Courses

• CAS BI 599: Synaps Neurobio
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS CC 101: Core Humanities I: The Ancient World
  Begins in the ancient Near East with the origins of Mesopotamian civilization and the Hebrew Bible. Continues with an overview of Greek civilization and careful study of Homer, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, and Plato.
• CAS CC 102: Core Humanities II: Antiquity and the Medieval World
  Focusing on ethical themes and questions from the Western and Eastern traditions, the course includes Aristotle, Confucius, Lao Tzu, the Bhagavad Gita, Epictetus, Vergil, the Gospels, and Dante. Chronologically, the course covers the late-classical period in Greece, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, and the medieval world.
• CAS CC 105: Core Natural Science I: The Evolution of the Physical Universe and of the Earth
  Traces the evolution of the physical universe and our scientific understanding of it. Special classes devoted to dialogue among professors in the sciences, philosophy, and theology. Topics include Big Bang theory, evolution of the stars, laws of the physical universe, evolution of the earth, and planetary ecology. Laboratory work includes night labs in the observatory.
• CAS CC 106: Core Natural Science II: Biodiversity and the Evolution of Life
  Historical, conceptual, and factual study of the evolution of life, biodiversity, and the ethical and social questions raised by technology. Specific topics include the nature of the scientific enterprise, the fossil record, evolutionary biology, genetics, and the environment. Assignments include computer-based and experimental laboratory work.
• CAS CC 201: Core Humanities III: The Renaissance
  From the late Middle Ages through the burgeoning of Renaissance humanism to the baroque period. The origins of modern political and scientific thought and of the comic novel. The flowering of English poetry, Petrarch, Montaigne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Descartes, and Milton, as well as the music of Bach and the art of Michelangelo.
• CAS CC 202: Core Humanities IV: From the Enlightenment to Modernity
  From the philosophes and the Age of Reason through the Romantic Revolt and the origins of modernity. Voltaire, Swift, Rousseau, the music of Mozart, Goethe's Faust, the Romantic poets, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Nietzsche, and Dostoyevsky.
• CAS CC 203: Core Social Science I: The Shaping of Societies
  Provides a historical framework for understanding the origins and concerns of the social sciences and the major events and processes that have shaped the twentieth century both in the United States and around the world. Readings are drawn from classic works of social and political theory: Aristotle, Tacitus, Ibn Khaldun, Hobbes, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Weber, Marx, and Durkheim.
• CAS CC 204: Core Social Science II: Inequality
  Focuses on the problems of inequality and the response of contemporary social scientists. Topics include psychological and sociological models of human identity, race and immigration, and contemporary theories of justice, globalization, and the international order. The course includes significant study of American society.
• CAS CG 111: Beginning Modern Greek 1
  Course may not be elected by anyone with previous study of modern Greek without consent of the department. Provides a basic reading knowledge of modern Greek (demotic) and introduces students to the spoken language.
• CAS CG 112: Beginning Modern Greek 2
  Review of grammar and syntax of modern Greek, reading in both prose and poetry, intensive oral practice.
• CAS CG 211: Intermediate Modern Greek 1
  Intensive review of modern Greek grammar and syntax and drill material from CAS CG 111 and 112. Development of advanced oral and reading skills.
• CAS CG 212: Intermediate Modern Greek 2
  Discussion in Greek on everyday themes. Development of reading skills through the analysis of contemporary texts. Analysis of contrasting modes of expression and their influence on separate national cultures in Greek and in English.
• CAS CG 350: The Modern Greek Short Story
  A study of Greek short fiction from its beginnings to the present with emphasis on its historical context and cultural ideologies. Close reading of Papadiamantis, Vizyenos, Myrivilis, Venezix, Nollas, Gritse-Milliex, and others. Conducted in Greek.
• CAS CG 356: The Modern Greek Novel
  A study of representative modern Greek novels with analysis relating the author's work to the rest of his life and the situation in Greece. Cannot be taken for credit in addition to CAS CL 356.
• CAS CG 491: Directed Study in Modern Greek
  A directed study in Modern Greek.
• CAS CG 492: Directed Study in Modern Greek
  A directed study in Modern Greek.
• CAS CH 101: General Chemistry 1
  For science concentrators who require a two-semester general chemistry course. Stoichiometry, gases, liquids, solids, solutions, equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, atomic structure and bonding, kinetics, and selected chemical systems. Laboratory exercises include qualitative analysis. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, and three hours lab.
• CAS CH 102: General Chemistry 2
  For science concentrators who require a two-semester general chemistry course. Stoichiometry, gases, liquids, solids, solutions, equilibrium, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, atomic structure and bonding, kinetics, and selected chemical systems. Laboratory exercises include qualitative analysis. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, and three hours lab.
• CAS CH 109: General and Quantitative Analytical Chemistry
  Prereq: two years of high school algebra. Lecture and discussion shared with CAS CH 101, laboratory shared with CH 111. Recommended for students planning to take CH 110. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour lab lecture, four hours lab.

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