See department for description of course (Gen.Ed. AT)

See department for description of course (Gen.Ed. AT)

The web has become a large and complex area for application development. Access to an abundance of open source languages, libraries, and frameworks has led to the quick and easy construction of a variety of applications with several moving parts working in coordination to present to the user the illusion of a single program. In reality, web applications and services are extremely difficult to get right.

Managing agile development of complex web systems is a difficult task. These applications require a broad range of conceptual understanding ranging from user interface design and client/server-side concepts and programming to caching, monitoring, scalability, and performance issues. These techniques need to work collectively to bring the end user a single working system. Unlike traditional waterfall methods of software development that demand a focus on design before development, agile development emphasizes techniques that require an iterative design, development, and deploy process.

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Structure and function of the mammalian nervous system as related to sensory-motor and motivational systems. Prerequisite: Psych 330 or equivalent.

This course examines representations of Berlin in contemporary literature, film, music and art projects in a historical and socio-cultural context with a focus on minorities, migrants, and exiles. Conducted in English. (GenEd: G)

This seminar course examines the fundamental cognitive, motivational, and affective processes that underlie parenting behavior. Primary emphasis will be placed on (i) understanding how endocrine, sensory and experiential information is integrated within the relevant neural circuitry that yields this complex behavior under healthy conditions, and (ii) how neuropsychological dysfunction, as with maternal psychiatric disorders, leads to disturbances in parenting and in the mother-infant relationship.

This course will cover experimental results, "real-world" observations, and theoretical frameworks that help us understand the error-prone nature of human memory.

The subject of this course is the neuroscience of reward, motivation, and addiction. The course will cover a number of topics including neural systems controlling motivation and reward-seeking, how natural reinforcers and drugs of abuse influence brain function, and the neural and behavioral plasticity underlying addiction. Course structure will consist partly of lectures and partly of student presentations and interactive discussion in a guided journal-club style format.