This course examines the Western traditions in painting, sculpture and architecture from circa 1500, with an emphasis on Florence, Rome (the High Renaissance) and Venice, and in Northern Europe, through the 17th century (Baroque) in Southern and Northern Europe and the 18th century (Rococo) in Northern Europe, to the Age of the Enlightenment, Neo-classicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Expressionism, etc., to the rise of Modernism and Modernity in the 20th century (Europe and the United States of America), and concluding with the contemporary period. Enrollment limit of 50 students.

This course explores how art and architecture have profoundly shaped visual experiences and shifting understandings of past and present. While featuring different case studies, each section includes work with original objects, site visits, and writings about art.

Major writers of the 1909 to 1940 period, with emphasis on modernism and the desire to "make it new." Innovative fiction by Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald and Zora Neale Hurston. Modernist poetry by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Edna Millay, Robert Frost and others.

Modern civilization relies profoundly on efficient production, management and consumption of energy. Thermodynamics is the science of energy transformations involving work, heat and the properties of matter. Engineers rely on thermodynamics to assess the feasibility of their designs in a wide variety of fields including chemical processing, pollution control and abatement, power generation, materials science, engine design, construction, refrigeration and microchip processing.

Analog and digital circuits are the building blocks of computers, medical technologies and all things electrical. This course introduces both the fundamental principles necessary to understand how circuits work and mathematical tools that have widespread applications in areas throughout engineering and science. Topics include: Kirchhoff's laws, Thevenin and Norton equivalents, superposition, responses of first-order and second-order networks, time-domain and frequency-domain analyses, frequency-selective networks. Corequisites PHY 210. Required laboratory taken once a week.

Principles and techniques used in development of language with deaf children. Consideration is given to traditional and modern approaches to language development as it applies to reading and writing as well as spoken language. Strategies for developing reading and written language skills, the use of expository text to develop language skills, as well as formal and informal assessment, and using information from evaluations to develop an Individual Education Program are discussed.

The institutional educational contexts through which our adolescents move can powerfully influence the growth and development of our youth. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this course examines those educational institutions central to adolescent life: schools, classrooms, school extracurriculars, arts-based organizations, athletic programs, community youth organizations, faith-based organizations and cyber-communities.

This course looks at key issues, themes and challenges in contemporary schooling in various parts of the world including Asia, Africa, South America, Europe and the United States. Using mainly case studies within national and cross-national contexts, we explore schooling and its implications on classroom practice, teachers, students and society. Drawing on "Education for All," a phrase that has been used to frame education goals in many countries, we also explore the issue of access to quality education, among other challenges facing education in select countries.

Students who speak languages other than English are a growing presence in U.S. schools. These students need assistance in learning academic content in English as well as developing proficiency in English. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the instructional needs and challenges of students who are learning English in the United States. This course explores a variety of theories, issues, procedures, methods and approaches for use in bilingual, English as a second language, and other learning environments.

An economic analysis of legal rules and cases. Topics include contract law, accident law, criminal law, the Coase theorem and the economics of litigation. Prerequisite: ECO 250.