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4.00 Credits
Introduces some of the important tools economists use to solve problems, provides examples of how they are used, and prepares students for subsequent course work in the theory concentration. Topics include game theory, decision making by households and firms, competitive markets, long-run economic growth, disequilibrium, and short-run economic fluctuations.
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4.00 Credits
Specifically designed to provide the appropriate mathematical tools for study in the theory concentration. Examples and motivation are drawn from important topics in economics. Topics covered include elementary set theory and the abstract notion of a function; Cartesian products; convex sets and concave functions; differential calculus and partial derivatives; integration and the fundamental theorem of calculus; first- and second-order conditions for a maximum; implicit functions; and constrained optimization.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
The student engages in intensive independent study of an important economic topic under the direction of a departmental faculty member. The results of the study are embodied in a report of a type required by the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Examines selected plays central to the development of world drama, with critical emphasis on a cultural, historical, and theatrical analysis of these works. The first semester covers the major periods of Greek and Roman drama; Japanese classical theatre; medieval drama; theatre of the English, Italian, and Spanish Renaissance; and French neoclassical drama. The second semester begins with English Restoration and 18th-century comedy and continues through romanticism, naturalism, and realism to an examination of antirealism and the major dramatic currents of the 20th century, including postcolonial theatre in Asia, Africa, and Australia.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the relationship between two kinds of theories: theories of meaning and theories of performance. Among the theories of meaning to be studied are semiotics, deconstruction, feminism, psychoanalysis, new historicism, and postmodernism. Theories of practice include naturalism, dadaism, futurism, epic theatre, theatre of cruelty, poor theatre, and environmental theatre. Theories are examined through theoretical essays and representative plays.
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4.00 Credits
Combines the study of drama as literary text with the study of theatre as its three-dimensional translation, both theoretically and practically. Drawing on the rich theatrical resources of New York City, students see approximately 12 plays, covering classical to contemporary and traditional to experimental theatre. On occasion, films or videotapes of plays are used to supplement live performances. Readings include plays and essays in theory and criticism.
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4.00 Credits
See description under Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the history of New York through an exploration of fiction, poetry, plays, and films about the city, from Washington Irving's A History of New York to Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. Two lectures and one recitation section each week.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the cultural dynamics of transatlantic modernism as seen through the lens of urban experience. Focusing on London and New York as centers of gravity for modernist culture, explores the reciprocal relationship between modernism and the city: How was modernism shaped by the urban experience, and how, in turn, did modernism help to mold our conception of the modern city? Examines the parallels and contrasts among a variety of forms, including literature, film, art, music, and architecture, stressing the uneven developments of the period, with special attention paid to the tension between highbrow and popular forms.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys African Americans' engagement with literacy-as readers, writers, and purveyors of verbal-expressive materials-from the 18th century to the present. The focus is not simply on literary reflection of black people's experiences but on the various uses to which African American populations have put the modes of literacy to which they have had access. Considering such forms as verse and addresses from the Enlightenment and romantic periods, abolitionist tracts and uplift novels from the antebellum era and Reconstruction, realist and modernist literary fiction from the Harlem Renaissance and after, and such contemporary pop-cultural genres as slam poetry and cinematic depictions of the writing life, the course exposes Department of English students to African American literary culture in its most wide-ranging manifestations.
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