Allows a student to work on an actual or demonstration project to explore aspects of landscape planning, design or processes related to landscape architecture.

Design of site structures and required details focusing on stability, durability, and environmental compatibility. Emphasis on statics and strength of materials of site structures. Includes sizing of water retention and detention structures.

Design of site structures and required details focusing on stability, durability, and environmental compatibility. Emphasis on statics and strength of materials of site structures. Includes sizing of water retention and detention structures.

The design and analysis of engineered or natural systems and processes relies on a command of fundamental scientific and engineering principles. This course provides an introduction to these fundamental underpinnings through a study of the conservation of mass, energy and charge in both steady and transient conditions with non-reactive systems. Specific topics covered include a review of process variables and their relationships, open and closed systems, differential and integral balances, and basic thermodynamics. Prerequisites: MTH 112 or 114 (corequisite). Enrollment limit of 20.

Topics course. Police Brutality, Economic Inequality, Stop & Frisk, War on Drugs, Stand Your Ground; under imperial rule, Ferguson is the culmination of injustice that has allowed the taking of young black lives by law enforcement. This course will examine the way in which the systems of power have impacted new patterns of social resistance under the radar of Homeland Security. This seminar will explore how the use of contemporary media uprooted the unfolding of urban genocide within black and brown communities.

This is a non-intensive beginning Chinese course for students who want to learn Chinese but do not have time for a regular intensive Chinese class. The course includes an introduction to the phonetic system of Chinese (Hanyu pinyin) and approximately 180 basic simplified Chinese characters. We will emphasize basic grammatical structures, vocabulary for daily conversation and students' oral expression. Content covers lessons 1-5 of Integrated Chinese Level 1. The class will meet two hours a week plus one hour of practice.

Not available at this time.

This seminar is an exploration of contemporary work broadly engaged with the Marxist tradition. First, the concepts of state, ideology, class, commodification, capitalist crises, and emancipation are central. Most of the readings embrace some version of historical materialism (the idea that social history is driven by material conditions) and the unity of theory and practice (that the point of theory is to change the world).