By permission only. Requires application approval.
Writing intensive.
Section H5 Cross-Listed With: 21:920:394:H5 (03225)
In Comics and Graphic Novels we will read and discuss recent contributions to the genre, developing a critical framework and vocabulary for defining, describing and discussing this popular but amorphous medium.
This course satisfies the core requirement.
Independent reading or research under the direction of a faculty member.
Writing Intensive.
Cross Listed with Topics in Black Studies: Caribbean Politics (21:790:465:BQ:04756)
Research Methods in Political Science
A hands-on exploration of the building blocks of theory: concepts; definitions; truth claims; causes and effects; necessary, sufficient, and facilitating conditions; agency/structural approaches; case studies; comparative theorizing. An introduction to methodological approaches, which could include quantitative and qualitative methods, survey construction and analysis, and content analysis.
CoReq/PreReq: 21:355:102 or 21:355:104
The Caribbean, a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-racial region is politically diverse as a response to its colonial and post-colonial histories. The Caribbean has autonomous, independent, intentionally dependent and socialist nations and the region is one of the most democratic in the world.
In this course, we review the colonial history of the Caribbean, through a comparative politics lens, to help explain much of the region's current political circumstances. We examine the different forms of government and governance for a select group of Caribbean countries and assess the utility of Caribbean regional organizations. In addition, we analyze the purpose for China's, Taiwan's and the Russian Federation's presence in the region and the continued visibility of the US, U.K., Kingdom of the Netherlands and France in the Caribbean. Lastly, we evaluate the current and future political challenges to and opportunities for Caribbean nations.
Writing Intensive.
Examines such issues as sexual morality and abortion, capital punishment, sexism, racism and affirmative action, censorship, privacy, drug abuse and drug laws, economic distribution and justice, and consumption and scarcity of natural resources.
This course provides an introduction to computer networks, with a special focus on the internet architecture and protocols. Topics include layered network architectures, addressing, naming, forwarding, routing, communication reliability, the client-server model, web, and email protocols. Besides the theoretical foundations, students acquire practical experience by programming reduced versions of real internet protocols.
Computer science students should take 28:198:288 before this course.
