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CHEM 160 - CSI: W&L
BIOL 160 FDR: SL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring, when departmental teaching loads allow
No prerequisites. Appropriate for non-science majors. This laboratory course is an introduction to the field of forensic science with a focus on the physical, chemical, and biological basis of crime scene evidence. A particular emphasis is on the analysis of trace physical (e.g., glass, soil, fiber, ballistics) and biological (e.g., hair, blood, DNA) evidence and forensic toxicology (e.g., drugs, alcohol, poisons). The laboratory portion of this course provides “hands-on” opportunities to analyze collected crime scene samples and to utilize some of the commonly used forensic laboratory techniques such as microscopy, chromatography, and spectroscopy. The course also introduces some of the legal aspects associated with collection and analysis of crime-scene evidence. Laboratory course. LaRiviere, Watson.
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CHEM 165 - Dynamic Systems Modeling and the Global Climate
FDR: SC
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2015
Scientists agree with economists, doctors, investors, and CEOs that computer models are the best tools that we have available for understanding complex systems and addressing predictive challenges therein. In this course, you learn to design, create, and implement models of simple systems, beginning with creating a model that reproduces measureable behavior of a system in which we all have interest - the temperature of the earth. Students learn about the atmosphere, its chemistry, and its dynamics and build a “simple” model to reproduce actual measureable data. You learn to think about the design of models in terms of sources, sinks, stocks, flows, feedback, events, rates, and equilibrium. Finally, you independently identify a system to model that is either relevant to the atmosphere, to the biosphere, or of general interest to you. Readings include selections from an introductory text on computational science, excerpts from texts on global climate that involve both the policy and the science of the atmosphere, and whatever material needed to complete the final project. Tuchler.
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CHEM 175 - Teaching Inquiry Science in Local Schools
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014.
Prerequisite: CHEM 100, 106, 110 or 111. This service-learning course teaches the development of hands on laboratory activities to fulfill physical science goals required by the science standards of learning (SOL) for Virginia’s public schools. Students create instructional science experiments for chosen age levels to explore and implement activities with school children in Lexington City and Rockbridge County school classrooms. Students visit at least two different classrooms. Primarily a laboratory course. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 195 - The Nuclear Age
FDR: SC
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014
This seminar initially reviews the science and technology leading to the development and production of the first nuclear weapons. It then examines the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. The final portion of the course addresses the political, social, and environmental legacies of these weapons. Students write a series of short papers, based on their reading of primary and secondary sources, that form the basis for group discussions throughout the seminar. A term paper is required. Not a laboratory course. Settle.
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CHEM 196 - Nuclear Power: Energy and the Environment
FDR: SC
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014.
This course examines the role of nuclear power as a current and future source of energy. Topics include introduction to science and technology of nuclear reactors; the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear waste; the history of nuclear power generation in the U.S. and other nations, economic, legal, and environmental issues; the risks associated with proliferation of nuclear weapons and terrorist attacks; and a comparison of nuclear power with other sources of energy. Settle.
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CHEM 211 - Analytical Chemistry
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CHEM 110 and sophomore standing. Emphasis on inorganic systems exhibiting aqueous solution equilibria. Topics covered include acid/base reactions, redox reactions, complexation, precipitation reactions, and solution equilibrium. Laboratory work emphasizes basic wet-chemical as well as more sophisticated instrumental techniques of chemical quantitative analysis with appropriate statistical methods of data handling. Laboratory course with fee. Staff.
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CHEM 241 - Organic Chemistry I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: Grade of C (2.0) or better in CHEM 110. A survey of the compounds of carbon including their structure, chemical and physical properties, reactivity, reaction mechanisms, identification, and synthesis. Laboratory focuses on the development of skills in preparing, purifying, and identifying organic compounds using spectroscopic methods. Laboratory course with fee. Alty, Higgs.
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CHEM 241S - Organic Chemistry I at St. Andrews
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: An average grade of 3.0 or better in CHEM 110 (or CHEM 111 and 112), a 3.000 cumulative grade-point average. A survey of the compounds of carbon including their structure, chemical and physical properties, reactivity, reaction mechanisms, identification, and synthesis. Laboratory focuses on the development of skills in preparing, purifying, and identifying organic compounds using spectroscopic methods. Taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with final grade assigned by W&L faculty member. Laboratory course. France.
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CHEM 242 - Organic Chemistry II
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CHEM 241 or 241S. A continuation of CHEM 241. Laboratory course with fee. Higgs.
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CHEM 243 - Spectroscopic Methods
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Fall 2014
Prerequisite: CHEM 242. This course covers theory and interpretation of more complex proton and carbon nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, including two-dimensional techniques, and qualitative mass spectrometry. Laboratory course with fee. Alty.
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CHEM 250 - Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: CHEM 260. A survey of main group and transition metal chemistry, as well as fundamentals of point group symmetry and of the major metalloproteins, metalloenzymes, and medicinal inorganic compounds. Main group chemistry is discussed from the perspective of the “classic” compounds from the alkali metals, the alkaline earths, the boron family, the carbon family, the pnicogens, the chalcogens, the halogens, and the noble gases. Transition metal chemistry will be examined from the standpoint of characteristic coordination geometries, kinetics and mechanism, electron transfer (inner and outer sphere), and catalysis. Uffelman.
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CHEM 260 - Physical Chemistry of Biological Systems
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: CHEM 110 or CHEM 112, and MATH 102. An introduction to the application of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics of biological systems. Topics include enzyme kinetics, the thermodynamics of metabolic cycles, and the conformational energetics of biomolecules, especially protein folding. Desjardins.
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CHEM 261 - Physical Chemistry: Quantum & Computational Chemistry
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, 2014
Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and MATH 102 and junior standing. An introduction to quantum mechanics as it applies to atomic and molecular systems. The emphasis is placed on spectroscopic methods and the modern picture of chemical bonding and molecular structure. The accompanying lab focuses on computational methods to illustrate course topics. Laboratory course. Tuchler.
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CHEM 262 - Physical Chemistry: Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter, 2015
Prerequisites: CHEM 110 and MATH 102 and junior standing. An introduction to classical and statistical thermodynamics and chemical kinetics with an emphasis on biological systems. Topics include enzyme kinetics, the thermodynamics of metabolic cycles, and the conformational energetics of biomolecules, especially protein folding. Desjardins.
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CHEM 266 - Physical Chemical Measurements
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 261 and consent of the instructor. Laboratory work illustrating the principles and instruments of physical chemistry. Laboratory course. Tuchler.
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CHEM 267 - Physical Chemical Measurements
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-14.
Prerequisite: CHEM 260 or 262 and consent of instructor. Laboratory work illustrating the principles and applications of computational chemistry. Laboratory course. Tuchler.
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CHEM 295 - Special Topics in Chemistry
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM 241 or 241S and consent of instructor. One-credit studies of special topics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Possible topics include solid state chemistry, metabolic diseases, culinary chemistry, developments in physical chemistry, data handling, and reaction dynamics. Staff.
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CHEM 297 - Special Topics in Chemistry
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM-241 or CHEM-241S. Two-credit studies of special topics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Possible topics include electrochemistry, medicinal chemistry, atmospheric chemistry and the environment, and the dynamics of photochemistry. Staff.
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CHEM 298 - Special Topics in Chemistry
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM-241 or CHEM-241S. Three-credit studies of special topics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Possible topics include RNA biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, and atmospheric chemistry and the environment. Staff.
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CHEM 299 - Spring-Term Special Topics in Chemistry
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites vary with topic and instructor. Studies of special topics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Possible topics include medicinal chemistry, materials chemistry, or atmospheric chemistry and the environment.
Spring 2014 Topic:
CHEM 299: Materials Chemistry (4). Prerequisite: CHEM 110 or 112 and at least sophomore class standing. This course provides an introduction to crystal structure for advance students. The course emphasizes physical characterization methods for solids (single-crystal X-ray diffraction, powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope, basic microscopy, thermal analysis, etc.) and on the diverse number of properties of materials that result from the crystalline packing of molecules and atoms (electronic, magnetic, color, adsorption, optical, etc.). The course concludes with an introduction of nanotechnology and how the nano scale has shaped the current direction of materials chemistry. López-Mejias.
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CHEM 311 - Advanced Analytical Chemistry
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall. Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM 211 and consent of instructor. This course deals with the process of experimentation. Topics include: statistics, statistical decision making, sampling, wet-chemical preparation, and measurement of analyte by modern instrumental (spectroscopic, chromatographic), as well as more traditional techniques (with an emphasis on electrochemistry). Laboratory course. Staff.
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CHEM 341 - Biochemistry I
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: CHEM 242. A study of the structure, function, biosynthesis and breakdown of biomolecules, including amino acids, carbohydrates, and lipids. Enzymes, biological membranes and membrane transport, signal transduction, and regulation of metabolism are studied in greater detail. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 342 - Biochemistry II
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: CHEM 341 or BIOL 215. A continuation of CHEM 341 with an emphasis on the structure, function, and metabolism of nucleic acids. Topics covered in detail include gene expression and regulation, DNA replication and repair, RNA transcription and processing, and protein synthesis and degradation. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 343 - Biochemistry I Laboratory
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 341. Experiments demonstrate the techniques used to study proteins and lipids. Isolation and characterization of proteins and lipids using gel electrophoresis, UV-Vis spectroscopy, chromatographic techniques including GC-MS, and the proper reporting and analysis of experimental data are included. Laboratory course with fee. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 344 - Biochemistry II Laboratory
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHEM 342 and instructor consent. A laboratory course designed to demonstrate the fundamental techniques used to study nucleic acids. Methods to isolate and characterize DNA and RNA include PCR, gel electrophoresis, hybridization techniques, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Laboratory course with fee. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 345 - Advanced Biochemistry
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM 341, BIOL 220 and consent of instructor. A more advanced treatment of current topics in biochemistry. Specific topics vary by year but may include enzyme/ribozyme kinetics and mechanisms, signaling pathways, biomolecular transport, chromatin structure/ function, RNA processing pathways, and regulation of gene expression. LaRiviere.
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CHEM 347 - Advanced Organic Chemistry
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CHEM 242 and consent of instructor. An introduction to the synthesis of complex organic molecules. Topics include control of stereochemistry, synthetic methodology, modern synthetic reactions, protecting groups, natural products synthesis, and combinatorial chemistry. France.
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CHEM 350 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter. Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: CHEM 250 and 261. An introduction to group theory and its application to inorganic spectroscopy and an introduction to organometallic chemistry, organometallic catalytic processes, and solid state chemistry. Uffelman.
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CHEM 365 - Advanced Physical Chemistry
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. A more advanced treatment of the fundamental areas of physical chemistry, such as thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. Specific topics vary with student interest. Desjardins, Tuchler.
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CHEM 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Advanced work and reading in topics selected by the instructor and meeting the special needs of advanced students, in accordance with departmental guidelines (available from chemistry faculty). May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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CHEM 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Advanced work and reading in topics selected by the instructor and meeting the special needs of advanced students, in accordance with departmental guidelines (available from chemistry faculty). May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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CHEM 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Advanced work and reading in topics selected by the instructor and meeting the special needs of advanced students, in accordance with departmental guidelines (available from chemistry faculty). May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Staff.
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CHEM 421 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, tri-weekly reports and laboratory work on a project supervised by the instructor and designed by the student and instructor. A final written report on the project is required. Staff.
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CHEM 422 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, tri-weekly reports and laboratory work on a project supervised by the instructor and designed by the student and instructor. A final written report on the project is required. Staff.
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CHEM 423 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, tri-weekly reports and laboratory work on a project supervised by the instructor and designed by the student and instructor. A final written report on the project is required. Staff.
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CHEM 471 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemistry and instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, reports and laboratory. Maximum of six credits. Laboratory course. Staff.
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CHEM 472 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemistry and instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, reports and laboratory. Maximum of six credits. Laboratory course. Staff.
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CHEM 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemistry and instructor consent. Literature search, conferences, reports and laboratory. Maximum of six credits. Laboratory course. Staff.
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CHEM 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Prerequisite: Honors candidacy, senior standing in chemistry, and instructor consent. Laboratory work resulting in a thesis exhibiting a significant understanding of an important problem. A student interested in Honors in Chemistry or Biochemistry should notify the Chemistry Department Head by the end of the sophomore year. Staff.
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CHIN 101 - Exploring Chinese Language and Culture
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
This course is an introduction to Chinese language and culture. Students learn elementary oral and written Chinese and also about the evolution of the Chinese language. Slides, media presentations and film clips are used to demonstrate the impact the language has had on the culture and their interactions in contemporary Chinese society. This course is not a prerequisite for CHIN 111, nor does it allow a student to move to a language course numbered higher than CHIN 111 without permission of the department. Staff.
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CHIN 103 - Supervised Study Abroad: Beginning Chinese
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Consent of the department and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to introduce Chinese language and culture to students with little or no previous Chinese language background and prepare them for studying first-year Chinese. Combining language study with studies of other aspects of Chinese culture (literature, art. history, economy, etc.) provides students with first-hand experience of the development of contemporary China. Classes and discussions are held at the International College or Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Students learn through personal experience about the emergence or modern China and its changing culture. Fu.
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CHIN 105 - Supervised Study Abroad: Beginning Chinese
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years.
Prerequisite: Consent of the department and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to introduce Chinese language and culture to students with little or no previous Chinese language background and prepare them for studying first-year Chinese. Combining language study with studies of other aspects of Chinese culture (literature, art, history, economy, etc.) provides students with firsthand experience of the development of contemporary China. Classes and discussions are held at the International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Students learn through personal experience about the emergence of modern China and its changing culture. Fu.
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CHIN 111 - First-Year Chinese I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
An introduction to modern spoken and written Chinese. In addition to classroom drill in speaking and reading, extensive use is made of both the language laboratory and the computer in outside preparation. Fu.
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CHIN 112 - First-Year Chinese II
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CHIN 111 or the equivalent. A continuation of CHIN 111. Further work on modern spoken and written Chinese. Fu.
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CHIN 113 - Supervised Study Abroad: First-Year Chinese
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite. Chinese 112, consent of the department and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to improve active oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying second-year Chinese. Classes and discussions are held at the International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Students have opportunities to mingle with ordinary Chinese people, to engage in everyday conversation, and to have first-hand experience of the development of contemporary China. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Fu.
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CHIN 115 - Supervised Study Abroad: First-Year Chinese
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisites: CHIN 112, consent of the department, and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to improve active oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying second-year Chinese. Classes and discussions are held at the International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Students have opportunities to mingle with ordinary Chinese people, to engage in everyday conversation, and to have firsthand experience of the development of contemporary China. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Fu.
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CHIN 261 - Second-Year Chinese I
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: CHIN 112 or the equivalent. A continuation of first-year Chinese with intensive drill in spoken Chinese closely coordinated with acquiring Chinese characters and reinforcing sentence patterns. Audiovisual materials are used extensively. Zhu.
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CHIN 262 - Second-Year Chinese II
FDR: FL
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CHIN 261 or the equivalent. A continuation of CHIN 261 with intensive drill in spoken Chinese closely coordinated with acquiring Chinese characters and reinforcing sentence patterns. Zhu.
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CHIN 263 - Supervised Study Abroad: Second-Year Chinese
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Chinese 261 or 262, consent of the department and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to further improve student oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying third-year Classes and discussions are held at the International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Students discuss and debate with Chinese students about emerging social. economic, and policy issues. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Fu.
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CHIN 265 - Supervised Study Abroad: Second-Year Chinese
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisites: CHIN 261 or 262, consent of the department, and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to further improve student oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying third-year. Classes and discussions are held at the International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. Students discuss and debate with Chinese students about emerging social, economic, and policy issues. The program includes field trips to points of historical interests and many cultural activities. Fu.
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CHIN 301 - Third-Year Chinese I
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: CHIN 262 or the equivalent. This course is focused upon reinforcement of Chinese structural patterns and extensive acquisition of Chinese characters, as well as topical conversational practice and the introduction of much cultural information essential to communication in Chinese. Staff.
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CHIN 302 - Third-Year Chinese II
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CHIN 301 or the equivalent. A continuation of CHIN 301 with added emphasis on writing. Staff.
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CHIN 305 - Introduction to Business and Legal Chinese
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2013 and when departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite or corequisite: CHIN 262 or equivalent. This course provides basic knowledge of the Chinese language necessary for doing business and for handling legal issues. Topics are selected that represent typical business and legal use of the language, and discussion of the grammar. Certain language features and their use and context are provided. Extensive drills and practices of the sentence patterns and specialized vocabulary, both in and out of class, further help students use the business and legal Chinese appropriately. Fu.
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CHIN 311 - Advanced Chinese I
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: CHIN 302 or the equivalent and instructor consent. Advanced readings with discussion in Chinese. This course reinforces Chinese structural patterns and extensive acquisition of Chinese characters and enhances students’ ability to speak and to write. Topics involving current Chinese culture are introduced and discussed. Staff.
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CHIN 312 - Advanced Chinese II: Contemporary Fiction
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: CHIN 311 or the equivalent and consent of the instructor. This course focuses on advanced readings in Chinese literature with intensive practice in speaking and writing. The texts analyzed are authentic modern literary works from both China and Taiwan . Zhu.
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CHIN 363 - Supervised Study Abroad: Third-Year Chinese
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Instructor consent and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to further improve student oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying four-year classes.
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CHIN 365 - Supervised Study Abroad: Third-Year Chinese
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Spring
Prerequisite: Instructor consent and approval of the International Education Committee. This course is designed to further improve student oral proficiency in Chinese, to introduce various aspects of Chinese culture, and to prepare students for studying four-year. Fu.
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CHIN 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Advanced study in Chinese. The nature and content of the course will be determined by the students’ needs and by an evaluation of their previous work. Fu.
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CHIN 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Advanced study in Chinese. The nature and content of the course will be determined by the students’ needs and by an evaluation of their previous work. Fu.
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CHIN 403 - Directed Individual Study
FDR: HL: only when the subject is literary.
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Advanced study in Chinese. The nature and content of the course will be determined by the students’ needs and by an evaluation of their previous work. Fu.
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CLAS 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-Year seminar. Prerequisite: First-Year standing. Topic varies by term.
Fall 2013 topic:
CLAS 180: FS: Empires Without End: Ancient Empires and Modern Perspectives (3). First-Year seminar. Prerequisite: First-Year standing. May be used toward a major in classics or history. “Empire” is a complex and easily misunderstood concept. The study of ancient empires can shed light on debates over modern imperialism. The first half of this seminar explores the impact of Classical Athens and the Roman Principate from the perspective of ancient contemporaries, with special focus on the cultural, social and economic distinctions of these empires. In the second half, we look at some modern empires in light of the ancient examples–among them, the British Empire, Nazi Germany, and the United States during the Cold War. We also consider the uses of comparative history, and the ways modern states use ancient history. (HU) Elliott. Fall 2013
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CLAS 200 - Ancient and Classical Art
(ARTH 200) FDR: HA
Credits: 3
A survey of art and architecture in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the pre-Classical Aegean world, as well as an introduction to Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, and architecture. Staff.
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CLAS 201 - Classical Mythology
(LIT 201) FDR: HL
Credits: 3 in fall, winter; 4 in spring
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An introduction to the study of Greek mythology, with an emphasis on the primary sources. The myths are presented in their historical, religious, and political contexts. The course also includes an introduction to several major theories of myth, and uses comparative materials drawn from contemporary society and media. Crotty.
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CLAS 203 - Greek Literature from Homer to the Early Hellenistic Period
(LIT 203) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2014
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. Readings in translation from Homer, Hesiod, the tragedians, the comedians, and the lyric and pastoral poets, including selections from Herodotus and Thucydides, and from Plato’s and Aristotle’s reflections on literature. The course includes readings from modern critical writings. Crotty.
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CLAS 204 - Augustan Era
(LIT 204) FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2014
Prerequisite: Completion of FW FDR requirement. An interdisciplinary course taught in English, using the tools of literature, history and art to examine a specific, complicated, and pivotally important period in the evolution of western culture, focused on the literary. Readings from the poets predominate (Virgil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphosis, selections from Horace, Propertius, Tibullus and other poems of Ovid) and also including readings from ancient historians dealing with Augustus and the major events of his period (e.g., Suetonius, Plutarch, and Tacitus on such topics as Actium and problems of succession). The topic for each lecture is illustrated with slides of works of art and architecture from the period. Selections from historians and from material remains are chosen according to intersection points with the literature. Carlisle.
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CLAS 208 - The Classical Epic Tradition
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014.
In this course, we read some of the most famous stories of the Western world, from the Iliad and the Odyssey, to Milton’s Paradise Lost and Joyce’s Ulysses, via Vergil’s Aeneid and Lucan’s Civil War. All of these works are epic narratives, each presenting a different concept of the hero, and yet, at the same time, participating in a coherent, ongoing, and unfinished tradition. Questions explored include: the problematic nature of the hero, the relation between poetry and violence, the nature of literary tradition. Crotty.
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CLAS 210 - Sex, Gender and Power in Ancient Literature
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014.
What does it mean to be a woman or a man and what power dynamic exists between the two genders? Definitions of gender and gender roles are not a modern phenomenon but have their origins in antiquity. Both literary and visual sources reveal to us the constant puzzling over issues of gender that preoccupied the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this course, we examine sources from various genres and media for example, philosophy, epic, drama, poetry, history, painting, and sculpture in an attempt to understand the various ways the Greeks and Romans conceived of gender. Readings include primary sources from antiquity (e.g., Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, Terence, Cicero, Livy), as well as secondary sources from modern scholarship on gender in antiquity. Staff.
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CLAS 215 - Ancient Drama and Its Influence
FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014.
Prerequisite: Completion of FW composition requirement. In this course we study ancient tragedy and comedy, both Greek and Roman, and look, too, at the cultural forces shaping ancient drama and some of the influence on later drama and thought. In addition to later plays that hail from ancient drama, we consider some philosophical interpretations of the significance of drama, and, in particular, tragedy. Crotty.
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CLAS 221 - Plato
(PHIL 221) FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Alternate years
An in-depth examination of the philosophy of Plato. We look at Plato’s epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy through a careful analysis of several dialogues, including some or all of the following: Euthyphro, Laches, Apology, Gorgias, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic. In addition, we consider certain challenges posed by Plato’s use of the dialogue form, such as whether we are justified in assuming that Socrates is a mouthpiece for Plato’s own views, and how we should interpret Plato’s frequent appeal to myths and other literary devices within his dialogues. Smith.
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CLAS 224 - The World of Late Antiquity
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014
This course introduces students to the historical period between the close of the ancient world and the rise of the Middle Ages ca. 250 to 650 AD). Students read primary sources and explore the historical evidence in order to investigate the reigning historical model of “Decline and Fall” inherited from Edward Gibbon and others, and study the development of Christianity and Judaism during this period. Finally, the course investigates the formation of Europe and the rise of Islam. Staff.
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CLAS 226 - The Trojan War
FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014
The Trojan War ranks among the greatest tales ever told. But is the story real? In this course, we begin with the literary evidence, including the epics of Homer, as well as contemporary accounts from the Bronze Age Greeks, Hittites, and Egyptians. We then follow the archaeological evidence, from the palaces of mainland Greece to the presumed site of Troy itself. Our search leads not just to the truth that lies behind the destruction of Troy, but reveals a long-lost international community of world superpowers whose cities were nearly all destroyed at the same time that Troy fell, an international cataclysm on a scale never before seen in ancient history. Laughy.
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CLAS 238 - Pompeii
FDR: SS4
Credits: 3 in fall-winter; 4 in spring
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014
The site of ancient Pompeii presents a thriving Roman town of the first century AD, virtually frozen in time by the devastating eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. In this course, we examine Pompeii’s archaeological remains-public buildings, domestic architecture, painting, artifacts, inscriptions, and graffiti-in order to reconstruct the life of the town. We also consider religion, games and entertainment, politics, and the structure of Roman society. Benefiel.
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CLAS 241 - Law, Litigation & Justice in the Ancient World
FDR: HU
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2014 and every fourth year.
This course studies justice and law in the ancient world by looking at Greek and Roman philosophical texts about the nature of justice and law, and by considering actual legal cases from the ancient world. The course aims to show how litigation and theory mutually correct and inform one another, while also showing the inherent and continuing interest of ancient thought about law and justice. Students hear lectures, engage in in-class discussion, participate in an on-line discussion, moderated by the instructor, and write two research papers. Crotty.
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CLAS 287 - Supervised Study Abroad: Athens
(HIST 287) FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014
Prerequisite: Permission of the department. Classics, art history, and/or studio in Greece. The credits may be distributed in any way between art and classics, or three credits may be earned in an approved independent study course in any department, including classics.
Spring 2014 Topic:
CLAS 287 (HIST 287): Supervised Study Abroad: Athens: Nation in Ruins: Ancient Heritage and The Making of The Modern Nation-State. (4) Spring Term Abroad. Prerequisite: Permission of the department. The focus of this interdisciplinary course is the role that ancient heritage plays in shaping the modem nation-state of Greece. After one week of preliminary coursework on campus, we spend three weeks in Athens, Greece, exploring the relationship between the past and present through trips to archaeology sites, museums, and historic neighborhoods. Topics include the art and archaeology of Greece, modem Greek history, the role of foreign schools of archaeology, the socio-political role of museums and archaeology sites, antiquities and the “branding” of national identity, and the relationship between Romanticism in Europe and the creation of the modem Greek national identity. Students will design and carry out group projects in Greece. (HU) Laughy, Gildner
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CLAS 288 - Supervised Study Abroad: Rome and Ancient Italy
FDR: HA
Credits: Not yet approved for new spring term.
Planned Offering: Not offered in 2013-2014
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Offered when interest is expressed and faculty resources permit. This course traces the growth of Rome and Roman civilization from its modest beginnings to its glory during the Republic and Empire. Lectures and readings prepare students for daily visits to sites, excavations, monuments and museums in Rome and its environs, and to locations in the Bay of Naples area. Benefiel.
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CLAS 295 - Topics in Classical Civilization
Credits: 3 credits in Fall or Winter; 4 credits in Spring
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Selected subject areas in classical civilization. The topic selected varies from year to year. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Spring 2014 Topic:
CLAS 295: Money Is Power: Control, Destruction and Revolution in the First 1000 Years of Coinage (4). This course explores the revolutionary effect of coinage in the first 1,000 years of its existence and the transformative role it played in the ancient Greek and Roman world. We explore how historical events are reflected in coinage and how coinage itself acted upon individuals, rulers, states and societies. By understanding the rapid rise of coinage as well as the wide array of ancient experiments, both successful and unsuccessful, in controlling and using it, we gain unique insight into the importance of money in our own society. As part of the course, students will be loaned an uncleaned Roman coin from Israel to clean, identify and display at the end of the class. (HU) Elliott. Spring 2014
Winter 2014 Topic:
CLAS 295: The End of the (Ancient) World: Crisis, Contagions, Cults, and Climate Change (3). In this course we consider the end of the Roman Empire. While traditional accounts emphasize political and military factors, we examine alternative explanations for the end of the ancient world. We engage with disciplines as diverse as economics, medicine, ecology, and religious studies. Students confront and participate in ongoing debates about the role that modern approaches play in understanding ancient societies. At the same time, by examining the forces which may have determined the end of antiquity, students should be better equipped to contextualize and understand similar movements in contemporary society. (HU) Elliott. Winter 2014
Fall 2013 Topics:
CLAS 295-01: City of Athens:Archaeology, Culture, and Society (3). For over one thousand years, Athens ranked among the most vibrant cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. Athens was where the concept of democracy was first invented and practiced, and the center of great achievements in theater, athletics, literature, architecture, law, art, science, philosophy, rhetoric, and a great many other institutions and pursuits that influenced not just ancient Greece, but Western civilization. In this course we explore the rich and complex history of Ancient Athens. Our discussions of the buildings, objects, inscriptions, and graves of the Ancient Athenians are supplemented with the literary testimony of the Athenians themselves, to provide a richer account of the social and political history of Athens, from its beginnings to its decline in the Late Roman period. (HU) Laughy. Fall 2013
CLAS 295-02: Topic: History of the Roman World (3). This course provides a survey of Roman history from the founding of the city to the fall of the Western Empire. We discuss the major political, military, and social developments of a civilization that has fundamentally shaped our culture until today. Students meet Rome’s major political and military players, get an idea of what it was like to live in the Roman empire, read foundational Roman authors, and explore the empire’s most significant monuments. Throughout the course, special emphasis is placed on the sources of Roman history and the challenges presented by them. (HU) Köster. Fall 2013
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CLAS 401 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 402 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 403 - Directed Individual Study
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 421 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 1
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, major in classics, and instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 422 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 2
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, major in classics, and instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 423 - Directed Individual Research
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, major in classics, and instructor consent. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
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CLAS 473 - Senior Thesis
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisites: Senior standing, major in classics, and instructor consent. The student researches and writes a senior thesis under the direction of a faculty member.
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CLAS 493 - Honors Thesis
Credits: 3-3
Planned Offering: Fall-Winter
Prerequisites: Senior standing, honors candidacy in classics, and instructor consent. Honors Thesis.
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CSCI 101 - Survey of Computer Science
FDR: FM
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Not open to students with previous credit in computer science. An overview of the discipline of computer science achieved through an introductory-level survey of a number of major areas of computer science. Topics include algorithms used for computer solutions of important practical problems, computer programming, digital logic applied to computer circuitry, computer architecture, data representation and organization, Web page basics, computer networks, and theoretical limits of computation. Lectures and formal laboratories. Staff.
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CSCI 102 - Introduction to Computational Modeling
FDR: FM
Credits: 4
This course provides a hands-on understanding of the computational methods that support science and technology now and that will be essential for success in the science, engineering, and business worlds of the near future. The central theme of the course is building computational models of the processes that surround us every day, from the effects of drugs on the body to the formation of galaxies in the universe to the interactions of nations in the global economy. Classroom lectures and textbook readings are supplemented with lab exercises implementing the models using state-of-the-art software tools. Levy.
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CSCI 111 - Fundamentals of Programming I
FDR: FM
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
A disciplined approach to programming with Python. Emphasis is on problem-solving methods, algorithm development, and object-oriented concepts. Lectures and formal laboratories. Staff.
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CSCI 112 - Fundamentals of Programming II
FDR: SC
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Fall, Winter
Prerequisite: CSCI 111. A continuation of CSCI 111. Emphasis is on the use and implementation of data structures, introductory algorithm analysis, and object-oriented design and programming with Python. Laboratory course. Staff.
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CSCI 121 - Scientific Computing
FDR: FM
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Winter
Not open to students who have taken CSCI 211 or higher. An introduction to computer programming for scientific applications and a survey of the main methodological areas of scientific computation. The course provides the tools needed for students to use computers effectively in scientific work, whether in physics, chemistry, mathematics, economics, biology, psychology, or any field involving quantitative work. Programming in Matlab, a scientific-computing software package, with a focus on topics relevant to students’ major fields of study. Lectures and formal labs. Levy.
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CSCI 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered occasionally. Each first-year seminar topic is approved by the Dean of The College and the Committee on Courses and Degrees. Applicability to FDRs and other requirements varies.
First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. . Staff.
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CSCI 209 - Software Development
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisite: CSCI 112. An examination of the theories and design techniques used in software development. Topics include the software life cycle, design patterns, the Unified Modeling Language, unit testing, refactoring, rapid prototyping, and program documentation. Sprenkle.
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CSCI 210 - Computer Organization
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisite: CSCI 111. Multilevel machine organization studied at the levels of digital logic, microprogramming, conventional machine, operating system, and assembly language. Staff.
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CSCI 211 - Algorithm Design and Analysis
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter
Prerequisites: CSCI 112 and MATH 121 or MATH 301. Methods for designing efficient algorithms, including divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. Analysis of algorithms for correctness and estimating running time and space requirements. Topics include advanced data structures, graph theory, network flow, and computational intractability. Staff.
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CSCI 250 - Introduction to Robotics
FDR: SC
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2013 and alternate years
Prerequisite: CSCI 111 or CSCI 121 or instructor consent. This course combines readings from the contemporary robotics literature with hands-on lab experience building robots with the popular Lego Mindstorms NXT toolkit (provided). The lab experience culminates with a peer-judged competition of robot projects proposed and built during the second half of the term. Levy.
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CSCI 251 - iPhone Application Programming
FDR: SC
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring 2014 and alternate years
Prerequisite: CSCI 209 or equivalent programming background approved by the instructor. In this course, students learn how to develop programs for the iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch, the most popular smart-phone platform in use today. Classroom lectures on the Objective-C language and CocoaTouch development environment are supplemented by extensive hands-on programming assignments, leading to an independent application project of the student’s devising. Williams School faculty guest lecture on the issues surrounding the iPhone App Store’s novel business model. The course culminates with a presentation of each student’s application, and an optional upload to the iPhone App Store to see how well the application sells. Lambert.
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CSCI 252 - Neural Networks and Graphical Models
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CSCI 112. A survey of the major developments in neural and belief networks, from the early perception models of the 1940s through the probabilistic Bayesian networks that are a “hot topic” in artificial intelligence today. Topics include the back-propagation algorithm, simple recurrent networks, Hopfield nets, Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Map, learning in Bayesian networks, and Dynamic Bayesian Networks, with readings from both popular textbooks and the scholarly literature. A major focus of the course is on writing programs to implement and apply these algorithms. Levy.
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CSCI 253 - Genetic Algorithms
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: CSCI 112. A survey of the major developments in genetic/evolutionary algorithms, from the Simple Genetic Algorithm through modern multiobjective optimization methods. Topics include fitness landscapes, the Schema and Building Block Hypotheses, learning and the Baldwin Effect, and genetic programming, with readings from both popular textbooks and the scholarly literature. A major focus of the course is on writing programs to implement and apply these algorithms. Levy.
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CSCI 295 - Language Laboratory
Credits: 1-3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Introduction to a computer language, which will be chosen according to needs of students and of other computer science courses. Typical languages include Smalltalk, LISP, PROLOG. May be repeated once for degree credit if the languages are different. May only be used once toward the major requirements. Staff.
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CSCI 297 - Topics in Computer Science
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Readings and conferences for a student or students on topics agreed upon by the directing staff. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. A maximum of six credits may be used toward the major requirements. Staff.
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CSCI 312 - Programming Language Design
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall
Prerequisites: CSCI 112 and 210, MATH 121 or 301. Formal language description tools, semantic concepts and syntactic constructs appropriate to diverse applications. Comparison of several high-level languages, such as Scheme, Java, ML, and PROLOG, and their implementations of these syntactic and semantic elements. Students learn the Scheme programming language and how to use it to write interpreters for other programming paradigms (object-oriented, logic-oriented, and type-inferencing). Staff.
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