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Fall 2008
FYS 101P Arts, Humanities, or Sciences: Which Road 3 credits
to Reality?
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets AH. Students in this
course, irrespective of their academic
majors, are taken on an exploratory path
of study that attempts to provide a
balanced intellectual picture of the
essence of knowledge and the acquisition
of knowledge. We ask the basic question:
Which view of humanity and nature -
science, poetry, or art - is right?
[3210] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (SOND209) WELCH, G
FYS 102A Images of Madness 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets SS. This course reviews
Academy Award winning films depicting
mental illness to consider the influence
of motion pictures on the public
perception of social issues, policies, and
services. We will analyze films using a
historical framework and with assigned
readings that address cultural
stereotypes, societal attitudes, and the
public's response toward people with
mental illness.
[3211] 0101 Tu.........4:30pm- 7:00pm (SOND203) TICE, C
FYS 102C Diversity, Ethics and Social Justice in 3 credits
the Context of
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets SS. We will explore and
mediate the tensions that exist in current
reform efforts as schools endeavor to meet
the needs of diverse students. This course
will use an inquiry-based approach to
examine federal and local policies and how
they impact students, schools and society.
[3212] 0101 M..........3:00pm- 4:15pm (ACIV208) WILLIAMS, V
W..........3:00pm- 4:15pm (TBA)
FYS 102F Contrasting Visions of Society 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets SS. This course will be
based on reading four influential works,
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Plato's
Republic, Marx and Engels' Communist
Manifesto, and Max Weber's Protestant
Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, which
set forth contrasting visions of society.
It will aim to develop an understanding of
each of these texts and the contrasts
betwen the visions of society.
[3213] 0101 TuTh.......2:30pm- 3:45pm (SOND207) MITCH, D
FYS 102I The United States and Iran Since World War 3 credits
II
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets SS. The next U.S. president
will face no more vexing foreign policy
challenge than managing America's
difficult relationship with Iran. Timed to
coincide with the 2008 elections, this
course will examine the evolution of
U.S.-Iranian relations since 1945,
focusing closely on the roots of the
differences separating the two sides
today, as well as on potential paths to
dÅtente. These perspectives and the
bridges we build between them will allow
us the richest possible picture of this
complex relationship.
[7742] 0101 W..........4:30pm- 7:00pm (PUP 354) HAGERTY, D
FYS 102J France Under German Occupation: 3 credits
Collaboration, Resistance, Survival
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets SS. The German occupation
of France during the Second World War was
one of the most devastating events in that
country's history. Its effects are felt
even today. In this course, we will study
the period of the occupation and will look
at the noteworthy individuals involved and
the ordinary people whose lives were
turned upside down. We will also consider
the vexing question of who resisted, who
collaborated, and who simply tried to
survive. From all this, we will attempt
to draw lessons regarding the behavior of
people under extreme stress.
[7741] 0101 TuTh......10:00am-11:15am (FA 530) ROSENTHAL, A
FYS 103A Computation as an Experimental Tool 3 credits
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP/GFR:Meets M. The course introduces
students to the ubiquity of mathematics
and its applications in the modern world.
Covered topics such as chaos, fractals and
automata theory are used to model various
natural and scientific phenomena - in
fact, they are inherent in nature itself.
Required: Math placement above MATH 106.
[3214] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (TBA) SURI, M
FYS 103B Paradigms and Paradoxes: An Attempt to 3 credits
Understand the
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP:Meets Sci(non-lab).
GFR:Biol/PhySci(non-lab). There are at
least two kinds of scientific activities:
acquiring and generating data, and
inquiring and generating general modes of
understanding. The latter activities will
dominate this course. The course contents
include discussions of some remarkable
features of the universe: the class
discussions will require no more
scientific background than gained from
high school chemistry and mathematics.
[3215] 0101 MW.........2:30pm- 3:45pm (MP 102) LIEBMAN, J
FYS 103K Chasing Lightening: Sferics, Tweeks, and 3 credits
Whistlers
(PermReq) Grade Method: REG
GEP:Meets Sci(non-lab).
GFR:Biol/PhySci(non-lab). We all know
what lightning looks like during a
thunderstorm, but the visible flash we see
is only part of the story. This is because
lightning also generates light with other
frequencies that we from lightning, these
other frequencies can carry the
lightning's energy hundreds or thousands
of miles across the surface of the Earth
in the form of special signals called
"tweeks" and "sferics". Some of these
signals can even travel tens of thousands
of miles out into space before returning
to the Earth as "whistlers". In this
seminar, you will learn about the basic
physics of lightning, thunderstorms and
the Earth's atmosphere and then you will
build a special electronic receiver that
will allow you to listen to the signals
generated by lightning as far away as
other continents.
[7743] 0101 TuTh.......4:30pm- 6:00pm (PHYS209) ROUS, P