May be repeated for credit. Open to advanced undergraduates. preparation and the problems and concerns Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) commonly voiced by reviewers of research HBM 701: Dissertation Research off proposals. In the second section, students Campus - International HBP 556: Laboratory Medicine will develop two short proposals in the area A four-week full-time (6 hr, day) course of molecular genetics and microbiology that Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy dealing with clinical laboratory decision are unrealted to their graduate research. One (G5). Major portion of research will take making and the basis for the laboratory of these short proposals will be selected for place outside of the United States and/or evaluation of human evaluation of human development into a full proposal. In the third U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the disease. Didactic and practical presentations by section, students will develop and write the option of the health plan and may also enroll in MEDEX. International students2021 who are interdepartmental faculty. Intended principally full proposal. The students' skills in proposal for senior medical students, but also for preparation will be enhnaced by critiquing the in their home country are not covered by advanced microbiology or biochemistry short and full proposals presented by other mandatory health plan and must contact the students interested in clinical applications. students in the second and third sections of the Insurance Office for the insurance charge to course. be removed. International students who are Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. not in their home country are charged for the Spring, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Offered mandatory health insurance. If they are to be etc.) Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, covered by another insurance plan they must etc.) file a waiver be second week of classes. The HBP 590: Seminars in Immunology Fallcharge will only be removed if other plan is HBM 696: Pandemics in Human History A series of monthly seminars focusing on deemed comparable. research in progress by the participants, current In a joint credit-bearing course, 12 students All international students must received journal articles in the field of immunobiology, (at the advanced Bachelor and beginning clearance from an International Advisor. and prepared reviews of specified areas in the Master level) from three partner institutions Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading general field. will develop a 360 degree view of six different May be repeated for credit. pandemics that occurred in human history. Prerequisite: MCB Graduate Students Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading Tuberculosis, Influenza, Dengue, SARS/ HBM 800: Full-Time Summer Research Covid 19, HIV, antimicrobial resistance. May be repeated for credit. Each pandemic will be covered by one Full-time laboratory research projects expert who also serves as a mentor for the supervised by staff members. HBP 622: Clinical Pathologic students. Expert-mentors will be recruited 0-1 credits, S/U grading Correlations: Gross Pathology from the partners' networks. Six international May be repeated for credit. Correlative exercises in clinical pathology and student pairs will each explore one pandemic human gross anatomic pathology including and compare its consequences as well as surgical biopsy material. Open to students in measures taken against them in different parts HBP medical sciences. of the world. In addition, students will gain Pathology Prerequisites: Systems pathology and general insights into public health institutions (WHO, pathology course. Permission of instructor. CDC, RKI etc.). Students will get different

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Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, reinforce structural-functional correlations. A graduate-level introduction to the etc.) This elective is selected by students who physiology of the organ systems with May be repeated for credit. plan a career in pathology as a "hands-on" ultrastructural correlations. Ultrastructural introduction to the specialty. The elective is correlations are demonstrated in a laboratory HBP 691: Journal Club in Pathology also chosen by others, particularly individuals setting using histological preparations in Provides students with a forum for acquiring who will enter radiology, and who seek to conjunction with electron micrographs skills involved in the critical analysis and correlate radiographic and pathologic anatomy. illustrating the relevant ultrastructure needed presentation of scientific data by active Students who are sufficiently interested and to understand the normal functioning of participation in seminars of major topics in motivated may become involved in relatively tissues and organs. The physiology of cellular and molecular pathology, and critical independent work-up of selected cases. the major organ systems is addressed in a discussion of selected topics with presentation Primarily for health sciences professionals. lecture format with the emphasis on problem of papers from the literature. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) solving. Relevant clinical correlations are Prerequisite: MCB Graduate Student May be repeated for credit. addressed at the end of each block in so far Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, as they illustrate how symptoms and signs of B+, etc.) HBP 971: Renal Clinicopathologic disease result from disordered physiology. May be repeated for credit. Correlations Organ Systems addresses the structure and A case-oriented, postgraduate course in renal function of the cardiovascular, respiratory, HBP 966: Hematology Conference biopsy interpretation and its relationship to renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, skeletal, Teaches a given aspect of hematology, patient management. reproductive, and integumenary systems. Prerequisites: Admission to medical or dental oncology or immunology. Staff from medicine, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) school and permission of instructor. Only pathology, and nuclear medicine participate, May be repeated for credit. and usually presents a case to introduce the Spring. subject. Various teaching aids, such as review 8 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of pathological material, are used. Primarily HBY for health sciences professionals. HBY 554: Principles of Neuroscience Physiology and Biophysics 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The aim of this course is to highlight and May be repeated for credit. create an understanding as to how the human HBY 500: Short Term Research nervous system operates. Projects in Physiology and Biophysics HBP 967: Tumor Conference 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Considers problems in the management Short term research project (rotation) under the of patients with a malignancy and supervision of a staff member. HBY 557: Advanced Physiology recommendations for a course of therapy Prerequisite: Must be a Graduate Students in This course is designed to introduce students for each patient including a review of a the Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics. to integrative approaches in biomedical particular aspect of cancer treatment or Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, research. Emphasis will be placed on natural history in depth. Functions as the link etc.) 2021the primary physiological concepts of between the hospital and the Eastern Oncology May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. control, communication, signal processsing, Cooperative Group. Primarily for health metabolism and replication. Prerequisites: science professionals. HBY 501: Physiology Systems Physiology, Biochemistry and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduces normal function of human tissues Permission of Instructor. May be repeated for credit. and organs and their regulation by nervous Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and endocrine systems. Emphasizes the etc.) HBP 968: Advanced Clinical Pathologic organization and function of physiological Correlations: Gross Pathology control systems and the maintenance of a HBY 561: Statistical Analysis of Postgraduate correlative exercises in human Fallconstant internal environment. Enrollment Physiological Data gross pathologic anatomy that emphasize the restricted to fully matriculated graduate Statistical methods useful in analyzing gross pathologic basis for altered function and students, with permission of instructor. Only common types of physiological data. Topics clinical manifestations of disease. Open to Fall. include probability, data distributions, physicians and others with advanced degrees 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) hypothesis testing with parametric and non- in medical sciences. parametric methods, ANOVA, regression and HBY 530: Cellular Physiology and 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) correlation, and power analysis. Emphasis Biophysics May be repeated for credit. is on experimental design and appropriate, Cellular structure and function. Topics include efficient use of statistical software. HBP 969: Anatomical and Surgical ion channels, excitability, transport, energetics Offered Pathology for Residents in Pathology and metabolism, contraction, secretion, and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) To provide practical and clinical experience communication within and between cells. in tissue pathology. During the four week Emphasizes quantitative analysis of cellular HBY 562: Model-based Analysis of elective the student is given the opportunity processes. Physiological Data to participate in all aspects of autopsies as 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The analysis of common biochemical well as gross and microscopic examination of and physiological data by non-linear surgical specimens. There is ongoing review HBY 531: Medical Physiology regression of data models and biophysical of general and organ system pathology to models of physiological and biochemical

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Some emotional dynamics of the HBY 564: Experimental Techniques in at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven illness experience will be addressed, such as Systems Physiology National Lab. hope, through the work of eminent physician- writers such as Jerome Groopman, MD. The A series of lectures and laboratory exercises 1-9 credits, S/U grading dynamics of medical mistakes and forgiveness designed to introduce students to in vivo May be repeated for credit. experimental techniques used in systems will be explored through psychiatrist Aaron physiology. Emphasis will be placed on HBY 700: Dissertation Research off Lazarre's influential writings on effective the ethical use of rodents in biomedical Campus - Domestic medical apologies. Some philosophical and metaphysical aspects of personhood and self- research and the measurement of physiological Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy identity will be introduced. variables. Data acquisition and analysis (G5). Major portion of research will take place procedures used in cardiovascular, respiratory, off-campus, but in the United States and/ Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, neural, and renal physiology will also be or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven B+, etc.) covered. Only National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab HCB 502: Landmark Cases in Bioethics 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. All international students must enroll in one of the graduate What is a life worth living? How do we HBY 570: Student Journal Club student insurance plans and should be advised decide, and who decides, when to use medical Graduate student presentation on a selected by an International Advisor. technologies such as incubators, ventilators, transplants and reproductive technologies? topic with faculty consultation. 1-9 credits, S/U grading This is an intensive introduction to some of 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. the cases in medical ethics that have changed May be repeated for credit. HBY 701: Dissertation Research off the ways that we are born, cared for, and HBY 590: Special Topics in Physiology Campus - International die in American hospitals. Examples of topics include: vaccination and public health; and Biophysics Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy eugenics and human subjects research ethics; (G5). Major portion of research will take Students seminars on topics to be arranged the right of privacy and health care; end-of- place outside of the United States and/or through consultation with faculty members. life planning and treatment; women's bodies U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. and fetal rights; disability rights; religious option of the health plan and may also enroll Offered beliefs and health care; triage and allocation of in MEDEX. International students who are Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading scarce resources; mental illness and individual May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not2021 covered by rights; global clinical trials; and, bioethics and mandatory health plan and must contact the culture. HBY 591: Physiology and Biophysics Insurance Office for the insurance charge to be Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Research removed. B+, etc.) Original investigation under the supervision of 1-9 credits, S/U grading a staff member. May be repeated for credit. HCB 503: Traditions and Values in 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Bioethical Conflicts HBY 800: Full-Time Summer Research May be repeated for credit. This course serves as an introduction to Full-time laboratory research projects Fall Western moral and religious traditions and supervised by staff members. HBY 690: Seminar in Physiology and to the positions about killing, saving, and Biophysics S/U grading enhancing that these traditions have informed. Seminars and discussions on major topics in May be repeated for credit. It explores the interface between religion physiology and biophysics by students, staff, and biomedical ethics and then delves into and visiting scientists. Prerequisite: Permission specific issues in health care in light of more of instructor HCB general normative concerns such as justice, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Medical Humanities, love, autonomy and rights, utilitarianism, self- May be repeated for credit. sacrifice, gender, virtue, and community. The Compassionate Care & issues with which the course deals address HBY 695: Practicum in Teaching in Bioethics the plights of real people, in the concrete, Physiology and Biophysics who come from particular backgrounds and HCB 501: Compassionate Care, Practical experience and instruction in the whose set of values may make them sometimes Medical Humanities, and the Illness teaching of physiology and biophysics carried recalcitrant to possibilities that technology has Experience out under faculty orientation and supervision. made (or is just now making) available. This course will introduce students to major 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered interpretations of the illness experience, May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to several classical biographical and autobiographical accounts of illness, and to the

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HCB 504: Special Topic in care, the value and values inherent medical epidemic disease, consumption and affluence, Biotechnology decisions and their outcomes. These bioethical globalization, and risk. Just because we can do it, does this mean debates occur in the context of debates over Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, that we should do it? This course takes a the rights of individuals with disabilities B+, etc.) focused look at controversial practices in to self-determination, accommodations for health care settings, such as organ donation work and schooling, and the potential for HCB 514: Global Bioethics and enhancements, which have been (and people with disabilities to make unique Bioethics is an American invention. Ideas are continuing to be) made available with contributions because of--rather than despite-- about medicine and morality, of course, go the advancement of technology. Ought we to their disabilities. This course will consider back to antiquity and are documented as regard that which technology makes available major debates in bioethics in light of recent medical ethics in Europe, medical morality in as uncontroversially good? If not, why not? scholarship in disability studies, drawing on China, and under many other names in cultures What sorts of new issues regarding distributive perspectives from philosophy, literature and around the world. Recently, the process of justice, autonomy, utility, and compassion narrative, history, and sociology. globalization of ideas, medical practices, are ours to consider carefully because of the Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, clinical trials, and migration of patients has changing world in which we live? B+, etc.) led to clashes of culture around issues such as Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, the appropriate standards and control groups HCB 512: Altruism and Bioethics A-, B+, etc.) for clinical trials, organ transplantation, brain What is altruism, and what are its evolutionary death, and end-of-life care. Issues of religion, HCB 510: Literature, Compassion, and roots as a moral dynamic? What impact does morality, public policy, disability rights Medical Care altruistic action have on the human agent? and policy, and health system structure and How does literature help us understand Does it impact flourishing and health? When payment all shape how particular societies the nature of human illness and suffering? is it experienced as overwhelming by medical decide to manage divisive issues such as the Can written works of art, ancient and professionals? Where does altruism fit within beginning and end of life. This course will contemporary, that depict moments of medical and nursing professionalism? How draw on a growing literature on global and compassion and compassionate acts lay is it related to compassionate care? What transnational cases, policies, and traditions in bare the moral, spiritual, psychological, and about the duty to treat in time of epidemic, the ethics of health, public health, and health physical reality of suffering? There is a long auto-experimentation, pro-bono medical care. association between literature and medicine, treatment, high-risk provision of healthcare in Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, from the viewpoint of physician-writers, time of conflict, healthcare activism, and the A-, B+, etc.) such as Anton Checkov and William Carlos commitment to the patient's good as a guiding Williams, whose literary skills have eclipsed professional ideal? How does the practitioner HCB 515: Health Policy, History & their medical backgrounds. Sherlock Holmes strike a balance between the care of patients Ethics and Doctor Watson were the creations of and the care of the nearest and dearest or the Who gets sick? Who gets health care, what a physician-writer, Arthur Conan Doyle. care of the self? How does altruism correlate kind, and in what setting? This course covers Physicians portrayed in literature, such as Dr. with pro-social behavior, happiness,2021 and the major health policy issues of the United Bernard Rieux, in Albert Camus The Plague, health? States today, including the health status of have also explored the relationship between Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the U.S. as a whole, the social and economic patient and doctor, the nature of healing. B+, etc.) determinants of health, the role of personal and This semester-long course will study these public health services in affecting health, the relationships through reading of poetry, drama, HCB 513: Disease and Society organization and financing of health services, fiction, memoir, and essay and reflect on the What is disease? How do the beliefs, politics, and the multiple factors affecting health nature of suffering, the intrinsic human need and economies of particular societies shape policies. We will explore the evolution of the for compassion, and the implications for health how diseases are defined, experienced, US health care system in the past century, and healing. Falland treated? In this seminar, students will and debates about rights to health care or lack Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, explore these questions by analyzing historical thereof, health disparities, conflicts of interest, B+, etc.) documents, scientific reports, and historical and the ethics of health policy and practice. scholarship. We will look at disease from Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, HCB 511: Bioethics, Disability & multiple perspectives as a biological process, B+, etc.) Community clinical entity, population phenomenon, Most people will experience disability at some historical actor, and personal experience. We HCB 516: Ethical Issues in Human point in their lives, and for some it will shape will pay special attention to how diseases Reproduction their social, personal, family, educational, have been recognized, diagnosed, named, New technologies have modified human and employment experiences. Viewpoints classified and counted in different times, reproduction in numerous ways, raising on disabilities which have emerged in policy places, cultures, and settings based on different profound questions about the moral status and the broader culture have been explicitly environmental and social conditions, medical of human life and the nature of parental and challenged by emerging communities of ideas, diagnostic technologies, and available sibling obligations. This course will investigate people with disabilities who seek to speak treatments. The course will begin with a the values that attach to different relationships, for themselves and claim full inclusion in review of major approaches to understanding both familial and general. It will cover society. In this context, bioethicists and the manifold relationships between disease questions around the treatment of infertility, disability scholars have found points of and society. The remainder of the course surrogate mothering, the commodification both common cause and stark disagreement will view disease and society relationships of the body, and the elevated expectations of over issues such as neonatal and end-of-life through the lens of specific issues, such as

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Can it be the tragedies, challenges, and possibilities that an ongoing negotiation among its practitioners result of brain malfunction, something that are debated in bioethics books, articles, over methods, scope and goals. This course is genetically predetermined? Or, is evil newspapers, on hospital ethics committees, will examine, in detail, one of the latest something which is part of or at least necessary and in daily clinical care. This course will debates within the field. to know the good? Alternatively, is evil an explore themes of birth, death, hope, fear, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) arbitrary designation, a perspective from which faith, finitude and resource allocation through May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. we can wrest ourselves given the right sort watching, analyzing, and reading about of reinvention? In this class, we shall address bioethics issues in visual media. The course HCB 524: Special Topics in Bioethics the problem of evil from scientific, social- will draw on material from philosophical Bioethicists are frequently asked to consider scientific, and philosophical perspectives, ethics to history, health policy, and film the ethical ramifications of new research using fiction and non-fictional sources. criticism to place these issues and their findings and emerging technologies as they Examples of medical evil, such as the Nazi portrayals in context. arise. This course will examine one such issue doctors or Tuskeegee, can be introduced as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in close detail. case studies. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HCB 521: Clinical Ethics Practicum Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A-, B+, etc.) As difficult as settling abstract ethical issues in medicine may be, the delivery of ethical HCB 598: Independent Study HCB 518: Empirical Bioethics care presents its own set of difficulties. This 3 Credits, ABCF Grading The formal study of bioethics attempts to course aims to introduce students to the 0-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) define ethical courses of action in a world practices hospitals employ to ensure the care May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. ever increasing in complexity. But in day to they deliver meets the relevant legal and day practice, ethical outcomes are expressed moral requirements. At the end of this course, HCB 599: Special Projects Capstone through the individual decisions and resulting students will have been exposed to many Course actions--of human agents. How do individuals basic, and some advanced, aspects of clinical form these judgments? How do people ethics theory and practice. They will be able This course, to be offered in the second become motivated to engage in behaviors to identify, describe, and analyze ethical (spring) semester, is designed to satisfy the that are designed to benefit someone else? dilemmas in clinical cases, and will develop special projects requirement of our program. 2021The first part of the course will be devoted to We will explore current scientific approaches an appreciation for the complexity and multi- to these questions with several areas of disciplinary nature of ethical dilemmas in readings and discussions that further illuminate emphasis, including a) the neuroscience clinical medicine and will be able to apply the methodologies of the interdisciplinary of compassionate care and altruism, b) what they have learned to assess ethical, social, field of medical humanities, compassionate cognitive and neuroscientific approaches and legal aspects of cases. care, and bioethics. Students will develop an appreciation for the standards of high quality to understanding judgment and decision 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) making in ethical domains, and c) empirical scholarship and research through review of carefully selected readings. This will prepare approaches to quantifying the effects of HCB 522: The Role of Virtue Ethics in them for the second part of the course, where ethically based policy decisions. FallMedicine they pursue and present their own research Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and the role based on the existing literature. This capstone A-, B+, etc.) of virtue ethics are central to many religious course will be highly collaborative, entail traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, substantial peer review, and be organized HCB 519: Public Health Law Confucianism, and the philosophical traditions. around the development of significant student This course is a survey of legal and policy Key virtues include honesty, courage, projects which are intended to represent the issues that have special relevance for public generosity, prudence, justice, compassion, beginnings of publishable papers. Our entire health professionals. Topics may vary, but benevolence, loyalty, and hospitality. This faculty will be involved in these projects typically will include many of the following: course explores the real and potential role according to their specific areas of expertise. structure of the U.S. legal system; power of virtue on the development of virtuous Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, of state and federal governments in matters physicians. The course's texts offer two A-, B+, etc.) affecting health care; governmental power diametrically opposed views on the role of and the right to privacy; constitutional issues virtue in medicine, i.e., one is that virtue can in social welfare benefits; governmental be channeled into the training of medical regulation of health care providers and payers; professionals, whereas the other is that HDO the scope and discretion of administrative bioethics has extracted virtue from medicine. Oral Biology and Pathology agencies in health care; the antitrust laws; the Through readings, documentaries, dialogue fraud and abuse laws; and negligence in the and active leadership of sessions by students, HDO 500: Biology of the Oral Mineralized Tissues

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This course deals with the basic chemistry, molecular aspects leading to oral cancer and the immune system at mucosal surfaces. It crystallography, ultrastructure, and metabolism osteonecrosis will also be presented and will provide a broad overview of several core of the calcium phosphates involved in the discussed. mucosal immunology topics and has been formation and physiological and pathological 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) designed for graduate students and post-docs resorption of the various mineralized tissues who have recently entered the field. This class found in or associated with the oral cavity HDO 532: Host-Parasite Interaction will provide in-depth analysis of the structural (enamel, dentin, cementum, bone). Ectopic This course includes a series of lectures features that distinguish the mucosal immune calculus formation will be examined. and student-led discussions dealing with system from the peripheral immune system. Prerequisites: HDO 560, 561, 562, and 563 or specific oral tissues, growth factors, ctyokines, Features of innate and adaptive immunity as their equivalent. Fall and Spring prostaglandins, biologic mineralization they relate to mucosal immune responses will 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and wound healing. The biology of the also be covered. As well as delivering in depth immune system and phagocytic cells is lectures on relevant and emerging topics the HDO 510: Salivary Metabolism and presented, including the relationship of course will engage participants in interactive Secretion nutrition to inflammation and oral health. The discussions on topics in an informal setting. Consideration is given to the normal and microbiology of the oral cavity in health and The course content is based on the "Principles abnormal structure and function of the disease as well as oral mucosal infections is of Mucosal Immunology" textbook. glandular systems found in the oral cavity. The presented as the basis of the understanding 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) composition, regulation, and functions of the of immunopathobiology of dental caries and secretions from the major and minor salivary periodontal disease. The oral manifestations HDO 550: Oral Diagnostics and glands will receive particular attention. of pharmacologic agents are reviewed in Therapeutic Technology, Lectures and Laboratory Techniques 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) terms of both their immunologic and non- immunologic mechanisms of pathology. Recent advances in the use and development HDO 520: Oral Microbial Systems Finally, antimicrobial chemotherapy and of research technology for the early diagnosis Consideration is given to the structural principles of infection control are reviewed in and treatment monitoring of oral and systemic composition, metabolism, and environmental terms of clinical practice of dentistry. disease. Special attention is paid to the relationships of the bacterial systems formed 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles of technology transfer including on and in association with the oral hard and patents and patenting; searching of on-line soft tissues. Specific and mixed bacterial HDO 533: Regional Anatomy, Orofacial databases is a key component. The course populations, such as those resident on extra- Neuroscience and Pain Control includes relationships of dry mouth to salivary oral mucosal surfaces and the skin and This course includes a series of lectures physiology, diabetes, and drug medications; their role in oral disease will be dealt with. and discussions dealing with head and salivary film measurements, wetting of oral Prerequisite: HDO 560, 561, 562, and 563 or neck gross anatomy and microanatomy and surfaces, viscoelasticity and lubricity; the their equivalent. Fall and Spring biochemistry of orofacial pain. It will provide use of the Periotron and enzyme assays for the diagnosis of gingivitis and periodontal 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an in-depth understanding of the underlying neuroanatomy and biochemical2021 events leading disease; instrumentation used in sensitive HDO 530: Molecular Biology and to the perception of acute and chronic orofacial teeth measurement and evaluation of treatment Pathology of the Periodontium pain. effectiveness using oral compositions and iontophoresis; oral candidiasis and denture 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course deals with the ultrastructure and stomatitis and early detection and causes of biochemical composition of the periodontal dental caries; oral malodor measurements tissues, remodeling of the extracellular HDO 535: Epithelial Keratinization and Differentiation including use of the Halimeter and its use matrix with an emphasis on the role of in the formulation of oral compositions. metalloproteinases; the microbial interrelations The course examines the growth and Application to clinical practice and clinical with the organic and inorganic components differentiation of stratified sqamous epithelia. studies is covered. of the periodontal tissues, the biochemical FallParticular emphasis is placed on molecular dynamics of gingival inflammation and events involved in the differentiation program. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) wound healing, and the metabolic processes Consideration is also given to mechanisms HDO 560: Oral Biology and Pathology I responsible for the composition and flow of involved in oral and cutaneous disorders. gingival crevicular fluid. Prerequisites: HDO Prerequisites: Permission of instructor The first of four comprehensive courses 560, 561 and 563 or their equivalent. Fall and required; HBP 531 suggested; students on molecular structure, biochemical and Spring. Please note that this may be taken must have had a background in cellular physiological function, developmental twice for a total of 4 credits. biochemistry molecular biology. anatomy and pathology of the various systems that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, embryological development of the face and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. A-, B+, etc.) oral cavity and the biology and pathology of HDO 531: Normal and Reparative HDO 541: Principles of Mucosal the oral mineralized tissues. Prerequisites: Tissue Development in the Oral Cavity Immunology Undergraduate degree in basic science; permission of instructor. Fall and Spring This course includes a series of lectures The mucosal immune system is essentially the and student-led discussions dealing with primary site of interaction between invading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) specific oral tissues, biologic mineralization, pathogens and the immune system. The overall HDO 561: Oral Biology and Pathology osseointegration, hard and soft tissue aim of this graduate course is to facilitate a II development, and tissue regeneration. The deeper understanding of the fundamentals of

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The second of four comprehensive courses of current literature and presentation of student Introduction to historiography through reading on molecular structure, biochemical and research. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the MS or and writing about interpretations of history, physiological function, developmental PhD program in Oral Biology and Pathology. historical methods, and major historians. Term anatomy and pathology of the various systems Fall and Spring. 1 credit, Letter graded (S/U) paper on historian of choice. that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) biology and pathology of the periodontal 1 credit, structures and the microbiology of the oral May be repeated for credit. HIS 501: Early Modern Europe cavity. Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree Seminar:1450-1789 in basic science; permission of instructor. Fall HDO 695: Oral Biology and Pathology Field seminar in early modern European and Spring Teaching Practicum history, 1450-1789. Surveys the major 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Practice instruction in the teaching of oral historical problems and interpretations from biology and pathology at the undergraduate the Renaissance to the coming of the French HDO 562: Oral Biology and Pathology level carried out under faculty orientation and Revolution. III supervision. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is the third of four comprehensive 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses on molecular structure, biochemical HIS 502: Introduction to Late Modern and physiological function, developmental HDO 699: Thesis Research Oral Europe anatomy, and pathology of the various Biology and Pathology Field seminar in late modern European history, systems that constitute the oral apparatus. The Dissertation Research, Prerequisite: 1789-1945. Surveys the major historical course consists of' the following two units of Advancement to Candidacy Passing, problems and interpretations from the French instruction; (1) the biology and pathology of Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, Letter Revolution through the Second World War. the salivary glands and their products and (2) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the biology and pathology of the periodontal May be repeated for credit. structures, Prerequisites: Undergraduate degree HIS 516: Theme Seminars on Empire, in basic science and permission of instructor HDO 704: Translational Oral Biology Modernity, and Globalization Fall and Spring Covers the biochemical, physiological, May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) microbiological and electronic principles involved in a variety of techniques used as aids HDO 563: Oral Biology and Pathology HIS 517: Theme Seminars on Empire, in the diagnosis of oral diseases. IV Modernity, and Globalization Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is the last of four comprehensive May be repeated for credit. courses on molecular structure, biochemical HDO 705: Oral Medicine and physiological function, developmental HIS 521: Introduction to United States anatomy and pathology of the various systems Introduces the principles of patient care History to the Civil War that constitute the oral apparatus. Covers the related to stomatologic and dermatologic Field seminar in U.S. history from the disease, neurologic abnormalities,2021 hematologic biology and pathology of the oral sensory founding of the British colonies to the systems and the biology and pathology of oral disturbances, and the medically compromised beginning of the Civil War. Surveys the major motor systems. Prerequisites: Undergraduate patient.16 course hours Prerequisites: HDO topics and interpretations. Required for M.A. degree in basic science and permission of 701 students in U.S. history. instructor. Admission to Graduate Health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sciences Center Program. HDO 706: Oral Facial Genetics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 522: Introduction to United States Focuses on the utilization, preparation and History Since the Civil War HDO 590: Research Projects in Oral Fallanalysis of basic human genetics in clinical Field seminar in U.S. history from the Civil Biology and Pathology situations. Covers genetic disorders of the War to the Cold War. Surveys the major Individual laboratory projects closely craniofacial complex and dentistry for the interpretations. multiple handicapped patient. 30 course supervised by faculty members to be carried 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) out in their research laboratories. hours Prerequisite: HD 501 or permission of instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 524: Core Seminar: History, Theory May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Practice Introduction to the theory, practice and HDO 805: Summer Research HDO 599: Graduate Research writing of history through the reading of Original investigations undertaken with SUMMER RESEARCH theoretical and historical texts and the writing supervision of a faculty member. S/U grading of a research paper. This course meets over 1-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. the entire academic year, for 3 credits per May be repeated for credit. semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. students. Students entering with an M.A. take HDO 690: Oral Biology and Pathology HIS it at the discretion of their advisor. Seminar History 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Research seminars by students, staff, and visiting scientists which may include review HIS 500: Historiography

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HIS 525: Core Seminar: History, Theory produced during the Black Power era and HIS 552: Theme Seminar: Mass and Practice new scholarship to analyze the Black Power Media and Journalism in International Introduction to the theory, practice and Movement's legacy in the politics and culture Perspectives of African Americans. Permission of advisor writing of history through the reading of May be repeated for credit. theoretical and historical texts and the writing is required. This course is offered as both HIS of a research paper. This course meets over 540 and AFS 540. HIS 553: Theme Seminars on Nation, the entire academic year, for 3 credits per 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) State and Civil Society semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. Topics vary by semester. students. Students entering with an M.A. take HIS 541: Introduction to Colonial Latin 3 credits, it at the discretion of their advisor. American History Offered Fall and/or Spring, 3 credits, Letter Field seminar in colonial Latin American 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) history. Surveys major historical problems and May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. HIS 526: Core Seminar: History Theory debates from the colonial period through the and Practice wars for independence. Required for M.A. in HIS 554: Theme Seminars on Nation, Introduction to the theory, practice and Latin American history. State, and Civil Society writing of history through the reading of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. theoretical and historical texts and the writing HIS 542: Modern Latin American of a research paper. This course meets over HIS 555: Theme Seminars on Nation, History Seminar the entire academic year, for 3 credits per State, and Civil Society semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. Field seminar in modern Latin American students. Students entering with an M.A. take history. Surveys major historical problems and May be repeated for credit. it at the discretion of their advisor. debates from the post-independence period to HIS 557: Special Seminars 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the present. This course is offered as both CEG 517 and HIS 542. Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built HIS 527: Core Seminar: History, Theory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) around actual research activities of students and Practice and faculty. The following topics have been Introduction to the theory, practice and HIS 543: Theme Seminars on Gender, covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of writing of history through the reading of Sexuality, and Reproduction Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of theoretical and historical texts and the writing May be repeated for credit. of a research paper. This course meets over Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic Relations; Biosociology; Comparative the entire academic year, for 3 credits per HIS 550: Modern Africa semester, and is mandatory for all new Ph.D. Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the This course interrogates how historians Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday students. Students entering with an M.A. take define the modern age through the history it at the discretion of their advisor. Life; The Study of the World's Advanced of Sub-Saharan Africa from the fifteenth Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) century to the present, a period2021 that began with Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; Africa at the center of exchanges in cultural, Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; HIS 532: Theme Seminar: Gender, material, and human commodities. Topics to Transnational Social Movements; Economic Religion and Modernity be explored include Trans-Saharan, Atlantic, Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. Indian Ocean, and regional cultural and Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development economic systems, salve trade and abolition, of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research HIS 535: Theme Seminars on Gender, the rise of "legitimate commerce," new African Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three Sexuality and Reproduction mercantile and laboring classes, European Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural conquest and militarization, anti-colonial and May be repeated for credit. Fall Approach to Organizational Behavior; Pan- African movements, and the nation-state Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology HIS 540: The Black Power Movement and its problems in post-colonial Africa. The of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; course will also pay attention to the theoretical This course examines the Black Power Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of and methodological apparatuses Africanists Movement. Stokely Carmichael's call for Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender have used to challenge conventional narratives "Black Power!" broke through the commotion and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. in which African histories are absent or of everyday politics during 1966's Meredith 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) seen as aberrant. Topics will include critical March Against Fear. Soon after, and for May be repeated for credit. approaches to slavery, including Africanist the next decade, Black Power galvanized responses to the idea of slavery as "social African American politics, engendering radical HIS 562: Modern African History and/or death", fictive and other forms of kinship, movements for social, political, and cultural Asian History Seminar the concept of "wealth in persons," gendered transformation that impacted blacks in the Field seminar in modern African history. social identities and hierarchies, the invention United States and beyond. An emerging Surveys major topics such as nationalism, and construction of tradition, resistance, and historiography traces the roots of Black Power anticolonial movements, and modernization. the colonization of consciousness. Semesters in the postwar black freedom movement, Offered: No fixed semester Grading: ABCF 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) finding cultural and political touchstones May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. for future Black Power activism among 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) civil rights renegade, trade unionists, and HIS 563: Introduction to South Asian black nationalists. We will examine works History

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Surveys major topics such as nationalism, Specialized tutorials based on contractual HIS 617: Research Seminars on anticolonial movements, legacies of British relationship between individual student and Empire, Modernity, and Globalization imperialism, and modernization. faculty. Required for M.A. students. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, S/U grading HIS 622: Migration, Diaspora and May be repeated for credit. Transnationalism HIS 564: Introduction to Chinese History HIS 586: Directed Readings for M.A. HIS 623: Research Seminars on Candidates Field seminar in modern Chinese history. Ethnicity and Migration Surveys major historical topics from Specialized tutorials based on contractual modernization to revolution to reform and relationship between individual student and sociocultural change. For MA, MAT, PhD faculty. Required for M.A. students. HIS 631: Research Seminar: The Social History of Medicine and Health students. 1-3 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. HIS 632: Research Seminars on HIS 565: Introduction to Japanese HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: Gender and Sexuality History American Controversies Field Seminar in Modern Japanese History HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: Controversies HIS 633: Research Seminars on surveys major historical topics from reform in American History Gender and Sexuality and modernization to imperialism and postwar HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: reconstruction. For MA, MAT, PhD students. Controversies in American History HIS 634: Research Seminars on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered Fall every year, 1 credit, Letter graded Gender and Sexuality (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 570: Theme Seminars in May be repeated for credit. HIS 652: Research Seminar: Oral Environment, Science and Health History: Methodology and Theory Spring HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: American Controversies Topics vary by semester. May be repeated for credit. HIS 587: Teaching Practicum I: Controversies 3 credits, S/U grading HIS 571: Theme Seminars in in American History May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. Environment, Science and Health HIS 588: Teaching Practicum II: HIS 653: Research Seminars on Nation, Spring Controversies in American History State, and Civil Society May be repeated for credit. Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 654: Research Seminars on Nation, HIS 572: Theme Seminars in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. State, and Civil Society Environment, Science and Health HIS 595: Reading Colloquium2021 in Spring Women's History HIS 655: Research Seminars on Nation, May be repeated for credit. A topics course dealing with such subjects State, and Civil Society HIS 581: Supervised Teaching as women in social movements, the place of gender in particular historical circumstances, HIS 682: Directed Readings for Ph.D. Teaching practicum that usually accompanies a imperialism and woman, changing views of Candidates student's assistantship. sexuality, or relations between family policies Specialized tutorials based on contractual 3 credits, S/U grading and other political programs. This course relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. offered as both HIS 595 and WST 595. Fall faculty member. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, HIS 582: Teaching Practicum 1-18 credits, S/U grading B+, etc.) Practicum in teaching methods for new May be repeated for credit. assistants. (MA. Workshop required deleted HIS 601: Research Seminars on Social HIS 684: Directed Readings for Ph.D. from the curriculum) and Cultural History Candidates 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Specialized tutorials based on contractual HIS 584: Directed Readings for M.A. relationship between individual student and HIS 603: Research Seminar on Social faculty member. Candidates and Cultural History Specialized tutorials based on contractual 1-18 credits, S/U grading relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. HIS 615: Research Seminars on faculty. Required for M.A. students. Empire, Modernity, and Globalization HIS 685: Directed Readings for Ph.D. 1-3 credits, S/U grading Candidates May be repeated for credit. HIS 616: Research Seminars on Social Specialized tutorials based on contractual HIS 585: Directed Readings for M.A. and Cultural History relationship between individual student and Candidates faculty member. 1-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is subjects research; 2) the primary tenets of deemed comparable. responsible conduct of research; 3) academic HIS 686: Directed Readings for Ph.D. All international students must received career planning. This course provides a Candidates clearance from an International Advisor. philosophical basis for current research ethics Specialized tutorials based on contractual Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading practices, identifies outstanding ethical issues relationship between individual student and May be repeated for credit. and controversies in clinical and translational faculty member. science and research, and provides students 1-18 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HIS 800: FULL TIME SUMMER RES with knowledge and access to resources such that they may to address the ethical challenges May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. that may arise most effectively. The course HIS 695: Dissertation Prospectus provides a more in-depth exploration of the Workshop for Ph.D. Candidates HPD ethics and responsible conduct of clinical Required of all Ph.D. candidates in order to and translational science research that can prepare a dissertation prospectus. This seminar Population Health and Clinical supplement current mandated training in the should be completed either before or in the Outcomes Research area. ABCF grading same semester as the qualifying examination. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered once each year, 3 credits, S/U grading HPD 519: Sytematic Review of the Literature HPD 605: Introductory Seminar on Doctoral Studies in Population Health HIS 699: Dissertation Research on This introductory course will provide students and Clinical Outcomes Campus with an understanding of the process used to Dissertation research under direction of perform systematic review, as well as provide This is an introductory doctoral level 3-credit advisor. a "hands on" experience. Each student will seminar for all incoming PhD students in Population Health and Clinical Outcomes. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). perform a systematic review of the literature for their own pre-defined research question This course will help students understand Major portion of research must take place on what earning a PhD entails, opportunities that SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the of interest. As part of the systematic literature review process, students will learn how to exist after earning a PhD, typical PhD-level Brookhaven National Lab. work activities, and beginning the process of Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U focus their research question; to search the literature to identify relevant studies; to academic writing. Students should already be grading thinking about what their dissertation will be May be repeated for credit. appraise the quality and select studies; and to summarize studies as well as to synthesize about, and we will build off of that throughout the course. HIS 700: Dissertation Research off their results in context of their original Campus - Domestic research question raised. To receive a grade 3 credits, S/U grading for this course, moreover, a scholarly product Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (e.g., manuscript or letter to the editor) must be HPD 619: Independent Study (G5). Major portion of research will take place submitted to a peer -reviewed journal. off-campus, but in the United States and/ 2021Intensive reading under supervision of one or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Offered or more instructors, of material not covered National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the formal curriculum, or execution of a are considered on-campus. All international research project under the supervision of one students must enroll in one of the graduate HPD 521: Introduction to Clinical or more faculty members. Generally a written student insurance plans and should be advised Research deliverable (e.g. manuscript) will be required. by an International Advisor. This seminar series course provides a broad- Instructor consent required. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading based introduction to the fields of population 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. health and clinical science research. This May be repeated for credit. Fallcourse will prepare participants to become HIS 701: Dissertation Research off critical consumers of the peer-reviewed HPD 650: Seminar Series: Clinical Campus - International literature. Class lectures will cover a wide Applications of Molecular Medicine range of topics, which include: framing a Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy This course will provide an overview of the research question, formulating a research (G5). Major portion of research will take field of molecular medicine, with a focus on hypothesis, evaluating the peer-reviewed place outside of the United States and/or cutting edge technologies related to the current literature, exploring study design options, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the and future clinical applications to improve conducting human subjects' research ethically/ option of the health plan and may also enroll early detection, to enhance diagnostic testing, responsibly, selecting clinical outcomes, and in MEDEX. International students who are to monitor treatments, and to counsel patients evaluating analytical alternatives. Offered in in their home country are not covered by on their prognosis. As applied to clinical mandatory health plan and must contact the Summer, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, patient care questions, the specific molecular Insurance Office for the insurance charge to etc.) medicine topics discussed will include: DNA, be removed. International students who are RNA, proteomics, and chromosome assays. not in their home country are charged for the HPD 601: Human Subjects: Ethics and Pending the specific lecturers and topics mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Responsible Conduct of Research coordinated, students will be introduced to a covered by another insurance plan they must This introductory course incorporates three broad range of biomarkers for disease such file a waiver be second week of classes. The components focused upon identifying: 1) as cancer, pulmonary/heart diseases, autism, the ethical principles associated with human and immune-related disease challenges. An emphasis will be placed in this course

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 127 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 on learning how molecular markers can data problems, multicollinearity, and serial results. Prerequisites: HPH 507 Biostatistics II be applied in a clinical setting to augment correlation. Clinical outcomes and health or equivalent course. ABCF Grading the patient and provider decision-making services research studies will be reviewed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) process. (NOTE: Students should have an and discussed to illustrate these statistical introductory knowledge of cellular and issues and how they have been addressed in HPD 685: Research in Population molecular development biology. ABCF published research. Students will be asked to health and Clinical Science. Grading review and evaluate clinical outcomes and This course will introduce students to health 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health services research papers, and present services and clinical outcomes research their reviews for discussion in class. methods and applications of these approaches. HPD 664: Clinical Trials 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course will begin with an overview of key This course introduces the design, conduct, statistical methods, outcomes measurement and analysis of clinical trials. Topics include HPD 681: Advanced Social issues, and methods for assessing the economic types of clinical trials, study design, treatment Determinants of Health value of clinical treatments. The second allocation, randomization and stratification, This course will build on the prior HPH 523 part of the course will consider specific quality control, sample size requirements, and further examine the current evidence applications of health services and clinical patient consent, and interpretation of results. supporting an association between social outcomes research from a review and critique 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) determinants (e.g., socioeconomic status, of published studies. Students will present physical living conditions, individual and critique these studies together with the HPD 665: Clinical Outcomes Research characteristics, social support, etc) and health. instructor. Specific areas of applications This course will provide an overview of Students will review and critically examine the will include: Estimating the Production the field of clinical outcomes assessment. current literature on the social determinants of of Health Hospital Volume and Clinical The specific topics covered include: risk population health with the goal of identifying Outcomes Estimating Clinical Outcomes factors identification, clinical outcomes gaps in this literature which may be filled by with Patient-Level Data Racial and Ethnic selection, risk adjustment methods, patient future research. Concepts relating to the social Disparities and Medical Treatments Electronic safety monitoring, and provider-based quality determinants of health - e.g., identification of Medical Records and Clinical Outcomes Cost improvement performance reporting. Students current priority areas, theoretical frameworks Effectiveness Applications will be introduced to a broad range of clinical and perspectives, intervention, research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) outcomes including (but not limited to) short- methodology, etc, will be addressed as each term mortality, treatment-related morbidity, comes up in the context of the reviewed HPD 686: Mentored Research Project health-related quality of life, condition-specific journal article. Using publicly available data in Population Health and Clinical metrics, patient satisfaction, health plan sets, students will choose a research topic Outcomes Research member satisfaction, utility theory, and cost- related to an identified gap in the current Supervised research experience. research on the social determinants of health, effectiveness analysis. An emphasis will be 0-9 credits, propose a project to examine this topic or need placed in this course is placed on learning how May be repeated for credit. clinical outcomes research can provide a data- which can be accomplished2021 using publicly driven approach to influence patient, provider, available data sets, conduct the analysis and HPD 687: Advanced Research Seminar program, and policy decisions. write up their project in a format suitable for submission for publication. Offered The main purpose of this course is to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) familiarize students with empirical research Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, methods via presentation and critiques of HPD 673: Longitudinal Data Analysis etc.) published research and work in progress. By This course covers the theory and application presenting and discussing actual research HPD 682: Statistical Methods in of univariate and multivariable techniques that employs various statistical and other Clinical Outcomes Research appropriate for longitudinal data. Students research methods, students will deepen will be exposed to both theory and application FallThe purpose of the course is to familiarize their understanding of research intent and addressing repeated measures challenges. students with some major topics in clinical design, methodology and technique, format outcomes research, the statistical models 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and presentation, and data management commonly employed, and statistical problems and analysis. This will reinforce their HPD 674: Statistical Methods in that need to be overcome. Specific topics of understanding of these methods learned in Clinical Outcomes and Health Services interest may include: risk factor analysis; previous coursework. static models; risk factor/disease progression Research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis;dynamic models; survival analysis May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Clinical outcomes research frequently (including multivariable survival analysis); involves the analysis of nonexperimental volume-outcomes research; and forecasting HPD 692: Practicum in Teaching I retrospective databases. Such databases pose models. Statistical techniques and challenges a number of statistical challenges, due to will be discussed within the context of each In this course, students will have the their nonexperimental design and various research topic as they arise. By the end of this opportunity to examine, and plan for, the data limitations. This course will review course, students should be broadly familiar teaching component of the professor role. and discuss multivariate methods in clinical with these issues, and should be able to We will use a combination of strategies outcomes research, focusing on specific issues evaluate published clinical outcomes research including lectures, discussions, small group involved in building and interpreting these in terms of the appropriateness of models activities, and interviews of exceptional models. These issues include causal inference, chosen and how well the statistical problems teachers and departmental chairs to explore selection bias, measurement error, missing have been addresses, and the reliability of the philosophical and practical issues related to

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 128 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 course preparation, delivery, and evaluation. organization, financing, policies, and practices statistical methods and their application in At the completion of the course, students of public health. Students will be expected to biomedical and public health research. The will have a teaching portfolio that will have think critically about whether public health has course will provide necessary knowledge and two basic components: a detailed set of plans achieved its mission in today's world and how skills to perform various data management for a specific course and a statement of their the profession might develop in the future. tasks to create and manage data sets using teaching philosophy. This will be an intensive Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public SAS with intermediate proficiency. The course hands on course that will require supportive Health Program or Department Consent. builds upon the foundations of its prerequisite, and cooperative behaviors by all. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Biostatistics I, with progressively more 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advanced instruction in analysis of variance, May be repeated for credit. HPH 501: Introduction to the Research association and correlation, linear regression, Process and logistic regression. Prerequisite: HPH 506 HPD 693: Practicum in Teaching II This course provides an overview of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course is a supervised teaching experience research process including formulation of a with the Master of Public Health program. research problem, conceptualization of the HPH 508: Health Care Systems 3 credits, S/U grading research design, construction of the instrument This course introduces students to the May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. for data collection, selection of a sample, system that we have developed to deliver collection of data, and writing a research health care in the United States, with HPD 694: Grant Writing report. Topics include how to identify a international comparisons. The topics include This course will assist students in synthesizing research question and, correspondingly, how the organization and financing of health basic public health knowledge through to formulate a clear, concise hypothesis or care systems, access to health care including completion of a grant writing experience. set of hypotheses; reasons and procedures health insurance, regulation and policy issues, Students will be introduced to the process of for reviewing the literature; overview of and the health care workforce. Prerequisite: writing grant proposals, developing budgets, observational and interventional research Admission to Graduate Public Health Program professional networking, publishing in the designs; review of measurement theory, types or Department Consent scientific literature, and planning for their of scales, and commonly used measures in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) future careers as public health professionals public health-related research; data collection and academics. Students will also present their methods including survey and qualitative HPH 514: Epidemiology for Public own individual research projects, write their methods; and the ethical conduct of research. Health own grant proposal, and do a career mapping Through the introduction of these topics, the This course presents basic epidemiologic exercise. course provides a general background for concepts used to study health and disease individuals who are interested in learning the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in populations. It provides an overview of fundamentals of how to prepare a research the major causes of morbidity and mortality, HPD 699: Dissertation Research On proposal. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate including methods of measurement (e.g., Campus Public Health Program or Department incidence, prevalence). Observational and Consent. This course is normally taken by advanced 2021experimental epidemiologic studies will PhD students when they conduct research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) be described and their advantages and towards their theses. Only PhD students who disadvantages compared. The course aims for HPH 506: Biostatistics I have been advanced to candidacy (G5 status) students to begin developing the skills needed can take this course. Students who have the This is the first of a sequence of two-semester to evaluate data, interpret reports, design, and G3 and G4 status and participate in a research courses with the aim to provide students conduct studies. Students will be introduced project with their advisor can register for HPD and researchers in public health with an to the various areas of epidemiologic 619 Independent Study. Prerequisite: Must be introduction to the principles of public health studies, including cancer, molecular/genetic, advanced to candidacy (G5); permission of informatics and statistical methods with environmental, occupational, social and instructor S/U grading, may be repeated for Falltheir application in biomedical and public behavioral, and infectious disease surveillance. credit health research. The course will provide The course comprises both lectures and small necessary knowledge and skills to perform group seminars for in-depth discussions of 0-9 credits, S/U grading various data management tasks to create previously assigned topics. Prerequisites: May be repeated for credit. and manage data sets using SAS with basic Admission to Graduate Public Health Program proficiency. The course will also introduce or Department Consent; HPH 506. summarizing and exploring data, probability 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HPH theory, discrete and continuous probability Public Health distributions, populations and samples, HPH 516: Environmental and sampling distributions and statistical inference, Occupational Health HPH 500: Contemporary Issues in hypothesis testing, one-sample and two-sample This course is designed to provide the Public Health comparisons. fundamentals of environmental and This course provides an introduction to the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) occupational health and to educate students field of public health that aims to develop on issues related to major environmental an appreciation of the unique and important HPH 507: Biostatistics II and occupational concerns. It will provide a mission of public health; an understanding of "This is the second of the two-semester courses forum for the discussion of local and national the history, values, ethics, mission, and goals intended to provide students and researchers environmental and occupational public health of public health; and knowledge about how in public health with an introduction to the issues. The content of the course will focus public health functions today including the principles of public health informatics and on major pollutants, their detection, impact

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 129 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 on health, and principles of remediation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is an intermediate level graduate Using various teaching techniques, students course in the application of spatial methods will be exposed to current environmental HPH 525: Evaluating Programs and for analyzing environmental exposure and and occupational topics and approaches to Policies to Improve Health disease data. Students with backgrounds in prevention and treatment. The course will This course introduces students to health epidemiology, public health, environmental emphasize the most recent research in the policy analysis and public health program health, biostatistics, community health, field. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate evaluation, two distinct fields that share biology, sociology, psychology, marine Public Health Program or Department Consent similar tools, albeit with different goals and atmospheric sciences, geosciences, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in mind and approaches to meet these demography, and geography are particularly goals. Specifically, this course (1) draws on encouraged to participate. Although the course HPH 519: Independent Study economics, epidemiology, political science, will focus on examples related to human Intensive reading, under supervision of one and biostatistics to prepare students to conduct health, graduate students in other disciplines or more instructors, of material not covered holistic analyses of health policy issues; will find the course useful for specific and in the formal curriculum, or execution of (2) prepares students to plan a program appropriately defined research purposes. a research project under the supervision of evaluation; and (3) prepares students to Techniques for spatially analyzing point one or more faculty members. Permission evaluate public policy options. Prerequisite: patterns and aggregated data in polygons of MPH Academic Coordinator is required. Admission to Graduate Public Health Program will be introduced, including autocorrelation, Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public or Department Consent clustering analysis, geostatistical smoothing, Health Program or Department Consent 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and approaches for spatial regression. Consideration of space-time variability 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HPH 527: Health Economics and Policy will also be covered. This course includes May be repeated 5 times FOR credit. This course will provide students with a theoretical elements so that the student will HPH 521: Introduction to Clinical comprehensive view of the reasons behind learn to appreciate strengths and weaknesses Research the rapid rise in medical expenditures in of different spatial approaches.Prior course in the United States over nearly four decades, GIS or equivalent, as determined by consent This introductory seminar series provides from the instructor required. Students need a broad-based overview of clinical science and the measures that have been proposed to address this problem. This course will a foundational knowledge of Geographic research methods, as well as guidance for Information Systems (GIS) software. This critically reviewing the peer-reviewed cover the following topics: the demand and supply of medical care; the dynamics of requirement can be met by completing literature. Class lectures, exercises, and GSS 313: GIS Design and Application I (if interactive small group sessions will cover competition in the health care industry; the role of government in medical care; general available), by completing other Introduction framing a research question, formulating a to GIS courses at Stony Brook or elsewhere, research hypothesis, critically appraising the understanding of health care institutions, including Medicare, Medicaid, managed or by self-teaching using the following book: literature, exploring study design options, Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop by Tim conducting research ethically and responsibly, care, hospital and physician behavior, and pharmaceutical markets; and health care Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, and Robert Burke. selecting clinical outcomes, and evaluating 2021Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public reform. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate analytical alternatives. Students enrolled in the Health Program or Department Consent Master of Public Health degree program can Public Health Program or Department Consent not use this course (earn credit) to their degree 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) requirements. HPH 529: Fundamentals of Healthcare HPH 535: Clinical and Community 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Management Preventive Medicine May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. This course provides students with an This course prepares residents to transition HPH 523: Social and Behavioral overview of concepts and issues related from the role of learners to practitioners Determinants of Health Fallto healthcare leadership. Through the of preventive medicine. Didactic lectures examination of management topics and emphasize clinical preventive medicine, This course introduces students to population which entails mastering the science of health as one of the organizing concepts healthcare situations, the student will explore the skills and knowledge needed preventive medicine practice, grounded in the in public health and the orientation that evidence-based clinical preventive services differentiates public health from medicine. to be successful in a diverse healthcare environment. Topics include healthcare guidelines as developed by the United States Consistent with public health tradition, health Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is discussed from an ecological perspective, leadership, organizational design as it relates to the uniqueness of healthcare organizations, [i.e. screenings, behavioral counseling, and and the course presents current knowledge chemoprophylaxis/preventive medications], about the multiple determinants of population managing professionals, and supervisory to mid-level management. It is designed for the while case-based simulated sessions provide health including socioeconomic status, an opportunity to become skilled in the art of the physical environment, medical care, Health Policy and Management concentration but is open to all MPH students. Prerequisite: preventive medicine practice, built upon the individual behavior, and genetics and the principles of lifestyle medicine, motivational interaction of these factors. Also covered Admission to Graduate Public Health Program or Department Consent. intervention, brief action planning and other is the measurement of population health, evidence-based strategies for health behavior sources of data and methods for assessing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) change. The work of the preventive medicine population health improvements. Prerequisite: physician in public health, referred to as HPH 534: Spatial Analysis: Health Admission to Graduate Public Health Program community preventive medicine or community Applications or Department Consent medicine, is also covered in this course,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 130 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 including the Community Preventive Services divergence among them. The goal in taking community needs and assets using a variety (CPSTF) guidelines, to help prepare residents this comparative approach is application: by of methods, elaborate an initiative's theory for the medical practice of prevention in knowing the core elements of various theories, of change through use of logic model, design the public health domain. The role of the students will more easily be able to choose theoretically-informed intervention activities preventive medicine physician in the seamless appropriate theories to explain population appropriate to the needs/assets identified, integration and effective collaboration health problems of interest and consider the create a budget and organizational structure, between clinical medicine and public health is design of interventions that are appropriate and engage key stakeholders at every facet emphasized where appropriate. Prerequisite: to achieve improvements in the educational, of development and implementation of the Admission to Graduate Public Health Program behavioral and environmental factors that community health initiative. Students work or Department Consent may contribute to the problem. In addition to together in the same small group over the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covering traditional individual-level behavior course of the semester to get/give feedback change and health communication theories, and hone their individual projects. Through HPH 542: Introduction to Global Health this course will focus on social change and this intense group work, students both (1) This course will provide an introduction to the systems theories, challenging students to think learn how to apply course concepts to several field of global health and challenge students about the role of social context and systems particular community health problems and (2) to think about how a global perspective could on health behavior and health communication gain skills for working in teams on community enhance their future practice. The course is to achieve population health improvements. health initiative planning and implementation. designed for MD and MPH students, and Finally, after learning about commonly-used Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public is open to students from related graduate theories in the field of public health, students Health Program or Department Consent; HPH programs with instructor permission. This will learn about and critique theories that 550. course will explore core concepts in global are less-commonly used (such as new and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health, including its definition and origin; emerging theories in the literature) and have how to measure the global burden of disease; important implications for future research, HPH 553: Advanced Evaluation of recent progress and current challenges; social practice, and further theory development Community Health Initiatives inequalities in health; health systems; and and testing among populations. Prerequisite: This course prepares students to plan, global stakeholders. It will also apply such Admission to Graduate Public Health Program implement, and utilize an evaluation of a concepts to major global health topics, with or Department Consent community health initiative. Basic principles lectures focused on such areas as HIV/AIDS, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and practices of evaluation are addressed, child health and immunization, chronic disease including identifying the goals of a community epidemiology and sexual violence. HPH 551: Practice of Health health initiative; designing an evaluation plan Communications 2 credits, S/F graded that can determine if the initiative's goals This course provides an overview of health are achieved; implementing an evaluation HPH 549: Public Health Law communication. The course will introduce plan; interacting with stakeholders; and using This course is a survey of legal and policy theories concerning health communication, and evaluation results to improve performance. issues that have special relevance for public build on such to provide practical2021 approaches Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public health professionals. Topics may vary, but to interpersonal and organizational health Health Program or Department Consent; HPH typically will include many of the following: communication, risk communication, and 525 structure of the U.S. legal system; power media campaigns. Students will learn to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of state governments in matters affecting collect, organize, and convey information health care; governmental power and the effectively to different audiences important HPH 554: Principles of Health right to privacy; constitutional issues in social to public health initiatives. Throughout, Education & Promotion welfare benefits; governmental regulation of the course will emphasize how health This course aims to provide students with health care providers and payers; the scope literacy and cultural beliefs influence the historical, theoretical, and philosophical and discretion of administrative agencies in Falleffective communication, and students will foundations of health education and health care; the antitrust laws; the fraud and be challenged to develop communication promotion. Students will be given the tools to abuse laws; and negligence in the delivery tools (e.g., social marketing campaigns, work with community and patient populations. and financing of health care. Prerequisite: presentations, op-eds) optimized for a Students will be equipped with the knowledge, Admission to Graduate Public Health Program. specific population. Prerequisite: Admission skills, and attitudes to raise people's health to Graduate Public Health Program or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) awareness, as a well as the tools needed Department Consent to teach people how to reduce their risk of HPH 550: Theories of Health Behavior 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disease and promote health. All students will and Communication be required to design a health education and HPH 552: Planning and Implementing In this survey theory course, students learn promotion program using the knowledge Community Health Initiatives about the major health behavior and health and skills learned in the course. Prerequisite: communication theories that are used in In this course, students learn how to develop Admission to Graduate Public Health Program population health research and practice. Rather theoretically-informed and evidence-based or Department Consent than simply cataloguing each theory in turn, community health initiatives. Over the course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) this course takes a constant, comparative, of the semester, students work on developing approach to the learning of theories, in which their own culturally-competent community HPH 555: Global Health and theories are dissected to their core elements health initiatives, each of which is targeted Demography and compared to each other in order to at a particular population with a specific This course introduces students to the basic understand the points of convergence and health need. Each student learns how to assess theory and methods employed in the study of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 131 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 demography and global health. This course for the generation and analysis of health HPH 566: Clinical Trials will provide an introduction to the field of data, such as precision medicine/¿big This course introduces the design, conduct, global health and challenge students to think data¿, telemedicine/¿digital health¿, and and analysis of clinical trials. Topics will about how a global perspective could impact spatial analysis/¿hotspotting¿, the course include types of clinical trials, study design, their future public health practice. The students covers the major elements required for treatment allocation, randomization and will also learn about sources of demographic the evidence-based pursuit of population stratification, quality control, sample data, patterns in global fertility and mortality, health goals. In particular, hands-on size requirements, patient consent, and and the demographic transition. Prerequisite: training is provided on how to synthesize interpretation of results. Admission to Graduate Public Health Program evidence, via comprehensive systematic 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) or Department Consent review methodologies, in the following 4 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) aspects of evidence-based decision-making: HPH 575: Public Health Internship effectiveness, efficiency, feasibility, and This course is an applied internship in a public, HPH 559: Advanced Research Methods appropriateness/meaningfulness. In addition, not-for-profit, or private sector organization students will learn how to retrieve and This course will provide students with an in- that provides a public health service. Students summarize information about population depth review of principles of public health will gain practical public health skills though health from major public health information research methods. Emphasis will be placed a semester long internship. The student will systems in the U.S. Lectures and labs are on conceptualization of research questions, work in the organization and prepares a aimed at developing hands-on skills for the evaluation of research design, sample size, and weekly journal of activities, as well as a paper management and analysis of health data issues related to potential threats to validity at the conclusion of the course, applying using SPSS and other relevant statistical within a public/applied setting. Additionally, program knowledge to the internship activities. software programs, such as Open Meta students will become familiar with how to Graduate Graded and may be repeated for Analyst (OMA) and the System for the evaluate methods used in published literature credit. MPH Academic Coordinator consent Unified Management, Assessment and Review and to design their own research projects. required. Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate of Information (SUMARI). Prerequisite: Course topics will include how to obtain Public Health Program and Department Admission to Graduate Public Health Program secondary data, sample size calculation, risk Consent adjustment, bias, confounding, and interaction. or Department Consent; HPH 501 and HPH 0-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The instructor will work with students as they 506 May be repeated for credit. develop their own analytic project proposals. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will be expected to implement their HPH 580: Practicum proposed research in HPH 560 Advanced HPH 564: Qualitative Methods The Practicum is a planned experience in a Biostatistics in the following semester. In this course, students learn about the logic, supervised and evaluated public health-related Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public theory, and methods of qualitative research practice setting. A journal of fieldwork and Health Program or Department Consent; HPH within population health and related fields a project, with a written report, are required. 507 and HPH 501 (e.g., social welfare, nursing, medicine, Students will be expected to demonstrate sociology, and psychology). The course begins 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021their "capacity to organize, analyze, interpret with an introduction to the epistemological and communicate knowledge in an applied HPH 560: Applied Biostatistics and ontological underpinnings of qualitative manner." Health departments, as well as a inquiry, with special attention to how these Students learn to formulate a scientific variety of other local organizations, offer a factors affect the types of research questions question in terms of a statistical model, leading wide array of potential sites for the Practicum often asked (and answered) by qualitative to objective and quantitative answers. Topics experience.Permission of MPH Academic researchers. Students then learn the nuts- may include analysis of variance, regression, Coordinator is required. Prerequisite: and-bolts of qualitative research design and including details of data-analytic techniques Admission to Graduate Public Health Program data collection through review of existing and implications for study design, measures of and Department Consent association, 2x2 tables, stratification, matched qualitative studies and hands-on application. Fall 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pairs, logistic regression, model building, Homework and in-class exercises over the course of the semester give students practice analysis of rates, and survival data analysis HPH 581: Capstone using proportional hazards models. The in (a) designing a feasible qualitative research This course will assist students in synthesizing course stresses applications in epidemiology, study, and (b) collecting three kinds of basic public health knowledge through and other areas of public health research. qualitative data: participant observation, completion of several competency-driven Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The learning experiences. Most core and Health Program or Department Consent; HPH course concludes with an overview of steps concentration course work must be completed 507 and HPH 559. for data analysis, including coding, memo- writing, and triangulation. Emphasized before the student can participate in Capstone. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) throughout the course are methodological Students will be introduced to the process of writing grant proposals and developing HPH 562: Population Health Analytics issues germane to qualitative (and quantitative) research: reflexivity of the researcher, budgets, professional networking with non- The Population Health Analytics course appropriate treatment of human subjects, academic community partners, publishing provides students with the methodological and obtaining quality data. Prerequisite: in the scientific literature; communicating and analytical skills required for competent Admission to Graduate Public Health Program practice-based projects in both oral and evidence-based decision-making regarding or Department Consent; HPH 501 poster presentation formats, and planning population health improvement projects. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for their future careers as public health Beginning with a review of current methods professionals. They will self-assess their and an introduction to emerging methods

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 132 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 own conflict styles and apply negotiation skills to prepare the student as a Social Worker and mediation skills to address community HWC for entry into the profession. Topics covered and/or organizational challenges, and reflect in this course include professional pathways, on their conflict styles when considering Social Work licensure, advanced advocacy and professional case studies. Students will also engage communication skills, and other topics specific in inter-professional education learning HWC 596A: Community Learning and to the students' social work specialization. activities to improve their understanding Professional Preparation Year I Part A Attendance is required at two full-day events and communication of their roles, values/ This first part of a required two-part course at the Stony Brook campus per academic ethics, and how to work effectively as part will provide foundational knowledge, values year. Dates will be posted at the beginning of an inter-professional team. Students will and skills to prepare the student as a social of the Fall term. Students graded S/U. (0.5 apply systems thinking to a case study to work professional. Topics covered in this credit, G2 status. Co requisite depending on create a logic model that demonstrates the course include professional pathways, areas of specialization- HWC 534 (for FYT) or HWC complex systems involved in a population practice, advocacy and communication skills, 564 (for IH) or HWC 570 (for CPSA) health issue. Lastly, they will present their and other topics specific to the students' social S/U grading own work as part of their Practicum to fellow work education. Attendance is required at two students, and discuss career plans. Permission full-day events at the Stony Brook campus HWC 500: Field Education I of MPH Academic Coordinator is required. per academic year. Dates will be posted at the Placement in practice settings under Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate Public beginning of the Fall term. Students graded S/ supervision of a licensed M.S.W. Students will Health Program and Department Consent U. (0.5 credit, G1 status. Co requisite HWC be graded S/F. Corequisite: HWC 513. 509) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 4-6 credits, S/F graded S/U grading HPH 585: Introduction to Biostatistics HWC 501: Field Education II & Epidemiology HWC 596B: Community Learning and Professional Preparation Year I Part B A continuation of HWC 500. Students will This online course is an introduction to be graded S/F. Corequisite: HWC 514. biostatistics and epidemiology. In the first half This second part of a required two-part course Prerequisites: HWC 500 and 513. of the course students will be introduced to will provide foundational knowledge, values 4-6 credits, S/F graded the principles and methods of epidemiology. and skills to prepare the student as a social work professional. Topics covered in this The second half focuses on the statistical HWC 502: Field Education III methods used throughout the health sciences. course include professional pathways, areas of At the end of the course students will be able practice, advocacy and communication skills, Placement in advanced social work practice to interpret epidemiological studies and have a and other topics specific to the students' social settings. Supervision provided by a licensed basic understanding of the statistical methods work education. Attendance is required at two M.S.W. Students will be graded S/F. these studies employ. full-day events at the Stony Brook campus Corequisite depending on specialization- HWC 531 (for FYT) or HWC 564 (for IH) or HWC 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) per academic year. Dates will be posted at the beginning of the Fall term. Students graded S/ 570 (for CPPSA). Prerequisites: HWC 500, U. (0.5 credit, G1 status. Co2021 requisite HWC 501, 513 and 514 HPH 590: Research Practicum 4-6 credits, S/F graded The goal of Research Practicum is to mentor 509) S/U grading students to successfully complete their HWC 503: Field Education IV research requirements. Expectations are that students will register for Research Practicum HWC 597A: Community Learning and A continuation of HWC 502. Students will for three consecutive semesters. The Research Professional Preparation Year II Part A be graded S/F. Corequisite depending on Practicum is a planned experience with This first part of a required two-part course specialization- HWC 571 (CPPSA), HWC 532 expectations identified each semester in will provide advanced knowledge, values and (FYT), HWC 565 (IH). Prerequisites: HWC conjunction with a research mentor and faculty Fallskills to prepare the student as a Social Worker 502 supervisor. A practicum proposal, analysis for entry into the profession. Topics covered 4-6 credits, S/F graded report, and final deliverable (NIH proposal, in this course include professional pathways, Foundation proposal, or peer reviewed licensure, advanced advocacy and professional HWC 504: Human Behavior and publication) are required. communication skills, and other topics specific the Social Environment: Critical Applications of Social Work Theory 0-9 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the students' social work specialization. May be repeated for credit. Attendance is required at two full-day events This course applies a multi-theoretical at the Stony Brook campus per academic and critical approach to social inquiry HPH 599: Maintenance of Matriculation year. Dates will be posted at the beginning in the examination of complex theories, This course is for students who are maintaining of the Fall term. Students graded S/U. (0.5 metaperspectives, and knowledge about matriculation while engaging in consultation credit, G2 status. Co requisite depending on individuals, families, groups, organizations, with faculty regarding completion of courses specialization- HWC 534 (for FYT) or HWC institutions and urban, suburban, and rural and/or master's project. Students will be graded 564 (for IH) or HWC 570 (for CPSA) communities. The course encourages S/F.Prerequisite: Admission to Graduate S/U grading students to maintain a view of people and Public Health Program and Department their environments as heterogeneous and Consent HWC 597B: Community Learning and sociohistorically embedded, as well as Professional Preparation Year II Part B adaptable and resilient. Throughout the course, 0-3 credits, S/F graded special consideration is given to social and May be repeated for credit. This second part of a required two-part course will provide advanced knowledge, values and cultural diversity. Students will develop a

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 133 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 multi-dimensional (e.g., social, psychological class and one hour of instructor directed a strengths perspective and empowerment and cultural) understanding of human behavior assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 509 approach to practice. Evidence-based short- as applied to contemporary issues in social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) term therapies are used to guide direct practice work practice. Class meets two hours in- to address resilience and human development. class and one hour of instructor directed HWC 511: Research I Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of assignments. Research I, is the first part of a two-semester instructor directed assignments. Corequisite: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course sequence designed to prepare social HWC 500. work students to engage in research informed 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 505: Integrating Seminar social work practice and practice informed This course extends the work covered in social work research and evaluation. The first HWC 514: Social Work Practice II HBSE, by applying human behavior theory semester (HWC511) provides an overview of A continuation of HWC 513. Revisits the to social work practice situations. Students the research process from both quantitative helping process in greater depth with specific will integrate knowledge and skills acquired and qualitative perspectives and examines how reference to special consideration for work in social work practice, social justice, policy, a critical approach to research may form the with families, groups, communities and field education and research courses to social basis of evidence-based social work practice organizations. The broad range of social work and clinical issues across diverse topics. Class and client empowerment. The course goes roles across client systems is considered. activities include experiential assignments and on to examine those elements of the research Deepens knowledge of generalist practice, project based learning. This course prepares process that are common to all methodologies: ethical practice and skill development. students to practice in interdisciplinary the ethical conduct of research; literature Corequisite: HWC 501. Class meets two hours environments. Class meets two hours in- searches and reviews; development of research in-class and one hour of instructor directed class and one hour of instructor directed questions and hypotheses; measurement; assignments. Prerequisites: HWC 500 and 513 assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 504 and sampling procedures. Quantitative data 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analysis is introduced in the form of univariate/ descriptive statistics. Class meets two hours HWC 519: Psychopathology and HWC 509: Foundations of Social in-class and one hour of instructor directed Psychopharmacology Justice: Challenging Oppression assignments. This course focuses on the concepts of mental This course explores the meaning of social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health, mental disorders and the influence of justice within the context of political economy, culture on both. The mental health concerns human nature, and health policy. Examination HWC 512: Research II of diverse social, racial and ethnic groups, will include the relation of historical Research II is the second part of a two- particularly those historically devalued and implications within contemporary discourse. semester course sequence designed to prepare oppressed are covered. In addition, the use This course will analyze the foundations of social work students to engage in research and misuse of the classification system of power, privilege, and prejudice in the United informed social work practice and practice the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSMIV) States through the lens of social work ethos informed social work research and evaluation. are examined. This examination includes the that values human rights, equality, respect, and The second semester (HWC512)2021 follows-up on distinction between major mental disorders health for all. Emphasis will be placed on the the first by examining specific data collection and other forms of dysfunctional behavior identification of social injustice, challenging methods (experiments; surveys; interviews; and the recognition of symptoms. Assessment institutional oppression, and the creation of focus groups; ethnographies; etc.), with of psychosocial functioning within a multi- effective methods to empower marginalized attention given to understanding how these cultural and gender role frame is emphasized. and oppressed populations. Class meets two methods are used appropriately in social work Social work values, roles, responsibilities and hours in-class and one hour of instructor research and evaluation processes. Quantitative ethical considerations are detailed throughout directed assignments. Corequisite: HWC data analysis procedures at the bivariate the course. The role of the social worker as 596A. and multivariate levels (t-tests; ANOVA; an integral member of the interdisciplinary 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fallcorrelation; regression; chi-square test, etc.), mental health team is discussed. Class meets hypothesis testing, inferential statistics, and two hours in-class and one hour of instructor HWC 510: Social Policy and Social computer assisted data analysis using SPSS directed assignments. Prerequisites: HWC 500, Determinants will be presented in the context of appropriate 501, 504, and 513. This course builds upon the Foundations data collection methods. Emphasis placed on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of Social Justice: Challenging Oppression research proposal development and critical course through the discussion and exploration evaluation of research reports. Class meets HWC 520: Advanced Social Work of social policies, social determinants of two hours in-class and one hour of instructor Practice with the Aged health, and contemporary & historical social directed assignments. Prerequisite: HWC 511 This course examines concepts and strategies movements that have arisen to challenge 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for working with the elderly at the primary, oppression. This course utilizes frameworks secondary and tertiary levels of intervention. for social policy analysis while addressing HWC 513: Social Work Practice I It presents and critically analyzes a variety continuing dilemmas in policy development. Provides a foundation for generalist practice, of approaches in working with the elderly Experiential learning and beyond-the- including the knowledge base, values and and their families. Interventions with the well classroom experiences introduce students skill development necessary for ethical elderly living in the community, the elderly to the processes and dynamics of social and effective practice with individuals, who suffer some disabilities but who are still movements, social change, and their effects families, groups and communities. Students living in the community and the elderly who on social policy. Class meets two hours in- are introduced to the helping process across are institutionalized are examined. Class meets client systems and across the life span through two hours in-class and one hour of instructor

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Class meets two hours in-class and provide effective culturally sensitive social manifestations of anger in themselves, one hour of instructor directed assignments. work services to diverse individuals, families, clients, organizations and communities. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) groups and communities. The special problems Anger management strategies that can be faced by groups traditionally devalued and taught to clients as part of an intervention HWC 530: Case Management in Human oppressed are examined. Emphasizes skills plan will be introduced. Environmental and Services in working for institutional change and social societal factors as "igniting events" of anger in Case management has grown dramatically in justice. Class meets two hours in-class and individuals, families, groups and communities the human service field over the last twenty one additional hour of instructor directed are examined. Class meets two hours in- years in response to the growing service needs assignments. class and one hour of instructor directed of individuals and families facing complex 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments. life situations and issues. Examines both the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) macro level and micro level issues facing case HWC 522: Human Sexuality managers and agencies as they provide quality This course identifies personal attitudes and HWC 526: Crisis Intervention: services to often oppressed populations. Class judgments about sexually related behaviors. Opportunities for Change meets two hours in-class and one hour of Critically examines factual information This course provides theoretical and instructor directed assignments. derived from research in human sexuality substantive content that will enable students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and covers a wide range of sexual behavior to gain knowledge, understanding, and skill from a knowledge base. Class meets two hours in relation to crisis intervention in social work HWC 531: Advanced Practice Skills I: in-class and one hour of instructor directed practice. This course defines crisis, provides Developmental Processes assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. examples of the types of crises workers will This course emphasizes the understanding 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) face in various fields of practice, explores of developmental theories and application to the role of the social worker, and the range culturally responsive practice with families, HWC 523: Growing Old in America: of interventions needed in response to crisis youth, and young adults. Focus is placed on The Social Conditions-Policy and situations. Class meets two hours in-class and recognizing developmental issues and their Practice Implications one hour of instructor directed assignments. implications for assessment, engagement, and Explores the social, political and economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) early intervention strategies. Familial, cultural, conditions related to aging including long- 2021and environmental factors that influence term care in this society. Identifies social HWC 527: Social Work in the Political development are discussed. Corequisite: HWC policies and program formats that enhance Process: Campaign School 502 and 534. 3 credits, Fall semester. wellness and support dependencies from a Limited to 20 second-year students. Instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) positive perspective. Class meets two hours consent is required. The purpose of the course May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in-class and one hour of instructor directed is to advance students' understanding of the assignments. political process and to expand students' HWC 532: Family, Youth, and Transition to Adulthood Advanced 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) repertoire of skills for participation in the political process. A prime focus is deepening Practice Skills II: Intervention Skills HWC 524: Children and Adolescents Fallstudents' commitment to engaging in the Building on the knowledge and skills in Who Grieve political process as a significant form of Advanced Practice Skills I, this course Focuses on issues related to bereavement social work practice for social change. This focuses on enhancing clinical effectiveness in in children and young people. Children and is a hybrid course combining online content, interactions with children, adolescents, and adolescents who struggle with the crisis in-class participation as well as required young adults by strengthening assessment of loss is a special population that is often attendance at a 2-day Campaign School and diagnostic skills and understanding overlooked. Students explore the emotional workshop at the University of Connecticut's related advanced theory. Topics include child response of young people who grieve. Mental School of Social Work in West Hartford. 3 welfare related interviewing skills, parenting health professionals that provide treatment credits and communication, advanced solution- to this population must acquire specialized 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) focused therapy, motivational interviewing, knowledge and skills to assist in healing cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral health wounded children. Upon completion, students HWC 529: Complementary and assessment and interventions, rapid assessment will have gained an increased understanding Alternative Medicine tools, and forensic therapeutic interventions. of the developmental implications of loss in Human service workers are often required All of these topics are addressed within a childhood, assessment of bereavement, and to discuss issues of health and healing. trauma- and culturally-responsive framework. treatment interventions specific to bereaved Many individuals, by virtue of their culture, Professional and ethical considerations, children and adolescents. Class meets two experiences and/or choice, often adhere to a evaluation of intervention effectiveness, and combination of nontraditional and traditional service delivery in an agency context are

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Professionals must ethical and legal ramifications of the use of This course focuses on family and marital be knowledgeable about the healing traditions licit and illicit substances in our culture. The problems. Environmental, social, economic, anchored in different cultures and ethnicity. course provides information on a variety of psychological and institutional pressures Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of services available to drug abusers, addicted that affect family functioning are examined. instructor directed assignments. individuals and their families in the fields of Emphasis is placed on intervention skills. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) prevention, education and treatment. Class Class meets two hours in-class and one hour meets two hours in-class and one hour of of instructor directed assignments. Advanced HWC 540: Therapeutic Approaches for instructor directed assignments. Practice Elective. People with Disabilities 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will provide a framework for practice with individuals with disabilities HWC 545: Individual, Group and Family HWC 534: Advanced Policy Practice based on cognitive-behavioral and solution- Treatment of Alcoholics and Substance This course surveys historical and current focused therapies. Emphasis will be placed Abusers policies relevant to social work practice with on understanding the acute issues facing This course covers alcoholism and substance families, youth, and young adults. Students individuals with disabilities primarily from abuse as family illnesses and their stages will engage in policy analysis including a a social model lens which focuses on socio- of development, as well as the impact these critical analysis of oppression and inequality in environmental constraints and barriers. These illnesses have on the families of active and the context of child and family federal policies. include limited human rights, access to care recovering alcoholics and substance abusers. In addition, the course will explore culturally and treatment choices, and socio-cultural Ethical dilemmas and treatment modalities sensitive skill development and competencies forces. Psychosocial factors will also be including Self-help groups and on traditional related to policy practice including social explored. The empirical knowledge base that and relatively recent modalities used in the action and activism. Corequisite: HWC 502 informs and guides the assessment and theory treatment of addicted individuals and their and 531. 3 credits, Fall semester. based interventions of individuals with families are focused on. Class meets two hours 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) disabilities will be examined and critiqued. in-class and one hour of instructor directed May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. (Manhattan) HWC 535: Org Ldrship Across FYT HWC 541: Youth and Violence 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Systems of Care Examines the etiology of youth at risk for This course provides an evidence-based and violence, using ecological 2021and interpersonal HWC 546: Working with Adult Children empirically supported practice framework for perspectives. Family, school and community of Alcoholics and Substance Abusers developing advanced organizational leadership risk factors are outlined as well as assessment, This course focuses on adult children of skills across various systems of care that intervention and treatment issues. Successful alcoholic parents and how parents' illness impact the lives of youth, families, and young prevention programs are highlighted. Class affects their children's social, emotional, and adults. Focus is placed on strategic planning, meets two hours in-class and one hour of educational development from infancy to effective communication, anti-oppressive instructor directed assignments. adulthood and into old age. Survival roles organizational development and evaluation, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of children in alcoholic families and how and organizational analysis including inter- these affect adult functioning are discussed. and intra-organizational contexts.3 credits, FallHWC 542: School Social Work: Examines ethical issues and the continuing Spring Semester Practice Policy and Research effect family alcoholism has on adult children 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the practice of school social work and the intervention strategies used in May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in an in depth manner. It gives an overview treatment. Class meets two hours in-class and of the central issues that occur in schools. It one hour of instructor directed assignments. HWC 538: Death and Dying; Loss and discusses strategies to build a positive and safe Advanced Practice Elective. Separation school climate for diverse and disenfranchised 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course explores student values, attitudes, populations. The course will cover evidenced- fears and conceptions relating to death and based practices including DBT and CBT for HWC 547: Managing Conflict: Groups, dying. Issues of loss and separation in relation schools. It examines the social/political context Organizations, and Communities (FYT) to various age groups, cultural orientations of working in the school. Topics will also (CPPSA) and societal expectations are examined. The include working with students struggling with A major concern for health and human focus is on the acquisition of bereavement psychiatric, psychological, substance use, and service managers is conflict in organization, counseling skills. Class meets two hours familial issues as well as assisting students community and group settings. The various in-class and one hour of instructor directed in special education. Crisis intervention types of conflicts and the concepts of assignments. Advanced Practice Elective. techniques and trauma-informed educational negotiation and mediation as interventive 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practices will be discussed. strategies are considered. Didactic and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experiential learning experiences are utilized.

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Focus is on analyzing conflict situations This course introduces students to the development and evaluation. Advanced and selecting interventive strategies to interrelationship of the legal process in the Practice Elective. reduce, contain or heighten the conflict United States and the profession of social 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) situation. Oppressive conditions, structures and work. Focuses on the legal process in general, processes are considered major determinants social welfare law, in particular, and the HWC 556: Proposal Writing in the of human suffering and individual and social implications for effective social work practice. Health and Human Service Fields problems; students examine how these Students will be required to explore and This course provides a comprehensive study oppressive conditions are present in conflict integrate the ways in which legal frameworks of the principles and methods used to prepare situations and consider ways of dealing with determine the nature of practice processes program, training, research, demonstration and them. Class meets two hours in-class and and structures within their chosen field of other types of proposals. Extensive workshop one hour of instructor directed assignments. Specialization. Permission required for practice in developing appropriate writing Advanced Practice Elective. students not enrolled in the School of Social skills and in locating and accessing funding 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Welfare. sources is included. Advanced Practice 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Elective. HWC 548: Adolescent Development 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Health Promotion HWC 552: Lesbians and Gay Men: The effect on adolescent development of Issues in Health Care HWC 558: Human Services physiological changes, relationships with This course is an examination of the critical Administration peers and family, and societal expectations are impact that healthcare policies and services An introduction to the practice of examined. Emphasis is on the development have on lesbians and gay men in American administration of public and non-profit of assessment and engagement skills for society. Issues related to access to care, agencies, theories of management including working with adolescents and their families discrimination, services, health insurance, alternative decision-making models, to help counteract adolescent self-destructive healthcare resources within geographical understanding of organizational structure behavior and promote well-being. Class meets areas and the health status of lesbians and gay and process, external and internal functions two hours in-class and one hour of instructor men are examined. It focuses on the issues including interagency collaboration and directed assignments. Advanced Practice that lesbians and gay men encounter in their personnel and financial management, Elective. interactions with the healthcare system. affirmative action and ethical issues. The 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course combines theory with case examples, practical exercises and other experiential HWC 549: Overview of Social Work HWC 553: Chemical Dependency in learning modes. Advanced Practice Elective. with Special Populations Special Populations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the issues that social This course covers alcoholism and substance workers must consider when working with abuse with populations that have been HWC 559: Mental Health Evidence- traditionally disenfranchised populations. traditionally devalued and oppressed. Based Practice Emphasis will include micro and macro It focuses on development2021 of skills and This course develops the knowledge and skills issues when intervening with gay and lesbian sensitivity to ethical issues and the needs necessary for working with individuals with individuals, members of diverse racial of ethnic groups, women, the elderly, the a diagnosis of serious mental illness using and ethnic groups, and women, as well as mentally ill and LBGTQ people who are recovery-oriented evidence-based practices. others. The historic as well as contemporary chemically dependent. Policy and practice This course is designed for M.S.W. students experiences of these individuals' interactions issues related to these populations are and M.S.W. mental health practitioners. The with the health and human service delivery considered. Class meets two hours in-class and course familiarizes students with evidence- system will be explored. Class meets two one hour of instructor directed assignments. based practices, within a recovery-oriented hours in-class and one hour of instructor 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) paradigm, as a general approach to practice as directed assignments. Fall well as specific evidence-based interventions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 555: Supervision in Health and to use for individuals with a diagnosis of Human Service Organizations serious mental illness. Students should have HWC 550: Culture-Centered Approach This course prepares social workers for a basic knowledge of serious mental illness to Social Work Practice the variety of tasks related to supervisory as pre- or co-requisite, however a review This course provides students with an practice in health care agencies. Supervision will be provided. Research literature is opportunity for self growth while preparing to is introduced as a teaching process, as an examined to determine the various levels of work with individuals and their families from administrative function and as a program support for specific interventions and essential a culture-centered value base. Culture-centered development tool. Emphasis is on helping principles for translating research into practice. foundation practice provides students with a workers function effectively with culturally Appropriate treatment outcomes that reflect frame of reference for better understanding diverse clients, populations at risk and the effective quality mental health practice are and appreciation of the difference of their own chronically ill. Content includes: historical identified. Focus is on providing assessment culture from the cultures of others. Class meets perspective of supervisory practice; supervisor and treatment to a diverse group of individuals two hours in-class and one hour of instructor and agency structure; the organizational with a diagnosis of serious mental illness. 3 directed assignments. Advanced Practice context of practice; learning theories; concepts credits Elective. of power, authority and accountability; ethical 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and clinical issues; supervisory techniques, skill and self awareness; staff and program HWC 561: Implications of Racism for HWC 551: Law and Social Change Social Welfare

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This course examines personal and HWC 566: Student-Community and mobilizing communities to work for institutional racism in the United States Development Student Portfolio Project change. This course expands upon the students' and the effect racism has on the delivery of Provides an opportunity for students to create a learning in their first year policy courses to services to individuals who do not fit the portfolio composed of various components that utilize advanced critical theories to analyze traditional "American model". It examines integrates the student's educational experiences social problems and develop tools for social the historical relationship between racism and and achievements in the Student-Community change with a special emphasis on community social welfare policies, programs and practice, Development Specialization. Components may and empowerment. Corequisite: HWC 502 and and contemporary strategies for change. Class include literature reviews, abstracting research 572. 3 credits, Fall Semester meets two hours in-class and one hour of articles, analysis of field placements, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor directed assignments. integration of social work and student affairs May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) literature. Class meets two hours in-class and one hour of instructor directed assignments. HWC 571: Advanced Tools for Change: HWC 563: Homelessness, Politics and Practice II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Public Health Building on the knowledge and skills in the This course analyzes homelessness as an HWC 568: The Workings of the Brain: first semester of Advanced Tools for Social issue of social policy, including its history, Practice Issues for Social Workers Change, Part II focuses on developing students' recent causes and current demographics. It Addresses the organization, development and skills in analyzing issues, developing powerful emphasizes the political and economic context functions of the brain and how this influences arguments and communicating persuasively that has made homelessness a major social how we think, feel and behave. Causes of with multiple audiences using multiple problem. Class meets two hours in-class and organic changes in the brain such as substance media platforms. Using a lens of critical one hour of instructor directed assignments. abuse, disease and injury are addressed. theories, students will learn to engage with and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Advances in neuroscience that have aided mobilize constituents, form coalitions, lobby in diagnosis and social work practice are policymakers and leverage political power to HWC 564: Advanced Practice I: covered. Innovative treatment modalities challenge systemic structures of power and Assessment and Skills in Integrated such as EMDR, biofeedback and vagal nerve privilege and effect positive social change in Health implants are presented. Strongly emphasizes the areas of students' passion. Corequisite: This course will build advanced competencies the combination of science and practice issues. HWC 503 and 573. 3 credits, Spring Semester as applied in health and mental health Class meets two hours in-class and one hour 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) settings. Students will learn how to conduct of instructor directed assignments. Advanced May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. assessments that engage the family and Practice Elective. HWC 572: Leadership for Social the community, and develop skills for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) relationship building, care coordination, Change and strategies for defining and addressing HWC 569: Childhood Sexual Abuse Leadership is widely understood as a critical the social determinants of health, utilizing and Long-Term Sequelae: Assessment success factor for advancing social change. interprofessional practice skills. Topics include and Intervention 2021In this class, students are educated to develop primary prevention; acute and long term Introduces students to the incidence and advanced leadership skills to create and sustain care; rehabilitation in inpatient and outpatient prevalence of childhood sexual abuse as a social-change organizations that address clinics; forensic social work; substance abuse; national problem. Covered are definition societal inequities. The course covers the medically managed systems; chronic disease; issues, sequelae during childhood, family many facets of social change leadership, HIV/AIDS; trauma and co-morbid psychiatric constellation and adult sequelae. Addressed are including effective communication, strategic issues; cancer. Corequisite: HWC 502 and 574. assessment and current treatment modalities, planning, and program development. The 3 credits Fall semester particularly for families and offenders, as course will consider what it means to be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) well as ethical and legal dilemmas and the a leader, the kinds of skills leaders need May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Fallsubsequent health related difficulties of this to succeed in diverse community settings, childhood trauma. Special attention is paid to and what are the necessary preconditions HWC 565: Advanced Practice II: the cultural dynamics in sexual abuse. Students for social change. Additional focus will Strategies and Interventions in are expected to develop an awareness of and be on anti-oppressive organizational and Integrated Health critically analyze current research. Focus is on program development, management, resource Building on the knowledge and skills in examination of policy issues and legislation. development and financial management. Specific focus will be devoted to providing Advanced Practice I, students will learn 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) current practice strategies, technological students with opportunities to develop their advancements, and interventions to address HWC 570: Advanced Tools for Change: presentation and analysis skills and to receive the major health concerns that impact society. Practice I peer feedback. Corequisite: HWC 502 and 570. 3 Credits, Fall Semester Students will investigate population based Building on foundation knowledge, values treatments across systems that are trauma and skills, this course will deepen student 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) responsive, build on client's strengths, and capacity to work for social change. Students May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. that are culturally congruent. Corequisite: will build their expertise using interpersonal HWC 573: Social and Political Change HWC 503 and 576. Prerequisite: HWC 564. 3 communication, relationship building, (Hybrid) credits, Spring Semester organizing skills in select areas such as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) visioning, problem analysis, community By its nature, social and political change May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. engagement, assessment, action research is action oriented. This course will provide students with the opportunity and value,

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 138 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 knowledge and skill based guidance to This course provides an in-depth analysis healthcare services are delivered. Particular undertake an actual advocacy/community of the technical requirements of program emphasis is given to the issue of access change oriented capstone project. Students evaluation and the organizational and political to health services as well as the location will work with community based social constraints that influence the evaluation of the professional social worker within change organizations on a social change process. Techniques in the design and these systems. Students gain the ability to project for approximately 35 hours during implementation of evaluation research in the conceptualize many of the critical ethical and the semester in lieu of classroom meetings. health and human services fields are covered. legal issues impacting the field today. Class During the 5 in-class meetings and online Prerequisites: HWC 511 and 512. 3 credits meets two hours in-class and one hour of discussions, students will act as consultants 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor directed assignments. Advanced to one another, reflecting on learning from Practice Elective. project work, readings and other courses in the HWC 578: Advanced Social Work with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) specialization. Corequisite: HWC 503 and 571. Groups 3 credits, Spring Semester This course explores the principles and HWC 584: Community Analysis and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) practice of group work in assisting clients to Health Promotion May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. maximize psychosocial functioning. Class Explores diverse concepts of community, members will participate in an experience analyzes a range of community structures, HWC 574: Clinical Skills: Motivational that encourages them to realize the power of processes and power relationships. Investigates Interviewing & Cognitive Behavioral group work process and usefulness of this contemporary models, strategies and tactics of Therapy in Integrated Health modality. Group work techniques, context, community organizing and health promotion This course introduces students to advanced dynamics, skills and the role of the group in the United States and in selected other evidence-based clinical modalities, that include facilitator are discussed. In presenting group countries and emphasizes efforts made by group treatment, and short term interventions work with special populations students poor people, ethnic minorities of color and with an emphasis on Motivational Interviewing learn about the impact of issues including women to organize and mobilize community (MI) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) development, discrimination, illness, addiction groups and movements. Highlights group and as applied in health and mental health care and separation on the commonality of the community analysis and organization skills. settings. Corequisite: HWC 502 and 564. 3 human experience as it presents in group Class meets two hours in-class and one hour credits, Spring semester practice. 3 credits of instructor directed assignments. Advanced 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Practice Elective. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 579: Special Topics in Social HWC 575: Child Welfare: An Overview Work HWC 587: Social Work Practice with This course covers the impact of historical and These courses examine significant timely the Military and Military Families contemporary developments within the field issues confronting the profession. Topics This course focuses on the specific challenges of child welfare. It examines the evaluation of include violence as a public health problem, of those who serve in the military and the child welfare services and the role of child care issues of aging, racism, gender,2021 AIDS, the response of social work practitioners to those workers. It also examines out-of-home care, media, and others. Topics vary each term as challenges. The course will explore the nature foster care, group home care and institutional faculty develop specific modules that address of war, its impact on those who are wounded care within the context of traditional public/ one or more of these issues. Class meets - physically and mentally -- and the impact voluntary structure of services and the social/ two hours in-class and one hour of instructor of the military experience on them and their political context. Services in relation to the directed assignments. loved ones/caregivers. Particular emphasis changing roles of the family and emergence of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will detail the impact of recent wars in Iraq child care are covered. Class meets two hours May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. and Afghanistan on returning veterans, many in-class and one hour of instructor directed suffering with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury assignments. FallHWC 581: Public Health and and substance abuse problems. Additional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Community Health Intervention areas of exploration include the challenges This course examines many of the critical faced by women in the military, the wounded, HWC 576: Integrated Health: Advanced public health issues of today. Students those who contemplate suicide. Intervention Health Policy Systems gain an understanding of the concepts strategies and case material will enhance The course will address local, federal, state, underlying social epidemiology and develop student understanding. 3 credits, Fall Semester and organizational policies and funding an appreciation of the ways in which the health 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mechanisms impacting health and mental status of different populations in this country May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. health. Topics include recent developments is differentially impacted. Community health in health care reform and current issues planning strategies (e.g. health promotion and HWC 588: The Dynamics of Trauma and trends in primary and behavioral health health education) are examined. 3 credits This course will examine the complexity and care integration. The course will emphasize 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) range of traumatic events. For example, the diversity, health disparities, and social and way temperament, genetic pre-disposition and economic justice. Corequisite: HWC 503 and HWC 582: Organizational Dynamics environment impact traumatic reactions; as 565. 3 credits, Fall semester and Legal and Ethical Issues in Health well as the physiological and psychological 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Care reactions that individuals experience. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. This course examines some of the traditional, Throughout this course we will examine as well as newer, models through which therapeutic interventions with different HWC 577: Program Evaluation populations (children, adults, groups, elders)

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 139 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 as they recover from trauma experiences. This lens that are relevant to high school and higher HWC 599: Maintenance of course will cover the range of psychological education settings including crisis intervention, Matriculation models that comprise trauma theory and rapid assessment tools, biopsychosocial, and For students who are maintaining matriculation examine the protective factors that mediate review of wellness and prevention services. while engaging in consultation with faculty post-traumatic growth. Throughout this course Students are encouraged to critically examine regarding completion of courses and/or the we will examine cultural, legal, judicial and components of contemporary education and Master's Project. Students will be graded S/F. policy issues that impact trauma treatments. to devise appropriate intervention strategies 1 credit, S/F graded to accomplish the development of student- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. centered services, implement tele-mental HWC 589: Therapeutic Interventions health services, and a sense of community HWC 600: Statistics I for Trauma within education settings. Provides instruction in the computation, This course will examine therapeutic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) interpretation, and application of data analytic interventions with different populations procedures used in social research. Discusses HWC 593: Social Work in Higher (children, adults, groups, elders) as they procedures such as descriptive statistics, chi- Education: Wrap-around Care Services recover from trauma experiences. This course square, and t-tests, while examining their will appraise the range of psychological This course reviews the care coordination relevancy for analyzing issues in social work models that comprise trauma theory and involved in the many college student support practice. Fall Term. examine the promotive factors that mediate services offered across various departments 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Post-traumatic Growth. Throughout this course including offices of disability support services, we will examine cultural, legal, judicial and counseling and health centers, athletics, HWC 601: Statistics II policy issues that impact trauma treatment. student affairs, and campus and residential life. Introduces students to multivariate techniques An understanding of the transition from high 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) used in the analysis of various kinds of data. school to college service systems, transition Analysis of Variance, Multiple Regression HWC 590: Overview of Family Violence to adult health care services, as well as how Analysis, Logistic Regression Analysis, and different higher education involved systems This advanced elective provides an overview Log-Linear Regression Analysis, as well function on- and off-campus will also be of family violence in the United States as more advanced techniques, such as path discussed. Leadership development and social including child abuse, intimate partner analysis and survival analysis, are discussed. violence (IPV), and elder abuse. The course work practice roles to promote student success 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) covers the etiology of each form of family in higher education settings are emphasized. violence, current evidence-based treatment 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) HWC 602: Research Methods I modalities, and mental health and judicial Presents an overview of the variety of approaches to these issues. Current research HWC 594: Continuation of Field Work research methodologies utilized in social for each type of family violence and social Experience science and social work, with the goal of policies will also be covered. Continuation of placement in practice settings providing students with the knowledge under supervision of a licensed M.S.W. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021and competencies needed to develop and S/F graded conduct their own research. The course will HWC 591: SW in Higher Ed: Prac in lead to a sophisticated understanding of the College & Univ HWC 595: Independent Study research process including the formulation of Through an interdisciplinary approach, Independent study with an individual faculty research questions, hypothesis development which draws from social work strengths member. Designation as enrichment or and testing, and choice of research method, and empowerment perspectives, student advanced practice elective is determined with involving both quantitative and qualitative affairs perspectives, and college student faculty sponsor. methods. Material on quantitative designs will development theories, this course emphasizes 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include experimental and quasi-experimental how community on the college campus Fall May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. designs, data collection methodologies, is influenced and shaped. Historical scaling, instrument development, and sampling developments in higher education and student HWC 598: Social Work Issues in Higher procedures. Material on qualitative designs development as well as the impact of societal Education will address focus groups interviews, key issues are introduced. This course will follow This is an advanced practice elective course informant interviews, participant observation, a student-community development lens that introduces how political, socio-economic, unobtrusive observation, text and content and discuss a variety of important topics cultural, and health issues impact higher analysis, and the use of archival and historical in higher education including: overview of education. This course prepares social workers data. Special attention is given to ethical and major policies and programming, campus to practice in college settings and with diverse political issues in the conduct of research. safety, campus climate and inclusion, social student populations. Social issues on college 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) determinants, financial aid, relationships, and campuses are emphasized including mental mental health. health, identity development, diversity and HWC 603: Research Methods II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) inclusion, leadership development, community A continuation of HWC 602 Research organization, and social work practice roles in Methods I. HWC 592: Social Work in Education: college settings. Therapeutic Interventons 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course reviews a wide-range of clinical HWC 604: Naturalistic and Qualitative practice methods using a trauma-informed Research

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Considered is the application of alternative policy development and implementation are Focus is on the place of social work education research methods for different questions. The also considered. in the university with attention to issues of distinction between quantitative and qualitative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) current concern such as the integration of approaches and methods in the analysis of professional education with the scholarly qualitative data is explored. HWC 609: Social Welfare Policy research focus of other academic disciplines. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Analysis II Consideration will be given to educational A continuation of HWC 608 Social Welfare program structure, content, curriculum HWC 606: Research Practicum I Policy Analysis I. Prerequisite: HWC 608. development, evaluation, and teaching Students undertake significant and Spring methodologies. Students will be required to teach a course in the B.S.W. or M.S.W. methodologically rigorous research involving 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design, implementation, analysis, and curriculum under mentorship of a senior dissemination of a research project. The HWC 610: Organizational Theory and faculty member. substantive areas will include health, mental Social Welfare Administration 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health, or substance abuse. School of The focus is on theories and methods available HWC 614: Teaching Practicum Social Welfare faculty, affiliated faculty to planners and administrators who function members from the Health Sciences Center and in complex organizational settings. Decision The teaching practicum is a supervised University social science departments, and making, political and economic factors, experience in teaching at the master's principal investigators in community research information systems, value conflicts, and or undergraduate level in the School projects will serve as preceptors. Students adaptations of rational models to emerging of Social Welfare, or in some aspect of will spend ten hours each week for two realities will be studied. Health and mental academic administration, such as curriculum semesters in a practicum setting. Students have health programs will be utilized as exemplars. development, project planning, and/or proposal a supervised hands-on, practical experience development. The educational practicum is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with an ongoing research project. Typical typically available to doctoral students in activities include data analysis, interpretation HWC 611: Knowledge Building in the third year. An individualized plan will of results, research report writing, subject Social Work: The Philosophy of Applied be developed for implementing the teaching recruitment and screening, instrument Social Research practicum. Practica may include teaching a development, or data collection. The primary section of a required graduate/undergraduate objective is to strengthen students' ability to An examination of the major currents of course, working as a teaching assistant with synthesize various phases and components thought that shape the meta-theoretical, a faculty member, and/or co-teaching and of social research. A focus is on articulating theoretical, and methodological issues related working with the curriculum committees and linkages among the research questions, the to knowledge building in social work. The area sequences in curriculum development. data gathered to address these questions, the impact of pragmatic philosophy on the current Spring "science versus non-science" debate within techniques selected for manipulating and 3 credits, S/U grading analyzing the data, and the interpretation of social work is reviewed. Special attention is given to epistemological approaches and their findings. Students are encouraged to pursue HWC 615: Dissertation Seminar I relation to qualitative and 2021quantitative research publication stemming from the practicum. strategies. Fall Students are expected to survey the current While the research practicum may not state of the art in their area of interest 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) necessarily expose students to the specific and to develop a written prospectus on a population or problem of greatest interest to question suitable for dissertation research. them, the skills or competencies mastered can HWC 612: Social Science Theory for Social Welfare In the second semester, students will refine prepare students methodologically to carry out dissertation proposals through presentation and their dissertation research plans. In this course, we explore the nature of social critique in the seminar. Specific techniques 3 credits, S/U grading theory and the normative project of social and alternatives in studying a variety of Fallwelfare by examining theories of social justice, dissertation questions are compared. HWC 607: Research Practicum II human rights and oppression. We consider 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A continuation of HWC 606 Research the nature and structure of power, the role of ideology and their impact in a society Practicum I. HWC 616: Dissertation Seminar II defined by inequality. Social Construction 3 credits, S/U grading and critical theory are particularly relevant A continuation of HWC 615 Dissertation as their assumptions align well with those of Seminar I. HWC 608: Social Welfare Policy social welfare. Lastly, we explore the tensions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Analysis I and possibilities of democratic theories and An analytical approach to public policy ideals, given the current context, as a means HWC 679: Special Topics in Policy formulation in the areas of health, mental to further social welfares normative project. Research health, and substance abuse involving Throughout the course, students are challenged Discusses timely policy research issues the impact of environmental forces on to explore existing theory and, importantly, to such as violence as a public health problem, policy content. Considered are the effects learn and engage in the process of theorizing, aging, racism, gender, AIDS, poverty and of various institutional arrangements and themselves. international social work. Topics vary each political processes as well as inquiry into the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) term as faculty develop specific modules that consequences of various contemporary public address one or more of these topics. Offered policies. Tools and frameworks of policy HWC 613: Seminar in Social Work Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, analysis are examined. Policy alternatives and Education etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. International Academic architecture and organization of various Programs mainframe, mini-, and microcomputers; HWC 695: Independent Study primary and secondary storage; and input and output communication. Architectural choices IAP 599: Research HWC 699: Dissertation Research on are compared and used to determine resulting Supervised research course for students Campus function and performance. Architectural trade- enrolled in foreign universities to fulfill the offs are also identified. Dissertation research under direction of educational objectives for his or her current 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) advisor. degree program at his or her home institution. Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). Research proposals must be prepared by ISE 507: Project Management Major portion of research must take place on the student and submitted for approval by SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the the supervising faculty before the semester The course focuses on both the technical Brookhaven National Lab. and beginning of the credit period. Midpoint aspects of project management as well as the Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading and final evaluation reports are required. An human aspects. Technical components include May be repeated for credit. account of the work and the results achieved is project definition, work breakdown structure submitted to the supervisor before the end of development, and the use of optimization HWC 700: Dissertation Research Off the credit period. May be repeated. Department techniques for planning a project and Campus - Domestic Consent Required. optimizing schedules. Graphical approaches to project definition are addressed, as are needs Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy 1-8 credits, S/U grading (G5). Major portion of research will take place analysis, preliminary design, and detailed off-campus, but in the United States and/ design and implementation. Human aspects of or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven IDC project management include forming a project National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab team, managing performance, and resolving are considered on-campus. All international Inter-University Doctoral conflicts. students must enroll in one of the graduate Consortium 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) student insurance plans and should be advised by an International Advisor. IDC 600: Inter-University Doctoral Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Consortium ITL May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Italian

HWC 701: Dissertation Research Off ITL 500: Reading Italian Campus - International ISE Designed to prepare graduate students Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Information Systems to read contemporary research in their (G5). Major portion of research will take respective disciplines published in Italian, the place outside of the United States and/or course presents systematic instruction in the U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the ISE 503: Data Management2021 fundamentals of reading comprehension and in option of the health plan and may also enroll This course provides an understanding of specialized subject-oriented vocabulary. in MEDEX. International students who are the issues in managing database systems Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, in their home country are not covered by as an essential organizational resource. A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health plan and must contact the Students learn the enterprise data architecture components, data storage configurations, and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to ITL 501: Contemporary Italy be removed. International students who are information retrieval methods. It expands from not in their home country are charged for the the relational model to the multidimensional Analysis of contemporary Italy and its mandatory health insurance. If they are to be model, object-relational techniques, and web civilization through the study of the covered by another insurance plan they must Fallaccessed data. The course includes concepts, development of its historical, cultural, file a waiver be second week of classes. The principles, issues, and techniques for managing political, and social characteristics. Designed charge will only be removed if other plan is corporate data resources. Techniques for for potential teachers of Italian at the college deemed comparable. managing the design and development of as well as secondary school levels, this course emphasizes and traces the evolution of the All international students must receive large database systems including logical data models, concurrent processing, data character and institutions of contemporary clearance from an International Advisor. Italy. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading distribution, database administration, data May be repeated for credit. warehousing, data cleansing, and data mining. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students will use current methods and tools for HWC 800: Full Time SUMMER database design and development. Limited to ITL 502: Special Topics in Italian RESEARCH CSE/ISE graduate students; others, permission Cinema F T SUMMER RESEARCH of instructor. A topics course given in Italian on Italian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cinema. Topics may include films of a S/U grading particular actor, director, genre, theme, or May be repeated for credit. ISE 506: Quantitative Computer historical period. Smeester supplements to Architecure the Bulletin contain specific description when IAP Explores the physical structure of a computer; course is offered. May be repeated for credit as machine representation of information; topic changes. Prerequisite: advanced oral and written proficiency in Italian.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Dante's Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are analyzed within their historical, social ITL 507: Italian Linguistics: Diachronic and moral context of 13th- and 14-centuries ITL 593: Language Acquisition III Development and Synchronic Europe. Offered as ITL 516 and CEI 526. Intermediate and Advanced Italian intended Structures 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for graduate students from other programs. An examination of the linguistic evolution The requirements for the course will include a and the synchronic grammars (phonology, ITL 522: Seminar in Italian Humanism graduate-level component to be determined by morphology, syntax) of standard Italian and and Renaissance Literature the instructor. May be repeated for credit. some Italo-Romance dialects. Analysis of the works of such writers as 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Machiavelli, May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) Castiglione, Aretino, Tasso, and Michelangelo. Study of the relation of the individual works of ITL 595: Practicum in Teaching ITL 508: Syntax and Composition these writers to broader historical, cultural, and Fall and Spring , This course analyzes and discusses finer intellectual developments of the period. 1-3 credits, S/U grading points of Italian grammar and investigates Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated for credit. diverse writing styles. Students will develop B+, etc.) grammatical drills from elementary through May be repeated for credit. ITL 599: Thesis Research advanced levels. Literary masterpieces are May be repeated for credit translated to demonstrate types of style and ITL 551: Studies in Italian Romanticism 1-6 credits, S/U grading possible alternatives in writing. Italian romanticism is compared with the May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, movement as it took place in other countries, B+, etc.) such as England, Germany, and France. The ITL 800: Summer Research works of Foscolo, Leopardi, and Manzoni are ITL 510: Advanced Conversation and studied in the philosophical and sociological May be repeated for credit. Composition contexts of the period. An examination of Italian in the context of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, JPN contemporary Italy, with an eye to the effects B+, etc.) of globalization and localism on language and Japanese Language culture. Class readings and conversations focus ITL 552: Studies in the Modern Novel on today's multifaceted Italy, steering clear of A study of the development of the Italian novel JPN 501: Advanced Japanese I stereotyped images and misconceptions. from Verga to the latest trends. Stress is placed An advanced course designed to strengthen Prerequisite: Graduate status. on the major shifts in sensibility occurring at students¿ ability to understand and speak the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, the beginning of the 19th century and after Japanese language. Students are required to etc.) World War II. prepare selected texts and to read and translate Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter2021 graded (A, A-, them in class. They also write essays based on ITL 511: History of the Italian Language B+, etc.) the texts as well as on Japanese videos. A study of the development of the Italian May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language beginning with its Latin origins, and continuing through modern times. ITL 562: Studies in Contemporary JPN 502: Advanced Japanese II Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Literature Contemporary Italian Poetry: The second part of an advanced course in etc.) The Quest for Meaning Chinese deigned to strengthen students¿ ability Studies in 20th century literature. to understand and speak the Japanese ITL 512: Italian Dialects FallFall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, language. Students are required to prepare The linguistic structures of the many B+, etc.) selected texts and to read and translate them in languages (i.e., "dialects") spoken in Italy are May be repeated for credit. class. They also write essays based on the texts analyzed. Consideration is also given to the as well as on Japanese videos. sociolinguistic situation. ITL 581: Independent Individual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Studies etc.) Fall and Spring , alternative years, JPN 526: Structure of Japanese 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The study of phonology, morphology, syntax, ITL 513: Romance Linguistics May be repeated for credit. semantics, lexicon, and writing systems of This course examines the linguistic evolution the Japanese language as well as the use of the Romance languages from the classical ITL 591: Language Acquisition I and functions of the language in relation period through modern times. The synchronic Elementary Italian I intended for graduate to the social structures and interpersonal grammars of Italian, French, and Spanish are students from other programs. relationships. examined. 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ITL 592: Language Acquisition II Elementary Italian II intended for graduate JRN ITL 516: Seminar on Dante students from other programs. Journalism

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JRN 501: Foundations of Science effectively with multiple audiences, from journals, magazine and newspapers, will Communication I peers and professors to potential employers, be explored and discussed. Other topics In this team-taught, immersive science journalists, and family members. It builds such as ancient Korean literature will also communication training, students will build on science communication research and is be discussed. Through this course students skills to passionately communicate in a designed to help students communicate clearly are expected to enhance their ability to way that excites, engages, and encourages and vividly. They will develop skills that are grasp the important of literary and academic audiences to want to learn more about central to oral and written communication on texts by learning to identify essential points their work. Improvisational theater-based any subject. Among the techniques applied and lines of argument as well as enhance techniques are combined with message design are improvisational theater exercises that their vocabulary, particularly Sino-Korean strategies like distilling and storytelling, will help connect with an audience, pay terms, and knowledge of idiomatic usage of enabling healthcare professionals, scientists, close and dynamic attention to others, read Chinese-Korean graph dictionaries, including and researchers to use strategy and spontaneity nonverbal cues, respond freely and work a knowledge of the basic student of graphs and to execute powerful communication in any through nerves and self-consciousness. of the most common component radicals, in context. For permission to enroll, please contact: their original and abbreviated forms. Students [email protected] will also learn to research in Korean for their 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) term paper JRN 503: Foundations of Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Communication II JRN 587: Independent Study KOR 526: Structure of Korean In this immersive science communication Intensive study of a special topic or intensive training, participants who have completed work on a reporting project undertaken with This course is an introduction to phonology, JRN 501 will continue their foundations in close faculty supervision. May be repeated. morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, and science communication with explorations into 0-6 credits, S/U grading writing systems of the Korean language as engaging with key audiences and the media, as May be repeated for credit. well as the use and functions of the language well as creating a presentation accompanied by in relation to the social structures of Korea compelling visuals. JRN 588: Graduate Internship at large. The goal of this course is to analyze Korean in ways that might be of most use to 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Students participate in an appropriate internship with an organization or institution a KFL (Korean as a foreign language) teacher JRN 525: Health, Environment, Science devoted to the program content themes of and KFL student. and Technology Reporting science, health, environment or technology. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The core course of the journalism master's The work must involve skills related to the program, this will introduce students to the educational goals of the program. Student range of science, health and environmental interns will report regularly to a faculty LAT coverage while providing intensive instruction member and will complete an internship Latin and practice in reporting and writing in project, including a portfolio of work done. journalistic formats. The goal is for students 0-6 credits, S/U grading 2021LAT 581: Independent Study to learn how to think critically about scientific May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit as the topic claims and controversies and how to write changes. Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in a clear, accurate and vivid stories for print or graduate program. online media. Students will practice such KOR skills as developing sources, interviewing 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) experts, finding stories, doing online research, Korean May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. organizing material, using statistics correctly, KOR 501: Advanced Korean I LAT 591: Elementary Latin I and presenting technical information in lay terms. Field trips will introduce students to FallAn advanced course designed for students who Designed to prepare the beginning student to work being done at Brookhaven National wish to enhance reading comprehension and translate Latin that may be needed for use in Laboratory and Stony Brook University writing ability in Korean. Reading materials undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the Medical Center. A variety of written forms are selected from modern Korean literature, course is on the fundamentals of grammar and will be explored including news and trend journals, and newspapers. Students are trained techniques of translation. LAT 111/LAT 591 stories, explanatory or human interest features, in samples of various writing styles. Emphasis is designed for students who have no prior profiles, blogging, and first-person essays. is also placed on the idiomatic usage of Korean knowledge of the language. A student who has This is an intensive course that meets six hours language and the relation of Korean to Chinese had two or more years of Latin in high school a week and requires at least 12 hours a week of characters. (or who has otherwise acquired an equivalent work outside class. Offered 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proficiency) may not take LAT 111/LAT 591 without written permission from the course Fall, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) KOR 502: Advanced Korean II supervisor. JRN 565: Communicating Your Advanced Korean II is designed for students 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Science who have completed at least two years of LAT 592: Elementary Latin II Learning to communicate one¿s research is Korean instruction at the undergraduate as important as learning to do the research. level or who already possess a sufficiently Designed to prepare the beginning student to This course is designed to help graduate high level of fluency. Classes are conducted translate Latin that may be needed for use in students in the sciences learn to communicate in Korean. Reading materials, including undergraduate or graduate study. Focus of the excerpts from modern Korean literary works, course is on the fundamentals of grammar and

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LAT 593: Readings in Latin Literature I LIN 524: TESOL Pedagogy: Theory and LIN 530: Introduction to General This course serves as an introduction to Practice (Methods I) Linguistics authentic Latin prose and poetry. The Theory and practical methodology of language An introduction to modern theoretical and students will be introduced to the Roman and literacy instruction and assessment to applied linguistics, including phonology, literature of the Republic and beginning of the children and adolescents for whom English morphology, syntax, language acquisition, Empire. The course includes a brief intensive is not their first language, in alignment with historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. review of grammar. Additional grammatical current state, national, and professional 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) constructions will be taught through the standards. Inquiry into instructional literature. The students will read a sampling approaches, standard-based and data-driven LIN 532: Second Language Acquisition of a number of authors including Eutropius, lesson planning, and reflective practices in the Study of the acquisition of a second language Cornelius Nepos, Caesar, Ovid, and Horace teaching and assessment of speaking, listening, by children and adults. The focus is on data; Prerequisite: Latin 112 or equivalent reading, and writing. Review and evaluation the systematicity of the learner' errors, the ease 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of resources and technologies. 3 credits, letter of acquisition in childhood, etc., the adequacy graded (A, A-, B+, etc) of theories (e.g. Interlanguage processes, LAT 594: Readings in Latin Literature 2 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the monitor model, the critical period) to This course serves as a study of authentic explain data, and the reliability of methods of Latin prose and poetry. The students will LIN 525: Contrastive Analysis obtaining data. Students conduct an empirical read Roman literature of the Republic and A survey of linguistic typology and a study testing a current hypothesis. beginning of the Empire. The course includes a comparison of various languages as a basis for 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) brief intensive review of grammar. Additional understanding the errors made by language grammatical constructions will be taught learners and devising strategies for teaching a LIN 535: Historical Linguistics through the literature. The students will read foreign language. May be crosslisted with CEL A study of linguistic change. Some general a sampling of a number of authors including 551. topics to be discussed are the genetic Caesar, Virgil, Catullus and Cicero 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) classification of languages; language families, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language, and prehistory; reconstruction; types LIN 526: Analysis of an Uncommonly of sound change; types of semantic change; Taught Language borrowing. LIN Working from primary and secondary sources, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Linguistics students construct an outline of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of a language LIN 537: Computational Linguistics I previously unknown to them.2021A hands-on introduction to practical aspects LIN 521: Syntax I A study of formal grammar as one aspect of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of computational linguistics. Students learn our knowledge of language. Concepts and May be repeated for credit. how to perform common tasks such as tagging and tokenization with a state-of-the-art elements of modern syntactic analysis are LIN 527: Structure of English introduced and motivated using a variety programming language. Topics include basic of grammatical phenomena and processes, A description of the major sentence elements, data structures and algorithms, n-gram models, across a wide range of languages. Prerequisite: subsystems, and productive grammatical regular expressions, and corpus linguistics. Enrollment in LIN program or permission of processes of English. The justification of 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) instructor Fallgrammatical categories, interaction between systems and processes, and notions of standard LIN 538: Statistics for Linguists 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and correctness are discussed with a view to A hands-on introduction to statistical methods their application in the ESL classroom. LIN 522: Phonetics in linguistics using R@. Topics covered A study of articulatory phonetics and the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include aggregation and summary, descriptive statistics, data visualization, hypothesis testing, international phonetic alphabet, with intensive LIN 529: TESOL Pedagogy: Language practice in phonetic transcription from a wide regression analysis, and an introduction to and Literacy Development through the hierarchical modeling. Students will gain variety of languages. Acoustic phonetics, Content Areas (Methods II) speech perception, and the applications of experience with quantitative analysis of real- phonetics to foreign language teaching. Content-based language and literacy world linguistic data sets, including corpus instruction and assessment to children and data and experimental data, with emphasis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) adolescents for whom English is not their on a connection to students¿ own theoretical first language, in alignment with current research. LIN 523: Phonology I state, national, and professional standards. An introduction to the formal study of sound 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Teacher candidates design standard-based and May be repeated for credit. patterns. Problems from various languages data-driven curricular modules for teaching serve as the basis for developing a theory language through mathematics, the sciences LIN 539: Mathematical Methods in of the representation of sound structure. and the social studies, engage in reflective Linguistics and collaborative practices, and evaluate web-

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An overview of the mathematical foundations learning and teaching, assessment, resources, LIN 581: Supervised Student Teaching of theoretical and computational linguistics. and program evaluation. in TESOL: Primary and Middle Level Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Grades N-6 logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, TESOL teacher candidates receive supervised lambda calculus, probability theory, LIN 574: Managing Instruction, practice teaching by arrangements with information theory, and basics of formal Assessment, and Resources in TESOL selected schools across the region. The student language theory. A strong emphasis is put on Investigation and evaluation of instructional teacher reports to the school to which he or the linguistic application of the mathematical planning and assessment aligned with she is assigned each full school day for the concepts in the student and analysis of natural current state, national, and professional entire semester. Applications must be filed in language data standards. Teacher candidates practice content- the academic year preceding that in which the 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) based curriculum development, and use teacher candidate plans to take the course. 3 May be repeated for credit. of technologies for language and literacy credits, S/U grading development among English language learners 3 credits, S/U grading LIN 541: Bilingualism and reflect on their teaching in multi-level Study of the social, linguistic, educational, and classrooms. Partnerships with colleagues, LIN 582: Supervised Student Teaching psychological aspects of bilingualism. parents and the respective communities are in TESOL: High School (Grades 10-12) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) explored. 3 credits, letter graded (A, A-, B+, TESOL teacher candidates receive supervised etc) practice teaching by arrangement with selected LIN 542: Sociolinguistics 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) schools across the region. The student teacher An introduction to major topics in reports to the school to which he or she is sociolinguistics, including variation theory, LIN 577: Field Experience for Teaching assigned each full school day for the entire language attitudes, language planning, English as a Foreign Language semester. Applications must be filed in the language change, and pidgins and creoles. Observation, inquiry, and practice of academic year preceding that in which the Prerequisite: Enrollment in TESOL or LIN instruction in the area of English as a Foreign teacher candidate plans to take the course. 3 program or permission of instructor Language through various methods and in credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) various settings. Students interested in this 3 credits, S/U grading field experience are required to meet with LIN 544: Language Acquisition and the instructor of LIN 524 and/or LIN 529 to LIN 591: Directed Readings Literacy Development prepare a specific semester plan. Fifty hours Students read and evaluate the literature In-depth exploration of the theories of literacy fieldwork or research. Co-requisite: LIN 524 on a topic of special academic interest or and language development of native English or LIN 529, offered fall and spring. This professional relevance under the direction of a speakers and students who are English course does not satisfy requirements for NYS faculty member. Teacher Certification. 1 credit, S/U grading, language learners pre-school through grade 12. 1-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated 1 time for credit. The development and assessment of literacy May be repeated for credit. skills among children at various stages of 1 credit, S/U grading 2021 learning development and across disciplines May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. LIN 592: Directed Research will be examined. Attention will also be Students conduct research on a topic of special LIN 578: Field Experience in given to children with special needs and the academic interest or professional relevance Educational Contexts integration of technology in the development under the direction of a faculty member. The of literacy skills. Exploration, inquiry, and practice of English course will also cover responsible conduct in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) language instruction strategies and approaches. research and scholarship. Prerequisite: Admission to MA TESOL 1-3 credits, S/U grading LIN 550: Selected Topics in Linguistics Teacher Education Program Fall May be repeated for credit. Topics are announced each semester. The 1 credit, S/U grading course may be repeated for credit if topic LIN 595: Final Project LIN 579: Field Experience in TESOL differs. Students present a thesis consisting of original Grades N-12 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) work on a topic in theoretical, experimental, or May be repeated for credit. Observation and practice of data-driven computational linguistics under the supervision language and literacy instruction and of a faculty member. The work may take LIN 555: Error Analysis assessment across disciplines for children and various forms, including a thesis, a technical Study of the systematic errors made by foreign adolescents for whom English is not their first report, or a programming project. Both the language learners and the potential of various language. Teacher candidates are placed in topic and the format of the work must be linguistic theories to predict and account for diverse educational settings in pre-elementary approved by the faculty supervisor. 0-6 credits. through secondary levels for 50 hours of field these errors. 0-6 credits, S/U grading experience. 1 credit, S/U grading May be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. repeated for credit LIN 571: TESOL Pedagogy: Curriculum 1 credit, S/U grading LIN 600: Colloquium in Linguistics Design and Evaluation May be repeated for credit. An introduction to research in linguistics, with An in-depth study of curriculum design and presentations by faculty and visiting scientists. evaluation with a focus on needs analysis, Topics include current research questions and goals and objectives, approaches to language ethics of research and publishing. The course

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LIN 605: Mathematical Linguistics LIN 627: Computational Semantics LIN 637: Computational Linguistics 2 Workgroup A study of the computational challenges that An introduction to the theoretical foundation An introduction to research in mathematical arise in the interpretation of natural language of computational linguistics. The course linguistics, with presentations by faculty, utterances. Students are introduced to the emphasizes the importance of algorithms, students, and visiting scientists. Topics include logical description of sentence meaning and algebra, logic, and formal language theory in current research questions, the interplay of how these descriptions can be constructed in the development of new tools and software linguistics with mathematics and other STEM- an algorithmic fashion. The course includes applications. Empirical phenomena in fields, research software for mathematical a significant programming component. The phonology and syntax are sampled from a linguistics, mathematical writing in linguistics, selection of topics varies from year to year variety of languages to motivate and illustrate and how to present mathematical work to a and may include propositional and first-order the use of concepts such as strictly local string general public. logic, typed logics, model theory and model languages, tree transducers, and semirings. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) checking, mereology, intensional semantics, Students will develop familiarity with the May be repeated for credit. quantifier scope, pronoun resolution, discourse literature and tools of the field. representation, scalar implicatures, game- 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 621: Syntax II theoretic pragmatics, lexical semantics, and May be repeated for credit. A detailed consideration of recent Bayesian inference. developments in syntactic theory, including 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 650: Selected Topics: Graduate treatments of constituency and word order, May be repeated for credit. Seminar grammatical relations, typological variation Topics will be announced each semester. The and linguistic universals, and constraints on LIN 628: Computational Syntax course may be repeated for credit if topic grammatical rules and representations. An in-depth survey of natural language differs. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) syntax from a computational perspective. The 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. primary focus is on combining state-of-the- May be repeated for credit. art techniques from formal language theory LIN 623: Phonology II with empirical insights from linguistic theory. LIN 651: Syntax Seminar A study of recent developments in Topics covered vary by year and may include Topic varies and relates to current issues in phonological theory, with particular attention tree transducers, logics for tree description, the field and research activities of faculty to nonlinear models of phonological weak and strong generative capacity of natural and students. Past topics have included representation and constraint-based models. language, lexicalized grammar formalisms, A-dependencies, adjectival and adverbial unification grammars, or the expressivity of 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021modification, word order and antisymmetry. probabilistic formalisms. May be repeated for credit. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. LIN 624: Morphology and Word May be repeated for credit. Formation LIN 653: Phonology Seminar LIN 629: Learnability The internal structure of words and the Topic varies and relates to current issues in place of the word in syntax, phonology, An introduction to learnability theory and the field and research activities of faculty and and the lexicon. A variety of analytical its implications for language typology and students. Past topics have included interface methods -- distributional, experimental, and language acquisition. The selection of topics issues (phonetics, morphology, syntax), Fallvaries and may include identification in the computational-- will be introduced. functional motivations for phonological limit from positive text, PAC learning, lattice- 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) constraints (articulatory ease, perceptual based learners, Boolean function learning, salience, parsing considerations), intonation, LIN 625: Semantics neural networks, and learning algorithms for and second language and loanword phonology. linguistic formalisms. Students will develop 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An investigation of the role of semantics (the familiarity with the primary literature and learn May be repeated for credit. theory of meaning) in the overall theory of important proof techniques of the field. grammar, structured around such topics as formal semantics, the interaction of syntax and 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) LIN 655: Computational Linguistics semantics, and lexical semantics. Prerequisite: May be repeated for credit. Seminar LIN 521 An overview of the mathematical foundations LIN 630: Parsing and Processing 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of theoretical and computational linguistics. A survey parsing theory for natural Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, LIN 626: Computational Phonology language processing and its applications logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, in psycholinguistic modeling. The course An in-depth survey of natural phonology from lambda calculus, probability theory, covers a wide variety of parsing algorithms information theory, and basics of formal a computational perspective. Topics vary for context-free and mildly context-sensitive by year and may include formal language language theory. A strong emphasis is put on grammar formalisms. The performance of the linguistic application of the mathematical theory (subregular hierarchy, finite-state these algorithms is carefully analyzed and set transductions), computation modeling

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 147 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 concepts in the student and analysis of natural U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the theories and styles; lesson planning and language data. option of the health plan and may also enroll assessment. Students will plan an entire unit, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in MEDEX. International students who are the work sample, including lesson plans and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by assessments, for inclusion in the professional mandatory health plan and must contact the portfolio. LIN 655: Computational Linguistics Insurance Office for the insurance charge to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Seminar be removed. International students who are An overview of the mathematical foundations not in their home country are charged for the MAE 530: Directed Readings and of theoretical and computational linguistics. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Research Paper in Mathematics Topics covered include set theory, morphisms, covered by another insurance plan they must Education logic and model theory, algebra, lattices, file a waiver be second week of classes. The Tutorial studies concerning current issues lambda calculus, probability theory, charge will only be removed if other plan is in mathematics education, including information theory, and basics of formal deemed comparable. recent research and topics in the history of language theory. A strong emphasis is pun on All international students must receive mathematics and their relation to teaching the linguistic application of the mathematical clearance from an International Advisor. practice. Students write a research paper concepts in the study and analysis of natural Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading for inclusion in the professional portfolio. data. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: MAE 501 and 510. Enrollment 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Limit: 18 LIN 800: Summer Research May be repeated for credit. Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. LIN 680: Qualifying Paper Workshop MAE 540: Clinical Experience Doctoral candidates will present and discuss Supervised classroom experience in both their own research work. The course will also MAE middle school and high school settings, cover responsible conduct in research and Mathematics Teacher including experience in a high needs district, scholarship. Prerequisite: Advanced standing individual tutoring, working with small groups, Preparation 1-3 credits, S/U grading and working as an inclusion aide. Seminar May be repeated for credit. discussions focus on classroom observations MAE 501: Foundations of Secondary and experiences. Mathematics Curriculum LIN 698: Graduate Practicum in 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Teaching A re-examination of the current middle school and high school mathematics curriculum. MAE 551: Supervised Student May be repeated for credit. A review of the techniques and discussion Teaching in Middle School of the ideas from a more advanced point of LIN 699: Dissertation Research on Student teaching under the supervision of an view, including topics in algebra, geometry, Campus experienced teacher in middle school and high elementary functions, and probability and Independent research for the Ph.D. degree. 2021school settings. These courses must be taken statistics. Competence in basic secondary simultaneously. Open only to candidates for the Ph.D. degree school mathematical ideas and techniques is who have advanced to candidacy (G5). Major tested. Prerequisites: MAE 520, 530, and 540; portion of research must take place on SBU satisfaction of all other program requirements; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the permission of the Director of Mathematics Brookhaven National Lab. The course will MAE 510: Introduction to Methods of Education. also cover responsible conduct in research and Teaching and Learning Standards Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading scholarship. Introduction to the basic methods of teaching MAE 552: Supervised Student 1-9 credits, S/U grading Fallmiddle school and high school mathematics, Teaching in High School May be repeated for credit. including study of lesson designs based on Student teaching under the supervision of an National Council of Teachers of Mathematics LIN 700: Dissertation Research off experienced teacher in middle school and high (NCTM) and New York State standards, Campus - Domestic school settings. These courses must be taken and the study of pedagogical techniques simultaneously. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy including cooperative learning and the uses (G5). Major portion of research will take place of technology. Students also engage in guided Prerequisites: MAE 520, 530 and 540; off-campus, but in the United States and/ observation of middle school and high school satisfaction of all other program requirements; or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven mathematics classes. permission of the Director of Mathematics National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Education. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are considered on-campus. Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAE 520: Advanced Methods MAE 554: Student Teaching Seminar May be repeated for credit. of Teaching Secondary School Mathematics The student teaching experience (MAE LIN 701: Dissertation Research off 551/552) serves as a focus for weekly The philosophy and goals of mathematics Campus - International discussions of teaching and learning styles education, with an emphasis on Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy and techniques, and classroom management implementation: curriculum development; issues. Includes N.Y. State mandated seminars (G5). Major portion of research will take teaching techniques and styles, and learning place outside of the United States and/or

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 148 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 on child abuse, substance abuse and school geochemistry, and estuarine and hydrothermal using the carbon cycle as an overarching violence. vent geochemistry. theme to help students tie more specific Prerequisite: Permission of the Director of Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or concepts, mechanisms, and facts into a unified Mathematics Education. permission of instructor whole. Several other themes will also be Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, embedded throughout the course, including etc.) other elemental cycles, timescales on which MAE 698: Independent Study, various processes operate, differences in how Mathematics Education MAR 504: Statistics and Experimental major ocean ecosystems (biomes) function, Independent study. Topics in mathematics Design and the biogeochemical evolution of Earth. education. Semesters Offered: This course has been devised to provide basic Prerequisite enrollment in MAS program or Fall, Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading background and hands on experience to assist permission of instructor May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. graduate students in developing key skills in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an essential aspect of the research enterprise, MAE 699: Dissertation Research On namely statistics analysis and experimental MAR 509: Found Mar Sci 2: Physics of Campus design. Oceans, Atmos, Climate Dissertation research for students completing Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to principles of physics governing thesis research in mathematics education. the patterns of ocean and atmospheric MAR 505: General Circulation of the properties. Discussion of the theoretical 1-9 credits, S/U grading Atmosphere basis for energy exchange between the two May be repeated for credit. This course provides an introduction to the environments and how it governs the spatial MAE 701: Dissertation Research Off general circulation of the atmosphere, covering and temporal scales of the fluid dynamics Campus aspects in observations, data analyses, and includes how these processes interact with climate. Off campus dissertation research for students basic theories. completing thesis research in mathematics Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Prerequisite enrollment in MAS program or education. All international students must graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) permission of instructor receive clearance from an International Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Advisor. MAR 506: Geological Oceanography MAR 510: Modeling Techniques in An introduction to the geological 1-9 credits, S/U grading Chemical Oceanography May be repeated for credit. oceanography of the world ocean with emphasis on the coastal environment; Derivation of solutions to advection-diffusion- discussions of the physical processes reaction equations for marine sediments and MAR controlling the structure and evolution of waters. One- and multi-dimensional models the ocean basins and continental margins, are developed for dissolved and solid-phase Marine Sciences the distribution of marine sediment, and the substances in cartesian, cylindrical, and development of coastal features.2021spherical coordinates. Effect of imposing MAR 501: Physical Oceanography multiple layers on these systems is examined. Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or Examines physics of ocean circulation and permission of instructor Prerequisite: Permission of instructor mixing on various scales with strong emphasis Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, on profound effects of Earth's rotation on etc.) etc.) motions and distribution of properties. An introduction to physics of estuaries and other MAR 507: Marine Conservation MAR 511: Benthic Ecology coastal water bodies. The fundamental concepts of conservation This course focuses on the ecological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science, a synthetic field that incorporates interactions of benthic organisms and Fall their habitat. Topics include life histories, principles of ecology, biogeography, MAR 502: Biological Oceanography population genetics, systematics, evolutionary the roles of competition, predation and Examines biological processes in the ocean, biology, environmental sciences, sociology, disturbance, feeding adaptations and food and introduces major ocean biomes and groups anthropology, and philosophy toward the webs, interactions between benthic organisms of organisms. A broad treatment of energy conservation of biological diversity will and water motion, sediment chemistry, and and nutrient cycling in coastal and open ocean be presented within the context of the other abiotic factors, and evolutionary history environments. conservation of marine resources. Examples of benthic ecological processes. Prerequisite: Enrollment in MAS program or drawn from the marine environment emphasize Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter permission of instructor how the application of conservation principles graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, varies in different environments. MAR 512: Marine Pollution etc.) Prerequisite: Enrollment in MCP or MAS program or permission of instructor Review of the physical and chemical MAR 503: Chemical Oceanography Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characteristics and speciation in the marine Introduction to chemical oceanography. environment of organic pollutants, metals Topics include origin and history of seawater, MAR 508: Found Mar Sci and radionuclides including bioavailability, major and minor constituents, dissolved 1:Biogeochemical assimilation by marine organisms, toxicity, and gases, the carbon dioxide system, distribution This course provides an integrated view of the policy issues. of properties in the world ocean, isotope chemistry, geology and biology of the oceans, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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MAR 513: Atmospheric Aerosols- The course will review single-species examine contamination issues in light of Long Clouds, Climate, and Chemistry models, multispecies models and full system Island's particular hydrogeology, land use, Atmospheric aerosol particles have been modelsl Advantages and disadvantages and waste management history. Mathematical recognized to contribute the largest of implementing these approaches into principles will be discussed but not stressed; uncertainties to the global radiative forcing management and policy will be explored. scientific and technical papers discussing estimates and affect air quality. This course No modeling experience is necessary. The particular concepts or problems, including introduces graduate students to the physical course requires familiarity with quantitative important local examples, will be closely read. and chemical properties of aerosol particles menthods, but emphasizes current literature Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Offered and how those affect the particles' role in and case studies where EBFM has been or is as MAR 521 or HPH 673. the atmosphere. Knowledge of how these being implemented as main learning elements. Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, particles interact with their surroundings is Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) crucial to assess the impact of aerosols on B+, etc.) air quality and climate. This course covers MAR 522: Envir Toxicology & Public the fundamental mathematical, physical, and MAR 517: Waves Health chemical descriptions of aerosol particles such Theory and observations of surface waves, Principles of toxicology and epidemiology are as particle size distributions, thermodynamics internal waves, and planetary waves; wave- presented and problems associated with major of aerosols, aerosol hygroscopicity, physical wave, wave-current, and wave-turbulence classes of toxic chemicals and radiation to and chemical particle transformation, interactions; surface wave prediction; beach human and environmental health are examined carbonaceous aerosol, aerosol cloud interaction processes. in case study format. (cloud condensation and ice nuclei), aerosol Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, optical properties, aerosol climate effects, graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) and gas-to-particle (heterogeneous) reactive processes. MAR 518: Coastal Processes MAR 523: Marine Mammal Biology and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Coastal Processes: Classification and basic Conservation theory of water wavies, tides and sediment This course provides an introduction to the MAR 514: Environmental Management transport. This background forms the basic biology of marine mammals, focusing This is an introduction to environmental basis for a description of shote processes particularly on various adaptations (e.g., management, and will focus on the interplay including beaches, and coastal erosion. The morphological, physiological, acoustic) to between science and public policy. Concepts variety of the world¿s coastal environments life in the marine environment, as well as the include problem identification and definition, will be differentiated in terms of physical ecology and behavior of marine mammals, and collection and analysis of relevant data processes. The behavior of beaches also will the conservation and management of marine to produce information, and the roles of be examined. Co-scheduled with MAR 304 mammal populations. public perception and action in ultimately Waves, Tides and Beaches. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) determining outcomes when consensus is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) not reached. Specific fields to which these 2021MAR 524: Organic Contaminant concepts will be applied will be solid waste MAR 519: Geochemistry Seminar Hydrology management and coastal management. Current This course explores topics in low-temperature There are a host of chemical, biological, and local problems will be used to illustrate the geochemistry as chosen by the instructors and physical processes that affect the transport broader conceptual issues. Offered as MAR participants. The seminar series is organized and fate of organic chemicals in natural 514, EST 540 and CEY 501. Prerequisite: around a theme such as early diagenesis, waters. This course concerns understanding Permission of instructor estuarine geochemistry, or aquatic chemistry. these processes and the structure-activity Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Students are required to lead one of the relationships available for predicting their A-, B+, etc.) seminars and to participate in discussions. rates. The major focus of this class is on Fall contaminant hydrology of soil and aquifer Prerequisite: MAR 503 or permission of MAR 515: Phytoplankton Ecology instructor environments, and includes the principles The biology and ecology of marine Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) behind remediation and containment phytoplankton. Covered are life cycles, May be repeated for credit. technologies. This course is offered as both growth, nutrient uptake, grazing, and the MAR 524 and GEO 524. effects of environmental factors on growth and MAR 520: New Production and Prerequisite: GEO 526 or MAR 503 or survival of phytoplankton. The characteristics Geochemical Cycles permission of instructor of various classes are examined and are related Consideration of oceanic new production Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, to environmental conditions. for a variety of ecosystems. Quantitative etc.) Prerequisites: General biology examination of the impact of new production Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on the transport and cycling of major and MAR 525: Environment & Public Health minor elements and pollutants. Review of the interactions of humans with the MAR 516: Ecosystem Science for Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter atmosphere and water resources, especially Fisheries Management graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in the Long Island coastal community. This course will provide an overview of An introduction is provided to the field of the science and mathematical models that MAR 521: Long Island's Groundwater environmental health and the practices relevant are typically used to inform Ecosystem- This course will cover basic groundwater to an urban/suburban and coastal setting. based Fisheries Management (EBFM). concepts in unconsolidated sediments, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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MAR 526: Mechanisms of Pollutant Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded figures of merit. Students also present their Responses in Aquatic Organisms (A, A-, B+, etc.) results orally in brief presentations. This course examines the molecular and Prerequisites: Permission of instructor MAR 531: Long Island Marine Habitats biochemical basis for contaminant responses Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter in aquatic organisms. Course will be taught Focusing on six representative marine graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in seminar format utilizing the current environments around Long Island, this scientific literature as a basis for discussion. course emphasizes the natural history of local MAR 534: Scientific Decision Support Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. marine communities, as well as quantitative In this innovative course, professional ecology, hypothesis testing, and scientific Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded government and industry scientists, policy writing. Students visit the sites, measure (A, A-, B+, etc.) makers and other decision makers will present environmental parameters, and identify the and lead discussions on the science, societal MAR 527: Global Change distribution and abundance of common plants and other challenges associated with decision and animals. Using qualitative and quantitative The course examines the scientific basis support in their field. We will explore a wide methods in the field and laboratory, the class behind questions of global change and range of decision support systems ranging determines major factors that control the some of the policy implications of changes from decision making in public health, natural community structure in each habitat. This to the region and country. Topics include resource management, and climate adaptation course has an associated fee. Please see evidence and courses of past climactic as well as explore different career paths and www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more changes, greenhouse gases and the greenhouse work environments involved in scientific information. effect, analogues with other planets, the decision making. Local speakers will be Gaia hypothesis, climate modeling, and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, invited, but most presentations will be remote deforestation and the depletion of ozone. etc.) via standard network tools, thereby eliminating travel costs and greatly lowering the barrier Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAR 532: Marine Protected Areas to participation and hence enabling a very Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are parts wide ranging seminar program. We already (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the ocean that are zoned to exclude anticipate seminars from scientists at NOAA, MAR 528: Ocean Atmosphere activities that are potentially detrimental to NASA, NIH, DOE, Global Electric, IBM Interactions the ecosystem. Marine Reserves are special and CDC laboratories, and from officials of types of MPAs in which the harvesting multiple local, state and federal agencies, This course discusses the fundamental physical of marine wildlife is prohibited. MPAs and from journalists associated with multiple mechanisms through which the ocean and are rapidly gaining traction worldwide as formats. The sessions will be recorded and atmosphere interact. These principles are a tool to preserve or restore ecosystems, made available for nationwide access. applied to the understanding of phenomena, protect endangered species, or sustain nearby such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) commercial and recreational fisheries. This the effects of sea surface temperature on course is designed to provide students with MAR 535: The Atom and the distribution of low-level winds and a robust background in the science behind Environmental Radiation in the Nuclear development of tropical deep convection, and 2021 the design, implementation, and expected Age the effects of tropical deep convection and outcomes of establishing MPAs. The course mid-latitude storms on the ocean's mixed layer. This course will address technical and societal is largely field-based, and will explore Both modeling and observational aspects are aspects relating to nuclear power and the MPA-related issues by traveling to one or discussed. Material will be taken from selected general issue of environmental radioactivity. more MPAs to learn about the challenges, textbooks, as well as recent literature. It will cover basics of the nuclear industry and benefits, and limitations of MPAs for marine the nature of radioactivity. This includes the Prerequisite: Permission of instructor conservation from local scientists, managers, production, storage, and disposal of diverse Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter and rangers. radionuclides emanating from the nuclear graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fuel cycle and nuclear weapons testing. The MAR 529: Isotope Geochemistry properties of major radionuclides will be MAR 533: Instrumental Analysis explored. The course will also consider the This course deals both with the use of radio Fundamental principles of instrumental complex issue of biological risks posed by and stable isotope applications to the earth chemical analysis and practical applications of radionuclides at different doses to living sciences. molecular spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy, organisms, including man. Economic and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mass spectrometry and chromatography. These political constraints on nuclear power instruments are widely used in environmental generation will be discussed for the US MAR 530: Organic Geochemistry and oceanography problem solving. Lectures and other countries, as will the actual and Introduction to the organic chemistry of cover basic concepts of chemical analysis and perceived risks associated with environmental the earth, oceans, and atmosphere. Topics the fundamental principles of the analytical radioactivity. include production transformation and fate techniques to be used. In the laboratory, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of organic matter; use of organic biomarkers students gain hands-on experience both by and stable and radioisotopes; diagenesis in performing a series of required basic chemical MAR 536: Environmental Law and recent sediments; oil and coal production and determinations (nutrients and trace metals Regulation composition; dissolved and particulate organic in sediments and in seawater water) and by This course covers environmental law and matter in seawater. undertaking special projects. Students prepare regulations from inception in common Prerequisite: Permission of instructor written reports describing the methods, the law through statutory law and regulations. theory underlying those methods, results, and The initial approach entails the review of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 151 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 important case law giving rise to today's body economics, the course will also evaluate their Cenozoic eras. We will discuss proxies used of environmental regulations. Emphasis is on real-world application through national and to create paleoclimate reconstructions forcing environmental statutes and regulations dealing international policy examples. mechanisms on interannual to million year with waterfront and coastal development Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, time scales, climate effects on geological and and solid waste as well as New York State's etc.) biological processes, and the modeling of Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) present climate and extrapolation to past and and the National Environmental Policy Act MAR 540: Marine Microbial Ecology future climates. (NEPA). This course is cross-listed with CEY An historical perspective of the field, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded 503. aspects of nutrition and growth, microbial (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) metabolism, and trophodynamic relationships with other organisms. Emphasis on roles of MAR 546: Marine Sedimentology MAR 537: Tropical Marine Ecology microorganisms in marine environments such Study of sedimentology in the marine The goal of this class is to teach students as salt marshes, estuaries, coastal pelagic environment including an introduction to about the ecology of the tropical coral reef ecosystems, and the deep sea, as well as fluid mechanics, sediment transport theory, environments through lectures, field trips, microbial contribution to geochemical cycles. quantitative models of sedimentation, and snorkeling trips, SCUBA diving trips and Contemporary and classical methodologies dynamic stratigraphy. student designed research projects. The first covered. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor half of the course will be devoted to formal Prerequisite: MAR 502 or permission of Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded lectures, demonstrations, and instructor-led instructor (A, A-, B+, etc.) field trips to provide students with a basic Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) knowledge of the common organisms and the MAR 547: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics roles they play in various coral reef ecosystem. MAR 541: Foundations of Atmospheric I During the second half of the course, with help Sciences I Fundamentals of rotating, stratified fluid from faculty, students will develop and carry This course is intended to introduce graduate dynamics as applied to atmospheric and out individual research projects examining majors to the foundations in the atmospheric oceanic flows: primitive equations, shallow organismal ecology of coral reefs. sciences necessary for future, more specialized water theory, potential vorticity dynamics, 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) courses. This course covers atmospheric quasigeostrophic approximation, barotropic thermodynamics, radiative transfer, instability, and baroclinic instability. MAR 538: Methods of Univariate tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, and Prerequisite: MAR 501, MAR 509, or Statistics in Atmospheric and Ocean cloud microphysics. permission of instructor Offered Spring Sciences Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to basic statistical concepts and their applications to analysis of data in MAR 542: Foundations of Atmospheric MAR 548: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics atmospheric and marine sciences. The topics Sciences II II include distribution, statistical estimation, This course introduces cloud2021 physics, Continuation of geophysical fluid dynamics hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, atmospheric chemistry, boundary layer I. Course covers waves and wave-mean flow linear and nonlinear regression analysis, and turbulence, and atmospheric radiation. This interaction in geophysical fluids dynamics basics of experimental design. In-depth class is the second course in a two-course series with examples from oceanic and atmospheric discussions of the theoretical concepts are taught at the level appropriate to all students in flows. Prerequisite: Mar 547 or permission of accompanied by extensive applications to data atmospheric sciences. instructor Offered Fall sets supplied by the instructor and the students. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: Enrollment in MAS program or permission of instructor MAR 544: Atmospheric Radiation MAR 549: Current Topics in Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Fall Atmospheric Sciences Discussion of the compositions and radiative (A, A-, B+, etc.) components of planetary atmospheres. This course will discuss current research topics Blackbody and gaseous radiation with in atmospheric sciences and their connections MAR 539: Economics of Coastal and emphasis on the respective roles of with advance course materials. Marine Ecosystems electromagnetic theory and quantum statistics. Semesters Offered: Considering the socioeconomic implications Derivation of the equation of transfer and Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, S/U grading of policy decisions involving environmental radiative exchange integrals, with application May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. and natural resources has become increasingly to energy transfer processes within the important for ecosystem management. This atmospheres of Earth and other planets. MAR 550: Topics in Marine Sciences course will view human interactions with Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded coastal and marine ecosystems through the This is used to present special interest courses, (A, A-, B+, etc.) lens of economics. Topics will include the including intensive short courses by visiting basics of welfare analysis, the concept of and adjunct faculty and courses requested by MAR 545: Paleoceonography and students. Those given in recent years include ecosystem services, the challenges associated Paleoclimatology with public goods, methods for economic Nature of Marine Ecosystems, Science and valuation of non-market goods and services, This course will provide an extensive Technology in Public Institutions, Plutonium and strategies for sustainable use of coastal overview of the methods used in paleoclimate in the Marine Environment and Problems in and marine resources. In addition to exploring research and an examination of important Estuarine Sedimentation. the fundamental principles of environmental climate events during the Late-Mesozoic and

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Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, accent is given to the role of the environment This seminar style course will explore error A-, B+, etc.) as an important factor in infectious and non- estimation, uncertainty propagation, risk May be repeated for credit. infectious diseases. analysis, model validation, and decision Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, analysis. MAR 551: Special Topics in etc.) Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded Management (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course involves in-depth examination and MAR 556: Conservation's 3 Rs: assessment of one or two topical problems and Reading, Writing, Raising Money MAR 560: Ecology of Fishes issues in the management of fisheries in the By providing instruction in critical reading, Introduction to current research in the mid-Atlantic region. Fisheries management effective writing, and fundraising, this ecology of fishes. Topics such as population encompasses a diversity of disciplines and course will fill a need for graduate students, regulation, migration, reproductive strategies, interests: biology, ecology, mathematics, particularly for students in the Marine predator-prey interactions, feeding behavior, law, policy, economics, analytical modeling, Conservation and Policy (MCP) program. competition, life history strategies, and others sociology, and anthropology. The class This course will help students to both are discussed. conducts a detailed and thorough review understand the public discourse in marine Prerequisite: Familiarity with concepts of of one or two key fisheries management and wildlife conservation and policy issues ecology or biological oceanography problems that incorporate component issues and to effectively communicate these issues Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter spanning this range of disciplines. Students to a wide audience. Although the course graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) form several teams, each team focusing was designed with Marine Conservation and on one aspect of the overall problem and Policy students in mind, the course will also MAR 561: Quantitative Fisheries preparing a report detailing that aspect and be useful to graduate students interested in Ecology making recommendations on how management improving their ability to write effective, The course covers quantitative models that are decisions can be improved. understandable, and interesting pieces that currently utilized to assess the status of fish Prerequisite: Permission of instructor help advance public understanding and support stocks and academic pursuits of understanding Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, for issues in conservation and science more single-species and ecosystem dynamics. The A-, B+, etc.) generally. Communication and outreach, course builds on basic ecological models May be repeated for credit. and particularly the ability to express the such as the density-independent expotential importance of scientific research to the public, and density-dependent logistic models and MAR 552: Directed Study is an important component of conducting introduces equilibrium and non-equilibrium Individual studies under the guidance of research and doing conservation work, production models and statistical-catch-at- a faculty member. Subject matter varies and is increasingly becoming required and age techniques. Recruitment and growth according to the needs of the students. Fall, emphasized by funding agencies. models commonly used infisheries ecology Spring and 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are also covered. Least-squares, non-linear and Summer, 1-12 credits, S/U grading likelihood methods are methods are utilized May be repeated for credit. MAR 557: Case Study2021 and Project in model parameter estimation. Statistical Planning Seminar techniques such as bootstrapping and Monte MAR 553: Fishery Management This seminar will introduce students to case Carlo methods are used to assess uncertainty Survey of the basic principles of and studies in marine conservation carried out in models outputs. This course is useful for techniques for studying the population regionally, nationally, and internationally students that plan academic or management dynamics of marine fish and shellfish. through seminars given by professionals in careers in fisheries and wildlife research. Discussion of the theoretical basis for the field. In addition students will be given Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) management of exploited fishes and shellfish, direction on how to develop a plan for a case contrasting management in theory and in study as well as instruction on how to obtain, MAR 562: Early Diagenesis of Marine practice using local, national, and international Fallanalyze, and present data. Students will be Sediments examples. Includes lab exercises in the use required to submit a written project plan for The course treats qualitative and quantitative of computer-based models for fish stock either their Capstone Project or Internship aspects of the early diagenesis of sediments. assessment. prior to the end of the semester. Topics include diffusion and adsorption Prerequisite: Calculus I or permission of Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading of dissolved species; organic matter instructor decomposition and storage; and diagenesis of Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter MAR 558: Remote Sensing clay materials, sulfur compounds, and calcium graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Theory and application of remote sensing carbonates. The effects of bioturbation on and digital image analysis to marine research. sediment diagenesis are also discussed. This MAR 554: Aquatic Animal Diseases Students use standard software and PCs course is offered as both MAR 562 and GEO This course is designed to expose students for digital filtering, enhancement, and 562. to fundamental and current issues pertaining classification of imagery. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded to host/pathogen interactions in aquatic Prerequisite: MAR 501, 502, 504, 506, or (A, A-, B+, etc.) environment. By the end of the course, permission of instructor students should have a basic understanding Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAR 563: Early Diagenesis of Marine of disease processes in aquatic animals; etc.) Sediments II knowledge of the tools used for disease The basic principles and concepts of diagenetic diagnosis; and an appreciation of disease MAR 559: Risk Analysis, Error and processes developed in MAR/GEO 562 are management tools available today. A particular Uncertainty

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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter MAR 571: Zooplankton Ecology Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course is designed to acquaint the student graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with the theoretical problems and applied MAR 568: Practical Skills for Scientists methodology in ecological studies of marine MAR 564: Atmospheric Structure and This course is designed to introduce first- and freshwater zooplankton. Topics will Analysis year graduate students to the standards and include taxonomy, anatomy, physiology, life Real world applications of basic dynamical practices of conducting original scientific history strategies, population dynamics, and principles to develop a physical understanding research in a professional and responsible food chain interaction. of various weather phenomena. Topics include manner. This course will guide students as Prerequisites: MAR 502 and permission of the hypsomatric equation, structure and they develop practical skills in communicating instructor evolution of extratropical cyclones, fronts, in both oral and written formats, and as they Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter hurricanes and convective systems, surface practice some of the formal and informal graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and upper air analysis techniques, radar and interactions (including questions and satellite interpretation, and introduction to discussions after presentations, critical reading, MAR 572: Geophysical Simulation operational products and forecasting. and peer review) characteristic of working Basic equations and boundary conditions. Prerequisite: 1 year of calculus. as a scientist. Students will learn to construct Linear and nonlinear instabilities. Finite- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, hypotheses and approaches to test them, write difference and time integration techniques etc.) a scientific proposal, evaluate proposals as a for problems in geophysical fluid dynamics. peer reviewer, critically read papers from the Numerical design of global atmospheric and MAR 565: Tropical Meteorology primary scientific literature, give interesting, ocean models. informative, and concise oral scientific The goal of this class is to provide a Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded presentations, explain and justify the standards working knowledge of the dynamics and (A, A-, B+, etc.) thermodynamics of the tropical atmosphere. A of responsible conduct of research, identify variety of tropical circulations and phenomena irresponsible conduct of scientific research and MAR 573: Special Topics-Chemical will be studied in detail, including regional respond appropriately. Spring Oceanography and large-scale tropical circulations and their 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course is designed for the discussion of role in the global general circulation, tropical topics of special interest on demand that is MAR 569: Statistics With R wave dynamics, convection and convective not covered in regularly scheduled courses. systems, synoptic, intraseasonal, and seasonal Essentials of conducting statistical2021 analyses Examples of possible topics include carbonate variability; monsoons, the El Niño/Southern using software developed by the R Project for chemistry, isotope chemistry, and microbial Oscillation, tropical cyclones. Statistical Computing. R is free software that chemistry. has been developed by contributors around Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the world and is quickly becoming a standard etc.) May be repeated for credit. environment for conducting scientific data MAR 566: Air Pollution and Its Control analyses. The course will cover the basic MAR 574: Special Topics: Ocean This course provides an overall picture of air language, data management, graphics, and Dynamics the application of R to a variety of statistical pollution caused by gas phase species and Introductory dynamical oceanography, airborne particulate matter. The sources of Falltechniques such as ANOVA, regression, MDS framework and applications. air pollution and their effect on air quality and PCA, GLMs and GAMs. The class is 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on an urban, regional, and global scale will intended to explore the capabilities of R and May be repeated for credit. be addressed. The causes of London type a basic graduate understanding of statistics is required. smog and modern photochemical smog are MAR 575: Special Topics-Geological Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discussed. The health impacts of primary and Oceanography secondary air pollutants are assessed. The causes and consequences of the stratospheric MAR 570: Methods of Multivariate The course proposes to take several views of ozone hole and subsequent policy regulations Statistics in Atmospheric and Marine the ecology and biogeochemistry of intertidal are discussed. The natural greenhouse effect Sciences wetlands to see whether one or more of these and our current understanding of global This course on multivariate statistical views might be useful in reinvigorating interest warming are addressed. methods of interest in marine and atmospheric in the study of wetland function for its own sciences discussesPrincipal component (EOF) sake. Ecology and plant life history will be Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, studied in addition to geology and wetlands etc.) analysis, canonical correlation analysis, maximum covariance analysis, discrimination management. MAR 567: Chemical Sensors in and classification, and cluster analysis. 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Oceanography Applications of the topics to oceanographic/ May be repeated for credit. atmospheric data are shown using MATLAB. The class provides a hands-on experience

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MAR 576: Special Topics-Biological as necropsies conducted with the Riverhead MAR 584: Applied Marine Ecology Oceanography Foundation. Seminar The course is designed for the discussion of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides an opportunity for topics of special interest on demand that is advanced graduate students to practice not covered in regularly scheduled courses. MAR 580: Seminar presenting data on their thesis research in Examples of possible topics include grazing A weekly series of research seminars presented areas broadly related to how individuals and in benthic environment, coastal upwelling, by visiting scientists and members of the staff. communities of marine organisms respond to the nature of marine ecosystems, and marine Fall and Spring, S/U grading changes in their environments. Each student pollution processes. May be repeated for credit. will prepare an abstract of the work they Prerequisite: Permission of instructor plan to present and assign an appropriate Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAR 581: Next Generation Sequencing review or research paper for the class to read. etc.) Applications in Functional Genomics They will then prepare a formal presentation May be repeated for credit. Functional and Integrative genomics is a new of their work suitable for a departmental area of marine research that seeks to place seminar. Faculty and students will provide MAR 577: Special Topics-Coastal Zone the functional significance of an organism¿s constructive criticism of the presentation as Management genes into an ecological and evolutionary well as participate in a discussion of the work.. The course is designed for the discussion context. This course provides an integrated May be taken more than once for credit. of topics of special interest on demand view of how these methods can be used to Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading that is not covered in regularly scheduled answer questions regarding marine organisms, May be repeated for credit. courses. Examples of possible topics include evolution, biology and ecology. Over the microcomputer information systems, course of the semester, examples will cover MAR 585: Coastal Geology Seminar environmental law, coastal pollution, dredge various topics including marine biodiversity, An assessment of recent developments in spoil disposal, science and technology in population structures, environmental coastal geology. Discussion of advances in the public institutions, and coastal marine policy. adaptation, stress responses, phylogeny of application of sedimentology, stratigraphy, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor animals, aquaculture and fisheries, interaction and geomorphology to the study of coastal Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, between species (predation, parasitism, environments. Modern-ancient analogues are A-, B+, etc.) mutualism). A particular accent is given emphasized where appropriate. May be repeated for credit. to the role of Next Generation Sequencing Prerequisite: Stratigraphy and sedimentary technologies in answering questions related to marine geology MAR 578: Bio & Conservation/Seabirds these topics. Fall, 2 credits, S/U grading This course provides an overview of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. biology and conservation of seabirds, covering basic and applied aspects of seabird biology. MAR 582: Advanced Atmospheric MAR 586: Introduction to Ecological We examine specific biological adaptations Dynamics Modeling (e.g., morphological and physiological Application of the concepts2021 of balanced flow This course will provide students with a adaptations for diving and flying) in the first and potential vorticity thinking - conservation familiarity of the major concepts, approaches, third of the course, and review population- and inversion - to study wave propagation, and underlying rationale for modeling in level processes and behavioral patterns (e.g., baroclinic instability, evolution of cyclones the ecological sciences. Topics will include population ecology and migration) in the and baroclinic waves, and wave- mean flow reviews of theoretical and empirical models, second part of the course. The last third of interactions. the use of models in adaptive management, the course applies this knowledge of seabird Prerequisite: MAR 594 and how to confront models with data to biology and ecology to current conservation Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, evaluate alternative hypotheses. Roughly issues and management efforts, both within the etc.) 1/3 of the course will be devoted to the United States and internationally. Fall use of models in management, focusing on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAR 583: Doppler Weather Radar the problems of fitting models to data and This class is designed to provide students who management pitfalls that follow. Course work MAR 579: Bio & Conservation/Sea have not previously had an undergraduate will consist of readings, in class exercises, Turtles class on the topic with a working knowledge and group assignments that involve the This course provides an overview of the of Doppler weather radar, including: what construction, analysis, and interpretation of biology and conservation of sea turtles, the basic components of a weather radar ecological models. and highlights different "solutions" to are, a theoretical background of how radars Prerequisite: BEE 550, BEE 552; MAT 131 or challenges these organisms face while operate, an in-depth understanding of the wide equivalent; any statistics course. living in the marine environment. We begin variety of weather radar applications used in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, by discussing biological adaptations and atmospheric science careers, and an overview etc.) ecological processes, and will then examine on the use of emerging radar technologies these concepts in relation to conservation in new and updated Doppler weather radar MAR 587: GIS: Display and Analysis of and management issues facing different sea systems. Students also will gain hands-on Environmental Data turtle species. This course will be primarily experience working with Doppler radar data Elements of Geographic Information Systems lecture-based, although we will take advantage and radar viewing and editing software. (GIS) with an emphasis on environmental of additional learning opportunities, such Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, applications, especially those related to marine etc.) and coastal systems. The course includes

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Topics DNA analysis offers a new window into the MAR 594: Atmospheric Dynamics covered in this course include the equations ecology of marine organisms, shedding light This course covers atmospheric waves, quasi- of motions for the lower troposphere; the on aspects of their biology that are traditionally geostrophic theory, and atmospheric dynamic budget of turbulent kinetic energy; turbulent difficult to study, such as their evolutionary instability. fluxes of momentum, heat and mass; history, population structure, population treatment of chemical transformations; and the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, demographic history and reproductive representation of these processes in numerical etc.) patterns. In this way, DNA analysis can help models. us better manage fisheries and conserve MAR 595: Graduate Seminar in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) endangered marine species. This course is Atmospheric Sciences designed to expose graduate students to the MAR 601: Dynamic model with Matlab Discussion of special research topics centered burgeoning field of molecular ecology and the on monographs, conference proceedings, or This course is designed to provide basic application of molecular analyses to fisheries journal articles. Topics include climate change, programming skills with the use of selected management and conservation. Lectures will atmospheric chemistry, radiation transfer, and Matlab toolboxes to analyze marine and be supplemented by a group laboratory project, planetary atmospheres. This course is intended atmospheric science data, to perform where students will apply techniques such as primarily for students who have passed the challenging simulations, and to explore DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, written qualifying examination in atmospheric selected problems in marine and atmospheric DNA sequencing and computer based analysis sciences, although other students may enroll and related fields. The course will emphasize of genetic data to address a contemporary with permission of the faculty seminar leader. functionalities and applications of the marine conservation or fisheries issue. matrix manipulations, signal processing, Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) statistical, and mapping toolboxes within A-, B+, etc.) the context of marine science problems. May be repeated for credit. MAR 589: Capstone Project in Marine The goal is to give the students exposure to Conservation and Policy MAR 596: Principles of Atmospheric tools and programming techniques to enable Students will conduct an in depth capstone Chemistry them to work individually or in a group study involving independent analysis of on a final project relevant to their research The application of photochemistry and reaction available data and produce an original interest. Topics will include efficient Matlab kinetics to the atmospheres of the Earth and synthesis paper based on a committee- programming techniques, simple numerical planets. The composition and structure of approved, consequential topic in marine modeling and learning to build a classifier for various regions of atmospheres, including the conservation. All students will also recognition and measurement, separating and troposphere, stratosphere, 2021and ionosphere. present their project at the annual Program clustering data, graph and representation and Incorporation of chemical rate processes and Symposium. spectral clustering. physical transport into models. Production of Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor airglow and auroral emissions. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. MAR 602: Marine Invasive Alien Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Species in Tropical and Temperate MAR 590: Research for MS Students (A, A-, B+, etc.) Climates Original investigation undertaken with the MAR 598: Synoptic and Mesoscale The course is designed to instruct students supervision of the advisor. Fall in the biology and ecology of marine Meteorology invasive species using real examples from Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading Course examines the structure and evolution May be repeated for credit. the Caribbean and the temperate areas of of synoptic and mesoscale systems using the US Atlantic coast. Additionally, it will observations, modern dynamical analysis, MAR 592: Internship in Marine include management strategies to control and numerical weather prediction models. Conservation and Policy current invasive species, as well as strategies Diagnosis of synoptic systems includes to prevent future invasions. Topics in this Students will obtain practical work experience applications of quasi-geostrophic theory through an internship with local, state or course will span policy and legislative to baroclinic waves; jet stream and frontal requirements, marine conservation and federal agencies or not for profit organizations circulations. A survey of the concepts of working in the area of marine conservation and planning, scientific research, biological mesoscale systems includes convective and ecological characteristics, survey and policy. To complete the internship, students systems, gravity waves, and terrain-coastal will prepare a written report on their activities monitoring methods, public outreach and circulations. The student will investigate education strategies. These topics will enable and present their internship project at the such phenomena in the laboratory as well as annual Program Symposium. the students to provide sound technical and individual projects. scientific guidance to the management and Spring, Spring, alternate years, 4 credits, Letter prevention of marine invasive species in the Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U grading graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Wider Caribbean and the Atlantic Regions. May be repeated for credit. 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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MAR 603: Ocean Physics Seminar place outside of the United States and/or This course explores topics in ocean physics U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the MAT option of the health plan and may also enroll as chosen by the instructors and participants. Mathematics The seminar series is organized around themes in MEDEX. International students who are such as estuarine physics, or coastal dynamics, in their home country are not covered by MAT 511: Fundamental Concepts of ocean and climate, ocean circulation, etc. mandatory health plan and must contact the Mathematics Students are required to lead at least one of Insurance Office for the insurance charge to the seminars and to participate in discussions. be removed. International students who are Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics. Prerequisite: MAR 509 or permission of not in their home country are charged for the Brief history of mathematics; sets, functions instructor Fall and spring, 1 credit, ABCF mandatory health insurance. If they are to be and logic; constructions of number systems, grading, May be repeated for credit covered by another insurance plan they must including their historical development; file a waiver be second week of classes. The mathematical induction. The main focus of the 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) charge will only be removed if other plan is course will be on the construction and writing May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable. of mathematical proofs. Fall, Spring, or MAR 650: Dissertation Research for All international students must received Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PhD clearance from an International Advisor. etc.) Original investigation undertaken with the Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAT 512: Algebra for Teachers supervision of research committee. May be repeated for credit. Linear algebra, the algebra of polynomials, Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAR 800: Summer Research algebraic properties of the complex numbers, May be repeated for credit. Summer Research. 0 credits, S/U grading. May number fields, solutions of equations. MAR 655: Directed Study for PhD be repeated. Mathematical topics integrate the study of the historical development of algebra, Individual studies under the guidance of S/U grading May be repeated for credit. including contributions from diverse cultures. a faculty member. Subject matter varies Prerequisite: MAT 511 Semesters Offered: according to the needs of the student. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAR-S +, etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Marine Sciences - Southampton MAT 513: Analysis for Teachers I Topics in differential calculus, its foundations, MAR 670: Practicum in Teaching MAR-S 550: Topics in Marine Sciences and its applications. This course is Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading This is used to present special interest courses, designed for teachers and prospective May be repeated for credit. including intensive short courses by visiting teachers of advanced placement calculus. and adjunct faculty and courses requested by Mathematical topics integrate the study MAR 699: Dissertation Research for G5 students. Those given in recent2021 years include of the historical development of calculus, Research course exclusively for students Nature of Marine Ecosystems, Science and including contributions from diverse cultures. who have been advanced to candidacy (G5). Technology in Public Institutions, Plutonium Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Spring, or in the Marine Environment, and Problems in Major portion of research must take place on Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Estuarine Sedimentation. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading A-, B+, etc.) MAT 514: Analysis for Teachers II May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Topics in calculus, its foundations, and its applications. Emphasis is on integration MAR-S 570: Methods of Multivariate MAR 700: Dissertation Research off Fall and on numerical techniques. This course Statistics in Atmospheric and Marine Campus - Domestic is designed for teachers and prospective Sciences Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy teachers of advanced placement calculus. (G5). Major portion of research will take place This course on multivariate statistical Mathematical topics integrate the study of the off-campus, but in the United States and/ methods of interest in marine and atmospheric historical development of calculus, including or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven sciences discussesPrincipal component (EOF) contributions from diverse cultures. Analysis National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab analysis, canonical correlation analysis, for Teachers I is not a prerequisite for this are considered on-campus. All international maximum covariance analysis, discrimination course. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Spring, or and classification, and cluster analysis. students must enroll in one of the graduate Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Applications of the topics to oceanographic/ student insurance plans and should be advised etc.) by an International Advisor. atmospheric data are shown using MATLAB. The class provides a hands-on experience Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MAT 515: Geometry for Teachers requiring each student to apply the techniques May be repeated for credit. A re-examination of elementary geometry to his/her own data and the results are using concepts from analysis and algebra. discussed in class with feedback from the MAR 701: Dissertation Research off Mathematical topics integrate the study of the instructors and other students. Campus - International historical development of Euclidean and non- Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Euclidian geometries, including contributions (G5). Major portion of research will take

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 157 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 from diverse cultures. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Vector algebra on the plane and in the 3-space; and continuity, combinatorial and algebraic Fall, Spring, or area and volume of geometric figures; analytic invariants of spaces, higher dimensional Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, geometry. Prerequisite: MAT 511 spaces. etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, There will be a required short paper on the etc.) fundamental group of a topological space or MAT 516: Probability and Statistics for some similar topic. Teachers MAT 521: Introduction to Number Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A priori and empirical probabilities; Theory conditional probability; mean and standard Congruences, quadratic residues, quadratic MAT 530: Topology, Geometry I deviation; random variables; financial forms, continued fractions, Diophantine Basic point set topology; connectedness, distributions; continuous distributions; equations, number-theoretical functions, and compactness, continuity, etc. Metric sampling; estimation; decision making. properties of prime numbers. spaces, function spaces, and topological Mathematical topics integrate the study of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) manifolds. Introduction to algebraic topology; the historical development of statistics and fundamental group and covering space; probability, including contributions from MAT 522: Introduction to Measure homology; applications. diverse cultures. Prerequisite: MAT 511 Fall, Theory Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, or Introduction to Lebesgue measure and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, integration. Aspects of Fourier series, function MAT 531: Topology, Geometry II etc.) spaces, Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces. Foundations of differentiable manifolds: 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differentiable maps, vector fields and flows, MAT 517: Calculators and Computers and differential forms and integration on for Teachers MAT 523: Analysis in Several manifolds. Stokes' theorem. Froebenius Calculators and Computers for teachers. Dimensions theorem. Lie derivatives. Immersions and Graphing calculators, programming, Continuity, differentiation and integration submersions. DeRham chomology, cochain computing and curve sketching; Geometers in Euclidean n-space. Differentiable maps. complexes, degree of a map, Mayer-Vietoris Sketchpad or other computer based classroom Implicit and inverse function theorems. Theorem. tools; educational use of the world wide web. Differential forms and the general Stokes' Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, Spring, or theorem. etc.) Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) MAT 532: Real Analysis I MAT 524: Abstract Algebra I Ordinary differential equations; Banach MAT 518: Seminar on the Uses of Groups and rings together with their and Hilbert spaces; inverse and implicit Mathematics homorphisms and quotient structures. Unique function theorems; Lebesque measure; general This seminar explores the ways in which factorization, polynomials, and fields. measures and integrals; measurable functions; secondary school and elementary college 2021convergence theorems for integrals. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mathematics are used in such diverse areas Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) as psychology, sociology, political science, MAT 525: Abstract Algebra II economics, business, engineering, physics, MAT 533: Real Analysis II A continuation of MAT 524, covering modules chemistry, biology, and medicine. Primarily Representations and decomposition theorems for secondary school teachers of mathematics. over rings (including the structure theorem for Modules over Principal Ideal Domains), theory in measure theory; Fubini's theorem; L-p Fall, Spring, or of fields, field extensions, and an introduction spaces; Fourier series; Laplace; heat and Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, to Galois theory. wave equations; open mapping and uniform etc.) boundedness theorems for Banach spaces; Fall3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differentiation of the integral; change of MAT 519: Seminar in Mathematics in variable of integration. Spring Teaching and Learning MAT 526: Linear Algebra 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Seminar format. This course involves Finite dimensional vector spaces over a field, linear maps, isomorphisms, dual spaces, deliberative group inquiry - through MAT 534: Algebra I quotient vector spaces, bilinear and quadratic reading, writing and intensive discussion Groups: normal subgroups, quotient groups, - into mathematics teaching, learning and functions, inner products, canonical forms of linear operators, multilinear algebra, tensors. Lagrange's theorem, class formula, finite p- mathematics education research; analysis and groups and solvable groups, Sylow's theorems, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design of cognitively demanding mathematical finitely generated abelian groups. Rings tasks; and analysis of students' mathematical and modules: subrings, fields, prime and thinking, written responses, and common MAT 529: Basic Topology and Geometry (for Masters Program) maximal ideals, quotient rings, ID's, PID's, misconceptions in the mathematics classroom. UFD's, polynomial rings, field of fractions, the Each student completes an action research A broadly based introduction to topology Wedderburn theorem, Hilbert basis theorem, project focused on a topic selected with and geometry, the mathematical theories finitely generated modules over a PID. Vector guidance from the instructor. of shape, form, and rigid structure. Topics spaces: basis, linear maps and matrices, dual 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) include intuitive knot theory, lattices and spaces, determinants, eigenvalues and vectors, tiling, non-Euclidean geometry, smooth curves inner products, spectral theorem for normal MAT 520: Geometry for Teachers II and surfaces in Euclidean 3-space, open sets operators.

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Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 544: Commutative and An introduction to the methods and ideas Homological Algebra of modern harmonic analysis, including: MAT 535: Algebra II An introduction to the techniques of Fourier series and integrals (convergence, Vector spaces: Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, commutative and homological algebra useful summability, L^p); Maximal functions, weak Jordon normal form, bilinear forms, signature, in algebra, algebraic geometry, number type inequalities, interpolation; the Hilbert tensor products, symmetric and exterior theory, and related fields. Review of rings and transform; singular integrals with Calderon- algebras. Homological algebra: categories modules, tensor products and localization. Zygmund kernels; H^1 and Bounded Mean and functors, universal and free objects, exact Spectrum of prime ideals, Noetherian and Oscillation; Muckenhoupt (A_p) weights; sequences, extensions. Representation theory Artinian rings and modules, completion, Multipliers; the T(1) theorem. Offered every for finite groups: irreducible representations dimension theory, local rings, discrete second year. and Shur's Lemma, characters, orthogonality. valuation rings and Dedekind domains, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Galois theory: splitting fields, finite fields, integral dependence. Chain complexes, extension fields of various types, Galois projective and injective resolutions, examples MAT 555: Ergodic Theory and Smooth polynomial and group, fundamental theorem of of derived functors (Ext and Tor), basic Dynamics Galois theory, symmetric functions. category theory (adjoint functors, natural This course will give an overview of the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, transformations, limits and colimits), abelian main known topological, geometrical, and etc.) categories. Prerequisite: MAT 535 measure theoretical phenomena of smooth Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dynamics: 1) Zero entropy of dynamics: Circle MAT 536: Complex Analysis I diffeomorphisms, KAM, period doubling, Elementary functions, holomorphic functions. MAT 545: Complex Geometry renormalization. 2)Hyperbolic dynamics: Cauchy theory, power series, classification Foundational material and techniques in stable manifold theorem, structural stability, of isolated singularities, calculus of residues, complex algebraic and differential geometry: central limit theorem, symbolic dynamics. open mapping theorem, Riemann mapping Review of basic results in several complex 3)General smooth ergodic theory: Oseledec, theorem. variables/analytic geometry, sheaves and Pesin, Birkhof theorems. 4)Non-hyperbolic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, cohomology of sheaves, complex vector examples: non-uniform hyperbolic examples, etc.) bundles, Chern classes, positivity, Kaehler homoclinic theory, Newhouse phenomenon, manifolds, projective manifolds, Hodge aspects of unimodal dynamics, aspects of MAT 537: Several Complex Variables decomposition for Kaehler manifolds, Kodaira Henon dynamics. Prerequisites: MAT 531, Definition and basic properties of holomorphic vanishing theorem, Hard Lefschetz Theorem, MAT 533, MAT 536 3 credits. Offered in functions and mappings. Analytic sets: Basic divisors and line bundles, Bertini's theorem, Spring. definitions, Local theory of Weierstrass, Lefschetz theorem on (1,1) classes, blowing 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Meromorphic functions. Hartogs Phenomenon. up, Kodaira's embedding theorem. MAT 560: Mathematical Physics I Domains of convergence of power series. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Domains of holomorphy. Pseudoconvexity May be repeated for credit. Aimed at students affiliated with the RTG and the Levi Problem. Complex manifolds, 2021program, topics include: Classical field holomorphic vector bundles and Hermitian MAT 551: Introduction to PDE theory (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian), metrics. Cousin problems. L2 estimates for the Introduction to basic types of partial electromagnetism, special relativity, statistical inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann Equations differential equations and techniques for mechanics and thermodynamics, quantum and applications. studying them. First order equations; mechanics and quantum field theory. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The Cauchy problem and the Cauchy- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Kovalevskaya Theorem; Laplace, heat, and MAT 540: Advanced Topology, wave operators; Sobolev and Holder spaces; MAT 561: Mathematical Physics II Geometry I second order linear elliptic equations: weak Aimed at students affiliated with the RTG Homotopy, fundamental group and higher Fallsolutions, existence and regularity theory; program, topics include: Classical field homotopy groups, fiber bundles and L^p and Schauder estimates; de Giorgi- theory (lagrangian and Hamiltonian), covering, homotopy exact sequences of pairs, Nash-Moser theory; introduction to nonlinear electromagnetism, special relativity, statistical fiber bundles, classification of coverings, equations" Prerequisite: MAT 531, MAT 536 mechanics and thermodynamics, quantum CW-complexes, homotopy excision, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mechanics and quantum field theory. suspension, topological manifolds, topological 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) classification of 1- and 2-manifolds. MAT 552: Introduction to Lie Groups 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Lie Algebras MAT 562: Symplectic Geometry Lie algebras Foundations of Lie groups Hamilton's equations and their physical MAT 541: Algebraic Topology and Lie algebras, classical groups and origin, symplectic manifolds and various Singular and simplicial homology, their homogeneous spaces. Abstract Lie algebras. submanifolds; Moser arguments including properties and equivalence, calculations Basic representation theory of compact Lie Darboux theorem and Moser neighborhood for CW-complexes. Eilenberg-Steenrod groups. theorems, contact manifolds, contact axioms, cohomology, cup and cross products, Prerequisite: MAT 531, MAT 534 hypersurfaces, symplectizations, Legendrian Poincare, Lefschetz and Alexander dualities. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) front diagrams, topological Legendrian Prerequisites: MAT 530, MAT 531, Fall knot invariants, almost complex structures 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 554: Harmonic Analysis compatible with symplectic form, Hamiltonian May be repeated for credit. group actions and symplectic reduction,

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Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 566: Differential Topology MAT 603: Topics in Algebra etc.) Vector bundles, transversality, and Typical topics are drawn from group theory, May be repeated for credit. characteristic classes. Further topics such ring theory, representation theory of groups as imbeddings and immersions, intersection and algebras, fields and commutative algebra, MAT 626: Topics in Complex Analysis theory, surgery, and foliations. homological algebra. Topics selected from Riemann surfaces, Prerequisite: MAT 531 Prerequisite: Permission of instructor quasiconformal mappings, several complex Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) variables, Fuchsian groups, Kleinian groups, May be repeated for credit. moduli of Riemann surfaces and Kleinian MAT 568: Differential Geometry groups, analytic spaces, singularities. Connections, curvature, geodesics, parallelism, MAT 608: Topics in Number Theory Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT and completeness. Riemannian manifolds, Typical topics are drawn from analytic number 626 - Fall, MAT 627 - geometry of sub-manifolds; method of integral theory, algebraic number theory, diophantine Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, formulas; applications to global extrinsic equations, and transcendental number theory, etc.) theorems. Riemannian curvature. Gauss- with indications of methods from algebra, May be repeated for credit. Bonnet theorem, Hopf-Rinow theorem. geometry, analysis, and logic. MAT 627: Topics in Complex Analysis Prerequisite: MAT 531 Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics selected from Riemann surfaces, May be repeated for credit. quasiconformal mappings, several complex MAT 569: Differential Geometry variables, Fuchsian groups, Kleinian groups, A broad introduction to the fundamentals MAT 609: Topics in Number Theory moduli of Riemann surfaces and Kleinian of modern Riemannian geometry, including Typical topics are drawn from analytic number groups, analytic spaces, singularities. major ideas and useful techniques: holonomy theory, algebraic number theory, diophantine Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT groups, symmetric spaces; Riemannian equations, and transcendental number theory, 626 - Fall, MAT 627 - submersions; constructing manifolds of with indications of methods from algebra, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, non-negative sectional curvature; Ricci geometry, analysis, and logic. etc.) and scalar curvature; Weyl curvature and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. conformal geometry; harmonic forms and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded2021 (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 632: Topics in Differential the Hodge theorem; the Bochner technique; May be repeated for credit. the Bishop-Gromov inequality; the Cheeger- Equations Gromoll splitting theorem; Gromov-Hausdorff MAT 614: Topics in Algebraic Typical topics are hyperbolic or elliptic convergence. Prerequisite: MAT 568 Geometry systems, parabolic equations, spectral theory, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Typical topics are drawn from varieties finite difference equations, Cauchy-Riemann etc.) and schemes, algebraic curves, and their equations and complex vector fields, equations arithmetics. Fall with constant coefficients, solvability of linear MAT 589: Introduction to Algebraic equations, Fourier integral operators, nonlinear 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Geometry Fall equations. May be repeated for credit. This course offers a systematic introduction to Prerequisite: Permission of instructor algebraic geometry, from a modern, scheme- MAT 615: Topics in Algebraic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, theoretic perspective. Prerequisite: MAT Geometry etc.) 536, or permission of instructor. Familiarity Typical topics are drawn from varieties May be repeated for credit. with material covered by MAT 545 would be and schemes, algebraic curves, and their MAT 633: Topics in Differential helpful, but is not required. arithmetics. Fall Equations 3 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Typical topics are hyperbolic or elliptic May be repeated for credit. MAT 598: Teaching Practicum systems, parabolic equations, spectral theory, Seminar and workshop for new teaching MAT 620: Topics in Topology finite difference equations, Cauchy-Riemann equations and complex vector fields, equations assistants. Topics of current interest such as foliations, with constant coefficients, solvability of linear Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading surgery, singularities, group actions on equations, Fourier integral operators, nonlinear manifolds, and homotopy theory. MAT 599: M.A. Research equations. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 602: Topics in Algebra etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. of functional integration and its applications; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, quantum etc.) MAT 638: Topics in Real Analysis groups and representations; conformal field May be repeated for credit. Topics selected from functional analysis, theories; super-symmetry; topological quantum harmonic analysis, Banach algebras, operator field theories; gauge theories and geometry MAT 666: Advanced Topics in theory. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor in four-dimensions; supergravity and mirror Topology MAT 638 - Fall, MAT 639 - symmetry; strings. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT 666 - Fall, MAT 667 - etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. MAT 639: Topics in Real Analysis Topics selected from functional analysis, MAT 649: Topics in Mathematical MAT 667: Advanced Topics in harmonic analysis, Banach algebras, operator Physics Topology theory. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Typical topics are mathematical methods of Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT 638 - Fall, MAT 639 - classical and quantum mechanics; methods MAT 666 - Fall, MAT 667 - Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of functional integration and its applications; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, quantum etc.) May be repeated for credit. groups and representations; conformal field May be repeated for credit. theories; super-symmetry; topological quantum MAT 641: Topics in Lie Groups Theory field theories; gauge theories and geometry MAT 670: Advanced Topics in Complex Typical topics are universal enveloping in four-dimensions; supergravity and mirror Analysis algebras; free, solvable and nilpotent Lie symmetry; strings. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor algebras; Lie theory and formal groups; root Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT 670 - Fall, MAT 671 - systems, Dynkin diagrams, classification and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, representations of complex semisimple Lie etc.) etc.) algebras; method of orbits; representations of May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. non-compact Lie groups; loop groups. MAT 655: Topics in Dynamical Prerequisite: MAT 552 MAT 671: Advanced Topics in Complex Systems Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis etc.) Typical topics are drawn from holomorphic Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic dynamics, theory of Hamiltonian systems, MAT 670 - Fall, MAT 671 - Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MAT 644: Topics in Differential ergodic theory, and bifurcation theory. etc.) Geometry Prerequisite: Permission of2021 instructor May be repeated for credit. Typical topics will be drawn from areas such Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, as comparison theorems, pinching theorems, etc.) MAT 674: Advanced Topics in Morse theory, characteristic classes, minimal May be repeated for credit. Differential Equations varieties, Hodge theory, spectrum of the Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Laplacian, and geometry of general relativity. MAT 656: Topics in Dynamical Systems MAT 674 - Fall, MAT 675 - Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Typical topics are drawn from holomorphic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic Falldynamics, theory of Hamiltonian systems, May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. ergodic theory, and bifurcation theory. MAT 675: Advanced Topics in MAT 645: Topics in Differential Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Differential Equations Geometry Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Typical topics will be drawn from areas such etc.) MAT 674 - Fall, MAT 675 - as comparison theorems, pinching theorems, May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Morse theory, characteristic classes, minimal etc.) varieties, Hodge theory, spectrum of the MAT 662: Advanced Topics in Algebra May be repeated for credit. Laplacian, and geometry of general relativity. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT 662 - Fall, MAT 663 - MAT 678: Advanced Topics in Real Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Analysis etc.) etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. MAT 678 - Fall, MAT 679 - MAT 648: Topics in Mathematical MAT 663: Advanced Topics in Algebra Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Physics Prerequisite: Permission of instructor etc.) May be repeated for credit. Typical topics are mathematical methods of MAT 662 - Fall, MAT 663 - classical and quantum mechanics; methods

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MAT 679: Advanced Topics in Real MAT 697: Mathematics Colloquium Business Administration Analysis May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MBA 502: Finance MAT 678 - Fall, MAT 679 - MAT 698: Independent Study How firms meet and manage their final Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. objectives. Today's financial environment, etc.) the fundamental trade-off between risk and May be repeated for credit. MAT 699: Dissertation Research on return, the time value of money, and valuing Campus future cash flows are discussed. Financial tools MAT 682: Advanced Topics in and techniques, which can be used to help Dissertation research under direction of Differential Geometry firms maximize value by improving decisions advisor. Prerequisite: Advancement to related to capital, are explained. Bond and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT candidacy (G5). Major portion of research stock valuations are introduced. 682 - Fall, MAT 683 - must take place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) Lab. May be repeated for credit. MBA 503: Data Analysis and Decision Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U Making grading MAT 683: Advanced Topics in May be repeated for credit. An introduction to statistical techniques useful Differential Geometry in the analysis of management problems. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor MAT MAT 700: Dissertation Research off We motivate each topic by managerial 682 - Fall, MAT 683 - Campus - Domestic applications, and we analyze actual data sets using modern statistical software. Topics Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy include probability estimation, hypothesis etc.) (G5). Major portion of research will take place testing, and regression analysis. May be repeated for credit. off-campus, but in the United States and/ or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MAT 685: Advanced Topics in National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Dynamics are considered on-campus. All international MBA 504: Financial Accounting An advanced topic selected from holomorphic students must enroll in one of the graduate Introduction and exploration of basic financial and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic student insurance plans and should be advised accounting terminology, principles, concepts, dynamics, KAM theory, smooth ergodic by an International Advisor. and their relevant business applications. theory, geodesic flows, bifurcation theory. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading This course will include the recording, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor May be repeated for credit. summarization, and adjustment of financial Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, transactions and the preparation and etc.) MAT 701: Dissertation Research off presentation of the basic financial statements. May be repeated for credit. Campus - International Other topics will include valuation methods 2021for cash, accounts receivable, inventory and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy property, plant and equipment. This course is MAT 686: Advanced Topics in (G5). Major portion of research will take also offered as EMP 502. Dynamics place outside of the United States and/or An advanced topic selected from holomorphic U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and low-dimensional dynamics, hyperbolic option of the health plan and may also enroll dynamics, KAM theory, smooth ergodic in MEDEX. International students who are MBA 505: Marketing theory, geodesic flows, bifurcation theory. in their home country are not covered by A survey course covering the foundations Prerequisite: Permission of instructor mandatory health plan and must contact the of the marketing discipline. The course Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, FallInsurance Office for the insurance charge to is designed to give students conceptual etc.) be removed. International students who are frameworks and tools to help firms meet May be repeated for credit. not in their home country are charged for the demands of the marketplace in a profitable mandatory health insurance. If they are to be way. A wide range of marketing strategy MAT 690: Advanced topics in algebraic covered by another insurance plan they must topics (e.g., segmentation, positioning) and geometry file a waiver be second week of classes. The marketing tactics (the Four P's of Marketing charge will only be removed if other plan is -- Product, Price, Place and Promotions) Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deemed comparable. will be covered, as well as development May be repeated for credit. All international students must received of the discipline's foundations (definition, philosophy, and the history of marketing). MAT 691: Advanced topics in algebraic clearance from an International Advisor. geometry Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MBA 506: Leadership, Team etc.) MAT 800: FULL TIME SUMMER RES Effectiveness and Communications May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. The purpose of the course is to introduce you to the multifaceted phenomenon of MAT 696: Mathematics Seminar leadership, teams, and communications. It May be repeated for credit. MBA seeks to answer the following three questions: What do leaders really do? What makes teams

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 162 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 effective? How do you create persuasive and implements its long-range direction. the like. The course provides students with communications? The course addresses This includes the processes of environment the opportunity to apply the analytic skills such topics as leadership styles, building scanning, self-assessment of organizational they have learned in the classroom to actual motivated teams, and developing strategic purpose and comparative advantage, and management problems. Students also gain communications. It examines these topics synthesis of organizational mission, plans, and practical experience in business writing, giving with a goal of not only imparting knowledge strategic initiatives. Extensive use is made of formal presentations, and working in teams. about evidence-based managerial practices case studies and in-class exercises. The format for this course is a combination but also assisting students to acquire the skills Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of work in the classroom and "lab" work. necessary to become business leaders, team etc.) The lab work consists of visits with a client, builders and articulate communicators. developing a formal proposal, generating a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MBA 515: Managing in a Global final report and various other elements of a Economy professional consulting arrangement. MBA 507: Ethics in Management Because both the similarities and differences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the main ethical of organizations and management across problems facing the modern manager. national boundaries must be a part of the MBA 530: Employee Dispute Emphasis is placed on the moral and ethical knowledge base of tomorrow's manager, this Resolution and Conflict Management responsibilities that relate to investors, course examines proprietorships, partnerships, The methods and procedures for reaching employees, customers, and the community. corporations, governmental regulatory negotiated agreements. Topics include Students will learn the basic vocabulary of agencies, public authorities, voluntary social reducing conflict and confrontation between business ethics. services, multinational corporations, and contending parties, analysis of the techniques 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strategic alliances, as well as combinations of win-lose and win-win negotiation, and of these organizations, across sectoral and mediation. Students are expected to participate MBA 509: Continuous Quality national boundaries. in a series of workshop activities and simulated Improvement Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, cases to reveal how negotiation and mediation This course provides students with etc.) are applied to resolving difficulties in business understanding of concepts of TQM and management, labor relations, international quality improvement methods to attain world- MBA 517: Information Systems for and domestic affairs, patient/doctor/hospital class performance in business operations. Management relations, and other areas where negotiation Topics include policy deployment, process Information systems and its role in strategic and mediation play a significant role in modern improvement methodology, daily work planning and managerial operations in life. management, quality story methodology, six business. The systems approach to the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sigma, poka-yoke, ISO, Deming and Baldridge analysis, design, and implementation of Awards criteria. information systems. Recent developments MBA 531: New Developments in Human Resource Management 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in information technology and its impact on existing and future information2021 systems. This is an advanced course, designed to MBA 511: Technological Innovations Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) examine new developments and professional Innovation drives the modern firm by concerns in human resource management. The the interaction of technical invention and MBA 521: Industry Project course focuses on such topics as productivity managerial entrepreneurship. This course Under faculty supervision, groups of students in the American workplace; developing union/ explores the variety of sources of new work for clients on management issues in management cooperation for productivity; products, processes, and services, such a variety of areas such as health care, MIS, methods of training in the workplace; impact as inventors, universities, research and marketing, data analysis, business plans, and of the computer revolution on the personnel development departments in industry, and the like. The course provides students with field; and specialized personnel needs of the government labs. In addition, the course Fallthe opportunity to apply the analytic skills new workforce in a high-tech and service explores the variety of ways of bringing they have learned in the classroom to actual economy. new products, processes, and services to management problems. Students also gain 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) market, including startup firms, acquisitions, practical experience in business writing, giving mergers, and entrepreneurship within the formal presentations, and working in teams. MBA 538: Organizational Development firm. Case studies showing the interaction of The format for the course is a combination and Change Management invention and entrepreneurship are analyzed. of work in the classroom and "lab" work. This course will acquaint students with A term project is required in which the student The lab work consists of visits with a client, types of organizational change and the roles either analyzes the history of invention and developing a formal proposal, generating a of human resources managers as change entrepreneurship in a major firm or writes a final report, and various other elements of a agents and internal consultants. Cases, group business plan for high technology startup firm. professional consulting arrangement. exercises, and class discussions are used Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall, 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to examine change methods, employees' etc.) reactions to change, facilitation techniques, MBA 522: Industry Project and evaluation methods. Roles of leaders, MBA 512: Business Planning and Under faculty supervision, groups of students managers, employees, and human resources Strategic Management work for clients on management issues in professionals are considered. Targets of The principles and techniques of strategic a variety of areas such as health care, MIS, change include job designs, interpersonal management by which an organization sets marketing, data analysis, business plans and relationships, downsizing/rightsizing and organizational structures. Quality

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 163 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 improvement, employee involvement, and students must obtain permission from the Students explore the concept of social professional development are studied as instructor. entrepreneurship including motivation and examples of change strategies. Students learn Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, skills for advocacy, entrepreneurship, and how to help their co-workers cope, as well etc.) leadership. Topics include forms of social as how to become trusted business advisors entrepreneurship (private, public, and not- within the organization. This course is offered MBA 553: Simulation and Modeling for-profit), venture capital and fund raising, as both HRM 538 and MBA 538 (formerly A comprehensive course in formulation, market analysis, marketing, communications, CEX 538). Prerequisite: MBA 532/HRM 532. implementation, and application of simulation human resources and human relations, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) models. Topics include data structures, including negotiation and conflict resolution simulation languages, statistical analysis, methods. Students will explore models of MBA 540: Data Mining pseudo-random number generation, and design corporate social responsibility, university The recent advances in the Internet and of simulation experiments. Students apply service to the community, and grass-roots information technologies have resulted in an simulation modeling methods to problems of ventures spawned by perceived need and the explosion of demand for ¿big data¿ analytics. their own design. This course is offered as will to make a difference. Students work in The importance of data mining has already CSE 529, AMS 553 and MBA 553. teams to develop a strategic business plan for been recognized widely in the industry 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their own venture and present their proposals including many business areas, such as to the class. marketing science, financial analysis, and MBA 563: Business Ethics through Offered corporation management. In this course, Film: Thinking, Acting, Managing Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) we will be focusing on both key concepts Using real world business cases, and fictional and models of data mining and their scenarios from films exemplifying behavior MBA 574: Project Management implementations based on real-world data in in challenging social and business situations, This course will explore the theory and business. Students will learn to process data students will engage in critical thinking, practice of managing a project. We will using Excel, and apply data mining models evaluation of moral standards, and display examine the various tools that are available using Weka, a data mining software. of various ethical positions pertaining to to monitor and measure managerial tasks and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contemporary society and management of to define common business processes. Every business operations. A simulated situation as aspect of business entails the execution of MBA 543: Business Analytics presented in a film and supported by research a series of defined tasks and the associated An introduction to mathematical models useful from the humanities, will add to experiential allocation of corporate resources. From in the analysis of management problems. learning, emphasized in contemporary business developing new products to implementing We motivate each topic by managerial education. customer loyalty programs, managers must applications, and we analyze problems using 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understand business processes including modern software. Topics include forecasting, their associated tasks, inter-relationships linear, nonlinear, and integer optimization, MBA 566: Business law and transformations. Project management simulation, Markov processes, decision This course provides an understanding2021 of involves three primary activities: defining analysis, and multi-criteria decision making. the nature of law and its role in business and manageable tasks, mapping their logical flow, and creating an implementation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) surveys some of the regulatory issues faced by businesses. The law of business contracts process. In the course, we will explore ways MBA 544: Supply Chain Management will be examined in depth. Other topics to manage these functions successfully to and Analytics include property rights, bailments, and agency increase the probability of achieving desired concepts, business organizations, securities results. We will use the latest software tools Businesses engage in a diverse set of activities including: MS Project, MS Visio, @Risk in their daily operations including production law and regulation, and laws and regulations impacting technology development. This Project Simulation, Business Plan Pro 2007, planning, resource procurement, inventory WIP Information System - online and C- management, distribution, and interaction Fallcourse requires case analysis, problem solving, Commerce tools such as Instantstream. We with other firms. The goal of supply chain development of critical thinking skills, and oral and written communication. will use Blackboard extensively to interact management is to maximize the economic (c-commerce), post grades, assignments, value of these activities through system level Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, information and notices. Access Blackboard coordination. A successful supply chain etc.) using blackboard.sunysb.edu. streamlines the flow of materials, goods, information, and capital along each component MBA 570: Entrepreneurship 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the supply chain. This course helps the student develop a MBA 586: Virtual Communications and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) business plan for his or her own business Meetings idea or a plan for an entrepreneur. With the MBA 548: Fundamentals of the support of visiting practitioners, students Analyzes the growth of and interaction Bioscience Industry take a business idea through all the planning among wireless markets. These markets steps. A business plan suitable for presentation include devices and services for wide area A 4-module course set up to provide students broadband networks and 802.11b wireless with a comprehensive introduction to the to potential investors will be written and presented orally at the end of the class. local area networks. Growth factors include complexities of the bioscience business business strategies executed by major environment. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) firms and startups, and roles played by Prerequisite: Must be either a BME or MBA government regulations and community groups MBA 571: Social Entrepreneurship graduate student (West Campus). All other in development and delivery of network

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 164 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 technology. Student projects for clients with emphasis on implications for effective elements, and biological DNA transfer or one's own startup investigate wireless management. This approach is used to analyze mechanisms. Bacteriophage as well as lower strategies in consumer, home, commercial, decision problems encountered in managing and higher eukaryotic systems are used educational or health care markets. human resources. Topics include individual to illustrate aspects of molecular genetic Prerequisites: MBA 517, MGT 571, MGT580. and group decision-making skills, recruitment structure and function. This course is offered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and selection, employee ability, motivation as both MCB 503 and HBM 503. Prerequisite: etc.) and incentive systems, job satisfaction, matriculation in graduate program or performance assessment and management, permission of instructor MBA 587: Decision Support Systems retention, training, and employee development. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An advanced project-oriented course Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) focusing on the interrelationships among MCB 509: Experimental Molecular & management information systems, statistics, MBA 595: Individual Directed Research Cellular Biology and management science. Both model- in Business An introduction to modern biochemical driven and data-driven decision support Designed to accommodate independent research techniques. The student spends a half systems will be considered. Students will research projects on an individual basis with term in the laboratory of each of four different identify an appropriate business application, faculty guidance. members of the staff selected in consultation select suitable management science and Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, with the course director. In each laboratory statistical methodologies, build the required A-, B+, etc.) the student participates in some aspect of information system, and demonstrate how their May be repeated for credit. the ongoing research pursued by the faculty decision support system addresses the stated member. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB management problem. Prerequisite: MBA 503 MBA 596: Special Topics in Business graduate program or permission of instructor. & MBA 543 These courses are offered on topics that are Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) timely and significant to the profession. The A-, B+, etc.) courses are led by experts in the particular MBA 588: Database Management topic. MCB 510: Experimental Molecular & Cellular Biology Database processing is the foundation 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) upon which all current applications rely May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. An introduction to modern biochemical and represent the repositories of business research techniques. The student spends a half intelligence that play a crucial role in the MBA 599: Internship Practicum term in the laboratory of each of four different strategic success or failure of a corporation. Designed to accommodate College of Business members of the staff selected in consultation Even though they vary in size, complexity and MBA graduate students working on their with the course director. In each laboratory organizational scope, there is an underlying internship project requirement while under the student participates in some aspect of common database engine that can be supervision of an advisor. the ongoing research pursued by the faculty used to manipulate and analyze the stored member. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB Fall, Spring and information. The purpose of this course is graduate program or permission of instructor. Summer, 0-1 credits, S/U grading2021 to introduce the business professional to the May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, fundamental concepts of database creation, A-, B+, etc.) design, application integration, maintenance, MBA 800: Summer Research management and subsequent analysis. MCB 517: Biomembranes May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Examines the molecular architecture of membranes; the structure, organization, MBA 589: Operations Management functions, and assembly of lipids and proteins A managerial approach to the concepts, MCB in biological membranes. issues, and techniques used to convert an FallMolecular and Cellular Biology Prerequisite: Matriculation in Graduate organization's resources into products and Program or permission of instructor. services. Through the course, students will MCB 500: Directed Readings in Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) develop an ability to understand key concepts Molecular and Cellular Biology in operations management, analyze the Directed readings in topics of current interest, MCB 520: Graduate Biochemistry I performance of systems quantitatively, gain under supervision of a faculty sponsor. Several topics in modern biochemistry are insights into performance characteristics, Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate treated at an advanced level. Topics covered recognize various trade-offs in operations program or permission of instructor. will include protein structure, enzyme kinetics management decisions, and apply concepts Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, and mechanisms, and enzyme regulation. and analytical methods to help improve A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: undergraduate biochemistry organization¿s operational performance May be repeated for credit. course, matriculation in graduate program or Prerequisite: MBA 503, working knowledge of permission of instructor probability, and statistics is necessary. MCB 503: Molecular Genetics Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduces the classical work and current developments in lower and higher genetic MCB 531: Graduate Seminar in MBA 592: Organizational Behavior systems. Covers gene structure and regulation Molecular & Cellular Biology An approach to understanding the behavior in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, Seminars are given by graduate students of individuals in organizations is developed, mutational analysis and mapping, transposable on current literature in the fields of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 165 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology Visitors welcome. Prerequisite: matriculation Spring, 3-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, or developmental biology. Prerequisite: in MCB graduate program or permission of etc.) matriculation in graduate program or instructor. May be repeated for credit. permission of instructor. Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading MCB 657: Principles of Development 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. This course deals with developing systems MCB 532: Graduate Seminar in MCB 602: Colloquium in Molecular and at all levels from the morphological to the Molecular & Cellular Biology Cellular Biology molecular. Illustrative material from both Seminars are given by graduate students A weekly series of talks and discussions by animal and plant kingdoms is used. Special on current literature in the fields of visiting scientists covering current research attention is given to gametogenesis, genetic biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and thinking in various aspects of molecular control of early development, transcriptional or developmental biology. Prerequisite: and cellular biology. Required for all MCB and translational control of protein synthesis, matriculation in graduate program or graduate students. Attendance is mandatory. the role of cell division and cell movements, permission of instructor Visitors welcome. Prerequisite: matriculation and cell-to-cell interactions in defining developing systems. Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in MCB graduate program or permission of May be repeated 3 times FOR credit. instructor. Prerequisite: MCB 656, matriculation in Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading graduate program or permission of instructor. MCB 550: Entering Mentoring May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This seminar series is designed for graduate MCB 699: Dissertation Research on students and postdoctoral researchers of MCB 603: Student Seminar in Campus biology who may become science faculty. Molecular and Cellular Biology The goal is to help them become effective Seminars given by MCB graduate students Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy mentors through discussions, collective on the progress of their own thesis research. (G5). Major portion of research must take experiences, and novel strategies to improve Required of all students every term in which place on SBU campus, at Cold Spring mentoring skills. This course is comprised they are registered in Graduate Studies Harbor, or at the Brookhaven National Lab. of eight one-hour sessions in which topics in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate related to the role and responsibilities of a Attendance is mandatory. Visitors welcome. program or permission of instructor. mentor are discussed. Topics touch on ethical, Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading intellectual, personal, and interpersonal issues program or permission of instructor. May be repeated for credit. that are associated with effective mentoring. Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MCB 700: Dissertation Research off Prerequisite: Must be MCB graduate student May be repeated for credit. or permission of instructor. Summer only, 1 Campus - Domestic credit, S/U grading MCB 604: Student Seminar in Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy 1 credit, S/U grading Molecular and Cellular Biology (G5), matriculation in MCB graduate program Seminars given by MCB graduate2021 students or permission of instructor. Major portion of MCB 555: Big Data in Biology on the progress of their own thesis research. research will take place off-campus, but in the An introduction to big data in biology, with an Required of all students every term in which United States and/or U.S. provinces. Please emphasis on the concepts, research questions, they are registered in Graduate Studies note, Brookhaven National Labs and the Cold methods, and data analysis. Particular in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Spring Harbor Lab are considered on-campus. emphasis is placed on sequencing methods Attendance is mandatory. Visitors welcome. All international students must enroll in one and analysis, genomics, transcriptomics, Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate of the graduate student insurance plans and proteomics, cellular networks, high-throughput program or permission of instructor. should be advised by an International Advisor. phenotyping, and systems genetics. Fall, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate Fall program or permission of instructor. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MCB 656: Cell Biology May be repeated for credit. MCB 599: Dissertation Research Introduction to the structural and functional MCB 701: Dissertation Research off Original investigation under the supervision organization of cells and tissues and to Campus - International of a member of the staff. Prerequisite: the way structure relates to function. matriculation in MCB graduate program or Particular emphasis is placed on nuclear and Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy permission of instructor. chromosomal structure, signal transduction, (G5) in MCB graduate program or permission of instructor. Major portion of research will Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading protein translocation, the cytoskeleton and take place outside of the United States and/ May be repeated for credit. the extracellular matrix. The interaction of cellular structures and components and their or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have MCB 601: Colloquium in Molecular and regulation is stressed as is the organization the option of the health plan and may also Cellular Biology and interaction of cells in tissues. The course enroll in MEDEX. International students who are in their home country are not covered by A weekly series of talks and discussions by is comparative and includes examples of cells mandatory health plan and must contact the visiting scientists covering current research and tissues from vertebrates, invertebrates, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to and thinking in various aspects of molecular plants, and prokaryotic systems. Prerequisite: be removed. International students who are and cellular biology. Required for all MCB matriculation in graduate program or not in their home country are charged for the graduate students. Attendance is mandatory. permission of instructor. mandatory health insurance. If they are to be

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 166 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 covered by another insurance plan they must analysis of heat conduction problems; analysis MEC 510: Object-Oriented file a waiver by second week of classes. The of radiative exchange between surfaces and Programming for Scientists and charge will only be removed if other plan is radiative transport through absorbing, emitting, Engineers deemed comparable. and scattering media. Practical introduction to C++ and object- All international students must receive Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) oriented programming for a first programming clearance from an International Advisor. course for scientists and engineers. Covers Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MEC 506: Energy Management in basics of application software development May be repeated for credit. Commercial Buildings such as problem decomposition, structure Topics include basic heating, ventilating, and charts, object modeling, class diagrams, MCB 800: Summer Research air-conditioning (HVAC) system design and incremental code building, and testing at a Prerequisite: matriculation in MCB graduate selection for commercial buildings (includes beginner's level. Features the concepts of program or permission of instructor. both low-rise and high-rise buildings); abstract data types (ADT), encapsulation, Summer, S/U grading selection of central plant components and inheritance, composition, polymorphism, May be repeated for credit. equipment; calculation of space heating operator and function overloading besides and cooling load; computer techniques for studying UML (Unified Modeling Language) estimating annual energy consumption; design as a graphical representational design MEC tools for reducing energy consumption; technique. The course follows the evolution ASHRAE codes; building controls; BACnet. of programming ideas from the use of a single Mechanical Engineering Prerequisite: B.S. in mechanical engineering function to the use of structural charts and or related fields functions to modularize and finally to the use MEC 500: Modeling and Control of Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded of object-oriented programming. Manufacturing Systems (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: B.S. in science or engineering Introduction to manufacturing system Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter modeling and analysis. Fundamental MEC 507: Mathematical Methods in graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) principles of production systems. Analytical Engineering Analysis I and simulation approach to production An introduction to the use of mathematical MEC 511: Mechanics of Perfect Fluids system performance analysis, continuous analysis techniques for the solution of Lagrangian and Eulerian frames. Dynamical improvement, and design. Topics include engineering analysis problems and the equations of momentum and energy transfer. mathematical modeling of production simulation of engineering systems. Both Two-dimensional dynamics of incompressible systems, production lines with various continuous and discrete methods are covered. and barotropic perfect fluids and of the statistic distribution models of machine Initial and boundary value problems for compressible perfect gas. Conformal mapping reliability, improvement analysis and real- ordinary and partial differential equations are applied to two-dimensional fluid dynamics. time decision making. Includes both the treated. Jets and cavities. Surface waves, internal relevant fundamental concepts and the waves. Perfect shear flows. extensive practical knowledge base on which Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, manufacturing research, development, and MEC 508: Mathematical Methods in etc.) design depend. The students are expected to Engineering Analysis II complete a project, in which they will interpret MEC 512: Mechanics of Viscous Fluids real-life manufacturing plant operation in A continuation of the material covered in the light of course principles and suggest MEC 507. Introduction to and application The role of viscosity in the dynamics of improvement solutions. of numerical analysis techniques used in fluid flow. The Navier-Stokes equations, engineering such as finite elements and low Reynolds number behavior including 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fast Fourier transforms. Determination of lubrication theory, percolation through porous response characteristics of dynamic systems. media, and flow due to moving bodies. MEC 501: Convective Heat Transfer FallCombinatoric methods and techniques for High Reynolds number behavior including and Heat Exchange optimization of engineering design and steady, unsteady, and detached boundary Differential and integral formulation. Exact systems/process analysis problems. layers, jets, free shear layers, and wakes. and approximate solutions. Topics include Prerequisite: MEC 507 Phenomenological theories of turbulent shear parallel and boundary layer flows, similarity flows are introduced. solutions, external and internal flows, laminar Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and turbulent convection, and forced and free graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) convection. MEC 509: Transport Phenomena MEC 514: Advanced Fluid Mechanics: Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Introduction to differential and integral Introduction to Turbulence etc.) formulation of mass, momentum, and Introductory concepts and statistical energy transport in fluids and solids. Topics descriptions: kinematics of random velocity MEC 502: Conduction and Radiation include viscosity, laminar flow, turbulent fields; equations of motion; experimental Heat Transfer flows, conduction, convection, heat transfer techniques: isotropic turbulence, closure Heat conduction and conservation laws; coefficients, radiation, boundary layers, problem; transport processes. formulation of conduction equations in diffusion, and applications to energy Prerequisite: MEC 512 differential and integral forms; analytical technology. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter solution techniques including Laplace graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transforms and separation of variables; scaling Offered analysis; black body radiation, Kirchoff's law, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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MEC 516: Energy Technologies MEC 522: Building Energy Dynamics Prerequisite: MEC 507 Laboratory and Technology Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Experiments in the areas of infrared imaging, Building is treated as a time-dependent energy (A, A-, B+, etc.) heat pumps, batteries/power electronics, system, with its interactive components MEC 525: Product Design Concept solar thermal, thermal conductivity, and coupled through energy and mass flows under Development and Optimization insulation. The focus is on system efficiencies, an environment defined in terms of sunlight, system integration, and design for residential ambient air and wind and with its equipment This graduate course will concentrate on the markets. The fundamentals of the relevant which assist in meeting building-dwellers design concept development of the product technologies will be presented and utilized comfort requirements. Major components development cycle, from the creative phase of in the laboratory sessions. Student groups discussed are thermal mass (both interior solution development to preliminary concept are assigned laboratory projects focused on mass and envelope mass) and their thermal evaluation and selection. The course will then applying various energy technologies to solve capacities, building envelopes and their heat cover methods for mathematical modeling, engineering problems. transfer resistances, room air including its computer simulation and optimization. The concept development component of the course 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) circulation and heat exchange with thermal mass, and the transparent part of the envelope will also cover intellectual property and patent MEC 517: Energy Technologies the glazing or windows and the solar system issues. The course will not concentrate on Laboratory II passing through it during the day and the heat the development of any particular class of products, but the focus will be mainly on Experiments in the areas of thermoelectric loss during the night time. Major equipment mechanical and electromechanical devices and power, fuel cells, photovoltaics, wind turbines, include lighting, air circulation system, cooling systems. As part of the course, each participant hydrogen storage, hydrogen generation, and and heating equipment, solar thermal panels will select an appropriate project to practice power electronics in addition to related project and solar PV panels, and other equipment the application of the material covered in the work. The focus is on system efficiencies, including integrated electric and control units. course and prepare a final report. system integration, and design for residential Of the comfort requirements only temperature- markets. Student groups are assigned and-humidity and illumination are studied with Prerequisites: Undergraduate electrical laboratory projects to build experience the objective of creating, through a system- or mechanical engineering and/or science applying various energy technologies to solve understanding of the building, buildings that training. problems. in the short run meet these requirements Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) involving minimal use of energy and in Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, the long run are benchmarked against the MEC 526: Modern Power Cycles A-, B+, etc.) environmentally regenerative capabilities of First and second law design and analysis of MEC 518: Energy Harvesting wilderness. modern power cycles including Rankin Steam Cycles, Bryton Gas Turbine cycles, Combined MEC 518 Energy Harvesting is designed to Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Cycles, Cogeneration, Central Heat and Power systematically disseminate recent advances A-, B+, etc.) Generation (CHP), Tri-generation and current in various energy harvesting technologies MEC 523: Internal Combustion Engines advances in thermal power systems design in the last decade. The topic will include 2021 and analysis. Cycle efficiency and factors mechanical vibrations, piezoelectric materials, Combustion fundamentals. Carnot cycle; effecting performance and plant efficiency. electromagnetic transducers, thermoelectric reversible internal combustion engine cycle; Thermodynamic analysis of proposed as well materials, electromechanical system design, introduction to practical internal combustion. as existing thermal energy systems. power electronics, and control, as well as the engine cycles. Internal combustion piston applications of energy harvesting to vehicles, engines; engine combustion and emission 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) transportations, civil structures, and ocean processes; engine operating characteristics. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. waves. Gas turbine engines. Composite engines: turbocharging piston engines; gas generator MEC 527: Introduction to Building 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fallengines; turbocompounding engines. Method Energy Modeling MEC 521: Thermodynamics of exhaust heat recovery for improvement of Designing high performance buildings requires thermal efficiency. Method of intercooling- the application of building energy modeling This course begins with a review of the supercharging for thermal efficiency (BEM) that uses computer-based software to fundamental concepts and laws of classical improvement. simulate thermal processes in buildings. In thermodynamics. Then the thermostatic theory applying building energy modeling, this course of equilibrium states and phase transitions is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emphasizes the importance of formulating the treated, followed by the thermodynamic theory MEC 524: Computational Methods for problem in terms of assumptions: The two of processes of simple systems and composite Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer alternative assumptions are the static building systems, including heat engines. Special topics load assumption and the dynamic building may include istatisical thermodynamics, Introduction of finite difference, finite volume, process assumption. The resistor-capacitor (RC irreversible thermodynamics, radiation and and finite element methods for incompressible model is introduced. With a 3D building model photovoltaic energy conversion,, biological flows and heat transfer. Topics include explicit developed in Autodesk Revit, energy analysis thermodynamic processes, and other topics of and implicit schemes, accuracy, stability is carried out with a series of software. Popular current interest. and convergence, derived and primitive- variables formulation, orthogonal and non- whole-building energy simulation programs, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, orthogonal coordinate systems. Selected such as EnergyPlus and TRNSYS, are then etc.) computer assignments from heat conduction, explained briefly. incompressible flows, forced and free 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) convection.

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MEC 529: Introduction to Robotics: Experimental methods for testing and Stress and deformation of solids: yield criteria Theory and Applications development of internal combustion engines. and flow rules for plasticity deforming solids; Topics: robot components and mechanatronic Methods for measuring engine performance the notion of a stable inelastic material; static aspects of robotics (sensors, actuators, and and emissions. Review of combustion and dynamic analysis of plastic bodies under effectors, system integration); rotation, chemistry and thermodynamics. Engine cycle mechanical and thermal loading; use of load translation, rigid-body transform; robotics quantities measurements. Students will apply bounding theorems and the calculation of foundations in kinematics and inverse these methods to reciprocating engines and gas collapse loads of structures; the theory of the kinematics, dynamics, serial and parallel turbines. slip-line field. manipulators and their duality, introduction 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: MEC 541 to mobile robots and LEGO Robotics, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded control theories, motion planning, trajectory MEC 539: Introduction to Finite (A, A-, B+, etc.) generation, grasping and manipulation, robotic Element Methods programming language, industrial robotics, (formerly Finite Element Methods in Structural MEC 550: Mechatronics manufacturing automation, and societal Analyses) An introduction to the design, modeling, impacts. Include hands-on projects. Theory of finite element methods and their analysis and control of mechatronic systems Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, application to structural analysis problems. (smart systems comprising mechanical, etc.) Matrix operations, force and displacement electrical, and software components). methods. Derivation of matrices for bars, Fundamentals of the basic components needed MEC 530: Applied Stress Analysis beams, shear panels, membranes, plates, for the design and control of mechatronic Advanced mechanics of solids and structures. and solids. Use of these elements to model systems, including sensors, actuators, data Elastic boundary value problems are analyzed actual structural problems. Weighted residual acquisition systems, microprocessors, with various solution techniques including techniques and extension of the finite element programmable logic controllers, and I/O finite element method. Major topics are method into other areas such as heat flow systems, are covered. Hands-on experience in stress and strain, FEM formulations, material and fluid flow. Laboratory sessions introduce designing and building practical mechatronic behavious, 2D elastic problems, stress function use of the computer in solving finite element systems are provided through integrated lab and fracture. Detailed studies of structural problems. Programs for the solution of force activities. components are carried out with FEM with and displacement method problems are Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) emphasis on optimal mesh design and proper configured. A computer project consisting of interpretations of computed results. the solution and evaluation of a structural MEC 552: Mechanics of Composite Materials 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problem is required. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter The course is concerned with the analysis MEC 532: Vibration and Control graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of layered composite materials subject to Fundamentals of vibrations and control of mechanical loads. Cartesian tensor calculus MEC 540: Mechanics of Engineering vibrations of structures and dynamic systems. is used. Homogeneous anisotropic media are Structures Topics include one dof systems and responses, 2021studied first. The effect of layering is then frequency response, multiple dof systems and An introduction to variational principles analyzed. Applications to plates and shell are responses, relevant classical control theory, of mechanics and the development of studied and analytical methods of solution are modern state-space feedback control theory, approximation methods for the solution of given. Numerical analysis of composite solids application of control methodology in systems structural mechanics problems. Linear and is also considered using finite difference and with dynamics and vibration, eigenvalue nonlinear theories of beams and thin plates finite element methods. problems and modal analysis, vibration are developed along with their framework Prerequisite: MEC 536 analysis of various continuous systems. for numerical solutions. An introduction of Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, the general theory of structural stability is 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fallpresented along with its application to the MEC 536: Mechanics of Solids buckling and initial postbuckling behavior of MEC 556: Introduction to Engineering beams and plates. Mechanics of Composites A unified introduction to the fundamental principles, equations, and notation used in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to the engineering mechanics finite deformation of solids, with emphasis of fiber reinforced composites. Brief history MEC 541: Elasticity on the physical aspects of the subject. of the development of fiber composites, Cartesian tensor representation of stress, Formulation of boundary value problems. their properties, advantages, limitations and principal values, finite strain, and deformation. Compatibility equations and reciprocal applications. Overview of the different types Conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. theorem. Torsion of noncircular cross-sections. of composites but with focus on long fiber Formulation of stress-strain relations in Fundamental solutions for two- and three- reinforced composites; particularly, lamina elasticity, and compatibility relations. The use dimensional domains. Potential function and laminate concepts characteristics and of general orthogonal coordinate systems in formulations. Use of integral transforms and configurations. Topics covered include: the equations governing solids. Principles of complex variable approaches. Formulation and elastic properties of unidirectional lamina, virtual displacement and virtual work. solution of problems in thermoelasticity. strength of unidirectional lamina, elastic behavior of multidirectional laminates and Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: MEC 536 Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, stress and failure of multidirectional laminates. MEC 537: Combustion Research etc.) Design methodologies and considerations for Laboratory structural composite materials. The students MEC 543: Plasticity are expected to complete a project, in which

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 169 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 they will design a real-life structural part out of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to robot manipulators from composite materials using course principles. the mechanical viewpoint, emphasizing MEC 565: Aerospace Propulsion 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) fundamentals of various mechanisms and Fundamentals of propulsion; performance design considerations. Kinematics on 2D and MEC 557: Introduction to Fiber parameters, thermodynamic cycles. 3D manipulators; statics and dynamics; motion Composites Fabrication and Introduction to combustion and combustors. planning; control fundamentals; algorithms Characterization Performance and cycle analysis of various development; computer-graphics simulation of Overview of fiber reinforced composites, flight propulsion systems: turbojets, turbofans, manipulators; current applications. applications and mechanical properties. turboprops, ramjets, scramjets, rockets, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Introduction to fiber composites fabrication propellers. Design of supersonic inlet nozzles, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, methods as well as experimental component matching and map. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) characterization methods used in acquiring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their relevant mechanical properties. MEC 572: Computer-Aided Design of Fabrication topics include: Impregnation of MEC 567: Kinematic Analysis and Shapes and Motions fibers; Prepregs; Stacking; Curing; Vacuum Synthesis of Mechanisms This class would focus on presenting a bagging; Autoclave technology; Out-of- Introduction, mechanism structure, basic unifying treatment for the design of geometric autoclave manufacturing processes; Molding; concepts of mechanisms, canonical shapes, such as curves and surfaces as well Processing; Cutting and Joining. Topics representation of motion. Kinematic analysis, as motions of entities, such as lines, planes, in mechanical characterization include: algebraic method, vector-loop method, and rigid bodies. It will be shown that in the Experimental methods; Characterization of complex number method, spherical and language of projective geometry, one can the elastic properties and failure strengths of spatial polygon method, matrix method, design curves, surface, and motions utilizing unidirectional lamina; Characterization of dual-number quaternion method, screw same algorithms and similar data structures. the elastic properties and failure strengths of coordinate method, line coordinate method, In the process, the students will learn the multidirectional laminates. Course is divided motor algebra method, type synthesis, number theory of NURBS (Non- Uniform Rational B- into in-class lectures and laboratory sessions. synthesis, coupler curves, curvature theory splines), which is the standard representation The students are expected to complete a path generation, finite displacement theory, in existing CAD/CAM system, and extend project, in which they will design, fabricate rigid body guidance, function generation, it to the space of rigid body displacements and test a real-life structural part made out of computer-aided mechanisms analysis and for the design of motions. Students will composite materials using course principles. synthesis. implement shape and motion design algorithms 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisite: Permission of instructor in graphical computer programs. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 560: Advanced Control Systems etc.) Analytical methods applied to the design MEC 575: Introduction to Micro of multivariable linear control systems. MEC 568: Advanced Dynamics Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Introduction to linear system theory: Newtonian and Lagrangian2021 mechanics of rigid An introduction to the fundamental knowledge linearization, solution of linear matrix bodies; kinematics, inertia tensor, principle of and experience in the design and manufacture differential equations, stability, controllability, momentum, principle of virtual work, potential of microsystems. Emphasis will be placed on observability, transformations to canonical and kinetic energy, equations of motion, the methodologies for design, fabrication, and forms. Formulation of control objectives. extraction of information from the equations packaging of microsystems. An overview on Deterministic state observer. Full-state of motion, and application to engineering fabrication and manufacturing technologies for feedback control based on pole assignment problems. producing microsystems will also be covered. and linear quadratic optimization theory. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Interdisciplinary nature of MEMS will be Linear systems with stochastic inputs and emphasized via various engineering principles measurement noise. The response of linear FallMEC 570: Introduction to Engineering ranging from mechanical and electrical systems to random input; stochastic state Tribology to materials and chemical engineering. estimator (Kalman filter); separation principle Focus is on the fundamentals of tribology, Introduction of the working principles of micro of stochastic control and estimation; system the science of surfaces in relative motion, actuators, sensors, and transducers. robustness. with an introduction to friction, lubrication, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, and wear. The basics of tribology science: Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) engineering surfaces, contact mechanics, etc.) lubrication theory, wear processes and MEC 564: Fundamentals of modeling, wear properties of materials, MEC 579: Optical Measurement Aerodynamics and tribology test methods will be covered. Introduction to optical measurement and its Kinematics and dynamics of incompressible Analysis of tribological aspects of machine applications to the fields of solid mechanics, irrotational flow; stream function and the components and bearings. Industrial case design and manufacturing, and thermal and potential functions; Euler and Bernoulli studies will be presented to place the topics in fluid systems. Topics include fundamentals equations. This-foil theory; lift and moment context to industry and society. of optics, lasers, and detectors, dimensional for symmetric and cambered airfoils. Finite- Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and surface metrology, machine vision, wing theory; induced drag. Compressible etc.) measurement of temperature, concentration, flow, small disturbance theory; thin wings at and density, and optical techniques for stress subsonic and supersonic speeds. MEC 571: Analysis and Design of analysis and nondestructive testing. Robotic Manipulators

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Finite element method for the analysis of May be repeated for credit. continuous media. In-depth discussion of MEC 585: Total Quality Management penalty method, integration techniques, Concepts of TQM and quality improvement MEC 634: Advanced Topics in and differential equation solvers. Computer methods to attain world-class performance Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines implementation of finite element code in in business operations. Topics include The subject matter of each special topics nonlinear elastic, elastic-plastic materials, policy deployment, process improvement course varies from semester to semester, and dynamic problems. Major topics are methodology, daily work management, quality depending on the interests of students and 2-D and 3D element formulations, stress story methodology, six sigma, poka-yoke, ISO, staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics update algorithms, Newton-Raphson Deming and Baldridge Awards criteria. will be discussed, particularly those of current iterative technique, and explicit/implicit time Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, interest. integration schemes. etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: MEC 541, MEC 539 May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, MEC 596: Projects in Mechanical Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Engineering MEC 635: Advanced Topics in Conducted jointly by graduate students and Nonlinear Dynamic Systems MEC 656: Aerospace Propulsion one or more members of the faculty. The subject matter of each special topics Fundamentals of propulsion; performance 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, parameters, thermodynamic cycles. May be repeated for credit. depending on the interests of students and Introduction to combustion and combustors. staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics Performance and cycle analysis of various MEC 597: Graduate Research and will be discussed, particularly those of current flight propulsion systems: turbojets, turbofans, Study in Manufacturing interest. ramjets, scramjets, rockets, propellers. Design Independent research or project in the area of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of supersonic inlet nozzles, component manufacturing processes or systems. May be repeated for credit. matching and map. 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 636: Advanced Topics in MEC 599: Research Mechanical Vibration MEC 662: Advanced Vibration and The subject matter of each special topics Analysis Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-12 credits, S/U course varies from semester to semester, Principle and techniques of vibration analysis grading depending on the interests of students and of structures and machines. Includes free May be repeated for credit. staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics and forced vibration responses of linear limped-parameter, multiple dof systems; MEC 630: Special Topics in Fluid will be discussed, particularly those of current model analysis of distributed, continuous Mechanics interest. systems; non-linear vibration analysis; random TThe subject matter of each special topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.2021vibrations. course varies from semester to semester, depending on the interests of students and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 637: Special Topics in Precision staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics Engineering MEC 691: Mechanical Engineering will be discussed, particularly those of current Seminar interest. The subject matter of each special topics course varies from semester to semester, This course is designed to expose students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) depending on the interests of students and to cutting-edge research and development May be repeated for credit. staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics activities in mechanical engineering. Speakers are invited from both on and off campus. Fall MEC 631: Special Topics in Heat will be discussed, particularly those of current Fallinterest. and spring. 0 credits, S/U grading. May be Transfer repeated. The subject matter of each special topics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) course varies from semester to semester, May be repeated for credit. S/U grading depending on the interests of students and May be repeated for credit. MEC 641: Fracture Mechanics staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics The mechanics of brittle and ductile fracture MEC 695: Mechanical Engineering will be discussed, particularly those of current Internship interest. in engineering materials are studied. Major subjects are linear elastic fracture, elastic- Participation in off-campus engineering 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) plastic fracture, and fatigue crack analysis. practice in private corporations, public May be repeated for credit. Topics also include stress intensity factor, agencies, or non-profit institutions. Students will be required to have faculty coordinator MEC 633: Special Topics in energy release rate, J-integ. as well as a contact in outside organization, to Thermodynamics Prerequisite: MEC 536, participate with them in regular consultations The subject matter of each special topics Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) on the project, and to submit a final report to course varies from semester to semester, both. A maximum of 3 credits can be accepted depending on the interests of students and MEC 651: Advanced Finite Element toward the M.S. degree. staff. Advanced topics and specialized topics Analysis will be discussed, particularly those of current Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading interest. May be repeated 3 times FOR credit.

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MEC 696: Special Problems in All international students must received of classroom work and independent work in Mechanical Engineering clearance from an International Advisor. the form of consulting and site visits with Conducted jointly by graduate students and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading the client. The course culminates with a one or more members of the faculty. May be repeated for credit. professionally written marketing plan and presentation to the client. Should be taken 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 800: Full Time Summer Research during the student's final semester. May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. 6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MEC 697: Practicum in Teaching I MKT 534: Marketing and Society Every TA must register for the course MKT This course applies traditional marketing Fall, Spring, S/U grading principles and techniques to the challenges May be repeated for credit. Marketing and rewards of promoting positive public behavior. We will first examine arguments for MEC 698: Practicum in Teaching II MKT 516: Strategic Brand Management marketing being used as a force for bad or as a Practicum in teaching under faculty Highly interactive course. Hands-on, practical force for good before exploring concepts and supervision exploration of product, service, and enterprise- theories from the behavioral sciences including 1-3 credits, S/U grading wide brand building and management. Course psychological, sociological, economic, and May be repeated for credit. is structured along daily responsibilities and cultural perspectives and analyzing their challenges faced by working brand/marketing usefulness for promoting public welfare. By MEC 699: Dissertation Research on managers and will provide experience with the end of the course, students will propose Campus proven strategies for building successful a comprehensive social marketing plan for Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). brands in the competitive marketplace, enhancing consumer welfare in their domain of Major portion of research must take place on the decisions and options faced by brand interest. managers, and the tools to effectively manage SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. brands. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MKT 535: New Product Development grading New products are a very important part of MKT 518: Principles of Sales May be repeated for credit. most all modern companies, particularly those Management having to compete on a global level. This MEC 700: Dissertation Research off This course prepares students to manage a course looks at the specific challenges in Campus - Domestic sales force. Through lectures, discussions, both coming up (conceptualization, design, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy assignments, and case analysis, students will and development) with new products and (G5). Major portion of research will take place understand principles and best procedures of how to market them to different marketplace off-campus, but in the United States and/ sales force management as they apply to both segments. Target marketing techniques or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven small and large organizations.2021and quantitative and qualitative approaches National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to assessing markets and product/market are considered on-campus. All international fits will be examined in depth. This course students must enroll in one of the graduate MKT 519: Social Media Marketing will incorporate a combination of formats - student insurance plans and should be advised Strategy including lectures, computer labs, and team by an International Advisor. Social Media Marketing Strategy covers projects. It is recommended that Marketing Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading theoretical and practical perspectives for Research be taken before this course. May be repeated for credit. developing and implementing social media 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) marketing strategies. The course is designed MEC 701: Dissertation Research off Fallto expose students to state-of-the-art practices MKT 565: Consumer Insights Campus - International in social media marketing with an emphasis Marketing is the business function that deals Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy on leveraging insights from social media to with customers¿ needs and wants. Thus, (G5). Major portion of research will take inform strategic firm decisions. an essential component of marketing is place outside of the United States and/or 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) understanding consumers and to develop a U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the deep understanding of consumers¿ needs option of the health plan and may also enroll MKT 521: Industry Project in Marketing and wants, you need to conduct marketing in MEDEX. International students who are The Industry Project course in Marketing is a research. Psychological and social science in their home country are not covered by capstone course that facilitates the transition research has produced numerous theoretical mandatory health plan and must contact the from University to the workplace through and technological advances that offer access Insurance Office for the insurance charge to the development of a "real world" semester to the inner workings of the mind, providing be removed. International students who are long client project which is mentored by a marketers with research tools to more not in their home country are charged for the faculty supervisor. Students will work in effectively discover and fulfill consumer mandatory health insurance. If they are to be teams to learn how to manage themselves and needs. This course provides an overview of the covered by another insurance plan they must others when developing solutions to real world marketing, psychological, and social science file a waiver be second week of classes. The business problems. Students will enhance their knowledge relevant to consumer behavior charge will only be removed if other plan is leadership skills as well as conduct research, and also provides an introduction to research deemed comparable. analyze information, and present their findings. methods for marketers to utilize when pursuing The format of the course will be a combination organizational goals. In this course, students

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 172 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 will learn about qualitative and quantitative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Overview of the history of the field. Emphasis marketing techniques such as how to conduct on recent trends in American musicology. a focus group, how to conduct high-quality Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) survey research, how to conduct conjoint MST analysis, and how to use the IAT to develop a Medical Scientist Training MUS 501: Compositional Skills of deeper understanding of consumers' implicit Tonal Music Program beliefs. An intensive course in chorale harmonization 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MST 501: Selected Topics in and counterpoint. (Enrollment limited to 12.) Permission of instructor required. MKT 567: Integrated Marketing Translation/Research and Clinical Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Management Pathological Correlations Marketing managers must be able to determine The learning goals of this course are for the MUS 502: Proseminar in Tonal which customers their organization should students to gain an appreciation of examples Analysis of research by physician scientists and its serve, which products and services it should The application of various techniques of offer them, and how. This course is intended clinical application. A clinical case will be presented by faculty or senior students and analysis to tonal works. Rhythmic, harmonic, to develop an analytical framework for these linear, thematic, and other elements of decisions that permits managers to maximize this case will be discussed in the light of a recent biomedical research publication. musical structure are considered. Preparation their organization's return on marketing equivalent to MUS 501 is assumed. expenditures. Emphasis will be placed on The publications are presented, analyzed Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, developing a position in the marketplace and discussed by the students as a group. etc.) that provides value to customers that is Topics are selected from the recent biomedical May be repeated for credit. not readily duplicated by competitors. As literature and can involve any clinical a result, the first half of the course will discipline, basic life science research topics as well as bioengineering topics. MUS 503: Music in the 20th and 21st develop models for understanding customers, Centuries competitors, and collaborators (e.g., suppliers 0-1 credits, S/U grading and intermediaries). The second half of May be repeated for credit. An intensive course in contemporary musical the course will examine tools available to styles, focusing on historical problems. marketers to execute strategic decisions. MST 502: Clinical Scientist Seminar Seminar reports and research papers on works Series of major significance. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The learning goals of this course are for the Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MKT 569: Digital Marketing students to gain an appreciation of examples of research by physician scientists and its MUS 504: Analysis of Music of the 20th Marketing on the internet is constantly and 21st Centuries changing. This course will give you a clinical application. A clinical case will be theoretical understanding of different digital presented by faculty or senior students and Detailed analyses of various works that are marketing activities, current trends and this case will be discussed in the light of representative of the significant compositional 2021systems of recent music. changes, and the skills to perform vital daily a recent biomedical research publication. digital market functions. We will cover Search The publications are presented, analyzed Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Engine Optimization and Search Engine and discussed by the students as a group. May be repeated for credit. Marketing (SEO/SEM), Email Marketing, Topics are selected from the recent biomedical Social Media Campaigns, Reputation literature and can involve any clinical MUS 505: Foundations of Musicianship Management and E-mail marketing. By the discipline, basic life science research topics as An intensive workshop in the skills of sight end of the course, students will have earned well as bioengineering topics. singing and dictation of tonal melodies, two certificates: 1) Digital Marketing from 0-1 credits, S/U grading rhythm, and diatonic harmony. Repertoire Stukent and 2) Google Analytics. Both of these FallMay be repeated for credit. is drawn from diverse styles and periods. certificates are well-respected and regarded Qualified students may be exempted from this in industry and will place students in a good course through a placement exam given at the position for the Digital Marketing job market. MUS beginning of the fall semester. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Music Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

MKT 580: Integrated Marketing MUS 500: Introduction to Music MUS 506: Graduate Musicianship Communications Research An intensive workshop in the development Integrated Marketing Communications is An introduction into the scholarly study of musicianship skills in advanced tonal and the practice of developing an overall media of Western music. Topics may include: atonal music. The course includes dictation in and messaging strategy with a consistent bibliographic tools for research; historical, a variety of harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic message to the marketplace. This course theoretical, and analytical methodologies; categories and prepared singing and sight- provides students an opportunity to gain textual scholarship; organology and singing of complex tonal and atonal melodies an understanding of how to effectively iconography; performance practice; aesthetics (in bass, alto, tenor, and treble clef). Qualified communicate with consumers. Topics may and criticism; sociology of music; perception students may be exempted from this course include communication theory, appropriate use and cognition; gender and sexuality; through a placement exam given at the of different media (e.g., television, radio, print, musicology in today's academia and society. beginning of the fall semester. online), and media planning.

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Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be waived by proof of comparable course etc.) etc.) in earlier study. S/U grading MUS 507: Studies in Music History MUS 515: The Fundamentals of Concentrated study of the works of a single Electronic Music MUS 523: Advanced Composition composer, or of repertories that represent A short survey of the history and literature Individual projects for graduate students in single compositional tendencies in Western of the medium is followed by study of the composition. music. Recent topics have included Mozart's pertinent background in theoretical acoustics Fall and Spring, 2-6 credits, Letter graded (A, operas, Goethe's Faust and the symphonic and practical engineering. Students are A-, B+, etc.) tradition, Bach cantatas, virtuosity, Stravinsky, instructed in the basic techniques of electronic May be repeated for credit. music and nationalism, and introduction to sound production and modification. popular music studies. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 524: Topics in Music Composition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Topics in Music Composition treats specific MUS 516: Electronic Music Workshop May be repeated for credit. genres and techniques of music composition- Individual short experimental works or such as composing for string quartet, opera, MUS 508: Studies in Composition and specific assignments. Uses of electronic music orchestra, wind ensemble, Pierrot ensemble- Theory equipment. in any given semester and is intended as a Study of contemporary or traditional Prerequisite: MUS 515 or the equivalent practical course for composers. Students will compositional techniques or styles, including Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, compose for an ensemble, workshop their both analysis and exercises in writing. Not etc.) music, and study relevant scores by other more than eight credits of MUS 507, 508, and composers. 1-3 credits. 509 combined may be counted toward the MUS 517: Introduction to Computer 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) degree. Music May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A hands-on introduction to the uses of A-, B+, etc.) computers in the creation and performance MUS 534: Opera Studies May be repeated for credit. of music. Topics include software synthesis, One of the most resilient and popular genres computer manipulation of natural sound, MIDI of spectacle in the West, opera has seen a MUS 509: Performance Studies instruments and their use, and interactive remarkable continuity as an institution since Study of an instrument or voice as a performance. There is a brief survey of the its birth in 1600. Performed in the opera supplement to other work in a graduate music history, literature and repertoire of the field. house, it has been produced by a fixed set of program. This course is designed for students Prerequisite: Music major or permission of the characters: the impresario, the librettist, the who require piano study in order to pass instructor composer, the stage designer, and the director, the piano proficiency requirement, and for Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, but also singers, instrumentalists, dancers, students not in a performance degree program etc.) and the chorus. Operas have traditionally who wish to study voice or an instrument. 2021absorbed narratives from mythology and Prerequisite: Audition MUS 518: Advanced Projects in history but have also been characterized by Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Computer Music freely-invented plots. Operas have often A-, B+, etc.) Advanced projects, individual or collaborative, generated political, philosophical, and artistic May be repeated for credit. in computer music. debates, and provide today's scholars with a Prerequisite: MUS 517 and permission of unique window into historical, ideological, MUS 513: Workshop in Instrumentation instructor sociological, and aesthetic issues. The hybrid and Orchestration Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, genre par excellence, opera continues to be Studies in writing for specific instruments A-, B+, etc.) a catalyst for creativity in various arts, and and ensembles through practical exercises Fall in present-day production often features the May be repeated for credit. and examination of the repertory. Faculty and most advanced media and technologies. This student performers discuss the capabilities MUS 519: Composer's Forum seminar will capitalize on both the continuity of their instruments and perform and discuss Practicum for student composers to learn how and the diversity of the genre, bringing exercises written for the class. to present their music in a professional context. together graduate students in music history, theory, and performance. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 1-2 credits, S/U grading B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. Offered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, MUS 514: Audio Engineering MUS 520: Introduction to Music etc.) Technical fundamentals of audio engineering Research for DMA Students May be repeated for credit. for the serious practitioner, with primary An introduction to music research and emphasis on sound reinforcement and MUS 535: Lecture-Workshop in the bibliography for DMA and MA students in Performance of Baroque Music recording arts. The course focuses on their first year of study. Introduces students to measurement and critical listening, and music research databases and searching, proper An examination of problems confronting investigates the basic operational theory of bibliographic practices, score editions and the performer of music from the period principal devices and systems. other information relevant to doctoral research. ca. 1600-1750, from both musicological Prerequisite: permission of instructor Administered as an asynchronous tutorial with and practical points of view. The basso synchronous components added as needed. continuo, its function and realization; phrasing

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May be repeated for credit. performance of music prepared by members of It is organized on the following topics: the class. origins and philosophical foundations MUS 547: Topics in Baroque Music Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, of the modern historical consciousness; Historical problems in music of the Baroque Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the nature of historical knowledge and era. Recent topics have included German explanation; historiographic models; and Passion settings, theories of expression and MUS 536: Area Studies in origins, philosophical foundations, and genres representation, and musical rhetoric. Ethnomusicology of historical musicology. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Examination of the music of a selected Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, B+, etc.) world area, combining musical analysis with Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. a consideration of historical, social, and performance contexts. Recent topics have MUS 541: Topics in the Cross-Cultural MUS 549: Topics in 18th-Century included Brazilian music from 1822 to the Study of Music Music present; music, politics, and society in Eastern Examination of a topic of current interest in Investigation of critical, analytical, and Europe; and a century of Middle Eastern the cross-cultural study of music. Readings historical issues in 18th-century music, such as musics. May be repeated for credit. from various intellectual traditions in the the interpretation of sketches and fragments, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, humanities and social sciences provide a counterpoint teaching in the 1790s, and the B+, etc.) context within which to appraise recent music of Mozart. May be repeated for credit. research in ethnomusicology, historical Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, musicology, and popular music studies, and B+, etc.) MUS 537: Research Methods in to formulate possible directions for future May be repeated for credit. Ethnomusicology research. Representative topics include music A practicum covering both the theoretical and gender, music and the media, music and MUS 553: Topics in 19th-Century foundations and practical components power, and performance and performers. Music of ethnomusicological field research and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Historical, analytical, and critical issues in the analysis. Emphasis is on designing and B+, etc.) music of the 19th century. Recent topics have undertaking a small musical ethnography, and May be repeated for credit. included Italian opera, the unfinished works of on exploring practical, ethical, ontological and Schubert, and genre in Chopin's oeuvre. epistemological aspects of ethnomusicological MUS 542: Ethnomusicology and Social Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, research. Weekly readings and a final project. Theory Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An introduction to major schools2021 of social May be repeated for credit. theory as they may be applied to the MUS 538: Phenomenological analysis of music and related performance MUS 555: Topics in 20th-Century Approaches to Music Analysis forms. Theoretical writings in sociology, Music Concepts from phenomenological philosophy anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies and Focused study of selected issues in music are used as a basis for the study of music from related fields will be paired with case studies of the 20th century. Recent topics have various periods and cultures, with an emphasis that situate musical creation, performance and included primitivism and exoticism; quotation, on recent music in the Western classical dissemination within the unfolding of societal borrowing, and collage; the music of Roger tradition. Readings include Heidegger, processes. Sessions; and the Second Viennese school. Husserl, and later writings in phenomenology; FallFall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, philosophies of space and time; and music Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) theoretic studies by Clifton, J. Kramer, Lewin, May be repeated for credit. and others. MUS 543: Topics in Medieval Music Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Study of a focused area in medieval music, MUS 557: Topics in Theory Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such as the works of Guillaume de Machaut, Studies in the writings of music theorists from transmission processes, and the Notre Dame the Middle Ages through the present day in the MUS 539: Proseminar in repertory. context of contemporary repertoires. Recent Ethnomusicology Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, topics have included modal theory as a model An introduction to the field of B+, etc.) for melodic construction; efforts to adapt ethnomusicology as practiced in Europe May be repeated for credit. modal theory to polyphonic practice; rhythm in and North America over the past century. theory and practice; theories of tonality from Theoretical and methodological approaches in MUS 545: Topics in Renaissance Music Rameau to Schenker; theoretical approaches to ethnomusicology are examined as they relate Historical, analytical, and critical issues related post-tonal and 12-tone music; and theories of to major periods in the history of ethnographic to Renaissance music. Recent topics have timbre and texture. disciplines. included early 15th-century song repertories, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the boundaries of the Renaissance, and the B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

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MUS 559: Topics in Analysis Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Intensive analytical study of selected works A-, B+, etc.) MUS 571: Advanced Instruction in and exploration of analytical problems. Recent May be repeated for credit. Instrument or Voice topics have included analysis and performance, MUS 566: Camerata Singers melody, Xenakis and Ligeti, Beethoven's late Individual guidance in technique and quartets, Berg's Lulu, and the string quartet Study and performance of choral works for repertory, with 30 practice hours required each since 1945. chamber chorus from all periods of music week. Each student is required to perform history. at least one solo piece per semester, unless Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, excused by the instructor in a written note to Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated. the department's graduate program committee. May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, MUS 562: Dalcroze Method: Music May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) Pedagogy for Children May be repeated for credit. MUS 567: Master Class in Orchestral A focus on the unique approach of Emile Repertory MUS 572: Improvisation Jacques-Dalcroze, which takes into consideration his approach in light of recent Study of orchestral parts for sections (brass, Practical study of the skills and sources of developments in early childhood music strings, woodwinds) or for individual musical improvisation, including playfulness, education. The idea that students experience instruments. The course emphasizes overall emotion, courage, concentration, risk, music physically before they wrestle with ensemble skills and audition preparation. instrumental and vocal technique, patience symbols and theoretical abstraction is at the Different sections directed toward specific and trust. Improvisational skills will not heart of Dalcroze work. The Dalcroze music groups. See the course listing for offerings in be limited to any single musical style. All pedagogy includes: Eurhythmics-developing any particular semester. students will be required to improvise vocally a sense of rhythm and musical expression Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, or instrumentally. through whole-body movement; Solfége- A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, developing a sense of harmony and rhythm May be repeated for credit. etc.) through singing games; and Improvisation. May be repeated for credit. This class is designed primarily for music MUS 568: Jazz Big Band teachers, elementary school classroom teachers Study and performance of works for jazz MUS 573: Chamber Music and professional musicians. Participants are ensemble from the early 20th century to the Chamber ensembles such as the string quartet, expected to be able to read and notate simple present. wind quintet, solo vocal ensemble, two- rhythms and melodies. (formerly: Musical Fall, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, piano team, and other special groups meet, Learning, the Body, and Eurhythmics) etc.) each under the direction of a member of the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. performance faculty, for the study of works from the repertories of the respective groups, MUS 563: Advanced Choral MUS 569: Perspectives2021 on the with particular attention given to the music of Conducting A Performance of Music Since 1945 the 20th and 21st centuries. Advanced training in preparing and conducting The course focuses on issues of performance Required: Presence at coaching sessions, choral works. Students spend a semester of music written after 1945 from technical, at least three hours per week of uncoached in score study, receive individual private conceptual and aesthetic perspectives. rehearsal, and at least one performance per instruction, and are expected to participate in Weekly assignments will be focused semester the rehearsing of the University Chorus, the around topics such as: notation; extended Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, University Chorale, and the Chamber Singers. techniques; rhythmic practices; performing A-, B+, etc.) Open only to students enrolled in graduate with electronics; structure and analysis; the May be repeated for credit. conducting programs. Falltheatricality of performance; music and the MUS 575: Master Class in Solo Fall and Spring, 3-6 credits, Letter graded (A, political; interpretation and style, including Repertory for Instrument or Voice A-, B+, etc.) cross-cultural and cross-gentre works; and indeterminacy/choice/improvisation. Performance techniques and problems in MUS 564: Advanced Choral Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, works for instrument or voice, drawn from all Conducting B etc.) historical periods. The instructor is a teacher Advanced training in preparing and conducting of the specific instrument in each case, except choral works. Not open to students enrolled in MUS 570: Introduction to the History that his or her section may be open to students the graduate conducting programs. and Performance of the String Bass in of certain other instruments with his or her Jazz permission. Not offered each semester in every Prerequisite: Instructor consent instrument. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Study of the historical development of the A-, B+, etc.) string bass in jazz and other related improvised Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, musics through a selection of reading and A-, B+, etc.) MUS 565: Stony Brook Symphony listening projects. Practical assignments May be repeated for credit. Orchestra will include making transcriptions of classic MUS 576: Instrumental Repertoire Study and performance of orchestral works records and then learning to play them on before 1750 from the Baroque period to the present. bass, employing the time-proven method of "copying the masters."

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Exploration of instrumental repertoire in the Fall or Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, May be repeated for credit. 17th and 18th centuries. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 592: Seminar on the Teaching of Fall or Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, MUS 584: Baroque Chamber Ensemble Music Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Study and performance of instrumental and Discussion of fundamental problems MUS 577: Master Class in Performance vocal music, 1600-1750. Participants work in teaching music. Topics may include Pedagogy from scholarly editions and original sources the explanation of musical processes; Guidance and supervision in the teaching of an whenever possible and have the possibility of communication to nonprofessionals; and instrument or voice. performing on replicas of early instruments. integration of aspects of performance, theory, A concert is given at the end of the class term. history, and analysis with one another. 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Acceptance by audition. Required of all students who teach one of MUS 579: Opera Workshop Fall and Spring, 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, the introductory undergraduate courses in musicianship, theory, or literature; to be taken Study and performance of scenes and complete B+, etc.) during the first semester of teaching. operas from the standard and 20th-century May be repeated for credit. repertories. An interdisciplinary approach Fall, 1 credit, S/U grading MUS 585: Early Music Performance involving the departments of Music and May be repeated for credit. Practice Theatre Arts. Study and implementation of Renaissance MUS 593: Practicum in Performance Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, and Baroque performance practices. Areas Individual instruction and/or coaching for A-, B+, etc.) include brass ensemble music and lute and professional performing experience. May be repeated for credit. guitar repertories. Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading MUS 580: Vocal Diction Fall and Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, May be repeated for credit. A thorough study of the rules of pronunciation A-, B+, etc.) MUS 594: Masters Intersession and International Phonetic Alphabet May be repeated for credit. Practicum transcription in a major language of the voice MUS 586: Collaborative Keyboard repertory: Italian, French, or German. Special Practical training in activities related to the Performance attention to lyric projection of the language professional work of a performing musician, as it relates to voice production, listener Study and performance of the keyboard parts including teaching, solo and ensemble comprehension, and musical values. Course of instrumental and vocal recital repertoire. performance, conducting, internships and work includes coaching in appropriate song 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) related musical work, both on and off-campus. and operatic literature. The specific language May be repeated for credit. All off-campus activities in fulfillment of this studied rotates from semester to semester. course must be approved by the Graduate MUS 587: Collaborative Keyboard Program Director, who acts as supervisor for Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, this course. This course is only to be used A-, B+, etc.) Study and performance of the keyboard parts for Winter and Summer sessions. Winter and May be repeated for credit. of instrumental and vocal recital2021 repertoire. Summer only, S/U grading May be repeated. 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) MUS 581: Harpsichord for Pianists May be repeated for credit. S/U grading (Beginning) May be repeated for credit. Fundamentals of harpsichord techniques, MUS 590: Masters Practicum in MUS 596: Contemporary Chamber touch, and repertoire for students already Professional Skills Players possessing a keyboard background. Practical training in activities related to the The study and performance of music of Fall, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter graded professional work of a performing musician, the 20th and 21st centuries for ensemble, (A, A-, B+, etc.) including teaching, solo and ensemble Fall ranging from duos to larger conducted groups. performance, conducting, internships and MUS 582: Harpsichord for Pianists related musical work, both on and off-campus. Repertoire includes 20th-century classics as (Advanced) Required of all full-time students in the well as new works, including compositions written by Stony Brook students. A full Continuation of MUS 581: Further exploration M.M. performance program. All off-campus schedule of public performances takes place. of techniques and repertoire. activities in fulfillment of this course must be approved by the Graduate Program Director, Prerequisite: Permission of instructors Prerequisite: Piano major or strong keyboard who acts as supervisor for this course. Fall Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, background. and Spring only, 1 credit, S/U grading May be A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 2 credits, Letter repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1 credit, S/U grading MUS 597: Jazz Chamber Ensemble MUS 583: Continuo Realization May be repeated for credit. Study and performance of works for jazz Practical and theoretical instruction in figured MUS 591: Practicum in Teaching ensemble. Prerequisites: Permission: Audition bass realization, based on the study of vocal required. Fall and Spring and instrumental scores from 1600-1750. Instruction in the department under the Required of students in harpsichord. Open, supervision of the faculty. (MUS 591 may not 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with consent of the instructor, to other be included in the courses taken in fulfillment May be repeated for credit. qualified students who have some knowledge of degree requirements.) MUS 599: Independent Studies of figured bass realization. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading

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Individual studies under the guidance of a approved by the Graduate Program Director, SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the faculty member. Each student must submit who acts as supervisor for this course. Brookhaven National Lab. to the graduate studies committee of the 1 credit, S/U grading Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U department a written prospectus of the work May be repeated for credit. grading he or she intends to pursue, with the amount May be repeated for credit. of credit proposed, together with the written MUS 694: Doctoral Intersession endorsement of the prospective instructor. Practicum MUS 700: Dissertation Research off Campus - Domestic Approval of the graduate studies committee Practical training in activities related to the is required; hence this material should be professional work of a performing musician, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy submitted as soon as possible, and in any case including teaching, solo and ensemble (G5). Major portion of research will take place within the first two weeks of the semester (or performance, conducting, internships and off-campus, but in the United States and/ the first week of a summer session). related musical work, both on and off-campus. or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven 0-16 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) All off-campus activities in fulfillment of this National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab May be repeated for credit. course must be approved by the Graduate are considered on-campus. All international Program Director, who acts as supervisor for students must enroll in one of the graduate MUS 615: Seminar in Electronic Music this course. This course is only to be used student insurance plans and should be advised Composition for Winter and Summer sessions. Winter and by an International Advisor. Individual compositions of substantial Summer only, S/U grading May be repeated. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading proportions in electronic or concrete music S/U grading May be repeated for credit. media. The course may be repeated. Open May be repeated for credit. only to qualified students in a music degree MUS 701: Dissertation Research off program. MUS 695: Doctoral Essay Tutorial Campus - International Prerequisite: MUS 516 or the equivalent Development of an essay to fulfill Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, requirements in either DMA or PhD programs. (G5). Major portion of research will take A-, B+, etc.) Students may enroll in this course only after place outside of the United States and/or May be repeated for credit. completing the required graduate seminars or U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the proseminars (see program requirements) with a option of the health plan and may also enroll MUS 623: Directed Study in grade of "B" or better in both the seminar and in MEDEX. International students who are Composition the essay to be developed. in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the Intended for doctoral students in composition. Prerequisite: MUS 502, 503, 504, 507, 535, Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded 537-555, 557, or 559 be removed. International students who are (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, not in their home country are charged for the May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health insurance. If they are to be May be repeated for credit. MUS 661: Directed Study in 2021covered by another insurance plan they must Conducting MUS 696: Doctoral Colloquium or file a waiver be second week of classes. The charge will only be removed if other plan is Intended for doctoral students in conducting. Lecture-Recital deemed comparable. Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded Students are required to enroll in MUS 696 in All international students must received (A, A-, B+, etc.) the semester in which the Ph.D. colloquium clearance from an International Advisor. May be repeated for credit. or the D.M.A. lecture-recital is given. The instructor, chosen in consultation with the Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading MUS 671: Directed Study in directing committee, acts as an advisor or May be repeated for credit. Instrumental and Vocal Performance tutor, and signals to the graduate program MUS 800: Summer Research Fallcommittee that the colloquium or lecture- Intended for doctoral students in instrumental Students who receive support for summer and vocal performance. recital may be given. research must register for this course, which Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, Letter graded gives them full-time status. (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. S/U grading May be repeated for credit. MUS 697: Directed Reading May be repeated for credit. MUS 690: Doctoral Practicum in Intended for preparation for the preliminary MUS 850: Summer Teaching Professional Skills examinations and related requirements. Students who receive support for summer Practical training in activities related to the Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading teaching must register for this course, which professional work of a performing musician, May be repeated for credit. gives them full-time status. including teaching, solo and ensemble performance, conducting, internships and MUS 699: Dissertation Research on S/U grading related musical work, both on and off-campus. Campus Required of all full-time students in the Intended for work in the area of the D.M.A. performance program, except for dissertation. NET students taking MUS 701. All off-campus Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). Independent Project activities in fulfillment of this course must be Major portion of research must take place on NET 508: OBJ.ORIENTED SYS DEV

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neurobiological systems, spanning a range NET 509: ADVANCED VLSI DESIGN of topics from the biophysics of excitable NEU 521: Introduction to Cellular membranes to models of learning and NET 510: ADV.PROD:SCHED.CNTRL Neuroscience memory. A major focus of the course will The course introduces students to basic be on the process by which a model of a neurobiological system is developed. Students NET 512: INTRO TO ELOPTICS principles of cellular neuroscience. Topics covered include the ionic basis of resting will be introduced to the mathematical potentials and electrical excitability, the methods required for the modeling of such NET 513: PRIN ENGR MGT II structure, function and molecular biology systems, as well as to tools for numerical and of voltage-and ligand-gated ion channels. computational simulation. The students will NET 514: SEM DEVICE PROCESIN Semesters Offered: Fall also learn programming skills in the Matlab 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) computing environment and will be required NET 515: SEMICONDUC DEVCE PRO to perform Matlab projects to complement the NEU 522: Introduction to Molecular material learned in the lectures. Neuroscience NET 516: Man Machine Systems 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The course introduces students to basic principles of molecular neuroscience. Topics NEU 537: Nuerotransmission and covered include the signal transduction, Neuromodulation NEU regulation of neural gene expression and Exploration of fundamental concepts of Neuroscience human neural genetic diseases. Semesters neurotransmission and neuromodulation of Offered: Fall synaptic transmission. The subject matter NEU 501: Introduction to Neuroscience 2-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) includes an overview of the basic principles of Research neurotransmission and of the neuromodulatory NEU 531: Sensory and Motor Systems systems in the brain. The involvement of these A series of talks, discussions, and practical This course introduces students to current systems in behavior and neurological disorders exercises to address topics related to research is emphasized. We will discuss how specific in neurobiology including laboratory etiquette, debates on sensory and motor systems. Topics and areas covered include: general principles neurological disorders can be investigated the laboratory notebook, experimental experimentally and how experimental results design and basic experimental techniques of sensory and motor coding, sensory systems (somatosensation, audition, vision, taste and can contribute to understanding and treating used in neuroscience research including these disorders. electrophysiology, behavioral testing, olfaction), voluntary control of movement, molecular and cellular techniques, imaging modulation of movement by cerebellum and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and computational approaches. Prerequisites: basal ganglia. NEU 547: Introduction to Neural Matriculation in MS program or permission of 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Computation instructor Summer 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NEU 532: Neural Plasticity2021 Learning A broad introduction to neural computation. and Memory This course will discuss what counts as 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course introduces students to the link ¿computation¿ and in what sense the brain NEU 502: Reading, Writing, and between plasticity, learning and memory. computes, how it computes, and whether Speaking Neurobiology Topics covered include: synaptic plasticity, those computations look anything like synaptic homeotasis, brain connectivity, those performed by digital computers. Seminar course for master's students in These ideas and concepts will be introduced Neuroscience that will provide the student with neurogenesis, aversive and reward learning, addiction. through examples of computation in the practical instruction in analyzing the literature, brain, including the neural bases of sensory written and oral presentation skills. Course Fall2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) perception, decision making, learning and exercises will focus on the student's thesis memory, and motor control. Students will NEU 534: Principles of Neurobiology research. learn through in-class demonstrations and 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Neuroscience investigates how the brain activities, as well as homework assignments functions. This course begins with a review that give students the opportunity to analyze NEU 517: Principles of Cell Signaling of cellular and molecular mechanisms of real neural recordings relevant to each of the Nervous system function is dependant on the brain function, considers brain systems for topic modules. Students taking this class will ability of signals to flow between and within motor control and sensory processing, and be expected to have basic working knowledge cells. The basic principles of cellular signaling then finishes with a description of the cellular in undergraduate-level calculus and statistics. and molecular underpinnings of higher brain and maintenance of cellular and organismic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) homeostasis through intra and intercellular functions such as learning, emotion, and signaling mechanisms will be covered. cognition. Semester Offered: Summer NEU 548: MS Research Practicum in Emphasis will be placed on relationships 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Neuroscience between nuclear events and ongoing processes The student will be introduced to modern NEU 536: Introduction to of the cell. The roles of membrane receptors neuroscience research techniques through Computational Neuroscience and second-messenger pathways in mediating participation in ongoing research in the such diverse events as bacterial chemotaxis, This course will introduce students to laboratory of a Program in Neuroscience protozoan locomotion, and secretion are the fundamental principles and methods Faculty member for one semester. Student discussed. Semesters Offered: Summer underlying computational modeling of must obtain permission to register from the

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 179 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 sponsoring faculty member. Prerequisite: Applying epidemiologic methods to critically will provide training in questionnaire design, Matriculation in MS program or permission of evaluate the evidence used in clinical decision the use for REDCap for data input and instructor Semesters Offered: making will be an important aspect of this managements, Excel for budget management, Fall, Spring, Summer, 0-9 credits, S/U grading course. SPSS for data processing and analysis, and May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Power Point for print/slide presentations and report generation. Trainees will be instructed NEU 549: MS Thesis Research NUR 636: Advanced Statistical in the conduct for good clinical practice as it The student will conduct Neuroscience Methods relates to data collection and data management. research in the laboratory of a program in This course will build on the foundations of Trainees will be introduced to available Neuroscience Faculty. Student must obtain NUR 635 and extend the doctoral student¿s comprehensive systems for collaborations, permission to register from the sponsoring exposure to more complex inferential statistics data management and data capture (e.g., faculty member. Prerequisite: Matriculation in used in healthcare research. Statistical REDCap, on Core) and issues of data security MS program or permission of instructor. applications will be explored in the context of as it relates to clinical research. The hands-on exercises/assignments, discussions, quizzes, 0-9 credits, S/U grading nursing research. Practical application of these and homework assignments will help to May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. statistical methods will be conducted using SPSS statistical software. develop skills in questionnaire design, methods of data study collection, data capture, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) NUR data management while enforcing skills NUR 647: Doctoral Research Seminar for data analysis and presentation of study Nursing results. This course includes issues related This course will provide the student with to data management and data collection the academic skills necessary to build the NUR 630: Philosophical Foundations for a clinical research project to meet the scientific foundation for the advanced practice of Nursing Science needs of this group of trainees. Trainees will of nursing. Theory and evidence-driven be evaluated by participation in the class This course explores historical and projects will be developed in collaboration current views of knowledge development exercises, homework assignments, quizzes, on- with interdisciplinary mentors. Peer review line course discussions through Blackboard, underpinning philosophies of science, social skills will be refined. science, and nursing science. Underlying development of an individual simulated ontological and epistemological assumptions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) project, and an individual oral presentation of philosophical views and how they influence of the student¿s simulated project describing NUR 660: Quantitative Designs and their choices for data management methods scientific inquiry in nursing will be addressed. Methods in Nursing Research A key component of these discussions will and results to be presented during the last two be the implications of diverse perspectives on This course explores the major designs and classes. The individual project will include theoretical thinking, scientific inquiry, and methods used for the investigation of problems development of a questionnaire, codebook, knowledge development in nursing. requiring quantitative approaches. Types of database and creation of a test data set for research designs are analyzed including major use in conducting analyses and the final 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) strengths and limitations of2021 each. Population presentation. sampling, participant selection, and data NUR 631: Concepts, Theories and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) collection and analysis methods are compared Knowledge Development in Nursing and contrasted. Science NUR 670: Independent Studies This course will provide doctoral students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This student-initiated elective course provides with a systematic overview of concepts an opportunity to use enhance the depth NUR 661: Qualitative Methods in of a student's chose area of research. The and theories as a foundation for knowledge Nursing Research development in nursing. Conceptual and independent student can be in specific analytical skills are developed through analysis FallThis course explores the major approaches to content areas or methodological or analytical and critique of nursing concepts, clinical qualitative inquiry. Philosophical or theoretical approaches. Independent Studies cannot phenomena and science-based theories. The underpinnings specific to each approach replace courses for a degree. course examines the theoretical and empirical are analyzed. Selected frameworks for data 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) foundation of nursing, approaches to the collection and analysis are presented. Selection May be repeated 4 times FOR credit. analysis and development of nursing concepts, of participants, data collection and analysis of the role of concepts in nursing science, and each tradition are compared and contrasted. NUR 680: Integrating Big Data to the applicability of nursing concepts and The elements of rigor in qualitative inquiry are Evaluate Population Health theories to clinical practice. Focus will be on explored. This course will focus on available sources development and use of conceptual language, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of population data, how to access them, and critical thinking skills, and in analyzing begin to explore geographic regions through literature portraying key nursing concepts. NUR 662: Data Management and data. Students will be introduced to the field Informatics for Clinical Scientists 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of Biomedical Informatics. Innovative tools The aims of this course will be achieved by developed at Stony Brook by informaticians to NUR 635: Biostatistics participation in a 45-hour (3 credit) course evaluate population health will be presented. This course will provide the student with consisting of lectures, hands-on computer Students will learn how to use data to identify knowledge of statistical approaches utilized application training/labs, hands-on exercises/ populations at risk ¿ who they are, where they in epidemiological studies. Analysis of risk assignments, discussions and quizzes, and live and to identify key focus areas to target factors and disease data will be emphasized. an individual final presentation. The course intervention. With this knowledge students

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 180 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 will be able to outline programs that may problem of greatest interest to them, the skills OAE 592: Oral Academic English (High reduce health disparities, as well as evaluate or competencies mastered can prepare students Intermediate) other health risks in regional populations. methodologically to carry out their dissertation The emphasis of this course is threefold: 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) research strategy. developing language skills, teaching skills 3 credits, S/U grading and cultural awareness. Language skills will NUR 690: Dissertation Seminar I focus on sentence stress, phrasing, linking This course focuses on the development of NUR 698: Teaching Practicum and pausing with field specific language the doctoral dissertation proposal. Students The course introduces graduate students to practice. Teaching skills stressed include will apply their theoretical knowledge and the major pedagogical theories and practices questioning techniques for discussion and research proficiency to transform their general in academia. Students will develop contracts assessment, leading effective discussions ideas about their dissertation topic into a that identify individualized learning outcomes and assessing student learning. The cultural research strategy. Students will prepare key of the practicum that will be facilitated awareness focuses on idioms, American elements of the dissertation proposal, including by direct advisement and mentorship of cultural values and norms as well as non- Statement of the Problem, Research Questions School of Nursing faculty. The practicum verbal communication. Successful completion and/or Hypotheses Conceptual/Theoretical will include the student teaching part of a of this course (B or higher) leads to OAE 594. Framework, Literature Review, and Research course, developing learning modules and Prerequisites: IELTS score of 6.0 or iBT Speak Methods. Using a seminar format, teaching- student assignments, evaluating student score of 18-20. learning strategies are designed to promote performance, and evaluating their own 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) critical/analytical thinking and scholarly teaching performance. discourse. 3 credits, S/U grading OAE 594: Oral Academic English 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (Advanced) May be repeated for credit. NUR 699: PhD Dissertation Research - This course further develops language skills On Campus at the supra segmental level, teaching skills, NUR 691: Dissertation Seminar II cultural awareness and presentation skills. This course focuses on the conduct of the NUR 700: PhD Dissertation Research- Intonation is taught with self-monitoring doctoral dissertation under the guidance of the Off Campus strategies. The teaching skills examine student's dissertation committee. Students will strategies for introducing yourself, your May be repeated for credit. secure applicable human subjects protection, syllabus, explaining a visual, defining terms, giving presentations and giving successful carry out their research methodologies, NUR 701: PhD Dissertation Research- lectures. Analysis of presentations is given to and complete analyses of data. The course Off Campus (International) culminates in a scholarly paper (Dissertation) each student throughout the semester. Cultural that exemplifies the student's expertise May be repeated for credit. awareness is centered on some assumptions and their new and creative contribution to affecting teaching in the American classroom. nursing. Using a seminar format, teaching- Success completion of this course (a B or learning strategies are designed to promote OAE 2021better) clears the student from the oral/aural critical/analytical thinking and scholarly Oral Academic English ESL requirements. Prerequisites: IELTS score discourse. Students are required to provide of 6.5 or iBT Speak score of 21-22) regular updates of the study's progress to the OAE 590: Oral Academic English 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dissertation committee chairperson. (Intermediate) 0-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The purpose of this course is to do intensive May be repeated for credit. work in aural and oral language skills. PHC Emphasis is on the segmental level: vowel/ NUR 697: Research Practicum Philosophy consonant work, syllable work and word The course introduces graduate students to Fall stress as well as rhythm on the sentence PHI 500: Feminist Theories significant and methodologically rigorous level. Summarizing and questioning are This course is designed to introduce students research. School of Nursing faculty and practiced with work on learning styles. affiliated faculty from Stony Brook Medicine to the most recent developments in feminist Students' awareness of American teaching theory, covering different currents as well and Stony Brook University will serve as and cultural patterns are stressed. Observing preceptors as students engage in a supervised, as traditions. The seminar may focus on American professors and students in class is moral and political questions, the intersection hands-on practicum with ongoing research. encouraged. A student will receive a diagnostic Students will develop contracts that identify between the social and the psychological, or assessment of her/his language segmental and culture and representation as it is negotiated individualized learning outcomes of the suprasegmental difficulties from the instructor practicum that will be facilitated by direct in different cultural media (film, literature, and will be expected to work on improvement architecture, music, etc.) advisement and mentorship of School of in these speech areas both in the classroom and Nursing and affiliated faculty. Opportunities independently in the language laboratories. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, during the practicum will include subject Successful completion (A- or higher) of the etc.) recruitment and screening, data collection course leads to OAE 594; B+ or below leads to May be repeated for credit. and analyses, interpretation of results, OAE 592. Prerequisite: IELTS score of 5-5.5 PHI 501: Theories of Race research report writing an preparation of or iBT Speak score of 15-17 products for scholarly dissemination. While This course is designed to introduce the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the research practicum may not necessarily student to different currents of analyses of expose students to the specific population or race and racism. It focuses particularly on

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 181 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 the relationship between philosophy and the A consideration of basic problems in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) development, legitimacy and legimation of creation and appreciation of art. What is the May be repeated for credit. racial categories. The seminar may focus on creative process? Who is the artist? How is moral and political philosophy, questions of art to be compared with other symbolic forms PHI 509: Special Seminar in Aesthetics epistemology or metaphysics, the intersections (e.g. language, science, technology)? What This is an advanced seminar in aesthetics that between the social and the psychological, or does art offer that philosophy does not, and focuses on a single question that arises in culture and representations of raced subjects as vice-versa? In what ways does the gender or the philosophy of art. This question may be they are negotiated in different cultural media racial identity of the artist affect the creation approached through the writings of a single (film, literature, architecture, music, etc.) of the work? What are the cultural, social, and author, or else by consulting texts of several Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) political dimensions of the art work and its thinkers (including practicing artists as well May be repeated for credit. reception? as philosophers). Examples of such questions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) would be: What is the place of form in art? PHI 503: Theories of Ethnicity May be repeated for credit. How does emotion figure into the creation or This course focuses on the category of appreciation of art? To be taught on the main ethnicity. Using an inter-cultural, comparative PHI 507: Inquiries into Art Criticism campus by a regular faculty member. Ideally, and historical approach, it seeks to expose and Theory this course would be taken during the second the student to the uses and misuses of this This course deals with the theoretical year of master's degree work at Stony Brook category. The category of ethnicity will also be approaches to the study of art that cross Manhattan. studied in conjunctions with questions relating historical boundaries. Topics vary from Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter to individual identity, national, cultural and semester to semester. They may be an graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) civilizational identities. Ethnicity, like Race expansion of one of the areas generally May be repeated for credit. and Gender, is one of the most fundamental covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of markers of identity. Using interdisciplinary art or the iconography of architecture. Other PHI 510: Ancient Philosophy and comparative methods and perspectives, investigations may focus on subjects requiring An in-depth reading of few fundamental texts ethnicity's role in the constitutions of identities a special methodological approach, such as the of classical antiquity that conceptualize mind/ will be studied. theory and history of ornament and design or soul as object of rational investigation. These Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the role of public art. ancient theories contain within themselves all May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the principal elements of later philosophies B+, etc.) of mind. This course aims at making these PHI 504: Intersections of Race, May be repeated for credit. elements explicit through the study of the Ethinicity, and Gender following: Anaxagoras, selected fragments This course, which is analogous to an honors PHI 507: Aesthetic System on "mind"; Plato, Republic (selection) and senior seminar, seeks to integrate into a A concentrated reading of a single major work, Phaedo; Aristotle, De Anima (Peri Psyche); productive dialogue the different methods, with attention both to its detailed structure Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations; Lucretius, traditions and perspectives used to analyze and to its larger significance.2021 Candidates for On the Nature of Things. 3 credits, ABCF Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, while also such reading include Aristotle's Poetics, Kant's grading, offered Fall/Spring alternate years juxtaposing and comparing the similarities and Critique of Judgement, Hegel's Lectures on 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) differences between them. The approach, as in The Philiosophy of Art, Adorno's Aesthetic the whole program, will be inderdisciplinary Theory, Collingwood's Principles of Art, PHI 511: Modern Philosophy and comparative. Langer's Feeling and Form, Dewey's Art as This is an advanced course that investigates Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Experience, Heidegger's "The Origin of the pivotal connections between seventeenth and May be repeated for credit. Work of Art", and Danto's Transfiguration of eighteenth-century theories of knowledge, the Commonplace. metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. It surveys PHI 505: Core Course in Philosophy FallFall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) key developments in these areas of philosophic and the Arts: History of Aesthetic May be repeated for credit. inquiry during the sixteenth and seventeenth Theory centuries. It also involves careful explicative The basic course will investigate some of the PHI 508: Contemporary Issues in the work on texts written by major thinkers of most important and influential theories of art Arts the period, e.g., Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, in the West from Plato to the present. Readings With an eye on artworks accessible in Spinoza, Malebranch, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and discussion in depth of major figures the public sphere - museums, galleries, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. will make up the content of the course: e.g., concerts, readings, dance performances, film 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, - philosophical questions will be raised: Why Nietzsche, Heidegger, Collingwood, Langer, these works now? How do they compare with PHI 520: Advanced Studies in Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne. The focus their predecessors? What do they portend Philosophy throughout will be on central issues in for the future of art? Visits to the sites and Investigations into specialty areas led and aesthetics such as imitation, truth, beauty, performances of such works will be integrated directed by accomplished philosophers in expression, emotion, and imagination. into an ongoing discussion of the issues they the discipline involved. Instructor consent Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter raise within the context of aesthetic theory required. No more than six credits of PHI 520 graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) - and what new theories they suggest. This may count towards the fulfillment of degree May be repeated for credit. course will be co-scheduled with ITL571, requirements in the MA program. FRN571, and EGL603 Offered: PHI 506: Art and Its Problems

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Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded biology. The focus will be in particular on are representation, expression, form, the (A, A-, B+, etc.) quantitative genetics and its interface with aesthetic attitude, beauty, taste, criticism and May be repeated for credit. more modern approaches, including QTL interpretation of art, and the relation of art to mapping, bioinformatics and the various other areas of experience. The course does not PHI 521: Contemporary Moral Issues "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). Second, assume previous familiarity with philosophy This examination of the radical nature of students will become familiar with the or art; however, it does assume an intellectual traditional moral theory in its contemporary fundamental concepts of philosophy of science commitment to the examination of difficult applications will look at the ideas of Mill, particularly as they relate to the conceptual ideas. This course is offered as both CEI 573 Kant, and Aristotle as variations on traditional analysis of the ideas that shape modern and PHI 582. Judeo-Christian moral theory. Students will evolutionary and ecological theory. In this 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) write short papers on contemporary moral respect, the focus will be both on philosophical issues as these are portrayed in short fiction. concepts such as falsificationism, induction, PHI 587: DIRECTED READINGS 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deduction, hypothesis testing and the nature of evidence, as well as on the meaning of key PHI 588: DIRECTED RESEARCH PHI 535: Political Philosophy ideas in evolutionary ecology, like natural selection, genetic drift, and constraints. This course will take up classics of political PHI 590: DIRECTED READINGS philosophy and discuss contemporary Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter social life and ideologies in the light of the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theoretical frameworks they have achieved. PHI 595: DIRECTED RESEARCH PHI 571: American Philosophy: Readings and assignments will be drawn from May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. such exemplary works as Plato's Republic, Philosophical Foundations of American Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, Politics PHI 599: Master's Thesis Research Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise Readings from Emerson, C.S. Peirce, G.H. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. of Government, and Marx's Communist Mead, W. James, G. Santayana, J. Dewey, J.H. Manifesto. Randall, and J. Buchler will give the student PHI 600: Ancient Philosophy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a grasp of the classic American tradition in philosophy and the plural strands that go to May be repeated for credit. PHI 553: Philosophy of Education make it up, such as: the turn from idealism to semioticism, neo-realsim and critical realism, PHI 601: Medieval and/or Renaissance The purpose of the course is to develop Philosophy curricula which not only bridge educational pragmatism and pragmaticism, the historical gaps but which also develop within all interest and the social interest, individualism May be repeated for credit. students a sense of civil responsibility toward and voluntarism, and the centrality of art and PHI 602: Modern Philosophy community issues and problems. This course science in human affairs. critically examines such issues of ethnicity and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. race, family systems, affirmative action, and 2021 multiculturalism through the vehicle of Asian PHI 572: ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY PHI 603: 19th-Century Philosophy American studies. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 575: Philosophy of Religion Several aspects of the Judeo-Christian tradition PHI 604: Special Topics in the History PHI 555: Perspectives on the Person raise philosophical questions worthy of further of Philosophy reflection and consideration. The first is the The focus of this course will be the question of May be repeated for credit. how the results of current research are related relation of religious faith to other sorts of to our understanding of human development knowledge and commitment: is religious PHI 610: Philosophy and the Arts and whether they require us to revise our Fallbelief more like belief in scientific experts or understanding of what a person is. Readings more like belief in one's spouse? A second May be repeated for credit. from classic philosophical texts, such as Plato, is what sort of God is worth believing in and PHI 611: Philosophy and Literature Locke, Kant, and from contemporary research whether we can talk intelligibly about the in philosophy, psychology and other relevant deity. The third is whether and how any God May be repeated for credit. sciences will be used. Offered as both CEI 587 worth believing in could be compatible with and PHI 555 the obvious ills of our world. PHI 612: Philosophy and Psychology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

PHI 562: Concepts and Methods in PHI 576: ETHICS AND VALUES PHI 613: Philosophy and Politics Evolutionary Biology The course aims at achieving two related PHI 582: Philosophy of Art PHI 614: Philosophy and Linguistics objectives: first, to provide graduate students The purpose of this course is to encourage in Ecology & Evolution and other biology students to explore and enrich their aesthetic PHI 615: Philosophy and Feminism departments, as well as Philosophy, with a experience through reading, analyzing, Co-scheduled with WST 611. basic understanding of the varied methods discussing, and writing about various theories (both experimental and statistical) that make put forth by philosophers in the western 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) up the body of evolutionary quantitative tradition. Among topics to be considered May be repeated for credit.

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PHI 616: Philosophy and Technology PHI 632: Seminar in Comparative students must enroll in one of the graduate Co-scheduled with WST 611. Philosophy student insurance plans and should be advised by an International Advisor. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. PHI 633: American Pragmatism and Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Naturalism May be repeated for credit. PHI 617: Philosophy and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Environmental Studies PHI 701: Dissertation Research off Campus - International PHI 634: Eastern Philosophy PHI 618: Philosophy and the Sciences Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion of research will take PHI 635: Philosophy of Science and place outside of the United States and/or PHI 619: Special Topics in Interface Logic U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Studies option of the health plan and may also enroll May be repeated for credit. PHI 636: Metaphysics in MEDEX. International students who are in their home country are not covered by PHI 620: Advanced Problems in PHI 637: Epistemology mandatory health plan and must contact the Philosophy Insurance Office for the insurance charge to A study of selected conceptions of the nature, be removed. International students who are Delivery: Variable and repetitive credit structure and content of knowledge, as found not in their home country are charged for the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in classical and contemporary theories of mandatory health insurance. If they are to be May be repeated for credit. knowledge. covered by another insurance plan they must 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 621: Independent Study file a waiver be second week of classes. The May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is May be repeated for credit. deemed comparable. PHI 638: Philosophical Psychology PHI 622: Supervised Teaching All international students must received May be repeated for credit. clearance from an International Advisor. May be repeated for credit. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading PHI 639: Social and Political May be repeated for credit. PHI 623: Teaching Practicum Philosophy May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. PHI 800: Full Time Summer Research 0 credits, S/U grading PHI 624: New York Consortium Study PHI 640: Ethics S/U grading This course designation should be used by May be repeated for credit. students who enroll in seminars at participating PHI 641: Aesthetics universities of the New York Consortium of 2021 Graduate Schools. No more than six credits PHI 642: Philosophy of Religion PHI of consortium study (and none for first-year students at Stony Brook) may count toward Philosophy the fulfillment of requirements in the doctoral PHI 643: Semiotics program. PHI 500: Feminist Theories Prereguisite: Completion of first year in PHI 644: Special Topics in This course is designed to introduce students doctoral program (Philosophy) Contemporary Philosophy to the most recent developments in feminist theory, covering different currents as well Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) Fall as traditions. The seminar may focus on moral and political questions, the intersection May be repeated for credit. PHI 699: Dissertation Research on between the social and the psychological, or Campus PHI 625: Prospectus Seminar culture and representation as it is negotiated Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). in different cultural media (film, literature, This seminar is taken by all doctoral students Major portion of research must take place on architecture, music, etc.) in the Spring semester of their third year. SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The primary goal is to have each write a Brookhaven National Lab. dissertation proposal. etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. PHI 501: Theories of Race PHI 630: Seminar in Continental PHI 700: Dissertation Research off This course is designed to introduce the Philosophy Campus - Domestic student to different currents of analyses of May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy race and racism. It focuses particularly on (G5). Major portion of research will take place the relationship between philosophy and the PHI 631: Seminar in Analytic off-campus, but in the United States and/ development, legitimacy and legimation of Philosophy or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven racial categories. The seminar may focus on May be repeated for credit. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab moral and political philosophy, questions of are considered on-campus. All international epistemology or metaphysics, the intersections

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 184 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 between the social and the psychological, or (e.g. language, science, technology)? What This is an advanced seminar in aesthetics that culture and representations of raced subjects as does art offer that philosophy does not, and focuses on a single question that arises in they are negotiated in different cultural media vice-versa? In what ways does the gender or the philosophy of art. This question may be (film, literature, architecture, music, etc.) racial identity of the artist affect the creation approached through the writings of a single Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of the work? What are the cultural, social, and author, or else by consulting texts of several May be repeated for credit. political dimensions of the art work and its thinkers (including practicing artists as well reception? as philosophers). Examples of such questions PHI 503: Theories of Ethnicity 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) would be: What is the place of form in art? This course focuses on the category of May be repeated for credit. How does emotion figure into the creation or ethnicity. Using an inter-cultural, comparative appreciation of art? To be taught on the main and historical approach, it seeks to expose PHI 507: Aesthetic System campus by a regular faculty member. Ideally, the student to the uses and misuses of this A concentrated reading of a single major work, this course would be taken during the second category. The category of ethnicity will also be with attention both to its detailed structure year of master's degree work at Stony Brook studied in conjunctions with questions relating and to its larger significance. Candidates for Manhattan. to individual identity, national, cultural and such reading include Aristotle's Poetics, Kant's Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter civilizational identities. Ethnicity, like Race Critique of Judgement, Hegel's Lectures on graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Gender, is one of the most fundamental The Philiosophy of Art, Adorno's Aesthetic May be repeated for credit. markers of identity. Using interdisciplinary Theory, Collingwood's Principles of Art, and comparative methods and perspectives, Langer's Feeling and Form, Dewey's Art as PHI 510: Ancient Philosophy ethnicity's role in the constitutions of identities Experience, Heidegger's "The Origin of the An in-depth reading of few fundamental texts will be studied. Work of Art", and Danto's Transfiguration of of classical antiquity that conceptualize mind/ Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Commonplace. soul as object of rational investigation. These May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ancient theories contain within themselves all May be repeated for credit. the principal elements of later philosophies PHI 504: Intersections of Race, of mind. This course aims at making these Ethinicity, and Gender PHI 507: Inquiries into Art Criticism elements explicit through the study of the This course, which is analogous to an honors and Theory following: Anaxagoras, selected fragments senior seminar, seeks to integrate into a This course deals with the theoretical on "mind"; Plato, Republic (selection) and productive dialogue the different methods, approaches to the study of art that cross Phaedo; Aristotle, De Anima (Peri Psyche); traditions and perspectives used to analyze historical boundaries. Topics vary from Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations; Lucretius, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, while also semester to semester. They may be an On the Nature of Things. 3 credits, ABCF juxtaposing and comparing the similarities and expansion of one of the areas generally grading, offered Fall/Spring alternate years differences between them. The approach, as in covered in ARH 540, such as psychology of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the whole program, will be inderdisciplinary art or the iconography of architecture. Other and comparative. investigations may focus on2021 subjects requiring PHI 511: Modern Philosophy Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a special methodological approach, such as the This is an advanced course that investigates May be repeated for credit. theory and history of ornament and design or pivotal connections between seventeenth and the role of public art. eighteenth-century theories of knowledge, PHI 505: Core Course in Philosophy Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics. It surveys and the Arts: History of Aesthetic B+, etc.) key developments in these areas of philosophic Theory May be repeated for credit. inquiry during the sixteenth and seventeenth The basic course will investigate some of the centuries. It also involves careful explicative most important and influential theories of art PHI 508: Contemporary Issues in the work on texts written by major thinkers of in the West from Plato to the present. Readings FallArts the period, e.g., Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and discussion in depth of major figures With an eye on artworks accessible in Spinoza, Malebranch, Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, will make up the content of the course: e.g., the public sphere - museums, galleries, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, concerts, readings, dance performances, film 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Nietzsche, Heidegger, Collingwood, Langer, - philosophical questions will be raised: Why Merleau-Ponty, Dufrenne. The focus these works now? How do they compare with PHI 520: Advanced Studies in throughout will be on central issues in their predecessors? What do they portend Philosophy aesthetics such as imitation, truth, beauty, for the future of art? Visits to the sites and Investigations into specialty areas led and expression, emotion, and imagination. performances of such works will be integrated directed by accomplished philosophers in Fall, Spring, every year, 3 credits, Letter into an ongoing discussion of the issues they the discipline involved. Instructor consent graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) raise within the context of aesthetic theory required. No more than six credits of PHI 520 May be repeated for credit. - and what new theories they suggest. This may count towards the fulfillment of degree course will be co-scheduled with ITL571, requirements in the MA program. PHI 506: Art and Its Problems FRN571, and EGL603 Offered: A consideration of basic problems in the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, Summer, 3 credits, Letter graded creation and appreciation of art. What is the May be repeated for credit. (A, A-, B+, etc.) creative process? Who is the artist? How is May be repeated for credit. art to be compared with other symbolic forms PHI 509: Special Seminar in Aesthetics PHI 521: Contemporary Moral Issues

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This examination of the radical nature of students will become familiar with the or art; however, it does assume an intellectual traditional moral theory in its contemporary fundamental concepts of philosophy of science commitment to the examination of difficult applications will look at the ideas of Mill, particularly as they relate to the conceptual ideas. This course is offered as both CEI 573 Kant, and Aristotle as variations on traditional analysis of the ideas that shape modern and PHI 582. Judeo-Christian moral theory. Students will evolutionary and ecological theory. In this 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) write short papers on contemporary moral respect, the focus will be both on philosophical issues as these are portrayed in short fiction. concepts such as falsificationism, induction, PHI 587: DIRECTED READINGS 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) deduction, hypothesis testing and the nature of evidence, as well as on the meaning of key PHI 588: DIRECTED RESEARCH PHI 535: Political Philosophy ideas in evolutionary ecology, like natural selection, genetic drift, and constraints. This course will take up classics of political PHI 590: DIRECTED READINGS philosophy and discuss contemporary Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter social life and ideologies in the light of the graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) theoretical frameworks they have achieved. PHI 595: DIRECTED RESEARCH PHI 571: American Philosophy: Readings and assignments will be drawn from May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. such exemplary works as Plato's Republic, Philosophical Foundations of American Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli's The Prince, Politics PHI 599: Master's Thesis Research Hobbes's Leviathan, Locke's Second Treatise Readings from Emerson, C.S. Peirce, G.H. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. of Government, and Marx's Communist Mead, W. James, G. Santayana, J. Dewey, J.H. Manifesto. Randall, and J. Buchler will give the student PHI 600: Ancient Philosophy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) a grasp of the classic American tradition in philosophy and the plural strands that go to May be repeated for credit. PHI 553: Philosophy of Education make it up, such as: the turn from idealism to semioticism, neo-realsim and critical realism, PHI 601: Medieval and/or Renaissance The purpose of the course is to develop Philosophy curricula which not only bridge educational pragmatism and pragmaticism, the historical gaps but which also develop within all interest and the social interest, individualism May be repeated for credit. students a sense of civil responsibility toward and voluntarism, and the centrality of art and community issues and problems. This course science in human affairs. PHI 602: Modern Philosophy critically examines such issues of ethnicity and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. race, family systems, affirmative action, and multiculturalism through the vehicle of Asian PHI 572: ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY PHI 603: 19th-Century Philosophy American studies. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHI 575: Philosophy of Religion Several aspects of the Judeo-Christian tradition PHI 604: Special Topics in the History PHI 555: Perspectives on the Person raise philosophical questions2021 worthy of further of Philosophy The focus of this course will be the question of reflection and consideration. The first is the May be repeated for credit. how the results of current research are related relation of religious faith to other sorts of to our understanding of human development knowledge and commitment: is religious PHI 610: Philosophy and the Arts and whether they require us to revise our belief more like belief in scientific experts or understanding of what a person is. Readings more like belief in one's spouse? A second May be repeated for credit. from classic philosophical texts, such as Plato, is what sort of God is worth believing in and PHI 611: Philosophy and Literature Locke, Kant, and from contemporary research whether we can talk intelligibly about the in philosophy, psychology and other relevant deity. The third is whether and how any God May be repeated for credit. sciences will be used. Offered as both CEI 587 Fallworth believing in could be compatible with and PHI 555 the obvious ills of our world. PHI 612: Philosophy and Psychology 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit.

PHI 562: Concepts and Methods in PHI 576: ETHICS AND VALUES PHI 613: Philosophy and Politics Evolutionary Biology The course aims at achieving two related PHI 582: Philosophy of Art PHI 614: Philosophy and Linguistics objectives: first, to provide graduate students The purpose of this course is to encourage in Ecology & Evolution and other biology students to explore and enrich their aesthetic PHI 615: Philosophy and Feminism departments, as well as Philosophy, with a experience through reading, analyzing, Co-scheduled with WST 611. basic understanding of the varied methods discussing, and writing about various theories (both experimental and statistical) that make put forth by philosophers in the western 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) up the body of evolutionary quantitative tradition. Among topics to be considered May be repeated for credit. biology. The focus will be in particular on are representation, expression, form, the PHI 616: Philosophy and Technology quantitative genetics and its interface with aesthetic attitude, beauty, taste, criticism and more modern approaches, including QTL interpretation of art, and the relation of art to Co-scheduled with WST 611. mapping, bioinformatics and the various other areas of experience. The course does not 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) "omics" (genomics, proteomics, etc.). Second, assume previous familiarity with philosophy May be repeated for credit.

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PHI 617: Philosophy and May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. PHI 701: Dissertation Research off Environmental Studies Campus - International PHI 634: Eastern Philosophy Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy PHI 618: Philosophy and the Sciences (G5). Major portion of research will take PHI 635: Philosophy of Science and place outside of the United States and/or Logic PHI 619: Special Topics in Interface U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the Studies option of the health plan and may also enroll PHI 636: Metaphysics in MEDEX. International students who are May be repeated for credit. in their home country are not covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the PHI 637: Epistemology PHI 620: Advanced Problems in Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Philosophy A study of selected conceptions of the nature, be removed. International students who are Delivery: Variable and repetitive credit structure and content of knowledge, as found not in their home country are charged for the in classical and contemporary theories of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mandatory health insurance. If they are to be knowledge. May be repeated for credit. covered by another insurance plan they must 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) file a waiver be second week of classes. The PHI 621: Independent Study May be repeated for credit. charge will only be removed if other plan is deemed comparable. May be repeated for credit. PHI 638: Philosophical Psychology All international students must received PHI 622: Supervised Teaching May be repeated for credit. clearance from an International Advisor. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. PHI 639: Social and Political May be repeated for credit. Philosophy PHI 623: Teaching Practicum PHI 800: Full Time Summer Research May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. 0 credits, S/U grading PHI 640: Ethics PHI 624: New York Consortium Study S/U grading May be repeated for credit. This course designation should be used by PHI 641: Aesthetics students who enroll in seminars at participating universities of the New York Consortium of PHY Graduate Schools. No more than six credits PHI 642: Philosophy of Religion of consortium study (and none for first-year Physics students at Stony Brook) may count toward PHI 643: Semiotics the fulfillment of requirements in the doctoral PHY 501: Classical Mechanics program. PHI 644: Special Topics2021 in Analytical classical mechanics including Prereguisite: Completion of first year in Contemporary Philosophy Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations doctoral program (Philosophy) and the Hamilton-Jacoby theory. Variational Fall, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. principles, symmetries and conservative etc.) laws. Selected advanced problems such PHI 699: Dissertation Research on May be repeated for credit. as parametric and nonlinear oscillations, Campus planetary motion, classical theory of scattering, PHI 625: Prospectus Seminar Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). rigid body rotation, and deterministic chaos. This seminar is taken by all doctoral students Major portion of research must take place on Basic notions of elasticity theory and fluid in the Spring semester of their third year. FallSBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the dynamics. The primary goal is to have each write a Brookhaven National Lab. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dissertation proposal. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. PHY 503: Methods of Mathematical Physics I PHI 630: Seminar in Continental PHI 700: Dissertation Research off A selection of mathematical techniques Philosophy Campus - Domestic useful for physicists. Topics are selected Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy from: linear algebra, complex variables, May be repeated for credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take place differential equations, asymptotic analysis, PHI 631: Seminar in Analytic off-campus, but in the United States and/ special functions, boundary value problems, Philosophy or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven integral transforms, perturbation theory as National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab applied to linear and nonlinear systems. This May be repeated for credit. are considered on-campus. All international course should be taken by entering graduate students must enroll in one of the graduate students seeking enrichment in these areas. PHI 632: Seminar in Comparative student insurance plans and should be advised Philosophy Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, by an International Advisor. A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading PHI 633: American Pragmatism and May be repeated for credit. PHY 504: Computational Methods in Naturalism Physics and Astrophysics

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An introduction to procedural and object- PHY 514: Current Research lecturers with expertise in using synchrotron oriented programming in a high-level language Instruments radiation for research in physics, chemistry, such as C++ or modern Fortran with examples In a series of distinct units, various members materials science, biology and medicine. and assignments consisting of rudimentary of the experimental research faculty describe Most of these presentations are followed algorithms for problems in physics and the nature of their work, explain the major by hands-on experience with synchrotron astronomy. Students will use the UNIX/ principles of their laboratory instruments, instrumentation at Brookhaven National Linux operating system to write programs and discuss how these instrument systems function, Laboratory. Access to user facilities, including manage data, and the course will include an and conduct tours of their laboratories showing safety requirements, preparation of user introduction to parallel computing and good the apparatus in action. The student becomes proposals, user training and other issues, and programming practices such as version control familiar with most of the experimental also covered. and verification. The course will prepare research instrumentation in the department. Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading students for courses in algorithms and methods Fall or Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading that assume a knowledge of programming. PHY 521: Stars Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, PHY 515: Methods of Experimental A study of the atmospheres, interiors, and B+, etc.) Research I evolution of stars. The contact between theory An experimental course required for all and observations is emphasized. Stellar PHY 505: Classical Electrodynamics graduate students. The goal of the course is to atmospheres in hydrostatic and radiative Electrostatics and Magnetostatics in provide firsthand experience with the nature equilibrium described. Models for the vacuum and medium; Green's functions; of experimental work. For students oriented calculation of stellar spectra are discussed. Maxwell's equations and gauge invariance; toward theory, the course gives a background Stellar winds are studied. Next, theoretical Electromagnetic wave propagation; Radiation, for reading and evaluating experimental studies of stellar interiors and evolution, scattering, interference, and diffraction; papers. The course is based on classic including equations of state, energy transport, Special relativity; Radiation by relativistic measurements in nuclear, particle, atomic, and nuclear energy generation, are developed. charges; Additional topics as time permits. condensed matter physics, and astronomy. Structures of main sequence, red giant, pre- Three lecture hours plus two recitation hours Students can gain experience in handling main sequence, and white dwarves are studied per week. cryogenic liquids, vacuum systems, lasers, and compared to observations. The evolution Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pulse counting and coincidence methods, of single stars up to supernovae and the resonance measurements, and electronic peculiar evolution of close binary systems are PHY 510: Introduction to Nonlinear instrumentation, such as lock-in amplifiers, also studied. Dynamics particle detectors, coincidence counters, Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded This course concentrates on developing the computer control, etc. Numerical analysis of (A, A-, B+, etc.) tools used to analyze models of dynamical data, presentation of results in written, graphic, systems associated with physical phenomena, and oral form, and meaningful comparison of PHY 522: Interstellar Medium such as coupled electrical mechanical, experiments and theory are part of the course. A study of the interstellar medium with chemical and biological oscillators, amplitude Working alone or with, at 2021most, one partner, emphasis on physical processes. Topics equations, symplectic maps, etc. There is a each student must do one experiment from include kinetic theory, equation of transfer, discussion of the basic theorems, as well as each of four different groups. spectral lines, non-thermal emission, ionization methods used to derive perturbation solutions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) effects of dust, and formation and spectroscopy for differential equations and maps using the May be repeated for credit. of molecular clouds. The components of method of normal forms. the interstellar medium and the interactions Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, PHY 517: Laboratory Course in between them are discussed in detail, as well B+, etc.) Astronomical Techniques as the process of star formation. A course designed to introduce the theory, Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter PHY 511: Quantum Mechanics I Falldesign, and operation of modern astronomical graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) First course in a two-part sequence. instrumentation and to familiarize the Topics include basic quantum physics and student with the use of telescopes. Current PHY 523: Galaxies mathematical apparatus; application to one astronomical techniques will be discussed A basic course on the observational and dimensional examples and simple systems. with emphasis on methods of observational theoretical aspects of the content, morphology, Symmetries, angular momentum, and spin. measurements and reduction of data. Emphasis kinematics, and dynamics of galaxies. Topics Additional topics as time permits. is given on optical techniques appropriate include the size, shape, and location of the sun Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) for wavelengths shorter than one micron. in the Milky Way; stellar populations; the disk Extensive laboratory and observing exercises and spheroidal components; galactic rotation; PHY 512: Quantum Mechanics II may be expected. distance determination in the Milky Way and Second course in a two-part sequence, Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter to external galaxies; galaxy classification and covering variational principles, perturbation graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the Hubble Law. Theoretical topics center theory, relativistic quantum mechanics, on stellar dynamics, including potential quantization of the radiation field, many-body PHY 518: Applications of Synchroton theory; stellar orbits; and spiral structure. The systems. Application to atoms, solids, nuclei Radiation course also includes a brief introduction to and elementary particles, as time permits. An introduction to the principles of cosmology. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, synchrotron radiation is followed by a series Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded etc.) of lectures given by graduate faculty and guest (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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PHY 524: Cosmology The course provides a comprehensive and particles: Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose- A basic course on cosmology: Hubble systematic review of the methods used for Einstein statistics. Applications to ideal gases, expansion, Friedmann universes, age of the measurement, correction, and control of electrons and phonons in solids, and black universe, microwave background radiation, charged particle beams in modern particle body radiation. Approximate treatment of non- big-bang nucleosynthesis, inflation, growth accelerators. By way of illustration, theoretical ideal gases. First-order and second-order phase of gravitational instabilities and galaxy principles are applied in the evaluation transitions. Ising model, transfer matrix, and formation, correlation functions, local density of experimental data obtained at various renormalization group approach. Fluctuations and velocity perturbations, and dark matter. accelerator laboratories including CERN, in thermal equilibrium, fluctuation-dissipation BNL, DESY, SLAC, IUCF, KEK, LBNL, theorem, brief review of non-equilibrium Prerequisite: PHY 523 or permission of and FNAL. This course aims to bridge the fluctuations. Basic notions of ergodicity, instructor link between experimental observations and classical and quantum chaos. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter theoretical principles in accelerator physics. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Upon completion of this course, the students etc.) PHY 529: Quantum Electronics are expected to be able to apply the principles and methods presented to their research. PHY 541: Advanced Statistical Introduction to modern atomic physics for the Mechanics laser era for graduate students. Emphasis on 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the interaction between atoms and light, as Topics are selected from cluster expansions, PHY 538: Cyclotrons: Beam Dynamics well as on atomic structure and how it affects elementary theory of quantum fluids, and Design this interaction. Modern applications such phase transitions, transfer matrix, Ising as laser cooling, atom trapping, precision Cyclotrons are circular machines where a and ferroelectric models, polymers and spectroscopy with frequency comb, quantum fixed magnetic field bends particles through a membranes, disordered systems, and information, and others will be discussed. Not spiraling path that maintains resonance with fluctuation and nonequilibrium phenomena. for satisfying physics Ph.D. breadth course RF accelerating fields. They are attractive Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, requirements. Spring every year, 1-3 credits, for particle acceleration where efficiency of etc.) ABCF grading conversion from electric power to beam power is a figure of merit. Cyclotrons historically PHY 542: Fundamentals of Accelerator 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) drove many advances in high energy and Physics and Technology with PHY 534: Radio Astronomy nuclear physics and have seen a recent Simulations and Measurements Lab resurgence for radioisotope production, Topics covered include continuum and This course is an introduction to the underlying medical treatment facilities, and industrial spectral-line radio astronomy. Within principles and uses of the nearly 14,000 applications. This course provides students the Milky Way Galaxy topics include particle accelerators that are used worldwide with an introduction to the physics of charged the interstellar medium, the physics and in medicine, industry, and scientific research. particle dynamics in cyclotrons and their kinematics of molecular clouds, star formation The course is suitable for senior undergraduate design. Students will learn how to calculate in giant molecular clouds, chemistry of and entry-level graduate students in physics cyclotron orbits from a given magnetic field molecular clouds, galactic structure, spiral 2021and engineering or students from other fields configuration, predict the space charge and structure, and pulsars. Extragalactic topics with a particular interest in accelerator-based brightness limits, and devise mitigation for include radio galaxies and jets, radio loud science. betatron resonances. quasars, molecular and atomic gas in galaxies, Summer, 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, luminous infrared galaxies, the missing 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) etc.) mass problem in spiral galaxies, and cosmic PHY 539: Laser Applications to Particle microwave background radiation. Radio PHY 543: RF Superconductivity for Accelerators astronomy measurement techniques for single Particle Accelerators telescopes and aperture synthesis techniques Lasers have become essential tools widely This graduate level course covers application are also covered, although the emphasis is on Fallused in the world of accelerators and particle of superconducting radio frequency scientific results. beams with applications ranging from (SRF) technology to contemporary high-ß high quality electron and ion sources, to Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, accelerators: storage rings, pulsed and CW sophisticated beam diagnostics. This course is Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) linacs, including energy recovery linacs an introduction to the basic laser technology, (ERLs). The course will address physics PHY 536: The Physics of Free Electron with the focus on applications of the laser and engineering aspects of using SRF in Lasers techniques in areas of particle accelerators. accelerators. It will cover beam-cavity Upon completion of this course, the students The purpose of this course is to introduce the interactions issues specific to superconducting are expected to understand the basic laser students to the physics of Free Electron Lasers cavities, a systems approach to designing SRF techniques, laser beam interactions, become and Synchrotron Radiation. This course is systems and engineering of superconducting familiar with use of lasers for beam diagnostics suitable for graduate students who want to cavity cryomodules. The course is intended and beam manipulations, and gain useful learn more about Free Electron Lasers and for graduate students pursuing accelerator hands-on experience with laser simulations and Synchrotron Radiation physics. physics and graduate engineers and physicists lab work. who want to familiarize themselves with Offered: Summer, 1-2 credits, Letter graded 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) superconducting RF systems. (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PHY 540: Statistical Mechanics PHY 537: Measurement and Control of etc.) Charged Particle Beams Brief review of thermodynamics, principles of physical statistics, systems of non-interacting

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PHY 544: Spin Dynamics in Particle The course focuses on the topics of classical nucleon system; bulk properties of nuclear Accelerators mechanics and electrodynamics that are matter, charge distribution, spin, isospin, mass, Polarization is a possible property of charged of importance for accelerator physics. On alpha decay, nuclear fission; electromagnetic particle beams, which has been used and completion of this course, students are and weak interaction; collective motion; developed from the early times of particle expected to have a broad understanding of the microscopic models of the nucleus; nuclear accelerator developments. It is a property of dynamics of particles in electromagnetic fields matter under extreme conditions, high paramount interest in future nuclear and high as well as the physical principles that underpin rotational states, heavy ion physics at RHIC, energy physics accelerator projects, as well particle accelerator technology. Along with nuclear astrophysics. as in several existing accelerator facilities. the graduate-level PHY554 Fundamentals Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Polarization requires sophisticated beam of Accelerator Physics course, this course is etc.) and spin manipulations, from production to intended to prepare students for specialized utilization, based on dedicated accelerator USPAS courses and advanced study of cutting- PHY 552: Nuclear Physics II design rules and technological components. edge accelerator topics. Nucleon-nucleon scattering and effective This course will introduce students to 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) range approximation; the nucleon-nucleon the dynamics of spin in charged particle interaction calculated from meson exchange; accelerators, and to the accelerator components PHY 548: Timing and Synchronization effective forces between nucleons in nuclei and spin manipulation techniques which enable for Accelerators and nuclear matter; the renormalization and allow preserving beam polarization. The Course Description: This course is intended for group approach to these interactions; Fermi- course material will provide the basic tools accelerator physicists who are interested in the liquid theory of the nuclear many-body for the design of practical polarized beam design of timing systems and synchronization problem; thermodynamics of hadrons at accelerator components and structures, and techniques for particle accelerators and light high temperature; RHIC physics with heavy will convey an understanding of the essential sources. The course focuses on transmission, ions including transition from hadrons underlying physics of polarized beams. measurement and control of highspeed to quark gluon plasma, restoration of 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) electromagnetic signals in transmission lines chiral symmetry, equation of state, initial or waveguides, whether RF/microwave or conditions, thermodynamics of hadrons at high PHY 545: Practical Issues in Cyclotron optical. These systems are important in the temperature. Design and Construc. distribution of timing reference information 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Cyclotrons are versatile accelerators whose use in accelerating systems, and diagnostic continues to expand in basic research, industry, techniques to measure beams with respect PHY 554: Fundamentals of Accelerator medicine, and education. This course provides to RF or ultrafast pulse signals. Examples Physics students with an introduction to the physics include ultrafast pump/probe experiments in History of accelerators, basic principles and technology of cyclotrons and their design. accelerator-based light sources, or diagnostics including centre of mass energy, luminosity, Issues associated with the construction of for short particle bunches. The course enables accelerating gradient; Characteristics of practical facilities for prototypical applications students to understand how precise timing modern colliders: RHIC, LEP, LHC, b- are reviewed. Upon completion of this course, signals are transmitted and2021 used in state-of- factories; Transverse motion, principles students are expected to apply cyclotron theory the-art systems. Concepts and technology for of beam cooling, Strong focusing, simple and practical constraints to propose a complete subpicosecond, and even sub-femtosecond lattices; Circulating beams, synchrotron cyclotron design for a prototypical application. synchronization of ultrafast pulse optical radiation; Longitutdinal dynamics; Non- sources, RF, and particle beams will be 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) linearities and resonances; Radio Frequency discussed. cavities, superconductivity in accelerators; PHY 546: Python for Scientific 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Applications of accelerators: light sources, Computing medical uses, Future Accelerators: eRHIC, PHY 549: Optimization and Machine Python has seen wide adoption in the scientific ILC, neutrino factories, muon collider, laser Learning for Accelerators community for data analysis, simulation, Fall plasma acceleration. prototyping and visualization. It provided Optimization techniques are key to both the Offered a simple, yet powerful means to build design and operation of contemporary charged Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) applications. This seminar introduces python particle accelerator systems. In addition, and its use in scientific computing. Students machine learning techniques are now being PHY 555: Solid-State Physics I will learn the standard python libraries for increasingly used, either to augment the This course concentrates on the basic notions array manipulation, visualization, numerical capabilities of standard optimization (e.g. of solid state physics, treated mostly within analysis and symbolic mathematics, as well as through surrogate modeling), or to address the single-particle approximation. Main topics how to interface python with other languages, entirely new tasks (e.g. anomaly detection, include: crystal lattices and symmetries, build applications, and good software fault classification). This course will introduce reciprocal lattice and state counting, phonons, engineering practices (including version a number of optimization and machine electron energy band theory, bonding and control and testing). Students are encouraged learning techniques that are commonly used cohesion (semi-quantitatively), electron to share examples for their discipline for particle accelerators, as well as their range dynamics and electron transport in metals of applicability and limitations. 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and semiconductors, screening, optical 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) properties of solids, and an introduction to PHY 547: Classical Mechanics and superconductivity and magnetism. PHY 551: Nuclear Physics I E&M in Accelerator Physics Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Nucleon structure, conservation laws and the static quark model; nuclear force and the two PHY 556: Solid State Physics II

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The course focuses on the many-particle bifurcations, pattern development; Noise Types and Components of Accelerators, aspects of solid state physics addressing in cells: intrinsic and Extrinsic; Feedback; Relativistic Mechanics and EM for classical topics such as superconductivity Biological Osciillators; Recurrence, period Accelerators, Accelerator Hamiltonian and the transport properties of disordered doubling, chaos; Networks; Topologies; and N-dimensional phase space, Poincare conductors, as well as more modern subjects Degree distribution, betweenness; Models of diagrams, Lie algebras and symplectic maps including the fractional quantum Hall nets: Erdos-Renyi, scale-free, social, Watts- and matrices; exact parameterization of linear effect, dissipative quantum mechanics, and Strogatz, agents; Robustness, highly-optimized motion in accelerators; matrix functions, problems of mesoscoptic physics. Both tolerance, bowties, epidemics; Biological Sylvester's formula; non-linear effects, phenomenological and theoretical descriptions networks: Protein-protein nets, regulatory and Collective instabilities & Landau Damping, are discussed. metabolic nets; Known biological circuits Radiation damping and Excitation, natural Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and their behaviors; How networks evolve: Emittance; Spin motion in accelerators. etc.) Preferential attachment, rewiring; Power 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) laws; Fluxed through networks; Information PHY 557: Elementary Particle Physics and communication, entropy; Metabolic flux PHY 565: Quantum Electronics I: Introduction to elementary particle physics. analysis; Artificial and Natural selection Atomic Physics Symmetries and invariance in particle for traits; Darwinian evolution; Population Quantum electronics is a synthesis of quantum physics. The properties of particles in terms of dynamics. physics and electrical engineering, and is quarks and leptons and their interactions. An Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, introduced in two independent semesters. A introduction to the electroweak and for strong etc.) description of simple atoms and molecules and interactions. Interactions at high energies. their interaction with radiation includes atoms Interactions between particles and matter, PHY 561: Biology for Physical in strong and/or weak external fields, two- experiments in particle and experimental Scientists photon spectroscopy, superradiance, Rydberg results. Survey of particle accelerators. Topics of this course include but are not states, lasers and laser spec-troscopy, coherent Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, restricted to: Overview of living things; transients, etc. B+, etc.) Six kingdoms, animal phyla. Physiology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and organs; Chemistry of life; Noncovalent etc.) PHY 558: Physical Biology interactions; Hydrogen bonds; Solvation; Topics of this course include but are Biochemistry: reactions, catalysis, ATP amino PHY 566: Quantum Electronics II: not limited to: Time and space in cells; acids, nucleic acids, lipids; Cell structures: Quantum Optics Structural basis of biology; Molecular Nucleus, mitochondria, chromosomes, Quantum electronics is a synthesis of quantum solvation and lattice models; Chemical membranes; Basic paradigm: DNA makes physics and electrical engineering, and is potential; Electrostatics, potentials, dipoles, RNA makes protein; How cell machines and introduced in two independent semesters. This electrochemical potentials[ Poisson-Boltzmann circuits work; Cell cycle; The processes of course focuses on the quantum properties of and Born models; Acids, bases and salts; evolution; Genetics and heredity; Diseases: light. The quantized electromagnetic field Intermolecular potentials and force fields; how biological systems fail;2021 How drugs and its correlations are used to understand Phase transitions; Lattice and Ising models; are discovered; Tight-binding inhibitors; nonclassical states from various sources such Adsorption; Binding polynomials; Binding Antibodies; Current research: Cell division as two-level atoms and nonlinear systems cooperativity; Semigrand ensemble, molecular and cancer, genomics, bioinformatics, high interacting with radiation fields. throughput sequencing, systems and synthetic machines; Molecular motors, energy Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, biology. conversion and transduction; Polymer theory; etc.) Flory-Huggins; Random flights; Elasticity; Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Helix-coil theory; Collapse transitions; Protein etc.) PHY 567: Theoretical Chemical folding equilibria; Protein folding kinetics; Physics PHY 562: Lasers and Modern Optics Sequence space; Protein evolution; Protein Fall This course stresses the physical theory elasticity and biological mechanics of proteins; Introduction to the theory of lasers including underlying chemical phenomena. Special Biophysics of the cell; Proteome stabilities, resonance conditions, normal modes, optical emphasis is given to advanced topics in aggregation, kinetics. cavities and elementary quantum mechanics. electronic structure theory, molecular Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Description of types of lasers, methods of dynamics, condensed matter and surfaces, etc.) control, limitations of power, precision, many-body and quantum ensemble theory, and wavelength, etc. Applications to research and the interaction of light and molecules. PHY 559: Biological Dynamics and industry. Throughout the course, there will be 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Networks many problems that involve writing computer This course will provide a solid foundation programs to solve simple differential equations PHY 570: Introductory Physics in key theoretical concepts for the study of and model different aspects of laser operation. Revisited for Teachers dynamics in biological systems and networks Not for satisfying physics Ph.D. breadth course requirements. This seminar allows students to explore the at different scales ranging from the molecular fine points of topics normally covered in high level to metabolic and gene regulatory Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, school physics. Not for PhD credit. networks. Topics of this course include etc.) Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, but are not limited to: Physical kinetics; etc.) Diffusion/Smoluchowskii; Random flights; PHY 564: Advanced Accelerator Waiting times; Poisson; Brownian ratchets; Physics Chemical kinetics; Transition states; Stability,

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PHY 571: Electromagnetic Theory for and position, hence between momentum and different laboratories actively participating Teachers position. In addition to the requirements for in the research of faculty associated with the The course reviews vector calculus and the undergraduate course PHY 307, students Laufer Center. At least one of the rotations develops Maxwell's equations relating taking this course must prepare and present a must be in experimental physical biology. electric and magnetic fields to their sources. talk on quantum physics suitable for a general Participants will give a research talk at the end Applications for time-independent fields (non-physics) adult audience. This course of each eight week period. are developed for solving boundary value cannot be taken for credit toward the PhD Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, problems and the interactions of fields in bulk degrees in Physics. Approval of the Program A-, B+, etc.) matter. An oral presentation of a relevant topic Director is required for taking this course for May be repeated for credit. suitable for a high-school class is required. Not credit toward a Master Degree. for PhD credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 585: Special Study Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Reading course in selected topics. PHY 578: Quantum Physics for Fall and Spring, 1-18 credits, Letter graded Teachers PHY 573: Mechanics for Teachers (A, A-, B+, etc.) The Newtonian formulation of classical The concepts, historical development and May be repeated for credit. mechanics is reviewed and applied to more mathematical methods of quantum mechanics. advanced problems than those considered Topics include Schroedinger's equation in PHY 595: Master's Degree Thesis in introductory physics. The Lagrangian time-dependent and time-independent forms, Research and Hamiltonian methods are then derived and one- and three-dimensional solutions, Independent research for Master's degree from the Newtonian treatment and applied to including the treatment of angular momentum students. Open only to those approved by various problems. An oral presentation of a and spin. Applications to simple systems, individual faculty for thesis work. This course relevant topic suitable for a high-school class especially the hydrogen atom, are stressed. An also includes a minimum of two hours person is required. Not for PhD credit. oral presentation of a relevant topic suitable to person discussion of ethics and conduct for a high school class is required. Not for PhD Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in research and scholarship which addresses credit. among others integrity in scholarship, PHY 576: Thermodynamics and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, academic honesty, authorship, plagiarism, Statistical Mechanics for Teachers etc.) mentoring and collaborations. These topics This course consists of two parts. Those will be illustrated with case studies and issues PHY 579: Special Topics for Teachers relations among the properties of systems that arise in current research projects. at thermal equilibrium that are independent Topics of current interest to high school 1-18 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of a detailed microscopic understanding are teachers are discussed in order to bring the May be repeated for credit. developed by use of the first and second teachers up to date on the latest developments laws of thermodynamics. The concepts of in various areas of research. Examples could PHY 598: Graduate Seminar I temperature, internal energy and entropy are include the standard model of particle physics, Special research topics centered on analyzed. The thermodynamic potentials are nanofabrication techniques,2021 atomic force monographs, conference proceedings, or introduced. Applications to a wide variety microscopy, etc. Not for PhD credit. journal articles. Topics include solid-state of systems are made. The second portion of Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, physics, atomic physics, quantum optics and the course, beginning with the kinetic theory A-, B+, etc.) applications of synchroton radiation. Required of gases, develops elementary statistical May be repeated for credit. for all first-year graduate students. mechanics, relates entropy and probability, Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, PHY 580: Special Research Projects and treats simple examples in classical and A-, B+, etc.) quantum statistics. An oral presentation of a Research under the direction of a faculty May be repeated for credit. relevant topic suitable for a high-school class member. Not open to Ph.D. candidates. is required. Not for PhD credit. Fall PHY 599: Graduate Seminar II Fall and Spring, 1-18 credits, Letter graded Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, (A, A-, B+, etc.) Special research topics centered on etc.) May be repeated for credit. monographs, conference proceedings, or journal articles. Topics include elementary PHY 577: Physical and Mathematical PHY 582: Optics Rotation particles, nuclear physics, galactic and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics for Optical science students experience three extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology and Teachers to eight week periods in each of several accelerator physics. Required for all first-year Physical and mathematical foundations of appropriate research groups. At the end of each graduate students. quantum mechanics. Maxwell waves and period a report is required that describes the Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, Letter graded (A, their properties: intensity, energy density, topics studied or project done. May not be A-, B+, etc.) and momentum density. Planck-Einstein taken for credit more than two semesters. May be repeated for credit. relation between energy and frequency for Fall and Spring, 0-2 credits, Letter graded (A, light quanta. De Broglie relation between A-, B+, etc.) PHY 600: Practicum in Teaching momentum and wavelength. Number density May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. This course provides hands-on experience in and probability density of photons. One- teaching. Activities may include classroom photon quantum mechanics, with Maxwell PHY 584: Rotation in Physical Biology teaching, preparation and supervision of field as wave function. Diffraction phenomena. A two-semester course in which students laboratory experiments, exams, homework Uncertainty relation between wavelength spend at least 8 weeks in each of three assignments, and projects.

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Fall and Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Applications of quantum field theory to and supergravity; compactification & A-, B+, etc.) interactions between elementary particles. duality; winding & Kaluza-Klein modes; May be repeated for credit. Topics are chosen from perturbative quantum 11-dimensional supergravity; branes in chromodynamics, the standard electro-weak supergravity; D-branes in string theory; T- PHY 601: Group Theory for Physicists model, lattice field theory, grand unified duality; M-theory; complex geometry and This course provides an introduction to models, supersymmetry, and current research Calabi-Yau manifolds; string field theory; group theory and discusses topics that are problems. other advanced topics if time permits. PHY important for applications in physics. Topics Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, 610/611 or equivalent is prerequisite. that will be discussed include but are not etc.) Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading restricted to the following: finite groups, May be repeated for credit. Lie groups, Lie algebras, Clifford algebras, PHY 613: Advanced Particle Theory Cartan generators, Dynkin diagrams, Young This course is a continuation of PHY PHY 623: String Theory II tableaux, noncompact groups such as the 612 and prepares students for research in This course is intended for graduate students Poincar\'e group, invariant measures and theoretical particle physics. Topics that will be who have familiarity with guage & quantum coset manifolds. Additional topics such as discussed include the properties of Quantum field theory. Topics will be selected from: free Kac-Moody algebras, Virasoro algebras, Chromodyanamics, Electorweak Symmetry bosonic & spinning strings and heterotic & symmetric spaces, supergroups and their Breaking, Cabbibbo-Kobayahi-Maskawa Green-Schwarz superstrings; conformal field invariant measure may be discussed as well. quark mixing, Effective Field theory, Neutrino theory; tree-level and one-loop amplitudes; PS. The accent on the "e" of Poincare is and masses, the hierarchy problems, dark matter, partition functions; spacetime supersymmetry acute accent denoted by\' Offered Fall or early universe cosmology and primordial and supergravity; compactification & Spring nucleosynthesis. Physics beyond the standard duality; winding & Kaluza-Klein modes; 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) model will be discussed as well including 11-dimensional supergravity; branes in models of quark and lepton masses, grand supergravity; D-branes in string theory; T- PHY 604: Computational Methods in unified theories and baryon number violation. duality; M-theory; complex geometry and Physics and Astrophysics II Semesters Offered: Spring and Calabi-Yau manifolds; string field theory; This course discusses numerical methods Fall, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, other advanced topics if time permits. PHY used in physics and astrophysics. Topics etc.) 610/611 or equivalent is prerequisite. include but are not limited to the following: Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Numerical integration and differentiation, PHY 620: Modern General Relativity May be repeated for credit. differential equations, interpolation, root- General theory of relativity; tensor analysis, finding, linear algebra, eigenvalues, Fourier Einstein's field equations, experimental PHY 655: Advanced Graduate Seminar transforms, Monte Carlo methods, hyperbolic tests, black holes, gravitational waves, in Theoretical Physics and parabolic partial differential equations, cosmology. May also include topics such as A weekly seminar on advanced theoretical parallel computing. All methods will be spinor methods, conformal invariance, and concepts. The discussion starts with a graduate illustrated by examples from physics or introduction to string theory2021 or supergravity. student presentation and it is conducted under astrophysics. Familiarity with Computational Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the guidance of a faculty supervisor. Methods in Physics and Astrophysics (PHY B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, S/U grading 504) is assumed. May be repeated for credit. 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PHY 621: Advanced Quantum Field Theory PHY 664: Astronomy Journal Club PHY 610: Quantum Field Theory I Proofs of renormalizability and unitarity on Presentation of preliminary research results Quantization of relativistic fields: Lorentz non-Abelian guage theories using modern and current research problems by students and gauge symmetries, relativistic spin, the methods of Becchi-Rouet-Store-Tyutin and faculty. Required every semester of all S-matrix and scattering; the standard model; Fall(BRST) symmetry; descent equations for astronomy graduate students. perturbation theory, renormalization and anomalies; classical instantons and their 0-1 credits, S/U grading effective field theories; path integrals and quantum corrections, including integration May be repeated for credit. relations to condensed matter physics. over zero modes; background field methods, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other topics if time permits. PHY 610/611 or PHY 665: Journal Club in equivalent is prerequisite. Computational Biology PHY 611: Quantum Field Theory II Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, The goal of this course is for students to Quantization of relativistic fields: Lorentz A-, B+, etc.) hone critical reading and analytic skills and gauge symmetries, relativistic spin, the May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. through discussions of literature in the area S-matrix and scattering; the standard model; of Computational Biology. Participants perturbation theory, renormalization and PHY 622: String Theory I take turn being a "discussion leader" who effective field theories; path integrals and This course is intended for graduate students informally guides the group through a peer- relations to condensed matter physics. who have familiarity with guage & quantum reviewed manuscript for which all Journal Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, field theory. Topics will be selected from: Free Club members will have to read in advance etc.) bosonic & spinning strings and heterotic & of the meeting. Meetings in the Spring Green-Schwarz superstrings; conformal field semester will include in Person Training PHY 612: Theoretical Particle Physics theory; tree-level and one-loop amplitudes; (IPT) in Responsible conduct of Research and partition functions; spacetime supersymmetry Scholarship (RCRS) on topics that comprise

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(1) Integrity in Scholarship, (2) Scientific PHY 676: Seminar in Solid-State PHY 688: Special Topics in Misconduct, (3) Mentoring, (4) Ownership Physics Astrophysics and Authorship, (5) Plagiarism, (6) Data Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Management, (7) Journalism and Science, (8) May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) Human Subjects, and (9) Laboratory Animals. May be repeated for credit. 0-1 credits, S/U grading PHY 678: Atomic, Molecular and May be repeated for credit. Optical Physics Seminar PHY 689: Special Topics in Accelerator Physics PHY 666: Cool Stars Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Recently we established the Center for A weekly seminar concentrating on Accelerator Physics with Vladimir Litvinenko observational and theoretical studies of cool PHY 680: Special Topics in Theoretical appointed as Director (with a shared stars and related objects. Emphasis is on Physics appointment at BNL), and with a second ongoing research and recent results in this Fall and Spring faculty position in accelerator physics being area. Speakers include faculty, students, added in the near future, we expect that the 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and visitors. Topics anticipated in the near number of students working on accelerator May be repeated for credit. future include results from the Hubble Space physics will increase significantly and there Telescope and ROSAT. Students registering will be much more demand for courses in for one credit will be expected to present at PHY 681: Special Topics in Statistical Mechanics this area. For a long time accelerator physics least one seminar. courses have been taught as "PHY 584: Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Special Topics in Nuclear Physics", but this May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) is improper use of the course listing. The May be repeated for credit. purpose of this course is two-fold. First, it PHY 668: Seminar in Astronomy is a special topic course that is taught full A weekly series of research seminars presented PHY 682: Special Topics in Solid-State time at Stony Brook. Second, it is special by visiting scientists as well as by the faculty. Physics topics course which is taught in collaboration Required every semester of all astronomy Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, with the United States Particle Accelerator graduate students. A-, B+, etc.) School (USPAS), which is taught on a rotating Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. basis at various universities and National May be repeated for credit. Laboratories in the US. If that is the case, PHY 683: Special Topics in Astronomy students will prepare for the USPAS course during the semester, and will particioate in PHY 669: Nuclear Astrophysics Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, the USPAS school in the following Winter Seminar A-, B+, etc.) or Summer break. The grade for the course A weekly seminar concentrating on topics in May be repeated for credit. nuclear astrophysics, including dynamics of will be determined by the grade in the USPAS supernova collapse, structure and evolution PHY 684: Special Topics2021 in Nuclear school. Funding to participate in the USPAS of neutron stars, equation of state, the role of Physics course will be provided by USPAS if students neutrinos in nucleosynthesis, etc. are registered for such course at their local Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, university. 0-1 credits, S/U grading A-, B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. PHY 689: Special Topics in Accelerator PHY 670: Seminar in Theoretical PHY 685: Special Topics in Physics Physics Mathematical Physics Recently we established the Center for Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading FallFall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, Accelerator Physics with Vladimir Litvinenko May be repeated for credit. A-, B+, etc.) appointed as Director (with a shared May be repeated for credit. appointment at BNL), and with a second PHY 672: Seminar in Elementary faculty position in accelerator physics being Particle Physics PHY 686: Special Topics in Elementary added in the near future, we expect that the Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading Particles number of students working on accelerator May be repeated for credit. Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, physics will increase significantly and there A-, B+, etc.) will be much more demand for courses in PHY 673: Seminar in Cosmology May be repeated for credit. this area. For a long time accelerator physics This seminar discusses current topics in courses have been taught as "PHY 584: cosmology. Each semester consists of a formal PHY 687: Topics in Biological Physics Special Topics in Nuclear Physics", but this talk followed by an informal discussion of The "Topics" courses in the 680 sequence do is improper use of the course listing. The active areas of cosmology research. not have specific description, since the subject purpose of this course is two-fold. First, it Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading matter within the broadly defined topic may is a special topic course that is taught full May be repeated for credit. change from one semester to the next. time at Stony Brook. Second, it is special topics course which is taught in collaboration 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with the United States Particle Accelerator PHY 674: Seminar in Nuclear Physics May be repeated for credit. School (USPAS), which is taught on a rotating Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading basis at various universities and National

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Laboratories in the US. If that is the case, Independent research for Ph.D. degree POL 501: Introductory Statistics students will prepare for the USPAS course candidates. Open only to students who have This course acquaints student with statistics. during the semester, and will particioate in advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion It begins with the basics of applied statistical the USPAS school in the following Winter of research will take place off-campus, but analysis, including probability and hypothesis or Summer break. The grade for the course in the United States and/or U.S. provinces. testing, and builds to simple regression will be determined by the grade in the USPAS Please note, Brookhaven National Labs and analysis. Requires use of computer packages. school. Funding to participate in the USPAS the Cold Spring Harbor Lab are considered on- Prerequisites: Some elementary mathematics/ course will be provided by USPAS if students campus. This course also includes a minimum statistics background helpful are registered for such course at their local of two hours person to person discussion of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) university. ethics and conduct in research and scholarship 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) which addresses among others integrity in POL 502: Intermediate Statistics scholarship, academic honesty, authorship, This course utilizes multivariate regression PHY 690: Special Topics in Atomic and plagiarism, mentoring and collaborations. analysis and explores violations of the linear Optical Physics These topics will be illustrated with case model. Requires use of computer. studies and issues that arise in current research Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, projects. All international students must enroll 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) in one of the graduate student insurance plans May be repeated for credit. and should be advised by an International POL 503: Survey Research Methods This course studies the techniques of PHY 691: Computational Accelerator Advisor. survey research and their application in the Physics 1-9 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. development of public policies. Topics include The course prepares graduate students in survey design, survey population sampling, a comprehensive and systematic way for PHY 701: Dissertation Research off use of survey data to frame policy choices and applying numerical methods to solve problems Campus - International attitudes towards existing policies. for which analytical methods have limitations. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This knowledge will be applied to producing, Independent research for Ph.D. degree candidates. Open only to students who have collecting, analyzing and understanding POL 504: Research Design numerical simulation data, and presenting and advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion This course will cover a variety of research reporting results using appropriate media. This of research will take place outside of the methods that can be used to study attitudes and course will allow students to attain the level United States and/or U.S. provinces. Domestic opinions: Experimental methods (in laboratory of knowledge needed to thrive in the field of students have the option of the health plan and field settings), quasi-experimental designs, particle accelerators, including cyclotrons, and may also enroll in MEDEX. International surveys and questionnaires, and methods for synchrotrons, storage rings, linear accelerators, students who are in their home country are not studying various psychological characteristics colliders and industrial accelerators. covered by mandatory health plan and must contact the Insurance Office for the insurance of attitudes such as reaction time and lexical 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) charge to be removed. International students decision tasks. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 2021B+, etc.) PHY 698: Colloquium who are not in their home country are charged for the mandatory health insurance. If they 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 0-1 credits, S/U grading are to covered by another insurance plan they May be repeated for credit. must file a waiver before the second week of POL 506: Big Data & Visualization classes. The charge will only be removed if The goal of the course is to apply state-of- PHY 699: Dissertation Research on other plan is deemed comparable. This course the-art techniques to analyze social problems Campus also includes a minimum of two hours person using and combining large quantities of data Independent research for Ph.D. degree to person discussion of ethics and conduct from a variety of different sources. The course candidates. Open only to students who have Fallin research and scholarship which addresses also emphasizes communicating through the advanced to candidacy (G5). Major portion among others integrity in scholarship, visual presentation of data. Students may be of research must take place on SBU campus, academic honesty, authorship, plagiarism, asked to critique existing work and to practice at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven mentoring and collaborations. These topics creating visualizations of their own with data National Lab. This course also includes a will be illustrated with case studies and issues visualization software and programs. 3 credits, minimum of two hours person to person that arise in current research projects. All Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) discussion of ethics and conduct in research international students must receive clearance 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and scholarship which addresses among from an International Advisor. others integrity in scholarship, academic 1-9 credits, S/U grading POL 508: Public Policy Experiments honesty, authorship, plagiarism, mentoring and May be repeated for credit. Randomized experimental interventions-in collaborations. These topics will be illustrated the field and elsewhere-are increasingly being with case studies and issues that arise in PHY 800: SUMMER RESEARCH conducted to learn about the effects of public current research projects. May be repeated for credit. policies on a wide range of issues such as Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U education and health care. This course reviews grading experimental procedures and protocols, May be repeated for credit. POL lessons from past policy experiments, and ethical considerations. Students may also be PHY 700: Dissertation Research off Political Science asked to critique existing studies as well as Campus - Domestic to apply course concepts to policies. Natural

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 195 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 experiments and quasi-experiments may also order to understand the effects of economic POL 522: Economic Issues & Public be examined during the course. principles on health care and the effect of Policy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) health policy and economic forces on the Many public policies have their roots in health care delivery system. Students will be economic decisions or outcomes. This course POL 509: Public Budgeting and taught to use economic concepts to analyze considers recurring and important aspects of Finance health policy in its ability to improve the the economy in relation to public policy. delivery of health care services. This course develops the rationale for public 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) taxation and spending programs. It examines 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the role of public finance in the economy, and POL 524: Housing Policy POL 516: Storms & Seas: Coastal Land explores the use of program and functional Where and how people live is one of the most Management budgets, capital and operating budgets, basic and important considerations when it intergovernmental expenditures, etc. Focuses Many areas of the world, like Long Island, comes to government planning and action. on state and local governments (Fall) or are surrounded by water and are vulnerable This course explores the evolution of housing National and International Finance (Spring). to increasing weather -related threats and policies, their effects, and future directions. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) sea-level rise. This course dives into the Special consideration will be devoted to recent May be repeated for credit. challenges related to public policy design issues as well as housing issues affecting the and implementation as climate changes New York metropolitan area. POL 510: Personnel Systems for force planners to consider novel solutions to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Public Policy increasingly complex situations. his course examines the development of civil 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 530: Topics in Public Affairs service and other bureaucratic personnel Specially organized seminars are offered on POL 518: Law & Public Policy systems in American government. It focuses topics of particular importance to students on the knowledge that managers must have Public policies are often written in the form of of public affairs. These courses are led by to utilize human resources appropriately in legal statutes and laws. This course considers distinguished experts in those policy areas. the constrained public sector environment. the role of the law in public policy from a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Focuses mainly on state and local government. domestic perspective. Topics include various May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) forms of discrimination as well as contracts and historical precedent. POL 531: Topics in Public Affairs: POL 513: Intergovernmental Relations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Planning & Policy Delivery This course addresses the planning POL 519: State & Local Politics The examination of the formulation, process as a decision-making tool in the implementation, and impact of States are frequently described as " implementation of public policy in housing, intergovernmental policy are the core concepts laboratories of democracy" because there is land-use, transportation, and environmental to be covered in this course. Several policies great variation in the policies and practices of management. The course also investigates are likely to be examined in-depth, such as state governments across the2021 United States. intergovernmental relations and the impact of grant-in-aid programs, General Revenue This course examines political institutions, citizen participation on policy changes. Sharing, housing and community development, actors, and issues within American state and Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, and employment programs. The historical, local governments. Among other topics, the A-, B+, etc.) economic, and political foundations of class will discuss federalism, political culture, May be repeated for credit. intergovernmental policy delivery systems state campaigns and elections, political parties, may also be examined. constitutional provisions, and government POL 532: Moral Politics & Public Policy branches (legislative, executive, and judicial). 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Many public policy issues are moral issues, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) such as capital punishment, same-sex POL 514: Personnel Systems & Fall marriage, gun control, public health care, Bureaucracies POL 520: Applied Economics & Public affordable housing, and progressive taxation. Policy This course examines the development of This class examines how moral judgment civil service and other bureaucratic personnel Public policies are often created to address differs from judgments based on self-interest, systems in American government. It focuses private market failures or imbalances. This economics, or altruism. It also examines how on the knowledge that managers must have course focuses attention on how economic moral condemnation affects policy debates and to utilize human resources appropriately in concepts manifest in public policy planning, how moral accusations clash with arguments the constrained public sector environment. delivery, and outcomes. based on non-moral considerations such as The focus of this course will be on state and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) economics, group loyalty, or authority. local government, but federal agencies may 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) also be considered to provide a comparative POL 521: Behavioral Economics & perspective. Public Policy POL 534: Intergovernmental Relations 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) People often behave in ways that deviate from and Policy Delivery classical economic theories. This course helps The examination of the formulation, POL 515: Health Economics students learn about these deviations and to implementation, and impact of The course provides an overview of general construct public policies around such empirical intergovernmental policy are the core concepts economic principles, an understanding of how regularities. to be covered in this course. Several policies markets function, and why markets fail in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) are examined in-depth, including grant-in-aid

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Readings will in the application of data to identify policy consider the topic abstractly, but also in the POL 535: Public Policy Analysis and problems, determine causative factors, develop concrete settings of small intimate groups, Evaluation and implement persuasive policy proposals, formal organizations, and primitive and This course concentrates on the strategies and evaluate the policy effectiveness. modern economic, social and political systems in both stable and revolutionary situations. and methods of public policy analysis and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluation. Students debate the merits of 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) proposed solutions to various policy issues POL 541: Politics of Local Economic and discover the political constraints on the Development POL 546: Comparative Public Policy & Politics policy making process. Skills stressed in the This course examines the process of local course include cost-benefit analysis, program economic development with an emphasis Comparative studies of politics seek to identify evaluation, and basic microeconomics. on the interaction of political and economic and understand the similarities and differences 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) factors. It explores the extent to which local among political systems by breaking broad (as compared to state and federal) officials topics down into the factors found in POL 536: Public Management and can influence business location decisions, the individual countries. Possible questions Organizational Behavior specific strategies often utilized, and the way to be addressed are: Are certain forms of This course examines how public sector they have changed over time. It also considers representative democracy more effective than organizations work and how managers can the winners and losers from the "economic others? Why are some countries prosperous, operate in the public sector environment. A development game" with a focus on New York and others poor? How does authoritarian range of theoretical perspectives, including and Long Island. control affect economic development? sociological, economic, and institutional, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) will be employed as real public organizations are examined and analyzed. Public agencies POL 542: Regional Planning POL 553: Foundations: Comparative, International will also be compared to their private sector This course addresses the planning counterparts, and the nature of organizational process as a decision-making tool in the Survey and evaluation of the major efficiency will be explored. implementation of public policy in housing, theoretical approaches, issues, and problems Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, land-use, transportation, and environmental in comparative political analysis. The etc.) management. The course also investigates course examines such areas as political intergovernmental relations and the impact of development, empirical democratic theory, or POL 537: Administrative Law for Policy citizen participation on policy2021 changes. political socialization, along with a detailed Analysts examination of one or more selected non- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines the role of American political systems. administrative law in the formulation, POL 543: Environmental Politics and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) implementation and evaluation of public Policy POL 560: American Democracy: Its policy. The role of legislation such as the Federal environmental policies, such as Critics and Defenders Administrative Procedures Act is explored. the National Environmental Policy Act, Actual cases are analyzed, as well as the the Coastal Zone Management Act, and This course will examine the central broader set of precedents that have emerged the Federal Pure Waters Management Act components of American democratic in federal, state, and local administrative law Fall government. Critics and defenders of the are examined in this course. The policies, proceedings. politics and administrative activities of over 200 year-old Constitution (Congress, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) federal, state, and local levels are considered. President, Supreme Court) will be discussed, Finally, the interaction of the public sector, as will arguments surrounding the role of POL 538: The Politics of Local the private sector, and citizen groups in the political parties, pressure groups, and the Economic Development implementation of environmental policy is bureaucracy. Most readings will be from This course examines the process of local discussed. This course is offered as both CES contemporary authors and reference sources. economic development with an emphasis 553 and POL 543. This course is offered as both CEI 560 and POL 560. on the interaction of political and economic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) factors. It explores the extent to which local May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (as compared to state and federal) officials can influence business location decisions, the POL 544: Human Behavior as Rational POL 561: Dynamics of Public Opinion specific strategies often utilized, and the way Action This course provides an overview of the they have changed over time. It also considers Rational behavior means choosing among literature on public opinion. The course will the winners and losers from the "economic possible actions those that are most efficient start by considering the micro-foundations development game" with a focus on New York in meeting one's goals. Whether people do of opinions and the psychology of opinion and Long Island. so is one of the oldest unresolved disputes holding. How much do people know about 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in philosophy and the social sciences. We politics and other aspects of the social world?

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What are the consequences of differences in until recently there has been almost no A consideration of basic concepts (e.g., what knowledge and attitude strength? Building consideration of what psychologists call is an "attitude"), methodological challenge, from there, we will discuss the structure implicit or unconscious thought processes in and recent developments (e.g., the distinction of attitudes and opinions, specifically, the understanding public opinion. Psychologists between implicit and explicit attitudes); (2) nature of political ideology. A number of and communications researchers now An overview of major psychological theories determinants of opinions will be discussed understand that implicit events and processes of persuasion that attempt to answer Harold including values and personality. Finally, (e.g., symbol or music cues in political Lasswell's classic question: Who says what, in the course will examine the dynamics of advertising) can have profound effects on which channel, to whom, and with what effect? attitudes and opinions and their relationship how citizens evaluate political candidates, (3) An examination of the major agents of to government policy and larger social trends. groups, and issues. We will examine the political persuasion - the mass media, political Offered traditional approach to political cognition and elites, social context, and interpersonal Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, consider how this recent research may alter processes. A-, B+, etc.) our understanding of the formation of public Offered opinion. Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, POL 562: Passionate Politics: Offered A-, B+, etc.) Mobilization, Interest Groups, and Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Social Movements A-, B+, etc.) POL 566: The Psychology of Voting This course discusses political mobilization: The course examines the key motivations, the factors that motivate political involvement POL 564: Social Influences attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs that guide and the consequences that high levels of In studying public opinion, people often focus voters in the process of making up their minds public engagement have on elections and the on the arguments, information, and overt in choosing candidates in elections, including development of public policy. The course attempts to persuade. In doing so, we neglect the decision to turn out at all in elections. begins with several high profile examples of the impact of the social environment in which The list of topics includes party identification citizen engagement that have had noticeable an individual is situated. Friends, family, and (acquisition, genetic basis, development over impact on American politics. This first section aspects of the broader social environment all the life cycle, and historic change); opinions also includes a discussion of the various ways deeply influence the attitudes people hold, about policy issues and the conceptualization in which Americans can be mobilized from the tenacity with which they hold them, and of politics in ideological terms; the impact involvement in election campaigns to the the political behaviors they engage in. Rather of valence issues (the economy and national distribution of political information via social than focusing on direct persuasion, this course security); perceptions of candidates (personal networks. The course then shifts focus to emphasizes the effect social context can have as well as political qualities); group influence cover the psychology of political mobilization upon people's opinions even without overt on individual decisions, particularly racial in detail, including the importance of group argumentation or even information exchange. attitudes; and the impact of the campaign memberships and identities, emotions, and Students will learn about the influence of 1) (media ads, debates etc.) on vote choices. values. An entire unit of the course is devoted other individuals (e.g. socialization, social Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, to psychology of group membership in which network influence), 2) social2021 roles (e.g. A-, B+, etc.) the mobilizing power of identities and the power, obedience) 3) societal influence (e.g. role of politically motivating emotions are normative influence, conformity, deviance POL 567: Culture, Values, and Public discussed at length. Finally the last section of & rejection), and 4) influence from other Opinion the course is devoted to specific examples of environmental sources (e.g. priming). This course investigates the evolution of political mobilization in the U.S. including the Offered values, cleavages, political space, and environment/green movement, issue groups Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, issues in cross-national perspective (with such as the right-to-life movement, racial A-, B+, etc.) particular focus on the advanced industrialized politics, and highly polarized partisan politics. countries of the US, Europe, Israel, Japan, Overall, the course is designed to illuminate FallPOL 565: Persuasion and Propaganda and Australia). We begin our study with the psychology of political mobilization Politics at its core is about persuasion. It the analysis of traditional socio-economic and apply these principles to contemporary is about argumentation and debate, and cleavages in determining issue positions, American politics. about bringing citizens to a particular way and the `end of ideology¿ theses propounded Offered of thinking about an issue, candidacy, or by comparative political scientists, such as Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, event. Given its centrality in the political Daniel Bell and Francois Fukuyama, and A-, B+, etc.) process, understanding the dynamics of elaborated by scholars of the behavioral political persuasion should be a high priority revolution such as Inglehart, Dalton, and POL 563: Thinking and Emotion in for the discipline. In a more theoretical vein, Franklin. We then explore the strengths and Public Opinion the concept of "attitude" is among the most weaknesses of paradigm shifts to values, This course reviews recent research in indispensable in the social sciences. This buttressed by public opinion data. Bringing in cognitive, social, and political psychology on course is intended to provide a survey of cultural and neo-institutional explanations of the interplay between cognition and emotion contemporary theory and research on attitude political behavior and change, the course weds in explaining social and political behavior. formation and change. It is not intended to individual level analysis and group behavior Traditionally, political science has viewed be a general course on the mass media, but theories with rigorous empirical testing. We thinking as a conscious cognitive process rather is concerned only with mass media will look at cross-national and longitudinal of intentional deliberation. Emotions and research as it pertains to individual-level data sets to examine the evolving political other feelings have been ignored or seen as political attitude processes. The course is space stemming from new politics, identity interfering with rational though. Moreover, divided into the following three sections: (1) politics, immigration, and "new security"

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 198 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 threats in a global era. Finally, the course will economics, anthropology and sociology. interest. Final papers are due in the beginning conclude by looking at how different levels of Even if individuals do act rationally, can we of May. analyses (individual, group, and institutions) assume that the large scale social patterns that 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contribute to explain contentious politics, result are necessarily effective? Readings will May be repeated for credit. `boundary-making ("us" and "them"), and the consider the topic abstractly, but also in the `politics of difference across cultures. concrete settings of small intimate groups, POL 601: Foundations: Public Policy Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, formal organizations, and primitive and and Political Economy A-, B+, etc.) modern economic, social and political systems A systematic introduction to the principles of in both stable and revolutionary situations. political economy. Develops a microeconomic POL 568: Master's Thesis 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) model and approach to public policy analysis. This course entails a student thesis paper under A major part of the course is devoted to supervision of a faculty member on a research POL 590: Public Policy Internship student projects that analyze the political project related to methods used to study the Prerequisite: Permission of GPD economy of a governmental policy. dynamics of public opinion. 3-6 credits, S/U grading 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-6 credits, May be repeated for credit. POL 602: Applied Data Analysis I POL 569: Internship in MA in Political POL 591: Directed Policy Research The application of statistical and mathematical Science Prerequisite: Permission of GPD Student models to the analysis of political data: The internship for the Political Science M.A. works under supervision of faculty member on introduction to the research process and to is designed to provide first-hand experience research project related to public policy. topics in measurement, basic descriptive with the major research methods used to study 1-6 credits, S/U grading statistics, and inferential statistics. the dynamics of public opinion. The student 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) is expected to work in the organization and POL 596: Capstone Preparation prepare a daily journal of activities, as well as Seminar POL 603: Applied Data Analysis II paper at the conclusion of the course, apply This course introduces students to the various The application of statistical and mathematical program knowledge to the internship activities. paths students may take to complete the M.A. models to the analysis of political data: Permission of Program Director is required. in Public Policy (MAPP) program. Except in regression analysis. 1-6 credits, rare circumstances, it will be taught as a zero- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) credit, online course. POL 571: Moral Politics 0-6 credits, S/U grading POL 604: Applied Data Analysis III Many political issues ranging from capital The application of statistical methods to the punishment to same-sex marriage to wealth POL 597: Capstone Internship in analysis of political data. The emphasis is redistribution are moral issues. This course Public Policy on diagnosing and dealing with violations will use moral psychology to better understand This course is an applied internship in a public, of assumptions of statistical models. Topics public opinion, political debates, and political not-for-profit, or private sector2021 organization covered include advanced regression, models behavior. We will examine how moral that deals with public policy. The student for discrete dependent variables, systems of judgement differs from judgments based on works in the organization and prepares a daily equations, and selection bias. self interest and altruism. We will address journal of activities, as well as a paper at the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the role of moral condemnation in political conclusion of the course, applying program debates and how moral accusations clash with knowledge to the internship activities. POL 605: Foundations: American arguments based on non-moral considerations 1-6 credits, S/U grading Politics such as economics, group loyalty, or authority. May be repeated for credit. Topics include alternative moral frames, A review of the basic political science liberal-conservative differences, moral Fall literature on American politics, with emphasis POL 598: Capstone Thesis Project in on American political institutions. metaphors, and moral emotions. We will apply Public Policy these concepts to understand public opinion 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) about political issues surrounding property, This course is primarily for students already fairness, sexuality, religion, and violence. employed in related field. In lieu of internship, POL 606: Time Series Analysis Semesters offered- Fall and Spring Must be a student completes a Master's project which This seminar will consider statistical models student in POLMA program goes beyond their normal employment duties for political processes observed over time. to apply theory and methods to a particular 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) The major topics will include conintegration, policy issue. time varying parameter models and duration POL 572: Human Behavior as Rational 6 credits, models. Action 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 600: Research Project Rational behavior means choosing among possible actions those that are most efficient A two-semester introduction to research for POL 607: Social Survey in in meeting one's goals. Whether people do first-year students. The course introduces Contemporary Society so is one of the oldest unresolved disputes issues of research design through lectures and This course on political socialization focuses in philosophy and the social sciences. We presentations of current research by faculty on continuity and change in political attitudes will trace the main positions in this dispute as members. Each student designs his or her and behavior across the life span. Topics they have evolved in philosophy, psychology, own research paper under the guidance of a include the stability of political attitudes- faculty member familiar with his or her area of

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 199 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 contrasting the greater durability of political POL 614: American Judiciary door" practices, greater citizen participation in partisanship and basic values with the A seminar on judicial process and behavior. agency proceedings, and deregulation. relative instability of issue positions; the Emphasis is placed on the Supreme Court, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) social psychology of attitude change, which but trial courts and other appellate courts lends some insight into the conditions under are examined as well. Topics include POL 621: Theories of Policy Making which attitudes are most likely to change; constitutional interpretation and both legal An introduction to theories of policy making, the importance of political period or era as a and extra-legal models of decision making. especially policy formulation, stressing reading determinant of political attitudes and behavior; Students should possess basic methodological and thinking about classics and acquiring and the existence and coherence of distinct skills. skills necessary for theorizing, including political generations. Some attention is also 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mathematical modeling and formal theory. given to the political changes that accompany Laboratories focus on improving special old age, including changes in attitude and POL 615: Legislative Process skills (e.g., optimization) and theorizing behavior linked to growing dependency on the A seminar on the legislative process, focusing about particular policy areas (e.g., pork barrel Social Security and Medicare systems. on current research on the United States politics). 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Congress. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 608: Foundations: Political POL 622: Bureaucracy and the Policy Psychology, Behavior POL 616: Political Parties and Groups Process A review and analysis of the political behavior A seminar on parties, campaigns, and elections An examination of bureaucracy as part of the literature, including such topics as attitude in the United States. Topics covered include policy-making process. This course reviews formation and change, belief systems, political party organization and leadership, nomination theoretical explanations for the bureaucracy socialization, demographic and small group and general election campaigns, and the role of as a political institution and implications of its influences on political beliefs and conduct, parties in government. rapid growth since the New Deal. It also looks political leadership, electoral behavior, elite vs. inside bureaucratic organizations, examining 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) mass politics, decision making, personality and factors that influence the exercise of discretion politics, political conformity, and protest. POL 617: Electoral Behavior and policy implementation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Models of voting choices; key attitudes such 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) as party identification, issue orientations, and POL 609: Advanced Research Design POL 625: Ecological Rationality ideology; the impact of group affiliations, A practical application of topics in the economic conditions; campaign strategies Students will learn about the major theories of philosophy of science to research design. of candidates; congressional vs. presidential ecological rationality and how they compare Students prepare their dissertation proposal as elections; historical change, e.g., party to classical conceptions of rationality and a part of this course. realignments. to bounded rationality. Students will learn 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how this approach has influenced research in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 2021political science, psychology, and economics. POL 610: Foundations II: Experimental POL 618: American Political Ideology Course topics will include: theoretical Design and Methods foundations of ecological rationality, political This course examines American political An overview of experimental research with decision making as a manifestation of ideology as it is reflected in public opinion, an emphasis on experimental design, data ecological rationality, application to heuristics, political debate, and public policy. The goal is analysis, and interpretation. Students develop the relationship between ecological rationality to understand the underlying bases of conflict the ability to critically evaluate experimental and prospect theory, applications to risk- and consensus in American politics and the research. Students also participate in the taking, applications to behavioral economics, ways in which they influence and constrain development, implementation, and analysis of applications to trust and cooperation. At its debate over public policy. The course traces a laboratory experiment. Fall core, ecological rationality is a vision of the development of political conflict in the human psychology. Thus, this course provides 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) United States and examines the basis of a foundational perspective for our students contemporary political debate. POL 613: Game Theory for Political who are emphasizing political psychology in Science 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) their studies. The nature of human rationality Introduction to formal models of strategic is also a core topic in behavioral economics POL 620: Government Regulation of and political economy. Thus, this course is also behavior in static, dynamic, and repeated Business games. Technical emphasis is formulation and foundational for students emphasizing BPE. An examination of the scope of government solution of games of complete and incomplete 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) regulation of business in the United States information; a variety of equilibrium concepts today-regulation at both the federal and will be introduced. Substantive applications POL 626: Social Networks state levels and by both economic and social include spatial models of candidate behavior The course is designed to introduce students agencies. The course compares market in elections; agenda control and bargaining to the process of analyzing interdependent vs. regulatory policies as well as possible in legislatures; lobbying by interest groups; political actors. We will ultimately discuss explanations for why some regulatory common pool resource problems; and using whole network data to conduct social agencies change over time. Finally, the course cooperation between rivals. network analysis'note, these networks need not considers proposed reforms, such as clearer be social; they could be international networks 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) legislative standards, curbs on "revolving of countries, for example. It is important to

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 200 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 realize, however, that whole network data In-depth examination of the role of mass media Readings and research papers on topics in is often not available and, further, it is very in the political process and the psychological comparative politics. Particular attention is difficult to collect. We begin, therefore, by dynamics of media influence. Effects of given to concepts and methods identified with considering methods that take account of the the media on public opinion and voting. the field. interdependence of political actors without Implications of media influence on democratic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) analyzing the entire network within which theory. May be repeated for credit. those actors operate. The different methods 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and measures we discuss in this class could be POL 676: Advanced Topics: Methods I incorporated into almost all areas of political POL 633: Social Influence and Group A course reviewing the literature and science. Thus, the ultimate goal of this class is Processes in Political Decision Making methodology of specific areas of political to give students and a lexicon and a toolkit to Review of contemporary theories of social science research. The course relates directly to use in their own research. influence processes and group decision research applications and provide students with 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) making, with emphasis on applications an opportunity to apply advanced research to decision making in politics. Special tools to selected substantive problems. POL 627: Legislative Behavior focus on small-group methods and research 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course provides an overview of the applications. May be repeated for credit. theoretical and empirical studies of legislative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) politics. The course will place a particular POL 678: Political Decision Making emphasis on rational choice institutional POL 634: Behavioral Decision Theory Review of the literature and methods related perspectives. Briefly, this paradigm suggests Emphasizes psychological theories of to a topic or problem in contemporary that individual-level strategic calculations judgment and choice and prediction of the political science, voting behavior, issue are paramount in understanding political errors that individual decision makers are formation, interest groups, political economy, phenomena, and institutions both emerge likely to make. These ideas are applied to a or personality. from and serve to constrain these rational, variety of political contexts. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) utility maximizing political actors. While 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. the main focus of the course is the U.S. Congress, much of what we cover will have POL 664: Advanced Institutions POL 679: Advanced Topics: Political direct relevance to the study of legislatures Psychology/Behavior I more generally (both cross-nationally and American state legislatures). We will POL 670: Advanced Topics: Political Reading and research in the area of political discuss congressional elections, the nature of Economy I psychology and behavior. congressional representation, positive theories An intensive examination of major substantive 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) of congressional organization, political parties, and methodological concerns involved in the the committee system, institutional change, study of political economy. POL 680: Directed Study bicameralism, inter-branch relations, and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Individual studies under the guidance of 2021a faculty member. Subject matter varies comparative legislatures. May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) according to the needs of the student. POL 671: Advanced Topics: Political 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 629: Experimental Game Theory Economy II May be repeated for credit. Surveys experimental tests of formal models Reading and research in the area of political derived from political economy and game economy. POL 681: Directed Study theory, and applies behavioral and social- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Individual studies under the guidance of psychological theories to explain deviations a faculty member. Subject matter varies from equilibrium behavior. The methodologies FallPOL 673: Advanced Topics: American according to the needs of the student. of psychological and economic experiments Politics I 1-9 credits, S/U grading are contrasted and explored. Substantive A seminar in American institutions and May be repeated for credit. applications include social trust, bargaining processes, focusing on current research in such power, agenda control, committee decision areas as Congress, the Supreme Court, the POL 690: Research Colloquium making, common pool resource problems, and presidency, political parties, or bureaucracy. Students participate in weekly departmental political persuasion. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) colloquia where they serve as discussants 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. of research reports presented by individual faculty members or outside investigators POL 631: Political Cognition POL 674: Advanced Topics: American reporting on current research. Surveys the contemporary psychological Politics II 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) literature on human memory and cognition, A continuation of POL 673. with emphasis on applications to political POL 691: Research Practicum I 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information processing. May be repeated for credit. A course actively involving students in an 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ongoing research project under the direction POL 675: Advanced Topics: of a principal investigator. Students participate POL 632: Mass Communication and Comparative Politics I in all stages of the research project and are Political Persuasion

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 201 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 required to prepare a research report on one charge will only be removed if other plan is Psychology aspect of the project. deemed comparable. 3 credits, S/U grading All international students must received PSY 501: Analysis of Variance and clearance from an International Advisor. Experimental Design POL 692: Research Practicum II Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading The design and analysis of factorial A continuation of POL 691. Students actively May be repeated for credit. experiments having a single dependent participate in either a second research project, variable. Topics include between- and within- where they will again prepare a research POL 800: Summer Research subjects designs, mixed-factor designs, report, or continue their participation in the May be repeated for credit. interactions, trend analysis, and planned same project, where they are then assigned comparisons. Emphasis on applications a subset of data for analysis or carry out a in psychological research. Required of all specific research aim of the project. POR Ph.D. students in psychology. Prerequisite: 3 credits, S/U grading Undergraduate statistics, Co-requisite: PSY May be repeated for credit. Portuguese 508 Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) POL 693: Practicum in Teaching POR 500: Reading Portuguese Systematic instruction in the fundamentals PSY 502: Correlation and Regression of reading comprehension and in specialized POL 699: Dissertation Research on Correlation, regression, multiple correlation, subject-oriented vocabulary. Campus multiple regression, partial correlation, Dissertation research under direction of Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and introductions to some of the following advisor. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, topics: factor analysis, mediational analysis, B+, etc.) structural equation modeling, relation of Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5); regression to analysis of variance, analysis of permission of graduate program director. POR 511: Portuguese for Spanish covariance, discriminant function analysis, and Major portion of research must take place on Speaker multivariate analysis of variance. Required of SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the A one semester accelerated course in Brazilian all Ph.D. students in psychology. Spring Brookhaven National Lab. Portuguese for students with a native of near- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U native command of Spanish. This course uses grading Spanish as a base for study of Portuguese PSY 504: First Year Seminar May be repeated for credit. grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. This course includes discussion of current By the end of the semester students will be POL 700: Dissertation Research off research and research practices by faculty and prepared to read advanced materials and will Campus - Domestic visiting speakers. This course is required of all have acquired a basic proficiency in speaking, first-year Ph.D. students and Masters students. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy writing and comprehension of standard 0-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for (G5). Major portion of research will take place Brazilian Portuguese. A grade of B- or above off-campus, but in the United States and/ 2021credit. will satisfy the graduate language proficiency or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven requirement in Portuguese for the MA or PhD. 0-3 credits, S/U grading National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Department consent is required for enrollment. May be repeated for credit. are considered on-campus. All international students must enroll in one of the graduate 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PSY 505: Structural Equation Modeling student insurance plans and should be advised and Advanced Multivariate Methods POR 575: Luso-Brazilian Readings by an International Advisor. Thorough coverage of structural equation Major literary works from 19th-and 20th- modeling and brief coverage of other Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading century Portugal and Brazil, especially specialized techniques used in data analysis in May be repeated for credit. Fallnarratives. psychology, such as multi-level modeling and POL 701: Dissertation Research off Prerequisite: Reading proficiency in cluster analysis (topics for brief coverage vary Campus - International Portuguese and permission of instructor from year to year). The course emphasizes Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, hands-on work with real data sets, using (G5). Major portion of research will take B+, etc.) standard statistical software packages. May be repeated for credit. place outside of the United States and/or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the POR 591: Portuguese Language etc.) option of the health plan and may also enroll Acquisition I in MEDEX. International students who are PSY 506: Psychometric Methods Elementary Portuguese I for graduate students in their home country are not covered by This course surveys traditional and evolving with no previous study of the language. The mandatory health plan and must contact the views on item design, reliability, and validity, course is designed to introduce the basics of Insurance Office for the insurance charge to reviews statistical methods related to test the language promoting the development of all be removed. International students who are construction, and applies this material to language skills. 4 credits Letter graded not in their home country are charged for the the design and evaluation of observational, mandatory health insurance. If they are to be 4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) rating, and self-report methods in domains covered by another insurance plan they must of interest to psychologists. The course also file a waiver be second week of classes. The PSY examines the impact of test characteristics

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 202 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 on data analysis and the role of test design in This course covers the sensory mechanisms and major systems of thought as they relate theory construction. that change physical stimuli (e.g., a picture of to conceptualization, assessment, and Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, your friend) into neural information, the major intervention. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) brain areas involved in processing this sensory Prerequisite: Psychology doctoral student. information for various perceptual abilities Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, PSY 507: Meta-Analysis (eg., motion perception, color perception, B+, etc.) This course is an introduction to research object perception, etc.), and the different synthesis and the use of meta-analytic theoretical approaches to analyzing a given PSY 534: Assessment: General techniques. The content is intended to be perceptual phenomenon. Principles, Clinical Interviews, and a thorough yet practical coverage of basic Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Adult Psychotherapy principles, with an emphasis on leading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) General principles of assessment; clinical students through the steps of conducting their interviewing; structured interviews for own meta-analytic project. A basic knowledge PSY 516: Judgment and Decision assessing axis-I and axis-II psychopathology; of statistics commonly used in the social Making ethics and cultural diversity. Prerequisite: and behavioral sciences is essential. Class This course provides an overview of empirical Clinical psychology doctoral student meetings will involve both didactic instruction and theoretical work on Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and discussion of readings and homework judgment and decision making. Topics include assignments. what decision making is, PSY 535: Advanced Research Methods 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Advanced research methods employed in B+, etc.) clinical, personality, social, and behavioral PSY 508: Introduction to Computer research. Fall or Spring Applications in Statistics PSY 518: Memory 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Computer protocol and introduction to Review of theory and phenomena related to statistical packages and necessary utility human memory. Topics include representation PSY 537: Methods of Intervention: programs. Fall and Spring of schemas and categories, encoding, Treatment of Internalizing Disorders 0-1 credits, S/U grading forgetting, implicit learning, and memory for This course covers the theory and research May be repeated for credit. procedures. Several recent models of long- associated with the treatment of internalizing term memory representation are discussed and disorders of adults, adolescents, and children. PSY 510: History of Psychology compared. Among the topics covered are the treatment Intensive reading in the history of psychology Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of phobias, school refusual, panic disorder, from original sources. Emphasis is on class B+, etc.) general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, post- discussion and relation to modern problems. traumatic stress disorder, complicated grief, PSY 520: Psycholinguistics Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, obsessive compulsive disorder, and mood B+, etc.) The psychology of language, including disorders. In the treatment of each, particular the mental lexicon, sentence2021 processing, emphasis is placed on how therapy needs to be PSY 511: Learning pragmatics, discourse, production and modified depending on whether one is working A consideration of the basic principles of comprehension of utterances in conversation, with a child, adolescent or adult. learning. Analysis of the leading theories of language and thought, first-language Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) learning as well as areas of controversy and acquisition, and computational approaches. dispute. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, PSY 538: Method of Intervention: Treatment of Externalizing Disorders Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Relationship Problems B+, etc.) FallPSY 524: Cognitive Development This course focuses on the treatment of PSY 513: Theories of Attention This course presents the developmental externalizing disorders of adults and children This course covers some of the major perspective as applied to human cognition. as well as intimate partner problems like theoretical perspectives that have shaped the Topics include (1) characteristics and relationship discord and partner abuse. A attention literature, staring with historical constraints on cognitive abilities in infancy, developmental focus is taken as exemplified distinctions of early versus late selection and childhood, and adolescence, (2) mechanisms of by coverage of child externalizing problems ending with more contemporary mathematical, developmental change, and (3) links between such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder, neurophysiological, and neuorcomputational cognitive development and selected applied Conduct Disorder, and Attention Deficit theories. Specific questions will include: topics. Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder "What is attention?" (is it a unitary thing or a Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and Partner Abuse. Treatments of alcohol grab-bag of assorted processes), "How does it B+, etc.) abuse and eating disorders in both teens work," and "What paradigms have researchers and adults are presented. Finally, treatment used to study attention?" (dichotic listening, PSY 533: Principles Applicable of schizophrenia is addressed along with priming, search, etc.). to Clinical Psychology: Historical/ coverage of the course of schizophrenia across systemic perspectives the lifespan. Individual, couple, and family Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, treatments are reviewed. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A critical review of how principles of general psychology apply to clinical psychology. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PSY 514: Sensation and Perception The course material will be discussed etc.) within the context of the history of ideas

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PSY 541: Social Psychology of Close An historical introduction to the measurement will compare contradictory evidence about Relationships of psychological variables and survey of the benefits of perceived control, and we will High level overview of current theory and contemporary scaling methods with an discuss problems of generalizing research research on the social psychology of close emphasis on psychophysical scaling and findings to different ethnic, cultural, and other relationships. experimental applications. groups. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Offered: Fall, Spring alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

PSY 542: Psychology of Addictive PSY 549: Prejudice and Discrimination PSY 558: Theories of Social Behaviors This course will provide an overview of Psychology: Health Applications Study of psychological, behavioral and theoretical perspectives, research methods, This course provides an overview of the biological theories of addiction. empirical findings, and practical applications ways in which social psychological theories of psychological research on prejudice, stigma, and perspectives can be used to understand Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, and intergroup relations. Critical thinking thoughts and behavior relevant to health Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) about theorizing and research in this area will and illness. It covers social influence, social PSY 543: Attachment be emphasized during class discussions and comparison, pluralistic ignorance, social through a course project. Students are admitted support, cognitive dissonance, message This course examines current psychological with permission by instructor. framing, and fear communication. The theories of infant-parent and child parent course also covers links between personality relationships and adult-adult attachment with Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, characteristics and health and how broader special attention to assessment methods, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) social and cultural environment affects health clinical applications and controversy regarding PSY 552: Social and Personality and illness. the importance of early experience. Development Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, A survey of milestones and processes of Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) social development in infancy and childhood. PSY 559: Psychology of Women's PSY 544: Emotion & Cognition Relevance to understanding adult personality and social relationships is emphasized. Health This course focuses on fundamental questions This course covers a variety of regarding the interaction between emotion Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, psychologically-important topics in women's and cognition, and how such this interaction B+, etc.) health based on current research findings. can be measured. Key topics will include: PSY 555: Social Psychology We address psychological contributors to differentiating emotions from other affective and consequences of women's health and states, understanding the functions of discrete An introduction to social psychology, a field of illness, focusing on diseases that affect women emotions, the role of the consciousness in study examining how people feel about, think differently or disproportionately than men emotional experience, and whether emotions about, and influence others. Topics include (including coronary heart disease, cancer, can be controlled ; additionally, the course attitudes, motivation, social2021 judgements, and AIDS, and autoimmune diseases), women's will address emotion-cognition interactions in interpersonal behaviors. Coursework focuses reproductive health (including menstruation, the domains of memory, attention, perception on identifying basic principles that transcend contraception, pregnancy, infertility, and and reasoning/decision-making. We will also particular content domains. menopause), health behaviors (including address developmental changes and cross- Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, substance abuse, exercise, and eating), and cultural differences in emotion and cognition. Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) other topics such as violence against women, The goal of the course is to be able to develop women's mental health, and women as health a translational research proposal rooted in PSY 556: Stress and Coping care providers and health researchers. basic research on emotion and cognition. In this course, we examine current issues, Fall Co-scheduled with WST 559. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, challenges, and questions in two related Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) areas of psychology: stress and coping. We will cover classical approaches in addition B+, etc.) PSY 545: Psychopathology: to recent empirical research and theoretical PSY 560: Human Brain Function Conceptual models and internalizing development. Students are not expected to disorders have prior familiarity with the topic areas. Cognitive neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field, at the interface of systems neuroscience, Theory and research on abnormal behavior in We will begin by reviewing definitions and computational neuroscience, and cognitive children, adolescents, and adults. A lifespan major theoretical orientations. In subsequent psychology. In this course, we examine development approach is taken, with a focus weeks we will concentrate on issues relevant the current theories and empirical research on classification, conceptualizations and to stress, coping, and related topics such findings on the neural basis of cognition. We models of psychological disorders, and the as social support, across a broad range of will cover anatomical, neurophysiological phenomenology, epidemiology, course, circumstances, rather than focusing on specific and pharmacological correlates of behavioral etiology, pathogenesis, psychopathology, and stressful contexts such as chronic illness or functions such as perception, attention, pathophysiology of internalizing disorders bereavement. For example, we will examine motivation, learning, memory, cognitive such as mood and anxiety disorders. ways to define successful and maladaptive coping. We will also consider whether control, and communication. We will Fall, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) social support is better conceptualized as a evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of commodity or as an individual perception. We various approaches used to student the neural PSY 546: Measurement and Scaling substrates of higher-order cognition.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter May be repeated for credit. May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) PSY 585: Social and Health PSY 561: Cognitive and Behavioral PSY 565: Functional Neuroanatomy Psychology Seminar I Neuroscience I Just as a function can be derived from This course includes discussions of current This course introduces students to neural the structure of everyday objects, so too research in Social and Health Psychology elements responsible for processing can function be derived from the study of by faculty, students, and visiting scientists. information supporting sensation, perception, brain architecture and neural connectivity. This sequence is required of all students in the cognition and movement. Starting with Accordingly, this course takes a structural Social and Health Psychology Program. the philosophy of the mind and the history approach to the understanding of the nervous Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading of neuroscience, the course proceeds with system and behavior. To complement a May be repeated for credit. an introduction of cells, neural signaling, disciplinary focus on cognition, affect and transmitters and receptors. How these emotions, this course will emphasize the PSY 586: Social and Health elemental units are integrated to support connectivity of higher order brain regions. Psychology Seminar II emergent properties, usch as object Students will first be introduced to the global This course includes discussions of current recognition, is illustrated. Coversely, examples organization of the nervous system and a research in Social and Health Psychology of complex behavioral impairments resulting general framework for information processing. by faculty, students, and visiting scientists. from dysfunction in elemental units illustrated. Then sensory and motor pathways will be This sequence is required of all students in the The course proceed to cover neral metabolism, discussed imn more detail. The course will Social and Health Psychology Program. and its relation to disorders of memory and end with topics such as the neurocircuitry of Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading motor dysfunction. Last, stress and its role in addiction, emotion, and memory. May be repeated for credit. neuropsychological disorders is discussed. Offered Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, PSY 587: Clinical Psychology Seminar etc.) etc.) I This course includes discussions of current PSY 562: Cognitive and Behavioral PSY 581: Integrative Neuroscience research in Clinical Psychology by faculty, Neuroscience II Seminar I students, and visiting scientists. Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience This course includes discussion of current Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading illustrates how cellular circuits support research in Integrative Neuroscience by May be repeated for credit. function. Classic experiments demonstrating faculty, students, and visiting scientists. This function fro the use of electrophysiological sequence is required of all students in the PSY 588: Clinical Psychology Seminar data, lesions and transmitter manipulations are Integrative Neuroscience Program. II discussed. Students interested in understanding Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading This course includes discussions of current how individual neurons and neural circuits and May be repeated for credit. integrated regional systems directly support research in Clinical Psychology by faculty, 2021students, and visiting scientists. specific behaviors will find this course of PSY 582: Integrative Neuroscience interest. A textbook is used for the readings. Seminar II Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course includes discussions of current research in Integrative Neuroscience by PSY 594: Psychology of Gender PSY 563: Neuropsychological faculty, students, and visiting scientists. This Assessment sequence is required of all students in the This class examines how gender affects and is Classroom discussions of issues in Integrative Neuroscience program. affected by behavior, thoughts, and emotions. neuropsychological assessment and design We investigate gender differences and Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading similarities across the lifespan and consider of assessment batteries are combined with FallMay be repeated for credit. practical experience in the assessment of various perspectives on the study of gender, including psychobiology, social cognitive clinical populations. Each student is assigned PSY 583: Cognitive Science Seminar I to a supervisor to learn assessment techniques theory, social role theory, and cross-cultural This course includes discussions of current research. for research and/or clinical practice. research in Cognitive Science by faculty, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, students, and invited scientists. This sequence Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) is required of all students in the Cognitive Science program. PSY 564: Neuropsychopharmacology PSY 595: Human Development Fall, 0-3 credits, S/U grading An examination of the biological and This course covers the mechanisms of May be repeated for credit. transmitters and related drug action in the psychological development of children and adolescents and its relationship to teaching nervous system. In addition to exploring PSY 584: Cognitive Science Seminar II transmitter/receptor relationships, the course and curriculum development for diverse This course includes discussions of current learners. The course will focus on special covers the sequence of events initiated by research in Cognitive Science by faculty, this action. Through understanding of these education programs, childhood and adolescent students, and invited scientists. This sequence psychiatric disorders, and societal issues. processes, the course then links drug action to is required of all students in the Cognitive Offered: nervous system outcomes such as movement, Science program. cognition, pain and mood. Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B Spring, 0-3 credits, S/U grading +, etc.)

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PSY 596: Psychopathology: feedback about case conceptualization and Offered Externalizing & Psychotic Disorders treatment. Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-6 credits, S/U Theory and research of abnormal behavior in Prerequisite: Clinical psychology doctoral grading children, adolescents, and adults. A lifespan student May be repeated for credit. development approach is taken, with a focus Summer, 3 credits, S/U grading PSY 696: Readings on the phenomenology, epidemiology, course, May be repeated for credit. etiology, pathogenisis, psychopathology, and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor pathophysiology of externalizing disorders PSY 608: Clinical Psychology 1-12 credits, S/U grading (e.g., conduct, disorder, personality disorders, Internship May be repeated for credit. substance use disorders) and psychotic Qualified clinical students carry out supervised disorders. clinical responsibilities in settings approved by PSY 698: Research Prerequisite: Must be Psychology Graduate the faculty. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Student Prerequisite:Clinical psychology doctoral 1-12 credits, S/U grading Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, student May be repeated for credit. etc.) Fall and Spring, 1 credit, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. PSY 699: Dissertation Research on PSY 602: Assessment: Personality Campus Testing, Intellectual/Cognitive Testing; PSY 610: Seminars in Selected Topics Dissertation research under direction of and Child Parent Assessment Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the advisor. Self-report and projective measures of graduate program and research interests of the Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). personality and psychopathology; targeted staff. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Major portion of research must take place on assessments and measures; intellectual and Fall, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the cognitive assessment; assessment of children etc.) Brookhaven National Lab. and parents; ethics and cultural diversity. May be repeated for credit. Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Spring, 2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, May be repeated for credit. etc.) PSY 620: Seminars in Selected Topics Topics selected on the basis of the needs of the PSY 700: Dissertation Research off PSY 603: Ethics and Professional graduate program and research interests of the Campus - Domestic Issues staff. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Ethics and professional issues. Required of Prerequisite: Permission of instructor (G5). Major portion of research will take place all first-year clinical students. Prerequisite: Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, off-campus, but in the United States and/ Clinical psychology doctoral student etc.) or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading May be repeated for credit. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab are considered on-campus. All international PSY 604: Intervention Practicum PSY 621: Seminar in Teaching2021students must enroll in one of the graduate Exposure of the application of clinical Methods student insurance plans and should be advised intervention procedures. Theory and pragmatics of good college by an International Advisor. Prerequisite: PSY 537 or PSY 538, Must be teaching. Topics include lecturing, use of Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Psychology Graduate Student discussion, types of evaluation of students May be repeated for credit. Fall, 2 credits, S/U grading and teachers, factors affecting undergraduate learning, ethics, student-faculty relations, PSY 701: Dissertation Research off PSY 605: Advanced Clinical Practicum course administration, and audio-visual Campus - International Exposure to the application of advanced Falldevices. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy intervention procedures. Prerequisites: Matriculated psychology (G5). Major portion of research will take place outside of the United States and/or Prerequisite: PSY 604 and Clinical psychology graduate student; permission of instructor U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the doctoral student Fall or Spring, 0-3 credits, Letter graded (A, option of the health plan and may also enroll Fall and Spring, 2 credits, S/U grading A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. in MEDEX. International students who are PSY 606: Supervised Practice in their home country are not covered by PSY 695: Graduate Academic and mandatory health plan and must contact the Clinical Psychology faculty meet with students Professional Skills Practicum Insurance Office for the insurance charge to as a group with follow-up individual recitation be removed. International students who are sessions to cover topics such as assessment Students enrolled in the M.A. program in not in their home country are charged for the and treatment conceptualization of specific Psychology may gain degree-relevant practical mandatory health insurance. If they are to be cases that students are seeing in Psychological experience under the supervision of the covered by another insurance plan they must Center. In addition, methods of providing program advisor. This experience may include file a waiver be second week of classes. The documentation of change in individual cases participation in public and private agencies charge will only be removed if other plan is are discussed as well as means of obtaining and organizations and experience in teaching deemed comparable. corroborating evidence to support self-reported support roles. Students are required to submit information. Students present case material written progress reports and a final written All international students must received to the group and receive peer and faculty report on their experience to the faculty clearance from an International Advisor. sponsor and department. Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading

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May be repeated for credit. A seminar on 19th-century Russian literature. The relationship of literature and theatre with The course deals with prose, poetry, and drama specific examples taken from Russian cultural PSY 800: Full Time Summer Research in the context of literary movements and history. The stage adaptations of Stanislavsky, 0 credits, S/ grading traditions. Meyerhold, and contemporary directors will be S/U grading Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) studied as forms of aesthetic conjunction and May be repeated for credit. as responses to the social-ideological context. RUS 514: 20th-Century Russian Spring PSY 820: Summer Teaching-CED Literature 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A seminar in turn-of-the-century, Soviet post revolutionary, and emigre Russian literature. RUS 603: Seminar in Cultural Theory RUS The course deals with prose, poetry, and drama Studies in cultural theory with particular in the context of literary movements and reference to the works of formalism, Russian Language and traditions. structuralism, the Tartu school of semiotics, Literature Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Bakhtinian theory. Fall 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) RUS 500: Reading Russian RUS 520: Russian Syntax Intensive introductory Russian for graduate A course in Russian syntax and advanced students in other programs. Practice in grammar from various theoretical frameworks. SCI reading and translation; Russian prose; use of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) dictionaries and reference materials; as much Science Teacher Preparation attention as possible to special problems of RUS 591: Language Acquisition I SCI 510: Introduction to Science various disciplines. Elementary Russian I intended for graduate Teaching Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, students from other programs. This course introduces the pre-service teacher etc.) 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) to the requisite skills, culture, and demands of the profession. The pre-service teacher RUS 504: Introduction to Cultural RUS 592: Language Acquisition II History learns to design curriculum, write lesson plans, Elementary Russian II intended for graduate orchestrate classroom activity, probe student Russian cultural history focusing on recurrent students from other programs. thinking and assess student progress within the values and ideas. Topics explored include 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) context of a pedagogy that promotes an inquiry issues of cultural identity, responses to approach to learning. This course requires one- the West and Asia (in such movements as RUS 593: Language Acquisition III half day per week of clinical practice with Slavophilism, pan-Slavism, and Eurasian follow-up seminar in the campus Discover theory), gender, and ethnicity. Intermediate and Advanced Russian intended for graduate students from other programs. Lab, out-of-class meetings with classmates, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, The requirements for the course will include a and periodic visits to local public schools. etc.) 2021 graduate-level component to be determined by 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the instructor. May be repeated for credit. RUS 508: Russian Authors SCI 520: Science Instructional 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A seminar in selected Russian authors, Strategies and Techniques May be repeated for credit. focusing on one or two of the following: In this course, the pre-service teacher builds on Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, RUS 595: Practicum in Teaching the pedagogical foundations set in SCI 510 and Tolstoy. May be repeated. prepares for student teaching in the following Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) semester. Greater leadership in Discover Lab May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. Fall programs and teaching assignments in local RUS 599: Thesis Research public schools is expected. Greater emphasis RUS 509: Dostoevsky and the West is placed on the integration of theory and RUS 599 Thesis Research. One to six credits. Dostoevsky's major texts viewed in cross- practice, extension of scientific inquiry for S/U grading. May be repeated for credit. cultural perspective with particular emphasis diverse learners and assessment of student on literary and philosophical traditions 1-6 credits, progress within the context of teaching. This common to Russia and Europe. May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. course demands an inquiry into the nature of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) science and the nature of knowing. It requires RUS 601: Studies in Cultural Genres one-half day per week of clinical practice with RUS 511: Studies in Literary Genres Explorations in different forms of Russian follow-up seminars, out-of-class meetings with A seminar devoted to a specific genre (poetry, cultural representation offered by written texts, classmates, and micro-teaching assignments in novel, short fiction, drama) in Russian the arts, architecture, and popular media such selected public schools. Prerequisite: SCI 510; literature. May be repeated. as puppet theatres, the bard tradition, and entrance interview with the Science Education cinema. Interaction among aesthetic genres Committee; 3.0 cummulative graduate GPA; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, will be explored with particular emphasis on matriculation in degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D etc.) the roles of literature in the other arts. Fall or MA/LS) program; permission Science May be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Education program 631.632.7075 Remark: RUS 513: 19th-Century Russian 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Literature RUS 602: Literature and Theatre

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SCI 530: Applied Research in 1 credit, S/U grading Special topics in Slavic literature investigating Educational Settings an author, period, genre, or theoretical issue. SCI 551: Supervised Student Teaching This course offers the pre-service teacher the Designed to provide a forum for advanced High School Grades 10-12: Science opportunity to conduct a place of original research in critical methodology. research that will inform future practice. With Prospective science teachers will participate Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, guidance from the PEP faculty and/or affiliated in a supervised student teaching experience etc.) departmental faculty, pre-service teachers will in selected Long Island secondary schools, formulate a question, design a protocol, collect grades 10-12. The student teacher reports to SLV 502: Problems of Literary data and analyze within research traditions the school to which he/she is assigned each Translation appropriate to the question. full school day. Frequent consultation with The course addresses theoretical and practical the supervising teacher helps the student 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) problems of translation from the Slavic interpret and evaluate the teaching experience. languages. Published translations of literary SCI 540: Clinical Experience and Applications must be filed in the semester texts as well as translations prepared by Action Research preceding student teaching. participants of the seminar will be compared Within this course, students will engage in 3 credits, S/U grading and analyzed. weekly clinical practice experiences in campus Prerequisite: Advanced knowledge of Slavic SCI 552: Supervised Student Teaching teaching labs, outreach programs or regional languages Middle School Grades 7-9: Science schools. In addition, students will design, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, implement, and present an action research Prospective science teachers will participate etc.) project. This course is intended to be taken as a in a supervised student teaching experience two-semester co-requisite of SCI 510 and SCI in selected Long Island secondary schools, SLV 571: Comparative Slavic 520. grades 7-9. The student teacher reports to Linguistics the school to which he/she is assigned each 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) An investigation of the major West, East, full school day. Frequent consultation with and South Slavic languages with particular SCI 549: Science Field Experience I the supervising teacher helps the student attention to their historical development. The interpret and evaluate the teaching experience. This course requires teacher candidates course includes comparative and contrastive Applications must be filed in the semester to complete 50 hours of supervised field studies in the areas of phonology, morphology, preceding student teaching. Prerequisite: SCI experience at various sites and with diverse and syntax. 510, 520, 541, 542 CEE 505 and CEE 565; learners, including: high needs schools, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) matriculation in degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D or students with disabilities or special needs, MA/LS) program, 3.0 cummulative GPA; English language learners, and diverse SLV 578: Directed Independent Studies submission of portfolio and interview with and age groups. The field experience will Fall permission of Science Education Committee involve: observing instruction by sponsoring 631.632.7075 May be repeated for credit. teacher and other teachers using a structured observation protocol, assisting sponsoring 3 credits, S/U grading 2021SLV 579: Directed Independent Studies teacher with class activities, tutoring II SCI 554: Supervised Teaching of students, planning curriculum and negotiating Science Seminar Spring curriculum with students, assessing student knowledge, and preparing written assignments This seminar, which will focus on problems May be repeated for credit. for the methods courses on the basis of the encountered by student teachers and public SLV 580: Special Topic in Slavic above activities. school teachers at the secondary level, will include study and analysis of science teaching Languages I 1 credit, S/U grading issues, including classroom management, The study of the phonology, morphology, and SCI 550: Science Field Experience II Fallschool culture, and social issues affecting the syntax of a Slavic language other than Russian, schools and student performance. Prerequisite: e.g., Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, This course requires teacher candidates SCI 510, 520, 541, 542, CEE 505 and CEE or Bulgarian. May be repeated if different to complete 50 hours of supervised field 565; submission of portfolio and interview language studied. experience at various sites and with diverse with and permission of Science Education learners, including: high needs schools, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Committee 631.632.7059; matriculation in students with disabilities or special needs, May be repeated for credit. degree (MAT, MS, Ph.D or MA/LS) program; English language learners, and diverse completion of any content area deficiencies SLV 581: Special Topic in Slavic age groups. The field experience will Languages II involve: observing instruction by sponsoring 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) teacher and other teachers using a structured A continuation of the study of a Slavic observation protocol, assisting sponsoring language other than Russian. May be repeated teacher with class activities, tutoring SLV if different language is studied. students, planning curriculum and negotiating Slavic Languages and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, curriculum with students, assessing student etc.) knowledge, and preparing written assignments Literature May be repeated for credit. for the methods courses on the basis of the SLV 501: Special Topics in Slavic above activities. Prerequisite: Matriculation in Literature Science Education Program, SCI 549, SCI 510 SOC

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Sociology Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, etc.) B+, etc.) SOC 501: Multivariate Statistics for May be repeated for credit. Social Science SOC 509: The Practice of Ethnography SOC 516: Social Inequality This course is an advanced treatment of This course has four major objectives: (1) descriptive and inferential statistics with to become familiar with contemporary Causes, consequences, and explanations of emphasis on the latter. Students will gain ethnogaphies; (2) to acquaint students with a prevailing social, political, and economic practical experience in analyzing current data the methodological literature on qualitative phenomenon. The course assesses long-run from the social sciences through the use of sociology; (3) to consider theoretical and trajectories of inequalities in their various statistical computer programs. Topics include: epistemological issues in qualitative research; forms and dimensions, and analytically and sampling, measures of central tendency and and (4) to put some data production techniques theoretically considers the topic at the local, dispersion, probability theory, hypothesis (observant participation, in-depth interviews, national, and global levels. testing, point and interval estimation, the and life stories) into practice. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, normal, binomial, and chi-square distributions, This course is co-scheduled with WST 610. B+, etc.) parametric and non-parametric measures of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. association and correlation, and bi-variate B+, etc.) regression. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. SOC 518: Sociology of Gender 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course will familiarize students with the SOC 510: Historical Methods in field through a broad survey. Topics include SOC 502: Multivariate Regression Sociology theoretical debates about construction of Techniques Major approaches, philosophical problems gender identity, conceptual and empirical This course provides an in-depth overview of, and methods used in historical sociology. issues in the study if gender dynamics and of regression analysis, primarily focused on Topics covered include causal analysis, empirical studies of the way gender constituted OLS modeling. Topics include: inferences macrosociological comparisons, case-oriented by social institutions such as family, education, in regression analysis, dummy variables, versus variable-oriented approaches, ideal workplace, and media. interaction terms, and diagnostics and remedial types, comparative typologies, narrative, and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, measures. The course concludes with an issues of significance and objectivity. Special B+, etc.) introduction to other regression techniques attention is given to the problem of concept May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. such as logistic and probability modeling. formation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SOC 519: Advanced Topics in Gender 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Studies SOC 504: Logic and Practice of SOC 512: Global Sociology, This advanced course will continue the Sociology Identities and Organizations in Global discussion of the graduate seminar on Perspective This course provides an introduction to the Sociology of Gender, by examining theoretical logic of empirical research in sociology. It This course examines how2021 increasing global debates or controversies, examining specific takes a broad overview of both quantitative integration impacts human societies. It reviews gender identities, examining the gender of and qualitative methods; inductive and the broad trends that foster globalization a specific institution (i.e., labor,law), or the deductive reasoning; and the process of theory in the economic, political, cultural, and gendered dynamics of social interaction (in for construction and testing, with an emphasis social spheres, as well as the consequences example, romantic relationships or sexuality). on research design and the logic of causal global change has had on how individuals Co-scheduled with WST 602. analysis. A knowledge of advanced statistics and communities identify themselves and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, is not assumed. Topics covered include how they organize for collective goals. Core B+, etc.) survey research, participant observation issues on the global agenda such as conflict, May be repeated for credit. and field methods, the comparative method, Fallenvironment, technological and economic experimental and quasi-experimental design, development, demographic change, gender, SOC 521: Social Psychology content analysis, and the logic of multivariate and human rights will be addressed; research An analysis of the three major domains of analysis. methods for the study of global society will be social psychology: (1) symbolic interactionism introduced. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) with a focus on the topic of identity; (2) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) psychological social psychology with a SOC 505: Classical Sociological focus on the topics of personal perception Theory SOC 514: Advanced Topics in Global and attitudes; and (3) social structure and Sociology A review of the intellectual development of the personality with a focus on the topics of discipline, its epistemological foundations, and This course provides an advanced treatment norms, roles and socialization. classical theoretical statements. of major topics and debates in the increasingly Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, globalized social sciences. The course is Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) based on research activities of the faculty and May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. students. Topics may include global inequality; SOC 506: Contemporary Sociological globalization and gender; sociology of human Theory SOC 523: Sociology of Education rights; war and revolution; transnational social Relationships between education and other A review of the current major theoretical movements; comparative political economy; orientations and newly developing theoretical institutions. Internal dynamics of the school globalization and immigration; globalization and the classroom. perspectives. and work; issues in global culture.

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3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A comparative and historical study of the Intensive reading, under supervision of one or social organization of war and the military; more instructors, of material not covered in the SOC 531: Economic Sociology causes, conduct, and consequences of war. formal curriculum. This course reviews the fundamental principles 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1-12 credits, S/U grading of economic sociology and looks carefully at May be repeated for credit. the main areas of research in the resurgence SOC 556: Political Sociology that began in the 1970's. The course covers The study of political institutions and of the SOC 591: Special Seminars classic texts and considers key areas that have politically relevant actions and attitudes of Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built animated the field in the recent era. Subjects individuals and groups. Particular stress is around actual research activities of students would include the rise of the large corporation, placed on the reciprocal relationship between and faculty. The following topics have been ownership and control debate (including the social movements and political institutions. covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of overlapping issues of corporate interlocks 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced and finance capital), the issue of markets and Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of transactions costs, the development of the SOC 561: Cultural Sociology Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic embeddedness perspective, labor markets and Cultural sociology is a multi-faceted approach Relations; Biosociology; Comparative the nature and extent of globalization. used to analyze phenomena as varied as the Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, arts and popular culture, social identities, Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday B+, etc.) social movements, markets, and politics. In Life; The Study of the World's Advanced May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. this course the major theoretical approaches Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; are presented along with the most significant Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; SOC 532: Organizations empirical work done in recent years. Classical Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; This course will review classic and current as well as contemporary texts are considered. Transnational Social Movements; Economic research in the area of organizations. It will Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, cover internal dynamics of organizations, Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development B+, etc.) beginning with classic Weberian theory, of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. and continue by reviewing contemporary Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three approaches to human relations theory. It SOC 562: Sociology of the Arts Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural will address key debates about the dynamics Approach to Organizational Behavior; The relations between social structure, social of management-worker relations, and it Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology change, and the development of major art will scrutinize the debate of corporate of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; forms. control. Also it will survey the literature Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of on interorganizational relations and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender dynamics, such as interlock research to new and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. SOC 566: Funding and Grant Writing in institutionalism. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sociology Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, May be repeated for credit. This course will provide students2021 with the B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. skills necessary to write grant proposals for SOC 595: Special Seminars both government and private agencies. The Topics to be arranged. The seminar is built SOC 542: Deviance main requirement will be to prepare a proposal around actual research activities of students suitable for submission to a particular agency Survey of recent research literature on various and faculty. The following topics have been that funds the kind of research the student kinds of deviance (crime, delinquency, and covered: Cultural Theory; Sociology of plans to do. morally stigmatized behavior). Controversial Technology; Micro-sociology; Advanced issues in theory and research methods. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Topics in Marxist Theory; Sociology of B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall Emotions; Historical Methods; Ethnic May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Relations; Biosociology; Comparative SOC 545: Social Movements Stratification; Max Weber; Sociology of the SOC 568: Dissertation Seminar Unorganized collectives and their role in Future; Science of Sociology and Everyday Under the direction of the seminar leader, change. Studies of specific social movements Life; The Study of the World's Advanced students help one another (1) prepare for the and other collective behavior episodes. Societies; Methods of Behavioral Observation; Preliminary Specialty Field Exam (which Social Structure; Sociology of the Family; Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, includes putting together a reading list) and Cognitive Sociology; Sociology of Work; B+, etc.) (2) work on a dissertation proposal and its Transnational Social Movements; Economic May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. defense. The details of selecting a dissertation Sociology; War and Revolution; Sociology of committee and writing a dissertation are also Gender; Sociology of Culture; Development SOC 549: Social Change explored. of Capitalism; Film as a Sociological Research The image of technological, generational, and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Tool; Funding and Grant Writing; The Three cultural forces on social organization from B+, etc.) Faces of Social Psychology; A Structural historical and comparative perspectives. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Approach to Organizational Behavior; 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Professionals and Professionalism; Sociology SOC 590: Independent Study of Modernity; Globalization and Immigration; SOC 555: War and the Military Research Support in Sociology; Sociology of

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Sexual Behavior; Global Sociology; Gender Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). examination for successful completion of this and the Law; Poverty and Homelessness. Major portion of research must take place on course (not for M.A. or Ph.D. candidates in 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SBU campus, at Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Spanish). May be repeated for credit. Brookhaven National Lab. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U B+, etc.) SOC 598: Research grading Execution of a research project under the May be repeated for credit. SPN 501: Historical Linguistics supervision of one or more faculty members. General processes of language change, SOC 700: Dissertation Research off as exemplified by the development of the 1-12 credits, S/U grading Campus - Domestic May be repeated for credit. Romance languages, with particular reference Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy to Spanish. (G5). Major portion of research will take place SOC 603: Advanced Topics in Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, off-campus, but in the United States and/ Quantitative Analysis B+, etc.) or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven Mathematical and statistical methods in the May be repeated for credit. National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab analysis of quantitative data. are considered on-campus. All international SPN 502: Methods in Linguistics 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) students must enroll in one of the graduate Research May be repeated for credit. student insurance plans and should be advised Methods for elicitation and collection of by an International Advisor. SOC 604: Advanced Topics in linguistic data and their analysis. Relation Qualitative Analysis Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading between theory and research design, and May be repeated for credit. The use of personal documents, official between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Introduction to commonly used tests of records, field observations, and interviews. SOC 701: Dissertation Research off statistical significance, and to reasoning and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Campus - International argumentation from limited data. Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Prerequisite: Permission of instructor SOC 691: Practicum for Teaching and (G5). Major portion of research will take Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Graduate Assistants place outside of the United States and/or B+, etc.) Individualized supervision of initial U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the May be repeated for credit. (first two semesters) teaching assistance. option of the health plan and may also enroll Discussion, examination construction, student in MEDEX. International students who are SPN 503: Spanish Linguistics consultation, and grading. Register for section in their home country are not covered by Major issues related to the general structure of of supervising instructor. mandatory health plan and must contact the the Spanish language (phonetics, phonology, 3 credits, S/U grading Insurance Office for the insurance charge to morphosyntax, semantics, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. be removed. International students who are not in their home country are charged for the Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, 2021B+, etc.) SOC 692: Practicum in the Teaching of mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Sociology covered by another insurance plan they must May be repeated for credit. The exploration of teaching goals, processes, file a waiver by second week of classes. The SPN 504: Contrastive Analysis: and outcomes. Practice lectures are videotaped charge will only be removed if other plan is Spanish and English and discussed; classroom visits; planning, deemed comparable. outlining, selection of course material; writing All international students must receive Topics vary, and may include linguistic of syllabus for Introductory Sociology section clearance from an International Advisor. interference and its basis and manifestations, to be taught as part of SOC 693 in following Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading in-depth discussion of specific syntactic/ semester. FallMay be repeated for credit. semantic areas with reference to possible Spanish/English interference, major 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SOC 800: SUMMER RESEARCH phonological differences between Spanish and English and consequent learning difficulties, SOC 693: Practicum for Graduate May be repeated for credit. Teaching Interns and nonlinguistic factors that may affect learning in different groups in different Supervised teaching of a section of Sociology situations. 105 using the outlines, materials, and SPN techniques developed in SOC 692. Includes Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, weekly meetings of all persons registered for Hispanic Languages and B+, etc.) SOC 693 and observation of classes by both Literature May be repeated for credit. faculty and fellow graduate students. SPN 500: Reading Spanish SPN 505: Hispanic Dialectology and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Sociolinguistics Through an intensive study of language SOC 699: Dissertation Research on structures and idiomatic usage, with extensive Major theoretical issues involved in analysis Campus practice in written translation of literary of geographical and social variation and with and scholarly texts, candidates for advanced the principal methods used in its investigation, Dissertation research under direction of as applied to varieties of Spanish, Portuguese, advisor. degrees are able to obtain the proficiency level of the graduate Spanish reading requirement. Catalan, and Galician. Several programs grant exemption from further

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Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Major literary works within the Renaissance May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) and/ or baroque periods are read and analyzed May be repeated for credit. in depth, and their interrelation with the SPN 585: Caribbean Literature cultural context is discussed. A course devoted to major writers and works SPN 506: Bilingualism Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, of the Caribbean area. Readings will be This course studies the phenomenon of B+, etc.) analyzed in relation to cultural contexts. bilingualism both at the individual and May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, at the social level. It examines the nature B+, etc.) of bilingual competence, theories of the SPN 532: Interdisciplinary Approaches May be repeated for credit. representation/storage of bilingual knowledge, to Hispanic Studies the acquisition/learning of multiple languages, The critical analysis of selected themes SPN 588: Directed Master's Research social attitudes towards bilingualism, the in Spanish and/or Latin American culture For work toward the M.A. thesis or preparation consequences of language contact, and and society as represented across different for the M.A. comprehensive examination only. bilingual education policies and their effects. discourses and disciplines including literary This course is mainly intended for students 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and cultural studies, film and media, who are not continuing toward the Ph.D. documentary and historical sources. Offered in Prerequisite: Permission of graduate program SPN 510: Hispanic Cultures Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, director, M.A. thesis director, and, or director An introduction to the essential aspects of A-, B+, etc.) of the M.A. comprehensive examination Hispanic cultures both globally and within May be repeated for credit. committee. the U.S., designed to provide incoming Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, graduate students with sufficient background SPN 542: Studies in Modern Spanish A-, B+, etc.) to undertake the advanced study of Hispanic Literature May be repeated for credit. languages and literature. Major literary works of the 19th and 20th 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) centuries will be read and analyzed in depth in SPN 591: Spanish Language May be repeated for credit. relation to their broader cultural and historical Acquisition I content. Elementary Spanish I Intended for graduate SPN 513: Spanish as a Second Offered in students of other programs Language Acquisition Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course examines how language A-, B+, etc.) development in bilingual individuals is May be repeated for credit. SPN 592: Spanish Language different from that of monolinguals, how Acquisition II individuals learn their first language (L1), how SPN 551: Early Latin American Elementary Spanish II intended for graduate they learn their second language (L2), and the Literature and Culture students from other programs. relationship between both languages, including An introduction to the analysis of major works 1-4 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how L1 affects the understanding of L2 in the and concepts of the colonial2021 period and their user's mind. relevance for contemporary debates in Latin SPN 595: Directed Independent Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, American literary and cultural studies. Individual Studies B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) For M.A. and Ph.D. candidates only. May be repeated for credit. Requires a written proposal signed by the SPN 514: Spanish Grammar faculty member involved and the approval The student will be introduced to important SPN 573: Studies in Modern Latin of the graduate program director and the concepts in the study of grammar and syntax American Literature departmental chairperson. No more than a of Spanish in view of modern linguistics Major literary works of the 19th and 20th total of nine credits may be applied toward a theories about our language facility. This Fall centuries will be read and analyzed in depth in Spanish graduate degree or combination of course also will describe the grammar of relation to their broader cultural and historical degrees. Spanish spoken in Spain and Latin America. context. Prerequisite: Permissions mentioned above Offered in Offered in Fall and Spring, 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. SPN 515: Spanish Composition and SPN 609: Literary and Cultural Translation SPN 582: The Hispanic Tradition in the Theories: Latin American and Iberian Theory and practice of problems in United States Contexts composition and translation with revision of A general historical analysis of the influence An introduction to literary and cultural theory difficult points in advanced Spanish grammar. of Hispanic culture in the United States as centered on the central questions that animate Classroom analysis and discussion. a consequence of the continuous interaction theoretical discussion among literary and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, between Spanish- and English-speaking cultural scholars today. Special emphasis is B+, etc.) people. Special attention is given to cultural placed on theoretical discourses and practices manifestation in a bicultural setting. originating in Latin America and Spain as SPN 523: Golden Age Literature Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, well as how scholars in these regions have B+, etc.) incorporated, modified and enhanced theories

Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 212 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 produced elsewhere. A required course for tourists and immigrants, cultural and historical For students who have completed all doctoral students in the Spanish Ph.D. program. memory, the 1960s Spanish novel and the requirements and wish to dedicate themselves 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Latin American Boom. to full-or part-time preparation for the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) comprehensive examination. SPN 612: Topics Seminar Prerequisite: Coursework toward the A seminar course designed primarily for SPN 652: Colonial Latin-American Ph.D. must be completed; permission of doctoral students about any of the various Cultures the dissertation director, graduate studies areas of Latin American and Iberian literatures This seminar studies the textural culture director, or department chairperson and cultures. Recent topics include Latina of colonial Latin America, dealing with Fall and Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading fiction, Cuba/Spain, Postdictadura, Fictions a diversity of genres, from legal writing, May be repeated for credit. of Power, A World of Cinemas, Art and historiography, autobiography and epic poetry literature, Politics and literature. Prerequisite: to visual materials, such as drawings, textiles, SPN 685: Caribbean Cultures Admission to the Spanish Ph.D. program or decorated vases, etc. The course explores the Course focuses on the modern cultural permission of instructor transatlantic Ibero-American traditions in productions of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, relation to native and local cultures. Major Dominican Republic, with some attention to A-, B+, etc.) authors and historical events will be studied in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. May be repeated for credit. depth along with current criticism and theories. Topics include imperialism and colonialism, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) neocolonialism and postcolonialism, and raced SPN 613: Medieval Iberian Cultures May be repeated for credit. and gendered aesthetics. Reading and analysis of literary and 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) historiographical works of the medieval period SPN 662: 19th-Century Latin-American May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. within their cultural and political context. Cultures SPN 691: Practicum in the Teaching of Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Course includes canonical literary works Spanish Language B+, etc.) as well as lesser known writers and genres. May be repeated for credit. Readings will be analyzed within specific Theory and practice of language teaching. national and cultural contexts, but will also Applied methodology and linguistics in SPN 623: Early Modern Iberian engage with transnational movements and classroom situations. A required course for Cultures cultural productions. Recent topics include teaching assistants. Reading and analysis of literary, theatrical, and "Desertificaciones: War and Representation in Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, historiographical works of the 16th and 17th 19th century Latin America" and "Queer fin de department chairperson, or graduate program centuries within their historical and cultural siglo: Modernity, Sexuality, and Gender in the director contexts. Special attention will be devoted to Southern Cone (1880-1910)." Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Spanish literature, theater and art of the era and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, its relationship with the literary and historical B+, etc.) SPN 693: Practicum in the Teaching of texts. Prerequisite: M.A. or permission of May be repeated for credit.2021Spanish Language instructor This course is to be taken in conjunction with SPN 671: Contemporary Latin- 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the student's teaching assignment. Each week's American Cultures May be repeated for credit. discussion centers on problems of applied Course draws comparatively from the linguistics or grammar. Discussion will also SPN 641: 19th-Century Iberian Cultures multiple literary and cultural traditions be focused on methodology (audio-lingual This course will focus on major issues of Latin American countries, taking into method, pattern drills, language laboratory, regarding the multicultural and multilingual account significant aesthetic and political and preparation of examinations). characteristics of Iberian spaces ¿that developments throughout the region. Focus on Fall and Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Falltime periods varies. necessarily entail their transatlantic dimension. May be repeated for credit. We will study both canonical and less-studied 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) cultural objects, including literature, music, May be repeated for credit. SPN 695: Dissertation Prospectus and visual culture in general. Special attention Required of all advanced PhD students at will be given to the materiality of those objects SPN 675: Topics in Hispanic Cinema or near the end of their course work. The ¿e.g. newspapers, literature in installments, and Media course offers extensive practice in advanced manuscripts, digital communication, etc. A course featuring diverse approaches to academic writing skills. The aim of the course Recent topics include ¿Art and Resistance in the history, theory, and practice of film, is to prepare the dissertation prospectus and a Times of Uprisings.¿ television and other audio-visual media in fellowship proposal. The various components 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Latin America, Spain, and the Latino US. of a strong proposal will be addressed: the Recent topics include Women's cinema in narrative, keywords, the methodological SPN 643: Contemporary Iberian Spain and Latin America; Bunuel; Ripstein; or theoretical frame, the research plan, the Cultures Almodovar, Documentary Cinema in Spain bibliography, and the personal statement. A course dedicated to the analysis of twentieth and Latin America, Cinema and Inter- Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and twenty-first century literary and cultural American Relations. production and practices in Spain in relation to 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SPN 699: Dissertation Research on the social and political context of the period. Campus Recent topics include Spain and its Others, SPN 681: Directed Readings

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For students who have already passed the made to regain equilibrium in our natural Ph.D. comprehensive examination and need SUS systems and adapting our social systems to to devote their time to preparation of their new realities of life on Earth. Sustainability Studies dissertation. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: Ph.D. comprehensive SUS 503: Research Methods in examination completed and advanced to SUS 551: Soil Ecotoxicology Research Sustainability candidacy (G5); permission of the dissertation Design and implement a unique project director, graduate program director, or This course will provide a survey of in ecotoxicology. Course covers literature department chairperson. Major portion of quantitative and qualitative methods used in review, experimental design, hypothesis research must take place on SBU campus, at sustainability research in the natural sciences, formulation, data collection, data analysis, Cold Spring Harbor, or at the Brookhaven social sciences, and humanities. Students hypothesis testing and write up. Students National Lab. will read primary literature and analyze the will communicate their research orally and in Fall, Spring, and Summer, 1-9 credits, S/U research design. Students will formulate writing. Projects vary by year and will involve grading research questions, identify appropriate ecotoxins such as acid rain, heavy metals, May be repeated for credit. methods to investigate the question, and pesticides, plastics or herbicides and organisms develop a research proposal. such as soil microbes or earthworms. Course SPN 700: Dissertation Research off 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) may be repeated once with instructor Campus - Domestic 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) SUS 543: Age of the Anthropocene Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. (G5). Major portion of research will take place Anthropocene is the term coined to explain the off-campus, but in the United States and/ current geologic era of our planet as shaped SUS 562: Resilient Communities or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven and defined by human activity. This course As population and investment increase in National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab provides a deeper understanding of the ways hazard-prone areas across the world, risks are considered on-campus. All international in which humans have interacted with and and vulnerability are increasing as well. students must enroll in one of the graduate transformed the planet during recent geologic Responding to increased risk and vulnerability student insurance plans and should be advised time, including the Holocene, Industrial involves enhancing resilience or our ability by an International Advisor. Revolution, and into the present. We consider to withstand major shocks without long-term, Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading Earth as a global ecosystem, characterized by debilitating physical, social, or economic May be repeated for credit. interacting and dynamic systems, including damage. Resilience as a process can be biophysical and anthropogenic systems. embodied by communities who proactively SPN 701: Dissertation Research off This course critically examines the current prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt Campus - International interpretations and applications of the term to actual or potential future adverse events, Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy Anthropocene, and identifies the key tenants instead of bearing repeated damage and (G5). Major portion of research will take and societal outcomes of this powerful continuously demand for federal disaster place outside of the United States and/or and sometimes conflicting idea as applied assistance. This course explores the idea of today in science, socio-political2021 discourse, U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the resilience as an outcome and as a process option of the health plan and may also enroll sustainability, and beyond. from different perspectives and in different in MEDEX. International students who are 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) contexts. We will first study resilience through in their home country are not covered by the lens of sociopolitical ecology of risk and mandatory health plan and must contact the SUS 548: Urban Climate Change vulnerability. Then we will explore resilience Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Mitigation and Adaptation in the face of natural, social and economic be removed. International students who are Climate change, with its anthropogenic causes instabilities or shocks. Finally, we will discuss not in their home country are charged for the and devastating effects on human societies, long term risk management, governance mandatory health insurance. If they are to be Fallis the grand challenge of our age. This course models, policies and politics involved in covered by another insurance plan they must will consider how urbanized areas, especially making our communities more resilient. file a waiver be second week of classes. The coastal communities, can reduce their negative 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) charge will only be removed if other plan is environmental impact while simultaneously deemed comparable. working to adapt to the harmful effects of SUS 566: Philosophy and the All international students must received climate change that are already ¿baked in¿ to Environment clearance from an International Advisor. earth¿s systems. Along the way we will Philosophical questions raised by human Fall, Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading develop a better understanding of the feedback relations with the natural world, ranging from May be repeated for credit. loops that connect human activity with natural basic concepts such as nature, ecology, the systems and human well-being, analyze which earth, and wilderness, to the ethical, economic, SPN 800: Summer Research varieties of urbanization actually have the political, and religious dimensions of current worst environmental impacts, consider both May be repeated for credit. environmental problems, including the incremental and extreme varieties of risk, question of whether there are values inherent and delve deeply into strategies and tactics SPN 850: Summer Teaching in nature itself beyond those determined by for addressing the intertwined mitigation human interests alone. Summer Teaching and adaptation challenges of climate change. S/U grading Our focus will be on public sector actions 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the public policy, urban planning and SUS 580: Research Seminar governance responses that will need to be

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A weekly series of seminars presented by facilitate discussions with directors and actors harmoniously operating together in creating visiting sustainability researchers, SBU as they encounter a play for the first time beauty on stage. researchers, and sustainability graduate are issues examined in this course. New Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, students. plays from a variety of venues, including etc.) S/U grading professional theatres in New York City, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. May be repeated for credit. are read and discussed, and the process of developing new plays from staged readings TAF 520: Western Dramatic Literature through public performances are studied. Course surveys forms of Western drama, with TAF Prerequisite: Permission of instructor particular reference to theatrical performance. Theatre Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Focus is placed on key periods and themes etc.) such as gender issues, political violence, death and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. TAF 500: Introduction to Graduate TAF 507: Dramaturgy of Process: New Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, Theatre Play Development Workshop This seminar course will introduce graduate A-, B+, etc.) This course for advanced students of May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. theatre students in all tracks to each other, to Dramaturgy allows them to apply practical graduate faculty across disciplines, and will theatre skills to the development of new work. TAF 520: Western Dramatic Literature encourage new collaborations and projects Students will assist in the workshop production Course surveys forms of Western drama, with for development during the students' graduate of a new play. This will explore NPD process careers. Theatre students will meet to discuss particular reference to theatrical performance. as it exists in the American Regional Theatre, Focus is placed on key periods and themes the role of each artist, with emphasis on and learn the practical skills of running a play- the changing nature of collaboration and such as gender issues, political violence, death reading series, commissioning new plays, and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. the expanding art form in today's theatre communicating with playwrights, casting and Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, profession. Readings, written assignments and marketing. 3 credits, ABCF Grading collaborative projects are required. A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 3 credits, Letter graded (A,B,C, etc.), May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the Instructor, TAF 510: Western Theatre History TAF 521: South and Southeast Asian Southampton and Manhattan, Semesters Theatre forms in the Western tradition, from Theatre and Drama offered: ancient to modern. This course is centered on Surveying the traditional and modern theatre Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B a particular critical or theoretic problem or +, etc.) of South and Southeastern Asian (India, Sri theme. It may be repeated as an independent Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, study with the permission of the instructor. TAF 505: Dramaturgy I: Production and Bhutan) as related to: it's mythic origins, Dramaturgy 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) history, dramatic literature, aesthetic theory, An introduction to production dramaturgy May be repeated for credit. ritual functions, conventions of productions 2021and actor training. The point of departure will in which students explore the types of TAF 510: Western Theatre History research and concept development necessary be cosmology, especially that of Hinduism, to prepare already produced scripts for Theatre forms in the Western tradition, from and world view of the people. performance. Research tools and methods, ancient to modern. This course is centered on Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) investigations of cultural and social history, a particular critical or theoretic problem or May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. critical writing, and issues in adaptation and theme. It may be repeated as an independent translation are discussed. Means of facilitating study with the permission of the instructor. TAF 523: Theatre in New York communication within a production team 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A workshop seminar on contemporary, and between actors, designers, and directors FallMay be repeated for credit. alternative performance forms and mainstream are examined. Other topics include season theatre. Emphasis on the development of planning, promotion and publicity, educational TAF 511: Far Eastern Theatre and critical perspectives and the writing skills outreach materials, preparation of protocols, Drama needed to articulate them through seminar post-play discussion, and other audience Course surveys the traditional theatre of discussions and writing workshops relevant to development techniques. three Far Eastern (China, Korea, and Japan) performances seen on trips to theatres in New Prerequisite: Permission of instructor as related to: its history, dramatic literature York and the region. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) (Yuan drama and Beijing Opera of China; Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Pongsan Korean Masked Dance-Drama; a etc.) TAF 506: Dramaturgy II: Literary Noh play cycle, Kabuki, and Joruri Puppet Management Theatre of Japan), point of departure will be: TAF 525: Topics in Theatre and Drama Examining the roles of the literary manager in the Eastern world view (namely Shemanism, Intensive studies of selected forms of theatre the contemporary theatre, this course explores Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) and and drama from various countries and periods, the process of new play development and the theatre; the concept of the actor's body and designed to supplement rather than repeat preparation of a new play for production. The mind as a microcosmic presentation of a areas of study already undertaken in the ability to read and write sensitively about macrocosmic universe; his performance as an curriculum. May be repeated. act of becoming one with the macrocosm; and new plays, reading new plays and preparing Prerequisite: Permission of instructor the total nature of all performing arts elements sophisticated play reports, how to talk to Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, playwrights about their plays, and how to Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

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May be repeated for credit. screenwriting, directing, acting, solo Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) performance, interdisciplinary collaboration TAF 530: Directed Reading in Theatre (devising), and digital filmmaking, together TAF 639: Directing II - Advanced and Drama with lectures, readings, seminars, and panels Directing Students read and evaluate the literature on featuring nationally distinguished artists. This course will build upon the work covered a topic of special academic interest under These workshops encourage participation by in Directing I and will focus on advanced the supervision of a faculty member. May be visiting students, new theatre and film artists, problems in Directing, including advanced repeated. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor established artists, and teachers who will scene work, period styles, alternative forms, Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, be admitted by application and may receive and the challenges of contemporary drama A-, B+, etc.) academic credit upon request. Graduate and or alternative performance. Prerequisite: May be repeated for credit. students may take any Theatre Workshop THR638 Offered sponsored by the MFA program for academic Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, TAF 535: Theories of Theatre credit. Study may occur in Southampton, etc.) Theories of the theatre, from the ancient Manhattan, or abroad. A submission of a to the contemporary, are read critically to workshop application, and permission of TAF 640: Theatre Design Workshop develop a complex and varied conception of instructor are required. May be repeated for Advanced assignments in theatre design. the philosophical basis underlying approaches credit. May include design work on departmental to the theatre. Theorists read might include 1-6 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) productions. May be repeated once. Aristotle, Plato, Diderot, Rousseau, Nietzsche, May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Artaud, Brecht, Stanislavski, Grotowski, Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TAF 590: M.A. Thesis Barba, Mnouchkine, Suzuki, and Zeami. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded Independent study and research for M.A. (A, A-, B+, etc.) students, on special topics, theoretical or TAF 650: Playwrighting Workshop cultural issues, or problems. Development of Students write and discuss original plays, TAF 550: Teaching Seminar material for research paper. evaluate their work, study techniques of Supervised student teaching of undergraduate 1-3 credits, S/U grading composition and formal organization, courses accompanied by a seminar in methods May be repeated for credit. and develop strategies for audience and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the communication. Advanced students may study University level. An independent teaching TAF 591: Independent Project techniques for revision and the development of project, in which the student works with a Special project allowing advanced individual material for performance. Some plays may be particular faculty member, may be substituted. work in an area of theatre study or practice. selected for department production. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Must be scheduled by arrangement with Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) B+, etc.) instructor. Should result in an advanced paper or project report. May be repeated. TAF 651: Playwriting Workshop II TAF 570: Directing Theory and Practice 1-3 credits, Letter graded 2021(A, A-, B+, etc.) With the instructor of record, the student Course surveys the art and craft of the May be repeated for credit. will develop a plan for addressing problems Director, with focus on contemporary practices or the boundaries of approaches to creative of directing and approaches to pedagogy. TAF 635: Theories of Performance work specific to his or her needs for continued Students will write papers and develop projects This course examines different theories of development as a playwright. As deemed in conjunction with advanced reading and performance as they relate to theatre and appropriate by the instructor, the student will instruction. everyday life. Students explore ways of work on a full length or one-act play or scenes. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) thinking about the performing body and Offered in Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, different modes of cultural expression. There B+, etc.) TAF 575: Adaptation Workshop Fallis a performing component to the course in May be repeated for credit. This course is an intense examination of addition to a final paper. a playwright or group of plays with the 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TAF 660: Acting Workshop object of preparing a new adaptation or May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Intensive advanced study in a particular acting stage version. The course will study a text or technique, such as Kutiyattam, Suzuki, musical group of texts, important criticism, notable or TAF 638: Directing I - Principles of theatre, Brecht, etc. Offered in conjunction significant translation and/or adaptations, stage Directing with departmental productions. May be productions and/or film versions. Students will This course will focus on the analytical, repeated. submit an outline or rough draft of their new organizational and creative processes Prerequisite: Permission of instructor version at the end of the course. necessary to be a director. Topics include: Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, the role of the director and the collaborative Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) A-, B+, etc.) process; the history of directing; script analysis May be repeated for credit. May be repeated for credit. and interpretation/ concept; stage, space and composition; visual interpretation and TAF 670: Directing Workshop TAF 576: Theatre Workshop working with designers; casting and working Advanced training in directing, which may The workshops at Southampton Arts are with actors; working with dramaturges; and involve concentrated scene work, formal intensive classes in various aspects of the craft rehearsal and technical process. experiments in performance, work on period of theatre and film, including playwriting, Offered styles and problems, or preparation of

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An introduction to production dramaturgy in which students explore the types of THR 511: Far Eastern Theatre and TAF 680: Dramaturgy Workshop research and concept development necessary Drama Students serve as dramaturgs for the to prepare already produced scripts for Course surveys the traditional theatre of production of a play, providing research performance. Research tools and methods, three Far Eastern (China, Korea, and Japan) support, studying editorial and interpretive investigations of cultural and social history, as related to: its history, dramatic literature techniques, attending rehearsals, and critical writing, and issues in adaptation and (Yuan drama and Beijing Opera of China; developing program materials for the audience. translation are discussed. Means of facilitating Pongsan Korean Masked Dance-Drama; a communication within a production team Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Noh play cycle, Kabuki, and Joruri Puppet and between actors, designers, and directors B+, etc.) Theatre of Japan), point of departure will be: are examined. Other topics include season May be repeated for credit. the Eastern world view (namely Shemanism, planning, promotion and publicity, educational Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) and TAF 690: Professional Internship outreach materials, preparation of protocols, theatre; the concept of the actor's body and post-play discussion, and other audience A full-term internship at a professional mind as a microcosmic presentation of a development techniques. theatre. Students should submit an internship macrocosmic universe; his performance as an description in the first month of work, then a Prerequisite: Permission of instructor act of becoming one with the macrocosm; and journal or evaluation of their work experience. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) the total nature of all performing arts elements harmoniously operating together in creating Prerequisite: Permission of graduate studies THR 506: Dramaturgy II: Literary beauty on stage. director Management Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Examining the roles of the literary manager in etc.) TAF 691: M.F.A. Project the contemporary theatre, this course explores May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. the process of new play development and the The project is to be undertaken at a preparation of a new play for production. The THR 520: Western Dramatic Literature professional theatre or as part of the mainstage ability to read and write sensitively about production season at Stony Brook University. Course surveys forms of Western drama, with new plays, reading new plays and preparing Students submit a proposal for a project in particular reference to theatrical performance. sophisticated play reports, how to talk to which they have a major responsibility as Focus is placed on key periods and themes playwrights about their plays, and how to an assistant dramaturg on a production or an such as gender issues, political violence, death facilitate discussions with directors and actors equivalent position. All proposals for projects and dying, love, etc. May be repeated once. as they encounter a play for the first time outside of the university must be submitted in 2021Spring, odd years, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, are issues examined in this course. New writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate A-, B+, etc.) plays from a variety of venues, including program director for approval. May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. professional theatres in New York City, Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B are read and discussed, and the process of THR 521: South and Southeast Asian +, etc.) developing new plays from staged readings Theatre and Drama through public performances are studied. TAF 692: M.F.A. Thesis Surveying the traditional and modern theatre Prerequisite: Permission of instructor of South and Southeastern Asian (India, Sri Independent study and research for M.F.A. Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, students, on special topics, theoretical or Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Tibet, Nepal, Falletc.) and Bhutan) as related to: it's mythic origins, cultural issues, or problems. Development of history, dramatic literature, aesthetic theory, material for research paper. THR 507: Dramaturgy of Process: New ritual functions, conventions of productions 1-3 credits, S/U grading Play Development Workshop and actor training. The point of departure will May be repeated for credit. This course for advanced students of be cosmology, especially that of Hinduism, Dramaturgy allows them to apply practical and world view of the people. theatre skills to the development of new work. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) THR Students will assist in the workshop production May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. Theatre Arts of a new play. This will explore NPD prcess as it exists in the American Regional Theatre, THR 523: Theatre in New York and learn the practical skills of running a play- THR 500: Introduction to Graduate A workshop seminar on contemporary, reading series, commissioning new plays, Study in Dramaturgy alternative performance forms and mainstream communicating with playwrights, casting and This course surveys the field of theatre theatre. Emphasis on the development of marketing. scholarship, introducing students to research critical perspectives and the writing skills tools, research methods, critical writing, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) needed to articulate them through seminar and scholarly values. Discussions include discussions and writing workshops relevant to THR 510: Western Theatre History reference to basic texts in dramatic literature performances seen on trips to theatres in New and representative research problems. Theatre forms in the Western tradition, from York and the region. ancient to modern. This course is centered on

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Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, course papers and, or projects in conjunction repeated for up to six credits with instructor's etc.) with advanced readings and instruction. permission. Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter THR 525: Topics in Theatre and Drama graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Intensive studies of selected forms of theatre May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. and drama from various countries and periods, THR 570: Directing Theory and designed to supplement rather than repeat Practice THR 630: Dramaturgy Colloquium areas of study already undertaken in the Course surveys the art and craft of the Through interaction with theatre professionals, curriculum. May be repeated. Director, with focus on contemporary practices students develop independent projects around Prerequisite: Permission of instructor of directing and approaches to pedagogy. topics of common concern to the profession, Fall or Spring, alternate years, 1-3 credits, Students will write papers and develop projects and develop strategies for implementing Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) in conjunction with advanced reading and alternate plans for improving and developing May be repeated for credit. instruction. theatre. May be repeated. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, THR 530: Directed Reading in Theatre Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and Drama THR 575: Adaptation Workshop May be repeated for credit. Students read and evaluate the literature on This course is an intense examination of a topic of special academic interest under a playwright or group of plays with the THR 635: Theories of Performance the supervision of a faculty member. May be object of preparing a new adaptation or This course examines different theories of repeated. stage version. The course will study a text or performance as they relate to theatre and Prerequisite: Permission of instructor group of texts, important criticism, notable or everyday life. Students explore ways of Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, significant translation and/or adaptations, stage thinking about the performing body and A-, B+, etc.) productions and/or film versions. Students will different modes of cultural expression. There May be repeated for credit. submit an outline or rough draft of their new is a performing component to the course in version at the end of the course. addition to a final paper. THR 535: Theories of Theatre Offered in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Theories of the theatre, from the ancient A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. to the contemporary, are read critically to May be repeated for credit. develop a complex and varied conception of THR 636: Topics in Performance the philosophical basis underlying approaches THR 589: M.F.A. Thesis Studies to the theatre. Theorists read might include Independent study and research for M.F.A. The history and theories of performance Aristotle, Plato, Diderot, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Dramaturgy students, on practical or are explored. Seminars may focus on the Artaud, Brecht, Stanislavski, Grotowski, theoretical topics related to the field of performing body, performance and political Barba, Mnouchkine, Suzuki, and Zeami. dramturgy. Development of materials for this change, avant-garde performance, performing Fall, alternate years, 3 credits, Letter graded research paper may be related2021 to the students and cognitive science, virtual performance, (A, A-, B+, etc.) M.F.A. Project or other dramaturgical pursuits. performance and identity. Depending on the 3 credits, S/U grading topic, there may be a performance component THR 540: Design Theory and Practice 3 credits, S/U grading and/or computer based projects. Course surveys principal design areas, May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, providing information about aesthetic theory Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and methods of stage design. Students address THR 590: M.A. Thesis May be repeated for credit. design problems and analyze a topic in design Independent study and research for M.A. theory in conjunction with readings and students, on special topics, theoretical or THR 638: Directing I - Principles of instruction. Fall Directing cultural issues, or problems. Development of Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) material for research paper. This course will focus on the analytical, 1-3 credits, S/U grading organizational and creative processes THR 550: Teaching Seminar May be repeated for credit. necessary to be a director. Topics include: Supervised student teaching of undergraduate the role of the director and the collaborative courses accompanied by a seminar in methods THR 591: Independent Project process; the history of directing; script analysis and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the Special project allowing advanced individual and interpretation/ concept; stage, space University level. An independent teaching work in an area of theatre study or practice. and composition; visual interpretation and project, in which the student works with a Must be scheduled by arrangement with working with designers; casting and working particular faculty member, may be substituted. instructor. Should result in an advanced paper with actors; working with dramaturges; and Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, or project report. May be repeated. rehearsal and technical process. B+, etc.) 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Offered May be repeated for credit. Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) THR 560: Acting Theory and Practice Course surveys the field of acting-its history, THR 625: Theory and Criticism THR 639: Directing II - Advanced Directing formal principles, primary techniques, and Study of major issues in dramatic theory and contemporary practice. Students develop criticism and in performance theory. May be This course will build upon the work covered in Directing I and will focus on advanced

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Special attention is paid to cost- B+, etc.) THR 640: Theatre Design Workshop benefit analysis and models of economic May be repeated for credit. Advanced assignments in theatre design. behavior. Summer May include design work on departmental THR 690: Professional Internship 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) productions. May be repeated once. A full-term internship at a professional TMP 542: International Business, Prerequisite: Permission of instructor theatre. Students should submit an internship Technology and the Economy Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) description in the first month of work, then a May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. journal or evaluation of their work experience. International trade and investment in technology-intensive fields is examined from Prerequisite: Permission of graduate studies THR 650: Playwrighting Workshop the perspective of economic theory. Theories director of foreign direct investment and international Students write and discuss original plays, Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading evaluate their work, study techniques of competitive advantage will be examined in composition and formal organization, THR 691: M.F.A. Project the context of the changing global economy. Summer and develop strategies for audience The project is to be undertaken at a communication. Advanced students may study professional theatre or as part of the mainstage 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) techniques for revision and the development of production season at Stony Brook University. TMP 543: Leadership, Team material for performance. Some plays may be Students submit a proposal for a project in Effectiveness and Communication selected for department production. which they have a major responsibility as Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) an assistant dramaturg on a production or an This course focuses on business leadership, equivalent position. All proposals for projects teamwork and communications. It seeks to THR 651: Playwriting Workshop II outside of the university must be submitted in answer the following three questions: What With the instructor of record, the student writing to the faculty supervisor and graduate do leaders really do? What makes teams will develop a plan for addressing problems program director for approval. effective? How do you create persuasive communications? The course addresses or the boundaries of approaches to creative Fall, Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B such topics as power and influence, leading work specific to his or her needs for continued +, etc.) development as a playwright. As deemed organizational change, managing corporate appropriate by the instructor, the student will THR 692: M.F.A. Thesis crises, building motivated teams, and developing strategic communications. It work on a full length or one-act play or scenes. Independent study and research2021 for M.F.A. examines these topics with a goal of not Offered in Fall, 3 credits, S/U grading students, on special topics, theoretical or only imparting knowledge about these May be repeated for credit. cultural issues, or problems. Development of managerial practices but also assisting students material for research paper. THR 660: Acting Workshop to acquire the skills necessary to become 1-3 credits, S/U grading business leaders, team builders and srticulate Intensive advanced study in a particular acting May be repeated for credit. communicators. We will seek to bridge theory technique, such as Kutiyattam, Suzuki, musical and managerial practice by using case studies theatre, Brecht, etc. Offered in conjunction THR 800: Summer Research and inviting business executives to the class. with departmental productions. May be FallIndependent study and research on special The readings for the course come largely from repeated. topics or problems related to work on the M.A. Harvard Business Review articles and case Prerequisite: Permission of instructor or M.F.A. degree. May be repeated. studies on these topics. Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, S/U grading Spring, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. etc.) May be repeated for credit. THR 850: Summer Teaching TMP 544: Organizational Behavior THR 670: Directing Workshop Supervised student teaching of undergraduate An approach to understanding the behavior Advanced training in directing, which may courses accompanied by a tutorial in methods of individuals in organizations is developed involve concentrated scene work, formal and strategies of teaching theatre arts at the with emphasis on implications for effective experiments in performance, work on period University level. management. This approach is used to analyze styles and problems, or preparation of S/U grading decision problems encountered in managing performances for public showing. May be human resources. Topics include individual repeated once. and group decision-making skills, recruitment Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor TMP and selection, employee ability, motivation Fall or Spring, alternate years, 3 credits, and incentive systems, job satisfaction, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Technology Management Prog performance assessment and management, May be repeated 2 times FOR credit. retention, training, and employee development. TMP 541: MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

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Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, engagement, human resource management risk Examines the role of government as a etc.) assessment, and human resource information regulator of technological business activity, systems. The course also covers mechanisms a customer for technological products TMP 545: Basic Financial Accounting for developed a positive organizations and services, a source of funding for Introduction to financial accounting which culture and engaged workforce. This includes technological development, and a facilitator includes the accounting cycle, analysis and review of employee relations programs, of technological innovation. Special topics preparation of financial statements, cash flow developing and learning a high performing include technology assessment, technology analysis, corporate accounting, investment in team, and developing a continuous learning transfer, and frameworks for national and stocks, and international transactions. organizational culture. Case discussions and regional technology policy. Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, exercises (e.g., developing a code of conduct) Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) provide hands-on learning experiences. etc.) Spring, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, TMP 546: Managerial Accounting for etc.) TMP 560: Business Analytics High Technology Organizations An introduction to mathematical models useful Development and presentation of accounting TMP 549: Negotiation Strategy in the analysis of management problems. information for managerial decision making This course is designed to equip students with We motivate each topic by managerial in a global technological environment. Topics the basic theories and skills of negotiation. applications, and we analyze problems using include budgeting, forecasting, profit analysis Accordingly, it consists of several parts. The modern software. Topics include optimization and planning, performance evaluation, transfer first part is the introduction to the newly and linear programming, sensitivity analysis, pricing, capital budgeting, performance development approaches to negotiation; how network modeling, integer linear programming measurement, and cost control. Special you can improve your negotiation skills and and goal programming, and MOLP. emphasis will be given to accounting issues outcomes. Also some commonly encountered 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) pertinent to high technology companies, such negotiation tactics will be introduced, not as valuation of intangible assets. Summer to make you victims of those tactics. The TMP 573: Basic Marketing Principles 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) second is simulation; students will engage and the Information Economy in several negotiation simulations with other Introduction to the basic principles of TMP 547: Business Strategy students under specific negotiation mandates marketing, including: the influence of the A capstone course that enlists a student¿s and the outcomes will be reviewed. The last marketplace and the marketing environment on general business knowledge in developing is a brief introduction to the game theory with marketing decision making; the determination corporate strategy. Essential to performing an emphasis on the cooperative games; this of a firm's product, prices, channels, and this task is the introduction of guidelines part deals with the theoretical foundations of communication strategies; and the firm's and concepts of Strategic Thinking Strategic bargaining and dispute resolution. Knowledge system for planning and controlling its Planning and Implementation. As often from economics and mathematics will be marketing effort. Special emphasis will stated ¿Behind every successful company is helpful but not required. be given to marketing in information a superior strategy¿. Whether this strategy is Offered in Spring, 1.5 credits,2021 Letter graded industries and knowledge intensive industries. due to luck, position, incumbency, ¿vision¿, (A, A-, B+, etc.) Prerequisites: TMP 552 instinct or a host of other internal & external Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, TMP 551: Data Analysis for conditions will be discussed throughout etc.) the course. Utilizing a simulation to create Technology Managers an industry of successful corporations will The use and limitations of mathematical and TMP 574: Marketing of Technology provide an insight into the dynamics of statistical techniques, especially for the use of Based Products competitive analysis, industry analysis, data in choosing between alternative strategies Adaptation and extension of basic marketing the value chain, the integrative nature of a for companies. Probability, estimation, concepts for technological products. Topics corporation and the strategic process. Fallhypothesis testing, analysis of variance, and include: understanding unarticulated user 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) regression analysis are among the topics needs, demand forecasting and strategic covered. Summer planning in technology markets, product TMP 548: Ethics, Corporate 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) design and architecture, product platform Governance and Control Systems strategy, managing new product realization This course explores the values that TMP 552: Management Science for programs, and managing the technology govern corporate behavior. Topics include Technology Managers adoption lifecycle. Summer understanding ethical behavior, corporate An introduction to the use of modeling in 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) ethics programs, employees responsibilities, management, particularly in high technology and codes of conducts and governance. contexts. Basic concepts of management TMP 575: Introduction to Management Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) is examined as science are covered and a variety of models Information Systems watershed legislation that has implications are examined for application in quantitative The analysis and design of information for U.S. companies and non-U.S.-based, decision making. Summer systems to aid in managerial decision making multinational companies doing business in 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and the effective operation of corporations. the U.S. Examples of similar legislation in Pertinent computing, telecommunication the EU and elsewhere are covered. Related TMP 555: Technology, Government and systems technologies will be surveyed. topics are corporate social responsibility and Business Summer (CSR) (with cases and examples from U.S. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) and abroad), ways to promote employee

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TMP 576: Management Information Survey of issues in personnel recruitment, first fundamental corporate finance issue: how Systems for Accounting, Budgeting employee selection and classification, to make investments that benefit shareholders. and Human Resources Management workforce evaluation, wages, benefits, We will start with the analysis of financial Examination of recent MIS options for regulations, unionization, training, quality statements to better understand measures of a specialized functions in an organization, management, and employee performance in company's financial performance. We will then such as accounting, budgeting and human high technology settings. introduce the concept of time value of money resources. Includes review and assessment of Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, and valuation of cash flows. Then we will integrated multi-function software suites for etc.) apply the valuation concepts to learn how to organizational management, and comparison choose investment opportunities that maximize of packaged software systems versus web- TMP 591: Technology Management shareholders' wealth. based subscription software services. Summer and Emerging Industries 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) First part of course-pair TMP591 & TMP592. Introduction to salient issues facing managers TMP 595: Developing Technology TMP 577: Business Project A of enterprises involved in the development Management Solutions (B) First part of course-pair TMP577 & TMP578. and implementation of new technologies. Second part of course-pair TMP593 & Students choose a project that focuses on Usp will be made of case histories and TMP595. Special course customized each technology management issues in their own presentations b~ technological managers year to address current trends and solutions industry or organization and apply tools learnt and innovators, wherever possible. Part A of to management problems in technological in other courses to analyze the issues. Part A this pair of courses will concentrate on the enterprises. Examples would include trends of this pair of courses concentrates on problem relationship between technological innovation in electronic commerce, new approaches to formulation and the planning of research and and emerging industries. Summer product development strategy for technology, analysis. This course is intended to commence 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) information security and privacy, or trends in mid-way through the program and be taken the biotechnology industry. The course will concurrently with the next several courses in TMP 592: Role of Technology involve field to companies and guest lectures the program. Prerequisites: TMP 552 Standards by executives from technology companies wherever possible. Summer Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, Second part of course-pair TMP591 & etc.) TMP592. Introduction to salient issues 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) facing managers of enterprises involved TMP 578: Business Project B in the development and implementation of TMP 596: Finance B Second part of course-pair TMP577 & new technologies. Use will be made of case The goal of the Finance course sequence is TMP578. Students take the issues formulated histories and presentations by technological to introduce students to the modern finance during Part A of this pair of courses and managers and innovators, wherever possible. theory and its application to the real world proceed to implement the research plan also Part B of this pair of courses will concentrate financial decision-making. Finance B is the developed in that course. Part B of this pair on the role of technical standards in the second part of the sequence that focuses on of courses involves detailed data collection, dynamics of competition between2021 firms in high the second fundamental corporate finance analysis, and reporting of results. This course technology industries. Summer issue: how to finance investment opportunities. is intended to commence three-quarters of 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) We will start with bond and stock valuation, the way through the program and to be taken recognizing that debt and equity are the main concurrently with the next several courses. TMP 593: Developing Technology sources of funds for a company. We will then Submission of the project report and a formal Management Solutions (A) learn how to estimate the cost of debt and presentation of results are required near the First part of course-pair TMP593 & TMP595. equity for a company that wants to finance its end of the program. Summer Special course customized each year to investments. Finally, we will combine the cost of debt and equity into a unified framework 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) address current trends and solutions to Fallmanagement problems in technological that estimates a company's overall cost of TMP 585: Operations Management for enterprises. Examples would include trends capital. Technology Organizations in electronic commerce, new approaches to 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Introduction to the analysis and measurement product development strategy for technology, TMP 597: Technology Management of processes for creating and delivering information security and privacy, or trends in and Strategy goods and services. Covers trade-offs in the biotechnology industry. The course will operations management decisions, product and involve field to companies and guest lectures Concepts and techniques of strategic process planning, layout and location strategy, by executives from technology companies management are examined and applied production scheduling, inventory control, wherever possible. to relevant cases involving technology quality management, computer integrated Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, management. The class synthesizes all manufacturing, and cost justification, etc.) elements of the program and examines how an especially in the adoption of new technologies. organization can plan and develop initiatives, TMP 594: Finance A evaluate their effectiveness, and manage the Summer, 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, change process with an emphasis on corporate etc.) The goal of the Finance course sequence is to introduce students to the modern finance strategy. TMP 586: Human Resources theory and its application to the real world 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Management for High Technology financial decision-making. Finance A is the Environments first part of the sequence that focuses on the TMP 598: Technology and Entrepreneurship

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Concepts and techniques of strategic role in a project subtask. Students are expected menopause), health behaviors (including management are examined and applied to maintain involvement with the same project substance abuse, exercise, and eating), and to relevant cases involving technology team for multiple terms. Students may add other topics such as violence against women, management. The class synthesizes all up to 2-credits towards their effort by co- women's mental health, and women as health elements of the program and examines how an registering for VIP 596. Prerequisites: VIP care providers and health researchers. organization can plan and develop initiatives, Program participant. Co-scheduled with WST 559. evaluate their effectiveness, and manage 1 credit, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, the change process with an emphasis on May be repeated for credit. B+, etc.) entrepreneurial strategy. 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) VIP 596: Graduate Multidisciplinary Project Practicum WRT TMP 599: Intellectual Property Strategy The course is a supplement to VIP 595 for Writing Concepts and techniques of intellectual team members wishing to commit more property strategy are examined and applied effort towards their multidisciplinary project. WRT 506: Studies in Literary Theory to relevant cases involving technology Students who enroll in 1-credit of VIP 595 management. The class synthesizes all may register up to 2-credits of VIP 596 in Prerequisite: Matriculation in a graduate elements of the program and examines how an a semester for a total of 3 VIP credits. This program or the composition studies certificate. organization can plan and develop initiatives, course may be repeated for credit. 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) evaluate their effectiveness, and manage the 1-2 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) WRT 509: Studies in Language and change process with an emphasis on managing May be repeated for credit. and deploying intellectual property. Linguistics 1.5 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) VIP 695: Multidisciplinary Project Leadership WRT 592: Problems in Teaching Students participate in a multi-term, Writing or Composition TNT multidisciplinary project, working with This course provides an overview of writing Technology and Training team members ranging from sophomores pedagogy as applied to tutoring in a Writing through seniors and graduate students. Center or in an English classroom. Included in Projects are advised by one or more faculty the course is fieldwork in the campus Writing TNT 501: TECH COM MGT & ENGR on topics of research, design, innovation and Center. entrepreneurship. While a project is frames Fall, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) TNT 502: PROD & OPER MGT within a faculty member's area of expertise, contributions are needed from a diverse array WRT 605: Scientific Writing for TNT 503: MIS of disciplines. This course is intended for Chemists doctoral students who dissertation research is This course, taught primarily in a workshop TNT 504: INTL MGT directly related to a project2021 led by his or her format, will prepare students to write graduate faculty advisor. Students registered for this papers, communications, journal articles, course will take a leadership role and assist the TNT 505: HITEC VENTURE and dissertations. Rhetorical principles faculty advisor in management of the team. of organization, attention to audience, May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: conciseness, cogency, clarity, and using an TNT 506: BASIC MGT Permission of Faculty Project Mentor. appropriate scientific voice will be stressed, as 0-3 credits, will correctness of grammar and punctuation, TNT 515: APPL PROB & STATS May be repeated for credit. including grammatical issues particularto non- native speakers of English. The class will Fall examine in detail models of clear writing from VIP WNS scientific journals. Students will also bring Women's Studies:Social their writing to class frequently for review by Vertically Integrated Projects both the instructor and their classmates so that Sciences students will gradually internalize standards VIP 595: Graduate Multidisciplinary for writing and be able to write effectively in Project WNS 559: Psychology of Women's all genres typically used by chemists. Offered Health Students participate in a multi-term, Spring, 3 credits, S/U grading multidisciplinary project, working with This course covers a variety of team members ranging from sophomores psychologically-important topics in women's WRT 612: Theories in Composition through seniors and graduate students. health based on current research findings. This course explores the relationship between Projects are advised by one or more faculty We address psychological contributors to reading and writing skills, the differences on topics of research, design, innovation and and consequences of women's health and between speech production and writing entrepreneurship. While a project is framed illness, focusing on diseases that affect women production, and the relationship between within a faculty member's area of expertise, differently or disproportionately than men literacy, culture, and language politics. contributions are needed from a diverse array (including coronary heart disease, cancer, AIDS, and autoimmune diseases), women's Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, of disciplines. This course is intended for etc.) master's students who can take a leadership reproductive health (including menstruation, contraception, pregnancy, infertility, and

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WRT 613: Research in Composition 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) This course explores gender differences in This course provides an introduction to the physical and mental health through the study nature of empirical research in Composition of psychology, sociology, medicine, and Studies. Students will survey landmark WST epidemiology. research studies, learn how to read research Women's Studies Co-scheduled with PSY 559. reports critically, and conduct a mini-research Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, project in their own classrooms or tutoring WST 510: Gender and Culture B+, etc.) situations to analyze underlying causes of May be repeated for credit. A variable topics course on the many ways in students' writing problems. which culture and gender interact. Possible WST 595: Reading Colloquium in Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, topics include women in multiethnic America, Women's History etc.) women in the labor movement, and women and social policy. A topics course dealing with such subjects WRT 614: Topics in Composition and as women in social movements, the place of Writing Co-scheduled with HIS 515. gender in particular historical circumstances, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, This course will consist of directed readings imperialism and woman, changing views of B+, etc.) in particular areas of interest in rhetoric, the sexuality, or relations between family policies May be repeated for credit. history of rhetoric and pedagogy, and teaching and other political programs. This course offered as both HIS 595 and WST 595. strategies for teachers. WST 511: Gender and Culture Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Offered A variable topics course on the many ways in B+, etc.) Fall and Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, which culture and gender interact. Possible A-, B+, etc.) topics include women in multiethnic America, WST 597: Directed Readings for M.S. May be repeated for credit. women in the labor movement, and women Students and social policy. WRT 621: Graduate-Level Writing Directed Readings must be approved in writing Prerequisite: Permission of instructor This course, designed for a mixture of by the Advisor, Director of Graduate Studies, Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, students from any of our graduate programs and the supervising professor. 1-3 credits each B+, etc.) or departments, is a workshop in writing semester, repetitive credit. May be repeated for credit. academic papers, theses, or dissertations, Fall or Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading with attention to research methods, drafting, WST 512: Advanced Topics in Gender May be repeated for credit. organizing, revising, and editing work that the Studies students have already been assigned in their WST 598: Thesis Research This advanced course will continue the primary departments. discussion of the graduate seminar on Research and writing of M.A. thesis 1-3 credits, S/U grading Sociology of Gender, by examining theoretical supervised by faculty advisor. May be repeated for credit. debates or controversies, examining specific Offered Fall, Spring, 1-3 credits, S/U grading 2021May be repeated for credit. gender identities, examining the gender of WRT 687: Independent Study a specific institution (i.e., labor,law), or the A student and faculty member agree on a topic gendered dynamics of social interaction (in for WST 599: Independent Study of student¿s interest which may not be offered example, romantic relationships or sexuality). A student and faculty member agree on a topic in any seminars, creating a reading list to focus Co-scheduled with WST 602. not offered in any seminars and a reading on. A final research paper or major annotated Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, list to study at weekly or biweekly meetings. bibliography will be required to demonstrate B+, etc.) A final research paper or major annotated substantive knowledge of the field and/or May be repeated for credit. bibliography will be required. The syllabus topic. A program form must be completed and Fall must be filed with the program's form before submitted to the PWR by the student before WST 550: Women of Color in The the add/drop period ends. the add/drop period ends. Modern World: Shifting Identities and Fall and Spring, 1-3 credits, Letter graded (A, 0-12 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) Feminist Visions A-, B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. This course explores the various ways in May be repeated for credit. which gender, race, and class, along with WRT 690: Directed Readings other aspects of identity, shape the lives and WST 600: Feminist Interdisciplinary Histories and Methods May be repeated for credit. experiences of women of color in the United States and globally. It presents the ongoing Rather than begin with an exploration of "the" WRT 698: Practicum in Teaching debates concerning the interconnections feminist methodology in Women's and Gender Writing of gender, race, and shifting identities. It Studies, or an account of "the" history of This course provides hands-on experience and will examine the relationships between the feminism, this course will explore what counts instruction in the basics of writing pedagogy, construction of personal identities, identity as "history", as "method", and as "evidence" including designing writing assignments, statuses, cultural and ideological meaning in feminist scholarship. Since its emergence sequencing assignments, motivating writing, systems, and the search for alternative images. as distinct knowledge project within the writing skill development and evaluating Permission from advisor required. academy, feminism has raised questions about writing. Students will also be given a 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.) how we know what we know, who gets to preliminary overview of the major theories speak and for whom, and what are legitimate driving composition pedagogy. WST 559: Gender and Health fields of inquiry. 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Stony Brook University Graduate Bulletin: www.stonybrook.edu/gradbulletin 223 GRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Fall 2021 some of the ways in which feminist scholars WST 680: Interdisciplinary Research been; what kinds of interdisciplinarity or have sought to intervene in debates about Design transdisciplinarity are possible in women's disciplinary as opposed to interdisciplinary This seminar is designed as a workshop and gender studies; and finally, what might forms of knowledge, objective as opposed to apply knowledge of methods and women's and gender studies become? to "situated" knowledge, evidence versus methodologies in the interdisciplinary Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, experience, history versus fiction, etc. area of Women's and Gender Studies to B+, etc.) Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, students' own research. Course topics will B+, etc.) include formulating and refining research WST 699: Dissertation Research on questions; developing appropriate theoretical Campus WST 601: Feminist Theories frameworks; articulating scholarly value; and Prerequisite: Advancement to candidacy (G5). This course will examine the key debates and thinking critically about the methods used in A portion of dissertation research must take concepts that have informed contemporary feminist interdisciplinary research, across the place on SBU campus. articulations of feminist theory. We will focus Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Fall, Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading on how feminist theory is produced, along with Students are expected to work collaboratively, May be repeated for credit. gender, through configurations of nation, race, presenting their individual works-in-progress citizenship, sexuality, and class in different to the class for constructive critique. Over WST 700: Dissertation Research off historical and cultural contexts. Because of the semester, students will develop either a Campus the many varieties of feminist theories, this research proposal for funding agencies and/or Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy course may focus on a particular theoretical their dissertation proposal (prospectus). (G5). Major portion of research will take place tradition or conceptual problem. Some Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, off-campus, but in the United States and/ examples of past and possible future feminist B+, etc.) or U.S. provinces. Please note, Brookhaven theories courses include: Feminist Theories/ National Labs and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab Queer Theories; Feminist Theories: Race, WST 690: Directed Readings for are considered on-campus. All international Gender, and Nation; Feminist Theories/Neo- Doctoral Candidates students must enroll in one of the graduate liberal Bio-logics; Feminist Literary Theory; A student and faculty member agree on a student insurance plans and should be advised Feminist Science Studies; and Feminism and corpus of texts to read and discuss at weekly by an International Advisor. Semesters Psychoanalysis. See addendum C for more or biweekly meetings. The reading list must be Offered: detailed descriptions of some sample focused filed with the program¿s form before the add/ Fall, 1-9 credits, S/U grading theory classes. drop period ends. May be repeated for credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, Fall and Spring, 1-12 credits, S/U grading B+, etc.) May be repeated for credit. WST 701: Dissertation Research off May be repeated for credit. Campus-International WST 696: Self-Directed Readings Prerequisite: Must be advanced to candidacy WST 602: Social Perspectives on For doctoral students who have completed (G5). Major portion of research will take Feminist Theory all course requirements and2021 wish to dedicate place outside of the United States and/or This course introduces students to the themselves to full- or part-time preparation for U.S. provinces. Domestic students have the main currents of feminist social, political, the Comprehensive Examination. option of the health plan and may also enroll and intellectual theory. It will explore Fall and Spring, 3-9 credits, S/U grading in MEDEX. International students who are theories and texts and the linkages between May be repeated 6 times FOR credit. in their home country are not covered by developing feminism and such fields as mandatory health plan and must contact the economics, sociology, history, and philosophy. WST 698: Practicing Women's and Insurance Office for the insurance charge to Prerequisite: Admission to the Graduate Gender Studies be removed. International students who are Certificate Program in Women's Studies Co- The teaching practicum is designed for not in their home country are charged for the Scheduled with SOC 519. Fall mandatory health insurance. If they are to be women's and gender studies certificate students Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, who anticipate teaching classes outside of, covered by another insurance plan they must B+, etc.) or in addition to, their disciplinary home. To file a waiver by the second week of classes. May be repeated for credit. help students prepare for this likelihood, we The charge will only be removed if other will spend several sessions working together plan is deemed comparable. All international WST 610: Advanced Topics in to construct an introductory course syllabus students must have received clearance from an Women's Studies in Women's and Gender Studies. At the same International Advisor. Semesters offered: Fall, A variable topics seminar course in women's time, we will consider broader questions Spring, 1-9 credits, S/U grading studies for the advanced student. Topics might about the university as an institution in the May be repeated for credit. include feminist peace politics, women in current moment, and the place of Women's Third World cinema, feminist theology, or and Gender Studies within the contemporary WST 800: Summer Research feminist philosophy. Course may be repeated university. Along with a consideration of the May be repeated for credit. Semesters offered: as topic varies. Sections of this course are co- changing practices and objects of feminist Summer scheduled with SOC 509, PHI 615, and PHI knowledge production, we will also discuss the S/U grading 616. changing politics and economics of academia, May be repeated 1 times FOR credit. Fall or Spring, 3 credits, Letter graded (A, A-, and the impact of the wider academic milieu B+, etc.) on what and how knowledge is produced. WST 850: Summer Teaching May be repeated for credit. We will ask: what has women's studies

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