Yale University Bulletin | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Programs and Policies 2009–2010

Degree-Granting Departments and Programs

This section provides information on all degree-granting departments and programs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Each listing provides a roster of faculty, special admissions and degree requirements, and course offerings for that department or program. The requirements appearing in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Programs and Policies take precedence over any statements published separately by individual departments and programs.

The degree requirements of the Graduate School itself appear later in this publication, under Policies and Regulations. These apply to all students in the Graduate School, although there are variations in the pattern of their fulfillment in individual departments and programs. The requirements of the Graduate School may change from time to time. If a requirement changes within the period normally required for completion of a student’s course of study, the student will normally be given the choice of completing either the new or the old requirement.

The requirements of individual departments also may change from time to time, with the approval of the Graduate School. After such approval has officially been given, students in that department or program will receive written notification. All changes in departmental degree requirements occurring after the publication closing date of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Programs and Policies are posted in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Registrar’s Office, 246 Church Street, third floor.

The course listings and instructors that follow reflect information received by the registrar as of the publication date and are subject to change without notice. Students are advised to consult www.yale.edu/courseinfo/ for the most recent information.

Fall-term courses are indicated by the letter “a,” spring-term courses by the letter “b.” Yearlong courses have no letter designation or list both “a” and “b.” Course numbers followed by a superscript “u” are also open to undergraduates in Yale College. Courses in brackets are not offered during the current academic year.

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African American Studies

81 Wall St., 432.1170

www.yale.edu/afamstudies/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Elizabeth Alexander

Director of Graduate Studies

Glenda Gilmore (81 Wall St., glenda.gilmore@yale.edu)

Professors Elizabeth Alexander, Elijah Anderson, David Blight, Hazel Carby, Glenda Gilmore, Ezra Griffith, Jonathan Holloway, Matthew Jacobson, Gerald Jaynes, Christopher L. Miller, Patricia Pessar, Joseph Roach, Robert Stepto, John Szwed (Emeritus), Robert Thompson, Emilie Townes, Michael Veal

Associate Professors Kamari Clarke, Alondra Nelson

Assistant Professors Jafari Allen, Khalilah Brown-Dean, Terri Francis, Paige McGinley, Naomi Pabst, Edward Rugemer

Lecturers Kathleen Cleaver, Flemming Norcott, Deborah Thomas

Fields of Study

African American Studies offers a combined Ph.D. in conjunction with several other departments and programs. Departments and programs which currently offer a combined Ph.D. with African American Studies are: American Studies, Anthropology, English, Film Studies, French, History, History of Art, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese. Within the field of study, the student will select an area of concentration in consultation with the directors of graduate studies of African American Studies and the joint department or program. An area of concentration in African American Studies may take the form of a single area study or a comparative area study: e.g., Caribbean or African American literature, a comparison of African American literature in a combined degree with the Department of English; an investigation of the significance of the presence of African cultures in the New World, either in the Caribbean or in Latin and/or South America in a combined degree with the Spanish and Portuguese department. An area of concentration may also follow the fields of study already established within a single discipline: e.g., race/minority/ethnic studies in a combined degree with Sociology. An area of concentration must either be a field of study offered by a department or fall within the rubric of such a field. Please refer to the description of fields of study of the prospective joint department or program.

Special Admissions Requirements

Strong undergraduate preparation in a discipline related to African American studies; writing sample; description of the fields of interest to be pursued in a combined degree. This is a combined degree program. To be considered for admission to this program you must indicate both African American Studies and one of the participating departments/programs listed above. Additionally, please indicate both departments on all supporting documents (personal statement, letters of recommendation, transcripts, etc.).

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Students will be subject to the combined Ph.D. supervision of the African American Studies department and the relevant participating department or program. The student’s academic program will be decided in consultation with an adviser, the director of graduate studies of African American Studies, and the director of graduate studies of the participating department or program and must be approved by all three. Students are required to take four designated core courses in African American Studies. Core courses are (1) Theorizing Racial Formations (AFAM 505a/AMST 643a), which is a required course for all first-year graduate students in the combined program; (2) American Legal History: Citizenship and Race (AFAM 829b/WGSS 715b) and/or Race, Racism, and Social Theory (AFAM 719b/AMST 680b/SOCY 654b/WGSS 719b), which is a required course for all first-year graduate students in the combined-program spring term; (3) Race and Ethnicity (AFAM 814a/PLSC 823a), which is a required course for all second-year graduate students in the combined-program fall term; (4) Dissertation Prospectus Workshop (AFAM 895), which is a yearlong requirement of all third-year graduate students in the combined program after completion of course work. This workshop is intended to support preparation of the dissertation proposal. Each student will be expected to present his or her dissertation prospectus during that year. The workshop will also feature seminars in which students present chapters of their dissertations-in-progress. The expectation is that this workshop will be voluntarily attended by students even during terms when they are not required to register for it. The workshop will be an important part of each graduate student’s professionalization and will serve as a vital stimulus to intellectual activity.

Qualifying examinations and the dissertation proposal will be administered jointly by the program and participating department and must be passed within the time required by the participating department. The total number of courses required will adhere to the requirements of the participating department or program. Each student must complete the minimum number of courses required by the participating department or program; African American Studies core courses (excepting the dissertation prospectus workshop) count toward the participating department’s or program’s total. For details of these requirements, see the special requirements of the combined Ph.D. for the particular department printed in this publication. Students will be required to meet the foreign language requirements of the participating department (see Policies and Regulations: Degree Requirements). Students will not be admitted to candidacy until all requirements, including the dissertation prospectus, have been met and approved by the Graduate Studies Executive Committee of the African American Studies department and the participating department. If a student intends to apply for this combined Ph.D. in African American Studies and another department, he or she should contact the prospective department and request a description of all Ph.D. requirements and courses.

The faculty in African American Studies consider teaching to be an essential component of graduate education, and students therefore will teach in their third and fourth years.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Graduate School requirements.

M.A. (en route to the joint Ph.D.) Students will be awarded a combined M.A. degree in African American Studies and the relevant participating department or program upon successful completion of all course work except the Research Workshop, which is taken in the student’s third year of study. See also Graduate School requirements.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, African American Studies, Yale University, PO Box 203388, New Haven CT 06520-3388.

Courses

AFAM 505a/AMST 643a, Theorizing Racial Formations Jonathan Holloway

A required course for all first-year students in the joint Ph.D. in African American Studies; also open to students in American Studies. This interdisciplinary reading seminar focuses on new work that is challenging the temporal, theoretical, and spatial boundaries of the field. TH 9:25–11:15

[AFAM 525bu, Psychosocial Study of Black Autobiography]

AFAM 563au/AMST 651au, Ralph Ellison in Context Robert Stepto

This seminar pursues close readings of Ralph Ellison’s essays, short fiction, and novels Invisible Man and Juneteenth. The “in context” component of the seminar involves working from the Benston and Sundquist volumes on Ellison to discern a portrait of the modernist African America Ellison investigated, with at least Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Romare Bearden also in view. The texts include Ellison, The Collected Essays, Flying Home and Other Stories, Invisible Man, and Juneteenth; K. Benston, Speaking for You; E. Sundquist, Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man; A. Nadel, Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon. M 1:30–3:20

[AFAM 573a/ANTH 595a, Transnationalism, Globalization, and New Diasporic Formations]

AFAM 588bu/AMST 710bu/ENGL 948bu, Autobiography in America Robert Stepto

At least a dozen North American autobiographies are studied, mostly from the “American Renaissance” to the present. Discussion of various autobiographical forms and strategies as well as of various experiences of American selfhood and citizenship. Slave narratives, spiritual autobiographies, immigrant narratives, autobiographies of childhood or adolescence, relations between autobiography and class, region, or occupation. M 1:30–3:20

AFAM 596au/AMST 641a, African American Poets of the Modern Era Robert Stepto

The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and 1960, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic, and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden. The classes include sessions at Beinecke Library for the inspection and discussion of original editions, manuscripts, letters, and other archival materials. W 1:30–3:20

[AFAM 693b/AMST 730b/HIST 709b, The Black Intellectual since 1941]

[AFAM 697a/HIST 713a, Research in Slavery and Abolition]

AFAM 706b/AMST 714b/HIST 735b, Readings in Twentieth-Century U.S. History Glenda Gilmore

Recent trends in American political history from the 1800s, with an emphasis on the social analysis of mass politics and reform. TH 3:30–5:20

AFAM 709a/AMST 709a/HIST 736a/WGSS 736a, Research in Twentieth-Century U.S. Political and Social History Glenda Gilmore

Projects chosen from the post-Civil War period, with emphasis on twentieth-century social and political history, broadly defined. Research seminar. TH 3:30–5:20

[AFAM 719bu/AMST 680b/SOCY 654bu/WGSS 719b, Race, Racism, and Social Theory]

AFAM 723a/AMST 645a, Caribbean Diasporic Intellectuals Hazel Carby

This course examines work by writers of Caribbean descent from different regions of the transatlantic world. In response to contemporary interest in issues of globalization, the premise of the course is that in the world maps of these black intellectuals we can see the intertwined and interdependent histories and relations of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Thinking globally is not a new experience for black peoples, and we need to understand the ways in which what we have come to understand and represent as “Caribbeanness” is a condition of movement. Literature is most frequently taught within the boundaries of a particular nation, but this course focuses on the work of writers who shape the Caribbean identities of their characters as traveling black subjects and refuse to restrain their fiction within the limits of any one national identity. We practice a new and global type of cognitive mapping as we read and explore the meanings of terms like black trans-nationalism, migrancy, globalization, and empire. Diasporic writing embraces and represents the geopolitical realities of the modern, modernizing, and postmodern worlds in which multiple racialized histories are inscribed on modern bodies. M 2:30–4:20

AFAM 728bu/AFST 778bu/HSAR 778bu, From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert Thompson

Art, music, and dance in the history of key classical civilizations south of the Sahara—Mali, Asante, Dahomey, Yoruba, Ejagham, Kongon—and their impact on the rise of New World art and music, especially rock, blues, North American black painting of the past ten years, and black artists of Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil. TTH 11:35–12:50

AFAM 729au/HSAR 779au, New York Mambo: Microcosm of Black Creativity Robert Thompson

Rise, development, and philosophic achievement of the world of New York mambo and salsa. Emphasis on Palmieri, Cortijo, Roena, Harlow, and Colon. Examination of parallel traditions, e.g., New York Haitian art, Dominican merengue, reggae and rastas of Jamaican Brooklyn, and the New York school of Brazilian capoeira. TTH 11:35–12:50

AFAM 731bu/WGSS 705bu, Theories of Black Women and Film Terri Francis

Study of films and videos made by women of African descent during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focus on filmmaking as a critical practice and an art form, particularly how it engages cinematic perceptions of black womanhood. Films placed in a matrix of African American film history, feminist film theory, and legacies of black feminist writing and image making. Topics include film language, authorship, performance, and the question of audience. T 1:30–3:20, screening M 9 p.m.

AFAM 735b/AMST 807b, Performance Historiography Paige McGinley

This course examines methodological issues and research strategies employed by scholars doing historical research on performance. What is the relationship among history, memory, and performance? Where does performance “live” in the archive? How can one study the embodied events of the past? How can we make scholarly claims about performances that seem to disappear? This course looks at the work of scholars who have wrestled with these questions, paying specific attention to studies of African American performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students also work with Beinecke Library collections in areas of their own interest. Scholars to be examined may include Hartman, Roach, Brooks, Young, and Brody. T 7–8:50

AFAM 739a/AFST 781a/HSAR 781a, Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa Robert Thompson

The seminar addresses a new frontier—rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas—the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Colombia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Colombia. Th 3:30–5:20

AFAM 739b/AFST 781b/HSAR 781b, Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas Robert Thompson

A continuation of AFAM 739a. Th 3:30–5:20

[AFAM 748au, Rethinking the African American Literary Canon]

AFAM 749b/AMST 648b/WGSS 735b, Transnational Imaginaries Hazel Carby

We traverse the boundaries of conceptual, disciplinary, historical, and theoretical imaginings of the transnational. How the transnational has been imagined is posed as a series of questions rather than as a fixed definition: for example, what constitutes the transnational; how do we think the transnational; why should we think in terms of the transnational; and what is the relation or difference among the transnational, the cosmopolitan, and globalization? We consider creative responses to the consequences of the unquenchable, demonic thirst of European and American powers for the control of trade, land, and resources, attempts to render visible what Amitav Ghosh refers to as “the results of the five hundred years of pure, undistilled violence and terror unleashed in the name of modernity.” We analyze the spatial, temporal, and historical dimensions of the creation of literary and visual narratives which seek to represent the displacement of peoples, the formation of diasporas, the invention and reinvention of subjects and subjectivities, and the politics of knowledge and power. Final paper. M 2:30–4:20

AFAM 757b/AMST 722b/HIST 722b, Research Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American History David Blight

Some class sessions focus on matters of craft: research techniques, styles of writing, narrative and analysis; judging scholarly work; and philosophical dimensions of doing history in the early twenty-first century. Primary focus of course is for each student to complete his/her own major research paper. Students in any field of American history are welcome. W 3:30–5:20

[AFAM 764b/AMST 715b/HIST 715b, Readings in Nineteenth-Century American History, 1820–1877]

AFAM 773a/SOCY 630a, Workshop in Urban Ethnography Elijah Anderson

The ethnographic interpretation of urban life and culture. Conceptual and methodological issues are discussed. Ongoing projects of participants are presented in a “workshop” format, thus providing participants with critical feedback as well as the opportunity to learn from and contribute to ethnographic work in progress. Selected ethnographic works are read and assessed. T 11:30–1:20

AFAM 773b/SOCY 630b, Workshop in Urban Ethnography Elijah Anderson

For description see AFAM 773a/SOCY 630a.

AFAM 779a/REL 830a/RLST 845a, Metaphors of Evil Emilie Townes

This course is an examination of the ways in which metaphors and symbols function at the intersection of various forms of oppression that coalesce into lifestyles of misery to produce social patterns of domination and subordination. We consider how conversations between Christian ethics and theology as well as other disciplines help frame possible trajectories of justice and justice making. M 1:30–3:20

AFAM 805a/AFST 949a/CPLT 987a/FREN 949a, Novel, Film, and History in French Africa Christopher L. Miller

African history as represented in historiography, novels, and films. Limited to French and Francophone Africa. Themes include empire and epic; orality and literacy; the slave trade; contact, conquest, and resistance; the Congo Free State; the role of colonial intermediaries; the two world wars; decolonization and neocolonialism; and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Reading knowledge of French required. TH 1:30–3:20

AFAM 814au/PLSC 823a, Race and Ethnicity Khalilah Brown-Dean

This course is an introduction to research on race and ethnicity in American politics. Topics include the social construction of race; intersections between race and gender; black, Latino, and Asian American public opinion and political participation; minority representation; the relationship among race, racism, and public policy; immigration and citizenship; state politics; the psychology of racial politics; and the role of race in campaigns. We discuss and debate the empirical contributions of this literature, as well as questions of theory, methodology, and research design. T 1:30–3:20

[AFAM 821a/REL 742a, Warrior Chants and Unquiet Spirits]

[AFAM 827b, Interdisciplinary Analysis in Race, Class, Gender]

AFAM 829b/WGSS 715b, American Legal History: Citizenship and Race Kathleen Cleaver

The seminar examines the evolution of U.S. citizenship as defined and interpreted by courts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular attention to the way historical events that defined race have affected citizenship. Topics of study include the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the 1866 Civil Rights Act, Reconstruction legislation, immigration restrictions imposed on Asians, legislation impacting the racial classification of Mexicans, statutes governing the citizenship of indigenous native peoples, racially based prohibitions against voting, education, and employment, and efforts to reduce them by civil rights legislation culminating with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Each seminar participant has to research several topics and make a presentation to the class on at least one topic. Engagement in seminar discussion and the drafting of research papers are the basis for grading. This seminar is open to seniors. TH 2:30–4:20

[AFAM 833b/REL 746b/RLST 846b, Vexations: Religion and Politics in the Black Community]

AFAM 835b/AMST 822b/CPLT 697b/ENGL 929b, The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans Joseph Roach

An exploration of the sources of creative inspiration that writers find in NOLA, including its cultural mystique, its colonial history, its troubled assimilation into Anglo-North America, its tortured racial politics, its natural and built environment, its spirit-world practices, its raucous festive life, its eccentric characters, its food, its music, its predisposition to catastrophe, and its capacity for reinvention and survival. T 1:30–3:20

AFAM 838bu/ENGL 988bu/WGSS 773bu, Contemporary African American Poetry Elizabeth Alexander

In this course we study African American poetry of the contemporary era, from 1960 to the present. We also cover predominant theoretical approaches to African American poetry and poetics. Authors include late Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden, Amiri Baraka, Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, Michael Harper, and poets of the new generation. W 1:30–3:20

AFAM 845b/REL 828b/RLST 850b, What’s in a Text?: Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations Emilie Townes

A detailed examination of one formative text for moral discourse to explore a thinker’s ideas and how he or she states a theme, develops an argument, and is able to argue his or her case in a persuasive manner. Attention to consistency, reasoning, style, and rhetoric are also a part of the course. Finally, we consider the book in relation to the renewal of the church, its implication for ministry, and its place in enriching scholarly debate and thought. Students may repeat the course as different texts are studied. The text we consider this time is the classic text, Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations. TH 3:30–5:20

[AFAM 847b/AFST 847b/CPLT 947b/FREN 947b, African-Caribbean Connections in French]

AFAM 851b/CPLT 989b/FREN 943b, Creole Identities and Fictions Christopher L. Miller

Focusing on the French and English Caribbean, this course analyzes the quintessential but ambiguous American condition: that of the “Creole.” Encompassing all non-native cultures, this term is inseparable from issues of race and slavery. Readings of historical and literary texts: Moreau de Saint-Méry, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Madame de Staël, Charlotte Brontë (and reinventions of Wuthering Heights by Jean Rhys and Maryse Condé), the Créolistes of Martinique. Attention to Louisiana and to the Haitian Revolution. Th 1:30–3:20

[AFAM 857b/FILM 781b, Blackspace and Cinema]

AFAM 880a or b, Directed Reading

By arrangement with faculty.

AFAM 895, Dissertation Prospectus Workshop Glenda Gilmore

A noncredit, yearlong course required of all third-year students. Fall term consists of biweekly work-in-progress talks by Yale faculty, advanced graduate students, and outside speakers. Spring term has biweekly workshops that focus on the dissertation prospectus.

For course offerings in African languages, see African Studies.

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African Studies

Council on African Studies

The MacMillan Center

142 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3436

www.yale.edu/macmillan/african/

M.A.

Chair

Kamari Clarke (Anthropology)

Director of Graduate Studies

Ann Biersteker [F] (432.9902, ann.biersteker@yale.edu)

Michael McGovern [Sp] (432.3686, mike.mcgovern@yale.edu)

Director of Program in African Languages

Kiarie Wa’Njogu (432.0110, john.wanjogu@yale.edu)

Professors David Apter (Emeritus, Political Science; Sociology), Lea Brilmayer (Law), John Darnell (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Owen Fiss (Law), William Foltz (Emeritus, Political Science), Robert Harms (History), Andrew Hill (Anthropology), Roderick McIntosh (Anthropology), Christopher L. Miller (French; African American Studies), Lamin Sanneh (History; Divinity), Ian Shapiro (Political Science), Robert Thompson (History of Art), Christopher Udry (Economics), Michael Veal (Music), David Watts (Anthropology)

Associate Professors Ann Biersteker (Adjunct; Linguistics), Kamari Clarke (Anthropology), Michael Mahoney (History)

Lecturers Anne-Marie Foltz (Epidemiology & Public Health), David Simon (Political Science)

Senior Lectors II Sandra Sanneh (African Languages), Kiarie Wa’Njogu (African Languages)

Senior Lector Matuku Ngame (French)

Lector Oluseye Adesola (African Languages)

Fields of Study

African Studies considers the arts, history, cultures, languages, literatures, politics, religions, and societies of Africa as well as issues concerning development, health, and the environment. Considerable flexibility and choice of areas of concentration are offered because students entering the program may have differing academic backgrounds and career plans. Enrollment in the M.A. program in African Studies provides students with the opportunity to register for the many African studies courses offered in the various departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools.

The Program in African Studies also offers two interdisciplinary seminars to create dialogue and to integrate approaches across disciplines. In addition to the M.A. degree program, the Council on African Studies offers students in the University’s doctoral and other professional degree programs the chance to obtain a Graduate Certificate of Concentration in African Studies by fulfilling a supplementary curriculum (see the section on the African Studies Council, under Non-Degree Granting Programs, Councils, and Research Institutes). Joint degrees are possible with the approval of the M.A. in African Studies and the relevant officials in the schools of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Public Health, Law, and Management.

The African collections of the Yale libraries together represent one of the largest holdings on Africa found in North America. The University now possesses more than 220,000 volumes including, but not limited to, government documents, art catalogues, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, and theses, many published in Africa.

Special Admissions Requirement

The GRE General Test is required.

Special Requirements for the M.A. Degree

The Yale University Master of Arts degree program in African Studies was instituted in 1986. The two-year interdisciplinary, graduate-level curriculum is intended for students who will later continue in a Ph.D. program or a professional school, or for those who will enter business, government service, or another career in which a sound knowledge of Africa is essential or valuable. A student may choose one of the following areas of concentration: history; anthropology; political science; sociology; arts and literatures; languages and linguistics; religion; environmental and development studies.

The program requires sixteen courses: two compulsory introductory interdisciplinary seminars, Research Methods in African Studies (AFST 501) and Africa and the Disciplines (AFST 764), four courses of instruction in an African language, four courses in one of the foregoing areas of concentration, four other approved courses offered in the Graduate School or professional schools, and two terms of directed reading and research (AFST 900a or b) during which students will complete the required thesis. A student who is able to demonstrate advanced proficiency in an African language may have the language requirement waived and substitute four other approved courses. The choice of courses must be approved by the director of graduate studies, Ann Biersteker, and students should consult with her as soon as possible in the first term.

The Master’s Thesis

The master’s thesis is based on research on a topic approved by the director of graduate studies and advised by a faculty member with expertise or specialized competence in the chosen topic.

Program in African Languages

The language program offers instruction in three major languages from sub-Saharan Africa: Kiswahili (eastern and central Africa), Yorùbá (west Africa), and isiZulu (southern Africa). Language-related courses and language courses for professionals are also offered. African language courses emphasize communicative competence, and instructors use multimedia materials that focus on the contemporary African context. Course sequences are designed to enable students to achieve advanced competence in all skill areas by the end of the third year, and the African Language program encourages students to spend one summer or term in Africa during their language study.

Noncredited instruction in other African languages is available by application through the Directed Independent Language Study program at the Center for Language Study. Contact the director of the Program in African Languages.

Program materials are available upon request from the Director of Graduate Studies, Council on African Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206; e-mail, african.studies@yale.edu.

Courses

AFST 501au, Research Methods in African Studies Ann Biersteker

This course considers disciplinary and interdisciplinary research methodologies in African studies. The focus of the course is on field methods and archival research in the social sciences and humanities. Topics include use of African studies and disciplinary sources (including bibliographical databases and African studies archives), research design, interviewing, survey methods, analysis of sources, and the development of databases and research collections. W 1:30–3:20

AFST 541bu, Comparative Perspectives on African Literatures Ann Biersteker

Introduction to a wide range of topics in African literature through an examination of English translations of works composed both in African and in European languages. Readings include poetry, novels, plays, essays, nonliterary texts, and autobiographies. Consideration of the symbiotic relationship between printed text and oral performance, between composition and transmission. W 1:30–3:20

AFST 574a/ANTH 574a, New Directions in Political and Legal Anthropology Kamari Clarke

This course explores changes in the field of political and legal anthropology. The course begins with an exploration of some of the key texts in the field and moves to explore the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological shifts over the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. TH 2:30–4:20

AFST 598au, Introduction to an African Language I Kiarie Wa’Njogu and staff

Beginning instruction in an African language other than those regularly offered. Courses offered depend on availability of instructors. Methodology and materials vary with the language studied. Students may also study an African language through the noncredit Directed Independent Language Study program. Permission of instructor required. MTWTHF 9:25–10:15

AFST 599bu, Introduction to an African Language II Kiarie Wa’Njogu and staff

Continuing instruction in an African language other than those regularly offered. Courses offered depend on availability of instructors. Methodology and materials vary with the language studied. After AFST 598a. Students may also study an African language through the noncredit Directed Independent Language Study program. Permission of instructor required. 5 HTBA

AFST 618bu, Communication and Healing Sandra Sanneh

This course deals with practical issues of communication about health and healing in South Africa. It focuses on the Nguni language environment (Zulu/Xhosa/Swati/ Ndebele) but also addresses some issues relating to other South African languages. The course offers an introduction to Zulu language in the context of health, and to social and cultural issues surrounding the origins of suffering, the articulation of symptoms, and the role of the family, traditional healers, and Western medical practitioners. Particular attention is given to HIV/AIDS in the community and to the status and attitudes of young people. HTBA

AFST 630bu, Language Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa Kiarie Wa’Njogu

Examination of language policies in selected sub-Saharan African countries. Analysis of language use in different contexts; assessment of the impact of globalization on African languages. W 1:30–3:20

AFST 650, Second Year in an African Language

By arrangement with faculty. After AFST 599.

AFST 660, Third Year in an African Language

By arrangement with faculty. After AFST 650.

AFST 670, Fourth Year in an African Language

By arrangement with faculty. After AFST 660.

AFST 680bu, Nigeria and Its Diaspora Oluseye Adesola

Nigerians in the modern diaspora, both those who endured forced migration and those who migrated voluntarily. Specific reference to the Igbos and the Yorubas. The preservation and maintenance of Nigerian culture, history, dance, literature, traditional education, theater, politics, art, music, film, religion, and folklore, especially in African American and Nigerian American contexts.

AFST 764bu/ANTH 622bu/PLSC 784bu, Africa and the Disciplines M. Kamari Clarke

A broad survey of Africa’s relation to academic discourse, as seen in a variety of disciplines. This course examines how Africa is represented and discussed in different fields; how disciplinary formations, language, popular conceptions, and related intellectual practices of the various disciplines have affected academic approaches to studies of Africa; and how these approaches have reinvented particular African geographies (e.g., sub-Saharan vs. North African, francophone vs. anglophone, South Africa vs. the rest of Africa, and contemporary diasporic articulations). Attention to questions surrounding the management of the “New World Order.” After a general context is established over the first four weeks of the term, scholars representing various fields in the humanities, social and political sciences, and the professional schools visit the seminar to discuss their work in relation to the ways that their respective discipline(s) have explored related themes. Throughout the term, attention is given to issues of interdisciplinarity. W 1:30–3:20

AFST 778bu/AFAM 728bu/HSAR 778bu, From West Africa to the Black Americas: The Black Atlantic Visual Tradition Robert Thompson

AFST 781a/AFAM 739a/HSAR 781a, Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture I: Africa Robert Thompson

The seminar addresses a new frontier—rebuilding the inner cities. This refers to Latino and mainland black cities within the cities of America. Accordingly, the course focuses on major roots of Latino and black traditional architecture. Topics include the architecture of Djenne, Berber art and architecture, Mauritanian sites, the monumental stone architecture of Zimbabwe, the sacred architecture of Ethiopia, and Muslim-influenced architecture from Rabat to Zanzibar. Then comes a case-by-case examination of some of the sites of African influence on the architecture of the Americas—the Puerto Rican casita; the southern verandah; the round-houses of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Mexico, Panama, and Columbia; Ganvie, the Venice of West Africa, and its mirror image among the tidal stilt architectures of blacks of the Choco area in Pacific Columbia. Th 3:30–5:20

AFST 781b/AFAM 739b/HSAR 781b, Problem and Theory in Afro-Atlantic Architecture II: The Black Americas Robert Thompson

A continuation of AFST 781a. Th 3:30–5:20

AFST 814a/REL 814a, Christian-Muslim Dialogue Lamin Sanneh

An introductory survey of Islam: its origin, history, law, theology, and religious tradition. An examination of the encounter of the medieval Muslim world with the West, and an assessment of intercultural influences between the two civilizations. The course explores interfaith issues in terms of convergence as well as contrast. HTBA

AFST 816b/REL 816b, World Christianity Lamin Sanneh

The course explores the worldwide Christian movement from the perspective of the current post-Western resurgence and the accompanying shift of the religion’s center of gravity from the north Atlantic world to the south Atlantic and Pacific world. Employing primary historical sources and critical secondary literature, the course examines the characteristic features and patterns of Christianity as a world religion now surging in diverse cultures and societies.

AFST 819b/REL 819b, African Religions Lamin Sanneh

Based primarily on Evans-Pritchard’s classic text Nuer Religion, the course is an introduction to phenomenology of religion with particular reference to the role and meaning of sacrifice in non-Western religious traditions. Looking at a diverse range of sources and examples, the course explores the phenomenon of religion in terms of ideas of God and the central rituals of gifts, offerings, and sacrifice as representations of the human response to the transcendent.

AFST 849a/HIST 849a, Agrarian History of Africa Robert Harms

This course examines changes in African rural life from precolonial times to the present. Issues to be examined include land use systems, rural modes of production, gender roles, markets and trade, the impact of colonialism, cash cropping, rural-urban migration, and development schemes. T 9:25–11:15

AFST 900a or b, Master’s Thesis Ann Biersteker and faculty

Directed reading and research on a topic approved by the director of graduate studies and advised by a faculty member (by arrangement) with expertise or specialized competence in the chosen field. Readings and research are done in preparation for the required master’s thesis.

AFST 947a/HIST 847a/WGSS 739a, Women and Gender in African History Michael Mahoney

Examination of both the particularities of the historical experiences of African women and the ways that gender has been defined in an African context. Context covers precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. Topics include masculinity, sexuality, and the representation of African women. T 1:30–3:20

AFST 949a/AFAM 805a/CPLT 987a/FREN 949a, Novel, Film, and History in French Africa Christopher L. Miller

AFST 951a or b, Directed Reading and Research Ann Biersteker and faculty

By arrangement with faculty.

SWAH 610au, Elementary Kiswahili I Kiarie Wa’Njogu

A beginning course with intensive training and practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Initial emphasis is on the spoken language and conversation. Credit only on completion of SWAH 620b. MTWThF 9:25–10:15

SWAH 620bu, Elementary Kiswahili II Kiarie Wa’Njogu

Continuation of SWAH 610a. Texts provide an introduction to the basic structure of Kiswahili and to the culture of the speakers of the language. Prerequisite: SWAH 610a. MTWThF 9:25–10:15

SWAH 630au, Intermediate Kiswahili I Kiarie Wa’Njogu

Further development of students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Prepares students for further work in literary, language, and cultural studies as well as for a functional use of Kiswahili. Study of structure and vocabulary is based on a variety of texts from traditional and popular culture. Emphasis on command of idiomatic usage and stylistic nuance. After SWAH 620b. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

SWAH 640bu, Intermediate Kiswahili II Kiarie Wa’Njogu

Continuation of SWAH 630a. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

SWAH 650au, Advanced Kiswahili I Ann Biersteker

Development of fluency through readings and discussions on contemporary issues in Kiswahili. Introduction to literary criticism in Kiswahili. Materials include Kiswahili oral literature, prose, poetry, and plays, as well as texts drawn from popular and political culture. After SWAH 640b. TTH 11:35–12:50

SWAH 660bu, Advanced Kiswahili II Ann Biersteker

Continuation of SWAH 650a. TTH 11:35–12:50

SWAH 670au or bu, Topics in Kiswahili Literature Ann Biersteker

Advanced readings and discussion with emphasis on literary and historical texts. Reading assignments include materials on Kiswahili poetry, Kiswahili dialects, and the history of Kiswahili. After SWAH 660b. TTH 11:35–12:50

YORU 610au, Elementary Yorùbá I Oluseye Adesola

Training and practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Initial emphasis is on the spoken aspect, with special attention to unfamiliar consonantal sounds, nasal vowels, and tone, using isolated phrases, set conversational pieces, and simple dialogues. Multimedia materials provide audio practice and cultural information. Credit only on completion of YORU 620b. MTWThF 10:30–11:20

YORU 620bu, Elementary Yorùbá II Oluseye Adesola

Continuing practice in using and recognizing tone through dialogues. More emphasis is placed on simple cultural texts and role playing. Prerequisite: YORU 610a. MTWThF 10:30–11:20

YORU 630au, Intermediate Yorùbá I Oluseye Adesola

Refinement of students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. More natural texts are provided to prepare students for work in literary, language, and cultural studies as well as for a functional use of Yorùbá. After YORU 620b. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

YORU 640bu, Intermediate Yorùbá II Oluseye Adesola

Students are exposed to more idiomatic use of the language in a variety of interactions, including occupational, social, religious, and educational. Cultural documents include literary and nonliterary texts. After YORU 630a. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

YORU 650au, Advanced Yorùbá I Oluseye Adesola

An advanced course intended to improve the students’ aural and reading comprehension as well as speaking and writing skills. Emphasis is on acquiring a command of idiomatic usage and stylistic nuance. Study materials include literary and nonliterary texts; social, political, and popular entertainment media such as video movies and recorded poems (ewì); and music. After YORU 640b. 3 HTBA

YORU 660bu, Advanced Yorùbá II Oluseye Adesola

Continuing development of students’ aural and reading comprehension, and speaking and writing skills, with emphasis on idiomatic usage and stylistic nuance. Study materials are selected to reflect research interests of the students. After YORU 650a. 3 HTBA

YORU 670au or bu, Topics in Yorùbá Literature and Culture Oluseye Adesola

This course provides students with the opportunity to acquire Yorùbá up to the superior level. It is designed to give an in-depth discussion on advanced readings on Yorùbá literature and culture. It focuses on Yorùbá history, poetry, novels, dramas, and oral folklore. It also seeks to uncover the basics of the Yorùbá culture in communities where Yorùbá is spoken across the globe, with particular emphasis on Nigeria. It examines movies, texts, and written literature to gain insight into the Yorùbá philosophy and ways of life. TTH 4–5:15

ZULU 610au, Elementary isiZulu I Sandra Sanneh

A beginning course in conversational isiZulu, using Web-based materials filmed in South Africa. Emphasis on the sounds of the language, including clicks and tonal variation, and on the words and structures needed for initial social interaction. Brief dialogues concern everyday activities; aspects of contemporary Zulu culture are introduced through readings and documentaries in English. Credit only on completion of ZULU 620b. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

ZULU 620bu, Elementary isiZulu II Sandra Sanneh

Development of communication skills through dialogues and role play. Texts and songs are drawn from traditional and popular literature and songs. Students research daily life in selected areas of South Africa. Prerequisite: ZULU 610a. MTWThF 11:35–12:25

ZULU 630au, Intermediate isiZulu I Sandra Sanneh

Development of basic fluency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing isiZulu, using Web-based materials filmed in South Africa. Students describe and narrate spoken and written paragraphs. Review of morphology; concentration on tense and aspect. Materials are drawn from contemporary popular culture, folklore, and mass media. After ZULU 620b. MTWThF 9:25–10:15

ZULU 640bu, Intermediate isiZulu II Sandra Sanneh

Students read longer texts from popular media as well as myths and folktales. Prepares students for initial research involving interaction with speakers of isiZulu in South Africa, and for the study of oral and literary genres. After ZULU 630a. MTWThF 9:25–10:15

ZULU 650au, Advanced isiZulu I Sandra Sanneh

Development of fluency in using idioms, speaking about abstract concepts, and voicing preferences and opinions. Excerpts are drawn from oral genres, short stories, and dramas made for television. Introduction to other South African languages and to issues of standardization, dialect, and language attitude. After ZULU 640b. 3 htba

ZULU 660bu, Advanced isiZulu II Sandra Sanneh

Readings may include short stories, a novel, praise poetry, historical texts, or contemporary political speeches, depending on student interests. Study of issues of language policy and use in contemporary South Africa; introduction to the Soweto dialect of isiZulu. Students are prepared for extended research in South Africa involving interviews with isiZulu speakers. After ZULU 650a.

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American Studies

230 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432.1186

www.yale.edu/amstud/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Jean-Christophe Agnew (230 HGS, 432.1186)

Director of Graduate Studies

Joanne Meyerowitz (230 HGS, 432.1186)

Professors Jean-Christophe Agnew, Elizabeth Alexander, Ned Blackhawk, David Blight, Jon Butler, Hazel Carby, George Chauncey, Edward Cooke, Jr., John Demos [F], Michael Denning, Wai Chee Dimock, Kathryn Dudley (on leave [F]), John Mack Faragher, Glenda Gilmore, Langdon Hammer, Dolores Hayden, Jonathan Holloway, Amy Hungerford, Matthew Jacobson (on leave), Daniel Kevles, Joanne Meyerowitz, Charles Musser, Alexander Nemerov, Patricia Pessar (Adjunct), Stephen Pitti, Sally Promey, Joseph Roach, Marc Robinson, Michael Roemer (Adjunct), Stephen Skowronek (on leave [F]), Robert Stepto, Harry Stout, Michael Veal, John Harley Warner, Michael Warner, Laura Wexler

Associate Professors Mary Lui, Alondra Nelson, Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Assistant Professors Birgit Brander Rassmussen, Kathryn Lofton, Paige McGinley, Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (on leave), Caleb Smith, Kariann Yokota

Lecturers James Berger, Ronald Gregg, David Musto

Fields of Study

Fields include American literature, history, the arts and material culture, philosophy, cultural theory, and the social sciences.

Special Admissions Requirement

A twenty-page writing sample is required with the application.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

During the first two years of study students are required to take twelve term courses; at least two of these each year must be in American Studies. The student’s program will be decided in consultation with the adviser and the director of graduate studies. In each of the two years, the student should take at least one seminar devoted to research or requiring a substantial original paper, and must achieve two grades of Honors, with an average overall of High Pass. Students will be required to show proficiency in a language other than English by conducting research in that language as a component of one of the courses taken during the first two years. Upon completion of course work, students in their third year of study are required to participate in a yearlong prospectus workshop (AMST 902a and b). Open to all students in the program, the workshop serves as a forum for the discussion of selecting a dissertation topic, refining a project’s scope, organizing research materials, and evaluating work in progress. Intended to complement the work of the prospectus committee, the workshop is designed as a professionalization experience that culminates in students’ presentation of the dissertation prospectus at their prospectus colloquium. The workshop meets once a month.

Students should schedule the oral qualifying examinations in four fields, in the fifth term of study. Preparation, submission, and approval of the dissertation prospectus should be completed by the end of the sixth term, with a final deadline at the end of the seventh term with permission from the DGS. Students are admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. upon completion of all predissertation requirements, including the prospectus. The faculty in American Studies considers training in teaching to be an important part of the program. Students in American Studies normally teach in years three and four.

Combined Ph.D. Programs

American Studies and African American Studies

The Department of American Studies also offers, in conjunction with the Department of African American Studies, a combined Ph.D. in American Studies and African American Studies. This combined degree is most appropriate for students who intend to concentrate in and write a dissertation on any aspect of African American history, literature, or culture in the United States and other parts of the Americas. Applicants to the joint program must indicate on their application that they are applying both to American Studies and to African American Studies. All documentation within the application should include this information.

American Studies and Film Studies

The Department of American Studies also offers, in conjunction with the Program in Film Studies, a joint Ph.D. in American Studies and Film Studies. For further details, see Film Studies. Applicants to the joint program must indicate on their application that they are applying both to Film Studies and to American Studies. All documentation within the application should include this information.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.) The M.A. is granted upon the completion of six term courses (two grades must be Honors and the other four grades must average High Pass), and the successful completion of the language requirement. It can be petitioned for in the term following completion of the requirements. Candidates in combined programs will be awarded the master’s degree only when the master’s requirements for both programs have been met.

Public Humanities Concentration The M.A. in Public Humanities is granted upon the completion of all requirements for the en route M.A. Of the six term courses required, students must take four Public Humanities courses, including AMST 903, 904, 905.

Terminal Master’s Degree Program The basic requirements for this terminal degree are six term courses, including a special writing project, and the successful completion of the language examination. The project involves the submission of substantial written work either in conjunction with one course or as a tutorial that substitutes for one course. Students must earn a grade of Honors in two of their courses and an average grade of High Pass in the others.

For further information, see the American Studies Web site: www.yale.edu/amstud/.

Courses

AMST 600a, American Scholars Jean-Christophe Agnew

“What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body. The literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning of household life, are the topics of the time.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar, 1837

A half-century ago American studies was a movement; now it is an institution. But it remains an anomaly in the academy, with neither method nor discipline: a modest program, not a department, that immodestly claims the space between disciplines, beyond disciplines, and perhaps encompassing disciplines.

In the early days, American studies was imagined as a home for Emerson’s American scholar; these days Emerson’s scholar is apt to be eyed more skeptically. Nevertheless the philosophy of the street and the meaning of household life continue to be the topics of the time, and American studies remains an oddly Emersonian place for nurturing intellectuals.

To explore the various kinds of American scholars and American studies, the American Scholars colloquium meets weekly. Each week, we ask a member of the American Studies faculty: What are the key works that shape your intellectual project? What works pose the crucial issues? What works engage what you would really know the meaning of? Each speaks briefly and leads a discussion of the works chosen. There is no writing assignment, and students receive a credit for participating. This course is mandatory for first-year American Studies graduate students. W 9:25–11:15

AMST 622a and 623b, Working Group on Globalization and Culture Michael Denning

A continuing collective research project, a cultural studies “laboratory,” that has been running since the fall of 2003. The group is made up of graduate students and faculty from several disciplines. The working group meets regularly to discuss common readings, to develop collective and individual research projects, and to present that research publicly. The general theme for the working group is globalization and culture, with three principal aspects: (1) the globalization of cultural industries and goods, and its consequences for patterns of everyday life as well as for forms of fiction, film, broadcasting, and music; (2) the trajectories of social movements and their relation to patterns of migration, the rise of global cities, the transformation of labor processes, and forms of ethnic, class, and gender conflict; (3) the emergence of and debates within transnational social and cultural theory. The specific focus, projects, and directions of the working group are determined by the interests, expertise, and ambitions of the members of the group, and change as its members change. There are a small number of openings for second-year graduate students. Students interested in participating should contact michael.denning@yale.edu. M 1:30–3:20

AMST 641a/AFAM 596au, African American Poets of the Modern Era Robert Stepto

The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and the present, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden. W 1:30–3:20

AMST 643a/AFAM 505a, Theorizing Racial Formations Jonathan Holloway

A designated core course for students in the joint Ph.D. program; also open to students in American Studies and History. This interdisciplinary reading seminar focuses on new work that is challenging the temporal, theoretical, and spatial boundaries of the field. TH 9:25–11:15

AMST 644a, Race and Memory Alicia Schmidt Camacho

A seminar in critical theory and methods for studying social movements and popular, vernacular cultures. The seminar addresses issues of modernity and “development,” racialization, class formation, sexual and gender difference in the Americas through readings in subaltern studies, postcolonial theory, and ethnic studies. The course pairs primary texts with secondary, critical texts. We address the evocations of collective, popular memory by communities to recall or contest the condition of subaltern status. The course focuses on the Americas and U.S. imperial projects dating from the nineteenth century up to the current moment. T 9:25–11:15

AMST 645a/AFAM 723a, Caribbean Diasporic Intellectuals Hazel Carby

This course examines work by writers of Caribbean descent from different regions of the transatlantic world. In response to contemporary interest in issues of globalization, the premise of the course is that in the world maps of these black intellectuals we can see the intertwined and interdependent histories and relations of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Thinking globally is not a new experience for black peoples, and we need to understand the ways in which what we have come to understand and represent as “Caribbeanness” is a condition of movement. Literature is most frequently taught within the boundaries of a particular nation, but this course focuses on the work of writers who shape the Caribbean identities of their characters as traveling black subjects and refuse to restrain their fiction within the limits of any one national identity. We practice a new and global type of cognitive mapping as we read and explore the meanings of terms like black transnationalism, migrancy, globalization, and empire. Diasporic writing embraces and represents the geopolitical realities of the modern, modernizing, and postmodern worlds in which multiple racialized histories are inscribed on modern bodies. M 2:30–4:20

AMST 648b/AFAM 749b/WGSS 735b, Transnational Imaginaries Hazel Carby

AMST 649b/HIST 763b, Readings in Latina/o History Stephen Pitti

A reading of the historical works that focus on Latino communities in the United States. We focus particular attention on Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American communities, and we look at topics such as racial identity, border conflict, 1960s activism, patters of residency and migration, transnationality and citizenship, labor struggles and class formation, and gender and sexuality. Readings bring together scholarship from several disciplines and emphasize both the critical importance of this developing field and its contemporary challenges. M 7–8:50

AMST 651au/AFAM 563au, Ralph Ellison in Context Robert Stepto

AMST 653b, Recording Vernacular Music Michael Denning

An introduction to the cultural study of vernacular musics in the era of sound recording. Topics include the rise of the music industry from sheet music to MP3s; the critical debates over vernacular musics associated with figures like Theodor Adorno, Charles Seeger, Alejo Carpentier, and Amiri Baraka; the rise of ethnographic field recording and the twentieth-century revivals of folk musics; the popular urban music cultures of ports and industrial cities; and the global circulation of commercial vernacular musics from jazz, tango, and hula to salsa and hip hop. TTH 1–2:15

AMST 700a/HIST 700a, Introduction to the Historiography of the United States Stephen Pitti

Readings and discussion of a scholarly work on U.S. history from the settlement era to the present. Members of the department faculty visit the class on a rotating basis. MW 9–10:15

AMST 705b/HIST 720b/RLST 705b, Readings in Religion and Society, 1600–2000 Harry Stout, Kathryn Lofton

This introductory graduate readings course assesses interrelations between religion and American society from 1600 to 1990. Concentration on religion’s successes and failures in shaping American society from the Puritans to modern neoconservative fundamentalism. Readings in primary and secondary sources; development of bibliographical skills. M 1:30–3:20

AMST 709a/AFAM 709a/HIST 736a/WGSS 736a, Research in Twentieth-Century U.S. Political and Social History Glenda Gilmore

Projects chosen from the post-Civil War period, with emphasis on twentieth-century social and political history, broadly defined. Research seminar. TH 3:30–5:20

AMST 710bu/AFAM 588bu/ENGL 948b, Autobiography in America Robert Stepto

AMST 714b/AFAM 706b/HIST 735b, Readings in Twentieth-Century U.S. History Glenda Gilmore

Recent trends in American political history from the 1890s, with an emphasis on the social analysis of mass politics and reform. Th 3:30–5:20

AMST 719b/RLST 703b, Interrogating the Crisis of Islam: Seminar Zareena Grewal

In official and unofficial discourses in the U.S., diagnoses of Islam’s various “crises” are ubiquitous, and Muslim “hearts and minds” are viewed as the “other” front in the War on Terror. Since 9/11, the U.S. State Department has made the reform of Islam an explicit national interest, pouring billions of dollars into USAID projects in Muslim-majority countries, initiating curriculum development programs for madrasas in South Asia, and establishing the Arabic Radio Sawa and the satellite TV station Al-Hurra to propagate the U.S. administration’s political views as well as what it terms a “liberal” strain of Islam. Muslim Americans are also consumed by debates about the “crisis” of Islam, a crisis of religious authority in which the nature and rapidity of change in the measures of authority are felt to be too difficult to assimilate. This course maps out the various and deeply politically charged contemporary debates about the “crisis of Islam” and the question of Islamic reform through an examination of official U.S. policy, transnational pulp Islamic literature, fatwas and essays authored by internationally renowned Muslim jurists and scholars, and historical and ethnographic works that take up the category of crisis as an interpretive device. M 1:30–3:20

AMST 722b/AFAM 757b/HIST 722b, Research Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American History David Blight

Some class sessions focus on matters of craft: research techniques, styles of writing narrative and analysis; judging scholarly work; and philosophical dimensions of doing history in the early twenty-first century. Primary focus of the course is for each student to complete his/her own major research paper. Students in any field of American history are welcome. W 3:30–5:20

AMST 724a/HSAR 733a, Abstract Expressionism Alexander Nemerov

The study of Abstract Expressionism is not what it once was. Previously considered a centerpiece of modernist art history, the work of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline, and other painters has been somewhat subordinated in the last ten years to the study of more recent art. Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction are now arguably two of the many mid-twentieth-century cultural forms that require almost an archaeological approach to excavate. In this seminar we review critical approaches to this art—starting with Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg and moving on to recent scholars such as T. J. Clark, Tom Crow, Serge Guilbaut, Caroline Jones, and Michael Leja—before trying to determine (or, better, develop) new models for understanding these works from ca. 1935 to 1965. T 1:30–3:20

AMST 733b, America in the Transpacific World Kariann Yokota

This seminar explores the politics of material and cultural exchange in the transpacific world by examining the most significant commodities that drew the U.S. into the region. Readings take a global perspective on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the region. The class analyzes how expansion from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century influenced the transpacific world and, conversely, how this involvement shaped the development of American culture. Students study objects that were preserved in cabinets of curiosity, universities, and museums in diverse locations such as Honolulu, London, and Salem.

AMST 735a/ARCG 725a/HSAR 725a, An Introduction to American Material Culture Edward Cooke

The field of material culture has drawn from a number of different disciplines and scholarly traditions. Through readings and applications of methodologies ranging from structuralism and semiotics to Marxist criticism and cultural studies, this seminar provides a solid foundation for the interpretation of artifacts. W 1:30–3:20

AMST 738b/HIST 733b, Readings in Western and Frontier History John Mack Faragher

An introduction to recent work on the history of North American frontiers and the shifting region of the American West. Critical consideration of readings, participation in discussion, and completion of short weekly writing assignments and a term project. W 9:25–11:15

AMST 741b/HIST 752b, Indians and Empires Ned Blackhawk

This course explores recent scholarship on Indian-imperial relations throughout North American colonial spheres from roughly 1500 to 1900. It examines indigenous responses to Spanish, Dutch, French, English, and lastly American and Canadian colonialisms and interrogates commonplace periodization, geographic, and conceptual approaches to historiography. It concludes with an examination of American Indian political history, contextualizing it within larger assessments of Indian-imperial and Indian-state relations. M 9:25–11:15

AMST 746b/ANTH 543b, Writing Ethnography: Reprensentations and Relevant Publics Kathryn Dudley

What kind of literary project is ethnography? How do ethnographers conceptualize the relationship between their readers and their subjects—and themselves as authors and subjects of their own texts? This seminar moves beyond the “crisis of representation” in anthropology to take stock of what experimental approaches to writing ethnography have contributed to our understanding of the ethnographic encounter and its place in the production of knowledge. In addition to genre-bending examples of recent ethnography, we read works of literary criticism, social theory, and cultural analysis that problematize classic representational conventions. We also consider the unique challenges of writing ethnographically for a public audience. M 1:30–3:20

AMST 767b/HIST 724b, Research Seminar in U.S. Urban History Mary Lui

Students conduct archival research to write an original article-length essay on any aspect of U.S. urban history in any century. The first half of the seminar consists of weekly readings discussions, while the latter half consists of article workshop meetings focused on student writing. T 9:25–11:15

AMST 770b/HIST 770b/WGSS 750b, Research in Gender and Sexuality George Chauncey

Students conduct research in primary sources and write original monographic essays on the history of gender and sexuality. Readings include key theoretical works as well as journal articles that might serve as models for student research projects. T 1:30–3:20

AMST 775a/HIST 757a, Culture in U.S. International and Transnational Histories Seth Fein

Reading seminar that crosses disciplinary, national, and historiographical borders to explore the history of the United States outside the United States and the history of other nations within the United States (mainly since 1900). Work focuses on comparing methods, using theory, doing research, writing history. Themes include empire, imperialism, and postcolonialism; Americanization, globalization, and mass culture; nationalism, nationality, and transnationalism. M 7–8:50

AMST 777b/HIST 758b, Research Seminar in U.S. International and Transnational Histories Seth Fein

Emphasizes interdisciplinary methods and cultural analysis for research and writing about the history of the United States outside the United States and the history of other nations within the United States. Term project is a publishable, article-length essay. M 7–8:50

AMST 786a/HIST 744a/WGSS 744a, Readings in the History of Gender Joanne Meyerowitz

Selected topics in women’s and gender history with emphasis on U.S. history. Themes include changing conceptions of sex, gender, womanhood, manhood, femininity, and masculinity; the language of gender as a constitutive part of various social hierarchies; class, racial/ethnic, regional, and national differences; and gendered participation in religion, labor, politics, war, and social reform movements. Readings, writing assignments, and classroom discussions address recent historical methodological approaches. W 2:30–4:20

AMST 798b/HIST 726b, The Culture of the Gilded Age Cynthia Russett

This course uses fiction and nonfiction to look at some of the major concerns of late nineteenth-century America, including political corruption, wealth and poverty, social reform, and the situation of women and minorities. Authors include Edward Bellamy, William Graham Sumner, Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. W 2:30–4:20

AMST 799b/HIST 799b, The American Century, 1941–1961 Jean-Christophe Agnew

This seminar looks at recent work in the intellectual and cultural history of WWII and Cold War America—the years between the New Deal and the New Frontier. Secondary readings highlight current directions in historiography as well as the range of research opportunities available, while class assignments and discussions focus for the most part on the different ways one can teach the period and its documentary sources, including literature, film, music, and painting. The seminar aims to suggest the richness and coherence of this period as a subject for intellectual and cultural historians—especially for those wishing to pursue a research topic in this area—and as an occasion to explore the possibilities for interdisciplinary teaching. T 1:30–3:20

AMST 803a/HIST 703a, Research in Early National America Joanne Freeman

A research seminar focused on the early national period of American history, broadly defined. Early weeks familiarize students with sources from the period and discuss research and writing strategies. Students produce a publishable article founded on primary materials. T 1:30–3:20

AMST 807b/AFAM 735b, Performance Historiography Paige McGinley

AMST 813au/FILM 736au, Contemporary Documentary Film and Video Charles Musser

Examination of documentary and related nonfiction forms in the last three decades. Issues include film truth, performance, ethics, race and gender, and the filmmaker as participant-observer. Filmmakers include Frederick Wiseman, William Greaves, Chris Choy, Errol Morris, Lourdes Portillo, Trin T. Minh-Ha, Sue Friedrich, and Marlon Riggs. M 6:30–10:30

AMST 822b/AFAM 835b/CPLT 697b/ENGL 929b, The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans Joseph Roach

AMST 823b, Visual Controversies: Religion and the Politics of Vision Sally Promey

This interdisciplinary graduate seminar explores the destruction, censorship, and suppression of pictures and objects, as these acts have been motivated by religious convictions and practices, in the United States from colonization to the present. In such episodes, religion does not operate in a vacuum but draws attention to various other cultural pressure points concerning, for instance, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The course treats iconoclasm as a fundamental constituent in the American myth of national origins. The course focuses most specifically on variations of Protestant Christianity, but also explores case studies within multiple American religious traditions and elsewhere in the world. By permission of instructor. TH 9:25–11:15

AMST 861b/ARCH 914b, Built Environments and the Politics of Place Dolores Hayden

Call it the built environment, the vernacular, everyday architecture, or the cultural landscape, the material world of built and natural places is intricately bound up with social and political life. This seminar introduces research methods involving the built environment. It includes readings from urban and suburban history, geography, anthropology, and architecture as well as readings on narrative and graphic strategies for representing spaces and places. Participants present papers; chapters from longer projects are welcome. Limited enrollment. M 9:25–11:15

AMST 879au/HIST 914au/HSHM 634au, Media and Medicine in Modern America John Harley Warner, Gretchen Berland

An exploration of the relationships among medicine, health, and the media in the United States from 1870 through the present. Focus on newspapers, magazines, professional journals, advertising, exhibitions, radio, film, television, and the Internet; and on interactions among researchers, health professions, medical and public health institutions, journalists, advocacy organizations, the state, industry, and the public. Topics include the changing role of the media in shaping conceptions of the body; creating new diseases; influencing health and health policy; crafting the image of the medical profession; informing expectations of medicine and constructions of citizenship; and the medicalization of American life. TTH 10:30–11:20

AMST 882bu/HIST 939bu/HSHM 677bu, Genetics, Reproduction, and Society Daniel Kevles

A history of modern biology, especially evolution, genetics, and molecular biology, within its social, economic, legal, and cultural context. Topics include eugenics and sterilization, the Scopes trial, contraception and abortion, new reproductive technologies, medical genetics, the Human Genome Project, and human cloning. MW 11:35–12:25

AMST 886b/ENGL 851b, American Literature: Fields, Genealogies, Webs Wai Chee Dimock

A survey of genres and methods, with special attention to these broad areas of inquiry: multiple diasporas; cross-mappings of poetry and prose; movement across words, image, music; memories, adaptations, and rewritings from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first; morphologies of the human, the subhuman, and the nonhuman; and the fate of close reading in a global world. We read Hawthorne in conjunction with Maryse Condé; Poe with Ishmael Reed; Whitman with Allen Ginsberg and Sherman Alexie; Faulkner with Suzan-Lori Parks; Olaudah Equiano with Dave Eggers; Emily Dickinson with Richard Powers. W 1:30–3:20

AMST 900, Independent Research

AMST 901, Directed Reading

AMST 902a and b, Prospectus Workshop Joanne Meyerowitz

Upon completion of course work, students are required to participate in at least one term of the prospectus workshop, ideally the semester before the prospectus colloquium is held. Open to all students in the program and joint departments, the workshop serves as a forum for discussing the selection of a dissertation topic, refining a project’s scope, organizing research materials, and evaluating work in progress. The workshop meets once a month. M 12–1:30

AMST 903a, Public Humanities Laura Wexler

What is the relationship between knowledge produced in the university and the circulation of ideas among a broader public, between academic expertise on the one hand and non-professionalized ways of knowing and thinking on the other? What is possible? This seminar provides an introduction to various institutional relations and to the modes of inquiry, interpretation, and presentation by which practitioners in the humanities seek to invigorate the flow of information and ideas among a public more broadly conceived than the academy, its classrooms, and its exclusive readership of specialists. Topics may include public history, museum studies, oral and community history, public art, documentary film and photography, public writing and educational outreach, and the socially conscious performing arts. In addition to core readings and discussions, the seminar includes presentations by several practitioners who are currently engaged in different aspects of the Public Humanities. A highly flexible term project—including possibilities for an internship with a regional museum, archive, gallery, or media outlet—allows students to explore the substantive and logistical challenges of public intellectual work in the genre or form that most interests them. Participants also collaborate in developing and beginning to organize a Public Humanities program of installations and events to be held during the following academic year. Required for the Master’s Degree in Public Humanities. T 3:30–5:20

AMST 904, Practicum in Public Humanities

AMST 905, Master’s Project in Public Humanities

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Anthropology

10 Sachem, 432.3670

www.yale.edu/anthropology/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

William Kelly

Director of Graduate Studies

M. Kamari Clarke

Professors Richard Bribiescas, Richard Burger, Michael Dove (Forestry & Environmental Studies), Kathryn Dudley (American Studies), J. Joseph Errington, Andrew Hill, Marcia Inhorn (Middle East Studies), William Kelly, Enrique Mayer, Roderick McIntosh, Patricia Pessar (Adjunct; American Studies), Eric Sargis, James Scott (Political Science), Helen Siu, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, David Watts, Harvey Weiss (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)

Associate Professors J. Bernard Bate, M. Kamari Clarke, Nora Groce (Adjunct; Epidemiology & Public Health)

Assistant Professors Jafari Allen (African American Studies), Brenda Bradley, Sean Brotherton, Narges Erami (Middle East Studies), Erik Harms (Southeast Asia Studies), Karen Hébert (Forestry & Environmental Studies), William Honeychurch, Michael McGovern, Karen Nakamura, Douglas Rogers

Lecturers Osmund Bopearachchi (South Asian Studies), Carol Carpenter (Forestry & Environmental Studies), Ashish Chadha (Film Studies), John Hale, Graeme Reid (Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Fields of Study

The department covers three subfields: archaeology; sociocultural and linguistic anthropology; and physical anthropology. Archaeology focuses on ritual complexes and writing, ceramic analysis, warfare, ancient civilizations, origins of agriculture, and museum studies. Sociocultural anthropology provides a range of courses: classics in ethnography and social theory, religion, myth and ritual, kinship and descent, historical anthropology, culture and political economy, agrarian studies, ecology, environment and social change, medical anthropology, emotions, public health, sexual meanings and gender, postcolonial development, ethnicity, identity politics and diaspora, urban anthropology, global mass culture, and alternate modernity. Linguistic anthropology includes language, nationalism, and ideology, structuralism and semiotics, feminist discourse. Physical anthropology focuses on paleoanthropology, evolutionary theory, human functional anatomy, race and human biological diversity, primate ecology. There is strong geographical coverage in Africa, the Caribbean, East Asia (China and Japan), Latin America and South America, Southeast Asia (Indonesia), South Asia and the Indian Ocean, the Near East, Europe, and the United States.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Although there are a few required courses or seminars for each subfield, more than three-fourths of a student’s program consists of electives, including course work in other departments. Admission to candidacy requires (1) completion of two years of course work (sixteen term courses); (2) independent study and research; (3) satisfactory performance on qualifying examinations; and (4) a dissertation research proposal submitted and approved before the end of the third year. Qualifying examinations, normally taken at the end of the second year, consist of eight hours written (four hours on one of the subfields, four hours on the student’s special interest), and two hours oral. Dissertations are normally based on field or laboratory research.

Combined Ph.D. Programs

The Anthropology department also offers a combined Ph.D. in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies in conjunction with the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and a combined Ph.D. in Anthropology and African American Studies in conjunction with the Department of African American Studies. These combined programs are ideal for students who intend to concentrate in, and to write dissertations on, thematic and theoretical issues centrally concerned with anthropology and one of these other areas of study. Students in the combined degree programs will be subject to the combined supervision of faculty members in the Anthropology department and in the respective department or school.

Admission into the combined degree program in Anthropology and African American Studies is based on mutual agreement between these two departments. Individual students will develop courses of study in consultation with their academic advisers and with the directors of graduate study for both departments. Students in the program must take core courses in Anthropology and in African American Studies, plus related courses in both departments approved by their advisory committees. In addition, they must successfully complete the African American Studies third-year Research Workshop. Oral and written qualifying examinations must include two topics in the field of African American Studies and two topics in Anthropology. The examination committee must include at least one faculty member from each department. The dissertation prospectus must be submitted to the directors of graduate study of both departments and approved by the faculty of both. The thesis readers committee must also include at least one faculty member from each department, and the faculties of both departments must approve its composition.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.A. Applications for a terminal master’s degree are not accepted. This degree is granted to students not continuing in the Ph.D. program. The student must complete eight graduate-level term courses approved for credit in the Anthropology department and maintain an average grade of High Pass.

Contact information: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, PO Box 208277, New Haven CT 06520-8277; 203.432.3670; e-mail, anthropology@yale.edu; Web site, www.yale.edu/anthro/.

Courses

ANTH 500a, The Development of the Discipline: Historical Trajectories William Kelly

This seminar emphasizes the characteristics of anthropology as a discipline and as a profession, and the historical trajectory of sociocultural anthropology from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. The seminar is reserved for first-year doctoral students in Anthropology. M 9–12

ANTH 500b, The Development of the Discipline: Contemporary Themes Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

The major theoretical orientations in social and cultural anthropology (especially in the United States and Europe), their historical development and importance, their relation to one another and to other disciplines. The seminar is reserved for first-year doctoral students in Anthropology, and students are presumed to have taken ANTH 500 in the fall term. M 9:25–11:15

ANTH 501a, Anthropology and Classical Social Theory Erik Harms

Readings of primary texts in classical social theory, especially the writings of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of these theorists in the early development of anthropology and social science more broadly. This course is reserved for first-year graduate students in Anthropology. TH 1:30–3:20

ANTH 501b, Anthropology and Contemporary Social Theory Sean Brotherton

An overview of central themes and debates in contemporary social theory, with a focus on the integration of theory and research, rather than a hermeneutical analysis of particular theoretical texts. Concentrating on questions of power, inequality, the self, and community, assessment of the relevance of sociological theory to advancing an understanding of the complexities of late twentieth-century Western society. Critical theory, feminist theories, postmodernism, and the contributions of individual theorists reviewed and critiqued. M 1:30–3:20

ANTH 502a, Research in Sociocultural Anthropology: Design and Methods Helen Siu

The course offers critical evaluation of the nature of ethnographic research. Research design includes the rethinking of site, voice, and ethnographic authority. M 1:30–3:20

ANTH 503a, Research in Sociocultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Writing and Representation Karen Nakamura

This course examines the representational practices that inform the doing and making of ethnography, broadly construed as the depiction of social life in the past and present. We consider classic and contemporary approaches to ethnography as a literary form as well as explore precedents and possibilities in the visual and performing arts. W 1:30–3:20

ANTH 513bu, Language, Culture, and Ideology J. Joseph Errington

Influential anthropological theories of culture are reviewed with critical reference to theories of language that inspired or informed them. Topics include American and European structuralism, cognitivist and interpretivist approaches to cultural description, work of Bakhtin, Bourdieu, and various “critical theorists.” W 9:25–11:15

ANTH 533bu, Bilingualism in Social Context J. Joseph Errington

The linguistic phenomenon of bilingualism is presented through broad issues in social description inseparably linked to it: growth and change in bilingual communities, bilingual usage, social identity, and allegiance, interactional significances of bilingual speech repertoire use. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 537a, Politics/Aesthetics Michael McGovern

This course explores the complex relations between expressive culture and the exercise of power. Starting with the works of the Frankfurt School and such authors as Lukács, Debord, Raymond Williams, and Rancière, the course proceeds through a series of thematic steps, examining case studies. We look at Zairean popular music and painting as political critique; the politics of museum and other exhibitionary displays; the question of visibility both as it relates to talk about transparency and conspiracy and as it relates to urban planning. The course ends with several full-length monographs on the performance of secularism in contemporary Turkey, the attribution of agency to architecture in Jerusalem, and the “theater state” in Bali. The course attempts to analyze the politics of artistic creation and the aesthetic elements of political rhetoric and practice as two moments in a dialectical—indeed, dialogical—relation. T 9:25–11:15

ANTH 541a/F&ES 80054a/HIST 965a/PLSC 779a, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Perdue, James Scott

An interdisciplinary examination of agrarian societies, contemporary and historical, Western and non-Western. Major analytical perspectives from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and environmental studies are used to develop a meaning-centered and historically grounded account of the transformations of rural society. Team-taught. TH 1:30–5:20

ANTH 542au, Cultures and Markets: Asia Connected through Time and Space Helen Siu

The course focuses on historical and contemporary movements of people, goods, cultural meanings, and imaginaries that have connected an “Asian” region. It builds on the scholarship of Fernand Braudel, K. N. Chaudhuri, and Takeshi Hamashita and uses an ocean-based perspective to highlight the interconnected, multi-ethnic commercial nodes. It captures the energies of agents of trading empires, religious traditions, colonial encounters, and cultural fusion as transregional institutions and local societies intersected. The contemporary global perspective highlights the time-space compression of volatile finance flows that connect East Asia and the Indian Ocean to the Middle East and Africa, and examines the cultures of capital and market in the neoliberal and post-socialist world. T 1.30–3.20

ANTH 543b/AMST 746b, Writing Ethnography: Representations and Relevant Publics Kathryn Dudley

ANTH 557au, Culture, Power, and Identity in the Caribbean Sean Brotherton

Drawing on a wide and interdisciplinary range of texts, both classic and more recent, this course examines the theoretical debates of the body as a subject of anthropological, historical, psychological, medical, and literary inquiry. We explore specific themes, for example, the persistence of the mind/body dualism; experiences of embodiment/alienation; phenomenology of the body; Foucauldian notions of bio-politics, bio-power, and the ethic of the self; the medicalized body; and the gendered body, among other salient themes. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 560bu, Representing Iran Narges Erami

This course introduces students to major themes in Iranian history and culture, as well as building a critical framework for understanding some of the challenges that face modern Iran today. In reading modern fiction, ethnography, historical narratives, primary sources, and theoretical texts covering local and oral history, revolutions, Islam and secularism, democracy and theocracy and the role of cinema, students examine the “Western” production of knowledge about Iran and rethink what we know about such categories as history, culture, and gender. M 1:30–3:20

ANTH 561a/F&ES 80061a, Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and Conservation Carol Carpenter

This seminar explores topics in the anthropology of the global economy that are relevant to development and conservation policy and practice. Anthropologists are often assumed to focus on micro- or local-level research, and thus to have limited usefulness in the contemporary, global world of development and conservation policy. In fact, however, they have been examining global topics since at least the 1980s, and very little current anthropological research is limited to the village level. More importantly, the anthropological perspective on the global economy is unique and important. Th 11:30–2:20

ANTH 569bu, Economic Anthropology Enrique Mayer

An introduction to understanding economic systems in other cultures and societies. How work and leisure are organized, who gets what and how, and how economic concerns tie into other aspects of social life. Major debates and controversies are examined, and examples from different parts of the world are presented. No prior training in economics or anthropology necessary. Th 1:30–3:20

ANTH 572b/F&ES 80176b, Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change Michael Dove

This is an advanced seminar on the long tradition of social science scholarship on environmental perturbation and natural disasters, the relevance of which has been heightened by the current global attention to climate change. Topics covered include the academic literature on the social dimension of natural disasters, illustrated with a case study of volcanic hazard; the discursive dimensions of environmental degradation, focusing on deforestation and other case studies; climate change, including discursive dimensions at the global level and close-grained studies of adaptation at the local level; the current debate about the relationship between resource wealth and political conflict, focusing on the “green war” thesis, and the case of tropical forest commodities; and alternative perspectives on sustainable environmental relations, based on interdisciplinary work and work in the humanities. Prerequisite: F&ES 83056a/ANTH 597a, or F&ES 83050a/ANTH 581a, or F&ES 83073b/ANTH 582b. Three-hour lecture/seminar. Enrollment limited to twenty. 3 credits. TH 2:30–5:20

ANTH 574a/AFST 574a, New Directions in Political and Legal Anthropology M. Kamari Clarke

ANTH 581b/F&ES 83050b, Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method Michael Dove

This is an introductory graduate core course on the scope of social scientific contributions to environmental and natural resource issues. It is designed to be the first course for students who will be specializing in social science approaches as well as the last/only course for students who take only one course in this area. The approach taken in the course is inductive, problem-oriented, and case-study-based. Section I presents an overview of the field and course. Section II deals with the way that environmental problems are initially framed. Case studies focus on placing problems in their wider political context, new approaches to uncertainty and failure, and the importance of how the analytical boundaries to resource systems are drawn. Section III focuses on questions of method, including the dynamics of working within development projects, and the art of rapid appraisal and short-term consultancies. Section IV is concerned with local peoples and the environment, with case studies addressing the myth of slash-and-burn cultivation, livestock and the development discourse, and indigenous knowledge and its transformation. Section V presents lessons learned. No prerequisites. The course is a prerequisite for advanced seminars in social ecology in F&ES. Three-hour lecture/seminar. Enrollment limited to thirty. 3 credits. TH 2:30–5:20

ANTH 582b/F&ES 83073b, Households, Communities, Gender (for Development and Conservation) Carol Carpenter

The implementation of development and conservation projects involving people requires an understanding of households, communities, and gender; unfortunately, policy is laden with mistaken assumptions about these social units. This course examines both the anthropology of households, communities, and gender, and common assumptions about them in development and conservation. Economic and political aspects of relations within these units are intimately linked, and are examined together. The course explores important global variations in the structure of households, communities, and gender. The structure of households, communities, and gender in any particular locality influences the economic and political relation with its region, nation, and the world system—with essential implications for development and conservation. The course aims to study local social units in order to understand their importance for regional, national, and global development and conservation. The goal is to encourage future policy makers and implementers to examine their assumptions about society, and to think more critically about the implications of these social units (and their variations around the world) for development and conservation. No prerequisites. Three hours lecture/seminar. T 10:30–1:20

ANTH 597a/F&ES 83056a, Social Science of Development and Conservation Carol Carpenter

This course provides a fundamental understanding of the social aspects involved in implementing sustainable development and conservation projects. Social science has two things to contribute to the practice of development and conservation. First, it provides ways of thinking about, researching, and working with social groupings—including rural households and communities, but also development and conservation institutions, states, and NGOs. Second, social science tackles the analysis of the knowledge systems that implicitly shape development and conservation policy and impinge on practice. The goal of the course is to stimulate students to apply informed and critical thinking to whatever roles they play in sustainable development and conservation, in order to move toward more environmentally and socially sustainable projects and policies. A prerequisite for F&ES 80153a and F&ES 80157a. Three hours lecture/seminar. T 10:30–1:20

ANTH 598b/F&ES 80157b, Social Science of Development and Conservation: Advanced Readings Carol Carpenter, Michael Dove

This course is an advanced seminar on the social science theory of sustainable development and conservation, intended for students interested in research design and policy planning in this field. It traces the conceptual history of the ideas of progress and development from the colonial period through the present and examines how these ideas are used by the parties who fund, design, and manage development projects. Topics discussed vary from year to year in response to current debates and events, but in the past have included the idea of poverty, the politics of mapping, microcredit and the entrepreneurial subject, the politics of indigeneity, new directions in political ecology, the tsunami in Indonesia, the WorldWatch debate on conservation and indigenous people, and the idea of community in the natural and social sciences. Students are expected to use the course to develop, and present in class, their own research and writing. Prerequisite: F&ES 83050a or F&ES 83056a. Three-hour lecture/seminar. Enrollment limited to twelve. Taught alternate years. Th 11:30–2:20

ANTH 619au/WGSS 685au, Language and the Public Sphere J. Bernard Bate

Explores the relationship between language and the public sphere through consideration of theoretical perspectives of Jürgen Habermas and Benedict Anderson along with ethnographic and historical examination of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Europe, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Arabia, and India from the third to the twentieth century. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 622bu/AFST 764bu/PLSC 784bu, Africa and the Disciplines M. Kamari Clarke

A broad survey of Africa’s relation to academic discourse, as seen in a variety of disciplines. This course examines how Africa is represented and discussed in different fields; how disciplinary formations, language, popular conceptions, and related intellectual practices of the various disciplines have affected academic approaches to studies of Africa; and how these approaches have reinvented particular African geographies (e.g., sub-Saharan vs. North African, francophone vs. anglophone, South Africa vs. the rest of Africa, and contemporary diasporic articulations). Attention to questions surrounding the management of “The New World Order.” After a general context is established over the first four weeks of the term, scholars representing various fields in the humanities, social and political sciences, and the professional schools visit the seminar to discuss their work in relation to the ways that their respective discipline(s) have explored related themes. Throughout the term, attention is given to issues of interdisciplinarity. W 1:30–3:20

ANTH 623bu, Poetics and Performance Bernard Bate

Examines the historical and social structuring effects of poetic and performative elements of communication. Readings drawn from philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, history, and critical theory demonstrate how poetics and performance provide critical insights into world-building processes within political practice, the performance of gender identity, and the structuring of large-scale social organization and imagination. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 632au, Politics of Language J. Joseph Errington

This course centers on aspects of language difference and inequality as often neglected but crucial shapers of the political dynamics and social change in plural societies. The first part of the course involves broad comparative and theoretical approaches to the politics of sociolinguistic difference. The second part is devoted to case studies which foreground specific issues: “problems” of substandard languages, bilingual identities, globalization and language shift, language death, and others. TH 1:30–3:20

ANTH 651au/WGSS 651au, Intersectionality and Women’s Health Marcia Inhorn

This interdisciplinary seminar is designed to explore how the intersections of race, class, gender, and other axes of “difference” (age, sexual orientation, disability status, nation, religion) affect women’s health, primarily in the contemporary United States. Recent feminist approaches to intersectionality and multiplicity of oppressions theory are introduced. In addition, the course demonstrates how anthropologists studying women’s health issues have contributed to social and feminist theory at the intersections of race/class/gender. W 2:30–4:20

ANTH 674bu, Anthropologies of Insurgency Michael McGovern

This course explores the interlinked categories of rebel, bandit, and freedom fighter to understand insurgency from an anthropological viewpoint. Privileging sociological and micropolitical analysis, the course approaches specific instances of illegal use of force in their sociocultural and historic settings, and builds toward a consideration of insurgency from “the actors’ points of view.” T 9:25–11:15

ANTH 684bu/WGSS 660bu, Men, Manhood, and Masculinity Graeme Reid

Cultural and historic constructions of masculinity through an investigation of male bodies, sexualities, and social interactions. Examination of multiple masculinities and exploration of the relationship among hegemonic, non-hegemonic, and subordinate masculinities.

ANTH 705Lbu/ARCG 705Lbu, Archaeology Laboratory II Roderick McIntosh

Practical experience in preparation, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts and nonartificial archaeological data. Students undertake term projects. W 2–5

ANTH 720au/ARCG 720au, Mesopotamian Origins Harvey Weiss

Analysis of the archeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politico-economic innovation from the earliest sedentary agriculture villages, to the earliest cities and states, to the earliest empire. What combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces drove these developments in these regions during this ten thousand year span? TH 2:30–4:20

ANTH 732au and 733Lau/ARCG 732au and 733Lau, Archaeological Field Techniques and Archaeology Lab I John Hale

An introduction to the practice and techniques of modern archaeology, including methods of excavation, recording, mapping, dating, and ecological analysis. The lab offers instruction in the field at an archaeological site in Connecticut in stratigraphy, mapping, artifact recovery, and excavation strategy. The courses must be taken concurrently and are counted together as 1 credit. MW 4–5:15, lab SA 8:30–5

ANTH 748u/ARCG 748u, Contemporary Archaeological Theory Richard Burger

This seminar explores contemporary theory in all of its diversity. The course examines multiple critiques of New Archaeology and its remaining legacy; the diversity of competing approaches, sometimes called post-processualist, currently employed in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, including critical archaeology, the archaeology of gender, structuralist approaches, various Marxist and neo-Marxist formulations of archaeological theory, and applications of evolutionary theory; and the differing trajectory of approaches outside the English-speaking world. M 1:30-3:20

ANTH 763bu/ARCG 763bu/NELC 589bu, Archaeologies of Empire Harvey Weiss

Comparative study of origins, structures, efficiencies, and limitations of imperialism, ancient and modern, in the Old and New World, from Akkad to “Indochine,” and from Wari to Aztec. The contrast between ancient and modern imperialisms examined from the perspectives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology and political economy. TH 2:30–4:20

ANTH 773au/ARCG 773au/NELC 588au, Civilizations and Collapse Harvey Weiss

Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politico-economic vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in the face of abrupt climate change, anthropogenic environmental degradation, resource depletion, “barbarian” incursions, or class conflict. Th 9:25–11:15

ANTH 774au/ARCG 774au, Origins of Peruvian Civilization Richard Burger

This seminar offers an overview of the diversity of early Andean complex societies and their transformations during the first two millennia B.C. Emphasis is on the most recent research and on explanatory models that have been used to explain the emergence of complexity in Prehispanic Peru. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 783au/ARCG 783au, Archaeology of Sacred Sites John Hale

A global and interdisciplinary survey of ancient religious sites, from tombs and temples to entire sacred landscapes, with a focus on reconstructing the ancient beliefs encoded within the archaeological record. M 3:30–5:20

ANTH 793au/ARCG 793au, Underwater Archaeology John Hale

Overview of major underwater archaeological discoveries, from shipwrecks to sunken cities, and of the technology and methods used to find, survey, excavate, and interpret submerged sites. MW 9–10:15

ANTH 811b, Behavioral Endocrinology Richard Bribiescas

This seminar examines the role of hormones in the evolution and expression of human and nonhuman primate behavior. Emphasis is placed on behaviors that are associated with aggression, stress, mating, and parenting. Advanced undergraduates are welcome with instructor’s permission. T 1:30–3:20

ANTH 849b, Primate Models in Human Evolution David Watts

This course considers ways in which comparative research on nonhuman primates can properly serve to increase understanding of issues in human evolution and aspects of modern human behavior. Among the topics covered are the conceptual basis for using extant species as models for extinct ones; dietary evolution; the importance of hunting, food sharing, and intergroup aggression in human evolution; the evolution of mating strategies; whether nonhumans have culture; and primate cognitive evolution. TH 2:30–4:20

ANTH 851a, Topics and Issues in Evolutionary Theory Andrew Hill, Eric Sargis

Focus on current literature in theoretical evolutionary biology, intended to give new graduate students intensive training in critical analysis of theoretical models and in scientific writing. TH 1:30–3:20

ANTH 856a/ARCG 856au, Reconstructing Human Evolution: An Ecological Approach Andrew Hill

If human evolutionary change has been determined or affected by ecological factors, such as changes in climate, competition with other animals, and availability and kinds of food supply, then it is important to determine ecological and environmental information about the regions and time period in which human evolution has occurred. Examination of methods for obtaining data relevant to such information, and for evaluating the techniques and results of such other fields as geology, paleobotany, and paleozoology. Ethnographic, primatological, and other biological models of early human behavior. W 1:30–3:20

ANTH 894au, Methods and Research in Molecular Anthropology I Brenda Bradley

The first of a two-part practical introduction to molecular analyses of anthropological questions. Students learn a range of basic tools for laboratory-based genetic analyses and bioinformatics. M 9:25–11:15

ANTH 895bu, Methods and Research in Anthropological Genetics II Brenda Bradley

The second of a two-part practical introduction to molecular analyses of anthropological questions. Students design and carry out independent laboratory projects that were developed in the first term (ANTH 894au). W 9:25–11:15

ANTH 896bu, Primate Comparative Anatomy Eric Sargis

Examination of the major organ and musculoskeletal systems of nonhuman primates. Focus is on functional similarities and differences among several primate groups. MW 2:30–3:45

ANTH 897bu, Laboratory for Primate Comparative Anatomy Eric Sargis

Laboratory for ANTH 896bu. T 2:30–5:30

ANTH 941a and b, Research Seminar in Japan Anthropology Karen Nakamura

This seminar offers professional preparation for doctoral students in Japan anthropology through systematic readings and analysis of the anthropological literature, in English and in Japanese. Permission of the instructor required. HTBA

ANTH 942a and b, Research Seminar in South Asia Anthropology Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

This seminar is for students preparing to become scholars of South Asia. It consists of systematic reading, analysis, discussion, and writing about the anthropological literature in English. It deals with a selection of key ethnographic monographs that cover important topics and debates in the anthropology of South Asia and India including caste, class, community, gender, language, development, environment, politics, and popular culture. Students actively prepare and lead discussions, and write either a proposal or research paper at the end of term. The seminar is designed for doctoral students working on South Asia. Others with appropriate background and interests may be admitted by permission of the instructor. T 9:25–11:15

ANTH 951a and b, Directed Research in Ethnology and Social Anthropology

By arrangement with faculty.

ANTH 952a and b, Directed Research in Linguistics

By arrangement with faculty.

ANTH 953a and b, Directed Research in Archaeology and Prehistory

By arrangement with faculty.

ANTH 954a and b, Directed Research in Biological Anthropology

By arrangement with faculty.

Course of Interest

NELC 872bu, Magic in Ancient Egypt Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert

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Applied Mathematics

A. K. Watson Hall, 432.1278

www.cs.yale.edu/appliedmath2/

M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair and Director of Graduate Studies

Steven Zucker (AKW 107A, 432.1278, zucker@cs.yale.edu)

Professors Andrew Barron (Statistics), Donald Brown (Economics), Joseph Chang (Statistics), Ronald Coifman (Mathematics; Computer Science), Gustave Davis (Pathology), Eric Denardo (Operations Research), Stanley Eisenstat (Computer Science), Michael Fischer (Computer Science), Roger Howe (Mathematics), Peter Jones (Mathematics), Steven Orszag (Mathematics), David Pollard (Statistics), Nicholas Read (Physics; Applied Physics), Vladimir Rokhlin (Computer Science; Mathematics; Physics), Herbert Scarf (Economics), Martin Schultz (Computer Science), Mitchell Smooke (Mechanical Engineering; Applied Physics), Daniel Spielman (Computer Science), Günter Wagner (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), John Wettlaufer (Geology & Geophysics; Physics), Steven Zucker (Computer Science; Biomedical Engineering)

Associate Professors Josephine Hoh (Epidemiology & Public Health; Ophthalmology), Sekhar Tatikonda (Electrical Engineering; Statistics)

Assistant Professors Lisha Chen (Statistics), John Emerson (Statistics), Thierry Emonet (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Physics), Dan Kushnir, Triet Le (Mathematics), Adam Marcus, Mokshay Madiman (Statistics), Andrew Wells, Huibin Zhou (Statistics)

Fields of Study

The graduate Program in Applied Mathematics comprises the study and application of mathematics to problems motivated by a wide range of application domains. Areas of concentration include the analysis of data in very high-dimensional spaces, the geometry of information, computational biology, and randomized algorithms. Topics covered by the program include classical and modern applied harmonic analysis, linear and nonlinear partial differential equations, numerical analysis, scientific computing and applications, discrete algorithms, combinatorics and combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, geometric algorithms, discrete mathematics and applications, statistical theory and applications, probability theory and applications, information theory, econometrics, financial mathematics, statistical computing, and applications of mathematical and computational techniques to fluid mechanics, combustion, and other scientific and engineering problems.

Requirements for the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics

All students are required to: (1) complete twelve term courses (including reading courses) at the graduate level, at least two with Honors grades; (2) pass a qualifying examination on their general applied mathematical knowledge (in algebra, analysis, and probability and statistics) by the end of their second year; (3) submit a dissertation prospectus; (4) participate in the instruction of undergraduates; (5) be in residence for at least three years; and (6) complete a dissertation that clearly advances understanding of the subject it considers. The normal time for completion of the Ph.D. program is four years.

Requirement (1) normally includes four core courses in each of the methods of applied analysis, numerical computation, algorithms, and probability; these should be taken during the first year. The qualifying examination is normally taken by the end of the third term and will test knowledge of the core courses as well as more specialized topics. The thesis is expected to be independent work, done under the guidance of an adviser. This adviser should be contacted not long after the student passes the qualifying examinations. A student is admitted to candidacy after completing requirements (1)–(5) and obtaining an adviser.

Master’s Degrees

M. Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) The M.S. degree is a terminal degree and is not awarded en route to the Ph.D.

Master’s Degree Program Students may also be admitted to a terminal master’s degree program directly. This program is normally completed in one year, but a part-time program may be spread over as many as four years. To qualify for the M.S., the student must pass eight graduate-level courses. Courses taken as part of the M.S. program must be pre-approved by the director of graduate studies to ensure that a suitable distribution of topics is covered.

Honors Requirement

Students must meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement by the end of the fourth term of full-time study.

Program materials and additional information concerning degrees offered and admissions requirements are available upon request to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, PO Box 208323, New Haven CT 06520-8323.

Courses

AMTH 561a, Spectral Graph Theory Daniel Spielman

An applied approach to spectral graph theory. The combinatorial meaning of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs. Applications to optimization, numerical linear algebra, error-correcting codes, and testing graph isomorphism.

AMTH 605a/ENAS 503a/STAT 667a, Probabilistic Networks, Algorithms, and Applications Sekhar Tatikonda

This course examines probabilistic and computational methods for the statistical modeling of complex data. The emphasis is on the unifying framework provided by graph models: Markov random fields, Bayesian networks, and factor graphs. Algorithms: filtering, smoothing, belief-propagation, sum-product, and junction tree. Variational techniques: mean-field and convex relaxations. Markov processes on graphs: MCMC, factored HMMs, and Glauber dynamics. Some statistical physics techniques: cavity and replica methods. Applications to error-correcting codes, computer vision, bio-informatics, and combinatorial optimization.

AMTH 664au, Topics in Computational Biology Steven Zucker

An overview of basic topics in computational biology, spanning scales from molecules to cells to networks. How cells process information (cell biology); how neurons sense the world and make decisions (neurobiology); and how genes control form (evolutionary biology). Prerequisite: MATH 120a or b or equivalent.

[AMTH 665bu/MCDB 561bu/PHYS 529b, Systems Modeling in Biology]

AMTH 666a/ASTR 666a /G&G 666a, Statistical Thermodynamics for Astrophysics and Geophysics John Wettlaufer

Classical thermodynamics is derived from statistical thermodynamics. We then develop kinetics, transport theory, and reciprocity from the linear thermodynamics of irreversible processes. Emphasis is placed on phase transitions, including novel states of matter, nucleation theory, and the thermodynamics of atmospheres. We explore phenomena that are of direct relevance to problems in astrophysical settings, atmospheres, oceans, and the Earth’s interior. No quantum mechanics is necessary as a prerequisite. TTh 2:30–3:45

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Applied Physics

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250

M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

A. Douglas Stone

Director of Graduate Studies

Robert Grober

Professors Charles Ahn, Sean Barrett, Hui Cao, Richard Chang (Emeritus), Michel Devoret, Paul Fleury, Steven Girvin, Leonid Glazman, Robert Grober, Victor Henrich, Arvid Herzenberg (Emeritus), Karyn Le Hur, Marshall Long, Tso-Ping Ma, Daniel Prober, Nicholas Read, Mark Reed, Robert Schoelkopf, Ramamurti Shankar, Mitchell Smooke, A. Douglas Stone, John Tully, Robert Wheeler (Emeritus), Werner Wolf (Emeritus)

Associate Professor Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Fields of Study

Fields include areas of theoretical and experimental condensed-matter and materials physics, optical and laser physics, quantum engineering, and nanoscale science. Specific programs include surface and interface science, first principles electronic structure methods, photonic materials and devices, complex oxides, magnetic and superconducting artificially engineered systems, quantum computing and superconducting device research, quantum transport and nanotube physics, quantum optics, and random lasers.

For admissions and degree requirements, and for course listings, see Engineering and Applied Science.

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Archaeological Studies

10 Sachem, 432.3670

www.yale.edu/archaeology/

M.A.

Chair and Director of Graduate Studies

Richard Burger (Anthropology)

Professors Richard Burger (Anthropology), Edward Cooke, Jr. (History of Art), John Darnell (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Eckart Frahm (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Andrew Hill (Anthropology), Diana Kleiner (Classics; History of Art), Roderick McIntosh (Anthropology), Mary Miller (History of Art), Eric Sargis (Anthropology), Ronald Smith (Geology & Geophysics), Karl Turekian (Geology & Geophysics), Harvey Weiss (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)

Assistant Professors Milette Gaifman (History of Art; Classics), William Honeychurch (Anthropology), Colleen Manassa (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Tamara Sears (History of Art), Lillian Tseng (History of Art)

Lecturers Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Karen Foster (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), John Hale (Anthropology), Barbara Mundy (History of Art)

The aims of the program are to give students the academic background needed for careers in the conservation of archaeological resources, to prepare students to teach in community colleges and secondary schools, and to provide the opportunity for teachers, curators, and administrators to refresh themselves on recent developments in archaeology. The program is administered by Yale’s Council on Archaeological Studies, with faculty from the departments of Anthropology, Classics, Geology & Geophysics, History of Art, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations.

Special Admissions Requirements

The GRE General Test; applicants need not have an archaeology background, but a strong grounding in the social sciences or history is recommended.

Special Requirements for the M.A. Degree

Courses are drawn from the graduate programs of the participating departments and from those undergraduate courses that are also open to graduate students. Eight courses are required. Unless previously taken for credit, these will include Field Techniques; at least one laboratory course; a course related to archaeology in each of the following three groups: (1) Anthropology; (2) Classics, History of Art, or Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations; (3) Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Forestry & Environmental Studies, or Geology & Geophysics; and three electives. In addition, each student will write a master’s thesis. Degree candidates are required to pay a minimum of one year of full tuition. Full-time students can complete the course requirements in one academic year, and all students are expected to complete the program within a maximum period of three academic years.

For further information, visit the Archaeological Studies Web site, www.yale.edu/archaeology/. Inquiries may be directed to Director of Graduate Studies, c/o Registrar, Archaeological Studies, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, PO Box 208277, New Haven CT 06520-8277, or via e-mail, archaeology@yale.edu.

Courses

ARCG 705Lbu/ANTH 705Lbu, Archaeology Laboratory II Roderick McIntosh

Practical experience in preparation, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts and nonartificial archaeological data. Students undertake term projects. W 2–5

ARCG 720au/ANTH 720au, Mesopotamian Origins Harvey Weiss

Analysis of the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data for rain-fed and irrigation agriculture settlement, subsistence, and politico-economic innovation from the earliest sedentary agriculture villages, to the earliest cities and states, to the earliest empire. What combinations of dynamic social and environmental forces drove these developments in these regions during this 10,000-year span? TH 2:30–4:20

ARCG 725a/AMST 735a/HSAR 725a, An Introduction to American Material Culture Edward Cooke

ARCG 732au and 733Lau/ANTH 732au and 733Lau, Archaeological Field Techniques and Archaeology Lab John Hale

ARCG 748u/ANTH 748u, Contemporary Archaeological Theory Richard Burger

This seminar explores contemporary theory in all of its diversity. The course examines multiple critiques of New Archaeology and its remaining legacy; the diversity of competing approaches, sometimes called post-processualist, currently employed in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, including critical archaeology, the archaeology of gender, structuralist approaches, various Marxist and neo-Marxist formulations of archaeological theory, and applications of evolutionary theory; as well as the differing trajectory of approaches outside the English-speaking world. M 1:30–3:20

ARCG 749a/CLSS 846a/HSAR 570a, Becoming Hadrian: Autobiography and Art in the Second Century A.D. Diana Kleiner

Marguerite Yourcenar’s famed fictional Memoirs of Hadrian serves as the starting point for an exploration of Hadrian and the art he commissioned in Rome and abroad. Hadrian’s passion for life, quest after peace, romantic wanderlust, veneration of Greek culture, and craving for love, along with his acceptance of death’s inexorableness led him to commission some of Rome’s greatest monuments. The emperor’s flair for leadership and talent as an amateur architect inform student projects on the sculpture, mosaics, and buildings of the age, among them the portraiture of Hadrian’s lover Antinous, the Pantheon, and Hadrian’s Wall in Britain. Special attention is paid to Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, an empire unto itself where Hadrian’s autobiography was fully realized. T 1:30–3:20

ARCG 762au/EMD 548a/F&ES 77001a/G&G 562au, Remote Sensing: Observing the Earth from Space Ronald Smith and staff

Topics include the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation; satellite-borne radiometers; data transmission and storage; computer image analysis; and GIS analysis of satellite imagery with applications to weather and climate, oceanography, surficial geology, snow and ice, forestry, agriculture, and watershed management. TTh 9–10:15

ARCG 763bu/ANTH 763bu/NELC 589bu, Archaeologies of Empire Harvey Weiss

ARCG 773au/ANTH 773au/NELC 588au, Civilizations and Collapse Harvey Weiss

ARCG 774au/ANTH 774au, Origins of Peruvian Civilization Richard Burger

ARCG 783au/ANTH 783au, Archaeology of Sacred Sites John Hale

ARCG 793au/ANTH 793au, Underwater Archaeology John Hale

ARCG 856au/ANTH 856a, Reconstructing Human Evolution: An Ecological Approach Andrew Hill

ARCG 953a or b, Directed Research in Archaeology and Prehistory

By arrangement with faculty.

Related Courses

ARCG 100b/ANTH 150b/HUMS 376b/NELC 100b, Genesis and Collapse of Old World Civilizations Harvey Weiss

ARCG 172b/ANTH 172b, Great Hoaxes and Fantasies in Archaeology Harvey Weiss

ARCG 230a/G&G 230a, Stratigraphy Leo Hickey

ARCG 232b/ANTH 232b, Ancient Civilizations of the Andes Richard Burger

ARCG 235b/HUMS 245b/NELC 502bu/HSAR 245b, Worlds of Homer Karen Foster

ARCG 236a/HSAR 236a/NELC 103a, The Art of Ancient Palaces Karen Foster

ARCG 240a/CLCV 182a/HSAR 240a/RLST 179a, Myth, Blood, and Festival Milette Gaifman

ARCG 243b/CLCV 160b/HSAR 243b, Greek Art and Architecture Milette Gaifman

ARCG 245a/HSAR 245a, The Art of the Greek God Dionysos Milette Gaifman

ARCG 252a/CLCV 175a/HSAR 252a, Roman Architecture Diana Kleiner

ARCG 272b/ANTH 272b, African Prehistory Roderick McIntosh

NELC 872bu, Magic in Ancient Egypt Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert

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Architecture

180 York Street, 432.2288

www.architecture.yale.edu

M.Arch., M.E.D., Ph.D.

Dean

Robert A. M. Stern

Director of Doctoral Studies

Kurt W. Forster (316 Rudolph, 432.0692, kurt.forster@yale.edu)

Professors Peggy Deamer, Peter Eisenman (Visiting), Kurt W. Foster (Visiting), Dolores Hayden, Alan Plattus, Robert A. M. Stern

Associate Professors Michelle Addington, Keller Easterling, Keith Krumwiede, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Assistant Professors Ljiljana Blagojevi´c (Visiting), Alexander Felson, Mark Foster Gage, Kyoung Sun Moon, Emmanuel Petit, Hilary Sample

Adjunct Faculty Thomas Beeby, Deborah Berke, Kent Bloomer, Turner Brooks, Alexander Garvin, Anne Gilbert, Steven Harris, John Jacobson, Fred Koetter, Edward Mitchell, Joel Sanders

Fields of Study

The five-year doctoral program prepares candidates for careers in university teaching, cultural advocacy and administration, museum curatorship, and publishing. It aims chiefly, however, to educate teachers capable of effectively instructing future architects in the history of their own field and its manifold connections with the culture at large. The program forges a unique combination of professional knowledge with a historical and analytical grasp of key phases in the history of architecture, especially those that have a demonstrable share in the field’s current state and its critical issues.

The program secures sound training in historical study and historiography, imparting technical knowledge and awareness of intellectual trends that inform the reception and role of architecture around the world. The history of science and technology (as well as its reception in popular culture and the arts), the history of media, and an understanding of architectural practice are as important as the fine arts and literature.

Admission Requirements

Applicants shall have appropriate academic credentials (a master’s degree or equivalent in Architecture, Engineering, Environmental Design, or, exceptionally, in a related field) and at least two years of work experience in an appropriate professional setting. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test taken no more than five years prior to application is required. All applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL iBT), a test that includes a section on spoken English. In addition to meeting qualifying criteria, candidates are required as part of the application to submit a portfolio of their own architectural work, a writing sample in the form of a research paper or publication, and an explanation of their motivation for engaging in this course of study. Qualified applicants may be invited to interview with a member of the doctoral faculty.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Entering students with sound professional preparation engage in a concerted course of study that leads directly to dissertation research and a doctoral degree.

All students must spend their first two years in residence at Yale enrolled as full-time students in the School of Architecture. During the first two years of study, students will normally take at least eight courses, consisting of graduate seminars. During each of the four terms in residence, a student must take a Ph.D. seminar taught by a member of the Ph.D. committee, which will introduce the student to various methodologies and areas of study. Some seminars will encourage primary research on a narrow topic or focus on producing a collective body of work, such as an exhibition. Others offer a broader survey of historiographies. Another will focus on the close reading of a body of texts. These four required seminars form the methodological core of the program.

Students will be encouraged to take courses outside the School of Architecture but related to their specific areas of interest. For example, a student working on Italian modernism would be encouraged to take a course in Italian history or literature. Typically, at least two of the four elective seminars would be in related fields. Students can also opt to do independent readings with individual faculty members on their specific areas of interest.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate competence in at least one foreign language relevant to their field of study, not later than the end of their second year. Language competence is more than a formality and requires some acquaintance with the literature in the chosen language. Competency may be determined by either a grade of B or better in a yearlong intermediate-level language course or through examination.

Ideally, the student’s field of interest will be defined after the first year. At this point, the student will be assigned an adviser by the director of doctoral studies. At the end of the second year the student will be assigned an additional three faculty members, who will constitute his or her dissertation committee. One of these additional faculty members should be from outside the School of Architecture, with selection based on the student’s area of interest, and in consultation with the Ph.D. adviser and the director of doctoral studies.

Upon completion of all course requirements and the language requirement, normally during the fall of the third year, students will take a qualifying exam, which requires an approximately 8,000-word research paper and an oral examination during which members of his/her dissertation committee will question the candidate in three fields of study. During the spring term of the third year, candidates will present and defend a preliminary proposal for a dissertation topic, consisting of a topic statement, program of research and study, and annotated bibliography.

By the end of the third year, students will begin a period of dissertation research and writing. A student is asked to submit a draft of the dissertation half a year before the final defense. After successful completion of the defense, students are given three months to complete the final submission.

Graduate Research Assistant and Teaching Fellow Experience

The program in Architecture considers teaching to be an important part of graduate training. Students in the Ph.D. program in Architecture, therefore, are expected to teach for four terms, normally in their third and fourth years. Between these four terms, it is typically expected that a Ph.D. student will teach in two history and theory survey courses in the student’s area of study at the School of Architecture or elsewhere in the University and teach in two design studios at the School of Architecture. Each teaching assignment shall be under the direct supervision of senior faculty.

Master’s Degree

M.Phil. (en route to the Ph.D.) This degree will be granted to Ph.D. students who successfully complete two years of course work. To be awarded the M.Phil. degree, students need to complete all core courses, four cognates (may include independent study with faculty), and two years of Graduate Research Assistant experience, and must pass the Preliminary Examination.

Courses

For courses and their descriptions, see the School of Architecture bulletin (www.yale.edu/bulletin/pdffiles/architecture.pdf).

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Astronomy

J.W. Gibbs Laboratories, 432.3000

www.astro.yale.edu/

M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Jeffrey Kenney

Director of Graduate Studies

Robert Zinn (436.3017, robert.zinn@yale.edu)

Professors Charles Bailyn, Charles Baltay (Physics), Sarbani Basu, Paolo Coppi, Pierre Demarque (Emeritus), Jeffrey Kenney, Richard Larson, Peter Parker (Physics), Sabatino Sofia (Emeritus), C. Megan Urry (Physics), William van Altena (Emeritus), Pieter van Dokkum, Robert Zinn

Associate Professor Priyamvada Natarajan

Assistant Professors Hector Arce, Richard Easther (Physics), Marla Geha

Fields of Study

Fields include observational and theoretical galactic astronomy, solar and stellar astrophysics, astrometry, extragalactic astronomy, radio astronomy, high-energy astrophysics, and cosmology.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants are expected to have a strong undergraduate preparation in physics and mathematics. Although some formal training in astronomy is useful, it is by no means a prerequisite for admission. Applicants are required to take the General GRE as well as the subject test in Physics.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

A typical program of study includes twelve courses taken during the first four terms, and must include the core courses listed below:

Computational Methods in Astrophysics and Geophysics (ASTR 520), Observational Techniques (ASTR 555), Interstellar Matter and Star Formation (ASTR 560), either Stellar Populations (ASTR 510) or Stellar Astrophysics (ASTR 550), and either Galaxies (ASTR 530) or The Evolving Universe (ASTR 565).

Students require the permission of the instructor and the DGS to skip a core class if they think that they have sufficient knowledge of the field. Students will be required to demonstrate their knowledge of the field before they are allowed to skip any core class.

Two of the twelve courses must be research credits, each earned by working in close collaboration with a faculty member. Of the two research credits, one must be earned doing a theoretical project and one doing an observational research project. The students need to present the results of the project as a written report and will be given an evaluation of their performance.

The choice of the five remaining courses depends on the candidate’s interest and background and must be decided in consultation with the DGS and/or the prospective thesis adviser. Advisers may require students to take particular classes and obtain a specified minimum grade in order for a student to work with them for their thesis. Students must take any additional course that their supervisors require even after their fourth term. In addition, all students, regardless of their term of study, have to attend Professional Seminar (ASTR 710) every term. Note that ASTR 710 may not be used to fulfill the twelve-course requirement.

Students are encouraged to take graduate courses in physics or related subjects. On an irregular basis, special topic courses and seminars are offered, which provide the opportunity to study some fields in greater depth than is possible in standard courses. To achieve both breadth and depth in their education, students are encouraged to take a few courses beyond their second year of study.

There is no foreign language requirement. A written comprehensive examination, normally taken at the end of the fourth term of graduate work, tests the student’s familiarity with the entire field of astronomy and related branches of physics and mathematics. Particular attention will be paid to the student’s performance in the field in which the student plans to do research. An oral examination, held a few weeks after the written examination, is based on the student’s chosen field of research. Satisfactory performance in these examinations, an acceptable record in course and research work, and an approved dissertation prospectus are required for admission to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree. The dissertation should present the results of an original and thorough investigation, worthy of publication. Most importantly, it should reflect the candidate’s capacity for independent research. An oral dissertation defense is required.

Teaching experience is an integral part of graduate education in astronomy. All students will serve as teaching fellows and complete a total of nine TF units. Both the level of teaching assignments and the scheduling of teaching are flexible and determined by the needs of the department. By the end of the third term, however, most students will have completed six TF units. The additional three TF units will normally be carried out after the fourth term of study.

Honors Requirement

Students must meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement by the end of the fourth term of full-time study.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) Upon application, the department will recommend for the award of the M.S. degree any student who has satisfactorily completed the first year of the program leading to the Ph.D. degree. Satisfactory is defined as having taken at least four courses (not including ASTR 710) and one research project. The student should have a grade average of HP in the courses taken and a grade of HP or above in the research project.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, PO Box 208101, New Haven CT 06520-8101.

Courses

[ASTR 510bu, Stellar Populations]

ASTR 518b, Stellar Dynamics Marla Geha

The dynamics and evolution of star clusters; structure and dynamics of our galaxy; theories of spiral structure; dynamical evolution of galaxies.

ASTR 520a/G&G 538a, Computational Methods in Astrophysics and Geophysics Paolo Coppi

The analytic and numerical/computational tools necessary for effective research in astronomy, geophysics, and related disciplines. Topics include numerical solutions to differential equations, spectral methods, and Monte Carlo simulations. Applications are made to common astrophysical and geophysical problems including fluids and N-body simulations.

[ASTR 530bu, Galaxies]

[ASTR 540au, Radiative Processes in Astrophysics and Geophysics]

[ASTR 550bu, Stellar Astrophysics]

ASTR 555au, Observational Techniques Robert Zinn

The design and use of optical telescopes, cameras, spectrographs, and detectors to make astronomical observations. The reduction and analysis of photometric and spectroscopic observations.

ASTR 560b, Interstellar Matter and Star Formation Hector Arce

Observations of interstellar matter at optical, infrared, radio, and X-ray wavelengths. Dynamics and evolution of the interstellar medium, including interactions between stars and interstellar matter. Molecular clouds and processes of star formation.

ASTR 565b, The Evolving Universe Pieter van Dokkum

The emergence of structure in the universe: stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. Emphasis on the interplay of theory and observations in this rapidly evolving field.

ASTR 570a/PHYS 570a, High-Energy Astrophysics Eilat Glikman

A survey of current topics in high-energy astrophysics, including accreting black hole and neutron star systems in our galaxy, pulsars, active galactic nuclei and relativistic jets, gamma-ray bursts, and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The basic physical processes underlying the observed high-energy phenomena are also covered. HTBA

ASTR 580a or b, Research

By arrangement with faculty.

[ASTR 585a, Radio Astronomy]

ASTR 590bu, Solar Physics Sarbani Basu

This course presents a detailed description of the structure of the Sun and its atmosphere and is aimed to give students a good understanding of the underlying physical processes. Topics to be covered include a discussion of the standard solar model, solar atmospheres, solar oscillations, solar magnetic fields, chromosphere and corona, as well as solar winds and eruptions. Particular attention is paid to the solar magnetic cycle since it can affect us on Earth.

ASTR 600au/PHYS 600a, Cosmology Priyamvada Natarajan

A comprehensive introduction to cosmology at the graduate level. The standard paradigm for the formation, growth, and evolution of structure in the Universe is covered in detail. The course does not assume prior knowledge of general relativity. HTBA

ASTR 666a/AMTH 666a/G&G 666a, Statistical Thermodynamics for Astrophysics and Geophysics John Wettlaufer

[ASTR 705, Research Seminar in Stellar Populations]

ASTR 710a and b, Professional Seminar Richard Larson

A weekly seminar covering science and professional issues in astronomy.

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Biomedical Engineering

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250

M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Mark Saltzman

Director of Graduate Studies

Richard Carson

Professors Richard Carson, James Duncan, Douglas Rothman, Mark Saltzman, Fred Sigworth, Steven Zucker (Computer Science)

Associate Professors Todd Constable, Fahmeed Hyder, Erin Lavik, Laura Niklason, Lawrence Staib, Hemant Tagare

Assistant Professors Robin de Graaf, Tarek Fahmy, Themis Kyriakides, Mark Laubach, Michael Levene, Xenios Papademetris, Erik Shapiro

Fields of Study

Fields include the physics of image formation (MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and X-ray), NMR spectroscopy, PET and modeling, digital image analysis and processing, computer vision, biological signals and sensors, biomechanics, physiology and human factors engineering, drug delivery, biotechnology, biomechanics of the spine, and tissue engineering.

For admissions and degree requirements, and for course listings, see Engineering and Applied Science.

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Cell Biology

C-207 Sterling Hall of Medicine, 737.5603

www.cellbiology.yale.edu/

M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

James Rothman

Director of Graduate Studies

Carl Hashimoto (C-223 SHM, 737.2746, carl.hashimoto@yale.edu)

Professors Michael Caplan (Cellular & Molecular Physiology), Lynn Cooley (Genetics), Peter Cresswell (Immunobiology), Pietro De Camilli, Jorge Galán (Microbial Pathogenesis), Fred Gorelick (Internal Medicine/Digestive Diseases), Carl Hashimoto, James Jamieson, Diane Krause (Laboratory Medicine), Thomas Lentz (Emeritus), Haifan Lin, Vincent Marchesi (Pathology), Mark Mooseker (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Michael Nathanson (Internal Medicine/Digestive Diseases), Thomas Pollard (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), James Rothman, Michael Simons (Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine), Elisabetta Ullu (Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases), Sandra Wolin

Associate Professors Karin Reinisch, Elke Stein (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Derek Toomre, Agnes Vignery (Orthopaedics)

Assistant Professors Joerg Bewersdorf, Jonathan Bogan (Internal Medicine/Endocrinology), Daniel Colón-Ramos, Eric Dufresne (Mechanical Engineering), Megan King, Patrick Lusk, Thomas Melia, Peter Takizawa, Yongli Zhang

Fields of Study

Fields include membrane traffic and protein sorting, organelle biogenesis, epithelial cell polarity, membrane function in the nervous system (synapse formation and function), axon guidance, neural circuit development, cell biology of protozoan parasites and of pathogen/host interactions, cell biology of the immune response, mRNA biogenesis and localization, RNA folding, non-coding RNAs, stem cells, cell biology of the cytoskeleton and of the nucleus, cellular signaling and motility, cytokinesis. Approaches to these topics include biochemistry, molecular biology, and crystallography; bacterial, yeast, Drosophila, C. elegans, and mouse genetics; immunocytochemistry and electron microscopy; live cell and super-resolution imaging.

Special Admissions Requirements

An undergraduate major in the biological sciences is recommended. GRE General Test is required; GRE Subject Test recommended (in Biology or in Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology).

To enter the Ph.D. program, students apply to an interest-based track, usually the Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics, and Development track, in the combined program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), http://info.med.yale.edu/bbs.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Students are required to take at least five graduate-level courses. No specific curriculum of courses is required, but CBIO 602 (Molecular Cell Biology) is recommended for all students to attain a solid foundation in molecular cell biology. Also recommended is a seminar course, such as CBIO 603 (Seminar in Molecular Cell Biology), in which students can develop the skill for critical analysis of research papers. Students design their own curriculum of courses to meet individual interests and needs, in consultation with the director of graduate studies. During the first year, students participate in three laboratory rotations. In the second year, a committee of faculty members determines whether each student is qualified to continue in the Ph.D. program. There is an oral qualifying examination by the end of the third term. In order to be admitted to candidacy, students must have met the Graduate School Honors requirement, maintained a High Pass average in course work, passed the qualifying examination, submitted an approved prospectus, and received a positive evaluation of their laboratory work from the thesis committee. All students are required to present a talk at the departmental progress report series each year after passing the qualifying exam. The remaining degree requirements include completion of the dissertation project and the writing of the dissertation and its oral defense, the formal submission of copies of the written dissertation to the Graduate School, and the deposit of an additional copy with the department. Laboratory rotations and thesis research may be conducted outside of the department.

An important aspect of graduate training in cell biology is the acquisition of teaching skills through participation in courses appropriate for the student’s scientific interests. These opportunities can be drawn from a diverse menu of lecture, laboratory, and seminar courses given at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels. Ph.D. students are required to participate in two terms (or the equivalent) of teaching. Students are not expected to teach during their first year.

M.D./Ph.D. Students

M.D./Ph.D. students are required to take a total of five graduate-level courses for a grade, including Molecules to Systems (CBIO 502), Molecular and Cellular Basis of Human Disease (CBIO 601), and a seminar course that involves the reading and class discussion of research papers. The two remaining courses can be in areas such as Genetics, Neurobiology, Immunology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology. Students must meet the Graduate School requirement of a grade of Honors in two courses, if necessary taking additional courses beyond the five required in the department to fulfill this requirement. Students must also maintain an average grade of High Pass in all courses. One term of teaching is required.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. Requirements for the M.Phil. degree are the same as for admission to candidacy (see above).

M.S. This degree is normally granted only to students who are withdrawing from the Ph.D. program. To be eligible for the degree, a student must pass at least five graduate-level term courses at Yale, including CBIO 602, Molecular Cell Biology, and a seminar course as recommended above, with at least one grade of Honors or three of High Pass.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the BBS Web site (http://info.med.yale.edu/bbs), MCGD Track. Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University, PO Box 208002, New Haven CT 06520-8002.

Courses

CBIO 502a/b, Molecules to Systems James Jamieson, Peter Takizawa, Thomas Lentz, Fred Gorelick, and staff

This full-year course is designed to provide medical students with a current and comprehensive review of biologic structure and function at the cellular, tissue, and organ system levels. Areas covered in the first semester include replication and transcription of the genome; regulation of the cell cycle and mitosis; protein biosynthesis and membrane targeting; cell motility and the cytoskeleton; signal transduction; nerve and muscle function. The second semester of the course covers cell and tissue organization of organ systems including respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and reproductive systems. Clinical correlation sessions, which illustrate the contributions of cell biology to specific medical problems, are interspersed in the lecture schedule. Histophysiology laboratories provide practical experience with an understanding of exploring cell and tissue structure. This course is offered only to M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students. This course runs from September to mid-May and is equivalent to three graduate credits.

CBIO 601a/b, Molecular and Cellular Basis of Human Disease Fred Gorelick, James Jamieson, and staff

This course emphasizes the connections between diseases and basic science using a lecture and seminar format. It is designed for students who are committed to a career in medical research, those who are considering such a career, or students who wish to explore scientific topics in depth. The first half of the course is organized in four- to five-week blocks that topically parallel CBIO 502a/b. Examples of blocks from past years include “Diseases of protein folding” and “Diseases of ion channels.” Each topic is introduced with a lecture given by the faculty. The lecture is followed by sessions in which students review relevant manuscripts under the supervision of a faculty mentor. The second half of the course focuses on the relationship of basic science to disease processes while emphasizing translational and clinical research. In addition, sessions are devoted to academic careers and cover subjects such as obtaining an academic position, promotions, and grant writing. The course is open to M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students who are taking or have taken CBIO 502a/b. Student evaluations are based on attendance, participation in group discussions, formal presentations, and a written review of an NIH proposal. This course runs from September to mid-May and is equivalent to three graduate credits. M 4–5:30

CBIO 602a/MB&B 602a/MCDB 602a, Molecular Cell Biology Sandra Wolin, Thomas Melia, Thomas Pollard, Craig Crews, and faculty

A comprehensive introduction to the molecular and mechanistic aspects of cell biology for graduate students in all programs. Emphasizes fundamental issues of cellular organization, regulation, biogenesis, and function at the molecular level. MW 1:45–3

CBIO 603a/MCDB 603a, Seminar in Molecular Cell Biology Sandra Wolin, Thomas Melia, Thomas Pollard, and faculty

A graduate-level seminar course in modern cell biology. The class is devoted to the reading and critical evaluation of classical and current papers. The topics are coordinated with the CBIO 602a lecture schedule. Thus, concurrent or previous enrollment in CBIO 602a is required. Th 9–11

CBIO 604b, Systems Cell Biology Carl Hashimoto, Daniel Colón-Ramos, and faculty

Introduction to the organization and function of cells within complex multicellular systems as encountered in the human body. Covers major tissues and organs as well as the cardiovascular, immune, and nervous systems, with special emphasis on the molecular and cellular bases of developmental processes and human diseases. Lectures supplemented by electronic-based tutorials on the histology of tissues and organs. T 9:30–10:30, Th 9:30–11

CBIO 606b, Advanced Topics in Cell Biology Derek Toomre, Karin Reinisch, and faculty

This seminar course, which meets once weekly, covers advanced topics in cell biology. Each topic is spread over two or three sessions, which start with an introductory overview and are followed by a discussion of key papers led by an expert in the field. Special emphasis is given to application of state-of-the-art imaging techniques to topical areas covering a wide range of contemporary cell biology. T 4–6

CBIO 701b, Illuminating Cellular Function Derek Toomre and faculty

Introduction to the principles and practical methods of live cell imaging. Covers principles of fluorescent microscopy (including genetically encoded probes and physiological indicators), image formation, image detection, and image analysis. Includes hands-on demonstrations of state-of-the-art instrumentation, such as video-rate confocal and multi-photon microscopes.

CBIO 900a and 901b/GENE 900a and 901b/MCDB 900a and 901b, First-Year Introduction to Research Carl Hashimoto, Charles Radding, Frank Slack, and faculty

Lab rotations, grant writing, and ethics for Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics, and Development track students.

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Cellular and Molecular Physiology

B-147 Sterling Hall of Medicine, 737.2215

www.physiology.yale.edu

M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair (Interim)

Michael Caplan

Director of Graduate Studies

Emile Boulpaep (B-142 SHM, 785.4055, emile.boulpaep@yale.edu)

Professors Peter Aronson (Internal Medicine/Nephrology), Emile Boulpaep, Thomas Brown (Psychology), Cecilia Canessa, Lloyd Cantley (Internal Medicine/Nephrology), Michael Caplan, W. Knox Chandler, Lawrence Cohen, Barbara Ehrlich (Pharmacology), Biff Forbush III, John Geibel (Surgery), Leonard Kaczmarek (Pharmacology), Patricia Preisig (Internal Medicine/Nephrology), George Richerson (Neurology), W. Mark Saltzman (Biomedical Engineering), Joseph Santos-Sacchi (Surgery/Otolaryngology), Gerald Shulman (Internal Medicine/Endocrinology), Fred Sigworth, Carolyn Slayman (Genetics), Clifford Slayman, Fred Wright (Internal Medicine/Nephrology), Lawrence Young (Internal Medicine/Cardiology), Z. Jimmy Zhou (Ophthalmology)

Associate Professors Angelique Bordey (Neurosurgery), Marie Egan (Pediatrics), Michael Nitabach, Vincent Pieribone, David Zenisek

Assistant Professors Susumu Tomita, Xiaoyong Yang (Comparative Medicine), Yufeng Zhou

Fields of Study

Fields of study range from cellular and molecular physiology to integrative medical biology. Areas of current interest include: ion channels, transporters and pumps, membrane biophysics, cellular and systems neurobiology, protein trafficking, epithelial transport, signal transduction pathways, vascular biology, organ physiology, genetic models of human disease, pathophysiology, structural biology of membrane proteins, and physiological genomics.

Special Admissions Requirements

We welcome applications from students with backgrounds in the biological, chemical, and/or physical sciences. These include majors in biology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, and psychology. Courses in biology, biochemistry, organic and physical chemistry, and mathematics through elementary calculus are recommended. The GRE General Test is required. To enter the Ph.D. program, students will apply to the Physiology and Integrative Medical Biology track within the interdepartmental graduate program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Formal requirements for the Ph.D. degree include two or three terms of course work, a qualifying examination taken by the end of the second year, submission of a thesis prospectus, two terms of teaching, and completion and satisfactory defense of the thesis.

Students are expected to design a suitable program of courses in consultation with a faculty adviser. The director of graduate studies will provide general oversight of the course selections. These courses will provide a coherent background for the expected area of thesis research and also satisfy the department’s subject and proficiency requirements. Students must pass at least six graduate-level courses, including C&MP 520a, C&MP 550a, and C&MP 560b. Also during the first two terms, each student should explore research projects by performing rotations in at least three laboratories to create an informed basis upon which to select a thesis project by the end of the first year. There is no foreign language requirement. The qualifying examination, which must be passed by the end of the student’s fourth term, will cover areas of physiology that complement the student’s major research interest.

An important dimension of graduate training in Cellular and Molecular Physiology is the acquisition of teaching skills through participation in courses appropriate for the student’s academic interests. Ph.D. students are expected to participate in two terms (or the equivalent) of teaching, at least at the level of Teaching Fellow 2. Students are not expected to teach during their first year.

After satisfying the departmental predissertation requirements, passing the qualifying examination, submitting a satisfactory thesis prospectus, and having fulfilled the teaching requirement, students are admitted to candidacy. The completed dissertation must describe original research making a significant contribution to knowledge.

Honors Requirement

Students must meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement by the end of the fourth term of full-time study.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements. Awarded to students who have fulfilled all the requirements for the Ph.D. except the prospectus, teaching requirement, and dissertation, normally at the end of the second year. Students are not admitted for this degree.

M.S. Awarded only to students who are not continuing for the Ph.D. degree but who have successfully completed one year of the doctoral program (i.e., passing of at least four courses, including two Honors grades, and three successful laboratory rotations). Students are not admitted for this degree.

Program materials are available upon request to the Department Registrar, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, PO Box 208026, New Haven CT 06520-8026.

Courses

C&MP 520a, Current Perspectives in Physiology Susumu Tomita, Yufeng Zhou

This seminar explores a diverse range of current topics in physiology, emphasizing readings and discussions of recent primary literature. A variety of expert physiologists present topics such as structural biology, membrane transport, signal transduction, sensory systems, and neurophysiology. Instructors guide the discussion regarding the background, the experiments, the methods, and most importantly the impact of relevant research papers. The aim of the course is to understand how physiological approaches integrate the study of organismal function from genes, to systems, to behavior and disease. TTh 2:30–3:45

C&MP 550au/ENAS 550au/MCDB 550au, Physiological Systems Emile Boulpaep, W. Mark Saltzman

The course develops a foundation in human physiology by examining the homeostasis of vital parameters within the body, and the biophysical properties of cells, tissues, and organs. Basic concepts in cell and membrane physiology are synthesized through exploring the function of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle. The physical basis of blood flow, mechanisms of vascular exchange, cardiac performance, and regulation of overall circulatory function are discussed. Respiratory physiology explores the mechanics of ventilation, gas diffusion, and acid-base balance. Renal physiology examines the formation and composition of urine and the regulation of electrolyte, fluid, and acid-base balance. Organs of the digestive system are discussed from the perspective of substrate metabolism and energy balance. Hormonal regulation is applied to metabolic control and to calcium, water, and electrolyte balance. The biology of nerve cells is addressed with emphasis on synaptic transmission and simple neuronal circuits within the central nervous system. The special senses are considered in the framework of sensory transduction. Weekly discussion sections provide a forum for in-depth exploration of topics. Graduate students evaluate research findings through literature review and weekly meetings with the instructor. MWF 9:25–10:15

C&MP 560bu/ENAS 570bu/MCDB 560bu, Cellular and Molecular Physiology: Molecular Machines in Human Disease Emile Boulpaep, Fred Sigworth

This course focuses on understanding the processes that transfer molecules across membranes at the cellular, molecular, biophysical, and physiological levels. Students learn about the different classes of molecular machines that mediate membrane transport, generate electrical currents, or perform mechanical displacement. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between the molecular structures of membrane proteins, their normal function, and abnormal function in human disease. The interactions among transport proteins in determining the physiological behaviors of cells and tissues are also stressed. Molecular motors are introduced and their mechanical relationship to cell function is explored. Students also read papers from the scientific literature that establish the connections between mutations in genes encoding membrane proteins and a wide variety of human genetic diseases. MWF 9:25–10:15

C&MP 570b, Sensory Physiology David Zenisek, Joseph Santos-Sacchi, Z. Jimmy Zhou

An overview of the mammalian special sensory systems, including molecular and cellular bases of vision, audition, taste, olfaction, and somatosensation. Faculty with focus in those areas lead presentations and discussions on peripheral and central mechanisms. Psychophysical aspects of sensation are introduced. TTh 2:30–3:45

C&MP 600, Medical Physiology Case Conferences Emile Boulpaep and staff

Two-term course taught in groups of 10–12 students by the same group leader(s) throughout the year. Workshop format permits students to apply basic concepts of physiology to clinical syndromes and disease processes. Students are expected to participate actively in a weekly discussion of a clinical case that illustrates principles of human physiology and pathophysiology at the whole-body, system, organ, cellular, or molecular level. Prerequisite: C&MP 550a or permission of instructor. Th 11–12:30

C&MP 610, Medical Research Scholars Program: Mentored Clinical Experience Raymond Russell, Michael Caplan

The goals of this course are to introduce MRSP students to aspects of clinically important human diseases. Students explore each disease over three half-hour sessions led by a clinician-scientist who is an expert in the relevant organ system. Students explore two disease processes per term. The first of the three sessions is devoted to a discussion of the clinical presentation, natural history, pathology, epidemiology, treatment, and prognosis of the disease process. During this session students have the opportunity to view gross or microscopic specimens of diseased tissue in association with members of the Pathology faculty. Students are assigned readings in pathology, pathophysiology, and clinical texts to prepare for the first class session. The second session focuses on translational aspects of the disease process. Students read and present papers relevant to the molecular basis of the disease and cutting-edge approaches to its therapy. In the third session students meet with patients who have experienced the disease and/or visit and explore facilities associated with diagnosis and treatment of the disease process. Prior to the third session students receive guidance as to what they will observe and how to approach the experience, and at the end of the session, the group discusses its thoughts and impressions. Students are expected to prepare for sessions, to participate actively, and to be scrupulously respectful of patients and patient facilities.

C&MP 620b/NBIO 610b, Fundamentals in Neurophysiology Vincent Pieribone, Fred Sigworth

This course is designed for students who wish to gain a theoretical and practical knowledge of modern neurophysiology. Graduate students specializing in neurophysiology and non-neurophysiology are encouraged to attend, as the course begins at a very basic level and progresses to more complicated topics. Topics include properties of ion channels, firing properties of neurons, synaptic transmission, and neurophysiology methodology.

C&MP 710b/MB&B 710b4, Electron Cryo-Microscopy for Protein Structure Determination Fred Sigworth, Hongwei Wang

Understanding cellular function requires structural and biochemical studies at an ever-increasing level of complexity. The course is an introduction into the concepts and applications of high-resolution electron cryo-microscopy. This rapidly emerging new technique is the only tool known to date that allows biological macromolecules to be studied at all levels of resolution ranging from their cellular organization to near-atomic detail. TTh 9–10:15

C&MP 750/PSYC 750, Research Topics in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Thomas Brown

Discussion and analysis of current work on the neurobiological foundations of learning and memory systems in mammals. Informal weekly discussions span several levels of analysis, including molecular and biophysical studies, cellular and systems neurophysiology and neuro-anatomy, and contemporary behavioral neuroscience. HTBA

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Chemical Engineering

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250

M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Menachem Elimelech

Director of Graduate Studies

Gary Haller

Professors Eric Altman, Menachem Elimelech, Abbas Firoozabadi (Adjunct), Thomas Graedel, Gary Haller, Michael Loewenberg, Lisa Pfefferle, Joseph Pignatello (Adjunct), Daniel Rosner, Mark Saltzman, T. Kyle Vanderlick, Paul Van Tassel, Kurt Zilm

Associate Professors Yehia Khalil (Adjunct), William Mitch, Jordan Peccia

Assistant Professors Eric Dufresne, Tarek Fahmy, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Chinedum Osuji, Andre Taylor, Corey Wilson, Julie Zimmerman

Fields of Study

Fields include separation processes, catalysis, combustion, statistical mechanics of adsorption, high-temperature chemical reaction engineering, colloids and complex fluids, nanotechnology, convective heat and mass transfer, biomolecular engineering, biotechnology, molecular beams, aerosol science and technology, materials processing, surface science, and environmental engineering.

For admissions and degree requirements, and for course listings, see Engineering and Applied Science.

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Chemistry

Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, 432.3913

www.chem.yale.edu/

M.S., Ph.D.

Chair

Scott Miller (Rm 1, SCL, 432.3912, chemistry.chair@yale.edu)

Director of Graduate Studies

J. Patrick Loria (Rm 1, SCL, 432.3913, chemistry.dgs@yale.edu)

Professors Sidney Altman (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Victor Batista, Jerome Berson (Emeritus), Gary Brudvig, Robert Crabtree, Craig Crews (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), R. James Cross, Jr., Donald Crothers (Emeritus), John Faller, Gary Haller (Engineering & Applied Science), Francesco Iachello (Physics), Mark Johnson, William Jorgensen, J. Patrick Loria, J. Michael McBride, Scott Miller, Peter Moore, Lynne Regan (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), James Rothman (Cell Biology), Martin Saunders, Alanna Schepartz, Charles Schmuttenmaer, Dieter Söll (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Thomas Steitz (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Scott Strobel (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), John Tully, Patrick Vaccaro, Harry Wasserman (Emeritus), Kenneth Wiberg (Emeritus), Frederick Ziegler (Emeritus), Kurt Zilm

Associate Professor Ann Valentine

Assistant Professors Nilay Hazari, Seth Herzon, David Spiegel, Elsa Yan

Fields of Study

Fields include bio-inorganic chemistry, bio-organic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, chemical physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, physical-organic chemistry, synthetic-organic chemistry, and theoretical chemistry.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants are expected to have completed or be completing a standard undergraduate chemistry major including a year of elementary organic chemistry, with laboratory, and a year of elementary physical chemistry. Other majors are acceptable if the above requirements are met. The GRE General Test and the Subject Test in Chemistry are required. Students whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the Test of Spoken English (TSE) if the TOEFL Internet-based test is not taken.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

A foreign language is not required. Three term courses are required in each of the first two terms of residence, and participation in additional courses is encouraged in subsequent terms. Courses are chosen according to the student’s background and research area. To be admitted to candidacy a student must (1) receive at least two term grades of Honors, exclusive of those for research; (2) pass either three cumulative examinations and one oral examination (organic students) or two oral examinations (nonorganic students) by the end of the second year of study; and (3) submit a thesis prospectus no later than the end of the third year of study. Remaining degree requirements include completing eight cumulative examinations (organic students), a written thesis describing the research, and an oral defense of the thesis. The ability to communicate scientific knowledge to others outside the specialized area is crucial to any career in chemistry. Therefore, all students are required to teach a minimum of two terms at the level of Teaching Fellow 3 or higher.

Master’s Degree

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) A student must pass at least five graduate-level term courses in the Chemistry department exclusive of seminars and research. The student must obtain at least one term grade of Honors or three of High Pass in graduate-level courses. One full year of residence is required.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, PO Box 208107, New Haven CT 06520-8107.

Courses

CHEM 518au, Advanced Organic Chemistry William Jorgensen

Concise overview of structure, properties, thermodynamics, kinetics, reactions, and intermolecular interactions for organic molecular systems. MW 11:35–12:50

[CHEM 519b, Advanced Organic Chemistry II]

CHEM 521bu, Introduction to Chemical Biology Alanna Schepartz

A one-term introduction to the origins and emerging frontiers of chemical biology. Discussion of the key molecular building blocks of biological systems and the history of macromolecular research in chemistry. TTh 9–10:15

CHEM 523au, Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry David Spiegel

A discussion of modern methods. Topics include functional group manipulation, synthesis and functionalization of stereodefined double bonds, carbonyl addition chemistry, and synthetic designs. Normally taken only by students with a special interest in organic synthesis; for other students, CHEM 518a is more appropriate. MWF 10:30–11:20

CHEM 524b, Advanced Synthetic Methods in Chemistry Scott Miller

Selected topics in organic synthesis. Strategies for the synthesis of complex, biologically active molecules, including retrosynthetic analysis. Considerable emphasis is placed on strategy-level reactions, asymmetric catalysis, and applications to targets. Reaction mechanisms are emphasized throughout the course. MWF 8:20–9:10

CHEM 525bu, Spectroscopic Methods of Structure Determination Martin Saunders

The background and use of spectroscopic methods emphasizing NMR in organic chemistry. The course includes the use of programs for simulating spin-spin coupling and rapid rearrangement reactions in NMR. All methods commonly used by organic chemists for determining molecular structures of species in solution, in the gas phase, and in solids are included. MWF 11:35–12:25

CHEM 526bu, Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry William Jorgensen

An introduction to modern computational methods employed for the study of chemistry and biochemistry, including molecular mechanics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and molecular dynamics. Special emphasis on the hands-on use of computational packages for current applications ranging from organic reactions to protein-ligand binding and dynamics.

CHEM 528a, Natural Product Synthesis Seth Herzon

Survey of natural products syntheses, with an emphasis on those that contain unique strategies, transformations, or reagents. Key transformations are introduced in the context of various syntheses. Retrosynthetic analysis and synthetic planning are discussed. MWF 8:20–9:10

CHEM 530bu, Statistical Methods and Thermodynamics Victor Batista

The fundamentals of statistical mechanics are developed and used to elucidate gas phase and condensed phase behavior, as well as to establish a microscopic derivation of the postulates of thermodynamics. Topics include ensembles; Fermi, Bose, and Boltzmann statistics; density matrices; mean field theories; phase transitions; chemical reaction dynamics; time-correlation functions; Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations. MWF 9:25–10:15

[CHEM 535a, Chemical Dynamics]

CHEM 540au, Molecules and Radiation I Kurt Zilm

An integrated treatment of quantum mechanics and modern spectroscopy. Basic wave and matrix mechanics, perturbation theory, angular momentum, group theory, time-dependent quantum mechanics, selection rules, coherent evolution in two-level systems, lineshapes, and NMR spectroscopy. MWF 8:20–9:10

CHEM 542bu, Molecules and Radiation II Mark Johnson

An extension of the material covered in CHEM 540a to atomic and molecular spectroscopy, including rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectroscopy, as well as an introduction to laser spectroscopy. MW 11:35–12:50

[CHEM 547b, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance]

CHEM 548b, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Liquids J. Patrick Loria

A theoretical treatment of solution NMR spectroscopy with emphasis on applications to proteins and biological macromolecules. This includes classical and quantum mechanical descriptions of NMR, product operator formalism, multidimensional NMR, phase cycling, gradient selection, relaxation phenomena, and protein resonance assignments. TTH 11:35–12:50

CHEM 549bu, Biophysical Chemistry Peter Moore

A detailed discussion of several important experimental techniques used to study the properties of biological macromolecules, focusing on the application of Fourier methods and concepts to NMR spectroscopic, optical, and electron microscopy, image reconstruction, X-ray scattering/diffraction, and mass spectrometry. Emphasis on the physical chemistry that underlies both the execution of such experiments and the interpretation of the resulting data. TTH 9–10:15

CHEM 550bu, Theoretical and Inorganic Chemistry John Faller

Covers the major physical methods used in the determination of molecular structure, bonding, and physical properties of metal complexes. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students. Students should be familiar with both inorganic coordination chemistry and physical chemistry. TTH 9–10:15

CHEM 552au, Organometallic Chemistry Nilay Hazari

A survey of the organometallic chemistry of the transition elements and of homogeneous catalysis. TTh 9–10:15

CHEM 554b, Bio-Inorganic Chemistry Gary Brudvig

An advanced introduction to biological inorganic chemistry. Important topics in metalloprotein chemistry are illustrated. Objective is to define and understand function in terms of structure. Topics include catalysis with and without electron transfer, and carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen metabolism. MWF 8:20–9:10

[CHEM 555b, Inorganic Mechanisms]

CHEM 556a, Biochemical Kinetics and Dynamics J. Patrick Loria

An advanced treatment of enzymology. Topics include transition state theory and derivation of steady-state and pre-steady-state rate equations. The role of entropy and enthalpy in accelerating chemical reactions is considered, along with modern methods for the study of enzyme chemistry. These topics are supplemented with in-depth analysis of the primary literature. MWF 9:25–10:15

CHEM 557au, Modern Coordination Chemistry John Faller

The principles of modern inorganic chemistry. Main group and transition element chemistry: reactions, bonding, structure, and spectra. TTH 11:35–12:50

CHEM 558b, Biophysical Spectroscopy Elsa Yan

A discussion of application of spectroscopy to biomolecules. Topics include Raman, single-molecule, fluorescence, FTIR, optical ultrafast, NMR and EPR spectroscopies. Emphasis is placed on interpreting spectroscopic data to gain structural and dynamic information to answer biological questions at the molecular level. MW 11:35–12:50

CHEM 560La, Advanced Physical Methods in Molecular Science I Patrick Vaccaro

A laboratory course introducing physical chemistry tools used in the experimental and theoretical investigation of large and small molecules. Modules include electronics, vacuum technology, optical spectroscopy and lasers, and computer programming. F 3–4

CHEM 561Lb, Advanced Physical Methods in Molecular Science II R. James Cross, Jr.

A laboratory course introducing physical chemistry tools used in the experimental and theoretical investigation of large and small molecules. Modules include machining materials, magnetic resonance, optical spectroscopy and lasers, and computational tools. F 3–4

CHEM 562L, Laboratory in Instrument Design and the Mechanical Arts Kurt Zilm, David Johnson

Familiarization with modern machine shop practices and techniques. Use of basic metalworking machinery and instruction in techniques of precision measurement and properties of commonly used metals, alloys, and plastics.

CHEM 564L, Advanced Mechanical Instrumentation Kurt Zilm, David Johnson

A course geared for both the arts and sciences that goes beyond the basic introductory shop courses, offering an in-depth foundation study utilizing hands-on instructional techniques that must be learned from experience. Prerequisite: CHEM 562L.

CHEM 565L, Introduction to Glass Blowing Patrick Vaccaro, Daryl Smith

This course provides a basic introduction to the fabrication of scientific apparatus from glass. Topics covered include laboratory set-up, the fundamental skills and techniques of glass blowing, the operation of glass fabrication equipment, and requisite safety procedures.

CHEM 570au, Introductory Quantum Chemistry John Tully

The elements of quantum mechanics developed and illustrated with applications to chemical problems. Suitable for first-year graduate students in chemistry who have had some exposure to quantum mechanics as part of an undergraduate chemistry course. TTH 9–10:15

[CHEM 572a, Advanced Quantum Mechanics]

CHEM 600–670, Research Seminars Faculty

Presentation of a student’s research results to his/her adviser and fellow research group members. Extensive discussion and literature review are normally a part of the series.

CHEM 700, Laboratory Rotation for First-Year Biophysical and Chemical Biology Graduate Students Gary Brudvig, Craig Crews

CHEM 720, Current Topics in Organic Chemistry Faculty

A seminar series based on invited speakers in the general area of organic chemistry.

CHEM 730, Molecular Science Seminar Faculty

A seminar series based on invited speakers in the areas of physical, inorganic, and biological chemistry.

CHEM 990, Research Faculty

Individual research for Ph.D. degree candidates in the Department of Chemistry, under the direct supervision of one or more faculty members.

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Classics

402 Phelps Hall, 432.0977

www.yale.edu/classics/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Christina Kraus

Director of Graduate Studies

Joseph Manning (404 Phelps, 432.0980)

Professors Egbert Bakker (on leave [F]), Victor Bers, Kirk Freudenburg, Verity Harte (Classics; Philosophy; on leave [Sp]), Joseph Manning (Classics; History), Donald Kagan (Classics; History), Diana Kleiner (Classics; History of Art; on leave [Sp]), Christina Kraus, John Matthews (Classics; History), William Metcalf (Adjunct; Curator Coins & Medals, Art Gallery)

Associate Professors Emily Greenwood, Celia Schultz

Assistant Professors Milette Gaifman (Classics; History of Art), Jay Fisher (on leave), Pauline LeVen, Irene Peirano (on leave)

Lecturers Veronika Grimm, Joseph Solodow

Affiliated Faculty Alexander Beecroft (Comparative Literature), Susanne Bobzien (Philosophy), Dimitri Gutas (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations), Bentley Layton (Religious Studies), Dale Martin (Religious Studies), Susan Matheson (Curator Ancient Art), David Quint (Comparative Literature), Barbara Sattler (Philosophy), Barbara Shailor (Deputy Provost for the Arts; Classical Philology)

The degree program in Classical Philology seeks to provide an overall knowledge of Greek and Roman civilization, combined with specialized work in a number of fields or disciplines within the total area of classical antiquity.

Admission Requirements

A minimum of three years (four preferred) of college training in one of the classical languages and two years (three preferred) in the other.

Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree in Classics

(1) Diagnostic sight translation examinations in Greek and Latin (these are taken before the beginning of the first term and must have been passed at the latest by the end of the second term in residence); (2) a proseminar, in the first term, offering an introduction to the discipline and its various subdisciplines; (3) departmental reading examinations in French and German by the beginning of the third term in residence; (4) oral examinations in Greek and Roman history by the end of the fourth term in residence; (5) a minimum of fourteen term courses, at least eight of which must be seminars (including four courses in the history of Greek and Latin literature, two literary seminars in one language, and one in the other); one course in historical or comparative linguistics, one course in ancient history (either an 800-level seminar or a 600-level materials course), and one in classical art and archaeology; (6) Greek and Latin composition (this requirement may but need not be satisfied by courses taken under (5) above); (7) translation examinations in Greek and Latin, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the beginning of the fifth term in residence; (8) oral examinations in Greek and Latin literature, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the end of the fifth term in residence; (9) special fields oral examinations by the end of the sixth term, consisting of two areas of special concentration in each language selected by the candidate in consultation with the director of graduate studies; (10) a dissertation prospectus by the end of the seventh term in residence; (11) a dissertation.

In addition to the Graduate School’s requirement of Honors grades in at least one year course or two term courses, students must have a High Pass average in the remaining courses. Admission to candidacy for the Ph.D. is granted upon completion of all predissertation requirements not later than the end of the seventh term of study.

The faculty considers experience in the teaching of language and literature to be an important part of this program. Students in Classics typically teach in their third and fourth years of study.

Combined Programs

Classics and Ancient History

Admission requirements Students may apply to either the Department of Classics or the Department of History. In the former case, the requirements are the same as for Classical Philology; in addition, at least two term courses in Greek or Roman history are required for admission to the program.

Requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Classics and Ancient History (1) Diagnostic sight translation examinations in Greek and Latin (these are taken before the beginning of the first term and must have been passed at the latest by the end of the second term in residence); (2) a proseminar, in the first term, offering an introduction to the discipline and its various subdisciplines; (3) departmental reading examinations in French and German by the beginning of the second year in residence; (4) a minimum of fourteen term courses, including two courses in the history of Greek or Latin literature, one seminar in Greek or Latin literature, and six courses in Greek and Roman history (three of these must be either seminars or materials courses, two in one language, one in the other), and two courses in another period of history; (5) a translation examination in Greek or Latin, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the beginning of the fifth term in residence; (6) an oral examination in Greek or Latin literature, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the end of the fifth term in residence; (7) a translation examination in the other ancient language based on a 1,000-page reading list approved by the director of graduate studies, by the beginning of the fifth term in residence; (8) oral examinations in Greek and Roman history on topics approved by the director of graduate studies, by the end of the sixth term in residence; (9) a dissertation prospectus by the end of the seventh term in residence; (10) a dissertation.

Classical Art and Archaeology

The program is offered in collaboration with the Department of the History of Art and is designed to give a general knowledge of the development of art in Greece and Italy from the Bronze Age to late antiquity, combining this with a detailed study of one particular period and area; and an acquaintance with the contribution made by field archaeology to our understanding of the classical world. It is expected that each student will be given the opportunity to visit the major sites and monuments. Students are required to pass fourteen term courses, to include three seminars, divided between the two departments; distribution may be adjusted to suit the interests of individual students. Students must demonstrate a competence in Greek and Latin, usually by passing at least one 400/700-level course in each language. They must also pass departmental examinations in German and one other modern language, usually Italian or French, by the beginning of the second year in residence. They will be admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. after passing a written and oral comprehensive examination in classical art and archaeology and by securing approval of their dissertation prospectus. Further details should be obtained from the director of graduate studies.

Prerequisites for admission: a year’s course in Greek and Roman art or archaeology; a minimum of two years of college training in one classical language and one in the other (more preferred).

Classics and Comparative Literature

Admission requirements Prerequisites for admission through the Department of Classics: same as for Classical Philology. (For admission requirements in the Department of Comparative Literature, consult the director of graduate studies of that department.) After admission to the Department of Classics, qualified students may apply to be admitted to this joint program, normally during the first term of residence; the directors of graduate studies of both departments should be consulted before application to the joint program is made.

Degree requirements (1) Diagnostic sight translation examinations in Greek and Latin (these are taken before the beginning of the first term and must have been passed at the latest by the beginning of the second term in residence); (2) a proseminar, in the first term, offering an introduction to the discipline and its various subdisciplines; (3) fourteen term courses including at least seven in Classics, including two courses in the history of Greek or Latin literature and two seminars; and at least six courses in Comparative Literature, including: at least four courses on post-classical European literature and two courses on literary theory or methodology; (4) literary proficiency in German and one other modern language during the first two years; (5) translation examinations in Greek and Latin, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the beginning of the fifth term in residence; (6) oral examinations in Greek and Latin literature, based on the Ph.D. reading list, by the end of the fifth term in residence; (7) an oral examination in the Comparative Literature department on six topics appropriate to both disciplines, selected in consultation with the two directors of graduate studies, by the end of the sixth term; (8) a dissertation prospectus by the end of the seventh term in residence; (9) a dissertation.

Classics and Philosophy

Superior students, preferably with a background in Classical languages and literature, may be admitted to a joint Ph.D. program in Philosophy and Classics. For details about this program, see www.yale.edu/classics/gradprogram.html.

Classics and Renaissance Studies

Admission requirements Same as for Classical Philology. Applications should be submitted directly to Classics with an indication that the student wishes to apply for the combined degree in Classics and Renaissance Studies.

Degree requirements (1) Diagnostic sight translation examinations in Greek and Latin (these are taken before the beginning of the first term and must have been passed at the latest by the end of the second term in residence); (2) a proseminar, in the first term, offering an introduction to the discipline and its various subdisciplines; (3) sixteen term courses, eight of which will be courses in Classics and will include at least four courses in Greek and Latin literature, a course in historical or comparative linguistics, and at least three seminars; the eight remaining courses making up the Renaissance Studies portion of the degree will be broken down as follows: two terms of the Renaissance Studies Core Course, six additional term courses to be taken in at least two disciplines (such as Literature, History, History of Art, Music, Religious Studies, etc.); one of these courses should meet the normal Classics requirements of a course in classical art or archaeology; (4) literary proficiency in Italian, as set by Renaissance Studies, and a second language, normally German or French; (5) translation examinations in Greek and Latin, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the end of the fifth term in residence; (6) oral examinations on seven or eight topics appropriate to both disciplines, selected in consultation with the directors of graduate studies in both disciplines, by the end of the sixth term in residence; (7) oral examinations in Greek and Latin literature, based on the Classics Ph.D. reading list, by the end of the seventh term in residence; (8) a dissertation prospectus, by the end of the seventh term in residence; (9) a dissertation.

For information about the Ph.D. program in Graeco-Arabic Studies, please contact Professor Gutas, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.) Students enrolled in the Ph.D. program qualify for the M.A. degree upon completion of seven courses, ordinarily with a High Pass average in two successive terms.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics, Yale University, PO Box 208266, New Haven CT 06520-8266.

Courses

GREK 712au, Aristotle on Voluntary Action, Choice, and Responsibility Susanne Bobzien, Verity Harte

Close study of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics in Greek. Focus on Book III, Chapters 1–5, in which Aristotle sets out his theory of the voluntary, practical deliberation, choice (or intention), and responsibility. Prerequisites: PHIL 125a or equivalent and intermediate Greek, or permission of instructor.

GREK 734a, Thucydides Emily Greenwood

Examination of the narrative structure and design of Thucydides’s History, its intellectual context, and its generic affinities, aimed at answering two simple and disarming questions: what kind of a text is Thucydides’s History, and how does it work? The close reading in Greek of passages that have proved canonical for Thucydidean interpretation enables us to discuss trends and turning points in Thucydidean scholarship. TTH 2:30–3:45

GREK 750au, Euripides’s Late Tragedies Pauline LeVen

Close reading of three late plays of Euripides, Helen, Ion, and Iphigenia in Tauris. Class discussion focuses on Euripides’s literary and dramatic technique and on the issues of myth, geography, as well as cultural and personal identity in these tragedies. We also consider how the plays (qualified as “romantic tragedies,” “paratragedies,” and “tragicomedies”) question the identity of the tragic genre and open new dramatic possibilities at the end of the fifth century B.C. MW 11:35–12:50

GREK 755bu, Athenian Law Courts Victor Bers

Rhetoric and law, procedural and substantive, in the Athenian courts of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. as seen in forensic speeches and discursive treatments, and as satirized in Aristophanes’s Wasps. TTH 9–10:15

GREK 761bu, Ancient Greek Wisdom Poetry Egbert Bakker

Study and interpretation of archaic Greek poetry that is explicitly addressed to its audience, in the form of advice, exhortation, or general instruction. The course focuses on Hesiod, Works and Days, the traditional prototype of “didactic poetry,” and on archaic Greek elegy (Solon, Theognis, Tyrtaeus). Issues to be addressed include questions of genre, occasion, and performance context as well as the relation of this kind of poetry to the epic tradition. MW 11:35–12:50

GREK 790au, Advanced Greek Prose Composition Victor Bers

A review of accidence and syntax, elementary composition, and analysis of Greek prose styles of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., including a comparison of “prosaic” and “poetic” syntax. Prerequisite: previous familiarity with some Greek prose beyond the elementary level, or permission of instructor. MW 9–10:15, additional session m 10:30–11.20

LATN 727au/HIST 510au, Tacitus and Pliny John Matthews

The culture of the Flavio-Trajanic period as seen through readings in the historical works of Tacitus and the letters of the younger Pliny, with special emphasis on the personal connections between them, and on the social background and literary formation of the two writers. M 1:30–3:20

LATN 730au, Ovid, Fasti and Exile Poems Kirk Freudenburg

The primary project of the course is to read through Ovid’s Fasti, attending to the basic demands of close reading as well as to larger matters of genre, style, and cultural context. The course requirements include selected further readings from relevant Latin texts (e.g., Augustus’s Res Gestae, small selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Tristia, and Ex Ponto) as well as works of modern scholarship on issues of “time,” intertextuality, Augustan religion, and Ovid’s late poetry and exile. TTh 2:30–3:45

LATN 736b, Cicero’s Letters William Metcalf

An introduction to the correspondence of Cicero, with particular attention to its social and historical context. Readings focus on his changing relationships with major political figures of the day, his proconsulship, and his reaction to the fall of the Roman republic. MW 4–5:15

LATN 765bu, Lucan Christina Kraus

Reading of selected Latin passages from Lucan’s epic poem The Civil War (the whole poem to be read in English translation). Topics to be covered include design and style of Imperial epic; Lucan’s manipulation of the epic tradition; the lure and nature of violence in civil war narrative. MW 2:30–3:45

LATN 790bu, Latin Syntax and Style Joseph Solodow

A systematic review of syntax and an introduction to Latin style. Selections from Latin prose authors are read and analyzed, and students compose short pieces of Latin prose. For students with some experience reading Latin literature who desire a better foundation in forms, syntax, idiom, and style. MW 9–10:15

CLSS 645au/HIST 507au, Numismatics William Metcalf

An introduction to the history of ancient coinage and the modern methodology of numismatic study. Brief consideration of the Greek background is followed by detailed treatment of the Roman republic and empire. Prerequisite: proficiency in Greek and Latin. TH 1:30–3:20

CLSS 824a, Classical Greek Lyric Poetry Pauline LeVen

An examination of canonical and less canonical lyric texts, from Pindar’s and Bacchylides’s epinicians and dithyrambs to the “New Dithyramb” and epigraphic hymns. In addition to close reading and interpretation of the texts in their social and intellectual contexts, attention is paid to contemporary reflections on poetry and musical practice in Plato’s and Aristotle’s philosophical writings. M 2:30–4:20

CLSS 832b/HSAR 559b, Envisioning the “Other” in Greek Art Milette Gaifman

The notion of the “other,” which saw its great rise with the emergence of structural anthropology, has by now become a well-established concept in the social sciences and the humanities. In ancient Greek culture the “other” has been ascribed to groups such as non-Greeks (e.g., Persians), non-citizens (e.g., slaves or women), the elderly, or the Greeks of the very deep past. The course explores how different social groups were portrayed in Greek art, in a variety of media (vase paintings, free-standing sculpture, reliefs) and how the distinction and tension between the “self” and the “other” were negotiated visually. Looking at the case of Greece of the Archaic and Classical periods, the seminar considers the ways in which visual culture was constitutive of social norms and ideologies. Readings combine art-historical and archaeological accounts of ancient Greek monuments and objects, primary texts (e.g., Herodotos, Pausanias), as well as theoretical discussions on the notion of the “other” and the agency of art in society. W 10:30–12:20

CLSS 837a/CPLT 542a, Ancient Literary Criticism Kirk Freudenburg

This course takes a “thematic” approach to literary criticism in antiquity, with special emphasis on the culture(s) of criticism in the Roman world. The home base for the course is the literary-theoretical and rhetorical works of selected Roman authors, especially Cicero (Brutus, Orator), Varro, Horace, and Seneca. The larger historical picture is filled in by looking both backward to Greek sources, especially to Plato and Aristotle, and forward to Quintilian, Tacitus, Longinus, and others. Weekly discussions center on topics that arise from the theoretical pronouncements and debates of ancient writers, as well as from the actual practices (and meta-linguistic commentaries) of the poets themselves. Topics include theories of imitation in antiquity; theories of style (order, structure, metaphor, language, word choice, etc.); definitions of a “poem” and of the poet’s place in society; genre theory and canon formation (especially in Rome); what grammarians do and how they structure modes of evaluation. W 2:30–4:20

CLSS 840a/HIST 508a, The Greek World in Transition, Fourth to Third Century B.C. Joseph Manning

The seminar investigates the Mediterranean states during the period ca. 400-200 B.C., that is, across the traditional “Classical/Hellenistic” historical divide. The primary states we are concerned with are the Greek city-states (both individual states and koina) and the Ptolemaic empire, although we also look from time to time at other Hellenistic kingdoms. Among our goals is to compare the public economies across this period and in different regions of the Mediterranean. Emphasis is on comparison. Our goal is to examine Greek states in transition from the point of view of their economies, political organization and political economic thought, and culture, broadly defined, as well as to assess the Greek institutional impact on new areas such as the eastern and southern Hellenistic states. Emphasis on research methods and source criticism. T 1:30–3:20

CLSS 846a/ARCG 749a/HSAR 570a, Becoming Hadrian: Autobiography and Art in the Second Century A.D. Diana Kleiner

Marguerite Yourcenar’s famed fictional Memoirs of Hadrian serves as the starting point for an exploration of Hadrian and the art he commissioned in Rome and abroad. Hadrian’s passion for life, quest after peace, romantic wanderlust, veneration of Greek culture, and craving for love, aloong with his acceptance of death’s inexorableness, led him to commission some of Rome’s greatest monuments. The emperor’s flair for leadership and talent as an amateur architect inform student projects on the sculpture, mosaics, and buildings of the age, among them the portraiture of Hadrian’s lover Antinous, the Pantheon, and Hadrian’s Wall in Britain. Special attention is paid to Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli, an empire unto itself where Hadrian’s autobiography was fully realized. Qualified undergraduates who have taken Roman Art: Empire, Identity, and Society and/or Roman Architecture may be admitted with permission of the instructor. T 1:30–3:20

CLSS 875b, Narratological and Linguistic Perspectives on Greek and Latin Narrative Egbert Bakker

Narratives can differ profoundly across genres and authors. The field of narratology has developed sophisticated tools, such as “voice” or “focalization,” to chart and measure such differences. In this seminar, narratological methods are complemented with a linguistic study of elements of the language that have a strong bearing on how the story is told, in particular, tense and deixis. The seminar covers a broad range of narrative genres in Greek and Latin literature (epic, historiography, messenger speech, narrative in oratory, novel). Seminar participants present an in-depth analysis of a passage that has been selected as representative of its genre/author. Emphasis throughout is on the ways in which such “technical” analysis is important for the wider interpretation of the genre or work in question. M 2:30–4:20

CLSS 881a, Proseminar Classical Studies William Metcalf

An introduction to the bibliography and disciplines of classical scholarship. Faculty address larger questions of method and theory, as well as specialized subdisciplines such as linguistics, papyrology, epigraphy, palaeography, and numismatics. This course is required of all entering graduate students. TTH 4–5:15

CLSS 884b/HIST 517b, The Thirty Tyrants Donald Kagan

A study of the rule of the Thirty at Athens after the Athenian defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The ancient sources, chiefly the relevant passages in Xenophon’s Hellenica, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch’s Lives, are read in the original. Reading knowledge of French, German, or Italian desirable. TH 2:30–4:20

CLSS 891b Translatio: Translation and the Classics Emily Greenwood

A study of Latin authors as both translators and the object of translation. Starting with the theory and practice of translation in Roman literature, we examine statements about translation in Lucretius, Cicero, Horace, Quintilian, Pliny the Younger, and St. Jerome. The second part of the course studies translations of Latin authors into English, using Catullus, Virgil, and Ovid as case studies. Finally, we examine the way in which translations of Greco-Roman classics are marketed by the publishing industry, and the cultural politics involved in the adaptation of Greco-Roman classics into other media. The seminars are equally concerned with what Roman authors say and imply about translation, and how these same authors continue to be transformed by translations and adaptations of their work. W 3:30–5:20

CLSS 898a, History of Latin Literature I Christina Kraus

A survey of Latin literature from the earliest texts to the sixth century C.E., with the main focus on the period from the second century B.C.E. to the second century C.E. Assignments are drawn primarily from the graduate reading list. Students are expected to read widely in the ancient text; this broad reading is offset by close analysis of short passages in class. Individual class sessions combine lecture and discussion. Selected short pieces of secondary literature are used to guide discussion; in constructing a narrative for the evolution of Latin literature we explore several possible models of literary history (e.g., diachronic, synchronic, generic, and topical). Weekly translation quizzes; several short writing assignments (4–6 pages) on closely focused topics, including explications de texte and analysis of commentaries. TTH 11:35–12:50

CLSS 899b, History of Latin Literature II Kirk Freudenburg

Continuation of CLSS 898a. TTH 11:35–12:50

CLSS 900a/b, Directed Reading

By arrangement with faculty.

CLSS 910a/b, Directed Reading

By arrangement with faculty.

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Comparative Literature

451 College, Rm 202, 432.2760

www.yale.edu/complit/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Dudley Andrew

Director of Graduate Studies

Pericles Lewis

Professors Dudley Andrew, Katerina Clark, Roberto González Echevarría, Benjamin Harshav, Carol Jacobs, Pericles Lewis, Rainer Nägele, David Quint, Haun Saussy, Katie Trumpener

Associate Professor Ala Alryyes

Assistant Professors Alexander Beecroft, Moira Fradinger, David Gabriel, Barry McCrea

Senior Lecturer Richard Maxwell

Fields of Study

The Department of Comparative Literature introduces students to the study and understanding of literature beyond linguistic or national boundaries; the theory, interpretation, and criticism of literature; and its interactions with adjacent fields like visual and material culture, linguistics, film, psychology, law, and philosophy. The comparative perspective invites the exploration of such transnational phenomena as literary or cultural periods and trends (Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism, postcolonialism) or genres and modes of discourse. Students may specialize in any cultures or languages, to the extent that they are sufficiently covered at Yale. The Ph.D. degree qualifies the candidate to teach comparative literature as well as the national literature(s) of her or his specialization.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants must hold a B.A. or equivalent degree and should normally have majored in comparative literature, English, a classical or foreign literature, or in an interdepartmental major that includes literature. They must be ready to take advanced courses in two foreign literatures in addition to English upon admission. The GRE General Test is required. A ten- to twenty-page writing sample, written in English, should be submitted with the application.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Students must successfully complete fourteen term courses, including at least seven listed under the departmental heading. The student’s overall schedule must fulfill the following requirements: (1) at least one course in medieval or classical European literature, philology, or linguistics (or their equivalents in other cultures); one course in the Renaissance or Baroque (or equivalents); and one course in the modern period; (2) three courses in literary theory or methodology; (3) course work dealing with texts from three literatures, one of which may be English or American. Any course may be counted for several requirements simultaneously.

Languages: Literary proficiency in four languages (including English, at least one other modern language, and one classical or ancient language, such as Latin, Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Classical Chinese, Provençal). The fulfillment of this requirement will be demonstrated by a written exam consisting of a translation of a literary or critical text, to be held by the end of the sixth term; or by an equivalent level in the student’s course work.

Orals: An oral examination to be taken in the third year of studies, demonstrating both the breadth and specialization as well as the comparative scope of the student’s acquired knowledge. The examination consists of seven topics that include texts from at least three national literatures and several historical periods (at least one modern and one before the Renaissance). The texts discussed should also include representatives of the three traditional literary genres (poetry, drama, narrative fiction).

The Ph.D. dissertation, supervised by a dissertation director (or directors) and approved by the departmental faculty, completes the degree. Its initial step is a dissertation prospectus, to be submitted and approved by the dissertation director and a standing faculty committee no later than halfway through the seventh term of study. Admission to candidacy for the Ph.D. is granted after six terms of residence and the completion of all requirements (courses, languages, orals, prospectus) except the dissertation.

Teaching: Training in teaching, through teaching fellowships, is an important part of every student’s program. Normally students will teach in their third and fourth years.

Combined Ph.D. Programs

Comparative Literature and Classics

The Department of Comparative Literature also offers, in conjunction with the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, a combined Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Classics. For further details, see Classics.

Comparative Literature and Film Studies

The Department of Comparative Literature also offers, in conjunction with the Program in Film Studies, a joint Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film Studies. For further details, see Film Studies. Applicants to the joint program must indicate on their application that they are applying both to Film Studies and to Comparative Literature. All documentation within the application should include this information.

Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies

The Department of Comparative Literature also offers, in conjunction with the Renaissance Studies program, a combined Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies. For further details, see Renaissance Studies.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements. Additionally, students in Comparative Literature are eligible to pursue a supplemental M.Phil. degree in Medieval Studies. For further details, see Medieval Studies.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.) Students enrolled in the Ph.D. program may receive the M.A. upon completion of ten courses with at least two grades of Honors and a maximum of three grades of Pass, and the demonstration of proficiency in two of the languages, ancient or modern, through course work or departmental examinations. No student is admitted to a terminal M.A.

Program materials are available upon request to the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University, PO Box 208299, New Haven CT 06520-8299.

Courses

CPLT 511bu, Introduction to Theory of Literature Haun Saussy

An examination of concepts and assumptions active in contemporary views of literature, with their history. Shifting definitions of “literary theory”; accounts of meaning, interpretation, and representation; examinations of historicist, formalist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, structuralist, post-structuralist, feminist, and media-centered approaches to theory and literature. TTh 11:35–12:25

CPLT 515a, Proseminar in Comparative Literature Haun Saussy

Introductory proseminar for all first-year graduate students in Comparative Literature (and other interested persons). Critical readings of formative texts in the theory and practice of the discipline, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Topics to be covered include the nature of literature; translation; national identities and identities beyond the nation; interpretation and evaluation; the humanities and the human; media. The course is taken for a grade of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. T 9:25–11:15

CPLT 519a, Bilingualism Haun Saussy

The possibility that a text may be written or read in two or more different languages simultaneously opens a set of productive difficulties for translation, interpretation, sociolinguistics, genre study, and allied disciplines. Working with examples from antiquity to the present in a variety of languages, we try to get at the implications of this problem. Readings from Weinreich, Ferguson, Saussure, Derrida, de Man, Deleuze, Khatibi, and from Augustine, Montaigne, Folengo, Bunyan, Tsvetaeva, Kafka, Joyce, Nabokov, and Celan. Th 3:30–5:20

CPLT 520b/ENGL 969b/WGSS 776b, Narratives of Formation Barry McCrea

An examination of models of personal progress and maturation in a variety of narratives and periods. We read critical anthropological and psychoanalytic texts in conjunction with primary texts. All non-English language texts are available in translation. Authors may include some of the following: Mme de Lafayette, anonymous author of Lazarillo de Tormes, Dickens, Balzac, Musil, Wilde, James, Forster, Chandler, Bechdel. M 9:25–11:15

CPLT 523a, Adventures in Literacy Michael Holquist

This course is an experiment combining literature, cognitive science, and linguistics. It is an attempt to understand the fundamental difference between speaking and other forms of inscribing information (writing, digitalization, etc.) through a study of the history and neuroscience of the act of reading. Since the subject of the course is militantly interdisciplinary, the seminar brings in frequent guests from departments across the university, including cognitive scientists from Haskins Laboratory. Texts include literary texts (Kafka, Poe, Gogol, Proust), classics in linguistics, and recent work being done on the study of literacy’s effects on the brain using fMRI imaging. Students have the opportunity to do their own research under the directorship of eminent experts in relevant fields. A course for graduate students and advanced Yale undergraduates. T 1:30–3:20

CPLT 535bu/GMAN 561bu, Literary Ethics: Isak Dinesen and W. G. Sebald Carol Jacobs

We concentrate on the prose works of Isak Dinesen and W.G. Sebald. In reading these singularly popular writers, we think through how literature and ethics redefine one another, the way in which the performance of the work of art, and specifically reflections on the nature of language and representability, demand a rethinking of conscience and moral gesture. M 1:30–3:20

CPLT 536a/GMAN 536au, Around Kafka Henry Sussman

A course treating Kafka as a distinctive and indispensable Imaginary as well as a particular author, mutating into a plethora of adaptations, whether by Beckett, Bernhard, Welles, Murakami, or Pamuk, and into the graphic novel as well. T 3:30–5:20

CPLT 541a/PHIL 708a, Poetics I: Theory of the Work of Literature Benjamin Harshav

The course presents a comprehensive theory of works of literature as the highest sign-complexes in human culture. From rhythm and sound patterns through metaphor and fictional worlds to genre and representation, a work of literature combines elements of structure with a network of necessary and possible or contradictory constructs. The seminar develops a conceptual network for the descriptive analysis of individual works of poetry and fiction. The theory focuses on questions of fictionality and art in language, yet goes beyond linguistics and philosophy of language, on the one hand, and narratology, on the other. It is grounded in close readings of poems and narrative texts by Kafka, Joyce, Eliot, Dostoevsky, and others. M 1:30–3:20

CPLT 542a/CLSS 837a, Ancient Literary Criticism Kirk Freudenburg

CPLT 570b/RUSS 748b, Marxist Theory John MacKay

Not a survey, this course examines selected methodologies of social-historical interpretation in the humanities (primarily literature, moving image media, photography, music, art history) that stem from or emerge out of the Marxist tradition. Problems to be discussed include periodization, base and superstructure, reification and commodification, and alternative cultural practices. We may discuss works by (among others) members of the Frankfurt School, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams, Franco Moretti, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, and members of the October group. Regular writing assignments and in-class reports; open to interested undergraduates. M 7–8:50

CPLT 571a/RUSS 675a, Promised Lands: Slavery, Literature, and Modernity in Russia and the United States John MacKay

Close, comparative, contextualized examination of literary and other forms of cultural production associated with U.S. slavery and Russian serfdom. Special attention is paid to the relation between bondage and national, cultural, and personal identity, the role of bondage in definitions of “aesthetic experience” in the pre- and post-emancipation periods, the relation between literacy and the literary, literature of protest in the two countries, and connections between geographical and subjective space within cultures of enslavement. We examine works by Pushkin, Aksakov, Gogol, Simms, Cooper, Crevecoeur, Radishchev, Karamzin, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Kennedy and the “plantation novelists,” Stowe, Melville, Turgenev, slave and serf autobiographers, freedman’s textbooks, Fet, Lanier, Page, Chesnutt, and Bunin; historical treatments by Kolchin, Genovese, and others; theoretical works by Said, Jameson, Saidiya Hartman, Bakhtin, and others. Requirements: in-class presentations; research paper. No knowledge of Russian required. T 3:30–5:20

CPLT 578a/ENGL 984a/PHIL 711a, Metapragmatics and Textual Culture Michael Warner

An introduction to theoretical issues of textual analysis, and the difference between structuralist and metapragmatic approaches to language and culture. We review debates over performativity, the langue/parole distinction, indexicality and metaindexicality, and the nature of text. We then see how these traditions for analyzing the social dimensions of language inflect various attempts to theorize modern forms of discourse and power—including the public sphere, concepts of genre and media, religion, and the practice of criticism itself. T 1:30–3:20

CPLT 598a/ENGL 971a, Moderns, 1914–1926 Pericles Lewis

An intensive research-oriented course on British literature, 1914–1926, with some attention to European, Irish, and American influences. Major figures to be considered include Joyce, Lawrence, Shaw, O’Casey, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Strachey, Woolf, and Forster. Students pursue group research projects on poetry, drama, the novel, or intellectual history. The final syllabus depends on student interests. Th 9:25–11:15

CPLT 625bu/GMAN 673bu, Advocates and Representatives Rüdiger Campe

In contradistinction to our familiar thinking on communication as two parties speaking about the world, the course develops a triangular scene in which one person speaks on behalf of another person before a third party. This is the model of communication in law (in the idea of advocacy), religions (in the idea of intercession), and politics (in the idea of representation). Readings are taken from ancient rhetoric (Aristotle, Quintilian), Jewish and religious texts (on the “paraclete” or helper), as well as modern social and literary theory (Parsons, Derrida). We also examine selected scenes from ancient and modern drama as well as paradigmatic works by Kafka, Canetti, and Celan. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 633bu, Picture Book to Graphic Novel Katie Trumpener

The first half of this course surveys the history of the picture book, from the early modern period to the late twentieth century, considering the Anglo-American tradition within a broader European context; the second half considers its relationship first to the comic strip and comic book, then to the contemporary graphic novel, which repeatedly adapt picture book formats and techniques in their attempt to meditate on childhood, family history, and historical experience. Organized historically, thematically, and generically, the course focuses throughout on the complex relationship between image and narrative, format and address. MW 2:30–3:45

CPLT 672b/ENGL 672b, Milton David Quint

A study of Milton’s poetry and some of his controversial prose. We investigate the relation of the poetry to Milton’s literary tradition and historical contexts, focusing on issues of genre and on the religious, social, and political forces that shaped Milton’s writing. Th 9:25–11:15

CPLT 674au/SPAN 660au, Cervantes: Don Quijote Roberto González Echevarría

A close reading of Cervantes’s masterpiece with emphasis on its significance for modern fiction. The relationship of author, characters, and reader; reality and fantasy in fiction; literary imitation vs. literary invention. Conducted in English. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 697b/AFAM 835b/AMST 822b/ENGL 929b, The Big Easy: Literary New Orleans Joseph Roach

CPLT 698a/PHIL 704a, Hegel, Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics Karsten Harries

M 1:30–3:20

CPLT 708a/ITAL 560a, Age of Disenchantment Giuseppe Mazzotta

This course focuses on the literary debates, theological arguments, and scientific shifts taking place between the Council of Ferrara-Florence (1437) and the Council of Trent and beyond, by reading key texts by Valla, Cusa, Pulci, Luther, Erasmus, Ariosto, Campanella, Bruno, Galileo, and Bellarmino. It examines issues such as the crisis of belief, the authority of the past, the emergence of freedom, new aesthetics, and the effort toward a new theological language for modern times. T 3:30–5:20

CPLT 733b/FREN 820b/HSAR 576b, The Age of the Cathedral R. Howard Bloch

A study of the culture and architectural monuments of the High Middle Ages with accompanying historical and literary works. Emphasis on Saint-Denis, Notre-Dame, Chartres. Readings include Abelard, Suger, Rutebeuf, Saint Bernard, Joinville, Thibaut de Champagne, Guibert de Nogent, William of Saint-Thierry, Aelred of Rivaulx, the “Miracles de Notre Dame de Chartres,” “La Queste del Saint Graal.” Discussion of romanesque and gothic, the rise of communes, urban and economic renewal, intellectual life of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Paris, trades and guilds, the economics and industry of cathedral building, sculpture, and stained glass, Crusade against the Albigensians and in the Middle East, sainthood and kingship, expansion of the royal domain, the growth of the judicial state and parliament, monasticism, mysticism, relics, the ancillary architectural arts—tapestry and textiles, liturgical objects and garments, metalwork, woodwork, iron work—and the fate of such objects after the Revolution of 1789 and restoration in the nineteenth century. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 734b/FREN 930b, Fact and Fiction in the Archives Alice Kaplan

The turn to archival research in French literary studies; theoretical and personal essays on the archive (Derrida, Davis, Farge, Coeuré); and fiction that includes archival digging as part of a larger investment in memory. Focus on postwar literature and theory. Includes some practical work. M 3:30–5:20

CPLT 756a/ENGL 728a, Defoe, Sterne, Scott Ala Alryyes

Readings of fiction and other prose works of three authors who seminally contributed to the development of the poetics of the novel, setting up modes of fabulation that had a lasting influence on European and world fiction. Focus on how Defoe, Sterne, and Walter Scott negotiated boundaries between fiction and “reality”—crossing disciplines and complicating such categories as persons, things, description, knowledge, science, rhetoric, history, nation—and also on how their writings have proven a fundamental influence on our own critical and theoretical approaches and systems. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 783a/GMAN 660au, Transformations of the Classical Elegy by Goethe, Hölderlin, and Rilke Rainer Nägele

This course is open to both graduate and qualified undergraduate students with a reading knowledge of German. The seminar concentrates on Goethe’s Römische Elegien, some of the major elegies of Hölderlin, and Rilke’s Duino elegies. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 784au/GMAN 647au/PHIL 607a, Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory Rainer Nägele

This course is open to both graduate and qualified undergraduate students with a reading knowledge of German. The seminar concentrates on Adorno’s Ästhetische Theorie and its position within the Frankfurt School and in the literary and philosophical discussion of postwar Germany. TH 1:30–3:20

CPLT 840a/FILM 840a/GMAN 652au/HSAR 687a/RUSS 712a, Moscow/Berlin: Leftist Avant-Gardes and Interwar Modernism Katerina Clark, Katie Trumpener

From 1918 to the mid-1930s, Moscow and Berlin both became central gathering points for left-wing modernists. Although each city developed its own modes of modernism, they did so in sustained dialogue, given massive Russian emigration to Berlin after 1918, the Weimar obsession with early Soviet aesthetics (and cinema), intellectuals visiting in both directions, and the large-scale emigration of German leftists to the Soviet Union after 1933. The course ends by considering the shaping influence of Soviet intellectuals (and German emigrants returning from Moscow) on East Berlin “late modernism” of the 1940s and ’50s. Centered on literature and film, the course also considers a wide array of art forms (including painting, photography, architecture, music, and aesthetic theory). Works by modernists such as Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Vertov, Kosintsev, Trauberg, Alexandrov, Shklovsky, Nabokov, Babel, Tretiakov, Mayakovsky, El Lissitsky, Rodchenko, Malevich, Tatlin, Shostakovich, Lukacs, Benjamin, Brecht, Richter, Ruttmann, Dudow, Beckmann, Schwitters, Grosz, Heartfield, Döblin, Moholy-Nagy, van der Rohe, Weill, Krenek, Eisler, Busch. Texts are available in English translation; knowledge of Russian and/or German still very helpful. Where able, students should read texts in the original. At the first meeting, students help shape the final syllabus. W 1:30–3:20

CPLT 899a/FREN 893a, Realism and Naturalism Maurice Samuels

This seminar interrogates the nineteenth-century French Realist and Naturalist novel in light of various efforts to define its practice. How does theory constitute Realism as a category or object? How does Realism articulate the aims of theory? And how did nineteenth-century Realist and Naturalist textual practices intersect with other discourses besides the literary? Novelists to be studied include Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Flaubert, and Zola. Theorists to be studied include Auerbach, Barthes, Girard, Jameson, and Lukács. Some attention is also paid to Realist painting. Reading knowledge of French required. W 9:25–11:15

CPLT 900a, Directed Reading Faculty

CPLT 900b Directed Reading Faculty

CPLT 901a, Individual Research Faculty

CPLT 901b, Individual Research Faculty

CPLT 902bu/FILM 718bu/GMAN 636bu, Theatricality in Film Brigitte Peucker

This course examines the multiple implications of theatricality in and for the cinema: theatricality as excess; the appropriation of theatrical modes for film; theatricality as modernist self-reflexivity; performance and the relation of theatricality to subjectivity (performing the self); ritual and re-enactment in film; theatricality and the real; the material image. Readings by Arnheim, Bazin, Bateson, Barthes, Bell, Butler, Cavell, Egginton, Fried, Mitry, and others. Films by von Sternberg, Bergman, Hitchcock, Fassbinder, Haneke, Pabst, Wilder, Greenaway, von Trier, Kiarostami, Kubrick. T 3:30–5:20, screening M 7

CPLT 903a/FILM 625au/HSAR 726a, Media and the Logic of Repetition Francesco Casetti

An analysis of such common practices as adaptation, remake, prequel, sequel, quotation that operate in film, above all, but also in fiction, television, painting, and in every art. Examples are taken from various media, as repetition is examined from the point of view of semiotics (Barthes, Eco), cultural history (Benjamin), and philosophy (Deleuze). T 1:30–3:20

CPLT 924bu, Readings in Hebrew Poetry Benjamin Harshav

Modernism in Hebrew poetry: close readings of the poetry of Nathan Alterman, Lea Goldberg, Nathan Zach, Yona Volakh, Avot Yeshurun. Advanced undergraduate course, open to graduate students. Prerequisite: a high level of reading Hebrew texts in poetry and criticism, and permission of instructor. T 1:30–3:20

CPLT 942b/SPAN 912b, The Borges Effect Roberto González Echevarría

Since the publication of Ficciones in 1944 and especially since achieving worldwide acclaim after receiving ex-aequo, with Samuel Beckett, the Formentor Prize in 1961, Jorge Luis Borges has become one of the most influential modern writers. He is a recognizable and often acknowledged presence in the work of novelists and short-story writers, as well as in that of philosophers and literary theorists. There is a Borges “effect,” which can be perceived in John Barth, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and in Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gerard Genette, and Jacques Derrida, among others. That effect is also projected retrospectively in Borges’s particular way of reading classics like Homer, Dante, and Cervantes. An elegant, playfully ironic skepticism, together with a fondness for aporias, enigmas, puzzles, labyrinths as well as for minor genres such as the detective story, are the most recognizable components of Borges’s style and thought. Taken together these components suggest theories about writing and reading. We read closely Borges’s most influential stories, such as “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quijote,” and “The Garden of Forking Paths,” as well as his essays on Homer, Dante, and Cervantes. We then follow his track in the writers mentioned. Class discussions in English and readings in English or the French, Spanish, or Italian originals. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 946bu, The Arabic Novel in Translation Ala Alryyes

Study of a select set of modern Arabic novels in translation. We read works by Haykal, Mahfouz, Jabra, Salih, Khoury, al-Shaykh, and al-Ghitani because they are exceptionally good and because their themes and forms mirror and diverge from those of the Western novel, suggesting alternative approaches to narrative and literary theory and the poetics of translation. These novels fictionalize distinctive Arab modern themes such as the persistence of orality and the vexed relation between dialect and formal language; the clash between tradition and modernity; the chasm between ordinary lives and official history; defeat and exile; patriarchy and gender questions. Yet the seminar’s guiding principle is that literature includes culture and politics, and not vice versa. In addition to novels, the seminar examines a number of important films and plays, focusing on the portrayal of alternative political representations. T 3:30–5:20

CPLT 962b, Latin American Intellectual Debates of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Moira Fradinger

This seminar looks at central cultural debates in the region over a period of two centuries, mainly through the literary and political form of the essay. It explores polemics over the idea of America, debates around the Indian question, issues of cultural hybridity, transculturation, negritude, and the discussion over the region’s modernity and postmodernity. Authors include de Hostos, Alberdi, Bello, Martí, Sarmiento, Rodó, Ortiz, Vasconcelos, Reyes, González Prada, Mariátegui, Mañach, Cabrera, Zea, Roumain, Césaire, Fanon, Damas, Chamoiseau, Rama, Retamar, Benítez Rojo, Ribeiro, Cornejo Polar, García Canclini, Viñas, and Schwarz. Taught in English. W 3:30–5:20

CPLT 987a/AFAM 805a/AFST 949a/FREN 949a, Novel, Film, and History in French Africa Christopher L. Miller

CPLT 989b/AFAM 851b/FREN 943b, Creole Identities and Fictions Christopher L. Miller

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Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

300 George, Suite 501, 737.6029

http://cbb.yale.edu/

M.S., Ph.D.

Directors of Graduate Studies

Mark Gerstein (Bass 432A, 432.6105, mark.gerstein@yale.edu)

Perry Miller (300 George St., Suite 501, 737.2903, perry.miller@yale.edu)

Professors James Aspnes (Computer Science), Joseph Chang (Statistics), Ronald Coifman (Mathematics; Computer Science), Xing Wang Deng (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Donald Engelman (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Mark Gerstein (Biomedical Informatics; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Computer Science), William Jorgensen (Chemistry), Douglas Kankel (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Kenneth Kidd (Genetics; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Paul Lizardi (Pathology), Elias Lolis (Pharmacology), Perry Miller (Anesthesiology; Medical Informatics; Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Willard Miranker (Computer Science), Anna Pyle (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Martin Schultz (Computer Science), Gordon Shepherd (Neuroscience), Abraham Silberschatz (Computer Science), Michael Snyder (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology; Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Dieter Söll (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry; Chemistry), Günter Wagner (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Heping Zhang (Epidemiology & Public Health; Statistics), Hongyu Zhao (Epidemiology & Public Health; Genetics), Steven Zucker (Computer Science; Electrical Engineering; Biomedical Engineering)

Associate Professors Kei-Hoi Cheung (Anesthesiology; Computer Science; Genetics), Andrew Miranker (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Valerie Reinke (Genetics)

Assistant Professors Thierry Emonet (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Alison Galvani (Epidemiology & Public Health), Antonio Giraldez (Genetics), Tae Hoon Kim (Genetics), Steven Kleinstein (Pathology), Michael Krauthammer (Pathology), Steven Ma (Epidemiology & Public Health), Annette Molinaro (Epidemiology & Public Health), James Noonan (Genetics), Jeffrey Townsend (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), David Tuck (Pathology)

Fields of Study

Computational biology and bioinformatics (CB&B) is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field. The systematic acquisition of data made possible by genomics and proteomics technologies has created a tremendous gap between available data and their biological interpretation. Given the rate of data generation, it is well recognized that this gap will not be closed with direct individual experimentation. Computational and theoretical approaches to understanding biological systems provide an essential vehicle to help close this gap. These activities include computational modeling of biological processes, computational management of large-scale projects, database development and data mining, algorithm development, and high-performance computing, as well as statistical and mathematical analyses.

To enter the Ph.D. program, students apply to an interest-based track within the interdepartmental program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants are expected (1) to have a strong foundation in the basic sciences, such as biology, chemistry, and mathematics, and (2) to have training in computing/informatics, including significant computer programming experience. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test is required, and the GRE Subject Test in cell and molecular biology, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, or other relevant discipline is recommended. Alternatively, the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) may be substituted for the GRE tests. Applicants for whom English is not their native language are required to submit results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

With the help of a faculty advisory committee, each student plans a program that includes courses, seminars, laboratory rotations, and independent reading. Students are expected to gain competence in three core areas: (1) computational biology and bioinformatics, (2) biological sciences, and (3) informatics (including computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics). The courses taken to satisfy the core areas of competency may vary considerably. A typical program will include nine courses. Completion of the core curriculum will typically take three to four terms, depending in part on the prior training of the student. Students will typically take two to three courses each term and three research rotations during the first year. After the first year, students will start working in the laboratory of their Ph.D. thesis supervisor. Students must pass a qualifying examination normally given at the end of the second year or the beginning of the third year. There is no language requirement. Students will serve as teaching assistants in two term courses.

M.D./Ph.D. Students

Students pursuing the joint M.D./Ph.D. degrees must satisfy the course requirements listed above for Ph.D. students. With DGS approval, some courses taken toward the M.D. degree can be counted toward the nine required courses. Such courses must have a graduate course number and the student must register for them as graduate courses (in which grades are received). Laboratory rotations are available but not required. One teaching assistantship is required.

Master’s Degree

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) To qualify for the awarding of the M.S. degree a student must (1) complete two years (four terms) of study in the Ph.D. program, with nine required courses taken at Yale, (2) complete the required course work for the Ph.D. program with an average grade of High Pass, (3) successfully complete three research rotations, and (4) meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement.

Courses

CB&B 645b/STAT 645b, Statistical Methods in Genetics and Bioinformatics Hongyu Zhou

Stochastic modeling and statistical methods applied to problems such as mapping quantitative trait loci, analyzing gene expression data, sequence alignment, and reconstructing evolutionary trees. Statistical methods include maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, Monte Carlo Markov chains, and some methods of classification and clustering. Models introduced include variance components, hidden Markov models, Bayesian networks, and coalescent. Recommended background: STAT 541a, STAT 542b. Prior knowledge of biology is not required. TTh 10:30–11:45

CB&B 740a, Clinical and Translational Informatics Richard Shiffman, Michael Krauthammer

The course provides an introduction to clinical and translational informatics. Topics include (1) overview of biomedical informatics, (2) design, function, and evaluation of clinical information systems, (3) clinical decision making and practice guidelines, (4) clinical decision support systems, (5) informatics support of clinical research, (6) privacy and confidentiality of clinical data, (7) standards, (8) issues in defining the clinical phenotype, and (9) topics in translational bioinformatics. Permission of the instructor required. HTBA

CB&B 750a/MCDB 750a, Core Topics in Biomedical Informatics Perry Miller and faculty

Introduction to common unifying themes that serve as the foundation for different areas of biomedical informatics, including clinical, neuro-, and genome informatics. The course is designed for students with significant computer experience and course work who plan to build computational tools for use in bioscience research. Emphasis is on understanding basic principles underlying informatics approaches to biomedical data modeling, interoperation among biomedical databases and software tools, standardized biomedical vocabularies and ontologies, modeling of biological systems, and other topics of interest. The course involves lectures, class discussions, student presentations, and computer programming assignments. Permission of the instructor required. HTBA

CB&B 752b/CPSC 752bu/MB&B 752bu/MCDB 752bu, Bioinformatics: Practical Application of Simulation and Data Mining Mark Gerstein

Bioinformatics encompasses the analysis of gene sequences, macromolecular structures, and functional genomics data on a large scale. It represents a major practical application for modern techniques in data mining and simulation. Specific topics to be covered include sequence alignment, large-scale processing, next-generation sequencing data, comparative genomics, phylogenetics, biological database design, geometric analysis of protein structure, molecular-dynamics simulation, biological networks, normalization of microarray data, mining of functional genomics data sets, and machine learning approaches for data integration. Prerequisites: MB&B 301b and MATH 115a or b, or permission of the instructor. MW 1–2:15

[CHEM 526au, Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry]

Additional courses focused on the biological sciences and on areas of informatics are selected by the student in consultation with CB&B faculty.

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Computer Science

A. K. Watson Hall, 432.1246

www.cs.yale.edu/

M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Abraham Silberschatz

Director of Graduate Studies

Drew McDermott (508 AKW, 432.1283, drew.mcdermott@yale.edu)

Professors Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Ronald Coifman (Mathematics), Julie Dorsey, Stanley Eisenstat, Joan Feigenbaum, Michael Fischer, David Gelernter, Paul Hudak, Drew McDermott, Willard Miranker (Adjunct), A. Stephen Morse (Electrical Engineering), Vladimir Rokhlin, Holly Rushmeier, Martin Schultz, Zhong Shao, Abraham Silberschatz, Daniel Spielman, Steven Zucker

Associate Professors Mark Gerstein (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Brian Scassellati, Yang Richard Yang

Assistant Professors Daniel Abadi, Bryan Ford, Max Krohn

Fields of Study

Artificial intelligence (vision, robotics, planning, computational neuroscience, knowledge representation, neural networks); programming languages (functional programming, parallel languages and architectures, programming environments, formal semantics, compilation techniques, modern computer architecture, type theory/systems, and meta-programming); systems (databases, operating systems, networks, software engineering); scientific computing (numerical linear and nonlinear algebra, numerical solution of partial differential equations, mathematical software, parallel algorithms); theory of computation (algorithms and data structures, complexity, distributed systems, learning, online algorithms, graph algorithms, geometric algorithms, fault tolerance, reliable communication, cryptography, security, and electronic commerce); and topics of discrete mathematics with application to computer science (combinatorics, graph theory, combinatorial optimization).

Research Facilities

The department operates a high-bandwidth, local-area computer network based mainly on distributed workstations and servers, with connections to worldwide networks. Workstations include Dell dual-processor PCs (running Linux or Windows/XP). Laboratory contains specialized equipment for graphics, vision, and robotics research. Various printers, including color printers, as well as image scanners, are also available. The primary educational facility consists of thirty-seven PC workstations supported by a large Intel PC server. This facility is used for courses and unsponsored research by Computer Science majors and first-year graduate students. Access to computing, through both the workstations and remote login facilities, is available to everyone in the department.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants for admission should have strong preparation in mathematics, engineering, or science. They should be competent in programming but need no computer science beyond that basic level. The GRE General Test and a pertinent Subject Test are required.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

There is no foreign language requirement. To be admitted to candidacy, a student must (1) pass ten courses (including CPSC 690 and CPSC 691) with at least two grades of Honors, the remainder at least High Pass, including three advanced courses in an area of specialization; (2) take six advanced courses in areas of general computer science; (3) successfully complete a research project in CPSC 690, 691, and submit a written report on it to the faculty; (4) pass a qualifying examination in an area of specialization; (5) be accepted as a thesis student by a regular department faculty member; (6) serve as a teaching assistant for two terms; and (7) submit a written dissertation prospectus, with a tentative title for the dissertation. To satisfy the distribution requirement (requirement 2 above), the student must take one course in programming languages or systems, one programming-intensive course, two theory courses, and two in application areas. In order to gain teaching experience, all graduate students are required to serve as teaching assistants for two terms during their first three years of study. All requirements for admission to candidacy must be completed prior to the end of the third year.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) To qualify for the M.S., the student must pass eight courses at the 500 level or above from an approved list. An average grade of at least High Pass is required, with at least one grade of Honors.

Terminal Master’s Degree Program Students may also be admitted to a terminal master’s degree program directly. The requirements are the same as for the M.S. en route to the Ph.D. This program is normally completed in one year, but a part-time program may be spread over as many as four years.

A brochure providing additional information about the department, faculty, courses, and facilities is available from the Graduate Coordinator, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, PO Box 208285, New Haven CT 06520-8285; e-mail, cs-admissions@cs.yale.edu.

Courses

[CPSC 521au, Compilers and Interpreters]

CPSC 522bu, Operating Systems Max Krohn

The design and implementation of operating systems. Topics include synchronization, deadlocks, process management, storage management, file systems, security, protection, and networking. MW 1–2:15

[CPSC 524bu, Parallel Programming Techniques]

CPSC 525bu, Theory of Distributed Systems James Aspnes

Models of asynchronous distributed computing systems. Fundamental concepts of concurrency and synchronization, communication, reliability, topological and geometric constraints, time and space complexity, and distributed algorithms. (Taught in alternate years.) MWF 11:35–12:25

[CPSC 528b, Language-Based Security]

CPSC 530au, Formal Semantics Zhong Shao

Introduction to formal approaches to programming language design and implementation. Topics include the lambda-calculus, type theory, denotational semantics, tye-directed compilation, higher-order modules, and application of formal methods to systems software and Internet programming. MW 1–2:15

[CPSC 531a, Computer Music: Algorithmic and Heuristic Composition]

CPSC 532a, Computer Music: Sound Representation and Synthesis

MW 2:30–3:45

CPSC 533b, Computer Networks Richard Yang

An introduction to the design, implementation, analysis, and evaluation of computer networks and their protocols. Topics include layered network architectures, applications, transport, congestion, routing, data link protocols, local area networks, performance analysis, multimedia networking, network security, and network management. Emphasis on protocols used on the Internet. TTH 11–2:15

[CPSC 534bu, Mobile Computing and Wireless Networking]

CPSC 535au, Large-Scale Network Design Richard Yang

MW 2:30–3:45

CPSC 537au, Introduction to Databases Abraham Silberschatz

An introduction to database systems. Data modeling. The relational model and the SQL query language. Relational database design, integrity constraints, functional dependencies, and natural forms. Object-oriented databases. Implementation of databases: file structures, indexing, query processing, transactions, concurrency control, recovery systems, and security. TTh 2:30–3:45

CPSC 538b, Database System Implementation and Architectures Daniel Abadi

A study of systems programming techniques, with a focus on database systems. Half the course is spent studying the design of a traditional DBMS, supplemented by a hands-on exercise in which students build various components (e.g., a catalog-manager, a buffer-manager, and a query execution engine) of a DBMS prototype. The other half is spent on nontraditional architectures (parallel databases, data warehouses, stream databases, Web databases). MW 2:30–3:45

CPSC 540bu, Numerical Computation Vladimir Rokhlin

Algorithms for numerical problems in the physical, biological, and social sciences: solution of linear and nonlinear systems of equations, interpolation and approximation of functions, numerical differentiation and integration, optimization. TTH 1–2:15

CPSC 545bu, Introduction to Data Mining Vladimir Rokhlin

A study of algorithms and systems that allow computers to find patterns and regularities in databases, to perform prediction and forecasting, and to improve their performance generally through interaction with data. TTh 1–2:15

[CPSC 555a/ECON 563a, Economics and Computation]

[CPSC 562a, Graphs and Networks]

[CPSC 563bu, Introduction to Machine Learning]

[CPSC 565b, Topics in Algorithms]

CPSC 567au, Cryptography and Computer Security Michael Fischer

A survey of such private and public key cryptographic techniques as DES, RSA, and zero-knowledge proofs, and their application to problems of maintaining privacy and security in computer networks. Focus on technology, with consideration of such societal issues as balancing individual privacy concerns against the needs of law enforcement, vulnerability of societal institutions to electronic attack, export regulations and international competitiveness, and development of secure information. MW 2:30–3:45

CPSC 568au, Introduction to Computational Complexity Joan Feigenbaum

Introduction to the theory of computational complexity. Basis complexity classes, including polynomial time, nondeterministic polynomial time, probabilistic polynomial space, logarithmic space, and nondeterministic logarithmic space. The roles of reductions, completeness, randomness, and interaction in the formal study of computation. TTh 2:30–3:45

[CPSC 569bu, Randomized Algorithms]

CPSC 570au, Artificial Intelligence Brian Scassellati

Introduction to artificial intelligence research, focusing on reasoning and perception. Topics include knowledge representation, predicate calculus, temporal reasoning, vision, robotics, planning, and learning. MWF 10:30–11:20

CPSC 573b, Intelligent Robotics Brian Scassellati

An introduction to the construction of intelligent, autonomous systems. Sensory-motor coordination and task-based perception. Implementation techniques for behavior selection and arbitration, including behavior-based design, evolutionary design, dynamical systems, and hybrid deliberative-reactive systems. Situated learning and adaptive behavior. MWF 10:30–11:20

CPSC 575b/ENAS 575bu, Computational Vision and Biological Perception Steven Zucker

An overview of computational vision with a biological emphasis. Suitable as an introduction to biological perception for computer science and engineering students, as well as an introduction to computational vision for mathematics, psychology, and physiology students. MW 1–2:15

CPSC 577au, Neural Networks for Computing Willard Miranker

Artificial neural networks as a computational paradigm studied with application to problems in associative memory, learning, pattern recognition, perception, robotics, and other areas. Development of models for the dynamics of neurons and methods such as learning for designing neural networks. Concepts, designs, and methods compared and tested in software simulation. Brain and consciousness studies are optional topics. TTh 11:35–12:50

CPSC 578bu, Computer Graphics Julie Dorsey

An introduction to the basic concepts of two- and three-dimensional computer graphics. Topics include affine and projective transformations, clipping and windowing, visual perception, scene modeling and animation, algorithms for visible surface determination, reflection models, illumination algorithms, and color theory. Assumes solid C or C++ programming skills and a basic knowledge of calculus and linear algebra. TTH 2:30–3:45

CPSC 579au, Advanced Topics in Computer Graphics Holly Rushmeier

An in-depth study of advanced algorithms and systems for rendering, modeling, and animation in computer graphics. Topics vary and may include relectance modeling, global ilumination, subdivision surfaces, NURBS, physically based fluids systems, and character animation. TTH 1–2:15

CPSC 662a, Spectral Graph Theory Daniel Spielman

An applied approach to Spectral Graph Theory. The combinatorial meaning of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices associated with graphs. Applications to optimization, numerical linear algebra, error-correcting codes, and testing graph isomorphism. Prerequisites: linear algebra, graph theory, and permission of the instructor.

CPSC 671a, Advanced Artificial Intelligence Drew McDermott

This course is intended for students who have taken CPSC 470/570, or an equivalent graduate or undergraduate course. In the fall of 2009 the focus is on “Automated Planning,” the problem of finding, for some sort of agent acting in some sort of environment, structures of actions and other commitments to achieve some goal and/or optimize some objective function.

CPSC 690a or b, Independent Project I

By arrangement with faculty.

CPSC 691a or b, Independent Project II

By arrangement with faculty.

CPSC 692a or b, Independent Project

Individual research for students in the M.S. program. Requires a faculty supervisor and the permission of the director of graduate studies.

CPSC 723b, Graduate Seminar Bryan Ford

Th 2:30–3:45

CPSC 772a, Graduate Seminar Max Krohn

Th 2:30–3:45

CPSC 752bu/CB&B 752b/MB&B 752bu/MCDB 752b, Bioinformatics: Practical Application of Simulation and Data Mining Mark Gerstein

By arrangement with faculty.

CPSC 840a or b, Directed Readings in Numerical Analysis

By arrangement with faculty.

CPSC 860a or b, Directed Readings in Theory

By arrangement with faculty.

CPSC 870a or b, Directed Readings in Artificial Intelligence

By arrangement with faculty.

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East Asian Languages and Literatures

308 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432.2860

www.yale.edu/eall/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

John Treat

Director of Graduate Studies

Tina Lu (304 HGS, 432.7529, tina.lu@yale.edu)

Professors Kang-i Sun Chang, Eiichi Ishigami (Visiting [F]), Edward Kamens, Tina Lu, Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature), John Treat

Associate Professors Aaron Gerow, Christopher Hill

Assistant Professors Paize Keulemans, Jing Tsu

Senior Lecturer Koichi Shinohara (Religious Studies)

Lecturer Drake Langford

Senior Lectors Seungja Choi, Koichi Hiroe, Zhengguo Kang, Ninghui Liang, Angela Lee-Smith, Yoshiko Maruyama, Ling Mu, Michiaki Murata, Hiroyo Nishimura, Masahiko Seto, Mari Stever, Wei Su, Peisong Xu, William Zhou

Lectors Hsiu-hsien Chan, Min Chen, Rongzhen Li, Qing-rui Liao, Fan Liu, Yukie Mammoto, Yu-Lin Wang-Saussy, Jianhua Shen, Haiwen Wang

Fields of Study

Fields for doctoral study are Chinese literature and Japanese literature. (See also the Combined Ph.D. Program in Film Studies.) Although the primary emphasis is on these East Asian subjects, the department welcomes applicants who are seeking to integrate their interests in Chinese or Japanese literature with interdisciplinary studies in such fields as history, history of art, linguistics, religious studies, comparative literature, film studies, literary theory and criticism, and the social sciences.

Special Admissions Requirements

The department requires entering students in Chinese or Japanese (and the Combined Program in Film Studies) to have completed at least three years of study, or the equivalent, of either Chinese or Japanese. Students applying in Chinese are expected to have completed at least one year of literary Chinese. Students applying in premodern Japanese are expected to have completed at least one year of literary Japanese. This is a doctoral program; no students are admitted for terminal master’s degrees.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

During the first three years of study, students are required to take at least fourteen term courses. Usually students complete twelve term courses in years 1 and 2, and then take two tutorials or two seminars in year 3. Students concentrating in Chinese or Japanese literature are encouraged to take at least one term course in Western literature or literary theory. By the end of the second year, all students must prove their proficiency in a language other than their primary language of study that is relevant to their course of study and is approved by the DGS. By the end of the third year, students specializing in premodern Japanese literature must pass a reading test in literary Chinese. At the end of the second full academic year, the student must take a written examination in the language of his or her specialization, including both its modern and premodern forms.

At the end of each academic year, until a student is admitted to candidacy, a faculty committee will review the student’s progress. For the second-year review, the student must submit a revised seminar research paper, on a topic selected in consultation with the adviser, no later than April 1 of the fourth term. No later than the end of the sixth term the student will take the qualifying oral examination. The exam will cover three fields distinguished by period and/or genre in one or more East Asian national literatures or in other fields closely related to the student’s developing specialization. These fields and accompanying reading lists will be selected in consultation with the examiners and the director of graduate studies in order to allow the student to demonstrate knowledge and command of a range of topics. After having successfully passed the qualifying oral examination, students will be required to submit a dissertation prospectus to the department for approval by October 1 of the seventh term in order to complete the process of admission to candidacy for the Ph.D.

Opportunities to obtain experience in teaching language and literature form an important part of this program. Students in East Asian Languages and Literatures normally teach in their third and fourth years in the Graduate School.

Combined Ph.D. Program

The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures also offers, in conjunction with the Program in Film Studies, a combined Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures and Film Studies. For further details, see Film Studies. Applicants to the combined program must indicate on their application that they are applying both to Film Studies and to East Asian Languages and Literatures. All documentation within the application should include this information.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. The successful completion of all predissertation requirements, including the qualifying examination, will make a student eligible for an M.Phil. degree.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.) The successful completion of twelve term courses and languages required in the first two years of study will make a student eligible for an M.A. degree.

Additional program materials are available at the department Web site, www.yale.edu/eall/.

Courses

Courses in Chinese language at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels are listed in Yale College Programs of Study.

CHNS 501au/WGSS 770au, Women and Literature in Traditional China Kang-i Sun Chang

This course focuses on major women writers in traditional China, as well as representations of women in works by male authors. Topics include the dichotomy of yin and yang, women and the fox spirits, the power of women’s writing, women in exile, Daoist nuns, widow poets, courtesans and the literati culture, women’s poetry clubs, women’s script (nushu), the cross-dressing ladies, footbinding and representations of the female body, food and sexuality, notions of qing (love), aesthetics of illness, women and revolution, and the function of memory in women’s literature. All readings in translation; no knowledge of Chinese required. TTH 1–2:15

CHNS 520bu, Romance in Chinese Late Imperial Literature Tina Lu

In a society in which orthodox values demanded that unrelated men and women never have contact, how and why should romance be depicted? This course traces the theme of romance across literature of nine centuries, from a few examples in the Tang down to the Qing dynasty. We consider fiction and drama. TH 2:30–4:20

CHNS 560au, Introduction to Literary Chinese I Yu-Lin Wang-Saussy

Reading and interpretation of texts in various styles of literary Chinese (wenyan), with attention to basic problems of syntax and literary style. After CHNS 142b or 151b or equivalent. TTH 9–10:15

CHNS 570bu, Advanced Readings in Modern Chinese Jing Tsu

A rigorous introduction to literary criticism and analysis using texts in the original language. Focus on the contemporary period, drawing from fiction written in Chinese in different parts of the world, from mainland China to Taiwan and from Malaysia to Hong Kong. Texts in both simplified and traditional characters. After CHNS 153b or 159b or equivalent. W 3:30–5:20

CHNS 571bu, Introduction to Literary Chinese II Yu-Lin Wang-Saussy

Continuation of CHNS 560a. After CHNS 560a or equivalent. TTH 9–10:15

CHNS 580bu, Classical Tales from Tang to Qing Tina Lu

Close reading and translation of classical tales from the Tang, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Focus on strengthening students’ reading ability in classical Chinese. Attention to canonical Chinese narratives as well as some lesser-known texts. Discussion of themes such as romance, magical transformations, and proto-martial arts, including how these themes were transformed over time. Prerequisite: CHNS 571b or equivalent. TTH 11:35–12:50

CHNS 581au, Chinese Informal Prose Tina Lu

We translate, study, and discuss classical essays: first, important models of guwen (ancient-style prose) from the Tang and the Song, and second, the transformation of these models in the late Ming and early Qing into xiaopin (“lesser works”). Why was guwen used at once for the philosophical and speculative writing and for describing the minutiae of everyday life? MW 11:35–12:50

CHNS 595bu, Chinese Philosophical Texts Haun Saussy

Readings in early Chinese thought, with attention to questions of style, rhetoric, and organization. Selections from the Shi ji (Records of the Historian), Mengzi (Mencius), Xunzi, Zhuangzi, Huainan zi, Dong Zhongshu, and Baihu tonglun (Discussion in the White Tiger Hall). Most readings are in classical Chinese. After CHNS 571b or equivalent. WF 1–2:15

CHNS 603au, Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry Kang-i Sun Chang

Fundamentals of classical Chinese poetry and poetics. Primary readings in Chinese, lectures and discussion in English and Chinese. Because readings are different year to year, this course may be repeated for credit. W 1:30–3:20

CHNS 655b, Scientism, Culture, and Literature Jing Tsu

Analyzes late Qing and early Republican popular fiction and science treatises in relation to westernization, technology, and modernity with comparative perspectives from Europe and America. We engage with issues of epistemology, semiotics, technology, translation, and cultural history. T 3:30–5:20

CHNS 811a, Migration, Language, and Literatures Jing Tsu

Examines fiction and literary criticism from the twentieth century to the present, with a focus on theories of diaspora, language, nationalism, and ethnicity, as well as on the different social and cultural contexts that engender modern Chinese literary writing in Chinese and/or other languages. W 3:30–5:20

CHNS 900, Directed Readings Faculty

Offered by permission of instructor and DGS to meet special needs not met by regular courses.

CHNS 990, Directed Research Faculty

Offered as needed with permission of instructor and DGS for student preparation of dissertation prospectus.

Courses in Japanese language at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels are listed in Yale College Programs of Study.

JAPN 559au, Readings in Literature and the Humanities John Treat

Canonical Japanese short stories and essays read in line-by-line translation. Use of reference works and the Internet to research structures and vocabulary. Intended for those at the fourth-year level in their study of modern Japanese, this course is designed to help students prepare for either graduate-level courses in Japanese literature or independent study of written Japanese. TTH 11:30–12:45

JAPN 561bu, Readings in Literary Japanese Drake Langford

Close analytical reading of a selection of texts from the Nara through Tokugawa period: prose, poetry, and various genres. After JAPN 570a or equivalent. TTh 9–10:15

JAPN 562bu, The Culture of Postwar Japan Christopher Hill

Intensive look at a transformative period of Japanese artistic and intellectual culture, focusing on literature, film, and debates over the place of politics in art from 1945 to 1970. Memory and war responsibility; the reimagination of eros; avant-garde experimentation. W 3:30–5:20

JAPN 570au, Introduction to Literary Japanese Drake Langford

Introduction to the grammar and style of the premodern literary language (bungotai) through a variety of texts. Prerequisite: JAPN 151 or equivalent. TTh 9–10:15

JAPN 578au, Modern Japanese Fiction Christopher Hill

An introduction to Japanese fication from the 1890s. Novels and stories by such writers as Natsume Soseki, Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro, and Oe Kenzaburo; discussion of major trends such as modernism and writing by women. No knowledge of Japanese required. TTh 1–2:15

JAPN 581bu, Japanese Literatures after 1970 John Treat

Study of Japanese literature published between 1970 and the present. Writers may include Murakami Ryu, Maruya Saiichi, Shimada Masahiko, Nakagami Kenji, Yoshimoto Banana, Yamada Eimi, Murakami Haruki, and Medoruma Shun. No knowledge of Japanese required. TTh 2:30–3:45

JAPN 582bu, Imagining Space in Japanese Fiction and Film Christopher Hill

Representations of space in modern fiction and selected films. Aesthetic forms as they establish social and psychological space, urbanization, wartime destruction, and rural transformations as they affect the representation of space. Writers and directors include Kawabata, Enchi, Ôe, Murakami, Miyazaki. No knowledge of Japanese required. TTH 1–2:15

JAPN 706a, Readings in Ancient Japanese Texts Eiichi Ishigami

Close study of historical materials of the Nara and Heian periods. Reading knowledge of literary Japanese required, familiarity with kanbun recommended. F 9:25–11:15

JAPN 835a, Modernity and Culture in Imperial Japan Christopher Hill

Formations of modernity in Japan from the late Meiji to the early Shôwa period and their political and economic contexts. Materials include literature, essays, philosophy, and other sources such as visual texts according to student interest. W 3:30–5:20

JAPN 885b, Modern Japanese Novel John Treat

A seminar primarily designed as a three-year course in which graduate students specializing in Japanese literature are required to read major works of modern Japanese fiction in the original. W 2:30–4:20

JAPN 900, Directed Readings Faculty

Offered by permission of instructor and DGS to meet special needs not met by regular courses.

JAPN 990, Directed Research Faculty

Offered as needed with permission of instructor and DGS for student preparation of dissertation prospectus.

Courses in Korean language at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels are listed in Yale College Programs of Study.

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East Asian Studies

The MacMillan Center

320 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse, 432.3426

research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/

M.A.

Chair

Haun Saussy (Rm 214, 451 College, 432.4753, haun.saussy@yale.edu)

Director of Graduate Studies

Peter Perdue (Rm 2682, 320 York St., 432.6145, peter.c.perdue@yale.edu)

Professors Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Deborah Davis (Sociology), Fabian Drixler (History), Koichi Hamada (Economics), Valerie Hansen (History), Eichi Ishigami (Visiting, East Asian Languages & Literatures), Edward Kamens (East Asian Languages & Literatures), William Kelly (Anthropology), Tina Lu (East Asian Languages and Literatures), Peter Perdue (History), Frances Rosenbluth (Political Science), Haun Saussy (Comparative Literature; East Asian Languages & Literatures), Helen Siu (Anthropology), Jonathan Spence (History), John Whittier Treat (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (History of Art)

Associate Professors Aaron Gerow (East Asian Languages & Literatures; Film Studies), Christopher Hill (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Pierre Landry (Political Science), Lillian Tseng (History of Art)

Assistant Professors Alexander Beecroft (Comparative Literature), Seok-Ju Cho (Political Science), Jacob Dalton (Religious Studies), William Honeychurch (Anthropology), Reginald Jackson (East Asian Languages & Literatures; Theater Studies), Paize Keulemans (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Karen Nakamura (Anthropology), Jing Tsu (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Jessica Weiss (Political Science)

Senior Lecturers Annping Chin (History), Koichi Shinohara (Religious Studies; East Asian Languages & Literatures)

Lecturers Heekyoung Cho, Justin Jetsy, Toby Lincoln

Senior Lectors Seungja Choi, Koichi Hiroe, Zhengguo Kang, Ninghui Liang, Yoshiko Maruyama, Ling Mu, Michiaki Murata, Hiroyo Nishimura, Masahiko Seto, Mari Stever, Wei Su, Peisong Xu, William Zhou

Lectors Hsiu-hsien Chan, Min Chen, Angela Lee-Smith, Rongzhen Li, Qingui Liao, Fan Liu, Yukie Mammoto, Yu-lin Wang Saussy, Jianhua Shen, Haiwen Wang

Fields of Study

The Master of Arts program in East Asian Studies offers a concentrated course of study designed to provide a broad understanding of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean history, culture, contemporary society, politics, and economy. This program is designed for students preparing to go on to the doctorate in one of the disciplines of East Asian Studies (i.e., anthropology; economics; history; history of art; language and literature including comparative literature, film studies, and theater studies; political science; sociology; etc.), as well as for those students seeking a terminal M.A. degree before entering the business world, the media, government service, or a professional school.

Course of Study for the M.A. Degree

The program is designed to be completed by successfully taking eight courses approved for graduate credit by the director of graduate studies over the course of one academic year. Normally, students entering the program are expected to have already completed the equivalent of at least two years of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language, so that the three-year language requirement can be completed in the two terms spent at Yale. A program of study for completion of the degree in one year consists of at least eight term courses that normally include two terms of language study at Yale’s third-year level (unless the language requirement has already been met through previous study) and six other term courses selected from the current year’s offerings of advanced language courses and lecture courses or seminars in any relevant subject area, with the approval of the director of graduate studies.

Special Requirements for the M.A. Degree

Students must earn two Honors grades (“H”) over the course of their two terms at Yale. Honors grades earned in any Chinese or Japanese language class cannot be counted toward satisfying this requirement, except with the permission of the director of graduate studies.

Joint-Degree Programs

As the East Asian Studies M.A. degree is a one-year program, there are no joint-degree programs available. Students interested in pursuing additional degrees in the Yale professional schools should consider applying separately to those programs in order to complete such degrees before or after the East Asian Studies M.A.degree.

Program materials are available upon request to the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, PO Box 208206, New Haven CT 06520-8206; e-mail, eastasian.studies@yale.edu; Web site, http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies. Applications are available online at www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions; e-mail, graduate.admissions@yale.edu.

Please consult the course information available online at http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/academic.php and http://students.yale.edu/oci/ for a complete listing of East Asian-related courses offered at Yale University.

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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Osborn Memorial Laboratories

165 Prospect, 432.3837

www.eeb.yale.edu/

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.), Ph.D.

Chair

Richard Prum

Director of Graduate Studies

Paul Turner

Professors Leo Buss, Michael Donoghue, Jacques Gauthier (Geology & Geophysics), Vivian Irish (Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology), Kenneth Kidd (Genetics; Psychiatry), Jeffrey Powell, Richard Prum, Oswald Schmitz (Forestry & Environmental Studies), David Skelly (Forestry & Environmental Studies), Stephen Stearns, J. Rimas Vaisnys (Electrical Engineering), Günter Wagner

Associate Professors Walter Jetz, David Post, Paul Turner

Assistant Professors Suzanne Alonzo, Antonia Monteiro (on leave), Thomas Near (on leave), Melinda Smith, Jeffrey Townsend, David Vasseur

Lecturers Adalgisa Caccone, Mary Beth Decker, Marta Martinez Wells

Fields of Study

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (E&EB) offers training programs in organismal biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology including molecular evolution, phylogeny, molecular population genetics, developmental evolution, and evolutionary theory.

Special Admissions Requirements

Applicants should have had training in one of the following fields: biology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, statistics, and/or geology. Candidates are selected, regardless of their major, based on overall preparation for a career in research in ecology and evolutionary biology. Some, planning for careers in applied fields, may have prepared with courses in public policy, economics, and agriculture.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

Each entering student, in consultation with the director of graduate studies, develops a specific program of courses, seminars, laboratory research, and independent reading tailored to the student’s interests, background, and goals. There are normally no foreign language requirements. All first-year students carry out two research rotations. Students have the option of a rotation over their first summer. Students must participate in (1) a program of ethics of research and authorship; (2) weekly E&EB seminars; and (3) symposia of faculty and graduate student research. In addition, during their first two years of study, graduate students must enroll in a minimum of three additional graduate-level courses (numbered 500 and above). Teaching experience is regarded as an integral part of the graduate training program. All students are required to teach three courses, normally at the TF 3 level, during their first two years of study.

By the middle of the fourth term of study, each student organizes a formal preprospectus consultative meeting with his/her advisory committee to discuss the planned dissertation research. Before the beginning of the fifth term, students present and defend their planned dissertation research at a prospectus meeting, where the department determines the viability and appropriateness of the student’s Ph.D. proposal. A successful prospectus meeting and completion of course requirements result in admission to candidacy for the Ph.D. The remaining requirements include completion, presentation, and successful defense of the dissertation, and submission of copies of the dissertation to the Graduate School and to the Kline Science Library.

In cases where the dissertation committee decides that preliminary field work during the summer after the fourth term is necessary prior to the prospectus, the prospectus meeting can be delayed by one term. A request for a delay must come from the dissertation committee adviser and must be approved by the DGS. In these exceptional cases admission to candidacy may not be required for registration for the third year of graduate study.

Honors Requirement

Students must meet the Graduate School’s requirement of Honors in two courses by the end of the fourth term of study. The E&EB department also requires an average grade of at least High Pass in course work during the first two years of study.

Master’s Degree

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) Satisfactory completion of the first two years of study leading to the Ph.D. up to, but not necessarily including, the prospectus.

Additional material providing information on the department, faculty, courses, and facilities is available from Karen Broderick, Office of the Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, PO Box 208106, New Haven CT 06520-8106; e-mail: karen.broderick@yale.edu; phone: 203.432.3837; fax: 203.432.2374; Web site: www.eeb.yale.edu/.

Courses

E&EB 500a/b, Advanced Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Staff

Topics to be announced. 2 HTBA

E&EB 510au/STAT 501au, Introduction to Statistics: Life Sciences Günter Wagner

Statistical and probabilistic analysis of biological problems is presented with a unified foundation in basic statistical theory. A general lecture covering statistical theory and a discipline-based lecture covering statistical modeling of biological problems drawn from genetics, ecology, epidemiology, and bioinformatics. Graduate students are expected to finish a course project in addition to regular homework and exams. TTH 1– 2:15

E&EB 520au, General Ecology David Post, David Vasseur, Melinda Smith

A broad consideration of the theory and practice of ecology, including the ecology of individuals, population dynamics and regulation, community structure, ecosystem function, and ecological interactions on broad spatial and temporal scales. Topics such as climate change, fisheries management, and infectious disease are placed in an ecological context. MWF 10:30–11:20

E&EB 522bu, Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Stephen Stearns

The major principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior explained and illustrated by recent advances that have changed the field. Emphasis on major events in the history and key transitions in the organization of life. Ecological processes from organisms through populations and communities to the biosphere. Foraging, mating, and selfish and cooperative behavior placed in evolutionary and ecological context. MWF 11:35–12:25

E&EB 523Lbu, Laboratory for Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior Marta Wells

Experimental approaches to organismal and population biology, including study of the diversity of life. TWTH 1:30

E&EB 525bu, Evolutionary Biology Paul Turner, Jeffrey Townsend

An overview of evolutionary biology as the discipline uniting all of the life sciences. Evolution explains the origin of life and Earth’s biodiversity, and how organisms acquire adaptations that improve survival and reproduction. This course uses reading and discussion of scientific papers to emphasize that evolutionary biology is a dynamic science, involving active research to better understand the mysteries of life. We discuss principles of population genetics, paleontology, and systematics; application of evolutionary thinking in disciplines such as developmental biology, ecology, microbiology, molecular biology, and human medicine. Recommended preparation: EEB 122. TTH 11:35–12:50

E&EB 526Lbu, Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology Adalgisa Caccone

The companion laboratory to E&EB 525b. Study of patterns and processes of evolution, including collection and interpretation of molecular and morphological data in a phylogenetic context. Focus on methods of analysis of species-level and population-level variation in natural populations. W 1:30–4:30

E&EB 540au, Animal Behavior Suzanne Alonzo

An introduction to the study of animal behavior from an evolutionary and ecological perspective. History and methods of studying animal behavior. Topics include foraging, predation, communication, reproduction, cooperation, and the role of behavior in conservation. MW 9–10:15, 1 HTBA

E&EB 546bu, Plant Diversity and Evolution Faculty

Introduction to the evolutionary relationships of plant lineages. Exploration of the complexity, diversity, and characteristics of the major plant groups, including the green algae, mosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, within a phylogenetic context. MW 1–2:15

E&EB 547Lbu, Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Evolution Faculty

Local flora field research; hands-on experience with the plant groups examined in the accompanying lectures. T 1–4

[E&EB 548bu, Insect Development and Evolution]

[E&EB 549Lbu, Laboratory for Insect Development and Evolution]

E&EB 550au, Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods Marta Martinez Wells

Evolutionary history and diversity of terrestrial arthropods (body plan, phylogenetic relations, fossil record); physiology and functional morphology (water relations, thermo-regulation, energetics of flying and singing); reproduction (biology of reproduction, life cycles, metamorphosis, parental care); behavior (migration, communication, mating systems, evolution of sociality); ecology (parasitism, mutualism, predator-prey interactions, competition, plant-insect interactions). TTH 11:35–12:50

E&EB 551Lau, Laboratory for Biology of Terrestrial Arthropods Marta Martinez Wells

Comparative anatomy, dissections, identification, and classifications of terrestrial arthropods; specimen collection; field trips. W 1:30

[E&EB 557b, Invertebrates II]

[E&EB 558Lb, Laboratory for Invertebrates II]

E&EB 564bu, Ichthyology Faculty

A survey of fish diversity including jawless vertebrates, chimaeras and sharks, lungfishes, and ray-finned fishes. Topics include the evolutionary origin of vertebrates, the fossil record of fishes, evolutionary diversification of major extant fish lineages, biogeography, ecology, and reproductive strategies of fishes. MWF 1:30–2:20

E&EB 565bu, Laboratory for Ichthyology Faculty

Laboratory and field studies of fish diversity, form, function, behavior, and classification. The course primarily involves study of museum specimens and of living and fossil fishes. Must be taken concurrently with E&EB 564. HTBA

E&EB 575a, Biological Oceanography Marybeth Decker

Exploration of a range of coastal and pelagic ecosystems and how these environments function as coupled physical/biological systems. This natural science course provides a foundation for those interested in the ecology of marine systems and in the management of coastal zones. (Three hours lecture, field trips.) MW 11:35–12:50

E&EB 626au, Molecular Ecology Adalgisa Caccone

An overview of molecular genetic tools used to investigate ecological and evolutionary processes in natural populations. The use of molecular markers is explored through the hierarchy of life from studies of genetic individuality, parentage, kinship, population substructure, species boundaries, phylogenetics of closely related species. TTH 11:35–12:50

E&EB 627a or b, Research Topics in Molecular Ecology Adalgisa Caccone

2 HTBA

E&EB 630a, Ecosystem Analysis Melinda Smith, Peter Raymond

An outdoors overview of major themes in the study of ecosystems, aimed specifically at understanding how the structure of ecosystems develops (e.g., biodiversity) and how ecosystems function (e.g., process nutrients or pollutants). Special topics addressed include the impacts of global changes, such as climate change and eutrophication, on ecosystem structure and function. Experimental, descriptive, and analytical approaches are explored through field-based group and independent projects focused on New England ecosytems. Prerequisite: E&EB 220a or similar course or permission of instructor. MW 1–5

E&EB 632b, The Analysis of Ecological Time Series David Vasseur

An introduction to the theory and practice of time series analysis in ecology. Topics include detrending, model fitting, and frequency-domain analysis of univariate and multivariate data, with a particular emphasis on linking biological and physical processes. Students develop practical skills by addressing a variety of contemporary ecological problems using data of their own choosing. HTBA

[E&EB 640b, Community Ecology]

[E&EB 660bu, Wildlife Conservation Ecology]

[E&EB 665au/F&ES 32019a, Landscape Ecology]

[E&EB 670au/F&ES 32011a, Aquatic Ecology]

E&EB 672bu, Ornithology Richard Prum

Structure, function, behavior, evolution, and diversity of birds. A general overview of avian biology and evolution. Topics include the evolutionary origin of birds, avian phylogeny, anatomy, physiology, neurobiology, behavior, breeding systems, and bio-geography. MWF 9:25–10:15

E&EB 673Lbu, Laboratory for Ornithology Richard Prum

Laboratory and field studies of avian morphology, diversity, phylogeny, classification, identification, and behavior. Must be taken concurrently with E&EB 672bu. HTBA

[E&EB 678b, Mathematical Models and Quantitative Methods in Evolution and Ecology]

E&EB 710b, Sexual Selection and Social Evolution Suzanne Alonzo

This course examines theoretical and empirical research on topics in the field of sexual selection and mating systems evolution (such as mate choice, sperm competition, sexual conflict, and parental care) and social evolution (cooperation, kin selection, communication, group living, and cooperative breeding). After covering topics within sexual selection and social evolution separately, the course then examines recent research that brings these fields together to form an understanding of how social interactions shape evolutionary dynamics, especially in the context of reproduction. Students help lead weekly discussions and develop an individual project to conduct (such as a meta-analysis, development of new theory, or synthetic review) on which they give a presentation and write a paper by the end of the term. W 10:30–12:20

E&EB 729a, Microbial Ecology and Evolution Paul Turner

This course examines the ecology and evolution of microbes, with an emphasis on prokaryotes (bacteria, Archaea) and viruses. Considering that evolution has been acting on microbes longer than all other organisms, this course emphasizes that evolution and ecology insights can be obtained through microbial research. The evolutionary ecology of microorganisms is studied from individual, population, and community perspectives. Species interactions including competition, predation, parasitism, and mutualism as well as microbial communication through quorum sensing is examined through the lens of evolutionary ecology. Sex and reproduction, genome architecture and reduction, novel evolutionary mechanisms, and life in extreme environments are examined from a microbial perspective. The result is an understanding of microbes in their natural habitats, and of the power in using microbes to elucidate fundamental principles in ecology and evolution. HTBA

E&EB 810a, Dynamics of Evolving Systems J. Rimas Vaisnys

An introduction to the ways in which the structure and behavior of evolving biological systems can be described, modeled, and analyzed. Examination of model systems as well as modeling of laboratory and field phenomena. TTH 11:35–12:50

[E&EB 826au, Phylogenetics and Macroevolution]

[E&EB 827Lau, Laboratory for Phylogenetics and Macroevolution]

E&EB 900a-b, First-Year Introduction to Research and Rotations DGS

E&EB 930a, Seminar in Systematics Staff

E&EB 950a or b, Second-Year Research

By arrangement with faculty.

E&EB 960a/b, Studies in Evolutionary Medicine Stephen Stearns, Durland Fish, Alison Galvani, Paul Turner

This two-term course begins in January. Students learn the major principles of evolutionary biology and apply them to issues in medical research and practice by presenting and discussing original papers from the current research literature. Such issues include elactose and alcohol tolerance; the Hygiene Hypotheses and autoimmune disease; human genetic variation in drug response and pathogen resistance; spontaneous abortions, immune genes, and mate choice; parental conflicts over reproductive investment mediated by genetic imprinting; life history tradeoffs and the evolution of aging; the evolution of virulence and drug resistance.

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Economics

28 Hillhouse, 432.3575

www.econ.yale.edu/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Christopher Udry[F] (28 Hillhouse, 432.3571)

Benjamin Polak [Sp] (28 Hillhouse, 432.3571)

Director of Graduate Studies

Truman Bewley (30 Hillhouse, Rm 30, 432.3719, truman.bewley@yale.edu)

Professors Joseph Altonji, Donald Andrews, Lanier Benkard, Dirk Bergemann, Steven Berry, Truman Bewley, William Brainard (Emeritus), Donald Brown, Xiaohong Chen, Zhiwu Chen (School of Management), Eduardo Engel, Robert Evenson (Emeritus), Ray Fair, Howard Forman (School of Public Health), John Geanakoplos, Michael Golosov, Timothy Guinnane, Philip Haile, Koichi Hamada, Johannes Horner, Jonathan Ingersoll (School of Management), Gerald Jaynes, Dean Karlan, Yuichi Kitamura, Alvin Klevorick, Richard Levin, Giovanni Maggi, Robert Mendelsohn (Forestry & Environmental Studies), Giuseppe Moscarini, William Nordhaus, Joseph Peck (Emeritus), Peter Phillips, Benjamin Polak, Gustav Ranis (Emeritus), Mark Rosenzweig, Larry Samuelson, Herbert Scarf, T. Paul Schultz (Emeritus), Robert Shiller, Martin Shubik (Emeritus), Anthony Smith, T. N. Srinivasan, Alex Tsyvinski, Christopher Udry, Edward Vytlacil

Associate Professors Donato Gerardi, Justine Hastings

Assistant Professors Konstantinos Arkolakis, David Atkin, Irene Brambilla, Björn Bruegemann, Eduardo Faingold, Amanda Kowalski, Fabian Lange, Guillermo Ordonez, Taisuke Otsu, Kareen Rozen, Melissa Tartari, Ebonya Washington

Fields of Study

Fields include economic theory, including microeconomics, macroeconomics, mathematical economics; econometrics; economic history; labor economics; industrial organization; financial economics; behavioral finance; public economics; public finance; international trade; international finance; economic development; behavioral economics; law and economics.

Special Admissions Requirements

Please see www.econ.yale.edu/graduate/application_info.htm

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

The following requirements must be satisfied in addition to those prescribed by the Graduate School.

Prior to Registration for the Second Year. (a) Students must have taken for credit and passed at least six economics graduate courses. (b) Students must pass written comprehensive examinations in micro- and macroeconomics. These examinations, which are given in May and late August of each year, must be taken in the spring term of the first year. Each exam will be graded separately, and in the event of failure, students will retake only the part of the exam they did not pass. Students may take the comprehensive examination no more than twice.

Prior to Registration for the Third Year. (a) Students must have taken at least fourteen term courses in Economics and have received a grade of at least Pass in each of them. With the permission of the director of graduate studies, courses in related fields and independent reading courses can be used to fulfill this requirement. Workshops may not be used to satisfy it. (b) Students must have received an average of at least High Pass in the courses they have taken. The admissibility of courses for this requirement is the same as for the fourteen-course requirement mentioned above. Grades within the Economics department include pluses and minuses. A failure counts as a zero, a P– as a 1, a P as a 2, a P+ as a 3, and so on up to a 9 for H+. The arithmetic average of these numbers must be at least 4.5.

Admission to Candidacy. Students must be admitted to candidacy prior to registration for the fourth year of study. Students are recommended to the Graduate School for admission to candidacy by the Department of Economics after having completed department requirements listed above, the Graduate School’s prospectus requirement, and the following additional requirements: (a) Students must have completed two one-term prospectus workshops. In order for workshops to count toward the prospectus requirement, students must make a presentation in each workshop and present original work in one of them. If students can find no workshop whatsoever in their areas of interest, they may substitute independent study guided by a faculty member, provided the independent study leads to a dissertation prospectus that is accepted. (b) Students must receive a grade of High Pass– or better in ECON 551b (Econometrics II) or 552b (Econometrics III). More advanced courses may be substituted for these with special permission of the director of graduate studies. (c) Students must receive a grade of Satisfactory on an applied econometrics paper, which is evaluated by the faculty adviser of the paper and another faculty member. (d) Students must complete with a grade of at least High Pass– a term of economic history, drawn from a list of courses approved by the director of graduate studies and economic history instructors. (e) Students must pass an oral examination in two fields. At least one field must have substantial empirical and institutional content. The choice of fields must be approved by the director of graduate studies. In the event of failure, students may take the oral examination no more than twice.

Submitting the Dissertation. A student’s dissertation research is guided by a committee of two Graduate School faculty members, at least one of whom must be a member of the Economics department. One of the committee members is designated as chair. When a first draft of the dissertation is completed, the director of graduate studies appoints a third reader.

Programs in Law and Economics

The Economics department participates in the J.D./M.A. and J.D./Ph.D. programs, which are described under Policies and Regulations.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. The M.Phil. degree is awarded to students in the Ph.D. program upon completion of fourteen term courses, with at least two grades of Honors. In addition, students must satisfy the qualifying requirements in economic theory, econometrics, economic history, and two special fields, as well as the oral examination.

M.A. (en route to the Ph.D.) The M.A. degree is awarded upon completion of eight term courses with an average grade of High Pass, and satisfactory completion of one of the following: the comprehensive examination in economic theory, the course requirement in econometrics, or the course requirement in economic history.

The M.A. in International and Development Economics is described under International and Development Economics.

Program materials are available on our Web site: www.econ.yale.edu.

Courses

ECON 500a, General Economic Theory: Microeconomics Truman Bewley, John Geanakopolos

Introduction to optimization methods and partial equilibrium. Theories of utility and consumer behavior production and firm behavior. Introduction to uncertainty and the economics of information, and to noncompetitive market structures.

ECON 501b, General Economic Theory: Microeconomics Dirk Bergemann, Johannes Horner

General equilibrium and welfare economics. Allocation involving time. Public sector economics. Uncertainty and the economics of information. Introduction to social choice.

ECON 502a, Mathematics for Economists Donald Brown

This course covers mathematical methods important in economic theory, including Kuhn-Tucker theory, continuous time optimal control theory, dynamic programming, zero sum games, and repeated sum games.

ECON 510a, General Economic Theory: Macroeconomics Eduardo Engel, Bjoern Bruegemann

Analysis of short-run determination of aggregate employment, income, prices, and interest rates in closed and open economies. Stabilization policies.

ECON 511b, General Economic Theory: Macroeconomics Giuseppe Moscarini, Michael Golosov

Theories of saving, investment, portfolio choice, and financial markets. Longer-run developments; economic growth, capital accumulation, income distribution.

ECON 520a, Advanced Microeconomic Theory I Donato Gerardi, Joel Watson

A formal introduction to game theory and information economics. Alternative noncooperative solution concepts are studied and applied to problems in oligopoly, bargaining, auctions, strategic social choice, and repeated games.

ECON 521b, Advanced Microeconomic Theory II Dirk Bergemann, Juuso Valimaki

Contracts and the economics of organization. Topics may include dynamic contracts (both explicit and implicit), career concerns, hierarchies, Bayesian mechanism design, renegotiation, and corporate control.

ECON 522a and 523b, Microeconomic Theory Lunch Staff

A forum for advanced students to examine critically recent papers in the literature and present their own work.

[ECON 524a, Behavioral Applied Theory]

ECON 525a, Advanced Macroeconomics I Guillermo Ordoñez and staff

Heterogeneous agent economics, investment, scrapping and firing, nonquadratic adjustment costs, financial constraints, financial intermediation, psychology of decision making under risk, optimal risk management, financial markets, consumption behavior, monetary policy, term structure of interest rates.

ECON 526b, Advanced Macroeconomics II Alex Tsyvinski, Michael Golosov

Macroeconomic equilibrium in the presence of uninsurable labor income risk. Implications for savings, asset prices, unemployment.

ECON 527a/LAW 20083, Behavioral and Institutional Economics Robert Shiller

Behavioral economics incorporates insights from other social sciences, such as psychology and sociology, into economic models, and attempts to explain anomalies that defy standard economic analysis. Institutional economics is the study of the evolution of economic organizations, laws, contracts, and customs as part of a historical and continuing process of economic development. Behavioral economics and institutional economics are naturally treated together, since so much of the logic and design of economic institutions has to do with complexities of human behavior. The course emphasizes two main topics—behavioral macroeconomics and behavioral finance—though references are made to other branches of economics as well. Because macroeconomics is a major part of this course, it is part of the graduate macroeconomics sequence (including also ECON 510a, 511b, 525a, and 526b). However, this course does not list these other courses as requirements.

ECON 530a, Mathematical Economics I Herakles Polemarcharkis

This is a first course in general equilibrium analysis of market economies. The focus of the course is Walrasian competition, monopolistic competition, and competition in markets with affective agents, i.e., affective competition. Topics include testable implications of these models, counterfactual analysis, and algorithms for solving calibrated models. The mathematical framework is Tame Topology and O-minimal Structures, where the Tarski-Seidenberg Theorem on Quantifier Elimination and Laskowski’s Theorem on the VC-Dimension of Definable Sets are the basis of our analysis.

ECON 531a/b, Mathematical Economics II John Geanakoplos

This course examines the foundations of money and finance from the perspective of general equilibrium with incomplete markets. The relevant mathematical tools from elementary stochastic processes to differential topology are developed in the course. Topics include asset pricing, variations of capital asset pricing model, the “Hahn paradox” on the value of flat money, default and bankruptcy, collateral equilibrium, market crashes, adverse selection and moral hazard with perfect competition, credit card equilibrium, and general equilibrium with asymmetric information.

[ECON 535a and b, Prospectus Workshop in Mathematical Economics]

ECON 537a and 538b, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Staff

Presentations by research scholars and participating students.

ECON 540a and 541b, Student Workshop in Macroeconomics Staff

A course that gives third- and fourth-year students doing research in macroeconomics an opportunity to prepare their prospectuses and to present their dissertation work. Each student is required to make at least two presentations per term. For third-year students and beyond, at least one of the presentations in the first term should be a mock job talk.

ECON 542a and 543b, Macroeconomics Workshop Staff

A forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in macroeconomics. Presentations by research scholars and participating students of papers in closed economy and open economy macroeconomics and monetary economics.

ECON 544a/INRL 560a, Economic Analysis Cheryl Doss

An introduction for International Relations students to more advanced concepts of micro- and macroeconomic analysis in an applied context. Different economies in different stages of development are used as illustrations of these concepts. Areas covered include employment, income, and interest rate determination as well as theories of consumption, investment, pricing, money, and production. mw 9–10:15

ECON 545a, Microeconomics Michael Boozer

A survey of the main features of current economic analysis and of the application of the theory to a number of important economic questions, covering microeconomics and demand theory, the theory of the firm, and market structures. For IDE students.

ECON 546a, Macroeconomics Irasema Alonso

This course presents a basic framework to understand macroeconomic behavior and the effects of macroeconomic policies. Topics include consumption and investment, labor market, short-run income determinations, unemployment, inflation, growth, and the effects of monetary and fiscal policies. The emphasis is on the relation between the underlying assumptions of macroeconomic framework and policy implications derived from it. For IDE students.

ECON 550a, Econometrics I Donald Andrews

Probability: concepts and axiomatic development. Data: tools of descriptive statistics and data reduction. Random variables and probability distributions; univariate distributions (continuous and discrete); multivariate distributions; functions of random variables and transformations; the notion of statistical inference; sampling concepts and distributions; asymptotic theory; point and interval estimation; hypothesis testing.

ECON 551b, Econometrics II Taisuke Otsu

Provides a basic knowledge of econometric theory, and an ability to carry out empirical work in economics. Topics include linear regression and extensions, including regression diagnostics, generalized least squares, statistical inference, dynamic models, instrumental variables and maximum likelihood procedures, simultaneous equations, nonlinear and qualitative-choice models. Examples from cross-section, time series, and panel data applications.

ECON 552b, Econometrics III Donald Andrews, Yuichi Kitamura

The treatment of the subject is rigorous, attentive to modern developments, and proceeds to research level in several areas. Linear models from core curriculum. Topics include linear estimation theory, multiple and multivariate regressions, Kruskal’s theorem and its applications, classical statistical testing by likelihood ratio, Lagrange multiplier and Wald procedures, bootstrap methods, specification tests, Stein-like estimation, instrumental variables, and an introduction to inferential methods in simultaneous stochastic equations.

ECON 553a, Econometrics IV: Time Series Econometrics Peter Phillips

A sequel to ECON 552, the course proceeds to research level in time series econometrics. Topics include an introduction to ergodic theory, Wold decomposition, spectral theory, martingales, martingale convergence theory, mixing processes, strong laws, and central limit theory for weak dependent sequences with applications to econometric models and model determination.

ECON 554b, Econometrics V Donald Andrews, Yuichi Kitamura

The first half of this course is about nonlinear parametric models. Specification, estimation, and testing within the Likelihood and Generalized Method of Moments frameworks. First-order asymptotics for both smooth and non-smooth objective functions. Efficiency and robustness. A short account of high-order asymptotics for smooth problems. The second part is on nonparametric and semiparametric methods. Nonparametric estimation by kernels, series, splines, and other methods. Bias reduction and bandwidth selection. The course of dimensionality and additive models. Specification and estimation of semiparametric models. U-statistics and asymptotic properties. Efficiency and adaptation.

ECON 555b, Applied Econometrics II: Microeconometrics Edward Vytlacil

This course develops the concepts needed to approach empirical problems in microeconomics with econometrics. The focus is less on developing a catalogue of econometric methods than on developing a conceptual basis for understanding how data, econometric methodology, and assumptions combine to produce statistical inference.

ECON 558a, Econometrics Michael Boozer

Application of statistical analysis to economic data. Basic probability theory, linear regression, specification and estimation of economic models, time series analysis, and forecasting. The computer is used. For IDE students.

ECON 561a, Computational Method for Economic Dynamics Tony Smith

[ECON 563a/CPSC 555a, Economics and Computation]

ECON 567a and 568b, Econometrics Workshop Staff

A forum for state-of-the-art research in econometrics. Its primary purpose is to disseminate the results and the technical machinery of ongoing research in theoretical and applied fields.

ECON 570a and 571b, Prospectus Workshop in Econometrics Staff

A course for third- and fourth-year students doing research in econometrics to prepare their prospectus and present dissertation work.

ECON 580a, General Economic History: Western Europe Timothy Guinnane

A survey of some major events and issues in the economic development of Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, stressing the causes, nature, and consequences of the industrial revolution in Britain and on the Continent, and the implications of the historical record for modern conceptions of economic growth. Prerequisites: simultaneous enrollment in or successful completion of ECON 500a and ECON 510a; permission of the instructor.

ECON 581b, American Economic History Ben Chabot

This course examines both the long-term factors (such as industrialization and the development of markets) and the epochal events (such as the Revolution, Civil War, and Great Depression) that have shaped the development of the American economy. The objectives of this course are to familiarize students with the major topics and debates in American economic history.

[ECON 582a, General Economic History: Latin America]

[ECON 583a, Topics in Economic History]

[ECON 585b, Readings in Economic History]

ECON 588a and 589b, Economic History Workshop Staff

A forum for discussion and criticism of research in progress. Presenters include graduate students, Yale faculty, and visitors. Topics concerned with long-run trends in economic organization are suitable for the seminar. Special emphasis given to the use of statistics and of economic theory in historical research.

ECON 600a, Industrial Organization I Steven Berry, Lanier Bankard

Begins by locating the study of industrial organization within the broader research traditions of economics and related social sciences. Alternative theories of decision making, of organizational behavior, and of market evolution are sketched and contrasted with standard neoclassical theories. Detailed examination of the determinants and consequences of industrial market structure.

ECON 601b, Industrial Organization II Justine Hastings, Philip Haile

Examination of alternative modes of public control of economic sectors with primary emphasis on antitrust and public utility regulation in the U.S. economy. Public policy issues in sectors of major detailed governmental involvement.

ECON 606a and 607b, Prospectus Workshop in Industrial Organization Staff

For third-year students in microeconomics, intended to guide students in the early stages of theoretical and empirical dissertation research. Emphasis on regular writing assignments and oral presentations.

ECON 608a and 609b, Industrial Organization Seminar Staff

For advanced graduate students in applied microeconomics, serving as a forum for presentation and discussion of work in progress of students, Yale faculty members, and invited speakers.

ECON 630a, Labor Economics Fabian Lange

Topics include static and dynamic approaches to demand, human capital and wage determination, wage income inequality, unemployment and minimum wages, matching and job turnover, immigration and international trade, unions, implicit contract theory, and efficiency wage hypothesis.

ECON 631b, Labor Economics Joseph Altonji and staff

Topics include static and dynamic models of labor supply, human capital wage function estimation, firm-specific training, compensating wage differentials, discrimination, household production, bargaining models of household behavior, intergenerational transfers, and mobility.

ECON 638a and 639b, Labor and Population Workshop Staff

A forum primarily for graduate students to present their research plans and findings. Discussions encompass empirical microeconomic research relating to both high- and low-income countries.

ECON 640a/b, Prospectus Workshop in Labor Economics and Public Finance Staff

Workshop for students doing research in labor economics and public finance.

ECON 670a/MGMT 740a, Financial Economics I Zhiwu Chen

Current issues in theoretical financial economics are addressed through the study of current papers. Focuses on the development of the problem-solving skills essential for research in this area. T 2:30–5:20

ECON 671b/MGMT 741b, Financial Economics II Jonathan Ingersoll

Current issues in theoretical financial economics are addressed through the study of current papers. Focuses on the development of the problem-solving skills essential for research in this area.

ECON 672a, Behavioral Finance Nicholas Barberis

Much of modern financial economics works with models in which agents are rational, in that they maximize expected utility and use Bayes’s law to update their beliefs. Behavioral finance is a large and active field that studies models in which some agents are less than fully rational. Such models have two building blocks: limits to arbitrage, which make it difficult for rational traders to undo the dislocations caused by less rational traders; and psychology, which catalogues the kinds of deviations from full rationality we might expect to see. We discuss these two topics, and then consider a number of applications: asset pricing (the aggregate stock market and the cross-section of average returns); individual trading behavior; and corporate finance (security issuance, corporate investment, and mergers). This is a research-oriented course aimed at Ph.D. students. Undergraduate students with outstanding academic records and prior experience of graduate courses may register with the instructor’s permission. Grades are based on a small number of referee reports and a final exam.

ECON 680a, Public Finance I Justine Hastings, Amanda Kowalski

ECON 681b, Public Finance II Alex Tsyvinski

Topics include theory of public goods, an introduction to preference revelation, the problem of externalities and their control, and the methodology of cost-benefit analysis and some applications.

ECON 702b, International Economics Andrea Bubula

International monetary theory and its implications for economic policy. Topics include mechanisms of adjustment in the balance of payments; fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policy for internal and external balance; international movements of capital. For IDE students.

[ECON 709a, International Economics and Open Economy Macroeconomics]

ECON 720a, International Trade I Giovanni Maggi

This course covers the theory of international trade, policy, and institutions. Discussion of Classical, Neo-classical, and more recent imperfect-Competition-Scale-Economies-based static models of trade. The course presents dynamic extensions of some of the models that explore the relations among trade, innovation, and growth. The analytics of trade policy issues, such as gains from trade, tariffs and quotas, customs unions and free trade areas, and the political economy of trade policy making, are discussed.

[ECON 721b, International Trade II]

[ECON 724b, International Finance]

ECON 730a, Economic Development I Christopher Udry, T. N. Srinivasan

Development theory at both aggregate and sectoral levels; analysis of growth, employment, poverty, and distribution of income in both closed and open developing economy contexts.

ECON 731b, Economic Development II Dean Karlan, Mark Rosenzweig

Analysis of development experiences since World War II. Planning and policy making across countries and time. Models of development, growth, foreign trade, and investment. Trade, capital, and technology flows and increasing interdependence. The political economy of policy making and policy reform.

ECON 732b, Economic Development IDE Michael Boozer

Examines the models of classical and modern economists to explain the transition of developing economies into modern economic growth, as well as their relevance to income distribution, poverty alleviation, and human development. For IDE students.

[ECON 735bu, Economics of Agriculture]

[ECON 736au, Economics of Technology]

ECON 737au, Economics of Natural Resources Robert Mendelsohn

Linking of abstract economic concepts to concrete policy and management decisions. Application of theoretical tools of economics to global warming, pollution control, fisheries, forestry, recreation, and mining.

ECON 738a or b, Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resources William Nordhaus, Robert Mendelsohn

ECON 749a and 750b, Trade and Development Workshop Staff

A forum for graduate students and faculty with an interest in the economic problems of developing countries. Faculty, students, and a limited number of outside speakers discuss research in progress.

ECON 756a/b, Prospectus Workshop in Development Staff

Workshop for students doing research in development to present and discuss work.

[ECON 776bu, Economics of Population]

[ECON 788a/PLSC 575a, Political Competition]

ECON 790b/PLSC 725b, Political Economy Ebonya Washington

Political competition in democracies is party competition. We develop, from the formal viewpoint, theories of party competition in democracies. We develop a theory in which parties (1) compete over several issues, not just one issue as in A. Downs; (2) are uncertain about how citizens respond to platforms; and (3) represent interest groups in the population. Applications, particularly to the theory of income distribution and tax. HTBA

ECON 792b/PLSC 721b, Political Economy of Institutions and Development Alexandre Debs

How do political institutions affect economic outcomes? How do economic conditions determine political institutions? This course reviews recent advances in the emerging field of the political economy of institutions and development, with a focus on formal modeling and quantitative studies. We start with an introduction to the importance of institutions in affecting economic performance. Second, we review some basic models of democratic politics, focusing on the impact of economic conditions (such as inequality) on political outcomes. Third, we cover major theories of democratization, for example studying the effect of income and inequality on institutional change. Fourth, we study basic models of dictatorships, looking at the effect of nondemocratic institutions on growth and international conflict. Finally, we take a critical look at the role of institutions and consider the possibility of policy persistence despite institutional change. F 9:25–11:15

ECON 899a or b, Individual Reading and Research

By arrangement with faculty.

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Electrical Engineering

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250

M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

A. Stephen Morse

Director of Graduate Studies

Jung Han

Professors Richard Barker (Emeritus), James Duncan, Jung Han, Peter Kindlmann (Adjunct), Roman Kuc, Tso-Ping Ma, A. Stephen Morse, Kumpati Narendra, Mark Reed, Peter Schultheiss (Emeritus), J. Rimas Vaisnys, Jerry Woodall (Adjunct)

Associate Professors Hür Köser, Richard Lethin (Adjunct), Yiorgos Makris, Andreas Savvides, Lawrence Staib, Hemant Tagare, Sekhar Tatikonda, Yang Richard Yang, Edmund Yeh

Assistant Professors Eugenio Culurciello, Hongxing Tang

Fields of Study

Fields include control systems, neural networks, communications and signal processing, wireless networks, image sensors, sensor networks, biomedical sensory systems, microelectronic materials and semiconductor devices, nanoelectronic science and technology, optoelectronic materials and devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), computer engineering, and VLSI design and testing.

For admissions and degree requirements, and for course listings, see Engineering and Applied Science.

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Engineering & Applied Science

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250

www.seas.yale.edu/

M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Dean

T. Kyle Vanderlick

Deputy Dean

Bruce Carmichael

Associate Dean for Educational Affairs

Roman Kuc

Programs of study are offered in the areas of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering, applied physics, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, and environmental engineering. All programs are under the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Applied Physics

Chair

A. Douglas Stone

Director of Graduate Studies

Robert Grober

Associate Professor Sohrab Ismail-Beigi

Fields of Study

Biomedical Engineering

Chair

Mark Saltzman

Director of Graduate Studies

Richard Carson

Professors Richard Carson, James Duncan, Douglas Rothman, Mark Saltzman, Fred Sigworth, Steven Zucker (Computer Science)

Associate Professors Todd Constable, Fahmeed Hyder, Erin Lavik, Laura Niklason, Lawrence Staib, Hemant Tagare

Assistant Professors Robin de Graaf, Tarek Fahmy, Themis Kyriakides, Mark Laubach, Michael Levene, Xenios Papademetris, Erik Shapiro

Fields of Study

Chemical Engineering

Chair

Menachem Elimelech

Director of Graduate Studies

Gary Haller

Associate Professors Yehia Khalil (Adjunct), William Mitch, Jordan Peccia

Assistant Professors Eric Dufresne, Tarek Fahmy, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Chinedum Osuji, Andre Taylor, Corey Wilson, Julie Zimmerman

Fields of Study

Electrical Engineering

Chair

A. Stephen Morse

Director of Graduate Studies

Jung Han

Associate Professors Hür Köser, Richard Lethin (Adjunct), Yiorgos Makris, Andreas Savvides, Lawrence Staib, Hemant Tagare, Sekhar Tatikonda, Yang Richard Yang, Edmund Yeh

Assistant Professors Eugenio Culurciello, Hongxing Tang

Fields of Study

Environmental Engineering

Professors Gaboury Benoit, Stephen Edberg, Menachem Elimelech, Thomas Graedel, Edward Kaplan, Joseph Pignatello (Adjunct), James Saiers

Associate Professors Michelle Bell, Ruth Blake, Yehia Khalil (Adjunct), William Mitch, Jordan Peccia

Assistant Professor Julie Zimmerman

Lecturer James Wallis

Fields of Study

Fields include aquatic and environmental chemistry, physical and chemical processes for water quality control, transport and fate of pollutants in the environment, environmental nanotechnology, green engineering, environmental engineering microbiology, environmental molecular biology, bioaerosols, water reuse, disinfection by-product formation, emerging contaminants, membrane separations for water quality control, industrial ecology, and chemical reactions at the mineral-water interface.

Mechanical Engineering

Chair

Mitchell Smooke

Director of Graduate Studies

Alessandro Gomez

Professors David Bercovici, Ira Bernstein (Emeritus), Boa-Teh Chu (Emeritus), Juan Fernández de la Mora, Alessandro Gomez, Robert Gordon, Shun-Ichiro Karato, Amable Liñan-Martinez (Adjunct), Marshall Long, Daniel Rosner, Ronald Smith, Mitchell Smooke, Forman Williams (Adjunct)

Associate Professors Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Corey O’Hern, Ainissa Ramirez, Jan Schroers, Udo Schwarz

Assistant Professors Aaron Dollar, Eric Dufresne, John Morrell, Nicholas Ouellette, Hong Tang

Lecturers Beth Anne Bennett, Arthur McClung, Kailasnath Purushothaman

Fields of Study

Fluids and thermal sciences Dynamics and stability of drops and bubbles; dynamics of thin liquid films; macroscopic and particle-scale dynamics of emulsions, foams, and colloidal suspensions; electrospray theory and characterization; electrical propulsion applications; combustion and flames; computational methods for fluid dynamics and reacting flows; turbulence; particle tracking in fluid mechanics; laser diagnostics of reacting and nonreacting flows.

Soft matter/complex fluids Jamming and slow dynamics in gels, glasses, and granular materials; mechanical properties of soft and biological materials; dynamics of macromolecules. Several faculty in Mechanical Engineering are also affiliated with the Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology (http://www.peb.yale.edu).

Material science Characterization of crystallization and other phase transformations; studies of thin films; MEMS; smart materials such as shape memory alloys, amorphous metals, and nanomaterials including nanocomposites; NEMS; nano-imprinting; classical and quantum optomechanics; atomic-scale investigations of surface interactions and properties; classical and quantum nanomechanics; and nanotribology.

Robotics/mechatronics Machine and mechanism design; dynamics and control; robotic grasping and manipulation; human-machine interface; rehabilitation robotics; haptics; electromechanical energy conversion; biomechanics of human movement; human-powered vehicles.

Integrated Graduate Program in Physical and Engineering Biology (IGPPEB)

The Yale IGPPEB program brings together faculty drawn mainly from four member areas (MB&B, MCDB, Physics, and Engineering). All faculty involved recognize the importance of interdisciplinary research at the interface of the biological and physical sciences, and have recently developed interdisciplinary research collaborations among IGPPEB colleagues. Core courses for Engineering students in this Ph.D. program are listed in the core course list below for each participating department.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

A pamphlet titled Qualification Procedure for the Ph.D. Degree in Engineering & Applied Science describes the requirements in detail. The student is strongly encouraged to read it carefully. Here, key requirements are briefly summarized.

The student plans his/her course of study in consultation with faculty advisers (the student’s advisory committee). A minimum of ten term courses is required, to be completed in the first two years. (Students registered in Applied Physics must take a minimum of twelve term courses.) Well-prepared students may petition for course waivers based on courses taken in a previous graduate degree program. Similarly, students may place out of certain ENAS courses via an examination prepared by the course instructor. Placing out of the course will not reduce the total number of required courses. Core courses, as identified by each department/program, should be taken in the first year unless otherwise noted by the department. With the permission of the departmental director of graduate studies, students may substitute more advanced courses that cover the same topics. No more than two courses can be Special Investigations, and at least two must be outside the area of the dissertation.

Each term, the faculty review the overall performance of the student and report their findings to the director of graduate studies who, in consultation with the associate dean, determines whether the student may continue toward the Ph.D. degree. By the end of the second term, it is expected that a faculty member has agreed to accept the student as a research assistant. By October 5 of the third year, an area examination must be passed and a written prospectus submitted before dissertation research is begun. These events result in the student’s admission to candidacy. Subsequently, the student will report orally each year to the full advisory committee on progress. When the research is nearing completion, but before the thesis writing has commenced, the full advisory committee will advise the student on the thesis plan. A final oral presentation of the dissertation research is required to be given during term time. There is no foreign language requirement.

Teaching experience is regarded as an integral part of the graduate training program at Yale University, and all Engineering graduate students are required to serve as a Teaching Fellow for one term, typically during year two. Teaching duties normally involve assisting in laboratories or discussion sections and grading papers and are not expected to require more than ten hours per week. Students are not permitted to teach during the first year of study.

Core Course Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

The core courses for each department and program are as follows:

Applied Physics Solid State Physics I (ENAS 850) and II (ENAS 851), Quantum Mechanics I (PHYS 508) and II (PHYS 608), Electromagnetic Theory I (PHYS 502), Statistical Physics I (PHYS 512). Two of these courses may be taken in the second year. In addition, there is a math requirement which must be met by taking Mathematical Methods I (ENAS 500) or Mathematical Methods of Physics (PHYS 506) in the first year. Students in the IGPPEB program must also take Methods and Logic in Interdisciplinary Research (ENAS 517), Biological Physics (ENAS 541), Biology Boot Camp (MB&B 520), Integrated Workshop (ENAS 991), and Systems Modeling in Biology (MCDB 561).

Biomedical Engineering Physiological Systems (ENAS 550), Physical and Chemical Basis of Biosensing (ENAS 510). One of these courses may be taken in the second year. In addition, there is a math requirement which must be met by taking Mathematical Methods I (ENAS 500) or Advanced Engineering Mathematics (ENAS 505) in the first year.

Chemical Engineering Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics (ENAS 521), Energy, Mass, and Momentum Processes (ENAS 603), Chemical Reaction Engineering (ENAS 602). In addition, there is a math requirement which must be met by taking Mathematical Methods I (ENAS 500) or Advanced Engineering Mathematics (ENAS 505) in the first year. Students in the IGPPEB program must also take Methods and Logic in Interdisciplinary Research (ENAS 517), Biological Physics (ENAS 541), Biology Boot Camp (MB&B 520), Integrated Workshop (ENAS 991) and Systems Modeling in Biology (MCDB 561).

Environmental Engineering Aquatic Chemistry (ENAS 640), Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering (ENAS 641), Environmental Physicochemical Processes (ENAS 642). In addition, there is a math requirement which must be met by taking one of the following courses in the first year: Mathematical Methods I (ENAS 500), Advanced Engineering Mathematics (ENAS 505), Applied Spatial Statistics (F&ES 77107), Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Environmental Sciences (F&ES 77113), or Multivariate Statistics for Social Sciences (STAT 660).

Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics track) Solid State Physics I (ENAS 850), Semiconductor Silicon Devices and Technology (ENAS 986).

Electrical Engineering (System and Signals track) Linear Systems (ENAS 902), Stochastic Processes (ENAS 502).

Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering track) Introduction to VLSI System Design (ENAS 875), Advanced Topics in Computer Engineering (ENAS 921).

Mechanical Engineering Students must demonstrate competence in one of four areas: Fluid and Thermal Sciences, Soft Matter/Complex Fluids, Materials Science, or Robotics/Mechatronics. Core courses for these areas are specified in the Qualification Procedure. Some of the core courses may be taken in the second year. In addition, there is a math requirement which must be met by taking Mathematical Methods I (ENAS 500), Mathematical Methods of Physics (PHYS 506), or Linear Systems (ENAS 902), depending on the research area. Some research areas will also require Mathematical Methods II (ENAS 501). Students in the IGPPEB program must also take Methods and Logic in Interdisciplinary Research (ENAS 517), Biological Physics (ENAS 541), Biology Boot Camp (MB&B 520), Integrated Workshop (ENAS 991), and Systems Modeling in Biology (MCDB 561).

Honors Requirement

Students must meet the Graduate School’s Honors requirement in at least two term courses (excluding Special Investigations) by the end of the second term of full-time study. An extension of one term may be granted at the discretion of the DGS.

Master’s Degrees

M.Phil. See Degree Requirements under Policies and Regulations.

M.S. (en route to the Ph.D.) To qualify for the M.S., the student must pass eight term courses; no more than two may be Special Investigations. An average grade of at least High Pass is required, with at least one grade of Honors.

Master’s Degree Program Students may also be admitted directly to a terminal master’s degree program. The requirements are the same as for the M.S. en route to the Ph.D., although there are no core course requirements for students in this program. This program is normally completed in one year, but a part-time program may be spread over as many as four years. Some courses are available in the evening, to suit the needs of students from local industry.

Program materials are available upon request to the Office of Graduate Studies, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, PO Box 208267, New Haven CT 06520-8267; e-mail, engineering@yale.edu; Web site, www.seas.yale.edu/.

Courses

The list of courses may be slightly modified by the time term begins. Please check the Web site http://www.seas.yale.edu/departments-graduate-courses.php for the most updated course listing.

ENAS 500a, Mathematical Methods I Robert Grober

Vector analysis in three dimensions (2 weeks), linear algebra (4 weeks), functions of a complex variable (4 weeks), topics at the discretion of the instructor (3 weeks), e.g., (1) specific examples to reinforce the material already presented and (2) new topics (to choose among: Fourier series in one and more dimensions, Laplace transformations, Fourier integrals in one and more dimensions, optimization, elements of ODE). TTH 2:30–3:45

ENAS 501b, Mathematical Methods II Jerzy Blawzdziewicz

Special functions, the Laplace transformations, Fourier series, Fourier integrals, and partial differential equations including separation of variables, methods of characteristics, variational techniques, and a brief discussion of numerical methods. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 502bu, Stochastic Processes Sekhar Tatikonda

Elements of set and measure theory. Probability distributions, moments, characteristic functions. The central limit theorem. Basic properties of random processes. Stationarity and ergodicity. Correlation functions and power spectra. Linear and nonlinear operations on random processes. MW 9–10:15

ENAS 503a/AMTH 605a/STAT 667a, Probabilistic Networks, Algorithms, and Applications Sekhar Tatikonda

This course examines probabilistic and computational methods for the statistical modeling of complex data. The emphasis is on the unifying framework provided by graphical models, a formalism that merges aspects of graph theory and probability theory. Graphical models: Markov random fields, Bayesian networks, and factor graphs. Algorithms: filtering, smoothing, belief-propagation, sum-product, and junction tree. Variational techniques: mean-field and convex relaxations. Markov processes on graphs: MCMC, factored HMMs, and Glauber dynamics. Some statistical physics techniques: cavity and replica methods. Applications to error-correcting codes, computer vision, bio-informatics, and combinatorial optimization.

ENAS 505a, Advanced Engineering Mathematics Michael Loewenberg

A beginning graduate-level introduction is given to ordinary and partial differential equations, vector and tensor analysis, and linear algebra. Laplace transform, series expansion, Fourier transform, and matrix methods are given particular attention. Applications to problems frequently encountered by chemical, biomedical, and environmental engineers are stressed throughout. MW 2:30–3:45

ENAS 506au, Basic Quantum Mechanics Robert Schoelkopf

Basic concepts and techniques of quantum mechanics essential for solid state physics and quantum electronics. Topics include the Schrödinger treatment of the harmonic oscillator, atoms and molecules and tunneling, matrix methods and perturbation theory. TTH 2:30–3:45

ENAS 509bu, Electronic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications Minjoo Lee

Survey and review of fundamental issues associated with modern microelectronic and optoelectronic materials. Topics include band theory, electronic transport, surface kinetics, diffusion, materials defects, elasticity in thin films, epitaxy, and Si integrated circuits. MW 11:35–12:50

ENAS 510au, Physical and Chemical Basis of Bioimaging and Biosensing Douglas Rothman, Fred Sigworth, Richard Carson

Basic principles and technologies for imaging and sensing the chemical, electrical, and structural properties of living tissues and biological macromolecules. Topics include magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MRI, positron emission tomography, and fluorescent probes. TTH 1–2:15

[ENAS 511bu, Physics and Devices of Optical Communication]

ENAS 513au, Introduction to Analysis Staff

Foundations of real analysis, including metric spaces and point set topology, infinite series, and function spaces. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 514bu, Real Analysis Philip Gressman

The Lebesgue integral, Fourier series, applications to differential equations. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 517a/MB&B 517a2/PHYS 517a2, Methods and Logic in Interdisciplinary Research Eric Dufresne, Enrique de la Cruz, Thierry Emonet, Paul Forscher, Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Michael Levene, Simon Mochrie, Corey O’Hern, Lynne Regan, Elizabeth Rhoades, Corey Wilson

This half-term IGPPEB class is intended to introduce students to integrated approaches to research. Each session is led by faculty with complementary expertise and discusses papers that use different approaches to the same topic (for example, physical and biological or experiment and theory). Counts as 0.5 credit toward MB&B graduate course requirements. TH 7–8:50

ENAS 518a/MB&B 635au, Mathematical Methods in Biophysics Yong Xiong, Elizabeth Rhoades, Corey O’Hern

Applied mathematical methods relevant to analysis and interpretation of biophysical and biochemical data. Statistics and error analysis, differential equations, linear algebra, and Fourier transforms. Analysis of real data from research groups in MB&B. It is a prerequisite for subsequent IGPPEB classes. Prerequisites for this course: MATH 120a or b and MB&B 300a or equivalents, or permission of instructors. MWF 10:30–11:20

ENAS 521a, Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics Abbas Firoozabadi

A unified approach to bulk-phase equilibrium thermodynamics, bulk-phase irreversible thermodynamics, and interfacial thermodynamics in the framework of classical thermodynamics, and an introduction to statistical thermodynamics. Both the activity coefficient and the equations of state are used in the description of bulk phases. Emphasis on classical thermodynamics of multicomponents, including concepts of stability and criticality, curvature effect, and gravity effect. The choice of Gibbs free energy function covers applications to a broad range of problems in chemical, environmental, biomedical, and petroleum engineering. The introduction includes theory of Gibbs canonical ensembles and the partition functions, fluctuations, and Boltzmann’s statistics, Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. Application to ideal monatomic and diatomic gases is covered. MW 9–10:15

ENAS 525au, Optimization I Eric Denardo

Focus on linear programming, a resource-allocation method widely used by engineers, managers, economists, and social scientists. The theory of linear programming (the simplex method, sensitivity analysis, prices, duality, and geometry) is coupled with a survey of its principal uses. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 530a, Optimization Techniques A. Stephen Morse

Fundamental theory and algorithms of optimization, emphasizing convex optimization. The geometry of convex sets, basic convex analysis, the principle of optimality, duality. Numerical algorithms: steepest descent, Newton’s method, interior point methods, dynamic programming, unimodal search. MW 2:30–3:45

ENAS 534a, Biomaterials Erin Lavik

Introduction to materials, classes of materials from atomic structure to physical properties. Major classes of materials: metals, ceramics and glasses, and polymers, addressing their specific characteristics, properties, and biological applications. Throughout the presentation of the synthesis, characterization, and properties of the classes of materials, a connection is made to the selection of materials for use in specific biological applications by matching the material’s properties to those necessary for success in the application. Case studies address the successes and failures of particular materials from each of the classes in biological applications. TTH 9–10:15

ENAS 535b, Tissue/Biomaterial Interactions Themis Kyriakides

The course addresses the interactions between tissues and biomaterials, with an emphasis on the importance of molecular- and cellular-level events in dictating the performance and longevity of clinically relevant devices. In addition, specific areas such as biomaterials for tissue engineering and the importance of stem/progenitor cells, and biomaterial-mediated gene and drug delivery are addressed. HTBA

ENAS 541a/MB&B 523a/PHYS 523a, Biological Physics Simon Mochrie

An introduction to the physics of biological systems, including molecular motors, protein folding, membrane self-assembly, ion pumping, and bacterial locomotion. Background concepts in probability and statistical mechanics are introduced as necessary, as well as key constituents of living cells. Required for students in IGPPEB. TTh 2:30-3:45

ENAS 549b, Biomedical Data Analysis Richard Carson

This course focuses on the analysis of biological and medical data associated with applications of biomedical engineering. It provides basics of probability and statistics, and analytical approaches for determination of quantitative biological parameters from noisy, experimental data. Programming in Matlab to achieve these goals is a major portion of the course. Applications include Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics, Hodgkin Huxley, neuroreceptor assays, receptor occupancy, MR spectroscopy, PET neuroimaging, brain image segmentation and reconstruction, and molecular diffusion. MWF 9:25–10:15

ENAS 550au/C&MP 550au/MCDB 550au, Physiological Systems Emile Boulpaep, W. Mark Saltzman

Regulation and control in biological systems, emphasizing human physiology and principles of feedback. The physiology of membranes and membrane transport systems is discussed. The cellular and molecular principles of organ and tissue physiology are explained by coverage of major human physiological systems including renal, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, digestive, and nervous systems. MWF 9:25–10:15

ENAS 551au, Biomedical Engineering I: Quantitative Physiology Tarek Fahmy

Demonstration of the use of engineering analysis and synthesis in problems in the life sciences and medicine; focus on modeling of molecular physiological processes and design of artificial organs. The lectures in the course are coordinated with the sequence of lectures in ENAS 550a to illustrate how engineering analysis can be used to understand physiological processes. In addition, the course presents elements of pharmacokinetics, heat and mass transfer in physiological systems, hemodialysis, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. TTH 11:35–12:50

ENAS 553b, Immuno-Engineering Tarek Fahmy

This course focuses on the applications of engineering techniques and methods to the study of immunology and immunological problems. The course introduces the fundamentals of immunity, followed by examples of how quantitative analysis and biomaterial intervention have helped us shape our understanding of how the immune system works and how to repair its defects. The course is a mixture of lectures and weekly readings. TTH 2:30–3:45

ENAS 557bu, Biomechanics Staff

An introduction to the application of mechanical engineering principles to biological materials and systems. Topics include ligaments, tendons, bones, muscles; joints, gait analysis; exercise physiology. The basic concepts are directed toward an understanding of the science of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. TTH 2:30–3:45

[ENAS 560a, Measurement and Noise]

[ENAS 562bu, Digital Systems Testing and Design for Testability]

ENAS 563bu, Fault Tolerant Computer Systems Staff

This course provides an in-depth overview of the theory and practice of fault tolerant systems. Sources of defects as well as hardware and software fault tolerance techniques to mitigate their effects are reviewed. Case studies are used to demonstrate the practical applications of the theory presented in the lectures. T 1:30–3:20

ENAS 564bu, Tissue Engineering Erin Lavik

Introduction to the major aspects of tissue engineering, including materials selection, scaffold fabrication, cell sources, cell seeding, bioreactor design, drug delivery, and tissue characterization. Class sessions include lectures and hands-on laboratory work. MW 9:25–10:15, W 2:30–4:20

ENAS 570bu/C&MP 560bu/MCDB 560bu, Cellular and Molecular Physiology: Molecular Machines in Human Disease Michael Caplan, Emile Boulpaep, Mark Mooseker, Fred Sigworth

This course focuses on understanding the processes that transfer molecules across membranes at the cellular, molecular, biophysical, and physiological levels. Students learn about the different classes of molecular machines that mediate membrane transport, generate electrical currents, or perform mechanical displacement. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between the molecular structures of membrane proteins and their individual functions. The interactions among transport proteins in determining the physiological behaviors of cells and tissues are also stressed. Molecular motors are introduced and their mechanical relationship to cell function is explored. Students read papers from the scientific literature that establish the connections between mutations in genes encoding membrane proteins and a wide variety of human genetic diseases. MWF 9:25–10:15

ENAS 575bu/CPSC 575b, Computational Vision and Biological Perception Steven Zucker

ENAS 585bu, Fundamentals of Neuroimaging Fahmeed Hyder, Douglas Rothman

To understand the neuroenergetic and neurochemical basis of several dominant neuroimaging methods, including fMRI. Topics range from technical aspects of different methods to interpretation of the neuroimaging results. Controversies and/or challenges for application of fMRI and related methods in medicine are identified. TH 3:30–5:20

ENAS 600au, Computer-Aided Engineering Marshall Long

Aspects of computer-aided design and manufacture including reasons for increased use of CAD/CAM, the computer’s role in the mechanical engineering design and its manufacturing process, hardware and software elements of typical commercial systems, and computer graphics and drafting. TTH 9–10:15

ENAS 602b, Chemical Reaction Engineering Lisa Pfefferle

Applications of physical-chemical and chemical-engineering principles to the design of chemical process reactors. Ideal reactors treated in detail in the first half of the course, practical homogeneous and catalytic reactors in the second. TTH 9–10:15

ENAS 603b, Energy, Mass, and Momentum Processes Daniel Rosner

Application of continuum mechanics approach to the understanding and prediction of fluid flow systems that may be chemically reactive, turbulent, or multiphase. MW 11:35–12:50

ENAS 605b, Colloidal Chemical Engineering Paul Van Tassel

A graduate-level introduction to modern colloid science as practiced by engineers. Topics include self-assembly in solution and at surfaces, surface chemistry, the electric double layer, colloidal forces, and polymers. Applications to problems frequently encountered by chemical, biomedical, and environmental engineers are stressed throughout. HTBA

ENAS 606b, Polymer Physics Chinedum Osuji

A graduate-level introduction to the physics and physical chemistry of macromolecules. This course covers the static and dynamic properties of polymers in solution, melt and surface adsorbed states and their relevance in industrial polymer processing, nanotechnology, materials science, and biophysics. Starting from basic considerations of polymerization mechanisms, control of chain architecture, and a survey of polymer morphology, the course also extensively addresses experimental methods for the study of structure and dynamics via various scattering (light, x-ray, neutron) and spectroscopic methods (rheology, photon correlation spectroscopy) as integral components of polymer physics. TTH 11:35–12:50

ENAS 608b, Surface and Surface Processes Eric Altman

The chemistry and physics of solid surfaces. Emphasis on fundamental aspects of the following areas of surface science: surface crystallography and reconstruction; kinetics of gas-solid interactions; adsorption; heterogeneous catalysis by transition metal surfaces; oxidation and corrosion; and nucleation and growth of thin films by physical and chemical vapor deposition. HTBA

ENAS 610au, Biomolecular Engineering Corey Wilson

A survey of the principles and scope of biomolecular engineering. An advanced discussion on a broad range of concepts at the interface of applied mathematics, biology, biophysical chemistry, and chemical engineering—whose express purpose is developing novel molecular tools, materials, and approaches based on biological building blocks and machinery. Topics include understanding and modeling the physicochemical properties that confer function in biological systems, low- and high-resolution protein engineering, and the design of synthetic interactomes. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 611au, Separation Processes Paul Van Tassel

Theory and design of separation processes for multicomputer and/or multiphase mixtures via equilibrium and rate phenomena. Included are single-stage and cascaded absorption, adsorption, extraction, distillation, filtration, and crystallization processes. HTBA

[ENAS 614b, Surface and Thin-Film Characterization]

[ENAS 615b, Synthesis of Nanomaterials]

[ENAS 616b, Multiscale Modeling and Design in Biology]

ENAS 618a, Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis Gary Haller

Emphasis on heterogeneous characterization by spectroscopic techniques. Following the introduction of principles we review several large-scale industrial applications, which include catalytic reforming of naphtha (metal and bimetallic catalysts), catalytic cracking (zeolite catalysts), catalytic hydrotreating, automobile pollution catalysts, and chemical productions such as ethylene oxide, methanol, etc. HTBA

ENAS 626au, Chemical Engineering Process Control Eric Altman

Transient regime modeling and simulations of chemical processes. Conventional and state-space methods of analysis and control design. Applications of modern control methods in chemical engineering. Course work includes a design project. TTH 9–10:15

[ENAS 628bu, Sensors and Biosensors]

ENAS 639a, Management of Water Resources and Environmental Systems Gideon Oron

The general purpose of the course is to allow the participants to have an integrative view and to consider broad aspects of analyzing problems related to water resources and environmental issues. The integrative approach is based on management modeling, considering simultaneously engineering aspects, water quality, environmental characteristics, economic aspects, and community welfare facets. The purpose is to incorporate all effective factors into a quantitative optimal situation, allowing all participating partners in the analyzed enterprise to gain their share and satisfaction. The presented approach is a decision-supporting tool toward reaching an optimal situation, subject to a series of given limitations. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 640b/F&ES 60109b, Aquatic Chemistry Helmut Ernstberger

A detailed examination of the principles governing chemical reactions in water. Emphasis is on developing the ability to predict the aqueous chemistry of natural and perturbed systems based on a knowledge of their biogeochemical setting. Focus is on inorganic chemistry, and topics include elementary thermodynamics, acid-base equilibria, alkalinity, speciation, solubility, mineral stability, redox chemistry, and surface complexation reactions. Illustrative examples are taken from the aquatic chemistry of estuaries, lakes, rivers, wetlands, soils, aquifers, and the atmosphere. A standard software package used to predict chemical equilibria may also be presented. TTH 11:35–12:50

ENAS 641au, Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering Jordon Peccia

Fundamental aspects of microbiology and biochemistry, including stoichiometry, kinetics, and energetics of biochemical reactions, microbial growth, and microbial ecology, as they pertain to biological processes for the transformation of environmental contaminants; principles for analysis and design of aerobic and anaerobic processes including suspended- and attached-growth systems, for treatment of conventional and hazardous pollutants in municipal and industrial wastewaters and in groundwater. MW 1–2:15

ENAS 642b, Environmental Physicochemical Processes Menachem Elimelech

Fundamental and applied concepts of physical and chemical (“physicochemical”) processes relevant to water quality control. Topics include chemical reaction engineering, overview of water and waste water treatment plants, colloid chemistry for solid-liquid separation processes, physical and chemical aspects of coagulation, coagulation in natural waters, filtration in engineered and natural systems, adsorption, membrane processes, disinfection and oxidation, disinfection by-products. TTH 2:30–3:45

[ENAS 643a, Transport and Fate of Organic Chemicals in the Environment]

[ENAS 644a, Environmental Organic Chemistry]

ENAS 645b/F&ES 96007b, Industrial Ecology Thomas Graedel

Industrial ecology is an organizing concept that is increasingly applied to define various interactions of today’s technological society with both natural and altered environments. Technology and its potential for modification and change are central to this topic, as are implications for government policy and corporate response. The course discusses how industrial ecology is being applied in corporations to minimize the environmental impacts of products, processes, and services, and shows how industrial ecology serves as a technological framework for science, policy, and management in government and society. MW 1–2:15

ENAS 646b/F&ES 61021b, Hydrology and Water Resources James Saiers

An introduction to the essential elements of hydrogeologic processes. Course topics include groundwater flow, occurrence and movement of water in the vadose zone, streamflow generation, groundwater contamination, and transport of chemicals in groundwater. Computer software packages are used to reinforce concepts presented in class. A modest background in general physics and calculus is required. MW 11:35–12:50

ENAS 648a, Environmental Transport Processes Joseph Pignatello

Analysis of transport phenomena governing the fate of chemical and biological contaminants in environmental systems. Emphasis on quantifying contaminant transport rates and distributions in natural and engineered environments. Topics include distribution of chemicals between phases; diffusive and convective transport; interfacial mass transfer; contaminant transport in groundwater, lakes, and rivers; analysis of transport phenomena involving particulate and microbial contaminants. MW 1:30–3:45

ENAS 649a/MGT 611a, Policy Modeling Edward Kaplan

Building on earlier course work in quantitative analysis and statistics, Policy Modeling provides an operational framework for exploring the costs and benefits of public policy decisions. The techniques employed include “back of the envelope” probabilistic models, Markov processes, queuing theory, and linear/integer programming. With an eye toward making better decisions, these techniques are applied to a number of important policy problems. In addition to lectures, assigned articles and text readings, and short problem sets, students are responsible for completing a take-home midterm exam and a number of cases. In some instances, it is possible to take a real problem from formulation to solution, and compare the student’s own analysis to what actually happened. Prerequisites: Decision Analysis and Game Theory, Data Analysis and Statistics, or a demonstrated proficiency in quantitative methods. HTBA

ENAS 655au, Environmental Risk Assessment Yehia Khalil

Fundamentals and applications of probabilistic risk assessment and management in the context of environmental issues. Focus on developing and applying probabilistic and deterministic models to quantify potential risks of industrial processes and support risk-based decisions that account for societal, environmental, and economic constraints. Case studies emphasize the importance of green energy sources, professional ethics, and public health and safety. WF 4–5:15

[ENAS 658a, MEMS Design]

[ENAS 718au, Heterojunction Devices]

ENAS 747au, Applied Numerical Methods I Beth Anne Bennett

Topics include root-finding methods, numerical solution of systems of linear and nonlinear equations, eigenvalue/eigenvector approximation, polynomial-based interpolation, and numerical integration. For each topic, several methods are covered, ranging from older, simpler methods to newer, more advanced methods. Additional topics such as computational cost, error analysis, and convergence analysis are studied in a variety of contexts throughout the course. TTH 11:35–12:50

ENAS 748bu, Applied Numerical Methods II Beth Anne Bennett

Topics include the numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, both linear and nonlinear. Ordinary differential equations are solved via one-step, multistep, and Runge-Kutta methods (for initial value problems) and shooting methods and finite difference methods (for boundary value problems). Partial differential equations (parabolic, elliptic, and hyperbolic) are solved via explicit and implicit finite difference methods, including pseudo-transient continuation for elliptic problems. Additional topics such as computational cost, error analysis, and stability analysis are studied in a variety of contexts throughout the course. ENAS 747a is not a prerequisite. TTH 11:35–12:50

[ENAS 761a/G&G 525a, Introduction to Continuum Mechanics]

ENAS 787b, Intermolecular and Surface Forces Udo Schwarz

Modern materials science often exploits the fact that atoms located at surfaces or in thin layers behave differently from bulk atoms to achieve new or greatly altered material properties. This course provides an in-depth discussion of intermolecular and surface forces, which determine the mechanical and chemical properties of surfaces. In a first part, we discuss the fundamental principles and concepts of forces between atoms and molecules. Part two generalizes these concepts to surface forces. Part three then gives a variety of examples. The course is of interest to students studying thin film growth, surface coatings, mechanical and chemical properties of surfaces, soft matter including biomembranes, and colloidal suspensions. HTBA

ENAS 802au, Nano and Microsystem Technology Hong Tang

Cross-disciplinary laboratory experiments covering microfabrication, silicon micromachining, MEMS device fabrication and characterization, scanned probe microscopy, electron microscopy, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip system. Students fabricate MEMS, BioMEMS, and microfluidic devices in a cleanroom environment. TH 1:30–5:20

ENAS 806bu, Photovoltaic Energy Minjoo Lee

Survey of photovoltaic energy devices, systems, and applications, including review of optical and electrical properties of semiconductors. Topics include solar radiation, solar cell design, performance analysis, solar cell materials, device processing, photovoltaic systems, and economic analysis. MW 1–2:15

ENAS 812b/NSCI 612b, Molecular Transport and Intervention in the Brain Mark Saltzman, Richard Carson

This course is a graduate-level seminar on mechanisms and rates of movement of molecules in the brain and the design of novel drug delivery systems. Topics include mathematical methods for modeling diffusion and flow processes, diffusion in the brain interstitium, fluid flows in the brain and spinal cord, the blood-brain barrier, microdialysis measurements, controlled release systems, microfluidic approaches for drug delivery. Weekly readings are assigned from neuroscience and engineering texts; current papers from the literature are used to guide discussion each week. HTBA

[ENAS 816a, Techniques of Microwave Measurements and RF Design]

[ENAS 817a/PHYS 677a, Noise, Dissipation, Amplification, and Information]

ENAS 818a/PHYS 634a, Mesoscopic Physics I Michel Devoret

Introduction to the physics of nanoscale solid state systems which are large and disordered enough to be described in terms of simple macroscopic parameters like resistance, capacitance, and inductance, but small and cold enough that effects usually associated with microscopic particles, like quantum-mechanical coherence and/or charge quantization, dominate. Emphasis is placed on transport and noise phenomena in the normal and superconducting regimes. MW 9–10:15

ENAS 821bu, Physics of Medical Imaging Todd Constable

The physics of image formation with special emphasis on techniques with medical applications. Concepts that are common to different types of imaging are emphasized, along with an understanding of how information is limited by the basic physical phenomena involved. Mathematical concepts of image analysis, the formation of images by ionizing radiation, ultrasound, NMR, and other energy forms, and methods of evaluating image quality. MW 11:35–12:50

ENAS 825a, Physics of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Vivo Graeme Mason, Robin de Graaf

The physics of chemical measurements performed with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, with special emphasis on applications to measurements studies in living tissue. Concepts that are common to magnetic resonance imaging are introduced. Topics include safety, equipment design, techniques of spectroscopic data analysis, and metabolic modeling of dynamic spectroscopic measurements. WF 2:30–3:45

ENAS 836bu, Biophotonics and Optical Microscopy Michael Levene

A review of linear and nonlinear optical microscopies and other biophotonics applications. Topics include wide-field techniques, linear and nonlinear laser scanning microscopy, fundamentals of geometrical and physical optics, optical image formation, laser physics, single molecule techniques, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, and light scattering. Discussion of fluorescence and the underlying physics of light-matter interactions that provide biologically relevant signals. MW 4–5:15

[ENAS 849b, Statistical Physics II]

ENAS 850au and 851bu/PHYS 548au and 549bu, Solid State Physics I and II Staff, Charles Ahn

A two-term sequence covering the principles underlying the electrical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties of solids, including crystal structures, phonon, energy bands, semiconductors, Fermi surfaces, magnetic resonance, phase transitions, and superconductivity. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 852b/PHYS 610b, Quantum Many-Body Theory Yoram Alhassid

Second quantization, quantum statistical mechanics, Hartree-Fock approximation, linear response theory, random phase approximation, perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams, Landau theory of Fermi liquids, BCS theory, Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method. Applications to solids and finite-size systems such as quantum dots, nuclei, and nanoparticles. TTH 11:35–12:50

ENAS 860b/PHYS 667b, Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics: Quantum Hall Effect and Conformal Field Theory Staff

Aspects of the quantum Hall effect, particularly the fractional effect, and conformal field theory, plus the connections between the two. Quantum Hall states, composite particles, quasiparticles, fractional charge, and statistics. Future applications to rotating trapped atoms. Conformal symmetry in two dimensions, applications to classical critical phenomena, [+] quantum field theory. Nonabelian quantum Hall states and the relation with conformal field theory and Chern-Simons gauge theory. Background required: statistical mechanics, and either many-body theory or quantum field theory.

[ENAS 863b/PHYS 633b, Introduction to Superconductivity]

[ENAS 864a, Current Topics in Nanoelectronics, Nanomechanics, and Nanophotonics]

ENAS 866a, MOS Device Physics and Technology Tso-Ping Ma

Topics include basic MOS device physics, science and technology of thermal SiO2, interface properties of MOS structures, experimental techniques to probe MOS parameters, hot-carrier effects, radiation effects, channel mobility and carrier transport in MOS inversion layers, scaling of MOS devices, low-temperature properties of MOS devices, SOI device physics and technology, advanced gate dielectrics, MOS devices with wide-bandgap semiconductors, nonvolatile memory devices, ferroelectric memory devices, single-electron MOS transistors, and other MOS topics of current interest. T 3:30–5:20

ENAS 875au, Introduction to VLSI System Design Richard Lethin

Chip design. Provides background in integrated devices, circuits, and digital subsystems needed for design and implementation of silicon logic chips. Historical context, scaling, technology projections, physical limits. CMOS fabrication overview, complementary logical circuits, design methodology, computer-aided design techniques, timing, and area estimation. Case studies of recent research and commercial chips. Objectives of the course are (1) to give students the ability to complete the course project (design of a digital CMOS subsystem chip through layout), and (2) to understand the directions that future chip technologies may take. Selected projects are fabricated and packaged for testing by students. Prerequisite: circuits at the level of introductory physics and computer programming. HTBA

ENAS 902a, Linear Systems A. Stephen Morse

Background linear algebra; finite-dimensional, linear-continuous, and discrete dynamical systems; state equations, pulse and impulse response matrices, weighting patterns, transfer matrices. Stability, Lyapunov’s equation, controllability, observability, system reduction, minimal realizations, equivalent systems, McMillan degree, Markov matrices. Recommended for all students interested in robotics, systems, and information sciences. MW 1–2:15

ENAS 907bu, Computer Systems Staff

Introduction to the development of computer architectures specialized for cognitive processing, including both o±ine “thinking machines” and embedded devices. The history of machines, from early conceptions in defense systems to contemporary initiatives. Instruction sets, memory systems, parallel processing, analog architectures, probabilistic architectures. Application and algorithm characteristics. TH 1:30–3:20

ENAS 912au, Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis James Duncan, Lawrence Staib

A study of the basic computational principles related to processing an analysis of biomedical images (e.g., magnetic resonance, computed X-ray tomography, fluorescence microscopy). Basic concepts and techniques related to discrete image representation, multidimensional frequency transforms, image enhancement/restoration, image segmentation, and image registration. TTH 9–10:15

[ENAS 917au, Optical Properties of Semiconductors]

ENAS 920b, Programming for Image Analysis Xenophon Papademetris

Topics include using scripting languages for visualization, introduction to scripting languages, in particular Tcl, introduction to the Visualization Toolkit (Tcl) and local extensions, designing graphical user interfaces using Tk, introduction to Object Oriented programming (using [Incr Tcl]), using compiled languages to implement additional algorithms, intoduction to C++ programming, extending VTK by implementing additional image processing algorithms, an overview of the Insight Toolkit (ITK), and advanced software engineering techniques. Prerequisites: ENAS 912a, or permission of the instructor. WF 2:30–3:45

ENAS 921b, Advanced Topics in Computer Engineering Andreas Savvides

HTBA

ENAS 930b, Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals Jung Han

Topics to include semiconductor physics, optical properties, electrical transport properties, thermal properties, and piezoelectric properties. HTBA

[ENAS 936bu, Systems and Control]

ENAS 944au, Digital Communications Systems Edmund Yeh

An introduction to the rapidly expanding field of mobile and fixed, voice and data communications systems. A review of analog and digital signals and their time and frequency domain representations. Topics include modulation methods, including amplitude; frequency and time division multiplexing for continuous and discrete/digital signals; an overview of modern voice and data communications networks; and an overview of information theory, including entropy, the quantification of information, data rates, coding, and compression. Examples and demonstrations are drawn from radio, telephone, television, computer, cellular, and satellite communications networks. TTH 1–2:15

ENAS 954bu/STAT 664bu, Information Theory Hannes Leeb

Foundations of information theory in communications, statistical inference, statistical mechanics, probability, and algorithmic complexity. Quantities of information and their properties: entropy, conditional entropy, divergence, mutual information, channel capacity. Basic theorems of data compression and coding for noisy channels. Applications in statistics, communication networks, and finance. TTH 9–10:15

ENAS 960au, Networked Embedded Systems and Sensor Networks Andreas Savvides

Introduction to the fundamental concepts of networked embedded systems and wireless sensor networks, presenting a cross-disciplinary approach to the design and implementation of smart wireless embedded systems. Topics include embedded systems programming concepts, low-power and power-aware design, radio technologies, communication protocols for ubiquitous computing systems, and mathematical foundations of sensor behavior. Laboratory work includes programming assignments on low-power wireless devices. TTH 11:35–12:50

[ENAS 961bu, Advanced Topics in Networks and Sensing Systems]

ENAS 964b, Communication Networks Edmund Yeh

Introduction to analytical approaches to the study of communication networks. Topics include delay models, buffer overflow, multiaccess communication, routing, and congestion control. Analytical techniques include basic queuing theory, queuing networks, large deviations, optimization, and distributed algorithms. Basic knowledge of probability is required. MW 2:30–3:45

ENAS 986bu, Semiconductor Silicon Devices and Technology Tso-Ping Ma

Introduction to integrated circuit technology, theory of solid state devices, and principles of device design and fabrication. Laboratory involves the fabrication and analysis of semiconductor devices, including Ohmic contacts, Schottky diodes, p-n junctions, MOS capacitors, MOSFETS, and integrated circuits. MW 9–10:15

ENAS 990a and b, Special Investigations Faculty

Faculty-supervised individual projects with emphasis on research, laboratory, or theory. Students must define the scope of the proposed project with the faculty member who has agreed to act as supervisor, and submit a brief abstract to the director of graduate studies for approval.

ENAS 991b/PHYS 991b/MB&B 591b, Integrated Workshop Corey Wilson

This required course for students in IGPPEB involves hands-on laboratory modules with students working in pairs. A biology student is paired with a physics or engineering student; a computation/theory student is paired with an experimental student. The modules are devised so that a range of skills are acquired, and students learn from each other.

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English Language and Literature

Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 432.2233

www.yale.edu/english/

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair

Michael Warner

Director of Graduate Studies

Linda Peterson [F] (106a LC, 432.2226, graduate.english@yale.edu)

Paul Fry [Sp] (106a LC, 432.2226, graduate.english@yale.edu)

Professors Elizabeth Alexander, Harold Bloom, Leslie Brisman, David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, Janice Carlisle, Michael Denning, Wai Chee Dimock, Roberta Frank, Paul Fry, Langdon Hammer, Margaret Homans, Amy Hungerford, David Scott Kastan, Pericles Lewis, Lawrence Manley, Alastair Minnis, Linda Peterson, Caryl Phillips, David Quint, Claude Rawson, Joseph Roach, Marc Robinson, John Rogers, Robert Stepto, Katie Trumpener, Michael Warner, Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Associate Professors Ala Alryyes, Jessica Brantley, Stefanie Markovits

Assistant Professors Susan Chambers, Ian Cornelius, Paul Grimstad, Barry McCrea, Justin Neuman, Catherine Nicholson, Jessica Pressman, Sam See, Caleb Smith, Brian Walsh, R. John Williams

Fields of Study

Fields include English language and literature from Old English to the present, American literature, and Anglophone literature.

Special Requirements for the Ph.D. Degree

In order to fulfill the basic requirements for the program, a student must:

1. Complete thirteen courses—six courses with at least one grade of Honors and a maximum of one grade of Pass by July 15 following the first year; at least twelve courses with grades of Honors in at least four of these courses and not more than one Pass by July 15 following the second year. One of these thirteen courses must be The Teaching of English, ENGL 990.
2. Satisfy the language requirement in one of three ways by the end of the second year.
Two languages, by course and exam: one language to be completed by passing an advanced literature course at Yale (graduate or upper-level undergraduate course taught in and requiring papers in the language in question) with a grade of Honors or High Pass; the other to be passed by departmental exam (reading