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This course examines gender, sex and sexuality across a range of cultural settings seeking, in the process, to question most of what we - including most theorists of sex/gender - take for granted about the gendered and sexed character of human identity and difference. Topics explored include: the saliency of the categories man and woman; the relationships between race and gender; the role of colonialism and neocolonialism in the representation of gender, sex and sexuality; the usefulness of the notion of oppression; the relationship between cultural conceptions of personhood and cultural conceptions of gender; and the ethnocentricity of the concepts of gender, sex and sexuality themselves. To assist these explorations we will make use of cross-cultural case studies in a number of areas including rape, prostitution, work and domesticity, the third sex and homosexuality.

This course examines the theoretical and practical understanding of the psychology of communication skills and their application in everyday life, conflict management, dating, the workplace, intergroup situations, and even in how you talk to yourself. The course is designed to give you an exciting scientific overview of, and basic working competence in, communication skills. It covers communication and social skills; listening and the difficulty of doing so; conflict escalation and resolution; mating, dating, and relationships; communication across group boundaries; trolling and romance scamming; persuasion; cross-cultural communication norms; sex and/or gender differences in communication patterns; public speaking; organizational communication and leadership; and self-communication.

This course prepares students for the craft of publishing peer-reviewed scholarly articles. 

Topics include defining a scientifically systematic investigation, strategies on harnessing the resources of graduate schools, conventions about the nature of evidence and clues in research, choosing a research topic, crafting a hypothesis, and the role of good sense and judicious evaluation in relation to methodologies of investigation.  

Additionally, this course discusses document-based vs experiment-based research methodologies, the use of surveys, statistical research methodologies and case studies, how to create a well written research report, nuances of the publishing process, and the role of uniqueness in scientific research projects. 

Music sequencing. General concepts Tracks/channels, assigning instruments, data input, time signatures, tempo/tempo change quantizing, loops and editing. Students will realize two midi composition projects.

This course, intended for students who are not majoring in medicine, covers the scientific understanding of death, and analyzes the historical/philosophical implications that form the basis of this knowledge, thereby enhancing student abilities to analyze various social phenomena caused by death in modern society.  

The course presents scientific data related to death, fostering a rational way of thinking through ethical/philosophical considerations of this phenomenon that are necessary in modern society. Topics include mankind’s historical awareness of death; social consensus and philosophical implications related to death; scientific analyses in the fields of pathophysiology, toxicology, and socio-medical science; and scientific approaches to complex social phenomena related to death in modern society. 

This course introduces concepts and practical applications in multilingual education, allowing students to understand multilingually and to examine the characteristics of multilinguality that monolinguals cannot experience in general. The course will help students to recognize themselves as multilingual agents, to explore how to use languages, and to realize how this process affects their identities. Topics include language acquisition and multilingualism, multilingualism identity formation, language use and code-switching, technology and multilingual education, case studies, current research in the field, and practical applications. Assignments include case study analysis and designing a multilingual curriculum. 

Our central question in this  course will be the extent to which our everyday experiences are determined by the nature of the world itself versus the extent to which they're determined by the structure of our own minds. Our approach to this question will be multi-faceted, drawing on philosophical texts, films and literary works, as well as our personal experiences. In topic 1, the nature of the world, we'll discuss Realism, Idealism, and Skepticism. Is the world really as it seems intuitively to be to us (Realism) or is it just a projection of our minds (Idealism). In topic 2, the nature of the self, we'll examine (i) what changes you can undergo and still remain yourself, (ii) the extent to which your personality and mind are constructed by you vs. being given to you by nature or upbringing, and (iii) whether genuine relationships exist between you and others or whether it's mostly a projection on your part. In topic 3, the nature of time, we'll examine time. Does only the present moment exist or does reality consist of many moments of time - some past, some present, and some future? Is there really any such thing as time or is it, as Kant says, just a feature of our minds? Does contemporary physics show there's no such thing as time, or is there a way to reconcile the findings of physics with our intuitive view that time exists?

This course is an introduction to the history of Western classical music by its genre and through study and analysis of the style and structures of this music, as well as its relationships within historical contexts.  

Major works of classical music will be classified by genre, and theoretical approaches and academic thinking about classical music will be presented by listening to the works of famous composers.  

This course is an extension of the Engineering Statistics and Computer Programming courses. The course works extensively with real-world data (relevant to engineering, physics and the environment). The knowledge learned from the aforementioned two courses will be briefly reviewed and further strengthened through a series of hands-on projects. This course enables students to develop solid data analytical skills and problem-solving mindsets, both useful skills for future employment in industry and academia. 

Course Prerequisites: Engineering Statistics and Computer Programming.