An exploration of computer science for first-year CICS students, focusing on a single topic.

In this workshop, we will focus our attention on the function of tone in a poem as a way of communicating and deepening its emotive charge. We will examine a few of the numerous craft elements that contribute to a poem's tonal register, such as sound, detail, image, syntax, form, music, and how these tools might signal tonal shifts within a poem or complicate a poem's emotional depth. We will also consider how elements of tone create tension and counterbalance within poems.

Robert Hass writes, "All the new thinking is about loss. / In this it resembles all the old thinking." And while the poets we will consider certainly consider loss in their thinking, they also expand that thinking to include such contemporary subjects as identity, home, sexuality, disease, justice, and police brutality. In this course, we will close read and respond to debut or second collections by several emerging poets. Students will annotate individual poems and develop interview questions for each collection.

The analysis of time to event data focusing on applications of regression models to right censored data. Particular emphasis on the use and interpretation of the pro-portional hazards model. Prerequisite: PUBHLTH 640.

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Role of the college and university in American society, past and present. Meaning of a college education at various periods in American life.

Slime mold is a yellow, branching amoeba that creeps around the forest floor looking for food, combining and growing, dividing and pulsing, capturing the imaginations of writers, artists, scientists, and now policymakers. In this class, we will use this slimy blob to model human problems such as climate change and resilience. Students of all disciplines and experiences are welcome to join us as we grow with our oozy collaborators and listen to what they have to say based on their half a billion years adapting on this planet.

How hot is lava? How can volcanic eruptions be predicted? Learn the answers to these questions and more as we jump into the hot topic of volcanology. This course will begin covering the basic geologic context of volcanoes including where, why, how and what volcanoes erupt. Other topics will include monitoring of active volcanoes, their impact on climate, and the huge range of hazards to society that volcanoes present. Did you know that human evolution hit a bottleneck around 70,000 years ago? It's believed that was due to a supervolcano eruption!