This course aims to advance multicultural thinking in the study and practice of psychology by increasing understanding about mental health problems affecting the major U.S. ethnic minority groups. First, the course uses self-examination to provide an experiential understanding of ethnocultural development. Second, it provides theoretical models and concepts for understanding ethnic minority mental health in a sociocultural, historical, psychological and methodological context.

Considers language and communication difficulties and disorders in adults and children arising from such factors as sensory impairment (deafness and blindness), cognitive and social impairment (Down's syndrome and autism), and specific language impairment. Studies the brain mechanisms underlying language disorders through cases of adult and childhood aphasia resulting from brain damage. Also covers issues of language assessment and intervention. Prerequisites: PSY/PHI 213 Language Acquisition or PHI 236 Linguistic Structures or by permission of instructor. Enrollment limit of 25 students.

The course provides an introduction to deductive and inductive logic. It introduces classical Aristotelian and modern truth-functional logic; explains the relationship between truth-functional logic, information science and probability; and it introduces basic features of statistical and causal reasoning in the sciences. This course is designed for students who are uncomfortable with symbolic systems. It is not a follow-up to LOG 100. Students who have taken LOG 100 cannot receive credit for taking LOG 101 subsequently.

Admission by permission of the program, normally for juniors and seniors.

Admission for majors by permission of the department.

This course offers the opportunity to read contemporary poetry and meet the poets who write it. The course consists of class meetings alternating with public poetry readings by visiting poets. On five selected Tuesdays, the course also includes Tuesday Q&As with the poets, which meet from 4?5 p.m. Students with class, lab or required work conflicts are excused from Q&As. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated.

By permission of the department.

The capstone seminar brings together a cohort of concentrators to discuss the final translation project that each student undertakes with the guidance of their adviser in the concentration and to situate the project within the framework of larger questions that the work of translation elicits. The seminar readings focus on renowned practitioners' reflections on the difficulties and complexities of translating, the obstacles, discoveries and solutions that the translator encounters.

Offered both semesters of each year. 

Advances in material science have lead the way to new technologies in every engineering discipline and continue to be at the forefront of developing fields. The key theme that will be highlighted in this course is that the useful properties of any material are ultimately related to its chemical and physical structure. Both chemical composition and the processing of a given material critically impact its structure.