Topics course: Making a place of one’s own entails occupying and consuming what the place consists of. Human inhabitation of the planet can be seen as simultaneously productive and destructive, of both the inhabited space and its inhabitants. Drawing on concepts commonly considered “economic”; i.e. production, consumption, exchange, and property the following questions will be explored in this course: i) Does anthropological research confirm the universality of these concepts in human communities across history and geography as assumed by political and economic philosophers?

This honors colloquium combines theory and experimentation in security engineering. The colloquium will focus on Machine Learning and the threats and vulnerabilities that arise in embedded applications, focusing on image analysis. It will build on the security engineering principles and methods developed in the main part of the course. Students will use modern cloud-based software packages and data-sets from the ML research community and will leverage current UMass research in secure embedded systems.

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This honors colloquium will be project and team-oriented. The project will have some connection to the broad field of signals and systems including, but not restricted to, the topic areas: Digital communication systems, Digital signal and image processing, Computer networks/communications, Feedback control systems. The projects will be coding and simulation-based, using MATLAB, Python, and Simulink. Projects with a hardware component will also be considered on an individual basis.

This seminar course covers veterinary medical terminology with an emphasis on term origins, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and pronunciation. Other topics covered include abbreviations and symbols, terms used to describe animal anatomy, occupational terms and interpretation of medical reports and records. This course is suited to students planning to enter careers in veterinary medicine.

Examines information technology from a business enterprise perspective. Topics include: the components and development of business information technology systems, their use in enhancing and facilitating management practices and decision making and their impact on management decisions.

Highly interactive and participatory introduction to the Sustainable Food and Farming major, focused on academic preparation, internships and careers. Especially for first year students and transfers into the major.

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