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Introduction to American Studies (AMCV 0190C)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course examines the historical context for contemporary political issues including immigration, global warming, and "the war on terror" to better understand how the American...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Popular Music and the City (AMCV 0190D)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course will examine the relationship between popular music and its sociocultural context by concentrating on three urban music forms: blues, soul, and hip hop. Readings will...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Sexuality in American History, 1880-1980 (AMCV 0190E)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course focuses on popular struggles over sexuality in the United States from 1880-1980. We will study how sexual values have been constructed and have changed over time. Topics...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Celluloid America (AMCV 1612B)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
In this course, we will explore 20th century American history through film, examining both the history of this quintessentially American medium and the way in which American history...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH 0100)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course examines what it means to be human in different cultures. We will study a range of theories and methods used to study culture, including ethnography, the intensive...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Methods of Applied Mathematics I (APMA 0330)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Mathematical techniques involving differential equations used in the analysis of physical, biological and economic phenomena. Emphasis on the use of established methods, rather...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Methods of Applied Mathematics II (APMA 0340)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course covers techniques of ordinary differential equations not covered by APMA 0330 with emphasis on applications. Systems of first order linear differential equations as...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Rome: Art, Archeology and Civic Life from the End of the Republic though the Early Empire (ca. 40 BC-AD 140) (ARCH 0540)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Summer Study Abroad: Rome provides students the opportunity to live in Rome’s vibrant present and explore its Imperial past. Following a four-week immersion in the city of...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 5 weeks: Jun 7, 2009 - Jul 11, 2009
Introduction to Human Physiology (BIOL 0060)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An introduction to human physiology aimed primarily at undergraduates who are not concentrating in biology. Topics include basic cardiovascular, respiratory, kidney, gastrointestinal,...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Principles of Immunology (BIOL 0530)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Introduction to experimental and theoretical bases of cellular immunology. Focuses on concepts, landmark experiments and recent advances. Topics: innate and adaptive immunity;...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Principles of Physiology (BIOL 0800)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Introduction to the function and integration of animal systems with an emphasis on mammals. Includes basic concepts in cell and organ system physiology as well as fundamentals...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure (CHEM 0330)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Explores the electronic structure of atoms and molecules, thermodynamics, solution equilibrium, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and reaction mechanisms. Seven hours of lecture...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introduction to Organic Chemistry (CHEM 0350)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Sequel to CHEM 0330. Investigates the constitution and properties of the different classes of organic compounds, with considerable attention to reaction mechanisms. The laboratory...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
The Mythology of Literature (COLT 0810Z)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Great authors throughout the ages have been fascinated by ancient mythology and have incorporated elements of it into their texts. Similarly, the ways in which these myths are...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Literature and the American Presidency (COLT 0610G)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Literary perspectives on the American presidency are as various as the presidents themselves. This version of Literature and the American Presidency will explore seven presidents...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introduction to Software Engineering (CSCI 0320)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Advanced programming techniques including Java, threads, web-applications, user interfaces and XML. Covers software design including object-oriented design, systems design, web...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Principles of Economics (ECON 0110)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Extensive coverage of economic issues, institutions, and vocabulary, plus an introduction to economic analysis and its application to current social problems. Required for all...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Financial Accounting (ECON 0710)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This introductory course in basic accounting theory and practice includes accounting procedures for various forms of business organizations and provides a basic review of individual...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Intermediate Microeconomics (ECON 1110)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Tools for use in microeconomic analysis, with some public policy applications. Theory of consumer demand, theories of the firm, market behavior, welfare economics, and general...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Politics and Finance (ECON 1800)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course examines how legislation and regulation influences the structure of financial markets and how players in these markets intervene in the political process to create...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay (ENGL 0110 S01)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An introduction to university-level writing. Students produce and revise multiple drafts of essays, practice essential skills of paragraph organization, and develop techniques...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introduction to Creative Nonfiction (ENGL 0180)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Designed to familiarize students with the techniques and narrative structures of creative nonfiction. Reading and writing focus on personal essays, memoir, science writing, travel...(more information)
Course Status: Waitlisted
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Shakespeare Rewrites Shakespeare (ENGL 0200V)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
How did Shakespeare’s drama develop thematically, rhetorically, and historically over the span of his literary career? In this course, we will look at Shakespearean drama...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Reading French in the Arts and Sciences (FREN 0220 )
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Designed to develop reading competence in French for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates). Fundamentals of grammar and syntax are emphasized as well as reading skills...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Essentials of the Greek Language (GREK 0100)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An intensive approach to ancient Greek with special emphasis on developing facility in rapid reading of Greek literature. Selections from Attic Greek authors. No previous knowledge...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
German for Reading (GRMN 0120 S01)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This intensive course surveys German grammar and introduces a basic vocabulary for students without prior knowledge of German. Primarily for students needing to know how to read...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
A Checkered Past: The United States and the Third World (HIST 0720)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An indelible post-9/11 image was that of international headlines proclaiming "We are All Americans Now". However, not everyone shared that sentiment, prompting many Americans to...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Global Security after the Cold War (INTL 1280)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Analyzes major contemporary issues of global security utilizing current theories of international politics, emphasizing both continuity and change in global security since the...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Bologna: Intensive Elementary Italian (ITAL 0110)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Immerse yourself in the Italian language while absorbing Italian history and culture in Bologna, one of the most beautiful medieval cities in Italy. Nicknamed "the dotta" (the...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 6 weeks: Jun 10, 2009 - Jul 23, 2009
Essentials of the Latin Language (LATN 0100 S01)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An intensive approach to Latin with special emphasis on developing facility in the rapid reading of Latin literature. No previous knowledge of Latin is required
The roots...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Fiction I (LITR 0110A)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
A workshop for students who have little or no previous experience in writing fiction.
In this introductory course, students will explore the main elements of fiction...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
City /Spaces: An Introduction to Psychogeography (LITR 0310B)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Psychogeography is an artistic discipline concerned with the subconscious ways in which we respond to and interact with the physical environment of the city. This course will focus...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introductory Calculus, Part I (MATH 0090)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An intensive course in calculus of one variable including limits, differentiation, maxima and minima, the chain rule, rational functions, trigonometric functions, and exponential...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introductory Calculus, Part II (MATH 0100)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
A continuation of the material of MATH 0090 including further development of integration, inverse trigonometric and logarithmic functions, techniques of integrations, and applications....(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Mathematical Forms in Architecture (MATH 0580)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
The last decade has seen the emergence of a new architecture. Advances in building technology have resulted in structures with complex geometric forms that would not have been...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Introduction to Music Theory (MUSC 0400)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An introduction to musical terms, elements, and techniques, including notation, intervals, scales and modes, triads and seventh chords, modulation, melody writing and harmonization,...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Harmonic Convergence: Music’s Intersection with Science, Mathematics, History and Literature (MUSC 0510)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An investigation into music’s relationship to science, mathematics, history and literature. Students will examine connections between music and the brain; parallels between...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
The Brain: An Introduction to Neuroscience (NEUR 0010)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Introduction to the mammalian nervous system with emphasis on the structure and function of the human brain. Topics include the function of nerve cells, sensory systems, control...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Experimental Neurobiology (NEUR 1600)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
A laboratory experience in neuroscience with emphasis on cellular neurophysiology. Laboratory sessions are supplemented by informal lectures designed to introduce topics and to...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Critical Reasoning (PHIL 0100)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
A study of the techniques and principles of correct reasoning and effective communication. Topics may include deduction and induction, meaning and definition, fallacies in reasoning,...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Clinical Communication in Medicine (PHP 1010)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Communication is central to medical practice and interpersonal relationships between patients and physicians can often be powerful curative agents. This course reviews theory...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Basic Physics (3) (PHYS 0030)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This two course sequence, PHYS 0030 and 0040, is a survey of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics for concentrators in sciences other than physics-including...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Basic Physics (4) (PHYS 0040)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This two course sequence, PHYS 0030 and 0040, is a survey of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, optics, and modern physics for concentrators in sciences other than physics-including...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
International Political Economy of Development (POLS 0330)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
What does international politics have to do with the economy? How do economic crises in one part of the world affect domestic politics in another part? What is development, and...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Politics of the Illicit Global Economy (POLS 1020)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course is about the "underside" of globalization. It introduces key sectors of the illicit global economy, including the clandestine flow of drugs, arms, people, body parts,...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Paris & Providence: National Identity in the 21st Century (POLS 1370)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
This 8-week program, developed jointly by faculty of the Sciences Po and Brown University, provides the unique opportunity to investigate contemporary issues of identity in a globalized...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 8 weeks: Jun 1, 2009 - Jul 25, 2009
Civil Liberties: Moral, Political and Legal Approaches (POLS 1820D)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course will examine major constitutional controversies within the context of wider debates in political and legal theory. Readings from Supreme Court cases and prominent texts...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Examining Social Policy Issues through Contemporary Fiction (PPAI 0700I)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
This course examines how contemporary novelists are addressing poverty, homelessness, mental illness, race relations, domestic abuse, and other important social issues. Students...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Developmental Psychopathology (PSYC 0940)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
A comprehensive introduction to child and adolescent psychological disorders. Focuses on risk, vulnerability, and protective factors in order to probe why some children develop...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Sleep and Chronobiology Research (PSYC 1060 )
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Part of a summer immersion in behavioral science research in human sleep and chronobiology. Instruction in human sleep and circadian rhythms, research techniques in basic physiology,...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: May 26, 2009 - Aug 20, 2009
St. Petersburg: Introductory Russian Language (RUSS 0250)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Study Abroad: St. Petersburg is a Summer Program designed for American students seeking an immersion experience in Russian language and culture. Students receive 90 hours instruction...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 7, 2009 - Jul 25, 2009
St. Petersburg: Intermediate Russian Language (RUSS 0350)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Study Abroad: St. Petersburg is a Summer Program designed for American students seeking an immersion experience in Russian language and culture. Students receive 90 hours instruction...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 7, 2009 - Jul 25, 2009
St. Petersburg: A Window on Russia (RUSS 1060)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Study Abroad: St. Petersburg is a Summer Program designed for American students seeking an immersion experience in Russian language and culture. Students receive 90 hours instruction...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 7, 2009 - Jul 25, 2009
Krakow: Film, Theater & Culture of Poland (SLAV 1760)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
This course explores the fascinating and very rich Polish twentieth-century culture with a special stress on the theatre, film, and visual arts. Since Polish culture in the twentieth-century...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 5 weeks: Jun 14, 2009 - Jul 18, 2009
Krakow: Policies and Economies of Transition (SLAV 1780)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
The aim of the course is to present, describe and explain major social, economic and political processes that started in the late 1980-s and early 1990-s, at the time of the collapse...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 5 weeks: Jun 14, 2009 - Jul 18, 2009
Social Change, Democracy, and Dictatorship (SOC 0111)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Why are some countries more democratic than others? What effects have industrialization and colonization had on developing world democracies? This class probes those questions...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Persuasive Communication (TSDA 0220 )
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Provides an introduction to public speaking, and helps students develop confidence in public speaking through the presentation of persuasive speeches.
Whether you're...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Acting (TSDA 0230)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Focus on elements of dramatic analysis and interpretation as applied to the art of acting, and, by extension, directing. Monologues, scene study, and improvisation are basis for...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 6 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Jul 31, 2009
Acting for the Camera (TSDA 1280A)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
The primary goal of the course is to introduce students to theories of acting for camera and to develop the practical skills required for film and television performance. Attention...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
The Creative Ensemble (TSDA 1280B)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Develops skills in acting, improvisation, directing, teaching, and writing. Through research, performance and collaboration, participants explore individual/group talents and...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 6 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Jul 31, 2009
An Introduction to Contemplative Studies (UNIV 0540)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Introduction to the new field of Contemplative Studies focusing on identifying methods human beings have found, across cultures and across time, to concentrate, broaden and deepen...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Pont-Aven: DRAWING I and II: Introduction and Advanced Tutorial (VISA 0061)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Working on site and in the studio with traditional drawing means- charcoal, pencil, inkwash - students will study the experimental and innovative potential of drawing. Weekly assignments...(more information)
Course Status: Full
When: 4 weeks: Jul 4, 2009 - Aug 1, 2009
Pont-Aven: Printmaking (VISA 0062)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
Using the etching presses at PSCA, this course will focus on the versatile processes of monotype, dry point and collograph as means to exploring personal imagery and pictorial...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 4 weeks: Jul 4, 2009 - Aug 1, 2009
Pont-Aven: Painting I and II: Color and Pattern/Nature and Culture in Pont-Aven (VISA 0063)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
This class will investigate painting based on information collected from the surrounding environment. Each assignment will stem from research on selected visual findings in the...(more information)
Course Status: Full
When: 4 weeks: Jul 4, 2009 - Aug 1, 2009
Pont-Aven: SCULPTURE/Installation/Site work (VISA 0064)
Summer@Brown: Study Abroad
This class will focus on the local materials and exhilarating environment as a starting point to explore and implement ideas involving the object and the space it occupies. Stone,...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 4 weeks: Jul 4, 2009 - Aug 1, 2009
Studio Foundation (VISA 0100 S01)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An introduction to basic visual art concepts, exploring a range of materials with emphasis on experimentation and analysis of visual relationships. Drawing is a vital part of this...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Studio Foundation (VISA 0100 S02)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
An introduction to basic visual art concepts, exploring a range of materials with emphasis on experimentation and analysis of visual relationships. Drawing is a vital part of this...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Painting I (VISA 1310)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
Designed to accommodate a variety of interests and aptitudes. Provides basic instruction in media and painting procedure, but emphasizes the development of the image as a visual...(more information)
Course Status: Open
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009
Drawing With Watercolor (VISA 1330)
Summer@Brown: Summer Session Credit
The basis of good watercolor painting is drawing, including skills in rendering, value scale, composition, and perspective. In addition, watercolor painting adds the necessity...(more information)
Course Status: Open - New
When: 7 weeks: Jun 22, 2009 - Aug 7, 2009