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This course will provide a brief introduction to the nature and problems of aging, with emphasis on socioeconomic and health status; determinants of priorities of social and health policies will be examined through analysis of the structure and organization of selected programs for the elderly.

Causes and consequences of the revolution: intellectual and social change, the problems of the new nation, the Constitution, and the origins of political parties.

The History of Ancient Egypt spans the period from the early predynastic settlements of the northern Nile Valley to the Roman conquest in 30 BC. The Pharaonic Period is dated from around 3150 BC, when Lower and Upper Egypt became a unified state, until the country fell under Greek rule in 332 BC.

The social political, and cultural history of the ancient Greek world from the earliest settlements to the empire of Alexander the Great (c. 2000–323 B.C.).

The political, economic, and intellectual history of the Roman world from the foundation of Rome to the time of Julius Caesar.

An integrated approach to animal behavior focusing on mechanisms of acoustic, visual, and olfactory communication.

Application of statistics to biological problems. Topics: descriptive statistics, parametric statistics, (t-test, correlation, regression, ANOVA, GLM), non-parametric statistics, experimental design.

Scholars will understand and conduct advanced biostatistical analyses including: multiple linear and logistic regression, survival analysis, and Cox and extended Cox regression.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with basic mechanisms of brain and behavioral development from embryology through aging.

A survey course of the history of the Byzantine state from the reign of Constantine to the fall of Constantinople. This course will emphasize the importance of the Byzantine state within a larger European focus, its relationship to the emerging Arab states, its political and cultural contributions to Russia and the late medieval west.