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)

Our aim in this course is to share with students an understanding of the scope and diversity of the relations of African Americans and Jewish Americans in the U.S., during the past 300 years. One of our purposes is to minimize the tendency toward comparing degrees of suffering, or posing an ?Us versus Them? framework that ignores the more complex interactions that have characterized Black-Jewish relations over time and in different geographical parts of the U.S.

This course is a one-credit seminar on security research across departments at UMass. Each presentation will cover an active research topic at UMass in a way that assumes only a basic background in security. External speakers may also be invited. Note that this course is not intended to be an introduction to cybersecurity, and will not teach the fundamentals of security in a way that would be useful as a foundation for future security coursework. The intended audience is graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as faculty. Meets with ECE/MATH 591CF.

Exploration of the types of writing associated with the discipline of communication. Development and improvement of the student's writing, research, and critical thinking skills. Fulfills Junior Year Writing requirement.

Readings from Hofstadter's Godel, Esher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, and discussion of these in connection with the material of COMPSCI 250. How can a formal proof in number theory be like a piece of classical music or a paradoxical drawing? What can formal logic tell us about the possibility of machine intelligence, or the nature of human intelligence? Students will report on and discuss their readings in the weekly seminar meeting, and each student will make an oral presentation at the end of the term.

This class is an in-depth introduction to systems, focusing on principles of system design that cross-cut numerous systems artifacts, including operating systems, databases, runtime systems, and architecture. We will cover all levels of the "system stack", from chips to distributed systems. This course may be used to satisfy systems core requirements.

This course presents an overview of the field of public health, including major health problems; social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting health; important actors within the public health system; and approaches used.

This course presents an overview of the field of public health, including major health problems; social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting health; important actors within the public health system; and approaches used.

This course presents an overview of the field of public health, including major health problems; social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting health; important actors within the public health system; and approaches used.

This course presents an overview of the field of public health, including major health problems; social, behavioral, and environmental factors affecting health; important actors within the public health system; and approaches used.