A topical study of key industrial and technological developments in U.S. economic history. Focuses on the periods of transition leading to the ascendance of U.S. manufacturing power and the subsequent decline in U.S. manufacturing leadership in the growing globalized economy. Prerequisites: Econ 103 or RESECON 102 or ECON 104.

Neoclassical microeconomic theory. Consumer behavior, theory of the firm, markets, income distribution, general equilibrium, welfare economics. This course differs from Economics 203 in its more extensive use of mathematics and its broader and deeper coverage of those topics.

Introductory economic analysis of inequality by race. A range of topics: from colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to wealth, income and earnings inequality, immigration reform and environmental racism today. Econ 103 or 104 recommended but not required.
(Gen.Ed. SB, U)

Metabolic role of minerals, specific functions, requirements, sources, assay methods, effects of deficiencies and excesses. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 713 or consent of instructor.

This course focuses on teaching and learning processes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classes from Kindergarten to college (K-16). This includes topics such as cooperative, project-based, and team-based teaching and learning; small group interactions and large group discussions; nature of reasoning; and approaches explaining such teaching and learning processes.

An exploration of the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 70s and later, hosted by someone who was there and lived to tell the tale. Through the medium of documentary and fiction films, we will delve into the musical, sexual, artistic, political and spiritual upheavals that rocked America and Europe back then and that continue to reverberate today.

Discovery processes in science and in science students, nature of reasoning, learning, and understanding through mental models. Research studies of factors affecting learning processes. Conceptual change and cooperative learning methods.

Research and theoretical aspects of media in education systems; special reference to philosophies, learning systems, and communication models which relate to the teaching-learning situation.

In this course we discuss information theoretic methods for model reduction and model selection. Topics to be covered include: stochastic dynamics, coarse-graining and model reduction, relative entropy and mutual information, entropy and complex dynamics, information theory and statistics, maximum entropy methods, inequalities of information theory, information criteria for model selection and coarse-graining.

The goal of this course is to study knots, surfaces, 3- and 4-dimensional spaces. Topics include: Morse theory, handlebodies and Kirby calculus, classification of surfaces, Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds and Dehn surgeries, h-cobordism theory in higher dimensions, Wall and Freedman theorems, constructions of smooth, symplectic and complex manifolds, Gauge theory, exotic 4-manifolds.