Courses

• GRS LL 699: Teaching College Languages I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in languages. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS LP 951: Directed Study: Portuguese
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LP 952: Directed Study: Portuguese
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LR 951: Directed Study in Russian Language and Literature
  
• GRS LR 952: Directed Study in Russian Language and Literature
  
• GRS LS 850: Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature
  Three topics are offered 2012/2013. Students may take one, two, or three for credit. Fall 2012 Section A1: Under Foreign Eyes: Cinematic Representations of Mexico. Cinematic representation of Mexico in films by Eisenstein, Buñuel, Kazan, Peckinpah, Malle, and Gleyzer. Students explore the shifting cultural and rhetorical contexts in which these polemical films were produced, distributed, and interpreted. Focus on Mexico's history and film criticism. Fall 2012 Section B1: Poetry and "Testimonio" in the Central American Conflicts. Two genres that played prominent roles in Central America in the late twentieth century. Poets include Ernesto Cardenal, Claribel Alegría, and Roque Dalton. Several classic examples of "testimonio," including works by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú and Omar Cabezas. Topic for Spring 2013: Between Languages: Genders and Genres in the Americas. How new definitions of Spanish arise from geographical mobility through books and films by works by Edgardo Cozarinsky, Juan Mandelbaum, Marcelo Birmajer, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Junot Díaz and Edith Grossman.
• GRS LS 951: Directed Study in Arabic Language and Literature
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LS 952: Directed Study in Arabic Language and Literature
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LX 699: Teachng Coll Lx
  
• GRS LX 951: Directed Study: Linguistics
  Directed study in linguistics. Hours arranged.
• GRS LX 952: Directed Study: Linguistics
  Directed study in linguistics. Hours arranged.
• GRS LY 650: Introduction to Arabic Literature
  Selection of Arabic poetry, short stories, novels, and drama. Focus on development and refinement of Arabic reading strategies, literary analysis of short passages, and writing and speaking skills. Readings and assignments in Arabic and English.
• GRS LY 741: 1001 Nights in the World Literary Imagination
  What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers.
• GRS LY 770: Topics in Arabic Literature
  May be taken multiple times for credit as topics change. Readings and assignments in English; readings also available in Arabic. Topic for Fall 2011: Travel Writing and the Muslim World. Study the development of the travelogue genre from its premodern to modern form. Readings include works by Muslim writers such as Nasir Khusraw and Ibn Battuta, as well as by western travelers in Muslim lands such as Eliza Fay and Robert Byron.
• GRS LY 771: Topics in Arab Culture and Arabic Language
  May be taken multiple times for credit as topics change.
• GRS LY 951: Ds Arabic
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS LZ 951: Ds Persian
  
• GRS MA 648: Research Methods in Mathematics II
  Methods of mathematical reserach via prolonged, directed study of one selected mathematical topic, distinct from that chosen for GRS MA 647. Topics are usually chosen from geometry, number theory, or combinatorics, and may involve open problems. Written and oral research presentation.
• GRS MA 665: Introduction to Modeling and Data Analysis in Neuroscience
  An introduction to the basic techniques of quantifying neural data and developing mathematical models of neural activity. Major focus on computational methods using computer software and graphical methods for model analysis.
• GRS MA 666: Advanced Modeling and Data Analysis in Neuroscience
  Advanced techniques to characterize neural voltage data and analyze mathematical models of neural activity. Major focus on computational methods using computer software and graphical methods for model analysis.

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