Courses

Prereq., graduate standing.

Introduces research on globalization and democratization from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examines ongoing interdisciplinary research on the global political economy. Students learn about ongoing research, critique current efforts, and design their own research project. Prereq., graduate standing in PSCI, ECON, GEOG, or SOCY. Same as GEOG 5332, SOCY 6031, and ECON 8333.

Examines organizations of language and gender in a variety of societies and cultures from the perspectives of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and socially-oriented discourse analysis.

Explores the role of language in the social construction and articulation of sexuality.

Provides a vehicle for the development and presentation of new topics with the potential of being incorporated into the core courses in applied mathematics. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as SPAN 5400.

Discusses progress towards control of molecular reactivity using light, including synthetic methods for creating control subjects. Emphasizes new methods to achieve coherent control. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Phonetic and morphophonological representations: distinctive features, segments, prosodic structures, morphological structures. Phonological processes and their interaction. Naturalness conditions. Prereq., LING 5410 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as SPAN 5410.

Introduces students to various research approaches and methods in modern U.S. historiography and requires them to produce a substantial and original research paper using both primary and secondary sources. Prereq., graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint Phd in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project. Prereq., CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200. Recommended prereq., CSCI 7762 or EDUC 6505 or LING 7762 or PHIL 7310 or PSYC 7762. Same as PSYC 7415, CSCI 7412, PHIL 7415, and EDUC 6506. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for graduate students pursuing a joint PhD in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students should obtain commitments from two mentors for their project. Prereqs., CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200. Recommended prereqs., CSCI 7762 or EDUC 6505 or LING 7762 or PSYC 7765. Same as LING 7415, PSYC 7415, CSCI 7412, and EDUC 6506.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint PhD in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project. Prereq., CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200. Recommended prereq., CSCI 7762 or EDUC 6505 or LING 7762or PHIL 7310 or PSYC 7762. Same as LING 7415, CSCI 7412, PHIL 7415, and EDUC 6506. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers various topics in syntactic theory. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours with instructor consent. Prereq., LING 5420 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as SPAN 5420.

Chemistry of negative ions; experimental methods and designs; laser spectroscopy of ions; theoretical methods; reactive dynamics of ions in the gas phase. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces students to research skills needed to work with historical manuscripts. Students learn to read late medieval/early modern handwriting, explore CU's microfilmed collections of manuscripts, and write a research paper based on the manuscript materials. Prereq., graduate standing or instructor consent.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint Phd in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project. Prereq., LING 7415 or PSCY 7415 or CSCI 7412 or EDUC 6506. Same as PSYC 7425, CSCI 7422, PHIL 7425, and EDUC 6516. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Prereq., CSCI 6402 or EDUC 6504 or LING 6200 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 6200. Recommended prereq., CSCI 7762 or EDUC 6505 or LING 7762 or PHIL 6310 or PSYC 7762. Same as CSCI 7422, EDUC 6516, LING 7425, PSYC 7425.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project in cognitive science for advanced graduate students pursuing a joint PhD in an approved core discipline and cognitive science. Research projects integrate at least two areas within the cognitive sciences: psychology, computer science, linguistics, education, philosophy. Students need commitments from two mentors for their project. Prereq., LING 7415 or PSCY 7415 or CSCI 7412 or EDUC 6506. Same as LING 7425, CSCI 7422, PHIL 7425, and EDUC 6516. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Current developments in the theory of linguistic semantics. Topics include truth-conditional theories, generative linguistic theories, semantic theories of communicative competence, and integration of these theories in development of a combined theory of semantics and pragmatics. Prereq., LING 5430 or instructor consent.

Same as SPAN 5430.

Seminars presented on a variety of topics in theoretical chemical physics. Molecular collisions and unimolecular dynamics predominantly featured. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Stresses application to the solid state of physical concepts basic to much of modern physics, single-particle approximation, and the energy-band description of electron states in solids, pseudopotential theory applied to ordered and disordered systems, dynamical behavior of electrons in solids, lattice dynamics, Hartree-Fock and random-phase approximation in solids, many-body aspects of magnetism, and superconductivity. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Same as SPAN 5440. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.