Courses

A sociological analysis of the development of various societies, their institutions, sources of stability and change, and major social issues. Selected areas for analysis might include individual countries, larger regions, or types of societies.

This course explores the changing position of women as a social group, focusing on the contemporary United States. The sexual division of labor in the paid labor market and in the household, the relationship of women to family change and "family crisis," the changing role of women in politics, and the changing social construction of female sexuality will be studied.

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Principles of software engineering including the software life cycle, reliability, maintenance, requirements and specifications, design, implementation and testing. Oral and written presentations of the software design. Implementation of a large programming project using currently-available software engineering tools.

The processes and behavior of soils in natural and managed environments. This course will address the physical, chemical, and biological properties and processes of soils in the context of their roles in the environment. Topics include the function of soils in supporting plant growth, maintaining environmental quality, and their role in global biogeochemical cycling.

Students will be exposed to basic ideas of the modern physics of solids. Crystal symmetry and reciprocal lattice will be covered in conjunction with experimental methods designed to study the structure of solids. Vibrational, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of solids will be considered on the basis of the quantum mechanical description.

Students learn basic techniques of songwriting. The course covers concepts of form, rhyme, rhythm, scansion, prosody, tone, metaphor, simile, conceit, and song types. Students complete a series of projects to understand the various aspects of the songwriting process.

The establishment of South Asian communities worldwide from the nineteenth century until the present as an important part of the social, political, and economic landscape of twentieth-century transnational culture. Conditions of migration, patterns of settlement, and the terms of community as they developed over a century will be studied.

The Soviet experiment from the Bolshevik coup in 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991. The course explores the circumstances leading to revolution; the revolution itself, including Leninism, the New Economic Policy, and the Civil War; the rise of Stalin and Stalinism; the Soviet experience of World War II; the development of the Soviet bloc and the Cold War; the "stagnation" years; and the collapse.

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