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The basic principles of thermodynamics are introduced in this course. Concepts of energy and entropy from elementary considerations of the microscopic nature of matter are discussed. The principles are applied in thermodynamic analyses directed towards understanding the performances of engineering systems. Methods and problems cover socially responsible economic generation and utilization of energy in central power generation plants, solar systems, refrigeration devices, and automobile, jet and gas-turbine engines. Same as ENGR 30

Ethical underpinnings of empire; Europe¿s moral and political justification for often-violent acquisition of distant territories and millions of new colonial ¿subjects.¿ European notions of liberal universalism (Mill, Tocqueville and others) as moral groundwork for colonial expansion. Colonial case studies: Leopole II¿s Congo, German Southwest Africa, and South Africa. Testing of European ideals to justify and critique racial inequality, violence, and genocide. Redefinition of imperialism under the guise of globalization beginning with international organizations such as the League of Nations.

Group work to design a research project related to environmental change and conservation in South Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Using local archives, libraries, and other collections to identify a historical question, design a research project related to the political, social, cultural, and racial dynamics that have shaped modern S. African policies toward the environment.

Relation between conventional histories and different kinds of individual and collective memory that are focused on places and spaces, testing the relation between grand narratives and more particularized pasts. Questions of cultural heritage, in particular its contestations among individual, familial, local, national, and international interests.

Overview of the English-language novel in South Africa since 1948, its sociology, and its relation to other genres (including verse, drama and the short story) and to literature in other languages. Authors include Paton, Rive, LaGuma, Serote, Mzamane, Brink, Coetzee and Gordimer.

Cities in a globalizing world. Themes: challenges posed by globalization; general and specific responses of cities to these challenges; security issues created by globalization and urbanization. Concerns related to food security, resource availability, and threat of political instability. Policies recommended by World Bank. Case study method.

Course may be repeated for credit.