Topics course This course explores issues of gender and sexuality within the field of embodiment studies.
We will pay particular attention throughout the course to bodies marked as ?unruly? in various ways: dysfunctional, disabled, diseased, excessive, grotesque, abject, etc. Students will acquire a solid grounding in feminist theories of embodiment, disability studies, and queer phenomenology. Prerequisite: SWG 150 and at least one additional course in SWG .

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies, including its historical formations and recent innovations. Particular attention will be paid to the roots of queer theory in feminist theories of subjectivity and desire, queer of color critique, and queer critiques of traditional domains of knowledge production. Prerequisite: SWG 150 or permission of the instructor.

Topology is a kind of geometry in which important properties of a figure are preserved under continuous motions (homeomorphisms). This course gives students an introduction to some of the classical topics in the area: the basic notions of point set topology (including connectedness and compactness) and the definition and use of the fundamental group. The course could be taken concurrently with Real Analysis.) Prerequisites: MTH 280 or 281 or permission of the instructor.

The topological structure of the real line, compactness, connectedness, functions, continuity, uniform continuity, sequences and series of functions, uniform convergence, introduction to Lebesgue measure and integration. Prerequisites: MTH 211 andMTH 212, or permission of the instructor.

Formerly MTH 245

Formerly MTH 245

Formerly MTH 245

In sections limited to 15 students each, this course primarily provides systematic instruction and practice in reading and writing academic prose, with emphasis on argumentation. The course also provides instruction and practice in conducting research and in public speaking. Bilingual students and non-native speakers are especially encouraged to register for sections taught by Holly Davis. Priority will be given to incoming students in the fall-semester sections. Course may be repeated for credit with another instructor.

Introduction to a block-structured object oriented high-level programming language. Will cover language syntax and use the language to teach program design, coding, debugging, testing, and documentation. Procedural and data abstraction are introduced. Enrollment limited to 48; 24 per lab section.

After Japan?s semi-seclusion ended in the mid-nineteenth century, the country witnessed an extraordinary blossoming of experimentation and enrichment in poetic forms, diction, subject matter, and purpose. This course will begin with a brief introduction to the venerated poetic traditions of pre-modern Japan, pick up with the major poetic reforms of the Meiji period (1868-1912), and then follow the remarkable course of Japanese poetry?in its momentous historical context?up to the present.