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Fall 2008 New and Revised Courses

BIOLOGY

BIOL187 HM 01 HIV/AIDS: Science, Society and Service
Karl Haushalter    TR 9:35 – 10:50am   TG 208
Biochemical basis for antiretroviral therapy and HIV prevention strategies. The causes and impact of the global HIV-AIDS pandemic, including the interrelationships among HIV-AIDS, prejudice, race, and stigma. Students will complete a community service project in partnership with a local AIDS organization. Prerequisite: BIOL113 or CHEM182 or written instructor permission.
Cross-listed with CHEM187 HM 01 and STS 187 HM 01.

BIOL189 HM 01 Topics in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Karl Haushalter     F 1:15 - 4:00pm     TG 105
Advanced current topics covered in depth at the interface between chemistry and biology.
Senior-level course. Required course for HMC Senior Joint Chemistry and Biology majors. Prerequisite: BIOL113 HM and CHEM105 HM, or written permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed with CHEM189 HM 01.

CHEMISTRY

CHEM168 HM 01 Special Topic: Materials Science of Energy Conversion and Storage
Haskell/Toberer     TR 8:00 – 9:15pm     TG 102
This advanced topics course will study in detail four energy conversion and storage systems (batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics) from a materials perspective. Topics will include crystal chemistry, ionic conduction, catalysis, porosity, electron and phonon transport in solids, band structures, and semiconductor heterostructures. Familiarity with inorganic chemistry, solid state physics, or materials engineering suggested. Juniors and Seniors only.
Cross-listed with ENGR190C HM 01 and PHYS178 HM 01.

CHEM187 HM 01 HIV/AIDS: Science, Society and Service
Karl Haushalter    TR 9:35 – 10:50am    TG 208
Biochemical basis for antiretroviral therapy and HIV prevention strategies. The causes and impact of the global HIV-AIDS pandemic, including the interrelationships among HIV-AIDS, prejudice, race, and stigma. Students will complete a community service project in partnership with a local AIDS organization. Prerequisite: BIOL113 or CHEM182 or written instructor permission.
Cross-listed with BIOL187 HM 01 and STS 187 HM 01.

CHEM189 HM 01 Topics in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Karl Haushalter     F 1:15 - 4:00pm     TG 105
Advanced current topics covered in depth at the interface between chemistry and biology.
Senior-level course. Required course for HMC Senior Joint Chemistry and Biology majors. Prerequisite: BIOL113 HM and CHEM105 HM, or written permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed with BIOL189 HM 01.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

CSCI065 HM 01 Advanced Introduction to Computer Science
Robert Keller     MW 1:15 – 2:30pm   PA 1285
Accelerated breadth-first introduction to computer science as a discipline for first-year students who have some programming background. Computational models of functional-, object-oriented-, and logic programming. Data-structures and algorithm analysis. Computer logic and architecture. Grammars and parsing. Regular expressions. Computability. Extensive practice constructing applications from principles, using a variety of languages. A study completing this course will have learned the topics in both the general introductory course CSCI005 and in the second major course CSCI060. Prerequisite: Calculus and previous programming background, plus consent of instructor.
First-year students only.


ENGINEERING

ENGR175 HM 01 Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
Lori Bassman     MW 11:00am – 12:15pm PA 2358
Kinematics, mass distribution and kinetics of systems of particles and rigid bodies. Formulation of equations of motion with: Newton/Euler equations; angular momentum principle; power, work, and energy methods. Numerical solutions of nonlinear algebraic and ordinary differential equations governing the behavior of multiple degree of freedom systems. Computer simulation of multi-body dynamic systems. Construction of physical systems for comparison with simulation.
Juniors and Seniors only.

ENGR190B HM 01 Special Topic: TBA
Anthony Bright MWF 9:00 – 9:50pm     TG 208

ENGR190C HM 01 Special Topic: Materials Science of Energy Conversion and Storage
Haskell/Toberer    TR 8:00 – 9:15pm   TG 102
This advanced topics course will study in detail four energy conversion and storage systems (batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics) from a materials perspective. Topics will include crystal chemistry, ionic conduction, catalysis, porosity, electron and phonon transport in solids, band structures, and semiconductor heterostructures. Familiarity with inorganic chemistry, solid state physics, or materials engineering suggested. Juniors and Seniors only.
Cross-listed with CHEM168 HM 01 and BIOL178 HM 01.

HUMANITIES/SOCIAL SCIENCES

ANTH179 HM 01 Topics in Anthropology: War and Conflict
Marianne De Laet M 7:00 – 10:00pm PA 1264
The wings of the butterfly – that cause the hurricane at the other end of the earth – aren’t guilty, right?...no one is.” “Just the opposite,” replies Faulques. “We are all a part of the monster that moves us around the chessboard.” As Faulques – the painter/war-photographer protagonist in the novel The Painter of Battles – sees it, war and destruction and their attendant personal horrors are more ordinary, more typical of human beings than peace and civil order. But while chaos has its own rules and symmetries and nothing is coincidental or happens by chance, as spectators we are complicit in the occurrences of violent upheaval about which we read each day in the New York Times. In this course we will investigate this premise. How do we explain war; what is it for? What does war do to us – distant or not-so-distant spectators – and to others – willing or unwilling participants? Is war endemic to the human condition; is it a necessary evil; does it emerge from psychological and irrational “drives, “ or from economic, rational considerations? If we have a talent for war, do we have a talent for peace? In addition to anthropological texts on the place of war in human cultures, course materials include The Painter of Battles by Perez-Reverte and Primo Levi’s Periodic Table; Films and documentaries such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, and Encounter Point by Julia Bacha and Ronit Avni.

ART 060 HM 01 Workshop in Hand Press Printing
Jeffrey Groves T 6:00 – 9:00pm HD H109
This workshop introduces students to the basic vocabulary and practices of typesetting, typography, and printing for and on an iron hand press. Work includes a skill-building project and a student-designed semester project. Students may repeat the course once. 1.5 credit hours.

ART 179 HM 01 Contemporary Issues in Art, 1945 to the Present
Legier Biederman TR 1:15 - 2:30pm   PA 1264
This course will survey some of the major theoretical and critical ideas that have shaped artistic practice & visual culture since 1945. Over the course of the semester, we will engage art in its many forms: from painting and sculpture, photography and video, to performance and electronic media. Theoretical models discussed will include aesthetics, Marxist/post-Marxist social theory, visual culture studies, Postmodernisn, comparative modernities, and the politics of representation.

CHIN179 HM 01 Elementary Chinese
Chang Tan    MWF 9:00 – 9:50am     BK B134
                     TR 9:35 – 10:50am     PA 2358

ECON179 HM 01 Special Topic: Representations of Work in Film and Literature
Lisa Sullivan F 1:15 – 4:00pm     PA 1264
This seminar will explore some of the many ways in which work (and the vacuum its absence creates) has formed subject matter for artists, novelists, playwrights, directors, essayists and others. Their questions – about the relationship between work and human identity, the intersection of work and ethics, the responsibilities of creation, the nature of vocation and ennui – will be our questions for the term.

PHIL179 HM 01 Special Topic: Contemporary Moral Problems
Darryl Wright     MWF 10:00 – 10:50am     TG 203

STS 179 HM 01 Special Topic: U.S. Science Policy
Zuoyue Wang TR 2:45 – 4:00pm     PA 1264

INTERGRATIVE EXPERIENCE (IE)

BIOL187/CHEM187/STS 187 HM 01 HIV/AIDS: Science, Society and Service
Karl Haushalter    TR 9:35 – 10:50am   TG 208
Biochemical basis for antiretroviral therapy and HIV prevention strategies. The causes and impact of the global HIV-AIDS pandemic, including the interrelationships among HIV-AIDS, prejudice, race, and stigma. Students will complete a community service project in partnership with a local AIDS organization. Prerequisite: BIOL113 or CHEM182 or written instructor permission

MATHEMATICS

MATH189A HM 01 Special Topic: Algebraic Geometry
Dagan Karp TR 1:15 - 2:30pm JA B132

PHYSICS

PHYS178 HM 01 Special Topic: Materials Science of Energy Conversion and Storage
Haskell/Toberer    TR 8:00 – 9:15pm   TG 102
This advanced topics course will study in detail four energy conversion and storage systems (batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics) from a materials perspective. Topics will include crystal chemistry, ionic conduction, catalysis, porosity, electron and phonon transport in solids, band structures, and semiconductor heterostructures. Familiarity with inorganic chemistry, solid state physics, or materials engineering suggested. Juniors and Seniors only.
Cross-listed with CHEM168 HM 01 and ENGR190C HM 01.