ST- Veterans and the VHA
Overview of VA health system, its history, unique mission and role, and how it has been viewed over time versus repeatedly documented high quality of care.
Independent Study
Consider independently exploring a topic of interest under the guidance of a faculty member. Once you identify the subject, take time to research our faculty and their publications. It is important to ensure your interests intersect before asking if they will work with you. This work will be graded and may apply to your upper-level Political Science degree requirements.
FYS - First Year Seminar
This course is designed to welcome first years in to the major and inform them of opportunities for their advancement in the department and beyond. The course introduces students to the subject area clusters of courses offered in the major and the faculty members in the department who teach in each of the clusters. It provides a brief overview of the field of political science and the major issues and topics that motivate the inquiries conducted in courses and in research.
Anatomy & Physiology I
Study of the structure and function of cell, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems in the human body. Integration and regulations of system function from an applied perspective through clinical applications.
Modern Middle East Music
Middle Eastern music forms stretch from Morocco to Xinjiang, China and boast a bewildering variety and yet retain distinct continuities in musical structure and performance practice. Music, however, is a contentious issue, or so we are told. Images of Muslims smashing instruments, destroying cassette tapes and radios, and looting music shops circulate continuously on social and news media, purporting to be evidence of the intractability of music and Islam. How should we approach such an apparent paradox?
Dream,Hist&Identity/PolishFilm
What happens when a nation "dreams" itself, when it projects an image of its identity and uses it to negotiate its socio-historic predicament? Perhaps modern Polish cinema, which rose from the ashes of the Holocaust and World War II and in a new communist age, offers as good a case study as any of this important question.
Buddhist Stories
What does it entail, and feel like, to embrace the modern world from a Buddhist perspective? The course examines key issues that have shaped the development of modern Buddhism across East Asia, while fostering a critical assessment of some fundamental assumptions in the making of the modern age.
Emmanuel L Adero
Primary Title:
Asst VC Culture Strat Initiat
Institution:
UMASS Amherst
Department:
Office of Equity & Inclusion
Email Address:
emmanuel.adero@umass.edu
Telephone:
413-545-1776
Office Building:
Whitmore Admin Building