The professional seminar considers both practical matters and theoretical and historical concerns for new and current graduate students in Comparative Literature.

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Performance + Research Studio is a practicum class with two purposes. First, students will strengthen and develop their performance skills with the goal of building an ensemble. Students will also conduct on-going research on the process of staging historical documents as source material. Each three-hour session will involve games, physical theater and improvisation related to script development.

This course focuses on twentieth century African popular music. It examines musical genres from different parts of the continent, investigating their relationship to the historical, political and social dynamics of their respective national and regional origins. Regional examples like "highlife", "soukous", and "mbaganga" will provide the basis for assessing the significance of popular music as a creative response to the colonial and postcolonial environment in Africa.

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This course will investigate the design of web resources for educational purposes. It will explore the tools and procedures required to design, build, and implement a Web site. Prerequisite: Experience surfing the Web, using email, and using word processing applications.

Students in this doctoral-level course will develop a solid understanding of the school mathematics curriculum from an historical perspective. Students will become familiar with the key issues and forces that have influenced mathematics curriculum change from about 1890 to 2010 and become knowledgeable of the major reports, conferences, and curriculum development efforts that have provided direction for and trends in school mathematics.

This course introduces twentieth-century science fiction through reading American, European and Japanese novels and stories, examining SF in social, critical and literary contexts, and its sites of production and consumption. (Gen.Ed. AL, U)

This course explores the potential environmental and health impacts of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It covers topics such as: the fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment, state-of-the-art techniques for the characterization of nanomaterials, and new methods for developing nanomaterials with less environmental risk.