Stat Modeling/Health Data Sci

This is course is for students who want to learn essential statistical and computational skills for health data science. Students will obtain hands-on experience in implementing a wide range of commonly used statistical methods with real data from public health and biomedical research using the statistical programming language R. The course motivates statistical reasoning and methods through real health data.

General Physics II

Heat, kinetic theory, first and second laws of thermodynamics, with lab. Comprehensive study of electricity and magnetism from Coulomb's law to Ampere's law. Applications to basic circuits and ending with AC circuits. Prerequisites: PHYSICS 151 and MATH 132. (GenEd. PS)

Unreliable Narrators

In this course we will examine how narrators and narration drive and impose structure onto short stories. By doing so, we will begin to consider the role of the narrator in our own creative work. We will study the role narrators play into the function of the stories they tell, whether they feature in those stories or not.

Politic Consumer Finance

This course will explore the history of consumer finance from Provident Loan Societies to credit cards and ask whether easy access to credit dampens the potential for class-based social movements. We will study the variety of institutions that regulate consumer finance in the United States from the Federal Trade Commission to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and explore how consumer finance was and is influenced by factors such as gender and race.

Race and U.S. Politics

This course is one part theoretical, presenting race as a multifaceted concept that is both a social construct and a social fact; one part historical, exploring how race in the United States has been constructed over time through institutions like the Census and in response to different waves of immigration; and one part political, surveying the politics of race in the United States from slavery to civil rights to Donald Trump and interrogating the relationship between race and other lenses through which U.S. politics can be studied, such as class.

Anna Maria Siega-Riz

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Primary Title:  
Dean Public Hlth/Professor
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
Public Health & Health Sciences
Email Address:  
asiegariz@umass.edu
Telephone:  
413-545-2526
Office Building:  
Arnold House

Kara M Leistyna

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Clerk
Institution:  
UMASS Amherst
Department:  
UMass Dining - Administration
Email Address:  
kleistyna@umass.edu
Telephone:  
413-545-2472
Office Building:  
Worcester Dining Commons

ST-Advanced Rheology

This course will present an advanced, discussion-based overview of the constitutive equations of polymer rheology, with the course sequence split into two parts, continuum-based fluid descriptions and molecule-based descriptions. The continuum portion will directly extend material introduced in PSE797X while the molecular portion will examine how to translate models for polymer dynamics into constitutive equations for bulk flow; specific models will include dumbbell, Rouse/Zimm, and reptation models.

S-Diversity/Inclusion/Pedagogy

This seminar will review domain literature concerning best practices in diversity, inclusion, and pedagogy, while connecting these topics to workplace and classroom experiences. Starting with core literature and examples from geosciences, geology, geography and elsewhere, students will engage in critical discussion of how race, gender, class and other identities have been marginalized in these fields. Through conversations, reflections, and participatory actions, this course will explore current issues and consider how to create an equitable landscape moving forward.
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