Over the years, the family has gradually given up many of its functions and much of its authority to outside institutions. Schools, religious institutions, peer groups, and various community organizations now perform basic tasks of socialization, education, work, and recreation that were previously the domain of the family.

History of Mexican culture, society and politics from the late 18th century to the present. Emphasis on the legacy of Spanish colonialism, popular social movements of the 19th century, origins, process, and outcome of the Revolution of 1910, the student movement of 1968, and the ongoing quest for economic and political stability against the backdrop of the 1980s debt crisis, NAFTA, and the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Previous Latin American history survey desirable.

Course topics: fundamentals of Fourier theory and its application to speech signals, parameterization of the speech signal for automatic and human speech recognition, state space models for speech recognition and connections to human language parsing, fundamentals of machine learning applied to supervised learning of sound categories.

This course will examine modern Brazil from 1800 to the present, concentrating on the making of the nation given its massive geographical size and diverse population. Topics studied include Brazil's status as the world's largest slave holding society in the nineteenth century, and twentieth-century attempts to establish democracy.

Required lab supplement for Experimental Methods in Ecology (Biology 497EM).

Introduction to experimental methods in ecology with an emphasis on rigorous experimental design, hypothesis testing, methods of data collection, and introductory data analysis. Laboratory will involve field trips, greenhouse experiments, and computer time.

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This course will be a survey of the historical and emerging ethical issues in scientific research. Topics to be covered include protection of human subjects, conflicts of interest and scientific misconduct.

This course provides a thorough introduction to international political economy (IPE): the study of the dynamic interplay between international economics and politics. The course first reviews different theoretical approaches to analyzing and explaining governance in the contemporary international system and the basis for world order. It then covers a wide variety of contemporary issue areas in international political economy, including the politics of international trade, development, and international financial regulation.