Focus on a range of concepts and techniques key to understanding how remote sensing data are acquired, displayed, restored, enhanced, and analyzed. Hands-on experience using the image processing software ITT ENVI.

This course introduces the principles of digital image analysis for interpreting remotely sensed data for environmental, resource and urban studies. Emphasis will be given to the processing and information extraction from optical and thermal imagery.

Explores the causes of hunger (chronic undernutrition) from an economic perspective. Focus on how population growth and economic development are increasing demand for food and on the prospects for food production to supply those needs at affordable prices, while sustaining the environment. Discussion in the context of the global economy in which increased trade links even the poorest urban and rural residents in developing countries to market forces. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)

This laboratory course will provide students with hands-on experience with essential laboratory methods use for public health research. Through a series of laboratory modules, students will learn to isolate and quantify their DNA, and perform PCR for DNA fingerprinting and genotyping. Other modules include Crime Scene Investigator, bioinformatics and epigenetics.

This course is a hands-on study in regional and local economic, demographic anbd spatial analysis methods commonly used by planners and economic development policy analysts.

This course will explore the legal, political, and cultural responses to movements for censorship in the Unites States. Special attention will be paid to the censorship of motion pictures, live theater, reading material, and popular music. Students will be expected to write several short response papers in addition to a longer, primary-source-based paper.

A consideration of the contribution of thermodynamics to the understanding of the 'driving forces' for physical chemical changes and the nature of the equilibrium state.