The purpose of this course is to introduce the history, art, and techniques of designing sets for theater and film. Students will learn how sets have been created in the past, how a designer approaches a script, how a designer's work supports the director's vision, how it illuminates a production for the audience, and what methods and techniques are used in the execution of the process. Students will have the opportunity to exercise their visual imaginations, through the creation of designs for a script.

This course analyzes microeconomic concerns in less-developed countries, specifically economic behavior for agricultural households facing missing and incomplete markets. Topics include agricultural production and input markets, risk and uncertainty, microfinance, and health and education. This course will focus on developing microeconomic models and analyzing empirical evidence.

This portion of the Data Science Capstone will involve refinement of the project focus, identification of data sources, iterative model development and refinement, literature search, and completion of a paper and presentation. Students will also provide substantial feedback on each other's work as a way of sharpening their data science analysis skills.

This portion of the Data Science capstone will include readings and discussion of data ethics and data integrity, and students will also do preliminary identification of their capstone project focus.