This interdisciplinary course considers the diverse histories, cultures and experiences of Indigenous individuals and peoples in Brazil, from the precolonial period into the present and including future oriented forms of Native activism and imagination.

This course serves as a comprehensive grammar review with a focus on Brazilian media. In addition to a grammar textbook, students use 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 120 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.

This is an accelerated beginning language and culture course (one-semester) that presents a condensed introduction to Brazilian Portuguese with the objective of creating a foundation for students in all four language modalities: listening, reading, writing and speaking. The course also introduces aspects of the cultures and societies of Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) countries. Students can enroll in a POR 200 course the following semester. Enrollment limited to 20.

For this course we read articles and attend talks on diverse topics in physics; attendance at bi-weekly Physics Seminars is required. The emphasis is put on oral presentation and discussion of the new phenomena using knowledge from other physics courses. Prerequisite: PHY 215, or equivalent. Restrictions: Juniors and seniors only. Enrollment limited to 8.

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. S/U only. Prerequisites: (PHY 111 and PHY 112) or (PHY 113 and PHY 114) or (PHY 117 or PHY 119). Instructor permission required.

A semester of experiments in electronics, with emphasis on designing, building, making measurements, and trouble-shooting circuits. Analog circuits: filters, AC circuits, operational amplifiers, semiconductors, and microcontrollers. Final individual or small group design project. Priority given to physics majors and minors, and students planning to major or minor in Physics. Prerequisite: (PHY 113 and PHY 114) or (PHY 118 or PHY 119), or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 18. Instructor permission required.

A semester of experiments in electronics, with emphasis on designing, building, making measurements, and trouble-shooting circuits. Analog circuits: filters, AC circuits, operational amplifiers, semiconductors, and microcontrollers. Final individual or small group design project. Priority given to physics majors and minors, and students planning to major or minor in Physics. Prerequisite: (PHY 113 and PHY 114) or (PHY 118 or PHY 119), or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 18. Instructor permission required.