An introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

An introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

An introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

An introduction to ethics through issues of medicine and health care. Topics include abortion, treatment of impaired infants, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, truth-telling, medical experimentation on human beings and on animals, and the allocation of scarce medical resources. (Gen.Ed. AT)

Explores how women voice themselves and their concerns through theatre/performance. Students will read texts and see performances by and about women and will examine them within their sociopolitical/historical contexts.

Introduction to parallel and distributed systems. GPUs: their architecture and use. Interconnection topologies. Notion of time. Consistency. Principles of distributed databases. Hypervisors. Distributed file systems.

Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Familiarity with the core principles of computer algorithms, traditional uniprocessor operating systems, and computer architecture. Facility in a high-level, modern programming language.

This course will cover the fundamentals of materials and emerging electronic devices (e.g. Memristors and Spintronics ) used as logic, memory, storage, sensor and display. Recent progress, current challenges and future directions will also be reviewed and discussed. The course is intended to be self-contained by covering both materials and devices.

This course will cover the fundamentals of materials and emerging electronic devices (e.g. Memristors and Spintronics) used as logic, memory, storage, sensor and display. Recent progress, current challenges and future directions will also be reviewed and discussed. The course is intended to be self-contained by covering both materials and devices.

Not available at this time.

An independent biotechnology research experience in a UMass laboratory using molecular biology techniques. This course satisfies the third requirement of the Biotechnology Research Experience series for the BS Animal Science Biotechnology Concentration.