Swedish I is the first part of a four-part elementary course sequence in Swedish. The course is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Swedish develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in Sweden and to support course work in European or Scandinavian Studies.

This course provides an introduction to the more commonly-used multivariate statistical methods. Topics include principal component analysis, factor analysis, clustering, discrimination and classification, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), and repeated measures analysis. The course includes a computing component. Prerequisites: Probability and Statistics at a calculus-based level such as Stat 607 and Stat 608 (concurrent) or Stat 515 and Stat 516 (concurrent). Students must have prior experience with a statistical programming language such as R, Python or MATLAB.

In this upper level class, we will study the cellular basis of disease using a project based format. The class will begin with a discussion of the tools used to study cells, including molecular methods such as CRISPR. Cell and tissue structures and function will be discussed. The remainder of the class will be spent investigating diseases that result from defects in single genes -- two common examples are cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. Students will read the primary literature as well as other sources.

Ethnography, the signal methodology of anthropology, is now a widespread research method, taken up by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand social processes in everyday life. Queer scholars in the United States pioneered the use of ethnographic methods within the US, arguing that queer communities constituted 'subcultures' that should be studied in their own right. This course begins with these earlier works, from the 1970s and 1980s, and will quickly move to a survey of contemporary queer ethnographic work.

Audiences for mass media are notoriously difficult to define, find, and study because they are dispersed, shifting, and interact with media in complex ways. This course will look at how both the academy and media industries come to claim knowledge and understanding of audiences, in terms of their theoretical and methodological approaches. Topics will include debates about audience power and activity, audience segmentation, how audiences have changed over time, rhetorical uses of ?the audience,? and the distinction between audiences and markets.

This course introduces students to applications of probability theory, statistics, and decision analysis to engineering problems. Emphasis is placed on probabilistic modeling and analysis of civil and environmental engineering problems, Bayesian statistics, risk analysis, and decision under uncertainty.

Principles, methods and materials for teaching reading and writing to adolescents. For students preparing to teach in middle and high schools.

This seminar is designed for graduate students who are interested in exploring critical literacies as sociocultural and sociopolitical practices across languages, literacies, and contexts, as well as considering the implications of critical literacies theories and pedagogies for teaching and research. We will examine the "critical" in critical literacies through historicizing and defining these practices in schools, communities, and societies. We will juxtapose critical literacies with multiliteracies and multimodalities to understand how these pedagogies converge and diverge.

With lab. Effect of environmental factors on soil formation and land use. Relationship between soil morphology, classification, and use interpretations. Application of soils information to on-site sewage disposal, wetland identification, and other environmentally significant problem areas. Prerequisite: introductory course in chemistry, geology, soils, or environmental science; or consent of instructor.

This course will cover a variety of materials used in propulsion, structures, and thermal protection in aircraft and spacecraft. Specific materials include superalloys for turbine engines, chemical and thermal barrier coatings, composites, and thermal protection materials. Key phenomena include creep, fatigue, and high-temperature environmental effects. The exact coverage may be adjusted based on a survey of the interests of the students. Besides the pre-requisites, some exposure to heat transfer is also helpful.