This course is an introductory statistics course that uses modeling as a unifying framework. The course provides a basic foundation in statistics with a major emphasis on constructing models from data. Students learn important concepts of statistics by mastering powerful and relatively advanced statistical techniques using computational tools. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, visualization, probability, study design, and multiple regression.
This course is an introductory statistics course that uses modeling as a unifying framework. The course provides a basic foundation in statistics with a major emphasis on constructing models from data. Students learn important concepts of statistics by mastering powerful and relatively advanced statistical techniques using computational tools. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, visualization, probability, study design, and multiple regression.
This course is an introductory statistics course that uses modeling as a unifying framework. The course provides a basic foundation in statistics with a major emphasis on constructing models from data. Students learn important concepts of statistics by mastering powerful and relatively advanced statistical techniques using computational tools. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, visualization, probability, study design, and multiple regression.
A single course.
Spring 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: Independent research; critical review of texts; drafting and revising thesis; discussions with thesis advisor; readings, discussions and/or written work in Spanish (dependent on thesis topic and language of composition); thesis defense (second semester).
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is the best novel ever written in Spanish in the Americas. Appearing inauspiciously in 1967, it became the flagship of the so-called "El Boom," an aesthetic movement that inscribed Latin America in the banquet of world literature. It also inaugurated the style called "lo real maravillioso," loosely translated into English as Magical Realism. The narrative tells the rise and fall of Macondo, a mythical town in Colombia's Caribbean coast.
2026 is the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a conflict that left scars
on the landscape and psyche of Spain. The war also had a global impact, anticipating the Second World
War, the international rise of fascism and the refugee crises of the twenty-first century. In this course, we will
delve into the discord and violence of the war as well as the anguish and catharsis of the literature,
poetry and film it inspired. Through primary sources and historical accounts, we will understand the
Caribbean, Las Antillas, Les Caraïbes, West Indies. Each of these terms carries ideological and cultural meanings that reach far beyond the geographical and linguistic areas they designate. In this course we will examine how writers and other artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have used them, explicitly or implicitly, to explore different imaginaries of the region and its place in the world. Many of the texts we will discuss will be from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, but we will also discuss texts from other parts of the region in the
(Offered as SPAN 330, FAMS 338, LLAS 330 and SWAG 332) How have Latin Americans represented themselves on the big screen? In this course we will explore this question through close readings of representative films from each of the following major periods: silent cinema (1890s–1930s), studio cinema (1930s–1950s), Neorealism/Art Cinema (1950s), the New Latin American Cinema (1960s–1980s), and contemporary cinema (1990s to today).
(Offered as SPAN 310, EUST 311 and SWAG 320) Spain’s reckoning with misogyny and machismo came to a boiling point over a non-consensual kiss on live television after the Spanish national soccer team won the Women’s World Cup in 2023. The #SeAcabó movement, like #MeToo in the United States and #NiUnaMenos in Latin America, represents a reckoning with decades of patriarchy, abuse and the underestimation of women. But how did we get to this moment? From the early twentieth century through today, the status of Spanish women has experienced dramatic reversals.
The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is a pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. This interdisciplinary course will explore the origins of the Camino de Santiago through the Middle Ages, and its recent transformation into a cultural phenomenon. It will be divided into several units that focus on art and architecture, gastronomy, history, music, literature, philosophy, pop culture, religion and tourism. Major cities along the different pilgrimage routes will act as cultural “stops” to complement these topics.
