Topics course. This course focuses on twentieth century African popular music; it examines musical genres from different parts of the continent, investigating their relationships to the historical, political and social dynamics of their respective national and regional origins. Regional examples like highlife, soukous and mbaqanga will provide the basis for assessing the significance of popular music as a creative response to the colonial and postcolonial environment in Africa.

This course will provide a critical survey of rock music, tracing the music?s development from blues and blackface minstrelsy to heavy metal, grunge, and techno. Emphasis throughout will be placed upon understanding musical developments in the context of American race and gender relations and the politics of youth cultures in the U.S. Topics to be covered include: Elvis Presley and American race relations; Jimi Hendrix and the blues; girl groups; the rise of arena rock; and the significance of the DJ in hip hop. Enrollment limited to 45.

Topics Course The mathematics of how you can stream videos while your mom is using the same cable to call on the phone. Hilbert spaces, Fourier series, Fourier transform, discrete Fourier transforms, wavelets, multiresolution analysis, applications. MTH 281 is required.

Topics course. DNA and RNA can each be represented as a sequence of letters (nucleotides). Combinatorial properties of these sequences---the order of the letters, matchings between sequences or within a sequence---have important biological implications. This course will focus on these combinatorial properties, studying different kinds of permutation groups, their generators, and their Cayley graphs. Time permitting, we will also study noncrossing matchings and their relationship with permutation groups. We will emphasize applications to molecular biology, and will describe open questions.

Functions of several variables, vector fields, divergence and curl,critical point theory, implicit functions, transformations and their Jacobians, theory and applications of multiple integration, and the theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes. Prerequisites: MTH 211 and MTH 212, or permission of the instructor.

The course will begin with the basic structure of graphs including connectivity, paths, cycles, and planarity. We will proceed to study independence, stability, matchings and colorings. Directed graphs and networks will be considered. In particular, some optimization problems including maximum flow will be covered. The material will include theory and mathematical proofs as well as algorithms and applications. Prerequisites: MTH 153 and MTH 211 or permission of the instructor.

This is the same course as PSY 201, formerly MTH/PSY 190.

This is the same course as PSY 201, formerly MTH/PSY 190.

This is the same course as PSY 201, formerly MTH/PSY 190.

This is the same course as PSY 201, formerly MTH/PSY 190.