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Explore eight important works from different eras and genres of Western classical-music repertoire, through performances recorded at Curtis and discussion of each work’s historical context, composer, musical significance, and compositional design.

This subject examines interactions across the Eurasian continent between Russians, Chinese, Mongolian nomads, and Turkic oasis dwellers during the last millennium and a half. As empires rose and fell, religions, trade, and war flowed back and forth continuously across this vast space. Today, the fall of the Soviet Union and China's reforms have opened up new opportunities for cultural interaction.

Learn how to build Single Page Applications in various Front End Frameworks! In this course, you'll learn how to create both an Angular application and an Ember app from scratch. As you work through the course, you'll learn key architectural design techniques that make frameworks incredibly powerful.

This course focuses on three particularly interesting areas of astronomy that are advancing very rapidly: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy. Particular attention is paid to current projects that promise to improve our understanding significantly over the next few years. The course explores not just what is known, but what is currently not known, and how astronomers are going about trying to find out.

The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity. It serves as an introduction to the fundamental science and engineering on which biomedical engineering is based. Case studies of drugs and medical products illustrate the product development-product testing cycle, patent protection, and FDA approval. It is designed for science and non-science majors.

Aspiring teachers need to pass one or more of the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) to qualify for licensure in this state. The CSET for social science teachers consists of three subtests covering history, geography, civics and economics. Subtest I focuses on world history and world geography. It includes 39 multiple-choice questions, two short response essay questions and one extended response essay question. You'll have five hours for your testing session, and you can choose to take one, two or all three subtests during this time. The test is offered only in a paper-based format, and you'll need to bring your own #2 pencils on test day. You can prepare for the exam with Education Portal's study guide, which includes video lessons and quizzes on the following topics:

• Ancient civilization
• Medieval and early modern times
• Modern world history
• Tools and methods for geographic study
• Geographic diversity

You'll encounter questions about the social and cultural structures, intellectual contributions and philosophical traditions of ancient civilizations from a wide range of geographical regions. Significant economic and political developments occurring in early modern Europe are covered as well. You can also expect to answer questions on topics ranging from the causes and outcomes of 18th century conflicts like the American Revolution to the impact of 19th century imperialism. Additional exam topics include the effects of world wars I and II and the Cold War. You should also be familiar with physical and human geography to do well on the test.

Preparing and Registering for the CSET Social Science Subtest I

Education Portal's study guide provides you with short video lessons that discuss all of the topics included on the exam. The instructors break down the information into manageable sections that are engaging and easy to follow. You can even use the corresponding quizzes to assess your understanding of the material and find out how the exam's multiple-choice questions are formatted.

Begin the registration process by creating an online account through the CSET website. Once you've selected a username and password and entered in your personal information, you'll be able to choose the test date and testing location that suits you. The social science subtests are administered four times a year. The regular registration deadline falls about one month before the test date, though you can sign up by the late and emergency registration deadlines for an additional fee.

Aspiring teachers need to pass one or more of the California Subject Examinations for Teachers (CSET) to qualify for licensure in this state. The CSET for social science teachers consists of three subtests covering history, geography, civics and economics. Subtest I focuses on world history and world geography. It includes 39 multiple-choice questions, two short response essay questions and one extended response essay question. You'll have five hours for your testing session, and you can choose to take one, two or all three subtests during this time. The test is offered only in a paper-based format, and you'll need to bring your own #2 pencils on test day. You can prepare for the exam with Education Portal's study guide, which includes video lessons and quizzes on the following topics:

• Ancient civilization
• Medieval and early modern times
• Modern world history
• Tools and methods for geographic study
• Geographic diversity

You'll encounter questions about the social and cultural structures, intellectual contributions and philosophical traditions of ancient civilizations from a wide range of geographical regions. Significant economic and political developments occurring in early modern Europe are covered as well. You can also expect to answer questions on topics ranging from the causes and outcomes of 18th century conflicts like the American Revolution to the impact of 19th century imperialism. Additional exam topics include the effects of world wars I and II and the Cold War. You should also be familiar with physical and human geography to do well on the test.

Preparing and Registering for the CSET Social Science Subtest I

Education Portal's study guide provides you with short video lessons that discuss all of the topics included on the exam. The instructors break down the information into manageable sections that are engaging and easy to follow. You can even use the corresponding quizzes to assess your understanding of the material and find out how the exam's multiple-choice questions are formatted.

Begin the registration process by creating an online account through the CSET website. Once you've selected a username and password and entered in your personal information, you'll be able to choose the test date and testing location that suits you. The social science subtests are administered four times a year. The regular registration deadline falls about one month before the test date, though you can sign up by the late and emergency registration deadlines for an additional fee.

Follow the instructions and you will be pleasantly surprised as you will triple market your messages across the Internet

Full Django Tutorial from Beginner to Advanced

In this course you will learn the fundamentals of back-end web development! You will create your own web application that queries a database for items on restaurant menus and then dynamically generates complete menus in the form of web pages and API endpoints. You’ll start by learning how to interact with a database from a web application using an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) layer. From there, you’ll learn how GET and POST requests translate to CRUD operations. You’ll then explore the Flask framework and the various ways in which it can speed up the development of your applications. Finally, you’ll develop your very own web application from the ground up using the iterative development process.

Learning by Doing - Lego EV3 Robotics for the absolute beginner, build small robots and program them using EV3-G.

Prime numbers are one of the most important subjects in mathematics. Many mathematicians from ancient times to the 21st century have studied prime numbers.

In this math course, you will learn the definition and basic properties of prime numbers, and how they obey mysterious laws. Some prime numbers were discovered several hundred years ago whereas others have only been proven recently. Even today, many mathematicians are trying to discover new laws of prime numbers.

Calculating by a pen and paper, you will explore the mysterious world of prime numbers. Join us as we tackle math problems, and work together to discover new laws on prime numbers. Let's study and have fun!

When developing chips it is essential that they get verified thoroughly because it is very hard or impossible to fix them once they have been manufactured. In this class, you will learn how to program verification environments that verify chip functionality efficiently, as well as understand and leverage automation such as constrained random test generation and improve code reuse leveraging a standardized methodology.

This team-taught multidisciplinary course provides information relevant to the conduct and interpretation of human brain mapping studies. It begins with in-depth coverage of the physics of image formation, mechanisms of image contrast, and the physiological basis for image signals. Parenchymal and cerebrovascular neuroanatomy and application of sophisticated structural analysis algorithms for segmentation and registration of functional data are discussed. Additional topics include: fMRI experimental design including block design, event related and exploratory data analysis methods, and building and applying statistical models for fMRI data; and human subject issues including informed consent, institutional review board requirements and safety in the high field environment.

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