Guides graduate students through the creation of the required third-year paper and helps establish productive writing habits. Includes assigned readings, discussion, peer review, and specific tasks related to scholarly writing. Students will revise and defend the paper during the semester following the seminar. Department enforced prereqs., SOCY 5111 and SOCY 5201. Requisites: Restricted to Sociology (SOCY) graduate students only.
Advanced seminar dealing with several different specialized topics in Neuroscience. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of NRSC 5110 (minimum grade D-).
Introduces the application and role of models in political science (domestic and international politics), in areas such as voting, committees, power, decision making, and war and peace. Models include applications of set theory, elementary probability, games, and systems analysis. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies special topics in recent writing in English from around the world. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., ENGL 5149. Requisites: Restricted to English Literature-Creative Writing (CRWR) or English (ENGL) graduate students only.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and literature concerning American "Subnational" politics. Considers three bodies of literature: American federalism and intergovernmental relations, state politics, and urban/local politics. Also examines a number of policy issues. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Advanced seminar dealing with several different specialized topics in Neuroscience. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of NRSC 5110 (minimum grade D-).
Introduces maximum likelihood estimation and extends the linear model to several "generalized linear models." Provides students with the skills to analyze and understand a broad class of outcome variables and data structures such as dichotomous outcomes, counts, ordered and unordered categorical outcomes, and bounded variables. Also examines several special topics such as multilevel models, causal inference, and missing data. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSCI 7075, 7085 and 7095 (all minimum grade B-). Restricted to Political Science (PSCI) graduate students only.
Continuation of PHYS 5150. Topics vary yearly but include nonlinear effects such as wave coupling, quasilinear relaxation, particle trapping, nonlinear Landau damping, collisionless shocks, solutions; nonneutral plasmas; kinetic theory of waves in a magnetized plasma; anisotropy; inhomogeneity; radiation- ponderomotive force, parametric instabilities, stimulated scattering; plasma optics; kinetic theory, and fluctuation phenomena. Recommended prereq., PHYS 5150. Same as ASTR 7160.
Topics in atmospheric chemistry emphasizing the structure and reactivity of atmospheric particulates. Presentations on current research and critical evaluations of recent literature. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores cutting-edge debates in election law. Studies different perspectives on the current controversies in the field, in addition to select opportunities to engage scholars directly about their work. Develops students' understanding of the law of democracy, exposing students to some of the best scholarship, and improving students' ability to evaluate and critique legal scholarship. Recommended prereq., PSCI 7011. Same as LAWS 8205.
Help students make progress towards (1) in the short term: focusing in on a dissertation topic, crafting a dissertation prospectus, and identifying potential funding sources; and (2) in the long term: sending papers out for review, developing a package for the job market, and understanding the academic job market and the tenure process. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies special topics in ethnic American and/or postcolonial writing in English, including relevant theoretical discourses. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., ENGL 5169. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only.
Addresses four broad questions: Who is a citizen of the United States? Who else can come to this country? When and why can noncitizens be forced to leave? Who has the authority to answer these questions? These questions prompt us to examine the history of U.S. immigration, the constitutional-statutory-regulatory framework that governs immigration and citizenship law, and the federal agencies that administer it. Also addresses contemporary challenges to, and assertions of, immigrants' rights. Same as LAWS 7615. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
This co-taught colloquium will expose students to highly prominent scholars conducting research on current topics at the intersection of race, social science, and the law, including racial profiling, hate crime, and affirmative action. Students will complete a final paper satisfying the CU Law seminar requirement. Same as LAWS 8645.
Focuses on the business aspects of managing an audiology practice. Addresses developing a business plan, contracting for services, legal issues, financial reporting, budgeting, pricing, billing and reimbursement, regulatory issues, marketing, personnel management, risk abatement, and business ethics. Recommended requisite, good standing in the SLHS graduate program or instructor consent will be required. Requisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.
Discussion of contemporary synthetic organic chemistry with a focus on new methodology and total synthesis of natural products. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Advanced seminar dealing with different specialized topics, at the discretion of the instructor, in different years. Topics chosen are within the broad range of experimental psychology. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
