Allows students to undertake a production project, normally within the major theatre season, that requires detailed preparatory research, testing of ideas, and public presentation. Students work under faculty supervision and prepare a documented written report and evaluation of the research, rehearsal, and performance process. Departement enforced restriction: advanced course work in directing and advisor approval.
Examines current trends and issues in dance education and the professional dance world. Explores curriculum development, administration, and job opportunities along with other topics such as grant writing, community engagement, dance advocacy, and working as an independent artist. Requisites: Restricted to Dance (DNCE) graduate students only.
Covers the exploration and production aspects of petroleum submarine fans and turbidite systems. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of GEOL 6330 (minimum grade B).
Art of acting is examined through study of acting theories and practices developed during major periods of theatre history. Examines the variety of theories about acting that remain today.
Studies the portrayal of lesbians and gays in mainstream American theatre during the 20th and 21st centuries,as well as the contributions of gay and lesbian theatre artists during the same period.
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Same as WMST 6090. Requisites: Restricted to Comparative Literature (CMLT) graduate students only.
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate. Same as COML 6090. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Students undertake a dramaturgical project, normally within the major season, requiring detailed preparatory research, testing of ideas, and public presentation of theories and concepts in practice. Students work under faculty supervision and prepare a documented written report of their project. Recommended restriction: advanced course work in dramatic literature and advisor approval.
Discusses background theory and procedures used for modeling climate on a variety of space and time scales. Includes numerical simulation of weather and climate with models in a hierarchy of complexity, assessments of error growth, prediction of circulations and impact of radiative and other influences. Explores various numerical methods, develops core computing skills, and considers data handling and visualization. Consists of a combination of lectures and laboratory. Department enforced prereq., ATOC 5050 or calculus. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines how the cultural and legal bounds of U.S. citizenship have been linked to race, gender, labor, class, and sexuality. Analyzes the experiences of racialized and gendered groups to explore the racial formations, exclusions and contradictions inherent with the institution of citizenship. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Designed for beginning graduate students interested in neuroscience. Students read, discuss, and evaluate the primary literature on a number of current topics in neuroscience as well as attend the seminar program in neuroscience. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Student, faculty, and guest presentations and discussions of current research in analytical chemistry. Required of all analytical chemistry graduate students. Credit deferred until presentation of satisfactory seminar. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on a variety of advanced interdisciplinary studies. Themes include: Race and Sports, Critical Whiteness Studies, Race and Masculinity, Applied Community Engagement, Black Women in the Diaspora, US/Mexico Border Cultures, Criminalization and Latinas/os, Race, Violence and Film, and Cuba and Tourism. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., ETHN coursework. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces the theoretical landscapes of Native American and Indigenous Studies. Explores debates, methodologies and concerns that ground the field and provides critical engagement with Indigenous communities and knowledges. Teaches standards for evaluating scholarly sources based on criteria derived from the most outstanding recent scholarship in the field. Requires writing and thinking critically about issues of concern for global indigenous communities. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics will vary and may focus on a particular approach to ancient material culture or on a particular time period or artifact category. Emphasis is placed on reading and using theory in considering the ancient world. May be repeated once for credit, provided the topics are different. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores a specific theme in Asian History in depth. Topic may vary each semester. Repeatable for credit up to 6 total credit hours proved the topic varies. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines complex histories, cultural practices, and liminal/3rd spaces of the US/Mexico borderlands; racial and gender identities; and community formations. The seminar considers a range of autobiographic testimony narratives, films, social and legal studies, and theories of subjectivity that engage with the politics of representation vis a vis the criminalization of Chicana/o and ethnic youth, immigrants, and those perceived to be immigrants. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines divisibility properties of integers, congruences, diophantine equations, arithmetic functions, quadratic residues, distribution of primes, and algebraic number fields. Department enforced prereq., MATH 3140. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Offers a weekly seminar for museum and field study students that addresses one new topic each semester relevant to museum operations such as archival administration, museums, multiculturalism, repatriation, and others. Department enforced prereq., MUSM 5011. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines complex histories, cultural practices and liminal/3rd spaces of the US/Mexico borderlands,racial and gender identities and community formations. Considers range of autobiographic testimony narratives, films, social and legal issues and theories of subjectivity that engage with the politics of representation vis a vis the criminalization of Chicana/o and ethic youth and those perceived to be immigrants. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Lect. Subjects of current interest in analytical chemistry. Used for graduate-level presentations of special topics by visiting and resident faculty. Variable class schedule. May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
