(Formerly PSY/MTH 190) Same as MTH 201. An overview of the statistical methods needed for undergraduate research emphasizing methods for data collection, data description, and statistical inference including an introduction to study design, confidence intervals, testing hypotheses, analysis of variance and regression analysis. Techniques for analyzing both quantitative and categorical data will be discussed. Applications are emphasized, and students use SPSS and other statistical software for data analysis.

(Formerly PSY 243) We will investigate aging from a lifespan perspective, studying the span of emerging adulthood to old age. In addition to focusing on psychological processes, we will spend time considering societal influences on aging. Topics include theories of the life-cycle, the impact of generations, identity formation, the experience of growing older, personality stability, and psychological adjustment to the myths and realities of old age.

(Formerly PSY 225) This course will provide an overview of health psychology using concepts, theories, methods, and applications of the field. We will critically examine state-of-the-art research and current gaps in knowledge to explore topics including: definitions of health and illness; stress and coping; health behaviors; and health promotion. Emphasis will be placed on the ways psychological factors interact with the social, cultural, economic, and environmental contexts of health.

(Formerly PSY 218) Theory and research on human cognition, from the fields of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Topics include visual perception, attention, knowledge representation, memory, language, problem-solving, and consciousness. Prerequisite: PSY 100.

This course covers a variety of math topics of particular use to physics and engineering students. Topics include differential equations, complex numbers, Taylor series, linear algebra, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, and a review of multivariate calculus, with particular focus on physical interpretation and application. Prerequisites: MTH 212 and PHY 117, or permission of the instructor.

This course covers a variety of math topics of particular use to physics and engineering students. Topics include differential equations, complex numbers, Taylor series, linear algebra, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations, and a review of multivariate calculus, with particular focus on physical interpretation and application. Prerequisites: MTH 212 and PHY 117, or permission of the instructor.

The concepts and relations (force, energy, and momentum) describing physical interactions and the changes in motion they produce, along with applications to the physical and life sciences. Lab experiments, lectures, and problem solving activities are interwoven into each class. Discussion sections offer additional help with mathematics, data analysis, and problem solving. This course satisfies medical school and engineering requirements for an introductory physics I course with labs.

This course for non-science majors explores the physics of musical sound through lecture, discussion, hands-on activities and demonstrations. Sample topics include how sound is generated, travels, and is heard; the physics of musical notes, pitches, harmonics and resonances; and how musical instruments (including the human voice) generate the sounds that we hear. Students select, design, construct and try out wind, string, or percussive musical instruments. These instruments are theirs to keep at the end of the course. Enrollment limit of 14 students.

Topic Course This seminar will reconstruct and examine a slice of one of the most influential trajectories in the history of nineteenth and twentieth century European philosophy. The focus will be the work of the German philosopher Nietzsche. On what basis did he criticize the role played by reason, understanding, truth and morality in the work of respected philosophers such as Plato, Descartes and Kant in the history of philosophy? Who were his historical role models?

Questions about waste permeate our lives. Perhaps most obviously there is the never-absent concern, across time and culture, about what to do with the waste humans generate in virtue of their biological processes, their practices of production, and their habits of consumption. At the same time, deciding what counts as waste is an inescapable part of our lives.