A four credit honors seminar for STPEC students who have completed STPEC 391H. Seminar topic changes each semester. Fulfills the STPEC Focus seminar requirement.

One of two required STPEC Core seminars; examines the social, historical and political conditions in which the 20th century took place. Contact department for details.

This course aims at modeling the role of the context of utterance in the construction of linguistic meaning; it does so by - but not exclusively by - exploring the relation between truth-conditional and non truth-conditional content. We elucidate the notions of speech acts, discourse and utterance, and we concentrate on a small number of phenomena: presupposition and non at-issue content, implicatures, focus and questions.

This course investigates the language used in advertisements. Advertisements are designed to persuade us to do things. Our focus will be on how advertisers use language to convey meanings, how they appeal to our emotions and elicit humor. We will examine concrete examples and use basic concepts from linguistic theory to understand the properties of persuasive language and the kinds of meanings that are at play.

In this interdisciplinary laboratory course, we will explore the topic of imaging biological material, beginning with optics and basic microscopy. Students will perform hands-on exercises in the use of the light microscope, digital cameras, and image processing and quantification. Common pitfalls in imaging biological samples will be covered. Students will perform experiments to test and quantify various aspects of cell migration, cell cycle regulation, mitosis and endocytosis.

Do you ever wonder how your brain is organized? How neurons communicate with one another, and function together, or what goes wrong in different neurological diseases. This course is an introductory survey into neurobiology, from molecular and cellular mechanisms to nervous system organization and animal behavior. We will delve into foundational knowledge about nervous system anatomy, physiology, connectivity, and function that can be built upon in future upper level courses.

Advanced review of principal elements of Spanish grammar. For majors, minors, and others who plan to continue with Spanish beyond SPANISH 240.

Advanced review of principal elements of Spanish grammar. For majors, minors, and others who plan to continue with Spanish beyond SPANISH 240.

Advanced review of principal elements of Spanish grammar. For majors, minors, and others who plan to continue with Spanish beyond SPANISH 240.

Advanced review of principal elements of Spanish grammar. For majors, minors, and others who plan to continue with Spanish beyond SPANISH 240.