This course will introduce students to various web-based tools for teaching and learning. Through a blend of skills-based projects and discussions, students will learn how to use online tools to create learner-, assessment-, community-, and knowledge-centered learning environments. This course aims to expose students to innovative tools for teaching 21st century students and various learning theories associated with the development and use of those tools.

This course focuses on the economics of women, minorities and work in the labor market and the household. Using economic theory along with empirical investigation, we will study issues such as employment decisions, earnings determination, occupational choice, discrimination, and family formation. Emphasis will be placed on public policies related to the labor market experiences of women and minorities.

Continuation of Equine Enterprise I. Capstone experience will focus on improvements and efficiency of the equine boarding operation at the UMass Hadley Farm, weekly evaluation of strengths and weaknesses, client feedback, and marketing of the business. Required weekly meetings and student committee assignments. Lab time includes weekly shifts at the facility. End of semester student presentations of a comprehensive annual report.

This course is the second part of the Beginning Korean, which is designed to teach the fundamental skills to read, write, listen and speak in elementary level Korean. Prior to take this course, students are expected to read Hangul and to be able to talk about simple daily activities and carry a limited conversation with memorized phrases. Compared to the first semester, more advanced vocabulary and grammar patterns will be introduced, and the students will learn how to integrate them into developed forms of application.

This seminar considers the role of political organizations, with an emphasis on NGOs, advocacy organizations, and, to a lesser extent, transnational advocacy networks, in society and in policy making. The course emphasizes the goals and imperatives of such organizations, including the need to overcome collective action problems and to compete along with other groups occupying similar policy niches. We examine the development and consequences of political groups' strategic repertoires and tactical choices.

This course brings the rigorous study of educational inequality together with the tools of critical media analysis to explore representations and realities of inequality in schools with a focus on race, class, ability, gender, and sexuality. Students will also develop skills to teach for critical media literacy using critical pedagogical methods.

Students will explore and discuss topics from the COMPSCI 446 curriculum in greater detail. Students will implement an expanded programming project, such as implementing the Inference Network retrieval model, and produce a final report on that project.

In this class, we will examine the role of communication in the construction of race as a basis for similarity/difference, the ways that communication about race intersects with other social group categories to form a basis for individual, social, cultural and national identities. We will look at race as a dynamic of power that is both embedded and performed in contexts and institutions, in relation(ship) to others. Students will lead class discussions on readings and facilitate group dialogues. There will also be quizzes on readings and final (group) projects.