2011-2013 Catalog (without addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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A Brief Guide to Course Descriptions
Each program described in this catalog contains detailed descriptions of the courses offered within the program.
The first line gives the official course number for which students must register and the official course title. The letters indicate the discipline of the course and the first number of the official course numbers indicates the level of the course. The levels are as follows:
- 1XXX - Freshman Level
- 2XXX - Sophomore Level
- 3XXX - Junior Level
- 4XXX - Senior Level
- 5XXX to 9XXX - Graduate level
Typically the last number of the course number indicates the number of credits. The breakdown of periods of the course is also listed.
The paragraph description briefly indicates the contents and coverage of the course. A detailed course syllabus may be available by request from the office of the offering department.
“Prerequisites” are courses (or their equivalents) that must be completed before registering for the described course. “Co-requisites” are courses taken concurrently with the described course.
The notation “Also listed…” indicates that the course is also given under the number shown. This means that two or more departments or programs sponsor the described course and that students may register under either number, usually the one representing the student’s major program. Classes are jointly delivered. |
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PS 2723 Human Factors in Engineering Design 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with basic concepts, research findings and theories related to the way in which human characteristics, capabilities and limitations, including physiology and psychology, affect system design and performance. Students will develop a basic understanding of methods for studying and assessing human behavior and for analyzing human performance. It will introduce aspects of system, interface, organizational design and physical setting as they influence operators and performance.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3603 Psychology of Internet Security 3 Credits
This course looks at the relationship between psychology and online security. How do computer hackers access secure computers strictly by asking people for their password? What are the key features of current security messages and how can they be made more explicit so the average computer user can understand them? What social-psychology principles are required for a secure network? And what perceptual issues help secure a computer network?
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 STS cluster course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3693 Humor and Modern Media 3 Credits
Humor is considered one of the most pleasurable positive emotions. The questions asked will include: What makes something funny? Why do people find someone falling down funny in one culture and tragic in another? What are the cross-cultural implications of humor and how have they been affected by a global worldview? How has the Internet changed our view of humor, now that technologies like YouTube make it possible for anyone to be a director or cinematographer with a worldwide audience? Topics will include psychoanalysis; superiority; reversal theories of humor; the psychology and psychobiology of humor; and humor, laughter and mental health.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3723 Psychology of Sustainability 3 Credits
This course addresses the psychological bases of environmental problems, investigates theories of behavior change as they relate to environmental issues and introduces practical strategies to foster behavior change. Topics include the ways in which the fit (or lack of it) of design to human behavior can affect environmentally relevant behaviors, such as energy use and recycling. Course issues include designing green buildings and creating sustainable communities.
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 PS course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3743 Psychology of Transportation 3 Credits
The human element is the central focus of all transit systems. How users respond to a transportation system ultimately determines its success or failure. Psychological and behavioral issues range from the small scale (ergonomics of signal and platform design; design that causes slips, trips and falls), to the psychological and psycho-physiological (such as commuter stress), through large-scale implementation (mode choice, social impacts of highways or transit lines).
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 PS course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3753 Psychology of Living in Extreme Environments 3 Credits
This course considers issues, research and theory in relation to creating human habitats in extreme space, undersea and polar regions. The course reviews firsthand experiences and formal studies of life in these settings, and extrapolates from work in other, less extreme human settings. Psychological issues include privacy, territoriality, isolation and crowding, light and views of nature, as well as personality and organizational issues. Students complete a research paper and engage in a team-design project.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3813 Social Psychology of Virtual Worlds 3 Credits
This course explores human relations in the virtual world. Do real-world interactions maintain themselves in an online community, or do the rules of social interaction change significantly in a virtual environment? When people perceive themselves as being anonymous, do they feel the same responsibility for their own behavior, or do they interact with others differently as they would in the real world? This course examines the psychology of online, virtual relationships with a view to compare and contrast them with real-world relationships.
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 PS course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 3833 Special Topics in Psychology 3 Credits
This course discusses new or experimental topics in psychology offered by current or visiting faculty.
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 PS course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 4443 Guided Readings in Psychology 3 Credits
The course focuses on selected problems in psychology. Faculty members supervise students in pre-arranged individual or group studies/projects involving guided reading or research. This course is for mature students who undertake specialized independent study under tutorial guidance.
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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PS 9053 Psychology: Applied 3 Credits
This course demonstrates how various problems, particularly in work, can be solved through the judicious use of psychological principles. Phenomena addressed include human-machine interaction and other engineering-behavior interactions, smoking, study habits, memory, creative thinking, group interaction, raising children, influencing people, self control and specific problems brought up in class by students. Students learn to employ behavioral analysis to understand various problems. Students select a problem, perform behavioral analysis and modify it as a class project.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9063 Human Cognition and Information Processing 3 Credits
This course covers human cognitive capabilities, including natural language and information processing. Topics: Memory, internal representation of knowledge, concept information, symbol manipulation, language acquisition, reasoning and problem solving. Artificial intelligence approaches to natural language learning and acquisition of cognitive skills.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9073 Human-Computer Interaction 3 Credits
This course introduces students to human behavioral issues in designing and using interfaces for information systems. Basic issues of behavioral research and evaluation methods are discussed. Sensory systems and memory and learning theory relevant to human factors systems are reviewed and related to specific interface issues, such as interaction devices, dialogue design and reference material. The focus is on understanding the issues involved in creating systems amenable to human use.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9083 Research Methods 3 Credits
This course examines theory and methods of sensory-functions measurement in human and animal subjects. Topics: Examination of the concept of the threshold and problems of its measurement. Investigation of learning— motor and verbal, simple and complex— including problem solving and creative thinking. Students perform a series of experiments with human and animal subjects.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9093 Experimental Psychology 3 Credits
The course explores experimental and descriptive methods, including quasi-experimental design and large-scale survey techniques used by social, environmental and developmental psychologists to assess human behaviors in laboratory and natural settings. The course focuses on laboratory and observational methods used to assess environmental effects, attitude measurement, social impact assessment and theory and psychometric bases of normal personality development and assessment.
Prerequisite(s): PS 9083 or consent of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9103 Theories of Learning 3 Credits
The course looks at programmed learning, behavior therapy, attitude function and social interaction. All students are required to perform one experiment on learning under instructor guidance. Available to undergraduate majors in social science.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9113 Psychology of Language and Communication 3 Credits
The course deals with methodological problems in analysis of language, verbal behavior in animals, anatomical and physiological aspects of speech apparatus, operant and respondent conditioning of verbal behavior, semantics, statistical approaches and mathematical models, contextual factors and pathology of speech. All students are required to perform one experiment under guidance of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9123 Sensation and Perception 3 Credits
This course reviews different sensory systems: vision, audition, taste, smell, touch, temperature sensitivity, vestibular and kinesthetic senses and their relations to nonsensory controlling stimuli such as states of the organism, learning and social psychological variables. Topics: Techniques for obtaining psychophysical data on each sensory system and relations of these techniques to theories of discrimination. Available to undergraduate majors in social science.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9133 Physiological Psychology 3 Credits
The course covers physiological and anatomical bases of behavior. Topics: Memory, motivation, emotion, sleep reward mechanisms, psychosurgery and higher cortical functions.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9153 Behavioral and Societal Aspects of Transportation 3 Credits
This course explores behavioral analyses of transportation decision-making and travel characteristics. Topics: User needs in design of transportation systems: crowding, social isolation, crime, comfort and convenience. Social impact of transport systems on communities.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9203 Seminar in Psychology 3 Credits
This seminar discusses major areas of psychology required of all MS candidates. Topics: History and systems, sensation and perception, learning, developmental and abnormal.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9253 Social Impact Assessment 3 Credits
This seminar discusses major areas of psychology required of all MS candidates. Topics: History and systems, sensation and perception, learning, developmental and abnormal.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9263 Environmental Psychology 3 Credits
The course covers theory and methods of measuring sensory functions in human and animal subjects. Topics: Examination of the concept of the threshold and problems of its measurement. Investigation of learning— motor and verbal, simple and complex— including problem solving and creative thinking. Students perform a series of experiments with human and animal subjects.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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PS 9283 Advanced Topics in Environmental Psychology 3 Credits
This course varies from year to year depending on the needs and interests of students and instructors. Potential subjects include social impact of transportation systems; stress and the environment; aversive environmental factors; laboratory assessment of environmental effects on animal learning; effects of pollution; human factors of software design; assessing the built environment, including the office; and applied behavioral analysis. The course may be repeated for total of up to nine credits.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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Registrar |
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RE 9990 PhD Examination 0 Credits
PhD students register for this course in any semester in which a PhD qualifying exam is taken. This course carries no credit, and the student incurs no fees. It provides a place in the student’s official transcript to record when the qualifying exam was taken and the result.
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Science and Technology |
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STS 241x Special Topic in STS Variable. Credits
Variable credit special topic in Science and Technology Studies. Topic to be decided by instructor.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 340x Independent Study in STS Variable. Credits
Variable credit independent study in Science and Technology Studies. Topic to be decided by instructor.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 Humanities and Social Sciences Elective from the STS Cluster and instructor’s permission.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 341x Special Topic in STS Variable. Credits
Variable credit special topic in Science and Technology Studies. Topic to be decided by instructor.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective and instructor’s permission.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2003/W Science, Technology, and Society 3 Credits
This course introduces students to important issues, historical and contemporary, related to science and technology from a variety of social, political, and philosophical viewpoints. We shall use a multidisciplinary approach to understand the interaction between science, technology and society and to discover the conditions that foster technological innovation. The scientific and technological way of thinking will become clear through historical examples, helping us to consider important issues of science and technology policy, such as how science and technology can be used to benefit society and how one can foster innovation in a society or an organization.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2113/W History and Philosophy of Internet Technology 3 Credits
This course investigates implementations of internet technologies. We will examine the founding premises of the internet, uncovering the assumptions about culture, policy objectives, and ideals of practitioners, both before and after the worldwide web. The course investigates typical claims about the internet, such as its capability to inculcate democracy, and also the development of the attendant hardware and software infrastructure.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2123/W Digital Humanities 3 Credits
What happens to works of the humanities when they are distributed electronically and created on computers? What values from the analog humanities should be preserved in the digital world? This course examines traditional works of literature available in electronic formats as well as digital-only creations.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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STS 2133W Perspectives on Science and Technology Reporting 3 Credits
The effective communication of scientific and technological ideas is essential in a society and culture as influenced by science and technology as our own. At some point in their careers, scientists and engineers will be called on to convey technical concepts and ideas to each other, to government agencies, to private corporations, and to the public at large. These job functions are required for various reasons, including: (1) to support the marketing and public relations efforts of a company, (2) to provide the latest state-of-the-art information for the benefit of peers working in a specific industry and (3) to demonstrate to shareholders and customers the achievements attained in the corporation’s research and development laboratories. Moreover, non-experts in technical fields may be called on to participate in these and similar discussions. This course addresses these issues by having students study, research and write articles about three technologies where R&D activity is proceeding at a rapid pace: telecommunications, plastics materials development and processing, and energy.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2143 Public Policy Issues in Telecommunications 3 Credits
This course addresses the myriad public policy issues arising from the phenomenal growth of the telecommunications industry, especially in light of convergence and the fierce competition that it has spawned over the past decade. Among the most pressing issues of the day are networking neutrality, Internet censorship, privacy, standardization, the enforcement powers of the FCC, workplace monitoring, and spectrum allocation. In addition, the course will introduce the student to the basic concepts of the technology, provide a historical perspective of the industry (with an emphasis on the cataclysmic chain of events set off by the Modified Final Judgment in 1983 that led to the break-up of AT&T), and explore trends. As a major requirement, students will be asked to give oral and written presentations on a major international or domestic public policy issue currently besetting this industry.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2153 Addressing Public Policy Issues in the Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 3 Credits
This course explores public-policy issues on critical and often controversial questions in science (e.g., cap-and-trade, global warming, LEDs as lighting sources, biofuels, spectrum allocation), medicine (e.g., embryonic stemcell research, national health care, genetic therapy, workplace risks of nanotechnology), and technology (e.g., off-shore drilling, biotechnology, clean coal, nuclear energy, “smart” power). Students will select areas in which to specialize and will be required to submit a white paper on one of these major issues. The report will be based on library research and face-to-face interviews with experts in the field. As students draft sections of their white papers, they will submit them for class discussion and they will meet periodically with the instructor to review their progress.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2163/W Science Fiction 3 Credits
A distinct genre of literature emerges during the twentieth century that imagines new possibilities and challenges for human society in light of scientific and technological change. This course reviews important authors of this field, considering whether science fiction can be an agent of social change and how well it can critique or imagine the interaction between science, technology, and society.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2223 Medical Ethics 3 Credits
This course is concerned with the many ethical issues that arise in the field of medicine, issues such as: patient autonomy, informed consent, experimentation on live subjects, confidentiality, truth telling, conflict of interest and the treatment of relatives. We will also study moral issues pertaining to new medical techniques such as online medicine and prenatal genetic screening. These issues will be approached via an understanding of important historical, legal and philosophical foundations of medical ethics. We will study ideas from the Hippocratic Oath and Islamic, Jewish and Christian traditions up to the codes of today’s ethics review boards. Important legal issues explored involve the right to healthcare, the obligation of parents to seek proper medical care for their children and euthanasia. Some of the important ethical-philosophical notions studied will be: the law of double effect, the obligation of beneficence and non-malevolence, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics. While this course is open to all majors, it’s specific aim is to prepare the future medical practitioner to understand and deal with the various moral challenges of the profession.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: EN 1013 or EW 1013, and HUSS 1023 or EW 1023.
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STS 2233W Magic, Medicine, and Science 3 Credits
This course looks at the metaphysical and epistemological origins of three systems of thought - the organic, the magical, and the mechanical - and considers the extent to which modern science can be seen as arising from their synthesis. Topics include Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, the Hermetic Corpus, Ficino’s naturalistic magic, Pico’s supernatural magic, Paracelsus and the ontic theory of disease, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, the Cambridge Platonists, and Newton.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2253/W Biology and Society 3 Credits
This course explores the relationship between the biological sciences and society from Enlightenment France to the Human Genome Project and biotechnology in the United States. Ever since the Enlightenment, the study of nature has played an ever-increasing role in shaping social issues. For example, we shall exam the roles played by gender, social class, and natural theology in eighteenth-century classifications of plants and animals. We shall also investigate how biologists and anthropologists drew upon rather ambiguous notions of nature to classify humans into races. We shall then trace Darwin’s theory of evolution and how it shaped, and was shaped by, socio-economic, political, and religious views. We shall discuss the depressing history of eugenics in Britain and the U.S. We shall conclude by provocatively asking if there is a link between eugenics and the Human Genome Project. We shall also see how economics, politics, and religion have shaped biotechnology and human-embryonic-stemcell research. The student is invited to think about the way in which debates concerning “nature versus nurture” have been framed historically, in order to understand current controversies over that distinction.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2263W The Rhetoric of Science 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric - the art and craft of persuasion. Specifically, this class focuses on the ways that scientists use various methods of persuasion as they construct scientific knowledge. By first examining the nature of science and rhetoric, we will then examine texts written by scientists and use rhetorical theory to analyze those texts. We will look at the professional scientific research articles and other genres of scientific writing. Finally, we’ll investigate the way that rhetoric plays a role in the everyday life of scientists. Throughout the class, we will wrestle with questions, such as: How is science rhetorical?; What can rhetorical analysis tell us about the ways that scientists use persuasion?; and, How might rhetorical analysis limit our understanding of science?
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2273W Science and Sexuality 3 Credits
This course explores and analyzes the constructions of sexuality in the biological, social, and medical sciences, focusing on issues in evolutionary biology, endocrinology, neuroscience, psychiatry, comparative anatomy, and genetics. Throughout the semester, we shall compare the various meanings given to sexuality across disciplinary frameworks, paying attention to the increasingly unstable relationships between the categories of fiction and science, reproduction and sexuality, nature and culture, male and female, animal and human, and hetero- and homosexuality. We shall also assess how expert scientific discourses influence popular understandings of sexuality and vice versa. Specifically, we will examine how they contribute to the normalization and official regulation of certain kinds of behavior, how they satisfy a desire for stories about human origins, and how they fashion terms of attraction, repulsion, affection, antagonism, dominance, and submission according to which sexuality is putatively expressed.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2313 It’s About Time 3 Credits
From looking at our watch and noting the change from day to night and counting the days, months and years, time seems so mundane that we take it for granted and usually think little more about it. But what is time and why do we measure it so obsessively and with such precision? This course will concern itself with all aspects of time, from the evolution of calendars (including our own) to precision timepieces and our own internal clocks. And finally, the nature of time itself and its relationship to space and other aspects of our universe will be discussed. This course will draw on knowledge from history, anthropology, psychology, technology, astronomy and physics to gain an understanding of this very basic “dimension”.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2323 Dinosaurs: Resurrecting an Extinct Species 3 Credits
Large fossil bones have fascinated people since ancient times, and after 1842 some of these fossils were described as belonging to the taxum Dinosauria. Since then, new discoveries and scientific techniques have led to a series of changes in both the views of scientists and the public as to what dinosaurs were, what groups they were related to, and how they behaved and interacted with their environments. This course will look at the views of fossils in ancient Greece and Rome, and also in some modern tribal societies. Most emphasis will be on the changing views of paleontology, geology, biology and evolution from the Enlightenment period to the present. All major dinosaur groups will be discussed, as well as their physiology, relationships to other animals, behavior and ecology, as scientific ideas evolve and new discoveries are made. Finally, how scientists reconstruct dinosaurs through images, sculpture and mountings for the public and popular culture’s fascination with dinosaurs will be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2333 Evolution 3 Credits
This course discusses the development of the theory of evolution based on the amassed evidence from the geological and biological sciences over the past two hundred years. Darwin’s idea that natural selection was the driving force behind evolution will be considered in detail. Early rival theories to Darwin’s ideas will also be discussed as part of the process leading to the modern theory. The integration into the theory of genetics and molecular biology have led to a much deeper understanding of how organisms are related. The role of chance factors will also be considered. Application of evolution theory to problems in economic biology and modern medicine and epidemiology will also be discussed. Finally, current controversies regarding Intelligent Design will be addressed and put into a historical context.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 2343 Imaging the Past 3 Credits
Images of prehistoric landscapes, creatures and human cultures abound in our society. This course will discuss the scientific bases for reconstructing prehistoric environments and cultures. Information derived from field work in geology, paleontology and archaeology - stratigraphy, fossils, mineralogy and human artifacts - is used to piece together an ancient landscape and its life. The use of modern chemical and isotopic techniques to establish paleoclimates and water conditions will be described. Information from taxonomy, biomechanics, and comparative anatomy, physiology and genetics can “flesh out” the appearance and lifestyles of extinct groups. Equally important, is how this scientific information is transformed into images, sculpture, dioramas and digital information that can physically visualize past life, culture and environments. The history of such depictions and the scientific techniques that have produced them will be discussed in some detail.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3003/W Seminar in Science and Technology Studies 3 Credits
This course considers the current state of the field of Science and Technology Studies. Students are exposed to the range and methods of STS as well as their own place within the field. The course is designed specifically to bring students with different academic backgrounds into contact with each other in a classroom setting.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3013 Directed Study in STS 3 Credits
Directed study under supervision of faculty adviser in Humanities and Social Sciences. Students are exposed to foundational research techniques under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Library research, written and oral reports required.
Prerequisite(s): STS 2003/W and permission of STS faculty adviser.
Note: Does not satisfy a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3163 Science and Technology in the Literary Sphere 3 Credits
How does literature seek to accommodate new ideas from science? When do new technologies find their way into the public sphere? What happens when scientists and engineers translate their findings into novels or other narratives? This course reads literature as evidence of the diffusion of technological and scientific ideas. When literary forms are used to promote, challenge, or even misrepresent scientific or technical developments, we gain insight into the interaction between scientists, engineers, and society at large. This course may be organized around different themes, but it always explores how scientific and technological ideas fare in the republic of letters.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3173 Hypermedia in Context 3 Credits
This course investigates precursors to new media, revealing the possibilities and limitations of today’s incarnations. Searching analog media for examples of supposedly new technologies like associative thinking, multimedia, and participatory design, we will examine the social and economic structures that allow for such tools to arise and to determine what exactly is new in new media. Further, we consider how we can use the concept of antecedent to critique present manifestations of media and how we can incorporate ideas from the past into the present while avoiding homologies.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3243W Humans, Machines, and Aesthetics 3 Credits
This seminar proffers a glimpse into the historically contingent relationships between machines and humans from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution. We shall underscore the ways in which those interactions helped define aesthetics, particularly in music. In a very real sense this course traces the history of creativity over the past three centuries.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 3263/W Science and Difference 3 Credits
This course critically examines the various frameworks through which science operates to construct difference in living populations. It analyzes the logistics of classification as they pertain to modern empirical science and situates classificatory practices in their historical and cultural contexts. Particular attention
is paid to the interplay between scientific research and historical episodes of cultural anxiety concerning the nature and significance of human differences based on race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster HuSS Elective, and EW 1023 or equivalent
Note: Satisfies a HuSS Elective
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STS 3263W Science and Difference 3 Credits
This course considers the historical development of the science of difference – in particular, race and gender – from the scientific revolution to the present. We seek to understand historical episodes of cultural anxiety over biological variation by examining the construction of difference in living populations. Topics include historical theories of human variation, scientific racism and its rejection, the history of ethnicity and sexuality, colonialism and eugenics.
Prerequisite(s): One Level 2 STS Cluster Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
Note: Satisfies a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 4003 Study Abroad 3 Credits
For STS majors only. Takes the form of either an internship or a semester studying abroad. Internship option: Supervised semester-long project carried out in a community or industry setting. Evaluated on the basis of written and oral reports presented to faculty and external project Co-sponsors. Students must maintain a course-load equivalent of 12 credits (including the 3 for STS 4003) during this semester. Study-Abroad option: Semester-long course of study at a foreign institution. Students must maintain a course-load equivalent of 12 credits (including the 3 for STS 4003) during this semester.
Prerequisite(s): Junior/Senior status and permission of STS faculty adviser.
Note: Does not satisfy a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 4014 Capstone Project 4 Credits
This is a research project under the supervision of an STS faculty adviser. Library research, written and oral reports are required.
Prerequisite(s): Senior status, permission of STS faculty adviser, STS 2003/W , STS 3003/W , and STS 3013 .
Note: Does not satisfy a Humanities and Social Sciences Elective.
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STS 4401 Independent Study in Science and Technology Studies 1 Credits
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SEG 291x Special Topics in Society, Environment and Globalization Variable Credits
This course looks at selected topics and issues concerning human society, the environment or globalization at the 2000 level.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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SEG 391x Special Topics in Society, Environment and Globalization Variable Credits
This course covers selected topics and issues concerning human society, the environment or globalization at the 3000 level.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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SEG 491x Special Topics in Society, Environment and Globalization 3 Credits
This course looks at selected topics and issues concerning human society, the environment or globalization at the 4000 level.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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SEG 2183/W Beyond Oil: Fueling Tomorrow’s Vehicles 3 Credits
This course explores the alternatives to oil that vehicle manufacturers are pursuing in their desire to wean away from oil and its mercurial price swings. Students will be required to choose two of these alternative approaches and prepare white papers on each, covering the technology, advantages, limitations or drawbacks, cost saving, environmental impact and likelihood of success in the market place. The focus will be on biofuels, hybrids, the fuel cell, natural gas, hydrogen, the electric car.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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SEG 2193/W Writing About Nature and the Environment 3 Credits
In this course, students explore today’s major environmental and ecological issues and write a number of pieces that discuss causes and possible solutions. Each article is based on a literature search and on interviews with professionals. Class critiques of articles are an integral part of the learning process. Topics include global warming, renewable energy, health and the environment, environmental law and biodiversity. Authors of the best pieces are encouraged to submit them for publication.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
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SEG 3213 Sustainable Systems and the Natural History of Whaling 3 Credits
The Cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), including some of the largest animals ever known to have lived, have evolved many unusual structures, physiologies and social organizations. This course discusses Cetacean biology, including their ecological relationships and their social and migratory behaviors. The course covers the history of the whaling industry, ships, catching whales, processing them and shipping the products. The uses and markets for the products also are discussed. Topics include the global aspects of whale harvesting, the depletion of whale stocks, and attempts by governments and concerned groups to control and stop the hunting. Discussions include international frustrations over whaling-control bans—whales were part of the ocean “commons,” accessible to all nations. The course also looks at the seal-fur trade industry and fishing threats to the dolphin/porpoise population.
Prerequisite(s): One level 2 PS course.
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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TR 900x Readings in Transportation Variable Credits
This is an individually guided effort involving research into a topic of interest, usually growing from a course the student has taken. Readings courses should not duplicate material available in a regularly scheduled course, but should involve additional research on a topic or topics of interest to the student that is related to a course or courses. A formal written report is required. The student must have a faculty adviser who agrees to work with them and an agreed-upon topic before registering. The student may register for 1 to 3 credits for a readings effort, in proportion to the effort and as approved by the supervising instructor.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of supervising instructor.
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TR 997X MS Thesis in Transportation 3 Each Credits
Students electing to take a 6-credit MS Thesis commit to a significant individually guided research effort, resulting in a formally defended thesis report, bound in accordance with Institute requirements.
Prerequisite(s): MS degree status and permission of thesis adviser.
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TR 999X PhD Dissertation in Transportation Planning and Engineering Variable (24 Total) Credits
The dissertation is an original investigation embodying the results of comprehensive research in a specific area of transportation worthy of publication in a recognized, formally refereed transportation journal. Students must defend formally their dissertations and submit a bound written document. Students must complete a minimum of 24 credits of dissertation registration before defending. Once the dissertation is started, the student must maintain a minimum of 3 credits of registration during each semester (not including summer) until the dissertation is complete. During the last semester of registration, the student may be permitted to register for .5 credit with the permission of the Graduate Office and dissertation adviser.
Prerequisite(s): Passing grade for RE 9990 PhD Qualifying Exam, graduate standing, and dissertation advisor approval
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TR 6013 Fundamental Concepts in Transportation 3 Credits
This course provides the contextual foundations to study urban transportation systems, using performance criteria reflecting the perspectives of system providers/owners, users and communities. The connection between transportation supply, travel demand, service volume and level of service is explored and quantified for various travel modes. The impacts of transportation system performance on travel behavior, communities and the environment is discussed. The role of technology and institutions is examined with case examples.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate status or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6023 Analytic Methods in Transportation 3 Credits
This course introduces transportation students to a variety of analytic techniques as they are commonly applied to transportation issues. The course covers basic statistics and statistical analyses and their application to transportation studies, including traffic characteristics studies and survey instruments. Mathematical techniques for analyzing transportation queues are covered. Statistical tests for significance of improvement impacts are illustrated. Regression analysis applied to developing transportation models is covered. An introduction into traffic simulation is also given.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6113 Forecasting Urban Travel Demand 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to study methods and models used in estimating and forecasting person travel in urban areas. The objective is to understand the fundamental relationships between land use, transportation level of service and travel demand, and to apply methods and state-of-the-practice models for predicting person travel on the transportation system.
Pre/Co-requisite: TR 6013 or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6213 Transportation Economics and Finance 3 Credits
This course provides the basic principles of engineering economic analysis and their application to transportation projects. Half of the course covers the concepts of present worth, capital recovery, sinking funds and annual cost applied to economic comparisons and evaluations of alternatives. The second half of the course delves into financing transportation and how government policy on transportation affects the economy and environs at the local, state and federal levels. Historical perspectives on the financing of highway systems, public transportation systems and transportation agencies are presented. Other subjects include privatization, innovative financing methods, business plans.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6223 Intelligent Transportation Systems and Their Applications 3 Credits
This course introduces the concepts and applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and its growing role in the management of transportation systems. The course stresses the role of ITS as national policy, as specified in major transportation funding legislation – ISTEA, TEA21 and SAFETY-LU. A systems engineering approach to overall development of ITS technologies is stressed. Major components of ITS are discussed, and examples of their application treated. Coordination and integration of ITS components are treated.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6313 Traffic Control and Signalization I 3 Credits
Traffic controls are imposed to provide for safe, efficient and orderly movement of people and goods on our nation’s street and highway systems. Traffic control is examined in the urban context in which both vehicles and pedestrians be accommodated. Techniques for quantifying traffic stream behavior are described. Federal, state and local standards for designing and implementing control devices are presented. Selection of control measures, design and timing of traffic signals at individual intersections and in arterial networks is treated in detail. Use and application of current computer tools – HCS++ and Synchro – are illustrated.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 6323 Traffic Control and Signalization II 3 Credits
In furtherance of the material covered in TR 6313 , emphasis is on the arterial as a facility and on systems concepts such as traffic calming, access management and roundabouts as a design element. Also covered are network problems induced by traffic congestion and remedies such as critical intersection control, network metering, oversaturated control policies and real time sensing, and traffic impacts from growth and development, including assessment and mitigation. The course employs the use of modern tools, including VISSIM, Synchro/SIMTraffic and HCS++, and two projects must be completed by students working in teams. This course should be taken in the student’s last or penultimate semester.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6313 or equivalent and TR 6113 or equivalent.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7033 Transportation Safety and Security 3 Credits
Technology, legislation and market forces have contributed to improved transportation safety for decades. But one must consider which metrics are most relevant for which modes, the role of demographics and traffic levels and other factors when analyzing and predicting safety trends. The course pays attention to a systems view, to metrics by mode and to both standard field and statistical analyses. Consistent with current priorities, the course addresses security as well as safety issues.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7123 Transportation Planning and Congestion Management 3 Credits
This course provides a contextual understanding of urban transportation planning and its component activities. It helps students understand the enabling environment needed to sustain the planning process; to understand the causes of transportation congestion and its impacts on transportation users and communities; to set forth a vision for congestion management; and to develop and evaluate strategies and policies that achieve the vision.
Pre/Co-requisite: TR 6013 or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7133 Urban Public Transportation Systems 3 Credits
This course provides a thorough understanding of policy, planning, operational and technical issues that affect urban public transportation. It includes the historical development of cites and the rise of urban transport. Also covered are the characteristics of various urban transportation modes (their specific operating and infrastructure characteristics), as well as key elements that are critical to service provision, such as service planning, scheduling, fare collection, communication and signaling, station design and customer service. The course offers a broad perspective on regional planning, capital programming and policy matters. Special focus will be on emerging technologies and their practical applications.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7213 Transportation Management 3 Credits
This course presents an overview of the transportation management profession. Levels of management and unique objectives of management in the transportation sector are presented and discussed. Management structures for private and public transportation organizations are analyzed. Management practices are treated from the perspective of organizations, optimization of the use of public resources, legislative and legal contexts and operations.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7223 Management of Transit Maintenance and Operations 3 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of modern public transportation systems, emphasizing their technology and operational practices. Planning and management aspects are also covered. Such operational management issues as maintenance practices, scheduling, procurement and labor relations are broadly outlined and discussed. Planning and capital programming issues are also treated.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7243 Intelligent Transportation Systems: Deployments and Technologies 3 Credits
Transportation infrastructure deploys a wide range of modern technology to provide service to travelers, the general public and private entities. This technology enables other systems to function effectively and serve societal needs. This course focuses on data communications and applications in intelligent transportation systems: communications alternatives and analyses, emerging technologies, geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS).
Prerequisite(s): TR 6223 or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7323 Design of Parking and Terminal Facilities 3 Credits
This course covers design techniques and approaches to a variety of pedestrian and vehicular needs in conjunction with access to land functions. Parking serves as the primary access interface to many land facilities, from shopping centers and sports facilities, to medium- and high-density residential developments. The planning and design of parking facilities, and the planning of access and egress from these facilities, is critical to the economic success of a development. Terminals are inter-modal interface facilities involving the transfer of people and/or goods from one mode of transportation to another. This course covers essential elements of terminal planning and design, including transit stations and terminals, major goods terminals at ports and railheads and others. The design of pedestrian space and ways within terminal structures is also treated.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 or permission of adviser.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 7343 Urban Freeways and Intercity Highways 3 Credits
This course focuses on the design, analysis, control and management of urban freeways and intercity highways of all classes. The course covers geometric design standards and principals, the application of highway capacity and level of service analysis methodologies (including HCS++), marking and signing, speed control and modern freeway management systems and approaches.
Prerequisite(s): TR 6013 , TR 6313 , or equivalents, or permission of instructor.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 8013 Selected Topics in Transportation I 3 Credits
These courses are given as needed to present material on current topical subjects that are not expected to be given on a regular basis. The topic(s) for each offering are indicated and are listed on the student’s transcript. These courses may be taken more than once if the listed topics are different.
Prerequisite(s): and as approved for the topic(s); to be specified for each offering.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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TR 8023 Selected Topics in Transportation II 3 Credits
These courses are given as needed to present material on current topical subjects that are not expected to be given on a regular basis. The topic(s) for each offering are indicated and are listed on the student’s transcript. These courses may be taken more than once if the listed topics are different.
Prerequisite(s): and as approved for the topic(s); to be specified for each offering.
Weekly Lecture Hours: 3 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0
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URB 2023/W Design of Cities 3 Credits
This course helps students examine cities from different perspectives, and to understand the design principles that create effective city spaces and how the city is a dynamic force, always changing through the impact of individuals and organizations. The class focuses on the role of historical, physical and social context in making sense of cities and how city problems can be identified, presented to others and addressed in various ways (through psychological and sociological studies, literature, art, etc.). Students complete a team-based project that involves the study of an innovative development project within the city and how it relates to its physical and social context.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1013 , EW 1023 or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 2033 Humans in the Urban Environment 3 Credits
In an increasingly urban dominated world, the environmental and ecological underpinnings of the human species help us understand why and how permanent settlements and cities evolve. The course covers basic environmental and ecological relationships, including geological, climatological, biomes, population growth models and carrying capacity. Receiving special emphasis are those ecosystems most important to humans throughout prehistory and history. The development of agriculture, increased human resource productivity and the resulting increase in population density is discussed as an underlying basis for developing and maintaining urban population areas. Also included is a discussion of changes in human social organization and psychology necessary for urban living.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 2043 Methods for Studying Urban Environments 3 Credits
This course provides students with a foundation for understanding and using social science research methods to study urban environments. In this course, students will gain an understanding of quantitative and qualitative approaches to social science research. They will be introduced to a range of data collection methods that are used to study urban environments and also strategies for data analysis. The course will involve a group research project with a real world client, as well as lectures, discussions, a group presentation and paper, exams, readings and several assignments.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1013 and EW 1023 or equivalent
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URB 2053 Introduction to Urban Policy 3 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the process and some of the major substantive issues in urban policy and politics in the United States, with some transnational contrasts. These include some of the basic issues of any political system: how cities function as part of a global urban network; the structure of decisionmaking, the allocation of resources and delivery of services.
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URB 2223 Natural Environment of New York City 3 Credits
New York is one of the world’s great cities and, like others, rests on a foundation of the natural environment. The geology and geographic history of the greater New York area is discussed— from plate tectonic origins through the recent (and ongoing) Ice Age, including the formation of river systems and the port. Also considered in detail is the evolution of ecological relationships, including human, throughout this time. Other topics include the changing climate through past epochs as well as today and their impact on the modern city. Also covered are current environmental challenges, such as water supply and quality, air quality, waste disposal and global effects, including atmospheric and ocean warming.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 2233 Natural Environmental Catastrophes and Cities 3 Credits
Cities are extremely complex physical and human systems that can be severely disrupted by acute human-caused events such as war. However, the natural world can also have a severe impact on cities over brief intervals. This course concerns itself with four well-known phenomena that can and have influenced the development, sustainability and even the survival of cities. Meteorological catastrophes, such as hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons, are discussed in detail. Also covered are less violent but equally destructive flooding by river and ocean; earthquake damage and its relationship to population density and the permanence of towns and cities throughout history; and volcanic eruptions, which, though rare, have disrupted cities and determined their initial locations. Finally, biological catastrophes, both macro and micro, such as pestilence and infestations, are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Notes: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3013 Directed Study in SUE 3 Credits
Directed study supervised by a faculty adviser in Humanities and Social Sciences. Students, guided by a faculty adviser, are exposed to foundational research techniques. Library research, written and oral reports are required.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W , and permission of SUE faculty adviser.
Note: Does not satisfy a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3033 Evidence-Based Design 3 Credits
Designers—at the product, building, neighborhood or urban level—necessarily base their work on the perceived needs and desires of users and clients. Historically, these understandings have come from past practice, close interactions with clients or designer intuition. In recent years, however, design researchers have accumulated enough information to provide an empirical base upon which to base many design decisions. This class reviews the evidence for design, particularly as it relates to well-studied settings, such as health care, corrections and neighborhood design.
Prerequisite(s): EW 1023 or EN 1233W or EN 1203H .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3113 Case Studies in Sustainability (Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica) 3 Credits
Today, many societies are addressing whether their lifestyles and standard of living are environmentally sustainable or not. This course examines a few societies, some now much changed from what they once were, that also faced such questions. Ancient Egypt, arguably Earth’s oldest civilization, developed along the Nile River. The agricultural surpluses supported a large population and freed many from farming to be artisans, clerks, lawyers, soldiers and rulers. This course describes the rise and flourishing of ancient Egypt and its social relationships, culture and customs. It also covers the rise of Egyptian cities, warfare and empire building. In contrast, the Mayans of Central America produced a complex civilization that had declined even before Europeans arrived. Victims of resource depletion, the Maya no longer live in their great cities.The history and relationships of these two cultures to their environments illustrate the fate of civilizations based on resource availability and sustainability.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3233 Planning for Healthy Cities 3 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the role of the built environment in promoting community health, focusing on the neighborhood scale. Although urban planning and public health are closely related in their history and their goals, these fields are typically taught and practiced independantly. The course will examine health issues that can be influence by urban planning, and will explore the role of transportation, land use planning, urban design, community development, and environmental policy, to promote publich health.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: HUSS 1023W or EW 1023 or equivalent
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URB 3313 History and Design of Urban Parks 3 Credits
Today, urban parks have become an integral feature of most modern cities. This course describes the origins of urban parks—from private urban-palace gardens to the large, open “natural” public parks so critical to urban life today. The design of these parks, from formal Italian and French gardens to British Landscape gardens, is discussed. The course also examines the changing view of nature in Europe and America, from the Renaissance to the present, and how park design was influenced by this evolving view. The design was strongly influenced by the changing view of nature’s psychological, spiritual and even supposedly medical benefits, and by the need for “parks for the people” as an expression of the new democratic spirit in a changing world. This course also includes two of New York City’s most famous parks, Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3353 Urban Impact Assessment 3 Credits
Impact assessment is an international, interdisciplinary field of knowledge and practice for anticipating the conditions of change and managing their consequences in order to enhance everyone’s quality of life. Two phrases can describe its essence: “comprehensive and integrated” and “proactive and creative.” Urban impact assessment applies that knowledge at the urban scale, ranging from local to global. Coupled with the recent innovation of “sustainability assessment,” it aims to advance the proposition of urban sustainability. This course also explores the dimensions and proportions of that prospect by applying urban impact assessment methodology to a variety of cases at hand.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 3833 Special Topics in Sustainable Urban Environments 3 Credits
Special topics in Sustainable Urban Environments at the 3000 level, to be decided by instructor.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 4014 Study Abroad 4 Credits
For SUE majors only. The study-abroad is a semester-long course at a foreign institution. Students must maintain a course-load equivalent of 12 credits during this semester.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: Junior/Senior status and permission of SUE faculty adviser.
Note: Does not satisfy a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 4024 Capstone Project 4 Credits
The capstone is a research project that presents SUE students with an opportunity to translate previous coursework into an applied research effort. This is a real-world based course in which students work in teams to identify, research, and propose solutions to a multidisciplinary urban issue, supervised by an SUE faculty member in weekly class discussions. The field research should be supported by library research and culminates in a written and oral report.
Prerequisite(s): Senior Status, permission of SUE faculty advisor. Note: Does not satisfy a humanities and social sciences elective.
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URB 4033 Internship 3 Credits
Students may undertake an internship for academic credit with an appropriate private, public, or non-profit agency or firm. The internship is an opportunity to extend learning outside of the classroom into a real world setting, and to explore career options tied to the major. Students complete 140 hours at the internship site and attend occasional class meetings. The course involves completing a learning contract, regular reflections, assignments, and a final presentation.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: IDM/SUE/STS majors only. Permission of instructor required.
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URB 4443 Guided Readings in Sustainable Urban Environments 3 Credits
This course, supervised by faculty, covers selected problems in sustainable urban environments and involves guided reading and/or research on topics to be arranged. The course is for mature students seeking specialized independent study under tutorial guidance.
Prerequisite(s): URB 2033 or URB 2023/W .
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.
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