Summer 2008 Course Syllabi

Many Summer Instructors have provided a draft copy of their syllabus to aid students in making decisions about which summer classes they would like to take. These syllabi can also help students from other colleges and universities who want to a take a Brandeis summer course in obtaining permission/approval of credit transferability from the Registrar of their home institution.

Please remember these are draft syllabi and are subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.

AAAS 117a: Communications and Social Change in Developing Nations (SAGE Class Number: 2155) with Wellington Nyangoni

AAAS 122a: Politics of Southern Africa (SAGE Class Number: 2156) with Wellington Nyangoni

ANTH 1a: Introduction to the Comparative Study of Human Societies (SAGE Class Number: 2063) with Sara Withers

ANTH 127a: Medicine, Body and Culture (SAGE Class Number: 2030) with Julia Kirst

ANTH 156a: Power and Violence: The Anthropology of Political Systems (SAGE Class Number: 2062) with Laura Ann John

BIOL 51a: Biostatistics (SAGE Class Number: 2032) with Apratim Roy

BISC 4b: Food, Nutrition and Health (SAGE Class Number: 2090) with Elaine Lai

CHEM 11a: General Chemistry I - Section I (SAGE Class Number: 2033) with Meledath Govindan

CHEM 11a: General Chemistry I - Section II (SAGE Class Number: 2066) with Michael Vela

CHEM 11b: General Chemistry II (SAGE Class Number: 2065) with Meledath Govindan

CHEM 18a: General Chemistry Laboratory I - Section I (SAGE Class Number: 2034) with Meledath Govindan

CHEM 18a: General Chemistry Laboratory I - Section II (SAGE Class Number: 2067) with Michael Vela

CHEM 18b: General Chemistry Laboratory II (SAGE Class Number: 2068) with Meledath Govindan

CHEM 25a: Organic Chemistry I, Lectures (SAGE Class Number: 2035) with Philip Keehn

CHEM 25b: Organic Chemistry II, Lectures (SAGE Class Number: 2069) with Andrzej Cieplak

CHEM 29a: Organic Chemistry I Laboratory (SAGE Class Number: 2036) with Philip Keehn

CHEM 29b: Organic Chemistry II Laboratory (SAGE Class Number: 2070) with Andrzej Cieplak

COSI 2a: Introduction to Computers (SAGE Class Number: 2038) with Tim Hickey

ECON 2a: Introduction to Economics (SAGE Class Number: 2039) with Tyler Hull

ECON 8b: The Global Economy (SAGE Class Number: 2076) with Can Erbil

ECON 80a: Microeconomic Theory (SAGE Class Number: 2040) with Nabeela Alam

ECON 82b: Macroeconomic Theory (SAGE Class Number: 2075) with Can Erbil

ECON 83a: Statistics for Economic Analysis (SAGE Class Number: 2041) with Xia Meng

ECON 171a: Financial Economics (SAGE Class Number: 2073) with Yan Zhao

ECON 184b: Econometrics (SAGE Class Number: 2074) with Carlos Yepez

ENG 27b: Classic Hollywood Cinema (SAGE Class Number: 2043) with William Flesch

ENG 33a: Shakespeare (SAGE Class Number: 2044) with William Flesch

ENG 79a: Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay (SAGE Class Number: 2045) with Marc Weinberg

ENG 129a: Writing Workshop (SAGE Class Number: 2042) with Joseph Coroniti

ENG 129a: Writing Workshop (online) SECTION 2 (SAGE Class Number: 2077) with Joseph Coroniti - NOTE: This online class has specific date driven deadlines, but does not require students to meet online at specific times.

ENG 139b: Intermediate Screenwriting (SAGE Class Number: 2078) with Marc Weinberg

ENG 180a: The Modern American Short Story (SAGE Class Number: 2079) with William Flesch

ENVS 89a: Environmental Internship (SAGE Class Number: 2093) with Laura Goldin

FA 3a: Introduction to Drawing I (SAGE Class Number: 2080) with Sean Downey

FA 3b: Introduction to Drawing II: Wet Media (SAGE Class Number: 2157) with Alfredo Gisholt

HBRW 10a: Beginning Hebrew (SAGE Class Number: 2097) with Esther Shorr

HBRW 20b: Intermediate Hebrew (SAGE Class Number: 2098) with Aliza Brosch

HBRW 34a: Intermediate Hebrew II: Aspects of Israeli Culture (SAGE Class Number: 2099) with Guy Antebi

HBRW 44b: Advanced Hebrew: Aspects of Israeli Culture (SAGE Class Number: 2100) with Sara Hascal

HBRW 161b: Israel Today: Advanced Conversation and Writing (SAGE Class Number: 2101) with Esther Robbins

HIST 138a: Europe in the World: 1901-1945 (SAGE Class Number: 2163) with Daniel Becker

INT 92G: Internship (SAGE Class Number: 2094) – Please see http://www.brandeis.edu/internships/transcript/int92g.html for more information

JOUR 89a: Contemporary Media: Internship and Analysis (SAGE Class Number: 2095) with Maura Jane Farrelly

MATH 8a: Introduction to Probability and Statistics (SAGE Class Number: 2082) with Aminul Huq

MATH 10a: Techniques of Calculus (a) (SAGE Class Number: 2046) with Ryan Broderick

MATH 10b: Techniques of Calculus (b) (SAGE Class Number: 2081) with Zhenbin Luo

MATH 15a: Applied Linear Algebra (SAGE Class Number: 2047) with Nathaniel Stambaugh

MUS 32b: Everybody Sings the Blues: A Jazz Survey (SAGE Class Number: 2162) with Robert Nieske

NEJS 185b: The Making of the Modern Middle East (SAGE Class Number: 2083) with Shahram Shadbash

NEJS 187a: Political Islam (SAGE Class Number: 2049) with Shahram Shadbash

PHIL 6a: Introduction to Symbolic Logic (SAGE Class Number: 2085) with Miriam Schoenfield

PHYS 10a: Introduction to Physical Laws and Phenomena I (SAGE Class Number: 2050) with Edward Martens

PHYS 10b: Introduction to Physical Laws and Phenomena II (SAGE Class Number: 2086) with Edward Martens

PHYS 18a: Introduction to Physical Laws and Phenomena I - Introductory Laboratory (SAGE Class Number: 2051) with Hermann Wellenstein

PHYS 18b: Introduction to Physical Laws and Phenomena II - Introductory Laboratory (SAGE Class Number: 2087) with Hermann Wellenstein

POL 10a: Introduction to Political Theory (SAGE Class Number: 2052) with Shefali Misra

PSYC 1a: Introduction to Psychology (SAGE Class Number: 2053) with Thomas Boone

PSYC 33a: Developmental Psychology (SAGE Class Number: 2054) with Thomas Boone

PSYC 34b: Social Psychology (SAGE Class Number: 2088) with Yi Zhang

PSYC 51a: Statistics (SAGE Class Number: 2055) with Michael Sheehan

PSYC 52a: Research Methods in Psychology (SAGE Class Number: 2089) with Cai Xing

SOC 113b: Race and Power in Intergroup Relationships (SAGE Class Number: 2056) with Ashley Rondini

SOC 126a: Sociology of Deviance (SAGE Class Number: 2057) with Deborah Potter

SPAN 20b: Continuing Spanish (SAGE Class Number: 2059) with Jorge Arteta

SPAN 32a: Intermediate Spanish: Conversation (SAGE Class Number: 2092) with Raysa Mederos

THA 15b: Public Speaking: The Art of Oral Communication (SAGE Class Number: 2096) with Jennifer Cleary

THA 104a: Playwriting (online course) (SAGE Class Number: 2060) with Joseph Coroniti - NOTE: this is a Summer 2007 syllabus that the instructor is currently in the process of revising

Please remember these are draft syllabi and are subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.