Topics course. This seminar approaches studying the nervous system by examining the mechanisms that have evolved to solve problems encountered by animals in their natural environment. Topics covered include behaviors related to orientation and migration, social communication, feeding and reproduction. Prerequisites: NSC/PSY 100 and one of NSC 230, BIO 200, BIO 300 or permission of the instructor. BIO 362 is recommended but not required. Enrollment limited to 12.

Study of major developments in 20th- and 21st-century music. Writing and analytic work including non-tonal harmonic practice, serial composition, and other musical techniques. Prerequisite: 210 or permission of the instructor. Study of major developments in 20th- and 21st-century music. Writing and analytic work including non-tonal harmonic practice, serial composition, and other musical techniques. Prerequisite: 210 or permission of the instructor.

History of the form from its inception to the present, with emphasis on selected masterworks.

Topics course. From the early 19th century Irish Melodies of Thomas Moore to contemporary hip-hop, popular vocal music in the United States has been tied to processes of ethnic and racial formation. This course examines how some ethnic and racial minorities in America (African, Jewish, Chinese, Latino) were portrayed through the medium of commercially published popular song in the period c. 1850-1950. Questions of historical and cultural context are considered but the emphasis is on the relationship (or nonrelationship) between music and text.

An introduction to the mathematical theory of statistics and to the application of that theory to the real world. Topics include functions of random variables, estimation, likelihood and Bayesian methods, hypothesis testing and linear models. Prerequisites: a course in introductory statistics, MTH 212 and MTH 246, or permission of the instructor.

Enumeration, including recurrence relations and generating functions. Special attention paid to binomial coefficients, Fibonacci numbers, Catalan numbers and Stirling numbers. Combinatorial designs, including Latin squares, finite projective planes Hadamard matrices and block designs. Necessary conditions and constructions. Error correcting codes. Applications. Prerequisites: MTH 153 and MTH 211 or permission of the instructor.

An introduction to the concepts of abstract algebra, including groups, quotient groups and, if time allows, rings and fields. Prerequisites: MTH 153 and MTH 211, or permission of the instructor.

Same as CLT 288. The work of certain writers -- often women and often Wharton, von Arnim and Colette -- is categorized as small in scope, narrowly focused and therefore marginal in some ways. Here are questions, based in part on readings in landscape and domestic design theory, that we can ask to help us see their work differently: When and how is it appropriate to juxtapose writers' biographies on their fiction? How do they represent domestic discord -- loss, rage, depression -- in their fiction?

Landscapes guide their use and reveal their past. This landscape design studio asks students to consider the landscape as a location of evolving cultural and ecological patterns, processes and histories. Students work through a series of site-specific projects that engage with the narrative potential of landscape and critically consider the environment as socially and culturally constructed. A variety of media are used in the design process including drawing, model-making, collage and photography. Priority given to LSS minors and ARCH majors. Enrollment limited to 14.

Debates over the meaning, interpretation and management of unique, artistic, historic and/or culturally significant places take center stage in this course. Students consider how and why some landscapes and buildings get preserved and protected while others are redesigned, ignored, neglected or demolished. Major themes in the course include continuity and change in the built environment, notions of cultural heritage and the concept of authenticity. Readings include theoretical and historical perspectives on the topic supplemented by case studies and field investigations.