The purpose of this course is to provide students with supplementary material and insights about the software development enterprise. Students meet once a week for a one-hour discussion of software engineering topics whose exploration is intended to provide depth and perspective on the regular material of COMPSCI 320. Topics may be suggested by current events or by problems that may arise in the course of the 320 semester. Students will be required to write a term paper as part of the requirements for this course.

In "Europe and the People without History," Eric Wolf, the late anthropologist notes that, "the social sciences constitute one long dialogue with the ghost of Marx." Feminists and anti-colonialists are among the many advocates of social justice who have engaged with Karl Marx's writing and fierce criticism of capitalism. This advanced seminar focuses on an exegesis of some of Marx's oeuvre and the historical and current scholarship that draws on, critiques, and pushes its boundaries.

A special, weekend-long series of workshops that address injury prevention, care, and recovery for dancers. Course workshops feature guest lecturers who are experts in medicine, nutrition, rehabilitation, somatics, and professional dance. Guest lecturers will offer a sequence of panels, seminars, small group discussions, and applied sessions during the weekend-long series with an aim toward inviting an awareness of practices that promote longevity and ease within dance training and performance.

This year-long course provides opportunities for undergraduate students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geosciences departments to perform `full circle? science in the area of Arctic hydrology and geomorphology.

Continuation of E&C-ENG 333 with emphasis on time-varying fields, propagation of plane waves in unbounded media. Wave reflection and transmission at boundary between two media, wave polarization, geometrical optics concepts, images. Guided wave propagation in rectangular waveguides. Electromagnetic radiation, antennas, applications to communications and radar systems. Prerequisite: E&C-ENG 333.

The prehispanic Mesoamerican culture process. The origins, growth, development, and partial colonial reconstruction of these unique native American societies. The intellectual history of Mesoamerican archaeology.

This course examines the causes and consequences of contemporary, global political violence. It explores the dynamics (who, why, when, and how) of political violence and investigates both the utility of these acts and efforts to prevent, counter, and recover from them. Topics include war, civil conflicts, non-state armed groups, state violence, civilian targeting, terrorism, and political extremism.

This course examines and applies decolonizing approaches to archaeological collections management. Students will learn about the history of collecting and museum collections management in the U.S. including laws and policies, such as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) that address the control of Indigenous cultural material and human remains in US museum collections. We will learn about Indigenous approaches to decolonizing museum collections and apply these methods to the care and preparation of UMass collections in support of Tribal consultation requests.