In thiscourse, taught in English, students will explore how the concept of the scientific mind develop in German sciences, literature, art, and philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present. By examining parallel and intersecting developments in cultural products and in the natural sciences, we will examine how knowledge was separated into different fields.

Focusing on a variety of literary genres this course will explore aesthetic representations of and engagements with migration, as well as texts born of migration. In addition to primary sources, course materials include scholarship on the labeling, classification and positioning of these texts, their public-political interventions and literary (re)conceptualizations of home, belonging, refuge, citizenship, exile, and migration.

Study architectural techniques for efficient hardware design for machine learning (ML) systems including training and inference. Course has three parts. First part deal with ML algorithms: regression, support vector machines, decision tree, and naive Bayes approaches. Second part deals with convolutional and deep neural network models.

General view of the cultural, economic, and political development of Latin America, 1492 to 1824. Topics include the Iberian and Indian backgrounds; Spanish and Portuguese imperial organization; role of Indians, Blacks, and Europeans in the New World; the coming of independence. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

General view of the cultural, economic, and political development of Latin America, 1492 to 1824. Topics include the Iberian and Indian backgrounds; Spanish and Portuguese imperial organization; role of Indians, Blacks, and Europeans in the New World; the coming of independence. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

General view of the cultural, economic, and political development of Latin America, 1492 to 1824. Topics include the Iberian and Indian backgrounds; Spanish and Portuguese imperial organization; role of Indians, Blacks, and Europeans in the New World; the coming of independence. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

A survey of modern Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on cultural history. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The Civil War era as the central epoch in American history; the crucial issues: development of sectional hostilities; why and how the war came, course and conduct of the war; attention to Lincoln and emancipation. Emphasis on the people. Biographies, narratives, and historical fiction.