Development and analysis of mathematical models for chemical engineering systems. Topics include statistics for data analysis, linear and nonlinear algebraic equation models, ordinary differential equation models and numerical methods for model solution.

What are the problems associated with developing equitable and just policy? Why does social policy in the United States continue to be marked by tensions between the principle of equality and the reality of inequalities in social, political, and economic realms? How might policy subvert or reinforce these differences and inequalities? This class examines the history of social policy in the United States, particularly those policies affecting concerns of gender, race, and class.

This course provides an introduction to the field of political psychology. It focuses primary attention on psychological explanations of individual political attitudes and actions, among both elites as well as the masses.

In this course, we examine how policy issues and current events get framed and reframed by public officials, political commentators, reporters, and interest groups. Framing is a process by which certain aspects of an issue or event are emphasized, while other aspects are de-emphasized or ignored. These choices are often strategic, aimed at persuading a particular audience or influencing public opinion at large.

This course introduces students to how the Supreme Court works as a legal institution, by examining landmark civil liberties decisions of the Court within their political and historical contexts. As an Integrative Experience course, this course also connects knowledge and skills from multiple sources, helps build oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills, and strengthens students' analytical understanding of how the Supreme Court works. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-POLSCI majors.

This is a course on the history of modern China (c. 1800 to present). Expecting that many students will come to the course with primary interests in other areas, it will emphasize comparative and transnational approaches that encourage cross-fertilization with other coursework.

The study of Nazi Germany forces historians to look more closely at a larger period of time and pose (and answer) important questions about a wide variety of topics relating to the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), the Nazi Era (1933-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945). The events during these periods are of epic proportions - strikes, assassinations, hyperinflation, street fighting - and that is just in the years between the two world wars! These events, however, must be placed within the context of larger trends.

This is a course on the history of modern China (c. 1800 to present). Expecting that many students will come to the course with primary interests in other areas, it will emphasize comparative and transnational approaches that encourage cross-fertilization with other coursework.

What are the problems associated with developing equitable and just policy? Why does social policy in the United States continue to be marked by tensions between the principle of equality and the reality of inequalities in social, political, and economic realms? How might policy subvert or reinforce these differences and inequalities? This class examines the history of social policy in the United States, particularly those policies affecting concerns of gender, race, and class.

Explores the relationship of women to the social, cultural, economic and political developments shaping American society from 1890 to the present. Examines women's paid and unpaid labor, family life and sexuality, feminist movements and women's consciousness; emphasis on how class, race, ethnicity, and sexual choice have affected women's historical experience. Sophomore level and above. (Gen.Ed. HS, U)