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Available Syllabi and Websites for Fall 2008
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- ACCT E-100 Financial Accounting Principles, fall term, section 1 (12532)
- ACCT E-100 Financial Accounting Principles, fall term, section 2 (12517)
- ACCT E-110 Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations (12602)
- ACCT E-120 Managerial Accounting (12530)
- ACCT E-145 Cost Control Techniques (12759)
- ANTH E-1b Principles of Archaeology (13074)
- ANTH E-20 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (13038)
- ANTH E-140 African American Archaeology (13195)
- ANTH E-174 The Incas: The Last Great Empire of Pre-Columbian South America (12910)
- ANTH E-175 Mesoamerican Civilizations (13227)
- ANTH E-177 Maya Hieroglyphic Writing (13037)
- ARAB E-1a Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I, fall term, section 1 (12159)
- ARAB E-1a Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I, fall term, section 2 (12311)
- ARAB E-2a Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II (12160)
- ARAB E-3a Elementary Modern Standard Arabic III (13224)
- ASTR E-50 Moons and Planets (13053)
- BIOS E-1a Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology (13096)
- BIOS E-10 Biochemistry (13095)
- BIOS E-18 Evolutionary Biology (13208)
- BIOS E-25 Comparative Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates (13178)
- BIOS E-40 Introduction to Proteomics (13099)
- BIOS E-50 Neurobiology (13097)
- BIOS E-60a Immunology I (13104)
- BIOS E-65a Human Physiology I: Neural, Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, Sensory, and Neonatal Systems (13183)
- BIOS E-70 Introduction to Epidemiology (13179)
- BIOS E-105 Medical Detectives (13101)
- BIOS E-108 Biology of Neurodegenerative Diseases (13098)
- BIOS E-115 Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Animals (13107)
- BIOS E-127 The Evolution of Microbes (13100)
- BIOS E-129 The Biology of Stem Cells and the Emerging Field of Regenerative Medicine (13180)
- BIOS E-162b Human Pathophysiology II (13103)
- BIOS E-172 Biological Perspectives on HIV and AIDS (13181)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, fall term, section 1 (13091)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, fall term, section 2 (13092)
- BIOS E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Biological Sciences, fall term, section 3 (13093)
- BIOS E-210 The Physiology of Sleep (13184)
- BIOS E-235 Principles of Human Disease: Physiology and Pharmacology (13189)
- CELT E-12a Intermediate Modern Irish (13061)
- CELT E-111 Celtic Mythology (13036)
- CGRK E-1a Elementary Classical Greek (10150)
- CGRK E-31a Homer's Iliad, Part I (13131)
- CHEM E-1a General Chemistry I (11918)
- CHEM E-2a Organic Chemistry I (10025)
- CHEM E-100 Organic Chemistry of Drug Synthesis and Action (12809)
- CHIN E-1 Elementary Modern Chinese I, fall term, section 1 (12638)
- CHIN E-1 Elementary Modern Chinese I, fall term, section 2 (10026)
- CHIN E-30 Elementary Modern Chinese III (10027)
- CHIN E-50 Intermediate Modern Chinese I (12788)
- COMM E-100 Strategic Business Communication (13109)
- COMM E-110 Oral Communication: Business and Organizational (12519)
- COMM E-130 Project Development and Grant Proposal Writing (13123)
- COMM E-140 Communicating and Negotiating in a Global Context (12523)
- COMM E-150 Writing for Public Relations and Marketing (12516)
- COMM E-160 Principles of Legal Writing (13110)
- COMM E-170 Business Writing (13035)
- CREA E-20 Introduction to Memoir (12750)
- CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, fall term, section 1 (11693)
- CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, fall term, section 2 (11133)
- CREA E-25 Introduction to Fiction Writing, fall term, section 3 (13120)
- CREA E-30 Introduction to Poetry Writing (12600)
- CREA E-45 Beginning Screenwriting (13116)
- CREA E-50 Intermediate Fiction Writing (12928)
- CREA E-57 Intermediate Poetry Writing (12247)
- CREA E-100r Advanced Fiction Writing, fall term, section 1 (11998)
- CREA E-100r Advanced Fiction Writing, fall term, section 2 (11670)
- CREA E-120r Advanced Screenwriting (13211)
- CSCI E-1 Understanding Computers and the Internet (11322)
- CSCI E-2a Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion (13064)
- CSCI E-14 Understanding and Developing Multimedia (12712)
- CSCI E-14 Understanding and Developing Multimedia, fall term, section 2 (13220)
- CSCI E-19 Video Field Production (12816)
- CSCI E-21 Introduction to 3-D Modeling and Animation with Maya (12982)
- CSCI E-50a Introduction to Computer Science Using Java I (10701)
- CSCI E-52 Intensive Introduction to Computer Science Using C, PHP, and JavaScript (13026)
- CSCI E-113 Introduction to C, Unix/Linux, and CGI Programming (10033)
- CSCI E-128 Fundamentals of System Administration (13204)
- CSCI E-131b Communication Protocols and Internet Architectures (11353)
- CSCI E-132 Advanced Topics in Data Networking Protocols and Network Architectures (13033)
- CSCI E-146 Algorithms for Computer Games (13172)
- CSCI E-153 Web Development Using XML (12151)
- CSCI E-156 Google Search and Information Retrieval (12913)
- CSCI E-160 Java for Distributed Computing (11838)
- CSCI E-168 Building Web-Based Software with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (12923)
- CSCI E-207 Introduction to Formal Systems and Computation (12161)
- CSCI E-220 Artificial Intelligence (11420)
- CSCI E-237 Programming Microsoft .NET (13188)
- CSCI E-247 Software Design: Principles, Models, and Patterns (12070)
- CSCI E-253 Developing Web-based Database Applications (12465)
- CSCI E-271 Advanced Topics in Oracle Database Management (13171)
- CSCI E-287 Computer Architecture (13090)
- DRAM E-10 Introduction to Acting (12954)
- DRAM E-19 Intermediate Acting: Introduction to Practical Aesthetics (13066)
- DRAM E-20 Advanced Acting (11282)
- DRAM E-22b Actor/Director Collaboration: Beckett, Pinter, and Mamet (13065)
- DRAM E-24 The History and Practice of American Musical Theater (12503)
- ECON E-10a Principles of Economics (10062)
- ECON E-1010 Microeconomic Theory (10782)
- ECON E-1530d Money and Monetary Policy (12505)
- EDUC E-102 Introduction to Educational Technologies (11986)
- EDUC E-126 Teaching for Understanding with Technology (13255)
- EDUC E-200a Instructional Technology Licensure Practicum Seminar I (12442)
- EDUC E-210 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Educational Technologies (13194)
- ENGL E-102 Introduction to Old English Literature (12713)
- ENGL E-115b Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (13221)
- ENGL E-130 Shakespeare and Modern Culture (13186)
- ENGL E-151k Understanding Poetry (13031)
- ENGL E-159 Reading James Joyce (12778)
- ENGL E-170 Classic American Novels: Rereadings and Reinterpretations (13032)
- ENGL E-186 Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian: Sacred Violence in the American Novel (13030)
- ENGL E-196 American Protest Literature from Tom Paine to Tupac (13075)
- ENGL E-202 American Dissent (13199)
- ENGL E-245 Approaches to the Practice and Profession of Literary Study (13009)
- ENSC E-130 Fundamentals of Microfabrication with Applications to BioMEMS (13210)
- ENSC E-150 Introduction to Nanobiotechnology: Concepts and Applications (12806)
- ENVR E-101 Environmental Management I (11925)
- ENVR E-109 Environmental Politics (13228)
- ENVR E-115 Introduction to Sustainable Development (12421)
- ENVR E-119 Sustainable Buildings: Design, Construction, and Operations (12989)
- ENVR E-120 Environmental Ethics and Land Management (11926)
- ENVR E-140 Fundamentals of Ecology (12779)
- ENVR E-150 Life Cycle and Risk Assessment (12390)
- ENVR E-200 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Environmental Management (12422)
- ENVR E-599 Capstone Projects in Environmental Management (13067)
- EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, fall term, section 1 (13175)
- EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, fall term, section 2 (13006)
- EXPO E-5 Fundamentals of Grammar, fall term, section 3 (11346)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, fall term, section 1 (12672)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, fall term, section 2 (12294)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, fall term, section 3 (11546)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, fall term, section 4 (13257)
- EXPO E-15 Fundamentals of Academic Writing, fall term, section 5 (13258)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 1 (12968)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 10 (11368)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 11 (13259)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 2 (13029)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 3 (12964)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 4 (13042)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 5 (12971)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 6 (12969)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 7 (13222)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 8 (12970)
- EXPO E-25 Academic Writing and Critical Reading, fall term, section 9 (12965)
- EXPO E-39 Advanced Essay Writing (13198)
- EXPO E-55 Writing about Nature and the Environment (12624)
- EXPO E-170 Principles of Editing, fall term, section 1 (11355)
- EXPO E-170 Principles of Editing, fall term, section 2 (13212)
- EXPO E-510 Editing Technical Prose (10100)
- FINC E-100 Principles of Finance (12553)
- FINC E-105 Financial Statement Analysis (12552)
- FINC E-140 Corporate Finance (12509)
- FINC E-143 Investment Theory and Applications (12613)
- FINC E-145 Real Estate Finance and Investment Fundamentals (12554)
- FINC E-150 Personal Financial Planning, fall term, section 1 (12542)
- FINC E-150 Personal Financial Planning, fall term, section 2 (13264)
- FINC E-170 The International Economy and Business (12518)
- FOLK E-103 The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition (13054)
- FREN E-1 Intensive Elementary French I, fall term, section 1 (11846)
- FREN E-1 Intensive Elementary French I, fall term, section 2 (10119)
- FREN E-1a Elementary French I, fall term, section 1 (10115)
- FREN E-1a Elementary French I, fall term, section 2 (11372)
- FREN E-1x Reading for Information (10120)
- FREN E-2a Elementary French II (13190)
- FREN E-3 Intensive Intermediate French I: Grammar Review in Cultural Context (12747)
- FREN E-5 Oral Expression: Le Français parlé (13191)
- FREN E-24 French Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present (13072)
- GERM E-1 Intensive Elementary German I (11066)
- GERM E-1a Elementary German I (10131)
- GERM E-3 Intensive Intermediate German I (12251)
- GOVT E-1029 Genocide (12934)
- GOVT E-1062 Theories of Citizenship (13203)
- GOVT E-1345 American Legal System (12329)
- GOVT E-1351 Congress: Policy, Parties, and Institutions (12789)
- GOVT E-1731 The Future of War: Conflict and Order in the Twenty-First Century (12817)
- GOVT E-1733 Globalization and Terrorism (13063)
- GOVT E-1775 The Modern World Economy, 1873 to 2000 (13070)
- GOVT E-1800 Introduction to International Relations (12296)
- GOVT E-1830 Introduction to Public International Law (12943)
- GOVT E-1960 Introduction to the Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Territories (13207)
- GOVT E-1963 Gender and Globalization (13223)
- HARC E-13a Introduction to the History of Art and Architecture I: Ancient and Medieval Europe (12909)
- HARC E-162 Building the European Capital and Court, 1575-1700 (13027)
- HARC E-167 Velázquez and His Legacy (13051)
- HARC E-183 The Architecture of Boston (11489)
- HIST E-10d World History IV: Globalization, 1800-Present (13041)
- HIST E-1074 Selves and Other Peoples in Classical Antiquity (13055)
- HIST E-1150 The Medieval Church, from Origins to the Reformation (13077)
- HIST E-1572 The Holocaust in History, Literature, and Film (13028)
- HIST E-1600 Encounters: Early Modern British Exploration and Settlement in the Atlantic World (13115)
- HIST E-1601 Colonial America (13084)
- HIST E-1825 China: Traditions and Transformations (12357)
- HIST E-1832 China and the Chinese Overseas in Modern Times (13132)
- HIST E-1890 World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II (13176)
- HIST E-1915 Africa and Africans: The Making of a Continent in the Modern World (12991)
- HNDI E-1 Intensive Introductory Hindi I (12741)
- HSCI E-139 Science and Human Nature (13124)
- HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities, fall term, section 1 (13039)
- HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities, fall term, section 2 (13013)
- HUMA E-100 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Humanities, fall term, section 3 (12944)
- HUMA E-105 Survey of Publishing: From Text to Hypertext (12957)
- ISMT E-100 Information Systems Management (12528)
- ISMT E-110 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software for Managers (12555)
- ISMT E-120 Desktop Office Applications for Managers (12531)
- ISMT E-130 Spreadsheet Models for Managers (12515)
- ISMT E-150 Introduction to GIS (12917)
- ISMT E-200 Trends in Enterprise Information Systems (13043)
- ITAL E-1 Intensive Elementary Italian I (10179)
- ITAL E-1a Elementary Italian I (10178)
- ITAL E-4a Intermediate Italian II: Readings in Modern Italian Life and Society (12418)
- ITAL E-16 Giotto, Raffaello, and Caravaggio (13044)
- JAPA E-1 Elementary Japanese I (10183)
- JAPA E-30 Elementary Japanese III (10185)
- JOUR E-50 Journalism (12549)
- JOUR E-100 Graduate Journalism Proseminar: Writing and Reporting (12584)
- JOUR E-120 Ethics and Journalism (13197)
- JOUR E-137 Feature Writing (12953)
- JOUR E-140a News Reporting across Platforms (13133)
- JOUR E-144 Investigative Journalism (13125)
- JOUR E-147 Publishing, Media, and Marketing (13126)
- JOUR E-157 Reviewing the Arts (13127)
- JOUR E-180 Media, Democracy, and Development (12895)
- KORE E-1a Elementary Korean (12907)
- LATI E-1a Latin for Beginners (11737)
- LATI E-51 Caesar, Gallic Wars (13045)
- LING E-115 Introduction to Syntax (13201)
- LING E-150 Language, Mind, and Brain (12903)
- LING E-190 Introduction to Bilingual Development (13200)
- LSTU E-100 Introduction to the Law (12792)
- LSTU E-103 Legal and Constitutional Aspects of the Criminal Process (13256)
- LSTU E-110 Law and Ethics: Making the Moral Decision (11519)
- LSTU E-127 Biotechnology Law and Policy (12926)
- MATH E-3 Quantitative Reasoning: Practical Math (12500)
- MATH E-8 College Algebra (10431)
- MATH E-10 Precalculus (12572)
- MATH E-15 Introduction to the Calculus A (10436)
- MATH E-16 Introduction to the Calculus B and Differential Equations (10437)
- MATH E-21a Multivariable Calculus (11648)
- MATH E-104 Discrete Mathematics with Computer Science Applications (11478)
- MATH E-140 Scientific Computing with Matlab (13085)
- MATH E-216 Convexity and Optimization with Applications (13062)
- MATH E-300 Math for Teaching Arithmetic (13089)
- MATH E-301 Math for Teaching Number Theory (12614)
- MATH E-309 Teaching Math with Technology: A Critical Examination of the School Curriculum (12979)
- MATH E-314 Classical Mathematics: Linear Algebra and Group Theory (13088)
- MGMT E-100 Strategic Management (12514)
- MGMT E-110 General Managers in Action (12510)
- MGMT E-117 Management of Technology: People and Organizations (12749)
- MGMT E-118 Project Management, fall term, section 1 (12589)
- MGMT E-118 Project Management, fall term, section 2 (13263)
- MGMT E-137 Operations Research and Risk Management (13056)
- MGMT E-140 Entrepreneurship and New Ventures (13192)
- MGMT E-141a Entrepreneurial Leadership (13205)
- MGMT E-142 Managing a Growing Business (13130)
- MGMT E-143 Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Business Transformation (12812)
- MGMT E-147 Managing Organizational Change (12819)
- MGMT E-150 Managing the Nonprofit Organization (12525)
- MGMT E-152 Leading in the Twenty-First Century (12941)
- MGMT E-160 Managing in the Global Economy (12513)
- MGMT E-170 Hotel and Restaurant Management (12541)
- MGMT E-180 Forces of Change: Market Dynamics and Strategies for a Shifting Healthcare Marketplace (12536)
- MGMT E-190 Principles and Practices of Fundraising (12539)
- MGMT E-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course, fall term, section 1 (13209)
- MGMT E-599 Strategic Management Capstone Course, fall term, section 2 (13262)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, fall term, section 1 (12927)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, fall term, section 2 (12521)
- MRKT E-100 Marketing Management, fall term, section 3 (13128)
- MRKT E-105 Marketing of Services (13059)
- MRKT E-115 Strategic Marketing: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Positioning, Branding, and Building Trust (12535)
- MRKT E-120 Internet Marketing Strategies (13060)
- MRKT E-125 Customer Relationship Management and the Market-Driven Organization (12540)
- MRKT E-150 New Product Development and Marketing (12546)
- MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies (10207)
- MUSE E-101 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Museum Studies (12896)
- MUSE E-107 Museums and the Law (12947)
- MUSE E-115 Collections and Curation (12166)
- MUSE E-120 Museum Education (13040)
- MUSE E-150 The Role of Museums in History (12939)
- MUSI E-54 Introduction to Jazz, 1900-1945 (10209)
- OBHR E-100 Human Resource Management, fall term, section 1 (13119)
- OBHR E-100 Human Resource Management, fall term, section 2 (12520)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, fall term, section 1 (12545)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, fall term, section 2 (12529)
- OBHR E-110 Organizational Behavior, fall term, section 3 (13015)
- OBHR E-140 Dealing with Change in Organizations (12533)
- OBHR E-180 The Assessment and Analysis of Your Management Style, fall term, section 1 (12512)
- OBHR E-180 The Assessment and Analysis of Your Management Style, fall term, section 2 (13261)
- OBHR E-200 Skills in Managing Conflict in Organizational Settings, fall term, section 1 (12511)
- OBHR E-200 Skills in Managing Conflict in Organizational Settings, fall term, section 2 (13260)
- OBHR E-210 Conflict Resolution: Practical Negotiation Skills (12620)
- OBHR E-215 Managing Negotiations (12820)
- PERS E-1a Introduction to Persian (13080)
- PHIL E-123 Classics of American Thought (12731)
- PHIL E-167 Biomedical Ethics (11907)
- PHYS E-1a Principles of Physics I: Mechanics (11897)
- PHYS E-123a Laboratory Electronics: Analog Circuit Design (10228)
- PORT E-1a Elementary Portuguese (12833)
- PORT E-3a Intermediate Portuguese (12826)
- PSYC E-15 Introduction to Psychology (10232)
- PSYC E-1030 Human Development (13046)
- PSYC E-1050 Introduction to Social Psychology (12988)
- PSYC E-1060 Emotion (12504)
- PSYC E-1091 The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker (12609)
- PSYC E-1240 Abnormal Psychology (10236)
- PSYC E-1247 Self-Destructive Behaviors (12791)
- PSYC E-1504 Positive Psychology (13083)
- PSYC E-1610 The Brain in Psychology (11393)
- PSYC E-1880 Clinical Psychology (10241)
- RELI E-1015 Comparative Religious Ethics (12898)
- RELI E-1027 From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, from the Old Testament to Christianity (13081)
- RELI E-1064 Religion and the Sport Culture (13193)
- RELI E-1076 Religion and Politics in Current "Fundamentalist" Movements (13177)
- RELI E-1505 Religion, Education, and Democracy (13202)
- RELI E-1510 The Bible and Politics (13050)
- RUSS E-1a Elementary Russian I (10248)
- SPAN E-1 Intensive Elementary Spanish I, fall term, section 1 (12409)
- SPAN E-1 Intensive Elementary Spanish I, fall term, section 2 (10266)
- SPAN E-1a Elementary Spanish I, fall term, section 1 (10264)
- SPAN E-1a Elementary Spanish I, fall term, section 2 (10426)
- SPAN E-1a Elementary Spanish I, fall term, section 3 (11340)
- SPAN E-1v Intensive Elementary Spanish I: Multimedia (10407)
- SPAN E-1x Reading for Information (10268)
- SPAN E-2a Elementary Spanish II (10269)
- SPAN E-3a Intermediate Spanish I (10271)
- SPAN E-6 Núcleos culturales hispánicos (10274)
- SPAN E-135 Spanish Literature from 1898 to the Present (13047)
- SPCH E-100 Fundamentals of Public Speaking (11542)
- SSCI E-100a Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Psychology, fall term, section 1 (13108)
- SSCI E-100a Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Psychology, fall term, section 2 (12423)
- SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, fall term, section 2 (12775)
- SSCI E-100b Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in the Social Sciences: Government and History, fall term, section 3 (13010)
- SSCI E-130 The Madness of Crowds (10792)
- STAR E-111a Beginning and Intermediate Drawing Workshop (10279)
- STAT E-50 Introduction to Statistics (11094)
- STSK E-105 Learning Styles and Compensatory Strategies (10287)
- SWED E-1a Elementary Swedish (12623)
- TURK E-1a Elementary Modern Turkish (12958)