Students in this course investigate the production of the built environment and the landscape of cities, focusing on key actors such as neighborhood activists, real estate developers, city officials, and environmentalists, among other advocates and interested parties. Organized thematically and supplemented by readings in urban theory and related fields, the course tackles questions of how urban places are made, why different cities look and feel the way they do, and who shapes the city. Prerequisites: LSS 100 or LSS 105 or by permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20.  

Complex numbers, functions of a complex variable, algebra andgeometry of the complex plane. Differentiation, integration, Cauchy integral formula, calculus of residues, applications. Prerequisite: MTH 280 or MTH 281, or permission of the instructor.

Grounding our work in the current scholarship in lesbian history, this course will explore lesbian communities, cultures, and activism. While becoming familiar with the existing narratives about lesbian lives, students will be introduced to the method of oral history as a key documentation strategy in the production of lesbian history. Our texts will include secondary literature on late 20th century lesbian culture and politics, oral history theory and methodology, and primary sources from the Sophia Smith Collection (SSC).

Topics course. An investigation of the emerging fields of synthetic biology and bionanotechnology drawn from semi-popular and primary research literature. In this seminar, we focus on the central question of what can be achieved by approaching biology from an engineering mindset. Specifically, what can be learned by treating biological components (proteins and nucleic acids) and systems (signaling and metabolic networks) as interchangeable machine-like parts?

Students design and carry out their own experiments focused on neural and muscle development using zebrafish as a model system. Techniques covered include embryology, indirect immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization, microinjection of RNA for gain or loss of function studies, pharmacological analysis, GFP-transgenics, an array of microscopy techniques. This laboratory is designed as a true research experience and thus will require time outside of the normally scheduled lab period. Prerequisite: BIO 302 must be taken concurrently. Enrollment limited to 12.

How does a single cell give rise to the complexity and diversity of cells and forms that make us the way we are? Developmental biology answers this question by spanning disciplines from cell biology and genetics to ecology and evolution. The remarkable phenomena that occur during embryonic development is presented in concert with the experiments underlying our current knowledge. We will have web conferences with the prominent developmental biologists whose research we are covering. Prerequisites: BIO 150, BIO 152 and BIO 202 or BIO 230; BIO 154 is suggested.

This yearlong research-based lecture-laboratory course exposes students to fundamental concepts across the natural and life sciences through interdisciplinary research. Cannot be repeated for credit. Course only open to first-year students. Enrollment limit of 18 students. Fall: 1 credit; spring: 4 credits; 5 credits total. (E) Does hydraulic fracturing or ?fracking? pose any environmental danger? In the fall students will read and discuss all aspects of fracking from the politics to the science, and then engage in laboratory research the following spring semester.

Students in this course will investigate the structure, function and physiology of cells, the properties of biological molecules, information transfer from the level of DNA to cell-cell communication, and cellular energy generation and transfer. The development of multicellular organisms and the physiology of selected organ systems will also be explored. In addition to attending lectures, each student will participate in discussion sections that will focus on data analysis and interpretation while integrating mechanisms across scales. Laboratory (BIO 151) is recommended but not required.

Students in this course investigates the structure, function and physiology of cells, the properties of biological molecules, information transfer from the level of DNA to cell-cell communication, and cellular energy generation and transfer. The development of multicellular organisms and the physiology of selected organ systems is also explored. In addition to attending lectures, each student participates in discussion sections that will focus on data analysis and interpretation while integrating mechanisms across scales. Laboratory (BIO 151) is recommended but not required.

Students in this course investigate the structure, function and physiology of cells, the properties of biological molecules, information transfer from the level of DNA to cell-cell communication, and cellular energy generation and transfer. The development of multicellular organisms and the physiology of selected organ systems is also explored. In addition to lectures, each student participates in discussion sections that will focus on data analysis and interpretation while integrating mechanisms across scales. Laboratory (BIO 151) is recommended but not required.