ENGLWRIT 112 (College Writing) is a first-year college-level writing course designed to help students expand their ability to write essays for academic, civic, and personal purposes and to develop their rhetorical awareness to write effectively in new social contexts. Based on the assumption that writing is a social activity, this course requires active engagement in the writing process, including pre-writing, peer review, revision, and editing. Students write five essays. This is the only course at UMass Amherst which satisfies the General Education College Writing (CW) requirement.

ENGLWRIT 112 (College Writing) is a first-year college-level writing course designed to help students expand their ability to write essays for academic, civic, and personal purposes and to develop their rhetorical awareness to write effectively in new social contexts. Based on the assumption that writing is a social activity, this course requires active engagement in the writing process, including pre-writing, peer review, revision, and editing. Students write five essays. This is the only course at UMass Amherst which satisfies the General Education College Writing (CW) requirement.

ENGLWRIT 112 (College Writing) is a first-year college-level writing course designed to help students expand their ability to write essays for academic, civic, and personal purposes and to develop their rhetorical awareness to write effectively in new social contexts. Based on the assumption that writing is a social activity, this course requires active engagement in the writing process, including pre-writing, peer review, revision, and editing. Students write five essays. This is the only course at UMass Amherst which satisfies the General Education College Writing (CW) requirement.

This seminar is designed to assist first semester Isenberg School of Management external transfer students with the transition into their new academic community. Through this one-credit seminar, students will be introduced to valuable academic and career related topics and provided with connections to campus resources, faculty and staff.

This seminar is designed to assist first semester Isenberg School of Management external transfer students with the transition into their new academic community. Through this one-credit seminar, students will be introduced to valuable academic and career related topics and provided with connections to campus resources, faculty and staff.

This research-focused course uses bacteriophage genomics to introduce biology as an experimental science. Students learn computational biological techniques through annotation and characterization of novel viral genomes. Students will be introduced to concepts in bioinformatics, microbiology, evolution, and molecular biology through hands-on experiments driven by results obtained during class.

This career development course is designed to help Humanities and Fine Arts students prepare for life by acquiring important professional skills and perspectives. The class will explore a variety of subjects, including how to customize resumes and cover letters, job and internship search strategies, interviewing skills, the importance of internships and networking, and what qualifications HFA majors bring to the job market. All course materials will be available at no cost online or distributed in class. Attendance at some career events outside of class required.

The course will primarily focus on the mathematical foundations of probabilistic Artificial Intelligence. The topics covered will include: Fundamentals of Information Theory, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approximate Inference and Variational Inference Graphical Models (directed and undirected) Hidden Markov Models
Neural Networks and other Black Box methods Support Vector Machines
Adversarial learning, Game Theory and Generative Adversarial Networks, Reinforcement Learning Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Quantification.

This career development course is designed to help Humanities and Fine Arts students prepare for life by acquiring important professional skills and perspectives. The class will explore a variety of subjects, including how to customize resumes and cover letters, job and internship search strategies, interviewing skills, the importance of internships and networking, and what qualifications HFA majors bring to the job market. All course materials will be available at no cost online or distributed in class. Attendance at some career events outside of class required.

This course combines instruction in research techniques in a variety of Humanistic and Social Science disciplines, and hands-on experience with those techniques, with substantive materials focusing on the long struggle of minority populations for full participation in American cultural and public life. (Gen. Ed. HS, DU)