ST-Fault Tolerant Systems

Reliability and fault tolerance techniques for commercial and special purpose computer systems. Failure models and statistics, testing, redundancy techniques, error correcting codes and self-checking circuits, reliability modeling, case studies. Prerequisites: E&C-ENG 232 and E&C-ENG 314.

S-Framing Pub Pol & the News

In this course, we examine how policy issues and current events get framed and reframed by public officials, political commentators, reporters, and interest groups. Framing is a process by which certain aspects of an issue or event are emphasized, while other aspects are de-emphasized or ignored. These choices are often strategic, aimed at persuading a particular audience or influencing public opinion at large.

The Age of Emancipation

(Offered as BLST 381 [CLA/D] and HIST 365 [LA/FA].)  Was the emancipation of millions of African-descended people from the bonds of chattel slavery--beginning with the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti and ending with Brazilian abolition in 1888--a transformational moment for the enslaved, or did it merely mark an evolution in continuing exploitation of black people throughout the Americas?  This course scrutinizes the complex economic, political, ideological, social and cultural contexts which caused and were remade by emancipation.  Students are asked to consider emancipation a

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