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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
An integrated and quantitative introduction to the principles of molecular biology with an emphasis on the experimental underpinning of key concepts. This course covers the biochemistry and structure of DNA; the Central Dogma of molecular biology (DNA replication and repair, transcription and RNA processing, and translation); and an overview of gene regulation and systems biology. The weekly section combines an investigative, discovery-based laboratory research project with a discussion emphasizing problem solving and the scientific method.
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4.00 Credits
An integrated introduction to the structure, function, and interactions of cells. Topics covered include: membrane structure and transport, receptors and channels, protein targeting, cytoskeleton, cell cycle, signal transduction, cell migration, cell growth and death, cell adhesion, cell polarity, embryogenesis, organogenesis, and stem cells.
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4.00 Credits
The course aims to develop fundamental concepts of physical chemistry as they apply to macromolecules, including protein and nucleic acid structure, thermodynamics and kinetics, ligand interactions and chemical equilibria. The course will also emphasize how these concepts are used in studies of the structure and function of biological molecules.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the ways in which the brain controls mental activities. The course covers the cells and signals that process and transmit information, and the ways in which neurons form circuits that change with experience. Topics include the neurobiology of perception, learning, memory, language, emotion, and mental illness.
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4.00 Credits
Laboratory research in topics related to the Molecular and Cellular Biology Concentration under the direction of, or approved by, members of the Board of Tutors.
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8.00 Credits
For honors candidates writing a thesis in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the student to medieval Greek language and literature and, through selected readings, to important elements of Byzantine culture and society. Texts chosen from different genres and periods to reflect the great diversity of Byzantine life and letters. Types of literature will include: devotional reading, biographies, chronicles, sacred and secular poetry, letters, ecphraseis, scholarly writings, and histories. Choice of readings will correspond in part to the specific interests and needs of the participants.
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4.00 Credits
Explores a renowned lyric collection that brings together verse composed in medieval Germany, France, and Italy, as well as excerpts from Latin poetry of classical antiquity and late antiquity. Examines questions of genre (panegyric, dirges, occasional poems, comic tales, didactic, spring poems, love poems, and religious poems), of meter, of relations between text and music, of manuscripts, and of anthologizing.
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4.00 Credits
Masterworks of art and architecture in Western Europe from the decline of Rome to the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. Explores the creative tension between the impulse to originality and the authority of classical models in the search for new art forms. Emphasis on representative works considered in their totality (architecture, painting, sculpture, and minor arts) as experiential wholes; and on the plurality of geographical and cultural contexts (Italy, Germany, France, and Spain).
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the main outlines of continental European constitutional and legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to the "Rise of absolutism" at the beginning of the 17th century. Focuses on the main expressions of European legal culture over this long period of time. In each period an effort is made to relate the types of law produced to the social, political, and religious history of the period.
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