Students read current periodicals, picking out topics in which economics plays a role in understanding events. Background reading is assigned on topics chosen. May not be taken more than once for credit. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ECON 3070 and ECON 3080 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Qualified Women and Gender Studies majors may write an honors thesis, an in-depth research paper, on a topic of choice. Thesis hours available to majors only after successfully completing the research phase. Requisites: Restricted to Womens Studies (WMST) majors only.
Class explores the advanced practices and aesthetics of computer-based moving-image art editing. Topics include how to edit and manage a postproduction cycle, how to use digital editing systems and capabilities such as compositing, digital audio, and optical effects treatments. Cannot be taken simultaneously with FILM 3400 or 3600. Same as FILM 4000. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of FILM 1502, 2000 or 2300, 2500, and 3400 or 3600 (all minimum grade (D-).
Discusses current issues such as ozone depletion, global warming, and air quality for graduate students in nonscientific fields. Provides the scientific background necessary to understand, follow scientific developments, and critically evaluate these issues. Same as ENVS 5830. Credit not granted for this course and ATOC 4800. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces basic issues in comparative literature and basic problems in literary history. Provides an overview of history and rationale of the discipline, traditional areas of research, and recent developments. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
All first year EBIO graduate students are required to attend the EBIO Colloquia Series. Speakers from around the world and within the department cover topics in all areas of biology. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours.
Introduction to methodologies of the policy sciences with emphasis on applications to environmental issues Requisites: role of science in decision making
Introduces purposes, materials, and techniques of historical scholarship. Theory, practice, and criticism. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on a complete deductive framework for mathematics and applies it to various areas. Presents Goedel's famous incompleteness theorem about the inherent limitations of mathematical systems. Uses idealized computers to investigate the capabilities and limitations of human and machine computation. Department enforced prereqs., MATH 3130 and 3140. Same as MATH 4000. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to 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. Same as FILM 4001. ETHN 4001 and 5001 are the same course. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-).
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., a course in basic chemistry and a course in physics. Requisites: 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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Department enforced requisite, 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: 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. Same as FILM 4004. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 3051 (minimum grade D-). 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. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of SLHS 3116 (minimum grade D-). 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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
