ENROLL

Rou-Jia Sung

Biochemistry is an examination of the molecular basis of life processes. The course provides an in depth investigation of metabolic pathways, their interrelationships and regulation, protein structure and function with special emphasis on enzymes. Other topics include the techniques of protein analysis and how they are employed to examine problems of fundamental biochemical importance. This course meets the requirement for the Biochemistry concentration.

Prerequisite: Biology 125 and 126 and Chemistry 233 and 234

Waitlist only

Amy Csizmar Dalal

Prerequisite: Computer Science 201 or instructor permission

George Cusack

In this seminar, we will use games (both by studying them and by playing them) as a lens through which we can explore all manner of fascinating questions. How do the games we play shape our culture and our communities?  What makes a game fun, engaging, addictive, boring, brutal, or banal? How can games encourage certain kinds of behavior, even after we've stopped playing them?  Could we make Carleton itself a bit better--or at least more fun--if we gamified certain aspects of life here? To aid our exploration, we’ll draw on readings from multiple genres and employ a variety of research methods to analyze games from social, textual, and design perspectives. This course will also include weekly lab sessions on Wednesday evenings (6:15-8:30PM).  Students will be required to attend at least eight out of ten lab sessions.

Held for new first year students Extra Time

Barbara Allen

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war,” said newspaper owner and editor William Randolph Hearst in 1895 at the cusp of the Spanish-American war. The quotation marks a symbiotic, potentially “tail-wags-dog” relationship mass media have had with government; the mantra “fake news,” firing, harassing, and murdering of journalists marks the antagonistic relationship between these two institutions. This course studies news media as an institution. Coursework includes experiences with data capture, analysis, and visual presentation. 

Held for new first year students

Barbara Allen

How have news media affected democratic elections in the U.S., UK, and EU? Case studies show traditional and new media—from citizen journalism to bots—shaping views of candidates and issues—and democracy itself. Using recent elections worldwide as a base, we will investigate traditional media as an institution in a challenging environment of new media sources and charges of “fake news.” Coursework includes learning about research design through original data collection, data analysis, and visual representation of data. Political Science 223 is recommended as a way to learn quantitative and qualitative methods of social science research.

Cross-listed with POSC 305

Cross-listed with POSC 305.00

Barbara Allen

This lab is designed as a supplement research module for current or past students in Political Science 204, 205 and 305. Students previously enrolled in Professor Allen's Political Science 100 are also encouraged to enroll. We learn to conduct focus groups, depth interviews, content analysis, and experimental analysis using election news, ads, speeches, and debates (in the U.S. or other democracies) as our cases for analysis.

2nd 5 weeks

Melanie Freeze

Prerequisite: Mathematics 115, 215, 245, 275 or AP Statistics (score of 4 or 5)

Barbara Allen

How have news media affected democratic elections in the U.S., UK, and EU? Case studies show traditional and new media—from citizen journalism to bots—shaping views of candidates and issues—and democracy itself. Using recent elections worldwide as a base, we will investigate traditional media as an institution in a challenging environment of new media sources and charges of “fake news.” Coursework includes learning about research design through original data collection, data analysis, and visual representation of data. POSC 223 is recommended as a way to learn quantitative and qualitative methods of social science research. Research paper required.

Cross listed with POSC 205