In this seminar, students will examine texts and works of art that have profoundly shaped the world we live in. The course is divided into four units: Models of Inquiry; the Impact of Science and Technology; Social Philosophy and Civic Engagement; and Art in the World. The course is supplemented with several plenary lectures by distinguished honors faculty speakers.

This course is intended to provide a base of knowledge about Iraq. Topics learned in this course include Ancient and Modern Iraqi History, The People of Iraq and Their Cultures, The 20th Century Political Turmoil in Iraq, and The War in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom).

A comprehensive course in immunology.

Russian, Czech, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, American, and Latin-American stories from Romanticism to the present. Fantastic tales, character sketches, surprise endings; main types of the short story. (Gen.Ed. AL)

An introduction to digital culture, including study of actual works of art in their new digital forms and the implications of "hypertext" for creative writing, theory, and criticism. Potential for academic research on the Internet, the World Wide Web, and electronic libraries. (Gen.Ed. I)

Contact department for description. (Gen.Ed. AT,G)

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Practice in conversation, using a variety of materials including newspaper articles, films, television broadcasts and web sites. This course is designed to develop oral proficiency. There is no written work. All exams will be oral. Prerequisite: for the Fall course ITL 110 or 111, or placement exam to assure correct language level. Prerequisite for the Spring course: ITL 220 or 230 or 231, or placement exam to assure correct language level. This course can be repeated. Permission of the instructor required.

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.

This course explores cultural practices surrounding the medieval European book from three different perspectives: the medieval literary, the scholarly, and the artistic. The main body of readings for the class is taken from medieval writings on books, authors, and reading, and a large part of the course will aim at understanding medieval attitudes toward text production and reception. At the same time, the class will be looking at medieval books themselves, both in digital form in online repositories and in local Rare Book Rooms.