Courses

Focuses on complex numbers and the complex plane. Includes Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integration, Cauchy integral theory, infinite series and products, and residue theory. Prereq., MATH 4001. Undergraduates need instructor consent. . Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Traces select traditions in social and/or cultural theory, emphasizing how these traditions affect and are affected by the field of rhetoric studies. Examines the origins and resolutions of major debates in social and/or cultural theory from a rhetorical perspective. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 5320.

Focuses on conformal mapping, analytic continuation, singularities, and elementary special functions. Prereq., MATH 6350. Instructor consent required for undergraduates.

Traditional and contemporary theories of the basic categories used to describe nature and the human relationship to it, including such concepts as substance, identity, space and time, causality, determination, and systematic ontology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Topics connected with development of nature of science; structure of scientific theories; testing of hypotheses. Theory of decisions in science and ethics. Basic conceptions and models of abstraction in thehistory of science. Prerequisites: Restricted to Philosophy graduate students only.

Student, faculty, and guest presentations of current research in physical chemistry. Discussion of research topics related to the subject of weekly physical chemistry/chemical physics seminar and appropriate journal articles. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Critically examines cross-cultural experience with adjustments to natural hazards and political management of resource exploitation. Restricted to graduate students. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Acquaints students with the main types of discourse analysis: conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, and rhetorically-informed discourse approaches. Teaches how to conduct discourse analysis, including transcribing, selecting excerpts, documenting inferences, and linking to scholarly controversies. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Lect. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prereq., general background in European history.

Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Offers historical perspective on the complex and interdependent relationship between human social and cultural institutions and the natural world. Considers interdisciplinary methodologies incorporating history, biology, geography, law, and other disciplines. Same as EPOB 6410.

Educates students in one of a selected set of methodological specializations used in the study of human interaction. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Prereq., graduate standing.

Focuses on key processes in interpersonal communication relevant to understanding interaction at the dyadic, group, and organizational levels. Examines theory and research on selected interpersonal processes such as facework/identity, support/emotional communication, relational communication, and conflict in interaction. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Examines theory, method, and application of grounded practical theory, an approach to building normative theory through description, critique, and theoretical reconstruction of situated communication practices. Semester project involves analysis of a sample of discourse from a public or field observation setting. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 5210.

Explores theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Characterization and calibration of instrumentation used to measure these properties. Prereq., GEOL/GEOG 4093/5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as GEOG 6443.

Acquaints students with various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently or upon student demand, and often presented by visiting professors. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Also focuses on characterization and calibration of instrumentation to measure these properties. Restricted to graduate students. Prereqs., GEOL/GEOG 4093/5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as EBIO 6440.

Examines theory, research, and practice associated with facilitating group interaction processes (e.g.,group creation, conflict communication management, conversation and discussion, task accomplishment, and team communication), including facilitation associated with teaching an introductory group interaction course. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., COMM 5420. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces the major constructs used by formal theories of syntax to capture the relationship between meaning and syntactic form and uses data from diverse languages to explore the universality of these constructs. Restricted to graduate students.

Continuation of APPM 5470. Advanced study of the properties and solutions of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Topics include the study of Sobolev spaces and variational methods as they relate to PDEs, and other topics as time permits. Prereq., APPM 5470. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores the history, routine communicative practices, common interactional troubles, cross-cultural differences, and expectations about "Ideal" communicative conduct for workplace and public meetings. Seminar project involves field study of a meeting group. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Recommended prereq., Comm 6030.

Studies some of the main topics in the philosophy of language, such as meaning and theories of meaning, translation, speech acts, rules of language, reference, relevance of psycholinguistics, language and thought, and language and ontology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines major issues in labor history through comparative study of Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Issues to be studied include working-class formation, the development of worker identities, and workers and the state.