The Seminar is one of a series of doctoral level seminars offered by the Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral area on contemporary issues in language, literacy and culture in education. The purpose of this course is to support doctoral students interested in exploring theoretical and practical aspects of second language literacy, teachers' professional development, and school change from a sociocultural perspective.

This course examines the changing role of "race" in American politics and society, focusing in particular on change over time in public opinion, media portrayals, and campaigns and elections. As we investigate these themes, we will analyz the impact of political communication on race relations, and evaluate strategies that could help to improve interracial relations in society.

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This course will explore the relationship between nutrition, food and lifestyle with the development of cancer. Topics will include: international variations and trends of cancer; introduction of basic concepts and principles of the cancer process; evidence for physical activity (including body fatness) and cancer prevention; dietary and lifestyle recommendations for cancer prevention. The goal of this course is for students to develop insight into dietary and lifestyle strategies for cancer prevention.

This course introduces students to the practical application of soft power programs including, but not limited to, one and two way exchanges; Fulbright's; and other programs that seek to introduce people around the world to the US as well as introducing US citizens to the world. The course will cover a broad array of academic and practical issues. We will start with an overview of the idea of exchange programs and then examine, by way of case study, the nations of Iraq and Pakistan.

Outside of academia, GIS is often different than what you have learned in Intro to GIS class. You need to work in an "enterprise" GIS environment, where you may have limited ability to alter or even access certain layers. This course will introduce you to how to work in an enterprise environment.

Principles of Real Estate is an introductory course in Real Estate, and is the first course of a 3 course Real Estate focus in the Isenberg Center for Entrepreneurship.

Media and technology is all around us: E-mail, TV, Microsoft, Google, blogs, magazines, and phones shape the world we live in and ourselves. This course asks how media technology shapes the most fundamental aspects of our lives, from our education to our interpersonal relationships, our cultural tastes to our politics. We will first develop a critical perspective on the history and usage of media technology, but will then learn how to use the media and technology we talk about with special workshops on Podcasting, Powerpoint, and Wikis in order to put those lessons into sociological practice.

Big Data brings us to interesting times and promises to revolutionize our society from business to government, from healthcare to academia. As we walk through this digitized age of exploded data, there is an increasing demand to develop unified toolkits for data processing and analysis. In this course our goal is two fold, (i) to study a subset of topics that build the mathematical foundation of big data processing, and (ii) to learn about applications of big data in important domains of interest.