Courses

Familiarizes students with basic methodologies and research designs employed in the field. Focuses on critical reading of research papers and design of experiments. At least one research project is conducted and written as part of the course requirements. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.

Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Same as WMST 4000. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.

Engaging with the ways in which race, class, gender and sexual oppression intersect, this class examines several film productions by and about diasporic and subaltern subjects (especially children and women) in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and the urban ethnic metropoles of the global borderlands. Prereq., ETHN 2001 or equivalent ETHN course. Same as FILM 4001. ETHN 4001 and 5001 are the same course.

Reviews the physical and chemical characteristics of the solid earth, from the core to the crust, and the processes that govern behavior through the earth. Lectures are supplemented with readings from the recent literature. Topics include convection, phase transitions, melt generation, forces of plate tectonics, origin of continents and lithosphere, continental tectonics, and earthquakes. Recommended prereqs., basic chemistry and physics. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

Provides a rigorous treatment of infinite series, sequences of functions, and an additional topic chosen by the instructor (for example, multivariable analysis, the Lebesgue integral, or Fourier analysis). Same as MATH 4001.

Reading and discussion of current issues and themes in the stratigraphic sciences, including stratigraphic and facies analysis, spatial heterogeneity and self-organization, numerical modeling; origin, evolution, mass extinctions, and megatrajectories of life; and paleooceanographic and paleoclimatic signals in sedimentary rocks. Goal is to diversify students' understanding of the role of physics, chemistry, and biology in attacking research problems in sedimentary systems. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores similarities and differences between literature and film as narrative arts. Studies novels, short stories, and plays and films made from them. Examines problems in point of view, manipulation of time, tone, structure, and setting. Same as FILM 4003. COML 5003 and ARTF 5003 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

Explores similarities and differences between literature and film as narrative arts. Studies novels, short stories, and plays and films made from them. Examines problems in point of view, manipulation of time, tone, structure, and setting. Same as FILM 4003. COML 5003 and ARTF 5003 are the same course.

Discusses incorporating GIS methods into graduate thesis or dissertation research. Reviews basic mapping concepts (scale and projections), acquiring different types of spatial data (raster and vector), building an error-free database, making simple queries, overlays, charts, and maps. Intended for students who want to learn GIS but lack background skills in computing or cartography. Recommended prereq., some experience with Mac or Windows. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides topic-centered analyses of controversial areas in film theory. Students read extensive materials in the topic area, analyze and summarize arguments as presented in the literature, write "Position" papers, and make oral presentations in which they elaborate their own arguments about specific assigned topic, establishing critical dialogue with the primary materials. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., FILM 3051 or instructor consent. Same as FILM 4004. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides an advanced understanding of the acoustics, aerodynamics, and biomechanics of speech production and related non-speech behaviors. Emphasizes the integration of theoretical constructs in the speech sciences with applied clinical and basic research. Prereq., SLHS 3136 or equivalent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Prepares students for advanced Film Studies production courses. Subject matter varies each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics are different. Same as FILM 4010. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides training in research methods for graduate work in Sinology. Regular exercises require students to use standard bibliographic sources and tools, such as leishu, congshu, specialized dictionaries, dynastic histories, geographical treatises, gazetteers, and private historiography. Prereq., CHIN 4220 or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduction to German Studies, with emphasis on research methodology, theoretical approaches, coverage of major currents in German intellectual and literary history from 1750-present, and exposure to fields interrelated with German Studies. Includes training in the use of electronic databases and archives and an introduction to online publication. Required of all graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Special topics spanning the broad scope of integrative physiology are covered in a seminar-style format. Presentations by current IPHY faculty are augmented by graduate student presentations of thesis and dissertation work. May be repeated up to 3 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to Integrative Physiology (IPHY) graduate students only.
Introduces research materials on Japan in Japanese and Western languages, including bibliographic tools, style sheets, and library resources. Overview of secondary sources and publication outlets/methods of disseminating research. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Same as PHIL 4010. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Lect. Inorganic chemistry based on principles of bonding, structure, reaction mechanisms, and modern synthetic methods. Chemistry and general properties of representative and transition elements and their compounds. Prereqs., CHEM 4011 and 4531, or graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

Provides background in history and literature of museums, their objectives and methods, laboratory exercises in curatorship, exhibition theory, and administration. Prereq., instructor consent.

Studies theories and criticisms of drama and theatrical performances from Plato to post-modernism. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Acquaints students with key works in the literature of European history, and addresses matters of method and interpretation. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., admission to the graduate program in history. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

Provides interdisciplinary study of film, photography, and modernism, focusing on issues such as dystopia, alienation, sexuality, subjectivity, and self-referentiality. Photographs by Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Kertesz, and Moholy-Nagy. Films by Dziga Vertov, Eisenstein, Resnais, Antonioni, Bergman, Bunuel, and Bertolucci. Prereq., FILM 1502. Recommended prereq., FILM 3051. Same as FILM 4013.

Same as GREK 4013. Formerly CLAS 5013. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

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