The goals of this course are to demonstrate first, what mathematical models of behavior are and how to evaluate them in a research context, and second, the basics behind a number of common modeling techniques and how to implement them. The course will begin with an overview of mathematical modeling and a discussion of the role of mathematics for understanding behavioral data. Rather than focusing on theory, the emphasis of the rest of the course will be on evaluation and applications of and hands-on experience with particular modeling techniques.

This course examines Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) as an approach to research to understand and address health inequities at the community level. Through class discussions and assignments, students become familiar with the approach, developing methodology, and the ethical and professional challenges posed by CBPR. Students have the opportunity to critique published CBPR studies, and propose and present a CBPR plan for a health inequity within a community.

This course will provide an overview of food quality assurance and regulation, while training students to obtain quality control certification. Upon successful completion of the course, students will obtain FSPCA Qualified Individual Certifications.

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This course is for students who want to learn essential statistical and computational skills for health data science. Students will obtain hands-on experience in implementing a wide range of commonly used statistical methods with real data from public health and biomedical research using the statistical programming language R. The course motivates statistical reasoning and methods through real health data.

This course will introduce primary aspects of sustainable building and smart growth certification systems (SBSG) such as the WELL Standard, the Living Building Challenge, Passivhaus and LEED for Neighborhood Development, Cities and Communities. Through instructor-led, individual and collaborative exercises, discover the core concepts and standards related to high performance building systems and interact with front-line practitioners and learn from case-study examples of high-performance buildings.

This course explores the concept of using the campus as a living laboratory to accelerate innovation in the realm of low carbon approaches to buildings, materials, technologies, policies and ways of living.

Doctoral level seminar is designed to examine a range of sociocultural theoretical perspectives on the study of language. Goals will be to develop familiarity with several perspectives, to consider their similarities and differences and their usefulness in researching language in educational settings, and to practice applying one or more in the analysis of language data.

This course brings the rigorous study of educational inequality together with the tools of critical media analysis to explore representations and realities of inequality in schools with a focus on race, class, ability, gender, and sexuality. Students will also develop skills to teach for critical media literacy using critical pedagogical methods.

Prepracticum experience in a public school classroom analyzing teaching and learning.