The course is designed to learn the basic principle of embryology including, germ layer establishment, body axis determination, induction, determination, competence and differentiation. The course will have a lecture component that will describe how an embryo is shaped from a single cell and a laboratory component that will allow students to observe developmental stages and perform classical experiments that were used to demonstrate the basic principles described above.

Students will work collaboratively to construct a production-grade image processing system.

In this seminar, students will explore state-of-the-art techniques for finding patterns and functional relationships in data that is split across multiple locations. Topics include factorized learning for vertically partitioned data, model fitting via distributed stochastic gradient descent, and more. Students will read and present papers from a list provided by the instructors.

In this class, we focus on acquiring a principled understanding of everyday, face-to-face interaction as the process by which we create, maintain, and manage social experience. Students acquire vocabulary and concepts to account for, analyze, and evaluate interpersonal communication in social and cultural context.

This course examines central works and figures in classical and modern Islamic social and political thought. We will discuss the works of classical Islamic jurists, theologians and philosophers, as well as modern religious reformers to discern the similarities and differences between them, and connect them to major currents of thought in the Islamic world today.

In this clinical practicum, students provide and manage nursing care for select clients with restorative health care needs. Emphasis is on providing care to sick clients in inpatient settings.

Animals, Politics & the Law will provide an overview of public policy regarding the often complicated relationship between humans and non-human animals, with coverage of how relevant policy came into being, and how social change occurs. Areas of major coverage will include the various ways that non-human animals are viewed by members of society, the capacities of non-human animals, legal theories that address the status and (at times species specific) standing of non-human animals, and political initiatives that address non-human animals through legislative and regulatory means.

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.