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Courses

 

International Studies
  

  • INTL 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 415 - Cultureal Resistance and Survival: Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America

    Cross-Listed as HISP and LATI 415.
    In the Old World, Spain defined its national identity by locating its “others” in Jews, conversos, Muslims, moriscos, Turks, gypsies, pirates and Protestants. In the New World, Spaniards employed many of the same discursive and legal tactics - along with brute force - to subject Amerindian and African peoples to their will and their cultural norms. But indigenous and African populations in the Americas actively countered colonization. They rejected slavery and cultural imposition through physical rebellion, the use of strategies of cultural preservation and the appropriation of phonetic writing, which they in turn wielded against European hegemony. We will examine a fascinating corpus of indigenous pictographic codexes, architecture, myths, and histories and letters of resistance, along with a rich spectrum of texts in which peoples of African descent affirm their own subjectivity in opposition to slavery and cultural violence. What will emerge for students is a complex, heterogeneous vision of the conquest and early colonization in which non-European voices speak loudly on their own behalf. Cross-listed with LATI 415  and HISP 415 . Prerequisites: HISP 307  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 416 - Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters

    Cross-Listed as HISP and LATI 416.
    Europeans were by no means the first peoples to explore new territories and human popluations. Renaissance scientific methodology, however, led European travelers to meticulously document each New World encounter in writing and develop new tools with which to navigate and represent space, devices that subsequently became weapons of colonial domination. But as Nature and indigenous populations refused to be subjected to European epistemology, failure and disaster were frequent events: shipwrecks left Old World survivors stranded among unknown lands and peoples in the Americas; Amerindians rejected the imposition of a foreign culture and religion, murdering colonists and missionaries; Africans rebelled against slavery and escaped to mountains and jungles to form autonomous communities. An examination of maps, exploration logs, missionary histories, travel literature, historiography and colonial documents will provide the foundation for this course on the ambivalent reality of the Old World’s encounter with the Americas, in which Europeans were often the losers. Cross-listed with HISP 416  and LATI 416 . Prerequisites: HISP 307  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 477 - Comparative Environment and Development Studies

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 477.
    A concern for the relationship between nature and society has been one of the pillars of geographic inquiry and has also been an important bridge between other disciplines. By the 1960s, this area of inquiry was referred to variously as “human ecology.” Over the last decade, certain forms of inquiry within this tradition have increasingly referred to themselves as “political ecology.” The purpose of this seminar is to review major works within the traditions of cultural and political ecology; examine several areas of interest within these fields (e.g., agricultural modernization, environmental narratives, conservation, ecotourism); and explore nature-society dynamics across a range of geographical contexts. Towards the end of the course we will explore how one might begin to think in practical terms about facilitating development in marginal environments. Prerequisite: GEOG 232  or permission of instructor. Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 232 or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 480 - Paradigms-Global Leadership

    Leadership is among the deepest features of associational life, pervading every profession and institution, especially in the age of complex global change. Thus this seminar explores leadership. We begin with the relationship between structure and agency, and then focus on vision and invention, integrity and legitimacy, flexibility and decisiveness. Readings draw from Western, Islamic, and Chinese sources. The main paper will focus on a major individual from any century or locale, chosen by the student. Open to juniors and seniors in any department. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 485 - Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred

    Advanced Courses Students should have at least two courses in international studies including an Introduction to International Studies, or the permission of the instructor. Drawing on several disciplines, this course confronts global hatred from three angles. The first is the hater’s internal world and looks at how human nature, genetic structure/instincts, and individual psychology may foster hatred. The second is external, exploring the role history, culture, ideology, social structure, religion, and mass psychology play. The third seeks to apply the insights gained from the first two, asking: how might we break the devastating cycles of hatred so present in our world? Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 488 - Senior Seminar: Universalism

    Advanced Courses. Students should have at least two courses in international studies including an Introduction to International Studies, or the permission of the instructor. Rapid globalization in all areas of modern life raises afresh the question of universalism: do we live in one world or many? This course reviews classic inquiries into attempts at thinking the world as one. Varying from year to year, the course ranges across world-historical studies, Russian “Eurasianism,” theories of Weltliteratur, debates in the Americas and the Caribbean, contemporary writing on global culture and business, and other topics. Throughout, we will ask: in whose interest is the universal? is there any local left? does global mean homogeneous? is it possible to be cosmopolitan? is there any center left, and if so, who or what occupies it? A course less about research or fact than about thought. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 489 - Senior Seminar: Paradigms of World Order

    Advanced Courses Students should have at least two courses in international studies including an Introduction to International Studies, or the permission of the instructor. The end of the Cold War eliminated a large and draining bifurcation of international society. However, the initial astonishments of this event now give way to arguments about the nature and direction of transnational life. For some, the situation is seen as the disappearance of an aberration, and the return of the “natural” processes of Western modernization and progress, guaranteed by free markets and liberal democracy. Others read the changes as a moment of truth: the unveiling of a deeper, more complicated divide, requiring fundamental rethinking as well as reconstitution of world order. Through various readings, this senior seminar interrogates these and other interpretations of the interregnum and their correlative visions. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. (4 Credits)
  

  • INTL 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

Japanese
  

  • JAPA 101 - Elementary Japanese I

    Introduction to Japanese language and culture. Practice in basic sentence patterns and conversational expressions to enable students to speak and write Japanese. Fall semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 102 - Elementary Japanese II

    Continuation of JAPA 101 . Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 101  or its equivalent. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 203 - Intermediate Japanese I

    Continuation of JAPA 102 . While the emphasis is placed on listening and speaking skills, students continue their study of kanji and begin to work with short texts. Fall semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 102  or its equivalent. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 204 - Intermediate Japanese II

    Continuation of JAPA 203 . Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 203  or its equivalent. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 235 - Communicative Strategies in Japanese Society

    Cross-Listed as  
    This course aims at understanding communicative strategies employed by Japanese speakers. Students of Japanese language often wonder what cultural assumptions and strategies lie behind the language they are studying. In language classrooms such issues are touched upon but never fully explained in the interest of time. This course offers in-depth explorations of the interrelationship between Japanese language and society. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon their own communicative strategies. They will also read about strategies used by American English speakers as a point of comparison. How is gender articulated in Japanese society? Is the so-called feminine speech in Japanese real? If the feminine speech is considered “powerless,” how do women in authoritative positions speak? Problems in U.S.-Japan business and other negotiations are often reported in the popular press. How are they related to how people in each country communicate with one another? Japanese people are supposed to be “polite.” How, to whom, and in what context do they express politeness? Are their politeness strategies markedly different from those of other countries? Students will have opportunities to explore issues such as these. No Japanese language ability required. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 250 - Postwar Literature in Translation: At the Center, From the Margins

    This course is designed to explore the richness of postwar and contemporary Japan, and begins with an examination of how Japanese literature came onto the “world scene” after WWII, as the works of Tanizaki, Mishima, and Kawabata appeared in English translation. We’ll read several novels by these authors, and consider what kind of image of Japan developed from and through that literary canon, then we’ll “deconstruct” that image of Japan by reading work by less well-known authors. Although Japanese society is often presented as homogenous and monoracial, there are people of various backgrounds, ethnicities, and language traditions living in the islands of Japan today, as there have been for many centuries. We will read literature and non-fiction about and by Okinawans, residents of other southern islands, Koreans and people of Korean descent in Japan, burakumin (traditional outcasts), and Ainu. We will read work by women that challenges traditional role expectations, and we will read work about and by people who experienced atomic bombing. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 251 - Fiction of Modern Japan

    This course introduces major authors, texts, and issues in modern Japanese literature from 1868 to the present. The focus will be on works of fiction (mainly novels, novellas, and short stories) and how they mediate and complicate the relationships between: self and other, tradition and modernity, nation and empire, and history and memory. One of the central themes of the course is the role of literature in the production, transformation, and contestation of the national narratives and cultural constructs-or the fictions-of modern Japan. In addition to the literary or textual aspects of individual works (such as language, style, and narration), we will consider the specific historical, political, and socioeconomic factors informing these works. No prior knowledge of Japan or Japanese is required. Readings are in English or English translation. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 255 - Japanese Film and Animation: From the Salaryman to the Shojo

    This course examines some of the enormous body of Japanese film, focusing on works from the 1930s to the present. We will see the work of well-known directors like Mizoguchi, Ozu, Kurosawa, and Oshima, as well as recent films by directors like Kitano, Iwai, and Morita. Thematically, the films will be united by a single topic, which changes with each offering (previous topics have included “Love, Sex, and Death” and “Families On Film”). Methodologically, the course considers how to approach Japanese film, and engages with a number of critics who have argued that Japanese film is intrinsically different from other national cinemas, particularly from classical Hollywood norms. We will consider the strengths and weaknesses of this argument, and we will also address recent research which calls for analyzing film within an evolving media system. No Japanese language ability required. All films shown with English subtitles. Every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 288 - Race and Ethnicity in Japan

    Cross-Listed as AMST 288  and INTL 288 
    One of the founding myths of the modern Japanese nation-state has been the illusion of racial and ethnic homogeneity. This course aims not only to challenge this myth but also to historicize and contextualize it by investigating varous racial and ethnic minorities in Japan: Ainu, Burakumin (outcasts), Okinawans, Koreans, African Americans, Nikkeijin (South Americans of Japanese descent), and Caucasians. These groups pose fundamental questions about the boundaries of “Japan” and about the meanings of “race” and “ethnicity” as categories of identification and difference. The purpose of this course is two-fold: 1) to familiarize students with the history of minority discourse in Japan, and 2) to encourage students to think critically and comparatively about race and ethnicity in general. All readings are in English or English translation. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 305 - Advanced Japanese I

    Continuation of JAPA 204 . Emphasizes continued development of conversation skills, while not neglecting the development of reading skills. Fall semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 204  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 306 - Advanced Japanese II

    Continuation of JAPA 305 . Emphasizes strong development of reading and writing skills. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 305  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 335 - Analyzing Japanese Language

    Cross-Listed as  
    Our perception is greatly influenced by the language we use. Without knowing, we limit ourselves to thinking that our current perspective is the only way by which to view ourselves and the world. By analyzing Japanese, students can experience perceptual and cultural systems that are different from their own. At the same time, students may also discover that there are certain qualities that are common even in “exotic” languages such as Japanese. What is the difference between subject and topic? (The “topic marker,” which is not used in English, is prominent in Japanese.) Why can’t you translate “he is cold” word for word into Japanese? How do women talk differently from men? In what kind of situation should we use honorific language? What is “in-group” as opposed to “out-group” and how is that societal distinction reflected in language? This course offers answers to these questions that students of Japanese commonly have. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):  JAPA 204  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 407 - Fourth Year Japanese I

    This course aims at the acquisition of advanced level proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students are given opportunities to develop abilities to narrate and describe, to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics, to read prose several paragraphs in length, and to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of at least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics. In addition, students will practice language that is sociolinguistically appropriate in specific situations. Fall semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 306  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 408 - Fourth Year Japanese II

    This course is a continuation of Fourth Year Japanese I. It continues work on the acquisition of advanced level proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and writing. Students are given opportunities to understand the main ideas of extended discourse, to read texts which are linguistically complex, and to write about a variety of topics. Spring Semester. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 407  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 488 - Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice

    Cross-Listed as  
    How do you translate a haiku, a one-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poem? In three lines, as is normal for haiku in English? Or, like the original, in seventeen syllables? These are some of the questions we will consider in this course, which covers both the practical aspects of translating Japanese (from haiku to film subtitles) and the theoretical implications of this act (such as fidelity, difference, and orientalism). Assignments will consist of readings in translation theory and practice, with particular emphasis on Japanese literary translation, as well as exercises in Japanese-to-English translation. In addition, students will complete a final translation project of publishable quality. Readings are in English and Japanese. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 305 - Advanced Japanese I  or higher. (4 Credits)
  

  • JAPA 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

Latin American Studies
  

  • LATI 141 - Latin America Through Women’s Eyes

    Cross-Listed as  
    Latin American women have overcome patriarchal “machismo” to serve as presidents, mayors, guerilla leaders, union organizers, artists, intellectuals, and human rights activists. Through a mix of theoretical, empirical, and testimonial work, we will explore issues such as feminist challenges to military rule in Chile, anti-feminist politics in Nicaragua, the intersection of gender and democratization in Cuba, and women’s organizing and civil war in Colombia. Teaching methods include discussion, debates, simulations, analytic papers, partisan narratives, lecture, film, poetry, and a biographical essay. This class employs an innovative system of qualitative assessment. Students take the course “S/D/NC with Written Evaluation.” This provides a powerful opportunity for students to stretch their limits in a learning community with high expectations, but without a high-pressure atmosphere. This ungraded course has been approved for inclusion on major/minor plans in Political Science, Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 181 - Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean

    Cross-Listed as HIST 181 
    This course offers a general survey of the complex and heterogeneous region we somewhat reductively term Latin America. It follows a roughly chronological approach, beginning with the eve of encounter and continuing through the contemporary era. Discussions will consider themes such as the institution and legacy of colonialism, the search for new national identities, and the onset of modern racial and political strife. The course will emphasize the import of global economic, political, and cultural trends on the formation of the region. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 244 - Latino Politics

    Comparative study of Latino and Latina political struggles in the United States. We will explore the themes of subordination and empowerment through issues such as anti-immigrant ballot initiatives in California, the election of Latino mayors in Denver and San Antonio, Cuban dominance in Miami politics, multiracial violence in Los Angeles, and battles over labor conditions, affirmative action, bi-lingual education, and racial profiling. Student projects will involve field research among the Latino communities and organizations of the Twin Cities. Cross-listed with political science. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 245 - Latin American Politics

    Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in several Latin American countries. Through a mix of empirical and theoretical work, we analyze concepts and issues such as authoritarianism and democratization, neoliberalism, state terror and peace processes, guerrilla movements, party systems, populism, the Cuban Revolution, and U.S. military intervention. Themes are explored through diverse teaching methods including discussion, debates, simulations, partisan narratives, lecture, film, and poetry. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):   recommended. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 246 - Comparative Democratization

    Cross-Listed as POLI 246 
    This course focuses on theories of democratic breakdown, regime transitions, and democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America, and Post-Communist Europe. Some of the cases we will study include Pinochet’s coup and Chile’s return to elections, Fujimori’s “self-coup” in Peru, the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the breakdown and return of democracy in Spain, and the end of the South African apartheid regime. Building on the literatures on transitions, consolidation, civil society, and constitutional design, the course culminates in a simulation of institution building in Iraq. Offered every year. Prerequisite(s): POLI 140  or LATI 141  recommended (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 249 - Regional Geography of Latin America

    Cross-Listed as GEOG 249 
    This class provides an introduction to the geography of Latin America - its peoples and environments - that looks at the importance of place as a way to understand a region. This geographical approach involves investigating the changing relationships among places, peoples, and ideas, and how these relationships define and influence a particular region. As such, the class considers some of the forces that have shaped, and continue to influence, contemporary Latin America and its relations with the rest of the world: the natural environment, the people, the economy, politics, urbanization and migration, and environment and development. Each of these topics is explored independently and in ways that emphasize inter-relationships among topics. Offered every fall. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 255 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America

    Cross-Listed as ANTH 255 
    This course is an introduction to the cultural diversity and complexity of Latin American societies. We will examine regional differences from an anthropological perspective and discus how social institutions and cultural practices and traditions have been shaped, and how they have dealt with continuity and change. Ethnographic case studies will allow us to explore relevant topics related to ethnicity, social stratification, gift-giving/reciprocity, kinship, rural/urban relationships, cosmology and religion, and gender. These issues will be examined within the context of particular histories, considering the legacy of colonialism, the formation of the nation-state, the emergence of social movements, post-colonial nationalism, the impart of migration and urbanization, and the effects of neo-liberalism and globalization. We will conclude with a critical examination of forms of represenation of Latin America, which involve notions such as -indigenismo-. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 264 - Rights and Resistance: Theater and Film in Latin America

    Cross-Listed as THDA 264 
    This course offers an introduction to negotiations between art and the state in Latin American theatre and film texts and performances that expressly illuminate cultural and political movements in the Americas during the 20th century. We study the ways in which theatre and film address and express crisis of social conflict. Drawing on post-colonial and liberation theories of culture, art, and the state, we construct an intellectual history of socially motivated Latin American performances. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 269 - Economics of International Migration

    Cross-Listed as ECON and INTL 369.
    This course will examine the global movement of people through an economic lens. The course will study the impact that emigration has on the economy of the home country, such as brain drain and population change, the historic role that migration has played in economic development, and finally the effect that immigration has on immigrant-receiving countries. The various economic issues in the current immigration debate in the United States will be analyzed including the economic assimilation of immigrants, and the impact of immigration on native born workers. Every other spring. Cross-listed with ECON 269  and INTL 269 . (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 281 - The Andes: Race, Region, Nation

    Cross-Listed as HIST 281 
    This course provides a survey of Andean history with an emphasis upon the formation of collective identities. Class discussion will treat continuities and divergences between the Andean colonial and post-colonial experiences, especially the intersection between racial and regional tensions and their impact upon the emergence and construction of nation-states. Recent topics explored have included the role of landscape in Andean culture, Incan and neo-Incan cultural mythologies, the conflation of racial and class identities in the twentieth century, violence and guerrilla movements, urbanization, and the various shades of indigenismo. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 282 - Latin America: Art and Nation

    Cross-Listed as HIST 282 
    This course presents an historical overview of the interaction between artists, the state, and national identity in Latin America. After an introduction to the import of images to crafting collective identities during the colonial era and the 19th century, we will focus on the 20th century. Topics to be discussed include the depiction of race, allegorical landscapes and architectures, the art of revolution, and countercultures. Multiple genres will be explored with an emphasis on the visual arts, architecture, and popular music. No prerequisites. Alternate years (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 286 - Media and Cultural Studies of Latin America

    Cross-Listed as INTL 286  and MCST 286 
    This course explores cultural and media industries and texts - including folktales, art, performance, sport, film, and television - within their socio-political and historical context in Latin America. Organized around case studies that will allow us to apply learned cultural theories and methodologies to specific texts and historical moments, this class is imagined as a cultural studies “laboratory” in which we will collectively investigate varied topics in the field. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 307 - Introduction to the Analysis of Hispanic Texts

    Cross-Listed as HISP 307.
    This course presents the student with essential tools for the critical analysis of a broad range of topics and forms of cultural production (literature, cinema, art, e-texts, etc) in the Hispanic world. It also teaches the student advanced language skills in writen composition and public oral presentation. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): HISP 305  (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 308 - Introduction to U.S. Latino Studies

    Cross-Listed as    
    This course provides an interdisciplinary discussino of the Latino experience in the United States with a focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban-Americans. Using fiction, poetry, films and critical essays, we will examine issues of race and ethnicity, language, identity, gender and sexuality, politics, and immigration. Students will further engage with the Latino population of the Twin Cities by working with a local community organization. Offered every semester. Prerequisite(s): HISP 305  or consent of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 322 - Culture and Global Capitalism

    Cross-Listed as INTL 322  and MCST 322 
    From the colonial sugar plantations of the Caribbean and new continental tastes for sweets, to Ford’s mass production lines and Fordist mass consumption, to Sony’s multinationally produced video technology and Sonyism’s transnational networks of information societies, the worlds of capitalism and culture have been closely intertwined. This class will study forms of global economic exchange, and their associated systems of international relations, cultural texts, and popular resistances. Offered every year. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 323 - Economic Restructuring in Latin America

    Cross-Listed as ECON 323  and INTL 323 
    This course uses economic principles to examine the transition from Import Substitution Industrialization to trade liberalization in Latin America. The goal of the course is to understand the economic antecedents to free trade as well as the resulting impact on workers and resource allocation. The course also addresses peripheral aspects of economic restructuring, such as the drug trade, migration, and the maquiladora industry. Prerequisite(s): One200 level Economics course, ECON 221  preferred. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 341 - Comparative Social Movements

    Comparative study of social movements in Latin America and other world regions. This research seminar engages several major theories that attempt to explain the origins and development of movements struggling for subsistence rights, labor rights, gender and sexuality rights, social rights, and racial and ethnic rights. The course focuses principally on Latin American movements, but also engages cases from the United States and Europe through an examination of transnational advocacy networks and global activism. POLI 140  recommended. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 381 - Transnational Latin America

    Cross-Listed as INTL 381  and HIST 381 
    This course examines critical and primary literatures concerning the transnational, hemispheric, Atlantic, and Pacific cultures that have intersected in Latin America since the early colonial era, with a particular focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Alternate years (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 415 - Indigenous and African Peoples in Early Spanish America

    Cross-Listed as HISP 415  and INTL 415 
    In the Old World, Spain defined its national identity by locating its “others” in Jews, conversos, Muslims, moriscos, Turks, gypsies, pirates and Protestants. In the New World, Spaniards employed many of the same discursive and legal tactics - along with brute force - to subject Amerindian and African peoples to their will and their cultural norms. But indigenous and African populations in the Americas actively countered colonization. They rejected slavery and cultural imposition through physical rebellion, the use of strategies of cultural preservation and the appropriation of phonetic writing, which they in turn wielded against European hegemony. We will examine a fascinating corpus of indigenous pictographic codexes, architecture, myths, and histories and letters of resistance, along with a rich spectrum of texts in which peoples of African descent affirm their own subjectivity in opposition to slavery and cultural violence. What will emerge for students is a complex, heterogeneous vision of the conquest and early colonization in which non-European voices speak loudly on their own behalf. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 416 - Mapping the New World: Exploration, Encounters, and Disasters

    Cross-Listed as HISP 416  and INTL 416 
    Europeans were by no means the first peoples to explore new territories and human popluations. Renaissance scientific methodology, however, led European travelers to meticulously document each New World encounter in writing and develop new tools with which to navigate and represent space, devices that subsequently became weapons of colonial domination. But as Nature and indigenous populations refused to be subjected to European epistemology, failure and disaster were frequent events: shipwrecks left Old World survivors stranded among unknown lands and peoples in the Americas; Amerindians rejected the imposition of a foreign culture and religion, murdering colonists and missionaries; Africans rebelled against slavery and escaped to mountains and jungles to form autonomous communities. An examination of maps, exploration logs, missionary histories, travel literature, historiography and colonial documents will provide the foundation for this course on the ambivalent reality of the Old World’s encounter with the Americas, in which Europeans were often the losers. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307  or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 436 - Spanish Dialectology

    Cross-Listed as   and  
    A survey of modern dialectal variations of Spanish that includes examination of American Spanish dialects as well as those of the Iberian Peninsula. Sociolinguistic issues and historical aspects of dialect variation and study will be addressed, along with other extralinguistic factors. Through this course, students will be provided an introduction to theories of language change, as well as the history of the language, and will gain a broad understanding of the different varieties of Modern Spanish. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): HISP 309  or consent of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 446 - Constructions of a Female Killer

    Cross-Listed as HISP 446  and WGSS 446 
    The rise in femicide across Latin America, most shockingly exhibited in the city of Juarez, Mexico, has resulted in broad discussions of women’s relationship with violence. However, what happens when the traditional paradigm is inverted and we explore women as perpetrators, rather than victims, of violence? This class will dialogue with selected Latin American and Latino narratives (including novels, short stories, films, and newspapers) constituting different representations of women who kill. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite(s): HISP 307  (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 488 - Senior Seminar

    An integrative, research-oriented capstone which gathers senior majors of diverse regional and disciplinary focuses during the final semester. A faculty convener will integrate a schedule of issue-area seminars, faculty methods and topics presentations, talks by visiting speakers, and student reports on research projects. The course culminates in a lengthy final paper. Every spring. (4 Credits)
  

  • LATI 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

Linguistics
  

  • LING 100 - Introduction to Linguistics

    The aim of this course is to make you aware of the complex organization and systematic nature of language, the primary means of human communication. In a sense, you will be studying yourself, since you are a prime example of a language user. Most of your knowledge of language, however, is unconscious, and the part of language that you can describe is largely the result of your earlier education, which may have given you confused, confusing, or misleading notions about language. This course is intended to clarify your ideas about language and bring you to a better understanding of its nature. By the end of the course you should be familiar with some of the terminology and techniques of linguistic analysis and be able to apply this knowledge to the description of different languages. There are no prerequisites, but this course is the prerequisite for almost every higher level course within the linguistics major. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 103 - Advertising and Propaganda

    North Americans on the whole are far more exposed to commercial advertising, arguably the most sophisticated propaganda in human history, than to the cruder versions we imbibe in church and school, or associate with Nazi Germany or Orwell’s 1984. On this subject, we are jaded experts: hip to the “white noise” on TV, on the internet, and in glossy magazines. Yet even with TiVo, we are unable to tune it out completely. The main purpose of this course is to apply the concepts and techniques of linguistic semantics to the analysis of advertising and the ideology which it both nurtures and reflects. What is the semiotic function of Ronald MacDonald? Why did so many otherwise rational Americans once believe that the person most likely to blow up the world was Muammar (Who?) Khaddafy? What are the propaganda consequences of the collapse of the Evil Empire? Why are we fascinated by Brad Pitt and bored by Cesar (Who?) Chavez? What is the role of propaganda in creating the cult of beauty? Why are advertisements which make fun of themselves so effective? Why is war propaganda almost always more effective than anti-war propaganda? Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 104 - The Sounds of Language

    Nearly all natural languages are spoken. Biological properties of the human ear, pharynx, larynx, tongue, and lung impose limits on the sounds of human languages, which can be studied from both a biological and an acoustic point of view. In this course you will be trained to produce and recognize (almost) all the sounds which human languages make use of, and to develop a systematic way of analyzing and recording them. Since sounds are perceived as well as produced, you will also be introduced to the acoustic analysis of speech, learning how acoustic signals of frequency, amplitude, and duration are translated into visible, quantifiable images. You will learn the art of decoding these spectrograms into sounds and words and sentences. The linguistics laboratory contains several different programs for practicing and listening to sounds from many of the world’s languages. This course is recommended for students of foreign languages, drama, music and anyone who wants to become more aware of their (and other people’s) pronunciation.  Every fall. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 175 - Sociolinguistics

    Sociolinguistics is the study of the social language variation inevitable in all societies, be they closed and uniform or diverse and multicultural. Language and culture are so closely tied that it is nearly impossible to discuss language variation without also understanding its relation to culture. As humans, we judge each other constantly on the basis of the way we talk, we make sweeping generalizations about people’s values and moral worth solely on the basis of the language they speak. Diversity in language often stands as a symbol of ethnic and social diversity. If someone criticizes our language we feel they are criticizing our inmost self. This course introduces students to the overwhelming amount of linguistic diversity in the United States and elsewhere, while at the same time making them aware of the cultural prejudices inherent in our attitude towards people who speak differently from us. The class involves analysis and discussion of the readings, setting the stage for exploration assignments, allowing students to do their own research on linguistic diversity. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 200 - English Syntax

    This course deals with the formal properties of discourse organization above the word level. Using local English as our test case, we introduce and refine the conceptual apparatus of theoretical syntax: syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic categories, the ways they are coded in English, phrase structure rules and recursion, semantic and pragmatic motivations for formal structures, movement rules, anaphora, and dependence relations. Some properties of English are (probable) language universals. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 201 - Historical Linguistics

    Languages are constantly changing. The English written by Chaucer 600 years ago is now very difficult to understand without annotation, not to mention anything written a few centuries before that. This course investigates the nature of language change, how to determine a language’s history, its relationship to other languages and the search for common ancestors or “proto-languages.” We will discuss changes at various linguistic levels: sound change, lexical change, syntactic change and changes in word meaning over time. Although much of the work done in this field involves Indo-European languages, we will also look at change in many other language families. This is a practical course, most of class time will be spent DOING historical linguistics, rather than talking about it. We will be looking at data sets from many different languages and trying to make sense of them. In the cases where we have examples of many related languages, we will try to reconstruct what the parent language must have looked like. Prerequisite(s): LING 100  or LING 104  (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 202 - Origins/Evolution of Language

    In 1870, the Linguistic Society of Paris decreed that all papers on the topic of the origin of speech were inadmissible. In recent years, speculations about the evolutions of language have become respectable once again, as attested by the number of international conferences on the topic, and journals devoted to it. Although we are only a little closer to a description of “proto-human” than we were back in 1870, it is now universally recognized that there are no primitive languages, and that neither the comparative method of historical linguistics nor internal reconstruction can allow us to reconstruct the earliest human languages (although they still allow us to make inferences about Proto-Indo-European and other ancient extinct languages). But there have been advances in our understanding of the neurological substrate for linguistic ability, communication in (some) other species, and in the application of the uniformitarian hypothesis: the processes we now observe in different kinds of language change are themselves capable of producing all the recognized “design features” of human language out of earlier structures in which these features are lacking. Prerequisite(s): LING 100  or LING 301  (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 204 - Experimental Linguistics

    This course is the natural extension of the Sounds of Language course, as well as the prerequisite to the capstone course in the cognitive track. Students learn how to conduct linguistic research from the bottom up, from forming a hypothesis to constructing word and sentence lists for elicitation, or stimuli for recognition, to recording speakers, running tests, analyzing the data obtained, and writing up the final research paper. By the end of the semester, students should be familiar with all the equipment in the linguistics laboratory and what kinds of questions each is designed to explore, and to be able to conduct their own independent research. Corequisite(s): LING 100  or LING 104  (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 205 - Phonology

    Although all humans are born with the capacity to learn the sounds of any language, part of learning our native language is learning to categorize sounds into groups specific to that language, thereby filtering out many of the actual phonetic distinctions and concentrating only on those that are important. Just as we, as English speakers, may have trouble hearing the difference between the voiced and voiceless click consonants in Zulu, so speakers of other languages may not hear the difference between the vowels in “beat” and “bit,” because this small distinction isn’t important in their language. Phonology is the study of how different languages organize sounds into perceptual categories. In this class we will look at data from a wide variety of different languages, as well as from several dialects of English, including children’s acquisition of a phonological system. Emphasis will be on practical skills in solving problem sets. Prerequisite(s): LING 104  (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 206 - Endangered/Minority Languages

    Language loss is accelerating at alarming rates. In fact, Linguists predict that only five percent of the six thousand languages currently spoken in the world are expected to survive into the 22nd century. In this course, we will examine the historical, political, and socio-economic factors behind the endangerment and/or marginalization of languages in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. We will also concentrate on the globalization of English (and other major languages), which plays a primary role in language endangerment and marginalization. Additional topics include: linguistic diversity, language policy, multilingualism (in both nations and individuals), global language conflict, and language revitalization. Students will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about these issues by interviewing speakers of an endangered and/or minority language.  Offered every third year. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 225 - 100 Words for Snow: Language and Nature

    Cross-Listed as ENVI 225 
    This course examines the relationship between language and nature. What is language and what is nature? What does the language of environment discourse look like? How do the ways we talk about nature influence our perceptions of it? How has the environment influenced individual languages? What are current ideas on how language evolved in our species? Can we look at languages as if they were organisms and analyze their ecosystems? Are biodiversity and linguistic diversity linked? Can saving endangered languages help us save endangered environments?  Next offered spring 2013. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 235 - Communicative Strategies in Japanese Society

    Cross-Listed as JAPA 235.
    This course aims at understanding communicative strategies employed by Japanese speakers. Students of Japanese language often wonder what cultural assumptions and strategies lie behind the language they are studying. In language classrooms such issues are touched upon but never fully explained in the interest of time. This course offers in-depth explorations of the interrelationship between Japanese language and society. Students will be encouraged to reflect upon their own communicative strategies. They will also read about strategies used by American English speakers as a point of comparison. How is gender articulated in Japanese society? Is the so-called feminine speech in Japanese real? If the feminine speech is considered “powerless,” how do women in authoritative positions speak? Problems in U.S.-Japan business and other negotiations are often reported in the popular press. How are they related to how people in each country communicate with one another? Japanese people are supposed to be “polite.” How, to whom, and in what context do they express politeness? Are their politeness strategies markedly different from those of other countries? Students will have opportunities to explore issues such as these. No Japanese language ability required. Alternate years. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 280 - Topics in Linguistic Anth

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    Introduces students to linguistic anthropology, one of the four major subfields of the discipline of anthropology. Students will focus on particular topics within linguistic anthropology including: gender, race, sexuality, and identity. May involve fieldwork in the Twin Cities area. Focus will be announced at registration.  Offered occasionally. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 111  (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 300 - Linguistic Analysis

    The first prerequisite to understanding a linguistic message is the ability to decipher its code. This course is training in the decoding of grammar. Through practice in problem-solving, you will develop expertise in the grammatical systems of a wide sample of the world’s language types.  Every fall. Prerequisite(s): LING 100  - Introduction to Linguistics, plus one of LING 200  - Syntax or LING 205  - Phonology. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 301 - Language and Alienation

    We are living in the midst of an “irony epidemic,” where two of the most frequently used expressions in current American English are “like” and “whatever.” Both of these are literally advertisements that words are not the real thing (at best, they are “like” it), and that they don’t matter (since “whatever” you say is equally a matter of indifference). This course takes as its point of departure the sarcasm and irony in spoken American English, and proceeds to an investigation of how the peculiar message of sarcasm (“I don’t mean this”) is conveyed in other languages, and in the media. Not surprisingly, the study of cheap talk connects intimately with aspects of pop culture. More surprising, however, is the idea that the cheapness of talk is not only a currently recognized property of our language, but that it might serve to define the very essence of human language in general and offer insights into the origins and nature of our ability to speak at all. Prerequisite(s): one prior course in Linguistics (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 309 - Intro to Hispanic Linguistics

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    A linguistic survey of the Spanish language aimed at improving pronunciation and increasing comprehension of the structure of the language, deepening students’ understanding of the sound system, word formation, grammar and meaning. Study will emphasize phonetics and provide an introduction to transcription, phonology, morphology and syntax, as well as provide an overview of linguistic change and geographic variation. Every year. Prerequisite(s): HISP 305  or consent of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 335 - Analyzing Japanese Language

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    Our perception is greatly influenced by the language we use. Without knowing, we limit ourselves to thinking that our current perspective is the only way by which to view ourselves and the world. By analyzing Japanese, students can experience perceptual and cultural systems that are different from their own. At the same time, students may also discover that there are certain qualities that are common even in “exotic” languages such as Japanese. What is the difference between subject and topic? (The “topic marker,” which is not used in English, is prominent in Japanese.) Why can’t you translate “he is cold” word for word into Japanese? How do women talk differently from men? In what kind of situation should we use honorific language? What is “in-group” as opposed to “out-group” and how is that societal distinction reflected in language? This course offers answers to these questions that students of Japanese commonly have.  Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): JAPA 204 , or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 364 - Philosophy of Language

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    What is language and what is it for? What makes a series of sounds into a meaningful sentence? What makes a sentence true? Why is language always changing? This course will introduce students to ways in which twentieth century philosophers have attempted to provide answers to such questions. Since the philosophy of language has been so crucial to contemporary philosophy, this course also serves as an introduction to philosophical thought from the beginning of twentieth century to the present. Topics will range from more technical problems (theories of meaning, reference and truth; synonymy and analyticity; universals and natural kinds; private languages) to broader issues examining the relationship between language and culture (language games; radical interpretation; social change). Readings typically include writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein, W.V. Quine, John Searle, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and bell hooks. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 231 , or permission of instructor (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 378 - Psychology of Language

    Cross-Listed as   .
    An examination of psychological factors that affect the comprehension of oral and written language. Topics include the origin of language, how language can control thought, the role of mutual knowledge in comprehension, and principles that underlie coherence in discourse. Includes readings from psycholinguistics, philosophy, sociolinguistics, gender studies, social psychology, and especially from cognitive psychology. Emphasis is placed on current research methods so that students can design an original study.  Spring semester Prerequisite(s): PSYC 242 , or two Linguistics classes, or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 394 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 400 - Field Methods in Linguistics

    The vast majority of the world’s languages cannot be learned from textbooks or programmed tapes. They have never even been recorded. In this course, which is required for all linguistics majors, students meet with one or more bilingual speakers of a language unknown to them, and attempt by means of elicitation and analysis of texts to understand its structure. Spring semester. Prerequisite(s):  LING 104  - Sounds of Language, and LING 300  - Linguistic Analysis. (6 Credits)
  

  • LING 435 - History of Spanish Language

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    An overview of Modern Spanish as it has developed over time. Course will trace the historical evolution of the most salient phonological, morpho-syntactic and lexical traits of Modern Spanish and will include study of the origins of American Spanish. Students will also be introduced to some of the principal theories of language change. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):  

    LING 309  or 

      or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 436 - Spanish Dialectology

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    A survey of modern dialectal variations of Spanish that includes examination of American Spanish dialects as well as those of the Iberian Peninsula. Sociolinguistic issues and historical aspects of dialect variation and study will be addressed, along with other extralinguistic factors. Through this course, students will be provided an introduction to theories of language change, as well as the history of the language, and will gain a broad understanding of the different varieties of Modern Spanish. Prerequisite: LING 309  or HISP 309 or permission of the instructor. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s):  LING 309  or   or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 437 - Applied Linguistics: Spanish Second Language Acquisition

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    An overview of research projects on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language. Students will learn about the theoretical approaches used in these studies as well as the effects of various pedagogical approaches on the development of Spanish interlanguage systems. While the focus of the course is on the acquisition of Spanish as a second language, students will gain a broad and useful understanding of different pedagogical issues directly related to the acquisition/learning process(es) of other second languages.  Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): : LING 309  or   or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 488 - Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice

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    (4 Credits)
  

  • LING 494 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)

Mathematics
  

  • MATH 108 - Quantitative Thinking for Policy Analysis

    Students will learn related approaches to collecting, interpreting, and presenting quantitative information in the context of specific public policy issues such as immigration, globalization, discrimination, health care, and environmental issues. The course will build on familiar numerical, statistical, and logical skills. No prerequisites. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 116 - Math and Society

    Topics course offered for non-majors aiming to fulfill distribution requirement. Topics changes, and offerings may include Math of Elections and Voting, Climate Modeling, Game Theory, and Sports Statistics. Full descriptions given in advance of registration. Offered even-numbered fall semesters. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 125 - Epidemiology

    Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and health in human populations and the application of this understanding to the solution of public health problems. Topics include measurement of disease and health, the outbreak and spread of disease, reasoning about cause and effect, analysis of risk, detection and classification, and the evaluation of trade-offs. The course is designed to fulfill and extend the professional community’s consensus definition of undergraduate epidemiology. In addition to the techniques of modern epidemiology, the course emphasizes the historical evolution of ideas of causation, treatment, and prevention of disease. The course is a required component of the concentration in Community and Global Health. No prerequisites. Every fall. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 135 - Applied Calculus

    This introductory-level course focuses on those aspects of calculus that are particularly useful in applied work in the natural and social sciences. There is a strong emphasis on developing mathematical modeling skills. The topics include differential calculus of functions of one and several variables, differential and difference equations, and the geometry of high-dimensional space. Case studies are drawn from varied areas, including biology, economics, and physics. The course is designed both for students with no previous calculus, and students who have had one or two semesters of AP calculus (but who do not intend directly to take MATH 236  or MATH 237 ). Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 136 - Discrete Mathematics

    An introduction to the basic techniques and methods used in combinatorial problem-solving. Includes basic counting principles, induction, logic, recurrence relations, and graph theory. Every semester. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 137 - Single Variable Calculus

    Differentiation and integration of functions of a single variable, with applications. Main topics: Limit definition of the derivative and integral, exponential growth, chain rule, Riemann sums, numerical integration, integration by substitution and parts, improper integrals, geometric series, Taylor polynomials. This is a more in-depth course than MATH 135 , and should be taken instead of MATH 135  by students intending to continue in mathematics. Prerequisite: Previous calculus course. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): previous calculus course. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 153 - Data Analysis and Statistics

    An introduction to basic concepts of data analysis and statistics in the spirit of the liberal arts. Emphasis on data analysis, model assumptions, and interpreting results. Examples and techniques drawn primarily from the social sciences. Major topics: uncertainty/variation, data acquisition, graphical techniques, descriptive statistics, exploratory versus confirmatory analysis, statistical inference. Recommended for students in humanities/fine arts/social sciences and/or those not planning to pursue careers in quantitative analysis; prospective economics majors are encouraged to take MATH 155 . Every semester. Prerequisite(s): High school algebra. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 155 - Introduction to Statistical Modeling

    An introductory statistics course with an emphasis on multivariate modeling. Topics include descriptive statistics, experiment and study design, probability, hypothesis testing, multivariate regression, single and multi-way analysis of variance, logistic regression. Prerequisites: MATH 135  or MATH 137  or MATH 236  or MATH 237  or permission of instructor. Every semester. Prerequisite(s): MATH 135, 137, 236, or 237. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 194 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 236 - Linear Algebra

    This course blends mathematical computation, theory, abstraction, and application. It starts with systems of linear equations and grows into the study of matrices, vector spaces, linear independence, dimension, matrix decompositions, linear transformations, eigenvectors, and their applications. Prerequisite: MATH 136  or MATH 137 , or, with permission of instructor, MATH 135 . Prerequisite(s): MATH 136 or 137 (or 135 with permission). (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 237 - Multivariable Calculus

    Differentiation and integration of functions of two and three variables. Applications of these, including optimization techniques. Also includes introduction to vector calculus, with treatment of vector fields, line and surface integrals, and Green’s Theorem. Prerequisite: MATH 137 . Every semester. Prerequisite(s): MATH 137. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 253 - Applied Mulitivariate Stats

    An introduction to multivariate statistical analysis. Emphasizes rationales, applications, and interpretations using advanced statistical software. Examples drawn primarily from economics, education, psychology, sociology, political science, biology and medicine. Topics may include: simple/multiple regression, one-way/two-way ANOVA, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, multivariable correlation. Additional topics may include analysis of covariance, factor analysis, cluster analysis. Prerequisite: MATH 153 , MATH 155 , or permission of instructor. Every spring. Prerequisite(s): MATH 153, 155, or permission of instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 265 - Philosophy of Mathematics

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    Why does 2 + 2 equal four? Can a diagram prove a mathematical truth? Is mathematics a social construction or do mathematical facts exist independently of our knowing them? Philosophy of mathematics considers these sorts of questions in an effort to understand the logical and philosophical foundations of mathematics. Topics include mathematical truth, mathematical reality, and mathematical justifications (knowledge). Typically we focus on the history of mathematics of the past 200 years, highlighting the way philosophical debates arise in mathematics itself and shape its future. Alternate years. Prerequisite(s): PHIL 120 , MATH 136 , or permission of the instructor. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 294 - Topics Course

    Varies by semester. Consult the department or class schedule for current listing. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 312 - Differential Equations

    Introduction to the theory and application of differential equations. Solving linear and first-order systems using algebra, linear algebra, and complex numbers. Using computers to solve equations both symbolically and numerically and to visualize the solutions. Qualitative methods for nonlinear dynamical systems. Applications to diverse areas of modeling. Prerequisites: MATH 236  and MATH 237 . Every semester. Prerequisite(s): MATH 236 and 237. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 353 - Modern Statistics

    Topics in modern applied statistics. Topic changes; offerings include Survival Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods. Full description given in advance of registration. Prerequisite: MATH 253  or ECON 381  or PSYC 202  or consent of instructor. Offered fall semester. Prerequisite(s): MATH 253 or ECON 381 or PSYC 202. (4 Credits)
  

  • MATH 354 - Probability

    An introduction to basic probability concepts: sample spaces, probability assignments, combinatorics, conditional probability, independence, random variables, discrete and continuous distributions, functions of random variables, expectation, variance, moment-generating functions, some basic probability processes, and some fundamental limit theorems. Prerequisite: MATH 137  (recommended but not required: MATH 237 ). Every fall. Prerequisite(s): MATH 137. (4 Credits)
 

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