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4.00 Credits
This course provides a rigorous treatment of both classical and quantum statistical mechanics following PHY 2040 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics. Topics include: Fundamentals of statistical mechanics; theory of ensembles; quantum statistics; imperfect gases; cooperative phenomena. Prerequisites: Electromagnetism, Quantum Physics, & Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, or equivalents.
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3.00 Credits
This course, recommended to be taken during the junior-senior summer, provides opportunities for students to engage in actual research at neighboring research institutes/ facilities to supplement the academic-year theoretical course and to fulfill the experimental training needed for physics majors. Prerequisites: Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Physics, & Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, or by approval by the Department.
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3.00 Credits
This course is for physics majors. It includes readings in a selected field of physics under the supervision of a faculty member with written reports and periodic conferences with the instructor. Presentations and discussions of the motivation and techniques as well as difficulties and unsolved problems are the main focus of the individualized instruction. Prerequisite: Written permission of the faculty member who agrees to act as supervisor and the permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Why do we get bored? What is it about human beings that makes boredom possible? Is boredom avoidable? Or is it just something that we have to live with? That we are condemned to? Is boredom boring? These are some of the questions with which philosophers and human beings generally have been concerned for over two thousand years. They are the crucial questions that this course will raise. It will also address some of the answers philosophers have given to these questions. It will include readings from thinkers as diverse as Augustine and Sartre, Russell and Epicurus, Aquinas and Heidegger.
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3.00 Credits
Recommended for students who are not concentrating or minoring in Legal Studies or Criminal Law, this course provides a broad overview of the American legal system. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to serve as an introduction to the major branches of political analysis: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, and American Politics. Students are introduced to the basic concepts and processes of Political Science including: political socialization, ideology, foreign policy, the distinction between a two-party and multiparty system of government, development, and political economy. ( Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the basic institutions of the American political system, with emphasis on Congress, the Presidency and the courts, and a detailed analysis of the Bill of Rights. It will analyze recent changes to show how the American political system functions in the "media age." (Fall) (Spring)
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to familiarize students with the basic ideas or concepts that are used in discussing, or analyzing, international politics. Following a rapid review of the history of international relations, especially since 1900, the course takes students through the three major contending schools of analysis (Realism, Liberalism, Marxism) before discussing the structure of international relations that involves the United Nations, international political economy, diplomacy and nongovernmental actors. ( Fall)
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is on critical economic, social and political challenges facing the world community in the 21stcentury. Among the topics considered are: environmental issues, nuclear proliferation, nationalism, culture wars, global trade and finance, communications and Internet revolution, poverty and development, gender issues and human rights. Through individual research and class discussion, students will learn the dynamics in which these issues are related to international politics and their relevance to the question of war and peace. ( Spring)
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3.00 Credits
legal research, including Lexis and 2) legal writing with an emphasis on writing skills, including successfully completing a Memorandum of Law and an Appellate Brief.
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