This course furthers the development of receptive and expressive signing skills. The course introduces the more complex grammatical structure including signing space, body posture and facial expression. More information about the deaf community will be done through readings, videotapes/DVDs. class discussion, presenters and events. Prerequisite: successful completion of American Sign Language I or equivalent proficiency.

Elementary Chinese I: This course will be taught by Danni Song, a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program, and supervised by Professor Kay Johnson. It will cover the second semester of beginning Chinese. The course will follow the Integrated Chinese textbook series. The class will cover speaking, reading, and writing Chinese characters. Required books are: Integrated Chinese Textbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Workbook Level 1, Part 2; Integrated Chinese Character Workbook, Level 1, Part 2.

The second semester of a year-long course that introduces the basics of Modern Standard Arabic, this course concentrates on all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students will begin with chapter 6 of Al Kitaab and complete Chapter 13 in Al Kitaab Book I by the end of the academic year. Students will acquire vocabulary and usage for everyday interactions as well as skills that will allow them to read and analyze a range of texts.

This course is the second semester of first-year, Spanish and students enrolled in this course should have taken LS101 or the equivalent. This class is taught almost entirely in Spanish and focuses on speaking and using Spanish. Students entering this level should be able to use the present, future (ir+a+infinitive) and preterit with some fluency and accuracy. Attention is given to building accuracy with grammatical structures introduced in LS101 and focuses on the differences between the preterit and imperfect tenses along with an introduction to present subjunctive.

This course is designed for students with no background in Spanish. Students are introduced to basic grammatical structures (including present, preterit and future (ir + a + infinitive tenses) and by the end of the semester should be able to communicate in verbal and written forms about personal information, daily activities, future plans and past experiences. All four skill areas (speaking, listening, reading and writing) are practiced through activities that are based on real-life situations, the on-line course textbook and the students' experiences.

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 advisor in the concentration and to situate the project within the framework of larger questions that the work of translation elicits. The seminar readings will focus on renowned practitioners' reflections on the difficulties and complexities of translating, the obstacles, discoveries and solutions that the translator encounters.

Topics course. Materials science and engineering is at the forefront of technologies addressing elder care, manipulating weather, walking robots, plastic bridges, the body as a network, photonics, biomimetics and fashion. At the heart of this conversation is the need to understand material's structure (defect chemistry) and the manipulation of this structure. In this seminar, topics include the influence of structure on electrical, optical, thermal, magnetic and thermomechanical behavior of solids. An emphasis is placed on ceramics and glass.

Topics course. This seminar covers advanced topics in thermodynamics. Specifically, students learn about exergy, gas mixtures, chemical reactions, chemical and phase equilibria, and advanced cycle analysis. In a more exciting form, we discuss the aspects of thermo that are relevant to studies in advanced energy systems like fuel cells, combined heat and power plants, and solar thermal applications. EGR 290 and CHM 111 are firm pre-reqs.

Introduction to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. Prerequisites: 215 or permission of the instructor.