When Google or Meta announce yet another data breach, what does that really mean? In today's world, governments and companies regularly collect and use large amounts of personal data. As a result, no one?s data is completely private anymore. Even ordinary people - like you! - frequently benefit from big data in their everyday lives. In this course, we'll learn about how data is commonly collected, who?s collecting this information, and what they stand to gain from it.

What is African poetry and how has it evolved over time from oral to written literature? In this course, we will read and respond creatively and critically to poetry by people of the African diaspora with a focus on people with ties to the Sub-Saharan region. We will explore both oral and written poetry as well as themes of identity, nationhood, and spirituality. By the end of the semester, students will create a chapbook with (20-30) poems and will be encouraged to submit their poems to journals for publication.

What is African poetry and how has it evolved over time from oral to written literature? In this course, we will read and respond creatively and critically to poetry by people of the African diaspora with a focus on people with ties to the Sub-Saharan region. We will explore both oral and written poetry as well as themes of identity, nationhood, and spirituality. By the end of the semester, students will create a chapbook with (20-30) poems and will be encouraged to submit their poems to journals for publication.

How do we draw in three-dimensional space? This course will examine how artists have brought techniques of two-dimensional drawing and reimaged their application to three-dimensional space. Drawing as Installation explores drawing as a conceptual and formal tool that is designed to have a particular relationship with spatial environments such as architectural site-specific locations, with time, and with conceptual and/or social level.

The course will provide a brief history of the development of Civil Engineering and the resulting impacts on society. The majority of content covered within this course will relate to the built environment and critical infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, that is all around us.

The objective of this course is to help you understand: 1. Why model 2. How to be a model thinker. We will go through some important models in various disciplines in the first half of semester, roughly speaking. For the rest of the semester, you will pick one of those models and apply it in any questions of your interest as an individual project or group project.

The objective of this course is to help you understand: 1. Why model 2. How to be a model thinker. We will go through some important models in various disciplines in the first half of semester, roughly speaking. For the rest of the semester, you will pick one of those models and apply it in any questions of your interest as an individual project or group project.

The objective of this course is to help you understand: 1. Why model 2. How to be a model thinker. We will go through some important models in various disciplines in the first half of semester, roughly speaking. For the rest of the semester, you will pick one of those models and apply it in any questions of your interest as an individual project or group project.

In this course students will 1) Learn how data collection can be arranged in aquatic environment and challenges to manage the hardware; 2) Garner basic knowledge related to digital signal processing; 3) Develop introductory skills with machine learning; and 4) Practice synthesizing technical information.