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Elementary Spanish
No full textThis course is the second part of the introduction to the Spanish language. Both parts of Elementary Spanish need to be taken consecutively in one school year. The goal for this course is to achieve a basic level of proficiency in the four main areas of language learning: listening,speaking, reading and writing
Introduction to Postcolonial Literature
No full textThe term “postcolonial” is a complex and ambiguous one, but it has proven to be a useful rubric for the study of writings that emerge out of varied literary traditions from far-flung regions of the world that have in common the history of European colonization. This course will explore the nature and context of Anglophone postcolonial writings, paying special attention to some of their common concerns such as: the representation of first contact, the influence of western education and the English language, the effects of colonial violence, the ways identity is shaped by displacement, migration, or exile, the challenges facing nation-building after colonialism, the internal hierarchies and conflicts in postcolonial societies, changing ways \ud
of relating to the environment, and the adjustments demanded of the erstwhile colonial metropolis as it transitions into a postcolonial city. We will address these questions by looking at specific aesthetic strategies such as resistance, allegory, mimicry, intertextuality, “writing back”, and magic realism that have come to be associated with this body of literature
Laboratory in Memory and Cognition
No full textThis laboratory correlate to Psy 213 will focus on the methods used to investigate the nature of perception, memory, and other cognitive behaviors. These various methodologies will be employed within a set of empirical studies designed to investigate particular topic areas within the field of cognition. Pre-requisites: Psychology 100 and 200, and either prior or concurrent enrollment in Psy 213
The Letters of Paul
No full textThis course focuses on critical reading and interpretation of the 13 New Testament letters attributed to the apostle Paul. The primary goals of the course are: 1) to become familiar with the language, argument, and theology of Paul's letters; 2) to develop the skills of\ud
critical analysis and interpretation through close reading, discussion, and frequent writing assignments; 3) to relate Paul and his letters to their original social settings, to the historical development Christian theology, and to contemporary interpretive approaches
El contraproyecto en Contraproyecto: La obra de Carla Grandi dentro del contexto político y poético de la dictadura en Chile
No full textThis paper is an analysis of Contraproyecto (1984/1987) by the Chilean poet Carla Grandi as a counterproject against the masculine literary canon and the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. It considers the four distinct sections of Grandi's work as different instances of counterproject that allow the reader to resist the regime. Additionally, it places Grandi within the historical moment in which women were advocating for democracy both in private and public spheres, considering how female poets and artists in particular expressed their positions as women within the city under the dictatorship
Animalismo vs nacionalismo: Como el rechazo de narrativas de (domi)nacion en Espana muestra un re-pensamiento de la corrida de toros
No full textThe Influence of Phonetic Symbolism on Memory for Advertisements
No full textThis experiment investigated the influence of phonetic symbolism on memory in the context of a marketing study. Participants first judged the appeal and probable success of advertisements for large and small products that were paired either congruently or incongruently with nonword brand names according to size, and then completed surprise recall and recognition tasks about the brand names, products, and pairings. It was predicted that participants would have better memory for brand names, products, and pairings that displayed a congruent vs. incongruent relationship between the associated size of the brand name vowel and the size of the product. The results showed some support for these hypotheses, but primarily for back vowellarge product pairings. These findings suggest that using phonetic symbolism in brand names for large products will result in consumers having better memory for those brand names and products, which has implications for how companies name and advertise future products
Introduction to African and Africana Studies
No full textThis course introduces a global socio-historical framework within which to examine multiple modern African Diasporas. Considering the historical contexts of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, we examine cultural, economic, and philosophic aspects of African peoples around the globe. We will examine how ideas of what it means to be African culturally, racially, and politically are \ud
continually produced and contested. The moment of independence of many African nation-states from European colonial rule in the mid 20th century operates as a centering point from which we will consider economics, race, politics, and artistic expressions. We will explore ideas of “tradition” and “modernity,” representations of Africa, more recent processes of commodification, as well as various cultural and political responses to them. We will consider bodily practices, aesthetics, political ideologies, and social movements in the creative production of African modern worlds and their relationship to contemporary movements of African peoples to the Americas and Europe. In this sense we consider different socio- historical movements in the context of Caribbean and North American history. We also explore African peoples and practices in their continuing dialogues and returns to the African continent. In an abstract sense, the course argues for a complex set of links between violence, memory, and aesthetics. We will use philosophical, political, historical, literary and ethnographic texts as well as popular artistic forms to understand contemporary and historical dynamics of the continent and its global reach. We will consider the nature of historical and anthropological inquiry and expressive texts to examine the practices through which history is continually re-produced in the present
Una familia dividida: el impacto de la revolución cubana y el éxodo en la novela Dreaming in Cuban de Cristina García
No full textDurante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, cerca de un millón inmigrantes cubanos llegaron a los Estados Unidos. Esta inmigración ocurrió en cuatro distintas olas. El éxodo empezó con la revolución cubana. La primera generación de inmigrantes fue entre los años 1959 y 1962. Esta generación venía seguida de una segunda generación entre 1965 y 1974. La tercera generación llegó en el año 1980. La cuarta generación y más reciente generación de inmigrantes cubanos empezó a salir para los Estados Unidos en el año 1994. La culminación de estas cuatro olas de inmigrantes cubanos ha resultado en verdaderos enclaves. Sin embargo, aun con la formación de enclaves cubanos en Hialeah y ‘Little Havana’ en Miami, los inmigrantes cubanos enfrentan consecuencias de su exilio de Cuba, particularmente en la disolución de la familia
Design and Expression of sgRNA genes for CRISPR targeting of the RSP3 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
No full textChlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular, biflagellate alga that is instrumental in the study of photosynthetic mechanisms as well as flagellar motility and ciliopathies. The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is a cutting-edge technology engineered from an adaptive immune system found naturally in bacterial cells. It has emerged as a powerful tool for gene editing. In this work CRISPR technology was developed for use in Chlamydomonas. The RSP3 gene was targeted by the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Disruption of the RSP3 genetic locus in the mutant pf-14 results in a clearly visible, paralyzed flagella phenotype. Single guide RNA (sgRNA) sequences were designed that act complimentarily to portions of the RSP3 gene. The sgRNA sequences were inserted into the crCRISPR vector, which additionally contains Cas9 genes, and the resulting plasmid was transformed into Chlamydomonas cells. The cells were screened for the expected mutant phenotypes via microscopy. DNA was purified from clones that exhibited promising phenotypes, amplified via PCR, and sequenced to assay for insertion deletion mutations indicative of CRISPR events. The development of a successful gene-editing system in Chlamydomonas has implications in the study of photosynthetic mechanisms as well as human cilia