Courses

Discusses current issues such as ozone depletion, global warming, and air quality for graduate students in nonscientific fields. Provides the scientific background necessary to understand, follow scientific developments, and critically evaluate these issues. Same as ATOC 5000. Credit not granted for this course and ATOC 4800.

Current topics in planetary science, based on recent discoveries, spacecraft observations, or other developments. Focuses on a specific topic each time it is offered, such as Mars, Venus, Galilean satellites, exobiology, comets, or extrasolar planets. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours, provided the topics vary. Prereq., graduate standing in physical sciences or instructor consent. Same as ATOC/ASTR 5830.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Taught in English. Same as COML 5830.

Promotes understanding of the rhetorical goals, structure, design, and language for effective scientific texts, emphasizing research reports and grant proposals. Supports students in executing advanced cognitive processes in planning, drafting, and revising. Involves instructor-guided procedural facilitation and peer-review workshops based on students' current writing projects in courses and laboratory research. Prereq., basic proficiency in English. Restricted to graduate students.

Examines central issues in Japanese culture and society since the Meiji Restoration (1868) through selected readings of the works of major writers in the fields of literature, anthropology, feminism, political science, and religion, among others. Provides a broad context for cultural studies inmodern and contemporary Japan by positioning the most important commentators within their historicaland social situations. May be taken for credit twice.

Same as GEOG 4832.

Explores the field of natural language processing as it is concerned with the theoretical and practical issues that arise in getting computers to perform useful and interesting tasks with natural language. Covers the problems of understanding complex language phenomena and building practical programs. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Same as CSCI 5832.

May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours to meet candidacy requirements. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent; Senior Level undergraduate physics. Same as ATOC/GEOL 5835. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies current research on a topic in planetary science. Subjects may vary each semester. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours to meet candidacy requirements. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Same as ASTR 5835 and GEOL 5835. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies current research on a topic in planetary science. Students and faculty give presentations. Subjects may vary each semester. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours to meet candidacy requirements. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Same as ATOC 5835 and ASTR 5835. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides beginning Ph.D. students with a basic introduction to research on complex human cognition. This is one of the six Cognitive Psychology Proseminar modules that all students in the Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program are required to take. The seminar will include consideration of theoretical, behavioral, and cognitive neuroscience perspectives. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Directed individual research based on a specific area of specialization. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

No Greek or Latin required. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Instructor consent required. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Focuses on the cycling of elements at the global scale with a particular emphasis on human modification of biogeochemical cycles. Major biogeochemical cycles, their past dynamics, present changes, and potential future scenarios will be addressed. Ecosystem to global-scale model of the earth system will be discussed, along with global-scale measurements of element fluxes from satellites, aircraft, and measurement networks. Prereq., general chemistry, some organic chemistry. Same as GEOL 5305. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Offers independent research for master's students only. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Numbered GEOL 5840 through GEOL 5851. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Restricted to Integrative Physiology graduate students only. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Integrative Physiology (IPHY) graduate students only.

May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Subject matter to be arranged. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.

May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Independent study. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereqs., graduate standing and instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.