This course focuses on how to approach and analyze music with text, studying both specific repertoires and the theory behind creating meaning across two conceptual and expressive domains. To that end, the course will divide into three units corresponding to three repertoires (German Lieder, Popular and Broadway song, and religious song), outlining the normative practices of that repertoire, reading analyses of that repertoire, and studying specific pieces.

Discover who you are and how to maximize your strengths and promote your best self with confidence in professional settings.

This course focuses on the analysis and practice of communication design and serves as an introduction to integrated design production. Students will work with various software applications including Adobe Creative Cloud and experiment with hands-on fabrication in the iterative design process. Students should expect to engage in studio tutorials and apply both theoretical principles and original research to the creation of final projects.

Writing in the various modes of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay. Analysis of student writing in class and in tutorial; development of critical skills. Course may be taken twice for credit and is not repeatable for grade forgiveness.

This course continues the work begun in Community Journalism Project, an intermediate reporting class that sends students to ghettos, barrios and poor white and working class communities in the region. Includes intensive fieldwork, substantial newswriting and devotion the reading.

Machine learning is employed in an increasingly wide range of applications. Using ML entails developing end-to-end pipelines to collect data, clean it, and run learning and inference algorithms in a scalable manner. This results in computationally intense workloads and complex software pipelines. Systems for ML help users organize their data and scale these computationally intense problems to larger and larger datasets. At the same time, ML is having an increasing impact on systems design.

The solo show is theatre at its best. The bare essentials are a good story and one performer. This course is for writers, actors, comics, performers and anyone who wants to create their own one-person show. Whether you are writing a solo show based on personal experience, a historical figure, or a gallery of characters around a central theme, this course will give you the tools to construct a show that utilizes all of your talents. For actors and comics the one-person show gives you more control over your career as well as a place for your own voice to be heard.

Discrete/Categorical data are prevalent in many applied fields, including biological and medical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and economics and business. This course provides an applied treatment of modern methods for visualizing and analyzing broad patterns of association in discrete/categorical data.

Various protective materials including body armor, helmets, and specialized suits are essential to saving lives and minimizing body injuries under extreme dynamic conditions. To advance the protective materials, fundamental understanding of material deformation behavior at very high rates is crucial. This course will provide basic understanding of materials science and high-strain-rate mechanics relevant to such extreme conditions.