This seminar meets weekly for one hour and is intended for ENVSCI seniors who want to jump-start their entry into a career by honing their resumes, developing an elevator pitch that clearly and succinctly communicates their "personal brand," participating in mock interviews, and utilizing advanced functions in LinkedIn and USAJobs to search out and apply for potential career positions post-graduation.

This course investigates education as it relates to economic theory (i.e., public economics, labor economics, microeconomics etc.). In this course we will look at the structure of and problems facing the United States education system. The goal of the course is to understand economic tools of analysis. Although the course focus is on the U.S. and formal education, the course content and topics will be valuable to students who are interested in education broadly and internationally.

This course provides an overview of the core design principles used in the holistic design of low power embedded computing systems. The topics for the course will include wireless and ambient energy harvesting, alternative energy storage technologies, low power radio design, efficient sensor data processing, and low power AI accelerators. The course will include a survey of papers from recent top-tier conferences and journals. Students will have the opportunity to design a low power embedded system for IoT, mobile health, or other HCI application and empirically evaluate its performance.

This course introduces twentieth-century science fiction through reading American, European and Japanese novels and stories, examining SF in social, critical and literary contexts, and its sites of production and consumption. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)

Computing for the common good is a seminar course that explores new ways of utilizing technology for connecting people and empowering communities to address complex social problems related to health, and democracy. In this course, students will read and discuss the sate of the art papers in digital civics and social technology. Students will discuss and present papers, participate in group discussions, and carry out research projects. Topics include human-computer interaction, digital civics, social computing, collective intelligence, and community sourcing.

Selected topics from the philosophy of physics and (perhaps) the philosophy of biology. Philosophy of physics topics may include: is the geometry of space a matter of convention? Do space and time exist? Is there action at a distance? Philosophy of biology topics may include: Is "survival of the fittest" a tautology? Does the theory of evolution show that altruism is impossible? Is Intelligent Design a scientific theory? Along the way we will also discuss more general questions in the philosophy of science about the nature of scientific theories and scientific explanation.

This course covers current topics in genetics and and the social, ethical and legal issues surrounding genetic technology. Topics include genome structure and evolution, genetics of disease, personal genomics, human microbiomes and epidemiology. Students will have the opportunity to submit their DNA for genome-wide SNP and gut microbiome determination. Practical skills for analyzing genetic and genomic data are taught through weekly bioinformatic sessions in the R statistical programming language.

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 course covers current topics in genetics and and the social, ethical and legal issues surrounding genetic technology. Topics include genome structure and evolution, genetics of disease, personal genomics, human microbiomes and epidemiology. Students will have the opportunity to submit their DNA for genome-wide SNP and gut microbiome determination. Practical skills for analyzing genetic and genomic data are taught through weekly bioinformatic sessions in the R statistical programming language.

Theater movements of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, and the body of literature by contemporary playwrights of color within a historical context. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)