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SOC Title |
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Instructor |
Time |
Place |
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87553 |
SCHWEGLER, A. |
Fri, 3-3:50 pm |
HH 108 |
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87554 |
LEE, J.W. |
Tue, 2-2:50 pm |
HH231 |
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87555 |
KUBIAK, A. |
Wed, 11-11:50 am |
See Schedule of Classes |
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87556 |
JELIAZKOV, I. |
Thu, 6:30-7:20 pm |
SSL 159 |
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87557 |
HOLTON, A. |
Tue, 3-3:50 pm |
See Schedule of Classes |
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87558 |
LEVINE, G. |
Tue, 1-1:50 pm |
See Schedule of Classes |
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87559 |
RICHARDSON, G. |
Mon, 9-9:50 am |
SSL 159 |
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87562 |
HILL, D. |
Mon, 5-5:50 pm |
CAC 3100B |
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87563 |
DO, A. |
Mon, 10-10:50 am |
CAC 3100B |
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87564 |
LANKFORD, A. |
Tue, 2:30-3:20 pm |
AIRB 4080 |
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87565 |
CHEN, M. |
Tue, 1-1:50 pm |
See Schedule of Classes |
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87566 |
VEENSTRA, J. |
Fri, 10-10:50 am |
CAC 3100B |
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This “fun course” studies the history and contemporary usage of Spanish worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on Latin American dialect varieties (including Mexican, Cuban, Argentinean, Colombian, and USA Spanish). By taking this course students will gain a better appreciation for (1) how and why a once very marginal tongue has become one of the world’s major languages, (2) the extent to which Spanish dialects differ today, and (3) how Spanish evolved from Roman times into what it is today.
Armin Schwegler is a Professor in the School of Humanities.
Edgar Allan Poe claimed that short stories were superior to novels because, unlike novels, short stories can be read in one sitting. Further, a great short story can, according to Poe, achieve something a novel cannot: a unity of effect in which no detail, sentence, and indeed word, can be overlooked. Analyzing a short story, then, requires a special set of skills. In this class, we will read and closely study various short stories, one per week, written by authors from around the world.
Jerry Won Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities.
This quarter we will be investigating the mind through the medium of meditation, dream, and discussion. The focus of this particular seminar will be on learning meditation and dream techniques in order to develop mental equilibrium and clarity, and to use these growing powers of clarity and calm to investigate our various mental states throughout the day and night.
Anthony Kubiak is a Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
Introduction to Empirical Analysis
The seminar will focus on introducing students to simple empirical strategies to help extract information from data, with an emphasis on topics in economics, business and finance. Each class will begin by introducing a particular topic or open problem, followed by discussion of possible solutions and examination of relevant data and empirical techniques. Lectures will conclude with results from empirical studies and discussion of their implications for the originally posed problem.
Ivan Jeliazkov is an Associate Professor of Economics and Statistics in the School of Social Sciences.
Fact or Fiction? Scientific Literacy in a Fake News World
Is wine as healthy as exercise? Is AI taking over? Will a new supplement make you smarter? You will learn to evaluate scientific news articles. We will discuss strategies for recognizing sensationalism.
We’ll discuss headlines, journal quality, motivated cognition, and data representations, to help you decide whether a news article is likely to be real, fake or just sensationalized. This class is designed for all levels of scientific background.
Amanda Holton is a Lecturer in the School of Physical Sciences.
Nazi Germany: History, Facts, Myths
This seminar traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis from their beginnings through their defeat at the end of World War II. The course is intended for students who want to learn about this troubling and catastrophic era in German and European history and to gain an understanding of the complex people who brought such destruction on the world and themselves. There are no term papers or exams, but students are asked to pose and answer questions on course topics and prepare 1-2 short presentations.
Glenn S. Levine is a Professor in the School of Humanities.
World War 2 was the largest military conflict in world history. In this seminar, we discuss the military history of the conflict, focusing on the principal campaigns, biggest battles, and worst blunders. We will also discuss the economic, ethical, social, and technological factors shaping military decisions and the outcomes of the battles on which we focus. The seminar is designed to appeal to military history enthusiasts and anyone else interested in the topic.
Gary Richardson is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences.
Identify what success means to you and develop your critical thinking skills. Create strategies and action plans to achieve your goals and examine what stops you. Explore a research process on how to find a mentor. Learn the art of how to become unstoppable in going for what you really want in life. Develop greater self-esteem by getting in touch with your personal power and achieve a higher level of self-love and acceptance.
Donald Hill is a Senior Lecturer in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
Neural Technologies – a new way to cure paralysis?
Neural interface technologies are systems which convert nervous system activity into the control of external devices. This essentially allows a person to directly mind control computers, robots, and other devices without the need to generate any movements. Such technologies can potentially help people with severe paralysis to control assistive or prosthetic devices to interact with their environment again.
This seminar will introduce fundamental concepts underlying how these systems operate.
An Do is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine.
This seminar will introduce some of the most exciting questions confronting contemporary physics in a fashion suitable for both humanists and scientists. How are space and time related, and how does the present understanding of spacetime contribute to understanding of the evolution of the universe? How are mass and gravity related to space and time? What are particles, superstrings, and black holes?
The seminar will address such questions with conceptual explanations based upon current research.
Andrew Lankford is a Professor in the School of Physical Sciences.
What is the ultimate essence of all phenomena? Modern Physics and Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy are both on quests for the answer to this fundamental question. We will explore the key concepts in
Modern Physics, including Einstein’s Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and String Theory, and in
Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy, including Interdependence and Emptiness. We will explore similarities and differences in these two frameworks’ underlying notions and analyze how they lead to the mirages of reality.
Mu-Chun Chen is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Come join the circus! Think the circus is just for clowns? Think again! Contemporary circus art companies, like Cirque du Soleil, not only are creating the cutting edge of safety and technology in the entertainment industry, they are also generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue annually.
Explore what we can learn from the way the contemporary circus does business and entertainment.
Joel Robert Veenstra is a Lecturer in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.