3457	AAS	310	S09-10	LA	Music from the Hispanophone Caribbean	This interdisciplinary seminar utilizes the musical cultures of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba to reflect upon the aesthetic, migratory, and social histories of the Hispanophone Caribbean.  Students will listen to the sounded legacies of conquest, slavery, colonialism, and U.S. intervention and occupation. The effects of transnational migration on music's performance and reception will also be one of the key themes in the course.  We will not only consider the creative traditions and receptive worlds embedded in musical recordings, but will also pay attention to music's traces in literature, film, and other ephemera.
3458	AAS	314	S09-10	LA	Model Memoirs:  The Life Stories of International Fashion Models	Explores the life-writing of American, African, and Asian women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about race, gender, and class. How do ethnicity and femininity intersect? How are authenticity and difference commodified? How do women construct identities through narrative and negotiate their relationships to their bodies, families, and nations? This course will include guest lectures by fashion editors and models; discussions of contemporary television programs, global fashion, and cultural studies; and student self-narratives about their relationships with cultural standards of beauty, whether vexed or not.
3459	AAS	323	S09-10	SA	The Black Melting Pot: Interrogating Race, Difference, and Identity	As the demographics of Blacks in America change, we are compelled to rethink the dominant stories of who African Americans are, and from whence they come. In this seminar, we will explore the deep cultural, genealogical, national origin, regional, and class-based diversity of people of African descent in the United States. Materials for the course will include scholarly writings as well as memoirs and fiction. In addition to reading assignments, students will be expected to complete an ethnographic or oral history project based upon research conducted within a Black community in the U.S., and a music or visual art based presentation of work.
3460	AAS	339	S09-10	LA	Josephine Baker and the Modern	What does a black burlesque star have to do with the making of Euro-American modernity? This course situates the performance art of Josephine Baker as a dynamic fulcrum through which to trace the unexpected connections between the invention of what might be called a "modernist style" and the staging of black skin at the turn of the 20th century.  We will study her work in film, photography, and cinema as an active and profound engagement with a range of modernist innovations and theories in the fields of film, photography, architecture, art, and literature.
3461	AAS	348	S09-10	LA	Black Popular Music Culture	An introduction to major historical, theoretical, performative, and aesthetic movements and trends in black popular music culture from the 19th century through the present day.
3462	AAS	359	S09-10	LA	African American Literature:  Harlem Renaissance to Present	This course examines African American literature in the 20th century emphasizing the relationship between cultural production and historical phenomenon.  What is the relationship between African American cultural production and historical phenomena like the Great Migration and key cultural movements like the Harlem Renaissance in American life?  Additionally, how do we place African American literature and cultural production in a global narrative that encompasses decolonization, multiculturalism and globalization?  Primary texts include novels, short stories, some poetry and video and performance art.
3463	AAS	364	S09-10	SA	Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America	From "Chinese opium" to Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "Crack" to BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, the policing of ethnic identity, and racial difference. This course explores the history of controversial substances (prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, black market substances, psychoactive drugs), and how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, these substances become vehicles for heated debates over immigration, identity, cultural and biological difference, criminal character, the line between legality and illegality, and the boundaries of the normal and the pathological.
3464	AAS	368	S09-10	EM	Topics in African American Religion: Black Religion and Black Political Thought	Scholars of the African America experience have located the black church as the cultural, social, and political womb of the black community.  This research tends to think of the church as a structure that brings actors into contact with one another; it has paid less attention to the church as a place that brings actors into contact with ideas.  This course will use a variety of classic and contemporary texts about black political thought as an entry into investigating the connections between black religious ideas and political activism. The class links the work on religion to an intensive introduction to black political thought.
3465	AAS	372	S09-10	LA	Postblack - Contemporary African American Art	As articulated by Thelma Golden, postblack refers to the work of African American artists who emerged in the 1990s with ambitious, irreverent, and sassy work. Though hard to define, postblack suggested the emergence of a generation of artists removed from the long tradition of black affirmation of the Harlem Renaissance, black empowerment of the Black Arts movement, and identity politics of the 1980s and early 90s. This seminar provides an opportunity for a deep engagement with the work of African American artists of the past decade. It will involve critical and theoretical readings on multiculturalism, race, identity, and contemporary art.
3466	AAS	379	S09-10	SA	Black Europe: Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in Contemporary Europe	European cities are increasingly being reshaped by migration, EU enlargement, and economic integration. Against this backdrop, issues of diversity, difference, and cultural friction are particularly salient topics in cross-cultural research on race and racialization.  We will specifically explore the contemporary presence and impact of the African diaspora throughout Europe.
3467	AFS	200	S09-10	SA	Introduction to African Studies	The course offers a unique opportunity to explore the past, present, and future of Africa in a truly multidisciplinary setting.  A dozen of Princeton's distinguished faculty collaborate in an effort to shed light on both the huge potential of Africa and its peoples and the enormous challenges the continent faces.  Topics include politics, economics, conservation, biodiversity, climate change, the environment, health and disease and written and oral literature.
3468	AFS	302	S09-10	SA	Local Governance and Development in Africa	Decentralization is widely advocated as a means of enhancing the quality of governance, improving the quality of service delivery, and achieving a variety of related socio-economic development objectives. However, reforms across Africa have often failed to achieve the desired objectives. The course seeks to explain this paradox and to explore the multiple forms of local governance in Africa. We will analyze empirical examples from across the African continent as well as case studies from other regions for comparative perspective, to assess the potential of decentralization reforms and community-driven development projects to improve outcomes.
3469	AFS	303	S09-10	SA	Social Structure in Africa: Responses to Socio-Political and Economic Forces Since Independence	The seminar addresses the structural consequences and responses that African nations and communities developed upon their insertion into global political and economic practice and discourse. Africa's character prior to modern nationhood forms the backdrop to discussions of the development and utilization of social, political, and economic strategies for continued participation in global political and economic intercourse. Themes include: traditional religious practice and the church; global economic interactions; African interstate relations; governance, regime change, and elections; wars and displacement; and women in society.
3470	AFS	375	S09-10	SA	Science, Technology, and African Development	This course will present an integrated perspective of science and technology in the developing work with a strong focus on Africa.  It will examine the implications of science and technology for rural development, along with the potential technological solutions to problems of energy, water, transportation and affordable housing.  In each of these areas, a holistic framework will be presented for the development of sustainable solutions.  The cultural issues associated with technology diffusion will also be considered along with case studies that highlight the successful applications of technologies.
3471	AMS	ST08	S09-10		Special Topics in Public Education Reform	Examines historical and contemporary approaches to education reform in America's cities, with a particular focus on how reform efforts have affected students. We will explore the following questions: What are the historical challenges of urban education reform and how have policymakers attempted to address them? What can we learn from urban districts that are attempting to combat these problems today, and what are the "best practices" in urban education reform? This course will investigate both the administrative and scholastic levels of reform, as well as the environmental factors that affect the lives of urban students.
3472	AMS	311	S09-10	LA	Uncreative Writing	Long-cherished notions of creativity are under attack, eroded by file-sharing, media culture, widespread sampling, and digital replication.  How does writing respond to this new environment?  This workshop will rise to that challenge by employing strategies of appropriation, replication, plagiarism, privacy, sampling, plundering, as compositional methods.  Along the way, we'll trace the rich history of forgery, frauds, hoaxes, avatars, and impersonations spanning the arts, with a particular emphasis on how they employ language.
3473	AMS	336	S09-10	HA	Global Asian America	This course explores the multiple ways Asian descended identity is embodied and lived inside and outside of America.  Emphasis is placed on the cultural, historical and legal production of Asian identity through the intersection of race, class, nation and sexuality.  Key concepts such as migration, empire and diaspora are investigated.  Through what regional, national and global registers can we understand "Asian" and "Asian American" identity?
3474	AMS	344	S09-10	HA	Suburban Nation:  The Rise and Sprawl of Modern American Suburbia	This seminar will explore the many meanings of suburbia in modern American history.  First, we will examine the onset of the urban crisis and the attendant rise of suburbia as an attractive alternative for many people. We will then focus on the ways in which the movement to suburbs intersected with the civil rights movement.   Finally, we will examine how a diverse array of social and political movements of the postwar era -- from liberal causes like feminism and environmentalism to the mobilization of modern conservatism -- sprang from suburbia.
3475	AMS	353	S09-10	LA	Moby-Dick Unbound	This seminar undertakes a close reading of  <u>Moby-Dick</u> (1851), often acclaimed as the greatest American novel. Why was this story of a tragic sea voyage so neglected in its day, and so celebrated by later generations? To explore its twin lines of action--Ahab's drive to kill a white whale versus Ishmael's quest to know it--we use the methods of history, literature, art, religion, economics, philosophy, and ecology. Of special interest are the ways Melville anticipates recent environmental thought, depicts a globalized culture, and dramatizes the national struggle to reconcile faith and fact, race and justice.
3476	AMS	375	S09-10	LA	Defining Moments in American Culture	A focused look at three key turning points in American history:  1800, 1850, and 1900.  The course will study selected expressions in art, politics, literature, and science or technology to see how they embody national aspirations or anxieties of each period.  Two continuing themes will receive special attention:  the consciousness of self and of nature in American culture.
3477	AMS	401	S09-10	SA	At Home in New Jersey	This team-taught seminar is designed as a capstone course for AMS concentrators and offers an opportunity to work at a more sophisticated and advanced level. Taking New Jersey as our object of study, we will reflect on the ways various residents (and visitors) have constructed worlds--spatial worlds as well as worlds of meaning--in and on this particular ground.  We will examine both how we live today and the multiple ways that "how we live today" must be situated within longer histories, including such topics as property rights, suburbanization, zoning, transportation, home and homelessness, immigration, environment and community.
3478	ANT	206	S09-10	EC	Human Evolution	An investigation of the evidence and background of human evolution.  Emphasis will be placed on the examination of the fossil and other evidence for human evolution and its functional and behavioral implications.
3479	ANT	270	S09-10	EC	Anthropology of Mental Illness	We adopt a comparative, historical, and cultural approach to mental health, and its accompanying illnesses, remedies, and institutions. Especially important will be the creation of cultural consensus surrounding categories of normal and pathological in mental health, and their subsequent codification in diagnoses, treatments, and institutions. We'll examine psychoanalytic theory, American psychiatry, and debates that call the very premise of disordered health and "madness" into question. We'll also focus on ethnographic accounts of mental illnesses: depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and the global rise of pharmaceuticals treatments.
3480	ANT	318	S09-10	SA	Understanding Muslim Social and Political Movements	This course is designed to introduce students to a number of contemporary movements that claim to restore Islam as the central norm for practice in the social, economic and political life of Muslim communities and societies. Throughout the survey of discourses and practices by and about the so-called "islamists," their supporters and their opponents, the course will center on the reconfiguration of religion, self, community, culture, society, identity, and power. Emphasis will be on the Arab world and Iran.
3481	ANT	328	S09-10	SA	Anthropology of Human Rights: Culture, Violence, and Difference	This course examines the impact of anthropology on human rights. While human rights policy upholds universal norms and standards, anthropology examines the range of human cultural diversity and experience. We explore what the study of this diversity contributes to the understanding of human rights issues, including ethnic cleansing, gender-based violence, and torture.  Additional themes address how understandings of cultural diversity affect central questions for human rights policy and anthropology, including justice, the body, and citizenship. Case studies include Bosnia, Rwanda, South Africa, Argentina, and Guatemala.
3482	ANT	346	S09-10	SA	Anthropology of Sound	This course listens closely to sounds, historicizes the technologies from which they resonate, and tours their cultural surroundings. We analyze acoustics of ritual, everyday life, social identities, and nature, for example, and relate the auditory to the visual and textual. How do voices, radio, cinema, concerts, phonographs, MP3s, world music, and recording studios mediate culture? How is sound a "thing" that can be contemplated, packaged, or sold? What is at stake in debates about digital vs. analogue, liveness, fidelity, and intellectual property? Projects will explore possibilities for portraying ethnographic knowledge with sound media.
3483	ANT	353	S09-10	SA	Borders and the Body Politic: Anthropology and History in Greece and Cyprus	Explores the constitution of the body politic in Greece and Cyprus, from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the ongoing formation of the European Union. Through ethnographies and films, we will trace conflict and conciliation between Greek and Turkish peoples, focusing on two historical case studies: the Asia Minor Catastrophe of the 1920s, and the invasion of Cyprus in the 1970s. Topics will include: statehood, nationalism, and empire; war and peace-making; violence and health; migration and patriation; gender, community, and identity; social trauma and generational transmission; archival and bodily memory; and the modern uses of history.
3484	ANT	360	S09-10	EM	The Uses of Deception: Perspectives on Magic and Science	"Deception" usually has negative connotations, but scientists and magicians use it in service of truth, justice, and entertainment. For a magician's trick to induce doubt and delight, an audience's attention must be misdirected. Likewise, biomedicine and many other fields use deception (e.g., the placebo) as a research tool. Topics include: the 'real' as objective truth or cultural construct; social fictions in daily life; the tangled histories and present day alliance of science and magic; fraudulent vs. legitimate deception; popular access to science. Guest magicians may visit; research projects may involve fieldwork and multimedia.
3485	ANT	362	S09-10	SA	Foodways: Biocultural Aspects of Human Diet	Foodways is a biocultural exploration of human food consumption. Readings and discussions will focus on both the biological and socio-cultural aspects of what humans eat and the ways human cultures conceptualize food and its consumption. Topics include the nutritional needs of humans, the differences between diet and cuisine, which foods taste good and why some foods taste disgusting, the evolution of human diet, how cultures define what is and what is not food, the symbolism associated with various kinds of food, and how cultures distinguish foods that are suitable for some members of the society and not others.
3486	ANT	390	S09-10	HA	History of Anthropological Theory	This course is an introduction to fundamental theories and debates in social/cultural anthropology. We will examine the national and colonial origins of anthropology, considering how western encounters with non-western peoples in the 19th-20th centuries opened questions about human kinship, history, economy, religion, language, sexuality, and personhood that continue to shape the horizons of our thought today. We will study this inheritance critically, exploring the changing concepts, methods, and ethics of anthropological research and writing, and evaluate their bearing on questions of power, justice, and identity in the present.
3487	ANT	433	S09-10	EC	Initiation, Education, and Apprenticeship: Cross Cultural Perspectives	From Brazilian capoeira, Japanese dance, and American jazz piano, to glassblowing, lawyering, and navigating a warship: how do people acquire the skills necessary to perform expert activities in different cultural settings? What kinds of knowledge can anthropologists gain as apprentices, and how does it translate into writing? This course focuses on apprenticeship as a subject and method for anthropological research. We examine theories of learning and their application to case studies of wide-ranging domains of expertise. Students conduct ethnographic and experiential activities, generating original data for discussion and analysis.
3488	ANT	502	S09-10		Proseminar in Anthropology	Second term of a two-term survey of major anthropological writings, primarily for first-year graduate students.  An inquiry into some of the most influential texts in anthropology to raise fundamental questions about anthropology's past and future.  Spring term will emphasize contemporary and venerable theoretical and ethnographic issues.
3489	ANT	570	S09-10		Interdisciplinary Research: The Anthropology of Kinship	Introduces a key area of research in anthropology: the study of kinship--the ways in which peoples of different cultures marry and relate within and outside the family and the means by which one generation relates to one another within/outside the family. Course opens with a discussion of what kinship means to the social anthropologist as distinct from the biologist, and considers different possible approaches of the subject within social anthropology itself. Course also examines how recent work on gender, person and the body have challenged and modified earlier assumptions about descent, succession, marriage and familial alliances.
3490	AOS	572	S09-10		Atmospheric and Oceanic Wave Dynamics	Observational evidence of atmospheric and oceanic waves; laboratory simulation.  Surface and internal gravity waves; dispersion characteristics; kinetic energy spectrum; critical layer; forced resonance; instabilities.  Planetary waves: scale analysis; physical description of planetary wave propagation; reflections; normal modes in a closed basin.  Large-scale barclinic and barotropic instabilities.  Eady and Charney models for barclinic instability, and energy transfer.
3491	AOS	573	S09-10		Physical Oceanography	Response of the ocean to transient and steady winds and buoyancy forcing. A hierarchy of models from simple analytical to realistic numerical models is used to study the role of the waves, convection, instabilities, and other physical processes in the circulation of the oceans.
3492	AOS	577	S09-10		Weather and Climate Dynamics	Dynamics and physical interpretation of principal tropospheric circulation systems, including stationary and transient phenomena observed in middle and low latitudes.  Roles of the atmospheric general circulation in maintaining various components of the Earth's climate system. Characteristics of atmospheric variability on intraseasonal and interannual time scales.
3493	APC	350	S09-10	QR	Introduction to Differential Equations	An intro to differential equations. Both applications and fundamental theory will be discussed. Basic second order differential equations (including the wave, heat and Poisson equations); separation of variables and solution by Fourier series and Fourier integrals; boundary value problem and Green's function; variational methods; normal mode analysis and perturbation methods; nonlinear first order (Hamilton-Jacobi) equations and method of characteristics; reaction-diffusion equations; in addition, application of these equations and methods to e.g. finance and control. Necessary background material in ODEs will be covered.
3494	APC	523	S09-10		Scientific Computation in Astrophysics	A broad introduction to scientific computation using examples drawn from astrophysics.  From computer science, practical topics including processor architecture, parallel systems, structured programming, and scientific visualization will be presented in tutorial style.  Basic principles of numerical analysis, including sources of error, stability, and convergence of algorithms.  The theory and implementation of techniques for linear and nonlinear systems of equations, ordinary and partial differential equations will be demonstrated with problems in stellar structure and evolution, stellar and galactic dynamics, and cosmology.
3495	APC	596	S09-10		Topics in Applied Mathematics	Analysis and modeling of rare events.  Issues discussed include: metastability, reduction to Markov chains, lumping Markov chains,  transition state theory, large deviation theory, and transition path theory. Also discussed are algorithms including transition path sampling, string methods, and elastic band methods.
3496	ARA	102	S09-10		Elementary Arabic II	This course continues the study of Modern Standard Arabic commenced in Arabic 101.  Emphasis is placed on grammatical analysis; writing and reading of increasingly longer, unvocalized texts; further vocabulary acquisition, and continued practice in listening and speaking Modern Standard Arabic.
3497	ARA	104	S09-10		Intensive Elementary Arabic II	The second semester of a full-year language course designed specifically for  students who already have some familiarity with any dialect of spoken Arabic. The course will emphasize reading and writing skills, as well as how to analyze grammar.
3498	ARA	107	S09-10		Intermediate Arabic II	Study of Arabic grammar and syntax, and use of the language in functional contexts.  Reading of extra material from articles, newspapers, short stories.  Discussions are held in the Arabic language to enhance the students' speaking skills.
3499	ARA	302	S09-10		Advanced Arabic II	Modern Standard Arabic language acquisition through reading, listening, writing, and speaking with emphasis on grammar, exposure to philology, and utilization of translation from and into Arabic, supplemented by readings from literary figures and modern media.
3500	ARA	304	S09-10		Media Arabic II	This course is a continuation of ARA 303, Media Arabic, in which students will improve their skills in reading and listening to Arabic news media, including newspapers, magazines, websites, and radio and satellite TV broadcasts (including the BBC and al-Jazeera, among others).  Attention will also be given to informal discussion of these subjects.  Study will be arranged by subject matter.
3501	ARA	307	S09-10		Egyptian Colloquial Arabic	An introduction to the spoken dialects of Egypt, particularly of Cairo.  Students in this course are assumed to have a functional, working knowledge of classical Arabic, and the course will focus on developing the ability to use conversational language in common, everyday situations.
3502	ARA	308	S09-10	LA	Theory and Practice of Arabic to English Translation	This course trains students in the practice of translating of Arabic texts from a wide variety of genres into English.  Attention will be given to both theoretical and practical problems of translation for research and professional ends.
3503	ARA	402	S09-10		Advanced Arabic Skills Workshop II	Classical Arabic sciences of grammar, morphology, and rhetoric, supplemented by expository writing and poetry from classical scholars and literary figures. Emphasis on translation from Arabic and on memorization and oral recitation of texts.
3504	ARC	204	S09-10	LA	Introduction to Architectural Design	The first in a series of design studios offered to students interested in majoring in architecture. The course will introduce architecture as an "impure'' plastic art, inseparable from a network of forces acting upon it. The student will be confronted with progressively complex exercises involving spatial relations in two dimensions, three dimensions, and time. The course will stress experimentation while providing an analytical and creative framework to develop an understanding of structure and materials as well as necessary skills in drawing and model making. Two three-hour studios with lectures included.
3505	ARC	302	S09-10	LA	Architecture and the Visual Arts	This course will explore the relationships between architectural discourse and the visual arts from the historical avant-garde to the present.  Architectural discourse will be considered here as the intersection of diverse systems of representation: buildings, projects, drawings, but also architectural theory and criticism, exhibitions, photographs, professional magazines and the popular press.  The visual arts will be seen to include not only painting and sculpture, but also photography, cinema, fashion, advertisement and television.
3506	ARC	304	S09-10	HA	Cities of the 21st Century	This course will examine different crises confronting cities in the 21st century. Topics will range from immigration, to terrorism, shrinking population, traffic congestion, pollution, energy crisis, housing needs, water wars, race riots, extreme weather conditions, war and urban operations.  The range of cities will include Los Angeles, New Orleans, Paris, Lagos, Caracas, Havana, New York, Hong Kong, Baghdad among other cities.
3507	ARC	308	S09-10	HA	History of Architectural Theory	This course offers a history of architectural theory, criticism, and historiography from the Renaissance to the present, emphasizing the texts, media and institutions that have supported architecture's claim to modernity since the late 17th Century. Architectural thought is examined in its social and cultural context as it relates both to the Western philosophical tradition and to design method and practice.
3508	ARC	401	S09-10	SA	Theories of Housing and Urbanism	The seminar will explore theories of urbanism and housing by reading canonical writers who have created distinctive and influential ideas about urbanism and housing from the nineteenth century to the present. The writers are architects, planners, and social scientists. The theories are interdisciplinary. One or two major work will be discussed each week. We will critically evaluate their relevance and significance for architecture now. Topics include: modernism, functionalism and social change; technological futurism; social critiques of urban design, the New Urbanism; the networked city; and sustainable urbanism.
3509	ARC	403	S09-10	LA	Topics in the History and Theory of Architecture	We will consider that a successful thesis entails the meeting of a socio-cultural problematic with a specific disciplinary issue, that the confluence and exchange between these external and internal situations can instigate an original contribution to architectural knowledge and technique.  The "newness" of this contribution comes through a particular kind of repetition, a wily swerve within the established canon.  The seminar will introduce disciplinary methods and themes through close readings of architectural texts and objects and will provide a workshop for the testing and elaboration of architectural polemics through directed research.
3510	ARC	485	S09-10		Autonomy and Interdependence	This interdisciplinary design seminar addresses "incipient ecological perspectives of today" in relation to the built environment, focusing on autonomous and interdependent design paradigms and building systems. Using case studies in architecture, art, and engineering, our research will challenge prevailing assumptions, articulate new systemic approaches, and develop specific prototypes. While the seminar will be taught from an architectural perspective, it is structured to foster interdisciplinary work with engineering, urban planning, and the humanities, and encourage the participation of both architecture and non-architecture majors.
3511	ARC	489	S09-10	LA	Survey of Selected Works of Twentieth-Century Architects	This course is intended to expose the students to a range of major works, built and unbuilt, of architecture from 1950 to the present. This course will  focus on these particular buildings as they open themselves to a textual analysis. These analyses are intended to open up issues such as criticality, autonomy and singularity as they begin to evolve in architectural building (as opposed to texts) in the last half of the 20th century. This course will concentrate on individual buildings not architects. Each analysis will be accompanied by an illustrated presentation and selected readings.
3512	ARC	492	S09-10		Topics in the Formal Analysis of the Urban Structure: American Urbanism	The American city has undergone a number of restructurings since colonial times. However, the mutations that occurred at the beginning and in the middle of the twentieth century not only restructured the city but also dramatically changed its configuration in a radical way.  We might be living a similar situation today at the beginning of a new century, when changes as powerful as the sub-urbanization of the 1950's are generating new configurations of urban space and form that are expanding once more the definition of the city and urban culture.
3513	ARC	502	S09-10		Architecture Design Studio	Part two of a two semester sequence in which fundamental design skills are taught in the context of the architect's wider responsibilities to society, culture and the environment. Students acquire a command of the techniques of design and representation through a series of specific architectural problems of increasing complexity. Both semesters are required for three-year M.Arch. students.
3514	ARC	504	S09-10		Integrated Building Studios	Integrated design studios approach architecture from a synthetic perspective. Considerations of structure, environmental technology, building materials and systems, exterior envelope, and site design are integrated directly into the design process through the participation of technical faculty and outside advisors in critiques and reviews. Projects are developed to a high level of detail. At least one course is required for professional M.Arch. students.
3515	ARC	506A	S09-10		Architecture Design Studio	Vertical Design Studios examine architecture as cultural production, taking into account its capacity to structure both physical environments and social organizations. Projects include a broad range of project types, including individual buildings, urban districts and landscapes.
3516	ARC	506B	S09-10		Architecture Design Studio	Vertical Design Studios examine architecture as cultural production, taking into account its capacity to structure both physical environments and social organizations. Projects include a broad range of project types, including individual buildings, urban districts and landscapes.
3517	ARC	508	S09-10		Thesis Studio	The Master of Architecture Thesis is an independent design project on a theme selected by the student. The student begins with a thesis statement outlining an area of study or a problem that has consequences for contemporary architectural production. Marking the transition between the academic and professional worlds, the thesis project is an opportunity for each student to define an individual position with regard to a specific aspect of architectural practice. As an integral part of the design process, it is intended that the thesis project will incorporate research, programming and site definition.
3518	ARC	509	S09-10		Integrated Building Systems	An introduction to building systems and the methods of construction used to realize design in built form. First half of the course exposes students to the primary systems, materials and principals used in construction of buildings and the fabrication of elements, through lectures and accompanying lab sessions. Focus shifts in second half to explaining the means by which information is communicated from designers to fabricators, current standards in the practice of architecture, and practice's relation to changes in methods of fabrication and project delivery.
3519	ARC	511	S09-10		Structural Design	Introduction to the design of building structures of steel, timber and reinforced concrete.
3520	ARC	513	S09-10		Contemporary Facade Design, Procurement and Execution	The course will introduce students to the current state of facade design and engineering as an emerging integrated discipline and for students to develop an understanding of the global facade industry. Discussion will focus on the multi-faceted and changing role of the architect in enabling and leading the necessary collaborative process that is required to collectively achieve common goals in a discipline that is both essential to the artistic expression of building and which is highly technical in every regard.
3521	ARC	515	S09-10		The Environmental Engineering of Buildings, Part II	Study and evaluation of mechanical and electrical system applications for different building types, including air conditioning, electrical, plumbing and telecommunications.  Emphasis on design integration with architecture and structure within the construction process including sustainable design and energy conservation.  Introduction to vertical transportation, life safety systems, and intelligent buildings. Emphasis on a conceptual approach using case studies and field trips.
3522	ARC	518	S09-10		Construction and Interpretation	This seminar will examine the relation of construction, structure and building services to the production of meaning through a series of case studies of buildings and bridges and as well as general surveys of the work of specific engineers and architects.
3523	ARC	548	S09-10		History and Theories of Architecture: 18th and 19th Centuries	Acquaints students with the best that has been known and built between the years 1690 and 1870 and focuses on a series of designs and/or buildings in relation to distinct cultural and critical contexts. "Best" is defined by the ability to sustain historical and theoretical debate and to enact conceptual migrations across diverse fields of inquiry. Emphasizes the role of architecture in new institutional forms and the reconfiguration of urban, industrial, and pastoral landscapes. The emergence of historicism as an organizing theme prompts a self-critical attempt to undo the narrative continuities of the traditional architecture survey course.
3524	ARC	552	S09-10		Art, Architecture, and Psychoanalysis	Theories of the unconscious and psychoanalytic metapsychology in relation to questions of form, structure, and method in the history of art and architecture. Topics explored include phantasy, projection, introjection, condensation, displacement, fetishism, sublimation, identification, reparation, incorporation, revelry, and play. Close readings include Freud, Ferenczi, Rank, Klein, Lacan, Caillois, Winnicott, Bion, Laplanche. Case studies of writers, artists, and architects; psychoanalytic readings of art and architecture by contemporary critics and historians.
3525	ARC	560	S09-10		Topics in Contemporary Architecture & Urbanism: Politics of the Building Envelope	Seminar explores the building envelope as the intersection between environmental, iconographic and territorial concerns.  As the limit between inside/outside, natural/artificial, private/public, the building envelope is a key political subject. By analyzing the building envelope, the course identifies a ground on which to re-empower the discipline as a transformative force in the reorganization of the contemporary ecologies of power.
3526	ARC	563	S09-10		Starting, Building, and Operating an Architectural Practice: Business and Legal Issues in Architectural Practice	Review and analysis of the dynamics and process inherent in starting, developing, managing and operating an architectural practice, including marketing, finance, human resources, project process, liability, insurance, and general management.  Areas of particular emphasis include project accounting, public presentations, and the development of a business plan.
3527	ARC	572	S09-10		Research in Architecture	This course is an advanced pro-seminar that will examine the spatial histories and representational forms of the modern city.  Students will read architectural, urban and theoretical texts and conduct individual research on how spatial theory affects the manner in which cities and architectural forms have been written about, envisioned and built.
3528	ARC	574	S09-10		Computing and Imaging in Architecture	This course on digital media infrastructure will explore breaking technologies of fabrication, modeling and design based on production pipelines pioneered by the film and gaming industries: pipelines we will author in CATIA, Gehry Technologies Digital Project, & Bentley's Generative Components.  A series of formal experiments will be carried out each culminating in the fabrication of rapid prototypes using the CNC mill & the InVision 3D printer, explicitly challenging conventional modes of practice & seeking insight into new forms of organization, techniques & operative procedures.
3529	ARC	576	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture: Modernist Dilemmas: Brasília and Chandigarh turn 50	During the twentieth century, several new capitals were built from scratch, for economic and political reasons. Two of these - Brasília and Chandigarh -- share several traits, partly due to the impact of Le Corbusier.  The full force of modern architecture was put to the test. This seminar will reassess these two capitals which are turning 50, studying the original project from different and often conflicting perspectives. Particular attention will be paid to the role of popular and professional media in the global promotion and circulation of the new cities.
3530	ARC	577	S09-10		Topics in Contemporary Architectural Theory: Kissing Architecture	Course explores and solicits contact between architecture and other types of visual practice, argues that architecture has consistently propelled itself through its embrace of other cultural forms, and  examines how most key moments in the advancement of 20th century architecture are related to the conceptual and material friction generated by contact between architecture and other mediums.  Course constructs a genealogy for contemporary architecture by examining the history and theory of medium specificity, tracing the dissolution of material specificity into notions of discipline.
3531	ARC	586	S09-10		Material Ecologies	Buckminster Fuller once noted that the problem of diminishing global resources & the energy crisis was not one of fundamental lack but one of ignorance, failure of imagination & inability to use resources intelligently. Architecture consumes resources, demands expenditure of vast sums of money, is undeniably involved in the global exchange of energy & capital & the global distribution of material. Inevitably architecture is implicated in the social & environmental effects produced by these systems of exchange. How do architects situate themselves within this ecological need? What impact does it have on architecture as a material practice?
3532	ARC	596	S09-10		Topics in Architecture and Information	Geometry has dominated design representation and computational models for years. Many of the challenges related to the need to reduce the use of resources require novel models for computational design, reaching beyond geometry only. Scientific data visualization has progressed using computation for capturing complex phenomena in visual form. Architecture faces almost the reverse problem in shaping complex process through design. This advanced seminar will challenge the participants to develop novel design models in a computational design context.
3533	ART	101	S09-10	LA	Introduction to the History of Art: Renaissance to Contemporary	An introduction to selected periods and works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the present as well as an introduction to the discipline of art history. Two lectures, one preceptorial.
3534	ART	201	S09-10	LA	Roman Architecture	This course will examine the architecture of the Romans, from its mythic beginnings (as recounted, for example, by Vitruvius) to the era of the high empire. Topics will include: city planning; the transformation of the building trades; civic infrastructure; and the full breadth of Roman structures, both public and private.
3535	ART	203	S09-10	LA	Roman Art	The course provides a general introduction to Roman art.  It discusses various artistic media--portraiture, historical relief, etc.--and highlights important works.
3536	ART	209	S09-10	LA	Between Renaissance and Revolution:  Baroque Art in Europe	This course surveys painting and sculpture in Europe ca. 1580-1780.  An examination of major artists and trends in their social, cultural and political settings.  Close attention to works of art in lectures and in museums in Princeton and New York.
3537	ART	213	S09-10	LA	Modernist Art: 1900 to 1950	A critical study of the major movements, paradigms, and documents of modernist art from the Post-Impressionism to the "Degenerate" art show.  Among our topics: primitivism, abstraction, collage, the readymade, machine aesthetics, photographic reproduction, the art of the insane, artists in political revolution, anti-modernism.  Two lectures, one preceptorial.
3538	ART	219	S09-10	LA	Northern Renaissance Art	The course surveys painting, prints, and sculpture in the Netherlands, Germany, and France c. 1300-1550.  This includes art produced for various courts, churches, civic bodies, and private patrons among the growing middle classes in the cities of Western Europe.  With emphasis on the work of major figures such as Van Eyck, Bosch, Durer, Bruegel, we will consider changing circumstances of artistic production, function, iconography, patronage, and more.
3539	ART	242	S09-10	LA	The Experience of Modernity: A Survey of Modern Architecture in the West	An analysis of the emergence of modern architecture from the late nineteenth century to World War II, in light of new methodologies. It will focus not only on major monuments but also on issues of gender, class and ethnicity so as to cover the experience of modernity from a more pluralist point of view.
3540	ART	267	S09-10	LA	Intro to Mesoamerican Visual Culture	This course explores the visual and archaeological world of ancient Mesoamerica, from the first arrival of humans in the area until the era of Spanish invasion in the early 16th century.  Major culture groups to be considered include Olmec, Maya, and Aztec.  Preceptorial sections will consist of a mix of theoretically-focused discussions, debate regarding opposing interpretations in scholarship, and hands-on work with objects in the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum.
3541	ART	302	S09-10	LA	Myths in Greek Art	Examination of images of myths on pottery and in sculpture that are expressive of social content often quite different from literary forms of the myths; tracing the changing meaning of myths through time from the 7th century B.C. to the Hellenistic Period (1st century B.C.).
3542	ART	312	S09-10	LA	The Arts of Medieval Europe	This course explores key monuments of medieval art in Europe from c. 400 until 1350, with a specific focus on art and architecture in medieval Italy. We will concentrate on historical, functional, and aesthetical aspects that lead to the creation of single monuments and art works. Emphasis is given to the analysis of "sacred space" by means of architecture, painted and sculptural decoration, as well as ritual performances. The course will familiarize students with the conceptual character of medieval art and architecture, various topics of Christian iconography, and to the historiographic aspects of the discipline.
3543	ART	351	S09-10	LA	Traditional Chinese Architecture	Thematic introduction to traditional Chinese architecture, urban design and garden building, with attention to principles and symbolism of siting and design; building techniques; modularity of structures and interchangeability of palace, temple, tomb, and domestic design; regional variation.
3544	ART	353	S09-10	LA	Warriors, Deities, and Tea Masters: Japanese Art of the Momoyama Period (1568-1615)	This course examines the arts in Japan during the brief yet pivotal Momoyama period, when artists and patrons in the newly reunified nation explored several--often contrasting--aesthetic ideals.  We will survey developments in a range of mediums, including painting, architecture, ceramics, and lacquer.  Themes treated include: the workshop in Japanese art; the art of tea; the impact of the first arrival of Europeans on Japanese visual culture; the synchronic cross-fertilization of mediums in Japanese art; and the role of the sacred.
3545	ART	401	S09-10	LA	Archaeology Seminar	Required for concentrators specializing in archaeology. Aims to introduce students to the methods and thinking of archaeologists and prehistorians, so that they will be at home in fields where archaeology supplies the evidence they study. Topics include the concept of prehistory (the idea that part of human history is not recorded in writing); ethnographic analogy and the interpretation of material remains; relating material culture to texts (e.g. a Mesopotamian site to the cuneiform texts found there, or Jericho to the Bible); schemes of cultural development (the definition of "civilization"); and how to read an excavation report.
3546	ART	410	S09-10	LA	Seminar. Greek Art	The course will examine the birth and early development of Greek figural art from the 8th through the 5th centuries BCE with particular focus on distinct regional variations in an effort to describe more fully the genesis of artistic traditions that lasted 1,000 years in antiquity and stimulated a modern renaissance in Europe.  Readings will be drawn both from original literature in translation and modern critical studies.
3547	ART	421	S09-10	LA	Ornament Past and Present	This course has two aims, close encounters with some of the world's major traditions of ornament (ancient Mediterranean, European, Chinese, Islamic, and others) and close examination of some of the issues that arise in the study of ornament and its history. One troublesome issue is simply the problem of defining "ornament" (or "decoration"): is this anything besides a catch-all category for arts traditionally excluded from "the fine arts"? Other topics to be discussed are the relations between ornament and architecture, and between ornament and representation; plant, animal, and geometrical ornament; and ornamental systems.
3548	ART	442	S09-10	LA	Seminar. Old Master Drawings	An introduction to the study of drawings of the fifteenth to nineteenth century.  Intensive use will be made of drawings in the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum.  Trips are planned to an auction house, a dealer and museums in Washington, DC and New York.  Of interest to all planning a career in the arts.
3549	ART	455	S09-10	LA	Seminar in Modern Art: The Origins of Abstraction	Taught in collaboration with Leah Dickerman, curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, this seminar will contribute to the conception of a major exhibition on abstraction to be held in 2012. Through close examination of original works and primary texts, we will investigate the beginnings of nonobjective art in its various iterations across Europe c. 1910-25. Why abstraction? What were the various motives and methods of its development? How could different philosophies and ideologies be projected onto this one form? Why did it have such repercussive effects across the arts? Regular study visits to MoMA will be involved.
3550	ART	499	S09-10	LA	Architecture as Icon	This seminar will explore the central subject of an exhibition to be shown at the Princeton University Art Museum this spring, "Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art", a previously unexplored topic in scholarship. Students will engage in investigation of themes intimately related to the main subject, such as: artistic conventions regarding rendering of three-dimensional forms and space; the meaning of symbols in architecture; and the meaning and function of two-dimensionality in Byzantine art. All themes will be investigated in direct relationship to the objects in the exhibition.
3551	ART	513	S09-10		Seminar in Roman Art	Roman "Triumphal" Monuments.  Seminar examines Roman culture celebrations of military accomplishment in all their varied forms, from the public triumphal procession to the monumental structures of the imperial period that transformed such fleeting celebrations into architectural and sculptural structures of enduring presence.
3552	ART	535	S09-10		Problems in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture	Seminar considers Byzantine aesthetics and related roblems in historiography" and coincides with the exhibition "Architecture as Icon", on view at the PUAM from March 6 to June 6, 2010.  Course explores a wide range of issues, such as 'symbols in art',  'spiritual seeing', 'representation of space', 'two-dimensionality' vs. 'three-dimensionality', etc.  Examination of relevant texts as well as of objects on display in the exhibition provides a unique opportunity for such an undertaking.
3553	ART	544	S09-10		Seminar in Northern Renaissance: The Altarpiece	Consideration of this foundational object of Western painting, in all its theorizations, histories, materialities, and afterlives. Span will be roughly 1400-1700, but the course will delve into Byzantine traditions and move forward to the nineteenth century.  We will focus upon specific objects from Northern and Southern Europe and the early modern Americas. Topics include iconoclasm, allegory, collaboration, ritual, secularization, movement, publics, theft, patronage, and more.
3554	ART	562	S09-10		Seminar in American Art	Seminar examines how American visual culture has intersected with the information, concepts, and methods of natural history. Course considers works of art as well as imagery from the scientific realm and treats each as a form or strategy of knowing, with a shared investment in the observational and the taxonomic.  Topics include early modern images of the New World; natural history museums and the diorama; visualizations of the unseeable pre-historic past; the impact of evolutionary theory on art-making in the 19th century; and contemporary art, natural history, and the post-natural.
3555	ART	567	S09-10		Seminar in 20th-Century Photography: American Modernist Photography during World War I	This seminar will examine the impact of WWI on photography:  the death of pictorialism; the dramatic stylistic changes in the careers of Stieglitz, Coburn, Steichen, and Clarence White; and the rise of young talent such as Strand, Sheeler, and Man Ray.Topics will include the influence of cinema; psychoanalysis and the "New Woman"; and the role of spiritualism, modernist music, and Einsteinian physics in the development of abstract photography.
3556	ART	573	S09-10		Topics in Early Chinese Art and Archaeology	The archaeology of pre-Han music and music theory, with a particular focus on the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (d. 433 BC). Course explores the proposition that ancient China was a culture of bells.
3557	ART	580	S09-10		Great Cities of the Islamic World	A study of major Islamic capitals, including Baghdad, Cordoba, Isfahan, Samarqand, and others.  Course will focus on problems of their history, town planning, and importance as centers of Islamic art. Specific topics will vary from year to year.
3558	AST	203	S09-10	QR	The Universe	This specially designed course targets the frontier of modern astrophysics. Subjects include the planets of our solar system, the birth, life, and death of stars; the search for extrasolar planets and extraterrestrial life; the zoo of galaxies from dwarfs to giants, from starbursts to quasars; dark matter and the large-scale structure of the universe; Einstein's special and general theory of relativity, black holes, worm holes, time travel, and big bang cosmology. This course is designed for the non-science major and has no prerequisites past high school algebra and geometry. High school physics would be useful.
3559	AST	204	S09-10	QR	Topics in Modern Astronomy	This course will provide a broad overview to modern astronomy and astrophysics for students in the sciences.  Topics include historical developments; overview of the solar system; the structure and evolution of stars; supernovae, neutron stars and black holes; formation, structure and evolution of galaxies; cosmology and the early universe; and life in the universe.
3560	AST	309	S09-10		Science and Technology of Nuclear Energy:  Fission and Fusion	Concern about climate change is creating the potential for a renaissance of nuclear fission power. The international ITER fusion experiment is being built to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion. This course will introduce the science and technology of fission and fusion. We will also cover societal risks, such as nuclear weapons proliferation, and societal benefits, such as reduced CO2 emissions. To make the course more accessible, technical material will be reduced from last year.
3561	AST	401	S09-10		Cosmology	A general review of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology.  Topics include the properties and nature of galaxies, quasars, clusters of galaxies, superclusters, the large-scale structure of the universe, theories of the origin of structure in the universe, the big bang, the early universe, nucleosynthesis, baryogenesis, and inflation.
3562	AST	517	S09-10		Diffuse Matter in Space	Subject of course is the astrophysics of the interstellar medium: theory and observations of the gas, dust, plasma, energetic particles, magnetic field, and electromagnetic radiation in interstellar space. Emphasis will be on theory, including elements of: fluid dynamics; excitation of atoms, molecules and ions; radiative processes; radiative transfer; simple interstellar chemistry; and physical properties of dust grains.The theory will be applied to phenomena including; interstellar clouds (both diffuse atomic clouds and dense molecular clouds); HII regions; shock waves; supernova remnants; cosmic rays; interstellar dust; and star formation.
3563	AST	522	S09-10		Extragalactic Astronomy	This course is an overview of basic and current extragalactic research, both observational and theoretical, including discussions of the formation, morphology, chemical and dynamical evolution, structure, and space distribution of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and quasars. The emphasis of the course is on the connection of theoretical ideas and observational data. Several self-contained subtopics will be covered by guest lecturers.
3564	AST	542	S09-10		Seminar in Observational Astrophysics: Seminar in Observational Astrophysics	Students will prepare and deliver presentations and lead discussion about topics of current interest in observational astrophysics and techniques.  The topic for this academic year will be instrumentation, optics, and techniques.
3565	AST	552	S09-10		General Plasma Physics II	Introduction to Plasma Physics at the Graduate level.  Principles and applications of magnetohydrodynamic and kinetic theory. These principles are fundamental to Plasma Science, and the illustrative applications are relevant to current magnetic fusion research.
3566	AST	554	S09-10		Irreversible Processes in Plasmas	Introduction to theory of fluctuations and transport in plasma. Origins of irreversibility.  Random walks, Brownian motion, and diffusion; Langevin and Fokker-Planck theory. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem; test-particle superposition principle.  Statistical closure problem.  Derivation of kinetic equations from BBGKY hierarchy and Klimontovich formalism; properties of plasma collision operators. Classical transport coefficients in magnetized plasmas; Onsager symmetry.  Introduction to plasma turbulence, including quasilinear theory. Applications to current problems in plasma research.
3567	AST	558	S09-10		Seminar in Plasma Physics	Advances in experimental and theoretical studies or laboratory and naturally-occurring high-temperature plasmas, including stability and transport, nonlinear dynamics and turbulence, magnetic reconnection, selfheating of "burning" plasmas, and innovative concepts for advanced fusion systems.  Advances in plasma applications, including laser-plasma interactions, nonneutral plasmas, high-intensity accelerators, plasma propulsion, plasma processing, and coherent electromagnetic wave generation.
3568	AST	562	S09-10		Laboratory in Plasma Physics	Develop skills, knowledge, and understanding of basic and advanced laboratory techniques used to measure the properties and behavior of plasmas.  Representative experiments are: cold-cathode plasma formation and architecture; ambipolar diffusion in afterglow plasmas; Langmuir probe measurements of electron temperature and plasma density; period doubling and transitions to chaos in glow discharges; optical spectroscopy for species identification; microwave interferometry and cavity resonances for plasma density determination; and momentum generated by a plasma thruster.
3569	AST	565	S09-10		Physics of Nonneutral Plasmas	The course provides a comprehensive introduction to the physics of nonneutral plasmas and charged particle beam systems with intense self fields.  The subject matter is developed systematically from first principles.  Topics include: nonlinear stability and confinement theorems; collective waves and instabilities; phase transitions in strongly-coupled nonneutral plasmas; coherent electromagnetic radiation generation; nonlinear processes in high-intensity periodic-focussing accelerators; and concepts for compact, plasma-based accelerators.
3570	ATL	496	S09-10	LA	Princeton Atelier: Environmental Documentary & Music Theater	Theater director Steve Cosson and composer/lyricist Michael Friedman will lead an Atelier on investigative and musical theater. They will develop a new project, The Great Immensity, through a network of collaborative partnerships with scholars and researchers at the Princeton Environmental Institute as well as with directors, writers, actors, designers, choreographers and composers, and Atelier students. The Great Immensity tackles the monumental topic of the environment and our planet's future, exploring themes of climate change, deforestation, and extinction by using interviews with researchers working in these areas.
3571	ATL	498	S09-10	LA	Princeton Atelier: Accidental Narrative: Dance, Video, Installation Project	Choreographer Susan Marshall and project designer Jeff Sugg will collaborate on a new art installation and theatrical performance event. Rather than use cameras to record and enhance predetermined movements and scripted events, the artists will capture random actions with predetermined movements of cameras, thereby creating an "accidental narrative". Atelier students will create their own short, wordless, frame-and-figure-focused video works, which will help shape the direction of the larger project on which they will collaborate with Marshall and Sugg from start to finish.
3572	CEE	262A	S09-10		Structures and the Urban Environment	This course focuses on structural engineering as a new art form begun during the Industrial Revolution and flourishing today in long-span bridges, thin shell concrete vaults, and tall buildings.  Through critical analysis of major works students are introduced to the methods of evaluating structures as an art form.  Students study the works and ideas of individual structural artists through their elementary calculations, their builder's mentality and their aesthetic imagination.  Students examine contemporary exemplars that are essential to the understanding of 21st century structuring of cities with illustrations taken from various cities.
3573	CEE	262B	S09-10	ST	Structures and the Urban Environment	This course focuses on structural engineering as a new art form begun during the Industrial Revolution and flourishing today in long-span bridges, thin shell concrete vaults, and tall buildings.  Through laboratory experiments students study the scientific basis for structural performance and thereby connect external forms to the internal forces in the major works of structural engineers.  Students examine contemporary exemplars that are essential to the understanding of 21st century structuring of cities with illustrations taken from various cities in the U.S. and abroad.
3574	CEE	303	S09-10	STX	Introduction to Environmental Engineering	The course introduces the students to the basic chemical and physical processes of relevance in environmental engineering. Mass and energy balance and transport concepts are introduced and the chemical principles governing reaction kinetics and phase partitioning are presented. We then turn our focus to the application of these principles in environmental engineering problems related to water and air pollution. Finally, these local problems are analyzed in the context of global environmental change.
3575	CEE	306	S09-10		Hydrology	Analysis of fundamental processes in the hydrologic cycle, including precipitation, evapotranspiration, infiltration, streamflow and groundwater flow.
3576	CEE	307	S09-10	QR	Field Ecohydrology	This three-week course, offered as part of a four-course study abroad semester, takes place at Princeton University's Mpala Research Centre in central Kenya.  The course will provide an introduction to the principles of hydrological sciences through the development and application of instrumentation for characterizing surface/subsurface hydrological dynamics in field settings.  Lectures and field activities will address the theory of operation, design, and implementation of methods used to quantify hydrological patterns and processes.
3577	CEE	308	S09-10		Environmental Engineering Laboratory	Designed to teach experimental measurement techniques in environmental engineering and their interpretations.  Analytical techniques to assess biodegradation of wastes, lake eutrophication, non-point source pollution, and transport of contaminants in surface and groundwater, as well as hydrologic measurements to determine river and groundwater discharges, and soil-moisture dynamics in response to precipitation events will be conducted.
3578	CEE	312	S09-10		Statics of Structures	This course develops notions of internal forces and displacements, and instructs students how to design and analyze structures. Presents the fundamental principles of structural design, determination of internal forces, and deflections under the static load conditions, and introduces the bending theory of plane beams and the basic energy theorems. The theory of the first order will be developed for continuous girders, frames, arches, suspension bridges, and trusses, including both statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Basic principles for construction of influence lines and determination of extreme influences will be presented.
3579	CEE	334	S09-10	SA	Global Environmental Issues	As the world population grows and becomes more industrialized, human impact on the global environment also increases. This course examines a set of global environmental issues such as climate change, ozone layer depletion, population growth, and depletion of global fisheries, as well as regional issues such as loss of biological diversity, deforestation and desertification, acid rain, and the pollution and overuse of fresh waters.  It also provides an overview of the scientific basis for these problems and examines current and possible future policy responses. One three-hour seminar.
3580	CEE	362	S09-10		Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering	Analysis of forces and deformations in structures under dynamic loads.  Idealization as discrete parameter systems.  Single and multiple degrees of freedom.  Response analysis under free vibration, harmonic, impulsive and random dynamic loads.  Time and frequency domains.  Earthquake phenomena from the engineering point of view. Seismic waves and power spectra.  Measurement of strong ground motion. The concept of response spectra, structural response to earthquakes, design criteria, and seismic safety.
3581	CEE	364	S09-10		Materials in Civil Engineering	Lectures on structure and properties of building materials including concrete, steel, asphalt, and wood; fracture mechanics; strength testing; mechanisms of deterioration (corrosion; freeze-thaw cycles, pollution). Labs on brittle fracture, heat treatment of steel, strength of concrete, mechanical properties of wood.
3582	CEE	376	S09-10		Independent Study	Independent research in the student's area of interest. The work must be conducted under the supervision of a faculty member, and must result in a final paper.
3583	CEE	462	S09-10		Design of Large-Scale Structures: Bridges	The design of bridges is considered from the conceptual phase up to the final design phase.  The following issues are addressed in this course: types of bridges, design codes, computer modeling of bridges, seismic analysis and design, seismic retrofit design, inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation of bridges, movable bridges, bridge aerodynamics, organization of a typical engineering firm, marketing for engineering work.  Several computer codes are used in this course.
3584	CEE	478	S09-10		Senior Thesis	A formal report on research involving analysis, synthesis, and design, directed toward improved understanding and resolution of a significant problem.  The research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member, and the thesis is defended by the student at a public examination before a faculty committee.  The senior thesis is equivalent to a year-long study and is recorded as a double course in the Spring.
3585	CEE	502	S09-10		Environmental Engineering Fundamentals II: Surface and Subsurface Processes	Second course in a two-part series focuses on surface and subsurface processes in environmental engineering. Topics addressed include the evapotranspiration and energy & water resources fluxes, physical hydrology of the surface and subsurface, and chemistry of water and pollution, which are discussed and analyzed through the use of governing equations and concepts of environmental engineering.
3586	CEE	507	S09-10		Independent Study I	Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out independent study.  Prior to course registration, students must complete a departmental Graduate Independent Study form that describes the work being undertaken, and have the form approved by the supervising faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies.
3587	CEE	508	S09-10		Independent Study II	Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out independent study.  Prior to course registration, students must complete a departmental Graduate Independent Study form that describes the work being undertaken, and have the form approved by the supervising faculty member and the Director of Graduate Studies.  Usually taken in the Spring semester.
3588	CEE	509	S09-10		Directed Research	Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out research and presents the results.  Directed research is normally taken during the first year of study. The total grading of the course will be 25% poster presentation and 75% submitted work.
3589	CEE	510	S09-10		Research Seminar	This seminar is a continuation of CEE 509. Each student carries out research, writes a report and presents the research results. Doctoral candidates must complete this course one semester prior to taking the general examination. The total grading of the course will be 25% oral presentation and 75% submitted work.
3590	CEE	512	S09-10		Design of Large-scale Structures: Bridges	The design of bridges is considered from the conceptual phase up to the final design phase.  The following issues are addressed in this course: types of bridges, design codes, computer modeling of bridges, seismic analysis and design, seismic retrofit design, inspection, maintenance and rehabilitation of bridges, movable bridges, bridge aerodynamics, organization of a typical engineering firm, marketing for engineering work.  Several computer codes are used in this course.
3591	CEE	514	S09-10		Earthquake Engineering	Analysis of forces and deformations in structures under dynamic loads. Idealization as discrete parameter systems. Single and multiple degrees of freedom. Response analysis under free vibration, harmonic, periodic, impulsive, and general dynamic loads. Time and frequency domains. Distributed parameter systems. Earthquake phenomena from the engineering point of view. Faulting and seismic waves. Measurement of strong ground motion. Influence of geology. The concept of response spectra, structural response to earthquakes, and design criteria.
3592	CEE	523	S09-10		Mechanics of Dissipative Media	The development of constitutive equations for nonlinear, anisotropic viscoelastic, and plastic media.  It gives analysis of plastic yielding, fatigue under cyclic loading, and failure.  The course examines limit-analysis techniques; elastoplastic rate equations; finite deformation of plastic bodies; uniqueness and stability of incremental solutions; and loss of ellipticity, bifurcation phenomena, and emergence of shear bands.  Poromechanics will be discussed.
3593	CEE	525	S09-10		Applied Numerical Methods	Course introduces students to a broad spectrum of numerical methods for the analysis of typical mathematics, physics, or engineering problems.  Topics covered include: error analysis, interpolation and polynomial approximation, numerical differentiation and integration, ordinary differential equations, and partial differential equations.
3594	CEE	588	S09-10		Boundary Layer Meteorology	Basic dynamics of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) and how it interacts with other environmental and geophysical flows. Topics covered include: mean, turbulence, & higher order flow equations; similarity theories; surface exchanges and their impact on the stability of the atmosphere; different ABL flow regimes (convective, neutral, and stable); role of the ABL in the hydrologic cycle; the fundamentals of scalar (pollutant, water vapor, etc) transport; modeling and measurement approaches for the ABL; and the role of the ABL in large-scale atmospheric flows and how it is represented in coarse atmospheric models.
3595	CEE	599	S09-10		Special Topics in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources: Analysis & Synthesis of Hydrologic Processes	Statistical analyses & models of hydrologic time series at diff. time scales. Autocorrelation function, power spectrum & crosscorrelation of daily, monthly, & annual series of rainfall & streamflow. Autoregressive models for monthly & annual data. The Hurst effect & long-term memory effects. Synthetic streamflow series & storage-yield-reliability analysis. Point process models of environ. data at a site. The Poisson process. Marked Poisson Processes. Shot noise models. Rectangular pulses models. Application to rainfall, soil moisture, & other environ. variables. Modeling of spatial environmental processes. Multidimensional Poisson Processes.
3596	CEE	599B	S09-10		Special Topics in Environmental Engineering and Water Resources: Aerosol Observations & Modeling	This course will focus on ground-based and satellite observations of aerosol particles and their impacts on climate through modeling studies.  Course material will include satellite and ground-based measurements of aerosol particles, mathematical formulation of transport, and numerical models of aerosol distribution.  We will also study how aerosols impact climate change through direct and indirect effects including cloud-aerosol interactions.
3597	CHE	246	S09-10	STX	Thermodynamics	Basic concepts and principles governing the equilibrium behavior of macroscopic fluid and solid systems of interest in modern chemical engineering. First law: energy conservation in open and closed systems. Second law: temperature, entropy and reversibility. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances and mixtures. Phase equilibrium and introduction to reaction equilibrium. Introduction to the microscopic and statistical basis of thermodynamics.
3598	CHE	250	S09-10	STX	Separations in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology	This course covers the theory and practice of separations technologies used in the chemical and biochemical industry. Both equilibrium and rate-based separations will be discussed including distillation and chromatography as the primary examples. The first 2/3 of the course will focus on traditional chemical separations while the remainder of the course will be devoted to bioseparations.
3599	CHE	346	S09-10		Chemical Engineering Laboratory	An intensive hands-on practice of engineering.  Experimental work in the areas of separations, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, process dynamics and control, materials processing and characterization, chemical reactors.  Development of written and oral technical communication skills.
3600	CHE	352	S09-10		Junior Independent Work	Permits selected students to work independently upon projects of interest to them and related to their departmental studies.  This course represents a one-term project in the spring of the junior year. Sophomores with advanced standing may petition to do independent work.
3601	CHE	441	S09-10		Chemical Reaction Engineering	Introduction to chemical reaction engineering and reactor design in chemical and biological processes.  Concepts of chemical kinetics for both homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions.  Coupled transport and chemical/biological rate processes.  Reaction network analysis.
3602	CHE	445	S09-10		Process Control	This is a basic introductory course to Process Control for undergraduate Chemical Engineering students.  Its goals are to familiarize the student with basic concepts of process control, and to provide some insight into applications.
3603	CHE	452	S09-10		Independent Work	This is a one-term independent work for seniors in Chemical Engineering.  This is to be selected only by students doing one-term independent work in the spring of the senior year.  Students doing a two-term thesis should register for ChE 454.
3604	CHE	454	S09-10		Senior Thesis	This is a two-term independent work/thesis for seniors in Chemical Engineering.  Students doing one-term independent work should register for CHE 451 (fall) or CHE 452 (spring).
3605	CHE	505	S09-10		Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer	This course will survey modeling and solutions methods for processes involving heat and mass transfer.  Topics will include convective and diffusive transport, conservation equations, scaling principles and approximation techniques, forced convection, multi-component energy and mass transfer as well as buoyancy and turbulent dirven transport.
3606	CHE	508	S09-10		Numerical Methods for Engineers	Applications of numerical methods to problems of engineering and scientific significance.
3607	CHE	591	S09-10		Seminar in Complex Materials	Discussion and study of current research in complex materials.
3608	CHE	592	S09-10		Seminar in Chemical Engineering	Discussion and study of current research in chemical engineering.
3609	CHI	102	S09-10		Elementary Chinese II	Continuation of Chinese 101.  To develop basic competence in understanding, speaking, reading and writing Mandarin Chinese.
3610	CHI	107	S09-10		Intermediate Chinese II	Continuing the intensive study of modern spoken and written Chinese, this course shifts the emphasis to the reading of modern cultural and social issues.
3611	CHI	108	S09-10		Intensive Intermediate Chinese	An intensive course covering 105 and 107 in one semester for students who have finished 103 which covers 101 and 102.  The course will emphasize reading and writing skills and the analysis of grammar.  After 108, students are ready for third year courses.
3612	CHI	302	S09-10		Introduction to Classical Chinese II	Continuation of CHI 301. Reading in Qin and Han philosophical and historical texts and essays written from Tang to Qing.
3613	CHI	304	S09-10		Third-Year Modern Chinese II	A continuation of CHI 303, designed to improve the student's facility in written and oral expression through a close study of newspaper essays and commentaries.
3614	CHI	306	S09-10		Intensive Third-Year Modern Chinese II	A continuation of 305, designed to further improve the student's facility in written and oral expression through a close study of essays published in contemporary Chinese newspapers and magazines.
3615	CHI	404	S09-10		Fourth-Year Modern Chinese II	A continuation of 403.  Reading and discussion of scholarly writings in the fields of Chinese literature and modern Chinese intellectual history.  A weekly written assignment will be required.    Prerequisite: 403, or instructor's permission.
3616	CHI	406	S09-10		Intensive Fourth-Year Modern Chinese II	Continued reading and discussion of scholarly writings on modern Chinese literature.  This course also exposes students to the social issues China has faced in recent years, while discussing various aspects of contemporary Chinese society.
3617	CHM	202	S09-10	ST	General Chemistry II	Continuation of 201. Principles of chemistry; introduction to chemical bonding and solid state structure; chemical kinetics, descriptive inorganic chemistry; laboratory manipulations, preparations, and analysis. Fulfills medical school entrance requirements in general chemistry and qualitative analysis. Three lectures, one class, one three-hour laboratory..
3618	CHM	304	S09-10	ST	Organic Chemistry II - Foundations of Chemical Reactivity and Synthesis	This course begins by discussing the chemical consequences of conjugation and the Diels-Alder reaction. After a coverage of aromaticity and the chemistry of benzene, we then move into the heart of the course: the nature and reactivity of the carbonyl group, a subject that is central to both mainstream organic chemistry and biochemistry. Throughout this course, an effort will be made to demystify the art of chemical synthesis. This course is appropriate for chemistry majors, premedical students, and other students with an interest in organic chemistry and its central position in the life sciences.
3619	CHM	304B	S09-10	ST	Organic Chemistry II with Biological Emphasis	The concepts introduced in CHM 303 will be extended to the structures and reactions of more complex molecules, with an emphasis on how organic chemistry provides the framework for understanding molecular processes in biology. The fundamental concepts of organic chemistry will be illustrated, as often as possible, with examples drawn from biological systems. Appropriate for chemistry and engineering majors, premedical students, and students with an interest in organic chemistry and its central position in the life sciences.
3620	CHM	306	S09-10		Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics	At the center of this course is the recognition of Gibbs Free Energy as a fundamental quantity describing physical processes.  From this, we will develop concepts of thermodynamics and kinetics, and illustrate them with examples from chemistry.
3621	CHM	333	S09-10	STX	Oil to Ozone:  Chemistry of the Environment	The chemical background of environmental issues.  Topics include energy and fuels, greenhouse effect, ozone, air pollution, food production, pesticides, metals pollution, carcinogens and anti-oxidants.
3622	CHM	406	S09-10		Advanced Physical Chemistry: Chemical Dynamics and Thermodynamics	This course is an introduction to statistical thermodynamics, kinetics, and molecular reaction dynamics.   Following a review of classical thermodynamics, the statistical mechanics of molecular systems is developed.  The course emphasizes a microscopic view of the properties of matter and of chemical reactions.  Short discussions of transport properties, chemical kinetics, and reaction dynamics form the rest of the course.
3623	CHM	408	S09-10	STX	Inorganic Chemistry:  Reactions and Mechanisms	Structure-reactivity correlations for inorganic complexes will be emphasized.  Ligand substitution and electron transfer processes will be presented. The course will highlight applications of inorganic and organometallic chemistry to areas of current interest to both organic and inorganic chemists. These areas will include organic synthesis, "redox" reactions, catalysis, and materials. Prior completion of a full year of organic chemistry is required for enrollment.
3624	CHM	502	S09-10		Advanced Quantum Chemistry	Selected advanced topics in quantum mechanics including: time-dependent quantum mechanics, angular momentum theory, scattering theory, and radiation-matter interactions.
3625	CHM	507	S09-10		Solid State Chemistry	Elementary crystallography; structural principles of extended solids; introduction to solid state physics, lattice dynamics, band theory and optical properties, surfaces and nanostructures.
3626	CHM	510	S09-10		Topics in Physical Chemistry: Single-Molecule Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications	Course introduces single-molecule spectroscopy with applications in biology and materials science.  Topics covered include basic methods of single-molecule fluorescence, chromophores and experimental design, specific detection modalities, statistical analysis of single-molecule data, extraction of dynamical information from fluctuating molecules, applications in nanomaterials, applications in living cells, new directions and outlook.   Primers on essential mathematical and physical concepts will be given in class.  This course is intended for advanced undergraduate seniors and graduate students.
3627	CHM	512	S09-10		Chemical Kinetics	A survey of chemical kinetics. Kinetic measurements and experimental methods, reaction rate theory, molecular dynamics experiment and theory will be discussed.  Both gas phase and condensed phase kinetic studies will be considered.
3628	CHM	516	S09-10		Biophysical Chemistry II	Broad introduction to biological molecules and their reactions networks, with a particular focus on metabolism.  Includes major contemporary techniques used to study structures, functions, interactions, and reactions of biological molecules, including at genome-level. Emphasis on applications, practical aspects, experimental design, and primary literature. Intended to convey to students with diverse backgrounds and interests with working knowledge of biochemistry and with up-to-date tools for solving molecular problems.
3629	CHM	534	S09-10		Modern Methods for Organic Synthesis	This course will expose you to many types of carbon-based molecular structures, the transformations they undergo, and many kinds of chemical reactions and strategies that are important to the field of organic synthesis. Recent advances in asymmetric catalysis, cascade and other complexity-generating structural transformations, and powerful strategies for chemical synthesis that evolved from ideas about the structural origins of important, biologiclaly active molecules such as steriod hormones, cofactors, and alkaloids will be addressed.
3630	CHM	536	S09-10		Topics in Organic Chemistry: Methods for Complex Organic Synthesis	An in-depth discussion of transition metal-catalyzed reactions commonly used in modern organic synthesis (e.g. cross coupling, olefin metathesis, asymmetric hydrogenation, etc.). Emphasis will be placed on the topic of selectivity (chemo-, regio-, and stereo-) and its mechanistic basis. The historical development, scope, and limitations of the methods are discussed.  A prior course in organometallic chemistry (CHM 521) is recommended.
3631	CHM	539	S09-10		Introduction to Chemical Instrumentation	The application of instrumentation (chiefly spectrometers) to modern chemical and biochemical research, including medicinal chemistry will be covered.  Primary emphasis will be on NMR methods, but additional sections of the course will be devoted to mass spectrometry , X-ray diffraction, IR, UV, and EPR spectroscopy, as well as chiroptical techniques.  The integrated nature of using various instrumental methods for identification and characterization of molecular structure and dynamics will be emphasized.
3632	CHM	543	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Structural Biology: Neuro-developmental Disorders from a Molecular Point of View	A critical discussion of biological structures pertinent to understanding  neurodevelopmental diseases. Crystal structures of ion channels, synaptic scaffolds, receptors, chromatin remodeling complexes, and kinases will be analyzed in the context of recent genetic findings on the causes of autism, fragile-X syndrome, and Rett's syndrome. A systems biology approach will be taken to bridge the gap between behavioral phenotypes, as studied with mouse models, and gene expression profiles. The principles of x-ray crystallography will be taught as needed to follow journal articles under discussion.
3633	CHM	544	S09-10		Metals in Biology	Life processes depend on over 25 elements whose bioinorganic chemistry is relevant to the environment (biogeochemical cycles), agriculture, and health. CHM 544 surveys the bioinorganic chemistry of the elements. In-depth coverage of key transition metal ions including manganese, iron, copper, and molybdenum focuses on redox roles in anaerobic and aerobic systems and metalloenzymes that activate small molecules and ions, including hydrogen, nitrogen, nitrate, nitric oxide, oxygen, superoxide, and hydrogen peroxide. Appreciation of the structure and reactivity of metalloenzyme systems is critical to understanding life at the molecular level.
3634	CHV	354	S09-10	EM	Rediscovering the Hebraic Sources of Modern Political Thought	Modern political thought owes more to ancient Hebraic sources, including the Bible and Talmud, than has been previously acknowledged. Recent studies tell the story of political Hebraism, the early modern attempt to glean moral, legal, and political meaning from Hebraic texts. This is one of the most exciting chapters in the history of political thought being written today. This course will discuss Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, and other major theorists of modern natural law and politics. We will consider how the ancient texts inspired new ideas of the rule of law, republic, and social justice.
3635	CHV	510	S09-10		Neuroethics	Important issues in contemporary neuroethics,  ranging from investigations into the biology of moral decisionmaking, through the neurobiology of appetitite and addiction, to the neural definitions of death. Recommended to graduate students in philosophy, political theory, neuroscience and psychology.
3636	CHV	538	S09-10		Church State Scripture (The Ethics of Reading, Part II)	An inquiry into the relation of the reading and interpretation of scripture to laws, whether derived from texts held to be sacred or designed to regulate their effects, and to Law as an idea and an ethos in which we live.  Explores the interpretation of fundamental texts from three major religious traditions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-and legal texts that derive from them or comment on them, as well as laws conceived to police, regulate, or accommodate religion; also the ways in which literature dramatizes the role of law, and of Law, in its discovery of the limits to human action.
3637	CLA	214	S09-10	EM	The Other Side of Rome	An introduction to Roman culture designed to complicate the traditional image of Rome as a static, rigidly conservative society, the course will explore how the Romans used such issues as gender and sexuality, conspicuous consumption, and slavery to define the place of their civilization within the natural order.  Authors like Petronius, Lucan, and Tacitus will focus our attention on the social complexities of imperial Rome.  We end with a look at contemporary representations of Rome to ask what role stereotypes of ancient Rome have come to play in 20th century America.
3638	CLA	217	S09-10	HA	The Greek World in the Hellenistic Age	The Greek experience from Alexander the Great through Cleopatra.  An exploration of the dramatic expansion of the Greek world into Egypt and the Near East brought about by the conquests and achievements of Alexander.  Study of the profound political, social, and intellectual changes that stemmed from the interaction of the cultures, and the entrance of Greece into the sphere of Rome.  Readings include history, biography, and inscriptions.
3639	CLA	335	S09-10	LA	Studies in the Classical Tradition: From Athens to Harlem: Classical Texts and African-American Writing	This is a course about the complex inspiration African-American writers took from texts of classical antiquity, and the challenges they faced to make them their own. We will read and put into dialogue ancient Greek and Roman works and modern responses, ranging from the 18th to the 21st century. Themes include Odyssean wandering, Iliadic rage, satire, patronage, rhetoric, literacy, liberation, pedagogy, praise poetry, myth, and the canon. The aim is to gain new appreciation of both sets of texts, and to articulate what happens at their points of intersection in modern American culture.
3640	CLA	476	S09-10		Introduction to Sanskrit II	A continuation of CLA 475/LIN 475.  Students will continue to learn the essentials of Sanskrit grammar, and to refine their reading skills.
3641	CLA	505	S09-10		Greek Lyric Poetry	Pindar and Bacchylides will be the focus of the course.
3642	CLA	514	S09-10		Problems in Greek Literature: Hellenistic Poetry	A survey of recent developments in the study of Hellenistic poetry through consideration of a wide range of authors. Attention focuses on Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus, but other poets, ranging in time from Philetas to Parthenius, will be considered, including some of the problems involved in working with highly fragmentary texts. Course  also permits us to look at certain aspects of the reception of Hellenistic poetry in Roman literature.
3643	CLA	515	S09-10		Problems in Greek Literature: Heroic Lives and Legends in the Second Sophistic	Course explores the reanimation of the Greek heroic tradition in the Imperial era from three intertwined perspectives: literary, ritual and social. Selections from Dio Chrysostom, Lucian, Plutarch, Aelius Aristides and Philostratus, are studied.  Attention is paid to the spirit of arch and learned play for which the Second Sophistic is famous, and with an eye to how the heroic legacy was tailored to the needs of Graeco-Roman culture in the spheres of athletics, performance oratory, civic deportment and spiritual experience. Coure also delves into the growing body of scholarship on Imperial-era literature in its cultural context.
3644	CLA	520	S09-10		Greek History: Methods and Problems	A comprehensive introduction to central topics and methods of Greek history, offering a chronological overview of periods and significant developments; a survey of research tools and specialized sub-disciplines (e.g., epigraphy and numismatics); as well as important theoretical approaches to the study of the past (e.g., positivism, or the Annales School).
3645	CLA	522	S09-10		Problems in Greek History: Elite and Demos in the Ancient Greek City	A survey of the social, political and economic relationships between the elite and the demos in the Greek poleis from the archaic age to the Hellenistic period. Particular attention is paid to the struggle for political power and the redistribution of wealth in classical Athens. Course treats the sources of conflict, the way both groups tried to overcome the tensions, and the open confrontations that resulted when such efforts failed.
3646	CLA	542	S09-10		Problems in Latin Literature: Greek and Latin Textual Criticism	Seminar focuses on the art and craft of textual criticism, the means by which editions of Greek and Latin texts are made.  Despite the title of the course, it is not concerned only with Latin literature.  After sessions on the history and theory of textual editing, we review a variety of forms that textual transmission can take and do practical exercises solving the sorts of textual problem that arise.
3647	CLA	564	S09-10		Problems in Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction to the State of the Art	A rigorous introduction to Proto-Indo-European language and culture, with an emphasis on how Greek and Latin inform the reconstruction and, in reverse, how a knowledge of historical roots and comparative material can enhance our understanding of the classical languages and texts.  The direction the class takes depends to some extent on the interests of the participants, but the main goals are to get as good an understanding as time allows of Proto-Indo-European phonology, morphology, syntax, and stylistics and to apply linguistic techniques fruitfully to familiar and perhaps not-so-familiar works.
3648	CLA	599	S09-10		Dissertation Writers' Seminar	A practical and theoretical introduction to scholarly writing at the dissertation level and beyond.  This seminar is normally required of all post-generals students and provides information and guidance on the proposal and dissertation writing process; the seminar meets every two or three weeks throughout the year, providing a forum for dissertators to circulate work in progress for feedback, and to discuss issues that arise in their work.
3649	CLG	102	S09-10		Beginner's Greek: Attic Prose	Designed to enable the student to read classical Attic Greek with facility; at the end of the year a selection of short Attic prose will be read.  Equal emphasis on acquiring a vocabulary and an understanding of the structure of the language.
3650	CLG	103	S09-10		Ancient Greek: An Intensive Introduction	This is an intensive introduction to Greek grammar. It covers in one semester material usually done in the standard two-semester introductory sequence (CLG 101/102). Students who complete this course and then take CLG 105 in the fall will be able to complete the usual three semesters' sequence in two and can fulfill the language requirement by taking only one additional course, typically CLG 108.  This course aims at providing a reading knowledge of Classical Greek, quickly.
3651	CLG	108	S09-10		Homer	To learn to read Homer with pleasure.  In addition to providing an introduction to Homeric dialect, oral poetry, and meter, we will discuss literary technique, epic's historical background, and Homer's role in the development of Greek thought.
3652	CLG	213	S09-10	LA	Tragic Drama	A close reading of one Greek tragedy, with supplementary readings (in English and Greek) illustrating the genre and its context.
3653	CLG	304	S09-10	HA	Greek Historians	Intensive examination of Thucydides, with special emphasis on his philosophy of history, historical method, narrative strategies, and the question of his reliability as an historical source for the study of the Peloponnesian War.
3654	COM	206	S09-10	LA	Masterworks of European Literature	The subtitle of this course might be `Rethinking the Classics' or `Literature and the Idea of the Human'. The focus will be firmly on the close reading of particular texts but discussions will also range freely over large questions, especially relating to the ways in which great works, over time, have explored the edges or limits of what we mean by the word `human': through madness, war, crime, politics and martyrdom, to name only a few of the more startling options.
3655	COM	303	S09-10	LA	Comparative History of Literary Theory	A historical introduction to literary theory in the Western tradition from Plato to the present. In our readings of philosophers, critics and creative writers, we will consider issues such as mimesis, imagination, religious belief, sexuality and ethics. Past terms and current problems are related to an inquiry into the nature-and the power-of literature through the centuries. Critical works from Plato and Aristotle, through Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Benjamin, Derrida and Achebe will be read. Also poetry and plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Eliot and Brecht.
3656	COM	312	S09-10	LA	Violence and Moving Images: Politics, Aesthetics, Spectatorship	Why has violence in moving images become so prevalent and graphic since the 1960's and why do we watch it even though most of us find such violence repugnant in real life?  Looking at a variety of genres (action, horror, serial killer films, Westerns, war films, etc.) we will consider the social and political meanings of these films and their aesthetic effects.  Questions considered will include: How has violence been used to critically figure the risks, excesses, and alienation of modern culture?  How has film violence been represented to elicit terror, excitement, curiosity?  And why has film violence become so widespread globally.
3657	COM	372	S09-10	LA	The Gothic Tradition	The purpose of this seminar is to analyze and understand the cultural meanings of the Gothic mode through a study of its characteristic elements, its origins in eighteenth-century English and German culture and thought, its development across Western national traditions, and its persistence in contemporary culture, including film, electronic media, clothing, social behavior, and belief systems, as well as literature.  Films, artifacts, web sites and electronic publications will supplement readings.
3658	COM	395	S09-10	HA	Writing Power: Representations of Sovereignty in the Late Middle Ages	A study of the relationship between politics and language in the late Middle Ages. Close readings and comparative analyses of selected moral and political works produced in Abbasid Persia, Byzantium, and Western Europe from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. Special attention will be given to the theoretical elaboration of monarchical power in relation to virtue, divinity, law, and social welfare. Questions of political theory, literary criticism, and cultural history will be treated with view to understanding the processes of symbolic construction and rhetorical consolidation of supreme authority and charismatic leadership.
3659	COM	397	S09-10	LA	Modern South Asian Literature	Key works of Modern South Asian literature from the 1850s to the present. This year we focus on the topics of writing, secrets, and gender in 19th and 20th century fiction. We look at women's secret writings, representations of forbidden relationships, transgression, and intersections of the personal, the sexual, and the political. Writers from "British India," the present-day states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as well as from the South Asian diaspora. All works studied in English translation or English original. There will be some discussion of translation in class, as well as selected readings of literary criticism and history.
3660	COM	398	S09-10	LA	Coming of Age in Minor Cultures: Eastern European Literature and Cinema	The cultures of Central-Eastern Europe, living in the shadow of hegemonic powers, tend to conceptualize themselves as subaltern, underdeveloped, victimized, immature, minor, un-enlightened or even backward. Often, this self-understanding is expressed in art through the analogy of childhood or adolescence; the relation of a minor culture to a great culture is that of a child to a parental figure. We will closely examine Polish, Czech, Yugoslavian, Bosnian and Hungarian works of literature and cinema that explore how -- if at all -- the development of character is informed by unfavorable geopolitical and historical determinations.
3661	COM	399	S09-10	LA	Men in Tights: 18th-Century Fiction in Film	18th-century literature may now be less widely read than that of any other period--yet current film and fiction almost obsessively revisits it. What does that say about the present--and about how we understand the 18th century? Why the popularity of such "costume drama"? How does film, that quintessentially modern medium, reinterpret or translate the 18th-century novel, and why so often? We'll read several important 18th-century European novels, some of which have received more than one film treatment, and examine the films as "translations" of those novels, and the cultures that produced them, into 20th and 21st-century visual terms.
3662	COM	419	S09-10	LA	Conceptions of the Sensory	In-depth discussion and analysis of conceptions of the sensory in writings by philosophers, poets, art critics and theorists, and artists, from the early modern to contemporary periods.  We will investigate the ways in which the sensory is understood as the necessary basis for conceptual thinking of diverse kinds, including systematic and dialectical modes, philosophies, imaginative and figural writing,  and theory and practice of the plastic arts.
3663	COM	534	S09-10		Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Theory: The Ambiguous "Image"	This seminar examines how literary and aesthetic theory intersect and supplement each other, and how critical theory is generated by the relationship between them.  The authors we study, Lessing, Diderot, Baudelaire and Benjamin, all reflect on that relationship in considering the identity and effectivity of the "Image."
3664	COM	543	S09-10		Topics in Medieval Literature: The Medieval Voice	This seminar will investigate the multiple dimensions of the medieval voice: grammatical, logical, musical, and poetic. Topics to be discussed include the relation between sound and voice, the elements of writing, universals, rational and irrational noise, tone and timbre, syllabification, and rhyme. Authors to be discussed may include Aristotle, Prisican, Boethius, Porphyry, Anselm, Gaunilo, Abelard, Roscelin, Guilhem de Peitieus, Arnaut Daniel, Dante, Eustache Deschamps.
3665	COM	545	S09-10		First Person Singular	A study of first person narratives, chosen largely from Romantic and post-Romantic fiction, including at least one not in the first person, and a large selection from Proust, to whom we will devote four weeks.  (French-language texts may be read in translation by students from Departments other than Comparative Literature.)
3666	COM	581	S09-10		Topics in Non-Western and General Literature: Postcolonial Theory/Postcolonial Literature	Intensive study of key texts in postcolonial theory and literature.  Examination how literary representations of postcoloniality supplement theoretical conceptualizations of it, and vice versa. Attention is paid to the regional specificity of postcolonial situations, the formation of anti-colonial vanguards, and questions of translation.
3667	COS	116	S09-10	ST	The Computational Universe	Computers have brought the world to our fingertips. We will try to understand at a basic level the science--old and new--underlying this new Computational Universe. Our quest takes us on a broad sweep of scientific knowledge and related technologies: propositional logic of the ancient Greeks (microprocessors); quantum mechanics (silicon chips); network and system phenomena (internet and search engines); computational intractability (secure encryption); and efficient algorithms (genomic sequencing). Ultimately, this study makes us look anew at ourselves--our genome; language; music; "knowledge"; and, above all, the mystery of our intelligence.
3668	COS	126	S09-10	QR	General Computer Science	An introduction to computer science in the context of scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The goal of the course is to teach basic principles and practical issues, while at the same time preparing students to use computers effectively for applications in computer science, physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines. Topics include: hardware and software systems; programming in Java; algorithms and data structures; fundamental principles of computation; and scientific computing, including simulation, optimization, and data analysis. Two lectures, two precepts.
3669	COS	217	S09-10	QR	Introduction to Programming Systems	Introduction to programming systems, including modular programming, advanced program design, programming style, test, debugging and performance tuning; machine languages and assembly language; and use of system call services.
3670	COS	226	S09-10	QR	Algorithms and Data Structures	This course surveys the most important algorithms and data structures in use on computers today. Particular emphasis is given to algorithms for sorting, searching, and string processing. Fundamental algorithms in a number of other areas are covered as well, including geometric algorithms, graph algorithms, and some numerical algorithms. The course will concentrate on developing implementations, understanding their performance characteristics, and estimating their potential effectiveness in applications.
3671	COS	320	S09-10		Compiling Techniques	Understand the design and construction of compilers. Concepts include syntax analysis, semantics, code generation, optimization and run-time systems.  Translation of imperative languages (such as C), functional languages (such as ML), and object-oriented languages (such as Java) will be studied.  Students will implement a complete compiler for a small language.
3672	COS	333	S09-10		Advanced Programming Techniques	This is a course about the practice of programming.  Programming is more than just writing code.  Programmers must also assess tradeoffs, choose among design alternatives, debug and test, improve performance, and maintain software written by themselves & others. At the same time, they must be concerned with compatibility, robustness, and reliability, while meeting specifications.  Students will have the opportunity to develop these skills by working on their own code and in group projects.
3673	COS	398	S09-10		Junior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only)	Provides an opportunity for a student to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student.  The final choice must be approved by the faculty advisor.
3674	COS	423	S09-10		Theory of Algorithms	Design and analysis of efficient data structures and algorithms. General techniques for building and analyzing algorithms. Introduction to NP-completeness.
3675	COS	424	S09-10		Interacting with Data	Computers have made it possible, even easy, to collect vast amounts of data from a wide variety of sources.  It is not always clear, however, how to use that data, and how to extract useful information from it.  This problem is faced in a tremendous range of business and scientific applications.  This course will focus on some of the most useful approaches to this broad problem, exploring both theoretical foundations and practical applications.  Students will gain experience analyzing several kinds of data, including text, images and biological data.  Topics will include classification, clustering, prediction, and dimensionality reduction.
3676	COS	426	S09-10		Computer Graphics	Introduction to computer graphics.  Topics include image synthesis, 3D modeling, image processing and animation.  Encourage hands-on experience.
3677	COS	433	S09-10		Cryptography	An introduction to modern cryptography with an emphasis on the fundamental ideas. We will survey both the basic information and  complexity theoretic concepts as well as their (often surprising and  counter-intuitive) applications. Topics covered include private key and public key encryption schemes, digital signatures, pseudorandom generators and functions, chosen ciphertext security, and (if there's time) some advanced topics such as zero knowledge proofs, secret sharing, private information retrieval, and quantum cryptography.
3678	COS	435	S09-10		Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery	This course examines the methods used to search for information in large digital collections (e.g. Google) and how digital content is gathered by search engines.  We study classic techniques of indexing documents and searching text and also new algorithms that exploit properties of the Web (e.g. links) and other digital collections, including multimedia collections.  Techniques include those for relevance and ranking of documents, exploiting user history, and information clustering.  We also examine systems aspects of search technology: how distributed computing and storage are used to make information delivery efficient.
3679	COS	444	S09-10	SA	Internet Auctions: Theory and Practice	The goal of this course is to connect theory to real-world electronic auctions.  Basic results will be derived and tested,  in class and by observing Internet auctions.   Topics include: Vickrey auctions, revenue equivence, optimal auctions, multiple-unit auctions, mechanism design, current Internet auctions, modeling auction behavior and agent-based simulation of single and double-sided markets.
3680	COS	451	S09-10		Computational Geometry	This course introduces the basic concepts of geometric computing, illustrating the importance of this field for a variety of applications areas, such as computer graphics, solid modeling, robotics, database, pattern recognition, and statistical analysis. Algorithms are presented and analyzed for a large number of geometric problems, and an array of fundamental techniques are discussed (e.g., convex hulls, Voronoi diagrams, intersection problems, multidimensional searching).
3681	COS	461	S09-10		Computer Networks	This course studies computer networks and the services built on top of them.  Topics include packet-switch and multi-access networks, routing and flow control, congestion control and quality-of-service, Internet protocols (IP, TCP, BGP), the client-server model and RPC, elements of distributed systems (naming, security, caching) and the design of network services (multimedia, file and web servers).
3682	COS	498	S09-10		Senior Independent Work (B.S.E. candidates only)	Provides an opportunity for a student to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in computer science. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student.  The final choice must be approved by the faculty advisor.
3683	COS	522	S09-10		Computational Complexity	Introduction to research in computational complexity theory. Computational models: nondeterministic, alternating, and probabilistic machines. Boolean circuits. Complexity classes associated with these models: NP, Polynomial hierarchy, BPP, P/poly, etc. Complete problems. Interactive proof systems and probabilistically checkable proofs: IP=PSPACE and NP=PCP (log n, l). Definitions of randomness. Pseudorandomness and derandomizations. Lower bounds for concrete models such as algebraic decision trees, bounded-depth circuits, and monotone circuits.
3684	COS	598A	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Economic and Systems Design for Electronic Marketplaces	Design of electronic marketplaces, e.g., financial markets, online advertising, from economic & computer systems perspectives. Topics include auction design, online, nearline, & offline technologies, marketplace policies & protections, use of large-scale data, role and challenges for algorithms & scalable systems, & what we can learn from other marketplaces.
3685	COS	598B	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Algorithms and Complexity	Focuses on current research in approximation algorithms and combinatorial optimization. Topics will be drawn from applications of linear programming and semidefinite programming techniques to optimization problems, metric embeddings, and results on hardness of approximation. Other topics may be included based on interests of class.
3686	COS	598C	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Systems for Large Data	Readings of recent research results on building storage and search systems for very large datasets.  Focus on systems issues such as storage architecture, deduplication, reliability and content-based search system issues for unstructured, non-text document data, i.e., images, audio, video, and scientific data types.  Students will also work in groups on small research projects.
3687	COS	598D	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Computer Science: Formal Methods in Networking	Modern formal methods are mature enough for solving industrial-strength problems. This course will explore these methods and related systems in the context of networking. These will include Binary Decision Diagrams, SAT and SMT solvers for Boolean logic, Prolog and Datalog for definite-clauses, Alloy for first-order logic, Promela for concurrent programs and Isabelle for higher-order logic
3688	CWR	202	S09-10	LA	Creative Writing (Poetry)	Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.   Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
3689	CWR	204	S09-10	LA	Creative Writing (Fiction)	The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers a perspective on the place of literature among the liberal arts.  Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
3690	CWR	206	S09-10	LA	Creative Writing (Literary Translation)	Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.  Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
3691	CWR	302	S09-10	LA	Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)	Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.  The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers perspective on the places of literature among the liberal arts.
3692	CWR	304	S09-10	LA	Advanced Creative Writing (Fiction)	Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.   The curriculum allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature and offers perspective on the place of literature among the liberal arts.  Criticism by practicing writers and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
3693	CWR	306	S09-10	LA	Advanced Creative Writing (Literary Translation)	Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.  Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
3694	CWR	448	S09-10	LA	Screenwriting II: Creating Visual and Emotional Unity	An advanced-level course in screenwriting. This class will build upon the techniques introduced in CWR 348, familiarizing students with the complex use of metaphorical, emotional and visual threads in screenplay writing. Analyzing examples of international, independent and classical structures, students will be exposed to the rhythms and demands of the process of conceiving and writing a long-form narrative film.
3695	CWR	449	S09-10	LA	Athens Stories: Screen Interpretations of a City	An advanced course in screenwriting. Students will explore the possibilities of transposing their understanding of the contemporary Athens as a physical and metaphorical space, into the fabric of short film/screenplay. This class will build upon the techniques introduced in Screenwriting I and II - and will examine other films that have used cities as a source of narrative and structural inspiration in order to direct students towards their own script interpretations of Athens-specific, or Athens-inspired, stories.
3696	DAN	209	S09-10	LA	Introduction to Movement and Dance	A mix of movement techniques, improvisation, and composition.  Students with no previous dance training will learn how to recognize their own movement potential and how to build their own dances.  The essential principles and evolution of 20th-century modern and post-modern dance will be studied through readings and viewings of live and videotaped dance performances.
3697	DAN	211	S09-10	LA	The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices	A studio course introducing students to American dance aesthetics and practices, with a focus on how its evolution has been influenced by African American choreographers and dancers. An ongoing study of movement practices from traditional African dances and those of the African diaspora, touching on American jazz dance, modern dance, and American ballet.  Studio work will be complemented by readings, video viewings, guest speakers, and dance studies.
3698	DAN	220	S09-10	LA	Modern Dance: Beginning/Intermediate Technique and Choreography	The practice of primarily modern dance and some ballet techniques designed to further expand movement vocabulary and expressive range.  Students will be introduced to the influence of Modernism on choreographic practices through structured improvisations, choreographic studies, viewing videotapes and readings.  Two two-hour classes in technique, one two-hour class in choreography.
3699	DAN	311	S09-10	LA	Dancing East to West: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Debates in World Dance	A studio course introducing students to historical and evolving dance traditions - Kathak of North India and Flamenco of Spain. We shall study these movement languages and dance forms as well as their historical, social and cultural contexts.  Lectures, readings, class discussions and video viewings will complement regular visits by dance specialists in these traditions as we examine the contemporary gender and identity issues they raise as well as the emergence of new, hybrid forms and internationalist, postmodern practices.
3700	DAN	321	S09-10	LA	Special Topics in Dance History, Criticism, and Aesthetics: Music and Dance Collaborations in the 20th Century	An interdisciplinary venture between the Department of Music and the Program in Dance, DAN 321 concerns the interaction between music choreography in late modern ballet, contemporary dance, and post-modern dance. To establish a viable context for analysis and interpretation, the course will be taught chronologically, beginning with the late collaborations between Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine, Aaron Copland , Martha Graham, John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and extending up through the recent reliance on ambient and natural sound. The course will address the manner in which both dance and music represent, challenge, and recode each other.
3701	DAN	409	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Dance: Advanced Technique and Choreography	Advanced technique and performance. In this course, students will participate in the staging of the restored version of Claude Debussy's final ballet, The Toy Box.  Performances will take place in the Berlind Theater with live music by the student jazz ensemble conducted by Anthony Branker.
3702	DAN	431	S09-10	LA	Approaches to Ballet: Technique and Repertory	A studio course in ballet technique for advanced/intermediate students. The course consists of a pre-professional ballet class and selections of classical, neo-classical, and contemporary repertory.  The course will focus on the work of four ballet choreographers: Marius Petipa, George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, and Mark Morris. Guest Artists for the course are Suki Schorer, Jeffrey Edwards and Susan Jaffe.  Readings and viewings of live and taped performances will further students' knowledge of the major trends of 20th century ballet.
3703	EAS	311	S09-10	LA	Japanese Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization	This course will examine elements of Japanese popular and visual culture both within Japan and in a global setting, especially its impact on America and the rest of Asia.  With a focus on the effects of media representations on subjectivity in a late-capitalist world, we will devote particular attention to visual aspects such as manga, television, anime, and live-action cinema, but will include popular music and fiction as well.
3704	EAS	320	S09-10	HA	Early Japanese History	The World of the Tale of Heike. Using the translation of the Heike Monogatari (Tales of the Heike) as a central text, will explore the transition from court to warrior dominated society in Japan between the 12th and 15th centuries.  Themes of war, love, heroism, betrayal, religion and values, politics, society and economy. Immersion in early Japanese culture.
3705	EAS	321	S09-10	HA	Early Modern Japan	This course provides an introduction to the history and culture of Japan in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. This was the age of samurai rule, in which many elements of modern Japanese culture took familiar form. It was also the time when the roots of Japan's emergence as a modern state were laid.
3706	EAS	332	S09-10	SA	Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture	This course offers an overview of contemporary China, focusing on its transformation from Maoist socialism to the current Chinese society. It outlines Maoist socialism, and explores the changes since the late 1970s, giving special attention to tensions in this transformation: the tension between decentralized social life and the sovereignty of the post--Mao state; between the memories of Maoist socialism and current cultural politics; between the loss and reinvention of traditions; between the increasing mobility and social re-stratification; and  between China's change and the existing theories about the way a society changes.
3707	EAS	336	S09-10	HA	The Making and Transformation of Medieval China: 300-1200	This course provides a survey of the history of China from the dissolution of the first unified empire to the eve of the Mongol invasion. Key issues include the Tang-Song transformation, influence of Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism, the rise of literati culture, "education and the examination system, the development of civil service careers, bureaucracy and rulership, and commercialism".
3708	EAS	344	S09-10	LA	Postwar Japanese Narrative: Modern to Postmodern	This course examines postwar Japanese experience through major literary, cinematic, and intellectual achievements.  The objective is first to analyze a multitude of struggles in the aftermath of the Asia-Pacific War, and then to inquire into the nature of post-industrial prosperity in capitalist consumerism and the emergence of postmodernism. The course will cover representative postwar figures such as, Oe Kenzaburo, Dazai Osamu, Mishima Yukio, as well as contemporary writers such as Murakami Haruki. Topics include the rise of democratic ideas, unsolved issues of war memories, and the tension between serious and "popular" fiction writing.
3709	EAS	366	S09-10	HA	Understanding North Korea	This course seeks to facilitate a better understanding of contemporary North Korea by examining the history of Korea's colonial legacies and national division, and investigating the ways in which knowledge about North Korea is collected, produced, and consumed in the West.  Students will learn to analyze current perceptions and debates by applying an understanding of how historical processes have informed multiple representations and narratives--ranging from "propaganda" to documentary films--of North Korea.  This course is intended primarily for undergraduates who wish to deepen their historical and historiographical understanding.
3710	EAS	416	S09-10	HA	Intellectual History of China from the Ninth to the 19th Century	The course centers on the changing role of the intellectual elite -- how they were recruited, their relationship to holders of powers, their attitudes toward the past and their cultural heritage. The aim of the course is to provide a clearer understanding of the burdens and privileges of intellectuals in Chinese society.
3711	EAS	437	S09-10	SA	What is a Good Society? Modern Social Ideals in Japan	Japan, along with other East and Southeast Asian nations, has reined in market forces and produced wealth by relying on the care of families, communities, and an emphasis on shared morality and values--while de-emphasizing individual rights and the tolerance of difference. The outcome is a cohesive and caring society, but one that has come with social costs. The course discusses these trade-offs in the context of contemporary social issues: the family and private life, efforts to improve society through education, socialization, prenatal care, and eugenics, and Japanese approaches to medicine and bio-ethical issues.
3712	EAS	447	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Japanese Linguistics	This course teaches interconnections between Japanese language and culture.  The course involves structural analysis of the key grammatical  concepts and their relevance to cultural notions of uchi (inside) and soto (outside).
3713	EAS	506	S09-10		Medieval China	Selected problems in sources and interpretations in the period from the 3rd to the 10th centuries, with particular emphasis on social and economic changes, are examined.   Discussions during the course focuses on Tang writings in context.
3714	EAS	508	S09-10		Chinese Intellectual History	Methods, sources, and problems of research in Chinese thought, including examination of some broad interpretations of intellectual development of China.  A reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese is required for the study of selected problems areas through seminar discussion, oral reports, and research papers.
3715	EAS	518	S09-10		Qing History: Readings in Cultural History	Course explores the role of science and technology in the material culture of late imperial China in the Qing (Ch'ing) era, roughly 1550-1900.
3716	EAS	523	S09-10		Research in Japanese History	Students in this seminar will produce a significant research paper on any period of Japanese history.  In addition, some time will be devoted to close, guided readings of selected Tokugawa and Meiji texts.
3717	EAS	524	S09-10		Early Japanese History	Readings and discussions with focus on topics in courtly and warrior society, village life, trade and commerce, religion and cultural developments.
3718	EAS	541	S09-10		Classical Japanese Prose	Selected readings in Classical Japanese text.
3719	EAS	544	S09-10		20th-Century Japanese Literature	Readings in selected texts in modern Japanese literature.
3720	EAS	546	S09-10		Introduction to Kanbun	Introduction to the basic of reading Chinese-style Classical Japanese and its related forms.  Texts:  Literary and historical texts from both China and Japan.
3721	EAS	549	S09-10		Japan Anthropology in Historical Perspective	The course considers Japan studies in the context of theories of capitalism, personhood, democracy, gender, and modernity.  We will be discussing issues of fieldwork as method and "area" as a unit of analysis.  We will also consider the place of Japan in American social thought.
3722	EAS	564	S09-10		Readings in Japanese Academic Style II	The second half of the two-semester course, which trains students in reading the particular style of Japanese academic writing.  The second semester particularly focuses on academic writings from Meiji to the 1950s, including brief introduction of necessary Classical Japanese Grammar for this purpose. Course conducted in English.
3723	EAS	584	S09-10		Modernity and China (I):  Power and Life	Chinese modernity is addressed using different approaches and issues, while focusing on one set of issues each time.  This term, course examines how a certain way of governing became the threshold of modernity. The inspiration and limits of the framework of governmentality and biopower, in particular, are seen through cases such as famine prevention, famine relief and the failure to do so, and through the interaction of different modes of power in Maoist socialism and post-Mao China.
3724	EAS	592	S09-10		The Politics of Deviancy, Punishment, and Social Order in East Asia	This is an interdisciplinary research seminar designed to contextualize recent intellectual contributions on law, social order, and deviancy in East Asia.  By drawing on political and social theories regarding marginalization, state rationality, and the public construction of justice, we will consider how the historical development of local prosecutorial and penal cultures reflects the spread of rationalized state institutions and of political and civil rights, even as these are shaped by local political demands.  We will also examine how changing debates about crime and deviancy reinforce or challenge patterns of power.
3725	ECO	100	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Microeconomics	This course presents fundamental analyses of the ways that households choose consumption and work, that incentives drive suppliers to utilize labor, technology and other inputs to produce goods and services and that a market economy harmonizes its sectors through the price system.  Against this backdrop, the roles played by public goods, environmental impacts, income distribution, monopoly power, taxes, welfare programs and entrepreneurship are considered.  The differing perspectives of market participants, public policy and academic economics are all exercised.
3726	ECO	101	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Macroeconomics	The theory of the determination of the level of national income and economic activity, including an examination of the financial system. Emphasis on economic growth and such economic problems as inflation, unemployment and recession, and on appropriate policy responses.  Some attention is also paid to international issues.
3727	ECO	202	S09-10	QR	Statistics and Data Analysis for Economics	An introduction to probability and statistical methods for empirical work in economics.  Probability, random variables, sampling, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, estimation and hypotheses testing, introduction to the regression model. Economic applications are emphasized.
3728	ECO	301	S09-10	SA	Macroeconomics	This course covers the theory of modern macroeconomics in detail. We will focus on the determination of macroeconomic variables -- such as output, employment, price, and the interest rate -- in the short, medium, and long run, and we will address a number of policy issues. We will discuss several examples of macroeconomic phenomena in the real world. A central theme will be to understand the powers and limitations of macroeconomic policy in stabilizing the business cycle and promoting growth.
3729	ECO	310	S09-10	SA	Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach	This course presents the economic theory of individual and firm behavior using mathematical tools including calculus.  The course will emphasize applications of microeconomic theory to consumer choices, output and production of firms, market interaction and equilibrium.
3730	ECO	311	S09-10	SA	Macroeconomics: A Mathematical Approach	This course examines the determinants of long-run economic growth, short-run business cycle fluctuations, and the conduct of monetary and fiscal policy. The first part of the course develops a framework for the analysis of households' consumption and savings behavior and firms' production decisions, and uses that to analyze long-run growth and financial crises. The second part of the course extends that analysis to examine business cycle fluctuations, including inflation, unemployment. Current issues in macroeconomic and financial policy are discussed throughout.
3731	ECO	313	S09-10	QR	Econometric Applications	This course provides hands-on experience in the art and science of econometric analysis designed to help students to acquire and master the skills necessary to carry out their own empirical research in economics.  Various aspects of empirical research in economics will be covered including 1) development of testable economic models, 2) appropriate use of data, 3) specification and estimation of econometric models.  A range of applications will be presented and discussed in class and on problem sets.
3732	ECO	341	S09-10	SA	Public Finance	The main goal is to learn to think analytically about government policy problems.
3733	ECO	352	S09-10	SA	International Trade	This course analyzes the causes and consequences of international trade and investment.  We investigate why nations trade, what they trade, and who gains from this trade.  We then analyze the motives for countries or organizations to restrict or regulate international trade and study the effects of such policies on economic welfare.  Topics covered will include the effects of trade on economic growth and wage inequality, multinationals and foreign direct investment, international trade agreements and current trade policy disputes.
3734	ECO	363	S09-10	SA	Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions	This course investigates the financing decisions of companies and financial institutions in the wider context of the workings of financial markets.  Topics include capital budgeting, capital structure choice, risk management, liquidity, corporate governance, and the interactions between corporate finance and the workings of financial institutions and markets.
3735	ECO	370	S09-10	HA	American Economic History	Modern economic theory is used to analyze growth and fluctuations in U.S. output from colonial times to the present. The course examines the role of labor markets, property rights in land and labor, financial institutions, transportation, innovation and other factors in economic growth. Before examining twentieth century fluctuations, a week is spent on business cycle theory. Then particular emphasis is placed on The Great Depression and its relationship to the recession of 2007-2009.
3736	ECO	385	S09-10	EM	Ethics and Economics	Introduction to ethical issues in market exchange, and in laws that regulate it. How ethical commitments evolve, and influence cooperation. The moral dimension of low wages, price discrimination, distribution of resources, trade in inalienable property, and the separation of choice and consequence. As time permits, the influence of economic ideas on moral reasoning.
3737	ECO	386	S09-10	HA	History of Economic Thought	A survey of the history of economics, with an emphasis on the origins, nature, and course of leading economic ideas. This class aims to situate economic ideas in their historical context, thus providing a deeper understanding of economic life and theories of it. We critically appraise economic texts from Aristotle to 20th century writers, not solely out of antiquarian interest, but also for their insights into commercial society's foundational issues: the role of the state in the economy, the nature of human action and of the social good, and the social effects of property rights, prices, trade and the other defining attributes of markets.
3738	ECO	429	S09-10		Issues in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics	Course  introduces use of economics in understanding both the sources of and the remedies to environmental and resource allocation problems. It emphasizes the reoccurrence of economic phenomena like public goods, externalities, market failure and imperfect information. Students learn about the design and evaluation of environmental policy instruments, the political economy of environmental policy, and the valuation of environmental and natural resource services. These concepts are illustrated in a variety of applications from domestic pollution of air, water and land to international issues such as global warming and sustainable development.
3739	ECO	448	S09-10	SA	Economics and Politics	Questions at the intersection of politics and economics will be analyzed using economic methods. Particular emphasis will be placed on mathematical and game theoretic methods. The class will cover economic models of political institutions, such as elections or political parties. Topics include lobbying and interest groups, political business cycles, economic reform and the size of government.
3740	ECO	462	S09-10	SA	Portfolio Theory and Asset Management	We will use class lectures, case studies, and handouts to illustrate theories and evidence useful for making investment decisions. We will discuss optimal portfolio choice, fixed-income securities, securities analysis, performance evaluation, and hedge funds.  We examine asset pricing models (such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)) that describe how securities are priced when investors choose their portfolios optimally. The second topic is on bonds and bond pricing. We then go on to discuss securities valuation models, evaluation of portfolio performance and, finally, the hedge fund industry.
3741	ECO	464	S09-10	SA	Corporate Restructuring	This course applies topics from microeconomics (ECO 310) and corporate finance (ECO 363) to study corporate restructuring.  Topics include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestiture and share repurchases.  Each of these is discussed in the context of the relevant economic theory, institutional and regulatory environment, and with a focus on shareholder value.
3742	ECO	490	S09-10		Financial Accounting	A survey of the concepts and techniques that non-managers use to hold the managers of organized human activity--chiefly corporations--accountable for the resources entrusted to them. Alerts students to the judgments and assumptions that regulators and managers make in that process, even when the managers wish to report honestly. Explores the methods that the managers of resources can (and often do) use to lie about their actual performance. To become sophisticated users, not producers, of financial statements, students must master some record keeping procedures and vocabulary in order to exercise proper oversight of managerial behavior.
3743	ECO	491	S09-10		Cases in Financial Risk Management	This course will teach students about financial risk management through the lens of the recent financial crisis. Topics covered will include market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk, and systemic risk. Students will draw on their background in economics, finance, probability theory and statistics.  The class will be in seminar format and active participation in the discussion is encouraged.
3744	ECO	492	S09-10	SA	The Rise of Asian Capital Markets	This course will explore the increasing weight of Asia in global equity financial markets and its implications.  It will frame the discussion in the context of the globalization of financial markets, putting particular emphasis on concepts of economic development, domestic institutional reform, corporate governance, and public market investments.  Discussions will combine analysis of historical trends and recent data and events with insights from practical experience in Asian equity markets.  It will also explicitly consider the policy decisions faced by the US and Chinese governments relative to existing global imbalances.
3745	ECO	493	S09-10		Financial Crises	In this course we will use economic theory and empirical evidence to study the causes of financial crises and the effectiveness of policy responses to these crises.  Particular attention will be given to some of the major economic and financial crises in the past century and to the crisis that began in August 2007.
3746	ECO	502	S09-10		Microeconomic Theory II	This course is the second term of a 2 term sequence in Microeconomics.
3747	ECO	504	S09-10		Macroeconomic Theory II	This course is the second term of a two-term sequence in macroeconomics.  Topics include classical and Keynesian theories of cyclical fluctuations; the determination of employment and real wages; credit markets and financial stability; and stabilization policy.
3748	ECO	512	S09-10		Advanced Economic Theory II	Topics vary from year to year. See 511.
3749	ECO	518	S09-10		Econometric Theory II	This course begins with extensions of the linear model in several directions: (1) pre-determined but not exogenous regressors; (2) heteroskedasticity and serial correlation; (3) classical GLS; (4) instrumental variables and generalized method of movements estimators. Applications include simultaneous equation models, VARS and panel data.  Estimation and inference in non-linear models are discussed. Applications include nonlinear least squares, discrete dependent variables (probit, logit, etc.), problems of censoring, truncation and sample selection, and models for duration data.
3750	ECO	519	S09-10		Advanced Econometrics: Nonlinear Models	This is half of the second-year sequence in econometrics methodology (ECO 513 is the other).  The course covers nonlinear statistical models for the analysis of cross-sectional and panel data.  It is intended both for students specializing in econometric theory and for students interested in applying statistical methods to statistical data.  Approximately half of the course is devoted to development of the large-sample theory for nonlinear estimation procedures, while the other half concentrates on application of the methods to various econometric models.
3751	ECO	522	S09-10		Advanced Macroeconomic Theory II	Macro implications of micro imperfections.  The "cleansing" effect of recessions and the impact of allocative versus aggregate shocks.  Recent models of consumption and empirical tests of risk-sharing. How the distribution of income or wealth affects aggregate growth and fluctuations.  Role of imperfect credit markets, distributional conflict and political economy. Endogenous, skill-biased, technological change and human capital accumulation; implications for growth and social mobility.
3752	ECO	524	S09-10		Public Finance II	This course examines the economics of the public sector, with a focus on externalities, transfer programs, social insurance, and publicly provided goods.  Special attention is given to study of research designs and econometric methods used in applied analysis.
3753	ECO	526	S09-10		Financial Economics II	Review of probability and stochastic processes, stochastic integrals, reduction to martingale gains from trade, change of variable (Ito's lemma, local time, generalized Ito's formula, Girsanov's theorem), stochastic differential equations, the Black-Scholes model, the term-structure of interest rates, equilibrium assest pricing, an introduction to the optimal control of diffusions and some applications.
3754	ECO	532	S09-10		Topics in Labor Economics	The course surveys both the theoretical literature and the relevant empirical methods and results in selected current research topics in labor economics.
3755	ECO	541	S09-10		Industrial Organization and Public Policy	Methods for empirical and theoretical analysis of markets composed of productive enterprises and their customers are studied. Analyses are applied to modern market structures and practices, and public policy towards them. Topics include the roles of technology and information, the structure of firms, modes of interfirm competition, determination of price, quality, and R & D investment, and criteria for government intervention.
3756	ECO	552	S09-10		International Trade II	A continuation of ECO 551, with emphasis on current research issues. Topics vary from year to year.
3757	ECO	554	S09-10		International Monetary Theory and Policy II	Advanced topics in monetary economics, with an emphasis on open economies.  Money demand and currency substitution; price-level and exchange-rate determination under alternative monetary policy rules; real effects of monetary disturbances; exchange-rate policy and macroeconomic stability; welfare consequences of inflation and exchange-rate stabilization; advantages and disadvantages of monetary union.
3758	ECO	563	S09-10		Economic Development II	Selected topics in the economic analysis of development beyond those covered in 562.  Topics are selected from the theory and measurement of poverty and inequality; the relationship between growth and poverty; health and education in economic development; saving, growth, population, and development; commodity prices in economic development.
3759	ECO	572	S09-10		Research Methods in Demography	Source materials used in the study of population; standard procedures for the measurement of fertility, mortality, natural increase, migration, and nuptiality; and uses of model life tables and stable population analysis and other techniques of estimation when faced with inaccurate or incomplete data are studied.
3760	ECO	575	S09-10		Topics in Financial Economics	The course surveys both the theoretical and empirical methods and results in selected research topics in financial economics.  Topics vary from year to year reflecting current developments and the instructor's interests.
3761	ECO	581A	S09-10		Microeconomics Theory Workshop	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3762	ECO	581B	S09-10		Microeconomic Policy	
3763	ECO	581C	S09-10		Macroeconomics/International Finance Workshop	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3764	ECO	581D	S09-10		Labor Economics/Industrial Relations Seminar	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3765	ECO	581E	S09-10		Research Program in Development Studies	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3766	ECO	581F	S09-10		Trade Workshop	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3767	ECO	581G	S09-10		Econometric Research Seminar	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3768	ECO	581H	S09-10		Civitas Foundation Finance Seminar	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3769	ECO	581I	S09-10		O.P.R. Seminars	Drafts of papers, articles, and chapters of dissertations or books, prepared by graduate students, faculty members, or visiting scholars, are exposed to critical analysis by a series of seminars organized by field.  The chief objectives are for the writers to receive the benefit of critical suggestions, for all participants to gain experience in criticism and uninhibited oral discussion, and for students and faculty members to become acquainted with the research work going on in the department.  Third- and fourth-year graduate students are expected to attend; first-and second-year students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3770	ECO	581J	S09-10		Behavioral Economics Workshop	Seminar led by different guest professors each week to discuss their current research in the field of Behavioral Economics
3771	ECO	581K	S09-10		Political Economy Workshop	Seminar led by different guest professors each week to discuss their current research in the field of Political Economy. Third and fourth year graduate students are expected to attend; first and second year graduate students and faculty members are invited to attend.
3772	ECS	325	S09-10	SA	French Multiculturalism	Why is it illegal to wear headscarfs to school in France?  Why does France mandate that 50 percent of political candidates be women?  Why were there riots night after night in the Paris suburbs?  We will consider these questions and more as we explore what multiculturalism means in France, Europe's oldest democracy.
3773	ECS	330	S09-10	LA	Communication and the Arts: Media and Literature	This course examines the multiple connections of European journalism and the novel. Our particular focus will be the cultural impact and political influence of contemporary print media and volatile images, including photographs and cartoons.  Special attention will also be paid to the self-appointed reporters' or pundit's displacement of the heroic journalist within the ambit of the novel.
3774	ECS	408	S09-10	LA	Down the Garden Path	Before the naked city and joyless streets was the garden. This is its plot. Originally it was a "pleasant place," beyond which, in space and time, sprouted thorn and thistle. Later, much later, perhaps when it was already too late, came landscape (is it a noun or a verb, or both?). This course traces a serpentine path through the history of landscape, with occasional and revealing vistas to and from literature, the arts, and the sciences. "Down the Garden Path" suggests being taken in, willingly falling prey to the ruses that await us in the garden, and which are masked by its pleasures.
3775	EEB	301	S09-10	STX	Evolution and the Behavior of the Sexes	This course, designed to capitalize on diverse student backgrounds, will use principles of evolutionary biology and behavioral ecology  to examine reproductive strategies and their effect on social systems. We will draw examples from group-living mammals, particularly nonhuman primates, and from human populations. Topics will include mate selection, parenting, ontogeny of sex differences, sexual diversity, social bonds and cooperation, and intersexual conflict and aggression.
3776	EEB	308	S09-10		Conservation Biology	A detailed application of ecological principles to the conservation of biological resources, including island biogeography, populations genetics and viability, and landscape ecology.  Analysis of case studies in conservation.
3777	EEB	314	S09-10		Comparative Physiology	This course explores the mechanisms of animal function in the contexts of evolution, ecology and behavior. We will cover the physiological bases of osmoregulation, circulation, gas exchange, digestion, energetics, motility, and neural and hormonal control of these and other processes in a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, thereby revealing general principles of animal physiology as well as specific physiological adaptations to differing environments.
3778	EEB	320	S09-10		Molecular Evolutionary Genetics	How and where did life evolve?  On Earth or Mars or elsewhere?  This course will discuss the evolution of the molecules that sustain life (DNA, RNA and proteins) at both the micro and macroevolutionary levels. We will explore the role of these molecules in the origin and continued evolution of life. Topics inlcude the origin of eukaryotes and organelles, the evolution of development, comparative genomics, molecular population genetics, quantitative genetics and human evolution. Two 90-minute lectures, one preceptorial.
3779	EEB	324	S09-10	QR	Theoretical Ecology	Current and classical theoretical issues in ecology and evolutionary biology.  Emphasis will be on theories and concepts and on mathematical approaches. Topics will include population and community ecology, immunology and epidemiology, population genetics and evolutionary theory.
3780	EEB	328	S09-10		Ecology and Epidemiology of Parasites and Infectious Diseases	An introduction to the biology of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, worms, arthropods, and plants that are parasitic upon other animal and plant species. The major emphasis will be on the parasites of animals and plants, with further study of the epidemiology of infectious diseases in human populations. Studies of AIDS, anthrax, and worms, and their role in human history will be complemented by ecological and evolutionary studies of mistletoe, measles, myxomatosis, and communities of parasitic helminths.
3781	EEB	332	S09-10	SA	Pre-Columbian Peoples of Tropical America and Their Environments	The pre-European history of Amerind cultures and their associated environments in the New World tropics will be studied. Topics to be covered include the people of tropical America; development of hunting/gathering and agricultural economies; neotropical climate and vegetation history; and the art, symbolism, and social organization of native Americans. Field and laboratory experiences will incorporate methods and problems in field archaeology, paleoenthnobotany and paleoecology, and archaeozoology.
3782	EEB	338	S09-10	ST	Tropical Biology	"Tropical Biology" is an intensive, three-week field course given at four sites in Panama, examining the origins, maintenance and major interactions among terrestrial plants and animals. The course provides the opportunity to appreciate (1) floral and faunal turnover among four rainforest sites (beta-diversity); and (2) floral and faunal turnover along vertical gradients, from ground to upper canopy, at two rainforest sites (vertical stratification). Students carry out individual projects at the sites. Fieldwork is supported by six orientation walks that introduce participants to common orders and families of plants and arthropods.
3783	EEB	346	S09-10	ST	Biology of Coral Reefs	This field and lecture course provides an in-depth introduction to the biology of tropical coral reefs, with an emphasis on reef fish ecology and behavior. Each day begins with a lecture, followed by six to eight hours on the water, and ends with data analysis, reading and a discussion of recent papers. Students learn to identify fishes, corals and invertebrates, and learn a variety of field methods including underwater censusing, mapping, videotaping and the recording of inter-individual interactions. Each year group projects will vary depending on previous findings and the interests of the faculty.
3784	EEB	350	S09-10		Vertebrate Tropical Ecology	This field course will address the life history characteristics of tropical vertebrates and the physiological traits that underlie those. Students will learn how tropical life histories differ from those in the temperate zone and will use eco-physiological techniques while conducting experiments and observations at a Smithsonian Institute field station. In particular, students will trap wild vertebrates, conduct baseline behavioral and physiological measurements, attach radio transmitters to individuals and monitor them over time in the forest. Students will then analyze the data and write a scientific manuscript.
3785	EEB	380	S09-10	ST	Ecology and Conservation of African Landscapes	Only six percent of Africa's land area (containing a fraction of its biodiversity) is protected, and these areas are rarely large enough to sustain wildlife populations. Mostly, wildlife must share land with people also facing survival challenges. This course will explore how wildlife and people interact in Kenya, where new approaches to conservation are being developed. Lectures will cover the ecology of tropical grasslands and first principles underlying conservation and management of these landscapes. Field trips and projects will examine the dynamics between human actions and biodiversity conservation.
3786	EEB	404	S09-10	ST	Natural History of Mammals	Introduction to concepts, methods, and material of comparative natural history, with African mammals as focal organisms. Perspectives include morphology, identification, evolution, ecology, behavior and conservation. Observations and experiments on a variety of species in different habitats and at a range of scales will provide insights into the adaptive value and underlying mechanistic function of mammalian adaptations.  This course will be taught in Kenya at the Mpala Research Center and nearby field sites.
3787	EEB	414	S09-10		Genetics of Human Populations	This advanced seminar will survey the evolutionary history of modern humans and the genetic basis of variation in our species through reading and discussion of classic and contemporary primary literature.  Topics include the evolutionary origins of modern human populations, signatures of natural selection in the human genome, and approaches for discovering genetic variants that affect disease susceptibility and variation in normal traits.  Significant emphasis will be placed on very recent advances made possible by the human genome project.
3788	EEB	521	S09-10		Tropical Ecology	This intensive three week field course takes place during January in a suitable tropical locality.  Readings, discussions, and individual projects. The content and location are varied to suit the needs of the participants.  Students provide their own travel funds.
3789	EEB	522	S09-10		Colloquium on the Biology of Populations	Discussion of the central problems of population biology and approaches that have proved fruitful.  Topics ranging throughout ecology, evolution, biogeography, and population genetics are usually related to presentations by visiting speakers and students.  (This is a core course.)
3790	EEB	532	S09-10		Topics in Animal Behavior: Developmental Systems and Evolution	An examination of Developmental Systems Theory, a conceptual framework that seeks to replace dichotomous accounts (nature-nurture, genes-environment, biology-culture) of organismal development. Major ideas for study include: 1) every trait is produced by the interaction of many developmental resources; 2) the significance of any one developmental resource is contingent upon the rest of the developing system; 3) an organism inherits a wide range of resources that interact to construct that organism's life cycle; and 4) evolution is not a matter of organisms being molded by environment, but of organism-environment systems changing over time.
3791	EGR	194	S09-10		An Introduction to Engineering	This course offers an introduction to the various disciplines of engineering. It is a  project-based sequence (Energy Conversion and the Environment, Robotic Remote Sensing, and Wireless Image & Video Transmission) that covers engineering disciplines and their relationship to the principles of physics and mathematics.
3792	EGR	250	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS): Non-credit	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3793	EGR	251	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3794	EGR	277	S09-10	SA	Technology and Society	Technology and society are unthinkable without each other - each provides the means and framework in which the other develops.  To explore this dynamic, this course investigates a wide array of questions on the interaction between technology, society, politics, and economics, emphasizing the themes of innovation and maturation, systems and regulation, risk and failure, and ethics and expertise.  Specific topics covered include nuclear power and waste, genetically-modified organisms, regulation of the internet, medical mistakes, intellectual property, the financial crisis of 2008, and the post-fossil-fuels economy.
3795	EGR	350	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS): Non-credit	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3796	EGR	351	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3797	EGR	450	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS): Non-credit	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3798	EGR	451	S09-10		Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)	In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, students earn academic credit for their participation in multidisciplinary design teams that solve technology-based problems for local not-for-profit organizations. The teams are: multidisciplinary--drawing students from across engineering and around the university; vertically-integrated--maintaining a mix of sophomores through seniors each semester; and long-term--each student may participate in a project for up to six semesters. The continuity, technical depth, and disciplinary breadth of these teams enable delivery of projects of significant benefit to the community.
3799	ELE	102	S09-10	ST	New Eyes for the World: Hands-On Optical Engineering	This hands-on lab course introduces students to several modern topics of engineering optics. Teams of students will choose and carry out four different projects: (i) holography, (ii) lasers (iii) free-space optical communication, and/or (iv) nanotechnology. The course teaches the foundations and broader societal issues of these technologies. The laboratory sessions involve hands-on instructional training, as well as individual experimentation and exploration. Skills acquired in this course include computer programming, data acquisition and interpretation, wet chemical processing, and electronics design assembly.
3800	ELE	206	S09-10	ST	Introduction to Logic Design	Introduction to the basic concepts in logic design that form the basis of computation and communication circuits. Logic gates and memeory elements. Timing methodologies. Finite state systems. Programmable logic. Basic computer organization.
3801	ELE	208	S09-10	ST	Integrated Circuits: Practice and Principles	This course examines what is inside a microchip, how it works, and how it is made.  Topics include semiconductor material structures and properties, pn junction, solar cells, metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (MOSFET's), bipolar transistors, and their circuit applications such as digital gates and analog amplifiers, as well as  microfabrication technology for semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, such as photolithography, etching, evaporation, and other thin film processing. The course has a hands-on integrated circuit microfabrication lab to fabricate diodes, MOSFET's and circuits by students themselves.
3802	ELE	302	S09-10		System Design and Analysis	Comprehensive, laboratory-based course in electronic system design and analysis.  Covers formal methods for the design and analysis of moderately complex real-world electronic systems.  Course is centered around a semester-long design project involving a computer-controlled vehicle designed and constructed by teams of two students. Integrates microprocessors, communications, and control.
3803	ELE	342	S09-10		Physical Principles of Electronic Devices	This course is designed to provide an understanding of the basic principles that govern the operation of modern solid state and optoelectronic devices. The emphasis is on fundamentals rather than applications. The major portion of the course will be devoted to quantum mechanics and statistical physics with examples from solid state and materials physics and quantum electronics.  This provides the basic background needed to understand the physics of device operations and also prepares the student for more advanced courses in solid state and quantum electronics (such as ELE 441, 442 and 453).
3804	ELE	352	S09-10		Physical Optics	This course presents an introduction to wave dynamics and imaging. Topics include geometrical and Fourier optics, diffraction, resolution limits, near-field imaging microscopy, photography and holography.
3805	ELE	386	S09-10	STX	Cyber Security	This course surveys the technology underlying secure transactions and safe interactions in a public Internet and wireless world. Topics include cyber security needs such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, access control, authorization, authentication, non-repudiation, trust, privacy and anonymity. Case studies are selected from e-commerce, denial of service attacks, viruses and worms, spam, e-voting, digital rights management, and cyber-terrorism. Related policy, social and economic issues are also discussed.
3806	ELE	396	S09-10		Introduction to Quantum Computing	This course will introduce the matrix form of quantum mechanics and discuss the concepts underlying the theory of quantum information. Some of the important algorithms will be discussed, as well as physical systems which have been suggested for quantum computing.
3807	ELE	398	S09-10		Junior Independent Work	Provides an opportunity for a student to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in electrical engineering. Topics may be selected from suggestions by faculty members or proposed by the student.  The final choice must be approved by the faculty member.
3808	ELE	442	S09-10		Solid-State Physics II	Electronic structure of solids.  Electron dynamics and transport. Semiconductors and impurity states.  Surfaces. Dielectric properties of insulators.  Electron-electron, electron-phonon, and phonon-phonon interactions.  Anharmonic effects in crystals. Magnetism. Superconductivity.
3809	ELE	454	S09-10		Photonics and Light Wave Communications	Introduction to fiber optic communication systems.  Optical transmitters and receivers.  System design and performance.  Multi-channel lightwave systems.  Optical amplifiers.  Dispersion compensation.
3810	ELE	455	S09-10		Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment	This course is designed to give Juniors, Seniors, and interested graduate students a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction into mid-infrared sensing, its applications, and its technological foundations. Topics include: materials, light sources, lasers and detectors for the mid-infrared; spectroscopy and sensing; sensing systems and sensor networks. It addresses such important issues as global warming, policy making, engineering solutions to global challenges, environmental sensing, breath analysis and health applications, and sensing in homeland security.
3811	ELE	482	S09-10		Digital Signal Processing	The lectures will cover:  (1) Basic principles of digital signal processing.  (2) Design of digital filters.  (3) Fourier analysis and the fast Fourier transform.  (4) Roundoff errors in digital signal processing.  (5) Applications of digital signal processing.
3812	ELE	486	S09-10		Digital Communications and Networks	Historical overview of digital communications. Introductory information theory. Data compression. Error detection and correction code. Baseband transmission systems and optimum reception. Digital modulation and demodulation.
3813	ELE	491	S09-10		High-Tech Entrepreneurship	This "hands-on" practical course introduces students to the analysis and actions required to launch a successful high tech company.  Using several conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques, it addresses the challenges of evaluating technologies for commercial feasibility, determining how best to launch a new venture, attracting the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners, and venture capital), preparing comprehensive business plans, structuring business relationships, and managing early stage companies toward "launch velocity" and sustainable growth.
3814	ELE	498	S09-10		Senior Independent Work	Provides an opportunity for a student to concentrate on a "state-of-the-art" project in electrical engineering. A student may propose a topic and find a faculty member willing to supervise the work.  Or the student may select a topic from lists of projects obtained from faculty and off-campus industrial researchers,subject to the consent of the faculty advisor.
3815	ELE	514	S09-10		Extramural Research Internship	Full-time research internship at a host institution, to perform scholarly research relevant to student's dissertation work.  Research objectives will be determined by advisor in conjunction with outside host.  A mid-semester progress review and a final paper are required.  Enrollment limited to post-generals students for up to two semesters.  Special rules apply to international students regarding CPT/OPT use. Students may register by application only.
3816	ELE	519	S09-10		Seminar in Information Sciences and Systems	This is a forum of graduate students, staff, and distinguished outside speakers presenting their recent research in signal processing, communication and information theory, decision and control, and systems theory.  Attendance by ISS students is required.
3817	ELE	523	S09-10		Nonlinear System Theory	This course covers topics in nonlinear dynamical systems including qualitative behavior, Lyapunov stability, input-output stability, passivity, averaging and singular perturbations.
3818	ELE	530	S09-10		Theory of Detection and Estimation	An introduction to the fundamental theoretical principles underlying the development and analysis of techniques for such signal processing and detection.  The level of this course is suitable for research students in communications, control, signal processing, and related areas.
3819	ELE	539A	S09-10		Special Topics in Informations Sciences and Systems: Optimization of Communication Systems	Study how problems in point-to-point and networked communication systems can be formulated and solved as optimization, covering both classic results and current research.  Introduce the methodologies of linear program, convex optimization, Lagrange duality, and study their theoretical properties and computational algorithms.  Sample application topics: information-theoretic and queuing-theoretic problems, coding and equalization, antenna beamforming, network resource allocation and utility maximization, theory of network architecture, wireless network power control, Medium Access Control schemes, IP routing, TCP congestion control.
3820	ELE	539B	S09-10		Special Topics in Information Sciences and Systems: Modern Coding Theory	Course describes how magnetic recording, packet data transmission and wireless communication have influenced code design and how error-correcting codes use memory and redundancy to achieve reliable transmission and storage.  Course also connects classical coding theory to the emerging topic of compressive sensing which aims to capture attributes of signals using a small number of measurements.
3821	ELE	541	S09-10		Electronic Materials	Physics of solar cells and resulting material requirements.  Focus on highly efficient silicon solar cells.  Absorption of light, pn junction theory and carrier transport, theory of carrier generation and recombination in the bulk and at interfaces, contacts, components of cell efficiency.  Cell design, cell models and techniques for loss minimization.  Growth of silicon material, technology of cell and module fabrication.  Evaluation of cell and module performance.  Application of physical principles to concentrator and thin film solar cells.
3822	ELE	542	S09-10		Surface Properties of Electronically Active Solids	This course explores the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of surfaces; surface energy band structure, space charge region, impurity phenomena, and crystallography; and electron emission.  It examines experimental techniques for surface analysis; electron beam probe instrumentation, diffraction, spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy.  Interface phenomena and contact effects are studied.
3823	ELE	547C	S09-10		Selected Topics in Solid-State Electronics: Large Area Electronics	Large-area electronics is where dense and localized electronic devices, made of conventional as well as revolutionary materials, are spread out over large surfaces. Conventional electronics compares to large-area electronics like the human brain compares to the body's nervous system, which is composed of extremely diverse sensors and actuators; the two can work synergistically towards systems with new possibilities.   The newest research, on topics ranging from architectures and application demonstrations to circuits, new materials, devices and processes, is covered.
3824	ELE	548	S09-10		Selected Topics in Solid-State Electronics: Physics & Technology of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors	A broad overview of materials science and physics of low-dimensional semiconductor structures will be presented.  Emphasis will be on the fabrication and physics of high-mobility carrier systems in modulation-doped structures.  Examples include two-dimensional, one-dimensional (quantum wire), and zero-dimensional (quantum dot) systems.
3825	ELE	571	S09-10		Digital Neurocomputing	The course will cover machine learning techniques & applications. Machine learning techniques topics: a) adaptive techniques for feature selection & dimension reduction, b) unsupervised cluster discovery: K-means, SOFM, hierarchical clustering, c) supervised classifiers e.g. linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machines, & d) kernel-based clustering/classification techniques. Genomic and multimedia applications will be explored.
3826	ELE	577	S09-10		Low Power IC and System Design	Sources of power consumption; simulation power analysis, probabilistic power analysis; circuit and logic level power optimization; power analysis and optimization at the register-transfer, behavior and system levels; power management; software power estimation and optimization; hardware-software co-synthesis for low power.
3827	ELE	591	S09-10		High Tech Entrepreneurship	This "hands-on" practical course introduces students to the analysis and actions required to launch a successful high tech company.  Using several conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques, it addresses the challenges of evaluating technologies for commercial feasibility, determining how best to launch a new venture, attracting the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners, and venture capital), preparing comprehensive business plans, structuring business relationships, and managing early stage companies toward "launch velocity" and sustainable growth.
3828	ELE	598	S09-10		Electrical Engineering Master's Project	Spring course number to be used by Master of Engineering students who will be doing a project in lieu of a course.
3829	ENG	202	S09-10	LA	Reading Literature:  Drama	This course is designed to teach students how to read plays as literature written for performance. Key assumptions are that every act of reading is an act of interpretation, that a good reader of dramatic literature engages in an activity nearly identical to that of a good director or actor or designer, and that a reader might learn from theater practitioners how to make critical choices based on close reading and a knowledge of theatre history.
3830	ENG	205	S09-10	LA	Introduction to English Literature: From the 14th to the 18th Century	An introduction to six titans of English Lit. (Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Swift), to literary history as a mode of inquiry, and to the analysis of the way literature makes meaning, produces emotional experience, and shapes the way human beings think about desire, commerce, liberty, God, power, the environment, subjectivity, empire, justice, death, and science.  We will study how a literary text emerges out of the author's reading of his predecessors and in relation to contemporary political, religious, social, and scientific discourses and events.
3831	ENG	301	S09-10	LA	The Old English Period	This course introduces the chief features of Old English, the language of the Anglo-Saxons in the British Isles from about 450-1100 CE.  We will focus on the linguistic skills needed to read, with the aid of a dictionary, memorable poetry like <u>Beowulf</u> and OE lyrics, Alfredian prose, and historical texts.  By the end of the first week, we'll be back in time a millennium or more, studying the charms and riddles of OE.  Time permitting, we will engage with the historical contexts of OE literature.
3832	ENG	307	S09-10	LA	Chaucer	Beginning with some of Chaucer's short poems, we will examine the linguistic and intellectual backgrounds of Chaucer's great (unfinished) masterwork,<u>The Canterbury Tales</u>.  We will situate individual tales against medieval English and Continental writing and the Classics, but will primarily be interested in the kinds of noise that emerge in and between the tales: allusion, politics, insurrection, devotion, music, echo, repetition, contest, and requital. We'll start by learning how to convert silent Middle English text into spoken words, and move on to the larger question of how silence itself is figured in and against Chaucer's poetry.
3833	ENG	311	S09-10	LA	Shakespeare II	We read a selection of plays from the second half of Shakespeare's career, including <u>Hamlet</u> and the great tragedies, the so-called "problem plays," and the final romances. We'll think about the plays as scripts for the stage (or even film) as well as texts for reading. We'll consider such topics as the nature of Shakespearean subjectivity; erotic politics; time as destroyer and time as redeemer; Shakespearean poetics; Shakespeare in his time and in ours.
3834	ENG	314	S09-10	LA	The 17th Century	Modern poets from Eliot to Paul Muldoon and Susan Stewart have taken their starting inspiration from the literature of this period.  Why this attraction?  We will explore ideas of rebellion in love, religion and politics; recreated Eden; the Bible and its hold over poetry; scientific revolution and the recording of nature.  At a time of intellectual and social ferment, we will see how literature was reinvented and what that moment still has to teach us.
3835	ENG	316	S09-10	LA	The English Drama to 1700	Lovers, liars, cheaters, fornicators, cross-dressers, and damsels in distress: the endlessly energetic stage comedy from the Elizabethan age to the Restoration has them all, and a whole bunch more as well.  Emphasizing the work of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton, with some Shakespeare for good measure, we think about the plays' varying shades of satire and romance, and consider them both as written texts and as scripts for performance.  Attention to theory of genre and history of comedy, making space always for laughter.
3836	ENG	329	S09-10	LA	The Later Romantics	The flamboyant second generation of British Romantics:  Keats, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Byron, Hemans, Austen.  Careful attention to texts--ranging from novels, to odes, to romances, and modern epics--in historical and cultural contexts, with primary focus on literary imagination.
3837	ENG	334	S09-10	LA	Literature of the Fin de Siècle	This course will study the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1880-1914), revising the common assumption that experimental modernism was twentieth century phenomenon or a break with "Victorian" traditions.  We will be concerned especially with how texts in this period embody and illuminate various crises (linguistic, aesthetic, religious, sexual, ethnic) and how broader socio-cultural movements inspired writers to impose, question, or experiment with ideas of form and order.
3838	ENG	335	S09-10	LA	Children's Literature	A survey of classic texts written for children from the past 200 years in (primarily) England and America. We will examine the development and range of the genre from early alphabet books to recent young adult fiction. We will try to put ourselves in the position of young readers while also studying the works as adult interpreters, asking such question as: How do stories written for children reflect and shape the lives of their readers? What can children´s literature tell us about the history of reading, or of growing up, or of the imagination itself? In the process we will consider psychological and social questions as well as literary ones.
3839	ENG	338	S09-10	LA	Faith and Form: Religion and Poetry in the 19th Century	In his 1880 essay "The Study of Poetry," Matthew Arnold famously proclaimed "[m]ore and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." This course will ask how "poetry," both broadly and specifically conceived, succeeded and failed in this charge in the nineteenth century. What do poetry and religion borrow from one another? How does the history of the two together help us to understand the fate of each in the twentieth century?
3840	ENG	347	S09-10	LA	Topics in Drama: The Curious Aesthetics of Musical Theatre	This course will look at the phenomenon of musical theatre, analyzing musicals as both texts and performances. We will use a variety of critical methods to address a number of related questions, including: how do musicals work on audiences? What kinds of cultural work do musicals do? How can we account for the current resurgence in movie musicals? What about the experience and form of musical theatre, the friction or fusion of song, dance, and script, makes it enduringly popular?
3841	ENG	351	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Fiction	How do we create our artworks, and how do we create ourselves, in the contemporary world? What can each process tell us about the other? How do changing notions of subjectivity and subjecthood interact with our archive of literary and cinematic forms? In this course we'll explore the technological, geopolitical, and cultural developments of the last quarter-century through the lenses provided by novels and films produced in this period. These texts will range from relatively mainstream to quite experimental; our task, in all cases, will be to embrace their challenges as well as their pleasures--and, again, to ask how these inform one another.
3842	ENG	356	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Drama	This course will examine a range of British and American drama from the second half of the twentieth century into the twenty-first, with an emphasis on developments in the last twenty years. Questions will include the relevance of drama in a culture of mass entertainment, and drama as a response to history, place, and social trauma.
3843	ENG	358	S09-10	LA	Desirous Plots: Queer Narrative and US Popular Culture	This course will examine queer narrative production in literature and visual culture alongside the historical development of queer studies in the United States.  Moving between novels, art, and film, the course explores multiple strategies for communicating and enacting queer desires.  Students will not simply look to narratives involving same-sex desire but will be asked to consider reading and writing practices that challenge the limitations and normative impulses of gay and lesbian politics.
3844	ENG	361	S09-10	LA	Literature of the American Renaissance, 1820-1860	Close study of nine authors--the so-called literary "renaissance" of the new republic--who defined a native brand of literature that would influence all subsequent American writers.  Our focus will be on narrative and poetic forms that signaled independence from older ideals, offering an exhilarating yet deeply unsettling transition in literary history.
3845	ENG	362	S09-10	LA	American Literature: 1865-1930	A study of the development of American literature within the context of the shifting social, intellectual, and literary conventions of the period. Emphasis will be on the artistic achievement of writers such as James, Howells, Twain, Dreiser, Crane, Wharton, Cather, and Faulkner.
3846	ENG	366	S09-10	LA	Topics in American Literature: American Colonialisms	Amazons and alligators, cannibals and castaways, Utopians and men with feet for heads, Pequots and Praying Indians, canoes and tobacco: such people and objects were introduced to Europeans through fantastically plausible, (un)believable depictions in travel literature, short fiction, drama, captivity narratives, missionary and promotional tracts, engravings, and ethnographies.  This course will consider the diverse meanings and uses they possess in early modern texts written and read on both sides of the Atlantic. We will also examine modern representations of these colonial encounters in fiction and film.
3847	ENG	371	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Literary Theory	Survey of central debates in cultural and literary studies focusing on texts in contemporary theory that formulate an understanding of the self.  Course follows shifts between structuralism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism.  As we begin to disentangle the meanings of what we mean when we say "I", we will inevitably analyze the relationships between subject and subjection, ideology and power, language and authorship, theory and politics.  We will ground our analyses within particular literary, visual, and theoretical works, learning how to read cultural production as theory, rather than "applying" theory to selected texts.
3848	ENG	377	S09-10	EM	Topics in Literature and Ethics: Literature, Justice, and Freedom	This course examines how contemporary writers engage with the most challenging moral issues of our time, including the problem of freedom in an age of terror, social suffering, and the ethics of identity.  What rights do individuals have in an age of terrorism?  How do the constraints of justice affect the nature and meaning of freedom?  How do individuals maintain personal relationships across religious, racial, or national boundaries?  The course will focus on how major world writers confront both the questions raised by the politics of terror and more enduring issues of authenticity, sincerity, truthfulness, and forgiveness.
3849	ENG	399	S09-10	LA	The Female Literary Tradition	This course explores a counter-tradition of women's writing, from the 19th century to the present day, whose focus is not on domestic life, but rather on the defining public issues of the day--war, politics, race, travel, migration, and nation.
3850	ENG	401	S09-10	LA	Forms of Literature: Our Others, Our Selves	How does literary imagination conceive and represent alien figures--those "other" to (often arbitrary) cultural norms--sometimes tapping into secret selves within those norms?  This course will explore this question across the "long 19th century," an era in which social and political ferment confronted British citizens with a world of others: in behavior, gender, race, class, and physical appearance.
3851	ENG	405	S09-10	LA	The Irish Novel	This course will look at specific Irish novels from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, with emphasis first on form and structure, including sentence structure, but emphasis also on the relationship between the novels in question (and indeed the novel form) and Irish society. It will include the study of work by writers such as Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett.
3852	ENG	411	S09-10	LA	Major Author(s): The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim: Process to Production	Examines the musicals of Stephen Sondheim from page to stage. Focusing on a different musical each week, from <u>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum</u> to <u>Road Show</u>, we will ask, How do musical theatre's elements of music, lyrics, script, dance, and design cohere in Sondheim's musicals? We will explore influences on his art, both personal and cultural, his collaborators, and the historical and theatrical milieu.  We'll study the musicals themselves by reading libretti, listening to music, seeing taped and live performances, researching production histories, and analyzing popular, critical, and scholarly reception.
3853	ENG	522	S09-10		The Renaissance in England: The State & Literary Production in Early Modern Europe	Comparative case studies of the relationship between different political states in early modern Europe and the kinds of literature produced within them between c. 1500 and c. 1700. The focus begins with English literature but places it in an international context. How did different polities shape the written across the continent during the period that sees the rise of several powerful nation states (Spain, France, the Dutch Republic, England) and European expansion in America and Asia?
3854	ENG	543	S09-10		The 18th Century: Rethinking the Rise of the Novel	A reading of major canonical texts in the British eighteenth-century novel tradition, tracing major theories and histories of the rise of the novel, and the accounts these give of what eighteenth-century novels "do" and "mean" for intellectual histories of the Enlightenment.  Course pays particular attention to religion and belief in order to approach afresh the social, political and literary significance of eighteenth-century novels.
3855	ENG	553	S09-10		Special Studies in the Nineteenth Century: Victorian Poetry and Poetics	A broad overview of Victorian poetry and poetic theory, looking closely at the ways that Victorian poetry questioned and complicated generic categories. Canonical poems by Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Thomas Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy, are studied, as well as poetry written as part of various aesthetic movements like the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Students can expect to gain a historical understanding of Victorian poetic forms and historical prosody.
3856	ENG	555	S09-10		American Literary Traditions: The American Enlightenment	An exploration of  Enlightenment philosophy as it was practiced and theorized across the Atlantic.  Connections between new frontiers of knowledge in literary and epistemological traditions are considered through such questions as whether the radical skepticism of the 1690s provoked the Salem Witchcraft Trials.  Taking on one of the key methodological issues in early American studies, the course asks whether a transatlantic culture of Enlightenment becomes more uniquely American as one charts its transformation through eighteenth-century revivals and revolutions.
3857	ENG	556	S09-10		African-American Literature: Black Literary & Musical Bohemias & the Politics of Subculture	Examines black literary and musical subcultures, late 19th century to present. Explores various canonical and "fringe" texts that theorize the poetics of intellectual and aesthetic bohemian subcultures in relation to race, class, gender and sexuality. Interrogates the intersections of black literary and musical production in the creation of radical alternative communities. Minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, punk and hip hop subcultures will serve as socio-cultural sites of inquiry as will various social "scenes": 19th-century African American reading circles, black women's club movement, Harlem Renaissance cabaret, Afrofuturism.
3858	ENG	563	S09-10		Poetics: The History and Evolution of the New York School	Examination of the New York School, with an historical emphasis, beginning with a consideration of the milieu in which John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler began writing, and continuing with a consideration of their works, the place of Barbara Guest in the New York School, a consideration of the works of the Tulsa poets Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett and succeeding generations of New York poets, the intersection with Language poetry and the introduction of theory, comparisons with other poetic schools or groupings, and an examination of individualistic and community-based conceptions of poetry.
3859	ENG	568	S09-10		Criticism and Theory: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory	A broad overview of contemporary literary and cultural theory.  Starting with some foundational texts (Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche), course is structured around three inter-linked analytics to read across diverse interventions in critical theory: Structure (Saussure, Althusser, Marx, Derrida, Foucault), Subjectivity (Freud, Lacan, Butler, Fanon, Spivak, Bourdieu), and the twin problematics of Aesthetics/Politics (Adorno, Benjamin, Jameson, Said, Buck-Morss).  Among the issues addressed are  language and authorship, ideology and the state, sexuality and performance, sovereignty and power.
3860	ENG	571	S09-10		Literary and Cultural Theory: Writing Sound	This interdisciplinary course examines authors who formally experiment with the writing of sound.  To put a deep voice, a shout, or a minor scale to words creates a host of critical and creative conundrums for a writer; the reading of such arrangements makes parallel challenges for the reader. Such work is too often taken up with a despairing ethos: much is said to ¿go lost¿ in the transfer from sound to page.  This course does not presume the demise of such runaway matter, but considers it as thriving with philosophical possibility. What does the impossibility of sound¿s capture make possible for literature and criticism?
3861	ENG	576	S09-10		Literature and Gender: Imagining Intersex	An interdisciplinary exploration of intersex as it is represented in literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, medical, legal, and anthropological discourses. A variety of materials, from creation myths in Plato to novels both modern (Virginia Woolf's <u>Orlando</u>) and contemporary (Jeffrey Eugenides' <u>Middlesex</u>), are examined to consider the genesis and circulation of intersex as a category. Do sexually different bodies pose a challenge to the idea of sexual difference? What might literary fantasies about intersex reveal about the construction of normative gender?
3862	ENG	581	S09-10		Seminar in Pedagogy	Required weekly seminar for all English Department PhD students teaching for the first time at Princeton and scheduled to precept this semester. Seminar covers a range of topics including designing lesson plans; leading discussions; teaching writing and revision; grading; writing recommendations; lecturing; preparing syllabi; and managing students, faculty and time. Classroom observations, Blackboard postings, and teaching portfolios required.
3863	ENV	202B	S09-10	ST	Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Climate, Air Pollution, Toxics, and Water	This course will focus on environmental consequences of human activities and their interactions with natural systems. Beginning with underlying principles, we will consider the social, political, economic, scientific and technical dimensions of four areas of environmental concern: the atmosphere (atmospheric pollution, its sources and prevention); climate (climate and climate variability; models and public policy); toxics in the environment (pollutants, remediation and solutions); and water resources (watersheds, land use, climate effects, political issues).
3864	ENV	304	S09-10	SA	Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy	The dynamics of the emergence and spread of disease arise from a complex interplay between disease ecology, economics, and human behavior. Lectures will provide an introduction to complementarities between economic and epidemiological approaches to understanding the emergence, spread, and control of infectious diseases. The course will cover topics such as drug-resistance in bacterial and parasitic infections, individual incentives to vaccinate, the role of information in the transmission of infectious diseases, and the evolution of social norms in healthcare practices.
3865	ENV	306	S09-10	HA	Topics in Environmental Studies: American Environmental History	Explores the diverse connections between America's national development and natural environment. It examines how the U.S. originated, then expanded to cover a continental land mass, and the ways that expansion changed the nation. It analyzes how, why, and with what consequences major parts of the U.S. economy--for instance, farming, energy, services and government--have grown or in shrunk. It looks at how and with what results the U.S. has incorporated different ethnic and racial groups. It shows how, why, and with what outcomes it has historically globalized and conducted its foreign policy, and offers insights into current landscapes.
3866	ENV	310	S09-10	SA	Environmental Law and Moot Court	Examining the relationship between law and environmental policy, this course focuses on cases that have established policy principles. The first half of the seminar will be conducted using the Socratic method. The second half will allow students to reargue either the plaintiff or defendant position in a key case, which will be decided by the classroom jury.
3867	ENV	316	S09-10		Communicating Climate Change	Climate change has the potential to wreak great havoc over the next century, threatening ecosystems, economies, and human lives. Scientists are putting enormous effort into trying to understand the causes, effects, and possible solutions to the climate-change problem. Yet the public still has only a vague idea of what climate science actually says, and much of that is badly distorted. The course will explore how to communicate to the public about climate change through print, web and video, in ways that are at once clear, compelling, and scientifically rigorous.
3868	ENV	340	S09-10	ST	Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Solutions	Focuses on environmental challenges and sustainable solutions related to interrelationships between constructed and natural processes. Topic areas include resource conservation, sustainable practices, stormwater management, and habitat restoration. The format of the course is experiential learning with problem-solving research projects, lectures, and discussions. A central theme of the projects is to track the impact of land use and sustainable practices on the ecological balance of environments in and around Princeton's campus. Sample projects include: stream restoration; the health of Lake Carnegie; and the benefits of green roofs.
3869	ENV	360	S09-10		Biotech Plants and Animals: Frankenfood or Important Innovations?	Biotechnology has given us the tools to manipulate both domestic plants and animals.  Biotechnology may provide the means to allow crops to more rapidly adapt to changing health and environmental circumstances--including changes due to climate change--and to allow livestock to reduce their environmental impact. Case studies, and discussions with experts, will be used to evaluate these plants and animals created using biotechnology and advanced plant breeding techniques. We will also discuss the case against bioengineered foods and explore concerns over ethics, and adequate testing for their impact on human health and on the environment.
3870	ENV	531	S09-10		Topics in Energy and the Environment: Making the most of Scarce Hydrocarbon Resources	Course explores science, technology and business of oil & gas extraction, highlighting historical role of global politics and environmental expectations; examine the history of oil & gas production; review current techniques to quantify discovered resources and maximize production. Drilling & production operations are reviewed in the context of achieving maximum recovery providing a basis for examining definitions of reserves and resources under a variety of economics models. Review of the industry's evolution, response to demand for secure, ever-increasing supplies, and running safe & environmentally responsible operations.
3871	EPS	300	S09-10	SA	European Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century	The course aims to cover the critical developments of twentieth-century Europe and the consolidation of democracy in European countries.  It will deal with the legacy of the two world wars, Nazism, Stalinism, the Cold War, the legacy of colonialism and decolonization, the birth and development of the European Community, the development of the welfare state, the problems confronting the European Union (immigration, enlargement, political institutions, military role), and the varieties of democratic institutions in Europe.
3872	FIN	502	S09-10		Corporate Finance and Financial Accounting	Major topics in modern corporate finance. We will study investment policy (investment decision rules, project valuation, cost of capital) and financial policy (mostly capital structure decisions). Additional topics (private equity, bankruptcy and reorganization, merger and acquisitions) will be covered if time permits.
3873	FIN	515	S09-10		Portfolio Theory and Asset Management	Covers a number of advanced topics related to asset management and asset pricing.  Topics include mean-variance analysis, CAPM, APT, market efficiency, delegated money management, stock return predictability, bubbles and crashes, social interaction and investor behavior, security analysts and investor relations, and mutual fund performance and organization.
3874	FIN	519	S09-10		Corporate Restructuring, Mergers and Acquisitions	This course applies topics from microeconomics (ECO 305) and corporate finance (ECO 318) to study corporate restructuring. Topics include mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestiture and share repurchases. Each of these is discussed in the context of the relevant economic theory, institutional and regulatory environment, and with a focus on shareholder value.  Meets concurrently with ECO464.
3875	FIN	561	S09-10		Master's Project II	Under the direction of a Bendheim affiliated faculty member, students carry out a master's project, write a report, and present the results in the form of a poster or an oral presentation in front of an examining committee.
3876	FIN	590	S09-10		Financial Accounting	A survey of the concepts and techniques that non-managers use to hold the managers of organized human activity--chiefly corporations--accountable for the resources entrusted to them. Alerts students to the judgments and assumptions that regulators and managers make in that process, even when the managers wish to report honestly. Explores the methods that the managers of resources can (and often do) use to lie about their actual performance. While this course aims to make you a sophisticated user, not producer, of financial statements, you must master some record keeping procedures and vocabulary in order to be the boss, not the servant.
3877	FIN	591	S09-10		Cases in Financial Risk Management	Course examines the concept of risk and its mitigation, and how the ideas can be applied in the practice of risk management for financial and non-financial companies. The basic toolkit draws on economics, probability theory and statistics, and they are integrated with more advanced concepts drawn from portfolio choice, derivative securities and dynamic hedging. Overall aim of the course is to demonstrate how the main concepts have practical applications.
3878	FIN	592	S09-10		The Rise of Asian Capital Markets	Course explores the increasing weight of Asia in global equity financial markets and its implications, and frames the discussion in the context of the globalization of financial markets, putting particular emphasis on concepts of economic development, domestic institutional reform, corporate governance, and public market investments. Discussions combine analysis of historical trends and recent data and events with insights from practical experience in Asian equity markets. Course also explicitly considers the policy decisions faced by the US and Chinese governments relative to existing global imbalances.
3879	FIN	593	S09-10		Financial Crises	The use economic theory and empirical evidence to study the causes of financial crises and the effectiveness of policy responses to them.  Particular attention given to some of the major economic and financial crises of the past century and to the crisis that began in August 2007.
3880	FRE	102	S09-10		Beginner's French II	The main objective of this course is to enable you to achieve intermediate communication proficiency in French. All four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing will be actively practiced in realistic communicative situations, through a variety of activities designed to help you strengthen newly acquired vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will learn to talk about events and people, construct narratives in French and develop reading and writing skills that will be a foundation for literacy in the target language. There is a wide use of authentic material from France and the Francophone world throughout the course.
3881	FRE	103	S09-10		Intensive Beginner's and Intermediate French	FRE 103 is an intensive beginning and intermediate language course designed for students who have already studied French (typically no more than 2-3 years).  Covering in one semester the material presented in FRE 101 and FRE 102, this course prepares students to take FRE 107 the following semester.  Classroom activities include comprehension and grammar exercises, conversation, skits, and working with a variety of audio-visual materials.
3882	FRE	107	S09-10		Intermediate/Advanced French	Continued presentation and review of grammar.  Development of an active command of spoken and written French through class discussion and compositions.   Acquisition of reading skills through progressively longer readings.
3883	FRE	108	S09-10		Advanced French	FRE 108 takes you on a tour of France, across regions and through history.  From Les Fables by La Fontaine to L'Avare by Molière, and incorporating recent articles and films, the course will draw on a variety of materials to acquaint you with France's cultural diversity and contemporary debates. Through literature, newspaper articles and films, we will explore different regions and cities of France (La Provence, la Bretagne et Paris), their changing cultures and the contemporary issues they face. We will look at the importance of Paris in the construction of a national identity, and the regional developments of the past few decades.
3884	FRE	207	S09-10		Studies in French Language and Style	A study of French contemporary culture and society.  Intensive oral and written study of vocabulary, grammar, and idiomatic expressions prepares students for advanced courses in French literature and civilization and for working programs in French-speaking countries. Small class format.  Strong emphasis on discussion.  Film series. Intensive practical training in oral and written French.
3885	FRE	215	S09-10		France Today: Culture, Politics, and Society	This course is designed to develop students' linguistic skills and broaden their knowledge of contemporary French society. Discussions and essays will cover a wide range of topics drawn from economic, political, social and cultural aspects of France and the francophone world. Current affairs will be discussed in class on a regular basis. The course will provide intensive language practice and students will improve their communication skills by completing a research project, to be presented orally and in writing, on a topic of their choice. Course material include readings, videos, films, francophone television and web-based activities.
3886	FRE	222	S09-10	LA	The Making of Modern France: French Literature, Culture, and Society from 1789 to the Present	The course explores the last two centuries of French culture, focusing on key periods of social and artistic upheavals. We will examine the transformations of Paris in the 19th century, the revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848, the social changes brought about by two World Wars, and current debates on French identity. We will discuss a variety of cultural artifacts: texts, archives, films, and paintings.
3887	FRE	224	S09-10	LA	French Literature: Approaches to the Language of Literary Texts	This course is meant to introduce students to great works of French literature from a range of historical periods and to provide them with methods for literary interpretation through close reading of these texts.  The course syllabus is organized around common themes and generic categories.  This course is invaluable preparation for more advanced and specialized 300-level literature courses. Classroom discussion, free exchange encouraged.
3888	FRE	307	S09-10	LA	Advanced French Language and Style	To improve spoken and written French through comparative study of English and French grammatical and syntactic structures, literary translation, and reading of non-literary texts.
3889	FRE	311	S09-10		Advanced French Theater Workshop	Advanced French Theater Workshop is a continuation of FRE/THR 211, French Theater Workshop. Students focus their work on three French playwrights: one classical, one modern, and one contemporary. The course will place emphasis on refining and improving students' acting and oral skills. It will culminate in the presentation of the students 'Travaux' at the end of the semester.
3890	FRE	333	S09-10		Literature and Art in Renaissance France	A survey of Renaissance literature and art in France from the late 15th to the early 17th centuries.  A variety of cultural aspects of the period, including major literary and art works, will be considered, and we will intergrate the colleactions of the Princeton University Art Museum into the material under study.  Museum curators will also provide assistance to students.  Time will be divided between formal presentations, oral exposés, textual analyses, and discussion.
3891	FRE	352	S09-10	LA	Topics in 17th- and 18th-Century French Literature: Women and the Novel	The course will focus on the representation of women in 18th-century fiction. We will discuss the role of female characters (from prostitutes to emblems of domestic virtue), and the reasons why the novel was thought to be a "feminine" genre in a culture dominated by masculine political identity. We will deal with novels, film adaptations, and critical debates.
3892	FRE	367	S09-10	LA	Topics in 19th- and 20th-Century French Literature and Culture: Literature and Gastronomy in the Age of Globalization	In this course students will first explore the cultural aspects and roots of French cuisine and its gastronomic art form, and then will study through close reading its translation into modern French literary texts. And finally, the course will consider how globalization has impacted the French national identity and how the French intelligentsia has responded to that impact. Course material will include sociological and historical primary and secondary sources, literary texts, as well as films by famous contemporary French directors.
3893	FRE	391	S09-10	LA	Topics in French Cinema: The Shoah in French Film	A study of the representation of the Holocaust in French film. Major topics of discussion include the question of French national identity, the communication of traumatic experience, and differences of genre.
3894	FRE	399	S09-10		French Senior Seminar	This course is designed to provide a formal environment for French senior concentrators to refine their command of literature, culture, and thought, as well as to foster their writing skills. In addition, the seminar helps prepare students for the department's final comprehensive examination.  Major texts from the French and francophone traditions will be studied weekly, and, in addition to being discussed, will serve as bases for writing workshops. An important part of the seminar will also be dedicated to the art of translation.
3895	FRE	500	S09-10		Second Language Acquisition Research and Language Teaching Methodology	Designed to provide future teaching assistants with the knowledge and conceptual tools needed to reflect critically on pedagogical practices in the second language classroom.  Examines issues related to teaching language and culture in a university setting, highlighting the relationship between theory in Second Language Acquisition and language pedagogy and helping students understand the practical implications of theoretical frameworks in the field.
3896	FRE	509	S09-10		The Troubadours and the Occitan Tradition: Permutations of Desire and Knowledge	A study of this poetry from its purportedly oral origins to its enmeshment in forms of scholasticism. Troubadour songs about love, courtliness, and poetic refinement fired the imagination of audiences across Europe. Desire in lyric quickly becomes desire for desire, desire for lyric, and desire for the knowledge that the lyric brings; it eventually produces desire for the lyric itself as a form of knowledge.  Course includes reflections on manuscript culture and theories of poetry, desire and knowledge (by Agamben, Zizek, and others). Students will be able to learn Old Occitan and work on microfilms or facsimiles of manuscripts. Taught in Eng
3897	FRE	518	S09-10		The Literature of Enlightenment	This course examines how, in the era of emerging 'sciences of Man,' Enlightenment writers circumscribed notions of self and other, raising questions of fraudulent subjects, the naturalization of identity and difference, and the invention of privacy.  We consider such questions as: In becoming an object of knowledge, can persons only be known as objects, and no longer as subjects? How do the figures of synecdoche, metalepsis and catachresis, articulate power relations by, and on, the person who speaks?
3898	FRE	521	S09-10		Romanticism: The Literary Revolution: Art, Politics, Representation	A look at the revolution in literature in the political context of the struggle to establish popular sovereignty (1789-1848). What links the crisis of representation in the political sphere to this crisis in the arts? What disjoins them? Who gets represented? Is romanticism liberal or reactionary? Can writing be democratic? Taking liberty, equality, and fraternity as a guide, along with their discontents, we set up a series of textual dialogues. Novels, theater, and essays by Chateaubriand, Mme de Staël, Constant, Guizot, Hugo, Stendhal, Balzac, Vigny, Sand, Michelet, and Baudelaire; some recent criticism.
3899	FRE	525	S09-10		20th-Century French Poetry or Theater: Surrealism	This course examines the development of surrealism from its birth in Dada-infused Paris through its years of exile in New York to its decline after the Second World War. Materials considered will include literary and theoretical texts, visual works (including film), and magazines.  The course will treat the topic at a variety of inter-related levels, exploring surrealism as part of the broad historical phenomenon of the avant-garde, examining its specific ways of (re)conceiving literature and art, and investigating the epistemological ramifications of surrealism's aesthetic, political, and moral positions. (In English)
3900	FRE	583	S09-10		Seminar in Romance Linguistics and/or Literary Theory: Writing and the Holocaust	Seminar focuses on tensions between and within historiographical, testimonial, literary, and theoretical texts pertaining to the Holocaust.
3901	FRE	1027	S09-10		Intensive Intermediate and Advanced French	FRE 102-7 is an intensive double course designed to help students develop an active command of the language.  Focus will be on reading and listening comprehension, oral proficiency, grammatical accuracy, and the development of reading and writing skills.  A solid grammatical basis and awareness of the idiomatic usage of the language will be emphasized.  Students will be introduced to various Francophone cultures through readings, videos and films.
3902	FRS	102	S09-10	HA	Revolutions and the Era of American Independence	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3903	FRS	104	S09-10	LA	The Literature and Politics of Encounter	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3904	FRS	106	S09-10	ST	Sound, Music, and ... Physics	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3905	FRS	108	S09-10	ST	Art and Science of Motorcycle Design	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3906	FRS	110	S09-10	LA	Transformations of an Empire: Power, Religion, and the Arts of Medieval Rome	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3907	FRS	112	S09-10	SA	The Globalization of Domestic Courts	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3908	FRS	114	S09-10	LA	"Bleed in Sport": Theater, Sacrifice, and Culture	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3909	FRS	116	S09-10	EM	Neuroethics: The Intersection of Neuroscience with Social and Ethical Issues	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3910	FRS	118	S09-10	HA	History and Cinema: Fascism in Film	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3911	FRS	120	S09-10	SA	Life on Mars -- Or Maybe Not	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3912	FRS	122	S09-10	ST	The Everglades Today and Tomorrow: Global Change and the Impact of Human Activities on the Biosphere	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3913	FRS	124	S09-10	SA	When Cows Go Crazy: The Inextricable Links between Human and Animal Health	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3914	FRS	126	S09-10	LA	Architects in Quest of the Ideal City	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3915	FRS	128	S09-10	EM	The Book of Genesis	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3916	FRS	130	S09-10	EM	Indigenous Peoples and Historic Injustice	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3917	FRS	132	S09-10	SA	What Can the Science of Economics Teach Us about the Theory of the State?	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3918	FRS	134	S09-10	LA	Political, Allegorical, and Mythical Narrative Cycles in Roman Art	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3919	FRS	136	S09-10	SA	Science and Policy of Global Environmental Issues	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3920	FRS	138	S09-10	EM	Children and War	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3921	FRS	140	S09-10	LA	Willa Cather and Company	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3922	FRS	142	S09-10	LA	The Artist as Idea - From Leonardo to Warhol	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3923	FRS	146	S09-10	LA	Into the Woods! What Disney Didn't Tell You About Fairy Tales	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3924	FRS	147	S09-10	QR	The Stock Market	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3925	FRS	148	S09-10	EM	Design, Craft, and Ethical Value	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3926	FRS	150	S09-10	SA	Reform and Revolution in Chile	See Freshman Seminar booklet or http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3927	FRS	152	S09-10	LA	Backstage Dramas: Survival Strategies in the American Theater	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3928	FRS	154	S09-10	SA	Our Struggling Schools: Race, Culture, and Urban Education	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3929	FRS	156	S09-10	ST	The Chemistry of Magic	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3930	FRS	158	S09-10	LA	Literature, Law, and Human Rights	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3931	FRS	160	S09-10	SA	American Families in Comparative Perspective	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3932	FRS	162	S09-10	LA	Bodies in Cultural Landscapes	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3933	FRS	164	S09-10	LA	What's the Plan? Space as a Medium	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3934	FRS	166	S09-10	QR	The Information Revolution: Insights into Technology, Language, and Biology	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3935	FRS	168	S09-10	LA	The Charms of Nature: Pastoral Poetry and Poetics in Greece, Rome, and Beyond	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3936	FRS	170	S09-10	LA	The American Sermon	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3937	FRS	172	S09-10	EM	A Survey of Plato's Republic	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3938	FRS	174	S09-10	SA	Ancestry, Genetics and Medicine	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3939	FRS	176	S09-10	ST	From the Bronze Age to the Plastic Age:  A History of Chemistry through Experimental Discovery	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3940	FRS	178	S09-10	SA	Modern Financial Markets	See Freshman Seminar booklet or www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/fs/
3941	GEO	103	S09-10	ST	Natural Disasters	An introduction to natural (and some society-induced) hazards and the importance of public understanding of the issues related to them.  Emphasis is on the geological processes that underlie the hazards, with some discussion of relevant policy issues.  Principal topics:  Earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunami, hurricanes, floods, meteorite impacts, global warming.  Intended primarily for non-science majors.
3942	GEO	202	S09-10	ST	Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate	An introduction to the ocean, atmosphere, and climate from the perspective of oceanography.  Covers coastal processes including waves, beaches, tides and ecosystems; open ocean processes including atmospheric circulation and its impact on the surface ocean, the wind driven circulation, and surface ocean ecosystems; and the abyssal ocean including circulation, the cycling of chemicals, and ocean sediments and what they tell us about the climate history of the earth.  The final part of the course will cover humans and the earth system, including a discussion of ocean resources and climate change.
3943	GEO	255	S09-10	QR	Life in the Universe	This course introduces students to a new field, Astrobiology, where scientists trained in biology, chemistry, astronomy and geology combine their skills to discover life's origins and to seek extraterrestrial life. Topics include: the origin of life on Earth,  the prospects of life beneath the surfaces of Mars and Europa, a moon of Jupiter; extra-solar planets nearby that offer targets for NASA space telescopes searching for life.
3944	GEO	366	S09-10	STX	Current and Future Climate	This course explores the causes and consequences of human-induced climate change, and the range of potential policy responses.  By studying the natural climate system and how it is influenced by human perturbation, we will develop a quantitative understanding of how climate is expected to change in the future as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere.  The course also examines scientific themes that should frame any public policy based on risk management, including irreversibility, uncertainty, and surprise.  We will also examine the ways in which people, governments and other institutions are actually responding to climate change.
3945	GEO	370	S09-10	ST	Sedimentology	This course presents a treatment of the physical and chemical processes that shape Earth's surface, such as solar radiation, deformation of the solid Earth, and the flow of water (vapor, liquid, and solid) under the influence of gravity. In particular,the generation, transport, and preservation of sediment in response to these processes is studied in order to better read stories of Earth history in the geologic record and to better understand processes involved in modern and ancient environmental change.
3946	GEO	416	S09-10		Evolution of the Continents	The origin and evolution of the continental crust, with emphasis on comparing Archaean crust formation processes with those of the Phanerozoic.  The goal is to understand the physical, chemical, and tectonic processes that form continental crust.
3947	GEO	419	S09-10		The Earth as a Physical System	The Earth is a physical system whose past and present state can be studied within the framework of physics and chemistry.  Topics include current concepts of geophysics and the physics and chemistry of Earth materials;  origin and evolution of the Earth;  and nature of dynamic processes in its interior.  One emphasis is to relate geologic processes on a macroscopic scale to the fundamental materials properties of minerals and rocks.
3948	GEO	428	S09-10		Biological Oceanography	Fundamentals of Biological Oceanography, with an emphasis on the ecosystem level.  We will consider the organisms in the context of their chemical and physical environment; the properties of seawater, atmosphere and ocean dynamics that affect life in the ocean; primary production and marine food webs; global cycles of carbon and other elements; current research approaches.  In addition to lectures by the professors, the course will delve deeply into the current and classic literature of oceanography and students will be expected to participate in seminar type presentations and discussions.
3949	GEO	430	S09-10		Climate and the Terrestrial Biosphere	Earth's climate is inextricably intertwined with the terrestrial biosphere. In this course, we will explore the key mechanisms that link climate (e.g., cloudiness, rainfall, and temperature) with the terrestrial biosphere (e.g., ecosystem composition, structure, and functioning), and how these mechanisms are altered by humans. We will review basic aspects of climate, surface energy balances, and terrestrial plant ecology, and then investigate feedbacks and forcings arising from biophysical properties of the land surface, biogeographical properties of ecosystems, deforestation, fires, increases in atmospheric CO2, and other factors.
3950	GEO	441	S09-10		Computational Geophysics	An introduction to weak numerical methods, in particular finite-element and spectral-element methods, used in computational geophysics. Basic surface & volume elements, representation of fields, quadrature, assembly, local versus global meshes, domain decomposition, time marching & stability, parallel implementation & message-passing, and load-balancing. In the context of parameter estimation and 'imaging', will explore data assimilation techniques and related adjoint methods. The course offers hands-on lab experience in meshing complicated surfaces & volumes as well as numerically solving partial differential equations relevant to geophysics
3951	GEO	464	S09-10		Radiogenic Isotopes	Theory and methodology of radiogenic isotope geochemistry, as applied to topics in the geosciences, including the formation and differentiation of the Earth and solar system, thermal and temporal evolution of orogenic belts, and the rates and timing of important geochemical, biotic, and climatic events in earth history.
3952	GEO	470	S09-10		Environmental Chemistry of Soils	Focuses on the inorganic and organic constituents of aqueous, solid, and gaseous phases of soils, and fundamental chemical principles and processes governing the reactions between different constituents. The role of soil chemical processes in the major and trace element cycles, and the biogeochemical transformation of different soil contaminants will be discussed in the later parts of the course.
3953	GEO	506	S09-10		Fundamentals of the Geosciences II	A survey of fundamental papers in the Geosciences.  Topics include present and future climate, biogeochemical processes in the ocean, geochemical cycles, orogenies, thermochronology, rock fracture and seismicity.  This is the second of two core geosciences graduate courses.
3954	GEO	535	S09-10		Biogeochemical Cycles in Earth History: Isotope Geochemistry of the Biologically Important Elements	Examines the evidence for changes in the cycles of biologically important elements (Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, etc.) over Earth history.  Topics will include the development and evolution of the biogeochemical cycles, their significance for the geologic and fossil records, and biogeochemical change during the last ice age. Overview lectures by the instructor and student presentations based on readings from the scientific literature and/or ongoing research.
3955	GEO	539	S09-10		Topics in Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology, and Paleoceanography: Environmental and Biotic Effects of Volcanism	Investigation of paleoenvironments and biotic effects associated with major volcanic eruptions (large igneous provinces), (e.g. Deccan Traps, Siberian Traps) and recent volcanic eruptions and their biotic and environmental consequences.
3956	GEO	544	S09-10		Structural Geology Seminar: Fold-Thrust Belts and Orogenic Systems	An introduction to the relationship of fold-thrust belts to the orogenic systems they are a part of.  Papers in the literature are read chronologically: from early papers (~1970) that first introducted the technique, to recent papers (2003-2004) that apply the technique of balances cross sections to understand the development of mountain ranges.
3957	GEO	570	S09-10		Sedimentology	Treatment of the physical and chemical processes that shape Earth's surface, such as solar radiation, deformation of the solid Earth, and the flow of water (vapor, liquid, and solid) under the influence of gravity.  In particular, the generation, transport, and preservation of sediment in response to these processes are studied in order to better read stories of Earth history in the geologic record and to better understand processes involved in modern and ancient environmental change.  Taught in parallel with GEO 370.
3958	GER	102	S09-10		Beginner's German II	Continues the goals of GER 101, focusing on increased communicative proficiency (oral and written), effective reading strategies, and listening skills. Emphasis on functional language tasks: learning to request, persuade, ask for help, express opinions, agree and disagree, negotiate conversations, and gain perspective on German culture through readings and discussion.  Participants eligible to apply for Princeton-in-Munich, GER 105-G, June, 2010. The afternoon section , intended for graduate students, follows the basic syllabus with added emphasis on reading skills.
3959	GER	107	S09-10		Advanced German	Continues improvement of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing using news magazines, electronic media, and literary texts as a basis for class discussion.  Grammar review is included.
3960	GER	208	S09-10		Studies in German Language and Style: Contemporary Society, Politics, and Culture	The course offers an introduction to German postwar art, society, and politics, featuring the paperwork of denazification and the miracles of economics, a grand coalition and an extra parliamentary opposition, urban guerilleros, squabbling historians, pop enthusiasts, unofficial collaborators, and the paperwork of reunification. Focus on the German obsession with being on time: From the Kulturfahrplan at the zero hour to the unfinished project of modernity, from an anachronistic procession to the mercy of late birth.
3961	GER	210	S09-10	EC	Introduction to German Philosophy	Major works of the German philosophical tradition from the Enlightenment to the present (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Adorno). The course will offer a survey of German intellectual history from a philosophical perspective, but will also engage directly and closely with theoretical texts. Domains to be explored include metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy and philosophy of language.
3962	GER	211	S09-10	EC	Introduction to Media Theory	Through careful readings of a wide range of media theoretical texts from the late 19th to early 21st century, this seminar will trace the development of critical reflection on technologies and media ranging from the printing press to photography, from gramophones to radio technologies, from pre-cinematic optical devices to film and television, and from telephony and typewriters to cyberspace. Topics include the relationship between representation and technology, the historicity of perception, the interplay of aesthetics, technics and politics, and transformations of reigning notions of imagination, literacy, communication, reality, and truth.
3963	GER	303	S09-10	LA	Topics in Prose Fiction: Kafka Love	Kafka wrote late in life that  "one develops in one's own way only after death, only once one is alone." How, then, did Kafka develop, who, upon his death in 1924, had published but a fraction of his writings and left a will that seemed to ask for the destruction of the rest? We will study the emergence of an exemplary author and iconic figure by considering the literary scene he entered in 1908, his romantic and textual engagements in Prague and Berlin, the posthumous struggles over the publication, interpretation, and editing of his novels, short prose, diaries, correspondences, and the love his solitary stance provokes to this day.
3964	GER	321	S09-10	LA	Topics in German Medieval Literature: Before Gender: Cross-Dressing and Sex in Medieval Romance	A young Arthurian knight loses honor because he enjoys having sex with his wife. The Grail King is wounded near fatally in the genitals while trying to win the "wrong" woman. Young kings dress up and act like women in order to woo their prospective brides. This course will explore what it meant to be men and women in love (with each other or with God) in some of the most spectacular literary works of the German Middle Ages. The larger context for our discussion will be a more nuanced understanding of the history of sexuality. Readings and discussion primarily in modern German, some readings and discussion in English.
3965	GER	324	S09-10	LA	Topics in Germanic Literatures: Romanticism and the Origins of Modernity	This course instoduces students to the literature of German and European Romanticism. Emphasis on understanding the literature and philosophy of this period in its intellectual and cultural context. Readings include both literary works and a number of theoretical, political, and scientific texts from Rousseau to Kleist that relect the extraordinary developments in Western thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
3966	GER	509	S09-10		Middle High German Literature II: Medieval Knowing	Seminar examines the ins and outs of knowing as it is depicted in medieval literature. Philosophical, theological, and imaginative texts in which ways of knowing or what and how one knows are studied. Related topics to be addressed include love, literacy, learning, teaching, hagiography, and gender (what can women know and how do they acquire knowledge?). Readings and discussions will be in English.
3967	GER	521	S09-10		Topics in German Intellectual History: Germanic Theologies	A critical reading of works from the Germanic tradition that have transformed Western notions about God. Written by novelists and philosophers as well as theologians, these works raise questions--with an urgency unique to their subject matter--about the ultimate foundations of reason, the character of historical knowledge, the communicability of personal experience, the relationship between language and revelation, the possibility of textual interpretation, and the status of humans in the universe.
3968	GER	525	S09-10		Studies in German Film: Early German Cinema	This seminar in media history, theory and criticism subjects a rediscovered cache of rare silent films to a variety of critical interrogations, exploring the complex intermedial dynamics (relations to theater, variété, literature), establishment of key legitimation discourses (film criticism and theory, the Autorenfilm), development of new narrative forms ("birth" of the feature film, the serial detective genre), work of ignored pioneers (the Brothers Skladanowsky, Oskar Messter), gender and class dynamics in the transformation of the public sphere, and issues of technology, politics and the historicity of perception.
3969	GER	1025	S09-10		Intensive Intermediate German	Intensive training in German, building on GER 101 and covering the acquisitional goals of two subsequent semesters:  communicative proficiency in a wide range  of syntax, mastery of discourse skills, and reading strategies sufficient to interpret and discuss contemporary German short stories and drama.  Intensive classroom participation/language lab required.  Successful completion provides eligibility for GER 107 or, in exceptional cases, for 200 level courses.  Participants are eligible to apply for the Princeton-in-Munich program (107-G), June, 2010.
3970	GHP	351	S09-10	SA	Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Health Policy	This course introduces students to the main disease and health care problems worldwide and examines efforts underway to improve global health. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the course probes environmental, social, political, economic factors that shape patterns and variations in disease and health across societies. Topics include: infectious and chronic diseases; development and risk factors; pharmaceuticals and public health interventions; public-private partnerships; human rights and social justice. Students are encouraged to think creatively about health problems and to envision innovative and effective interventions.
3971	HEB	102	S09-10		Elementary Hebrew II	Continuation of HEB 101 focusing on the structure, the grammar and vocabulary of the Hebrew language.  We'll be reading easy texts from Israeli newspapers, from our textbooks.  We'll be writing more compositions and be giving presentations about various topics in Hebrew.
3972	HEB	107	S09-10		Intermediate Hebrew II	Completion of two-year textbook, Ha-Yesod, and reading and discussion of selected additional texts (newspaper, stories, poems, etc.) Extensive practice in conversation, writing and reading and tasting Hebrew literature.
3973	HEB	302	S09-10	LA	Advanced Hebrew Language and Style II	Readings in Hebrew culture, exploring the underlying tensions in identity among Israeli Jews:  tensions in religious identity (ie.  Ashkenazim versus Sephardim/Ultra Orthodox (Chareidim) versus Secularists), political identity, age/generational identity, and personal identity.  We will analyze these issues within the context of contemporary short stories, modern poetry, newspaper articles, and cinema/theater.
3974	HEB	402	S09-10	LA	Coexistence through Theater and Film	An advanced language and culture course in Hebrew. Students will develop further proficiency in all skills through discussions, oral presentations of authentic materials and media.  The objective is to investigate how playwrights and filmmakers deal with socio-cultural issues of coexistence.  In addition to reading the plays, students will watch the DVDs with the performances from the unique bilingual theater in Jaffa.  Lab work will be also assigned.
3975	HIN	102	S09-10		Elementary Hindi II	Elementary Hindi 102 provides the second semester of training in spoken and written Hindi. Our primary objective is to continue to increase understanding, speaking, reading and writing Hindi. Classroom activities include comprehension, grammar exercises, role-plays, and conversation. Some attention to the cultural context of northern India. Depending on interest, Urdu script will also be taught.
3976	HIN	107	S09-10		Intermediate Hindi II	A continuation of the second year of intermediate Hindi language training, this course focuses on improving skills in the following areas: reading expository texts and extended narratives, writing descriptive informative texts of three to four pages, verbal communication on a range of topics, and expanding analytical understanding of the structure of the Hindi language. Special attention is paid to the cultural context of South Asia.
3977	HIS	208	S09-10	HA	East Asia since 1800	This course is an introduction to the history of modern East Asia.  We will examine the inter-related histories of Korea, Japan, and China since 1800 and their relationships with the wider world.  Major topics include:  trade and cultural exchanges, reform and revolutions, war, colonialism, imperialism, Cold War geopolitics, and socialism.
3978	HIS	212	S09-10	HA	Europe in the World: Monarchies, Nations and Empires from 1776 to the Present Day	This course offers a global history from an unusual perspective: that of the nations and empires ruled by monarchs and emperors (and sometimes empresses) across the years since the American and French revolutions, which are often seen as the events which ushered in the modern world of republicanism and democracy.  To be sure, many thrones have crashed and crowns have passed away since then; but monarchies are still with us today, from Japan to Britain, Swaziland to Sweden.  This course will explore both the anti-monarchical trends that have thrived since 1776 and 1789, but also the surprising extent of royal resilience.
3979	HIS	280	S09-10	HA	Approaches to American History	An intensive introduction for history concentrators, particularly those who plan to take their independent work seriously.  Students will immerse themselves in documents of three historical events: the Little Rock school integration crisis, the making of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the Salem witchcraft trials.  Interpretation of documents, the framing of historical questions, and the construction of historical explanations will be stressed. Lectures will introduce a basic vocabulary of analysis:  e.g., culture, class, gender, race, society.
3980	HIS	282	S09-10	HA	A Documents-based Approach to Asian History	An intensive introduction to the methods and practices of history, designed to prepare students for future independent work.  The  focus is on interpreting primary sources on three topics:  1) Did Marco Polo go to China? 2) Did the Jesuits in China go beyond early European knowledge of Asia? 3) Why did China lose and Japan win the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95?
3981	HIS	316	S09-10	HA	South African History, 1497 to the Present	South Africa's past and present were and are closely intertwined with those of its neighbors, including Angola, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. South Africa's industrial expansion, for example, relied on thousands of migrant laborers from its neighbors.  The course will highlight a variety of themes, including the rise and fall of African empires (Great Zimbabwe and the Zulu kingdom), the effects of European colonization and the repression caused by the Apartheid system.  The focus will also be on the dramatic 1994 transition of South Africa to a multiracial democratic society led by Nelson Mandela.
3982	HIS	317	S09-10	HA	The Making of Modern India	An exploration of three major themes in the history of India's emergence as a nation-state: colonial socio-economic and cultural transformations, the growth of modern collective identities and conflicts, and nationalism.  Topics covered include:  trade, empire, and capitalism; class, gender and religion; Gandhi, national independence, and partition; and post-colonial state and society.
3983	HIS	330	S09-10	HA	The Muslim Mediterranean	Although the word "Mediterranean" evokes images of Italy and Spain, much, if not most, of the Mediterranean has been under some form of Muslim rule - whether Arab or Turkish - since the 7th century C.E.  This course will explore the Muslim experience of, and impact on, the Mediterranean world from the medieval period through the 20th century.
3984	HIS	341	S09-10	HA	Between Resistance and Collaboration: The Second World War in Europe	In the broader context of conflict between fascism, communism, and liberal democracy, we shall examine various patterns and methods of occupation, collaboration, and resistance during World War II in Western and Eastern Europe.  The Holocaust of European Jewry and the technology of terror will be discussed.  We  will try to ascertain how elites and different social strata were affected by the impact of war and  occupation.  Students will be asked to read historical studies as well as personal narratives by eyewitnesses and participants.
3985	HIS	343	S09-10	HA	The Civilization of the Early Middle Ages	This course will survey the "Dark Ages" from the end of the Roman Empire to the end of the first millennium (ca. 400-1000 AD), often seen as a time of cultural and political decline, recently even labelled as the "end of civilization". The complex political and social landscape of the Roman Empire, however, had more to offer than just to end. This course will outline how early medieval people(s) in the successor states of the Roman Empire used its resources to form new communities and will suggest to understand the "Dark Ages" as a time of lively social and cultural experimentation, that created the social and political frameworks of Europe.
3986	HIS	344	S09-10	HA	The Civilization of the High Middle Ages	In lectures, to provide my interpretation (and a conspectus of differing interpretations) of the civilization of Western Europe, 11th-14th century; by the readings, to introduce students to the variety of surviving sources; through the paper, to give students a taste of doing medieval history.
3987	HIS	348	S09-10	HA	The Hispanic World, 1400-1800	Long before Victorian Britain became synonymous with world empire, there was Spain. In the 16th century, the kingdoms of medieval Iberia banded together to forge the first global monarchy, reaching from Latin America to the Philippines--only to watch it disintegrate in the 17th and 18th centuries. Understanding Spain´s Golden Age is essential for interpreting not only the histories of modern Spain and Latin America, but also the history of the early modern world. Topics include the creation of Spanish identity; Christian, Muslim, and Jewish relations; the Renaissance; the governance of Empire; imperial decline; and the Enlightenment.
3988	HIS	352	S09-10	HA	From Luther to Napoleon: Early Modern Germany, 1495-1806	This course traces the tumultuous history of the German lands in the early modern period, from the reforms in the institutions of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1495 until the abolition of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars (1806).  It is designed for students with some background in early modern German history as well as for those who have never done any German history before. Topics covered include the Holy Roman Empire, the Reformation, the Thirty Years War, the Peace of Westphalia, Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia, the German Enlightenment, The French Revolution in Germany, and the Napoleonic experience.
3989	HIS	362	S09-10	HA	The Soviet Empire	An examination of the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Soviet Empire.  Topics include: the invention and unfolding of single-party revolutionary politics, the expansion of the machinery of state, the onset and development of Stalin's personal despotism, the violent attempt to create a noncapitalist society,  the experiences and consequences of the monumental war with Nazi Germany, and the various postwar reforms. Special attention paid to the dynamics of the new socialist society, the connection between the power of the state and everyday life, the bloc,  and the 1991 collapse.
3990	HIS	377	S09-10	HA	Gilded Age and Progressive-Era United States, 1877-1920	This course introduces students to major themes in the history of the emergence of modern American society and government. It covers 1877-1920, paying particular attention to such crucial post-Civil War developments as the modern business corporation and changing labor conditions; the transformative effects of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and internal migration; the unsettling of traditional gender and racial arrangements; the origins of modern democracy and liberalism in labor organization, Populism and Progressivism; and U.S. participation in global politics through its colonial ventures and World War I.
3991	HIS	384	S09-10	HA	Gender and Sexuality in Modern America	This course examines the history of gender and sexuality across the 20th century, with emphasis on both regulation and resistance.  Topics include early homosexual subcultures; the commercialization of sex; reproduction and its limitation; sex, gender, and war; cold war sexual containment; the feminist movement; conservative backlash; AIDS politics; same-sex marriage; Hillary; and many others.
3992	HIS	387	S09-10	HA	African American History from Reconstruction to the Present	This course presents an overview of the major themes, pivotal moments, and critical questions in African American history from Reconstruction to the present.  It analyzes the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal dimensions of the black experience in the United States during Reconstruction,suffrage, the Great Migration, the World Wars,the Depression, the long civil rights era, and the contemporary period of racial politics.  Using a wide variety of texts, images, and creative works, the course situates African American history within broader national and international contexts.
3993	HIS	395	S09-10	HA	History of Medicine and the Body	This course covers key concepts and developments in the history of medicine from Ancient times to the present. We will explore ideas of health and disease in Antiquity, the rise of anatomy and dissection in the Renaissance, the fight against germs in the nineteenth century, and modern practices of health, life and death. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which changing medical views and practices were sustained by contemporary experience of the body. What did it mean to fall ill and get better? How did people understand their relationship to the environment? How could one prevent sickness by living a healthy life?
3994	HIS	398	S09-10	HA	Technologies and Their Societies: Historical Perspectives	This course offers a historical understanding of the role of technology in U.S. history from the 1880s to the present.  It is built on the idea that technology is simultaneously a reflection of social and cultural values, and a factor (one of many) in the transformation of those values.  Technologies of mass production, mass consumption, and information are emphasized.  The role of the engineer in American society is another recurring theme.  From factory floors to suburban kitchens, ingenious inventors to angry student demonstrators, Model Ts to Macs, the subjects reflect the diversity of American technologies and technological environments.
3995	HIS	400	S09-10	HA	Junior Seminars	A special section of HIS 400 for junior majors returning from study abroad and for sophomores intending to major in History and to spend the fall term or year abroad.  Normally required of all juniors in the fall term, the seminar serves to introduce majors  to the tools, methods and interpretations employed in historical research and writing.  This seminar will concentrate on readings of colonialism, and encounters penned by adventurers, scholars and officials active in Asia and Africa between 1800 and 1950.  Students interested in taking this course must contact History's Undergraduate Administrator (etta@princeton.edu).
3996	HIS	407	S09-10	HA	Politics of Racial Violence in America	Racial violence has been a crucial component of the American landscape. In order to broaden our understanding of racial violence in the United States, the readings will examine racial violence against not only African Americans, but against Native Americans, Mexican Americans, and Japanese Americans.  We will examine how racist ideologies and violence have worked to keep different groups of people socially, politically, or economically oppressed at a given historical moment.  Highlighting major historical events and individual experiences, the course explores racial violence from a variety of perspectives.
3997	HIS	408	S09-10	HA	Selected Topics in 20th Century Latin America: The Latin American Cold War	Examines the Cold War in Latin America from both North and South, drawing on the new historiography of the period.  In addition to geopolitical crises, the course considers the lived experience of debates and conflicts within Latin American countries, over such issues as development and student politics.  The course thus on the one hand conceives of the Cold War in its international terms, which allows for an understanding of U.S.-Latin American relations more broadly.  On another level, studying the Cold War enables us to access national histories and private stories, particularly the effects of repression on both nations and  individuals.
3998	HIS	411	S09-10	HA	War and Society in the Modern World	The interrelationship of war and society from the 18th century to the nuclear age.  Emphasis on the causes, conduct, and consequences of war.  Particular attention is given to the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
3999	HIS	418	S09-10	HA	Imagined Cities	An undergraduate seminar about the urban experiences and representations of the modern city as society. Beginning with the premise that the "soft city" of ideas, myths, symbols, images, and psychic expressions is as important as the "hard city" of bricks and mortar, this course explores the experiences and imaginations of modern cities in different historical contexts. Among the cities we will examine are Manchester, London, Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Algiers, Bombay, and Hong Kong. The course will use a variety of materials, but will  focus particularly on cinema to examine different imaginative expressions of the urban experience.
4000	HIS	435	S09-10	HA	Mounted Nomads and Sedentary States in the Medieval World	An introduction to the history of the nomadic cultures of the central Asian steppe, who acted as a conduit for information, goods, and technologies between Europe and China.  Beginning with the archaeology and social anthropology of steppe nomadic societies, the course proceeds to an overview of the history of the various steppe peoples with whom Europe and Byzantium came into contact, before examining in greater detail the rise of the Mongol empire under Chingis Khan, its background and context, and its effects on the structure of tribal and clan society.
4001	HIS	446	S09-10	HA	Maimonides from Medieval Egypt to Modernity	This course will use the works of Moses Maimonides (ca. 1136-1204) as a case study in the history of knowledge. After reading select passages in his Guide of the Perplexed and The Code of Law, we will trace the reception of Maimonides and his work from the 12th century to modern times. As we read him and his interpreters we will pay attention to questions of transmission, sociology of knowledge, and the reception of a text.  We will also explore the Maimonidean controversies in the high Middle Ages, the printing and censorship of his Code in the early modern period, and his impact on the Jewish Enlightenment and modern Jewish thought.
4002	HIS	454	S09-10	HA	Women and Gender in Early Modern England	In this seminar we will explore women's lives in early modern England, ideas about gender and sex, and the interactions of people and ideas. While we will cover exceptional women (queens, witches, writers), we will focus on the ordinary women who made up the majority of the population. Readings will be drawn largely from primary texts, including letters, memoirs, testimony, ballads, ephemera, and advice books.  By exploring how legal and religious institutions shaped women's lives, we will gain insight into major issues (family, law, poverty, consumption, crime, the social order, etc.) in early modern English society as a whole.
4003	HIS	465	S09-10	HA	Race, Civil War, and Reconstruction	The American Civil War punctuated the 19th century and transformed the nation. This seminar will explore the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and its aftermath, from the perspectives of social, cultural, intellectual, and political history. Our exploration will proceed from two premises: first, that race and slavery were central to the causes and consequences of the war; and second, that the war and its legacies remain central to the trajectory of modern U. S. history. Note that this is not a course in military history.
4004	HIS	469	S09-10	HA	The Bush Presidency	This class will examine the presidency of George W. Bush in historical perspective. Beginning with the bitterly contested election of 2000, moving through the traumatic events of 9/11 and ending with the historic election of Barack Obama in 2008, we will analyze the key turning points, accomplishments and failures of this presidency. We will also place the Bush administration and its legacy in the context of larger trends in American history, including the rise of the conservative movement and the evolution of presidential power. The class will include guests who worked in or wrote about the Bush administration.
4005	HIS	471	S09-10	HA	Slavery in Colonial North America	Though slavery was the central feature of colonial America, historical discussions of slavery tend to skip this era, leaping ahead to the antebellum plantations of the Deep South. This seminar will instead explore the more than two centuries of slavery that preceded the cotton boom. We will ask questions such as: What is slavery? How did the Atlantic slave trade work? What kinds of slavery existed in the 17th- and 18th-century American colonies? How did race affect the creation of slavery? Using a combination of primary and secondary readings, we will seek to understand the origins and evolution of slavery in early North America.
4006	HIS	478	S09-10	HA	The United States and the Vietnam Wars	Examines the American experience in Vietnam within the context of both U.S. and international history.  The chronological scope extends from the outbreak of the Second World War to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government in 1975.  Topics include the U.S. involvement in the French Indochina War, the commitment of military forces in defense of South Vietnam, the character of the anti-war movement, the consequences of the Tet Offensive, and the impact of war upon American  society.  Although the American experience receives primary emphasis,  the seminar also considers the role of Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary movements.
4007	HIS	502	S09-10		Writing History	The craft of historical writing. As older notions of objectivity come under attack, what narrative options exist for historians? Course focuses on recent work by historians experimenting with new forms of writing and considers the boundaries between fact and fiction, the use of first-person narratives, and the limits of historical speculation. Course also examines how journalists, novelists, and film-makers narrate the past to ask what literary lessons they might offer academic historians. In a series of structured assignments, students experiment with different ways of writing about the past.
4008	HIS	506	S09-10		Modern Latin America since 1810	Course examines interactions between states and citizens since Latin American independence with an additional consideration of the region's integration into global economic and political systems.
4009	HIS	517	S09-10		Southeast Asian Islams	Seminar explores topics ranging from the Islamization of Insular Southeast Asia, the development of Muslim polities, reactions to colonialism, and transnational critiques of everyday praxis. Evaluates the role of indigenous informants in creating the body of knowledge about Islam in Southeast Asia among scholars, and look at how that knowledge informs our present day discourse on the region and its relations with the rest of the Muslim World.
4010	HIS	539	S09-10		Modernity and its Critics in the Modern Middle East	An introduction to the literature about the critique of modernity which underlies some of the key recent interventions in Middle Eastern studies.   Extending the work of Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger and Latour to the non-West, the course examines how moving beyond the modern opens it up to new kinds of investigation.  Course traces the heterogeneity that constituted, paradoxically, a totalizing language which awarded the experiences of Western modernity a universal role through a consideration of texts on technology, religion, the city, democracy, and gender in such places as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon.
4011	HIS	543	S09-10		The Origins of the Middle Ages	Reading and research on the transition of ancient into medieval society, religion, and culture are the focus of this course.
4012	HIS	560	S09-10		Topics in Russian 18th Century History and Literature	Treatment of significant works of 18th century Russian literature in their historical context. Major themes include: church and state; Russia and the West; Peter I and Catherine II as cultural legislators; patronage; censorship; political dissent; women's life and letters. Some attention is given to European connections and influences. Reading knowledge of Russian is recommended but not required.
4013	HIS	564	S09-10		East Central Europe in the 20th Century	In this course we will examine politics and culture of East Central Europe (ECE). Situated between Germany and Russia ECE was at the crossroads of 20th century totalitarian projects initiated by Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia.  Endowed with liberal constitutions as a result of the Versailles Treaty, states in the region experienced a full spectrum of political regimes. Cultural and intellectual elites experimented with a broad range of ideas and forms of expression. We will study this variety of institutions and cultural artifacts using narrative history, as well as literary essays, works of fiction, poetry, and films produced by ECE.
4014	HIS	570	S09-10		The World and Britain c. 1830-c.1960	During the second and third quarters of the 19th century, Britain reached the apogee of its economic, financial and imperial dominance.  But, from the 1870s onwards, while its empire's boundaries continued to expand, its unchallenged global position was increasingly eroded.  In the aftermath of two world wars, the empire dissolved in only fifty years, and Britain itself was exposed to successive "invasions."  After 1945, the empire came home, in that onetime colonial peoples settled in Britain in unprecedented numbers; the country reluctantly joined the EU, and it accepted both US bases and increasingly Washington's lead in foreign policy.
4015	HIS	586	S09-10		Race, Racism, and Politics in America, 1877-2000	A reading seminar focussing on race and ethnicity in modern American politics and society.  Readings are structured on themes of segregation; immigration and assimilation; ethnic communities; race, ethnicity and law; racism in World War and Cold War; civil rights and racial militancy; white backlash.
4016	HIS	588	S09-10		Readings in American History: The Early Republic through Reconstruction, 1815-1877	A comprehensive introduction to the literature and problems of American history from the Era of Good Feelings through Reconstruction.
4017	HLS	102	S09-10		Elementary Modern Greek II	To provide the basis for acquiring a command of written and spoken Modern Greek.
4018	HLS	107	S09-10		Advanced Modern Greek	Advanced composition and oral practice aimed at developing idiomatic written and spoken style. Discussions entirely in Greek.  Introduces students to contemporary Greek culture and literature through the study of works by Cavafy, Sikelianos, Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos, and Anagnostakis, among others.  Readings from articles on current Greek topics.
4019	HOS	595	S09-10		Introduction to Historiography of Science	This course is designed to introduce beginning graduate students to the central problems and principle literature of the history of science from the Enlightenment into the 20th century.
4020	HUM	218	S09-10	LA	Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: Literature and the Arts	This team-taught double course is the second half of an intensive four-course, interdisciplinary introduction to Western culture that includes history, religion, philosophy, literature and the arts.  It examines European texts, events and artifacts from the Renaissance to the modern period.  Readings and discussions are complemented by films, concerts, museum visits and special events.  Although most students will have already taken 216 - 217,  it is possible for students to join at this point if they have a strong background in antiquity and the Middle Ages.
4021	HUM	219	S09-10	EC	Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture II: History, Philosophy, and Religion	In combination with 218, this is the second half of a year-long interdisciplinary sequence exploring Western culture from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Students must register for both HUM 218 and HUM 219, which constitute a double-course.  The lecture component for 219 is listed as TBA because all meetings are listed under HUM 218.    There are no separate meeting times for 219.
4022	HUM	220	S09-10	LA	Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture III: The 20th Century	This is a sequel to Hum 216-219 in which the literature,  philosophy, and arts of the 20th century are examined. Works by Freud, Picasso, Warhol, Joyce, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Schoenberg, Akhmatova, Brecht and many others will be studied.
4023	HUM	234	S09-10	EM	East Asian Humanities II: Tradition and Transformation	This is the second half of a sequence introducing the humanities in East Asia. The course takes up in the fourteenth century, but includes significant material from more modern periods as well, including the 20th century. Lectures are given by specialists in the departments of East Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, Art and Archaeology and Religious Studies. Lectures and classes are complemented by museum visits, performances and films. The course is organized thematically rather than chronologically, and topics range from the medieval to the post-modern in the disciplines of literature, visual arts, music, philosophy and religion.
4024	HUM	414	S09-10	EM	Adventures in Ideas	This seminar explores a range of ideas advanced by major thinkers in philosophy, politics, religion, and related areas.  Among the question we will consider:  Are there moral truths?  What is justice?  Does the positive law of the state stand in judgment under a "higher law"?  What is the relationship, if any, between faith and reason or reason and revelation?  What should a person do when legal and moral (or religious) obligations collide?  Do people have obligations to the common good?  What does it mean to live a life of integrity?  How do human beings flourish?  How can society be organized to best promote the flourishing of human beings?
4025	HUM	595	S09-10	EC	Freud on the Origin of the Mind	An account of Sigmund Freud's attempt to identify the most basic, irreducible principles of mental life and build a complete and coherent theory around them.  Course progresses to a consideration of Freud's application of the theory to phenomena of ordinary mental life, such as aesthetic experience, humor, the susceptibility to superstition and religion, and mourning and mental health.
4026	ISC	233	S09-10	ST	An Integrated, Quantitative Introduction to the Natural Sciences II	An integrated, mathematically and computationally sophisticated introduction to physics and chemistry, drawing on examples from biological systems.  This year-long 4 course sequence is a multi-disciplinary course taught across 4 departments with the following faculty involved in teaching the course: W. Bialek , C. Callan, J. Shaevitz (PHY); D. Botstein (MOL); M. Singh (COS); E. Carter (MAE).
4027	ISC	234	S09-10		An Integrated, Quantitative Introduction to the Natural Sciences II	An integrated, mathematically and computationally sophisticated introduction to physics and chemistry, drawing on examples from biological systems.  This year-long 4 course sequence is a multi-disciplinary course taught across 4 departments with the following faculty involved in teaching the course: W. Bialek, C. Callan, J. Shaevitz (PHY); D. Botstein (MOL); M. Singh (COS); E. Carter (MAE).
4028	ISC	236	S09-10		An Integrated, Quantitative Introduction to the Natural Sciences IV	An integrated, mathematically and computationally sophisticated introduction to biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, and evolution. This is the second course in the year-long multidisciplinary integrated science sequence.  Five faculty will be involved over the year: D. Botstein, M. Llinas, E. Wieschaus (MOL), J. Rabinowitz (CHM), L. Kruglyak (EEB).
4029	ITA	102	S09-10		Beginner's Italian II	Further study of Italian grammar and syntax with increased emphasis on vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Skills in speaking and writing (as well as understanding) modern Italian will also be further developed.  Some aspects of Italian culture and civilization will be touched upon.
4030	ITA	208	S09-10		Introduction to Italy Today	This course is designed to familiarize the student with major features of contemporary Italy and its culture.  Its purpose is to develop the student's ability to communicate effectively in present-day Italy.  The course emphasizes Italian social, political, and economic institutions, doing so through the analysis of cultural and social differences between Italians and Americans in such everyday concerns as money, work and leisure.
4031	ITA	302	S09-10	LA	Topics in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture: Petrarch's Lyric Poetry	Considered by many the greatest scholar of his age, a successful rival to Dante, the revered teacher of Boccaccio, Petrarch bequeathed to posterity the most beautiful sonnets ever written in the Florentine vernacular. In the course, we will study the "Canzoniere", his collection of lyric poetry, a book which shaped the language of love in the European Renaissance, and a sample from his "Trionfi". The texts will be analyzed in relation to their historical and cultural context and for the impact they will have on modern European Literature.
4032	ITA	306	S09-10	LA	The Italian Renaissance: Literature and Society	This course will introduce students to the basic trends and problems of Renaissance literature as the main source of our civilization.  The major literary figures of the 16th-century Italian revival (such as Machiavelli, Ariosto, Castiglione, Michelangelo, etc.) will be studied in relation to their time, the courts or the cities where they lived, and their seminal contributions to modern Europe culture including works of visual art, theater, and good living.
4033	ITA	313	S09-10	LA	Marxism in Italian Cinema	A study of the influence of Marxist ideology on major Italian directors from the Cold War to the present.  Representative films include: Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, Visconti's The Leopard, Pasolini's Teorema, Wertmuller's Seven Beauties, Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers.  The approach will be interdisciplinary and will combine the analysis of historical and political themes with a cinematic reading of the films.
4034	ITA	319	S09-10	LA	The Literature of Gastronomy	This course studies Italian novels and poems in English translation, works of visual art, and films which thematize food as reality and metaphor, examining how eating functions within ideological and mythological structures of modern society. Topics will include 'Futurist' cuisine as an aesthetic experience and a prophetic vision, writing during the war, and sublime and erotic cuisine.
4035	ITA	1027	S09-10		Intensive Intermediate and Advanced Italian	Italian 102-7 is an intensive double credit course designed to help students develop an active command of the language.  Reading comprehension and oral proficiency as well as reading skills and grammatical accuracy will be developed through various activities.  A solid grammatical basis and awareness of the idiomatic usage of the language will be emphasized.  Students will be familiarized with various cultural aspects of Italy through readings, cultural videos, and films.
4036	JDS	202	S09-10	HA	Great Books of the Jewish Tradition	This course is intended to introduce students to the classical Jewish tradition through a close reading of portions of some of its great books. These books include the Bible, rabbinic midrash, the Talmud, Rashi's commentary on the Torah, Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, the Zohar (the central work of the Kabbalah), Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem, Salomon Maimon's Autobiography, Leo Baeck's The Essence of Judaism, and Gershom Scholem's The Messianic Idea in Judaism. As we read, we will consider what these works tell us about creation, revelation, and salvation in Jewish tradition and how they come to define that tradition.
4037	JDS	315	S09-10	SA	The Family in Jewish Tradition	This seminar will examine the historic flexibility and variability of the Jewish family in the context of selected times and places: Biblical period, early Common Era Diaspora, 20th Century Europe, contemporary United States and Israel. The major emphasis in this course will be on the different protocols and forms that may collectively be called the "Jewish Family."
4038	JDS	355	S09-10	HA	Between Swords and Stones: Jerusalem, a History	For 3000 years the city that is holy to all three monotheistic religions has known little peace and tranquility and has been the site of wars, conquests and division. By drawing on historical, literary, religious and cinematic sources, this course will explore the history of Jerusalem from antiquity to the modern period. It will examine its place in the religious imagination of Jews, Muslims and Christians and trace the political history of a city that continues to be one of the most inflammable places on earth. The course will look at the conditions in today's 'united' Jerusalem and explore the different contingencies to bring peace to it.
4039	JPN	102	S09-10		Elementary Japanese II	Continuation of JPN 101, which emphasizes the basic four skills to achieve survival proficiency level.
4040	JPN	107	S09-10		Intermediate Japanese II	The course aims at a thorough mastery of modern colloquial Japanese by consistent review and reinforcement of major grammatical points covered in JPN 101, 102, and 105.  It is also intended to give students advanced vocabulary and expressions through aural-oral drills, readings, and written exercises.  Emphasis will increasingly be on reading, but oral work will still comprise fundamental aspect of the course.
4041	JPN	302	S09-10		Advanced Japanese II	The course is designed to further students proficiency in four skills aiming at ACTFL-ETS advanced level. Reading materials include the Japanese anime "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away)" and selected readings from works in the original language.
4042	JPN	306	S09-10		Integrative Advanced Japanese II	Four skills approach to advanced Japanese with a focus on reading, writing, speaking and listening.
4043	JPN	402	S09-10		Readings in Modern Japanese II	One or two short novels will be used to read  for critical thinking.  Reading is under focus but speaking, listening and writing (including translation) are intensively practiced. This course is designed to help students develop critical thinking through reading and discussing Japanese novels.
4044	JPN	404	S09-10		Readings in Classical Japanese	Selections from outstanding works of Classical Japanese prose and verse from Nara to early Showa period, particularly in the genres of history, philosophy, and poetry. Text: Manyoshu, Tale of Heike, Tamakatsuma etc.
4045	JRN	400	S09-10	LA	The Media in America	This seminar will discuss such topics as secrecy, national security, and a free press; reputation, privacy, and the public's right to know; muckraking and the "establishment" press; spin and manipulation; the rise of blogging; the economic impact of technological change on the news business.
4046	JRN	442	S09-10	LA	A Critical Voice	A workshop in critical thinking, evocative writing, and persuasive speaking, this seminar will approach criticism both as an intellectual discipline and as performance. The class will evaluate arts criticism (with an emphasis on film) as it is currently practiced in various media--print, broadcast and online--and develop students' ability to write and deliver lively, cogent and constructive reviews.
4047	JRN	448	S09-10	EM	The Media and Social Issues: Social Issue Filmmaking	From <u>The Battle Of Algiers</u> to <u>Do The Right Thing</u>, film has been used as a medium in which to explore social issues and conflict. This course will critically examine a selection of documentary and narrative films in order to compare their different approaches to representing social issues. We will also learn the essential aspects of social issue filmmaking (in both the documentary and narrative forms) and how journalistic research methods inform the process. Classes will include lectures, script writing workshops, and lectures from guest speakers who work in the industry.
4048	JRN	452	S09-10	SA	Journalism on the Screen: The Digital Journalist	This course focuses on reporting and writing for a digital audience. Increasingly, journalists blog, record videos, create slideshows, and "tweet", all in addition to writing articles. They are expected to sift through and highlight the writings of others, yet journalism ultimately depends on original ideas and reporting. We will examine that evolving balance, reporting skills, journalistic ethics, the elements of blogging, crowdsourcing, and experiments with short-message formats, such as Twitter and live-blogging of news events.
4049	JRN	462	S09-10	SA	News on the Edge: Inside the Business of Journalism	Through a combination of real reporting, guest speakers, readings, and viewings of video news, we will explore four interrelated themes: what it takes to make journalism happen, and why we should care about its future; how to distinguish between fact and spin in news articles, television reports, and the web; how news is created, how it flows, and who makes money from it; and whether there are ways to ensure that journalism will survive the current crisis.
4050	KOR	102	S09-10		Elementary Korean II	A continuation of KOR 101.  Continued develoment of proficiency in basic communication.  Students who complete KOR 102 with excellence may be recommended for KOR 301.
4051	KOR	107	S09-10		Intermediate Korean II	A continuation of KOR 105.  Continued development of four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) in Korean.  Complex grammatical structures and irregularities will be taught while the basics are reviewed. Idiomatic expressions will be introduced; journals will be kept for writing practice.
4052	KOR	302	S09-10		Advanced Korean II	A continuation of KOR 301. Continued development of proficiency in speaking and reading through class discussion and short readings. Vocabulary learning and discourse skills are emphasized.
4053	KOR	402	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Korean Language and Culture II	Reading and discussion of Korean thoughts and issues in contemporary Korea. Readings drawn from a variety of cultural and historical topics. Class discussions will be conducted in Korean.
4054	LAO	200	S09-10	SA	Latinos in American Life and Culture	This course will consider how Hispanics are transforming the United States even as they evolve as a people. Topics to be examined include the social and cultural significance of Hispanicity as an ethnic category, whether Hispanics are redrawing color lines, the implications of the unprecedented geographic dispersal of Latinos, and what the burgeoning second generation portends for the future contours of social and economic inequality, future political influence, and their myriad cultural imprints through music, literature and bilingualism.
4055	LAS	402	S09-10	HA	Latin American Studies Seminar: History of Brazil: An Introduction	A critical interpretation of the historical process by which Brazil was built, with special consideration to historical continuity and ruptures. We will discuss how the country developed a unique history, supporting a popular monarchy in the middle of the Americas until almost the end of the 19th century, and was viewed as a laboratory of races, despite of having a deep model of social exclusion and the longest experience with the slave system. The course starts with the conquest of the coast and the introduction of slave labor and ends with the contemporary building of democracy.
4056	LAS	403	S09-10	LA	Latin American Studies Seminar: Latin America: Literature in Movement Between Two Centuries, 1990-2010	This seminar will offer an updated view of the Latin American literary field with particular attention to recent developments in novel and short story writing. Subjects analyzed will include the impact of globalization and post modernity on Latin American literature; publishing sector changes; the rise of a new generation of writers; and the outstanding international reputation of Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003). The study of the works of Guatemalan Rodrigo Rey Rosa (b. 1958), Cuban Antonio José Ponte (b.1964) and Mexican Álvaro Enrigue (b. 1969) will give us a more precise understanding of the present literary scene in Latin America.
4057	LAS	404	S09-10		Latin American Studies Seminar: Memories of the Future: National Imaginaries in Brazil and Argentina	As both historical and legendary figures, Vargas and Perón shaped the imaginaries of the modern nation in Brazil and Argentina. This course selectively addresses their legacies by exploring how notions of the future, the nation, and modernity were constructed in the 1930's-50's and how these imaginaries are reinterpreted as cultural memories in contemporary Brazil and Argentina.  The course will focus on the Vargas Era and the Perón governments and on how these memories are being recast in artistic productions, the media, and forms of consumption.
4058	LAT	102	S09-10		Beginner's Latin Continued: Basic Prose	Continues Latin grammar from LAT 101.  The second half of the semester will be devoted to reading continuous Latin poetry and prose.
4059	LAT	103	S09-10		Latin: An Intensive Introduction	This is an intensive introduction to the Latin language:  LAT 103 covers the material of LAT 101-102 in a shorter time through increased class time and drills.  Students completing the course will be prepared to take LAT 105.
4060	LAT	108	S09-10		The Origins of Rome: Livy and Vergil	We will read selections from Cicero and Vergil, the masters of prose and poetry respectively in the age of Caesar and Augustus.  Our objectives are: to develop the ability to read Latin with greater ease and enjoyment; to improve sight-reading skills; to experience the artistry of Latin prose and poetry; and to examine some of the questions associated with the Romans' interpretation of their history.
4061	LAT	205	S09-10	LA	Roman Letters	This class aims to improve students' ability to read good Latin prose for both comprehension and appreciation.  We will observe three masters of Roman prose - Cicero, Seneca, Pliny - as they present themselves and their society in the most immediate of all prose forms, the letter.
4062	LAT	334	S09-10	LA	Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics	Critical reading and literary analysis of Vergil's cycle of 10 pastoral poems <u>Eclogues</u> and of his poem on Nature and Farming <u>Georgics</u>.
4063	LAT	340	S09-10	LA	Roman Satire	Introduction to Roman verse satire.  Satires of Horace and Juvenal are read, with selections from Persius and Lucilius.  Topics include origins and development of satire in Rome, types of invective and persona of the satirist.
4064	LIN	201	S09-10	EC	Introduction to Language and Linguistics	Introduction to the major areas, problems and techniques of modern linguistics, providing an overview of what is known about human language:  its unique nature, structure, universality and diversity.
4065	LIN	306	S09-10	EC	The Structure and Meaning of Words	The course will treat the structure of words and the structure of the overall lexicon for human languages.  Topics included will be: the rules of word formation; the relation between syntax and the lexicon; the psychology of the lexicon, including an examination of studies of the storage and access of lexical items; the semantics of complex words; the phonology of word formation; lexical redundancy and the learning of the lexicon.  Students will prepare one short class presentation on a topic in consultation with the instructor.
4066	LIN	307	S09-10	EC	Language and Information	Intonation is used in a language like English for several purposes.  Different intonation contours signal different sentence types--questions, for example, have systematically different 'tunes' from declarative statements, as do rebuttals, heges, and other speech-act types.  In addition, the placement of the intonation nucleus signals what is new and what is old information, as in the difference between "JOHN died" and "John DIED".  The course will explore the principles of phonology, syntax, semantics and discourse structure that constitute our present understanding of such phenomena, both in English and across different language types.
4067	LIN	330	S09-10	EC	Morphosyntax: Argument Expression, Grammatical Relations, and Case	Morphology (word structure) and syntax (sentence structure) are typically treated as distinct disciplines. This course explores the ways that morphology and syntax interact. We will look at recent proposals and integrate morphology and syntax. Special attention is paid to the proposal that the unification of morphology and syntax is based on Argument Structure, which is part of each verb's entry in the speaker's mental lexicon and is defined as the representation of the relation between the verb and its arguments. A verb's arguments are realized in syntactic structure as subject, direct object, and oblique object.
4068	LIN	430	S09-10	EC	Cognitive Linguistics	Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of theoretical desiderata. In this course we will investigate the nature of linguistic semantic categories and the implications for theories of grammar.  In the domain of semantic categories, we will study the issues and controversies surrounding frame semantics, decompositional semantics, conceptual metaphor, and exemplar/prototype/connectionist models. Turning our attention to grammar, we will focus on both regularities and irregularities, within and across languages, attempting to explain why languages are the way they are.
4069	MAE	206	S09-10	QR	Introduction to Engineering Dynamics	Formulation and solution of equations governing the dynamic behavior of engineering systems.  Fundamental principles of Newtonian mechanics.  Two and three dimensional kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies.  Motion relative to moving reference frames.  Impulse-momentum and work-energy relations.  Free and forced vibrations of mechanical systems.  Introduction to dynamic analysis of mechanical devices and systems.
4070	MAE	222	S09-10		Mechanics of Fluids	Introduction to the physical and analytical description of phenomena associated with the flow of fluids.  Topics include the principles of conservation of mass, momentum and energy; lift and drag; open channel flow; dynamic similitude; laminar and turbulent flow.
4071	MAE	224	S09-10	ST	Integrated Engineering Science Laboratory	Students will conduct a series of prepared experiments throughout the year that will culminate in an independent project of the students' design involving fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and data acquisition tools.  Preliminary experiments focus on pressure and Bernoulli's equation.  Concepts learned will be applied in subsequent labs involving expanding flows and lift and drag measurements.  Experiments will include internal and external viscous flows.  Digital electronics including combinatorial and sequential logic, analog-to-digital conversion, digital-to-analog conversion, digital telemetry.  Coupled oscillators will be covered.
4072	MAE	305	S09-10	QR	Mathematics in Engineering I	A treatment of the theory of differential equations.  The objective is to provide the student with an ability to solve problems in this field.
4073	MAE	306	S09-10		Mathematics in Engineering II	The course is an introduction to partial differential equations with emphasis on their solution by separation of variables and transform methods.  The material covered includes solution of two point boundary value problems and Sturm-Liouville theory.  Additionally, the course will introduce the theory of complex variables leading to its application for evaluating integrals by methods of contour integration, and using conformal mapping techniques to solve harmonic problems.
4074	MAE	322	S09-10		Mechanical Design	This course builds on the technical foundations established in MAE 321, and extends the scope to include a range of advanced mechanism design.  Students, working in teams, will be challenged to design and fabricate a robotic system that will draw upon multidisciplinary engineering elements. The robot will be used to facilitate common daily tasks.  The selected tasks vary each year. CAD, CAE, and CAM will be utilized in the design/simulation/prototype process. Labs are designed to reinforce and expand CAD and CAE skills. A final public competition will be held among the design teams. Judges from relevant industries will be present.
4075	MAE	328	S09-10		Energy for a Greenhouse-Constrained World	This course addresses, in technical detail, the challenge of changing the future global energy system to accommodate environmental constraints. Energy production strategies are emphasized, including renewable energy, solar, wind, nuclear fission and fusion, the capture and storage of fossil-fuel carbon, and energy storage strategies.  Efficient energy use is also considered, as well as intersections of energy with economic development, international security, local environmental quality, and human behavior and values.
4076	MAE	340	S09-10		Independent Work	Student selects subject and advisor - defines problem to be studied and proposes work plan.  A list of possible subjects of particular interest to faculty and staff members is provided.  Written report and poster session at end of semester to faculty, staff, fellow students and guests.  Independent work is intended for juniors or seniors doing only a one term project.  339 Fall Term project; 340 Spring Term project.
4077	MAE	340D	S09-10		Independent Work with Design	Course similar to MAE 339-340.  Principle difference is that the project must incorporate aspects and principles of design for a system, product, vehicle, device, apparatus, or other design element.  Written report and poster session at end of semester to faculty, staff, fellow students and guests.  Independent work with design is intended for juniors or seniors doing only a one term project.  339D Fall Term project; 340D Spring Term project.
4078	MAE	342	S09-10		Space System Design	This course examines the design of a modern spacecraft or complex space system, including the space environment and its impact on design.  The principals and design aspects of the structure, propulsion, power, thermal, communication, and attitude subsystems are studied.   The course also introduces systems engineering, project management, manufacturing and test, mission operations, mission design, and space policy.  Acting as a single project team, students will design a satellite or space system from conception to critical design review.
4079	MAE	344	S09-10		Introduction to Bioengineering and Medical Devices	An introduction to the fundamental concepts required for the design and function of implantable medical devices, including basic applications of materials, chemistry and biology to bone/implant systems.  The class will discuss the interfaces between cells and the surfaces of synthetic biomaterials, and biosensors for disease detection.  An introduction to bio-nanotechnology will also be presented.  Classroom sessions will be complemented by lab demonstrations and seminars by outside lecturers.
4080	MAE	426	S09-10		Rocket and Air-Breathing Propulsion Technology	The study of principles, flight envelopes, and engine designs of rocket and ram/scramjet propulsion systems.  Topics include jet propulsion theory, space mission maneuver, combustion control, and system components of chemical and non-chemical rockets (nuclear and electrical propulsion), gas turbine, ramjet, and scramjet engines.  Characteristics, optimal flight envelopes, and technical challenges of combined propulsion systems will be analyzed.
4081	MAE	427	S09-10		Energy Conversion and the Environment: Transportation Applications	This course will develop an overview of energy utilization in and environmental impacts of current and future propulsion systems for ground, air, and space propulsion applications.  Principles of advanced internal combustion, electric hybrid, and fuel cell energy conversion systems for ground transportation will be introduced.  Relevant thermodynamics, chemistry, fluid mechanics, and combustion fundamentals will be stressed, and performance properties of power plants, control of air pollutant emissions, and minimization of resource-to application carbon emissions will be explored.
4082	MAE	433A	S09-10		Automatic Control Systems	Students will develop an understanding of feedback principles in the control of dynamic systems, and gain experience in analyzing and designing control systems.
4083	MAE	433B	S09-10		Automatic Control Systems	To develop an understanding of feedback principles in the control of dynamic systems, and to gain experience in analyzing and designing control systems in a laboratory setting.
4084	MAE	436	S09-10		Special Topics in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Direct Energy Conversion	This course addresses direct energy conversion technologies (no moving parts) and primarily includes thermoelectric, thermionic, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), fuel cell, photovoltaic, and laser conversion. Also included will be heat pipe technology, and blackbody radiation. When appropriate, guest speakers will be invited to discuss active research in these and related areas. A basic knowledge of thermodynamics and differential equations is assumed.
4085	MAE	440	S09-10		Senior Project	The senior project is a year long independent study intended for students who choose to work in teams of two or more.  Work begins in the fall, but enrollment is only in spring term when a double grade is awarded. Groups develop their own topic or select a topic from a list of topics prepared by the faculty.  Groups develop a work plan and select an advisor for their work. A second reader is assigned by the instructor.  A written progress report is expected at the end of the fall term. Groups submit a written final report and make an oral presentation to faculty, staff, fellow students, and guests at the end of the spring term.
4086	MAE	440D	S09-10		Senior Project with Design	Similar to 440 with the principle difference that the team or group project must incorporate aspects and principles of design, whether for a system, product, vehicle, device, software, or apparatus.  The year-long senior project with design may be used to satisfy a portion of  the department's design requirement.
4087	MAE	442	S09-10		Senior Thesis	The senior thesis is an independent study for individual students. Work begins in the fall, but enrollment is only in spring term when a double grade is awarded.  Students develop their own topic or select a topic from a list of topics prepared by the faculty.  Students develop a work plan and select an advisor for their work.  A second reader is assigned by the instructor.  A written progress report is expected at the end of the fall term. Students submit a written final report and make an oral presentation to faculty, staff, fellow students, and guests at the end of the spring term.
4088	MAE	442D	S09-10		Senior Thesis with Design	Similar to 442 with the principle difference that the thesis must incorporate aspects and principles of design, whether for a system, product, vehicle, device, software, or apparatus.  The year-long senior thesis with design may be used to satisfy a portion of the department's design requirement.
4089	MAE	456	S09-10		Global Technology	An introduction to key ideas in science, technology, humanities, and social sciences that are relevant to global development.  The course will highlight essential needs in the rural environment and consider how to develop environmentally-friendly scientific and technology solutions to satisfy these needs.  The course will also examine the potential role of global technology in the development of rural and urban areas within the developing world.  Morning lectures will be followed by field activities and group projects.  The course will be taught at the Mpala Center as part of the Tropical Biology Program in Kenya.
4090	MAE	502	S09-10		Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II	A complementary presentation of theory, analytical methods, and numerical methods.  The objective is to impart a set of capabilities commonly used in the research areas represented in the Department and more broadly in engineering and the physical and biological sciences.  Standard computational packages will be made available in the courses, and assignments will be designed to use them.  Topics will include Complex variables, PDE, Fourier and Laplace Transforms, and a brief introduction to numerical methods.
4091	MAE	511	S09-10		Experimental Methods I	A laboratory course that focuses on basic electronics techniques, digital electronics, and data acquisition and analysis.  Topics include introduction to digital and analog electronics, digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion, microcomputer sampling, and data analysis.  There are four laboratory hours and two lecture hours per week.  There is one project.
4092	MAE	514	S09-10		Master of Engineering Independent Project II	Continuation of MAE 513.  Directed study for Master of Engineering students.  The topic is proposed by the student and must be approved by the student's research advisor and have received approval from the MAE Graduate Committee.
4093	MAE	528	S09-10		Physics of Plasma Propulsion	Focus of this course is on fundamental processes in plasma thrusters for spacecraft propulsion with emphasis on recent research findings.  Start with a review of the fundamentals of mass, momentum & energy transport in collisional plasmas, wall effects, & collective (wave) effects, & derive a generalized Ohm's law useful for discussing various plasma thruster concepts.  Move to detailed discussions of the acceleration & dissipation mechanisms in Hall thrusters, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, pulsed plasma thrusters,  & inductive plasma thrusters, & derive expressions for the propulsive efficiencies of each of these concepts.
4094	MAE	530	S09-10		Advanced Topics in Applied Physics II: Methods of Molecular Detection Through Spectroscopy	This course will present the challenges of molecular detection & various spectroscopy based approaches that have been & are being developed to answer these challenges.  The emphasis will be on the detection of species in the atmosphere & on surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for the detection of pollutants, greenhouse gases & trace species associated with explosives, hazardous chemicals & biological substances including gases of medical interest. Measurement approaches for both local sampling & stand off detection will be discussed. The course will include guest lectures from leaders in the development of the respective technologies.
4095	MAE	531	S09-10		Combustion	Chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, oxidation of hydrogen, hydrocarbons and alternate fuels, pollutant chemistry and control, transport phenomena, laminar premixed and nonpremixed flames, turbulent flames, ignition, extinction, and flammability phenomena, flame stabilization and blowoff, detonation and blast waves, droplet, spray and coal particle combustion, principles of engine operation.
4096	MAE	546	S09-10		Optimal Control and Estimation	An introduction to stochastic optimal control theory and application. It reviews mathematical foundations and explores parametric optimization, conditions for optimality, constraints and singular control, numerical optimization, and neighboring-optimal solutions. Least-squares estimates, propagation of state estimates and uncertainty, and optimal filters and predictors; optimal control in the presence of uncertainty; certainty equivalence and the linear-quadratic-Gaussian regulator problem; frequency-domain solutions for linear multivariable systems; and robustness of closed-loop control are all studied.
4097	MAE	552	S09-10		Viscous Flows and Boundary Layers	An introduction to the mechanics of viscous flows.  The kinematics and dynamics of viscous flows.  Some solutions of the Navier Stokes equations.  The behavior of vorticity.  The boundary layer approximation.  The laminar boundary layer with and without pressure gradient.  Separation.  Integral relations and approximate methods.  Compressible laminar boundary layers.  Introduction to instability and transition.  Turbulent free shear flows.  Turbulent boundary layers.  Effects of Reynolds number.  Bluff body flows.
4098	MAE	598	S09-10		Graduate Seminar in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering	A seminar of graduate students and staff presenting the results of their research and recent advances in flight, space, and surface transportation; fluid mechanics; energy conversion; propulsion; combustion; environmental studies; applied physics; and materials sciences. There is one seminar per week and participation at presentations by distinguished outside speakers.
4099	MAT	102	S09-10	QR	Calculus	Continuation of MAT 101.  Methods of integration, computing areas and volumes, infinite series, etc.  MAT 102 is slower paced and less in-depth than MAT 103, although the same basic topics are covered.
4100	MAT	104	S09-10	QR	Calculus	The object of the course is mastery of the calculus of one variable and skill in solving calculus problems with understanding and efficiency.
4101	MAT	190	S09-10	QR	The Magic of Numbers	This course will explore some of the intriguing and beautiful mathematics that underlie the arts, technology, and everyday life. This interactive course will cover materials ranging from prime numbers and encryption codes to Escher drawings, musical rhythms, games of chance, and mathematical designs in nature. Emphasis will be placed on discovering and analyzing patterns in a variety of contexts.
4102	MAT	200	S09-10	QR	Linear Algebra and Multivariable Calculus for Economists	Systems of linear equations, Gaussian elimination, matrices, and determinants.  Differential multivariable calculus.  Constrained optimization, and the Kuhn-Tucker conditions.
4103	MAT	201	S09-10	QR	Multivariable Calculus	Vectors in the plane and in the space, vector functions and motion, surfaces, coordinate systems, functions of two or three variables and their derivatives, maxima and minima and applications, double and triple integrals, vector fields and Stoke's theorem.
4104	MAT	202	S09-10	QR	Linear Algebra with Applications	Euclidean spaces, vector spaces, systems of linear equations, matrices and linear transformations, determinants, orthogonality, Eigen values and applications to systems of differential equations, symmetric matrices and Quadratic forms.
4105	MAT	203	S09-10	QR	Advanced Multivariable Calculus	This course is an introduction to multivariable calculus and its applications.  Its goal is to cover the fundamental results of Vector Calculus known as Green's, Stokes' and Gauss' theorems, and to show how to use them to solve problems.  We attempt to explain the theory behind the techniques so that "WHY" they work is understood.  The level of rigor is midway between MAT 201 and 217.  The course is designed for science and engineering students with a good mathematical aptitude and for mathematicians with applied math interests.
4106	MAT	204	S09-10	QR	Advanced Linear Algebra with Applications	This is the linear algebra part of the MAT 203-204 sequence, which is harder and more theoretical than the 201-202 sequence.
4107	MAT	214	S09-10	QR	Numbers, Equations, and Proofs	An introduction to classical number theory, to prepare for higher-level courses in the department.  Topics include Pythagorean triples and sums of squares, unique factorization, Chinese remainder theorem, arithmetic of Gaussian integers, finite fields and cryptography, arithmetic functions and quadratic reciprocity.  There will be a topic, chosen by the instructor, from more advanced or more applied number theory:  possibilities include p-adic numbers, cryptography, and Fermat's Last Theorem. This course is suitable both for students preparing to enter the Mathematics Department and for non-majors interested in exposure to higher mathematics.
4108	MAT	215	S09-10	QR	Analysis in a Single Variable	The rigorous epsilon-delta treatment of limits, convergence, and uniform convergence of sequences and series.  Continuity, uniform continuity, and differentiability of functions.  The Heine-Borel Theorem. The Rieman integral, conditions for integrability of a function and term by term differentiation and integration of series of functions, Taylor's Theorem.
4109	MAT	217	S09-10	QR	Honors Linear Algebra	Rigorous introduction to linear algebra and matrices, with emphasis on proofs rather than on applications.
4110	MAT	218	S09-10	QR	Analysis in Several Variables	Rigorous introduction to calculus in several variables.
4111	MAT	306	S09-10	QR	Introduction to Graph Theory	This course will cover the fundamental theorems and algorithms of graph theory. The main topics are: connectivity, matchings, graph coloring, planarity, the four-color theorem, extremal problems, network flows, and related algorithms.
4112	MAT	308	S09-10		Theory of Games	The mathematical concept of a game is an abstraction which encompasses conflict-cooperation situations in which strategy (not just chance) plays a role.  Central topics of the theory and some of its applications will be discussed.
4113	MAT	317	S09-10	QR	Complex Analysis with Applications	Calculus of functions of one complex variable, power series expansions, residues, and conformal mapping.  Although the theory will be given adequate treatment, the emphasis of this course is the use of complex analysis as a tool for solving problems.
4114	MAT	323	S09-10	QR	Algebra	Algebra & Applications:  To develop curiousity about algebraic structures by exploring examples that connect to higher mathematics and to applications in computer science, the natural sciences and  electrical engineering.  This is an undergrad course for sophomores and juniors  The only prereq. is a solid understanding of linear algebra.  There will be opportunities for a student to explore an advanced topic in great depth, possibly for a junior project.
4115	MAT	325	S09-10	QR	Topology	An introduction to point set topology, the fundamental group, covering spaces, methods of calculation and applications.
4116	MAT	330	S09-10		Analysis I: Fourier Series and Partial Differential Equations	Basic facts about Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and applications to the classical partial differential equations will be covered.  Also Fast Fourier Transforms, finite Fourier series, Dirichlet characters, and applications to properties of primes.
4117	MAT	332	S09-10		Analysis III: Integration Theory and Hilbert Space	The theory of Lebesgue integration in n-dimensional space.  Differentiation theory.  Hilbert space theory and applications to Fourier transforms, and partial differential equations.  Introduction to fractals.
4118	MAT	351	S09-10	QR	Topics in Mathematical Modeling: Mathematical Neuroscience	The course draws problems from the sciences and engineering for which mathematical models have been developed and analyzed in order to describe, understand and predict natural and man-made phenomena.  Topics will range across the physical sciences and biology, including cognitive science and neurobiology.  Model building strategies: analytical and computational methods; the manner in which applications motivate mathematical developments.
4119	MAT	391	S09-10		Random Processes	(1) Wiener measure. (2) Stochastic differential equations. (3) Markov diffusion processes. (4) Linear theory of stationary processes. (5) Ergodicity, mixing, central limit theorem of processes, Gibbs random field.  If time permits, the theory of products of random matrices and PDE with random coefficients will be discussed.
4120	MAT	424	S09-10		Topics in Algebra	Class Field Theory describes the abelian extensions of global and local fields; this course will concentrate on the number field case. Prerequisite: MAT453 from fall, 2009 or knowlege of algebraic number theory.
4121	MAT	433	S09-10		Analysis IV: Special Topics in Analysis	Math 433 will cover methods of proving that certain numbers are transcendental.  The tentative plan is to work through Siegel's "Transcendental Numbers."  This is a famous work, in which Siegel proves that various numbers are transcendental, starting with the nineteenth century results that pi and e are transcendental, and then going on to various generalizations, including some remarkable results that he obtained.  This book is based on lectures that Siegel gave in 1946 and is not up-to-date, but it is very clearly written and contains plenty of material, which can still serve as a solid introduction to the subject.
4122	MAT	512	S09-10		Analysis and Number Theory	The general analytic theory of L-functions. Analytic continuation, zeros, magnitude, and related issues are studied. The emphasis of the course is on applications to problems in number theory automorphic forms and mathematical physics.
4123	MAT	516	S09-10		Introduction to Algebra	Introduction to algebraic curves
4124	MAT	534	S09-10		Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations	Topics from fully non-linear elliptic PDE.  This may include the study of Monge-Ampere equations, of non-linear PDE from geometric considerations, and topics related to recent research.
4125	MAT	554	S09-10		Algebraic Geometry	Continuation of Fall 2007.
4126	MAT	556	S09-10		Analytical Methods in Algebraic Geometry	Continuation of Fall 2007.
4127	MAT	558	S09-10		Topics in Geometry: Topics in Gromov-Witten Theory	TBA
4128	MAT	564	S09-10		Dynamical Systems	Topics in differential dynamical systems, singularities of mappings, structures on manifolds, and related areas.
4129	MAT	566	S09-10		Algebraic Methods in Topology	We continue investigation of problems in finite groups acting on finite dimensional spaces.  We begin with an account of Rim's Theorem on the relation of cohomological triviality and projectivity for modules, using Tate cohomology.  We then apply these results to construction of examples with many intersting and unusual properties, particularly for actions on products of spheres.  Later, we consider the problem of the free p-rank of symmetry of products of spheres, and try to extend Carlsson's theorem to some new cases.
4130	MAT	570	S09-10		Gauge Theory and Low Dimensional Topology	Continuation of Fall Semester 2006
4131	MAT	572	S09-10		Low Dimensional Topology	Continuation of Fall Semester 2007
4132	MAT	578	S09-10		Automorphic Forms & Number Theory	This course will focus on applications of the theory of automorphic forms to problems in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
4133	MAT	586	S09-10		Mathematical Physics	Continuation from Fall 07 semester.
4134	MAT	595	S09-10		Topics in Discrete Mathematics: Discrete Math	This course will survey the theory of combinatorial optimization.  Some familiarity with basic graph theory will be assumed.  For more details, check course posting or contact leclair@princeton.edu.
4135	MOL	205	S09-10	SA	Genes, Health, and Society	What should students know about their genes and genomics? Today, the field of Human Genetics is explored and debated like no other. To understand the medical applications and ethical implications of Human Genetics, one must grasp its scientific foundations. We will approach these topics using: lectures, textbook, journal and newspaper readings, precept discussions, and patient interviews. We will consider the following subjects: gene structure and function; the genetics and genomics of populations and of selected human disorders (cancer, mental illness, metabolic diseases); and clinical genetics (inheritance patterns, diagnosis, treatment).
4136	MOL	214	S09-10	ST	Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology	Important concepts and elements of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology, are examined in the context of classic experiments.  During the last four weeks of the semester, the class will split into topic-based sections taught by different faculty members in the following areas: cell biology, biochemistry,  neuroscience, microbiology, and development.  Students will choose to concentrate in 2 of the 6 sections.  This course is strongly recommended for students intending to major in the biological sciences and satisfies the biology requirement for entrance into medical school.
4137	MOL	328	S09-10	SA	U.S. Medical Research and Researchers: Preeminence, Problems, Policies	Medical research aims to improve and maintain human health. Accordingly, researchers employ such strategies as understanding biology, defining disease mechanisms, and developing ways to prevent, treat, or cure. Today, the U.S. is the preeminent global power in medical research  through interactions among government, academia, and industry. This course will trace the evolution of this country's research enterprise, describe its diverse cultures, focus on its greatest achievements (and achievers), and identify a number of challenges confronting it currently. How the U.S. copes with these challenges will influence the future of world health.
4138	MOL	340	S09-10		Molecular and Cellular Immunology	A broad survey of the field of immunology and the mammalian immune system.  The cellular and molecular basis of innate and acquired immunity will be discussed in detail.  The course will provide frequent exemplars drawn from human biology in health and disease.
4139	MOL	348	S09-10	STX	Cell and Developmental Biology	The mechanisms that underlie development of multicellular organisms, from C. elegans to humans, will be examined using biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches. The course will investigate the roles that gene regulation, cell-cell communication, cell adhesion, cell motility, signal transduction and intracellular trafficking play in the commitment, differentiation and assembly of cells into specialized tissues.
4140	MOL	350	S09-10	ST	Laboratory in Molecular Biology	The major objective of the course is to introduce students to a variety of tools required to conduct independent research in the field of molecular biology.  While completing original research, students will employ a number of techniques that are used by molecular biologists, molecular geneticists, and biochemists.  Upon completion of the course, students should have gained an understanding of how, when and why certain techniques and skills are used in a research setting. In addition, students will learn to write a research report modeled on the scientific literature.
4141	MOL	425	S09-10	SA	Infection: Biology, Burden, Policy	This course will examine fundamental determinants of human microbe interaction at the biological and ecological aspects. The focus will be on major global infectious diseases, their burden of illness, and policy challenges for adequate prevention and control. Each infectious agent will be discussed in terms of its mechanism of pathogenesis, disease progression, epidemiology, as well as strategies for its control. Specific emphasis will be placed on the public health aspects of each disease.
4142	MOL	430	S09-10		The Power and Peril of Cycling Cells	Accurate control of cell cycle is essential for the formation and maintenance of a normal living organism.  This course will study the molecular machinery that controls the cell cycle and the devastating consequence of its de-regulation that leads to cancer.  We begin with a mechanistic examination of the cell cycle in bacteria, yeast, flies and mammals.  We then consider cell cycle and cell size, and the cell cycle of stem cells. We will also discuss the oncogenic events that disrupt the normal cell cycle, the signaling pathways that activate uncontrolled cell proliferation, and the molecular therapeutics that target oncogenic pathways.
4143	MOL	436	S09-10		Statistical Methods for Genomic Data	An introduction to modern statistical methods for genomic data.  Topics include analysis methods for gene expression arrays, characterizing large-scale patterns of variation in genomic data, inferring regulatory networks, population genetic modeling of SNP data, and integrating multiple types of genomic data.  Methods recently introduced in the literature will be studied with the goal of formulating the unifying statistical principles of high-dimensional biological data analysis.
4144	MOL	448	S09-10		Chemistry, Structure, and Structure-Function Relations of Nucleic Acids	The chemistry and structure of mononucleotides, oligonucleotides, and polynucleotides and their helical complexes are presented as a basis for understanding and predicting the structures and structure-function relations of naturally occurring DNAs and RNAs. Functions to be considered include fidelity of DNA replication, and transcription, mutagenic mechanisms, molecular evolution, the roles of telomeres, and of recently discovered small RNAs, and nature and organization of the genetic code.
4145	MOL	480	S09-10		Proteomics in Biological Sciences	This course will highlight the various contributions of mass spectrometry-based proteomics to various life science fields. Areas covered will include fundamentals of mass spectrometry, protein identification and quantification, characterization of post-translational modifications and protein interactions. This course will include discussions on the present state of proteomic research, with special emphasis on characterizing protein assemblies and applications to virology, signal transduction pathways and epigenetic networks.
4146	MOL	506	S09-10		Molecular Biology of Eukaryotes	Discussion of gene structure and organization, chromatin and chromosome structures, mechanisms of replication, gene expression and regulation in eukaryotic cells. Emphasis will be placed on unique features of eukaryotic systems with examples from higher and lower eukaryotes.
4147	MOL	516	S09-10		Genetics of Multicellular Organisms	Course presents the genetic tools and logical framework currently used research in developmental biology, neurobiology and quantitative biology of multicellular organisms. Lecture topics and reading material focus on primary literature describing genetic approaches used in model organisms such as Drosophila, C. elegans, mouse and zebrafish. Techniques are presented in a context emphasizing basic biological phenomena and include mutagenesis, production and analysis of genetic mosaics, production of transgenics, ES cells, knock-in technologies and cell type specific expression gene expression.
4148	MOL	523	S09-10		Molecular Basis of Cancer	We will explore the molecular events leading to the onset and progression of human cancer. We will review the central genetic and biochemical elements that make up the cell cycle, followed by a survey of the signal transduction pathways and checkpoints that regulate it. We will discuss oncogenes, tumor suppressor and mutator genes that act in these pathways and review the role of viral oncogenes and their action on cells. We will investigate the role of cancer stem cells and the interaction between tumor and the host environment. We will explore specific clinical case studies in light of the molecular events underlying different cancers.
4149	MOL	525	S09-10		Intercellular Signaling and Signal Transduction	Explores the interactions of cells with their surroundings at a molecular and cell biological level.  It begins with an introduction to a number of basic signal transduction pathways, a characterization of their respective receptors and the molecular pathways that communicate between the cell surface and the nucleus.  Discusses how signaling establishes axes of cell polarity and migratory pathways by producing changes in the cytoskeleton, and how cells interact with extracellular matrix molecules.  Addresses the cell's response to nutritional cues and other extracellular signals that influence cell growth, cell division and cell physiology.
4150	MOL	536	S09-10		Statistical Methods for Genomic Data	An introduction to modern statistical methods for genomic data.  Topics include analysis methods for gene expression arrays, characterizing large-scale patterns of variation in genomic data, inferring regulatory networks, population genetic modeling of SNP data, and integrating multiple types of genomic data.  Methods recently introduced in the literature will be studied with the goal of formulating the unifying statistical principles of high-dimensional biological data analysis.
4151	MOL	541	S09-10		Research Projects in Molecular Biology (Laboratory Rotations)	
4152	MOL	561	S09-10		Scientific Integrity in the Practice of Molecular Biology	This course satisfies the mandate of the National Institutes of Health for training of molecular biologists in the ethical practice of science. The nature of -- and response to -- personal "misconduct" will be a principle focus. Through case studies and class discussion, we will examine the societal framework for the public support of basic biomedical research, the rights and responsibilities of students and mentors in the conduct of that research, and the significance of intellectual property. We will also review regulations concerning research with human subjects and animals.
4153	MSE	301	S09-10		Materials Science and Engineering	An introduction to the structure and properties of important current and future materials, including metals, semiconductors and polymers from an atomistic and  molecular perspective. Emphasis will be placed on the phase behavior and processing of materials, and how structure in these materials impact their macroscopic physical, electrical, and thermal properties.
4154	MSE	502	S09-10		Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials	Thermodynamics and kinetics applicable to phase changes and processing in materials. Physical and mathematical descriptions of phase equilibrium, nucleation and growth, phase separation, coarsening, and diffusion in solids.
4155	MSE	504	S09-10		Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science	This course examines methods for simulating matter at the molecular and electronic scale. Molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo and electronic structure methods will be covered with emphasis on hands-on experience in writing and/or exercising simulation codes for atomistic and electronic structure simulation.
4156	MSE	505	S09-10		Characterization of Materials	A multidisciplinary course offering a practical introduction to techniques of imaging structure and compositional analysis of advanced materials.  Focus on principles and applications of various characterization methods.  Covered topics include AFM, SEM, TEM, XRD, EDX/WDX, EELS, Confocal Microscopy, sample preparation and image processing, etc. Hands-on experience is emphasized.
4157	MSE	515	S09-10		Random Heterogeneous Materials	Composites, porous media, foams, colloidal suspensions, geological media, polymer blends, and biological media are all examples of heterogeneous materials. Often the microstructure of such materials is random.  The relationship between the macroscopic (transport, mechanical, electromagnetic, and chemical) properties and microstructure of random heterogeneous materials is formulated. Topics include statistical characterization of the microstructure via n-point distribution functions; percolation theory; fractal concepts; sphere packings; Monte Carlo simulation techniques; and image analysis of microstructures; homogenization theory; effective-
4158	MUS	103	S09-10	LA	Introduction to Music	Music 103 is an introduction to Western Art Music (works from 1100 to the present).  The course defines the basic elements of music - pitch, rhythm, melody, harmony, and form - and the historically significant styles and genres of composition.  Emphasis is placed on significant premiere performances, music and politics, and music and the other arts (film, dance, literature).
4159	MUS	106	S09-10	LA	Music Theory through Performance and Composition	A continuation of MUS 105, with an emphasis on the harmonic and formal principals of  Western classical music.  We will focus on modulation, chromatic harmony, and form, continuing to study and compose music in classical and other styles.
4160	MUS	206	S09-10	LA	Tonal Syntax	MUS 206 begins by making relevant connections between the modal counterpoint of the 16th century (studied in MUS 205) and tonality as it evolved in the 18th century.  Fundamental tonal concepts will then be explored in later music including Chopin and Brahms.
4161	MUS	210	S09-10	LA	Beginning Workshop in Musical Composition	A continuous cycle of creation, discussion, and response based on the creative activity of the students.  Students will be encouraged to explore varied styles and techniques (for example, notated composition, multimedia music, and improvisation) and to perform their own works.
4162	MUS	213	S09-10	LA	Projects in Instrumental Performance: Chamber Music	Instrumental chamber music class of the standard repertory of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.  Preparation for performance of ensembles.  Each ensemble's repertoire will be determined in consultation with the instructors during the first week of classes.
4163	MUS	214	S09-10	LA	Projects in Vocal Performance: 20th Century American Musical Theatre	A weekly three-hour masterclass in which student singers and pianists will be coached on songs from 20th century musical theatre culminating in a concert performance in reading period.  Repertoire will be considered in chronological order and will include music by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, Jules Styne, Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Steven Sondheim and others.
4164	MUS	232	S09-10	LA	Music in the Renaissance	General historical survey of European Art Music in the period 1400-1600, covering such composers as Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, Byrd, Palestrina, Lasso, etc.
4165	MUS	234	S09-10	LA	Music of the Baroque	A survey of musical styles and performance traditions in European music from approximately 1600-1750, including the music of Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Handel, Rameau, and Bach.  Topics to be considered include the role of music in the courts of Europe, the birth of opera, the rise of instrumental music, devotional music in the Catholic and Lutheran Church, performance practice, music and dance.  Emphasis will be placed on music's cultural context in relation to the other humanistic disciplines.
4166	MUS	254	S09-10	LA	Popular Music in Japan, 1877-2010	This course examines the aesthetics and reception of popular music genres in Japan, including children's songs, war songs, enka, jazz, rock, hip-hop, reggae, Okinawan pop, J-Pop, and music for anime and video games. Through listening exercises, analyses of translated lyrics, and readings, we will consider the ways in which music has reflected Japanese identity in changing international contexts and the reception of Japanese artists overseas. Issues examined include nationalism, the music industry, language, cultural hegemony, subcultures, and technology.
4167	MUS	264	S09-10	LA	Urban Blues and the Golden Age of Rock	Examines post-World War II blues, rock music mostly of the late sixties and early seventies, and the connections between them.  Explores wider musical and extramusical connections.
4168	MUS	309	S09-10	LA	Advanced Tonal Analysis	The seminar will focus on short works by Chopin, Schumann and Schubert, songs and piano pieces.  The goal will be to gain a better understanding of their varied uses of chromatic harmony.  We will also study the formal aspects of pieces, individually as well as in larger contexts.
4169	MUS	311	S09-10	LA	Jazz Theory through Improvisation and Composition I	An exploration of the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic principles of the bebop paradigm.  The course includes analysis of representative works by various jazz masters and will place a strong emphasis on student projects in improvisation and composition.
4170	MUS	314	S09-10	QR	Computer and Electronic Music through Programming, Performance, and Composition	An introduction to the fundamentals of computer and electronic music in the context of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk).  The music and sound programming language ChucK, developed here at Princeton, will be used in conjunction with Max/MSP, another digital audio language, to study procedural programming, digital signal processing and synthesis, networking, and human-computer interfacing.
4171	MUS	316	S09-10	LA	Computer and Electronic Music Composition	A composition workshop class, in the context of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and also the traditional sound studio.  Emphasis will be on the student's creative work, composing both "fixed media" works and live electronic/laptop music.  Students will also work extensively with professional composers and performers, both from Princeton and elsewhere, performing new works as members of PLOrk.
4172	MUS	320	S09-10	LA	Jazz Performance Practice in Historical and Cultural Context	This course examines the repertoire and performance practices associated with the music of "Krazy Kat" (John Carpenter), "The Toy Box: La Boîte à Joujoux" (Claude Debussy), "Oil and Vinegar" (John Carpenter; performed by Bix Beiderbecke), as well as the big band music of composers Oliver Nelson and Mary Lou Williams. Performance assignments will be prepared for weekly rehearsals in preparation for several public performances.
4173	MUS	509	S09-10		Topics in Popular Music	An introduction to issues involved in analyzing popular music: rock, soul, funk, hip-hop and electronic dance music from the late 1950s to the present.  Topics discussed include form, timbre, texture, technology and production, harmony and voice leading, rhythm, virtuosity, video, and transcription methods.  Weekly assignments of three to four analytical articles dealing with a particular theoretical issue and two to three songs for analysis in class.
4174	MUS	514	S09-10		Topics in 19th- and Early 20th-Century Music: Music and Film	Music and Film
4175	MUS	532	S09-10		Composition	Emphasis will be placed upon the individual student's original work and upon the study and discussion of pieces pertinent to that work.
4176	MUS	534	S09-10		Ends and Means: Issues in Composition	Theater dynamics for the composer and musician. In this seminar we will build short theater/music events through guided improvisation.  These will serve as the basis for discussion and analysis of various abstract issues like theatrical space and time (theatrical momentum/rhythm as opposed to strictly musical momentum/rhythm), the poetic and the narrative, spontaneity and technique, and practical issues like collaboration, sources of sound and music and their implicit and explicit meanings (the god speaker, the 'located' speaker, live sound), in short, a great many of the problems theatrical elements present the musician and composer.
4177	MUS	542	S09-10		Instrumentation and Performance	The course is a study of the characteristics of individual instruments, including extended contemporary techniques and writing arrangements for chamber ensemble and for orchestra.  Special attention is given to problems of combining voice and instruments. The arrangements written for this class are performed by the Composers' Ensemble at Princeton and the Princeton University Orchestra, and problems of performance involving notation, rehearsal, and conducting are dealt with.
4178	MUS	544	S09-10		Improvisation: House Band: Drones and Grooves	Participants, presumably graduate composers, form an ensemble of composer/performers coming from diverse backgrounds to explore how to engage or undermine familiar dialectics such as: composer/performer, intellect/body, conception/realization, classical/popular, electric/acoustic and others. Virtuoso performance is not expected; musical imagination is far more important than technical accomplishment on an instrument.
4179	MUS	545	S09-10		Contexts of Composition	Course focuses on contemporary techniques of tonal organization in concert music and jazz.  Depending on student interest, topics in jazz theory (including jazz arranging) and others in instructor's recent book (including geometrical models of musical structure) may be considered.  Goal is to collect theoretical ideas that can be put to immediate compositional use.
4180	MUS	550	S09-10		Current Topics in Theory and Analysis: Theories of African Rhythm	A review of major theories of African rhythm, including those by Hornbostel, Jones, Arom, Locke, Kubik, Nzewi, and Anku.  Each theory is considered from the point of view of its internal structure, the ethnographic data upon which it is based, the extent to which it incorporates indigenous preceptions, and the kinds of representational pressures exerted on the theorist by the academic culture for which s/he writes.  An analytical paper on a repertory of your own choosing or a comparative critique of existing theories will be required.
4181	NES	245	S09-10	HA	The Islamic World from its Emergence to the Beginnings of Westernization	Begins with the formation of the traditional Islamic world in the seventh century and ends with the first signs of its transformation under Western impact in the 18th century. The core of the course is the history of state formation in the Middle East, but other regions and themes make significant appearances. The course can stand on its own or serve as background to the study of the modern Islamic world.
4182	NES	266	S09-10	SA	Oil, Energy and The Middle East	An overview of the issues surrounding global energy supplies, oil's unique economic properties, and its role in shaping the political economy of the Middle East and U.S. strategic interests in the region. We will begin by discussing the basic science and availability of energy sources, the state of technology, the functioning of energy markets, the challenges of coping with global climate change and the key role of the oil reserves in the Middle East. The second part of the course will focus on the history of oil in the Middle East and its impact on societies in the region.
4183	NES	307	S09-10	HA	Afghanistan and the Great Powers, 1747-2001	The course traces the great powers' struggle for control over the Middle East, as it affected Afghanistan.  It begins with an introduction to the social and ethnic background, touching on the rise of the tribal Afghan kingdom in the 18th century.  It will then focus on the rivalries between Russia and Britain in the 19th century ("the Great Game"), and on those between the Soviet Union and the US in the 20th.  We will conclude by studying Washington's support in the 1980's for Islamist groups fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, its consequences, and the Taliban movement.
4184	NES	324	S09-10	EM	Introduction to Later Sufism (ca. AD 1200 to present)	Popularized through translations of world famous poets like the 13th century Rûmî, the Sufi mystical strain pervaded Islamic culture for a thousand years and played a major historic role in furthering friendly relations between Muslims and other religious communities through endorsement of spiritual tolerance.  The Spring session of this two-term course addresses the overwhelming influence of the Spanish-Muslim Ibn `Arabî (d. 1240 AD) on all subsequent higher Islamic mystical speculation and poetical literature - as far as India.
4185	NES	325	S09-10	HA	Christianity along the Silk Road	Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic very similar to the language spoken by Jesus in first-century Palestine.  Aramaic-speaking Christians in the Near East soon adopted Syriac as their literary language; by the early fourteenth century, Syriac Christianity spread from the western Mediterranean to China.  In this seminar we shall be exploring the origins of Syriac Christianity in the Near East and its spread along the Silk Road before 1500.
4186	NES	342	S09-10	HA	The Making of the Ottoman Balkans, 1350-1500: Conquest, Settlement and Infrastructural Development	The Ottoman Empire is traditionally viewed through a paradigm which stresses its Islamic character.  In keeping with this assessment, its advances into southeastern Europe from the mid-14th century onward are usually portrayed as stemming from a desire to expand the frontiers of the Islamic East at the expense of the Christian West.  This course will present an alternative explanation, one focusing on the extent to which the early Ottomans absorbed the peoples, practices, and nobilities of the pre-existing Christian peoples of the Balkans.
4187	NES	345	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Islamic Law	A survey of the history of Islamic law and its developments, and the attempts of the Muslim jurists to come to term with the challenges of modern times.  It will focus on issues in constitutional and personal laws that have the greatest relevance to the modern era.
4188	NES	352	S09-10	HA	Arabia in the 20th Century: From Oil Concessions to Osama bin Laden	The emergence of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the most striking developments of the 20th century: in a few decades, the barren lands of Arabia have become a crucible of globalization. The course will present the history of Arabia in the 20th century, from the end of the Ottoman presence to 9/11.  Students will be introduced to such topics as state-building in tribal societies, oil exploitation, Western hegemony, and Islamic activism.
4189	NES	362	S09-10	HA	Blood, Sex, and Oil: The Caucasus	The Caucasus region has served as a contested borderland from time immemorial and has fascinated outsiders for nearly as long. It is today a tense and explosive region. This course surveys the history of both the north and south Caucasus. It begins with an overview of the region's geography, peoples, and religions, and then examines in more detail the history of the Caucasus from the Russian conquest to the present day. Topics covered include ethnic and religious conflict and coexistence, Sovietization, the formation of national identities, and pipeline politics.
4190	NES	398	S09-10	SA	Clash of Civilizations? Perceptions of East and West from Medieval Period to the Contemporary World	Among the most pressing issues of our time is the perceived divide between the Islamic "East" and the European and American "West."  As this course explores, the meeting of Islamicate and western civilizations has a long, complicated history.  We shall examine the roots of this tension and  the ways in which the two perceived one another from the Middle Ages to modernity through classic works of literature and art.  Likewise, we shall examine the experience of "eastern" Judaism and Christianity, including how they viewed their western counterparts, and the complex relationship between religion and culture in the formation of identity.
4191	NES	402	S09-10	SA	Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Middle East	This course provides an overview of theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict, focusing on their concrete manifestations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The first part examines nationalism and nation-building policies in the Middle Eastern context. In the second part, theories of identity formation and conflict will be analyzed through discussion of concrete cases from the MENA region.  We'll study the basic minorities of the MENA region, and their relationship with the respective states as well as examples of communal conflict.  The course concludes with proposals for conflict prevention and reconciliation.
4192	NES	408	S09-10	LA	The Hebrew Poetry of Medieval Spain	Covers the rise of the golden age of Hebrew poetry in Muslim Spain; the Arabic literary background; lyrical, liturgical, and contemplative verse by great poets of the 11th and 13th centuries (Shmuel ha-Nagid, Ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi, Todros Abulafia, etc.); and narratives in rhymed prose.  Two weeks will be devoted to developments outside Spain: the 12th and 13th century martyrdom poems from France and the Rhineland, and, in conclusion, the adoption of Romance forms, especially the sonnet, in the Hebrew poetry of Italy.
4193	NES	411	S09-10	HA	Empires and Nation-States: The Eastern Mediterranean, 1900-1950	This course examines the political and social transformation of the eastern Mediterranean from Istanbul to Alexandria during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to contemporary nation-states.  Its first major concern is with the relationships between different forms of imperialism and nationalism, and between these ideologies and the societies they sought to control.  Its second is with the way in which state authority expanded and intensified throughout the region in this period, under empires and nation-states alike, and how that affected politics and society. Coverage is thematic, not chronological, and the perspective is comparative.
4194	NES	503	S09-10		Themes in Islamic History and Culture	This year the course will be a research seminar in which graduate students working on Islamic and Middle Eastern topics will present their research in written and oral form, receiving feedback relating both to the substance of their work and to the manner of its presentation.
4195	NES	506	S09-10		Ottoman Diplomatics: Paleography and Diplomatic Documents	An introduction to Ottoman paleography and diplomatics. The documents will be in divani and rika scripts.
4196	NES	518	S09-10		History and Society of Saudi Arabia	This course examines the history, politics and society of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, perhaps the most important country in both the Arab and Islamic worlds today.   Students will be exposed to the Kingdom's complex relationship with political Islam, the global oil market, other Arab and Muslim countries as well as the West.  This course will give students a solid overview of its history, politics and society through a careful selection of published studies.  The aim of the course is to get students acquainted with the history of the Kingdom and the main factors that have played a role in its unfolding.
4197	NES	530	S09-10		Political Economy of Arab Gulf Countries	An examination of the political economy of Arab Gulf countries, which are pivotal for international politics because of their energy resources, but are often overlooked as political actors in their own right with specific development agendas. Course examines characteristics and challenges of countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in the fields of domestic politics, economics and international relations. Issues to be discussed range from domestic liberalization and economic diversification to petrodollar recycling and foreign policy stances.
4198	NES	532	S09-10		Readings in Classical Arabic Literature	Topics vary according to students' interest.  Some possible topics: poety, narrative prose, "adab," historiography, ethical and political texts.
4199	NES	540	S09-10		Studies in Later Persian Literature 1200 - 1800 A.D.	Course acquaints students with the literature of the second great classical language of Islam and its legacy of epics, chronicles, lyric poems, mystical writings and imaginative tales from the traditional Persian-speaking world - including not only from present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan but also from Anatolia, Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent. Continuation of NES-539.  Treats the literature from 1200 to 1800.
4200	NES	543	S09-10		Empire and Nation in Theory and Practice: The Middle East and Eurasia	Course examines the rise of nations from the demise of Eurasian empires in the twentieth century.  Students study a range of nationalisms and then apply them to the historical record using cases drawn from Ottoman, Russian, and occasionally Austro-Hungarian history.   Origins of nationalism and nature of imperial rule are among the topics discussed, the nationalizing policies of several post-imperial regimes are compared, and the question of whether nationalism is central or epiphenomenal is revisited.
4201	NES	545	S09-10		Problems in Near Eastern Jewish History	The topic this year is the Dhimma, the status of Jews and other non-Muslims in medieval Islam.  In addition to reading secondary literature, we will read and discuss primary sources in class.
4202	NES	547	S09-10		Intermediate Syriac	Study of selected passages from various genres of Syriac literature.  Knowledge of Syriac is required.
4203	NES	555	S09-10		Themes in Islamic Law and Jurisprudence	Selected topics in Islamic law and jurisprudence.  The topics vary from year to year, but the course normally includes reading of fatwas and selected Islamic legal texts in Arabic.
4204	NES	571	S09-10		Problems in Early Ottoman History	The seminar is a study of the origins and development of the Ottoman state.   The emphasis is on the characteristic features of its cultural, economic, and social life, as they were developed in the eastern Balkans.  By retracing the establishment of Ottoman rule in Northern Greece it will examine the nature of Ottoman Administrative practices in the 14th and 15th centuries.
4205	NES	585	S09-10		Modern Turkish Poetry	Modern Turkish poetry from the Tanzimat to the present.
4206	NEU	101	S09-10	ST	Neuroscience and Everyday Life	This lecture and laboratory course will acquaint non-science majors with classical and modern neuroscience. Lectures will give an overview at levels ranging from molecular signaling to cognitive science with a focus on the neuroscience of everyday life, from the general (love, memory, and personality) to the particular (jet lag, autism, and weight loss). The laboratory will offer hands-on experience in recording signals from single neurons, examining neural structures, and analysis of whole-brain functional brain imaging data.
4207	NEU	502	S09-10	ST	From Modules to Systems to Behavior	Survey of modern neuroscience combining lecture, firsthand lab experience, and computational/quantitative approaches. This counts as two courses. Topics include systems and cognitive neuroscience, perception and attention, learning and behavior, memory, executive function/decision-making, motor control and sequential actions. Lectures describing diseases of the nervous system will be part of the course.
4208	NEU	502A	S09-10	ST	From Molecules to Systems to Behavior	A survey of modern neuroscience in lecture format combining theoretical, experimental, and computational/quantitative approaches. Topics include systems and cognitive neuroscience, perception and attention, learning and behavior, memory, executive function/decision-making, motor control and sequential actions.   Diseases of the nervous system are considered.  This is one-half of a double-credit core course required of all Neuroscience Ph.D. students.
4209	NEU	502B	S09-10	ST	From Molecules to Systems to Behavior	This lab course complements NEU 502A and introduces students to the variety of techniques and concepts used in modern neuroscience, from the point of view of experimental and computational/quantitative approaches. Topics include electrophysiological recording, functional magnetic resonance imaging, psychophysics, and computational modeling. In-lab lectures give students the background necessary to understand the scientific content of the labs, but the emphasis is on the labs themselves.  Second half of a double-credit core course required of all Neuroscience Ph.D. students.
4210	NEU	511	S09-10		Current Issues in Neuroscience and Behavior	Advanced seminar that reflects current research on brain and behavior.
4211	ORF	245	S09-10	QR	Fundamentals of Engineering Statistics	To acquaint the student with the language, mathematics and applications of probability and statistics in engineering and the sciences.
4212	ORF	307	S09-10		Optimization	Optimization of deterministic systems, focusing on linear programming.  Model formulations, the simplex method, sensitivity analysis, duality theory, network models, nonlinear programming. Applications to a variety of problems in optimal allocation of resources, transportation systems, and finance.
4213	ORF	335	S09-10	QR	Introduction to Financial Mathematics	Pricing and hedging of derivative securities.  Binomial tree and Black-Scholes models.  Term-structure of interest rates.  Introduction to Credit Risk and Energy Markets.
4214	ORF	376	S09-10		Independent Research Project	Independent research or investigation resulting in a report in the student's area of interest under the supervision of a faculty member. Open to sophomores and juniors.
4215	ORF	401	S09-10		Electronic Commerce	Electronic commerce is broadly defined as the buying and selling of goods using electronic transaction processing technologies.  Some of great expectations of this technology are beginning to be realized.  We will study the success, failures and challenges.  We will focus on the technlogies themselves as well as various economic and financial issues associated with their use.
4216	ORF	407	S09-10	QR	Fundamentals of Queueing Theory	An introduction to the fundamental results of queueing theory.  Topics covered include the classical traffic, offered load, loss and delay stochastic models for communication systems.  Through concrete examples and motivations we discuss the theory of Markov chains, Poisson processes and Monte-Carlo simulation.  Fundamental queueing results such as the Erlang blocking and delay formulae, Little's law and Lindley's equation are presented.  Applications are drawn from communication network systems, inventory management, and optimal staffing.
4217	ORF	418	S09-10	QR	Optimal Learning	Optimal learning addresses the problem of collecting information that is used to estimate statistics or fit a model which is then used to make decisions.  Of particular interest are sequential problems where decisions adapt to information as it is learned.  The course will introduce students to a wide range of applications, demonstrate how to express the problem formally, and describe a variety of practical solution strategies.
4218	ORF	474	S09-10		Special Topics in Operations Research and Financial Engineering: Stochastic Methods for Quantitative Finance	This course is an introduction to stochastic calculus at the undergraduate level with applications to financial models. The emphasis is on computational and practical techniques. Topics include: Brownian motion; Ito's formula; stochastic differential equations; partial differential equations; Girsanov's theorem; stochastic control; simulation and finite difference numerical methods; implementation in Matlab.
4219	ORF	478	S09-10		Senior Thesis	A formal report on research involving analysis, synthesis, and design, directed toward improved understanding and resolution of a significant problem.  The research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member, and the thesis is defended by the student at a public examination before a faculty committee.  The senior thesis is equivalent to a year-long study and is recorded as a double course in the Spring.
4220	ORF	479	S09-10		Senior Project	Students conduct a one-semester project.  Topics chosen by students with approval of the faculty.  A written report is required at the end of the term.
4221	ORF	504	S09-10		Financial Econometrics	Econometric and statistical methods as applied to finance. Topics include: Overview of Statistical Methods; Predictability of asset returns; Discrete time volatility models; Efficient Portfolio and CAPM; Multifactor Pricing Models; Intertemporal Equilibrium   and Stochastic Discount Models; Expectation and present value relation; Simulation methods for financial derivatives; Econometrics of financial derivatives; Forecast and Management of Market Risks; Multivariate time series in finance; Nonparametric methods in financial econometrics
4222	ORF	509	S09-10		Directed Research I	Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out research and presents the results.  Directed Research is normally taken during the first year of study.
4223	ORF	510	S09-10		Directed Research II	This seminar is a continuation of ORF 509.  Each student writes a report and presents research results.  For doctoral students, the course must be completed one semester prior to taking the general examinations.
4224	ORF	511	S09-10		Extramural Summer Project	Summer research project designed in conjunction with the student's advisor and an industrial, NGO, or government sponsor, that will provide practical experience relevant to the student's course of study. Start date no earlier than June 1.  A research report and sponsor's evaluation are required.
4225	ORF	515	S09-10		Asset Pricing II: Stochastic Calculus and Advanced Derivatives	This course covers the pricing and hedging of advanced derivatives including topics such as exotic options, greeks, interest rate derivatives and credit derivatives.  The course will cover basics of stochastic calculus necessary for finance.  It is designed for Masters students.
4226	ORF	523	S09-10		Nonlinear Optimization	An introduction to the central concepts needed for studying the theory, algorithms, and applications of nonlinear optimization problems. Topics covered include first- and second-order optimality conditions; unconstrained methods, including steepest descent, conjugate gradient, and Newton methods; constrained methods including barrier, penalty, SQP, and augmented Lagrangians and duality theory and Lagrangian methods.
4227	ORF	527	S09-10		Stochastic Calculus and Finance	An introduction to stochastic analysis based on Brownian motion.  Topics include local martingales, the Itô integral and calculus, stochastic differential equations, the Feynman-Kac formula, representation theorems, Girsanov theory, and applications in finance.
4228	ORF	531	S09-10		Computational Finance in C++	The intent of this course is to introduce the student to the technical and algorithmic aspects of a wide spectrum of computer applications currently used in the financial industry, and to prepare the student for the development of new applications.  The student will be introduced to C++, the weekly homework will involve writing C++ code, and the final project will also involve programming in the same environment.
4229	ORF	558	S09-10		Stochastic Analysis Seminar	This seminar course will introduce the students to recent developments in stochastic analysis as they relate to the mathematical models of pricing and hedging in incomplete markets.
4230	ORF	565	S09-10		Empirical Processes and Asymptotic Statistics	Empirical Process theory mainly extends the law of large numbers (LLN), central limit theorem (CLT) and exponential inequalities to uniform LLN's and CLT's and concentration inequalities.  This uniformaty is useful to statisticians and computer scientists in that they often model data as a sample from some unknown distribution and desire to estimate certain aspects of the population.  Uniform LLN or CLT and concentration inequalities will imply that certain sample averages will be uniformly close to their expectations regardless of the unknown distributions. This class intends to review modern empirical process theory and its related asymptot
4231	PER	102	S09-10		Elementary Persian II	To develop the skills of understanding, speaking, reading and writing modern Persian.  The classes are conducted mostly in Persian with emphasis on oral drills and conversations.
4232	PER	107	S09-10		Intermediate Persian II	The emphasis is on reading modern and classical prose, and writing modern prose.  Classes are conducted mostly in Persian.  Advanced grammar drills and translation exercises.
4233	PER	303	S09-10		Advanced Persian Reading II	This course is the continuation of 302, and is designed to improve the student's proficiency in the reading and comprehension of Persian texts.  The emphasis is on reading, understanding, and translating modern prose.  The class is conducted in Persian.
4234	PER	304	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Persian Writers: Novels and Memoirs	The course will focus on the writings of some of the best known Iranian novelists of the past quarter of a century. Emphasis will be given to women writers. The course is designed to improve the students' proficiency in the reading and comprehension of Persian texts, with discussion in Persian.
4235	PHI	202	S09-10	EM	Introduction to Moral Philosophy	Can questions about what is right or wrong have real answers independent of any sort of divine authority? Are there moral principles that any rational person must recognize, or is morality essentially an expression of our feelings or a product of our culture? Are we morally required to do our part in making the world as good as it can be, or does morality give us permission to pursue our own peculiar enthusiasms and interests? What should we do about deception, unwanted pregnancies, and world hunger?  This course will provide an overview of these and other issues in moral philosophy.
4236	PHI	205	S09-10	EC	Introduction to Ancient Philosophy	This course discusses the ideas and arguments of major ancient Greek philosophers and thereby introduces students to the history and continued relevance of the first centuries of western philosophy. Topics include the rise of cosmological speculation, the beginnings of philosophical ethics, Plato's moral theory and epistemology, Aristotle's philosophy of nature, metaphysics and ethics.  The course ends with a survey of philosophical activity in the Hellenistic period.
4237	PHI	218	S09-10	EC	Learning Theory and Epistemology	A broad and accessible introduction to contemporary statistical learning theory as a response to the philosophical problem of induction. It is intended for students of all backgrounds. Topics covered include pattern recognition, the Bayes rule, nearest neighbor methods, neural networks, and support  vector machines.
4238	PHI	301	S09-10	EC	Aristotle and His Successors	We shall study Aristotle's contributions in logic, natural philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics, with emphasis on the ongoing philosophical interest of some of his central insights. We shall compare some of Aristotle's views with those of some of his successors, Hellenistic and beyond.
4239	PHI	304	S09-10	EC	The Philosophy of Kant	An examination of the epistemological and metaphysical doctrines of Kant's <u>Critique of Pure Reason</u>.
4240	PHI	306	S09-10	EM	Nietzsche	An examination of Nietzsche's central views, including the role of tragedy, the place of science, the eternal recurrence, the will to power, and the primacy of the individual.  We will also examine Nietzsche's ambiguous attitude toward philosophy and his influence on literature and criticism.
4241	PHI	309	S09-10	EM	Political Philosophy	Many people think they can recognize democracy when they see it and that democracy is uncontroversially good. Even if they are right, it is worth trying to give a theoretical account of what makes a practice, institution or state democratic; and to consider and evaluate arguments for and against democracy. So we will begin with a brisk survey of some traditional analyses and defenses of democracy and we will then spend the rest of our time (a) discussing a few more recent attempts to say what the core elements of democracy are and to defend it, and (b) evaluating some recent challenges to democratic ideals.
4242	PHI	317	S09-10	EC	Philosophy of Language	An introduction to selected topics in the philosophy of language, including Frege's puzzle, Russell's Theory of Descriptions, the arguments of Kripke's "Naming and Necessity", propositional attitudes, conditionals, and Grice's pragmatics.
4243	PHI	318	S09-10	EC	Metaphysics	A survey of central issue in metaphysics, such as: What is time? Is it true that the past is fixed and immutable while the future is a branching tree of alternative possibilities? Or could we in principle change the past? What makes a certain object at one time identical with a certain object at a later time? Are human beings truly free, or are their actions determined by factors beyond their control? Or both? Why does the world exist?
4244	PHI	321	S09-10	EC	Philosophy of Science	First half of course: Theories and space. "Gravity will stop operating tomorrow." All of your evidence is consistent with this claim. So why would it be absurd to believe it? More generally, why is it reasonable for us to favor certain simple or beautiful scientific theories over ugly, artificial ones?  What does relativity tell us about the connection between time and space?  (Description continues in "Other information".)
4245	PHI	325	S09-10	EM	Philosophy of Religion	An examination of the possibility and nature of religious knowledge, from both historical and systematic (analytic) points of view.  We will read discussions of religious belief by several key figures in the history of western philosophy (e.g. Cicero, Aquinas, Hume, and Kant), as well as by contemporary philosophers (e.g. Johnston, Lewis, Plantinga, van Fraassen).  Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on using the tools of analytic philosophy in order to clarify the issues and to arrive at convincing conclusions about them.
4246	PHI	337	S09-10	EM	Relativism	The course will explore various kinds of relativism: cultural relativism about beliefs concerning matters of fact; conceptual relativism, deriving from claims about the existence of distinct and, perhaps, incompatible conceptual schemes; something called "epistemic relativism"; and moral relativism of various kinds. We will look for the common structure of the various relativisms--if there is one--and explore whether relativism in any of these domains is plausible.
4247	PHI	374	S09-10	EC	Philosophy of Randomness and Extreme Risk	Extreme risk is a willing slave but a cruel master.  We will study risk, with emphasis on mathematical methods designed to manage and tame extreme risks, the philosophical foundations of those methods, and the perils that can result from applying them in the real world.  We will discuss risk-management issues that confront policymakers and others who must make safe decisions in risky situations.
4248	PHI	380	S09-10	EM	Explaining Values	The seminar will consider what values are, and what it takes to be a valuing creature. It will examine how inter-personal relations are permeated by evaluative understandings of agency and responsibility, and consider what implications this has for social institutions, such as criminal justice.  We will discuss how philosophical, scientific and historical considerations are variously relevant to theses issues, examining the usefulness of an interdisciplinary perspective.
4249	PHI	501	S09-10		The Philosophy of Aristotle	An exploration of Aristotle's notions of scientific proof and definition in Book 2 of his Posterior Analytics.
4250	PHI	511	S09-10		Pre-Kantian Rationalism: Rationalism	The relations between metaphysics and natural philosophy in the period of the scientific revolution of the 17th century.  Questions discussed include mathematics and the physical world, the laws of nature, force, the relation between mind and the material world, and the metaphysical and physical status of living things, among others.
4251	PHI	513	S09-10		Topics in Recent and Contemporary Philosophy: Recent & Contemporary Philosophy	Gives an intensive investigation of the major movements in philosophy in recent decades.
4252	PHI	515	S09-10		Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy	The course is an intensive study of selected philosophers or philosophical movements in the history of philosophy; this semester the focus will be in ancient philosophy. Contact the instructor for further details.
4253	PHI	520	S09-10		Logic: First-Order Categorical Logic	An examination of first order categorical logic, i.e., first order logic from the "topos theoretic" point of view.  Course to develop the tools to understand and assess Makkai's duality theory between first order theories and their categories of models.
4254	PHI	525	S09-10		Ethics	A critical examination of select issues in moral epistemology.
4255	PHI	529	S09-10		Seminar in Political Philosophy: The Problems of Political Philosophy	Selected issues or theories of common interest to students in the Department of Politics and in the Department of Philosophy.  The course is taught by members of the faculties of the two departments under the auspices of the Program in Political Philosophy.  The theme for 2009-2010 will be an overview of the problems of political philosophy.
4256	PHI	539	S09-10		Theory of Knowledge	Critical studies of the nature of knowledge.
4257	PHI	540	S09-10		Metaphysics: Modality	A study of selected issues in the philosophy of modality, such as: the analysis of modal notions; the role of modal thought in ordinary-life reasoning; the structure of modal space; understanding and evaluating the 'modal turn' in analytic philosophy.
4258	PHI	599	S09-10		Dissertation Seminar	Open to post-generals students actively working on their dissertations. Seminar aims at assisting students in their research and writing and at developing their teaching skills by improving their ability to present advanced material to less expert audiences. Students make presentations of work in progress, discuss each other's work, and share common pedagogical problems and solutions under the guidance of one or more faculty members.   Meets for two hours each week throughout the academic year.
4259	PHY	102	S09-10	ST	Introductory Physics II	The goal of the course is to present an introduction to the fundamental laws of nature, especially optics, electricity/magnetism, nuclear and atomic theory.  These are treated quantitatively with an emphasis on problem solving.  The laboratory is intended to give students an opportunity to observe physical phenomena and to gain "hands-on" experience with apparatus and instruments.
4260	PHY	104	S09-10	ST	General Physics II	Schedule: One lecture, three classes, and one laboratory per week.   Goals: to understand the fundamental laws of physics, in particular electricity and magnetism with applications to electronics and optics.  This calculus-based course is primarily geared to engineers and majors in physics and other sciences.
4261	PHY	106	S09-10	ST	Advanced Physics (Electromagnetism)	This course features the classical theory of electricity and magnetism, with emphasis on the unification of these forces through the special theory of relativity.  While the subject matter is similar to that of PHY 104, the treatment is more sophisticated.  The topics also include DC and AC circuits and the electromagnetic behavior of matter.
4262	PHY	208	S09-10	STX	Principles of Quantum Mechanics	This is the Physics Department's introductory quantum mechanics course.  Its intent is to present the subject in a fashion that will allow both mastery of its conceptual basis and techniques and appreciation of the excitement inherent in looking at the world in a profoundly new way.  Topics to be covered include: state functions and the probability interpretation, the Schroedinger equation, uncertainty principle, the eigenvalue problem, angular momentum, perturbation theory, and the hydrogen atom.
4263	PHY	210	S09-10	ST	Experimental Physics Seminar	The seminar introduces students to techniques in modern experimental physics in a laboratory setting.  In the first half of the course, students are introduced to analog electronics, data acquisition and control, vacuum technology, optics and lasers, cryogenics and other techniques.  In the second half of the course, students working in small groups propose and perform an experiment.
4264	PHY	304	S09-10		Advanced Electromagnetism	Electromagnetic theory based on Maxwell's equations.  Electrostatics, including boundary valve problems, dielectrics, and energy considerations leading to the Maxwell stress tensor.  Magnetostatics and simple magnetic materials.  Electromagnetic waves, retarded potentials and radiation.  Familiarity with vector calculus is assumed.
4265	PHY	312	S09-10	ST	Experimental Physics	Students work in small groups and perform four experiments and an electronics lab.  The list of experiments to choose from includes muon decay, beta decay, optical pumping, Moosbauer effect, holography, positron annihilation, electron diffraction, single photon interference, Sagnac effect, bacterial motion, NMR, Coulomb law, and photoelectric effect.  Weekly lectures will provide an overview of various experimental techniques and data analysis.
4266	PHY	403	S09-10		Mathematical Methods of Physics	Mathematical methods and terminology which are essential for modern theoretical physics. These include some of the traditional techniques of mathematical analysis, but also more modern tools such as group theory and differential geometry. Mathematical theories are not treated as ends in themselves; the goal is to show how mathematical tools are developed to solve physical problems.
4267	PHY	405	S09-10		Modern Physics I: Condensed-Matter Physics	The course applies concepts from quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics to the properties of electrons in solids.  Topics include phonons and lattice dynamics, electronic band structure, the tight-binding approximation, origin of exchange and magnetism, spin waves, Ginzburg Landau theory of phase transitions, and the BCS theory of superconductivity.
4268	PHY	408	S09-10		Modern Classical Dynamics	Discussion of the most beautiful and important parts of classical dynamics:  variational principles, ergodicity and chaos, fluid dynamics of vortices, shock waves and solitons as well as the theories of developed turbulence.
4269	PHY	505	S09-10		Quantum Mechanics I	The physical principles and mathematical formalism of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics.  The principles will be illustrated via selected applications to topics in atomic physics, particle physics and condensed matter.
4270	PHY	506	S09-10		Quantum Mechanics II	This is a one-semester course in advanced quantum mechanics, following PHY 505. After a brief review of some fundamental topics (e.g., hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, scattering theory) more advanced topics will be covered, including many-body theory, operator theory, coherent states, stability of matter and other Coulomb systems and the theory of the Bose gas.
4271	PHY	509	S09-10		Relativistic Quantum Theory (Introduction to Quantum Field Theory)	Quantum fields in particle physics and statistical mechanics Feynman diagrams. Backward in time motion. Spin and statistics, gauge symmetry, critical phenomena.
4272	PHY	510	S09-10		Relativistic Quantum Theory II	Renormalization group in QFT, selected topics in QFT (non-perturbative methods, supersymmetry, QFT in curved space-time).
4273	PHY	511	S09-10		Thermodynamics, Kinetic Theory and Statistical Mechanics	The physical principles and mathematical formulation of statistical physics, with emphasis on applications in thermodynamics, condensed matter, physical chemistry and astrophysics. Topics that will be discussed include bose-einstein condensation, degenerate fermi systems, phase-transitions, and basics of kinetic theory. Students will be asked to participate in class discussion of challenging problems taken from past departmental generals exams (prelims).
4274	PHY	521	S09-10		Introduction to Mathematical Physics	An introduction to mathematically rigorous methods in physics,  mainly in the area of classical and quantum statistical mechanics. Possible topics include the study of thermodynamic limits, phase transitions, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity.  Both lattice and continuous systems will be considered.
4275	PHY	523	S09-10		Introduction to Relativity	Special Relativity, Curvature, Einstein Equatrons, Classic Tests of GR, Black Holes, Stars, FRW Cosmology
4276	PHY	524	S09-10		Advanced Topics in General Relativity: Dynamical, Strong Field Gravity	This course will explore a number of areas in general relativity where dynamical, strong field gravity plays an important role in the physics. Topics covered will include gravitational collapse and black hole formation, black hole collisions and other sources of gravitational waves, and the nature of spacetime singularities. Numerical methods are an important tool in solving the field equations in such situations, and so a portion of the course will be devoted to an introduction to numerical relativity.
4277	PHY	525	S09-10		Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics	The first half covers metals, phonons, diffraction and scattering, Bloch theorem, tight-binding approximation, and Boltzmann equation approach.  The second half focuses on the topics Quantum Hall Effect, Magnetism, and Superconductivity.  Related materials and techniques such as Hartree-Fock equation, Slater determinants, Ginzburg-Landau theory and operator techniques.
4278	PHY	526	S09-10		Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics	Course will cover a variety of topics in the area of "soft" condensed matter physics, centered around the areas of forces at the mesoscale, phase transitions, Landau mean field theory, fluctuations, critical exponents and scaling, generalized elasticity, topological defects and dynamics.
4279	PHY	529	S09-10		Introduction to High-Energy Physics	An overview of modern elementary particle physics and the Standard Model.  Specific topics include: weak decays, W and Z physics, deep inelastic scattering, CP violation, neutrino oscillations, Higgs searches, with an emphasis on areas of current interest. The course also covers concepts in experimental tools and techniques.
4280	PHY	536	S09-10		Condensed Matter/Many-Body Physics	Course introduces and present ongoing theoretical investigations of new research topics in condensed matter physics: topological insulators and Chern numbers, topological superconductors, the fractional quantum Hall effect and non-abelian statistics, as well as new high-temperature superconductors. The techniques needed to deal with such systems, such as Chern numbers, topological band theory, Berry phases, conformal field theory, Chern-Simons theory, t-J models, Gutzwiller wavefunctions, Hubbard models, are explained.
4281	PHY	539	S09-10		Selected Topics in High-Energy Physics	Quantization of Closed and Open strings. Strong perturbation theory and conformal field theory techniques. String effective actions. NSR approach to superstrings. D-branes. Introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence.
4282	PHY	540	S09-10		Selected Topics in Theoretical High-Energy Physics: Strings, Black Holes and Gauge Theories	We will discuss current topics in strings and fields like gauge/string correspondence, D-branes, block holes, etc. Some knowledge of string theory is needed.
4283	PHY	562	S09-10		Biophysics	A physicist's perspective on the phenomena of life, from the dynamics of single molecules to learning and perception.
4284	PHY	563	S09-10		Physics of the Universe: Origin & Evolution	The course is the first of a two-semester survey (along with PHY 564) of fundamental concepts which underly contemporary cosmology. The first semester focuses on the nearly homogeneous evolution of the universe including the standard big bang picture, inflationary cosmology, dark matter, and the possibility of present-day accelerated expansion. The second semester focuses on the late stages in the evolution of the universe, when gravity results in the growth of large-scale structure, perturbations in the cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing and other non-linear phenomena.
4285	PHY	564	S09-10		Physics of the Universe: Introduction to Theoretical Cosmology	This course is the second semester of a survey of fundamental concepts in cosmology, designed for students who have taken a basic introduction (Physics 563, Astro 522, Astro 401 or equivalent).  The semester spans the leading issues in contemporary cosmology including inflation, the cyclic universe, baryogenesis, dark matter and dark energy.  The course emphasizes the connections between cosmology and particle/string physics, and discusses the origin and evolution of inhomogeneities, their effects on the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure.
4286	POL	220	S09-10	SA	American Politics	An introduction to the national institutions and political processes of American government and democratic representation. Topics include the Constitution, the American political tradition, public opinion, interest groups and social movements, political institutions, civil rights, civil liberties, and matters of public policy.
4287	POL	230	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Comparative Politics	This course surveys institutions of government and explores the role of government in economic and social affairs in developing as well as advanced industrial countries. The overarching theme is the relationship between capitalism, democracy, and economic development. The course also provides an introduction to the comparative method: using some major books in Comparative Politics as examples, we will explore how different scholars use cross-national comparison to gain insight into political dynamics.
4288	POL	240	S09-10	SA	International Relations	This course is an introduction to the causes and nature of international conflict and cooperation. We critically examine various theories of international politics by drawing on examples from various historical eras as well as across security and economic affairs. Topics include the causes of war, the pursuit of economic prosperity, the sources of international order and its breakdown, and the rise of challenges to national sovereignty.
4289	POL	250	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Game Theory	Introduction to strategic issues in politics. After a brief introduction to game theory, we will look in depth at voting, collective action, deliberation, and deterrence.
4290	POL	303	S09-10	EM	Modern Political Theory	A study and critique of the philosophical foundations of modern democratic liberalism based on a close reading and analysis of texts by theorists such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Rawls.
4291	POL	305	S09-10	EM	Radical Political Thought	This course will examine traditions of political thought--mostly, but not only, on the Left--which challenge mainstream conceptions of liberal democracy and modern capitalist society.  The main focus will be on Marxism, anarchism, feminism, religious radicalism, ecological thought, and critiques of alienation in everyday life.  Particular attention is paid to the relationship between political and cultural criticism, and to the philosophical anthropologies underlying different theories as well as the mechanisms for social change they envisage.  We also ask if liberal democratic thought can effectively respond to radical challenges.
4292	POL	306	S09-10	EM	Democratic Theory	This course will introduce students to the principal historical figures in thinking about democracy: Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Schumpeter and others. But the rationale of the course is philosophical rather than historical. Let democracy require that government be of the people, by the people and for the people: that the people be the ultimate governing authority, that they be the agents by whom  government is conducted, and that they be the beneficiaries in whose interest government is exercised. The aim of the course will be to see whether there is a plausible and appealing sense in which those conditions can be fulfilled.
4293	POL	311	S09-10	SA	Political Psychology	This course explores the psychological foundations of political life. We begin by considering different analytic frameworks for understanding human nature, examining the contributions of economics, sociology, and psychology to explanations of political behavior. We then apply these theories and concepts to investigating a range of political and public policy issues, including: how people develop their political attitudes; how mass media and campaigns shape public opinion; the root causes of racism and prejudice; why people vote, volunteer and engage in protest; and the psychological underpinnings of extremism, suicide terrorism, and genocide.
4294	POL	318	S09-10	SA	Law and Society	An examination of courts as unique legal and political institutions with distinctive approaches to resolving disputes and formulating law and public policy. Emphasis is on the American legal system.
4295	POL	323	S09-10	SA	Party Politics	An examination of the structure, activities, and significance of political parties, primarily (though not exclusively) in the contemporary American setting. Lectures, readings, and assignments focusing on the logic of party competition, the evolving political and social bases of party coalitions, the development and impact of partisan loyalties in the electorate, activities of party organizations and activists, the processes by which parties select their nominees for elective office, mechanisms of party influence in law-making, and shifts in public policy attributable to changing partisan control of government.
4296	POL	327	S09-10	SA	Mass Media and American Politics	This course considers the role of the mass media in American politics and the influence of the media on Americans' political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.  We will examine the nature of news and news making organizations, the role of the news media in electoral campaigns, how the media shape the behavior of politicians once in office, political advertising, and the impact of the media on Americans' political attitudes.
4297	POL	332	S09-10	SA	American Statesmanship	This course explores the founding of the American republic from the revolution through the early republic by focusing on the thought and practice of several leading figures including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Combining biographical materials and primary sources, this course places the lives of these men within the context and political dynamics of the new nation with a particular focus on the problem of constitutional founding and the first party system.
4298	POL	352	S09-10	SA	Comparative Political Economy	The focus of this course will be on the origins and economic impact of political institutions (e.g. Democracy vs. Autocracy, different types of Democracy). We shall argue that these are not "neutral", as different institutions allocate political power differently among social groups with conflicting goals, who then have naturally different preferences on them. Special attention shall be paid to the influence of international relations (and particularly international conflicts) on domestic institutions and policy outcomes. Occasionally, we will also make use of some simple formal models of political economy.
4299	POL	366	S09-10	SA	Politics in Africa	This course provides an introduction to the study of African politics. The lectures and readings briefly review the social and historical context of contemporary political life. They then profile the changes of the early post-Independence period, the authoritarian turn of the 1970s and 80s, the second liberation of the 1990s, and problems of war, state-building, and development. Although the lectures trace a narrative, each also introduces a major analytical debate and an important policy problem. Broadly comparative with some special attention to selected countries.
4300	POL	367	S09-10	SA	Latin American Politics	The course analyzes twentieth century Latin America. The course maintains a thematic focus - presenting competing theoretical arguments about democracy and development in the region. The readings and lectures evaluate these arguments in the context of six cases: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru.
4301	POL	379	S09-10	SA	Intelligence, National Security and the Constitutional Democracy	This course treats intelligence and constitutional issues essential to evaluate controversies in national security and civil liberties in a democracy. We examine tensions through history, statute, technology, public opinion, the media and current events. Can we implement effective security and not adversely impact our constitutional rights? What is the "correct" relationship between intelligence and law enforcement? Should information be shared and/or protected? Technology threatens or protects? Is post 9/11 reform on track? You decide if government is making the right choices "for the country and individuals" based on this critical material.
4302	POL	392	S09-10	SA	American Foreign Policy	An examination of American Foreign Policy since World War II with emphasis on strategic issues and events influencing America's security posture.  The course traces the evolution of national security strategies and their implementations through domestic and international means in support of American Foreign Policy during the Cold War.  Students will become familiar with America's choices in using diplomacy, military or other options to carry out its foreign policy. There will be particular emphasis on challenges arising in the aftermath of the Cold War.
4303	POL	395	S09-10	SA	Foreign Policy Decision-Making	How do leaders make decisions? What explains the foreign policies of states in the international system? This course critically evaluates alternative models of foreign policy decision-making. It is designed to survey prominent theories in this field including rational choice, psychological approaches, organizational and bureaucratic politics, norms and ideas, strategic culture, and groupthink. In addition to discussions of theories, the course uses evidence from American, Soviet, British, and Israeli decision-making behaviors to test the empirical validity of different theories in important historical episodes.
4304	POL	410	S09-10	SA	Seminar in Political Theory: Executive Power	This seminar examines an important conundrum associated with the theory of executive power. Political theorists have long recognized that as the laws cannot foresee every contingency, men and women must rule when necessity demands. However, entrusting men and women with such discretionary power is problematic because they might abuse it. We will study how prominent theorists of executive power, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Publius have attempted to solve this conundrum. Drawing on secondary literature as well as documentaries and news reports, we will also analyze the feasibility of their solutions in the modern world.
4305	POL	412	S09-10	EM	Seminar in Political Theory: Natural Law in Contemporary Legal and Political Philosophy	This seminar considers work of contemporary natural law theorists and their interlocutors. Among the issues addressed are the objectivity of morals, the nature of legal obligation, the similarities and differences between natural law theories and utilitarian and deontological theories, the nature of human fulfillment and the grounds of moral duty, the relationship of morality to politics and law, the question of the moral status of humans in the earliest stages and of those in mentally or physically debilitated conditions, sexual ethics and the nature and meaning of marriage, and the role of reason and religious faith in ethics and politics.
4306	POL	421	S09-10	SA	Seminar in American Politics: Racial Politics in the U.S.	This course investigates the politics of race in the U. S. with particular attention to the political status of African Americans. We will cover topics including the meaning of race, the civil rights movement and collective action, gender, class and regional differences, racial prejudice, racial identity, and various public policy issues such as residential segregation and political representation. The focus will be on student participation and student research projects involving direct observation and rigorous qualitative analysis, or analysis of quantitative data.
4307	POL	510	S09-10		Founder-Legislators in Plato, Rousseau and Nietzsche	Course examines the roles played by conceptions of founder-legislators in the history of political thought, focusing on the lineage of Plato, Rousseau and Nietzsche.  Figures such as Solon, Lycurgus, Moses, Numa, and Manu are implicated by these authors in the framing of fundamental questions of political theory.  These include the formation of political culture and identity, the relation between persuasion and coercion, the constitution of consent, and the role of philosophy in politics.
4308	POL	538	S09-10		Comparative Political Behavior	Seminar examines mass political behavior from a comparative perspective and attempts to explain how people become involved in politics, how they form political opinions, and how their behavior influences political outcomes.  Seminar covers a range of behaviors, including learning about politics, information processing, political participation, and voter decision-making. For each of these behaviors, two questions are posed: What are the causes and consequences of the behavior? To what extent and how do these causes and consequences depend on institutional or cultural/ historical settings?
4309	POL	541	S09-10		The American Political System	An examination of political institutions and the study of political institutions focused on the United States.  Provides an overview of the various problems for which institutional solutions are sought (e.g., problems involving collective action, delegation, and social choice) as well as a detailed assessment of some of the scholarly literature that investigates political institutions.  We will cover executive, judicial, and legislative politics, but the course may focus more heavily on legislative institutions and politics given the instructor's expertise.
4310	POL	542	S09-10		Analysis of Political Institutions	Designed to expose students to substantive and methodological controversies that are currently engaging scholars of American politics, this course integrates theoretical and quantitative skills by focusing on the processes of extracting hypotheses from formal models, stating hypotheses in a manner conducive to tests, collecting data, conducting tests, and making inferences.
4311	POL	548	S09-10		Political Psychology	This course examines psychological perspectives on politics. Themes include human limitation vs. human capacity, how institutions shape or interact with individual opinion and behavior, discussion and deliberation, and the role of groups. We will also discuss methodological issues.
4312	POL	552	S09-10		Theories of International Politics	History of international relations theory, current debates, and applications to problems of international security and political economy.
4313	POL	554	S09-10		International Security Studies	Central topics in security studies, including the causes and nature of war, deterrence, alliance formation, military doctrine, civil-military relations, arms competition, and arms control.
4314	POL	572	S09-10		Quantitative Analysis II	This is the second course in the quantitative methods sequence.  It will emphasize the flexibility of the maximum likelihood framework in the context of regression models, models that mix qualitiative and continuous endogenous variables, hazard models, and scaling models.
4315	POL	574	S09-10		Quantitative Analysis IV	An introduction to the basic analytical and computational tools of applied Bayesian statistics.  Methods covered include multi-level models, mixture modeling, Bayesian model averaging, and models for missing data and causal inference; computational tools taught include the EM algorithm and the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms.  Goal of the course is to enable students to build and implement their own model in order to answer a particular research question.  Course may be of interest to those in disciplines outside of political science who need to learn the basics of applied Bayesian statistics.
4316	POL	575	S09-10		Formal Political Analysis I	An introduction to mathematical models of political processes. Course develops the analytical foundations for examining problems in collective choice. The technical development focuses on the logical structure of formal models as well as on their use to develop testable hypotheses. The presentation of technical apparatus is combined with a wide range of applications. Topics include models of majority rule, direct and representative democracy, political competition under various electoral systems, and political economy.
4317	POL	579	S09-10		Seminar in Formal Theory	Selected problems in the application of formal theory to the study of politics.  Normally its preprequisite is POL 576 or the equivalent, or by permission of the instructor.
4318	POL	584	S09-10		Foundations of Political Economy	Course focuses on modeling the interaction of politics and economics, with applications to a variety of substantive areas.  Topics include: poltics of taxation and redistribution; governmental structure, political economy of constitutional arrangements, development, and growth.  Familiarity with microeconomic theory and POL 575 or the equivalent are prerequisites.
4319	POL	585	S09-10		International Political Economy	An introduction to the subfield of international political economy, covering basic topics in the politics of both trade and finance. Course will review, for example, several explanations political scientists and economists have advanced for variations across trade and monetary systems since the late nineteenth century.  Also examines relevant issues at the nation-state level (e.g., endogenous tariff theory).  This course provides some background in the requisite economic theory in the form of a set of required background readings drawn from an advanced undergraduate textbook.
4320	POL	589	S09-10		Judicial Politics	An overview of the major debates in Judicial Politics.  Course goals are to familiarize students with the principal questions being asked by scholars in this subfield, the methodological approaches employed, and the avenues available for future research.  Primary focus is on law and courts as political institutions and judges as political actors.  We examine decision making and power relations within courts, within the judicial hierarchy, and within the constitutional system.  Although U.S. courts are our primary focus, some material on other courts will also be covered.
4321	POL	591	S09-10		Directed Research	During the third semester, each student writes a research paper under the direction of a faculty member.
4322	POL	593	S09-10		Research Seminar	Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
4323	POL	594	S09-10		Research Seminar	Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
4324	POL	595	S09-10		Research Seminar	Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
4325	POL	596	S09-10		Research Seminar	Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; and fourth-year students for 596. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
4326	POL	597	S09-10		Research Seminars	Enrolled graduate students in residence will attend one of these seminars each year and present their research. First-year students sign up for 593; second-year students for 594; third-year students for 595; fourth-year students for 596; and fifth-year students for 597. The seminars are offered in four fields: political philosophy, comparative politics, American politics, and international relations.
4327	POP	503	S09-10		Evaluation of Demographic Research	A course designed for doctoral students who have some experience in demographic methods and research. One objective of the course is to examine critically how researchers, including well-established demographers and students, tackle demographic research questions. A second, related goal is to explore the construction of a dissertation and a research paper.
4328	POP	509	S09-10		Survival Analysis (Half-Term)	Course focuses on statistical analysis of time-to-event or survival data, introduces hazard & survival functions, censoring mechanisms, parametric & non-parametric estimation, and comparison of survival curves. Covers continuous and discrete-time regression models, with emphasis on Cox's proportional hazards model and partial likelihood estimation. Discusses competing risk models, unobserved heterogeneity, and multivariate survival models including event history analysis. Course emphasizes basic concepts and techniques as well as social science applications. Half-course offered in first half of spring term.
4329	POP	510	S09-10		Multilevel Models (Half-Term)	An introduction to statistical methods for the analysis of multilevel data, such as data on children, families, and neighborhoods. Reviews fixed- and random-effects models for clustered and longitudinal data. Presents multilevel random-intercept and random-slopes models, discussing model fitting and interpretation, centering and estimation of cross-level interactions, and extensions to binary and count data using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. Course emphasizes practical applications using the multilevel package MLwiN. Half-term course, offered second half of spring term.
4330	POR	108	S09-10		Introductory Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Normally open to students already proficient in Spanish, this course uses that knowledge as a basis for the accelerated learning of Portuguese. Emphasis on the concurrent development of understanding, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The two-semester sequence POR 108-109 is designed to provide in only one year of study a command of the language sufficient for travel and research in Brazil and Portugal.
4331	POR	109	S09-10		Intermediate Portuguese for Spanish Speakers	Students will further develop their language skills, especially those of comprehension and oral proficiency, through grammar review, readings, film and other activities. The two-semester sequence POR 108-109 is designed to give in only one year of study a command of the Portuguese language sufficient for travel in Brazil, Portugal and beyond.
4332	POR	110	S09-10		Intensive Portuguese	An intensive course designed for students who have fulfilled the language requirement in Spanish or another Romance language. Knowledge of one of these languages provides the basis for the accelerated learning of Portuguese. This one-semester 'crash' course teaches fundamental communication skills--comprehension, speaking, reading and writing--and some exposure to cultural aspects of the Portuguese-speaking world, but does not offer an in-depth study of grammar.
4333	POR	208	S09-10		Portuguese in Context: Studies in Language and Style	Designed as a journey through the Lusophone world this course seeks to present the Portuguese language in context by exploring historical, social, political and cultural aspects of Brasil, Portugal, and Lusophone Africa through the media, literature, film, music and other realia.  Students will increase their fluency and accuracy in both written and spoken Portuguese, broadening their vocabulary and mastery of syntax through textual analysis, discussions, oral presentations and grammar review. An advanced language course and overview of the Lusophone world, POR 208 seeks to prepare students for further study of  literature and culture.
4334	POR	304	S09-10	LA	Topics in Brazilian Cultural and Social History: The Invention of Brazil	This course will focus on selected works of the Brazilian modernist literary tradition, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's <u>Raízes do Brasil</u>, Gilberto Freyre's <u>Casa-grande & Senzala</u> and Mário de Andrade's <u>O Turista Aprendiz</u>. Essays and poetry will be read, as well as some correspondence exchanged between modernist writers. Through these and other works, we will study the blooming of new perspectives on Brazilian social and political history. Special attention will be paid to the exciting debates on race in the 1930s and how they have shaped the way Brazilians think of themselves.
4335	POR	306	S09-10	LA	Urban Modernism and Its Discontents	An overview of the cultures and histories of major cities in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília, Lisbon and Luanda. This course will explore some of the tensions between modernization projects and cultural production during the late 19th and 20th centuries, examining representations of the city in literature (poetry and prose), maps, film, painting, photography, and music.
4336	POR	351	S09-10	LA	Brazilian Cinema in a Global Context	Brazilian cinema has experienced a major resurgence since the late 1990s, exhibiting a wide array of thematic concerns and formal approaches: from critically acclaimed documentaries to the commercial success of "City of God." After an introduction to the Cinema Novo of the 1960s in the context of other contemporary movements, this course will focus on how more recent filmmakers have engaged questions of Brazilian cinema's relationship to the state, to social conditions, and to the international marketplace. Recurrent and emerging trends will also be discussed (e.g. a preoccupation with the Amazon, urban violence, literature, and music).
4337	POR	561	S09-10		Modern Brazilian Literature: Brazil and Latin America	Seminar  focuses on how intellectuals phantasize the uniqueness of Brazil and Latin America, and how they conceive the differences between "Iberoamerica" and the United States of America. Works to be read include Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Raízes do Brasil, Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande & Senzala, José Enrique Rodó's Ariel, Octavio Paz's El Laberinto de la Soledad, Richard Morse's El Espejo de Próspero and José Miguel Wisnik's Veneno Remédio.
4338	PSY	101	S09-10	ST	Introduction to Psychology	The study of human nature from the viewpoint of psychological science. Topics range from the biological bases of human perception, thought and action to the social-psychological determinants of individual and group behavior.  This course is a pre-requisite for majoring in psychology and can also serve as one of the two lab courses used to satisfy the natural science requirement.
4339	PSY	251	S09-10	QR	Quantitative Methods	The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the basic techniques of statistical analysis used in psychological research. Students will learn the logic underlying the statistical techniques and learn how to perform statistical analyses and interpret the results.
4340	PSY	254	S09-10	EC	Developmental Psychology	A survey of human development emphasizing the nature of children's minds and experience, developmental change, and the relation between child and adult mentation.  How do children at different periods in development think, feel, and experience the world around them?  Students will be actively involved in preschool settings.
4341	PSY	255	S09-10	EC	Cognitive Psychology	The course will survey the major themes and experimental findings of Cognitive Psychology.  We will address the question of how scientists probe the nature and underlying structure of human thought.  Topics covered include attention, perception, imagery, memory, language, thinking, decision making, and cognitive neuroscience.
4342	PSY	259A	S09-10	EC	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience	This course will offer an introduction to cognitive brain functions including higher perceptual functions, attention and selective perception, systems for short- and long-term memory, language, cerebral lateralization, motor control, executive functions of the frontal lobe, cognitive development and plasticity, and the problem of consciousness.  Major neuropsychological syndromes (e.g. agnosia, amnesia) will be discussed.
4343	PSY	259B	S09-10	ST	Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience	This course will offer an introduction to cognitive brain functions including higher perceptual functions, attention and selective perception, systems for short- and long-term memory, language, cerebral lateralization, motor control, executive functions of the frontal lobe, cognitive development and plasticity, and the problem of consciousness.  Major neuropsychological syndromes (e.g. agnosia, amnesia) will be discussed.
4344	PSY	306	S09-10	EC	Memory and Cognition	An integrative treatment of memory in humans and animals. We will explore working memory (our ability to actively maintain thoughts in the face of distraction), episodic memory (our ability to remember previously experienced events), and semantic memory (our ability to learn and remember the meanings of stimuli). In studying how the brain gives rise to different kinds of memory, we will consider evidence from behavioral experiments, neuroscientific experiments (neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and lesion studies), and computational models.
4345	PSY	307	S09-10	EC	Educational Psychology	Principles of psychology relevant to the theory and practice of education. Through selected readings, discussion, and classroom observations, students study theories of development, learning, cognition (including literacy), and motivation, as well as individual and group differences in these areas; assessment; and the social psychology of the classroom. The course focuses on how learning by children and adolescents at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels is influenced by their own characteristics and experiences and the various contexts in which they learn: family, school, community and culture.
4346	PSY	310	S09-10	EC	Psychology of Thinking	The aim of the course is to elucidate the main forms of human thinking, e.g. calculation, deduction, induction, creation, and association.  The course will consider psychological theories of these processes and their experimental investigation.
4347	PSY	314	S09-10	SA	Research Methods in Social Psychology	This course examines the various methods by which social psychologists conduct research.  Methods to be covered include laboratory and field experiments, quasi-experiments, survey research, and naturalistic observation.  Over the course of the semester, students will design and conduct social psychological research using these methods.  Although valuable for all psychology majors, this course will be particularly useful for those who anticipate completing a senior thesis based on empirical research.
4348	PSY	320	S09-10	SA	Theories of Psychotherapy	This course will examine the different theories, models, techniques, and settings that define the practice of clinical psychology in general, and psychotherapy in particular.
4349	PSY	326	S09-10	SA	Social and Personality Development	Major issues in social and personality psychology examined from a developmental perspective, with emphasis on developmental processes and change.  Data on children, adolescents and adults will be considered.  Topics include: attachment, self-concept, self-esteem, achievement, gender roles, moral development, prosocial behavior, and aggression. Particular attention to role of culture.
4350	PSY	410	S09-10	EC	Depression:  From Neuron to Clinic	This course focuses on clinical depression, utilizing it as a model topic for scientific discourse.  This topic is ideal for this purpose because it intersects a broad range of issues.  The course focuses on a neurobiological approach to this personally and societally important subject.  Topics range from the molecular to the clinical.
4351	PSY	415	S09-10	EC	Advanced Topics in Learning & Memory: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms	Seminar designed to expose students to current research on the cellular and molecular bases of learning and memory, providing an up-to-date analysis of what is, and is not, known about the neurobiology of learning and memory. We begin with a review of the model systems used to study learning and memory, including an analysis of the translational validity of certain model systems. We then deal with different forms of plasticity (synaptic and structural) as they pertain to learning and memory during development and adulthood. Finally, we apply some of these findings to evaluate the current status of research on aging and Alzheimer's.
4352	PSY	416	S09-10	EC	Brain Imaging in Cognitive Neuroscience Research	Provides an introduction for advanced psychology students on the use of functional brain imaging in cognitive neuroscience research. The first third of the course will cover the foundations of brain imaging in neurophysiology, imaging physics, experimental design, & image analysis. The remainder will be an examination of innovations in experimental design & methods of analysis that have opened new areas of cognitive neuroscience to inquiry using functional brain imaging.  Students will gain first-hand exposure to the scanning environment, data collection procedures, and basic, hands-on experience with data treatment & statistical analysis.
4353	PSY	500	S09-10		Proseminar in Basic Problems in Psychology:  Social Psychology	Introduction to graduate level social psychology for first year graduate students in psychology.  This course will serve as the basis for more advanced graduate courses on specific topics in this area.
4354	PSY	543	S09-10		Research Seminar in Cognitive Psychology	Current research and issues in sensation, perception, and cognition.  Ongoing research by seminar participants, research methodology, and current issues in the literature will be discussed.
4355	PSY	551	S09-10		Design and Interpretation of Social Psychological Research	An advanced seminar that considers current research in social psychology.  Contemporary research conducted by the seminar participants is discussed.
4356	PSY	591A	S09-10		Responsible Conduct of Research	Examination of issues in the responsible conduct of scientific research, including the definition of scientific misconduct, mentoring, authorship, peer review, grant practices, use of humans and of animals as subjects, ownership of data, and conflict of interest.  Class will consist primarily of the discussion of cases.  Required of all first and second year graduate students in the Department of Psychology.  Open to other graduate students.
4357	QCB	511	S09-10		Modeling Tools for Cell and Developmental Biology	Mathematical models of complex natural phenomena can organize large amounts of data, provide access to properties that are difficult or impossible to measure experimentally, and suggest new experimental tests of proposed regulatory mechanisms. Participants will demonstrate these ideas in the context of cell and developmental biology. Using a number of well-established experimental systems, such as dynamic instability of microtubules and circadian clocks, course introduces stochastic and deterministic models of reaction and diffusion processes and computational methods for their analysis.
4358	REL	219	S09-10	EM	Business Ethics and Modern Religious Thought	The course objective is to learn basic ethics theory and develop practical tools for business ethics, with particular attention throughout the course to the role of religion and spirituality in ethical formation, frameworks, and decision making.  This will be applied to contemporary business ethics case studies, and will include several guest CEO visitors.
4359	REL	222	S09-10	EC	Religion in Modern Thought and Film	This course surveys conceptions of religion that have been influential in the modern period, and critically examines the theories of knowledge, interpretation, society, and culture associated with them. Among the approaches considered are Augustinian theology, Enlightenment skepticism, Marxism, cultural anthropology, phenomenology, feminism, and Freudian psychology.  Films by such directors as Hitchcock and Kurosawa are used to explore the main issues covered.
4360	REL	227	S09-10	EM	Tibetan Buddhism	This course is a survey of the Buddhist traditions of Tibet, focusing on the doctrines and practices associated with the main schools of tantric ritual and meditation. Topics covered will include: the origins of the distinct forms of Buddhism in Tibet; Buddhist responses to historical challenges; the special relationship between politics and religion in Tibet; the role of Tibetan Buddhist scholars and scholasticism; Tibet through the lenses of the Chinese, and the West; and Tibetan Buddhist art.  Required field trip to the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC.
4361	REL	236	S09-10	SA	Introduction to Islam	This introductory course provides a thematic overview of Islamic beliefs, rituals and practices.  We will study both majority Muslim societies and Muslim minority communities in the past and present. The course will highlight commonalities among Muslims but will also focus on historical, geographical and cultural diversities. Course materials include primary sources in translation, academic articles and books, feature and documentary films, fiction in translation, internet sites and power point presentations.
4362	REL	242	S09-10	EM	Jewish Thought and Modern Society	What is Judaism's, and the individual Jew's, relation to the modern world?  Is Judaism a religion, a nationality, an ethnicity, or a combination of these?  This course explores different answers to these questions by examining various historical and cultural formations of Jewish identity in Europe, America, and Israel from the seventeenth century to the present, as well as by engaging particular issues, such as Judaism's relation to technology, the environment, bioethics, feminism, and democracy.
4363	REL	251	S09-10	HA	The New Testament and Christian Origins	A historical introduction to early Christian texts within and outside of the New Testament canon. The course emphasizes studying ancient sources relevant for early Christianity from a variety of backgrounds (Jewish, Greco-Roman, Christian) and teaches different strategies to read these texts.  When possible, archaeological remains and papyrological sources are brought in as material context. The precepts function to explore important topics such as early Christian attitudes towards slavery and the position of women in Early Christianity and to bring up debates in contemporary culture involving New Testament and other early Christian texts.
4364	REL	341	S09-10	HA	Jews and Judaism in Ancient Egypt and Other Diaspora Communities	This course covers the development of Judaism in the diaspora from 33 BCE to 200 CE, including the rich body of literature produced by Egyptian Jewry, the best documented of the ancient diaspora communities, the archeological and epigraphic evidence for Judaism in Rome and Asia Minor, and the writings of ancient non-Jews on the Jews and Judaism.
4365	REL	352	S09-10	HA	Jesus:  From Earliest Sources to Contemporary Interpretations	In this seminar we will first investigate the earliest known sources--both gospels in the New Testament and "gnostic gospels" outside the NT, including the Gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Philip. Second, we will explore a range of attempts to place Jesus in historical context. And third, we will look at interpretations of Jesus in poetry, theology, fiction, and film.
4366	REL	355	S09-10	HA	The Apostle Paul in Text and Context: His Letters, His Communities, and His Interpreters	In this seminar we will: 1) study the New Testament letters of the apostle Paul in their first-century context and their earliest interpretations; and 2) explore recent trends in Pauline scholarship, including the New Perspective. We will pay special attention to archaeological finds from the Pauline cities, which help us understand better the cultural, political, and religious milieu in which the letters were received and read. In the Spring break (March 11-21) the class will travel to Greece and visit the archaeological sites of the cities with early Christ-communities and other important or relevant sites.
4367	REL	359	S09-10	HA	Religion and Immigration to the United States	Covering a variety of texts dealing with religion and immigration, one of the major themes of American history, this seminar focuses on immigration as a socio-historical factor in the formation of American civic and political culture.  Themes will include immigration as religious experience; the transfer and transformation of religious practice from "old" world to "new"; religion as a "map of meaning" for immigrant communities; and religious institutions as social agencies and facilitators of change.
4368	REL	371	S09-10	HA	Religious Radicals	This seminar offers students an opportunity to reflect upon the lives and writings of several 20th century American religious figures whose socially radical visions were based upon religious experiences and ideals.  Examining the relationship between biographical, historical, social, intellectual, and religious factors in the lives of these figures will be a major focus of our discussion, as will be the interrelationship and cross influences among them.
4369	REL	372	S09-10	HA	Race, Religion, and the Harlem Renaissance	The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s is most often depicted as "the flowering of African American arts and literature." It can also be characterized as a period when diverse forms of African American religious expressions, ideologies, and institutions emerged. This course will explore the literature of the Harlem Renaissance, particularly the writings of Langston Hughes, to understand the pivotal intersection of race and religion during this time of black "cultural production."
4370	REL	396	S09-10	EM	Genealogy of Secularism	This course explores the philosophical development of the concept of secularism, its philosophical and religious sources, as well as its critiques. Among the questions we will consider are: what is universal about secularism? Is critical thought necessarily secular?  What is the relation between secularism and readings of the Bible? Our method will be genealogical, meaning that our focus will be on the philosophical aspects of secularism, rather than on the history of secularism.
4371	REL	397	S09-10	HA	Mad Prophets? The Prophetic Voice in the History of Christianity	This course explores the dynamics of prophecy in Christian history. It begins with a theoretical exploration of prophecy's role in the church and proceeds to consider the biblical models for prophets. The course then examines case studies on the impetus and impact of prophets in the church, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen to Thomas Müntzer. The main goal of this course is to introduce students to the relationship between prophets and their historical contexts, and to analyze the prophets' ability to dramatically alter them.
4372	REL	399	S09-10	EM	God and Human Nature	This course considers the question of what it means to be human from the perspectives of Jewish and Christian theology. Among the questions we will ask are: what does God have to do with understanding human nature? Who is the human being? What are the differences and overlaps between contemporary secular and theological accounts of human nature? What are the differences and overlaps between Jewish and Christian theology?
4373	REL	504	S09-10		Studies in Greco-Roman Religions: Early History of Christianity: Valentinus and Valentinian tradition	Seminar investigates what we know of the influential Egyptian Christian teacher Valentinus (a.k.a. "arch heretic"), c. 150 CE; the work and teaching of  his most prominent followers, Heracleon and Ptolemy, as well as the sources often classified as Valentinian, such as, Gospel of Truth, the Tripartite Tractate, Interpretation of the Gnosis,  and how these engage social, political, and religious issues within the early Christian movement. Professors Christopher Markschies from Germany and Einar Thomassen from the University of Bergen, Norway, have both agreed to participate while visiting Princeton next spring.
4374	REL	505	S09-10		Studies in the Religions of the Americas: Visual and Material Cultures of American Religion	Course explores how visual and material cultures shape religious experiences and practices in the United States.   We consider ways of visualizing the invisible, the production of sacred space, the religious body as a site for visual expression, material culture and consumer practices, religion in the formal arts, and the politics of representing religion.
4375	REL	507	S09-10		Studies in Religion and Philosophy: Religion & the Fragility of American Democracy: Emerson & Baldwin	Close readings of selected writings of two of America's most influential public intellectuals: Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Baldwin.  Attention is given to their views on religion, ethics, and politics - with particular attention to race.
4376	REL	509	S09-10		Studies in the History of Islam: Race & Slavery in Islamic & Western Societies	An interdisciplinary graduate seminar to explore the complex historiography of a vast, divergent and often controversial modern scholarship on historical constructions of race and ethnicity and on the relationship between those constructions and institutions of slavery in the "West" and in the Islamic world. Graduate students from a range of specializations and departments who want to go beyond the often heavily Eurocentric/Amerocentric focus of race/slave studies are invited to join the seminar.  Final research paper required.
4377	REL	511	S09-10		Special Topics in the Study of Religion: Studies in Indian Religions: Classics and Controversies	Examines the emerging body of "classics" in South Asian religions (Rig Veda, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Mahabharata, Manavadharmashastra, Ramayana, Bodhicaryavatara, in English translations) against the backdrop of both (1) the history and development of Indian Religions, and (2) the controversial modern history of the interpretation of India.  Topics to be covered will include: the idea of an Indian "classic"; readings of these texts for "traditional" vs. "Neo-Hindus", as well as for modern scholarship; colonialism and Indology; relating texts to temples and rituals, lineages and regional identities, and philosophical systems.
4378	REL	519	S09-10		Religion and Critical Thought Workshop	A weekly seminar focused on current student and faculty research in religion and critical thought, designed primarily for graduate students working on dissertations and general examination essays on the philosophy of religion, religious ethics, and the role of religion in politics.
4379	REL	522	S09-10		Religion and Culture Workshop	A weekly, year-long workshop devoted to the critical discussion of research in progress in the ethnographic, historical, and normative study of religion and culture.  Designed for dissertation writers receiving fellowships from the Center for the Study of Religion and post-doctoral fellows.
4380	REL	524	S09-10		American Religious History Workshop	A weekly, year-long workshop focused on the current research of visiting presenters, current students, and faculty in American religious history.  Designed primarily for Ph.D. students in the field, but is open as well to undergraduate concentrators with a strong background in the study of American religion and culture. Note: REL 523 (fall) and REL 524 (spring) constitute this year-long workshop. In order to receive credit and/or a grade, students must take the course both semesters.
4381	REL	590	S09-10		Pedagogy in Religious Studies and the Humanities	This graduate seminar will explore the issues concerned with teaching humanities in the twenty-first century academy. Students will be exposed to a range of pedagogical philosophies and will have the opportunity to articulate their own vision of teaching. Particular attention will be given to strategies for student-centered, inquiry-based instruction in the humanities. Students will have an opportunity to develop teaching portfolios, syllabi, and to create assignments that meaningfully incorporate technology and new media into the college classroom.
4382	RUS	102	S09-10		Beginner's Russian II	The objective of RUS 102 is to give a basic knowledge of Russian:  basic training in speaking, reading, writing, and comprehending the Russian language in a cultural context.
4383	RUS	107	S09-10		Intermediate Russian II	Major emphasis on the development of vocabulary and oral expression with continued presentation and review of grammar.  Vocabulary thematically organized to include such topics as travel, city life, nature, hobbies, politics, etc.  Training of all language skills in a cultural context.  Vocabulary reinforced through reading of cultural texts.
4384	RUS	208	S09-10		Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation  II	A continuation of 207.  Translation and discussion of the literary texts (19th and 20th-century poetry and prose), review of selected grammar topics, work with a movie "East - West".
4385	RUS	406	S09-10		Russian Sentence Structure through Reading	The course has two separate but linked elements:  a practical analysis of Russian sentence structure based on the close reading and analysis of comtemporary Russian prose.
4386	SLA	220	S09-10	LA	The Great Russian Novel and Beyond: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Others	An examination of significant trends in Russian literature from the 2nd half of the 19th century to the Russian Revolution and a bit beyond.   The course focuses on many masterpieces of 19th & 20th-century Russian literature. The works (mostly novels) are considered from a stylistic point of view and in the context of Russian historical and cultural developments.  The course also focuses on questions of values and on the eternal "big questions"  of life that are raised in the literature.  Authors read include Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Nabokov, and Kharms.
4387	SLA	312	S09-10	LA	Russian Drama	This course is devoted to the reading and discussion of masterpieces of 19th and 20th century Russian drama. It will also provide students with an opportunity to develop aural, oral, and written language skills.  Classes are conducted entirely in Russian and all readings are to be done in the original.  Students will participate in a performance project at the end of the term.
4388	SLA	412	S09-10	LA	Selected Topics in Russian Literature and Culture: Tsvetaeva and Pasternak	This course is devoted to major works of two leading Russian modernist poets:  Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941) and Boris Pasternak (1860-1960). The focus is on close readings of poems, but the poets' prose will also receive some attention. The trajectories of these poets' lives and the political and cultural contexts in which their writings arose will serve as an underpinning for our discussions. Class will be conducted in English, and all secondary materials will be read in English. Naturally, we will read the poems in the original.
4389	SLA	531	S09-10		Topics in Russian Literature or Literary Theory: Russian Ornamentalist Prose	This seminar focuses on a series of texts that may be designated "ornamentalist."  The readings include both modernist prose of the experimental period of "revolutionary romanticism" and earlier writings whose style is granted unprecedented autonomy and freed from subservience to narrative.  The consequences to text and reader of the disruption of conventional distinctions between techniques of poetry and prose will be considered.
4390	SLA	533	S09-10		Topics in Russian Philosophy: Religious Dilemmas in Three Major Novelists	The seminar has a double goal:  to explore religious topics in Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy through the lens of the Russian thinkers of the Silver Age who broadly commented on these writers, and to examine how various religious dilemmas dramatized in the works of Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy prompted the Silver Age search for Unity (the concepts of Sobornost', Godmanhood, Theurgy, Intuitive Knowledge, and Sacred Corporeality).
4391	SLA	599	S09-10		Slavic Dissertation Colloquium	A practical course devoted to scholarly writing intended to facilitate the proposal and dissertation writing process. The seminar meets every two to three weeks. Dissertation writers circulate work in progress for feedback and discuss issues that arise in the course of their work. The seminar is required of all post-generals students in Russian literature who are in residence.
4392	SOC	221	S09-10	SA	Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender	Using an intersectional approach to the study of inequality, this course will examine race, class and gender as interrelated systems of power that create differences in opportunities and resources for groups and individuals in U.S. society. We will study the meanings and histories of these and other dimensions of social differentiation to explore patterns that result in disparate outcomes in such areas as education, health, work, family, and poverty. Unveiling contemporary disparities and rethinking the seemingly familiar will lead to considerations of the relationship between inequality, social policy and social justice.
4393	SOC	302	S09-10	SA	Sociological Theory	The classical theorists of the 19th and 20th century laid a foundation for Sociology.  This course introduces students to the political history that surrounded European scholars--Marx, Weber, and Durkheim--and their American "descendants"--WEB DuBois, the "Chicago School" scholars of urbanism, and the symbolic interactionists.  We ask what it was about urban life that convinced them society was in danger of complete fragmentation, and how these challenges informed their key ideas about the nature of the social order itself.  In precepts, students will learn about how the classical theorists influenced social theory in our own time.
4394	SOC	303	S09-10	SA	Strategic Asia	Analysis of the recent evolution of strategic thinking in Northeast Asia with coverage linked to Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia. Comparative responses to common challenges: division on the Korean peninsula, the rise of China, the post-Soviet space, competition over new inter-regional ties, and a search for regionalism. Scrutiny of views over the past five years. Interdisciplinary approaches: historical roots of ideas about security, cultural assumptions behind strategic views, social networks and interests, clashing perspectives in political divisions, evolving international relations.
4395	SOC	308	S09-10	SA	Communism and Beyond: China and Russia	This course provides a basic understanding of the political, economic and social histories of the USSR/Russia and China in the 20th century.  In the last third of the course, we will explicitly compare both countries' transition to communism.
4396	SOC	340	S09-10	SA	God of Many Faces: Comparative Perspectives on Migration and Religion	Immigrants often experience discrimination in areas of destination. Religion can strengthen their sense of worth, particularly when the circumstances surrounding departure from the country of origin are traumatic, as with exiles and refugees. We take a comparative approach and use examples from the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The course broaches questions such as: how does religion transform and is transformed by the immigrant experience? When is religion used to combat stereotypes? Are there differences between the way men and women or dominant groups and racial minorities understand religion?
4397	SOC	347	S09-10	SA	The Social Life of the Metropolis	This course explores the nature of the modern city using New York as an example. We will examine the city's role as an international center of business, finance and culture, its ethnic and racial cleavages, its role in incorporating immigrants and the ways in which the physical use of space shapes, and is shaped by, the city's social life. We will conclude with an examination of the impact of the events of 9/11 on New York and on large cities in general.
4398	SOC	354	S09-10	SA	Queer Theory and Politics	We assume people are either "gay" or "straight." What happens when these categories are thrown out the window? "Queer theory" provides an answer that suggests all identity categories are unstable, fluid, multiple, and dynamic. The goal of this course is (1) to use interdisciplinary perspectives to challenge assumptions about the study of sexuality, identity, and politics and (2) to consider the relationship between identity, inequality, and social justice. Course topics will include the history of sexuality, sexuality as a mode of self-understanding, and political organizing that uses identity as the beginning point for activism.
4399	SOC	502	S09-10		Contemporary Sociological Theory	This course is an introduction to modern sociological theory from mid-twentieth century onwards.  It will begin with notions of philosophy of science concerning the nature of concepts and theory and continue with selective review of major currents of contemporary social thought.  Throughout, the emphasis will be on those ideas that can guide fruitful empirical research rather than on abstract perspectives.
4400	SOC	504	S09-10		Advanced Social Statistics	Thorough examination of linear regression from a data analytic point of view.  Sociological applications are strongly emphasized.  Topics include: (a) a review of the linear model; (b) regression diagnostics for outliers and collinearity; (c) smoothers; (d) robust regression; and (e) resampling methods. Students taking the course should have completed an introductory course in probability and statistics.
4401	SOC	505	S09-10		Research Seminar in Empirical Investigation	Preparation of research papers based on field observation, laboratory experiments, survey procedures, and secondary analysis of existing data banks.
4402	SOC	507	S09-10		Topics in Comparative, Regional and Political Sociology: Comparative Political Sociology	Overview of major works of comparative and political sociology.
4403	SOC	527	S09-10		Religion and Public Life (Half-Term)	Presentation and critical discussion of research in progress by participants.  Focuses on the use of social scientific methods in the study of religion and on applications of recently published work about religion and society.  Includes an emphasis on religion and public policy in the U. S. and in comparative perspective.
4404	SOC	540	S09-10		Topics in Economic and Organizational Sociology (Half-Term): Gender and Economic Activity	Introduction to a gendered analysis of economic processes and institutions. Course investigates when, why, and in what ways gender shapes production, consumption, distribution, and transfer of assets. After a general discussion of gender theories, it surveys how gender works in a variety of settings and activities, such as labor markets, intimate economies, and caring labor. We end with an overview of strategies aimed at reducing gendered economic inequalities. Overall, the course attempts to strengthen intellectual bridges between economic sociology and gender scholarship.
4405	SOC	541	S09-10		Economic Sociology (Half-Term)	An introduction to economic sociology seen not as a subordination of sociology to economics but as the sociological explanation of economic phenomena. It focuses on alternative accounts of phenomena that most specialists have explained using economic concepts and theory. In particular, it seeks sociological explanations of production, consumption, and distribution, and transfer of assets. After a general orientation to economic sociology as a whole, the course explores economic activities in an unconventionally wide range of settings including households, informal sectors, gift economies, and consumption.
4406	SOC	549	S09-10		Workshop on Social Organization	A two-semester course for graduate students whose work is at the intersection of the fields of organization studies, economic sociology and social network analysis.  In addition to covering foundational readings in these fields and addressing selected special topics (e.g. social organizational aspects of economic crisis), the workshop provides opportunities for students to develop research projects and presentation skills, and to read the work of and interact with scholars brought to campus by the Center for the Study of Social Organization.
4407	SOC	552	S09-10		The Logic of Ethnographic Methods (Half-Term)	The second in a sequence on ethnographic methods, this half-term course addresses the central questions facing ethnographic research as it strives to be a part of social science. Among the issues considered are the roles of induction and deduction, generalizability, replicability, and linkages between micro and macro sociological units. Issues of ethnographic writing are also addressed, particulalry techinques for making descriptions of interactions, people, groups, networks, settings, and interactions.   Meets during the second half of the semester.
4408	SOC	590	S09-10		Topics in Sociological Methods (Half-Term): Qualitative Methods	An overview of qualitative methods (other than ethnography) used in sociology, including the design of grounded theory research, techniques of semi-structured in interviewing, analysis of qualitative interviews, discourse analysis, content analysis, and writing reports based on qualitative data.
4409	SPA	102	S09-10		Beginner's Spanish II	The development of Spanish communication skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, writing and Hispanic culture appreciation. Language instruction complemented with audiovisual materials.
4410	SPA	107	S09-10		Intermediate/Advanced Spanish	Designed for students who have successfully completed SPA 102 or SPA 103.  An integrated approach to increase comprehension, oral and writing expression.  Class activities reinforce language skills through aural/oral practice, grammar review, vocabulary acquisition, reading, editing compositions, oral presentations, and discussion of contemporary Spanish short stories, music and films.
4411	SPA	108	S09-10		Advanced Spanish	An intensive course designed to prepare students to enter 200 level courses, with an emphasis on reading, oral and written proficiency.  The course is aimed at developing advanced syntactical and lexical competence which it addresses through frequent rewrites of compositions, oral presentations, discussions of contemporary Spanish literary texts, music and film. (Please see note under "Other Information.")
4412	SPA	207	S09-10		Studies in Spanish Language and Style	An advanced course in Spanish composition and conversation. Its main purpose is to increase the student's fluency and accuracy in spoken and written Spanish.  Importance is also given to understanding elements of Hispanic literature and culture through literary texts, Hispanic periodicals, and films. (Please see note under "Other Information.")
4413	SPA	209	S09-10		Spanish Language and Culture through Cinema	A course designed to improve oral and writing skills, while significantly increasing students' knowledge of cultural affairs in an ever changing Hispanic world. A significant amount of time will be dedicated to intensive debate on a wide variety of topics presented in films. Students interested in contemporary cinema may find this course especially enlightening. The grammar component of the course aims to ease the path to a more fluent communication in Spanish. The diversity of Hispanic culture is presented from the standpoint of a selected number of film directors.
4414	SPA	211	S09-10		Cultures and Economies in Spain and Latin America	An advanced Spanish course for those students who have completed the language requirement and want to explore current events with respect to politics, markets and socio-cultural aspects of the Hispanic world. Readings, audiovisual materials, and intense debate will shape a course in which specific aspects of Spanish grammar will also be reinforced. The ultimate goal is to expand students' knowledge of the socio-economic situation in Spain and Latin America, while developing the necessary grammar and vocabulary to express opinions about them in more fluent Spanish.
4415	SPA	227	S09-10	LA	Contemporary Issues in Spain and/or Latin America	This course will address some of the hot issues in current Spain: violence against women, euthanasia, immigration, historical memory, debates about civil rights, real estate speculation, etc. The starting point for discussion will be a film or a documentary, which will be complemented with various materials--newspaper articles, op-ed pieces, images, reports, etc. The goal will be not only to learn what the conflicts are but also to understand the ways in which they are addressed and discussed. Under the instructor's guidance, groups of students will be responsible for searching materials about two of the issues to be discussed in class.
4416	SPA	305	S09-10	LA	Topics in Spanish Civilization of the Golden Age: Gastronomy in Spanish  Literature	Cuisine is always more than nutrition; it  functions as an agent of identity at both the regional and the national level. Moreover, gastronomy intersects with other manifestations of culture such as painting, literature, medicine, and religion. Readings, in addition to cookbooks, handbooks of table manners, and medical treatises, will include literary texts ranging from medieval to Golden Age to modern.
4417	SPA	307	S09-10	LA	Advanced Spanish Language and Style	For advanced students of Spanish who want to expand their writing skills and improve their knowledge of grammatical structures which continue to pose challenges. Along with the study of grammar, this course aims at reaching higher levels of accuracy while expressing ideas and opinions in writing. Inspiration for written assignments to be drawn from literary works, journalistic writings and audiovisual materials. Combination of fairly intensive writing, reading and grammar based assignments.
4418	SPA	309	S09-10	LA	Translation: Cultures in Context	This course offers an introduction to the study and practice of translation and aims to provide students with an awareness of the complex tasks involved in translating written materials from one cultural context to another, in this case between the Hispanic to the Anglo-Saxon worlds. The cultural encounter and exchange between these two worlds will be explored through the students' translations of increasingly difficult texts, as well as art and moving images seen as textual work worth interpreting in Spanish.
4419	SPA	321	S09-10	LA	Topics in the Intellectual History of Modern and Contemporary Spain: Culture and Memory of the Spanish Civil War	An examination of the narrative, poetry, film, songs, photography and graphic art generated by Spaniards and foreigners about the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in the seventy years since the war was fought. This cultural production will be examined in the context of the political and ideological reasons that explain the international attraction the war generated. Among the works examined: poems by Neruda; Picasso's Guernica (it was the first war in which aviation played a significant role); documentaries (The Spanish Earth, Mourir à Madrid); and photographs by Robert Capa (the Spanish Civil War consecrated the nascent art of photojournalism).
4420	SPA	323	S09-10	LA	Reading Spain in Federico García Lorca's Life and Works	This course focuses on one of the most renowned and influential Spanish poets of the 20th century--Federico García Lorca. We will examine Lorca's vast corpus of poems and plays to see how they combine experimental aesthetics and popular traditions. We will also study the readings and re-readings of "Lorca" as both an author and a mythical figure, standing for freedom, the defeated Spanish Republic, the historical avant-garde poetry, and gender politics.
4421	SPA	350	S09-10	LA	Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies: Profane Realisms - Latin American Cinema & Literature	If "magical realism" was a familiar trademark of Latin American literary and filmic exports in the 1960s and 1970s, this course studies a counter-movement which sprang up in the 1990s. Rather than the narratives of exile and mourning that predominated after the military dictatorships, the new texts and films are "political" only insofar as they deal with the intimate effects of political processes. Focusing on the Southern Cone, the course explores the ways in which the very status of literature and film, and their take on "the real," has fundamentally changed over the last quarter-century.
4422	SPA	352	S09-10	LA	Topics in the Politics of Writing and Difference: Cuban Literature of Slavery	A course on the relationship between Cuban literature and slavery. Explicitly "Cuban" literature emerged from the literary salon of Domingo del Monte, a 19th century reformist with ties to British abolitionism, and early works focused on the island's massive slave industry.  We will read several anti-slavery novels, emphasizing ties to transatlantic Romanticism and sentimental literature, and generic conventions more generally.  Also: the only known Spanish-language slave autobiography; an oral history from an ex-slave; the diary of a bounty-hunter; psychoanalysis, and modern Cuban representations of slavery, including films.
4423	SPA	536	S09-10		Golden-Age Poetry	A close reading of selected lyric poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.  The course will have a workshop format:  every week each student will prepare a brief analysis of a given poem in order to stimulate class discussion.
4424	SPA	548	S09-10		Seminar in Modern Spanish-American Literature: Modernity and the Landscape	The landscape idea in Latin American architecture, visual and verbal arts, is an immediately political, social and historical one. There is a history of Latin American landscapes, including the landscape of modernism, of development, of revolution, and of (post)dictatorship. The purpose of the seminar is to bring out this historicity of the landscape-form, both in its material manifestations and its representations. Following a theoretical overview of some of the main concepts, we will work through a series of concrete examples from Latin American architecture, visual arts (including film) and literature.
4425	SPA	551	S09-10		Body Writing	Seminar explores the role of the body in Latin American cultural, visual and literary traditions, with an emphasis on the relationships of power that operate an immediate grasp upon it, marking it, writing it, disciplining it, torturing it, and making it signify.
4426	SWA	102	S09-10		Elementary Swahili II	Continuation of SWA 101.  Emphasis is on increasing proficiency in reading and listening comprehension, speaking, and writing activities in Swahili.  Cultural contexts of the East African societies where Swahili is spoken are incorporated in classroom activities in order to enhance communication and cultural proficiency.
4427	SWA	107	S09-10		Intermediate Swahili II	This course emphasizes conversational fluency and increased facility in reading and writing skills while introducing students to Swahili literature. This literature forms the basis for a survey on cultural aspects and more advanced grammer.  Students will be able to understand and analyze the main ideas and significant details of materials in Swahili such as media articles, short stories, poetry, short novels, films and plays illustrative of  East African cultural issues. Covers advanced-level Swahili grammar, as well as the development of expository writing skills.
4428	SWA	300	S09-10	LA	East African Drama in Kiswahili	This course examines the genre of drama and performance in the literary tradition of the Swahili speaking communities of East Africa. It will focus on modern dramatic texts written in Kiswahili and the theatrical, critical, and socio-political contexts that inform the main trends of contemporary theatre and performance arts in Kiswahili. Content will include writings on the pre- and post- colonial performance traditions of East African peoples, the emergence of Theatre for Development as an important sub-genre of the East African theatre scene, and the role that Kiswahili theatre has attained in health literacy and community education.
4429	THR	201	S09-10	LA	Beginning Studies in Acting: Scene Study	An introduction to the craft of acting through scene study monologues and, finally, a longer scene drawn from a play, to develop a method of working on a script.  Emphasis will be placed on honesty, spontaneity, and establishing a personal connection with the scene's substance.
4430	THR	205	S09-10	LA	Introductory Playwriting	This is a workshop in the fundamentals of writing plays.  Emphasis will be on solving problems of structure, dramatic action, and character.  Attention will also be given to innerlife, language, atmosphere on stage, creating living dialogue, and examining the sources to be used in writing, etc.
4431	THR	302	S09-10		Introduction to Interdisciplinary Theater	Practicing thinking like a writer-who-thinks-like-an-actor-thinking-like-a-dancer-who-thinks-like-a-musician-thinking-like-a-painter-who-thinks-like-a-composer-who-directs. Exploring the Faust legend from all theatrical angles (words, music, movement, sculpture, design), we build a multi-dimensional theatrical logic over the course of the semester. We will explore, provoke, invent, and analyze the phenomenal, the poetic, the sententious, the informative, the confrontational, and the entertaining.
4432	THR	311	S09-10	LA	Intermediate Studies in Acting: Creating Character and Text	Students will create a pantomimic performance based on KRAZY KAT, a 1921 musical composition by John Alden Carpenter inspired by one of the most popular comic strips of the day.  The piece will be performed as part of a double bill in the Berlind Theatre on April 9-10, with music direction by Anthony Branker of the Princeton Jazz Program.
4433	THR	330	S09-10	LA	Special Topics in Performance Practice: Devised Theater	Devised Theater is a form of contemporary theater-making in which, more often than not, the final theatrical product originates not from a rehearsal process during which a director and a group of actors spend weeks interpreting an already-written script provided by a playwright, but instead from a collaborative, usually improvisatory, process involving a large collective of theater practitioners, not all of them performers. Among our subjects, largely American: The Civilians, who will be in residence doing a Princeton Atelier in conjunction with the Princeton Environmental Institute; the Pig Iron Theatre; the Tectonic Theatre Project.
4434	THR	331	S09-10	LA	Special Topics in Performance History and Theory: Performance and Politics in the 1960s	This course will explore performance of the 1960s American theater--Broadway, the avant-garde, political theaters--in the context of the social, cultural, and intellectual politics of the decade. We'll consider production practices and intentions, "texts" (both scripted and unscripted), and reception, both critical and popular. Our goal will be to construct a complex and nuanced "thick description" of performance and politics during this volatile period, while also questioning the value and limitations of decade-oriented historiography.
4435	THR	365	S09-10	LA	Re:Staging the Greeks	Re:Staging the Greeks, a collaboration between the Theater Program of the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Program in Hellenic Studies, will begin with this acting/directing workshop investigating how to stage ancient Greek plays on the contemporary stage. On Tuesdays, we will study some of the plays, the contexts in which they were first performed, and approaches taken by theater directors over the last few decades.  On Fridays, we'll be on our feet, exploring the play's performative possibilities for ourselves.
4436	THR	377	S09-10	LA	Pulp Fictions: Jacobean Tragedy and American Film Noir	This course juxtaposes two genres distant in time from one another but sharing a dark and violent imaginative space: Jacobean tragedy and classic American film noir. Looking at plays staged in the first decades of the seventeenth century and movies produced between 1944 and 1955, we'll focus on the alienated heroes, witty murderers, femme fatales and other sexual outlaws they have in common, as well as their shared melancholia, louche locales, and moral ambiguities.
4437	THR	401	S09-10	LA	Advanced Studies in Acting: Scene Study and Style	This workshop will use mask work to train students to find the "Neutral State," to tweak that state toward character work and eventually toward the idiosyncratic and personal world of the Clown. Neutral Mask trains actors to find an elusive yet simple physical state rid of background noise in order to engage the theater at its roots: physical, spatial, rhythmic, dynamic and expressive. We'll then explore some of the infinite possibilities of creating masked comic characters, based on variations from neutrality. The final step will be the discovery of the Clown, through the use of the smallest mask in the world - the red nose.
4438	TPP	301	S09-10	SA	Seminar on Student Learning and Methods for Teaching	A study of essential methods of teaching, with an emphasis on matching instruction to learner characteristics and needs.  Students also become familiar with the organization and structure of educational institutions, development of curriculum and instructional goals, preparation of evaluation and assessment, and design of subject/level specific methodologies and classroom management techniques.  Students perform 18 hours of site-based field experience.  Students attend two seminar meetings and a weekly evening laboratory session.
4439	TPP	401	S09-10		Seminar on Education	Senior Seminar, taken concurrently with Practice Teaching (TPP402), is designed for those preparing to teach in public or private elementary and/or secondary schools.  Course content includes: the development of learning goals and rubrics for assessment, the study of national and local issues in education and their impact on schools, the examination of current literature and research on teaching and learning, the discussion and evaluation of each student's performance as practice teachers, and the use of research to measure the effectiveness of the teaching/learning process.
4440	TPP	402	S09-10		Practice Teaching	Supervised practice teaching in secondary or elementary school (a minimum of 10 weeks for seniors, and 12 weeks for 9th semester and graduate students).  Teaching is done under supervision of a master teacher and a program staff member who regularly observes and discusses the student's practice teaching.  Students gain firsthand experience in developing teaching strategies, planning and individualizing instruction, assessing student learning, and classroom management.  Must be taken concurrently with TPP 401.
4441	TRA	301	S09-10		Introduction to Machine Translation	An introduction to machine translation (MT) from historical and commercial perspectives, covering the three main MT paradigms (direct, transfer, interlingua) with their respective strengths and limitations. The course covers techniques for processing human languages (morphological analysis, parsing, language generation) and the linguistic resources needed to transform them into machine processable form. Linguistic examples are used to motivate the need for such language processing techniques. The course also covers specialized topics such as domain-limited MT, human-aided MT, statistical/example-based MT, and speech-to-speech translation.
4442	TRA	304	S09-10	LA	Translating East Asia	Translation is at the core of our engagement with China, Japan, and Korea, influencing our reading choices and shaping our understanding of East Asia. From translations of the classics to the grass-root subtitling of contemporary Anime movies, from the formation of the modern East Asian cultural discourse to cross-cultural references in theater and film, the seminar poses fundamental questions to our encounters with East Asian cultural artifacts, reflecting on what "translation" of "original works" means in a global world where the "original" is often already located in its projected "translation."
4443	TUR	102	S09-10		Elementary Turkish II	Familiarity with all grammatical aspects of Modern Turkish. Reading text of moderate difficulty; developing communicative skills: ability to comprehend and engage in daily discourse; ability to write short compositions.
4444	TUR	107	S09-10		Intermediate Turkish II	To enable students to communicate in Modern Turkish, and to read Turkish (current events, editorials, literature and academic writings) with some speed and accuracy.
4445	URB	201	S09-10		Introduction to Urban Studies	This course will examine different crises confronting cities in the 21st century. Topics will range from immigration, to terrorism, shrinking population, traffic congestion, pollution, energy crisis, housing needs, water wars, race riots, extreme weather conditions, war and urban operations. The range of cities will include Los Angles, New Orleans, Paris, Logos, Caracas, Havana, New York, Hong Kong, and Baghdad among others.
4446	VIS	202	S09-10	LA	Introductory Drawing	This course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing. Students will be introduced to a range of drawing issues, as well as a variety of media, including charcoal, graphite, ink, oil stick, collage, string, wire and clay. Subject matter includes still life, the figure, landscape and architecture. Representation, abstraction and working from imagination will be explored. A structured independent project will be completed at the end of the term.
4447	VIS	204	S09-10	LA	Introductory Painting	An introduction to the materials and methods of painting. The areas to be covered are color and its interaction, the use of  form and scale, painting from a model, painting objects with a concern for their mass and interaction with light.
4448	VIS	212	S09-10	LA	Introductory Photography	An introduction to the processes of photography through a series of problems directed toward the handling of light-sensitive material, camera, and printing. Weekly laboratory sessions will explore the critical issues of the medium in relation to both student work and the work of guest photographers.
4449	VIS	222	S09-10	LA	Introductory Sculpture	A studio introduction to sculpture, particularly the study of form, concept, fabrication and the influence of a wide variety of materials and processes on sculpture and its consequences. Students will develop an understanding of contemporary sculpture and a basic facilities in woodworking, metalworking, carving and casting.
4450	VIS	232	S09-10	LA	Ceramics	This is an introductory level course designed for students interested in learning the fundamentals of working with clay.  A wide variety of hand building and wheel throwing techniques will be taught, enabling students to make utilitarian vessels as well as sculptural forms.  Students will learn about glazing and colored engobe application methods and how to operate electric and gas kilns.  Studio work may be complemented by readings, field trips and slide presentations.
4451	VIS	262	S09-10	LA	Introductory Video and Film Production	A film/video course introducing the techniques of shooting and editing digital video.  Works of film/video art are analyzed in order to explore the development of, and innovations in, cinematic language. Production is oriented toward film/video as a visual art, including narrative, documentary, and experimental genres.  Several short video projects produced during the semester.
4452	VIS	304	S09-10	LA	Intermediate Painting	This course is designed to allow students to explore more deeply the process and meaning of painting.  Students will complete a set of structured assignments and  are encouraged to develop an independent direction.  Contemporary critical theory is integrated into the course.
4453	VIS	309	S09-10	LA	The Handprinted Image: Intaglio and Lithography	This course introduces techniques of copper plate etching, lithography and relief printing. Assignments focus on applications of various printmaking techniques, while encouraging independent development of subject matter.  Critiques will occur throughout the term.  Students are encouraged to draw regularly outside of class to cultivate themes and content applicable to their prints.  Field trips to the University museum and the library's graphics collection will complement class work.  Additional independent workshop hours required.
4454	VIS	315	S09-10	LA	Digital Photography	An advanced seminar and lab which explores the aesthetic and theoretical implications of digital technology in relation to photography. The emphasis is on making the photographic print in the digital work space. Class will consist of both independent and collaborative projects.
4455	VIS	316	S09-10		Contemporary Practices in Photography	This is a project driven course for the intermediate or advanced studio student. This course explores the variety of ways contemporary artists have used photography since the 1950s, including but not limited to, documentary, conceptual, alternative processes and experimental methods, installation, narrative fiction or directional, collage and serial images, as well as traditional modernist methods. Each student will produce two independent projects that are intended to emulate the methodology and practice of a chosen contemporary artist.
4456	VIS	342	S09-10	LA	The Cinema from World War II until the Present	The history of sound, and color film produced since World War II. Emphasis on Italian neorealism, American avant-garde, and the accomplishments of such major film makers as Bergman, Hitchcock, Bresson, and Antonioni. Modernism in film will be a central consideration.
4457	VIS	362	S09-10	LA	Intermediate Video and Film Production	A second level film/video workshop focusing on digital media production.  Short works of film/video art will be analyzed in class as a guide to the  issues of aesthetic choice, editing structure, and challenging one's audience.   Students will complete two short videos and a longer final project. Students must view one film each week outside of class time.
4458	VIS	404	S09-10	LA	Advanced Painting	A studio course focused on advanced problems in painting practice, including  pictorial structure in abstraction and representation, color in relationship to space and light, working process, and materials. This course, although structured, encourages development of independent work. Group critiques will be conducted.  Students gain awareness of historical models as well as contemporary art, as they build and analyze the relationship between student work and contemporary painting culture.
4459	VIS	411	S09-10	LA	Advanced Problems in Photography	Student-initiated problems in photography will be explored in close working relationship with the instructor. Emphasis will be on integrating practice and critical thought.
4460	VIS	462	S09-10	LA	Advanced Video and Film Production	There's making a conventional documentary, and then there's going out and filming the world to see what you see and to find what interests you.  The weekly screenings will include some traditional documentaries, but will concentrate more on recent iconoclastic versions of the genre.  The production side of the course will be open to both ways of working so that you can learn more about where your interests lie and how to express those concerns through image, sound and text.  After a few preliminary assignments, you will be free to choose whether to do one long piece or several short ones during the semester
4461	VIS	472	S09-10	LA	Special Topics in Visual Arts: Advanced Studio	This course provides an opportunity for students of all disciplines to experience the gains and compromises of making art in groups. Art made collaboratively has had a dynamic effect on visual art, from questioning the myth of the solitary genius to expanding the forms art might take. Students will not be allowed to work alone; rather, collaborative effort will be the basis for all studio projects, presentations and discussions. The Guerilla Girls, Group Material, General Idea, Fischli and Weiss, Allora and Calzadilla, and Artur Zmijewski (among others) will serve as inspiration and points of departure.
4462	WOM	302	S09-10	SA	Topics in the Study of Gender: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Colonial Latin America	This seminar will explore recent scholarship on the subjects of gender, sexuality and religion in colonial Latin America.  Students will be asked to consider the connections between church teachings, spiritual and sexual practices, gendered social relations, and ideas about sex and sexuality in the historical periods we are studying. They will also be challenged to think critically about how scholars have portrayed and explored these connections in recent decades.
4463	WOM	400	S09-10		Contemporary Feminist Theory	This course will examine feminist theories of embodiment, exploring the ways in which the sexed body and the gendered self are narrated in contemporary theory and literature.  We will look at representations of the body in philosophy (Irigaray, Butler), memoir (Nancy Mairs, Harriet McBryde Johnson), and the novel (Steedman), with an emphasis on the intersectional nature of identity and embodiment. Special attention will be paid to the intersection of gender and disability.  Readings to include Mary Douglas, Iris Marion Young, Vivyan C. Adair, Charis Thompson, Emily Martin, Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Donna Haraway.
4464	WRI	101	S09-10	W	Animal Mind, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4465	WRI	104	S09-10	W	Magic in the Middle Ages	See the Princeton Writing Program website
4466	WRI	105	S09-10	W	Magic in the Middle Ages	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4467	WRI	106	S09-10	W	Contemporary American Prose	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4468	WRI	107	S09-10	W	Environmental Ethics and Politics	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4469	WRI	108	S09-10	W	Environmental Ethics and Politics	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4470	WRI	109	S09-10	W	Color	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4471	WRI	110	S09-10	W	Color	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4472	WRI	112	S09-10	W	American Dream in Fiction and Film, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4473	WRI	113	S09-10	W	American Dream in Fiction and Film, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4474	WRI	114	S09-10	W	Fourteenth Amendment, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4475	WRI	115	S09-10	W	Existentialism and the Death of God	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4476	WRI	116	S09-10	W	Existentialism and the Death of God	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4477	WRI	117	S09-10	W	Debating World War II	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4478	WRI	118	S09-10	W	Debating World War II	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4479	WRI	119	S09-10	W	America After the Great War	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4480	WRI	120	S09-10	W	Modern Memory	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4481	WRI	121	S09-10	W	Victorian Supernatural, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4482	WRI	122	S09-10	W	Victorian Supernatural, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4483	WRI	126	S09-10	W	Mad Scientists	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4484	WRI	127	S09-10	W	Mad Scientists	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4485	WRI	128	S09-10	W	American Empire	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4486	WRI	129	S09-10	W	American Empire	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4487	WRI	130	S09-10	W	Treason	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4488	WRI	131	S09-10	W	Spectacle	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4489	WRI	132	S09-10	W	Main Street, USA	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4490	WRI	133	S09-10	W	Small World	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4491	WRI	134	S09-10	W	Small World	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4492	WRI	135	S09-10	W	Rumor and Urban Legend	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4493	WRI	136	S09-10	W	Rumor and Urban Legend	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4494	WRI	137	S09-10	W	Inquisition, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4495	WRI	138	S09-10	W	Inquisition, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4496	WRI	140	S09-10	W	Reformers, Radicals, and Reactionaries	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4497	WRI	141	S09-10	W	Political Participation in American History	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4498	WRI	142	S09-10	W	Refugees, Immigrants, and Social Justice	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4499	WRI	143	S09-10	W	Refugees, Immigrants, and Social Justice	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4500	WRI	144	S09-10	W	Just War, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4501	WRI	146	S09-10	W	Poetry and the Public Sphere	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4502	WRI	147	S09-10	W	Conspiracy Theories as a Cultural Practice	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4503	WRI	148	S09-10	W	Evil	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4504	WRI	149	S09-10	W	Fans and Consumer Culture	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4505	WRI	150	S09-10	W	Fans and Consumer Culture	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4506	WRI	152	S09-10	W	Social Norms and Deviance	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4507	WRI	153	S09-10	W	Race in Hollywood	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4508	WRI	154	S09-10	W	Walmart Nation	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4509	WRI	155	S09-10	W	Walmart Nation	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4510	WRI	157	S09-10	W	Experience of Beauty, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4511	WRI	158	S09-10	W	Experience of Beauty, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4512	WRI	159	S09-10	W	Political Laughter	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4513	WRI	161	S09-10	W	Human Rights, Human Difference	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4514	WRI	162	S09-10	W	Human Rights, Human Difference	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4515	WRI	163	S09-10	W	Music and Madness	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4516	WRI	164	S09-10	W	Music and Madness	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4517	WRI	167	S09-10	W	Ethics of Human Experimentation, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4518	WRI	168	S09-10	W	Cold War in Popular Culture, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4519	WRI	169	S09-10	W	Cold War in Popular Culture, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4520	WRI	172	S09-10	W	Motown	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4521	WRI	173	S09-10	W	Living with Animals	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4522	WRI	174	S09-10	W	Living with Animals	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4523	WRI	175	S09-10	W	Archaeology of Sex and Gender, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4524	WRI	176	S09-10	W	Archaeology of Sex and Gender, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4525	WRI	177	S09-10	W	Human Rights in an Age of Terror	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4526	WRI	178	S09-10	W	Chesapeake in Colonial America, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4527	WRI	179	S09-10	W	Medicine and Belief	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4528	WRI	180	S09-10	W	Medicine and Belief	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4529	WRI	181	S09-10	W	Theatre of Everyday Life, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4530	WRI	182	S09-10	W	Theatre of Everyday Life, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4531	WRI	183	S09-10	W	Future of Food, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4532	WRI	184	S09-10	W	American Revolutions	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4533	WRI	185	S09-10	W	The Law and Politics of Immigration	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4534	WRI	189	S09-10	W	Truth of Memoir, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4535	WRI	190	S09-10	W	Truth of Memoir, The	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4536	WRI	192	S09-10	W	The American City	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4537	WRI	193	S09-10	W	American Photographs	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4538	WRI	194	S09-10	W	Antarctica	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4539	WRI	195	S09-10	W	Antarctica	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4540	WRI	196	S09-10	W	Strangers in the South Pacific	See the Princeton Writing Program website.
4541	WRI	501M	S09-10		Reading and Writing about the Scientific Literature in English (Half Term: Molecular & Life Sciences: Molecular Sciences	Introduction for non-native speakers of English to reading and writing about the scientific literature in molecular and life sciences and related engineering fields. Topics include how scientists work with the research literature as both readers and writers, how scientific articles are constructed and interpreted, how research findings are presented, and how scientific arguments are developed.  Two 80-minute seminars.
4542	WRI	501P	S09-10		Reading and Writing About the Scientific Literature in English (Half Term): Physical & Appl Phys Sci	Introduction for non-native speakers of English to reading and writing about the scientific literature in the physical and applied physical sciences and engineering.  Topics include how scientists work with the research literature as both readers and writers, how scientific articles are constructed and interpreted, how research findings are presented, and how scientific arguments are developed.  Two 80-minute seminars.
4543	WRI	502	S09-10		Writing an Effective Scientific Research Article (Half Term): Science and Engineering	Writing workshop for students in any area of science and engineering who are prepared to draft a research article for publication based on their original work.  Topics include getting started, presenting data, communicating visually, understanding the elements of a research article, using evidence persuasively, revising effectively, soliciting useful comments from readers, and incorporating feedback.  One two-hour 50-minute seminar.
4544	WRI	502E	S09-10		Writing an Effective Scientific Research Article (Half Term): Electrical Engineering & Computer Sci: Electrical Engineeering and Computer Science	Writing workshop for students in electrical engineering and computer science who are prepared to draft a research article for publication based on their original work.  Topics include getting started, presenting data, communicating visually, understanding the elements of a research article, using evidence persuasively, revising effectively, soliciting useful comments from readers, and incorporating feedback.  One two-hour 50-minute seminar.
4545	WRI	502M	S09-10		Writing an Effective Scientific Research Article (Half Term): Molecular &Life Sciences & Engineering: Molecular Sciences	Writing workshop for students in molecular and life sciences and engineering who are prepared to draft a research article for publication based on their original work.  Topics include getting started, presenting data, communicating visually, understanding the elements of a research article, using evidence persuasively, revising effectively, soliciting useful comments from readers, and incorporating feedback.  One two-hour 50-minute seminar.
4546	WRI	502P	S09-10		Writing an Effective Scientific Research Article (Half Term): Physical and Applied Physical Sciences	Writing workshop for students in physical and applied physical sciences who are prepared to   draft a research article for publication based on their original work.  Topics include getting started, presenting data, communicating visually, understanding the elements of a research article, using evidence persuasively, revising effectively, soliciting useful comments from readers, and incorporating feedback.  One two-hour 50-minute seminar.
4547	WWS	300	S09-10	SA	Democracy	This course is intended to introduce Woodrow Wilson School students to the basic concepts and practices of democracy. It will explore the following questions: How should we organize ourselves as a political community? Why should we live under democratic institutions? What should the limits of the rule of the majority be? What is the relationship between political liberties and economic development? The course will examine these questions both from a normative and an empirical point of view.
4548	WWS	301	S09-10	EM	Ethics and Public Policy	This course examines major moral controversies in public life and differing conceptions of justice and the common good.  It seeks to help students develop the skills required for thinking and writing about the ethical considerations that ought to shape public institutions, guide public authorities, and inform popular expectations. The course will focus issues that are particularly challenging for advanced, pluralist democracies like the U. S., such as justice in war, torture and terrorism, abortion and doctor-assisted suicide, markets and distributive justice, paternalism, and the place, if any, of religious arguments in politics.
4549	WWS	306	S09-10	SA	Public Leadership and Public Policy	This course will review key Presidential policy decisions on issues such as the Iraq wars, the Watergate tapes, the Voting Rights Act and the Cuban missile crisis, and will consider the ethical, legal, and operational frameworks for effective, responsible public leadership.  Students will review relevant literature from history, psychology and politics, discuss the central policy issues in each case, and evaluate the decision-making process in view of these frameworks.
4550	WWS	309	S09-10	SA	Media and Public Policy	Introduction to communications policy and law, covering such topics as freedom of the press and the development of journalism; intellectual property; regulation of telecommunications, broadcasting, and cable; and policy challenges raised by the Internet and the globalization of the media.
4551	WWS	320	S09-10	SA	Human Genetics, Reproduction, and Public Policy	Critical concepts in human genetics, evolution, reproductive behavior, embryology, and philosophy of science will be presented as a framework for understanding controversial human-affecting biotechnologies including embryonic stem cells, cloning, genetic selection, egg or womb vending, genetic engineering, and neuro-enhancement. Public perceptions and misperceptions of biotechnology will be explored through science fiction, movies, and popular music.  Consideration will be given to competing political, religious, and ethical claims of authority in accepting, regulating, or rejecting each technology in the U.S. and other societies.
4552	WWS	332	S09-10	QR	Quantitative Analysis for Public Policy	The course is designed for students preparing to incorporate statistical analysis in their policy research. In the context of case studies, it will cover the principal methods of data analysis and applied statistics in social science and policy research, including multiple regression, analysis of variance and nonparametric methods.  Students are expected to have some knowledge of basic probability and statistical concepts.
4553	WWS	333	S09-10	SA	Claims and Evidence in Policy Research	Students will learn such basics of policy research as formulating researchable questions, designing studies, and using empirical evidence to evaluate claims. Students will examine substantive problems and both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, through critical reading of social science research, review of WWS senior theses, and examples drawn from the professor's experience conducting policy research with the World Bank. The course will also cover such practical aspects of research as ethics and regulations concerning human subjects, use of library and reference search tools, resources for acquiring and presenting data.
4554	WWS	402	S09-10		Policy Seminars	In policy seminars students work in groups first formulating the general problem, then engaging in individual research on subtopics, and finally presenting their inferences for discussion and debate and producing a collective policy report.
4555	WWS	452	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Inequalities	This seminar examines various types of human inequalities and considers several thought-provoking explanations for their occurrence.  The focus is primarily conceptual and philosophical, although the discussions will include references to current instances of inequality and policies designed to alleviate them.  The readings include both classics in political theory and more contemporary works.
4556	WWS	456	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Urban Revitalization	This course will focus on the dynamics of urban revitalization.  Beginning in the 1950s, many neighborhoods that were home to the working class and a stepping stone to the middle class began to decline economically and became densely concentrated with the urban poor.  In recent years, many neighborhoods have been rejuvenated.  We will examine the lifecycle of these communities, the forces behind their decline, the policies and players that have spearheaded their revival, the reasons some neighborhoods have yet to recover, and the policy conflicts and community tensions that arise when gentrification gains a foothold in the inner city.
4557	WWS	457	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: International Institutions and International Law	This course will focus on the continual tension between international law and international politics. It will examine the impact of this tension on issues of intervention and also on other issues of substantive importance, including environmental protection, trade, human rights, laws of war applicable to the "war on terror," and crimes of state. It will discuss recent developments affecting international institutions and recent changes in international law, such as the changing conception of "sovereignty."
4558	WWS	463	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Political Psychology	This course explores social, cognitive, motivational, and personality processes underlying political thought and behavior. A special emphasis is placed on perspectives derived from experimental psychology. Topics include authoritarianism; political leadership; left-right ideology; voting decisions; the impact of the mass media; candidate evaluation; race and intergroup relations; causes and effects of terrorism; collective action and political transformation.
4559	WWS	475	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Grand Strategy	Military strategy was defined by Clausewitz as the use of battle to achieve the objectives of war.  Grand strategy is broader, encompassing the attempted use by political leaders of financial, economic, and diplomatic, as well as military, power to achieve their objectives in peacetime and in war.  This seminar will examine the theory and practice of grand strategy both to illuminate how relations among city-states, empires, kingdoms and nation states have evolved over the centuries and also to identify some common challenges that have confronted all who seek to make and execute grand strategy, from Pericles to Barack Obama.
4560	WWS	476	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: The Economics of Health Policy in Developing Countries	Early death is arguably the worst manifestation of poverty in developing countries. Much of this premature death, and the low quality of life that goes with it, is avoidable with well conceived and executed pubic policy.  But there's the rub.  Setting priorities for what government (and well-meaning outsiders) should do with very limited means requires hard choices--matters of life and death. The choices are limited both by the severe resource constraints in poor countries and constraints of effective implementation of programs.  This course focuses on how economic reasoning can help inform effective policy.
4561	WWS	482	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Israeli Extremism and the Search for Peace	In 1995 Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally by a religious student. Rabin's assassination helped derail the peace process; it also exposed deep currents of political extremism in Israel. This course explores the roots of Israeli political radicalism. It examines the impact of the Arab-Jewish conflict on Israeli politics and assesses the way the '67 War impacted political alignments in Israel. The course considers how political radicalism in Israel reacted to the peace efforts of the '90s and it looks at how in the 21st century, with the rise of fundamentalism globally, political radicalism impacts Israel.
4562	WWS	484	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Contemporary Politics and Policy Challenges in China	China today is confronting new forces of change while grappling with political, economic, social, ideological, and international resistance to change. How has this influenced its internal political workings and how is it likely to affect the way it address critical policy challenges? This seminar will explore current political processes in China with reference to recent events and examine the changing roles of key political actors, ranging from the Communist Party to the new media. It will consider key policy issues such as democratic reform, environmental protection, and the resolution of ethnic tensions.
4563	WWS	488	S09-10	SA	Special Topics in Public Affairs: Arts and Cultural Policy in Contemporary Cuba	This course will address the creation, promotion and consumption of art and culture in Cuba--and will analyze the policy framework within which this takes place.  It will examine the goals of the revolutionary government with respect to literacy and cultural democracy and will review how these objectives have been realized through changing circumstances since 1959. It will ask how cultural policy relates to diversity, emigration, tourism, the preservation of heritage, and the fraught histories of imperialism and nationalism.
4564	WWS	502	S09-10		Psychology for Policy Analysis and Implementation	Course covers basic concepts and experimental findings of psychology that contribute to an understanding of the effects of policy on human behavior and well-being; and psychological factors that affect the formulation, communication, and execution of policy. Topics include a descriptive analysis of boundedly rational judgment and decision making, a consideration of social motives and attitudes, and an introduction to the ways in which agents influence and negotiate with one another, including an examination of the psychological roots of conflict.
4565	WWS	504	S09-10		Policy Issues and Analysis of Nonprofits, NGOs, and Philanthropy	Examines policy issues at international, national and local levels.  Provides groundwork on nonprofits, NGOs, and philanthropy that can be followed with specialized courses on management and program evaluation.  Emphasis on understanding how philanthropy, nonprofit, and NGO sectors operate, their niche alongside private and public sectors, revenue sources, impact on society, and converse effects of society and its institutions; the policy making process.  Explores impact of reliance on government or overseas support for Third World NGOs; faith-based service provisions: accountability and transparency; advocacy; and government regulations.
4566	WWS	505	S09-10		Financial Management in the Corporate and Public Sectors	Designed to introduce graduate students in public and international affairs to certain principals and analytic tools widely used in the financial manage­ment of organizations, privately or publicly owned.  Course is based on the premise that future civil servants should be familiar with this subject matter, either because they may be involved in the financial management of public agencies, or negotiate financial contracts with the private sector, or regulate financial management in the private sector.
4567	WWS	508B	S09-10		Econometrics and Public Policy (Basic)	Provides a thorough examination of statistical methods employed in public policy analysis, with a particular emphasis on regression methods which are frequently employed in research across the social sciences.  This course emphasizes intuitive understanding of the central concepts, and develops in students the ability to choose and employ the appropriate tool for a particular research problem, and understand the limitations of the techniques.  Prerequisite: 507b.
4568	WWS	508C	S09-10		Econometrics and Public Policy (Advanced)	Discusses the main tools of econometric analysis, and the way in which they are applied to a range of problems in social science.  Emphasis is on using techniques, and on understanding and critically assessing others' use of them.  There is a great deal of practical work on the computer using a range of data from around the world.  Topics include regression analysis, with a focus on regression as a tool for analyzing non-experimental data, discrete choice, and an introduction to time-series analysis.  There are applications from macroeconomics, policy evaluation, and economic development. Prerequisite: grounding in topics covered in 507c.
4569	WWS	512B	S09-10		Macroeconomic Analysis	Covers the theory of modern macroeconomics in detail.  Focus is on the determination of macroeconomic variables - such as output, employment, prices, and the interest rate - in the short, medium, and long run, and addresses a number of policy issues. Discusses several examples of macroeconomic phenomena in the real world. A central theme will be to understand the powers and limitations of macroeconomic policy in stabilizing the business cycle and promoting growth.
4570	WWS	512C	S09-10		Macroeconomic Analysis (Advanced)	Course offers a broad treatment of macroeconomic theory and policy issues, using the formal methods of  modern macroeconomics. Topics will include long-run growth and development, labor, consumption, savings and investment decisions, the role of expectations, short-run fluctuations and stabilization policy, inflation and unemployment, trade and exchange rates. The course is advanced, so that: (i) having had some introductory course in macroeconomics is a prerequisite, and an intermediate-level one is best; (ii) the course requires a solid command of microeconomic theory (511 c or d) and good comfort with algebra and calculus.
4571	WWS	515B	S09-10		Program and Policy Evaluation	This course introduces students to evaluation. It explores ways: to develop and implement research-based program improvement strategies and program accountability systems; to judge the effects of policies and programs; and to assess the benefits and costs of policy or program changes. Students study a wide range of evaluation tools; read and discuss both domestic and international evaluation examples and apply this knowledge by designing several different types of evaluations on programs of their choosing.
4572	WWS	522	S09-10		Microeconomic Analysis of Domestic Policy	Examines a series of major issues of policy designed to illustrate and develop skills in particularly important applications of microeconomics. Topics will include education and training, the minimum wage, mandated benefits, affirmative action, the theory of public goods and externalities, and the basic theory of taxation. Prerequisite: 511b.
4573	WWS	528E	S09-10		Topics in Domestic Policy Analysis: Leadership	Course draws from classical political theory (including Plato, Machiavelli, and Max Weber), current "leadership literature," and case studies of decision-making.  Among the topics discussed are expertise and collaboration, responsibility and accountability, women and leadership, and leadership in various kinds of organizations.
4574	WWS	535	S09-10		Planning Methods	This course introduces a set of concepts and tools that are widely used in the practice of urban and regional planning. The focus is on developing an operational understanding of the models, techniques and data used in such applications as regional economic and demographic projections, cost-benefit analysis, and land use analysis. Emphasis is also placed on the limitations of the methods.
4575	WWS	540	S09-10		Urbanization and Development	Examines the origins, types, and characteristics of cities in less developed countries and the ways in which patterns of urbanization interact with policies to promote economic growth and social equity.  Readings and class discussions address three areas: a) a history of urbanization in the Third World; b) an analysis of contemporary urban systems, demographic patterns, and the social structure of large Third World cities; c) a review of the literature on urban dwellers with emphasis on the poor and their political and social outlooks.
4576	WWS	542	S09-10		International Economics	Survey course in international economics for non-specialists. The first half covers microeconomic topics such as trade theory and policy, multilateral trade negotiations and regional economic integration. The second half addresses macroeconomic topics such as current account imbalances, exchange rates, and international financial crises. The course stresses concepts and real-world applications rather than formal models. Prerequisite: 511b and 512b (concurrently).
4577	WWS	543	S09-10		International Trade Policy	Evaluates arguments for and against protection and adjustment assistance and considers topics chosen from the following: non-tariff barriers, dumping, embargo threats and trade warfare, and the political economy of trade policy formation. Special attention is given to trade problems of the less-developed countries, including North-South trade relations and commodity price stabilization. Prerequisite: 511c.
4578	WWS	544	S09-10		International Macroeconomics	Issues in open economy macroeconomics and international finance. Topics include an exchange rate determination and dynamics, macroeconomic policy under fixed and floating exchange rates, current account behavior, exchange rate management and international policy coordination, and the history of the international monetary system. Special attention is given to the analysis of exchange rate crises. Prerequisite: 512c.
4579	WWS	553	S09-10		The Politics of Growth & Redistribution	Critical survey and discussion of contemporary political economy; that is, the set of existing theories that model the impact of political conflict and political institutions on economic performance. Course centers on the following main issues: causes of growth; the relationship between openness, political institutions and economic policy-making; the causes and consequences of politically enforced redistribution. Course is analytical in its theoretical perspective and comparative in its methodology.
4580	WWS	556A	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: Multilateralism and Democracy	Seminar explores the issue of whether multilateralism produces a "democracy deficit" or whether under some conditions it can enhance democracy, from a theoretical perspective and through intensive case studies.  Topics include analysis of democracy as a form of government; legitimacy and democracy in multilateral institutions, including the European Union; and efforts by NGOs and advocacy groups to promote democratic values.
4581	WWS	556B	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: International Justice	Examines the politics and ethics of prosecuting war crimes. Course asks if international law can help to moderate or prevent war, why states sometimes pursue the prosecution of war criminals, and how law shapes and is shaped by international politics. Cases include Nuremberg and the aftermaths of World War I, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the recent wars in ex-Yugoslavia and Iraq, and Al-Qaeda's terrorism.
4582	WWS	556D	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: Protection Against Weapons of Mass Destruction	Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the only significant security threats to the U.S. and its allies have been from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.   Historically, the US focus has oscillated between protection via nonproliferation and disarmament agreements, and via civil and missile defense.  The course assesses the threats,  both approaches to protection, and linkages made between policies on WMD and perceptions of "conventional" military threats.
4583	WWS	556E	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: Intelligence and Foreign Policy	Focuses on the role played by intelligence communities in the formation of national security policy.  Explores the functions and goals; practices, problems & challenges of national intelligence, using case studies to evaluate the use of intelligence in critical episodes in history.
4584	WWS	556F	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: US Diplomacy & the Other Middle East	Seminar examines the political, social, economic and strategic dynamics within "The Other Middle East": the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council and their primary neighbors, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and India. Course explores the context and complexities of the regional actors, how recent US policies have affected these states and the impact of the Iraq War on the region and on US influence and options. Topics include the role of religion, the growth of knowledge-based globalized economies, public diplomacy; the history of Saudi-Iranian relations, and the rise of regional actors, particularly Iran and India.
4585	WWS	556G	S09-10		Topics in International Relations: US-EU Economic Relations & National Security	The US and the EU share strategic interests, but often differ over managing security challenges. Seminar examines US-EU strains over differences and prospects for enhancing our strategic partnership.  Course studies the EU decision making process,  assesses US-EU economic and political cooperation on strategic challenges, including Iran, Afghanistan, and relations with Russia and the developing world; reviews  transatlantic trade disputes, their resolution, and governance of the transatlantic marketplace;  assesses transatlantic energy security,  and analyzes prospects for US-EU cooperation on global issues.
4586	WWS	562B	S09-10		Economic Analysis of Development (Basic)	Introduction to the processes of economic growth and development.  The course examines various theories of development; poverty and inequality measurement; and the role of markets for credit, labor and land, as well as education and health, in development.  The role of public policy will be considered within each of these topics.  The course may also cover topics such as foreign aid, commodity pricing, and tax policy.  (Prerequisites: 511b; 512b can be taken concurrently.)
4587	WWS	562C	S09-10		Economic Analysis of Development (Advanced)	Considers theories and evidence to explain processes of economic development; examines theories of economic growth, and the two-way links between development and poverty, inequality, social institutions, and the family. Policy debates on education, health, and social policy, and governmental and international aid are also covered.
4588	WWS	564	S09-10		Poverty, Inequality and Health in the World	About well-being throughout the world, with focus on income and health. Explores what happened to poverty, inequality, and health, in the US, and internationally. Discusses conceptual foundations of national and global measures of inequality, poverty, and health; construction of measures, and extent to which they can be trusted; relationship between globalization, poverty, and health, historically and currently. Examines links between health and income, why poor people are less healthy and live less long than rich people.
4589	WWS	565	S09-10		State, Society, and Development	Explores the relation of development to regime types, authority, culture, and social integration. The syllabus includes recent sources as well as long-standing texts in social theory by authors such as Madison, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Polanyi, Schattschneider, Huntington, Geertz, W. A. Lewis, and Hirschman.
4590	WWS	572B	S09-10		Topics in Development: Policy Implications of Globalization	Explores the historical background of globalization including previous examples of this phenomenon.  Proceeds with an overview of competing contemporary theories of the causes and consequences of globalization.  Discusses the types of data required for analysis of the policy implications of globalization and how these can be utilized. Emphasis on the use of transactional data using network analysis. Students will use primary sources and databases in discussions of policy areas including trade, migration, security, media, etc. No formal training in statistics, database management, or networks required.
4591	WWS	572C	S09-10		Topics in Development: Development Policy in Africa	An introduction to development policy challenges in Africa. Course opens with a brief review of intellectual and practical debates about development policy in the Independence era. Addresses reasons for success or failure of structural adjustment policies, the challenges of institutional reform, and the relationship between accountability and democratization. Finally, examines policy issues, such as cumulative wisdom about war-peace transitions, health policy and the response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of new regional organizations.
4592	WWS	582F	S09-10		Topics in Applied Economics: Financial Markets and Public Policy	Examines financial markets from both a theoretical and policy perspective. Topics include modern portfolio theory, financial asset pricing theories such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and derivative security pricing theories; key issues in corporate finance such as capital budgeting, capital structure and corporate governance. While modern finance is one of the more technically demanding areas of economics, course imparts the important concepts without a high level of mathematical rigor; the case format is used extensively. Prereq: 511c/instructor's permission.
4593	WWS	584	S09-10		The Use of Science in Public Policy	Designed to improve students' skill, confidence and judgment in use of science in policy applications.  Using case studies, real-world examples, and in-class exercises, the emphasis is on preparing both non-scientists and scientists to use, understand, and critique science in environmental public policy applications.  Exercises and exams are scaled to the student's background.
4594	WWS	586F	S09-10		Topics in STEP: Information Technology and Public Policy	Course examines a range of infotech policy issues, including privacy, intellectual property, free speech, competition, regulation of broadcasting and telecommunications, cross-border and jurisdictional questions, broadband policy, spectrum policy, management of the Internet, computer security, education and workforce development, and research funding.
4595	WWS	587	S09-10		Research Workshop in Population	Individual research projects that involve the use of demographic analysis as it relates to issues in population policy or, occasionally, participation in the research conducted at the Office of Population Research.
4596	WWS	590B	S09-10		Politics of Inequality and Redistribution (Half-Term)	Study of policy preferences, differential rates of political participation, voting behavior,  legislative process, political communication, urban politics and role of race in US political life are central to study of inequality in politics. Though the American case will feature prominently, we will approach issues from a comparative perspective.  Thus the course provides introduction to  comparative study of welfare states and political economy of advanced industrial countries, including regulation of labor markets and relationship between wage inequality, income distribution and policy preferences for redistribution and social protection.
4597	WWS	590C	S09-10		Sociological Studies of Inequality(Half -Term)	This segment of the JDP seminar covers theory and research on social stratification, the major subfield in sociology that focuses on inequality. Course begins by reviewing major theories, constructs, measures, and empirical work on inequality. Weeks two through six focus on institutions that are expected to produce (and reproduce) inequalities, including families, neighborhoods, schools, labor markets, and penal policy.
4598	WWS	594A	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Evolution & Reform of the Int'l Monetary System	Reviews the evolution of the international monetary system since the Second World War. Focuses on the roles of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US dollar, but also examines the origins and functioning of the European Monetary Union, the emerging-market crises of the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial turmoil that began in 2007, the key role of the oil-producing countries, including Russia, and the outlook for monetary cooperation between China and its East Asian neighbors. In the last three weeks of the course, students will present brief oral reports on some of these issues.
4599	WWS	594B	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Inequalities in Higher Education	An examination of the factors related to inequality and higher education.  Topics include applying to college, influences associated with being admitted, social interactions on campus, the educational benefits of diversity, academic performance, the class divide, and satisfaction with college experiences.  Throughout the course, the roles of students' race and social class background in issues surrounding admissions and campus life are emphasized.
4600	WWS	594C	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Politics, Practice & Meaning of Int'l Trade Disputes	Course analyzes how trade disputes between nations are resolved or not.  Beginning with a brief overview of the international rules and structures governing trade, we explore in detail existing dispute resolution mechanisms.  We will also examine specific disputes, such as cases involving: US cotton subsidies; Mexican trucking; Canadian funeral homes; Chinese tires; Chinese intellectual property protection; GMOs and hormones in US food products; and Harley-Davidson.
4601	WWS	594D	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Changing Architecture of Int'l Financial Regulation	Course examines the origins of the current global financial crisis and what has been, should be, and is likely to be done at the international level to minimize the risk of another crisis.  Focus on the G8, the G20, and less-well-known but increasingly important key standard-setting bodies: the Basel Committee, the Financial Stability Board, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and the International Accounting Standards Board.
4602	WWS	594E	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Poverty and Public Policy (Session I)	Examines poverty in the United States in the last half of the twentieth century. Topics include  how poverty is measured and problems with the official measure; trends and differentials in poverty; causes and consequences of poverty, including sociological, economic, and political perspectives; and anti-poverty policies, including cross-national differences in welfare states. (Acceptable as a half-course towards the demography certificate.)
4603	WWS	594F	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Immigration, Ethnicity, and Public Policy (Session II)	Course examines recent theories and research on the process of immigrant adaptation, the uses of immigrant workers in the receiving labor markets, and the challenges faced by the second generation as it seeks to integrate successfully. Primary attention is devoted to the experience of immigrants in the United States, especially in the contemporary period. European case studies and literature will be brought to bear for comparative purposes at selected points in the course.  Lecture-seminar format.
4604	WWS	594G	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): The Politics of US Healthcare Reform (Sess I)	This course explores the fundamentals of health policy and current, real-time politics, focusing on access, cost, quality, and reform, both from a historical context and from perspective of proposals made by likely presidential nominees. The study of institutions (Medicare, Medicaid, private health insurance) will be placed in context of what government and the private sector does, and should do, to face gaps and inefficiencies that exist today. Course will include two case studies: state reform and federal legislation (Medicare, SCHIP, or health disparities).
4605	WWS	594H	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Primer on Psychology and Policy	A half-term course designed for MPP's to cover basic concepts and findings from psychology and their application in policy development. Topics  include bounded rationality, group dynamics, memory, judgment and decision making biases, behavioral economics, public opinion, social determinants of behavior, attitudes, psychological assessment, and a psychological perspective on incentive structures, all of which have implications for the design of policies that affect individual citizens as well as for the functioning of organizations that determine policy.
4606	WWS	594I	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): GIS for Public Policy (Sess I)	A practical introduction to the use of computer mapping (Geographic Information Systems) for policy analysis and decision-making.  Students learn MapInfo through examples of map applications.  Students are expected to complete exercises and a final project applying GIS to a policy issue.
4607	WWS	594J	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Health and Nutrition in Developing Countries	Human growth has been described as "a mirror of society" in that the process of growth and development is exquisitely sensitive to environmental factors.  This course will be aimed at the non-biologist and will cover biology of growth and examination of critical periods of susceptibility to environmental insult. Other topics will be impact of social and economic factors, nutritional and epidemiological transition, and child growth in relation to health and disease in developing countries.
4608	WWS	594K	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half Term): The Development Challenge of HIV/AIDS (Session 1)	This seminar will review the origins of HIV, the multiple impacts of AIDS, the reasons for sustained global neglect, the foundations of effective prevention & treatment programs & the urgent need to improve monitoring & evaluation.  Special attention will be given to the role of social factors in the epidemic.  Course participants will examine the policy-making process related to global public goods & consider whether the world is better positioned to avert a resurgence of this pandemic or the emergence of the next threat.
4609	WWS	594M	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Military Force Planning & Decision Making	Course introduces important issues of conventional force planning and military decision making and includes discussion of service cultures, doctrines, capabilities, and limitations.  Broadly covers strategy, planning, readiness, force projection, employment, and logistics throughout the spectrum of conflict, including conventional war, the global war on terrorism and peacekeeping operations. Through theoretical and doctrinal readings and examination of selected case studies, course provides background essential for those involved in the study and practice of national security decision making.
4610	WWS	594N	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Diplomacy, Development and Conflict	Challenges confronting U.S. foreign policy are as complex as any time in history.  These challenges arise from countries in conflict where the U.S. faces threats from war, extremism, organized crime & poverty.  Current Quadrennial Diplomacy & Development Review (QDDR) is intended to identify policy priorities for the State Department & USAID & potential organizational changes necessary to address these challenges.  At the same, USIP & U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) have produced a framework that identifies ¿end states¿ which are required to achieve transition to security, good governance & economic prosperity
4611	WWS	594P	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Energy, Environment and Development	An interdisciplinary introduction to debates about energy, environment, and development.  Some of the questions to be addressed are:  Should one posit quantitative or qualitative limits to economic growth?  What kinds of social change might be desirable or necessary to achieve a sustainable future?  What role does energy play in improving the well-being of the poor and how does one ensure that this function is "optimized"?  What are the roles for technology and consumption reduction in climate mitigation?  How can we reduce pollution, environmental degradation, and human hardship due to the use of bio-fuels in cooking?
4612	WWS	594Q	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): The Future of Nuclear Energy	Course explores current debates about nuclear energy and reviews the basic science and technology and current uses of nuclear energy, with particular emphasis on the economic aspects and arrangements to prevent its use for weapons purposes.   Policy proposals to facilitate the safe and rapid global expansion of nuclear energy are analyzed.
4613	WWS	594R	S09-10		Topics in Policy Analysis (Half-Term): Management of Public Organizations	Course equips students with knowledge of management and leadership concepts to perform successfully and responsibly in public organizations. Course begins with a discussion of the nature of public administration and moves to concepts of organizational theory, organizational structure, administrative reforms, and decision-making mechanisms. Course also examines the people side of government organizations as well as management and leadership roles within organizations. Recent management innovations in the federal government will be discussed and considered.
4614	WWS	598	S09-10		Epidemiology	Course covers the basic concepts and methods of epidemiology and demonstrates how these can be applied to improve population health and reduce health inequities. Topics include: measuring the health of the population, understanding the causes of poor health, developing interventions for improving health, translating evidence into practice, and evaluating the impact of policies and programs. Key epidemiological concepts such as association, bias and confounding are covered, as well as the main epidemiological study designs.