Chemical dynamics in living systems. Enzyme mechanisms, metabolism and its regulation, energy production and utilization. Prerequisites: BCH 252 and CHM 224. Laboratory (353) must be taken concurrently by biochemistry majors; optional for others.

This studio art course offers foundational skills for artists who wish to explore the possibilities of technology in their creative practice. Students will produce works of interactive art informed by historical precedents from the fields of structural / materialist film, experimental / electronic music, and sound, video, and installation art. Topics to be covered include programming, interfacing with microcontrollers, and DIY electronics; no prior experience is assumed.

This course introduces students to the ways in which economists typically analyze issues, using models of how prices, output, profits, wages, and employment are determined. These models also help decide how the government can and should sometimes intervene-such as to reduce unemployment, or to use taxes or subsidies to encourage useful activities and discourage harmful ones (like pollution).

Students often approach the field of psychology with a desire to both understand themselves and to help alleviate the suffering of others. Many are also motivated by a desire to work towards social justice. Yet psychology and the mental health disciplines, along with their myriad forms of inquiry and intervention, are inextricably entangled with current social and political arrangements.

This course will explore the many psychological mechanisms that play a part in close personal relationships. Using psychological research as our foundation, students will be led in discussions about attraction, love, lust, and other topics pertinent to close relationships. Students will be asked to think deeply about the social constructs that influence human preferences, and the bio-psychosocial processes at play. The course will begin by dissecting the concepts of attraction and love.

This is a music performance course in which we will use our skills as improvisers and composers to create musical works that advocate for social change. The course is open to all instrumentalists, including voice. A background with improvisation is preferred. We will work as a full ensemble and in small groups. Our research work in the course will engage ways that music, with and without words, can inspire grounded thinking pertaining to social change. This course will require weekly rehearsal outside of class, and response papers to listening and reading assignments.

How does a study of the Chinese diasporic communities in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, the United States, and other parts of the world help us understand the questions of ethnic identity formation, construction, and negotiation? More specifically, how does the study of their history and experiences force us to rethink the concepts of "China" and "Chinese-ness"? These are the main questions that we seek to answer in this introductory course to the history of the Chinese diaspora.