The historical patterns and salient cultural elements of China from ancient times to the beginning of the early-modern era. Topics include: ancient myths and the archaeological record; Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; Buddhism; imperial rule; law, crime, and punishment; society; artistic and literary traditions; urbanization and commercialization; China's interaction with neighbors. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The historical patterns and salient cultural elements of China from ancient times to the beginning of the early-modern era. Topics include: ancient myths and the archaeological record; Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; Buddhism; imperial rule; law, crime, and punishment; society; artistic and literary traditions; urbanization and commercialization; China's interaction with neighbors. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The historical patterns and salient cultural elements of China from ancient times to the beginning of the early-modern era. Topics include: ancient myths and the archaeological record; Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; Buddhism; imperial rule; law, crime, and punishment; society; artistic and literary traditions; urbanization and commercialization; China's interaction with neighbors. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The historical patterns and salient cultural elements of China from ancient times to the beginning of the early-modern era. Topics include: ancient myths and the archaeological record; Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; Buddhism; imperial rule; law, crime, and punishment; society; artistic and literary traditions; urbanization and commercialization; China's interaction with neighbors. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

The historical patterns and salient cultural elements of China from ancient times to the beginning of the early-modern era. Topics include: ancient myths and the archaeological record; Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism; Buddhism; imperial rule; law, crime, and punishment; society; artistic and literary traditions; urbanization and commercialization; China's interaction with neighbors. (Gen.Ed. HS, DG)

This course explores how and why a preoccupation with the care and commemoration of the dead was given concrete reality in art, architecture, and ritual throughout the Middle Ages. Proceeding in a largely chronological fashion, we will explore changing conceptions of death itself and the afterlife from the third through the fifteenth centuries. Critical in our investigations will be an understanding of the many ways in which the living and the dead were dependent upon one another throughout this period, and how all forms of the visual arts mediated this interdependence.

This is a course in applied physics with the ultimate goal of describing how stars work. Topics include gravitation, stellar mass determination, stellar structure, stellar atmospheres, stellar evolution, and the physics of pulsating stars. We will approach each of these topics from fundamental concepts and we will work our way to a detailed understanding. On the way we will review the structure of the atom, radiative processes, and some basic principles of thermodynamics.

Was Caravaggio a "rebel" artist? What was so revolutionary about his art? How did it relate to violence of his times, to the Catholic Church, to his own sexuality? These are some of the questions we will investigate in this course. Together we will create a virtual exhibition of Caravaggio?s paintings examining the themes of his art and investigating their resonances for our lives today and for contemporary art. Assignments include assembling the collaborative exhibition website, as well as writing individual research papers.

An integrated presentation of the biochemistry and molecular biology of cellular interactions. Emphasis on accounting for complex cellular processes in terms of protein structure and regulation of gene expression. Topics include gene structures and techniques for studying them; replication; control of gene expression; post-translational processing; membrane associated energetics; behavior of transport systems; mechanisms of signal transduction; and interactions of cells with extracellular matrix and with other cells. Taking BIOCHEM 523 before enrolling in this course is strongly recommended.

An overview of physical chemistry (thermodynamics, kinetics, statistical and quantum mechanics, and spectroscopy) emphasizing applications to biology including macromolecule structure and stability, ligand binding, enzyme catalysis, and membrane structure and transport.

Prerequisites: One year intro Physics; Calculus through partial derivatives