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This course draws on a range of political science research on European integration and European Union politics to analyze the development of the EU and how it operates today. The course addresses one of the most important questions in the study of European politics and international organization's: why did a diverse group of states construct what is currently the world’s most extensive example of international integration? This course provides an extensive overview of the contemporary EU, including its institutions and policy-making processes using approaches from modern political science. Students also assess how the EU has influenced both public opinion and party competition, and the debate concerning whether the EU suffers from a democratic deficit. 

This course examines the field of forensic anthropology – a scientific discipline that involves the application of methods from biological anthropology and archaeology to the identification, recovery, and analysis of skeletal remains from crime scenes, mass disasters, and unexplained death. Through lectures and in-class assignments, students will learn about the methods for recognizing and recovering evidence that allows for the determination of time since death, manner and cause of death, and the identification of individuals.

This course is an introduction to the principles and mechanisms of epigenetics, exploring how heritable changes in gene expression occur without changes to the underlying DNA sequence. Topics include DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding RNAs. The course will also cover the role of epigenetics in development, disease, and evolution. 

This course introduces the basic concepts of computer programming and problem-solving using Python, analyzing and devloping algorithms as well as developing programs, debugging, and testing of various problems. 
 

The course covers the principles and main topics of Python including variables, conditional branches, loops, functions, lists, dictionaries, recursion, file input/output, and the introduction of object-oriented programming. The course also provides opportunities to solve problems such as numerical simulations, combinatorial problems, and image processing.

This course examines the diverse and often elegant ways that the bounty of algae, fungi, and bryophytes grow and reproduce right here on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. 

This course examines the relationship between neuro-biological processes and psychological processes. It focuses on the organization of the nervous system, the role of the neurobiological process in sensory experiences, sleep, attention, arousal, motivation, emotions, learning, memory and language. 

The course includes lectures on different media and techniques involved in painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and time-based works of art. It also examines how the analysis of a work of art is structured and written; and reflects on changing theories of art history, viewership, and the object.
 

This course introduces the foundations of classical mechanics based on the principle of least action with emphasis on symmetries and conservation laws as well as special relativity with emphasis on relativistic kinematics. In particular the following is included: the Lagrange formalism, the principle of least action, Euler Lagrange's equations; conservation laws and generalized coordinates; introduction to the Hamilton formalism; constraints and Lagrange multipliers; general treatment of the two-body problem and Kepler's laws; Lorentz transformations; and four-vectors and relativistic kinematics.

This course looks at the process of first language acquisition by examining the social and cognitive mechanisms that drive language learning in the first few years of life. It is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of first language acquisition with a focus on spoken language in typical healthy children. The course starts with an exploration of pre-verbal communication in infancy and tracks verbal development during toddlerhood into middle childhood. Overarching issues in linguistic theory, in the form of competing explanations of language acquisition patterns, will be discussed and key debates and current research in the field will be examined.

This course is an integrated introduction to fruit, vegetable, cereal, dairy, and seafood and meat science and technology. It provides an overview of the traditional and innovative techniques that are used to protect the quality and assure the safety of these foods. 

The course introduces carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals that are components of food, and examines basic science applied to food processing and storage (gelatinization, aging, denaturation, rancidity, flavor change, color change).