The Anthropology of Food
Because food is necessary to sustain biological life, its production and provision occupy humans everywhere. Due to this essential importance, food also operates to create and symbolize collective life. This seminar will examine the social and cultural significance of food.
Food Toxicology
This course is designed to teach fundamentals of toxicology with an emphasis on food toxicology. Topics to be discussed include mechanisms of toxicity, absorption, metabolism, distribution and excretion of food toxins, dose-response relationships, major mechanisms of toxicity, sources and major groups of food toxins, toxicity testing methods and risk assessment.
Images in Sports
This course will examine the role of sports reporters and how it has evolved over time. There will be special emphasis on various sports and methods of recording them. Students will shoot and edit video from a wide variety of local events to gain real-world skills in covering games and meeting tight deadlines.
Price Theory
The purpose of this course is to present intermediate level microeconomic theory. Primarily we will focus on consumer demand theory and economics of production. Both geometric and mathematical approaches will be presented. This course provides the background necessary for more advanced courses in the department.
Price Theory
The purpose of this course is to present intermediate level microeconomic theory. Primarily we will focus on consumer demand theory and economics of production. Both geometric and mathematical approaches will be presented. This course provides the background necessary for more advanced courses in the department.
TellingStories/DataStatModelVi
The aim of this course is to provide students with the skills necessary to tell interesting and useful stories in real-world encounters with data. Specifically, they will develop the statistical and programming expertise necessary to analyze datasets with complex relationships between variables. Students will gain hands-on experience summarizing, visualizing, modeling, and analyzing data. Students will learn how to build statistical models that can be used to describe and evaluate multidimensional relationships that exist in the real world.