2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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LIT 131 CM - Film History I (1925-1965) This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from the introduction of sound to the rise of the “New Hollywood.” Topics such as cinematic response to World War II, the decline of the studio system, and “new waves” of European film-making are studied in social, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 131 CM
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LIT 132 CM - Film History II (1965-Present) This course surveys the history of cinema as art and mass medium, from 1965 to the present. Topics such as the rise of independent filmmaking in America, the conglomeration of the studios, and European resistance to Hollywood’s domination on the world market are considered in social, cultural, and aesthetic terms.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 132 CM
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LIT 133 CM - Film and Literature This course examines correspondences and affinities between literature and film in aesthetic, cultural, and social contexts. Throughout, we will look not only at specific case studies of literary adaptation or cross-reference, but consider the larger questions of cultural value implied in these transactions.Writers and film-makers to be considered include Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, and Robert Altman.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 133 CM
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LIT 134 CM - Special Studies in Film A seminar designed to explore the aesthetic achievement and social impact of film as an art form. Subjects for study include such topics as specific film genres, the work of individual film-makers, and recurring themes in film. Each year the seminar concentrates on a different area - for example, “Film and Politics,” “The Director as Author,” or “Violence and the Hero in American Films.”
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 134 CM
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LIT 138 CM - Film and Mass Culture This course will examine film as art and as medium in the context of the rise of 20th-century “mass culture.” We will take up such topics as the role of film in producing the ideas of “mass culture”, the cinematic representation of the “masses”, film as an instrument of the standardization of culture and as a mode of resistance to it, film and modernism, film and postmodernism, representations of fascism in cinema, and “subculture” considered as an effect of mass culture.
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 138 CM
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LIT 139 CM - Film Theory This course investigates the major film theories from the beginnings of cinema to the present. We begin with a study of classical film theory (1900-1960) that attempts to define the essence of the form, its relation to reality, and its status as mass medium and/or art. We then move on to more recent work that examines film from ideological, sociological, or psychological perspectives, or considers the changing nature of cinema in the digital age.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 139 CM
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LIT 143 CM - Victorian Poetry and Essay This course examines major themes of Victorian culture: social conscience, faith, aestheticism, veneration of nature, and loss of sacramental vision. Readings will include the prose essays of Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, and Pater, and the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, the pre-Raphaelites (D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Morris, Swinburne), and Wilde.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 143 CM
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LIT 144 CM - W.B. Yeats The Irish poet William Butler Yeats, one of the “last romantics,” as he called himself, was considered by T. S. Eliot to be “the greatest poet of our time — certainly the greatest in this language, and as far as I am able to judge, in any language.” Love, art, history, politics, and the supernatural are his central themes. Yeats is a central figure of High Modernism, but among modernists his poetry remains distinctively personal. In this course we will trace Yeats’ fifty-year career, from the early days of the Celtic Twilight in the 1890s to the great poems of old age written on the brink of World War II and including Yeats’s contribution to the Irish national theater.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 144 CM
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LIT 146 CM - The Domestic Life of Empire A look at Domestic Life, as it is portrayed in the writing of Women in the Centre (Europe) and in the writing of women living in the Periphery (Africa and the Caribbean) and ways in which they were an influence, through literary culture in particular, on each other. Among the authors to be read: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Jean Rhys, Phyllis Alfrey, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Maryse Conde, Rosa Guy, Mary Prince, Merle Hodge, Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 146 CM
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LIT 147 CM - The Word and the Garden In the Beginning was The Word and through the word we got creation of the world and that world began in the garden: the man, the woman who were placed in the position of its caretakers; and the garden itself arranged in quadrants and planted in an earthly, not celestial, order: Tree of Life and then Tree of Knowledge. The garden has for a long time been a way to assert political and other forms of power (Jefferson, Bacon, The Medicis); it has also been a way for people (the Shakers, for example) to distance themselves from expressions of overt power.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 147 CM
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LIT 155 CM - Writing Nature: Gardens, Fields, and Wilderness This course will explore the various ways in which authors from biblical and classical antiquity to the present have written about nature and the natural world. We will approach this dizzyingly vast subject in two principal ways: by site, as the title indicates, and by genre. We will consider how, for example, gardens have been represented and re-imagined over time (overgrown, manicured, full of gods, full of pests), and how a literary mode like pastoral has been defined and reconceived over time (a shepherd lamenting lost love, an adolescent fleeing the city for the country). Our readings will include poems, plays, novels, and essays by Shakespeare, Milton, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Robert Frost, Jamaica Kincaid, and others.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 155 CM
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LIT 160 AF - Caribbean Literature Reading and analysis of novels, poetry, and essays representing the most important trends in modern Caribbean literature.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 160 AF
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LIT 160 CM - Science and Faith in Modern Literature A study of the origins and impact of nihilism in modern literature. Beginning with Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and James, the course will look at major 20th-century authors as a battleground between scientific realism and faith. T. S. Eliot, Frost, Hardy, Auden, Camus, Mann, Milosz, and Simone Weil will be among the major authors considered against the background of biology, psychology, and physical science.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 160 CM
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LIT 162 AF - African Literature Reading and analysis of novels, poetry, and essays representing the most important trends in modern African literature.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 162 AF
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LIT 163 CM - Leadership in Literature and Film This course examines different aspects of the leadership theme in literature, with special attention to such topics as ethical dilemmas confronting leaders, different styles and models of leadership, the competing loyalties and pressures felt by leaders, as well as the questions that literature raises about the very nature and validity of leadership’s various forms. Authors to be studied include Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. Additional readings by Carlyle, Byron, and Emerson may be assigned as needed. We will also study several films dealing with the leadership theme.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 163 CM
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LIT 165 AF - Caribbean Women Writers: Writing Between Borders Examination of works by women writers from the Caribbean. Seeks to uncover the complex nature of cross-cultural encounters. Explores the strategies used by these writers to define themselves both inside and outside the body politic of two societies. Attention given to questions of identity, exile, history, memory, and language. Authors include Jean Rhys, Paule Marshall, Maryse Conde, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Michelle Cliff
Prerequisite: Upper-division literature course or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 165 AF
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LIT 165 CM - Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud have exerted a dominant influence not only upon literary criticism but upon the entire intellectual culture of advanced modernity. We will study a selection of their works in a broad cultural context, beginning with Enlightenment precursors like Voltaire and Rousseau, taking account of important contemporaries like Darwin, and ending with postmodernist disciples like Thomas Pynchon and Michel Foucault.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 165 CM
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LIT 166 CM - Feminist Theory This course will focus on a selection of theoretical perspectives that have informed feminist thought and movements. We will examine how various feminist “frameworks” have sought to explain oppressive social relations and have laid the groundwork for social change. We will begin with foundational texts from the history of Western feminism and will address the variety of approaches that emerged in the last decades of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Attention will be paid to ethnic, minority, international, and queer perspectives on feminism and gender theory.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 166 CM
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LIT 167 CM - Gay and Lesbian Writers This course examines the role of gay and lesbian writers in shaping important currents of 20th-century culture. We will study early definitions of homosexuality in its relation to cultural issues, shifting conceptions of gay and lesbian identity in literature of the 20th century, competing claims of “positive” versus “negative” images, and how literary and aesthetic issues influence the cultural understanding of identity. Authors will include Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Edmund White, Leslie Feinberg, and Cherrie Moraga.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 167 CM
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LIT 168 CM - Postmodernism and Postmodern Fiction This course will examine the question of postmodernism through the lens of its fictions, giving particular attention to relationship between literary form and such postmodern conditions as cyberspace, multiculturalism, globalization, and the end of history. Our texts will include short stories and novels—from Borges, Barth, Pynchon, Delillo, Morrison, Hong Kingston, Carter, Gibson, Rushdie, and others—as well as films, visual arts, hypertext, and theory.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 168 CM
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LIT 170 CM - Women and Comedy A study of women’s comic writing in poetry, prose, drama, and fiction. We will begin with the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, and read British and American authors from the 17th century to the present, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, “Fanny Fern,” Emily Dickinson, Marietta Holley, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, and Fay Weldon. We will conclude with a segment on stand-up comedy. Special attention will be given to feminist theories of comedy and to a consideration of comedy as a vehicle for social criticism.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 170 CM
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LIT 175 CM - Women’s Magazines and the Female Journalist This course will explore the roots of women’s print journalism in early women’s magazines and will study key figures in the history of women journalists. We will cover a wide range of materials, ranging from 18th-century English magazines to 1990s American zines and even more recent blogs, and will consider recent debates about the status of women within the field of journalism.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 175 CM
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LIT 177 CM - The Art of Oratory Great speeches have changed history. This course will explore the art of oratory from ancient Greece to modern America. Examination of speeches of Demosthenes, Pericles, Cicero, Burke, Webster, Lincoln, Churchill, Martin Luther King, and others will be combined with study of theories of oratory and rhetoric from Aristotle to Wayne Booth. Major speeches from classical and modern drama and epic including Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville will also be studied along with films and recordings of 20th-century political oratory. Speech writing and performance will form a practical component of this course.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 177 CM
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LIT 181 CM - Advanced Creative Writing This is a class for the student who is serious about writing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. There will be frequent short assignments for workshop discussion and a longer final one.
Prerequisites: Writing sample and instructor permission
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 181 CM
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LIT 182 CM - James Joyce In this seminar we will read the major writings of the Irish author James Joyce, whose work was immensely influential on all 20th-century literature, in English and in other languages. We will begin with his collection of short stories, Dubliners, and with his quasi-autobiographical novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The greater part of our class will be devoted to a detailed reading of Ulysses, his epic of the modern world. Time permitting, we will study excerpts of Finnegans Wake to establish strategies for reading this compendium of language and history.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 182 CM
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LIT 183 CM - Advanced Fiction Writing This advanced fiction workshop is intended for people who have taken at least one semester of Fiction Writing (LIT 038 CM ). Each student will submit two stories or novel excerpts for workshop, where they will be carefully critiqued by the class. We’ll also read short fiction by well-known contemporary writers, with an eye toward what makes these stories original, entertaining, and complex. In class, we’ll look beyond basic elements of craft and address issues of concern for the experienced writer. How do we avoid cliché? Create narrative drive? Take risks with form, language, and subject matter? Written exercises will focus on these issues while challenging students to push their writing in unexpected directions.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 183 CM
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LIT 195 CM - Robert Frost An examination of the poetry and prose of Robert Frost, one of the preeminent American poets. Consideration will be given to Frost’s work in relation to traditions of pastoral poetry and classical authors, his innovations in blank verse and English metrics, his dialogue with science and pragmatism, and his thinking about the nature of metaphor and poetic drama. Careful attention will be given to Frost’s ambivalent relationship to literary modernism, American predecessors, especially Emerson, Thoreau, and Dickinson, his reaction to the New Deal and the Cold War, and the complex history of Frost biography.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: LIT 195 CM
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LIT 199 CM - Independent Study in Literature Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: LIT 199 CM
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Master of Arts in Finance |
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FIN 300 CM - Seminar in Practical Finance The graduate year begins with a two-week lab course that provides an intensive review of the mathematics of finance, including calculus and matrix algebra, as well as an introduction to computing with various languages in a PC/Workstation computing environment. The session also includes networking opportunities and workshops to help students develop their presentation skills. Credit/No-Credit grading only.
Offered: Summer only
Credit: 0
Course Number: FIN 300 CM
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FIN 310 CM - Financial Economics This course leverages the basic economic tools of market and company analysis and focuses on applications to finance. Topics covered include capital theory, risk and uncertainty, information economics, game theory, and auctions.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 310 CM
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FIN 320 CM - Financial Econometrics This is an advanced course in econometrics that focuses on statistical tools for undertaking empirical research in finance. Topics include asset pricing model tests, event-study methodology, tests of long-run predictability, and high-frequency data analysis.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 320 CM
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FIN 330 CM - Corporate Financial Management This course helps students build the foundational knowledge and skills critical to making prudent business decisions in areas ranging from investments to valuations to risk management. The class uses both case studies and lectures, and coursework includes team projects and writing assignments.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 330 CM
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FIN 340 CM - Investments This course develops the financial economic basis of investment and portfolio management, including portfolio theory, asset pricing theory, bond pricing, and portfolio performance evaluation.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 340 CM
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FIN 350 CM - Global Finance This course examines the theoretical and applied approach to international financial management or an individual or firm exposed to global competition. Topics include the basics of foreign exchange and global markets; foreign exchange exposure management; financing and investment decisions in multi-national corporations; institutions and finance.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 350 CM
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FIN 386 CM - Financial Reporting and Communication This course will introduce students to the language of business and finance (accounting). Financial accounting is concerned with how firms report the results of their operations to outsiders such as investors, analysts, and regulatory agencies. An appreciation of the role of financial reporting in our economic system and insights into how financial accounting information is used by decision-makers both inside and outside the firm are essential for those who are seeking careers in finance. The emphasis is more on concepts than on procedures. The course will discuss some of the recent accounting scandals, the reasons behind them and how we can eliminate such problems. The course will also introduce the students to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as well as the debate about the role of accounting in the financial crisis.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 386 CM
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FIN 410 CM - Portfolio Management This advanced course focuses on the theory and practice of asset management. Students develop an understanding of the return and risk of different securities and the money management industry.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 410 CM
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FIN 420 CM - Asset Pricing and Derivatives This course enables students to evaluate derivative securities. Topics covered include pricing of futures, swaps, and options; risk management using derivative securities; value at risk (VAR); numerical options pricing techniques; and simulation methods.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 420 CM
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FIN 430 CM - Economics, Strategy, and Organization This course focuses on the growing fields of organization theory and organizational economics with an ultimate goal of understanding how organizations are designed, how they function, and how they evolve. The course draws on a number of fields to accomplish this, including corporate finance, contract theory, labor economics, human resource management, and organizational psychology.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 430 CM
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FIN 440 CM - Advanced Accounting Analysis The focus of this course is the connection between accounting analysis and issues in finance, including performance evaluation, cash flow analysis, pro forma construction, risk analysis, and valuation. This course assumes a working knowledge of Intermediate Accounting.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 440 CM
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FIN 450 CM - Entrepreneurial Finance The course provides students an understanding of the economics of entrepreneurial finance and private equity, especially venture capital. We will address financing and strategic issues faced by entrepreneurs in the early stage of a firm. Financial modeling will be used to determine how much money can and should be raised and from what source, and how the funding should be structured. Specific topics include: methods of valuing private firms, simulation to make better strategic choices, financial forecasting, financial modeling, economics of contracts (venture capital partnerships agreements, term sheets, etc.), financing sources, creating value through financing contracting, and exit strategies (initial public offerings, merger, other).
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 450 CM
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FIN 460 CM - Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance This course provides students with the opportunity to develop skills and understanding of the theory and practice that underlie corporate financial policy, corporate governance, and complex financial transactions. The course consists of three modules: i) The Economics of Venture Capital Financing; ii) Corporate Governance; and iii) Financial Restructuring, Reorganization, & The Market for Corporate Control. The course synthesizes cutting-edge research in financial economics with cases based on real-world events.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FIN 460 CM
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MATH 030 CM - Calculus I Single variable calculus. Differentiation and integration of algebraic and transcendental functions with applications to the social and physical sciences.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH030 CM
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MATH 031 CM - Calculus II A continuation of MATH 030 CM . Techniques and applications of integration, introduction to differential equations, improper integrals and indeterminate forms, infinite series and power series representation of a function. Applications to problems from the social and physical sciences.
Prerequisite: MATH 030 CM or placement.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH031 CM
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MATH 032 CM - Calculus III Multivariable calculus and vector analysis with applications to physical and social sciences. Functions of several variables; polar coordinates and parametric representation of curves; partial differentiation, the method of Lagrange multipliers; multiple integration; calculus of vector functions.
Prerequisite: MATH 031 CM or placement
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH032 CM
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MATH 032H CM - Honors Seminar in Calculus III Open by invitation only to freshmen, this course is an introduction to rigorous mathematics for students having a substantial background and demonstrated interest in mathematics. The topics covered will be those of Calculus III (MATH 032 CM ) with more emphasis on rigor and deeper understanding of the underlying mathematics.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH032H CM
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MATH 035 CM - Foundations of Pure Mathematics This course provides a conceptual overview of modern mathematics from a pure mathematics perspective. Basics of set theory, vector spaces, groups, complex numbers, infinite series, limits, topological spaces, surfaces, knots, and links. This course is not available to students who have already completed a course in the calculus sequence without departmental permission.
Prerequisite: MATH 030 CM or equivalent preparation
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH035 CM
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MATH 035 HM - Probability and Statistics Sample spaces, events, axioms for probabilities; conditional probabilities and Bayes’ theorem; random variables and their distributions, discrete and continuous; expected values, means, and variances; covariance and correlation; law of large numbers and central limit theorem; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing; simple linear regression; applications to analyzing real data sets.
Prerequisites: Calculus and Linear Algebra
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH035 HM
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MATH 038 CM - Calculus and Discrete Models for Applications This course provides a broad view of applied mathematics, with particular emphasis on creation, analysis, and computer simulation of mathematical models. Topics include Petri Nets, Markov chains, differential equations, discrete and continuous numerical methods, networks, linear programming, statistical modeling, Monte Carlo methods, and financial models with an introduction to Calculus. This course is not available to students who have already completed a course in the calculus sequence without departmental permission.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH038 CM
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MATH 050 CM - Finite Mathematics Topics include mathematics of finance, matrices, linear programming, and an introduction to Markov chains and game theory. Theory and techniques will be developed and then applied to decision-making problems in areas such as business management, finance, genetics, demographics, political science, chemistry, and competition analysis. Possible additional topics include counting methods, graph theory, and logic.
Prerequisite: Placement
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH050 CM
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MATH 052 CM - Introduction to Statistics This course introduces techniques of statistical inference and methods of data analysis from a mathematical point of view. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the theory underlying specific methods used in examples drawn from the natural sciences and the social sciences. Topics may include: probability, densities and distributions, data description, correlation, least square regression, multiple regression, non-parametric methods, Bayesian methods, and the analysis of variance. This course may not be used as a substitute for PSYC 109 CM for Psychology majors.
Prerequisite: MATH 030 CM or equivalent preparation
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH052 CM
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MATH 055 CM - Discrete Mathematics Topics include elementary symbolic logic (propositional and first-order predicate calculus), elementary set theory, modular arithmetic, binomial coefficients, permutations and combinations, discrete probability, recurrence relations, equivalence relations, order relations, and various topics from graph theory. Throughout the course, emphasis will be placed on creative problem solving and learning to read and write rigorous proofs.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH055 CM
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MATH 060 CM - Linear Algebra An introduction to the methods of linear algebra with applications to the physical and social sciences. Topics will include: Linear equations and matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, inner product spaces and quadratic forms, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and canonical forms.
Prerequisite: MATH 032 CM or instructor permission
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH060 CM
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MATH 109 CM - Introduction to Mathematics of Finance This is a first course in Mathematical Finance sequence. This course introduces the concepts of arbitrage and risk-neutral pricing within the context of single- and multi-period financial models. Key elements of stochastic calculus such as Markov processes, martingales, filtration and stopping times will be developed within this context. Pricing by replication is studied in a multi-period binomial model. Within this model, the replicating strategies for European and American options are determined.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM or instructor permission
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH109 CM
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MATH 110 CM - Introduction to Engineering Mathematics Ordinary differential equations, line and surface integrals, elementary linear algebra, systems of different equations, and Fourier analysis. Continuous modeling with applications to mechanics; electricity and magnetism, heat, and sound.
Prerequisite: MATH032 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH110 CM
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MATH 111 CM - Differential Equations An introduction to the general theory and applications of differential equations. Linear systems, nonlinear systems, and stability.
Prerequisite: MATH 032 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH111 CM
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MATH 112 CM - Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Chaos Qualitative analysis of discrete dynamical systems in dimension one and higher is motivated and presented with examples taken from the recent research literature. These include mathematical models of biological processes, such as the 1988 Siphonius fillyreae – ash whitefly – infestation in Southern California and its control with Hymenoptera Aphelinidae, and the Hopfield model of Neural Networks. Quantitative analysis of the systems is performed using the symbolic manipulator Mathematica.
Prerequisite: MATH 032 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH112 CM
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MATH 131 CM - Math Analysis I Countable sets, least upper bound, and metric space topology including compactness, completeness, connectivity, and uniform convergence. Related topics as time permits. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH131 CM
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MATH 132 CM - Math Analysis II A rigorous study of calculus in Euclidean Spaces including Riemann Integrals, derivatives of transformations, and the inverse function theorem. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 131 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH132 CM
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MATH 135 CM - Complex Analysis An introduction to the theory and application of analytic functions of a complex variable. Topics may include: Mobius transformation, multiple-valued functions, Cauchy-Riemann equations, harmonic functions, Cauchy’s Theorem, Liouville’s Theorem, Cauchy’s Integral Formula, Maximum Modulus Principle, Argument Principle, Rouche’s Theorem, series expansions, isolated singularities, calculus of residues, conformal mapping. Additional topics at the discretion of the instructor.Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM ; a proof-based course above 100 recommended
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH135 CM
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MATH 137 CM - Real Analysis I Abstract measures, Lebesque measure, on Rn, and Lebesgue-Stieljes measure on R. The Lebesgue integral and limit theorems. Product measures and the Fubini Theorem. Additional related topics as time permits. Offered jointly by CMC, Claremont Graduate University, and Pomona.
Prerequisites: MATH 131 CM and MATH 132 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH137 CM
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MATH 138 CM - Real Analysis II Continuation of MATH 137 CM . Some of the topics covered will be: Banach and Hilbert spaces, Lp spaces, complex measures, and Radon-Nikodym theorem. Offered jointly by CMC, Claremont Graduate University, and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 137 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH138 CM
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MATH 139 CM - Fourier Analysis Fourier series and integrals; questions of convergence, divergence and approximation; applications to differential equations, the Dirichlet problem, moment problems, signal processing, probability, and statistics.
Prerequisite: MATH 131 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH139 CM
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MATH 140 CM - Modern Geometry Geometry from a modern viewpoint. Euclidean geometry, discrete geometry, hyperbolic geometry, elliptical geometry, projective geometry, and fractal geometry. Additional topics may include algebraic varieties, differential forms, or Lie groups.
Prerequisites: MATH 032 CM and MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH140 CM
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MATH 149A CM - Algebraic Topology An introduction to algebraic topology. Basics of category theory, simplicial homology and cohomology, relative homology, exact sequences, Poincare duality, CW complexes, DeRahm cohomology, applications to knot theory.
Prerequisite: MATH 171 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH149A CM
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MATH 149B CM - Topics in Mathematics Topic varies by semester and instructor.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH149B CM
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MATH 151 CM - Probability Discrete and continuous random variables, conditional and marginal distributions, independence, expectations, generating functions, transformations, central limit theorem. Applications to the social and physical sciences. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Pre- or co-requisite: MATH 060 CM or instructor permission
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH151 CM
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MATH 152 CM - Statistical Inference An introduction to statistical inference. Topics may include sampling, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, graphical methods of data analysis using software, comparison of two samples by parametric and non-parametric methods, Bayesian methods, linear regression. The course will present the mathematical theory behind the techniques of statistical inference. At the same time, students will gain experience in applying the techniques to data sets drawn from real world examples. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 151 CM
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH152 CM
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MATH 156 CM - Stochastic Processes and Modeling Topics chosen from the theory of discrete and continuous Markov chains, second order processes, renewal processes, martingales, Brownian motion, branching processes, random sums, ergodic theory, and stationary processes. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 151 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH156 CM
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MATH 158 CM - Applied Statistics An introduction to basic probability theory and the techniques for statistical inference. The course will be developed from problems and data sets provided by business, industry and government. Data sets will be analyzed in terms of standard techniques including data analysis, point and interval estimation, and tests of hypotheses including goodness of fit tests. In accordance with the requirements of the data sets, further techniques will be selected from the general areas of non-parametric statistics, Bayesian statistics, and analysis of variance. Statistical software packages will be used.
Prerequisite: MATH 031 CM or instructor permission
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH158 CM
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MATH 160 CM - Monte Carlo Methods This course introduces concepts and statistical techniques that are critical to constructing and analyzing effective simulations, and discusses certain applications for simulation and Monte Carlo methods. Topics include random number generation, simulation-based optimization, model building, bias-variance trade-off, input selection using experimental design, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and numerical integration.
Prerequisite: MATH 151 CM
Offered: Every other fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH153 CM
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MATH 163 CM - Applied Numerical Analysis Introduction to numerical methods and computer implementation. Direct and Iterative solvers for linear equations. Root finding techniques for nonlinear equations. Interpolation by polynomials, and cubic splines. Numerical differentiation and divided differences, Quadrature rules and numerical integration. Explicit and implicit methods for ordinary differential equations. Single-step and multisteps methods for ordinary differential equations. Consistency, stability, and convergence.
Prerequisites: MATH 060 CM and MATH 111 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH163 CM
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MATH 168 CM - Wavelets and Their Applications An introduction to wavelet analysis with applications. Wavelets are an important tool in modern signal and image processing as well as other areas of applied mathematics. The main objective of this course is to develop the theory behind wavelets and similar constructions.Theoretical topics may include Fourier analysis, the discrete and continuous wavelet transform, Shannon’s Sampling Theorem, statistical studies of wavelet signal extraction, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Application based topics may include wavelet based compression, signal processing methods, communications, and sensing mechanisms where wavelets play a crucial role.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH168 CM
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MATH 171 CM - Abstract Algebra An introduction to the fundamental structures of abstract algebra, including groups, rings, fields, vector spaces, and modules; polynomial and field extensions. Applications to number theory will be presented. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH171 CM
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MATH 172 CM - Abstract Algebra II: Galois Theory This course is a continuation of MATH 171 CM , covering selected topics in the theories of groups, rings, fields, and modules with a specific emphasis on Galois Theory. Topics covered will include polynomial rings, field extensions, splitting fields, algebraic closure, separability, Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory, Galois groups of polynomials, and solvability.
Prerequisite: MATH 171 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH172 CM
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MATH 173 CM - Advanced Linear Algebra Possible topics include: The spectral theorem for Hermitian matrices and normal operators, Canonical forms, QR factorization and least squares, Singular value decomposition, Calculus of vector and matrix valued functions, Matrix inequalities and positive matrices, Convexity and the duality theorem, Iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH173 CM
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MATH 175 CM - Number Theory Properties of integers, congruences, Diophantine problems, quadratic reciprocity, number theoretic functions, primes. Offered jointly by CMC and Pomona.
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH175 CM
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MATH 180 CM - Partial Differential Equations Fourier Series, Fourier Transforms, Distributions. Partial Differential Equations: Heat, Wave, Laplace’s, Transport, Schrödinger, Black-Scholes. Reaction-diffusion equations, solitons, and numerical methods.
Prerequisites: MATH 060 CM and MATH 111 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH180 CM
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MATH 187 CM - Deterministic Methods in Operations Research Linear, integer, nonlinear, and dynamic programming. Applications to transportation problems, inventory analysis, classical optimization problems, and network analysis, including project planning and control. Cooperative course offered jointly by CMC, Claremont Graduate University, Harvey Mudd, and Pomona.
Prerequisites: MATH 032 CM and MATH 060 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH187 CM
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MATH 188 CM - Mathematics of Game Theory Games in extensive form, combinatorial games, strategic equilibrium, matrix games, and minimax theorem, computation of optimal strategies, cooperative and non-cooperative solutions of bi-matrix games, coalitional games and the core, indices of power, bargaining set, nonatomic games. Not open to students who have completed ECON 129 CM .
Prerequisite: MATH 060 CM ; MATH 151 CM recommended
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH188 CM
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MATH 195 CM - Advanced Topics in Mathematics This course is devoted to exploring topics of current interest to faculty and students.
MATH 172 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: MATH195 CM
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MATH 199 CM - Independent Study in Mathematics or Computer Science Students who have the necessary qualifications and wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: MATH199 CM
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MS 080 AA - Video and Diversity An introductory level course exploring video as a medium, particularly as it is utilized by women, people of color, lesbians and gays, grassroots activists, as well as other peoples who are under- and/or mis-represented by dominant media. This class explores independent video production from historical as well as issue-oriented approaches. The history of video technology, from analog to digital, is studied with a focus on developments that made video an accessible and powerful tool for self-expression and political intervention. Issues around gender, race, class, and sexual politics are examined in relation to works from the above-mentioned communities. Modes of work by individual makers and collectives are presented as case studies in how multiple issues can be addressed through singular oeuvres.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MS 080 AA
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MS 100 AA - Asian Americans in the Media This is a historical survey of Asian American involvement in media production, beginning with the Silent Film Era and ending with contemporary projects in film, video, and new media. In this course, we will focus on the shifting yet continuous participation of Asians in the production of media in North America and look at how changing political, social, and cultural discourses have shaped media representations of Asians throughout this period.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MS 100 AA
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MSL 001A CM - Analysis of Key 20th-Century Battles Once a basic understanding of America’s current National Security Strategy and doctrinal war fighting principles is established, students will analyze selected battles in World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, the Viet Nam Conflict, and the Middle East (Operations Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom). Analysis will focus on the decisions made by commanders, forces employed, strategies used, intelligence available and acted on, material and technology employed, and logistics challenges. Extensive student discussion is included in each class meeting.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 001A CM
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MSL 089 CM - Riflery and Orienteering The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of safe rifle/pistol marksmanship and to instruct and practice using a map and compass to navigate between two checkpoints along an unfamiliar course. This course will give beginners an awareness of firearms safety and an appreciation for the sport of shooting and instruction and application of basic foot navigation skills. Physical Education (PE) credit.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0
Course Number: MSL 089 CM
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MSL 099 CM - Army Physical Training Program This course is designed on the Army’s current physical fitness training philosophy of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition training. It includes a wide variety of events, to include: unit distance runs and ability groups, circuit training, upper and lower body strength drills, swimming, and road marching. The course helps to instill the fundamentals of conditioning and expose students to a variety of conditioning drills that can be incorporated into an individual fitness program for life. Additionally, the course teaches team building and esprit de corps utilizing standard Army training doctrine. Physical Education (PE) credit.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0
Course Number: MSL 099 CM
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MSL 101A CM - The Basics of Leadership A This course introduces students to the personal challenges and competencies that are critical for effective leadership. Students learn how the personal development of life skills such as critical thinking, goal setting, time management, physical fitness, and stress management relates to leadership, officership, and the Army profession. The focus is on developing basic knowledge and comprehension of Army leadership dimensions while gaining a big picture understanding of the ROTC program, its purpose in the Army, and its advantages for the student. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0
Course Number: MSL 101A CM
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MSL 101B CM - Introduction to Military Operations and Leadership B This course overviews leadership fundamentals such as setting direction, problem-solving, listening, presenting briefs, providing feedback, and using effective writing skills. Students explore dimensions of leadership values, attributes, skills, and actions in the context of practical, hands-on, and interactive exercises. Instructor role models and the building of stronger relationships among the students through common experience and practical interaction are critical aspects of the course. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0
Course Number: MSL 101B CM
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MSL 102A CM - Introduction to Military Operations and Leadership A This course explores the dimensions of creative and innovative tactical leadership strategies and styles by examining team dynamics and two historical leadership theories that form the basis of the Army leadership framework. Students practice aspects of personal motivation and team building in the context of planning, executing, and assessing team exercises and participating in leadership labs. Focus is on continued development of the knowledge of leadership values and attributes through an understanding of Army rank, structure, and duties, and basic aspects of land navigation and squad tactics. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 102A CM
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MSL 102B CM - Introduction to Military Operations and Leadership B This course examines the challenges of leading tactical teams in the COE. The course highlights dimensions of terrain analysis, patrolling, and operation orders. Further study of the theoretical basis of the Army leadership framework explores the dynamics of adaptive leadership in the context of military operations. It provides a smooth transition into MSL 103A CM and MSL 103B CM . Students develop greater self awareness as they assess their own leadership styles and practice communication and team building skills. COE case studies give insight into the importance and practice of teamwork and tactics in real world scenarios. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 102B CM
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MSL 103A CM - Intermediate Leadership and Management A This course challenges students to study, practice, and evaluate adaptive leadership skills as they are presented with challenging scenarios related to squad tactical operations. Students receive systematic and specific feedback on their leadership attributes and actions. Based on such feedback, as well as their own self-evaluations, students continue to develop their leadership and critical thinking abilities. The focus is developing students’ tactical leadership abilities to enable them to succeed at ROTC’s summer Leadership Development and Assessment Course (LDAC). Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Prerequisite: MSL 102B CM or permission of instructor.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 103A CM
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MSL 103B CM - Intermediate Leadership and Management B This course uses increasingly intense situational leadership challenges to build student awareness and skills in leading small units. Skills in decision-making, persuading, and motivating team members when “under fire” are explored, evaluated, and developed. Aspects of military operations are reviewed as a means of preparing for the ROTC Leader Development and Assessment Course (LDAC). Students are expected to apply basic principles of the Law of Land Warfare, Army training, and motivation to troop leading procedures. Students are evaluated on what they know and do as leaders. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Prerequisite: MSL 103A CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 103B CM
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MSL 104A CM - Advanced Leadership and Management A This course develops student proficiency in planning, executing, and assessing complex operations, functioning as a member of a staff, and providing performance feedback to subordinates. Students assess risk, make ethical decisions, and lead fellow students. Lessons on military justice and personnel processes prepare students to make the transition to Army officers. Students analyze, evaluate, and instruct students in other Military Science and Leadership courses. Both their classroom and battalion leadership experiences are designed to prepare students for their first unit of assignment. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Prerequisites: MSL 103B CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 104A CM
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MSL 104B CM - Advanced Leadership and Management B This course explores the dynamics of leading in the complex situations of current military operations in the COE. Students examine differences in customs and courtesies, military law, principles of war, and rules of engagement in the face of international terrorism. They also explore aspects of interacting with nongovernmental organizations, civilians on the battlefield, and host nation support. The course places significant emphasis on preparing students for their first unit of assignment in the Army. Leadership lab and MSL 099 CM are required for all cadets.
Prerequisite: MSL 104A CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MSL 104B CM
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MUS 003 SC - Fundamentals of Music In this course the student learns elementary concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, and notation. Basic principles of sight-singing and reading music are included. No previous musical experience is required.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: MUS 003 SC
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MUS 062 PO - Survey of American Music See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: MUS 062 PO
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MUS 081 SC - Introduction to Music: Sound and Meaning This course explores important works of western music from diverse historical epochs through listening and selected readings. Elements of music, basic music terminology, and notation are discussed. Attention is given to the relation of the arts - especially music - to culture and society.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1.0
Course Number: MUS 081 SC
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MUS 126 SC - Music in East Asia and its American Diaspora This course introduces the “traditional” music of China, Korea, and Japan and explores the ways in which traditional performing arts have been transformed, adapted, and given new meanings in these modern nation-states and the East Asian diasporic communities of the United States. A survey of these musical traditions will be followed by a closer study of pungmul, kabuki, taiko, Chinese opera, and pansori.
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: MUS 126 SC
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MUS 173A JM - Concert Choir A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Advanced singers may also participate in Chamber Singers group. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 173A JM
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MUS 173B JM - Concert Choir A study through rehearsal and performance of choral music selected from the 16th century to the present, with an emphasis on larger, major works. Advanced singers may also participate in Chamber Singers group. This course is for FR and SO.
Prerequisite: Audition
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: MUS 173B JM
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