This seminar covers legal, activist, and historical debates on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer politics in British Commonwealth countries. Focusing on Indian LGBTQ movements' efforts to overturn federal laws that harm queer and transgender people there, the course will move to cover discourses on these issues in other Commonwealth countries, including Uganda, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Nigeria. The seminar discusses efforts to repeal colonial era anti-sodomy law still in effect in countries in the Global South that were once part of the British Empire.

This course combines understanding world and local news alongside developing critical media skills. How can you bring your critical thinking skills to bear on analyzing news sources and stories? What are the social and political contexts of these accounts and reporters? In an era with news writing Bots, who or what is a reporter or journalist? What is a reliable source? Why do some news stories instantly travel world wide and others require intense digging? Why does the news report on the latest "viral video" while focusing little on in depth analysis of complex social problems.

Modeling response time (RT) distributions from cognitive tasks has proven to be an incredibly effective way to discriminate theoretical accounts, from distinguishing serial and discrete processing stages to disentangling information quality and response biases. We will discuss studies that use RT modeling across a wide range of cognitive phenomena, including perception, attention, reading, memory, and decision making. Students will also get direct experience writing code to implement RT models and apply them to data, hopefully including data from their own research.

This course covers reasoning, judgment, and decision making. Reasoning is making an inference from information; judgment is forming an opinion or estimate; and decision making is selecting a course of action. The material in this course is drawn from research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience and is applicable to large number of fields such as public policy, law, business, organizational behavior, computer science, medicine, engineering and, most importantly, everyday life. This course is about how we *should* act, how we *do* act, and the difference between the two.

This course builds on the basics students master in Sound Design I. They acquire advanced experience with digital processing (including EQ, compression and reverb) and of audio hardware (including microphones, mixers and loudspeakers). They continue to practice their creative design work with assignments and projects, and to develop their skill with Logic Pro X and Qlab. They learn how to design sound systems and produce the documentation required to build and maintain those systems. They will understand the physical characteristics and behavior of sound.

Theory and execution of selected mechanical engineering measurements. Lectures and 1 three-hour lab meeting.