This course provides an overview of micromachined structures with an emphasis on operational theory and fabrication technology.

Engineering Exploration I introduces students to the engineering and computer science professions, College of Engineering degree programs, and opportunities for career path exploration. Topics and assignments include study skills, team development, ethics, problem solving and basic engineering tools for modeling, analysis and visualization. Open to students enrolled in the College of Engineering. Students who received credit for EGR 112 are not eligible for EGR 101.

A course investigating contrasting traditions of American poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several poets are examined within historical and literary contexts, and their poems examined in detail through close reading, with attention paid in particular to stylistic/formal characteristics. Poets studied may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.

Readings in the poetry and prose non-fiction of the period with relevant scholarship.

This course deals with chemical, biochemical, and enzymatic significance of proteins in food systems; physicochemical and functional properties of animal and plant proteins, their interactions with lipids, carbohydrates, flavors, minerals and other food components during processing and storage, and resulting modifications of food quality.

Research on an interdisciplinary topic approved by the LAS Advisory Committee in the area of Latin American Studies.

This course introduces graduate students to Latin American Studies. It is a topical seminar, which engages a series of fundamental issues or problems of importance to scholars of Latin America. Coordinated by a LACLAS affiliated faculty member, it addresses these issues of current scholarly interest from multiple disciplinary perspectives and examines the philosophy and methods of interdisciplinary research. The interdisciplinary seminar features guest appearances in the classroom by LACLAS affiliated faculty.

This course provides a linguistic investigation of language contact, the interaction of two or more languages in situations of individual or community bilingualism/multilingualism. The full range of linguistic contact phenomena will be illustrated with examples from different languages, both historically and in the present day.

The course builds on the groundwork laid in LIN 512 Analysis of English Syntax in two main ways: (1) by framing the problems introduced in the first course within a non-Chomskyan framework of assumptions found in constraint-based lexicalist grammars; and (2) by going beyond the confines of English to account for syntactic data from other languages. A fundamental shift from Chomskyan to constraint-based lexicalist grammar is the rejection of syntactic derivation, or transformations, i.e.

This course answers the following questions: What is a vampire? Where do they come from? Why do we have an obsession with the walking dead, especially with fanged monsters? How do we get rid of them (or attract them)? The course will explore the origin of the vampire in Slavic folklore and trace the movement of the legend across Europe into literature and then finally into today's films and pulp fiction. We will learn about the legends, rituals and folk religious beliefs associated with the vampire phenomenon and how they have been interpreted over the centuries by various peoples.