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This course takes London, a global, multicultural city as our lab for exploring social science theories and methods. It engages with current social issues in the city, situating them historically and within wider national and global contexts. The course considers what a focus on a particular city, in this case London, can contribute to the social sciences, and conversely considers how social science concepts and theories can contribute to a richer understanding of cities and city life.

This course examines the principles and applications of quantum mechanics, wave mechanics, the Schroedinger equation, expectation values, Hermitian operators, commuting observables, one-dimensional systems, harmonic oscillators, angular momentum, three-dimensional systems.

This course offers an introduction to encounters between civilizations, cultures, and societies in world history, based on examples drawn from the medieval, early modern, and modern periods. It seeks to develop understanding of patterns in world history and an introduction to approaches within the field of global history. It introduces specific case-studies, from the Arab conquest of the Muslim Spain and Chinese exploration of the Indian Ocean, through colonial encounters in Africa, America, and India, to the Balfour Declaration in 1917. Students discuss the meeting of civilizations, cultures, and societies in world history, covering examples from the medieval period up to the modern day. They develop a global perspective, form professional and informed attitudes, and consider the methodology of global history. 

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to the entire integrated marketing communication process, covering a variety of elements in integrated marketing communication and other marketing components.  The course instructs on how advertising relates to marketing and the specifics of research, setting objectives, strategy, positioning, creative, media, promotions, public relations, and campaigns.  Upon completion of the course, one will have a better general understanding of the development of the advertising industry; how it works today, and debate about its roles in society.

The course is designed for senior and graduate students majoring in Computer Science to learn design philosophy, practice, and research challenges for software design for smart medical sensing systems.   

Smart sensing systems have the capability of processing the sensing data on the device and the capability of providing the detected events as the outputs. This type of sensing system is required to generate accurate sensing events in real time. The systems are also required to minimize their energy consumption in specific application scenarios.  With smart sensing systems, the faults can be contaminated, the system can be more robust and easier to develop. Finally, the systems can be certified for medical use.   

This course covers model smart sensing devices, realtime computation, Computing-In-Memory devices, and communications between computing devices.  

This course surveys US law governing mergers and acquisitions and analyzes the agreements lawyers use to initiate and complete these transactions. The course covers structures commonly used in M&A transactions; the duties of management and directors; the rights of shareholders; and the structure and important terms of acquisition agreements.   

This course introduces students to the core concepts, terminology, and technical apparatus of the structural parts of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), as well as the conceptual underpinnings of the discipline. Students learn about fundamental concepts such as contrast and distribution; structure; rules and representations; the cognitive basis of language, and how that is distinct from its social basis; and language universals and variation. They also learn how to solve problems of linguistic analysis using these concepts and the terminology and techniques of the discipline as well as how to use hypothesis testing to devise solutions to these problems. 

Each of us has a self and an identity by virtue of being human. But do other living beings have a self? Do other living beings have society in the same way humans do? In this course, students will consider some traditional assumptions of selfhood (e.g., the capacity for reason, speech, and memory) from different sociological perspectives.

This course covers the family as a social institution with emphasis on Middle Eastern characteristics. It also discusses selected aspects of marriage and family life and pays special attention to the social consequences of changing family styles.

This course examines the impact of global change - broadly defined as the impacts of climate change and demographic change influencing global-scale changes in land use, environmental degradation and pollutant emissions - on physical and human environments in Africa and Asia with a specific focus (thread) on water supply. The course deliberately engages issues of climate injustice, equity, and adaptive capacity from the local to the global. A distinctive aspect of this course is its engagement not only with the hydrological science underlying the impact of global change on water supplies but also with the pathways and processes of water governance including transboundary issues that inform solutions towards more equitable and sustainable water supplies in a warming world. The course draws from case studies informed by active research programs in Nigeria, Niger, Tanzania, Bangladesh, and India.