An intensive study of the launching of the federal government, the rise of America's first parties, and the conflict over the completion of the revolutionary experiment.

An overview of the history of beliefs about sexuality, sexual cultures and norms, and sexuality's relationship to power in American society from the colonial period to the present.

This course provides graduate students with a detailed overview of several broad themes pertaining to the history of the British empire, 1763-1914: the first imperial crisis, slavery and the slave trade, race as a category of imperial knowledge/power, women's emancipation and the problem of empire, the post-colonial challenge to the "imperial mindset," and the intensification of imperial awareness within Britain itself, c. 1880-1914.

This course explores the interplay of culture, ideas, and society in the history of Latin America from Independence (1825) to the present. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and is attentive to issues of class, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, power, domination, and resistance. Major themes to be developed in the course are the history of ideas; popular and elite cultures; material and visual culture; work; leisure; and consumption; and the politics of representation.

Directed research on a common problem. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

May be repeated to a total of 12 credits.

This course focuses on the expansion of the Christian kiingdoms (Portugal, Castile, and Aragon) in the Iberian peninsula and across the Atlantic. Special attention will be paid to the interaction of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; cultural transformations, including developments in music literature, and the arts; political developments in Iberia and the emrgence of Spain and Portugal; and the spread of Iberia's trans-Atlantic empires.

Construction, analysis and interpretation of mathematical models applied to problems in the natural sciences. Physical problems whose solutions involve special topics in applied mathematics are formulated, various solution techniques are introduced, and the mathematical results are interpreted. Fourier analysis, dimensional analysis and scaling rules, regular and singular perturbation theory, random processes and diffusion are samples of selected topics studied in the applications. Intended for students in applied mathematics, science and engineering.

A treatment of earth surface systems from the perspective of complex systems theory. The course takes a holistic viewpoint, emphasizing interactions between the atmo-, litho-, hydro-, and biospheres and the manifestations of those signatures in soils, landforms, and ecosystems.

The course of French history to 1815, including the development of French political, administrative, legal, social, economic and cultural achievements and institutions and their contribution to the modern world.