A critical survey of problems and literature in the political, social, and cultural history of Twentieth Century Europe. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits when topical coverage is sufficiently different from one semester to another.
This course will provide an overview of major themes and events that have shaped Modern European History from the late 18th century to the present. We will analyze the various ways in which particular historical topics have been interpreted (and reinterpreted) over time, as well as historians' different methodologics, underlying assumptions, and use of evidence. The major goal of the course, however, is to introduce graduate students to significant works and historical debates on Modern European History.
This seminar focuses on the African American experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the present. Using primary documents and secondary readings, this course will examine the construction of race relations and the individuals, organizations, events, and issues significant to the shaping of the black experience.
General introduction to Japanese culture from Meiji Restoration (1868) to the present. Topics include: nation-building, Japan and the West, Japan and Asia (for the Meiji period 1868-1912); gender construction and class formation, urbanization and mass culture (for the Taisho period 1912-1926); and Japanese colonialism, WWII, A-bomb, the U.S. occupation, postwar recovery, popular culture, and globalization (for the Showa period 1926-1989 and beyond).
The study of the varieties of modern American English: regional, social, and ethnic varieties, gender differences in communication, creoles and pidgins, stylistic variation. History and methods of American dialect study. Same as LIN 310. No prerequisites. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
The course is an introduction to strategic decision making and game theory. Ideas such as Nash equilibrium, dominant strategies, evolutionary stability, and asymmetric information are applied to a variety of strategic decision making problems taken from economics, computer science, politics, and biology.
Reports and discussion on recent advances in Topology. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.
Simple random sampling, statistics and their sampling distributions, sampling distributions for normal populations; concepts of loss and risk functions. Bayes and minimax inference procedures; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing; introduction to nonparametric tests; regression and correlation.
Definition and classification of stochastic processes, renewal theory and applications, Markov chains, continuous time Markov chains, queuing theory, epidemic processes, Gaussian processes.
An analysis of common radiation hazards encountered in medicine, research, industry, and the environment. Regulations and procedures for the safe use of ionizing and nonionizing radiations. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two and one-half hours.
