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This course will cover electrochemical/material engineering and recent energy applications such as batteries, fuel cells, electrodepositions, and corrosions. The course builds on electrochemistry and its application to energy devices. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental concepts related to electrochemistry, understanding electrochemical cells, corrosion and prevention, and various energy storage/conversion devices.

This course is based on the idea that there are other ways of approaching the study of brain structure and function beyond the conventional focus of parsing cognitive, affective, and other functions using standard tools such as brain imaging. Much research has been conducted at the intersection of the brain, other disciplines, and society at large. These topics vary greatly, but include the impact of the brain sciences on the courtroom to understanding the nature of the brain’s response during aesthetic experience, or the neurobiology of poverty, and the effect adversity on development. The course broadens and deepens students’ understanding of the cognitive and brain sciences as they impact on the individual and their place and interaction with development, family, and society at large. 

This course not only focuses on literature study but also serves as a critical guide to various thoughts that troubled modern people. The course explores how the industrial revolution, the World Wars, the Cold War, Feminism, Post-colonialism, gender liberation, and concurrent globalization has transformed the English-speaking world. Has the core of humanity changed? How do tradition and modernity contradict one another and in what way are they compromised? To what extent do modern arts push our tolerance of ethics further? Does the British Empire still exist in one form or another? Do globalization and modernity transform our culture fundamentally or only reshuffle it? How do intellectuals—not just creative writers—promote, manipulate, or hinder these exciting but unsettling changes?