Poetry of the political imagination is a matter of both vision and language. Any progressive social change must be imagined first; any oppressive social condition, before it can change, must be named in words that persuade. Poets of the political imagination go beyond protest to define an artistry of resistance. This course explores how best to combine poetry and politics, craft and commitment. Students will read classic works ranging from Pablo Neruda's historical epic, The Heights of Macchu Picchu, to Allen Ginsberg's Howl, the book that sparked an obscenity trial.

Non-parametric regression techniques and concepts such as splines, kernels, regularization, and cross-valdiation are both important for the development and understanding of modern machine / statistical learning and also extremely useful and flexible tools for data analysis. Students in this course will learn how to use non-parametric techniques to analyze data and how the methods work. The course will focus on practical methods for data analysis not theory.

Introduction to economic analysis for majors and nonmajors. Facts and concepts basic to understanding the U.S. economy today. Topics may include:
unemployment, economic development, inequality, technology, social wealth, environment, government economic policy, economic alternatives, race and gender, and discrimination. Contrasting theoretical perspectives. (Gen.Ed. SB, DU)

This graduate seminar in dramaturgy each semester goes in depth into a special topic. Topics to include: Multicultural Theater Practice, Performance Theory, Avant-Garde Theater, Production Dramaturgy, Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgical Writing. Please check at enrollment time to see what Special Topic is being offered for the coming semester.

A survey of novels written in the British Isles between 1789 and 1901, with emphasis on historical context, form and genre, and themes including industry and empire, gender and class, and religion and science.

The course introduces the concept of waves in materials and fluids. The first part of the course is an introduction to boundary value problems and to waves in materials and acoustic waves. The second part is devoted to hydrodynamics and waves in the ocean. Introduction to partial differential equations and boundary value problems; Wave equation; waves in strings and membranes; elastic waves in materials; acoustic waves in fluids; hydrodynamics of water waves; linear and nonlinear wave theories; refraction and diffraction; random waves; breaking waves and solitons.

Incompressible and compressible flow theory applied to airplane lifting surfaces and engines. Topics include potential flow theory, the Euler equations, thin airfoil theory, and gas dynamics. A commercial computational fluid dynamics package may be used to visualize the flows.

Not available at this time.

Emphasis on foundation and conceptual understanding of physical phenomena. Focus on prototypes of convective transport and transport processes involving homogeneous and heterogenous reactions; role of boundary conditions including moving boundaries; molecular interpretation of diffusion.