This course focuses on the question, “How does my brain learn and how can its learning best be facilitated?” Each student is required to develop a comprehensive theory about personal learning. These theories will take the form of a major paper which will be expanded and modified throughout the semester. Readings and class discussions will focus on the following topics: learning and education systems, major structures of the brain and their role in learning, neuronal wiring of the brain and how learning changes it, the emotional brain and its essential role in learning, language and the brain, the role of images in learning, memory and learning (and related pathologies, such as PTSD). Students are expected to incorporate information on these topics into their personal theory of learning. In so doing, students are expected to articulate meaningful questions, skillfully employ research and apply their own knowledge to address such questions, produce clear, precise academic prose to explicate their ideas, and provide relevant and constructive criticism during class discussions.
Offered as BIOL 302 and COGS 322.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MWF 9:00-11:20
Instructor: Barbara Kuemerle
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Biology
Atomic structure; thermochemistry; periodicity, bonding and molecular structure; intermolecular forces; properties of solids; liquids, gases and solutions. Recommended preparation: One year of high school chemistry.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MTWR 10:30-12:20
Instructor: Drew Meyer
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Chemistry
A one semester laboratory based on quantitative chemical measurements. Experiments include analysis, synthesis and characterization, thermochemistry and chemical kinetics. Computer analysis of data is a key part of all experiments.
Prereq or Coreq: CHEM 105 or CHEM 106 or CHEM 111 or ENGR 145.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 1:00-2:00, lab MTWR 2:00-5:00
Instructor: Benjamin Sturtz
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Chemistry
Introductory course for science majors and engineering students. Develops themes of structure and bonding along with elementary reaction mechanisms. Includes treatment of hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, alcohols, and ethers as well as an introduction to spectroscopy.
Prereq: CHEM 106 or ENGR 145.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 10:30-12:20
Instructor: Brian Fitch
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Chemistry
An introductory organic laboratory course emphasizing microscale operations. Synthesis and purification of organic compounds, isolation of natural products, and systematic identification of organic compounds by physical and chemical methods.
Prereq: (CHEM 106 or ENGR 145) and CHEM 113. Prereq or Coreq: CHEM 223 or CHEM 323.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MTWR 1:00-2:00, lab MTWR 2:00-5:00
Instructor: Gregory Tochtrop
Credits: 2 credits
Department: Chemistry
First of a two-semester sequence covering principles and applications of physical chemistry, intended for chemistry and engineering majors and other students having primary interests in biochemical, biological or life-science areas. States and properties of matter. Thermodynamics and its application to chemical and biochemical systems. Chemical equilibrium. Electrochemistry. Recommended preparation: One year each of undergraduate physics and calculus, preferably including partial derivatives. Prereq: CHEM 106 or ENGR 145.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MTWR 10:30am-12:15pm
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Chemistry
A survey of biochemistry with a strong emphasis on the chemical logic underlying the structure, function, and evolution of biomolecules. Amino acids and protein structure, purification, and analysis. DNA, RNA, genes, and genomes. DNA replication, repair, and recombination. RNA synthesis and processing. Protein synthesis and turnover, control of gene expression. Hemoglobin. Drug development. Enzyme kinetics, catalytic and regulatory strategies. Carbohydrates.
Offered as CHEM 328 and CHEM 428.
Prereq: CHEM 224 or CHEM 323.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MTWR 1:00-2:50
Instructor: Rekha Srinivasan
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Chemistry
Introduction to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing Japanese. Students learn to read and write hiragana and katakana syllabaries and 50 kanji characters. Students are expected to achieve control of the sound system and basic structure of the language. Emphasizes aural comprehension and speaking.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:55am
Instructor: Kosuke Ogaki
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Modern Languages and Literatures
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. Credit for at most one of MATH 224 and MATH 228 can be applied to hours required for graduation. Prereq: MATH 223 or MATH 227.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: On campus
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:15am
Instructor: Long Tran
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Through inquiries and analyses of arts education, political science, and education policy, this interdisciplinary course empowers arts advocates and teachers to participate in local policy activism by clarifying their goals and expectations as well as help them explore the education policy quagmire through the arts education lens. This course is cross-listed with POSC 382B/482B.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 9:30-11:50am
Instructor: Benjamin Helton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Music
First part of a two-semester sequence directed primarily towards students working towards a B.A. in science, with an emphasis on the life sciences. Kinematics; Newton’s laws; gravitation; simple harmonic motion; mechanical waves; fluids; ideal gas law; heat and the first and second laws of thermodynamics. This course has a laboratory component. Students may earn credit for only one of the following courses: PHYS 115, PHYS 121, PHYS 123.
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Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: Asynchronous, LAB M 10-10:50am
Instructor: Diana Driscoll
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Physics
Particle dynamics, Newton’s laws of motion, energy and momentum conservation, rotational motion, and angular momentum conservation. This course has a laboratory component. Recommended preparation: MATH 121 or MATH 123 or MATH 125 or one year of high school calculus. Students who do not have the appropriate background should not enroll in PHYS 121 without first consulting the instructor. Students may earn credit for only one of the following courses: PHYS 115, PHYS 121, PHYS 123.
This course is co-taught by Harsh Mathur and Corbin Covault. The laboratory is taught by Diana Driscoll.
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Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
Dates:
Session: Online
Time: MTWR 9:00-10:50; lab TBD
Instructor: Corbin Covault, Harsh Mathur, Diana Driscoll
Credits: 4 credits
Department: Physics
Through inquiries and analyses of arts education, political science, and education policy, this interdisciplinary course empowers arts advocates and teachers to participate in local policy activism by clarifying their goals and expectations as well as help them explore the education policy quagmire through the arts education lens. This course is cross-listed with MUED 348/448.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
Dates:
Session: On campus
Time: TWR 9:30-11:50am
Instructor: Benjamin Helton
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Political Science
Evolution of Latin American socioeconomic characteristics and artistic production up to the present. Class discussions of diverse literary works, social research essays, and testimonials focus on conflicting elements in class structures, ethnicity, and urban modernization as well as family ethos, religious trends, cultural identity, and educational problems. Offered as SPAN 315 and SPAN 415. Counts for CAS Global & Cultural Diversity Requirement. Prereq: SPAN 202.
Dates: June 5 - July 11, 2023
Session: 5 Week Session
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Session: Online
Time: MWF 9:30-11:50am
Instructor: Jacqueline Nanfito
Credits: 3 credits
Department: Modern Languages and Literatures