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4.00 Credits
A study of the exuberant Irish prose epic Tain Bo Cuailnge (`Cattle-Raid of Cooley').
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the role of the bard, or professional poet, in the Celtic-speaking societies of Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Through the study of narrative sources concerning the origin and nature of poets and poetry, theoretical and legal texts, and, most especially, bardic poems from the early Middle Ages through the eighteenth century, we examine the physical, public and political power of a medium-poetic verse-now associated with "power" in the private and emotional sense only. We study bardic poems in various modes - eulogistic, satiric, commemorative, prophetic - and we examine the circumstances that support the institution of bardic poetry and those that contribute to its decline. Among the issues to be considered are patronage, convention, the relationship of rhetoric and truth, and the functions of poetic form. All readings in English translation, but there will be some exposure to the forms of bardic poetry in the original languages.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the interplay between innovation and tradition in Scottish Gaelic literature, and in particular poetry, since the nineteenth century. Topics include poetry of place, war poetry and contemporary poetry.
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4.00 Credits
Instruction and direction of reading on topics not treated in regular courses of instruction.
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4.00 Credits
A laboratory course where students carry out research. Projects will be drawn directly from faculty covering a range of methodologies in chemistry and chemical biology. Students will discuss their progress and write formal reports.
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4.00 Credits
Organic Synthesis Towards a Genomic Medicine teaches advanced students in chemistry and chemical biology: 1) the principles that underlie modern organic synthesis, chemical biology and genome biology, and 2) the resulting development of a new interdisciplinary field -- genomic medicine. Genomic medicine aims to understand human biology and to transform human health by using small molecules that target the root causes of disease. For example, the course will explore how organic synthesis is enabling patient-based durg discovery, where genetic signatures of disease are related to drug sensitivity in the context of cancer, diabetes, infectious disease and psychiatric disease, among others.
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4.00 Credits
This course will survey modern organic chemistry from a fundamental perspective. The foundations of structure and bonding, donor-acceptor interactions, and conformational analysis will be considered in the context of pericyclic reactions and cyclic and acyclic stereocontrol. The behavior of reactive intermediates, the basis for enantioselective catalysis, and patterns in functional group reactivity will also be discussed.
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4.00 Credits
An integrated course in complex synthetic problem solving that focuses on the development of principles and strategies for synthesis design with a concurrent, comprehensive review of modern synthetic transformations.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the application of modern NMR spectroscopic techniques to the structural elucidation of small molecules. Both the practical and theoretical aspects of 1D and 2D NMR experiments will be explored. Topics include: the chemical shift; coupling constants; the nuclear Overhauser effect and relaxation; chemical exchange; 2D homonuclear and heteronuclear correlation; analysis of complex molecules with overlapping signals and data tabulation; analysis of reactive intermediates; kinetics by NMR; the Fourtier transform; quadrature detection; phase-sensitive detection; the vector model; the density matrix and the product operator formalism; pulsed field gradients; and spectrometer instrumentation.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to experimental problems encountered in the synthesis, isolation, purification, characterization, and identification of inorganic and organic compounds. Each student works on a different sequence of reactions, encouraging technical proficiency and simulating actual research.
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