This course is an introduction to the art produced in Latin America and by people of Latin American descent, from 1800 to the present. Organized chronologically, the course emphasizes the essential role that art and visual culture have played in the political, social, and religious spheres of Latin America since the wars of independence, as well as the way art is mobilized by Latinx people in the United States.

What does it mean to study politics from below? How does immersion of the researcher in the research world contribute to the study of power? What are the promises, and perils, of social research that invites the unruly minutiae of lived experience to converse with, and contest, abstract disciplinary theories and categories? In this practice-intensive seminar, we explore ethnographic and other qualitative fieldwork methods with specific attention to their potential to subvert, generate, and extend understandings of politics and power.

This course aims to heighten your awareness of writing as both practice and concept. ?Writing Studies? is an interdisciplinary area of study at the intersection of literacy studies, communication, digital studies, education, and linguistics that is interested in how written texts?public documents, technical and professional communication, social media, etc.?reflect and impact social organization and change. The course invites students to explore writing in society through a problem-posing approach, focusing attention on how writing is understood, used, and learned. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)

Seminar examines current issues confronting institutions of higher education and their policy implications. Prevailing viewpoints, problems, and opportunities associated with these issues will be identified.

Course will approach the study of the link between education and globalization from two directions: one, from a study of recent policy initiatives in education with a view toward understanding how a particular kind of globalization is being constructed through education policy; and two, from a study of the varied literature on globalization with a view toward assessing the different constructions of globalization that are possible, and the implications of each for education policy.

This course in critical thinking will examine plausible but misleading arguments in selected academic areas. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Engl majors.

This course covers the thermodynamics and kinetics of solidification, including heat and mass transfer, nucleation, growth, morphology, and methods of modeling the associated heat and mass transfer. The balance between heat transfer and morphology will be adjusted based on the needs of the students enrolled.

Advanced analysis and design of robust, linear, time-invariant feedback systems. Topics include frequency domain analysis, complex plane and Nichols charts, frequency domain stability criteria, design of classical lead/lag controllers, correlation between time response and frequency response, uncertainty descriptions, single-loop linear continuous-time systems, cascaded-loop linear continuous-time systems, multi-loop linear continuous-time systems, and discrete-time systems. Prerequisites: undergraduate control course and consent of instructor.

This course applies principles of continuum mechanics to a broad range of biomechanical phenomena. The topics include: introduction to cell biology, fundamentals of solid mechanics, mechanosensitive machineries in cells, mechanotransduction, cell mechanics, developmental biomechanics, etc. Experimental methods for measuring molecular mechanics, cell adhesion, migration and contraction, and tissue biomechanics will also be discussed. Most recent literature will be used as discussion materials to connect theories with research.

Quantitative techniques of production planning and control, including forecasting, master production scheduling, manufacturing resources planning, operation scheduling, materials management, just-in-time production, and inventory management.