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Swatties Tutor Kennet Square Workers
No full text1992 Phoenix Article on the students and professor tutoring migrant workers through the Kennett Square ESL Progra
The Harlem Renaissance’s Bitter Fruit: Inescapable Intraracial Prejudice and Metaphorical Death in Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry
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Introduction to Semantics
No full textThis course is an introduction to Semantics, the study of meaning in human language. We will explore semantic issues that arise from the lexicon, the sentences, and the discourse. Along the way, we will investigate not only the semantic structure of natural language but also pragmatic factors that affect our interpretation of language use. Much emphasis is put on developing skills in observing and analyzing semantic patterns, making generalizations, and forming sound arguments. Students will learn the basic semantic theories, especially some formalism, to explain the semantic structure of language. This is a participation intensive course. No prerequisites
What Can We Know?
No full textThis introductory course examines some of the most fundamental philosophical questions through a careful reading of pivotal texts in Western philosophy, including works by Plato, René Descartes, David Hume, Thomas Reid, and G. E. Moore, as well as some contemporary scholars. Our main focus will be on questions in metaphysics and epistemology, such as: Are we born with anything in our minds, or are we completely "blank slates" at birth? What is the nature of the soul, and is there an afterlife? Does God exist? What are the fundamental entities in the world? What is the nature of knowledge exactly? What can we know, if anything, about ourselves and the world around \ud
us? Students will be encouraged to understand, articulate, and evaluate the arguments used by philosophers in response to these questions, and they will gain the tools to defend their own answers in thoughtful and systematic ways
Advanced Topics: Quantum Mechanics
No full textIn Physics 325, we will study particle physics and elementary quantum field theory. We will first cover core particle physics material: the particle content of the Standard Model, relativistic kinematics, decay rates and scattering amplitudes, Feynman diagrams, and other topics. However, we will also discuss some aspects of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in a friendly setting \ud
that, hopefully, will give you an understanding of why the machinery of particle physics takes the form that it does; as well, it will help you build intuition for a future QFT courses.The prerequisites include Physics 106 or equivalent (for elementary special relativity) and Physics 214 or equivalent (introductory quantum mechanics)