Covering spaces and fibrations. Simplicial and CW complexes, Homology and cohomology, universal coefficients and Kunneth formulas. Hurewicz theorem. Manifolds and Poincare duality.
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A literature course in advanced topics in algebraic topology. Material will be taken from research papers, both classical and contemporary, and the presentation will involve significant participation from the students.
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Covers topics related to algorithms for big data, especially related to networks. Themes include compression, cryptography, coding, and information retrieval related to the World Wide Web. Requires a major final project.
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In many Latin American texts, the topic of identity appears with a strong sense of urgency. We consider the main trends of Latin America's search for its own distinctive character, and the role of literature in this specific quest. Emphasis on the literary construction and performance of national, cultural, gender and racial identities. Readings by Marti, Dario, Agustini, Rodo, Borges, Castellanos, Carpentier, Garcia Marquez, Fuguet and Aira.
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This course will study how literary and theoretical texts reflect upon the period around 1900. What is modern? How is modernity defined, constructed and invented in writings by Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud, Theodor W. Adorno, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Giorgio Agamben?
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The narrative of past events is not the exclusive province of historical literature. Novels and other literary genres have concerned themselves with the past as such and as signifier. Using both literary analysis and historical methods we will contrast novels and histories and explore the manner in which both literary works and historiography feed on each other, contribute to the construction of national myths, identities and to the richer understanding of the past as alternate experience.
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Examines modern conflicts in Vietnam and their implications for the US from 1945-75, from both Vietnamese and American perspectives. Seeks to provide an understanding of the complexity of the war and the ethical dilemmas it raised by examining issues ranging from the power-politics assumptions of decision makers to the personal experiences of those caught in the war. Covers both background and consequences of the war, but the main focus is on the 30-year period during which the fortunes of America and Vietnam became intertwined.
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An introduction to developments in American art between the Civil War and the Cold War. Thematically focused lectures concentrate on such issues as the shifting status of the art object within an environment of proliferating consumer products, the incorporation of scientific and industrial processes into artistic practice, the continually renegotiated relationship between nationalism and abstraction, and new methods of understanding history and subjectivity in the face of urbanization, mechanized reproduction, and the mass media.
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This course is a survey of American constitutional history from the Framing of the Constitution to the present. Our focus will be on the texts of important Supreme Court opinions as well as on other significant documents that have shaped our constitutional understanding.
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A lecture course surveying the shifting socio-historical context of American playwriting after WWII. Playwrights covered include Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Albee, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Arthur Kopit, Neil Simon, The Living Theater, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Wendy Wasserstein, Beth Henley, Maria Irene Fornes, Eve Ensler, Tony Kushner, Chuck Mee, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, John Guare, Lynn Nottage, and many others.
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America has long been a land of dreams, on which generations of Europeans and Americans have projected their hopes and fears. As estimates of human potential and ideals of social and political organization have changed over time, new meanings of "America" have proliferated. This seminar (not primarily concerned with the immigrant experience) will examine visions of the new world and its possibilities from the eighteenth century to the present in works of fiction, autobiography, and social criticism.
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Analyzes major issues in American economic policy including taxation, Social Security, welfare reform, budget policy, monetary and fiscal policy, and exchange rate management. Current economic issues and policy options discussed in detail and in the context of current academic thinking.
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An introduction to early American art with a focus on transatlantic, cross-cultural perspectives. We begin with the global struggle for control of the North American continent, tracing the collision of multiple Native American and African traditions with the visual and material cultures of British, French, and Spanish colonialism. We then focus more closely on the US proper, examining the active role of the visual arts in the formation of American politics, religion, and society.
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Family forms in the United States have varied widely over the centuries. This course will consider the radical innovations of 17th century Puritans, eighteenth-century Moravians, and nineteenth-century Mormons; the role of the family in debates over slavery, immigration, and the status of American Indians; and the impact of legal, economic, and social changes on mainstream ideals and practices. Readings will include a wide variety of family records as well as public documents.
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Europeans "discovered" America in search of foodstuffs, specifically spices. And food has been central to the American experience from the starving time in early Virginia to the problem of obesity in the United States today. But what is American about American food? How have individual food choices and national food policies connected Americans to the larger world, both the social worlds of other human beings and the natural world of all other living beings?
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From the starving time at Jamestown to present-day concerns over obesity, food has been central to the American experience. But what is American about American food? Students will address that question through independent research.
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Designed to acquaint PhD candidates in Government with a variety of approaches that have proved useful in examining important topics in the study of American government and politics.
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Provides an overview of contemporary American politics, showing how recent changes in elections and media coverage have helped shape key aspects of American government. From the courts, Congress, and the Presidency, to the workings of interest groups and political parties, and, also to the making of public policy, the pressure on political leaders to run permanent campaigns has altered governmental institutions and processes. The course explains how and why.
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Health care in America poses fundamental policy challenges to our ability to protect low income Americans from the costs of illness; to produce high quality care; to efficiently use health care resources, and to allow Americans to die without pain, in the company of family, as they desire. This course aims to offer students a solid understanding of the American health care system as well as a method of analyzing a major social policy challenge.
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Surveys important authors in the formative development of liberal religious thought in America into the early 20th century, such as Channing, Emerson, Thoreau, James, Royce, Matthews, DuBois, Wieman, Dewey.
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Colloquium open to all graduate students working in the area of American literature and culture. Papers delivered by students writing seminar papers or dissertations, faculty members, and visiting scholars.
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A study of selected traditions in American writing that have been formed by perceptions of the American environment. Topics include the cult of wilderness; white images of the American Indian and vice versa; the pastoral, agrarian, and natural history traditions in American prose; and literary responses to urbanization and environmental endangerment. Readings range from 17th-century Puritan texts to contemporary works, with primary emphasis on narrative and nonfictional prose, but some works of poetry are included as well.
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This Longfellow Institute seminar works with original source materials in several different languages. Special focus is on the historiographic and critical treatment of non-Anglophone texts, on general and theoretical problems of an ongoing multilingual American tradition, on the recuperation and editing of texts, and on issues of translation.
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