This weekend conference takes place on the Boston University campus in April. Top-flight practitioners will present on issues and challenges facing beginning journalists as well as longtime professionals. After the spring semester begins, the conferees from UMass will meet at a mutually agreed upon time twice before the event and once afterwards.

Explorations of lost, divided, secret, secondary, and sister cities using translation as a tool of literary analysis. We will read twentieth-century prose from the U.S., Latin America, and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as critical and theoretical texts. Students will also work individually on a text of their choice from any region and will share it with the group in theme-based discussions.

This laboratory course will provide students with hands-on experience with essential laboratory methods use for public health research. Through a series of laboratory modules, students will learn to isolate and quantify their DNA, and perform PCR for DNA fingerprinting and genotyping. Other modules include Crime Scene Investigator, bioinformatics and epigenetics.

The central focus of this class is the relationship between sport and the creation and maintenance of gender norms in society. Using both contemporary and historical examples and cases, students will explore the effects on athletes, events and audiences of popular (and marginalized) beliefs about masculinity and femininity in sports.

A survey of the history of modern sport and other forms of organized physical activity. Emphasis on the struggles of women, people of color, and athletes to gain access and control of organized sport in the U.S. (Honors) (Gen.Ed. HS)

In this course, we will explore the field of quorum sensing and cellular communication, focusing on strategies microbes have developed to sense neighboring cells and regulate biological processes. A specific emphasis will be placed on processes of biomedical importance and environmental relevance as well as effective strategies to manipulate of alter these processes to benefit mankind. Students will develop two presentations. Satisfies one of the three required modules for the Integrative Experience requirement for BS-MicBio majors.

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Composition and chemical properties of edible fats and oils. Physical characteristics/plasticity, polymorphism, melting, solidification. Technology of industrial fats-extraction, refining, hydrogenation, inter-esterification. Deteriorative reactions oxidation, thermal degradation. Biological significance. New methods of analysis. Review of current literature. Mr. Decker

Overview of the chemical, physical, and biological properties of food components including proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and pigments. Consequences of the properties of food components and their reaction products to health and nutrition also emphasized. Prerequisite: organic chemistry.

Fundamentals and interpretation of construction drawings, written specifications, quantity take-offs, and cost estimates in light-frame construction. Prerequisite: BCT 313.