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This course can be taken independently from Elementary German II in the summer. This course covers several centuries of time and traces the political, social, economic, and cultural changes that created the modern world.
Depending on the expertise of the instructor, different parts of the world may serve as focal points for examining the complex historical processes behind modern-day transnational relationships, values, and ideas. As part of the Core Curriculum, this course seeks to broaden students' intellectual horizons by exposing them to new places, periods, and perspectives. In this course, students examine the significance of developing global relationships, interdependencies, and tensions within and between societies in the Atlantic World between and The focus is on responses to religious, economic, and political changes in an increasingly diverse and "dis-integrated" world order of Western Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.
As the "known worlds" of the Atlantic expanded, resisted, and attempted to accommodate changes brought about through religion, rights, and revolution over this year period, our tasks are to examine what happened, why they may have happened, and how these changes were significant then and now.
This course, for students in the humanities, the social sciences, School of Education, and School of Nursing, is an introduction to finite combinatorics and probability, emphasizing applications. Topics include finite sets and partitions, enumeration, probability, expectation, and random variables. A first course in the calculus of one variable intended for biology, computer science, economics, management, and premedical students. It is open to others who are qualified and desire a more rigorous mathematics course at the core level.
Topics include a brief review of polynomials and trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions, followed by discussion of limits, derivatives, and applications of differential calculus to real-world problem areas. The course concludes with an introduction to integration. Marketing is dynamic, changing, creative, challenging and plays a leading role in a firm's strategy and destiny. Marketing owns the customer relationship and defines market-driven strategy.
An introductory music theory course designed for students with a strong interest in music. As a Core course it includes speculations on how musical discourse informs our perception and understanding of the world around us. Students learn to acquire skills in music notation and transcription. The following theoretical concepts will be extensively covered: notation of pitch and rhythm, scales, intervals, chords, and harmonic progression. Students leave the course prepared for upper level study in music theory and will begin to question broader issues concerning the meaning and use of music.
This course will attempt to develop essential and critical listening faculties by employing a chronological survey of the elements, forms, and various types of music that the serious listener is exposed to today.
The principal emphasis of the course will be on traditional Western art music from medieval Gregorian Chant to twentieth-century electronic music, but certain excursions into the world of non-Western musics, jazz, and American popular song will be included to diversify and enrich the experience of listening critically to music.
From the blues to country, jazz to rock, our nation's political, social, and economic history has been mirrored and influenced by the styles of popular music developed in our cultural melting pot. This course will provide an overall history of popular music in America, with emphasis upon mainstream popular music since Its focus will be on the independence and interdependence of black and white musical cultures in America.
Students will learn stylistic developments in popular music and acquire interpretive strategies, including methods of aural analysis that will view popular songs as historical texts and as autonomous works of art. This course introduces students to philosophical reflection and to its history through the presentation and discussion of the writings of major thinkers from ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary periods.
The course is designed to show how fundamental and enduring questions about the universe and about human beings recur in different historical contexts.
Emphasis is given to ethical themes, such as the nature of the human person, the foundation of human rights and corresponding responsibilities, and the problems of social justice. A course not in the "new logic" symbolic, or mathematical, logic but in the "old logic" ordinary language logic invented by Aristotle and used for years in all the humanities. Includes such topics as definition, contradiction, syllogisms, implied premises, induction, and analogy.
The course includes the commonsensical philosophical bases for this logic and also many practical applications to reading, interpreting, evaluating, and inventing arguments, especially in dialogs. Logic is the careful study of reasoning.
It investigates how critical thinking is successful and, when it's not, what goes wrong. Understanding logic enables one to recognize and craft good arguments in every area of life, from science and technology to political debates and everything in between.
This course introduces the composition of arguments and fallacious reasoning, honing students' ability to identify and formulate problems and evaluate solutions. Our goal is to analyze and understand the formal tools that allow us to represent the most salient features of reasoning in the most precise terms. First semester of a two-semester calculus-based introduction to physics primarily for biology majors and premedical students.
The development and application of classical physical principles are covered, and students are introduced to more advanced mathematical techniques to extend these applications. Emphasis is placed on problem-solving to better understand the implications of these principles, as well as to develop analytical skills. Topics include classical mechanics, including Newton's laws, energy, rotational motion, hydrostatics and fluid dynamics, oscillations, waves, and gravitation.
Online-Synchronous; synchronous online with mandatory zoom classes and proctorio monitored quizzes and exams. An overview of contemporary American government and politics focusing on how the institutions envisioned by the Framers of the Constitution Congress, the judiciary, the executive function today. Particular emphasis will be placed on how developments since the s have affected the interaction of national, state, and local governmental actors, political participation, the articulation of interests, and policy formulation and implementation.
Topics covered will include the media, public interest and advocacy organizations, campaign technologies and consultants, and public policy research institutes think tanks. Whenever possible, comparisons between the U. This course explores the diversity and continuity in contemporary Tajik culture and society and their historical roots, including the political histories.
After building a basis of knowledge of the pre - and early — modern history of the region and its contemporary political context and institutions, the course will approach Tajik culture, social structures and everyday life from variety of angles.
These will include perspectives available in various written forms and literatures on the region including the local indigenous literatures.
The course draws on multiple and diverse sources, such as ethnographic and cultural anthropological accounts to develop a rich picture of social customs and contexts of ways of life in Tajikistan — from the historical caravan trades and pastoralism to contemporary collective farm and urbanism.
The course structure is set on three historical chronological divisions: 1. Pre-Soviet Era, 2. Soviet Era, and 3.
Post-Soviet Era. What is the relationship between Islam and democracy? Are human rights located in the Koran or some other, more human, source? How might we appeal to the sacred sources of Islam to promote attitudes of toleration, inclusion, and respect? These and similar questions will be considered throughout the semester. The purpose of this course will be to use the events related to the Arab Winter and continuing instability throughout the Muslim world as a springboard for a critical evaluation of the respective merits of the two forms of regime.
No prior acquaintance with Islam or the Arabic language is necessary or required. Terrorism and insurgency dominate the headlines today, but how much do we really know about these forms of political violence? Are they inventions from the modern era, or do they have a deeper past? What drives an individual to join an armed group?
Why do some groups choose to employ violence, while others do not? Are terrorism and insurgency effective political tactics? Just how significant is the threat of terrorism? This course will address these and other questions, while introducing students to relevant analytical frameworks, theories, and cases concerning terrorism, insurgency, and related forms of political violence.
In addition to its topical focus, this course could rightly be called a methods course. Students in the class will learn how to improve their analytical thinking, conduct high quality research, and present an effective argument, both orally and in writing. They will learn the potential and pitfalls of theories of political violence through constant analysis and engagement with the history of terrorism and insurgency.
By the conclusion of the course, students will emerge not only with a far richer understanding of these issues, but also as more sophisticated consumers, analysts, and producers of knowledge.
This course is the first in a two-semester sequence surveying research methodologies and statistical procedures. In this first semester the emphasis is on statistics. Students will be introduced to the most common topics and procedures in descriptive and inferential statistics. This course is an introduction to developmental psychology. The course examines topics in personality, social, and cognitive development. The course examines how information is processed and transformed by the mind to control complex human behavior.
Specific topics include the history of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, attention, perception, consciousness, short-term and long-term memory, mental imagery, language, decision-making, and problem solving. Course material will be drawn from work with clinical populations e. This course presents an introduction to the physiological basis of behavior. Basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology are presented, and the following topics are then discussed: neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology, and the biological bases of mental illness; brain mechanisms of reward and reinforcement; hormones and behavior; an introduction to the development of the nervous system; brain mechanisms of learning and memory; and brain mechanisms of emotion.
This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of psychopharmacology, with an emphasis on drugs of abuse and pharmacological treatments for addiction. A general overview of drug action basic pharmacology and the behavioral factors that influence drug action will be provided. This overview will be followed by an in-depth analysis of the physiological and behavioral effects of the drugs discussed.
For over a century, human brain mapping has been conducted by correlating lesion location with impaired behavior. In the last 25 years, functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI --a noninvasive neuroimaging technique with excellent spatial resolution--has given rise to an explosion of knowledge regarding the role of specific brain regions in particular types of cognitive processing such as shifting attention or memory retrieval.
The aim of this course is to provide an in-depth examination of fMRI by reviewing the physical basis of the fMRI signal and its relation to neural activity in addition to considering issues of experimental design and data analysis.
Brain mapping techniques based on lesions and electrophysiology are also discussed. This course conveys a sense of the history of sociology and introduces students to the most essential concepts, ideas, theories, and methods of the discipline. Special topics may include interaction in everyday life, sociology of the family, gender roles, race and ethnic relations, and the sociology of work, among others.
We will deal with fundamental questions about what it means to be a human being living in a society at a given moment in history. The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This course will consider this whole-person definition across the human life course using a range of sociological principles and perspectives.
Major topics will include the structure of health care systems in the United States and globally, doctor-patient interaction, social and cultural influences on health and disease, and social disparities in the distribution of health and quality health care. This is a reading and discussion seminar that provides an overview of theoretical and empirical work in environmental sociology.
After a brief introduction to the origins of the field, the seminar will cover topics that are representative of what is current in the area, especially bodies of theory and research that are national, international, and global in scope and research that is structural in orientation, with a key focus on how large-scale social institutions and organizational forms impact the environment, and also how they shape the ways in which individuals and smaller groups interact with the natural environment.
Attention is also given to how environmental sociology makes fundamental contributions to interdisciplinary research in environmental studies and sustainability science. Facebook groups, Subreddits, streamers, TikTokers—social media has a burgeoning presence in all of our lives. As the pandemic necessitated physical isolation, online interaction has become even more central to our socialization and connectivity, becoming the norm for how we learn or work.
In this course, we will explore foundational theories that consider how digital communities come to be and what that means for processes of identity-making. This course will culminate in a digital ethnography project that seeks to transcribe the important lessons of ethnographic research to online spaces and consider how we can better understand them. This introductory course is designed for students with no prior Spanish experience as well as those who have had some high school Spanish.
Elementary Spanish I provides a strong foundation in speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing as well as exploring the products, practices, and perspectives that are unique to Hispanic cultures. This course follows a communicative approach, which springs from the idea that languages are best learned when real-world information becomes the focus of student activities. Students interact in Spanish with the instructor and with classmates.
By the end of this course, students should be able to successfully handle in Spanish a significant number of basic communicative tasks. Intermediate Spanish I is the first course in the second-year sequence. It continues to develop and strengthen students' proficiency in the Spanish language as well as to increase their cultural understanding. Emphasis remains on the four skills and on critical thinking. Throughout the course, students develop fluency and accuracy, and focus on communication.
They expand their vocabulary and enhance their understanding of essential Spanish grammar concepts. Short literary texts, cultural readings, and audiovisual materials provide opportunities Elective.
Roman Catholicism is a global religious tradition with over 1. In this Core course students will be offered an introductory engagement with the Roman Catholic tradition. This engagement will include consideration of the history, principal beliefs, exemplary figures, and communal practices of the Roman Catholicism. The course will also explore contemporary issues and challenges facing Catholicism today.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the dynamics of theological reflection in an academic setting. Framed as a quest for truth, transformation, and justice, the course invites students to explore key questions and themes of enduring human significance in conversation with the classic texts, ideas, and practices that animate the Christian theological tradition.
Such questions include: What is theology? What is the ultimate horizon of our lives? What does it mean to be human? Who is Jesus Christ? And how can we know and serve the common good? Satisfies Core requirement for: Theology Christian Theology. The New Testament has been an influential and often fundamental source for many modern, Western views of God, nature, human beings, a just society, and the origin and destiny of humanity and the world. An intelligent, serious reading of the New Testament raises most of the enduring questions that have traditionally stood at the center of philosophical and theological debate.
It has been said that to know one religion is to know none. In this course, we seek to gain an understanding of two of the major world religions, Christianity and Hinduism, through a comparative and dialogical approach of the ways in which these traditions have come to terms with some of the basic existential questions and religious aspirations of humanity.
This course engages the quest for truth and meaning in the faith traditions and practices of Islam and Christianity through the lens of comparative theology. We will use textual, historical, social, cultural, and gender analyses to examine and reflect on understandings of God, scripture, worship, sacred rites and rituals, religious law, and membership in the faith community, in addition to a comparative approach to Biblical and Quranic narratives, characters, and concepts of prophethood and saints, with special emphasis given to Jesus, Muhammad, and the Virgin Mary.
In a globally competitive and technologically advanced world, the ability to convey ideas and persuade diverse audiences is critical for professional success in any organization. This course offers exposure to numerous communication needs and strategies to address various corporate stakeholders.
This course introduces students to mathematical methods used in the analysis of economics and business problems. It focuses on multivariable calculus, optimization, and its economic applications. When your kids are done with their books this summer, consider donating to More Than Words in Waltham.
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