In this hands-on class students will learn about permaculture basics while maintaining our on-campus permaculture demonstration gardens.

Students will gain a hands on, in depth experience of small-scale commercial mushroom production

This course will give the students a clear understanding of how to set up and operate successful systems for crop planning for a diversified vegetable farm. All aspects from system design, data entry, mapping, scheduling, to record keeping will be addressed. Students will walk away with a very usable system for crop planning on a diversified vegetable farm plan.

This course is intended as an introductory course in statistical machine learning with emphasis on statistical methodology as it applies to large-scale data applications. At the end of this course, students will be able to build and test a latent variable statistical model with companion inference algorithm to solve real problems in a domain of their interest. Course topics include: introduction to exponential families, sufficiency and conjugacy, graphical model framework and approximate inference methods such as expectation-maximization, variational inference, and sampling-based methods.

The nature and several functions of film, including narrative and nonnarrative approaches to film communication. Topics include: the components of film expression (composition, movement, editing, sound, setting, and acting); designs in screen narrative; film's relationship to other arts and media; and its role as an instrument of social reflection and change.

Advanced seminar on typological properties of different indigenous languages spoken in Latin America. Students will select a language to work with.

The goals of this course are to teach you basic GIS concepts such as spatial data sources and structures, projections and coordinate systems, geospatial analysis, cartographic modeling, and the integration of remote sensing and GIS. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in ESRI ArcGIS software.

In this course we will study stereotypical representations of Spain in the nineteenth century, exploring specifically how these representations became an obstacle in the nation?s project of modernization. European travelers, writers, and artists imagined a nation of gypsies and tricksters attached to Spain?s Moorish past, but this conventional image also made its way into texts by Spanish writers and into the European popular imaginary. Course materials include diaries, short stories, plays, museum visits, and film adaptations. Conducted in Spanish.