Courses

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate fiction and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Admission to graduate creative writing students or by instructor's approval of an application manuscript. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to English and English Lit- Creative Writing graduate students only.

Same as ANTH 4240. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers special areas of ethology such as sociobiology, animal communication, cognitive ethology, human ethology, moral and ethical issues. Prereq., EBIO 3240.

Philosophical examination of several different approaches to environmental problems: economic, juridical, political, and ecological. Discusses specific environmental problems, focusing on theirmoral dimensions, e.g., wilderness preservation, animal rights, and land use and urban planning. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

Presents recent research topics that vary from year to year. Consult the online Schedule Planner for specific topics. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies development of structural models appropriate to behavioral genetics and the estimation procedures necessary for their application. Instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Addresses the nature, assessment, and treatment of developmental language disorders in school age children. Prereqs., graduate standing and undergraduate background in SLHS. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as ARTS 4246. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores the social, cultural, and legal history of Anglo-American criminal justice from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Also examines tensions between various methods that historians employ to study crime and law.

Through close readings of masterpieces of French medieval and Renaissance literature in conjunction with contemporary criticism and theory, explores the contexts of medieval and Renaissance France. Readings in French. May be taught in English to accommodate students in other programs. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours on different topics. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Instructor consent required.

Quantum phenomena, Ehrenfest theorem and relation to classical physics, applications to one-dimensional problems, operator techniques, angular momentum and its representations, bound states and hydrogen atom, and Stern-Gerlack experiment and spin and spinor wave function. Prereqs., PHYS 3220 and 4410. Coreq., PHYS 5210. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as RLST 4250. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Lec. Understanding of materials from chemistry perspective including metals, oxides, semiconductors and polymers. Basic description of chemical preparation of materials. Overview of fundamental properties of materials including structural, chemical, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties. Description of behavior of materials and various applications in modern technology. Discussion of materials characterization methods. Prereqs., CHEM 3331 or 3371, and CHEM 4431, 4521, or 4531 (min. grade C-) or instructor consent. CHEM 4251 and 5251 are the same course.

Restricted to graduate students. Same as GEOG 4251.

Introduces the neural bases and medical etiologies of acquired language disorders in adults, explores the ways in which normal language processing may become disordered, and studies current methods of evaluation and treatment design. Prereqs., graduate standingand undergraduate SLHS background. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

Designed to give students time and impetus to generate nonfiction and discussion of it in an atmosphere at once supportive and critically serious. Admission to graduate creative writing students or by instructor's approval of an application manuscript. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to English and English Lit- Creative Writing graduate students only.

Same as PHIL 4260. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Symmetries and conservation laws, identical particle systems, approximation techniques (including time-dependent and time-independent perturbation theories and variational techniques) and their applications, scattering theory, radiative transitions, and helium atom. Prereq., PHYS 5250.

Examines in depth central themes, schools of thought, and movements in Judaism across a range of historical periods. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours as topics change. Recommended prereqs., 6 hours of RLST courses at any level including RLST/JWST 3100, RLST/JWST 2600, HIST/JWST 1108 or HEBR/JWST 2350 or instructor consent. RLST 4260, JWST 4260, and 5260 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Overview of the preparation and functioning mechanism of novel organic materials that have recently been developed, including conductive polymers, 2-D macrocyclic structures, 3-D molecular cages, molecular machines/muscles/switches, fullerene derivatives and carbon nanotube composites. This course will emphasize the use of organic and physical chemistry as tools to develop novel materials and probe their structure-property relationship. Prereqs., CHEM 3331 or 3371, and CHEM 4431, 4521, or 4531 (min. grade C-) or instructor consent. CHEM 4261 and 5261 are the same course.

Same as DNCE 4261. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers fundamentals of genome sequence and structure of genomes. Emphasis on the human genome, mechanisms of gene action, including genome structure and regulation of gene expression and bioinformatics. Utilizes genomic and molecular techniques used to examine human genetic diseases with behavioral, neurologic, and physiologic abnormalities. Recommended prereq., IPHY 5200.

Covers microscopic anatomy and function of different brain regions. Emphasizes correlation between structure and function, particularly at cellular and synaptic level. Course includes brain dissection, description of neuroanatomical and neurohistological techniques, and an introduction to the ultrastructure of neurons. Prereqs., PSYC 4052 or NRSC 4052 or MCDB 4190, and instructor consent.

Provides students with background in the anatomical, physiological, and neurological bases of swallowing function and disorders across the lifespan. Etiological factors are presented, as well as various assessment tools and principles of treatment of swallowing disorders in children and adults. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.