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This connection is a new variation of the "Poetry and the Computer" connection. Our goal is to demonstrate to students how computing can be used to investigate textual corpora (specifically the Dictionary or Old English machine-readable corpus of Anglo-Saxon and the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien). Students will use techniques such as word-frequency counts to investigate and characterize authorship, prose and poetic style, and the dating of text. In the computer science course students will learn to design introductory experiments and as part of the Methods Section of those experiments, learn to write scripts (programs, software) to search textual corpora and gather statistical measures. In the English courses they will examine the ways that computing-based approaches can mesh with more traditional approaches. Connections: Eng 208 Anglo-Saxon Literature or Eng 259 J.R.R. Tolkien with Comp 131 Computing for Poets
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The courses in this connection address America before the 1860s. Grounded in the interdisciplinary field American studies, the connection offers students an opportunity to employ different disciplinary approaches to texts that are often shared across English and history. As Sam Coale notes in his syllabus, "literature has never existed in a vacuum. It is always a product of its particular era, both participating in and criticizing it." Questions of interpretation characterize both disciplines in their approaches to the period. Students in the English course read literary texts with close attention to the historical contexts in which they were produced. In the history courses, students learn to interpret a variety of primary sources, including documents produced by and for governments, narratives and diaries written by individuals, newspapers and other periodicals printed between 1750 and 1876. Students are as likely to find themselves listening to or singing folk songs as they are reading novels or learning about electoral politics. Central to each course are questions about the development of the place that came to be called America and interactions among the peoples who encountered each other there. Connections: Eng 253 American Literature to 1865 and Hist 201 American Colonial History or Hist 202 America: The New Nation, 1776-1836 or Hist 203 America: The Nation Divided, 1836-1876
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3.00 Credits
The topic of Latino culture will be analyzed from two academically distinct but conceptually interrelated perspectives: literature and sociology. Students will have the opportunity to study the Latino experience in the United States (e.g., Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, Dominican Americans, etc.) by examining the writings, fact and fiction, of Latinos and the social structure and culture of the communities in which they live. Connections: Hisp 300 Spanish Practicum Internship and Soc 285 Latino Community
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Quantum Theory is the cutting-edge meta-narrative of our times. The challenges physicists face in attempting to explain it to the non-physicist, and often to themselves, involve the use of language, counterintuitive notions about cause-and-effect logic, the positing of images and metaphors to describe the quantum field-are there electrons, particles, waves, fields, antimatter, quarks, a "pulsating flux," a holographic universe (eachof these has been used to describe each of the others) -and the idea of statistics and probability replacing "absolute" objects. Connections: Eng 346 Contemporary American Fiction: Quirks, Quarks, and Quests or Sex, Lies, and Quantum Leaps with Phys 225 Modern Physics or Ast 130 The Universe
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3.00 Credits
The autistic spectrum of behaviors is becoming increasingly connected to genetics as more neurological and developmental pathways are being deciphered. Psy 324 provides a rich set of examples, as taught by Professor Grace Baron, an authority on autism and practitioner in the field. Bio 21 supplements by providing the background needed to appreciate the genetics of childhood behavior disorders, in general, and autism in particular. Connections: Psy 324 Childhood Behavior Disorders or First-Year Seminar Visualizing Autism with Bio 211 Genetics
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3.00 Credits
This connection seeks to explore the relationship between mental life and the physical body. Often this relationship between the two is misunderstood, or, even worse, taken for granted. This is a complex issue, and the goal is to inspire some thought about (1) how the mind arises from the physical body, (2) how the function of the brain gives rise to the structure of thought, and (3) how damage to the brain can selectively affect cognitive abilities. Connections: Psy 222 Cognition or Psy 312 Perception or Psy 330 Scientific Approaches to Coonsciousness and Bio 244 Introductory Physiology
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3.00 Credits
In this connection students will learn how social, political and economic factors have shaped the Jewish community in Europe and how the Holocaust, the worst catastrophe in Jewish history, has affected Jewish identity and culture. Students will study the development of European Jewish communities and their relations with the Christian world in the Medieval and Early Modern eras, how modernization transformed relations between Jews and Christians and how many Europeans responded to Jewish assimilation attempts with anti-Semitism and persecution. Both courses will deal with the effects of the Holocaust on Jewish identity, political structures and religious thought. Connections: Hist 228 European Jewish History with Rel 232 Faith after the Holocaust
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3.00 Credits
Ecology is unique among the biological sciences for its dependence on applied statistical techniques from experimental design to data analysis. This is because ecology is a field science and numerous sources of variability affect field-collected data. That is, field data typically have much "noise" andit is essential to apply statistical techniques in order to detect a "signal." The emergence of ecology asa strong, essential science in the latter half of the 20th century is largely due to the availability of computers to permit sophisticated and robust statistical procedures to be applied to large field-generated data sets. This lesson is vital for students of ecology and is taught during the first labs, then reinforced throughout the semester. It seems obvious that connecting with a basic course in statistics provides a catalyst for students in fully understanding how ecology is done. In turn, students of statistics would profit from using actual data sets generated by ecology students. Connections: Bio 215 Ecology and Math 151 Accelerated Statistics
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3.00 Credits
This connection will focus on Russian domestic or foreign policy and its roots in Russian history. In Russian Politics or Russian Foreign Policy, students will study the evolution of the Russian political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union, or the conduct and motivational premises of Russian foreign policy. In Russian History, students will go to the beginnings of Russian society and the state, and examine the role of religion, geography, social hierarchy, political power and ideology over the past two millennia. Connections: Pols 249 Russian Foreign Policy or Pols 255 Russian Politics and Hist 215 History of Russia
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3.00 Credits
This upper-level connection will examine the ways that nations have dealt with each other in the past and present, with focus on the imbalances of power that have led to imperialism. In Theories of International Relations, imperialism is examined through the many theoretical approaches that have been proposed over the past century, from J.A. Hobson to Robinson and Gallagher. In European Imperialism, theories are compared with the actual history of imperial expansion. This connection will allow students to think about the ways that state power, economic strength, technological advances and ideology have been used as tools of domination. Connections: Hist 321 European Imperialism, 1757-1939 and Pols 339 Theories of International Relations
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