Parvati Sanyasi

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Maintainer
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Commonwealth Honors College
Email Address:  
parvatisanya@umass.edu

IS-Teaching Assistant

Assisting with instruction/classroom preparation for Stockbridge School courses. Student must have the permission of the instructor teaching the course, sign an Independent Study Contract for it, and receive FERPA certification if involved in grading.

Work and The Labor Process

This course provides an overview of the historical and contemporary literature on work and the labor process. We begin with the work of Marx and Taylor, and how, in the 1970s and 80s, their work was reframed and recast by Braverman, Burawoy, and a number of scholars. We then explore the renaissance in ethnographic research that has taken place over the last two decades as scholars have responded to the rise of the service sector, the growing precarity of work, platform work and globalization in a post-Fordist world, and the new theoretical frameworks that are emerging.

Sound Design

(Offered at ARHA 340 and FAMS 340) This class is an introduction to key concepts in sound design, with a primary (but not exclusive) focus on sound in relation to moving images. Students will gain significant technical training in sound recording, editing, and mixing. In addition, this class will use the act of listening as a point of departure to think about histories, theories, politics, and poetics of sound.

Intro to Stats Modeling

This course is an introductory statistics course that uses modeling as a unifying framework. The course provides a basic foundation in statistics with a major emphasis on constructing models from data. Students learn important concepts of statistics by mastering powerful and relatively advanced statistical techniques using computational tools. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, visualization, probability, study design, and multiple regression.

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