Elective Courses in Liberal Arts & Sciences
Examines fundamental issues concerning the justification of political institutions. Topics may include democratic theory, political obligation and liberty, criteria of a just society, human rights, and civil disobedience.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
This course aims to accomplish two things. The first is to introduce three broad traditions of normative thinking about social issues from around the globe: a Confucian tradition, one based in Islamic legal traditions, and one derived from European liberalism. The second is to address three current areas of normative debate: about global economic inequality, about gender justice and human rights. We shall explore these first-order questions against the background of the three broad traditions. Our aim will be to understand some of differences of approach that shape the global conversation about these issues that concern people around the world.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20339)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Appiah, Kwame Anthony
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20340)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Wed6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wu, Patrick
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20341)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wu, Patrick
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20342)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zacek, Justin
PHIL-UA 6-000 (20343)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zacek, Justin
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
Considers questions such as the following: Can I have knowledge of anything outside my own mind?for example, physical objects or other minds? Or is the skeptic’s attack on my commonplace claims to know unanswerable? What is knowledge, and how does it differ from belief?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20336)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Zhang, Xueyin
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20337)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ballarini, Cristina
PHIL-UA 76-000 (20338)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Fri2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Ballarini, Cristina
Examines moral issuExamines moral issues in medical practice and research. Topics include euthanasia and quality of life; deception, hope, and paternalism; malpractice and unpredictability; patient rights, virtues, and vices; animal, fetal, and clinical research; criteria for rationing medical care; ethical principles, professional codes, and case analysis (for example, Quinlan, Willowbrook, Baby Jane Doe).
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
PHIL-UA 50-000 (9403)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Beardman, Stephanie
PHIL-UA 50-000 (23793)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Wills, David Clinton
Examination of the relationship between the mind and the brain, of the nature of the mental, and of personal identity. Can consciousness be reconciled with a scientific view of the world?
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility and other such notions. In recent times, the framework of possible worlds has provided a valuable tool for investigating the formal properties of these notions. This course provides an introduction to the basic concepts, methods, and results of modal logic, with an emphasis on its application to such other fields as philosophy, linguistics, and computer science.
Philosophy (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Introduces the syntax of Romance languages, primarily French, Italian, and Spanish, but also various Romance dialects. Considers what they have in common with each other (and with English) and how best to characterize the ways in which they differ from each other (and from English).
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 42-000 (18682)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Kayne, Richard
Introduces the syntax of languages quite different from English, from various parts of the world. Considers what they may have in common with English and with each other and how to characterize the ways in which they differ from English and from each other.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
LING-UA 27-000 (19064)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Thoms, Gary · Kayne, Richard
A state-of-the-art survey of the cognitive neuroscience of language, a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. Covers all aspects of language processing in the healthy brain, from early sensory perception to sentence-level semantic interpretation, as well as a range of neurological and development language disorders.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
LING-UA 43-000 (10444)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Pylkkanen, Liina
LING-UA 43-000 (10445)09/03/2019 – 12/13/2019 Tue3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Blanco-Elorrieta, Esti
The methods of genealogical classification and subgrouping of languages. Examines patterns of replacement in phonology, morphology, and syntax. Focuses on internal and comparative phonological, morphological, and syntactic reconstruction. Considers phonological developments such as Grimm’s, Grassmann’s, and Verner’s Laws.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 14-000 (10088)01/28/2019 – 05/13/2019 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by
Introduces primary literature in syntactic theory and leads to an independent research project. Topics vary: binding theory, control, case theory, constraints on movement, antisymmetry, argument structure and applicatives, ellipsis, derivation by phase, etc.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 16-000 (19354)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Harves, Stephanie · Kayne, Richard
Analysis (LING-UA 13), or permission of the instructor. Offered every year. Collins, Gallagher, Gouskova. 4 points. Students interview a native speaker of an unfamiliar language to study all aspects of the language’s grammar: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. We evaluate and organize real, nonidealized linguistic data and formulate generalizations that serve as the basis for research.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 44-000 (9373)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gallagher, Gillian · Collins, Christopher
Approaches from linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. Topics: the evidence for constructing grammars, the interpretation of grammatical rules as cognitive or neural operations, the significance of neo-behaviorist approaches to language and computational modeling for a cognitive theory of language, the connection between linguistics theory and genetics, and the importance of sociocultural and historical variation for understanding the nature of language.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 48-000 (9629)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Marantz, Alec
Considers social forces that favor or inhibit bilingualism, as well as the educational consequences of bilingual education (and of monolingual education for bilingual children). Examines the impact of bilingualism on the languages involved. Special attention to code switching, with particular reference to its psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic aspects.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 18-000 (8465)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Vrzic, Zvjezdana · Møller Krogh, Simone
Introduces the field of cognitive science through an examination of language behavior. Begins with interactive discussions of how best to characterize and study the mind. These principles are then illustrated through an examination of research and theories related to language representation and use. Draws from research in both formal linguistics and psycholinguistics.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 3-000 (8921)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Cournane, Ailis · McElree, Brian
LING-UA 3-000 (8922)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Wed3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Grosu, Ioana
LING-UA 3-000 (8923)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Thu4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Flower, Nigel
Phonetic and phonological theory at an elementary level. Topics include the description and analysis of speech sounds, the anatomy and physiology of speech, speech acoustics, and phonological processes. Students develop skills to distinguish and produce sounds used in the languages of the world and to transcribe them using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 11-000 (8045)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Tue,Thu2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Davidson, Lisa
LING-UA 11-000 (8046)at Washington SquareInstructed by
LING-UA 11-000 (8047)09/01/2022 – 12/14/2022 Mon3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Repetti-Ludlow, Chiara
Focuses on the compositional semantics of sentences. Introduces set theory, propositional logic, and predicate logic as tools and goes on to investigate the empirical linguistic issues of presuppositions, quantification, scope, and polarity. Points out parallelisms between the nominal and the verbal domains.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Focuses on phonology and phonetics (i.e., sound structure), but also addresses the structure of words and phrases. Topics: bilingualism, language contact, language loss, indigenous language education, literacy, orthography, and language policy. Emphasis on the Quechuan languages of the Andes in South America, spoken in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
An introduction to the morphosyntax of Russian. Students learn how to analyze the underlying structures of this language by using formal tools in syntactic theory. The core areas of Russian grammar: case, aspect, argument structure alternations, topic/ focus structure, negation, binding, control, and wh-movement. No knowledge of Russian required.
Linguistics (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
LING-UA 10-000 (20310)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Harves, Stephanie