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This course explores the idea of consumerism and commodities in cultural life, particularly as it affects various segments of the American population. Using as background the theory of exchange and the development of both pre-capitalist and capitalist economies, topics will include race and fashion, religion and materialism, and the social value of reciprocity. Students will also engage in a semester-long project aimed at understanding the cultural context of the American desire for things.
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The course brings back to discussion a concept and a set of practices central to the lives of millions of men and women across the world. While sacrifice is invoked in religious and political discourse and practice, it has been somewhat neglected by anthropologists in recent decades. Understanding sacrifice is understanding ritual and religion, and their role in the globalizing world. Topics include theories of sacrifice, categories and comparison, genealogies and deconstruction, violence, power and religion, jihad, sacrifice and terror. We will study contemporary material from public discourses and arts before going back to classical theory.
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This seminar considers the entire "work and life" of three anthropologists noted for their interdisciplinary impact: Clifford Geertz, Margaret Mead, and Claude L�vi-Strauss. We stress multiple field experiences, shifting historical circumstances, interpretive controversy, and hybrid arts and ideas advanced in striking careers and corpora. How have ethnology, history, and autobiography been blended in a body of research and writing that may begin to resemble in its own right a plural "world"?
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First term of a two-term survey of major anthropological writings, primarily for first-year graduate students. This seminar will focus on some major figures who have influenced anthropological theory and shaped our ideas of what anthropology is or should be. Historical formulations of some issues which are currently revisited and hotly debated such as rationalization and unreason, science and communication, subjectivity and dialogic encounters, and the status of knowledge and truth in the social sciences will be examined.
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This course explores the ethics and politics of field research (with special attention to differences between anthropology and its disciplinary neighbors), as well as shifting ideas about "the field" and relations between researchers, their interlocutors and audiences. It also considers practical matters like participant observation, interviewing, fieldnotes, and other research sources.
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Structure and composition of terrestrial atmospheres. Fundamental aspects of electromagnetic radiation. Absorption and emission by atmospheric gases. Optical extinction of particles. Roles of atmospheric species in Earth's radiative energy balance. Perturbation of climate due to natural and antropogenic causes. Satellite observations of climate system.
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Physical principles fundamental to the theoretical, observational, and experimental study of the atmosphere and oceans. The equations of motion for rotating fluids. Hydrostatic and geostrophic balance. Conservation of potential vorticity. Introduction to quasi-geostrophic theory and baroclinic instability. Geophysical boundary layers. Rossby and gravity waves.
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Dynamical concepts needed to develop a qualitative understanding of the large-scale structure of the atmospheric circulation. The control of the angular momentum budget by Rossby wave fluxes. Theories for the Hadley circulation in the tropics and the "macro-turbulence" of midlatitudes. Linear theories for deviations from zonal symmetry of the mean flow.
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Asymptotic methods, Dominant balance, ODEs: initial and Boundary value problems, Wronskian, Green's functions, Complex Variables: Cauchy's theorem, Taylor and Laurent expansions, Approximate Solution of Differential Equations, singularity type, Series expansions. Asymptotic Expansions. Stationary Phase, Saddle Points, Stokes phenomena. WKB Theory: Stokes constants, Airy function, Derivation of Heading's rules, bound states, barrier transmission. Asymptotic evaluation of integrals, Laplace's method, Stirling approximation, Integral representations, Gamma function, Riemann zeta function. Boundary Layer problems, Multiple Scale Analysis
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This is a general introduction to multiscale modeling. Topics to be covered include: analytical methods (averaging, homogenization, hydrodynamic and continuum limits, renormalization group methods); classical numerical methods (multi-grid, fast multi-pole methods, etc); modern numerical methods; variational model reduction, coupling techniques and hybrid schemes. Applications to PDEs with multiscale data, coupling kinetic and hydrodynamic models, coupling continuum and molecular dynamics models, etc.
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In this course, students are trained, through the use of an audio/visual method, to speak, understand, read and write Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Arabic shared by all Arab countries. Classroom time is devoted to conversation (skits and discussions) and grammar exercises (including skim-reading tasks) stemming from the video material. Consistent emphasis is placed on authentic materials that derive from the living cultural context.
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Designed for students who already have some familiarity with any dialect of spoken Arabic. The course will emphasize reading and writing skills, as well as how to analyze grammar.
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In this continuation of first-year Arabic, students receive additional speaking and listening practice and attain greater reading and writing proficiency through the study of more elaborate grammar structures and the reading of more sophisticated texts.
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Readings from modern Arabic works; systematic study of syntax; speaking and composition. Main text book Al Kitaab part II.
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In this course, students will improve their skills in reading and listening to Arabic news media, including newspapers, magazines, websites, and radio and satellite TV broadcasts (including BBC and al-Jazeera, among others). Attention will also be given to informal discussion of these subjects. Study will be arranged by subject matter, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict; the US occupation of Iraq; political Islam; democratization of the Arab world; economic issues; and popular culture, to name a few. We will also take a brief look at political cartoons.
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An introduction to spoken Levantine dialect. Materials in the course are designed to promote functional usage of the language, stressing the vocabulary and grammar of conversation as used in daily life in the Levant, particularly Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon.
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Advanced readings in modern Arabic literature. Major emphasis on syntax and the accurate understanding of authentic material. Also some readings for overall understanding, with discussion in Arabic.
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The objective of this course is to provide a broad overview of the discipline of architecture: its history, theories, methodologies; its manners of thinking and working. Rather than a chronological survey, the course will be organized thematically, with examples drawn from a range of historical periods as well as contemporary practice. Through lectures, readings, and discussions every student will acquire a working knowledge of key texts, buildings and architectural concepts.
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This course will explore the relationships between architectural discourse and the visual arts from the historical avant-garde to the present. Architectural discourse will be considered here as the intersection of diverse systems of representation: buildings, projects, drawings, but also architectural theory and criticism, exhibitions, photographs, professional magazines and the popular press. The visual arts will be seen to include not only painting and sculpture, but also photography, cinema, fashion, advertisement and television.
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This course will attempt to define how future cities can address problems of waning fossil fuels, global warming, population growth and expanding landfills through a fusion of the ecological, the architectural, and the urban. Developments in both the ecological sciences and in urban planning - from Jefferson's checkerboard city to today's Bed Zed - will be presented. Students will propose new architectural typologies that bridge the two disciplines such as garages for cars that can power houses or living machine-parks... Ultimately, we will create a series of generic guidelines to define a theoretical eco-city of tomorrow.
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This course introduces students to the art and science of building. Emphasis will be placed gaining an understanding of construction materials, methods and the process of translating design ideas into built form. Specific topics are introduced each week during the two one-hour lectures. These topics are then further explored, and students gain hands on experience, each week during the two-hour laboratory component of the course.
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This course will examine the possibilities of representation and information in the virtual realm. Through a series of modeling/rendering/compositing exercises, presentations, and in-class discussions, we will investigate the evolving relationship between architecture and its means of representation, as well as broader issues of technology and culture. The course will provide a firm understanding of current computer software.
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The Advanced Design Studio examines architecture as cultural production, taking into account its capacity to structure both physical environments and social organizations. A specific problem or topic area will be set by each studio critic, and may include a broad range of building types, urban districts or regional landscapes, questions of sustainability, building materials or building performance. Studio work will include research and data gathering, analysis and program definition. Students are expected to master a full range of design media, including drawing, model-making and computer-aided design.
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This course will familiarize participants with the basic theories and practices of ecological design in architecture. It will promote professional practices that foster environmentally sound design decision-making and achieve beneficial social and economic outcomes. It will investigate how designing within the matrix of natural systems and processes can enhance both the experiential and poetic dimensions of architecture.
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