This course is structured around six social and professional domains in which interpreting and translation play a significant role (Healthcare, Business, Court/Police, Refugee/Asylum, Human Rights Commissions, and the Military). Students will work on understanding the institutional structures and discursive practices of these particular domains; gain relevant vocabulary; and continue to practice translating, sight translating and interpreting relevant texts.

This course treats modular forms, their relation to arithmetic and geometry, and other applications. Topics include the following: geometry of the upper half plane and quotients by congruence subgroups, Eisenstein series/cuspforms/theta series, Fourier expansions, L-functions, Hecke theory, applications of modular forms to arithmetic and combinatorics.

The goal of this 1-credit seminar is to review advanced calculus and linear algebra, not as a collection of stand-alone recipes but as a coherent body of knowledge. In addition to going over the basic computational techniques and problem solving strategy, we will will also revisit these materials systematically, emphasizing the geometric point of view and connections between different topics. The weekly meetings will divide between in-person lectures and in-class problem- solving.

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This course fulfills the Junior Year Writing requirement on a variety of topics.