Courses

Topics about the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology. May not be taken by students who have completed ASTR 2313 and does not count toward a major in physics.

A capstone course with continued emphasis on methods introduced in Aramaic 350, including the principles of Talmudic argumentation and philological skills. The course will bring material together from a variety of rabbinic and pre-Rabbinic sources (Hebrew Bible, Tannaitic words, the Talmuds, midrashic collections). Students will also be introduced to basic comparative methods.

This course introduces students to a selected study of pre-advanced Greek or Hebrew, textual criticism, or other Biblical languages (Aramaic, etc.) The topics covered will be selected by the instructor.

Directed studies in biochemistry. BCHE 7210 or equivalent. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours. Biology - BIOL Courses

Topics will be announced. Course may be repeated provided the topic is different. 190 / 1272 Queens College

An introduction to Brazilian history, from first contact to the present. 802 / 1272 Queens College

An intermediate-level course on Brazilian history from the 16th to the 21st centuries, with an emphasis on both the country's history and how that history has been reserved and analyzed.

Students and faculty participate in a supervised reading of current literature and meet once a week to interact in a discussion of the selected article. The goal of this course is to maintain the student's level of information at a "state of the art" in both methods and theory in the discipline and to develop critical skills in reviewing the literature.

An upper level Ceramics course treating a special subject or theme as announced. This course may be repeated when the topic varies for a maximum of 6 credit hours.

Advanced laboratory research in one of the departmental research groups. The student works on an independent or group research project. Completion of the course requires an appropriate written and oral report.