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Students will learn basic concepts and techniques of studio television production, with a focus on directing live programs in a full-scale studio facility on the UMASS campus. The course includes lecture presentations, production exercises, script-writing projects, and studio production projects. Finally, each student will write, produce, and direct a live studio production.

Examines the work of European political thinkers who have either justified or disavowed systems of European imperialism in conversation with postcolonial and anti-colonial thinkers who have contested those very systems of power. Readings include Du Bois, Kant, James, Rousseau, Bolivar, Montesquieu, Mariategui, Marx, Gandhi, Mill, Tocqueville, and Fanon.

Intelligent visual computing is an emerging new field that seeks to combine modern trends in machine learning, computer graphics, computer vision to intelligently process, analyze and synthesize 2D/3D visual data. The course will start by covering 2D image and 3D shape representations, classification and regression techniques, and the fundamentals of deep learning. The course will then provide an in-depth background on analysis and synthesis of images and shapes with deep learning, in particular neural networks and probabilistic graphical models.

Intelligent visual computing is an emerging new field that seeks to combine modern trends in machine learning, computer graphics, computer vision to intelligently process, analyze and synthesize 2D/3D visual data. The course will start by covering 2D image and 3D shape representations, classification and regression techniques, and the fundamentals of deep learning. The course will then provide an in-depth background on analysis and synthesis of images and shapes with deep learning, in particular neural networks and probabilistic graphical models.

This course offers an introduction to American politics and citizenship. We will examine the philosophical, ideological, and theoretical foundations of the American system of government, as well as the actual institutions that make up this system. We will also spend some time looking at the ways in which citizens (and other activists) who are not part of this institutional system of government influence outcomes through voting, and participation in political parties, the media, and social movements.

A central tenet of nutrition research is that our food choices are largely determined by nutritional need. But this isn't a nutrition class. This is a sociology class, and one of the main ideas of this class is that there are considerable social forces at work behind how, and what, we eat. Think about availability, cost, religious guidelines, short-term diets for health purposes, and cultural beliefs.

This course introduces the fundamentals of biosensors and bioelectronics, with a focus on their working mechanisms, device structures, design concerns, and targeted applications. Tentative topics include: I. biosensors for molecule recognition and cell tracking; bioelectronics for lab-on-chip, cell imaging, and wearable applications.

The design and analysis of efficient algorithms for important computational problems. Emphasis on the relationships between algorithms and data structures and on measures of algorithmic efficiency. Sorting (heapsort, mergesort, quicksort), searching, graph algorithms. Experimental analysis of algorithms also emphasized. Use of computer required.

The course serves as a dynamic sampling of the multiple disciplines necessary to create or modify the Built Environment. Lectures presented by various educators, researchers, and practitioners; experts in their fields will provide students with a broadened perspective, which will help foster critical thinking and provide a more expansive view of the Built Environment.