Geographical and cultural variations within a language; mapping of dialects. Analysis and interpretation of dialect materials.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a broad introduction to the experiences, barriers, opportunities, and networking for women in sport business. Students will examine a range of topics including but not limited to women in leadership, sexism and gender underrepresentation, networking, personal branding, managing up, negotiating, and other topics uniquely relevant to women working in sport business. Upon completion of this course, students should understand how the various dimensions of the gendered workplace influences the experiences of women in sport.

Data science is an exciting discipline that allows you to turn raw data into understanding, insight, and knowledge. The course will first focus on data visualization and data transformation, and then introduce other topics including exploratory data analysis and programing. This course will help students learn the most important tools in R to do data science. Students will gain hands-on experience through in-class coding activities and homework assignments.

This course explores the relationship of women (cis, trans, identifying as non-binary) to the social, cultural, economic, and political developments shaping the United States as an empire from 1890 to the present. It examines the regulation of women's bodies and sexualities, the gendered narrative of imperialism, and women's resistance to imperial power at home and abroad. This course will specifically focus on how class, race, ethnicity, and sexual identity have affected women's historical experience through a transnational lens.

Have you ever felt that gender is a bit odd? Ever feel a little perplexed about "gender reveal parties" and the obsession around an unborn child's genitals? Binaries are strange, knowing the range of thought, expression and creativity humanity* is capable of. Why are we told there are two main genders? What happens when you take all of this into account alongside histories of slavery and conquest? This course will take seriously the claim that gender is anti-Black, that slavery marked an epochal rupture and that slavery is a technology for producing a kind of human.

This is a class exploring multiple medias to create beautiful 2D painting on fabric. Fabric painting and treatment has been a traditional decorative efforts from the cradle of the human civilization and is different within various culture and geographic setting. This class would cover popular fabric painting and distressing crafts in Western theatre and film industry. After the class, students should be able to create convincing portfolio pieces through fabric silk dye, batik, fabric paint, and screen printing.

This course introduces Biochemistry and Molecular Biology students to the department and the University of Massachusetts. Topics covered include: orientation to the university, time management, study skills, finding resources on campus, registration, graduation, completing an honors thesis, and professional development.

This course introduces Biochemistry and Molecular Biology students to the department and the University of Massachusetts. Topics covered include: orientation to the university, time management, study skills, finding resources on campus, registration, graduation, completing an honors thesis, and professional development.

Review of group process roles and responsibilities of public health professionals. Group dynamics, principles related to theories and concepts underlying public health community programs. Structured laboratory experience provided.

This course will focus on selected topics in U.S. women's and gender history from 1877 to the present. In addition to analyzing women's experiences, we will also consider how gender has been mediated by class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. Other topics will include women's political participation and social activism; reproduction, race, and eugenics; immigration and migration; shifting conceptions of gender and sexuality; and women's changing labor force participation.