Courses

Explores feminist methodology across a range of disciplines. Themes include experience and interpretation, the social position of the researcher, language and argument structure, knowledge and power, bias and objectivity, and the ethics and politics of research. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Facilitates understanding of current and past theory and research on a selected topic in communication and the ability to develop new theory and research on that topic. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as EBIO 6210. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Interdisciplinary introduction to cognitive science, examining ideas from cognitive psychology, philosophy, education, and linguistics via computational modeling and psychological experimentation. Includes philosophy of mind; learning; categorization; vision and mental imagery; consciousness; problem solving; decision making, and game-theory; language processing; connectionism. Prereqs., graduate standing, or at least one course at the 3000-level or higher in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, or psychology. No background in computer science will be presumed Same as CSCI 6402, EDUC 6504, PHIL 6310, and PSYC 6200. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides an in-depth look at some particular topic in social and political philosophy, such as rights, political freedom, political obligation, or democracy. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as CSCI 6402, EDUC 6504, LING 6200, PHIL 6310. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Trains graduate students in scientific methodology and research in economics. Culminates in a research project that normally leads directly to thesis work. Prereqs., ECON 6070, 6080, 6808, and 6818. Will not be offered academic year 2007--08.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Same as EBIO 6200.

Introduces elements of general topology, algebraic topology, and differentiable manifolds. See also MATH 6220. Prereqs., MATH 3130, 3140 and 4320. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses selected topics in current climatological literature. Specific themes vary. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces elements of general topology, algebraic topology, and differentiable manifolds. See also MATH 6210. Prereq., MATH 6210. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Instructs students on fundamental concepts such as manifolds, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, Riemannian metrics, connections and curvatures, fiber bundles, complex manifolds, characteristic classes, and applications to physics. Prereqs., MATH 3130 and 4320. Undergraduates must have instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Continuation of MATH 6230. Undergraduates must have instructor consent.

Studies semi-simple Artinian rings, the Jacobson radical, group rings, representations of finite groups, central simple algebras, division rings and the Brauer group. Prereq., MATH 6130, 6140. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Focuses on differential geometric techniques in quantum field and string theories. Topics include spinors, Dirac operators, index theorem, anomalies, geometry of superspace, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and field theory, and nonperturbative aspects in field and string theories. Prereq., MATH 6230, PHYS 5250, or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., MATH 6240 and PHYS 7280. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Same as PHYS 6260.

Focuses on differential geometric techniques in quantum field and string theories. Topics include spinors, Dirac operators, index theorem, anomalies, geometry of superspace, supersymmetric quantum mechanics and field theory, and nonperturbative aspects in field and string theories. Prereq., MATH 6230, PHYS 5250, or instructor consent. Recommended prereqs., MATH 6240 and PHYS 7280. Same as MATH 6260.

Studies nilpotent and solvable groups, simple linear groups, multiply transitive groups, extensions and cohomology, representations and character theory, and the transfer and its applications. Prereq., MATH 6130. Recommended prereq., MATH 6140. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor.

Covers homotopy theory, spectral sequences, vector bundles, characteristic classes, K-theory and applications to geometry and physics. Prereq., MATH 6220 or instructor consent. Undergraduates must have approval of the instructor. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies categories and functors, abelian categories, chain complexes, derived functors, Tor and Ext, homological dimension, group homology and cohomology. If time permits, the instructor may choose to cover additional topics such as spectral sequences or Lie algebra homology and cohomology. Prereqs., MATH 6130 and 6140. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Offers interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on different special topics such as gender and war, gender and globalization, women's social movements, gender and citizenship, gender and collective memory, and cultural representations of gender and sexuality. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Discusses current issues and research in a selected area related to language use and function. Sample topics include conversational interaction, language policy, language content, and sociolinguistic variation. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies selected topics in philosophy of mind. Prerequisites: Restricted to Philosophy graduate students only.

Discussions principally concerned with recent literature in organic chemistry. Required of all organic chemistry graduate students. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.