Recommender Systems (RS) are key technical components in many online applications, such as product recommendation, video recommendation, or stream recommendation in social networks.

Concepts include infrastructure used for drinking water and sanitation provision in urban and rural areas in developing countries and the fundamentals of the health-related impacts of water and sanitation including waterborne pathogens, their transmission routes, and prevention, control, and treatment measures. Students will gain insight into considerations of sustainability, reliability, and the non-health impacts of water and sanitation services.

How is settler colonialism - the process of (violently) displacing Native populations and claiming land by a colonizing population - related to gender and sexuality? And how does it connect to, and differ from, other forms of coloniality and postcolonialism? This course will examine recent writings in Native feminism and settler-colonial studies, in conjunction with social movements' engagement (or lack thereof) with indigenous and gender justice and decolonization.

New England is a heavily forested region providing tremendous public benefits. The majority of these forests are owned by families. This course will explore the critical role family forest owners play in conservation. The class will be part of a regional class also being offered at the Universities of Maine and Vermont. Each week our class will meet with students from all three universities using web technology, hear from a speaker, and have a New England wide discussion.

Overview of law and legal systems; attention to legal aspects of management problems.

This undergraduate seminar explores the history of British Empire in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. We will examine how Britain derived power, profit, and glory from its colony in India. We will also examine the ways in which religion, caste, class, and gender influenced the ideas and practices of anti-imperialist nationalism in India. Topics include indentured servitude; the opium

This course provides an introduction to the literature, theory, and practice of geographies of migration, diaspora, and refugees. Students will examine historical migrations of humans beginning with the Out of Africa theory leading up to present day issues of the European migrant crisis and transnational migration phenomena. There will also be modules on refugee studies especially looking at internally displaced peoples and cases that destabilize what it means to be a ?refugee.? Climate change and its causal relationship to refugees will be critiqued.