Albion College Course Webs

The course will explore various questions such as: Are there fundamental aspects of aging common to all age-related illnesses? How can we measure a person's age at the cellular/molecular level? How are researchers slowing and reversing the aging process? How does diet impact aging? Why do people living in "Blue Zones" of the world live healthier and longer lifespans? To answer these questions, we will integrate perspectives from cellular biology, physiology, psychology as well as environmental and social inputs. We will also conduct experiments testing how different environmental conditions affect the health and longevity of fruit flies. This course is appropriate for students that have completed an introductory science course and have an interest in human health and wellness.

Prerequisite: E&M 101.
Focuses on the Federal Reserve and its attempts to promote maximum sustainable economic growth. Other topics include the nature of money, the determination of interest rates, the financial system and financial institution operations, the structure of the Federal Reserve and the macroeconomics of inflation and growth.

Expected level of proficiency: GERM 301 or GERM 302 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Includes a selection of German works from different genres (plays, short fiction, poetry, theoretical texts) and films from the era 1890-1945. Focuses on each work as a cultural representation of the historical context in which it was written or produced, exploring how each was engaged with the social, political and cultural transformations of the era (e.g., social Darwinism, crisis of narration and language, bourgeois morals, the individual and society, the role of the artist, the Third Reich).

Prerequisite: MATH 143.
Vectors, inner and cross products, and vector-valued functions including parametric representations of curves and surfaces in space.

Prerequisite: MATH 245.
First-order differential equations and numerical algorithms of Euler and Runge-Kutta. Linear algebraic systems, Gaussian elimination, row-echelon form matrix algebra, inverses and determinants. Vector spaces, subspaces, linear independence, bases, span, dimension, linear mappings and function spaces. Second and higher-order linear differential equations. Eigenvectors, eigenvalues and spectral decomposition methods. First-order linear differential systems, including solutions methods using matrix exponentials. Applications focus on problems in physics, chemistry, biology, economics and engineering. Additional topics may include nonlinear dynamical systems, stability theory, transform theory and power series solutions.

Prerequisites: Mathematics 239 and 245.
A study of the concepts underlying calculus of a single variable: The completeness property of the real number system, convergence, continuity, properties of elementary functions, the derivative and the Riemann integral.

Prerequisites: MATH 245 and PHYS 243, or permission of instructor. Corequisites: PHYS 244 and MATH 247, or permission of instructor (may also be taken as prerequisites).
A survey of modern physics. Topics include special relativity, the quantum theory of light and quantum mechanics of matter with applications in atomic, nuclear and elementary particle physics.