Courses

A study of the failure of classical mechanics to describe experiments like Black Body Radiation, the Photoelectric Effect, the Michelson-Morley experiment and others which led physics into the worlds of special relativity and wave mechanics. Topics in wave mechanics include the Bohr Theory and its extension into the Schrodinger Equation with applications.

A critical reading of the major works which form the basis for political thinking in modern times. Authors include such thinkers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, and Nietzsche, exploring issues like freedom, family, community, order, and the modern state.

A survey of the contemporary practice of shamanism as a cross-cultural system of divination, healing, and prophecy, foundational to the practice of religion and healing in most cultures (including state societies).

A study of nineteenth and twentieth-century novels, including Balera, Galdos, Unanmuno, Valle-Inclan, Azorin. Also includes post-war and contemporary novels by Cela, Laforet, Matute, Boyisolo, Delibes, C. Rojas, Mayoral, Rosa Montero, Munoz Molina, Luis Landero.

A study of major poems, poets, and trends in poetics in Spain between the nineteenth century and the present. Students read poems by canonical and lesser-known poets, examining a diverse array of writers. Students read poems in relation to their historical, cultural, and aesthetic contexts and connect poetry to other art forms such as painting and music.

This is an introductory molecular biology course. It includes introduction to cells and cell research with a molecular biology approach. It will include chapters in fundamental molecular biology and flow of genetic information.

This course examines the use of molecular genetic data to the understanding of ecological and evolutionary processes in the natural populations such as genetic diversity, dispersal, gene flow and phylogeography. This course will also examine how molecular genetic data is utilized to study behavioral mechanism such as mate selection and foraging. Application of molecular ecology principles to conversation will also be explored.

An introductory study of the types and functions of money and financial intermediaries, money creation and control, monetary and fiscal policy, international finance, and the effects of these upon domestic incomes, employment, prices, and interest rates.

The course emphasizes the relevance of monetary instruments, financial intermediaries, and the central banks as they impact local, state, national, and international economics. Topics include the history and evolution of financial institutions, monetary instruments and flow; and central banking, operations, and policies.

Explores the cross-cultural structure and psychological dimensions of the moral self and its evolving relationship with the interdependent social world.