Students will be introduced to scanning probe microscopy, and pursue projects on a variety of materials systems. This will be a hands-on course with weekly meetings to discuss progress and challenges.

Students will be introduced to quantitative ultrasound imaging. This will be a hands-on course utilizing experimental methods to study the application of ultrasound as a diagnostic tool. We will meet weekly to discuss progress and challenges.

Students will be introduced to solar cell and LED fabrication and characterization techniques, and pursue projects on a variety of materials systems. This will be a hands-on course with weekly meetings to discuss progress and challenges.

An introduction to ancient Greek philosophy, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the works and ideas of three Athenian philosophers who worked and taught in the period between the Persian Wars and the rule of Alexander the Great, more than 2,300 years ago: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Topics to be discussed include: What is the nature of the world? What is truth, and how can it be known? What kind of life should we live? We will work to understand each philosopher's responses to these questions, but we will also learn to develop our own answers.

The ancient world had a surprisingly sophisticated mathematics. From Babylonia to Hellenistic Greece we find examples of mathematics that are worthy of admiration even today. Somehow this high level was abandoned, to be regained only slowly in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the early 17th century something mysterious and remarkable happened, often called the Scientific Revolution, coinciding with a new understanding of ancient mathematics. We will use the life and work of Galileo to help organize and understand this story.

This course is intended for students who, based on the results of their precalculus assessment and the agreement of the instructor, need to strengthen their quantitative and algebraic precalculus skills in order to be ready to progress to calculus, science, and economics courses. In this class students learn to translate word problems into mathematics, to solve complex multi-step problems, and to gain confidence in using logarithms, exponents, and trigonometry in different types of problems.

Students undertaking senior level independent research under the supervision of a History faculty member register for History 394 in the fall semester and History 395 in the spring semester. The colloquium provides practical guidance about how to begin and develop a research project and a forum for discussing research methods and problems. The research project a student begins in History 394 may become a senior thesis in the second semester.

This course focuses on immigration will begin with in the nineteenth century with the anti-Chinese movement and proceed through to World War II. It will include an outline of the basic patterns of migration to the United States; their relationship to settler colonialism and U.S. imperialism; US racial formation; citizenship and family reunification; immigrant labor; illegal immigration; and struggles for migrant justice.

Studies the material and cultural consequences of the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the interconnecting of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. Topics include the expansion of globalizing trade networks, empire building, the expansion of agriculture and industry, environmental change, and differing ideas of nature in different cultures as expressed in historical documents, art, and literature. Readings include Charles Mann, 1493: Uncovering the new World Columbus Created, and Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.