Courses

The culmination of Renaissance ideals in the art and architecture of Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, and Palladio, and the conflicting responses of later artists to the spiritual and aesthetic upheavals of the Reformation and Counter- Reformation. Religious and secular art, palaces and villas, and theaters exemplify changes in politics, patronage, and the role and status of artists.

Further development of the reporting and writing skills introduced in Introduction To News Reporting, including deadline writing, field reporting, interviewing, and document research. The course will focus on strengthening narrative writing techniques, both in hard news stories and longer feature pieces

Comparison of photography and other visual arts to fiction, poetry, essay, and other forms of writing in order to raise questions about how stories are told by the visual arts and by literature, and how believability is established by these different arts. The course considers what readers and viewers expect from these different art forms and how, at times, visual and verbal arts are linked together in support of one another and, at others, kept separate or even in opposition.

Students will explore the current literature in their fields while developing skills in the preparation of abstracts, technical publications, conference presentations, and curriculum vitae. Ethical issues in scientific research will be addressed through case studies and examination of relevant technical and popular literature. This course is appropriate for students in the sciences and the social sciences, but may not be used as an elective in the physics major.

This course shows students how anthropologists go about answering the questions they ask. We look at how research is designed, how data are collected and analyzed, and how empirical results are presented. Students will learn the fundamentals of sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, and techniques for displaying relationships graphically.

The goal of this class is to develop professional research techniques in Linguistics. The course provides students with an opportunity to carry out a research project on a topic of their choosing, which will culminate in a final presentation and a final project. Class will meet weekly in a seminar format.

The student works on a research problem under the supervision of a member of the physical education faculty.

The relationship between sociological theory and data through analysis of important social phenomena and the understanding and communication of scientific findings about such phenomena. Not open to students who have taken SOC 212W.

Required of honors students. The purpose of this course is to teach students some research methods in economics, including data sources, presentation and interpretation of data, organization writing, editorial revision, and oral presentation of brief research memos, a major research paper, use of literature searches, government documents, and computers to access data banks, and introduction to computer-based modeling.

Required of honors students. The purpose of this course is to teach students some research methods in economics, including data sources, presentation and interpretation of data, organization writing, editorial revision, and oral presentation of brief research memos, a major research paper, use of literature searches, government documents, and computers to access data banks, and introduction to computer-based modeling.