This anthropology course explores visual representations of the border, including film and photography, but also text and sound.
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A new paper by Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy Andrea Lommen, Reilly Milburn ’19, Sergio Montano ’21, and Jesse Zeldes ’22 measures pulsar timing made observable for the first time by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER).
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Now in its second semester, the Tri-Co Philly program is educating students on pressing issues through an enlivening set of classes bolstered by extracurricular experiences in the city of Philadelphia.
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This Spanish course examines the ideas and impact of European travel writers in Latin America and the Caribbean and includes discussion of the imprint they left on the literature of Latin America from the 17th century to the present.
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This sociology course explores contemporary political movements to measure learning outcomes in educational institutions and covers such topics as standardized testing for college admissions and development of online learning tools, among others.
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Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
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This fine arts course covers techniques and approaches to the art of the woodcut and the linocut, emphasizing the study of design principles and the expressive potential of the medium to create a personal visual statement.
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The professor and chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy will help shape the next decade of astrophysics research in the United States as a member of the Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation.
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This religion course introduces students to debates about the senses in Islam, including exploring the relationship between sound and the sacred.
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This co-taught linguistics course, which explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language, is experimental, as the professors and students form and test hypotheses against data together.
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This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.
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This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.
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This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.
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This sociology course engages in debates about families as economic units, women’s bodies as social factories, gay identity’s relationship to labor and consumption, the “pricing” of unpaid care, and sex work and trafficking.
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This visual studies course introduces students to critical design and creative practices that address technologies that are worn on the body, that digitize the body, and that extend the body.