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          Spring 2020
    CAP LECTURE LIST
      Princeton University
 Office of Community and Regional
              Affairs

Community Auditing Program (CAP)
        4 Mercer Street
      Princeton, NJ 08540

     Telephone (609)258-0202

  Email: PUCAP@princeton.edu

             Website:
  https://community.princeton.edu
Community Auditing Program
                                  Office of Community and Regional Affairs
                                    4 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
                                  Website: https://community.princeton.edu
                                        Email: pucap@princeton.edu
                                  CAP office hours: M – F, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
                                         Telephone: (609) 258-0202

   •   Fall Class Fee $200 per course, per semester. Auditor Only Series $125 per course. Check, cash, or
       credit card (Visa, MasterCard, and Discover) accepted.
   •   To receive a refund when dropping a course, you must notify the CAP office in writing (email
       acceptable) on or before Wednesday, February 12, 2020 by 5:00 pm.
   •   Registration is limited to one (1) course until the third day of registration.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

   •   Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m.
       Day 1 Activated auditors only, one course limit
   •   In-person online registration: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street
       Day 1 Activated auditors only, one course limit
Thursday, January 30, 2020

   •   Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m.
       Day 2 Activated auditors only, one course limit

   •   In-person online registration 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street
       Day 2 Activated auditors only, one course limit
Friday, January 31, 2020, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street

   •   Home/Off-site online registration: opens at 11a.m. – for all activated auditors
   •   In-person online registration 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., CAP Office, 4 Mercer Street– for all activated
       auditors

Friday, January 31 – Friday, February 14, 2020
       Registration remains open for all auditors, online, by mail, or in the CAP Office, through the first two
       (2) weeks of classes for courses with space available.

        Monday, February 3, 2020               First Day of Classes

        Wednesday, February 12, 2020           Last Day for Refunds, Written request required by 5:00
                                               p.m.

        Friday, February 14, 2020              Last Day to enroll in a class

        March 9-13, 2020                       Midterm exams – lecture schedule per instructor

        March 14-22, 2020                      Spring break

        Monday, March 23, 2020                 Classes resume
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        Friday, May 1, 2020                    Classes End/Auditor Lecture and Reception
CAP at McCarter                        Class Dates: Wednesday's January 8, 22 & 29
                                                    Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
       “GOODNIGHT, NOBODY”
                                                    Performance date: Wed., January 15, 2020
                                                    Time: 7:30 pm (the performance on 1/15 is in
                                                    place of the Wednesday afternoon class.)
  The Producers & Artists behind an
     original play & a McCarter                     Tuition $200. This class includes 3 classroom
            commission                              sessions and 1 performance. The performance
                                                    ticket is included in the class fee.
Lead Instructor: Debbie Bisno, Resident
Producer, McCarter Theatre Center                        REGISTRATION by appointment only

Guest Artists/Guest Speakers will include:          The Playwright: Rachel Bonds' plays have been
Producers, Playwright, Director, Dramaturg and      developed or produced by McCarter, South
Director of Production.                             Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club,
                                                    Roundabout, Atlantic, New Georges, Ars Nova,
The Play: this winter, McCarter features the
                                                    Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown, Actors
funny & moving original play GOODNIGHT,
                                                    Theatre of Louisville, Studio Theatre, Arden
NOBODY by Rachel Bonds.
                                                    Theatre, and New York Stage and Film. Her
     REGISTRATION by appointment only               plays include: Five Mile Lake which received its
                                                    East Coast premiere at the McCarter; At the Old
              Goodnight, Nobody                     Place, developed at the
         The Big Chill meets This Is Us.            Arden; Swimmers, featured at New York Stage
                                                    and Roundabout, receiving top ranking on The
 A group of old friends reconnect after years       Kilroys' List; Michael & Edie, named a New York
    apart. Reminiscing over the mishaps of          Times Critics' Pick in 2010; Winter
motherhood to the miss-steps of sex, drugs, and     Games, winner of the Heideman Award and
   rock n’ roll, the realities of life prove that   part of the Humana Festival; The
                “Adulting” is hard.                 Noise, developed at New Georges and Ars Nova;
                                                    and Anniversary, winner of the 2012 Samuel
  About the Class: CAP at McCarter features         French Festival and featured on NPR. Bonds is a
  behind the scenes access to the artists and       graduate of Brown University.Related Articles
producers creating original work for the stage.     about and by Rachel Bonds:
  Read the script, see the play, go behind the
 scenes from multiple vantage points – from
 playwright to producer - with this case study
 class designed to provide theatre lovers and
curious culture seekers with an insider's view
  of the life of a theatre artist, the process of
     commissioned play as it comes to life.                    M o t h e r Howlround Article
GOODNIGHT NOBODY will be on the Roger S.
                                                    Sun Times on Bonds’ recent Chicago premiere: SUN
   Berlind main stage at 91 University Place,
                                                                         TIMES
           Princeton from Jan 3-Feb 9.
                                                          Goodnight, Nobody - Live at the Library

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Auditor Only Series                                  ASC200 Romani (gypsy)
                                                     Culture in Eastern Europe
ASC100 Introduction to
American Sign Language                               Professor: Margaret Beissinger, Research
                                                     Scholar and Lecturer, Department of Slavic
Professor: Noah Bucholz, Princeton                   Language and Literature
Theological Seminary
                                                     Roma in Eastern Europe have been enslaved,
This course introduces DEAF+WORLD; a                 targeted for annihilation, and persecuted for
world where people speak with their hands and        centuries. Yet they have repeatedly adapted and
hear with their eyes. The primary goal is to build   adjusted to the circumstances surrounding them,
a strong foundation for acquiring American Sign      persisting as distinctive cultural communities
Language (ASL) and understanding Deaf                while simultaneously contributing to and
culture. By the end of class, you will be able to    forming part of the dominant worlds in which
hold greeting conversations as well as               they live. This course treats Romani culture in
conversations about two or three different basic     the countries of Eastern Europe. It covers
topics in ASL. If you are interested in studying     Romani history and identity; folklore, music,
ASL further, this course will help you know          and shifting traditional roles; representations in
which online/offline resources to use and teach      literature and film; and verbal art by Roma. The
you how to use them for your further studying.       course offers new perspectives on ethnic
                                                     minorities and the dynamics of culture in Slavic
Time: 1:30-3pm                                       and East European society.
Dates: March 6, 13, 20, and April 3, 2020            Time: 2:00 – 3:30pm
Noah Buchholz is a PhD student in Religion &         Dates: April 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2020
Society at Princeton Theological Seminary and
lecturer in the Program in Linguistics at            Margaret Beissinger has a PhD in folklore and
Princeton University. Previously, he served as       Mythology – South Slavic and Romanian from
Assistant Professor of American Sign Language        Harvard University. She is currently focusing on
and Deaf Studies at Bethel College. His research     Balkan cultures (especially Romanian, Serbian,
interests include liberation theology,               and Bulgarian) and oral tradition, oral epic, and
postcolonial/decolonial theory, critical             Romani traditional culture and music-making.
geography, and Deaf studies. He holds a BA in        Much of her fieldwork has been carried out in
Biblical & Theological Studies and Classical         southern Romania, where she worked
Languages from Wheaton College and an MDiv           extensively, both before and after the 1989
and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary.         revolution, with Romani musicians. Her current
                                                     book projects include From Slavery to Celebrity:
                                                     Culture and Performance among Romani
                                                     Musicians in Romania and a book of South
                                                     Slavic oral poetry.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES                        Black Rage and Black Power
                                                AAS 321
African American Literature: Harlem             Professor: Glaude Jr., Eddie Steven
Renaissance to Present
AAS 359                                         Description: This course examines the
Professor: Nishikawa, Kinohi                    various pieties of the Black Power Era. We
                                                chart the explicit and implicit utopian
Description: A survey of 20th- and 21st-        visions of the politics of the period that, at
century African American literature,            once, criticized established Black religious
including the tradition's key aesthetic         institutions and articulated alternative ways
manifestos. Special attention to how modern     of imagining salvation. We also explore the
African American literature fits into certain   attempt by Black theologians to translate the
periods and why certain innovations in genre    prophetic Black church tradition into the
and style emerged when they did. Poetry,        idiom of Black power. We aim to keep in
essays, novels, popular fiction, stage          view the significance of the Black Power era
production or two, and related visual texts.    for understanding the changing role and
                                                place of Black religion in Black public life.
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W
                                                Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W
African American History to 1863
AAS 366                                         Topics in Global Race and Ethnicity
Professor: Hunter, Tera W.                      AAS 303
                                                Professor: Wolfe, Kevin A.
Description: This course explores African
American history from the Atlantic slave        Description: What does the "post-colonial"
trade up to the Civil War. It is centrally      mean? In this course, we will engage the
concerned with the rise of and overthrow of     literary and theoretical production of
human bondage, and how they shaped the          formerly colonized subjects from parts of
modern world. Africans were central to the      Africa and the Caribbean, as we seek to
largest and most profitable forced migration    determine what the post-colonial
in world history. They shaped new identities    imagination might look like. The emphasis
and influenced the contours of American         will be on close readings of works that
politics, law, economics, culture, and          emerge from the crucible of the Black
society. The course considers the diversity     Atlantic's "encounter" with European and
of experiences in this formative period of      American colonialism, as we question how
nation-making. Race, class, gender, region,     the identities of formerly colonized subjects
religion, labor, and resistance animate         inform their views of the world.
important themes in the course.
                                                Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH

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AMERICAN STUDIES                                alcohol production and consumption in
                                                Africa.
Access to Health
AMS 304                                         Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
Professor: Gerwin, Leslie E.
                                                Making History: Museums, Memorials,
                                                Heritage
Description: What does it mean to be
                                                ANT 379
healthy and who should ensure that
                                                Professor: Cain, Tiffany Cherelle
individuals and communities achieve health?
This course will examine the meaning of         Description: This course contends with
public health in America exploring the role     how shared histories are collectively made
of government as a regulator, service-          and remade in contemporary society. We
provider, and director of personal behaviors.   will interrogate the meaning of history,
We will consider the legal, ethical,            memory, heritage, and "the past." What is
economic and political foundations of           at stake in how we represent the past? What
government actions and the challenges of        do we mean when we make a claim on
addressing societal ills that account for       history as "ours"? What role do museums,
disparities in health outcomes. Students will   monuments, and memorials play in the
investigate and analyze health issues seeking   formation and maintenance of collective
                                                identities? Can practices like public history
to translate academic inquiry into policy
                                                and archaeology promote collective
prescriptions that impact human health.         healing?

Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T                 Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T

ANTHROPOLOGY                                    ARCHITECTURE

Alcohol Culture in Everyday Life                Introduction to Architectural Thinking
ANT 272                                         ARC 203
Professor: Collins, Christina Tekie
                                                Professor: Allen,Stanley T.
Description: Alcohol is not just an
intoxicating drink, but an "embodied            Description: The objective of this course is
material culture" embedded in our               to provide a broad overview of the discipline
experiences of everyday life. What does         of architecture: its history, theories,
our relationship with alcohol reveal about      methodologies; its manners of thinking and
individual and collective identities? What      working. Rather than a chronological
does it say about the social and economic       survey, the course will be organized
realities of a globalized world today?          thematically, with examples drawn from a
Drawing from literature in anthropology,        range of historical periods as well as
alcohol studies, and social theory, this        contemporary practice. Through lectures,
course asks students to think critically        readings, and discussions every student will
about the relationship between alcohol and
                                                acquire a working knowledge of key texts,
culture in both their own lives and in the
                                                buildings and architectural concepts.
lives of others. Readings primarily focus on

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH              Description: This course focuses on key
                                                issues of 20th and 21st c. Latin American
ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY                             art. A thematic survey and general
                                                methodological introduction, we will treat
Contemporary Art: 1950 - 2000                   emblematic works and movements, from
ART 214                                         Mexican muralism and Indigenism to
Professor: Small, Irene Violet                  experiments with abstraction, pop,
Description: A critical study of the major      conceptualism, and performance. Questions
movements, paradigms, and documents of          discussed include: What is Latin American
postwar art--abstract-expressionist, pop,       art? What is modernism in Latin America?
minimalist, conceptual, process and             What is the legacy of colonialism? How do
performance, site-specific, etc. Special        Latin American artists engage transnational
attention to crucial figures (e.g., Jackson     networks of solidarity under conditions of
Pollock, Andy Warhol, Felix-Gonzalez-           repression? How can postcolonial,
Torres) and problems (e.g., "the neo-avant-     decolonial, and feminist theory illuminate
garde", popular culture, feminist theory,       the art and criticism produced in and about
political controversies, "postmodernism").      Latin America?

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH              Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH

Greek Art and Archaeology                       ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCES
ART 202
Professor: Arrington, Nathan Todd               Cosmology
                                                AST 401
Description: What is Greek art, and why         Professor: Bahcall, Neta A.
has it captivated the imagination of artists,
thinkers, and travelers for centuries? We       Description: A general review of
will survey the major monuments, objects,       extragalactic astronomy and cosmology.
and archaeological sites in order to            Topics include the properties and nature of
critically examine its seminal place in the     galaxies, clusters of galaxies, superclusters,
western tradition. Diverse types of material    the large-scale structure of the universe,
evidence will inform an intellectual journey    evidence for the existence of Dark Matter
leading from the very first Greek cities to     and Dark Energy, the expanding universe,
the luxurious art of Hellenistic kings.         the early universe, and the formation and
Lectures are organized chronologically and      evolution of structure.
thematically, and precepts offer the unique
experience of hands-on interaction with         Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W
objects in the art museum's collection.
                                                The Science of Fission and Fusion
Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W               Energy
                                                AST 309
Modern and Contemporary Latin Am                Professor: Goldston, Robert James
Art
ART 220                                         Description: Power from the nucleus
Professor: Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia Small,         offers a low-carbon source of electricity.
Irene Violet                                    However, fission power also carries

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significant risks: nuclear proliferation          Emphasis is on the application of basic
(North Korea, Iran), major accidents              physics to understanding of astronomical
(Chernobyl, Fukushima), and waste                 systems. Topics include the Solar System;
disposal (Yucca Mountain). Fusion carries         planetary systems and exoplanets; the birth,
fewer risks, but the timetable for its            life, and death of stars; white dwarfs,
commercialization is uncertain. We will           neutron stars, and black holes; the Milky
delve into the scientific underpinnings of        Way and distant galaxies; cosmology, dark
these two energy sources, so you can assess       matter and dark energy, and the history of
them for yourselves. A benefit of this            the Universe.
course is that you will expand your
scientific and computational skills by            Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W
applying them to important real-world
problems.                                         CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL
                                                  ENGINEERING
Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH
                                                  Thermodynamics
The Universe                                      CBE 246
AST 203                                           Professor: Webb, Michael A.
Professor: Chyba, Christopher F.,
Dunkley, Jo, Strauss, Michael Abram               Description: The course focuses on basic
                                                  principles governing the equilibrium
Description: This course, whose subject           behavior of macroscopic systems and their
matter covers the entire universe, targets        applications to materials and processes of
the frontiers of modern astrophysics.             interest in modern chemical engineering.
Topics include the planets of our solar           We introduce the fundamental
system; the search for extrasolar planets         thermodynamic concepts: energy
and extraterrestrial life and intelligence; the   conservation (First Law); temperature and
birth, life, and death of stars; black holes;     entropy (Second Law); thermodynamic
the zoo of galaxies and their evolution; the      potentials; equilibrium and stability. These
Big Bang and the expanding universe; and          ideas are applied to problems such as
dark matter, dark energy, and the large-          calculating the equilibrium compositions of
scale structure of the universe. This course      coexisting phases or reacting mixtures, as
is designed for the non-science major and         well as analyzing the thermodynamic
has no prerequisites past high school             efficiency of power generation and
algebra and geometry. High school physics         refrigeration cycles.
would be useful, but is not required.
                                                  Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W F
Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH
                                                  CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL
Topics in Modern Astronomy
                                                  ENGINEERING
AST 204
Professor: Winn, Joshua Nathan
                                                  Soil Mechanics
Description: This course provides a broad         CEE 365
overview of modern astronomy and                  Professor: Sandiford, Raymond E.
astrophysics for students in the sciences.
                                                  Description: Part-1 Classical Soil

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Mechanics: Physical and engineering             a new art form begun during the Industrial
properties of soils; soil classification and    Revolution and flourishing today in long-
identification methods; site exploration;       span bridges, thin shell concrete vaults, and
sampling; laboratory and in-situ testing        tall buildings. Through critical analysis of
techniques; shear strength; bearing             major works, students are introduced to the
capacity; earth pressure; slope stability;      methods of evaluating engineered
permeability and seepage. Part-2                structures as an art form. Students study the
Application of Soil Mechanics in Civil          works and ideas of individual engineers
Engineering: Earth retaining structures;        through their basic calculations, their
deep foundations, ground improvement;           builder's mentality and their aesthetic
tunneling; levees; and construction and         imagination. Illustrations are taken from
contracting implications.                       various cities and countries thus
                                                demonstrating the influence of culture on
Schedule: 01:30 pm - 04:20 pm M                 our built environment.

Statics of Structures                           Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
CEE 312
Professor: Glisic, Branko                       CLASSICS

Description: Develops notions of internal       Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine:
forces and displacements, and instructs         Bodies, Physicians, and Patients
students how to design and analyze              CLA 231
structures. Presents the fundamental            Professor: Holmes, Brooke A.
principles of structural analysis,
determination of internal forces, and
                                                Description: This course looks at the
deflections under the static load conditions,
and introduces the bending theory of plane      formation of a techne ("art" or "science") of
beams and the basic energy theorems. The        medicine in fifth-century BCE Greece and
theory of the first order will be developed     debates about the theory and practice of
for continuous girders, frames, arches,         healthcare in Greco-Roman antiquity. We
suspension bridges, and trusses, including      look at early Greek medicine in relationship
both statically determinate and                 to established medical traditions in Egypt
indeterminate structures. Basic principles      and Mesopotamia; medical discourses of
for construction of influence lines and         human nature, gender, race, and the body;
determination of extreme influences will be     debates about the ethics of medical research;
presented.                                      the relationship of the body to the mind; and
                                                the nature of "Greek" medicine as it travels
Schedule: 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM M W
                                                to Alexandria, Rome and beyond. Readings
                                                drawn from primary sources as well as
Structures and the Urban Environment
CEE 262A                                        contemporary texts in medical humanities
Professor: Garlock, Maria, Eugenia              and bioethics.
Moreyra
                                                Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM T TH
Description: Known as "Bridges", this
course focuses on structural engineering as

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Origins and Nature of English                   COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Vocabulary
CLA 208                                         Passion
Professor: Katz, Joshua Timothy                 COM 203
                                                Professor: Hare, Thomas William
Description: The origins and nature of
English vocabulary, from Proto-Indo-            Description: Passion is a common word
European prehistory to current slang via        with a long, complicated history; the diverse
Beowulf. Emphasis on linguistic tools and       meanings we associate with it engage our
methodology. Topics include the Greek and       experience on the most ethereal and abstract
Latin elements of English, the Roman            as well as the most visceral and profane
alphabet and spelling, social and regional      levels. In this course we will study a range
variation, the matter of "proper" language,     of films from the past eight decades with the
and the "National Language" debate.             aim of understanding how the films situate
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM T TH              their subjects, how they narrate and illustrate
                                                passion, and how they engage personal,
The Roman Empire 31 BC to AD 337                social, and political issues in particular
CLA 219                                         aesthetic contexts.
Professor: Padilla Peralta, Dan-El              Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T

Description: At its peak, the Roman Empire      The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the
ranged from the shores of the Atlantic to the   African Middle Ages
Persian Gulf. We will study the rise and fall   COM 241
of this multicultural empire, from its          Professor: Belcher, Wendy Laura Fauvelle,
emergence out of a fractious republican         Francois-Xavier
oligarchy and its multi-century run of
stability to its eventual disintegration. We    Description: Many assume that pre-
will listen to the Empire's many voices: the    twentieth-century Africa has no history.
emperor grumbling that the people of Rome       Rather, it has so much history that
did not have one neck; the young woman          communicating all its richness can be a
memorializing her dreams of triumph on the      challenge. In this class, therefore, we focus
eve of her martyrdom; the centurion             on particular instances that speak to the
boasting of slaughtered Dacians and naked       tremendous diversity of the period from 300
water goddesses. Finally, we will assess the    to 1500 in Africa - its political systems,
Empire's relevance to early modern and          religious communities, and dynamics of
modern societies across the globe.              cultural and economic conversation. We also
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM T                 address Africa's interconnectedness within
                                                and to the rest of the world as a vital part of
                                                the global middle ages. Primary sources
                                                include letters, treatises, and chronicles but
                                                also maps, archeological layouts, frescos,
                                                inscriptions, and rock art.

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Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH                Economics and Computing
                                                  COS 445
COMPUTER SCIENCE                                  Professor: Weinberg, Matt

Algorithms and Data Structures                    Description: Computation and other aspects
COS 226                                           of our lives are becoming increasingly
Professor: Wayne, Kevin                           intertwined. We will study topics on the
                                                  cusp between economics and computation.
Description: This course surveys the most         The focus will be on the mathematical and
important algorithms and data structures in       computational tools involved in the
use on computers today. Particular emphasis       interaction of economics and computation.
is given to algorithms for sorting, searching,    Topics: games on networks, auctions,
and string processing. Fundamental                mechanism and market design,
algorithms in a number of other areas are         computational social choice. The aim of the
covered as well, including geometric              course is: (1) to understand the game-
algorithms, graph algorithms, and some            theoretic issues behind systems involving
numerical algorithms. The course will             computation such as online networks, (2) to
concentrate on developing implementations,        learn how algorithms and algorithmic
understanding their performance                   thinking can help with designing better
characteristics, and estimating their potential   decision and allocation mechanisms in an
effectiveness in applications.                    offline world.

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH                Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH

Computer Networks                                 Innovating Across Tech, Bus, & Mkts
COS 461                                           COS 448
Professor: Freedman, Michael Joseph               Professor: Fish, Robert S., Singh, Jaswinder
                                                  Pal
Description: This course studies computer
networks and protocols, the services built on     Description: Course teaches engineering
top of them, and some topics relating to          students about issues tackled by leading
Internet policy. Topics include: packet           Chief Technology Officers: the technical
switching, routing, congestion control,           visionaries and/or managers who innovate at
quality-of-service, network security,             the boundaries of technology and business
network measurement, network mgmt., and           by understanding both deeply, and who are
network applications. Students will learn:*       true partners to the CEO, not just
Internet protocols used in Internet access        implementers of business goals. Focus will
networks, local area networks, wide-area          be on thinking like a CTO (of a startup and a
networks                                          large company) from technology and
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W                 business perspectives, and on software and
                                                  Internet-based businesses. Industry-leading
                                                  guest speakers provide perspectives too.
                                                  Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W

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Introduction to Programming Systems              problems of immigration, enlargement, the
COS 217                                          role of various political institutions,
Professor: Moretti, Christopher M.               including the military, and the recent rise of
Description: Introduction to programing          populism.
systems, including modular program design,
testing, debugging and performance tuning,       Schedule: 11:00 am - 12:20 pm T TH
using system calls, programming style, and
assembly language and machine languages.         EAST ASIAN STUDIES
Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
                                                 The Origins of Japanese Culture
Theory of Algorithms                             EAS 218
COS 423                                          Professor: Conlan, Thomas Donald
Professor: Tarjan, Robert Endre
                                                 Description: This course is designed to
Description: Design and analysis of              introduce the culture and history of Japan,
efficient data structures and algorithms.        and to examine how one understands and
General techniques for building and              interprets the past. In addition to considering
analyzing algorithms. Introduction to NP-        how a culture, a society, and a state develop,
completeness.                                    we will try to reconstruct the tenor of life in
                                                 "ancient" and "medieval" Japan and chart
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W                how patterns of Japanese civilization shifted
                                                 through time.
CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN
POLITICS                                         Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W

European Politics & Society in the 20th          ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY
Century                                          BIOLOGY
EPS 300
Professor: James, Marzenna, Suleiman,            Behavioral Ecology
Ezra N.                                          EEB 313
                                                 Professor: Riehl, Christina Pauline
Description: This course covers the critical
developments of 20th and 21st century            Description: How does a swarm of
Europe, in particular the consolidation of       honeybees collectively decide on a new site
democracy in European countries and              for their hive? When a mother mouse
subsequent challenges democracy is facing.       protects her young, are her behaviors
It deals with the legacy of the two world        genetically determined? Why do ravens
wars, Nazism, Stalinism, the Cold War,           share food with each other? This course is
colonialism and decolonization, the collapse     an introduction to behavioral ecology, which
of Communism and the re-unification of           asks why animals act the way they do, how
Europe, the birth and development of the         their behaviors have been shaped by natural
European Community, the creation of the          selection, and how these behaviors influence
welfare state, single currency, as well as the   their surroundings. We will first discuss

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behaviors at the individual level, then move      appropriate policy responses. Some attention
to reproductive behaviors. The final section      is also paid to international issues.
of the course will focus on social evolution,     Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH
the origins of cooperation, and human
behavioral ecology.                               Introduction to Microeconomics
                                                  ECO 100
Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM T TH                Professor: Noonan, Kelly
ECONOMICS
                                                  Description: Economics studies the
Economic Inequality and the Role of               allocation of scarce resources. Since this is a
Government                                        microeconomics course, it will focus on the
ECO 343                                           decisions made by individual consumers and
Professor: Kuziemko, Ilyana                       producers. We will consider a variety of
                                                  different market structures ranging from
Description: In the US and many other             perfect competition to monopoly. We also
developed countries, economic inequality          will discuss the rationale for government
has risen to historic levels in recent decades.   involvement when there are market failures.
What are the causes of this trend -- "natural"
market forces (e.g., globalization?) or           Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W
changes in public policy (e.g., erosion of the
minimum wage)? Are measures currently             Macroeconomics
proposed to counteract inequality and             ECO 301
poverty -- e.g, progressive taxation, transfer    Professor: Li, Wenli
programs to low-income families, public
insurance programs such as Medicare --            Description: This course covers the theory
effective? An emphasis is placed on               of modern macroeconomics in detail. We
understanding what basic microeconomic            will focus on the determination of
theory as well as empirical evidence can          macroeconomic variables -- such as output,
(and cannot) tell us about these questions.       employment, price, and the interest rate -- in
                                                  the short, medium, and long run, and we will
Schedule: 07:30 PM - 10:20 PM T                   address a number of policy issues. We will
                                                  discuss several examples of macroeconomic
Introduction to Macroeconomics                    phenomena in the real world. A central
ECO 101                                           theme will be to understand the powers and
Professor: Bogan, Elizabeth Chapin                limitations of macroeconomic policy in
                                                  stabilizing the business cycle and promoting
Description: The theory of the                    growth.
determination of the level of national
income and economic activity, including an        Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH
examination of the financial system.
Emphasis on economic growth and such
economic problems as inflation,
unemployment and recession, and on

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Microeconomic Theory                           ENERGY STUDIES
ECO 300
Professor: Wilson, Andrea                      Designing Sustainable Systems
Description: This course builds on your        ENE 202
knowledge of microeconomics from ECO           Professor: Meggers, Forrest Michael
100. As with ECO 100, this course will
focus on the decisions made by individual      Description: The course presents
consumers and producers. It will consider a    anthropogenic global changes and their
variety of different market structures         impact on sustainable design. The course
ranging from perfect competition to            focuses on understanding the underlying
monopoly. It will also discuss the rationale   principles from natural and applied sciences,
for government involvement when there are      and how new basic Internet of Things digital
market failures. While the topics will be      technology enables alternative system
very similar to those covered in ECO 100,      analysis and design. Material is presented in
the analysis will be more in depth.            2 parts: 1) Global Change and
                                               Environmental Impacts: studying our
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM M W              influences on basic natural systems and
                                               cycles and how we can evaluate them, and
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING                         2) Designing Sustainable Systems:
                                               synthesizing the environmental science with
Information Signals                            new IoT in an applied design project.
ELE 201
Professor: Chen, Yuxin                         Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH

Description: Signals that carry information    Introduction to the Electricity Sector-E
play a central role in technology and          ENE 422
engineering---ranging from sound and           Professor: Jenkins, Jesse D.
images to MRI, communication, radar, and
robotic control. This course teaches           Description: This course provides an
mathematical tools to analyze, manipulate,     introduction to the electricity sector drawing
dissect, and preserve information signals.     on engineering, economics, and regulatory
For example, many continuous signals can       policy perspectives. It introduces the
be perfectly represented through sampling      engineering principles behind various power
(Nyquist theorem), which leads to digital      generation technologies and transmission
signals. A major focus of the course is the    and distribution networks; the economics of
Fourier transform. We also study linear        electricity markets; and the regulation of
time-invariant systems, modulation,            electricity generation, transmission,
quantization, and stability (Laplace           distribution, and retail sales. Open
transform and z-transform). Lab design         challenges related to the growth of
projects in Matlab include a "Shazam"          distributed energy resources, the transition
music ID system.                               to low-carbon electricity sources, and the
Schedule: 09:30 AM - 10:50 AM T TH             role of the electricity sector in mitigating
                                               global climate change are also discussed.

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Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH                 Other: Acceptance in this class is by
                                                   invitation only. For consideration send an
ENGINEERING                                        email to PUCAP@princeton.edu stating in
                                                   150 words or less, your reason for wanting
Technology and Society                             to be in the class and your background
EGR 277                                            experience. All replies must be submitted by
Professor: Reinecke, David M                       January 17, 2020 for consideration. Late
Description: Technology and society are            applicants will not be considered.
unthinkable without each other, each
provides the means and framework in which          Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM F
the other develops. To explore this dynamic,
this course investigates a wide array of           ENGLISH
questions on the interaction between
technology, society, politics, and economics,      19th-Century Fiction
emphasizing the themes such as innovation          ENG 345
and regulation, risk and failure, ethics and       Professor: Nunokawa, Jeff
expertise. Specific topics covered include
nuclear power and disasters, green energy,         Description: This course will acquaint
the development and regulation of the              students with the distinctive features of the
Internet, medical expertise and controversy,       nineteenth century novel, from Austen to
intellectual property, the financial crisis, and   Hardy. Lectures will seek to illuminate
the electric power grid.                           relations between social and aesthetic
                                                   dimensions of the texts we read. We will
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W                  consider how these fictional imaginings of
                                                   things like love, sex, money, class, and race
Venture Capital & Finance of Innovation            help shape the ways we live now.
EGR 395
Professor: Hejazi,Shahram                          Schedule: 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM M W

Description: Venture capital is a driving          Children's Literature
force behind innovation and                        ENG 385
entrepreneurship, although the unique              Professor: Gleason, William Albert
working details of venture capital firms and
their processes are well-kept secrets. Early       Description: A survey of classic texts
stage investors not only fund startups but         written for children from the past 200 years
also enable innovation through mentorship          in (primarily) England and America. We
and partnership with the entrepreneurs.            will examine the development and range of
Understanding how these investors think            the genre from early alphabet books to
and operate is critical to students who are        recent young adult fiction. We'll try to put
interested in entrepreneurship, as well as to      ourselves in the position of young readers
those who would like to pursue venture             while also studying the works as adult
capital.                                           interpreters, asking such questions as: How
                                                   do stories written for children reflect and

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shape the lives of their readers? What can        Description: This course examines the
children's literature tell us about the history   careers of two of America's most
of reading, or of growing up, or of the           accomplished novelists. Manifest
imagination itself? In the process we will        differences aside, both authors were
consider psychological and social questions       obsessed with the ensnaring effects of plot,
as well as literary ones.                         prompting both to imagine fictional realms
Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W                 that are as much "designs" on the reader as
                                                  on characters.
Literary History
ENG 200                                           Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH
Professor: Gee, Sophie Graham
                                                  ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Description: A survey of great books, vivid
language and unforgettable characters from        Practical Models - Environmental
the medieval period to the eighteenth             Systems
century. Through the eyes of Chaucer,             ENV 302
Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Jane Austen         Professor: Celia, Michael Anthony
and others we see our world becoming
modern. We discuss early modern art,              Description: Humans are increasingly
beauty, romance, desire, the will, the mind,      affecting environmental systems throughout
God, sex, and death and ask whether these         the world. This is especially true for
are fundamentally different today. We ask         activities associated with energy production,
what some of the people, places and               water use, and food production. To
problems pushed to the margins during these       understand the environmental impacts,
centuries of Western European                     quantitative modeling tools are needed.
transformation can reveal about our most          This course introduces quantitative
urgent challenges today.                          modeling approaches for environmental
                                                  systems, including global models for carbon
Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH                cycling; local and regional models for water,
                                                  soil, and vegetation interactions; and models
Shakespeare II                                    for transport of pollutants in both water and
ENG 321                                           air. Students will develop simple models for
Professor: Cormack, Bradin T.                     all of these systems, and apply the models to
                                                  a set of practical problems.
Description: This class covers the second
half of Shakespeare's career, with a focus on     Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W
the major tragedies and late comedies.

Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W

Topics in American Literature
ENG 357
Professor: Mitchell, Lee Clark

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GERMAN                                            HISTORY

Introduction to German Philosophy                 Abraham Lincoln and America 1809-1865
GER 210                                           HIS 470
Professor: Jennings, Michael William              Professor: Guelzo, Allen Carl

Description: An introduction to the German        Description: This course explores the
philosophical tradition from the                  political biography, principles and practices
Enlightenment to the present through the          of Abraham Lincoln. The issues to be
study of its major figures (Kant, Hegel,          examined include the international context
Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno,               of liberal democracy in the 19th century, the
Arendt). This course offers a survey of           war powers of the presidency, the contest of
German intellectual history based upon            Whig and Democratic political ideas, the
direct engagement with original texts.            relation of the executive branch to the
Domains to be explored include                    legislative and judicial branches, diplomacy,
metaphysics, aesthetics, the theory of            and the presidential cabinet. While tracing
knowledge, political philosophy and the           Lincoln's biography from the Illinois frontier
philosophy of language.                           to the White House, we will explore how his
                                                  own life was shaped by, and shaped,
Schedule: 12:30 PM - 01:20 PM M W                 questions of enterprise and society, slavery
                                                  and emancipation, and Civil War and
Introduction to Media Theory                      Reconstruction.
GER 211
Professor: Levin, Thomas Yaron                    Schedule: 01:30 pm - 04:20 pm TH

Description: Through careful readings of a        Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
wide range of media theoretical texts from        HIS 315
the late 19th to early 21st century, this class   Professor: Dlamini, Jacob S.
will trace the development of critical
reflection on technologies and media              Description: This course is an examination
ranging from the printing press to                of the major political and economic trends
photography, from gramophones to radio            in twentieth-century African history. It
technologies, from pre-cinematic optical          offers an interpretation of modern African
devices to film and television, and from          history and the sources of its present
telephony and typewriters to cyberspace.          predicament. In particular, we study the
Topics include the relationship between           foundations of the colonial state, the legacy
representation and technology, the                of the late colonial state (the period before
historicity of perception, the interplay of       independence), the rise and problems of
aesthetics, technology and politics, and the      resistance and nationalism, the immediate
transformation of notions of imagination,         challenges of the independent states (such as
literacy, communication, reality and truth.       bureaucracy and democracy), the more
                                                  recent crises (such as debt and civil wars) on
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH                the continent, and the latest attempts to

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address these challenges from within the        European states, sometimes through formal
continent.                                      and sometimes informal imperialism. How
                                                did ideologies like nationalism, liberalism,
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W               communism and fascism emerge from
                                                European origins and how were they
East Asia since 1800                            transformed? How differently did Europeans
HIS 208                                         experience the two phases of globalization
Professor: Bian, He, Marcon, Federico           in the 19th and 20th centuries? Biographies
                                                are used as a way of approaching the
Description: This course is an introduction     problem of structural change.
to the history of modern East Asia. We will
examine the inter-related histories of China,   Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM T TH
Japan, and Korea since 1800 and their
relationships with the wider world. Major       France, 1815 to the Present
topics include: trade and cultural              HIS 351
exchanges, reform and revolutions, war,         Professor: Nord, Philip Galland
colonialism, imperialism, and Cold War
geopolitics.                                    Description: The history of France in the
                                                19th and 20th centuries appears a rapid and
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W               perplexing turnover of regimes and
                                                administrations. This course has two
English Constitutional History                  interrelated aims: (1) to account for France's
HIS 367                                         peculiar political instability in terms of
Professor: Jordan, William Chester              social struggles which were played out in
                                                one form or another in all European states,
Description: To explore the development of      and thereby, (2) to set France's unique
institutions and theories of government in      pattern of development in its European
England from the Norman Conquest to             context. Topics will include: the
about 1700.                                     Restoration and the legacy of the French
                                                Revolution; 1848 and Bonapartism; popular
Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W               revolt in the fin de siecle and the triumph of
                                                the Third Republic, etc.
Europe in the World: 1776 to the Present
HIS 212                                         Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W
Professor: Bell, David A.
                                                History of the American West
Description: An overview of European            HIS 374
history since the French Revolution, taking     Professor: Sandweiss, Martha A.
as its major theme the changing role of
Europe in the world. It looks at the global     Description: This course examines the
legacies of the French and Russian              history of the place we now call the
revolutions, and how the Industrial             American West, from pre-contact to the
Revolution augmented the power of               present. Our primary focus will be on the

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struggles between and among peoples to          over immigration, identity, cultural and
control resources and political power, and to   biological difference, criminal character, the
shape the ways in which western history is      line between legality and illegality, and the
told. We will pay particular attention to the   boundaries of the normal and the
role of visual and popular culture in shaping   pathological.
the national imagination of the region.
                                                Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH
Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
                                                Revolutionary America
Modern Jewish History: 1750-Present             HIS 372
HIS 359                                         Professor: Blaakman, Michael Albert
Professor: Dweck, Yaacob
                                                Description: Why was there an American
Description: This course surveys the            Revolution? How revolutionary was it, and
breadth of Jewish experience from the era of    for whom? Why did it end with the creation
the Enlightenment to the contemporary           of a fractious independent republic, an
period. Tracing the development of Jewish       "empire of liberty" rooted in slavery? This
cultures and communities in Europe, the         class explores the causes, course, and
Middle East, and the United States against      consequences of the American Revolution,
the background of general history, the          from the Seven Years War through the
lectures focus on themes such as the            ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
transformation of Jewish identity, the          Lectures, readings, and precepts will trace
creation of modern Jewish politics, the         the ideas and experiences of the many
impact of anti-semitism, and the founding of    peoples whose lives intersected with the
the State of Israel.                            United States' struggle for independence:
                                                female and male, black and white and
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM M W               Native American, free and enslaved,
                                                American and British, Loyalist and Patriot.
Race, Drugs, and Drug Policy in America
HIS 393                                         Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
Professor: Wailoo, Keith Andrew
                                                The Crusades
Description: From "Chinese opium" to            HIS 345
Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "crack" to      Professor: Pippenger, Randall Todd
BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring
debates about the role of medicine, the law,    Description: The Crusades were a central
the policing of ethnic identity, and racial     phenomenon of the Middle Ages. This
difference. This course explores the history    course examines the origins and
of controversial substances (prescription       development of the Crusades and the
medicines, over-the-counter products, black     Crusader States in the Islamic East. It
market substances, psychoactive drugs), and     explores dramatic events, such as the great
how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium,      Siege of Jerusalem, and introduces vivid
they become vehicles for heated debates         personalities, including Richard the

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Lionheart and Saladin. We will consider           of the monumental war with Nazi Germany,
aspects of institutional, economic, social and    and the various postwar reforms. Special
cultural history and compare medieval             attention paid to the dynamics of the new
Christian (Western and Byzantine), Muslim         socialist society, the connection between the
and Jewish perceptions of the crusading           power of the state and everyday life, global
movement. Finally, we will critically             communism, and the 1991 collapse.
examine the resonance the movement
continues to have in current political and        Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM T TH
ideological debates
                                                  The United States Since 1974
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM T TH                HIS 361
                                                  Professor: Zelizer, Julian E.
The Making of Modern India and
Pakistan                                          Description: The history of contemporary
HIS 317                                           America, with particular attention to
Professor: Prakash, Gyan                          political, social and technological changes.
                                                  Topics will include the rise of a new
Description: An exploration of three major        conservative movement and the
themes in the history of India's and              reconstitution of liberalism, the end of the
Pakistan's emergence as nation-states:            divisive Cold War era and the rise of an
colonial socio-economic and cultural              interconnected global economy,
transformations, the growth of modern             revolutionary technological innovation
collective identities and conflicts, and          coupled with growing economic inequality,
nationalism. Topics covered include: trade,       a massive influx of immigrants coupled with
empire, and capitalism; class, gender and         a revival of isolationism and nativism, a
religion; Gandhi, national independence, and      revolution in homosexual rights and gender
partition; and post-colonial state and society.   equality coupled with the rise of a new ethos
                                                  of "family values."
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH
                                                  Schedule: 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM M W
The Soviet Empire
HIS 362                                           The World of Late Antiquity
Professor: Kotkin, Stephen                        HIS 210
                                                  Professor: Tannous, Jack Boulos Victor
Description: An examination of the
transformation of the Russian Empire into         Description: This course will focus on the
the Soviet Empire. Topics include: the            history of the later Roman Empire, a period
invention and unfolding of single-party           which historians often refer to as "Late
revolutionary politics, the expansion of the      Antiquity." We will begin our class in
machinery of state, the onset and                 pagan Rome at the start of the third century
development of Stalin's personal despotism,       and end it in Baghdad in the ninth century:
the violent attempt to create a noncapitalist     in between these two points, the
society, the experiences and consequences         Mediterranean world experienced a series of

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cultural and political revolutions whose        cinematic works from the 1960's to the
reverberations can still be felt today. We      present. Directors such as Bertolucci,
will witness civil wars, barbarian invasions,   Tornatore, Benigni, Ozpetek, and Sorrentino
the triumph of Christianity over paganism,      offer a panorama of a generation of
the fall of the Western Empire, the rise of     filmmakers that has contributed to the
Islam, the Greco-Arabic translation             renewal of Italian cinema. Topics will be
movement and much more.                         drawn from current issues, and will include
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W               the Holocaust and questions of memory,
                                                terrorism, political violence, migration,
What is the Scientific Revolution?              gender ideologies, the Mafia. Emphasis on
HIS 294                                         film style and techniques.
Professor: Rampling, Jennifer M.
                                                Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM W
Description: Something "happened" to
science between 1450-1750. The sun              LINGUISTICS
replaced the earth at the center of the
cosmos, Europeans encountered new worlds        Introduction to Language & Linguistics
and new peoples, and heaven and earth           LIN 201
shook to the impact of new technologies like    Professor: Ahn,Byron T.
telescopes and heavy artillery. Yet how
much was really new? Did all these changes      Description: This course is an introduction
merge into one phenomenon that we can call      to the scientific analysis of the structure and
"the scientific revolution"? And were there     uses of language. Core areas covered
many such revolutions or could the very         include phonetics and phonology,
idea be a modern invention? From optics         morphology, the lexicon, syntax, semantics,
and anatomy to alchemy and magic, this          and pragmatics, with data from a wide range
course will ask exactly how natural             of languages. Additional topics include
knowledge was shaped, challenged and            sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and
exploited between the late Middle Ages and      language acquisition.
the Enlightenment.
                                                Schedule: 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM M W
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:20 PM M W
                                                Language in Its Contexts
ITALIAN                                         LIN 250
                                                Professor: Gor, Vera
Topics Modern Italian Cinema
ITA 310                                         Description: This course investigates
Professor: Marrone-Puglia, Gaetana, Riotta,     language in its social, cultural, political, and
Giovanni                                        historical contexts. Does your native
                                                language influence your perception, your
Description: This course looks at the way       behavior, and your culture? How does your
Italy has expressed its historical, cultural,   identity influence properties of your
political, and social individuality in major    language? What happens when unrelated

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languages come into contact for prolonged      Description: This course focuses on the
periods? How are new languages born? Why       fundamental biochemical principles that
isn't English the official language of the     underlie cellular function. An emphasis will
United States, and should it be? We will       be placed on protein structure, function, and
explore these questions (and more) by          regulation. Additional topics covered will
engaging with the often contradictory          include metabolism and catalysis, and
opinions of specialists and the public, as     cutting-edge methodologies for studying
well as with the empirical realities behind    macromolecules in health and disease
these different language situations.           systems.

Schedule: 01:30 pm - 02:50 pm M W              Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH

MATHEMATICS                                    Cell and Developmental Biology
                                               MOL 348
Algebra II                                     Professors: Burdine, Rebecca D., Patterson,
MAT 346                                        Victoria Louise
Professor: McConnell, Mark Weaver
                                               Description: The course will investigate the
Description: Local Fields and the Galois       roles that gene regulation, cell-cell
theory of Local Fields.                        communication, cell adhesion, cell motility,
                                               signal transduction and intracellular
Schedule: 03:00 PM - 04:20 PM M W              trafficking play in the commitment,
                                               differentiation and assembly of cells into
Analysis I: Fourier Series and PDE             specialized tissues. The mechanisms that
MAT 325                                        underlie development of multicellular
Professor: Shlapentokh-Rothman, Yakov          organisms, from C. elegans to humans, will
Mordechai                                      be examined using biochemical, genetic and
                                               cell biological approaches. In-class problem
Description: Basic facts about Fourier         solving, group work, and active learning
Series, Fourier Transformations, and           approaches will be used to emphasize key
applications to the classical partial          concepts and analyze experimental data.
differential equations will be covered. Also
Finite Fourier Series, Dirichlet Characters,   Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH
and applications to properties of primes.
                                               Food, Drugs and Society
Schedule: 01:30 PM - 02:50 PM T TH             MOL 250
                                               Professor: Stock, Jeffry Benton
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
                                               Description: The current environment in the
Biochemistry                                   US for the use and abuse of foods and drugs
MOL 345                                        will be examined from a scientific fact-
Professor: Cristea, Ileana M., Petry, Sabine   based perspective. Historical, economic,
                                               marketing, political, and public health

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drivers will be considered. Specific topics    Description: This course examines
include government dietary                     fundamental determinants of the human-
recommendations (food politics), dietary       microbe interaction at the biological and
supplements (from Vitamins to herbal           ecological levels. The focus will be on major
extracts), pharmacology and ethical drug       global infectious diseases and their impact.
development (sulfa drugs, NSAIDS, etc),        Each infectious agent will be discussed in
addiction and substance abuse (alcohol,        terms of its biology, epidemiology,
nicotine, stimulants, opioids, etc),           pathogenesis, disease progression, as well as
Alzheimer's disease and the problem of         biomedical and policy-based strategies for
long-term care in an aging population, and     its prevention and control.
Psychedelic drug use and abuse (psilocybin,
mescaline, LSD, etc).                          Schedule: 01:30 PM - 04:20 PM TH

Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH             Intro to Cellular & Molecular Biology
                                               MOL 214
From DNA to Human Complexity                   Professor: Gavis, Elizabeth Rose,
MOL 101                                        Notterman, Daniel, Thieringer, Heather
Professors: Bassler, Bonnie Lynn,
Mallarino, Ricardo, Schottenfeld-Roames,       Description: Important concepts and
Jodi, Wieschaus, Eric Francis                  elements of molecular biology,
                                               biochemistry, genetics, and cell biology, are
Description: This lecture and laboratory       examined in an experimental context. This
course will acquaint non-biology majors        course fulfills the basic biology requirement
with the theory and practice of modern         for students majoring in the biological
molecular biology focusing on topics of        sciences and satisfies the basic biology
current interest to society. The course will   requirement for entrance into medical school
cover basic molecular biology topics such as   and most other health professions schools.
information storage and readout by DNA,
RNA and proteins. The course will address      Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH
how recent scientific advances influence
issues relevant to humanity including stem     Molecular and Cellular Immunology
cells and CRISPR; the human microbiome         MOL 340
and bacterial pathogens; and how the human     Professor: Ploss, Alexander
genome can be used to understand the
evolution of modern humans.                    Description: A broad survey of the field of
                                               immunology and the mammalian immune
Schedule: 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM T TH             system. The cellular and molecular basis of
                                               innate and acquired immunity will be
Infection: Biology, Burden, Policy             discussed in detail. The course will provide
MOL 425                                        frequent examples drawn from human
Professor: Shenk, Thomas Eugene                biology in health and disease.

                                               Schedule: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM M W F

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