Courses

Trains students to prepare classroom-ready materials, which are then tested in the students' own classroom. Required of master's candidates (teaching of Latin option). Prereq., fulfillment of the remaining requirements for MA (teaching of Latin) or 27 hours of graduate work in classics. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Involves linear and nonlinear analyses of small-scale waves and instabilities in stratified fluids, with effects of rotation. Studies internal gravity and acoustic waves with terrestrial, planetary, and astrophysical applications. Also studies thermal and double-diffusive convection, homogeneous and stratified shear flow instabilities. Examines these topics from the onset of small amplitude disturbances to their nonlinear development and equilibration. Prereq., ASTR 5400 or ATOC 5060. Same as ATOC 5410. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Nonlinear waves and instabilities; wave-mean and wave-wave interactions, resonant triads; secondary instability and transition to turbulence; diagnosis, modeling, and parameterization of turbulent flows in geophysics and astrophysics. Prereq., ASTR 5120, ATOC 5060, or 5400. Same as ASTR 5410.

Studies works of early medieval (ca. 200-600 AD) and/or late medieval (600-900) prose that played important role in development of Chinese literature. Writers and topics vary, ranging from surveys of specific genre, literary essays, proto-fiction, or historical writings, to focused studies of major figures Liu Zhiji, Han Yu, or Liu Zongyuan. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., CHIN 4220 or instructor consent required.

Review of theories and practices of literary translation in their linguistic, historical, cultural, and other contexts. Translation of literary and other works from chosen foreign languages, commentaries, and analyses. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as EBIO 4410.

Focuses on major issues, events, movements, and figures prior to World War II. Topics may include the ontology of lyric poetry; Berlin in the 1920s; exiles, their communities, and their writings; women writers from Andreas-Salome to Anna Seghers; topics in German film; and others. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours when topic varies. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Focuses on selected prose works and authors from the medieval, or Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185-1600). Texts may include selections from a variety of war tales, histories, courtly fiction, diaries, memoirs, short prose narratives (otogi-zoshi), Noh plays, and Buddhist literature such as Heike Monogatari, Towazugatari, Izayoi Nikki, Tsurezuregusa, and Shasekishu. Texts and selections vary from year to year. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., two semesters of classical Japanese language. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies sound systems of language. Introduces both principles of organization of sound systems and major kinds of phonological structures found worldwide. Provides extensive practice in applying phonological principles to data analysis. Prereq., LING 5030 or instructor consent.

Treats topics within Spanish syntax, each requiring a semester's study, as needs and resources dictate. Gives special attention to different schools and contemporary theoretical developments. Representative topics may include generative/transformational grammar applied to Spanish, fundamental problems in Spanish syntax, and different schools of Spanish syntax. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing in Spanish or departmental consent. Same as SPAN 7410.

Lect. Introduces thermodynamics and kinetics, emphasizing macromolecules and biochemical applications. Intended for biology graduate students. Not open to students in chemistry or other physical sciences. Prereqs., three semesters of calculus, one year of physics, and instructor consent or graduate standing. Same as CHEM 4411. Credit not granted for this course and CHEM 4411 or CHEM 4511. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Taught with ARTS 3413/4413. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as ANTH 4420.

Studies works of early medieval (ca. 200-600 AD) poetry . Writers and topics vary ranging from surveys of specific genre, shi or fu, or shared subject such as religious or commenmorative verse, or specific periods, to focused studies of particular major figures Cao Zhi, Tao Qian, Li Bo, or Du Fu. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Prereq., CHIN 4220 or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Reading course examining communicative problems, practices, and outcomes in groups. Definitions of group and interaction, meta-theoretical and theoretical orientations, methodological practices for studying group interactions, including boundary development and management, interpersonal symbolic practices, deliberation, dialogue, and decision making are examined. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

A survey of principal works and movements, intended as an introductory course. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

In-depth survey of standard and experimental dating methods that provide absolute ages for events of the last two million years of Earth history. Includes theory and application of radiocarbon, uranium series, amino acid, thermo-luminescence, fission track, potassium/argon, hydration, light stable isotopes, and other radioactive techniques. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Analyzes major currents and events such as the Holocaust, coming to terms with the past (Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung), German Democratic Republic (GDR) literature, and responses to the reunification. Topics may include the Austrians from Anschluss to Haider; Paul Celan; East German writers between Wolf Biermann and Christa Wolf; topics in German film; and others. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours when topic varies. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Studies selected works from the Japanese literary tradition in which Buddhism plays a significant thematic role. Focuses on texts such as the Nihon Ryoiki, Buddhist poetry (Shakkyo-Ka) from the imperial poetry anthologies, Heike Monogatari, Hojoki, thepoetry of Saigyo and Basho, and selected Noh plays. Texts and selections vary from year to year. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., two semesters of classical Japanese language.

Introduces principles of word formation and sentence structure. Covers major morphological and syntactic structures found in the world's languages, and methods for describing grammatical structures, and includes practice in analyzing data from a variety of languages. Same as LING 4420. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Treats topics within the history of the Spanish language, as needs and resources dictate. Concerned with linguistic evolution of Spanish from neo-Latinto its present status as a world language; considers important historic, linguistic, literary, and cultural currents. Representative topics might include a diachronic study of Spanish linguistic forms, the extension of Spanish to the New World, and linguistic and literary texts in Old Spanish. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing in Span or Departmental Consent. Same as SPAN 7420.20.

Explores major fictional and dramatic texts of great Russian writer Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-52) -- "The strangest prose-poet Russia ever produced" (Nabokov). Works will be analyzed in the context of Western and Russian Romanticism. Relevant nonfiction texts will also be introduced when appropriate. Class will be run largely as group discussion, with necessary historical and critical background provided. Taught in English. Recommended prereq., RUSS 4811.

Examines the origins of World War I; the military, social, and cultural character of the conflict; and its enduring impact in the post-1918 world. By thinking about the war as both a military undertaking and an experience that affected domestic and global politics, the course will explore why World War I constituted an event of major importance to Europe and the twentieth-century world. Prereq., HIST 1020 or 1040. HIST 4422 is restricted to sophomores/juniors/seniors. HIST 4422 and 5422 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines research issues relevant to the field of clinical psychology and mental health for the purpose of developing familiarity with substantive and methodological problems facing the field. Prereq., instructor consent.