Focusing on feature-length film from the silent era to the present, students screen works from a variety of countries and cinematic traditions. Special attention to be given to understanding film in cultural context and to the aesthetics of film. Topics include differentiation, integration, summation of series, and solutions of differential equations. These questions illustrate some of the issues that will be raised by the ancient and modern ethical philosophers we shall explore in this course, looking at sources as varied as novels, canonical philosophic texts, and even children's stories. This course addresses such questions to provide an overview of current ideas in psychology.
Students discuss contemporary issues and explore psychological phenomena in the laboratory sessions.
Two semesters in one. In addition to stressing speaking, reading, and writing, it features contemporary texts as well as video and audiotapes to introduce various aspects of life and literature in German-speaking countries. Conversation sections with native speakers to supplement classroom discussion. World Wide Web exercises are fully integrated into the class, and students will do Web- bungen as homework. This course develops a symbolic system that can be used as the basis for inference in all fields.