This is a project based data science research class, in which project teams identify a research project under the guidance of a domain expert professor. The research is structured as a data analysis project including the 6 steps of developing a reproducible data science project, including 1: Define the ADS question, 2: Identify, locate, and/or generate the data 3: Exploratory data analysis 4: Statistical modeling and prediction 5: Synthesizing the results in the domain context 6: Creation of reproducible research, Including code, datasets, documentation and reports. During the course special topic lectures will include Ethics, Privacy, Openness, Security, Ethics. Value. Offered as DSCI 352 and DSCI 452. Prereq: (DSCI 133 or DSCI 134 or ENGR 131 or EECS 132) and (STAT 312R or STAT 201R or SYBB 310 or PQHS/EPBI 431 or OPRE 207) and (DSCI 351 or (SYBB 311A and SYBB 311B and SYBB 311C and SYBB 311D) or SYBB 321 or MKMR 201).
8 Week Session Courses
ARTH 101: Art History I: Pyramids to Pagodas
The first half of a two-semester survey of world art highlighting the major monuments of the ancient Mediterranean, medieval Europe, MesoAmerica, Africa, and Asia. Special emphasis on visual analysis, and socio-cultural contexts, and objects in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 10:30-12:00
Instructor: Angelica Verduci
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Art History and Art
ARTS 220: Photography I
Camera, film, and darkroom techniques. Development of basic black and white perceptual and photographic skills. Darkroom and photographic field and lab work. 35mm camera required.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Art History and Art, Art Studio
ASTR 101 – Introduction to the Sun and Its Planets
This introductory astronomy course describes our solar system of planets and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about the universe. Topics include the properties of the Sun and planets; the formation of the solar system and how the planets have evolved over time; asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets; and a comparison of our solar system with new planetary systems being found around other stars. This course has no pre-requisites.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 10:30-12:00
Instructor: Jeffrey Kriessler
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Astronomy, New 2020 Summer
ASTR 103 – Introduction to the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
This introductory astronomy course describes the universe we live in and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about it. Topics covered include: the properties of stars; the formation, evolution, and death of stars; white dwarfs, pulsars, and black holes; spiral and elliptical galaxies; the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe. This course has no pre-requisites.
This is an online course and will not meet on campus.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: William Janesh
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Astronomy, New 2020 Summer, Online
DSCI 352/452: Applied Data Science Research
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 12:30-2:00
Instructor: Laura Bruckman
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science & Engineering
EECS 233: Introduction to Data Structures
The programming language Java; pointers, files, and recursion. Representation and manipulation of data: one way and circular linked lists, doubly linked lists; the available space list. Different representations of stacks and queues. Representation of binary trees, trees and graphs. Hashing; searching and sorting. Prereq: EECS 132.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 9:30-11:30
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS 246: Signals and Systems
Mathematical representation, characterization, and analysis of continuous-time signals and systems. Development of elementary mathematical models of continuous-time dynamic systems. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear time-invariant systems. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms. Sampling theorem. Filter design. Introduction to feedback control systems and feedback controller design. Prereq: ENGR 210. Prereq or Coreq: MATH 224.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 2:45-4:45
Instructor: Marc Buchner
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS 246: Signals and Systems
Mathematical representation, characterization, and analysis of continuous-time signals and systems. Development of elementary mathematical models of continuous-time dynamic systems. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear time-invariant systems. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms. Sampling theorem. Filter design. Introduction to feedback control systems and feedback controller design. Prereq: ENGR 210. Prereq or Coreq: MATH 224.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 2:45-4:45
Instructor: Vira Chankong
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EMAE 181: Dynamics
Elements of classical dynamics: particle kinematics and dynamics, including concepts of force, mass, acceleration, work, energy, impulse, momentum. Kinetics of systems of particles and of rigid bodies, including concepts of mass center, momentum, mass moment of inertia, dynamic equilibrium. Elementary vibrations. Recommended preparation: MATH 122 and PHYS 121 and ENGR 200.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Please see Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWRF 9:00-10:20
Instructor: Richard Bachmann
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Online
EMAE 250: Computers in Mechanical Engineering
Numerical methods including analysis and control of error and its propagation, solutions of systems of linear algebraic equations, solutions of nonlinear algebraic equations, curve fitting, interpolation, and numerical integration and differentiation. Recommended preparation: ENGR 131 and MATH 122.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Please see Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWRF 11:00-12:20
Instructor: Richard Bachmann
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Online
ENGL 180: Writing Tutorial
English 180 is a one-credit writing tutorial class designed to develop students’ expository writing skills through weekly scheduled conferences with a Writing Resource Center Instructor. Goals are to produce clear, well-organized, and mechanically-acceptable prose, and to demonstrate learned writing skills throughout the term. Course content is highly individualized based on the instructor’s initial assessment of the student’s writing, and the student’s individual concerns. All students must produce a minimum of 12 pages of finished writing, and complete other assignments as designated by the instructor.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Megan Jewell
Credits: 1 credit
Department: English
ENGL 203: Introduction to Creative Writing
A course exploring basic issues and techniques of writing narrative prose and verse through exercises, analysis, and experiment. For students who wish to try their abilities across a spectrum of genres.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MW 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Thomas Dawkins
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Introduction to the Novel
Introductory readings in the novel. May be organized chronologically or thematically. Some attention to the novel as a historically situated genre.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TR 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Michelle Lyons-Mcfarland
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: English, New 2020 Summer
ENGL 398S: Engineering Communication
For Engineering students only, this course introduces principles and strategies for effective communication in both academic and workplace engineering settings. The course provides practice in both oral and written genres of technical and professional communication.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TR 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Michael Parker
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGR 131: Elementary Computer Programming
Students will learn the fundamentals of computer programming and algorithmic problem solving. Concepts are illustrated using a wide range of examples from engineering, science, and other disciplines. Students learn how to create, debug, and test computer programs, and how to develop algorithmic solution to problems and write programs that implement those solutions. Matlab is the primary programming language used in this course, but other languages may be introduced or used throughout. Counts for CAS Quantitative Reasoning Requirement.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:50
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 145: Chemistry of Materials
Application of fundamental chemistry principles to materials. Emphasis is on bonding and how this relates to the structure and properties in metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. Application of chemistry principles to develop an understanding of how to synthesize materials. Prereq: CHEM 111 or equivalent.
Distance learning section (ITN) available. Check Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 1:30-3:30; R 1:30-2:30
Instructor: Peter Lagerlof
Credits: 4 credits
Departments: Engineering, Online
ENGR 210: Introduction to Circuits and Instrumentation
Modeling and circuit analysis of analog and digital circuits. Fundamental concepts in circuit analysis: voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff’s Laws, Thevenin, and Norton equivalent circuits, inductors capacitors, and transformers. Modeling sensors and amplifiers and measuring DC device characteristics. Characterization and measurement of time dependent waveforms. Transient behavior of circuits. Frequency dependent behavior of devices and amplifiers, frequency measurements. AC power and power measurements. Electronic devices as switches. Prereq: MATH 122. Prereq or Coreq: PHYS 122.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 2:30-4:30
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 225: Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
Elementary thermodynamic concepts: first and second laws, and equilibrium. Basic fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer: microscopic and macroscopic perspectives. Prereq: CHEM 111, ENGR 145, and PHYS 121. Coreq: MATH 223.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Check Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 4:00-6:00; M 4:00-5:55
Instructor: Paul Barnhart
Credits: 4 credits
Departments: Engineering, Online
MATH 121: Calculus for Science and Engineering I
Functions, analytic geometry of lines and polynomials, limits, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions. Definite integral, antiderivatives, fundamental theorem of calculus, change of variables. Recommended preparation: Three and one half years of high school mathematics. Credit for at most one of MATH 121, MATH 123 and MATH 125 can be applied to hours required for graduation.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 122: Calculus for Science and Engineering II
Continuation of MATH 121. Exponentials and logarithms, growth and decay, inverse trigonometric functions, related rates, basic techniques of integration, area and volume, polar coordinates, parametric equations. Taylor polynomials and Taylor’s theorem. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 126: Math and Calculus Applications for Life, Managerial, and Social Sci II
Continuation of MATH 125 covering differential equations, multivariable calculus, discrete methods. Partial derivatives, maxima and minima for functions of two variables, linear regression. Differential equations; first and second order equations, systems, Taylor series methods; Newton’s method; difference equations. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 125.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 201: Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applications
Matrix operations, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, subspaces, bases and linear independence, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of matrices, linear transformations, determinants. Less theoretical than MATH 308. May not be taken for credit by mathematics majors. Only one of MATH 201 or MATH 308 may be taken for credit. Prereq: MATH 122, MATH 124 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:45
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 223: Calculus for Science and Engineering III
Introduction to vector algebra; lines and planes. Functions of several variables: partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule, directional derivative, maxima/minima. Multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Derivatives of vector valued functions, velocity and acceleration. Vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem. Prereq: MATH 122 or MATH 124.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:15
Instructor: Christopher Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 224: Elementary Differential Equations
A first course in ordinary differential equations. First order equations and applications, linear equations with constant coefficients, linear systems, Laplace transforms, numerical methods of solution. Prereq: MATH 223 or MATH 227.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:15
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
USNA 285: The Science of Madness: An Historical Investigation of Mental Illness
Since antiquity the western world’s understanding of mental illness has continued to evolve. This course will examine the trajectory of that evolution, looking at the medical theories that have influenced assumptions about the causes and treatments of mental illness from the early modern era through the twenty-first century. Examples of questions we will investigate include: How we have defined the normal and the pathological in human mental behavior over time? How do we explain the centuries-old correlation that medicine has made between creativity and mental illness? Which past and present psychiatric treatments have been beneficial and which harmful? How did Darwin’s theory of evolution affect theories of mental illness (and how does it continue to do so with the advent of evolutionary psychology)? How have changing philosophies of science affected the research and practice of psychology? How and why do the sciences of the mind–psychiatry, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, psychopharmacology, the cognitive neurosciences–claim so much scientific authority and exert influence over our lives today? As a frame work for this inquiry, the class will use the concept of paradigm shifts as Thomas Kuhn defines in his classic work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSNA, FSCC, FSSO, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Barbara Burgess-Van Aken
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USNA 287T: Conflicts and Controversies in American Science and Technology
How do changes in science and technology affect American life? How do cultural ideas shape scientific practice? Is technological progress inevitable, or do we get to decide what changes we want and which ones we don’t? How do we make ethical choices about science and technology in a world with inherent power imbalances?
This course provides an introduction to thinking through these questions by presenting works by historians, anthropologists, political scientists, philosophers, journalists, and others to explore a range of social issues in modern science and technology. After two weeks of introduction, the course is divided into four sections: (a) Biology, Biotech, and Biomedicine; (b) Science Policy and the Politics of Science; (c) Problems in Social Science; and (d) Computers and Other Thinking Machines. While the course’s content is arranged around these topics, its main purposes are to develop critical thinking skills around ubiquitous and contentious subjects of science, technology, power, culture, and values as well as to hone skills in reading, speaking, research, and essay writing.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Peter Shulman
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSO 291X: “We’re Dying in America”: The History of the U.S. AIDS Crisis
Thirty-seven years have passed since the summer of 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control published a report on the mysterious deaths of five previously-healthy gay men. In that time, more than thirty-nine million people have died of AIDS around the globe. Approximately 600,000 of those people died in the United States; at least 10,000 more Americans will die this year. Why, given the global scope of the crisis and the dramatic impact it has had on US society and culture, do so few students learn about the AIDS crisis in school? Why does it receive less attention than, for example, terrorism? In this course, we will study the first 20 years of the United States’ AIDS crisis, and use what we learn to contemplate the current status of HIV-positive people and people with AIDS. We will examine the origins of AIDS as a biological, political, and cultural phenomenon in the hopes of understanding why the United States experienced the virus as it did. We will also address the myriad responses to the virus by presidents and preachers, artists and activists, doctors and business people. How did this tragedy impact American politics and culture? What lessons did we learn, and what mistakes are we still repeating today? How can (and should) the history of AIDS inform our response to the opioid crisis, or the battle over Obamacare? Are we ready for the next epidemic?
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Andrea Milne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSO 291J: Narratives of Immigration
As one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century, immigration has captured the imagination of politicians and authors alike. In this class, we will explore the stories of those who have migrated to the United States. We will analyze how various writers create autobiographical and fictional narratives of migration, addressing issues such as adjusting to different cultures, learning new languages, and adapting to new environments. Through these stories and histories, we will ask broader questions about immigration, including: is migration a basic human right? Is it ethical to define someone as being “illegal” for peacefully working and living in a different country from where they were born? What are the gendered, ethnic, cultural, and racial barriers that exist when migrating between countries? What are the cost(s) of citizenship and embracing a new country as one’s home? As the United States is largely seen as a nation of immigrants, how have immigrants’ stories perpetuated or undermined this reputation?
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Cara Byrne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSO 291Y: Immigration, Identity, and Writing
For many in Europe and North America, globalization and immigration increasingly present a challenge to cultural identity. British Prime Minister Theresa May articulated this view when she stated in 2016, “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.” More than expressing misgivings about the consequence of globalization and immigration, May was asserting the importance of belonging to a place and a culture. In contrast to May, the genre of writing known as global literature presents a framework for understanding our globalized world not as a cause for anxiety, but rather as an opportunity to understand how new cultural, social, and national identities take shape. As the writer Adam Kirsch has observed, “individual lives are now lived and conceived under the sign of the whole globe.” One example of this more global view is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who, in We Should All Be Feminists, uses her experience of immigration to reconcile western feminism with the expectations of her native society. As the popularity and influence of writers like Adichie attest, new voices and forms of writing possess global significance in our cosmopolitan and connected world. Studying this literature reveals both connections and tensions between the local and the global. These connections and tensions provide us with a fuller understanding of how people experience this globalized age and make sense of their place in the world.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Luke Reader
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSY 286U: Puzzled
“Puzzled” will look at the practice of puzzle making and puzzle-solving and explore the meaning of puzzles for different cultures throughout history. We will read works from the disciplines of math, history, anthropology, philosophy, and literature. We will explore why certain types of puzzles became popular and how puzzles have transferred from one culture to another. We will examine the role of code writing and code-breaking in the military and in the world of business. We will read examples of fiction and watch films that adopt the form of the puzzle as a narrative device. We will think about the function of puzzles as instruments to exercise the faculties of reason and logic and as a means of leisure or pleasant distraction.
Students will be asked to both solve and create puzzles over the course of the semester. They will write analytical essays on topics related to the practice and history of puzzle making and puzzle solving, and they will pursue a research topic that revolves around an issue or problem that has “puzzled” them.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Bernie Jim
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSY 291B: Science (Fiction) Dystopias
In 1927 the German science fiction classic Metropolis showed filmgoers a mechanized dystopian nightmare in which humans took on the roles of cogs and levers in a giant machine. Years later, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four depicted a totalitarian regime reshaping post-war England in a similar way, using surveillance and repetitive activities to turn the population into something less than human. Appropriating science fiction motifs, dystopian narratives have forced us to reconsider how science and technology are used to complicate and at times augment our notion of what it means to be a social animal. In this class, we will consider a range of texts, including novels, short stories, films, and comic books, to explore the interaction between people and the things that they invent. The first half of the course will emphasize traditional utopian texts and readings will include selections from works like Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (biological utopia), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (mathematical dystopia), and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (technological dystopia). During the second half of the semester we will discuss utopian and dystopian worlds in popular fiction and film, such as science fiction short stories by Harlan Ellison, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, and Wall-E, to consider how the utopia/dystopia changed in the latter half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Gabrielle Parkin
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSY 293I: High Art and Guilty Pleasures
How, and why, do we draw distinctions between art and entertainment? Lowbrow and highbrow? A crowd-pleasing “flick” and a critic-approved “film?” This seminar will explore the logic of this common sorting process, as well as its consequences. After all, such distinctions historically have been linked with other forms of discrimination–often amplifying or silencing certain voices on the basis of gender, race, or class. In this course we’ll investigate these connections between critical evaluation and broader social dynamics, while also engaging critically with our own tastes, values, and received ideas. What makes The Great Gatsby so great? Is there any value in keeping up with the Kardashians? Who determines the criteria that make one work a “classic,” the other a “guilty pleasure?” Traversing a range of artworks, novels, comics, and movies, we’ll work both the high and the low ends of the cultural spectrum, paying special attention to works that seem to blur or combine the usual categories–compelling us to ask whether great art and guilty pleasures can sometimes be one and the same.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Steve PInkerton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
ARTH 101: Art History I: Pyramids to Pagodas
The first half of a two-semester survey of world art highlighting the major monuments of the ancient Mediterranean, medieval Europe, MesoAmerica, Africa, and Asia. Special emphasis on visual analysis, and socio-cultural contexts, and objects in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 10:30-12:00
Instructor: Angelica Verduci
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Art History and Art
ARTS 220: Photography I
Camera, film, and darkroom techniques. Development of basic black and white perceptual and photographic skills. Darkroom and photographic field and lab work. 35mm camera required.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Art History and Art, Art Studio
ASTR 101 – Introduction to the Sun and Its Planets
This introductory astronomy course describes our solar system of planets and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about the universe. Topics include the properties of the Sun and planets; the formation of the solar system and how the planets have evolved over time; asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets; and a comparison of our solar system with new planetary systems being found around other stars. This course has no pre-requisites.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 10:30-12:00
Instructor: Jeffrey Kriessler
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Astronomy, New 2020 Summer
ASTR 103 – Introduction to the Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
This introductory astronomy course describes the universe we live in and how astronomers develop our physical understanding about it. Topics covered include: the properties of stars; the formation, evolution, and death of stars; white dwarfs, pulsars, and black holes; spiral and elliptical galaxies; the Big Bang and the expansion of the Universe. This course has no pre-requisites.
This is an online course and will not meet on campus.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: William Janesh
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Astronomy, New 2020 Summer, Online
DSCI 352/452: Applied Data Science Research
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 12:30-2:00
Instructor: Laura Bruckman
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science & Engineering
EECS 233: Introduction to Data Structures
The programming language Java; pointers, files, and recursion. Representation and manipulation of data: one way and circular linked lists, doubly linked lists; the available space list. Different representations of stacks and queues. Representation of binary trees, trees and graphs. Hashing; searching and sorting. Prereq: EECS 132.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 9:30-11:30
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS 246: Signals and Systems
Mathematical representation, characterization, and analysis of continuous-time signals and systems. Development of elementary mathematical models of continuous-time dynamic systems. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear time-invariant systems. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms. Sampling theorem. Filter design. Introduction to feedback control systems and feedback controller design. Prereq: ENGR 210. Prereq or Coreq: MATH 224.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 2:45-4:45
Instructor: Marc Buchner
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS 246: Signals and Systems
Mathematical representation, characterization, and analysis of continuous-time signals and systems. Development of elementary mathematical models of continuous-time dynamic systems. Time domain and frequency domain analysis of linear time-invariant systems. Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace transforms. Sampling theorem. Filter design. Introduction to feedback control systems and feedback controller design. Prereq: ENGR 210. Prereq or Coreq: MATH 224.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 2:45-4:45
Instructor: Vira Chankong
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EMAE 181: Dynamics
Elements of classical dynamics: particle kinematics and dynamics, including concepts of force, mass, acceleration, work, energy, impulse, momentum. Kinetics of systems of particles and of rigid bodies, including concepts of mass center, momentum, mass moment of inertia, dynamic equilibrium. Elementary vibrations. Recommended preparation: MATH 122 and PHYS 121 and ENGR 200.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Please see Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWRF 9:00-10:20
Instructor: Richard Bachmann
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Online
EMAE 250: Computers in Mechanical Engineering
Numerical methods including analysis and control of error and its propagation, solutions of systems of linear algebraic equations, solutions of nonlinear algebraic equations, curve fitting, interpolation, and numerical integration and differentiation. Recommended preparation: ENGR 131 and MATH 122.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Please see Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWRF 11:00-12:20
Instructor: Richard Bachmann
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Online
ENGL 180: Writing Tutorial
English 180 is a one-credit writing tutorial class designed to develop students’ expository writing skills through weekly scheduled conferences with a Writing Resource Center Instructor. Goals are to produce clear, well-organized, and mechanically-acceptable prose, and to demonstrate learned writing skills throughout the term. Course content is highly individualized based on the instructor’s initial assessment of the student’s writing, and the student’s individual concerns. All students must produce a minimum of 12 pages of finished writing, and complete other assignments as designated by the instructor.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Megan Jewell
Credits: 1 credit
Department: English
ENGL 203: Introduction to Creative Writing
A course exploring basic issues and techniques of writing narrative prose and verse through exercises, analysis, and experiment. For students who wish to try their abilities across a spectrum of genres.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MW 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Thomas Dawkins
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGL 257A: Introduction to the Novel
Introductory readings in the novel. May be organized chronologically or thematically. Some attention to the novel as a historically situated genre.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TR 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Michelle Lyons-Mcfarland
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: English, New 2020 Summer
ENGL 398S: Engineering Communication
For Engineering students only, this course introduces principles and strategies for effective communication in both academic and workplace engineering settings. The course provides practice in both oral and written genres of technical and professional communication.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TR 1:00-3:15
Instructor: Michael Parker
Credits: 3 credits
Department: English
ENGR 131: Elementary Computer Programming
Students will learn the fundamentals of computer programming and algorithmic problem solving. Concepts are illustrated using a wide range of examples from engineering, science, and other disciplines. Students learn how to create, debug, and test computer programs, and how to develop algorithmic solution to problems and write programs that implement those solutions. Matlab is the primary programming language used in this course, but other languages may be introduced or used throughout. Counts for CAS Quantitative Reasoning Requirement.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:50
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 145: Chemistry of Materials
Application of fundamental chemistry principles to materials. Emphasis is on bonding and how this relates to the structure and properties in metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. Application of chemistry principles to develop an understanding of how to synthesize materials. Prereq: CHEM 111 or equivalent.
Distance learning section (ITN) available. Check Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 1:30-3:30; R 1:30-2:30
Instructor: Peter Lagerlof
Credits: 4 credits
Departments: Engineering, Online
ENGR 210: Introduction to Circuits and Instrumentation
Modeling and circuit analysis of analog and digital circuits. Fundamental concepts in circuit analysis: voltage and current sources, Kirchhoff’s Laws, Thevenin, and Norton equivalent circuits, inductors capacitors, and transformers. Modeling sensors and amplifiers and measuring DC device characteristics. Characterization and measurement of time dependent waveforms. Transient behavior of circuits. Frequency dependent behavior of devices and amplifiers, frequency measurements. AC power and power measurements. Electronic devices as switches. Prereq: MATH 122. Prereq or Coreq: PHYS 122.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTW 2:30-4:30
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Engineering
ENGR 225: Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
Elementary thermodynamic concepts: first and second laws, and equilibrium. Basic fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer: microscopic and macroscopic perspectives. Prereq: CHEM 111, ENGR 145, and PHYS 121. Coreq: MATH 223.
Distance Learning Section (ITN) also offered. Check Searchable Schedule of Classes for more information.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: TWR 4:00-6:00; M 4:00-5:55
Instructor: Paul Barnhart
Credits: 4 credits
Departments: Engineering, Online
MATH 121: Calculus for Science and Engineering I
Functions, analytic geometry of lines and polynomials, limits, derivatives of algebraic and trigonometric functions. Definite integral, antiderivatives, fundamental theorem of calculus, change of variables. Recommended preparation: Three and one half years of high school mathematics. Credit for at most one of MATH 121, MATH 123 and MATH 125 can be applied to hours required for graduation.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 122: Calculus for Science and Engineering II
Continuation of MATH 121. Exponentials and logarithms, growth and decay, inverse trigonometric functions, related rates, basic techniques of integration, area and volume, polar coordinates, parametric equations. Taylor polynomials and Taylor’s theorem. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 126: Math and Calculus Applications for Life, Managerial, and Social Sci II
Continuation of MATH 125 covering differential equations, multivariable calculus, discrete methods. Partial derivatives, maxima and minima for functions of two variables, linear regression. Differential equations; first and second order equations, systems, Taylor series methods; Newton’s method; difference equations. Prereq: MATH 121, MATH 123 or MATH 125.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 8:45-10:15
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 201: Introduction to Linear Algebra for Applications
Matrix operations, systems of linear equations, vector spaces, subspaces, bases and linear independence, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of matrices, linear transformations, determinants. Less theoretical than MATH 308. May not be taken for credit by mathematics majors. Only one of MATH 201 or MATH 308 may be taken for credit. Prereq: MATH 122, MATH 124 or MATH 126.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 10:30-11:45
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 223: Calculus for Science and Engineering III
Introduction to vector algebra; lines and planes. Functions of several variables: partial derivatives, gradients, chain rule, directional derivative, maxima/minima. Multiple integrals, cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Derivatives of vector valued functions, velocity and acceleration. Vector fields, line integrals, Green’s theorem. Prereq: MATH 122 or MATH 124.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:15
Instructor: Christopher Butler
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
MATH 224: Elementary Differential Equations
A first course in ordinary differential equations. First order equations and applications, linear equations with constant coefficients, linear systems, Laplace transforms, numerical methods of solution. Prereq: MATH 223 or MATH 227.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:15
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
USNA 285: The Science of Madness: An Historical Investigation of Mental Illness
Since antiquity the western world’s understanding of mental illness has continued to evolve. This course will examine the trajectory of that evolution, looking at the medical theories that have influenced assumptions about the causes and treatments of mental illness from the early modern era through the twenty-first century. Examples of questions we will investigate include: How we have defined the normal and the pathological in human mental behavior over time? How do we explain the centuries-old correlation that medicine has made between creativity and mental illness? Which past and present psychiatric treatments have been beneficial and which harmful? How did Darwin’s theory of evolution affect theories of mental illness (and how does it continue to do so with the advent of evolutionary psychology)? How have changing philosophies of science affected the research and practice of psychology? How and why do the sciences of the mind–psychiatry, psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, psychopharmacology, the cognitive neurosciences–claim so much scientific authority and exert influence over our lives today? As a frame work for this inquiry, the class will use the concept of paradigm shifts as Thomas Kuhn defines in his classic work, the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Prereq: Passing letter grade in a 100 level first year seminar in USFS, FSNA, FSCC, FSSO, FSSY or FSCS. Prereq or Coreq: FSTS 100.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Barbara Burgess-Van Aken
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USNA 287T: Conflicts and Controversies in American Science and Technology
How do changes in science and technology affect American life? How do cultural ideas shape scientific practice? Is technological progress inevitable, or do we get to decide what changes we want and which ones we don’t? How do we make ethical choices about science and technology in a world with inherent power imbalances?
This course provides an introduction to thinking through these questions by presenting works by historians, anthropologists, political scientists, philosophers, journalists, and others to explore a range of social issues in modern science and technology. After two weeks of introduction, the course is divided into four sections: (a) Biology, Biotech, and Biomedicine; (b) Science Policy and the Politics of Science; (c) Problems in Social Science; and (d) Computers and Other Thinking Machines. While the course’s content is arranged around these topics, its main purposes are to develop critical thinking skills around ubiquitous and contentious subjects of science, technology, power, culture, and values as well as to hone skills in reading, speaking, research, and essay writing.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Peter Shulman
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSO 291X: “We’re Dying in America”: The History of the U.S. AIDS Crisis
Thirty-seven years have passed since the summer of 1981, when the Centers for Disease Control published a report on the mysterious deaths of five previously-healthy gay men. In that time, more than thirty-nine million people have died of AIDS around the globe. Approximately 600,000 of those people died in the United States; at least 10,000 more Americans will die this year. Why, given the global scope of the crisis and the dramatic impact it has had on US society and culture, do so few students learn about the AIDS crisis in school? Why does it receive less attention than, for example, terrorism? In this course, we will study the first 20 years of the United States’ AIDS crisis, and use what we learn to contemplate the current status of HIV-positive people and people with AIDS. We will examine the origins of AIDS as a biological, political, and cultural phenomenon in the hopes of understanding why the United States experienced the virus as it did. We will also address the myriad responses to the virus by presidents and preachers, artists and activists, doctors and business people. How did this tragedy impact American politics and culture? What lessons did we learn, and what mistakes are we still repeating today? How can (and should) the history of AIDS inform our response to the opioid crisis, or the battle over Obamacare? Are we ready for the next epidemic?
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Andrea Milne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSO 291J: Narratives of Immigration
As one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century, immigration has captured the imagination of politicians and authors alike. In this class, we will explore the stories of those who have migrated to the United States. We will analyze how various writers create autobiographical and fictional narratives of migration, addressing issues such as adjusting to different cultures, learning new languages, and adapting to new environments. Through these stories and histories, we will ask broader questions about immigration, including: is migration a basic human right? Is it ethical to define someone as being “illegal” for peacefully working and living in a different country from where they were born? What are the gendered, ethnic, cultural, and racial barriers that exist when migrating between countries? What are the cost(s) of citizenship and embracing a new country as one’s home? As the United States is largely seen as a nation of immigrants, how have immigrants’ stories perpetuated or undermined this reputation?
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Cara Byrne
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSO 291Y: Immigration, Identity, and Writing
For many in Europe and North America, globalization and immigration increasingly present a challenge to cultural identity. British Prime Minister Theresa May articulated this view when she stated in 2016, “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.” More than expressing misgivings about the consequence of globalization and immigration, May was asserting the importance of belonging to a place and a culture. In contrast to May, the genre of writing known as global literature presents a framework for understanding our globalized world not as a cause for anxiety, but rather as an opportunity to understand how new cultural, social, and national identities take shape. As the writer Adam Kirsch has observed, “individual lives are now lived and conceived under the sign of the whole globe.” One example of this more global view is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who, in We Should All Be Feminists, uses her experience of immigration to reconcile western feminism with the expectations of her native society. As the popularity and influence of writers like Adichie attest, new voices and forms of writing possess global significance in our cosmopolitan and connected world. Studying this literature reveals both connections and tensions between the local and the global. These connections and tensions provide us with a fuller understanding of how people experience this globalized age and make sense of their place in the world.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Luke Reader
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSY 286U: Puzzled
“Puzzled” will look at the practice of puzzle making and puzzle-solving and explore the meaning of puzzles for different cultures throughout history. We will read works from the disciplines of math, history, anthropology, philosophy, and literature. We will explore why certain types of puzzles became popular and how puzzles have transferred from one culture to another. We will examine the role of code writing and code-breaking in the military and in the world of business. We will read examples of fiction and watch films that adopt the form of the puzzle as a narrative device. We will think about the function of puzzles as instruments to exercise the faculties of reason and logic and as a means of leisure or pleasant distraction.
Students will be asked to both solve and create puzzles over the course of the semester. They will write analytical essays on topics related to the practice and history of puzzle making and puzzle solving, and they will pursue a research topic that revolves around an issue or problem that has “puzzled” them.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Bernie Jim
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES
USSY 291B: Science (Fiction) Dystopias
In 1927 the German science fiction classic Metropolis showed filmgoers a mechanized dystopian nightmare in which humans took on the roles of cogs and levers in a giant machine. Years later, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four depicted a totalitarian regime reshaping post-war England in a similar way, using surveillance and repetitive activities to turn the population into something less than human. Appropriating science fiction motifs, dystopian narratives have forced us to reconsider how science and technology are used to complicate and at times augment our notion of what it means to be a social animal. In this class, we will consider a range of texts, including novels, short stories, films, and comic books, to explore the interaction between people and the things that they invent. The first half of the course will emphasize traditional utopian texts and readings will include selections from works like Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World (biological utopia), Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (mathematical dystopia), and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (technological dystopia). During the second half of the semester we will discuss utopian and dystopian worlds in popular fiction and film, such as science fiction short stories by Harlan Ellison, Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta, and Wall-E, to consider how the utopia/dystopia changed in the latter half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Gabrielle Parkin
Credits: 3 credits
Departments: New 2020 Summer, SAGES
USSY 293I: High Art and Guilty Pleasures
How, and why, do we draw distinctions between art and entertainment? Lowbrow and highbrow? A crowd-pleasing “flick” and a critic-approved “film?” This seminar will explore the logic of this common sorting process, as well as its consequences. After all, such distinctions historically have been linked with other forms of discrimination–often amplifying or silencing certain voices on the basis of gender, race, or class. In this course we’ll investigate these connections between critical evaluation and broader social dynamics, while also engaging critically with our own tastes, values, and received ideas. What makes The Great Gatsby so great? Is there any value in keeping up with the Kardashians? Who determines the criteria that make one work a “classic,” the other a “guilty pleasure?” Traversing a range of artworks, novels, comics, and movies, we’ll work both the high and the low ends of the cultural spectrum, paying special attention to works that seem to blur or combine the usual categories–compelling us to ask whether great art and guilty pleasures can sometimes be one and the same.
Dates: June 1-July 27, 2020
Session: 8 Week Session
Instructor: Steve PInkerton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: SAGES