Automata and finite state machines, regular sets and regular languages; push-down automata and context-free languages; linear-bounded automata; computability and Turing machines; nondeterminism and undecidability. Perl is used to illustrate regular language concepts. Prerequisites: 111 and MTH 153.

By fitting comfortably in our pockets and bags, smartphones are worn on our bodies throughout the day and remain by our pillows at night. These mobile computers are packed with accelerometers, gyroscopes, cameras, microphones and even GPS. They present a unique platform for location and context-aware software. Through readings and projects, this course examines the opportunities and challenges presented by mobile computing. This is a hands-on seminar; projects include the development and deployment of applications on smartphones and other mobile devices.

This course introduces fundamental concepts in the design and implementation of computer communication networks, their protocols and applications. Topics to be covered include layered network architecture, physical layer and data link protocols; and transport protocols; routing protocols and applications. Most case studies will be drawn from the Internet TCP/IP protocol suite. Prerequisites: CSC 111 and MTH 153.

A half-semester introduction to the design and creation of interactive environments on the world wide web. Focus on three areas: (1) Website design, (2) JavaScript, (3) Embedded multimedia objects. Enrollment limited to 35. Prerequisites: CSC 102 or equivalent competency with HTML.

Creative responses to the destruction of European Jewry, differentiating between literature written in extremis in ghettos, concentration/extermination camps or in hiding, and the vast post-war literature about the Holocaust. How to balance competing claims of individual and collective experience, the rights of the imagination and the pressures for historical accuracy. Selections from a variety of artistic genres (diary, reportage, poetry, novel, film, monuments, museums), and critical theory of representation. All readings in translation.

Topics course. An introduction to the principles and methodology of pharmacology, toxicology and drug design. The pharmacology of several drugs is examined in detail, and computational software used to examine drug binding and to assist in designing a new or modified drug. Some of the ethical and legal factors relating to drug design, manufacture and use will also be considered. Prerequisite: BCH 352, or permission of the instructor.

Research design and methodology for field and laboratory studies of animal behavior. Prerequisite, one of the following: BIO 260, 272, 362, a statistics course, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15 students.

This team-taught studio course will introduce first-year students to a range of conceptual frameworks for making and thinking about art. Unlike a skills-based class devoted to a single medium, in this course students will practice problem solving across traditional media boundaries. Students will have the opportunity to explore two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and time-based media. Assignments will allow students to develop both studio and site-specific approaches. The course is strongly recommended for students considering the art major.

Topics course. This seminar investigates work by contemporary artists that engages explicitly or implicitly with architecture and work by contemporary architects that situates itself in relation to art. We will examine the ways in which site, function, space and place are expressed and articulated in and among the categories and practices of sculpture, installation and architecture, and we will consider the social and political implications of various examples. Permission by the instructor.

Topics course. Why have individuals and groups been moved to destroy art? How has art been construed as both essential, bewitching, and dangerous? We shall consider representational imagery in ancient Greece and Rome, and in Judaic and Islamic traditions; the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy; 16th-century Northern European iconoclasm and the coincident wholesale destruction of indigenous American art; the Counter-Reformation validation of religious imagery; the French Revolution; and attacks on works of art in the modern world.