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4.00 Credits
Courses on subjects of special interest by either a regular or visiting faculty member. For specific courses, please consult the class schedule. Recent topics include French 17th-century masterpieces and the theatre of the absurd.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Offers upper-level students the opportunity to apply their studies to the "outside world." Working closely with a sponsor and a faculty adviser, students pursue internships in such diverse areas as international trade, banking, publishing, and law. Interested students should apply to the department early in the semester before they wish to begin their internship.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
Prerequisite:
Prerequisite: permission of the department.
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4.00 Credits
Corequisites: FREN-UA 991 or FREN-UA 992 and permission of the department. Offered in the fall and spring. 4 points over two semesters.
Independent Study
FREN-UA 997, 998 Prerequisite: permission of the department. Offered every semester.
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Courses Conducted in English The following courses, numbered FREN-UA 8XX, are conducted in English. Majors may count one of these courses toward the major if they complete all the written work in French. (Permission of the director of undergraduate studies is required.) These courses may be counted toward the minor in French literature in translation and the minor in literature in translation. No knowledge of French is required.
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4.00 Credits
A hands-on course in which students learn how to program computers to simulate physical and biological processes. The course meets alternately in classroom and computer laboratory settings. The techniques needed to perform such simulations are taught in class and then applied in the laboratory by the students themselves, who work individually or in teams on computing projects and report on these projects to the group as a whole. Students learn how to make the computer generate graphics, movies, and sounds as needed for presentation of the results of the different simulations. Examples emphasized in class include the orbits of planets, moons, comets, and spacecraft; the spread of diseases in a population; the production of sound by musical instruments; and the electrical activity of nerves. Students may draw their projects from this list or choose other projects according to individual interests.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the possibility that a common ground exists between the so-called two cultures of science and the humanities. It posits the hypothesis of a correlation between postclassical science (for example, quantum theory) and postmodern literature and philosophy. Among the key notions examined are Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" and the "undecidability" of deconstructive theory. The discussion of these notions, and their implications in literary works, revolves around their effect on classical logic, the referential function of language, and the traditional goal of a complete explanation/description of reality. Readings include selections from the works of Borges, Kundera, Pirsig, and Pynchon, as well as from nontechnical texts on quantum and chaos theories.
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4.00 Credits
Should members of the Native American church be allowed to smoke peyote at religious ceremonies? Can a public high school invite a rabbi to give a benediction and convocation at graduation? Should a state legislator rely on his or her religious convictions in forming a view about the legality of capital punishment or abortion? This course divides these questions into three subject areas: religious liberty, separation of church and state, and the role of religion in public and political life. It focuses on how the Supreme Court has dealt with these areas and, more important, invites students to construct a new vision of the proper relationship among religion, state, and society in a 21st-century liberal constitutional democracy.
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4.00 Credits
Conflicts over freedom of speech erupt into public debate almost every week. Congress passes a law to purge indecency from online communications. A tobacco company sues a major television network for libel. Press disclosures threaten the fair-trial rights of defendants in the Oklahoma City bombing trial. Although the First Amendment appears on its face to prohibit any governmental restrictions on speech, the Supreme Court in fact balances free and open expression against other vital interests of society. This course begins by examining the struggle against seditious libel (the crime of criticizing government or its officials) that was not won in this country until the landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964. Students examine freedom of speech through the prism of a rich variety of contemporary conflicts, including political dissent that advocates overthrow of the government, prior restraints against publication, flag burning, obscenity and pornography, the new law that bans indecency from online services, hate speech, and inflictions of emotional distress. Students read and analyze important decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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4.00 Credits
The second decade of the new millennium has dawned with intensifying ideological cleavages in the United States and assertions that we are increasingly a nation of isolated individualists whose disregard for collective responsibilities is eroding civic virtues and democratic institutions. Our seminar's aim is to assess these diagnoses using Amitai Etzioni's The New Golden Rule as a theoretical template and relying on such analytical dimensions as autonomy versus order and freedom versus determinism. We first situate American society in the broader context of decisive moral and social transformations that have occurred in Western civilization over the last two thousand years. To that end, our seminar looks at Rodney Stark's acclaimed The Rise of Christianity, which focuses on formative developments during the first four centuries of the first millennium of the common era, and Max Weber's classic, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. We then examine social-science analyses of the contemporary American situation, with the help of such books as Habits of the Heart by Robert Bellah and his colleagues. Our final readings are Robert Putnam's controversial Bowling Alone, which remains the most publicized critique of contemporary American civic life, and Claude S. Fischer's recent Made in America, which paints a much more upbeat picture of what is happening around us.
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