The hierarchical linear model provides a conceptual framework and a flexible set of analytic tools to study a variety of educational, social and developmental processes. One set of applications focuses on data in which persons are clustered within social contexts such as couples, families, classrooms, schools, or neighborhoods. A second set of applications concerns individual growth or change over time.

How does a child choose one grammar from a million possible grammars? How are grammar and thought alike and not alike. Stresses the child's use of an inborn linguistic mechanism to produce creative sentences. Acquisition of syntax and semantics from the one-word stage through complex utterances. Linguistic principles as a window to unconscious principles of mind. Recent discoveries in the area of complex syntax. Students learn to search naturalistic data and do a small experiment. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201.

This course investigates the common syntactic properties underlying human languages. This is done by comparing similar linguistic structures in a variety of related languages and teasing apart the phenomena that seem constant from the parts that seem to vary. This process also showcases how to construct and evaluate theories of syntactic phenomena. Prerequisite: Linguistics 401 or 401H.

This course surveys the current state of the electricity infrastructure in developing countries as well as the challenges and technology trends that are shaping the evolution of these systems. Concepts include infrastructure components, electricity access initiatives, measurement of electricity reliability and power quality, and the relationship between electricity and international development. Students will gain insight into contemporary engineering challenges in improving the scope and quality of electricity service in developing contexts.

This course surveys the current state of the electricity infrastructure in developing countries as well as the challenges and technology trends that are shaping the evolution of these systems. Concepts include infrastructure components, electricity access initiatives, measurement of electricity reliability and power quality, and the relationship between electricity and international development. Students will gain insight into contemporary engineering challenges in improving the scope and quality of electricity service in developing contexts.

Introduction to fundamentals of radar systems. Radar range equation, critical radar components, and system performance. Detection, modulation, noise, and propagation effects. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 584 or equivalent.

Basic principles of the psychology of aging including methods, cognition, personality, and social psychology. Cultural variations and minority concerns regarding physical and mental health, family relationships, and public policy toward the aged. Prerequisite: introductory psychology.

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Dialects blend curiosity, analysis, practice, and imagination; students will use established resources and discover others to learn scenes and monologues by playwrights as distinct as Caryl Churchill, Noel Coward, Martin McDonagh, Tennessee Williams.