Discusses the history and evolution of the vertebrates, including the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the major groups. Lab focuses on comparative vertebrate osteology and fossil representation of major groups. Same as GEOL 5474.
Covers asymptotic evaluation of integrals (stationary phase and steepest descent), perturbation methods (regular and singular methods, and inner and outer expansions), multiple scale methods, and applications to differential and integral equations. Department enforced prereq., APPM 5470. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines a specific problem or issue in medieval literature, e.g., the role of encyclopedias and anthologies in literary training, or the place and forms of literary composition at the imperial court. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Department enforced: knowledge of Classical Chinese at the level of CHIN 4220 is required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on a specific problem or issue in medieval literature, e.g., the spread of literary composition beyond the court. Topics vary from year to year. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Advanced exploration of creative cinema production through short production and post-production projects. Course focuses on the tactics and strategies of independent cinema production exploring either documentary, experimental, or narrative genres. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Same as FILM 4500. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 3400 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Considers topics in the semantics of natural language not normally covered in first courses in philosophy of language. These include: natural deduction and sequent calculi for conditional logic; interpretation as logical inference; Lambek calculus and applicative categorial grammar; applications such as generalized coordination, plurals, higher-order intensional logic, generics, focus, and event-based semantics. Recommended prereq., PHIL 5490. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers various topics in physical chemistry focusing on their mathematical and physical background. Topics include the application of classical mechanics and electrodynamics in chemistry, the classical mechanics background for the description of atoms and molecules, the use of vector spaces in wave mechanics and quantum mechanics and the classical description of spectroscopy in terms of interaction of light and matter. Department enforced prereqs., undergrad physical chemistry, graduate standing or instructor consent. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Systematic study of the Faust motif in Western literature, with major emphasis on Faust I and II by Goethe and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Same as HUMN 4504 and GRMN 5504. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Systematic study of the Faust motif in Western literature, with major emphasis on Faust I and II by Goethe and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Taught in English. Same as GRMN 4504 and COML 5504. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
All first year ENVS graduate students are required to attend the ENVS Colloquia Series. Speakers from around the world and within the department cover topics in all areas of Environmental Studies. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours.
Focuses on cultural issues that cross lines of literary periodization. Topics may include the theater as social criticism from Lessing to Handke Requisites: forms of German protest from Luther to Thomas Mann
Studies axioms, combinatorial analysis, independence and conditional probability, discrete and absolutely continuous distributions, expectation and distribution of functions of random variables, laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, and simple Markov chains if time permits. Same as MATH 4510. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Department enforced prereq., one semester calculus-based probability course, such as MATH 4510 or APPM 3570. Same as APPM 4520 and MATH 5520. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Addresses current topics in Environmental Studies. Provides forum for students to critically evaluate the primary literature on a particular theme. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours.
Examines issues pervading contemporary German literature and media, such as concerns of youth, xenophobia, stereotyping as it affects women and men in their relations, work experience, feminism, problems connected with the reunification, and other issues. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness: tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression analysis if time permits. Analyzes various distribution-free methods. Department enforced prereq., MATH 4510 or 5510 or APPM 3570. Same as MATH 4520 and APPM 5520. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies special topics that focus on a theme, genre, or theoretical issue not limited to a specific period or national tradition. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English Literature-Creative Writing (CRWR) or English (ENGL) graduate students only.
