One of every ten people in the world lives in a megacity (>10 million people). Understanding urbanization and the culture of city life is essential, as is understanding the global connections of people, products, cultural values, and capital as they flow through these nodes. This course explores the history of urbanization and how places become centers of production and consumption.

This course will look at memory from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. We will discuss current brain-based theories of memory, including accounts of recognition memory and theories of amnesia. We will examine the organization of memory in the brain (Does the brain contain specialized modules for memory processes such as "recollection" and "familiarity"?) and look at the cognitive consequences of damage to brain regions important for these functions (Does damage to the hippocampus cause only problems with memory, or also problems with visual perception?).

Introduction to Sociology. Analysis of the consequences of membership in racial, gender, class and ethnic groups on social, economic and political life.
(Gen.Ed. SB, U)

This course considers the role of music as a form of political expression - that is, as a way of commenting on core concerns such as justice, freedom, equality, rights, and dignity, and of challenging entrenched systems of power and privilege. Examples from a variety of 20th and 21st Century American genres - rock, hip hop, jazz, country, R&B, and the blues - are used alongside key texts to analyze how music makes politics and politics makes music.

This course provides an introduction to Business Intelligence and Analytics, including the processes, methodologies, infrastructure, and current practices used to transform business data into useful information and support business decision-making. Business Intelligence requires foundation knowledge in data models and data retrieval, thus this course will review logical data models for both database management systems and data warehouses. Students will learn to extract and manipulate data from these systems.

In this course we will investigate and analyze major trends in the history of policing, broadly conceived, in the 20th century United States. This course is not meant as a chronological survey of U.S. history; instead, we will take a thematic approach, each week studying an issue or set of issues through a historical perspective.