Courses

A study of the history and cultures of Native American peoples, hemispheric in scope and interdisciplinary in method. The particular focus of the course will vary from semester to semester, but may include such topics as language, literature, art, religion, and social organization. The course may be repeated for credit if the subject matter is different.

See Department for description.

The written representation of marginalized groups--who often constitute majority populations--in Latin American literature. The course begins with the period of conquest and colonization and continues through present times. Readings include fiction and non-fiction: chronicles, novels, short stories, and testimonial narratives.

A course dealing with natural hazards and the devastation they cause. The hazards include floods, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, landslides, and asteroid impacts.

A course dealing with natural hazards and the devastation they cause. The hazards include floods, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, landslides, and asteroid impacts.

A course dealing with natural hazards and the devastation they cause. The hazards include floods, volcanic explosions, earthquakes, landslides, and asteroid impacts.

Language models, part-of-speech tagging, syntactic parsing, machine translation, supervised learning, naïve bayes, logistic regression, word embeddings, neural networks. Programming projects.

World distribution, production, and requirements for mineral and energyresources. Use, abuse, conservation, and pollution of resources.

Analysis of the structural and functional properties of neighborhoods and their relation to the larger city and to urban problems.

Examination of the structure and function of the nervous system of both invertebrates and vertebrates. Emphases will be placed on cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neural activity.