Latinx Cinema has built a reputation for paradigm-shifting takes on less-often cinematized themes of intersectional oppressions across the hemisphere, films that challenge the assumption of monolingual communication, and that reach the hearts and minds of US, Latin American, and Latinx audiences.

In this course, students will be introduced to Persian language in greater detail. They will use the Persian language alphabet that they learned in Persian Elementary I course (or somewhere else) to read and write words and sentences. Students will also be able to identify parts of speech, use various verb tenses, and display knowledge of correct sentence structures. In these lessons all four language skills are taken into consideration, so students will also practice listening and speaking.

Discussion, oral presentations, problem solving, and reading of current literature pertinent to research interests of one or more faculty. Graduate students doing research in PSE.

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Introduction to syntactic theory, with implications for universal grammar and grammatical theory in general. Topics include theories of phrase structure, the form and functioning of transformations, grammatical relations, anaphora and control, word order problems, universals of grammar, relations between grammatical theory and learnability, language acquisition. Honors option may be available. Prerequisite: LINGUIST 201.

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The course introduces advanced central topics in biostatistics and health data science including survival analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, models for correlated data, bayesian modeling, and causal inference. The course motivates statistical reasoning and methods through substantive research questions and features of data typically available in public health and biomedical research. Students will obtain hands-on experience in applying selected methods on real data using the statistical programming language R.

General approach to and quantitative methods of exposure assessment; issues associated with interpretation of exposure information; statistical considerations, validation, and ethics; quantitative exposure modeling; concepts of biomarkers and biomonitoring.

This course is one of three courses where students learn the responsibilities and processes of preparing for a live theatrical production by working on an actual production running crew. It requires each student to put in scheduled hours on a particular show. Students will be contributing to a production team (stage manager, assistant stage manager, designer, video/sound technician, etc.) or helping on a run crew (deck hand, wardrobe supervisor, light board operator, sound board operator, dresser, make-up assistant, etc).