The course will be an introduction to the legal structure associated with outer space and space exploration. we will lookat the treaties and agreements associated with outer space. We will explore the limitations of the currentLegal structure as science advances.

This seminar will explore the societal topics that are raised in children's literature. Explore Dr. Seuss and other authors who raise themes critical to American culture.

This course seeks to introduce and familiarize students to the concept and field of public health as distinguished from clinical medicine and healthcare by focusing on current national and local public health news. Through identification and critical examination of public health current events, students will be able to conceptualize and contextualize the relevance of core public health principles for society and their lives. Historically significant events and trends will be linked to current public health issues.

In this course, we will discuss the cell, genetic and molecular biology mechanisms and pathophysiology of selected diseases and conditions. These will include such diseases as diabetes, sickle cell anemia, African Sleeping Sickness, cancer with known etiologies such as Li Fraumeni Syndrome and Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Fragile X Syndrome and Huntington?s Disease. We will use a combination of readings and case studies to discuss various aspects of these diseases and conditions.

What moves you to act? When are you responsible for what you do? Can we ever act against what we judge to be best? Why should we do the right thing? Is doing the right thing against my own self-interest ? unless I get caught doing wrong? We will explore Socrates? answers to these and other thorny questions that are central to the meaning of our lives and yet so often taken for granted. Consider: What is it to live a good life? How do you know if your life is successful? Is it to have health, wealth and power? Pleasure? Is it something you can control?

Interactive machine learning involves an algorithm or an agent making decisions about data collection, contrasting starkly with traditional learning paradigms. Interactive data collection often enables learning with significantly less data, and it is critical in a number of applications including personalized recommendation, medical diagnosis, and dialogue systems. This seminar will focus on the design and analysis of interactive learning algorithms for settings including active learning, bandits, reinforcement learning, and adaptive sensing.

This course offers first-year students the opportunity to learn the basics of design and visual thinking and apply them in common technology applications-Google Drive, Prezi, Storify, Pinterest, iPiccy, Tableau Public, and the Advanced Features of MS PowerPoint. Topics include principles of design, layout, typography, color, and data visualization. In this seminar, students will work on both individual and collaborative assignments in a computer lab and utilize technology applications in the completion of these assignments.

Much of U.S. history in our schools is taught as a history of anti-colonialism and the march towards justice, freedom, and equality. But few if at all deals with our history of invasion, suppression, and conquest, especially outside the shores of continental USA. This course introduces students to the history of US colonial conquest of the Philippines from 1898 to 1946, and of continuing control and domination despite Philippine independence in 1946. The course examines how not only the history of such conquest but also themes related to empire, including race, class, and gender.

Early childhood education has been making the news. President Obama and Massachusetts Governor Baker have prominently identified early childhood education as a major goal for their administrations. In this seminar we?ll explore current issues related to the education of young children.