Courses

A survey of group, ring, and field theory. Topics include algebraic structures on the integers, the real numbers, and the complex numbers; modular arithmetic; the Euclidean Algorithm; group and ring homomorphisms and isomorphisms; and field extensions with applications to constructions.

Western art from the late eighteenth century to the present, with attention to the dramatic social, technological, and intellectual changes of modern life that set its painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms apart from earlier, pre- industrial times. Artists covered range from the Romantics to the Impressionists to van Gogh and Picasso.

Major works of modern Asian literature from China, Japan, and Korea in translation.

Introduction to major works of modern Chinese literature translated into English.

Prose and especially poetry from the period of the Greek Enlightenment and of Romanticism, with attention to the social, cultural, and political changes that affected that literature. Topics to be discussed will include the theories of Korais, Classic as opposed to Romantic, the influence of folk poetry, and the rise of the Greek novel. Readings from the works of Solomos and the Heptanesian poets, Vikelas's Loukis Laras, and Makriyannis's Memoirs.

A study of the major writers of the period, with emphasis on the poetry of Palamas, Cavafy, and Sikelianos and regionalist prose writers such as Papadiamantis and Karkavitsas. Discussion of European literary movements such as Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism and their manifestations in Greece.

A study of the principal modern writers with selected readings from among the following: Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos, Kazantzakis, Venezis and the "generation of the '30s," and contemporary novelists. Discussion of the European and Greek settings that gave rise to Symbolism, Modernism, Surrealism, and ideological literature.

Introduction to major works of modern Japanese literature translated into English, from the late 19th century to present.

State-of-the-art survey of molecular imaging techniques that are available and their use to monitor the progression of various human diseases.

State-of-the-art survey of molecular imaging techniques that are available and their use to monitor the progression of various human diseases.