Engaging with diverse examples and forms of poetic expression and performance – ranging from poems and songs to plays and popular festivals – this course explores facets of modern and contemporary culture and society in Brazil while developing facility in oral expression, listening and reading comprehension, and writing in Portuguese. The course is designed at the intermediate to advanced-intermediate level. Prerequisite: POR 120 or POR 125. Enrollment limited to 18.

This course serves as a comprehensive grammar review with a focus on Brazilian media. In addition to a grammar textbook, the class uses several other sources to stimulate class discussion, as well as to improve reading comprehension, writing skills and vocabulary-building in Portuguese, including a selection of media forms and texts, websites, television, radio and film. Prerequisite: POR 100Y, POR 110 or POR 125, or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 20.

A one-semester introduction to Brazilian Portuguese designed for speakers of Spanish, aimed at basic proficiency in all four language modalities: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Classes are in Portuguese and students’ individual knowledge of Spanish supports the accelerated pace of the course, with contrastive approaches to pronunciation and grammar. The course also provides an introduction to aspects of the cultures of Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa, with discussion of authentic audio-visual materials and short texts.

Introduction to (relativistic) local field theory.  Electrostatic and magnetostatic fields in vacuum and in matter, Maxwell’s equations of electrodynamics and electromagnetic waves. Prerequisite: PHY 210 and PHY 215, or equivalent.

Newtonian and Lagrangian dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, oscillations and planetary orbits. Prerequisite: PHY 210 and PHY 215, or equivalent.

A course emphasizing the pedagogy in physics based on Physics Education Research (PER). Readings and discussion emphasize the research literature and strategies for implementing successful and effective methods of teaching physics at the introductory level in the classroom. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: (PHY 111 and PHY 112) or (PHY 113 and PHY 114) or PHY 117, PHY 118 or PHY 119. Instructor permission required.

This course gives students a practical introduction to experimental atomic physics by having students do real, publishable research. While this course-based research program is focused on high precision spectroscopy, students gain skills that can be generally applied to investigational science in experimental design, experimental iteration and systematic error analysis, data analysis and writing scientific papers for publication.