Introduction to the basic methodology and results of modern linguistics. Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge. Investigation of sentence structure (syntax), sound structure (phonology), word structure (morphology), and meaning (semantics). (Gen.Ed. R2)

This course examines the role of Jews and Judaism in shaping the negotiation of Religion and State in Europe, especially with the emergence of secularism and the modern nation-state.

In his definitive book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, film historian Thomas Bogle critically analyzes a range of racial distortions, caricatures, and demeaning stereotypes that have represented African Americans since the birth of film and television. This course surveys a range of media images of Black people to understand how these portrayals reflect and shape the politics of race and gender in the US.

A seminar in writing short stories and other fiction for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basis of scene and story. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary fiction.

Survey of the arts of the Americas from the 16th century to 1860. Emphasis on the collision of indigenous traditions with British, French, and Spanish colonial visual cultures in the Americas; the visual arts' role in the construction of identities, politics, religion, and society.

This course provides an overview of commonly used computational methods and their applications to physics problems. Using the Python programming language, students begin with learning how programs send instructions to computers, move on to simple data visualization, error analysis and uncertainty in computational calculations, and then progress to numerical integration and differentiation, machine learning and stochastic methods. In each case, students examine the method’s applications to relevant physics scenarios.

An examination and analysis of electoral politics in the United States. Voting and elections are viewed in the context of democracy. Topics include electoral participation, presidential selection, campaigns, electoral behavior, public opinion, parties and Congressional elections. Designation: American.