PENN SUMMER - University of Pennsylvania

ClaSSiCal STUDieS
ClsT 200 936 Tr 4:30pm–6:30pm struck
Greek and Roman Mythology
Fulfills Arts & Letters Sector, Cross-Cultural Analysis Course / Crosslisted with:
COML 200 910, FOLK 200 910
Myths are traditional stories that have endured many years. Some of
them have to do with events of great importance, such as the founding
of a nation. Others tell the stories of great heroes and heroines
and their exploits and courage in the face of adversity. Still others
are simple tales about otherwise unremarkable people who get into
trouble or do some great deed. What are we to make of all these tales,
and why do people seem to like to hear them? This course will focus
on the myths of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a few contemporary
American ones, as a way of exploring the nature of myth and
the function it plays for individuals, societies, and nations. We will
also pay some attention to the way the Greeks and Romans themselves
understood their own myths. Are myths subtle codes that contain
some universal truth? Are they a window on the deep recesses of
a particular culture? Are they entertaining stories that people like to
tell over and over? Are they a set of blinders that all of us wear, though
we do not realize it? Investigate these questions through a variety of
topics creation of the universe between gods and mortals, religion
and family, sex, love, madness, and death.
MaTheMaTiCS
MaTh 104 936 MTWr 1:00pm–3:10pm rimmer
Calculus, Part I
Fulfills Formal Reasoning Course
Brief review of high school calculus, applications of integrals, transcendental
functions, methods of integration, infinite series, Taylor’s
theorem. Use of symbolic manipulation and graphics software in
calculus.
MUSiC
MusC 053 936 TBa Muller
African Music
Summer Session ii
JULY 6–AUgUST 13, 2010
enGliSh
engl 104 937 M 5:00pm–8:00pm lotto
Introduction to Romanticism
Fulfills Arts & Letters Sector
This class serves as an introduction to a period of study as well as an
introduction to literary study. Our subject will be “Romanticism,” a
famously ill-defined term used as catch-all for the movement, mood,
theory, and revolution that followed the Enlightenment and preceded
the realism of the Victorian era. Our course will consider this period
of writing—roughly 1789–1830—as one of great fluidity and
change, as both a reaction to antiquity and a precursor to modernity.
We will read the works of the canonical poets, Blake, Wordsworth,
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Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, but will fortify our definition
of “Romanticism” by addressing the writings of Goethe, Mary Shelley,
Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen.
GerManiC lanGUaGeS
grMn 101 937 MW 6:30pm–8:45pm dixon
Elementary German I
Crosslisted with: GRMN 501 937
As the first course in the first-year series, this course is designed for
the beginning student with no previous knowledge of German. As an
online course, this course will focus on the development of language
competencies in listening, speaking, reading, and writing through
innovative collaborative instruction and mentoring. Weekly sessions
will combine content from Kontakte, a communicative textbook and
materials designed by the instructor specifically for this interactive
online course. This course offers students flexibility and efficiency
in a demanding academic setting. Part of the course work will be
self-paced and will require logging into a custom-designed learning
platform that provides students with opportunities to interact with
the course materials, complete assignments and network with each
other using tools from the social web. The synchronous part of the
course will be conducted through the online distance-learning tool
Adobe Connect, through which students will engage in online written
and verbal conversation with each other and with the instructor.
These sessions will be recorded and available at any time for review.
The instructor will be available for online office hours and individual
interviews with the instructor will complete the online assessment.
hiSTorY
hIsT 020 937 T 6:00pm–7:00pm good
The History of the United States, 1607–1877:
Democracy and the American Experiment
Fulfills History & Tradition Sector
This course will chart the history of the United States, from its colonial
beginnings in the 17th century to its eventual implosion in the
midst of civil war two centuries later. While we will examine the
major turning points in the American past—the formation of plantation
slavery, the stirrings of colonial revolution, territorial expansion
and the rise of industrialization—the course is organized around a
study of the promise and the shortcomings of American democracy.
We will examine both the meaning and the practice of democracy,
using primary documents to better understand how it has changed
over the centuries.
MaTheMaTiCS
MaTh 114 937 MTWr 1:00pm–3:10pm rimmer
Calculus, Part II
Fulfills Formal Reasoning Course / Prerequisite(s): MATH 104
Functions of several variables, vector-valued functions, partial derivatives
and applications, double and triple integrals, conic sections,
polar coordinates, vectors and analytic geometry, first and second order
ordinary differential equations. Applications to physical sciences.
Use of symbolic manipulation and graphics software in calculus.