This course examines current advances in environmental health science via lectures from UMass faculty with research programs related to environmental health, UMass PhD students in the EHS program, as well as visiting scholars. Seminar topics will change from week to week and will include topics such as pollution, exposure assessments, mechanistic toxicology, environmental health policy, environmental epidemiology, and others.

Adolescent Literature is a graduate level class designed for pre-service and in-service teachers. Students will read different genres of Young Adult literature with an emphasis on contemporary and diverse authors. We will also read research on Young Adult literature and literary theory, as well as research on teaching adolescents reading and writing through the use of Young Adult literature. The focus will be on integrating theory and practice in the teaching and reading of Young Adult literature.

This course is both an Integrative Experience course and a Service-Learning course. In it, we will use microeconomic tools to analyze how markets function, how they fail, and how intervention can correct market failures. The basic point of the course will be to answer the following question: What are the market failures that governmental entities or nonprofit organizations attempt to correct? Another way of asking this is: Why doesn't the free market fulfill the needs or provide the services that government or nonprofits do?

Advanced study of recent developments, research, and theoretical frameworks in digital media learning. Topics covered may include: social media, digital storytelling, computer supported collaborative learning, and microgenetic learning analytics.

This course builds upon the Freshman STEM Ambassadors Program Experience. The sophomore experience is approximately 50% research experience & 50% STEM AP programming.

Research on problems not related to thesis.

In this seminar, students will engage in cutting-edge, hands-on entrepreneurial exercises aimed to enhance their entrepreneurial mindset and innovative capabilities. Through this, students will be better at handling any challenge, and will be better prepared for the dynamic world economy.

This course examines current advances in environmental health science via lectures from UMass faculty with research programs related to environmental health, UMass PhD students in the EHS program, as well as visiting scholars. Seminar topics will change from week to week and will include topics such as pollution, exposure assessments, mechanistic toxicology, environmental health policy, environmental epidemiology, and others.

A variety of literary genres as well as critical essays authored by Black Caribbean writers from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone Caribbean will be analyzed during the course of the semester. While attention will be given to historical and cultural context, emphasis will be placed on literary analysis of texts. The readings selected will cover slavery, colonialism, anti-colonialism, race/colorism, gender, Creolization, language, orality, and diaspora.

Neoclassical microeconomic theory. Consumer behavior, theory of the firm, markets, income distribution, general equilibrium, welfare economics.