Fundamentals of fluid mechanics with coverage of theory and applications of incompressible viscous and inviscid flows, and compressible high speed flows. Prerequisite: MATH 285 or MATH 286 or MATH 441; ME 310 or TAM 335; credit or concurrent registration in ME 200. Students must register for one lab and one lecture section.

Introduction to East Asian religious traditions; emphasizes the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in China and their historical interactions. This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for: Cultural Studies - Non-West Humanities – Hist & Phil

An introduction to the history of agriculture in the rural Midwest with an emphasis on Illinois based on an analysis of the attitudes of indigenous peoples, immigrants, farmers and agribusiness interests toward land, labor, crop selection and production, and technology. The course compares the regional characteristics of the rural Midwest to other U.S. regions, and explores factors that created the American "breadbasket," a region recognized for the commodities, equipment and ideas that it exports to the world.

Thepurposeofthis course isto introduce studentstosomeofthemajoraspectsofChinese civilizationfrompre-historyto1990s. Central themesinclude: What isChina? How are the political communities organized? What are the major features of their cultural achievements? Andwhatarethekindsofculturalinteractionswithother regions? The course will be basically chronological combined with thematic, interdisciplinary, and comparative approaches. Active participation—asking questions, making comments, and exchanging ideas based on the assigned readings and other

What is the central concern of every Confucian in history? How to become the person that every Confucian looks forward to? What is the Confucian political ideal? How to understand Confucian political encounter in history and its modern self-transformation? What is the relevance of Confucianism to a modern world? As an introduction to Confucianism, this course tries to provide pertinent answers to these questions by focusing on the essentials of Confucian thought, which consist of five fundamental and correlative aspects including: 1. Junzi君子(a virtuous person): the ideal personality.

this course examines the history of Chinese revolution through the following topics and themes: intellectuals and the masses, party and mass mobilization, the problem of propaganda and education, gender and women in revolution, the meaning of Russian Revolution, socialist revolutions of the 1930s, Mao and peasantry, the rural and the urban.

The notion of “religion,” as it is used in contemporary contexts, first received its modern definition in the tradition of 19th-century Continental philosophy.

Survey of major themes and events in Southern African history, with emphasis on the period after World War II: the inception and development of apartheid in South Africa, the growth of contests over African nationalism in the subcontinent, wars of liberation and the demise of white domination.

This course is aimed at depicting the basic contours of Western philosophy as it developed through history. The student is expected to learn to appreciate the interplay between the historical development of philosophy and its cultural milieu, and to philosophically reflect on various aspects of life and society. Taking a basically historical-analytical approach, this course is divided into three parts. Part one comprises an investigation into the history of classical philosophy.

Human Disease: From Research to Clinic 3A (HDRC3A) is a 20 UoE/2.5 ZJU credit, Semester 1 course. The course will use the understanding of disease pathways to explore how biomedical research continues to give rise to knowledge and understanding of pathophysiology and the treatment of disease. Teaching and learning activities will use in-depth analysis of specific disease examples from a range of biomedical disciplines, and using several major body systems.