This course offers a course-based undergraduate experience (CURE) for students who are enrolled in STEM majors. Students will develop skills in STEM research, communication and academics. We will use the general biology topics to focus our efforts as we 1) Sharpen our skills in reading and understanding the relevant popular and scientific literature, 2) learn how to design and carry out an original team-based research project, 3) develop the analytical skills required to analyze our data, and 4) improve our skills in communicating complex scientific concepts to scientists and non-scientists.

This course uses a sociological framework to;examine the nature and structure of modern;industrial societies. To identify central trends;in society and culture, this course covers;several basic themes, such as social inequality;and social interaction, that have appeared;repeatedly in the works of major social thinkers.

Capstone course requiring application of knowledge and techniques derived from previous courses. Course presents strategic management theories and frameworks, uses integrative cases, and leverages empirical observations to guide students in the formulation of successful firm-level strategies.

Provides an overview of different perspectives and approaches to leadership practice and related organizational behavior topics. Relying on a participative multi-learning approach, the course goes beyond traditional leadership practices to examine empowering leadership approaches for addressing contemporary organizational behavior challenges such as leading teams. The overall objective is to increase students? understanding of and ability to apply contemporary leadership and organizational behavior knowledge in work situations.

Covers topics such as the relational model, query languages, database design; storage and indexing, query processing and optimization, transaction management; XML data management; information integration; data stream systems; database security.

This course will provide an introduction to, and comprehensive overview of, reinforcement learning (RL).

This course will explore the concepts of Good and Evil as expressed in philosophical and theological texts and in their imaginative representation in literature, film and television, photography, and other forms of popular media. Cross-cultural perspectives and approaches to moral problems such as the suffering of the innocent, the existence of evil, the development of a moral consciousness and social responsibility, and the role of faith and spirituality will be considered.