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1.00 Credits
This course focuses on a currently active research field in physics. Integration of fundamental concepts of physics will be applied to a specific topic such as astrophysics and cosmology, condensed matter physics, general relativity, and computational physics. Prerequisite: PHYS 223 Offering: Alternate springs Instructor: Staff
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0.25 - 1.00 Credits
Individual programs of independent study of topics selected in consultation with faculty. Offering: Every semester Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
Required Senior Year Experience for all resident Physics majors. Students prepare and carry out individual research projects under the direction of a departmental faculty member. The final product of the course is a written senior thesis and a formal oral presentation. Prerequisite: PHYS 396 Offering: Fall Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the connections between politics and popular culture. It looks at how politics and popular culture have evolved over time. The course introduces students to theoretical writings on politics and culture and methodologies for reading cultural texts. Open to freshmen and sophomores only. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Marks
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1.00 Credits
This course will examine the changing conceptions of political virtue from the early Greeks to the late 20th-century. Topics include politics and happiness, the public good and changing notions of morality and ethics in political life. Open to freshmen and sophomores only. Mode of Inquiry: Interpreting Texts Offering: Fall Instructor: Bowersox
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1.00 Credits
This course examines the changing nature of work, labor, and class from early to "late" modernity. The course engages central debates regarding the political, economic, and cultural causes of change in the workplace, the labor force, and class formation. Service learning is required of students. Open to freshmen and sophomores only. Mode of Inquiry: Understanding Society Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Staff
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1.00 Credits
In contemporary politics, the phrase "self-government" appears to have lost its meaning for the average citizen who is increasingly less politically engaged and less socially active. This course examines the arguments about the political and social obligations of citizenship in democracies. We analyze the role of social capital and civic engagement in sustaining political life and consider the theories advanced to explain their decline. Open to freshman and sophomores only. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Offering: Fall Instructor: Michaux
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1.00 Credits
An intensive examination of the meaning of patriotism in the United States. Among the questions to be discussed are: What is the relationship between patriotism and nationalism? Is patriotism illiberal? What does it mean to be an American (or un-American)? Is America exceptional? How do individuals handle conflicting loyalties and identities: Does God come before country? Does family? Does the world? What is the meaning of disloyalty and how do we define and punish traitors? How does the nation attempt to make patriotic citizens? What is the origin of, and what continues to animate, our patriotic rituals such as the flag salute and pledge of allegiance? What do these rituals mean to people? The course will pay particular attention to the role of war in stimulating patriotic feelings in the wake of September 11, 2001. Writing-centered. Open to first year students only. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Fall Instructor: Ellis
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1.00 Credits
Technology, Power, and Social Change is a thematic colloquium that explores how political and other forms of power interact with technology in processes of social change. It will explore alternate historical perspectives on the relationships between technology and power, considering such cases as the role of the stirrup, the printing press, the telegraph, or the railroad in political change around the world. It will also apply contending perspectives on power and technology to controversies surrounding the Internet, biotechnology, the cell phone, or other widely used technologies. Open to first and second year students only. Offering: Annually Instructor: Felker
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1.00 Credits
This course examines central themes in the field of political theory. Students will examine such topics as the importance of order and authority, the tension between faith and reason, and the relationship between tradition and notions of progress through analysis of vital texts in the field of political theory. Emphasis will be placed on the interplay between such themes and contemporary political issues. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Offering: Annually Instructor: Gutterman, Basu
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