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.

An in-depth investigation of topics in the fields of theoretical and/or applied linguistics with emphasis on a particular country/region/linguistic population, language or language group. Possible topics include: history of a language or language group; sociolinguistics of a language or language group(s); structure of a language or language group; phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics or discourse analysis of a language and/or its dialects; acquisition of pragmatic, cultural and/or communicative competence in a language.

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

Critical treatment of the laws of thermodynamics, relations among thermodynamic properties; stability of systems; thermodynamic processes; selected special topics.

This course is intended to provide future manufacturing managers and leaders a basic understanding of important theories and practices necessary to successfully manage and lead teams to achieve manufacturing organizational objectives. The course is organized into several modules. The first module will focus on developing an understanding and capability to approach ethical and sustainability concerns confronted by manufacturing organizations.

Introduction to the fundamentals of mining engineering and the profession. Prospecting and exploration concepts introduced including ore reserve estimation techniques. Underground and surface mining methods will be studied with emphasis to applications to given deposit types and spatial constraints. General mine plan, sequence of development and cycle of operations for each method evaluated along with required auxilliary operations and equipment.

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