A seminar on time management from practical and theoretical perspectives. This course involves identifying and improving skills related to time management. Students will focus on how to manage their time for college academics and extracurricular activities and how to develop overall time literacy in order to establish productive routines based on what works for you.

he popularity of Bernie Sanders, the celebrity-like status of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, both avowed socialists, along with polls indicating positive attitudes towards socialism among many youth, are a few markers of an openness to left radicalism hardly seen for nearly a half-century. Yet long-term, anti-communist ideology has largely buried a diverse, yet hardly known spectrum of homegrown U.S. socialist traditions.

Fifty percent of Americans believe it is at least somewhat important for food to be produced in a sustainable way. What exactly does this mean? How can specific agricultural practices and food production/processing methods impact the sustainability of our food? What are the different components of a sustainable diet? These are just a few of the questions we will address in this course as we explore the controversies and solutions associated with sustainable diets and food production.

Art, Culture, and Literature @ UMass looks at the lively and vibrant arts and culture of UMass, including museums and galleries, rare books and manuscripts, one of America?s foremost literary magazines, innovative and historic architecture, a major international film archive, and other cultural resources on campus. The seminar will offer a history of the arts, writing, and design at UMass, and will include on-campus field trips to all the places and resources we learn about.

Hip Hop is a cultural form cultivated from evolving Black and African aesthetics drawn from ancestral expressions of culture and spirituality. For many in the United States, Hip Hop appears to be simply a pop culture phenomenon with limited representations associated with the culture and often consumed through corporate mass media. Despite its contemporary role in modern pop culture in the United States and beyond, the roots of Hip Hop connect to a profound history of struggle and resistance to oppression.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Democrats inside and outside of Congress, and othershave arguedfor the creation of a single-payer, national health insurance program called ?Medicare for All? to provide comprehensive health care coverage for all Americans. Surprisingly, the effort to create a national health insurance program has been around since atleast November 1945. Seventy-five years ago, President Harry S. Truman was the first sitting chief executive to advocate for the passage of national health insurance.

This seminar will explore the biology and behavior of the domestic cat from an evolutionary and ecological perspective. Students will be introduced to the evolution of mammals and wild cats. The seminar will explore the domestication process and how this shaped the current behavior and biology of the domestic cat and how cat ancestry left its marks on this companion animal. The positive and negative health impacts of domestic cats will be discussed. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of feral cats, their impacts on wildlife, and their management.

This course will explore adoption from the perspectives of the triad members; those who are adopted, birth parents and adoptive parents. Time will be spent discussing private domestic adoption, adoption from foster care and international adoption. Content areas to be discussed within the different types of adoption include open vs. closed adoptions, adoption by lesbian and gay parents, transracial adoption and laws that help to prevent child trafficking. All students are welcome regardless of whether or not they experienced foster care and/or adoption.

This course will focus on advanced topics in survey design and analysis. Topics covered include different approaches to sampling, how to construct and use survey weights, and tools for analyzing and enriching survey data, including approaches to conducting matching and multiple imputation, as well as the construction and analysis of panel data. The course will also focus on designing and analyzing survey experiments.

The course will examine human speech recognition. A special focus will be on how humans recognize the sounds and words a speaker produces from both hearing and seeing the speaker. We will examine the basic mechanisms and mental representations involved in how humans recognize speech from these two modalities. We will discuss original research articles describing empirical research and prominent theories and models of speech perception.