Designed to meet the needs of upper division and graduate students who are preparing for the graduate reading examination or who need reading knowledge of Italian in their minor.

A study of Italian literature, culture or film according to period, genre or theme. Taught in English. May be repeated once with a different subtitle.

Topics selected from stochastic models, decision making under uncertainty, inventory models with random demand, waiting time models and decision problems.

The fundamental goal is to cover those mathematical theories essential to the study of quantum mechanics and quantitative study of partial differential equations, especially the partial differential equations of mathematical physics (engineering graduate students).

Various topics from the basic graduate courses. Designed as a course for teachers of lower division mathematics and usually offered in connection with a summer institute. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.

Various topics from the basic graduate courses. Designed as a course for teachers of lower division mathematics and usually offered in connection with a summer institute. May be repeated once.

Embedding and metrization, compact spaces, uniform spaces and function spaces.

A study of 20th century philosophies represented by the works of thinkers such as Husserl and Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur, Habermas and Apel. Generally based in a reflection on human experience, these philosophies undertake a radical criticism of common conceptions of human nature while variously emphasizing rationality, ontology, language, or social and historical context.

An intermediate course in symbolic logic which reviews sentential logic, develops further the logic of quantification, and introduces metalogical issues such as the construction, consistency, and completeness of deductive systems.

The close relationship between physical science, technology and our everyday lives will be illuminated by examination of the technology we purchase and use and by observations of natural phenomena we can make using only the informed mind and eye.