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.

The war for Palestine in 1948 has been the subject of exciting new research in the last several years. At the center of this war stands the interdependence of Jewish independence and the Palestinian Nakba (the expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinians during the war). New studies have contributed to our knowledge of the war, as well as to its causes, going back to the British Mandate in 1917-1948, and to its consequences for Jews, Palestinians, and other Arabs after 1948.

The course examines how Fellini's irony constantly debunks the imagery of the so-called "western culture" and highlights the need for new cultural narratives.

UNDERGRADUATE FILM STUDIES CERTIFICATE CATEGORY: III, IV, V

FILM STUDIES MAJOR IN BDIC CATEGORY: N

The course examines how Fellini's irony constantly debunks the imagery of the so-called "western culture" and highlights the need for new cultural narratives.

UNDERGRADUATE FILM STUDIES CERTIFICATE CATEGORY: III, IV, V

FILM STUDIES MAJOR IN BDIC CATEGORY: N

This journal club is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BTP program. Other students will be allowed to join as space allows any given year. We will meet once per week, and each week we will review and discuss the most recent scientific literature related to biotechnology (spanning topics in Chemistry, Engineering, and Biology). This is primarily a student-run journal club, with faculty coordination.

This seminar series is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BTP program. Other students will be allowed to join as space allows any given year. Students enrolled in the seminar series are expected to attend 16 total seminars, with reporting on those attended, to receive 1 credit. Seminars span several departments and are chosen each year by the BTP executive committee for their relevance to topics in biotechnology.

Past and present mechanisms of global tectonics, including mountain building, ocean-basin structure, continental drift, mantle processes, continental evolution, structural geology and petrology of Earth's crust, and the tectonic history of selected key regions of the globe. Prerequisites: Geo-Sci 321, 431.