FRESHMEN ONLY COURSES

BIOLOGY

020.104 (N)

FRESHMEN SEMINAR: FROM GENES TO DNA AND BACK (1.5) Moudrianakis   Limit 20   Freshmen Only
A course consisting of introductory lectures followed by student presentations in the form of seminars. The issues analyzed will be: How did we arrive at the concept of the “gene”? Early experiments that gave substance to this concept. How did we arrive at the “one gene, one enzyme” dogma? What is the chemical nature of the gene? Is DNA enough for regulated gene expression? Is it “all in our genes”? What is genetic plasticity and epigenetics? What about genomics and proteomics?

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M 1:30-3

020.106 (N)

FRESHMEN SEMINAR: TUBERCULOSIS (1) Horner   Freshmen only Limit 12   Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an extremely successful intracellular bacterial pathogen able to manipulate phagocytic cells and its own metabolism to survive within a host.  The molecular mechanisms of this survival and resistance to antibiotics will be studied.

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M 3-4

020.110 (N)

FRESHMEN SEMINAR: THE BIOLOGY OF PLASTIDS (1) McCarty   Freshmen only    Limit 12    Plastids are remarkable organelles that are unique to plants.  The function of plastids varies and depends on the tissue cells are located.  The structure, function and developmental aspects of plastids will be considered.

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T 1:30-2:20

020.111 (N)

THE “NOBELS” IN MEDICINE AND CHEMISTRY (1) Brand   Freshmen only  Limit 20     Key events in our understanding of the life sciences will be traced with the aid of Nobel awards.

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W 1:30-2:20

BIOPHYSICS

250.131 (N)

TOPICS IN BIOPHYSICS RESEARCH (1) Fleming, K.  Limit 50 
Freshmen and Sophomores only 
Discussion emphasized. Biophysics faculty present seminars on their current work or contemporary biophysics research.  Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

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T 4:30-6pm

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

270.102 (N)

FRESHMAN SEMINAR: CONVERSATION WITH THE EARTH Marsh  Limit 55 per section   Freshmen only
Sec. 01: 2 credits (normal participation)
Sec. 02: 3 credits (requires term paper)   
A discussion of current topics on Earth's origin, evolution, and habitability.  Topics will include extinction of life from meteorite impact, global warming, ozone depletion, volcanism, ice ages, and catastrophic floods, among others.

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ENGLISH

060.100 (H)
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INTRODUCTION TO EXPOSITORY WRITING (3) Staff   Freshmen Only
Limit 10 per section   Offered only in the fall, this course is designed to help less experienced writers succeed with the demands of college writing.  Students learn how to read and summarize texts, how to analyze texts, and how to organize their thinking in clearly written essays.  Emphasis is on analysis and the skills that analysis depends upon. 

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060.159 (H)
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AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: HIGHSMITH, BURROUGHS, DICK (3) Daniel   Limit 18   Freshmen and sophomores only     These three authors share a common starting point: Patricia Highsmith, William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick all began their careers writing mass market genre fiction in pre-Stonewall, pre-civil rights, Cold War 1950s America. Absorbing the stylistic codes of their respective marketplaces of suspense writing and lesbian romance, "drug fiend" confessional, and science fiction, each writer's conformist apprenticeship in pulp resurfaces in increasingly nightmarish forms in the violent and paranoid scenarios that dominate their mature work. Reading broadly in each author's short fiction, novels, and prose, we will sequentially examine Highsmith's free indirect discourse gone wrong, Burroughs' "cut-up" techniques and "routines", and Dick's disorienting temporal experiments as inflamed allergic reactions to generic codes. We will also examine the cinematic afterlives of these authors by looking at three adaptations of their work: Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), David Cronenberg's Naked  Lunch (1991), and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (2006). Likely Texts: Patricia Highsmith Strangers On a Train, The Price of Salt, Edith's Diary; William S. Burroughs Junky, The Naked Lunch, The Place of Dead Roads; Philip K. Dick Eye in the Sky, Time Out of Joint, A Scanner Darkly.

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T 3-5:30

GERMAN AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

213.251 (H)

FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE (3) Pahl  Limit 20  Freshmen Only   Friedrich Nietzsche continues to be one of the most radical and influential philosophers of the West. Famous and infamous for announcing the death of God and the advent of the superhuman, his irreverence for philosophical tradition culminated in the call to “philosophize with a hammer.” He embarrassed the old philosophers exposing their, as he put it, clumsy lovemaking with truth. And he stunned generations of intellectuals after him with his idea of the eternal return of the same. But Nietzsche was also a witty writer, a light-footed thinker, a bold defender of the experiences of the body, a tender human being, and a sharp critic of German narrow-mindedness. This seminar offers an introduction to Nietzsche’s work and a first journey into the world of German thought, culture and literature. Readings and discussion will be in English.

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TTh 1:30-2:45

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

140.113 (H,S)
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FRESHMEN SEMINAR: DARWIN, FREUD, PAVLOV: PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN NATURE (3) Todes    Limit 15 Freshmen only
Exploration of Darwin's, Freud's, and Pavlov's ideas concerning science and human nature, man's place in nature, the human psyche and human society, and the prospects for humanity's future.

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F 1:30-4

INTERDEPARTMENTAL

360.133 (H)
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GREAT BOOKS: WESTERN TRADITION OR THE HUMANITIES: A TRADITION OF CLASSICS (3) Egginton/Patton/Giarusso   
Limit 11 per section    Freshmen only
Great Books explores some of the greatest works of the literary and philosophical tradition in Europe and the Americas.  In lectures and panel sessions, professors from several academic disciplines introduce texts and then lead further discussion in small group sessions. Where appropriate, as in the Faust legend, Peabody resources allow comparison of the literary text and its operatic counterparts. Close reading and intensive writing instruction are hallmarks of Great Books at Hopkins, along with a reading list that begins with Homer’s Odyssey and continues to the modern period, varying each term based on faculty expertise.  
Cross-listed with the Humanities Center, Philosophy, Classics and German and Romance Languages and Literatures

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360.147 (H,S)
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ADAM SMITH AND KARL MARX (3) Jelavich/ Schoenberger   Limit 20 
Freshmen only   This freshman seminar will analyze and compare the founding work of classical political economy and its most radical critique: Smith's Wealth of Nations and Marx's Capital.   Cross-listed with Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Engineering and History

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W 1:30-4

MILITARY SCIENCE

374.101

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT I (2) Ambersley   Limit 20   Freshmen only     Perm. Req’d.   Coreq: 374.100 (non-ROTC students are not required to take the Leadership Lab)
Establishes a foundation of basic leadership fundamentals such as: problem solving, communications, effective writing, goal setting, improving speaking and listening skills, and an introduction to counseling.

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Th 1:30-3:20

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

200.159 (S)

FRESHMAN SEMINAR: EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY (1) Egeth   Limit 13   Freshmen only  
In this course we discuss evolutionary psychology, which is the idea that the mind can be understood as an adaptation to our ancestral environment by means of natural selection.

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Th 2-2:50

SOCIOLOGY

230.112 (S)

FRESHMAN SEMINAR ON RACE AND EDUCATION IN THE U.S. (3) Bennett  Limit 15   The goal of this course is to explore issues of race and ethnicity in American education.  Through lectures, films, and discussions, students will become familiar with the various sociological lenses through which the educational issues facing Blacks, Asians, Latinos, and American Indians are analyzed.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies and Public Health Studies

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Th 3-5:30

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

580.111 (E,N)

BME MODELING & DESIGN (2) Haase   Limit 5 per section
BME Freshmen only
(Formerly BME Design Group) Working in teams with upperclassmen this course (1) introduces biomedical engineering freshmen to an orderly method for analyzing and modeling biological systems and (2) introduces engineering principles to solve design problems that are biological, physiological, and/or medical.  Freshmen are expected to use the informational content being taught in calculus, physics and chemistry and to apply this knowledge to the solution of practical problems encountered in biomedical engineering.

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CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

540.101 (E)

CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING TODAY (1) BetenbaughFreshmen Only   Limit 150 A series of weekly lectures to introduce students to chemical and biomolecular engineering and its role as a profession in addressing contemporary technological, social, ethical, and economic issues in today’s world. The lectures will include examples of how chemical and biomolecular engineers apply the principles of physics and chemistry to develop new products, improve process efficiencies, and alleviate the strain on the ecosystem through the design of novel environmentally conscious processes. In addition, the lectures will highlight exciting new areas now being advanced by chemical and biomolecular engineers, such as biochemical engineering, tissue engineering, nanoparticle fabrication, and processing smart polymers for applications in computer technology and as sensors.

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M 2-2:50

COMPUTER SCIENCE

600.105

M & Ms: FRESHMEN EXPERIENCE (1) Houlahan   Limit 20 Satisfactory/ Unsatisfactory only  This course is required for all freshmen Computer Science majors. Transfers into the major and minors may enroll by permission only. Students will attend three 4-week blocks of meetings with different computer science professors, focused on a central theme. Active participation is required.

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Th 3-3:50

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

520.137 (E,Q)

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
(3) Tran   Limit 40 per section   Open to freshman Engineering majors & any Arts & Sciences majors. An introductory course covering the principles of electrical engineering including sinusoidal wave forms, electrical measurements, digital circuits, and applications of electrical and computer engineering. Laboratory exercises, the use of computers, and a design project are included in the course.

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MWF 12-12:50

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GENERAL ENGINEERING

500.101 (E)

WHAT IS ENGINEERING (3) Karweit   Limit 36   Freshmen only or Perm. Req'd.
This is a course of lectures, laboratories, and special projects. Its objective is to introduce students not only to different fields of engineering but also to the analytic tools and techniques that the profession uses. Assignments include hands-on and virtual experiments, oral presentations of product design, and design/construction/testing of structures

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TTh 1:30-3:30

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

530.101 (E)

FRESHMEN EXPERIENCES IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING I (2) Okamura Limit 45 Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Undecided Engineering Majors, and others with permission of instructor  An overview of the field of mechanical engineering along with topics that will be useful throughout the mechanical engineering program. This is the first half of a one-year course that includes applications of mechanics, elementary numerical analysis, programming in MatLab, use of computer data acquisition, analysis, design, and visualization; technical drawing, the design process and creativity, report preparation, teamwork, and engineering ethics.

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MW 11-11:50

530.105 (E)

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FRESHMAN LAB I (1) Okamura   Limit 15 per section Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Undecided Engineering majors,  and others with Permission of instructor Hands-on laboratory complementing 530.101 and 530.103, including experiments, mechanical dissections, and design experiences distributed throughout the year.  Experiments are designed to give student background in experimental techniques as well as to reinforce physical principles.  Mechanical dissections connect physical principles to practical engineering applications.  Design projects allow students to synthesize working systems by combining mechanics knowledge and practical engineering skills.

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