The World Wide Web was proposed originally as a collection of static documents inter-connected by hyperlinks. Today, the web has grown into a rich platform, built on a variety of protocols, standards, and programming languages, that aims to replace many of the services traditionally provided by a desktop operating system. This course will study core technologies, concepts, and techniques behind the creation of modern web-based systems and applications. This course satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BS/BA CS majors.

This upper-level undergraduate seminar explores the impact of nuclear weapons on U.S. culture, politics, and foreign policy from World War II to the Global War on Terror. Key topics include the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945, the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, apocalyptic films, Reagan's "Star Wars," and anti-nuclear activism.

Basic fundamentals related to nanoscale phenomena will be first introduced, followed by seminar-like lectures covering some general nanotechnology/nanoscience areas and latest development.

Introduction to some statistical regression and classification techniques including logistic regression, nearest neighbor methods, discriminant analysis, kernel smoothing, smoothing spline, local regression, generalized additive models, decision trees, random forests, and support vector machines. Clustering methods such as K-means and hierarchical clustering will be introduced. Finally, there will also topics on resampling based model evaluation methods and regularization based model selection methods.

This course provides the student with an understanding of major theories used to understand health problems in communities. Grounded in social and behavioral sciences, students will examine the tools and strategies used by public health educators to educate and empower people about health issues.

This is the first course in the four-course Citizen Scholars Program. In this course, we ask how society would be organized if it truly were good, and students are encouraged to unleash their imaginations?to envision the social structures and shared understandings that would characterize a truly good society. Cross-cultural examples and models from utopian fiction will help generate ideas about alternatives.

This course gives students a brief overview of several topics of practical importance to statisticians doing data analysis. It focuses on topics not typically covered in the required curriculum, but of use to students earning advanced degrees in statistics.

Algebraic geometry is the study of geometric spaces locally defined by polynomial equations. It is a central subject in mathematics with strong connections to differential geometry, number theory, and representation theory. This course will be a fast-paced introduction to the subject with a strong emphasis on examples.