Graduate students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI.
\nThis course will introduce students to Sanskrit medical literature through the study of the Caraka-samhita and its related commentaries.Students should have had at least two years of formal Sanskrit study or equivalent.
\nThe elements of life\u2014carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur\u2014can be used to trace ecological processes across the biosphere through their stable isotope ratios. This small, seminar-style course introduces students to stable isotope methods and applications in ecology, with emphasis on water, plants, animals, and forensic case studies. Class meetings will combine short lectures, hands-on labs, and project-based work. The course culminates in a group project in which students formulate a\u2026\n
Course seeks to develop an understanding of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, with applications to quantitative problems in biology such as configurations of biopolymers, equilibrium states of matter, chemical reactions and protein transport, using the concepts of entropy, free energy, adsorption, chemical kinetics and molecular diffusion.
\nThis course provides an opportunity for professional development and civic engagement through team-teaching in a local school. By volunteering in an after-school program once a week, you will apply your own German language skills beyond campus as you create enriching learning experiences for younger students. You receive language and pedagogical training, develop lesson plans, and co-lead sessions. We also explore current issues in the German-language educational landscape as represented\u2026\n
Adolescence marks change on multiple levels (e.g., biologically, cognitively, and socially) and in multiple contexts (e.g., family, school, community, and peers). In fact, it marks the largest growth period in human development outside of infancy. Driven by enhanced thinking and reasoning capabilities, adolescents struggle with balancing their desires for autonomy and independence with their desires for guidance and connection. These dynamics result in renegotiating family and social\u2026\n
Stories are a fundamental unit of cultural communication. Our shared cultural mythology is how we disseminate communal values. This course is about harnessing that power as a way to inform, interrogate, and impact. In this workshop style class, students will survey modalities of dramatic writing (theatre, film and TV) as well as embodiment techniques (playback theatre, theatre of the oppressed, improvisation, etc.) in order to apply them within a healthcare context. Classes will alternate\u2026\n
Graduate students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI.
\nPolitical violence varies greatly in its intensity, scope, and form, depending on the characteristics of the perpetrator, target, and context of the conflict. This course is an introduction to the literatures on various types of political violence. It focuses on the following questions: What is political violence? Why and when do actors use violence, and what factors impact the type of violence actors use? What are the (intended and unintended) consequences of violence, both short and\u2026\n
Graduate students register for this course when they permanently join a lab. Students should register under the supervising PI.
\nRequired of juniors concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. A group tutorial consisting of weekly meetings with a graduate student, with regular reading and writing assignments. HAA 98 offers concentrators the choice of several study groups investigating a particular field or topic in art history. Concentrators select two of the group tutorial topics.The following topics are offered:HAA 98AR - \"Museums and Collections\" (Fall)HAA 98BR - \"Architectural Methods\" (Fall)HAA 98CR - \"Race\u2026\n
How do you weave a story? Remember someone through a quilt? Encode knowledge in knots? Write code on a loom?Weaving and writing may seem like separate practices\u2014one made of thread, the other of words\u2014yet both are ways of creating and sharing meaning. This seminar invites you to explore how texts and textiles communicate beyond traditional language through texture, pattern, rhythm, and sensation. We begin in Greek antiquity, where Penelope weaves and unweaves a shroud to control her fate and\u2026\n
The word utopia\u2014literally, \u201cno-place\u201d\u2014was coined by Thomas More in 1516. The emergence of the word marks a significant point in literary history, but speculative dreaming of idealized societies far predates More\u2019s era. Since ancient times, humans have dreamed of perfect worlds and conceptualized the societal changes that would be required to bring about radical change: who would live in these societies? What kinds of places would they inhabit, and what would their environments be like? How\u2026\n
In this course, students will develop and refine their Irish-language skills through the study of poetry from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Together, we will explore a dynamic period in Irish literary history, from the late seventeenth century, when Irish was losing its place as a language of prestige, to the burgeoning Gaelic Revival of the late nineteenth century. Along the way, students will encounter a rich range of voices and experiences as they read poems shaped by\u2026\n
Artificial Intelligence (AI) might be the most consequential technology humanity has ever created. Algorithms already decide who gets bail, credit, job interviews, or visas. Platforms exercise authority over democratic life at a scale no government has achieved. And looming in the background are questions \u2014 about general AI, about the moral status of artificial minds, about the survival of democratic self-governance \u2014 that no existing political or legal tradition was designed to address. The\u2026\n