Examines the history of ideas and the social history of intellectuals in American society during the 19th and 20th centuries. Stresses social and political dimensions and the changing cultural and institutional contexts of intellectual discourse. Requisites: Restricted to History (HIST) graduate students only.
Develops skills in the stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection data, recognition of sequence stratigraphy in well logs and outcrop, and their applications to basin analysis in petroleum exploration. Department enforced requisite, restricted to graduate students only. Department enforced prereqs., introductory undergraduate physics and sedimentology/stratigraphy.
Examines major historical trends in the study of meanings and practices of sex and sexuality. Focuses on emergence and negotiation of sexual matters in circumstances where sex and identity were not coterminous. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Study of recent publications in transcription and RNA processing fields. Students present and discuss recent publications. Goals are that the student will improve critical analysis of data and will learn techniques relevant to the field. Students will keep up-to-date with current literature, will lead discussions of topic of interest, and will learn good presentation skills. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of MCDB 5210 and MCDB 5230 (all minimum grade D-).
Cell cycle regulation is a major biological issue relevant to a number of disease states, including cancer. Surveys the current literature in the cell cycle field. Students present current publications; class participation in discussion is expected. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of MCDB 5210 and MCDB 5230 (all minimum grade D-).
Studies some of the main topics of epistemology, such as skepticism, foundations of knowledge, perception, introspection, belief, certainty, and analytic-synthetic distinctions. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines Britain's withdrawal from South Asia and the Palestine mandate. Topics include collaboration, anticolonial resistance, Indian and Palestinian nationalisms, zionism, transcolonial connections, counter insurgency, and partition. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on complex numbers and the complex plane. Includes Cauchy-Riemann equations, complex integration, Cauchy integral theory, infinite series and products, and residue theory. Department enforced prereq., MATH 4001. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on conformal mapping, analytic continuation, singularities, and elementary special functions. Department enforced prereq., MATH 6350. Instructor consent required for undergraduates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Traditional and contemporary theories of the basic categories used to describe nature and the human relationship to it, including such concepts as substance, identity, space and time, causality, determination, and systematic ontology. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics connected with development of nature of science: the structure of scientific theories, the testing of hypotheses, the theory of decisions in science and the basic conceptions and models of abstraction in the history of science. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Student, faculty, and guest presentations of current research in physical chemistry. Discussion of research topics related to the subject of weekly physical chemistry/chemical physics seminar and appropriate journal articles. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Critically examines the politics of human-environment relationships across cultures and societies. Focuses on environmental degradation, change and management from the perspectives including political economy, cultural politics, STS and post structural theory. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Offers historical perspective on the complex and interdependent relationship between human social and cultural institutions and the natural world. Considers interdisciplinary methodologies incorporating history, biology, geography, law, and other disciplines. Formerly HIST 6417. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Engages in debates about historical methods and how the past is represented. Central topics will include memory and the forces of nationalism and war; commemoration and monuments; the role of memory in the construction of race and ethnicity; personal past and cultural remembrance; and the relationships between academic, public, and popular histories. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces classic and recent scholarship, and critical issues in African American history, from slavery to the present. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Characterization and calibration of instrumentation used to measure these properties. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as GEOG 6443. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of GEOL 4093 or GEOL 5093 (minimum grade D-).
Acquaints students with various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. Offered intermittently or upon student demand, and often presented by visiting professors. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Theory and practical field measurements for validation of airborne and spaceborne spectral image acquisition. Emphasizes radiative scattering properties of soil, vegetation, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Also focuses on characterization and calibration of instrumentation to measure these properties. Department enforced prereqs., GEOG 4093 or GEOL 4093 or GEOG 5093 or GEOL 5093. Recommended prereq., GEOL 5240. Same as EBIO 6440. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces the major constructs used by formal theories of syntax to capture the relationship between meaning and syntactic form and uses data from diverse languages to explore the universality of these constructs. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Continuation of APPM 5470. Advanced study of the properties and solutions of elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations. Topics include the study of Sobolev spaces and variational methods as they relate to PDEs, and other topics as time permits. Department enforced prereq., APPM 5470. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
