This graduate-level course is aimed at students who have a foundation in basic GIS techniques and applications and are interested in expanding their knowledge into their area of spatial decision making and visualization of the decision maps. We will start with the linkage between GIScience, spatial analysis, and decision support. We will then discuss different decision-making techniques and highlight the important distinction between conventional MCDA methods and spatially explicitly multicriteria approaches.

The course will explore historical and pedagogical perspectives on African American literacies. Seminar readings will historicize African American English and language use in African American communities, as well as highlight the relationship among language, society, identity, and education. Additionally, we will examine ideas, practices and values associated with African American literacies. As we consider African American literacies among African American youth in the United States, we will address particular challenges, histories, and contemporary issues (i.e.

This course is designed to teach students to utilize open educational and public domain resources to create, edit, and deliver content for learning and instruction.

This course is designed to accompany an internship experience and is available to students participating in an internship in the Boston area. Internships not only add value to a student's professional pursuits, but also serve as a vehicle for learning key professional skills such as teamwork, communication, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills. The class is intended to expand upon the internship experience through personal reflection, relevant readings, writing, group interactions, subject-matter expert speakers, and site visits.

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This course provides the opportunity for graduate students to immerse themselves in a project of their own design that positively impacts music students and music programs in one of the music communities that surround the University of Massachusetts. Students will be encouraged to situate their projects in urban settings and/or settings where UMass partnerships currently exist, such as the Springfield Public Schools, area Community Music Schools, etc.

The purpose of this course is to examine current issues that impact the state of music education in schools. Topics will vary, but may include the following: advocacy, culture and community, curriculum and pedagogy, diversity, policy, and professional reform. Students will also explore in depth a topic of their choice that is relevant to their teaching situation.

Second half of the experimental course for sophomore majors. Experiments on a range of topics in modern physics. Corequisite: PHYSICS 284.

This course is an introduction to normative ethics. More specifically, we will focus on questions about what to do and how to live from a moral point of view. We will spend a large portion of the course discussing specific moral questions?e.g. Is it ever permissible to kill someone? How much of our income should we donate to charity? What are our obligations to animals? But we will also look at proposals to give unified answers to all moral questions. Inevitably, we will pause to reflect on the moral questions themselves: What are we asking for when we ask whether something is morally wrong?

This advanced course will build on the foundations of scenic design practice covered in THEATER 360 (Intro to Set Design) such as dramaturgical and visual research, model building, drafting, budgeting, creative problem solving, flexibility of methods and solutions in pursuit of a vision in support of a performance event, and collaboration skills through actual production assignments in the department as well as several paper projects realized in 3-D model form.