The rise of human civilization is marked by the development of ever more advanced materials: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. How will future historians refer to our time? The Silicon Age, or Perhaps the Age of Polymers? Polymers encompass a broad spectrum of our world from the mundane, such as plastics for packaging, to the cutting edge, such as the wings of advanced aircraft, or flexible electronic devices. The DNA that encodes the blueprints for life, and the proteins that build our bodies, are also polymers.

With today?s emphasis on globalization, many students have become interested in learning about culture and cultural diversity, thereby enhancing their understanding of their own cultural heritages and that of others. The course examines the unifying fabric of American culture, comprising socio-cultural values, attitudes, and traditions. To help students develop their intercultural competency for global contexts, the course offers units on the diversity of ethnicities, race, and religions that represent contemporary global worldviews; gender roles; and the issue of stereotyping.

Like all islands, Martha?s Vineyard is a head case, mysterious, a unique coinage, cut off, stuck-up, a loner, a bit of a drama queen. Until the 1960?s, it was a well-kept secret, an inconvenient add-on to Cape Cod, an acquired taste for people with an antisocial streak because the island such a pain to get to: who wanted to take a ferry ---- all that waiting and all that bother ---- when you could simply drive down Route Six and find yourself in Truro or Wellfleet or Provincetown.

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Calculus of several variables, Jacobians, implicit functions, inverse functions; multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, divergence theorem, Stokes' theorem.

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This course will develop an understanding of the ethical questions raised by media coverage in a democratic society at a time of focus on profit over news values and on entertainment over substance. Issues discussed will include: accuracy and fairness, diversity, conflicts of interest, privacy, deception, relationships with sources and photojournalism. We will also learn to identify news values--or lack of them--both as professionals and as consumers. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Journ majors.