This course is a project-based approach to molecular biology. The students will be assigned one of three different projects taken from a research laboratory on the Evanston campus. The students will work in small groups to design an experimental strategy for their project. This hands-on course will teach basic laboratory skills and the necessary scientific background for each project. The goal is to have a rich intellectual exchange of ideas combined with practical training in modern molecular biology.
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A detailed study of DNA based technologies and transcription; RNA processing and degradation, protein synthesis and degradation. Emphasis is placed on experimental methodologies, primary literature, and on the application of molecular biology to the study and diagnosis of human disease.
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This course examines the roots of Consumer Behavior as taught in Marketing from its origins in Sociology, Psychology, and Social Psychology. Understanding how consumers make choices, form positive or negative attitudes towards various products and brands, process information from advertising, and make their final choices is contingent on developing a solid foundation of the principals discovered and researched in the social sciences. Excellence in the development of corporate strategy is dependent on an understanding of the meaning and role of marketing management. And good marketing management is based on a solid understanding of consumer choice and behavior, which derive from sociological and psychological knowledge of individual and group choice and behavior.
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In this course we will study the life and times of Cleopatra VII, women and society in the cosmopolitan culture of Hellenistic Egypt, and the reception of Cleopatra by cosmopolitan artists in the world of painting, film, and music in the 19th through 21st centuries. The first third of the course will focus on the ancient literary representations of Cleopatra VII and the social history of women and Ptolemaic queens in Egypt. Topics include: representations of Cleopatra in ancient Latin literature (Plutarch, Pliny, Virgil, Horace, Lucan); women in the culture and society of Hellenistic Egypt; the iconography of Cleopatra in ancient material culture; Cleopatra VII: historical realities vs. ÂOrientalist fantasies; the reception of Cleopatra in 19th century painters Rixens, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jean-Leon Gerome, the reception of Cleopatra in opera, contemporary music, and modern film.
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Description yet to be determined. Class will meet with PHIL 410 Special Topics in Philosophy.
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This course will examine cultural production and the ways in which we learn to talk about it. As such, we will consider culture in its high, low, media, mass and popular manifestations through a variety of theoretical and disciplinary vantage points, including but not limited to anthropology, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, and cultural studies (in its British, American, and/or Latin American varieties). We will be especially attentive to the geopolitical location and displacement of culture, that is, to how culture is understood and deployed differently at various global sites. In their status as interfaces for the experience of culture, institutions such as the museum, journalism, and the university, among others, will be considered. We will take some of our examples for study from literature, music, the internet, tv, video, Âhigh art, film, photography, and performance. Students will be asked to engage actively in the analysis of cultural objects as well as the theories that surround them.
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What is lyric poetry? What are its roots, and what are its possibilities today? How does it stand in relation to the countless other varieties of rhymed and/or rhythmic languageÂhymns, pop songs, advertising slogans, campaign mottoes, bumper stickers, and so onÂthat surround us in our daily life? We will explore these and many other questions by way of examining lyrics past and present, from psalms and hymns to epitaphs, elegies, ballads, and love poems. This course will emphasize the varieties of lyric, both in English originals and in translation, with particular attention to the meanings of poetic form and the nature of poetic translation. The course will be conducted through a combination of lecture and discussion. Daily attendance is expected. There will be a series of daily, ungraded, exercises and brief evaluations along with 4 short graded assignments stressing close reading and critical thinking and a longer take-home assignment at the termÂs end.
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Few women writers are included in standard lists of the major canonical writers of the modern Japanese literary tradition. But especially since the 1960s, women make up a significant proportion of the most interesting contemporary writers. This course, in a sense a parallel to CLS 271-3 (Modern Japanese Literature), introduces a number of these newer creative voices, many of whom have won the major literary prizes in the past several decades. These more recent writers, and other writers from the late 19th and through the 20th centuries, show women meeting--sometimes triumphantly, often with great difficulty--the challenges of a changing social order with its changes in personal relationships between men and women.
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As an introduction to the outlines of Chinese literature from its ancient roots to its Âmodern flowering in the Song dynasty (A.D. 960), this course aims to provide insight into the humanistic Chinese tradition. We will work through masterpieces of prose and poetry in a roughly chronological manner. These include lyrical masterworks in the various poetic modes, fiction from early strange and supernatural Daoist-inspired stories to adventurous and sensual medieval tales, as well as exemplary essays, parables and jokes, vivid historical writings, and profound philosophical pieces. Close readings of texts will enable you to gain intimacy and familiarity with this long and rich literary tradition and, more importantly, will also equip you with the skills to interpret and reconstruct traditions though reading texts, composing papers and designing presentations. Although it is impossible to cover all ancient, early and medieval Chinese literature in one quarter, you will leave the course with an enhanced sense of the richness and the wonder of this literature, a basic blueprint of China's literary development, and hopefully an interest in roaming through it further. Conducted in English.
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The purpose of this course is to study selected works of modern Jewish literature in the context of their historical background. We will focus on certain themes and stories in the Bible and in Jewish folklore as well as on particular events and movements in European, American, and Israeli history as a way of better understanding this literature. Though most of this literature dates from the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century intellectual and religious currents such as the Enlightenment, Jewish Mysticism, Zionism, and Socialism will help us to understand the literature in its changing historical and social context. Thus while some writers saw modern Jewish literature as a means of educating the masses to modern secular needs, others saw it as a means of reshaping older forms and religious values, while still others saw it as a means of reflecting timeless humanistic concerns. Among the writers we will read are Sholom Aleichem, I.B. Singer, Henry Roth, B. Malamud, Lore Segal, Cynthia Ozick, A.B. Yehoshua, and Amos Oz.
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The purpose of this course is to study selected works of modern Jewish literature in the context of their historical background. We will focus on certain themes and stories in the Bible and in Jewish folklore as well as on particular events and movements in European, American, and Israeli history as a way of better understanding this literature. Though most of this literature dates from the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a study of eighteenth and nineteenth century intellectual and religious currents such as the Enlightenment, Jewish Mysticism, Zionism, and Socialism will help us to understand the literature in its changing historical and social context. Thus while some writers saw modern Jewish literature as a means of educating the masses to modern secular needs, others saw it as a means of reshaping older forms and religious values, while still others saw it as a means of reflecting timeless humanistic concerns. Among the writers we will read are Sholom Aleichem, I.B. Singer, Henry Roth, B. Malamud, Lore Segal, Cynthia Ozick, A.B. Yehoshua, and Amos Oz.
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This is the "gateway" course for the new CLS concentration in Translation Studies. It is a combination of seminar and workshop. Together we will translate four poems and study theoretical approaches to literary translation and brief accounts of translation practice. The practice of translation gives us valuable understanding of poetry and poetics, language difference, and ways of reading poetry. Theoretical essays broaden our sense of the linguistic, aesthetic, cultural and even ethical issues involved in the practice of translation. Working both individually and collaboratively, students will translate four short poems from four different languages and will produce a final portfolio containing revised translations and a research paper on literary translation.
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In the present course we shall trace the history of self-writing from antiquity to the present day. Authors to be analyze d include Augustine, Montaigne, Rousseau, Roland Barthes, Maxine Hong-Kingston. Alongside the primary texts we shall be reading and discussing theoretical explorations of self-representation.
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This seminar is designed as a forum for the independent development and completion of a substantive scholarly paper in the field of Comparative Literature. The paper must involve either the study of literary texts from different literary traditions or the study of literature in relation to other media, other arts, or other disciplines. To this end, a number of short written assignments will be required, including an abstract, an outline of the paper project and an annotated bibliography. The bulk of the coursework will be in the form of an oral presentation (15 minutes; 7-8 pages) and the senior paper (12-15 pages). The in-class oral presentation is designed to be a practice run for the Senior CLS Colloquium, which will be held at the end of the quarter. The colloquium requires that all students give a revised fifteen-minute presentation to a number of CLS graduate students, who will also be in attendance.
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This seminar serves as an introduction to a variety of contemporary literary and critical theories. The course is organized as four two-week units under the following headings: structuralist linguistics and poetics; phenomenology and ontology; ideology and the unconscious; deconstruction and disciplines. Readings include Saussure, Jakobson, Husserl, Heidegger, Freud, Lacan, Althusser, Irigaray, Foucault, Derrida, and de Man.
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Chicago  the only place with access by water from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River - is a classic example of how societies are shaped by their geological setting. We will explore how this setting arose from the earthÂs changing climate, how it affected the cityÂs weather, location, history, and economy, and the challenges and opportunities the lake and river offer for the future. The course is designed for students with interests in science, society, and their interaction.
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Most of our planetÂs surface is blanketed by ocean. The dynamic nature of the oceanic environment and how it influences the Earth as a whole will be explored in this course. The interconnectivity of ocean characteristics (chemistry, physics, geology, biology) will be stressed as we attempt to understand our past and predict the future in response to natural and human forcings.
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Introduction to geophysics for students with strong mathematics and physics backgrounds. Basic ideas in seismic wave propagation, plate tectonics, geomagnetism, geothermics, and gravity. Study of the earthÂs surface and the deep interior.
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Normal modes of the earth.
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Most people believe that understanding economics is important, but it is not clear how many people do understand it, or whether they appreciate the range of issues to which economics applies. This seminar provides a remedy for these two problems by: (1) providing a clear but non-mathematical outline of the major principles of economics, and (2) illustrating these principles in the context of a variety of practical contexts (including economic analysis of adultery, religion, psychiatric illness, war, rioting, and love, among others).
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An introduction to economics with emphasis on macroeconomics. The first three weeks cover aspects of general economics that everyone should know, including how the market system works, how prices are determined, why shortages and surplusses occur, and, mosting interestingly, why some people earn high incomes and others earn low incomes. Topics include: supply and demand, competition vs. monopoly, inflation, unemployment, recessions, booms, fiscal and monetary policy, budget deficits, international trade, and exchange rates.
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Formally, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. Informally, economics helps us understand how household, business and government decision makers respond to incentives; the importance of proper-functioning markets in a modern capitalist economy; and the role of government in alleviating various market failures. Microeconomics focuses on individual decisions (typically using cost-benefit analysis) and the inner workings of specific markets. Picking up where macroeconomics left off, this course will introduce the principles of microeconomics and teach you how to apply these concepts to real world scenarios. Thus, this course is aimed not only at potential economics majors, but also at any student who desires the ability to understand the popular press, critically analyze government policies, and use microeconomics to make better choices as a consumer, producer, representative, or voter.
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This course is concerned with the specification and estimation of relationships between economic variables, and with inferences about these relationships. It begins with a brief survey of basic statistical concepts, and follows with an introduction to the simple and multiple linear regression. The course will also deal with issues that arise from relaxing the assumptions of the classical linear regression model.
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The first part of the course compares economic structures and performance of modern industrial nations, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Sweden, and Japan. Differences in performance are studied from the perspective of theories of economic growth and related to differences in labor markets, financial markets, business structures, monetary and fiscal systems, welfare policies, etc. The second part of the course reviews the experiences of Central and East European nations in their transitions from central planning to market systems.
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The course studies the role that money and interest rates play in the operation of the U.S. economy. The aim is to give students an overview of the U.S. financial system and an understanding of the theory and practice of monetary policy. The topics will be a blend of theoretical modeling and empirical/historical discourses.
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