This course introduces ideas and techniques that are fundamental to computer science. The course emphasizes procedural abstraction, algorithmic methods, and structured design techniques. Students will gain a working knowledge of a block-structured programming language and will use the language to solve a variety of problems illustrating ideas in computer science. A selection of other elementary topics will be presented. A laboratory section will meet once a week to give students practice with programming constructs. Two class hours and one one-hour laboratory per week.

Fall semester. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Intensive reading, writing

Independent reading course.

Fall and spring semesters. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Intensive reading, writing

(Offered as CLAS 420 and SWAG 420)  While the gender binary and the concept of homo- and heterosexuality are nineteenth-century European and colonial constructs, the literature and art of ancient Greece and Rome abound with representations of gender and sexuality that defy both ancient and modern norms. At a time when queer and trans identities are facing multiple political threats, it feels ever more urgent to remember that queer people have always existed: both within and outside the confines of the so-called “classical” world.

Independent reading course.

Fall and spring semesters. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Intensive reading, writing

Demigods. Monsters. Statues transformed into people and people transformed into birds, rivers and trees. Greek and Roman mythology, with its bestial transgressions and divine interventions, constantly roughs up the boundaries of the “human.” It challenges our conceptual distinctions between man and animal, animal and environment, living and inanimate. In short, it implicates a viewpoint that we might call posthumanist. And mythological literature is not alone in this.

A chronological survey of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the age of Alexander, with attention to the range of Greek political systems and religious life in each historic period, and to the wars that punctuated and to a large extent defined the different phases of Greek history.

A study of Roman civilization from its origins to the Empire, with emphasis on major Roman writers. The material will be interpreted in the light of Roman influence upon later civilization. The reading will be almost entirely from Latin literature, but no knowledge of the ancient language is required. The course also prominently addresses key issues in the ancient world (e.g., race, gender, religion) and their reception in the post-classical era. Three class hours per week.

Limited to 50 students. Fall semester. Professor Zanker.

Independent Reading Course.

Fall and spring semester. Members of the Department.

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This course, along with Chinese 402 in the spring semester, is the most advanced class in our Chinese language curriculum. Giving consistent emphasis to listening, speaking, writing, and grammar, the course focuses on advanced reading of authentic and idiomatic texts of Mandarin Chinese. With a balanced consideration to various topics, genres, and speech types, literary works will make up the principal part of the fourth-year reading materials.