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3.00 Credits
This program, led by a College faculty member, aims to increase participants' understanding about and appreciation for the contributions of African civilizations to global society and culture. Offered every other year during the summer.
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3.00 Credits
This program, led by a College faculty member, will explore the layers of history and culture of Greece through historical, philosophical, literary, and religious readings, through evening seminars, and through visiting archaeological and cultural sites related to the readings and seminars. Offered every other year during the summer.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Past offerings of this study tour have focused on an intensive immersion experience of culture and society in the Indian Himalayas and the Ganges plain. The tour provides direct experience of the practices, life-styles, worldviews, and philosophies of five major religious traditions in India: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism. The tour exposes students to the nature and history of interreligious relations in India, focusing on Hindu- Muslim relations but including study of the history and circumstances of Tibetan Buddhists in India.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Usually offered during Winter Break, the focus of this study tour is the performing arts in London, with opportunities included for other museum and site visits. Tickets to a number of performances are included as part of the study tour costs.
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1.00 - 8.00 Credits
Past offerings of this study tour have focused on the impact of globalization on Thai society, ranging from language, to business, education, the environment, gender roles, and religion.
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3.00 Credits
Functions and graphs. Transformations, compositions, inverses, andcombinations of functions. Exponentials and logarithms. Trigonometric functions and their inverses. Polynomial and Rational functions. This course is designed to prepare students for further studies in mathematics and the sciences; in particular, for an in-depth study of calculus. The course does not satisfy the Core Curriculum requirement in mathematics.
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3.00 Credits
The differential and integral calculus of functions of one variable: limits and continuity, the derivative, curve sketching, applications of the derivative, indefinite integrals and differential equations, definite integrals and the fundamental theorem, integration methods, applications of the integral, the convergence of sequences and series, power series, Taylor's theorem and analytic functions, polar coordinates and parametric equations. MATH 1 51 satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in Mathematics. Prerequisite: Familiarity with high school trigonometry is expected. MATH 151 is a prerequisite for MATH 152.
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3.00 Credits
The foundations of arithmetical reasoning including general problem-solving skills; sets and operations; the use of manipulatives to model arithmetic; arithmetic in other bases; standard, alternative and invented algorithms; fractions and proportional reasoning; basic number theory. Student-centered pedagogies will be modeled and discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Geometry (including constructions and proofs), tessellations and tilings of the plane, polyhedra, measurement, basic probability and statistics. Student-centered pedagogies will be modeled and discussed. ( MATH 161 is not a prerequisite for this course.)
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course consists of an independent creative or research project designed by the student and supervised by a mathematics faculty member. The nature of the project, the schedule for accomplishment, and the means of evaluation must be formalized in a learning contract prior to registration. (See "Independent Study"under "Academic Policies" section.)
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