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ENGL405: The American Renaissance
Explore American literature published between the 1830s and 1860s, focusing on the socio-cultural contexts that led to the dramatic outburst of literary creativity in this era.
ENGL405
CS401: Operating Systems
Examine how operating systems and design have evolved as changes in hardware and software led to contemporary operating systems. Topics include basic OS concepts, methods of OS design and construction, process coordination, management, and algorithms for CPU scheduling, memory, and general resource allocation.
CS401
Course Introduction
As most famously defined by F. O. Matthiessen in his groundbreaking book, The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941), the term "American Renaissance" demarcates a period of tremendous literary activity between the 1830s and 1860s that marked the cultivation, for the first time, of a distinctively American literature. For Matthiessen and many other critics, its key figures – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, ...
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During the last several decades, financial markets have led the globalization process as businesses and organizations around the world have found themselves increasingly operating and competing on an international scale. This course outlines the genesis and nature of financial dynamics primarily from an international perspective. The learning outcomes of this course will allow you to operate with confidence in global financial markets from several different perspectives. Specifically, this ma...
Course Introduction
The physics of our universe is dominated by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and weak and strong nuclear forces. These forces control how matter, energy, space, and time interact. For example, when someone sits on a chair, gravitational forces balance with the material forces that "push up" to hold the person in place. This upward push results from electromagnetic forces on microscopic length scales. On the larger stage, gravity holds the celestial bodies in their orbits, b...
Course Learning Objectives
* Assess how global trade networks shaped the economic development of Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the 17th and 18th centuries; * Identify the origins of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe and assess the social and political consequences of these movements for the peoples of Europe; * Identify the origins of the Enlightenment and assess how its ideas led to political and social revolutions in Europe and the Americas; * Identify the origins of the Scientific an...
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Political thought, or political philosophy, studies questions about power, justice, rights, law, and other issues related to governance. While some believe these concepts are static, political thought asks how they originated and to what effect. Just as Socrates' question "how should we be governed?" led to his execution, the question "what makes a government legitimate?" can lead to political turmoil. What form should government take? What do citizens owe their government? When should citize...
