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This course examines transmission, pathogenicity and the immune response to microbes. It explores the characteristics of viral, bacterial, fungal and protist pathogens and their virulence mechanisms for establishment and progression of disease; host immune response and characteristic pathological changes to tissues; mechanisms for colonization, invasion and damage to host tissue; the ways in which the immune system recognizes and destroys invading microbes; how the T cell response is activated and antibodies function; antibiotic resistance; and control and vaccination strategies. 

This course examines the analysis of the equilibrium and dynamic behavior of mechanical systems. It covers equilibrium of particles and of rigid bodies; distributed forces; analysis of structures, including, trusses, frames, cables and beams; kinematics of particles; kinetics of particles, Newton's second law, energy, momenta, impact dynamics; systems of particles; kinematics of rigid bodies; and kinetics of rigid bodies in two and three dimensions.

This course examines major concepts in gender studies, including: biological determinism, cultural essentialism, social constructionism, power and inequalities, sexuality, and queering categories of difference. Using a variety of case studies from social media, politics, sport, fashion, film, and music, the course will analyze how sex, gender, age, ethnicity, race, class, politics and social movements intersect to influence our understanding of sex, gender, and culture.

Economics provides us with a useful set of tools for analyzing the world and aiding decision-making by businesses and governments. This course gives students an overview of many of these tools and of the insights that can be obtained with them, concentrating on those most relevant to businesses. This means that most of the lectures are on microeconomic topics, looking at the actions of firms and of individuals, but the course concludes with some coverage of macroeconomic problems and policies, looking at the economy as a whole. Upon completion of this course, students can intelligently discuss and analyze current events in business and economics. 

This course examines creative technologies and tools that enable the development of creative ideas and expression in a digital world. Students will develop key skills necessary to generate creative works and projects in an interdisciplinary environment that comprise and blends visual art, design layout, audio-visual production and sound design.

This course examines basic communication skills in understanding and speaking Japanese. Students will also learn to write the two Japanese syllabaries and approximately 60 kanji characters and to recognize at least 100 kanji characters in context. Relevant socio-cultural information is integrated with the language learning.

This course explores conflict and diplomacy in the contemporary Middle East through an in-depth examination and discussion of case studies from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each week is devoted to a specific conflict. Additionally, the course serves as an introductory survey to the history, politics, and societies of the contemporary Middle East, as well as to the main dynamics driving conflict and conflict resolution in this region.

This course surveys intergroup conflict and peacebuilding through the perspective of culture, psychology, and law. The course studies several case studies to understand why people fight; how they form political coalitions to make peace, and the legal frameworks that facilitate a sustained end to conflict. The course is organized around key sociological definitions of groups: political engagement, gender, ethnicity, disability, and nationality. To this end the course looks at historical and present-day examples such as:

- The American Abolitionist Movement
- Eugenics in the Early Twentieth Century
- Nationalism and Gender in World War II
- Human Rights
- Disability Culture in Japan and the United States
- Homophobia in Uganda
- Nativism in Northern Ireland
- Ethnicity and Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian movement
- Peacemaking in Liberia

This course offers a study of the development of medieval Christian, Islamic, and Judaic thought from early antiquity to the fourteenth century. Topics include: Carolingian renaissance; Arab and Jewish philosophy; 12th century Platonism; recovery of Aristotle and Greek and Arabic science; condemnation of 1277 and transformation of scholastic philosophy; political philosophy.