Spring 2026 Course Search

Contemporary Chinese Poetry — CHI4220.01

Instructor: Ginger Lin
Days & Time: Tu/F 7:00PM-8:20PM
Credits: 4

While the language of classical Chinese poetry is practically inaccessible to even today’s native speakers of Chinese, the poetry of the five contemporary poets studied in this course is written in the vernacular and serves as a rich source of authentic texts for this course, which integrates language learning with poetry study. The five poets, all born after 1980, each offer a unique perspective into the changing society and culture of modern China.

Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (with Lab) — PHY4327.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: M/Th 10:00AM-11:50AM, W 8:30AM-12:10PM (Lab)
Credits: 5

How does influence travel from one thing to another? In Newton’s mechanics of particles and forces, influences travel instantaneously across arbitrarily far distances. Newton himself felt this to be incorrect, but he did not suggest a solution to this problem of “action at a distance.” To solve this problem, we need a richer ontology: The world is made not only of particles, but also of fields. As examples of the field concept, we study the theory and applications of the electric field and the magnetic field.