Marine Environments

Life originated in the oceans and exists today in a wide variety of marine environments and ecosystems that are fundamentally different from the more familiar terrestrial ones. Furthermore, life in the oceans was responsible for creating the conditions that allowed terrestrial life to develop and flourish. The main focus of this course is an examination of the ecology, function and adaptations of organisms that support diverse marine environments from nearshore to offshore and from shallow to deep water.

Postcolonial Archipelagos

This course works with archipelagos in two ways:  as a specific postcolonial geography and as a metaphor for postcolonial relations.  Reading texts from the Caribbean, Oceania, Hawaii, New Zealand, and maritime Southeast Asia, the course explores on the one hand how colonialism fragments island societies into languages, races, classes, and national allegiances, and on the other hand, how postcolonial authors explore and recuperate archipelagic identities through literary narratives.  While we will read across several genres, we will pay special attention to the short story as

Reading/Writing/Teaching

Students, as part of the work of the course, each week will tutor or lead discussions among a small group of students at Holyoke High School. The readings for the course will be essays, poems, autobiographies, and stories in which education and teaching figure centrally. Among these will be materials that focus directly on Holyoke and on one or another of the ethnic groups which have shaped its history. Students will write weekly and variously: critical essays, journal entries, ethnographies, etc.

Intro to Linguistic Theory

Introduction to the basic methodology and results of modern linguistics. Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge. Investigation of sentence structure (syntax), sound structure (phonology), word structure (morphology), and meaning (semantics). (Gen.Ed. R2)

Intro to Linguistic Theory

Introduction to the basic methodology and results of modern linguistics. Focus on developing, evaluating, and improving hypotheses concerning the structure of the language user's unconscious linguistic knowledge. Investigation of sentence structure (syntax), sound structure (phonology), word structure (morphology), and meaning (semantics). (Gen.Ed. R2)

ST- Albanian I

Albanian I is the first part of a four-part elementary course sequence in Albanian. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Albanian develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in the Albania and to support course work in Eastern European Studies.

FYS -CS Maj First Year Seminar

An exploration of computer science for first-year CMPSCI majors, focusing on a single topic. Sections 1 and 3 demonstrate computing principles through the history of video games. Sections 2 and 4 investigate the history of computing and its impact on the modern economy. Section 5 explores affective computing, which addresses systems and methods for emotion recognition, emotion expression in virtual agents and robots, and emotion modeling and affective agent architectures.

ST-Social & Envir Enterprises

This course examines legal structures that social and environmental enterprises currently used to accomplish their missions?nonprofit organizations, traditional for-profits, L3Cs, B Corporations, cooperatives and other business forms that place ?Planet? and ?People? ahead of or on an equal footing with ?Profit.? The course contemplates the advantages and disadvantages of using these forms to accomplish these missions, how they should be adopted or modified, and whether society should devise other structures to further these missions.
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