This course will be conducted inside the Hampshire County Jail and House of Corrections in Northampton and will enroll an equal number of students from UMass and students who are incarcerated in the facility. As a member of this course, you will be joining an international community of educators and students who are committed to dialogue and scholarly learning inside prisons and jails. This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the critical, aspirational, artistic, and creative forms that Justice takes in literature and the humanities more broadly.

Basic ideas of point and interval estimation and hypothesis testing; one and two sample problems, simple linear regression, topics from among one-way analysis of variance, discrete data analysis and nonparametric methods. Prerequisite: Statistc 515 or equivalent.

[Note: Because this course presupposes knowledge of basic math skills, it will satisfy the R1 requirement upon successful completion.]

This course discusses the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health and medical care delivery systems in the US. Topics include issues related with bio-medicine, death and dying processes, medical research, organ procurement and donation, quarantine practices, reproductive technology, in addition to other topics of current interest. Cultural, legal, professional, religious, and other lenses will be used to explore examined issues.

Basic concepts (over real or complex numbers): vector spaces, basis, dimension, linear transformations and matrices, change of basis, similarity. Study of a single linear operator: minimal and characteristic polynomial, eigenvalues, invariant subspaces, triangular form, Cayley-Hamilton theorem. Inner product spaces and special types of linear operators (over real or complex fields): orthogonal, unitary, self-adjoint, hermitian. Diagonalization of symmetric matrices, applications.

Basic training in writing editorials, columns and broadcast commentary with an emphasis on political and social policies. How to encourage the persuaded, nudge the neutral and discomfit the opposition. The ability to write quickly will be stressed. Several short (two-page) papers.

Introduces concepts of project management for design and construction, including initiation, planning, implementation, monitoring, control, closeout, documentation, scope, budget and scheduling, teamwork and communication, contracts and negotiation, and risk management.

The objectives of this course is to educate participants in some of the most commonly used data analytics techniques, including methods for reducing data to informative statistics, data visualization, and cluster analysis. Students in this course will learn and use the Python programming language, creating scripts from the ground up and applying them to real and fascinating data sets. Does not count as a CS Elective (BA or BS).

This is an advanced Latin reading course. We will be reading a number of short classical and medieval ghost stories in the original language from a wide variety of authors, including Cicero, Petronius, Pliny the Younger, Apuleius, William of Newburgh, and many others.

Principles of American foreign policy with an emphasis on the historical, political, and administrative sources of contemporary policies. Analysis of the foreign policy-making process with specific reference to illustrative case studies. (Gen.Ed. SB)

Recommended: POLISCI 101 or 121 or equivalent course.