Interrogating theories of intellectualism, among them Antonio Gramsci's notion of traditional and organic intellectuals, and distinctions between categories of criminal and enemy, this course will trace the role of black prison writings in the development of American political and legal theory.

A study of the major poems and selected prose of John Milton, radical and conservative, heretic and defender of the faith, apologist for patriarchy and advocate of human dignity, the last great Renaissance humanist, a poet of enormous creative power and influence. Not open to first-year students.

This is a class about poems that make no sense. Many would claim that these are not poems at all (they're wrong). We will survey some of the many ways poets during the last seventy years have sought to expand the boundaries of poetry, to escape assumptions about the lyric speaker and ?self,? to release the energies of sound and the non-semantic properties of language, often in hopes of contributing to social revolutions and the imagining of new ways of being in the world.

An introduction to Anglophone fiction, poetry, drama and film from Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia in the aftermath of the British empire. Concerns include: the cultural work of writers as they respond to histories of colonial dominance; their ambivalence towards English linguistic, literary and cultural legacies; the ways literature can (re)construct national identities and histories, and explore assumptions of race, gender, class and sexuality; the distinctiveness of women writers and their modes of contesting cultural and colonial ideologies; global diasporas, migration and U.S.

A study of the language of Anglo-Saxon England (ca. 450-1066) and a reading of Old English poems, including The Wanderer and The Dream of the Rood. We will also learn the 31-character Anglo-Frisian futhorc and read runic inscriptions on the Franks Casket and Ruthwell Cross.

Each colloquium is conducted by means of directed discussion, with emphasis on close reading and the writing of short analytical essays. Priority will be given to incoming students in the fall-semester sections of the colloquia. Other students should consult the course director about possible openings. Enrollment in each section limited to 20. A study of the novel, novella, and short story, stressing the formal elements of fiction, with intensive analysis of works by such writers as Austen, Dickens, James, Faulkner, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf.

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.

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.

Topics course. This seminar will explore how China recollects, reflects and reinterprets its past, and how Chinese history and its literary and cultural traditions are represented in a new light on the world stage through film and literature. We will also examine closely how tradition is integrated and transformed into modern Chinese society and life. Topics include literary texts and films about Confucius and the First Emperor of China, the concept of Hero, the representation of Mulan, Du Liniang, and the heroine Qiu Jin. Enrollment limited to 12 juniors and seniors.

The primary objective of this course is to examine the state of the art and practice in parallel and distributed computing, and to expose students to the challenges of developing distributed applications. This course deals with the fundamental principles in building distributed applications using C and C++, and parallel extensions to these languages. Topics will include process and synchronization, multithreading, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and distributed objects. Prerequisites: 212 and 252.