Courses

This course will focus on the varied neuroimaging methodologies used by our Educational Neuroscience faculty. Faculty will present a different methodology in each iteration of the course. These methodologies include EEG, NIRS, Eye-tracking, and MRI. Please contact the department for information on semester-specific course offerings. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade in this course.

In this special topics course, students will develop a deeper understanding of how educational neuroscience research can inform science instruction and learning. Writing proficiency is required for a passing grade. A student who does not write with the skill normally required for an upper-division student will not earn a passing grade, no matter how well the student performs in other areas of the course.

Readings, discussion, and analysis of major works of the Age of Enlightenment. Authors studied may include Montesquieu, Marivaux, Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, and Laclos. May be repeated once for credit provided the topic is different.

Study and application of ethnomusicological theory, method, and literature in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. May be taken four times for credit.

This course covers a range of special topics in European History. Typically taught as a combination of lecture and discussion, with emphasis on primary sources, its topics cover major themes in medieval, early-modern, and modern European civilization. These include, among others, the origins of medieval and early modern Europe, national and cultural identity, revolution, gender, sexuality, consumerism, daily life, war, transnational exchange, and the environment.

This course covers a range of special topics in European history at the advanced undergraduate level. Normally taught as a relatively small course (enrollment of c. 25), it will emphasize close reading of primary sources, class discussion, and research and writing, including an series of extensive formal writing projects (usually a research paper of c. 10-15 pages). Topics will vary by instructor but will include major themes in medieval, early-modern, and modern European civilization.

This course provides on-site directed investigations of geology in locations remote from campus.

Elementary combinatorial analysis, probability, vectors and matrices, game theory, linear programming, and model building in the social and physical sciences. MS 5149 Selected Topics in Mathematics for the Secondary Teacher (3) Prerequisite(s): See Prerequisites for All Graduate Mathematics Courses. Selected topics suitable for the secondary teacher; problem solving; secondary school mathematics from an advanced standpoint.

Reading, analysis and discussion of major works from French-speaking West Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Quebec. Authors studied may include Senghor, Cesaire, Damas, Fanon, Ben Jelloun, Djebar, Kourouma, Sembene, Hebert, Chamoiseau.

Literary works, other than novels, written since 1900. The course may treat theatre, poetry, or a combination of the two. Authors studied may include Apollinaire, Ponge, Char, Cocteau, Genet, Beckett, and Ionesco. May be repeated once for credit provided the topic is different.