Skills needed to design and implement training programs for personnel in nonformal education, human services, and community development. Provides some direct experience in designing and conducting training exercises and assessing their outcomes. Emphasis given to non-classroom settings with cross-cultural components.

This lecture will introduce stochastic models used in Population Genomics to study the evolutionary forces that shape genetic variation. We will introduce these models in the neutral setting, and extend them to incorporate biological phenomena like natural selection, recombination, and changes in population size and structure. We will learn how to use these models for simulation, as will as applying them to modern genomic datasets to infer biological relevant parameters.

This course will survey topics in the global history of sex and sexuality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

This course will survey topics in the global history of sex and sexuality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

This course will survey topics in the global history of sex and sexuality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

This course is an introduction to the political ecology of climate change, response, and justice. It provides an opportunity to engage in critical reading and discussion about the great moral, political, economic, and environmental challenge of our time. We will explore climate crisis narratives;mitigation, adaptation, and climate justice issues; policy and social/economic reform debates; and climate activism. Reading will range from IPCC reports to work by Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, and Indigenous activists.

This course will survey topics in the global history of sex and sexuality from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

The Integrative Experience at UMass Amherst is a required upper-division course that asks students to reflect on and integrate their learning, from their major to their General Education courses to their extracurricular experiences; to further practice key ?Gen Ed? objectives, such as oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary perspective-taking; and to begin to apply what they?ve learned at UMass to new situations, challenging questions, and real world problems. This course is a writing-intensive version of the IE, designed specifically for BA-English majors.

Recreational angling is an extremely popular leisure activity that contributes a great deal of revenue to the global economy. However, recent estimates show that recreational angling is also contributing to a great deal of pressure on fish stocks even when compared to commercial fisheries. Over the past 10 years the science of recreational fisheries has evolved to include fields such as conservation physiology as a means to understand the mechanisms behind the potential impacts on recreationally targeted fish stocks.

This is an introductory course to radical social theory. Our focus is the history of social thought in the West, and the post-colonial critiques of some of these ideas. In this course, students will learn that "radical" means "at the root," and radical social theory is theory that explains the roots of social inequalities and proposes ways of transforming society to achieve justice.