2020

Spring 2020 CAP LECTURE LIST

Princeton University

Office of Community and Regional Affairs

Community Auditing Program (CAP) 4 Mercer Street Princeton, NJ 08540

Telephone (609)258-0202

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://community.princeton.edu

Community Auditing Program Office of Community and Regional Affairs 4 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 Website: https://community.princeton.edu Email: [email protected] CAP office hours: M – F, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Telephone: (609) 258-0202

• Fall Class Fee $200 per course, per semester. Auditor Only Series $125 per course. Check, cash, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and Discover) accepted. • To receive a refund when dropping a course, you must notify the CAP office in writing (email acceptable) on or before Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by 5:00 pm. • Registration is limited to one (1) course until the third day of registration.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

• Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m. Day 1 Activated auditors only, one course limit • In-person online registration: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street Day 1 Activated auditors only, one course limit

Thursday, January 30, 2020

• Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m. Day 2 Activated auditors only, one course limit

• In-person online registration 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street Day 2 Activated auditors only, one course limit

Friday, January 31, 2020, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street

• Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m. – for all activated auditors • In-person online registration 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street– for all activated auditors

Friday, January 31 – Friday, February 14, 2020 Registration remains open for all auditors, online, by mail, or in the CAP Office, through the first two (2) weeks of classes for courses with space available.

Monday, February 3, 2020 First Day of Classes

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Last Day for Refunds, Written request required by 5:00 p.m.

Friday, February 14, 2020 Last Day to enroll in a class

March 9-13, 2020 Midterm exams – lecture schedule per instructor

March 14-22, 2020 Spring break

Monday, March 23, 2020 Classes resume 1 Friday, May 1, 2020 Classes End/Auditor Lecture and Reception

CAP at McCarter Class Dates: Wednesday's January 8, 22 & 29 Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm “GOODNIGHT, NOBODY” Performance date: Wed., January 15, 2020 Time: 7:30 pm (the performance on 1/15 is in The Producers & Artists behind an place of the Wednesday afternoon class.) original play & a McCarter Tuition $200. This class includes 3 classroom commission sessions and 1 performance. The performance ticket is included in the class fee. Lead Instructor: Debbie Bisno, Resident Producer, McCarter Theatre Center REGISTRATION by appointment only

Guest Artists/Guest Speakers will include: The Playwright: Rachel Bonds' plays have been Producers, Playwright, Director, Dramaturg and developed or produced by McCarter, South Director of Production. Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, Atlantic, New Georges, Ars Nova, The Play: this winter, McCarter features the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown, Actors funny & moving original play GOODNIGHT, Theatre of Louisville, Studio Theatre, Arden NOBODY by Rachel Bonds. Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. Her REGISTRATION by appointment only plays include: Five Mile Lake which received its East Coast premiere at the McCarter; At the Old Goodnight, Nobody Place, developed at the The Big Chill meets This Is Us. Arden; Swimmers, featured at New York Stage and Roundabout, receiving top ranking on The A group of old friends reconnect after years Kilroys' List; Michael & Edie, named a New York apart. Reminiscing over the mishaps of Times Critics' Pick in 2010; Winter motherhood to the miss-steps of sex, drugs, and Games, winner of the Heideman Award and rock n’ roll, the realities of life prove that part of the Humana Festival; The “Adulting” is hard. Noise, developed at New Georges and Ars Nova; and Anniversary, winner of the 2012 Samuel About the Class: CAP at McCarter features French Festival and featured on NPR. Bonds is a behind the scenes access to the artists and graduate of Brown University.Related Articles

producers creating original work for the stage. about and by Rachel Bonds: Read the script, see the play, go behind the scenes from multiple vantage points – from playwright to producer - with this case study class designed to provide theatre lovers and curious culture seekers with an insider's view of the life of a theatre artist, the process of commissioned play as it comes to life. Mother Howlround Article GOODNIGHT NOBODY will be on the Roger S. Sun Times on Bonds’ recent Chicago premiere: SUN Berlind main stage at 91 University Place, TIMES Princeton from Jan 3-Feb 9. Goodnight, Nobody - Live at the Library

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Auditor Only Series ASC200 Romani (gypsy) Culture in Eastern Europe ASC100 Introduction to American Sign Language Professor: Margaret Beissinger, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Slavic Professor: Noah Bucholz, Princeton Language and Literature Theological Seminary Roma in Eastern Europe have been enslaved, This course introduces DEAF+WORLD; a targeted for annihilation, and persecuted for world where people speak with their hands and centuries. Yet they have repeatedly adapted and hear with their eyes. The primary goal is to build adjusted to the circumstances surrounding them, a strong foundation for acquiring American Sign persisting as distinctive cultural communities Language (ASL) and understanding Deaf while simultaneously contributing to and culture. By the end of class, you will be able to forming part of the dominant worlds in which hold greeting conversations as well as they live. This course treats Romani culture in conversations about two or three different basic the countries of Eastern Europe. It covers topics in ASL. If you are interested in studying Romani history and identity; folklore, music, ASL further, this course will help you know and shifting traditional roles; representations in which online/offline resources to use and teach literature and film; and verbal art by Roma. The you how to use them for your further studying. course offers new perspectives on ethnic minorities and the dynamics of culture in Slavic Time: 1:30-3pm and East European society. Dates: March 6, 13, 20, and April 3, 2020 Time: 2:00 – 3:30pm Noah Buchholz is a PhD student in Religion & Dates: April 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2020 Society at Princeton Theological Seminary and lecturer in the Program in Linguistics at Margaret Beissinger has a PhD in folklore and Princeton University. Previously, he served as Mythology – South Slavic and Romanian from Assistant Professor of American Sign Language Harvard University. She is currently focusing on and Deaf Studies at Bethel College. His research Balkan cultures (especially Romanian, Serbian, interests include liberation theology, and Bulgarian) and oral tradition, oral epic, and postcolonial/decolonial theory, critical Romani traditional culture and music-making. geography, and Deaf studies. He holds a BA in Much of her fieldwork has been carried out in Biblical & Theological Studies and Classical southern Romania, where she worked Languages from Wheaton College and an MDiv extensively, both before and after the 1989 and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary. revolution, with Romani musicians. Her current book projects include From Slavery to Celebrity: Culture and Performance among Romani Musicians in Romania and a book of South Slavic oral poetry.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Black Rage and Black Power AAS 321 African American Literature: Harlem Professor: Glaude Jr., Eddie Steven Renaissance to Present AAS 359 Description: This course examines the Professor: Nishikawa, Kinohi various pieties of the Black Power Era. We chart the explicit and implicit utopian Description: A survey of 20th- and 21st- visions of the politics of the period that, at century African American literature, once, criticized established Black religious including the tradition's key aesthetic institutions and articulated alternative ways manifestos. Special attention to how modern of imagining salvation. We also explore the African American literature fits into certain attempt by Black theologians to translate the periods and why certain innovations in genre prophetic Black church tradition into the and style emerged when they did. Poetry, idiom of Black power. We aim to keep in essays, novels, popular fiction, stage view the significance of the Black Power era production or two, and related visual texts. for understanding the changing role and place of Black religion in Black public life. Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W African American History to 1863 AAS 366 Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity Professor: Hunter, Tera W. AAS 303 Professor: Wolfe, Kevin A. Description: This course explores African American history from the Atlantic slave Description: What does the "post-colonial" trade up to the Civil War. It is centrally mean? In this course, we will engage the concerned with the rise of and overthrow of literary and theoretical production of human bondage, and how they shaped the formerly colonized subjects from parts of modern world. Africans were central to the Africa and the Caribbean, as we seek to largest and most profitable forced migration determine what the post-colonial in world history. They shaped new identities imagination might look like. The emphasis and influenced the contours of American will be on close readings of works that politics, law, economics, culture, and emerge from the crucible of the Black society. The course considers the diversity Atlantic's "encounter" with European and of experiences in this formative period of American colonialism, as we question how nation-making. Race, class, gender, region, the identities of formerly colonized subjects religion, labor, and resistance animate inform their views of the world. important themes in the course. Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH

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AMERICAN STUDIES alcohol production and consumption in Africa. Access to Health AMS 304 Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W Professor: Gerwin, Leslie E. Making History: Museums, Memorials, Heritage Description: What does it mean to be ANT 379 healthy and who should ensure that Professor: Cain, Tiffany Cherelle individuals and communities achieve health? This course will examine the meaning of Description: This course contends with public health in America exploring the role how shared histories are collectively made of government as a regulator, service- and remade in contemporary society. We provider, and director of personal behaviors. will interrogate the meaning of history, We will consider the legal, ethical, memory, heritage, and "the past." What is economic and political foundations of at stake in how we represent the past? What government actions and the challenges of do we mean when we make a claim on addressing societal ills that account for history as "ours"? What role do museums, disparities in health outcomes. Students will monuments, and memorials play in the investigate and analyze health issues seeking formation and maintenance of collective identities? Can practices like public history to translate academic inquiry into policy and archaeology promote collective prescriptions that impact human health. healing?

Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T

ANTHROPOLOGY ARCHITECTURE

Alcohol Culture in Everyday Life Introduction to Architectural Thinking

ANT 272 ARC 203 Professor: Collins, Christina Tekie Professor: Allen,Stanley T.

Description: Alcohol is not just an intoxicating drink, but an "embodied Description: The objective of this course is material culture" embedded in our to provide a broad overview of the discipline experiences of everyday life. What does of architecture: its history, theories, our relationship with alcohol reveal about methodologies; its manners of thinking and individual and collective identities? What working. Rather than a chronological does it say about the social and economic survey, the course will be organized realities of a globalized world today? thematically, with examples drawn from a Drawing from literature in anthropology, range of historical periods as well as alcohol studies, and social theory, this contemporary practice. Through lectures, course asks students to think critically readings, and discussions every student will about the relationship between alcohol and acquire a working knowledge of key texts, culture in both their own lives and in the buildings and architectural concepts. lives of others. Readings primarily focus on

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH Description: This course focuses on key issues of 20th and 21st c. Latin American ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY art. A thematic survey and general methodological introduction, we will treat Contemporary Art: 1950 - 2000 emblematic works and movements, from ART 214 Mexican muralism and Indigenism to Professor: Small, Irene Violet experiments with abstraction, pop, Description: A critical study of the major conceptualism, and performance. Questions movements, paradigms, and documents of discussed include: What is Latin American postwar art--abstract-expressionist, pop, art? What is modernism in Latin America? minimalist, conceptual, process and What is the legacy of colonialism? How do performance, site-specific, etc. Special Latin American artists engage transnational attention to crucial figures (e.g., Jackson networks of solidarity under conditions of Pollock, Andy Warhol, Felix-Gonzalez- repression? How can postcolonial, Torres) and problems (e.g., "the neo-avant- decolonial, and feminist theory illuminate garde", popular culture, feminist theory, the art and criticism produced in and about political controversies, "postmodernism"). Latin America?

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH

Greek Art and Archaeology ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES ART 202 Professor: Arrington, Nathan Todd Cosmology AST 401 Description: What is Greek art, and why Professor: Bahcall, Neta A. has it captivated the imagination of artists, thinkers, and travelers for centuries? We Description: A general review of will survey the major monuments, objects, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. and archaeological sites in order to Topics include the properties and nature of critically examine its seminal place in the galaxies, clusters of galaxies, superclusters, western tradition. Diverse types of material the large-scale structure of the universe, evidence will inform an intellectual journey evidence for the existence of Dark Matter leading from the very first Greek cities to and Dark Energy, the expanding universe, the luxurious art of Hellenistic kings. the early universe, and the formation and Lectures are organized chronologically and evolution of structure. thematically, and precepts offer the unique experience of hands-on interaction with Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W objects in the art museum's collection. The Science of Fission and Fusion Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W Energy AST 309 Modern and Contemporary Latin Am Professor: Goldston, Robert James Art ART 220 Description: Power from the nucleus Professor: Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia Small, offers a low-carbon source of electricity. Irene Violet However, fission power also carries

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significant risks: nuclear proliferation Emphasis is on the application of basic (North Korea, Iran), major accidents physics to understanding of astronomical (Chernobyl, Fukushima), and waste systems. Topics include the Solar System; disposal (Yucca Mountain). Fusion carries planetary systems and exoplanets; the birth, fewer risks, but the timetable for its life, and death of stars; white dwarfs, commercialization is uncertain. We will neutron stars, and black holes; the Milky delve into the scientific underpinnings of Way and distant galaxies; cosmology, dark these two energy sources, so you can assess matter and dark energy, and the history of them for yourselves. A benefit of this the Universe. course is that you will expand your scientific and computational skills by Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W applying them to important real-world problems. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH Thermodynamics The Universe CBE 246 AST 203 Professor: Webb, Michael A. Professor: Chyba, Christopher F., Dunkley, Jo, Strauss, Michael Abram Description: The course focuses on basic principles governing the equilibrium Description: This course, whose subject behavior of macroscopic systems and their matter covers the entire universe, targets applications to materials and processes of the frontiers of modern astrophysics. interest in modern chemical engineering. Topics include the planets of our solar We introduce the fundamental system; the search for extrasolar planets thermodynamic concepts: energy and extraterrestrial life and intelligence; the conservation (First Law); temperature and birth, life, and death of stars; black holes; entropy (Second Law); thermodynamic the zoo of galaxies and their evolution; the potentials; equilibrium and stability. These Big Bang and the expanding universe; and ideas are applied to problems such as dark matter, dark energy, and the large- calculating the equilibrium compositions of scale structure of the universe. This course coexisting phases or reacting mixtures, as is designed for the non-science major and well as analyzing the thermodynamic has no prerequisites past high school efficiency of power generation and algebra and geometry. High school physics refrigeration cycles. would be useful, but is not required. Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W F Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Topics in Modern Astronomy ENGINEERING AST 204

Professor: Winn, Joshua Nathan Soil Mechanics

Description: This course provides a broad CEE 365 overview of modern astronomy and Professor: Sandiford, Raymond E. astrophysics for students in the sciences. Description: Part-1 Classical Soil

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Mechanics: Physical and engineering a new art form begun during the Industrial properties of soils; soil classification and Revolution and flourishing today in long- identification methods; site exploration; span bridges, thin shell concrete vaults, and sampling; laboratory and in-situ testing tall buildings. Through critical analysis of techniques; shear strength; bearing major works, students are introduced to the capacity; earth pressure; slope stability; methods of evaluating engineered permeability and seepage. Part-2 structures as an art form. Students study the Application of Soil Mechanics in Civil works and ideas of individual engineers Engineering: Earth retaining structures; through their basic calculations, their deep foundations, ground improvement; builder's mentality and their aesthetic tunneling; levees; and construction and imagination. Illustrations are taken from contracting implications. various cities and countries thus demonstrating the influence of culture on Schedule: 01:30 pm - 04:20 pm M our built environment.

Statics of Structures Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W CEE 312 Professor: Glisic, Branko CLASSICS

Description: Develops notions of internal Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine: forces and displacements, and instructs Bodies, Physicians, and Patients students how to design and analyze CLA 231 structures. Presents the fundamental Professor: Holmes, Brooke A. principles of structural analysis, determination of internal forces, and : This course looks at the deflections under the static load conditions, Description and introduces the bending theory of plane formation of a techne ("art" or "science") of beams and the basic energy theorems. The medicine in fifth-century BCE Greece and theory of the first order will be developed debates about the theory and practice of for continuous girders, frames, arches, healthcare in Greco-Roman antiquity. We suspension bridges, and trusses, including look at early Greek medicine in relationship both statically determinate and to established medical traditions in Egypt indeterminate structures. Basic principles and Mesopotamia; medical discourses of for construction of influence lines and human nature, gender, race, and the body; determination of extreme influences will be debates about the ethics of medical research; presented. the relationship of the body to the mind; and the nature of "Greek" medicine as it travels Schedule: 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM M W to Alexandria, Rome and beyond. Readings

drawn from primary sources as well as Structures and the Urban Environment CEE 262A contemporary texts in medical humanities Professor: Garlock, Maria, Eugenia and bioethics. Moreyra Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM T TH Description: Known as "Bridges", this course focuses on structural engineering as

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Origins and Nature of English COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Vocabulary CLA 208 Passion Professor: Katz, Joshua Timothy COM 203 Professor: Hare, Thomas William Description: The origins and nature of English vocabulary, from Proto-Indo- Description: Passion is a common word European prehistory to current slang via with a long, complicated history; the diverse Beowulf. Emphasis on linguistic tools and meanings we associate with it engage our methodology. Topics include the Greek and experience on the most ethereal and abstract Latin elements of English, the Roman as well as the most visceral and profane alphabet and spelling, social and regional levels. In this course we will study a range variation, the matter of "proper" language, of films from the past eight decades with the and the "National Language" debate. aim of understanding how the films situate Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM T TH their subjects, how they narrate and illustrate passion, and how they engage personal, The Roman Empire 31 BC to AD 337 social, and political issues in particular CLA 219 aesthetic contexts. Professor: Padilla Peralta, Dan-El Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T

Description: At its peak, the Roman Empire The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the ranged from the shores of the Atlantic to the African Middle Ages Persian Gulf. We will study the rise and fall COM 241 of this multicultural empire, from its Professor: Belcher, Wendy Laura Fauvelle, emergence out of a fractious republican Francois-Xavier oligarchy and its multi-century run of stability to its eventual disintegration. We Description: Many assume that pre- will listen to the Empire's many voices: the twentieth-century Africa has no history. emperor grumbling that the people of Rome Rather, it has so much history that did not have one neck; the young woman communicating all its richness can be a memorializing her dreams of triumph on the challenge. In this class, therefore, we focus eve of her martyrdom; the centurion on particular instances that speak to the boasting of slaughtered Dacians and naked tremendous diversity of the period from 300 water goddesses. Finally, we will assess the to 1500 in Africa - its political systems, Empire's relevance to early modern and religious communities, and dynamics of modern societies across the globe. cultural and economic conversation. We also Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM T address Africa's interconnectedness within and to the rest of the world as a vital part of the global middle ages. Primary sources include letters, treatises, and chronicles but also maps, archeological layouts, frescos, inscriptions, and rock art.

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Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH Economics and Computing COS 445 COMPUTER SCIENCE Professor: Weinberg, Matt

Algorithms and Data Structures Description: Computation and other aspects COS 226 of our lives are becoming increasingly Professor: Wayne, Kevin intertwined. We will study topics on the cusp between economics and computation. Description: This course surveys the most The focus will be on the mathematical and important algorithms and data structures in computational tools involved in the use on computers today. Particular emphasis interaction of economics and computation. is given to algorithms for sorting, searching, Topics: games on networks, auctions, and string processing. Fundamental mechanism and market design, algorithms in a number of other areas are computational social choice. The aim of the covered as well, including geometric course is: (1) to understand the game- algorithms, graph algorithms, and some theoretic issues behind systems involving numerical algorithms. The course will computation such as online networks, (2) to concentrate on developing implementations, learn how algorithms and algorithmic understanding their performance thinking can help with designing better characteristics, and estimating their potential decision and allocation mechanisms in an effectiveness in applications. offline world.

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH

Computer Networks Innovating Across Tech, Bus, & Mkts COS 461 COS 448 Professor: Freedman, Michael Joseph Professor: Fish, Robert S., Singh, Jaswinder Pal Description: This course studies computer networks and protocols, the services built on Description: Course teaches engineering top of them, and some topics relating to students about issues tackled by leading Internet policy. Topics include: packet Chief Technology Officers: the technical switching, routing, congestion control, visionaries and/or managers who innovate at quality-of-service, network security, the boundaries of technology and business network measurement, network mgmt., and by understanding both deeply, and who are network applications. Students will learn:* true partners to the CEO, not just Internet protocols used in Internet access implementers of business goals. Focus will networks, local area networks, wide-area be on thinking like a CTO (of a startup and a networks large company) from technology and Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W business perspectives, and on software and Internet-based businesses. Industry-leading guest speakers provide perspectives too. Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W

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Introduction to Programming Systems problems of immigration, enlargement, the COS 217 role of various political institutions, Professor: Moretti, Christopher M. including the military, and the recent rise of Description: Introduction to programing populism. systems, including modular program design, testing, debugging and performance tuning, Schedule: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm T TH using system calls, programming style, and assembly language and machine languages. EAST ASIAN STUDIES Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W The Origins of Japanese Culture Theory of Algorithms EAS 218 COS 423 Professor: Conlan, Thomas Donald Professor: Tarjan, Robert Endre Description: This course is designed to Description: Design and analysis of introduce the culture and history of Japan, efficient data structures and algorithms. and to examine how one understands and General techniques for building and interprets the past. In addition to considering analyzing algorithms. Introduction to NP- how a culture, a society, and a state develop, completeness. we will try to reconstruct the tenor of life in "ancient" and "medieval" Japan and chart Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W how patterns of Japanese civilization shifted through time. CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN POLITICS Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W

European Politics & Society in the 20th ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY Century BIOLOGY EPS 300 Professor: James, Marzenna, Suleiman, Behavioral Ecology Ezra N. EEB 313 Professor: Riehl, Christina Pauline Description: This course covers the critical developments of 20th and 21st century Description: How does a swarm of Europe, in particular the consolidation of honeybees collectively decide on a new site democracy in European countries and for their hive? When a mother mouse subsequent challenges democracy is facing. protects her young, are her behaviors It deals with the legacy of the two world genetically determined? Why do ravens wars, Nazism, Stalinism, the Cold War, share food with each other? This course is colonialism and decolonization, the collapse an introduction to behavioral ecology, which of Communism and the re-unification of asks why animals act the way they do, how Europe, the birth and development of the their behaviors have been shaped by natural European Community, the creation of the selection, and how these behaviors influence welfare state, single currency, as well as the their surroundings. We will first discuss

11 behaviors at the individual level, then move appropriate policy responses. Some attention to reproductive behaviors. The final section is also paid to international issues. of the course will focus on social evolution, Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH the origins of cooperation, and human behavioral ecology. Introduction to Microeconomics ECO 100 Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH Professor: Noonan, Kelly ECONOMICS Description: Economics studies the Economic Inequality and the Role of allocation of scarce resources. Since this is a Government microeconomics course, it will focus on the ECO 343 decisions made by individual consumers and Professor: Kuziemko, Ilyana producers. We will consider a variety of different market structures ranging from Description: In the US and many other perfect competition to monopoly. We also developed countries, economic inequality will discuss the rationale for government has risen to historic levels in recent decades. involvement when there are market failures. What are the causes of this trend -- "natural" market forces (e.g., globalization?) or Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W changes in public policy (e.g., erosion of the minimum wage)? Are measures currently Macroeconomics proposed to counteract inequality and ECO 301 poverty -- e.g, progressive taxation, transfer Professor: Li, Wenli programs to low-income families, public insurance programs such as Medicare -- Description: This course covers the theory effective? An emphasis is placed on of modern macroeconomics in detail. We understanding what basic microeconomic will focus on the determination of theory as well as empirical evidence can macroeconomic variables -- such as output, (and cannot) tell us about these questions. employment, price, and the interest rate -- in the short, medium, and long run, and we will Schedule: 07:30 PM - 10:20 PM T address a number of policy issues. We will discuss several examples of macroeconomic Introduction to Macroeconomics phenomena in the real world. A central ECO 101 theme will be to understand the powers and Professor: Bogan, Elizabeth Chapin limitations of macroeconomic policy in stabilizing the business cycle and promoting Description: The theory of the growth. determination of the level of national income and economic activity, including an Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH examination of the financial system. Emphasis on economic growth and such economic problems as inflation, unemployment and recession, and on

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Microeconomic Theory ENERGY STUDIES ECO 300 Professor: Wilson, Andrea Designing Sustainable Systems Description: This course builds on your ENE 202 knowledge of microeconomics from ECO Professor: Meggers, Forrest Michael 100. As with ECO 100, this course will focus on the decisions made by individual Description: The course presents consumers and producers. It will consider a anthropogenic global changes and their variety of different market structures impact on sustainable design. The course ranging from perfect competition to focuses on understanding the underlying monopoly. It will also discuss the rationale principles from natural and applied sciences, for government involvement when there are and how new basic Internet of Things digital market failures. While the topics will be technology enables alternative system very similar to those covered in ECO 100, analysis and design. Material is presented in the analysis will be more in depth. 2 parts: 1) Global Change and Environmental Impacts: studying our Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W influences on basic natural systems and cycles and how we can evaluate them, and ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 2) Designing Sustainable Systems: synthesizing the environmental science with Information Signals new IoT in an applied design project. ELE 201 Professor: Chen, Yuxin Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH

Description: Signals that carry information Introduction to the Electricity Sector-E play a central role in technology and ENE 422 engineering---ranging from sound and Professor: Jenkins, Jesse D. images to MRI, communication, radar, and robotic control. This course teaches Description: This course provides an mathematical tools to analyze, manipulate, introduction to the electricity sector drawing dissect, and preserve information signals. on engineering, economics, and regulatory For example, many continuous signals can policy perspectives. It introduces the be perfectly represented through sampling engineering principles behind various power (Nyquist theorem), which leads to digital generation technologies and transmission signals. A major focus of the course is the and distribution networks; the economics of Fourier transform. We also study linear electricity markets; and the regulation of time-invariant systems, modulation, electricity generation, transmission, quantization, and stability (Laplace distribution, and retail sales. Open transform and z-transform). Lab design challenges related to the growth of projects in Matlab include a "Shazam" distributed energy resources, the transition music ID system. to low-carbon electricity sources, and the Schedule: 09:30 AM - 10:50 AM T TH role of the electricity sector in mitigating global climate change are also discussed.

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH Other: Acceptance in this class is by invitation only. For consideration send an ENGINEERING email to [email protected] stating in 150 words or less, your reason for wanting Technology and Society to be in the class and your background EGR 277 experience. All replies must be submitted by Professor: Reinecke, David M January 17, 2020 for consideration. Late Description: Technology and society are applicants will not be considered. unthinkable without each other, each provides the means and framework in which Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM F the other develops. To explore this dynamic, this course investigates a wide array of ENGLISH questions on the interaction between technology, society, politics, and economics, 19th-Century Fiction emphasizing the themes such as innovation ENG 345 and regulation, risk and failure, ethics and Professor: Nunokawa, Jeff expertise. Specific topics covered include nuclear power and disasters, green energy, Description: This course will acquaint the development and regulation of the students with the distinctive features of the Internet, medical expertise and controversy, nineteenth century novel, from Austen to intellectual property, the financial crisis, and Hardy. Lectures will seek to illuminate the electric power grid. relations between social and aesthetic dimensions of the texts we read. We will Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W consider how these fictional imaginings of things like love, sex, money, class, and race Venture Capital & Finance of Innovation help shape the ways we live now. EGR 395 Professor: Hejazi,Shahram Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM M W

Description: Venture capital is a driving Children's Literature force behind innovation and ENG 385 entrepreneurship, although the unique Professor: Gleason, William Albert working details of venture capital firms and their processes are well-kept secrets. Early Description: A survey of classic texts stage investors not only fund startups but written for children from the past 200 years also enable innovation through mentorship in (primarily) England and America. We and partnership with the entrepreneurs. will examine the development and range of Understanding how these investors think the genre from early alphabet books to and operate is critical to students who are recent young adult fiction. We'll try to put interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to ourselves in the position of young readers those who would like to pursue venture while also studying the works as adult capital. interpreters, asking such questions as: How do stories written for children reflect and

14 shape the lives of their readers? What can Description: This course examines the children's literature tell us about the history careers of two of America's most of reading, or of growing up, or of the accomplished novelists. Manifest imagination itself? In the process we will differences aside, both authors were consider psychological and social questions obsessed with the ensnaring effects of plot, as well as literary ones. prompting both to imagine fictional realms Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W that are as much "designs" on the reader as on characters. Literary History ENG 200 Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH Professor: Gee, Sophie Graham ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Description: A survey of great books, vivid language and unforgettable characters from Practical Models - Environmental the medieval period to the eighteenth Systems century. Through the eyes of Chaucer, ENV 302 Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Jane Austen Professor: Celia, Michael Anthony and others we see our world becoming modern. We discuss early modern art, Description: Humans are increasingly beauty, romance, desire, the will, the mind, affecting environmental systems throughout God, sex, and death and ask whether these the world. This is especially true for are fundamentally different today. We ask activities associated with energy production, what some of the people, places and water use, and food production. To problems pushed to the margins during these understand the environmental impacts, centuries of Western European quantitative modeling tools are needed. transformation can reveal about our most This course introduces quantitative urgent challenges today. modeling approaches for environmental systems, including global models for carbon Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH cycling; local and regional models for water, soil, and vegetation interactions; and models Shakespeare II for transport of pollutants in both water and ENG 321 air. Students will develop simple models for Professor: Cormack, Bradin T. all of these systems, and apply the models to a set of practical problems. Description: This class covers the second half of Shakespeare's career, with a focus on Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W the major tragedies and late comedies.

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Introduction to German Philosophy Abraham Lincoln and America 1809-1865 GER 210 HIS 470 Professor: Jennings, Michael William Professor: Guelzo, Allen Carl

Description: An introduction to the German Description: This course explores the philosophical tradition from the political biography, principles and practices Enlightenment to the present through the of Abraham Lincoln. The issues to be study of its major figures (Kant, Hegel, examined include the international context Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, of liberal democracy in the 19th century, the Arendt). This course offers a survey of war powers of the presidency, the contest of German intellectual history based upon Whig and Democratic political ideas, the direct engagement with original texts. relation of the executive branch to the Domains to be explored include legislative and judicial branches, diplomacy, metaphysics, aesthetics, the theory of and the presidential cabinet. While tracing knowledge, political philosophy and the Lincoln's biography from the Illinois frontier philosophy of language. to the White House, we will explore how his own life was shaped by, and shaped, Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W questions of enterprise and society, slavery and emancipation, and Civil War and Introduction to Media Theory Reconstruction. GER 211 Professor: Levin, Thomas Yaron Schedule: 01:30 pm - 04:20 pm TH

Description: Through careful readings of a Colonial and Postcolonial Africa wide range of media theoretical texts from HIS 315 the late 19th to early 21st century, this class Professor: Dlamini, Jacob S. will trace the development of critical reflection on technologies and media Description: This course is an examination ranging from the printing press to of the major political and economic trends photography, from gramophones to radio in twentieth-century African history. It technologies, from pre-cinematic optical offers an interpretation of modern African devices to film and television, and from history and the sources of its present telephony and typewriters to cyberspace. predicament. In particular, we study the Topics include the relationship between foundations of the colonial state, the legacy representation and technology, the of the late colonial state (the period before historicity of perception, the interplay of independence), the rise and problems of aesthetics, technology and politics, and the resistance and nationalism, the immediate transformation of notions of imagination, challenges of the independent states (such as literacy, communication, reality and truth. bureaucracy and democracy), the more recent crises (such as debt and civil wars) on Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH the continent, and the latest attempts to

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address these challenges from within the European states, sometimes through formal continent. and sometimes informal imperialism. How did ideologies like nationalism, liberalism, Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W communism and fascism emerge from European origins and how were they East Asia since 1800 transformed? How differently did Europeans HIS 208 experience the two phases of globalization Professor: Bian, He, Marcon, Federico in the 19th and 20th centuries? Biographies are used as a way of approaching the Description: This course is an introduction problem of structural change. to the history of modern East Asia. We will examine the inter-related histories of China, Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH Japan, and Korea since 1800 and their relationships with the wider world. Major France, 1815 to the Present topics include: trade and cultural HIS 351 exchanges, reform and revolutions, war, Professor: Nord, Philip Galland colonialism, imperialism, and Cold War geopolitics. Description: The history of France in the 19th and 20th centuries appears a rapid and Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W perplexing turnover of regimes and administrations. This course has two English Constitutional History interrelated aims: (1) to account for France's HIS 367 peculiar political instability in terms of Professor: Jordan, William Chester social struggles which were played out in one form or another in all European states, Description: To explore the development of and thereby, (2) to set France's unique institutions and theories of government in pattern of development in its European England from the Norman Conquest to context. Topics will include: the about 1700. Restoration and the legacy of the French Revolution; 1848 and Bonapartism; popular Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W revolt in the fin de siecle and the triumph of the Third Republic, etc. Europe in the World: 1776 to the Present HIS 212 Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W Professor: Bell, David A. History of the American West Description: An overview of European HIS 374 history since the French Revolution, taking Professor: Sandweiss, Martha A. as its major theme the changing role of Europe in the world. It looks at the global Description: This course examines the legacies of the French and Russian history of the place we now call the revolutions, and how the Industrial American West, from pre-contact to the Revolution augmented the power of present. Our primary focus will be on the

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struggles between and among peoples to over immigration, identity, cultural and control resources and political power, and to biological difference, criminal character, the shape the ways in which western history is line between legality and illegality, and the told. We will pay particular attention to the boundaries of the normal and the role of visual and popular culture in shaping pathological. the national imagination of the region. Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W Revolutionary America Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present HIS 372 HIS 359 Professor: Blaakman, Michael Albert Professor: Dweck, Yaacob Description: Why was there an American Description: This course surveys the Revolution? How revolutionary was it, and breadth of Jewish experience from the era of for whom? Why did it end with the creation the Enlightenment to the contemporary of a fractious independent republic, an period. Tracing the development of Jewish "empire of liberty" rooted in slavery? This cultures and communities in Europe, the class explores the causes, course, and Middle East, and the United States against consequences of the American Revolution, the background of general history, the from the Seven Years War through the lectures focus on themes such as the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. transformation of Jewish identity, the Lectures, readings, and precepts will trace creation of modern Jewish politics, the the ideas and experiences of the many impact of anti-semitism, and the founding of peoples whose lives intersected with the the State of Israel. United States' struggle for independence: female and male, black and white and Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W Native American, free and enslaved, American and British, Loyalist and Patriot. Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America HIS 393 Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W Professor: Wailoo, Keith Andrew The Crusades Description: From "Chinese opium" to HIS 345 Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "crack" to Professor: Pippenger, Randall Todd BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, Description: The Crusades were a central the policing of ethnic identity, and racial phenomenon of the Middle Ages. This difference. This course explores the history course examines the origins and of controversial substances (prescription development of the Crusades and the medicines, over-the-counter products, black Crusader States in the Islamic East. It market substances, psychoactive drugs), and explores dramatic events, such as the great how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, Siege of Jerusalem, and introduces vivid they become vehicles for heated debates personalities, including Richard the

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Lionheart and Saladin. We will consider of the monumental war with Nazi Germany, aspects of institutional, economic, social and and the various postwar reforms. Special cultural history and compare medieval attention paid to the dynamics of the new Christian (Western and Byzantine), Muslim socialist society, the connection between the and Jewish perceptions of the crusading power of the state and everyday life, global movement. Finally, we will critically communism, and the 1991 collapse. examine the resonance the movement continues to have in current political and Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH ideological debates The United States Since 1974 Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM T TH HIS 361 Professor: Zelizer, Julian E. The Making of Modern India and Pakistan Description: The history of contemporary HIS 317 America, with particular attention to Professor: Prakash, Gyan political, social and technological changes. Topics will include the rise of a new Description: An exploration of three major conservative movement and the themes in the history of India's and reconstitution of liberalism, the end of the Pakistan's emergence as nation-states: divisive Cold War era and the rise of an colonial socio-economic and cultural interconnected global economy, transformations, the growth of modern revolutionary technological innovation collective identities and conflicts, and coupled with growing economic inequality, nationalism. Topics covered include: trade, a massive influx of immigrants coupled with empire, and capitalism; class, gender and a revival of isolationism and nativism, a religion; Gandhi, national independence, and revolution in homosexual rights and gender partition; and post-colonial state and society. equality coupled with the rise of a new ethos of "family values." Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W The Soviet Empire HIS 362 The World of Late Antiquity Professor: Kotkin, Stephen HIS 210 Professor: Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor Description: An examination of the transformation of the Russian Empire into Description: This course will focus on the the Soviet Empire. Topics include: the history of the later Roman Empire, a period invention and unfolding of single-party which historians often refer to as "Late revolutionary politics, the expansion of the Antiquity." We will begin our class in machinery of state, the onset and pagan Rome at the start of the third century development of Stalin's personal despotism, and end it in Baghdad in the ninth century: the violent attempt to create a noncapitalist in between these two points, the society, the experiences and consequences Mediterranean world experienced a series of

19 cultural and political revolutions whose cinematic works from the 1960's to the reverberations can still be felt today. We present. Directors such as Bertolucci, will witness civil wars, barbarian invasions, Tornatore, Benigni, Ozpetek, and Sorrentino the triumph of Christianity over paganism, offer a panorama of a generation of the fall of the Western Empire, the rise of filmmakers that has contributed to the Islam, the Greco-Arabic translation renewal of Italian cinema. Topics will be movement and much more. drawn from current issues, and will include Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W the Holocaust and questions of memory, terrorism, political violence, migration, What is the Scientific Revolution? gender ideologies, the Mafia. Emphasis on HIS 294 film style and techniques. Professor: Rampling, Jennifer M. Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM W Description: Something "happened" to science between 1450-1750. The sun LINGUISTICS replaced the earth at the center of the cosmos, Europeans encountered new worlds Introduction to Language & Linguistics and new peoples, and heaven and earth LIN 201 shook to the impact of new technologies like Professor: Ahn,Byron T. telescopes and heavy artillery. Yet how much was really new? Did all these changes Description: This course is an introduction merge into one phenomenon that we can call to the scientific analysis of the structure and "the scientific revolution"? And were there uses of language. Core areas covered many such revolutions or could the very include phonetics and phonology, idea be a modern invention? From optics morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics, and anatomy to alchemy and magic, this and pragmatics, with data from a wide range course will ask exactly how natural of languages. Additional topics include knowledge was shaped, challenged and sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and exploited between the late Middle Ages and language acquisition. the Enlightenment. Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W Language in Its Contexts ITALIAN LIN 250 Professor: Gor, Vera Topics Modern Italian Cinema ITA 310 Description: This course investigates Professor: Marrone-Puglia, Gaetana, Riotta, language in its social, cultural, political, and Giovanni historical contexts. Does your native language influence your perception, your Description: This course looks at the way behavior, and your culture? How does your Italy has expressed its historical, cultural, identity influence properties of your political, and social individuality in major language? What happens when unrelated

20 languages come into contact for prolonged Description: This course focuses on the periods? How are new languages born? Why fundamental biochemical principles that isn't English the official language of the underlie cellular function. An emphasis will United States, and should it be? We will be placed on protein structure, function, and explore these questions (and more) by regulation. Additional topics covered will engaging with the often contradictory include metabolism and catalysis, and opinions of specialists and the public, as cutting-edge methodologies for studying well as with the empirical realities behind macromolecules in health and disease these different language situations. systems.

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MATHEMATICS Cell and Developmental Biology MOL 348 Algebra II Professors: Burdine, Rebecca D., Patterson, MAT 346 Victoria Louise Professor: McConnell, Mark Weaver Description: The course will investigate the Description: Local Fields and the Galois roles that gene regulation, cell-cell theory of Local Fields. communication, cell adhesion, cell motility, signal transduction and intracellular Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W trafficking play in the commitment, differentiation and assembly of cells into Analysis I: Fourier Series and PDE specialized tissues. The mechanisms that MAT 325 underlie development of multicellular Professor: Shlapentokh-Rothman, Yakov organisms, from C. elegans to humans, will Mordechai be examined using biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches. In-class problem Description: Basic facts about Fourier solving, group work, and active learning Series, Fourier Transformations, and approaches will be used to emphasize key applications to the classical partial concepts and analyze experimental data. differential equations will be covered. Also Finite Fourier Series, Dirichlet Characters, Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH and applications to properties of primes. Food, Drugs and Society Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH MOL 250 Professor: Stock, Jeffry Benton MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Description: The current environment in the Biochemistry US for the use and abuse of foods and drugs MOL 345 will be examined from a scientific fact- Professor: Cristea, Ileana M., Petry, Sabine based perspective. Historical, economic, marketing, political, and public health

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drivers will be considered. Specific topics Description: This course examines include government dietary fundamental determinants of the human- recommendations (food politics), dietary microbe interaction at the biological and supplements (from Vitamins to herbal ecological levels. The focus will be on major extracts), pharmacology and ethical drug global infectious diseases and their impact. development (sulfa drugs, NSAIDS, etc), Each infectious agent will be discussed in addiction and substance abuse (alcohol, terms of its biology, epidemiology, nicotine, stimulants, opioids, etc), pathogenesis, disease progression, as well as Alzheimer's disease and the problem of biomedical and policy-based strategies for long-term care in an aging population, and its prevention and control. Psychedelic drug use and abuse (psilocybin, mescaline, LSD, etc). Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM TH

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH Intro to Cellular & Molecular Biology MOL 214 From DNA to Human Complexity Professor: Gavis, Elizabeth Rose, MOL 101 Notterman, Daniel, Thieringer, Heather Professors: Bassler, Bonnie Lynn, Mallarino, Ricardo, Schottenfeld-Roames, Description: Important concepts and Jodi, Wieschaus, Eric Francis elements of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology, are Description: This lecture and laboratory examined in an experimental context. This course will acquaint non-biology majors course fulfills the basic biology requirement with the theory and practice of modern for students majoring in the biological molecular biology focusing on topics of sciences and satisfies the basic biology current interest to society. The course will requirement for entrance into medical school cover basic molecular biology topics such as and most other health professions schools. information storage and readout by DNA, RNA and proteins. The course will address Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH how recent scientific advances influence issues relevant to humanity including stem Molecular and Cellular Immunology cells and CRISPR; the human microbiome MOL 340 and bacterial pathogens; and how the human Professor: Ploss, Alexander genome can be used to understand the evolution of modern humans. Description: A broad survey of the field of immunology and the mammalian immune Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH system. The cellular and molecular basis of innate and acquired immunity will be Infection: Biology, Burden, Policy discussed in detail. The course will provide MOL 425 frequent examples drawn from human Professor: Shenk, Thomas Eugene biology in health and disease.

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MUSIC Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade routes and an excellent place for take-out The Symphony From Haydn to food. You will contribute to an evolving Stravinsky state of knowledge by handling artifacts, MUS 225 reading letters written by the men and Professor: Ochs, Ruth Amelia women of medieval Cairo, and through hands-on experiments, including paper- Description: Consideration of the making, cooking and staging a medieval symphony from the mid-eighteenth century shadow play. to the mid-twentieth century, both in terms of musical procedures & cultural Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH significance. The course is designed primarily for non-concentrators. The focus NEUROSCIENCE will be on intensive listening, minimal ability to follow musical notation helpful. Systems Neuroscience NEU 427 Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM T TH Professor: Berry II, Michael James, Karniol-Tambour, Orren Tonal Syntax MUS 206 Description: The brain is more than a mere Professor: Lovett, Andrew C. collection of its constituent parts. In this class we aim to understand how neurons Description: An introduction to the interact together in local circuits and syntactic structure of the music of the 18th distributed brain dynamics to perform and 19th centuries through exercises in behaviorally relevant functions. The class analysis and composition. will be organized into modules, which are selected to cover most of the major divisions Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W of the brain. For most modules, we will first discuss a simpler circuit/system for which NEAR EASTERN STUDIES detailed mechanistic models and concrete ideas about function are known. Then, we Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide will go on to discuss more complex systems, NES 390 which are related to the simpler system. Professor: Rustow, Marina Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W Description: How can we reconstruct quotidian life in premodern society? This course takes history to the micro-level, with rigor. Sometimes simple questions (what did people eat, wear, do for a living? whom did they marry?) can be most challenging to answer. Our laboratory will be medieval Cairo, a burgeoning metropolis astride the

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OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND Description: Financial Mathematics is FINANCIAL ENGINEERING concerned with designing and analyzing products that improve the efficiency of Fundamentals of Queueing Theory markets, and create mechanisms for ORF 407 reducing risk. This course develops Professor: Massey, William Alfred quantitative methods for these goals: the notions of arbitrage and risk-neutral pricing Description: This is an introduction to the in discrete time, specific models such as stochastic models inspired by the dynamics Black-Scholes and Heston in continuous of resource sharing. Topics discussed time, and calibration to market data. Credit include: early motivating communication derivatives, the term structure of interest systems (telephone and computer networks); rates, and robust techniques in the context of modern applications (call centers, healthcare volatility options will be discussed, as well operations, and urban planning for smart as lessons from the financial crisis. cities); and key formulas (from Erlang blocking and delay to Little's law). We also Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W review supporting stochastic theories like equilibrium Markov chains along with Probability and Stochastic Systems Markov, Poisson and renewal processes. ORF 309 Professor: van Handel, Ramon Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH Description: An introduction to probability Fundamentals of Statistics and its applications. Topics include: basic ORF 245 principles of probability; Lifetimes and Professor: Cattaneo, Matias Damian reliability, Poisson processes; random walks; Brownian motion; branching Description: A first introduction to processes; Markov chains probability and statistics. This course will provide background to understand and Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W F produce rigorous statistical analysis including estimation, confidence intervals, PHILOSOPHY hypothesis testing and regression. Applicability and limitations of these Aristotle and His Successors methods will be illustrated in the light of PHI 301 modern data sets and manipulation of the Professor: Morison, Benjamin Charles statistical software R. Precepts are based on Atkin real data analysis. Description: We shall study Aristotle's Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W contributions in logic, natural philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, with emphasis on Introduction to Financial Mathematics the ongoing philosophical interest of some ORF 335 of his central insights. We shall compare Professor: Soner, Mete

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some of Aristotle's views with those of some competing intellectual pursuits and ways of of his successors, Hellenistic and beyond. life.

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Introductory Logic Systematic Ethics PHI 201 PHI 307 Professor: Berstler, Sam Professor: Smith, Michael

Description: Logic is the study of the Description: A survey of major problems principles of valid reasoning. This course and developments in twentieth century provides an introduction to symbolic logic, metaethics, from G.E. Moore to the present. which studies the principles of valid reasoning from an abstract point of view-- Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH paying attention to the form of valid arguments rather than their subject matter. PHYSICS We will cover the basic concepts and principles of symbolic logic: validity, logical Introductory Physics II truth, truth-functional and quantificational PHY 102 inference, formal languages and formal Professor: Wagoner, Kasey systems and deductive proof procedures. Description: This course presents an Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH introduction to the fundamental laws of nature, especially optics, Plato and His Predecessors electricity/magnetism, nuclear and atomic PHI300 theory. These are treated quantitatively with Professor: Campbell, Ian J. an emphasis on problem solving. The laboratory is intended to give students an Description: In this course we will examine opportunity to observe physical phenomena the ways in which Plato, who is often and to gain "hands-on" experience with regarded as the founder of western apparatus and instruments. philosophy, distinguished his philosophical project from the intellectual pursuits of both Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM TH his predecessors and his contemporary rivals. In addition to considering Plato's POLITICS influential views about the nature of reality, knowledge, and human happiness, we will American Politics aim to understand the kinds of questions that POL 220 Plato thinks philosophy is apt to answer, the Professor: Frymer,Paul method by which he thinks philosophy ought to be conducted, and his arguments Description: An introduction to the about the value of philosophy over institutions and political processes of American government and democracy.

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Topics will include the Constitution and economic and political development, and to American political tradition, federalism, explain the interconnectedness of political political institutions, elections and and economic outcomes. representation, interest groups and social movements, civil rights and liberties, and the Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM T TH politics of public policy Congressional Politics Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH POL 324 Professor: Lee, Frances Elida Civil Liberties POL 316 Description: This course is a Professor: George, Robert Peter comprehensive examination of the U.S. Congress. We will examine who runs for Description: An inquiry into the value of and who wins seats, lawmaking processes in liberty and of particular civil rights and the House and Senate, and the roles of liberties. The course considers competing parties and leaders in the two chambers. We theoretical justifications for rights and will take stock of changes in congressional liberties generally, as well as particular operations over time, especially the problems concerning freedom of speech and centralization of power in party leaders and the press, religion, sexuality, abortion, and challenges associated with extended debate discrimination. Supreme Court opinions in the Senate. How does Congress make regarding the constitutionality of legislation public policy? What factors shape legislative in each of these areas will be discussed and negotiation? Who has input on policy? criticized. Finally, we will assess the performance of Congress. Is policymaking too partisan? Is Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T the public's disapproval of Congress justified? Comparative Political Economy POL 352 Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM T TH Professor: Londregan, John Benedict International Organizations Description: This course forms part of the POL 396 political economy core, and it introduces Professor: Vreeland,James Raymond political economy models in the context of comparative politics. The course will Description: This course is about emphasize the interaction between political cooperation and sacrifice - at the institutions and economic goals and it will international level. The focus is on illustrate the application of the analytical intergovernmental organizations: the United and empirical methods developed in the Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, and other core courses in political economy. The regional organizations like the European course will apply the tools of political Union and the AIIB. We will examine their economy to understand the reasons for the origins and effectiveness, with attention to differences among countries' levels of the political interests of powerful members -

26 like the United States and China - as well as Political Theory smaller developing countries. To illustrate POL 210 analytical tools, the course pedagogic Professor: Stilz, Anna B. approach involves references to pop culture, including films like Wonder Woman, Dark Description: This course explores ideas of Knight, and The Godfather, as well as music individual ethics and political community, by Adele, Bob Marley, and others. the ethics of political rule, freedom and slavery, democracy and representation, and Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH equality and inequality in political thought. Readings will be drawn from both canonical Modern Political Theory and contemporary authors, including POL 303 Sophocles, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Professor: Conti, Gregory Andrew and Tocqueville. This is an introductory course, which emphasizes both thematic and Description: A survey of the foundational historical approaches to political theory, and texts of modern political theory. Emphasis is its role in informing contemporary civic placed on close reading and the engagement. reconstruction and analysis of theoretical arguments. Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W Race and Politics in the United States POL 344 Policy Making in America Professor: Stephens-Dougan, LaFleur POL 329 Professor: Cameron, Charles M. Description: This course examines various political controversies that surround the role Description: This course provides a realistic of race and ethnicity in American society. introduction to how public policy is made in These controversies and issues affect public the United States. It examines how people opinion, political institutions, political and political institutions come together to behavior, and salient public policy debates. create and implement public policy. The Thus this course will assess and evaluate the course combines cutting edge social science role of race in each of these domains while with cases, simulations, and role playing also examining historical antecedents. The exercises to provide students with concrete first half of the course will focus on skills and practical tools for actual policy historical antecedents such as the civil rights making. movement and the Black Power movement. The second half of the course will focus on Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W the nature of contemporary racial attitudes, in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.

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Radical Political Thought Social Movements and Revolutions POL 305 POL 360 Professor: Müller, Jan-Werner Professor: Beissinger, Mark R.

Description: This course will examine Description: This course investigates the traditions of political thought--mostly, but politics of protest and revolution, examining not only, on the Left--which challenge the conditions under which protest mainstream conceptions of liberal movements emerge, their choice of tactics, democracy and modern capitalist society. the effects of repression and concessions, The main focus will be on Marxism, and the determinants of movement success. anarchism, feminism, religious radicalism, The second part of the course focuses on ecological thought, and critiques of revolutions, examining the forms they alienation in everyday life. Particular assume and the conditions under which they attention is paid to the relationship between develop and prove successful. Examples political and cultural criticism, and to the discussed include the civil rights, women's philosophical anthropologies underlying and environmental movements; the French, different theories as well as the mechanisms Russian, and Iranian revolutions; the for social change they envisage. We also collapse of communism; and the "color ask if liberal democratic thought can revolutions," the Arab Spring, and other effectively respond to radical challenges. waves of revolution in the contemporary Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W world.

Sexuality/Gender, U.S. Law and Politics Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM M W POL 342 Professor: Wuest, Joanna The Political Economy of the United States Description: This course explores questions POL 335 of sexuality, gender, and gender identity in Professor: Nolan McCarty U.S. politics and the law from the late- nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Some Description: This course explores the of the topics that we will cover include: anti- interaction of political and economic discrimination policies, same-sex marriage, outcomes in the United States. The course free speech and religious rights, sex/gender presents several theories and models that ID markers, sex offender registries, the help to integrate political and economic administrative regulation of sex, and the analysis. The topics covered include special relationships among race, gender, and interest and corporate influence, the role of sexuality. In examining how sexuality and money in politics, and the political impact of gender are categorized and contested in the inequality and the Financial Crisis. A special law, we will pay close attention to the emphasis will be placed on how political changing political historical context in and economic factors shape key policy which these developments occur. outcomes in areas such as social welfare, antitrust, international trade, and Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W immigration.

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The Politics of Development Memory and Cognition POL 351 PSY 306 Professor: Kohli, Atul Professor: Norman, Kenneth Andrew Description: This course is an integrative Description: This course will focus on the treatment of memory in humans and state's role in promoting economic growth animals. We explore working memory (our and distribution in the developing world. ability to actively maintain thoughts in the The core organizing question for the course face of distraction), episodic memory (our is: why have some regions of the developing ability to remember previously experienced world been more successful at events), and semantic memory (our ability to industrialization and/or poverty alleviation learn and remember the meanings of than other regions. The students will learn stimuli). In studying how the brain gives rise about the patterns of development in Asia, to different kinds of memory, we consider Africa and Latin America, with special evidence from behavioral experiments, attention to such countries as China, India, neuroscientific experiments (neuroimaging, South Korea, Nigeria and Brazil. General electrophysiology, and lesion studies), and challenges that face all developing countries computational models. - globalization, establishing democracy and ethnic fragmentation - will also be analyzed. Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W Neuroeconomics PSY 340 PSYCHOLOGY Professor: Daw, Nathaniel Douglass

Health Psychology Description: Decision-making is ubiquitous PSY 317 to everyday life and crucial to survival. Professor: Avena, Nicole M. Good choice is subject to evolutionary selection; poor choice accompanies many Description: The objectives of this course neurological and psychiatric disorders. But are to understand the bio-psycho-social theoretical understanding of a function is processes that influence health-related needed to manipulate and measure it behaviors, health and wellness, and health- experimentally. Recently, this has led care delivery. Topics to be examined are the scientists studying choice to seek insights psycho-physiological and socio-cultural from economics. This course explores how bases of health and illness; pain; adaptation humans and animals make decisions, to chronic illness; stress; personality and focusing on how psychological and neural illness; death, dying, and grief; substance mechanisms implement, or fail to use; obesity and nutrition; health promoting implement, economic theories of choice. We behaviors; patient adherence; physician- consider choice in many sorts of tasks; eg, in patient communication; and health care animal foraging and human competitive utilization. interactions.

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH mechanisms. The aim of the course is to expose students to most up-to-date Psychopathology knowledge that will allow understanding of PSY 207 how this unique information is processed Professor: Spokas, Megan Elizabeth and integrated in the brain and what happens when face perception is impaired. Moreover, Description: Survey of different types of cognitive and neural models will be abnormal behaviors and different models of discussed in light of recent computational explanation. Students will come to advancements, which enable state-of the-art, understand the conflicting viewpoints and human-like face recognition. treatment approaches that characterize the clinical field, and will understand what is Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W presently known and not known about abnormal functioning. RELIGION

Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W "Cult" Controversies in America REL 271 Social Psychology Professor: Weisenfeld,Judith PSY 252 Professor: Tamir, Diana I. Description: In this course we examine a variety of new religious movements that Description: The scientific study of social tested the boundaries of acceptable religion behavior, with an emphasis on social at various moments in American history. We interaction and group influence. Topics pay particular attention to government and covered will include social perception, the media constructions of the religious formation of attitudes and prejudice, mainstream and margin, to the politics of attraction, conformity and obedience, labels such as "cult" and "sect," to race, altruism and aggression, and group gender, and sexuality within new religions, dynamics. and to the role of American law in constructing categories and shaping Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W religious expressions. We also consider what draws people to new religions and examine The Psychological and Neural Basis of the distinctive beliefs, practices, and social Face Perception organizations of groups labeled by outsiders PSY 350 as "cults." Professor: Avidan, Galia Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W Description: Face perception is one of the most important visual skills humans have. Holy War, Martyrdom and Sacrifice Given their distinctive evolutionary and REL 235 social significance, faces have long been Professor: Marmon, Shaun Elizabeth considered a special object category, which relies on unique cognitive and neural

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Description: How were just war, holy war, tradition, Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274). and martyrdom imagined and enacted over Based on his most systematic work, the the centuries in Islamic societies? How do Summa Theologiae as the main source, the concepts of the afterlife inform attitudes course will cover some of the central themes towards war and martyrdom? We begin in of his theology, mainly through readings of the Late Antique world with a survey of the primary source itself, and some noble death, martyrdom, holy war, and just secondary readings. Thomas Aquinas has in war, in the Roman, Jewish and Christian recent decades become a source common to traditions. We explore these topics in the most of the mainstream Christian Islamic tradition through case studies: the theological traditions. Aquinas is an Arab conquests, the Crusades, Spain and the essential resource for any who simply want Reconquista, the Iran-Iraq war and to study a dominating intellectual force contemporary jihadist movements. We use within the wider cultures of the Western primary sources in translation (including middle ages. fiction and poetry) and, for modern period, films and internet. Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM T TH

Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES The Religions of China REL 226 Literature and Medicine Professor: Teiser, Stephen F. SLA 368 Professor: Fratto, Elena Description: A thematic introduction to Chinese religion, ranging from ancient to Description: This course will examine contemporary. The first half focuses on themes that are paramount in our lives as classics of Chinese thought (Book of individuals, communities, and societies' Changes, Analects of Confucius, Daoist illness and healing, caregiving, epidemics, classics, etc.). The second half utilizes the distinction between normal and journalism, ethnography, and history to pathological. Our reflections on ethics will consider topics such as contemporary China, feature stories and storytelling as an entry state control of religion, cosmology, gods point. Why do doctors and patients need and saints, divination, gender, and ritual. stories? How does storytelling illuminate medicine as a system of representation? Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W What rhetorical devices are embedded in the way we conceive of sickness, well-being, The Theology of Thomas Aquinas and the medical institutions? We will REL 293 address these questions and will explore the Professor: Turner, Denys Alan overlaps between medicine and storytelling within texts from all over the world. Description: The course is to serve as an Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W introduction to the theology of one of the greatest minds in the Western Christian

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The Great Russian Novel and Beyond coverage. This course also covers material SLA 220 from the MCAT sociology and social Professor: Chances, Ellen Bell epidemiology sections. Description: An examination of significant Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W trends in Russian literature from the 2nd half of the 19th century to the Russian Money, Work, and Social Life Revolution and a bit beyond. The course SOC 345 focuses on many masterpieces of 19th & Professor: Goldstein, Adam Michael 20th-century Russian literature. The works (mostly novels) are considered from a Description: This course examines stylistic point of view and in the context of economic phenomena from a sociological Russian historical and cultural perspective. We first consider conceptual developments. The course also focuses on tools that sociologists have used to questions of values and on the eternal "big understand economic life and connections questions" of life that are raised in the between economy and society. We then literature. Authors read include Turgenev, apply these concepts to a rich array of topics Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, including labor markets, worklife, firms, Nabokov, and Kharms. commodification and consumption, credit and finance, social stratification and Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W inequality, and contemporary transformations of capitalism SOCIOLOGY Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W Inequality, Health and Health Care System Technology and Society SOC 217 SOC 277 Professor: Hendi, Arun Professor: Reinecke, David

Description: Do corporations make us Description: Technology and society are unhealthy? Can you buy a longer life? Do unthinkable without each other, each immigrants worsen health in the countries provides the means and framework in which they move to? Will healthcare reform reduce the other develops. To explore this dynamic, inequality? Does where you live make you this course investigates a wide array of sick? Does your race determine the quality questions on the interaction between of care you receive? Is inequality bad for our technology, society, politics, and economics, health? emphasizing the themes such as innovation and regulation, risk and failure, ethics and This course examines the causes of health expertise. Specific topics covered include inequalities. Students will learn about nuclear power and disasters, green energy, theories and measures of health inequality the development and regulation of the and engage with debates over contemporary Internet, medical expertise and controversy, health inequalities like the Flint water crisis, intellectual property, the financial crisis, and the opioid epidemic, and universal health the electric power grid.

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W conclusions using sound statistical reasoning; and produce scientific reports. No The Sociology of the Internet prior knowledge of programming or SOC 215 statistics is required. Professor: Vertesi, Janet Amelia Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH Description: You're likely reading this course description online. Next, you'll check Pedagogy of Data Science your Gmail account, scroll through SML 480 Instagram, and send a few messages over Professor: Guerzhoy, Michael WhatsApp. The internet permeates our jobs, friendships, finances, politics, family ties Description: In this seminar, we will and intimate relationships today. How do explore the pedagogy of introductory data sociologists analyze activity online, and science. Students in the seminar will be determine the internet's role in society? required to work as undergraduate course We'll develop a toolkit for studying social assistants in SML 201 -- Introduction to worlds online, ask which aspects of society Data Science. SML 201 topics will be have truly changed because of the internet, discussed in more depth in the seminar, with and return to basic sociological concepts as a view of teaching the basic material. We they play out on the web, as we ask and will discuss literature in the pedagogy of answer meaningful questions about the computer science and statistics. sociology of the internet. Discussion topics will include teaching Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH programming using the functional programming paradigm, the design of the STATISTICS & MACHINE LEARNING dplyr package, simulation-based inference, teaching statistics using simulation-based Introduction to Data Science inference, the grammar of graphics, and SML 201 causal inference. Professor: Guerzhoy, Michael Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W F Description: Introduction to Data Science provides a practical introduction to the PROGRAM IN URBAN STUDIES burgeoning field of data science. The course introduces students to the essential tools for Introduction to Urban Studies conducting data-driven research, including URB 201 the fundamentals of programming Professor: Boyer, M. Christine techniques and the essentials of statistics. Students will work with real-world datasets Description: This course will examine from various domains; write computer code different crises confronting cities in the 21st to manipulate, explore, and analyze data; use century. Topics will range from informal basic techniques from statistics and machine settlements, to immigration, terrorism, learning to analyze data; learn to draw shrinking population, sprawl, rising seas,

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WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH

Grand Strategy Law, Institutions and Public Policy WWS 315 WWS 333 Professors: Friedberg, Aaron Louis Professor: Starr, Paul Elliot Ikenberry, G. John Description: This course will examine how Description: Grand strategy is the broad and institutions develop, vary in design, and encompassing policies and undertakings that shape public policy. Law will be a primary political leaders pursue-financial, economic, focus because it is central to the military, diplomatic-to achieve their development of institutions in modern objectives in peacetime and in war. This societies and provides the formal means for course will examine the theory and practice expressing and fixing policy. The course of grand strategy both to illuminate how will cover a wide range on institutions- relations among city-states, empires, social, economic, and political - not only in kingdoms and nation states have evolved an American context but also in comparative over the centuries and also to identify some perspective. common challenges that have confronted all who seek to make and execute grand Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W strategy from Pericles to Barack Obama. Microeconomics for Public Policy Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W WWS 300 Professor: Fleurbaey, Marc International Trade WWS 301 Description: Microeconomics is the study Professor: Weyerbrock, Silvia of how the economy works as a result of myriad decisions by individual agents Description: This course analyzes the (households, firms), in interaction among causes and consequences of international themselves and with public authorities. This trade and foreign direct investment. We course, taught at the intermediate level, investigate why nations trade, what they starts from public policy issues (the design trade, and who gains and who loses from of well-being indicators, tax rules, health trade. We then focus on economic and care policy, education, competition political motives for countries to restrict or regulation, environment protection) and regulate international trade and study the introduces the concepts with which

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economists analyze the success and failures producing biases and errors. Among other of the market economy, the reasons for topics, we will consider political, medical, public intervention and the effects of policy. and financial decision-making, poverty, Students must have a working knowledge of negotiations, and the law, along with the single-variable calculus. implications of the findings for the rational agent model typically assumed in Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH economics, throughout the social sciences, and in policy making. Population, Society and Public Policy WWS 330 Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W Professor: Hendi, Arun The Environment: Science and Policy Description: Are large populations a gift or WWS 350 a curse? Can humans live forever? Is Professor: Oppenheimer, Michael, Wilcove, marriage obsolete? How many people can David S. planet earth support sustainably? Why does China have more boys than girls? Why is Description: This course examines the ways US life expectancy so low? Is it possible for domestic US and international the US to seal its borders? Will population environmental regulatory frameworks adopt, aging destroy the economy? Why is fertility interpret and otherwise accommodate so low in Korea? Why do countries with scientific information. The course focuses youthful populations experience so much on several case studies, that provide insights social unrest? Can immigration solve into the science-policy interactions which population aging in Europe? Is demography emerge from managing natural resources destiny? Students will learn basic and environmental risk. Topics include air demographic concepts and engage pollution; climate change; ozone depletion; longstanding debates about whether managing the world's forests, fisheries, and population growth promotes or undermines ecosystem services, and global trade in development. wildlife. Students will explore the science underlying these issues as well as current Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W policies and the range of future policy responses. Psychology of Decision Making/Judgment WWS 340 Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH Professor: Shafir, Eldar

Description: An introduction to the main issues and research findings underlying decision-making and judgment under uncertainty. The focus is on the contrast between the normative theory of judgment and choice, and the psychological principles that guide decision behavior, often

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