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.

This course is designed to develop oral and written skills in order to increase fluency in Spanish. Exposure to different aspects of Spanish language structure through a variety of written and oral practices. Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirement.

This course investigates education as it relates to economic theory (i.e., public economics, labor economics, microeconomics etc.). In this course we will look at the structure of and problems facing the United States education system. The goal of the course is to understand economic tools of analysis. Although the course focus is on the U.S. and formal education, the course content and topics will be valuable to students who are interested in education broadly and internationally.

The course extends knowledge, awareness and skills about social diversity and social justice regarding various forms of oppression and dynamics to issues of intergroup relations and conflict within and between social groups. It strives to prepare graduate students to be active change agents as planners and facilitators of intergroup dialogues.