This course will investigate how gender and class serve as structuring principles in the development of the Victorian novel in Britain, paying attention to the ways in which the form also develops in relation to emerging ideas about sexuality, race, nation, and religion. Novelists include Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, and Gaskell and we will read examples of domestic fiction, detective fiction, social realist novels, and the Victorian gothic.

This course goal is to provide students with the knowledge and craftmanship necessary to identify the causal agent of a disease to prescribe management to reduce damage caused by that disease. Students will be trained to evaluate the disease, develop a working hypothesis, test that hypothesis, conclude on a diagnosis and recommend management. Through hands on practices, students will learn how to troubleshoot a plant disease diagnosis, including how to identify symptoms, signs, and causal agents.

Biology, ecology, classification and identification of fungi and fungal-like organisms. Includes consideration of fungi as causes of diseases in animals, humans, and plants, and their uses in biotechnology applications.

This course is a survey of selected musical traditions from different parts of the world, including Africa, India, Latin America, and the United States. It examines how musical traditions change over time and how they reflect and relate to social and political developments within a given society. The class adopts an ethnomusicological approach that explains music as a cultural phenomenon and explores the social and aesthetic significance of musical traditions within their respective historical and cultural contexts.

This is an Honors level introductory linear algebra course. The course will cover abstract vector spaces over arbitrary fields and linear transformations between them. In addition to standard discussion of characteristic polynomials, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, orthogonality, and inner product spaces, the course would also discuss some applications of linear algebra to problems from the other sciences and engineering, and include a discussion of the importance of numerical solutions of large systems of equations.