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Penn - Ruga . This course covers basic groundwater flow and solute transport modeling in one-,two- and three-dimensions. Afte r first reviewing the principles of modeling, the student will gain hands-on experience by conducting simulations on th e computer. The modeling programs used in the course are MODFLOW (USGS), MT3D, and the US Army Corps o f Engineers GMS (Groundwater Modeling System) .

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Penn - Doheny. Prerequisite(s): GEOL 420: Introduction to Geophysics . Use of geophysics field equipment (gravity, magnetic, seismic, electrical,electromagnetic, and radar) to collect geologi c site investigation data. Theoretical analysis of collected geophysical and geological data to interpret subsurfac e conditions . SM

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Penn - Mastropaolo . Statistical analysis of data from geological, geotechnical, and geohydrologic sources .

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Penn - Conaboy . This course will focus on various aspects of surface water hydrology. Topics covered include: study of all aspects o f precipitation and runoff; study of the natural occurrences of floods and droughts; the establishment of design floods ; methods of preventing or alleviating damages due to floods; water losses through evaporation, transpiration, an d infiltration; storm water management; and hydrologic considerations in environmental issues .

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Penn - Mastropaola . This course is designed to introduce the major definitions and concepts regarding groundwater flow and contaminan t transport. The theory underlying concepts, including mathematical derivations of governing equations used to mode l groundwater flow and contaminant transport, will be discussed and applications to environmental problems addressed .

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Penn - Doheny / Freed. Offered through CGS - See current timetable . 665. Engineering Geology & Geotechnics. (A) Hunt. Engineering Geology I is NOT a prerequiste for this course. Based on numerous case histories, the theme of this course is characterization of the geologic environment for engineering and environmental investigations. Covered are the various exploration tools and methods, including interpretation of remotely sensed imagery; field and laboratory measurments of material properties; and instrumentation monitoring. Rock masses and the significance of discontinuities are discussed as are soil formations in terms of occurrence and mode of deposition, and their typical physical properties. The latter half of the course is dedicated to the geologic hazards; i.e. ground subsidence and collapse, landslides and earthquakes, with emphasis on prediction, prevention and damage control.

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Penn - Giegengack. 4-8 weeks during the summer. SM

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Penn - Phipps. Prerequisite(s): GEOL 208 &/or 206, preferably both; GEOL 390. Field Trips required . Topics in sedimentology, stratigraphy, petrology, and/or structural geology of selected regions. Regional geologi c synthesis and tectonics . FORELAND BASINS: Structure, sedimentology, and biology/paleobiology of forelandbasins, based on the study of modern and ancient examples. These will include the modern Persian Gulf region, and the ancient Carboniferous Appalachian basin. There will be at least one field trip. DEPOSITIONAL BASINS: Investigation and interpretation of a number of different tectonically-controlled basins throughout the region. Field work essential. All-day and weekend field trips required. Students will integrate stratigraphic, sedimentological, structural, and tectonic principles within various basinal settings. SM

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Penn - Giegengack. Interdisciplinary approach to selected environmental problems of the Pleistocene.

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Penn - Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Steinhardt/Silverman/Wegner . Using materials excavated in tombs, this course investigates funerary cults, death rituals, beliefs about the afterlife, an d the preparations for death during life in China from 1500 BCE to AD 1000 and in Egypt from 3000-1000 BCE . EAST ASIAN NON-LANGUAGE COURSES IN LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CULTURE L/R

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Penn - History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Goldin. Survey of the civilization of China from prehistoric times to the present L/R

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Penn - History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Staff. Survey of the civilization of Japan from prehistoric times to the present.

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Penn - Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. McInerney/LaFleur. Multiculturalism increasingly characterizes our political, economic, and personal lives. This course will focus on real and perceived differences between the so-called "East" and "West." Taking a case study approach, we shall read and compare literary materials from classical Greece and Rome, a major source of "Western" culture, and Japan, an "Eastern" society. Through analysis of these texts, we shall explore some of the concepts, values, and myths in terms of which "East" and "West" define themselves and each other: e.g., gender, sexuality, rationality, religion, society, justice, nature, cultural diffusion, work, leisure, life, and death. Readings will include selections from Greco-Roman and Japanese myths, poetry, drama, essays, history, and philosophy. Class format will be lecture with opportunity for questions and discussion. Grading will be based on midterm and final examinations, a short paper, and class participation. No prerequisites. L/R

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Penn - Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Steinhardt. Survey of the major artistic traditions of East Asia from Neolithic times through the 18th century. Will serve as an introduction to upper level lecture courses that deal with the arts and civilizations of China, Korea, and Japan. Students study and handle objects during weekly session in the Museum. SM

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Penn - Kano. The course aims to provide an overview of some of the most pressing issues concerning gender and sexuality in East Asia. The region has in common the legacies of Buddhism and Confucianism, as well as a process of rapid modernization and industrialization in the last couple of centuries. They are also bound to each other through cultural ties, colonial experiences, and international trade. The course assumes that when talking about gender and sexuality, confining our perspective to one nation-state often makes little sense. Many issues cannot be considered outside the contexts of historical, cultural, political, and economic exchange. We must also take account of our own location in a classroom in the United States, and question the ways in which our knowledge about the lives of women and men in East Asia is constructed and constrained. To this end, the course will encourage students to be critical readers of various sources of information: historical materials, scholarly essays, contemporary journalism, fiction, and film. The course does not presume any background in East Asian studies or gender studies.

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Penn - Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Chance. A man from Tennessee writes "Memoirs of a Geisha". A Japanese novelist tells the story of the "comfort women" who served the Japanese army. A tenth-century courtier poses as a woman writing the first woman's diary. Poets from Byron to Robert Lowell, through Ezra Pound to Li Po, have written as though they were women, decrying their painful situations. Is something wrong with this picture, or is "woman" such a fascinating position from which to speak that writers can hardly help trying it on for size? In this course we will look at male literary impersonators of women as well as women writers. Our questions will include who speaks in literature for prostitutes--whose bodies are the property of men--and what happens when women inhabit the bodies of other women via spirit possession. Readings will draw on the Japanese traditions, which is especially rich in such cases, and will also include Western and Chinese literature, anthropological work on possession, legal treatments of prostitution, and film. Participants will keep a reading journal and write a paper of their own choosing. SM

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Penn - Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Steinhardt. Freshman Seminar. How has archaeology rewritten the history of ancient China and early Chinese art? That is the question we will answer in this seminar. Each week we will examine artifacts excavated in Chinese tombs to try to understand what they tell us about daily life and philosophical attitudes in ancient China. We will explore famous tombs such as the Tomb of the First Emperor and less well-known artifacts of peoples such as the Scythians and Qidan. We will compare the excavated material with what we can find out about ancient China from other sources, especially literature and standard historical accounts, to find out whether the ideas put forth in history and literature are accurate. Finally, we will study Chinese art in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in comparison to the excavated objects. L/R

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Penn - Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Goldin. In this course, we will attempt to answer the question, "What is Daoism?" The bulk of the readings will consist of English translations of primary texts that have at one time or another been labeled as "Daoist," in order to sort out the different senses of the term, and consider what common features, if any, are shared by these influential texts. The course begins with the Laozi, the one text affirmed by virtually all "Daoist" traditions as foundational. The readings include several other "Daoist" texts, covering a period of roughly one thousand years, and will conclude with a survey of meditation and longevity techniques, practices which sometimes have no textual basis whatsoever. Drawing on various kinds of "Daoist" sources, we hope to answer the question that serves as the title of this course. No knowledge of Chinese is presumed. Graduate students may not enroll in this course.

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Penn - History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Fei. From an Eurasian empire ruled by Mongols to an ethnically defined Han Chinese Ming dynasty, then again to a multi-ethnic empire ruled by a minority group of Manchus, the disruptions and transformations in the very idea of "China" in the past seven centuries defies our modern notion of China as a unitary nation with the world's longest continuous cultural tradtion. How to understand the continuities and discontinuities of the last three imperial dynasties of China will be the central focus of our survey. How did these different ethnic groups adjust to each other's way of life? Did complicated cultural interaction prompt different visions of empires? How did the meaning of "Chinese change over this time period? How did international politics shape the fate of Chinese empires? With no assumption of prior knowledge, lectures open with an overview of Chinese society before the eve of the Mongolian invasion, and then trace the changing visions of ethnic and social orders in the subsequent regimes ruled by three different ethnic groups (Mongolian, Han Chinese, and Manchurian). We will examine and compare bureaucratic operations, cultural ideals, domestic and international policies from above as well as the daily life experiences from below. The course will conclude with an analysis of the collapse of the imperial order at the beginning of the twentieth century, after it was severely challenged by a semi-Christian Utopian movement from within and global drug trade imperialist attacks from without. L/R

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Penn - Fei. From an empire to a republic, from a communism to socialist-style capitalism, few countries have ever witnessed so much change in a hundred year period as China during the twentieth century. How are we to make sense out of this seeming chaos? This course will offer an overview of the upheavals that China has experienced from the late Qing to the Post-Mao era, interspersed that China has experienced from the late Qing to the Post-Mao era, intersperced with personal perspectives revealed in primary source readings such as memoirs, novels, and oral accounts. We will start with an analysis of the painful transition from the last empire, the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), to a modern nation state, followed by exploration of a century-long tale of incessant reform and revolution. The survey will focus on three main themes: 1) the repositioning of China in the new East Asian and world orders; 2) the emergence of a modern Chinese state and nationalistic identity shaped and reshaped by a series of cultural crises; and finally 3) the development and transformation of Chinese modernity. Major historical developments include: the Opium War and drug trade in the age of imperialism, reform and revolution, the Nationalist regime, Mao's China, the Cultural Revolution, and the ongoing efforts of post-Mao China to move beyond Communism. We will conclude with a critical review of the concept of "Greater China" that takes into account Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora in order to attain a more comprehensive understanding of modern China, however defined, at the end of the last century. SM

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Penn - Chance, F. Godzilla! Mothra! Rodan! Totoro! Pikachu! If you know who they are, join us to discover the deeper meanings of monstrosity in Japan. If you don't know who they are, learn the literal, metaphorical, and cinematic implications of these giant (and not so giant) beasts. Watch Tokyo go down in flames, and discuss what that means for New York and Philadelphia! Explore the history, literature, and films of Japanese monsters in this undergraduate seminar. SM

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Penn - LaFleur. This seminar is in many ways an exercise in comparison-by looking at how the practice of medicine in Japan differs from that in America. Japan, where people enjoy good health and live very long lives, not only combines "Western" with "Eastern" medical practices but also is a place where questions of medical ethics and bio-technology are often faced differently than they are in America. The fact that in modern times many Japanese writers had medical educations makes Japanese literature, studied here in translation, a rich context for exploring a wide range of such questions. Film too will be a tool for our studies. A comparative look at what we might think about the body, the mind, and healing or dying processes will be the central focus of this seminar. SM

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Penn - Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Permission of the instructor . An introduction to Japanese cultural history and perspectives through a course that combines lectures, readings, an d weekly practice of cha-no-yu. This traditional ceremony, one involving a certain amount of bodily discipline, is widel y regarded as a uniquely useful tool for understanding the dynamic interactions of traditional Japanese aesthetics , architecture, Zen, and social relationships .

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