AFSO

We will prepare
for the TOEFL and other English language exams with practice in
reading, writing, listening, and speaking in English, using examples
from the TOEFL exam and other sources. At the end of the semester,
students will take a practice TOEFL exam. All students who hope to take
the Colloquium in Fall 2024 must take this seminar.

An introduction to Newton’s laws of motion and conservation laws

Goal: We will learn about caring as a value, practice and framework and the many ways people express care.

 

The course provides an essential and solid background for
understanding fundamental processes
and phenomena in biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. It extends the main topics of differential and integral calculus
for real-valued functions
of one real variable to the case of vector-valued functions of
one real variable; real-valued functions of several variables; and vector fields. Specific topics include vectors in the
plane and space; parametrized curves
and surfaces; partial derivatives and gradients; constrained and unconstrained optimization; integration over regions in
the plane and space; integration over curves and surfaces; Green’s Theorem, Stokes Theorem, and Divergence Theorem.

 

This course covers basic concepts in statistics
including statistical vocabulary, data collection, data summary and graphical
display.  Students should come away from the course
understanding statistical terms and graphics and able to do some basic analyses.  They will be prepared for more advanced courses in statistics, data science or research methods.

 

This course offers an introduction to films produced in the Middle East, to understand the culture and history of the region. In this class we will view films from the Arab world, as well as films from Iran and Afghanistan. Readings will provide background on the particular cultural and historical contexts in which the films were made, and the aesthetic traditions from which they emerged from and to which they refer. Readings will also serve to familiarize students with approaches to critically interpreting visual media. All films will be screened in original language with English subtitles.