This course is designed for graduate jazz performance, composition and arranging majors. It encompasses the advanced study of jazz functional harmony and beyond, through standard repertoire, harmonic analysis, and chord/scale relationship theory; harmonization and reharmonization exercises; development of diatonic and chromatic harmonic vocabulary; analysis of complex chord progressions based upon post-1960 harmonic techniques; and the study of modal harmony and its relationship to jazz improvisation, arranging, and composition.

This course serves as a survey of the major theoretical approaches and empirical research in the field of political psychology. As such, it focuses primary attention on psychological explanations of individual political attitudes and actions among both elites as well as the masses.

This course offers an orientation to graduate study and careers in political science generally and also specifically at UMass Amherst. We will focus on the basic knowledge and tools that can help students navigate their graduate study while introducing students to the diversity of faculty interests, experiences, and insights in the Ph.D. program in Political Science at UMass Amherst.

Research on problems not related to thesis.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of basic accounting and finance, focusing on their application to managing engineering projects and organizations. Key topics covered include basic accounting terminology and methods, financial statements and how to interpret them, sources of finance available to businesses, engineering project accounting and financing, and personal and corporate financing basics.

Important mechanical properties of materials engineering such as yield strength and fracture toughness experimentally investigated with a view towards materials selection and design. Skills emphasized: experimental technique, statistical analysis of data, report writing, and oral presentation.

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