The class will examine how political scientists use surveys to measure and understand public opinion and election outcomes. A significant component of the course will be a class project to develop, conduct, and analyze an exit poll survey of voters during the elections. In the process of conducting this survey, students will learn valuable skills including how to write survey questions, how to properly sample and interview respondents, and how to analyze survey data.

Have you ever wondered how governments, companies, and organizations surveil and restrict the activities and behavior of their Internet users? If so, you may find this course interesting. This is a seminar course that targets special issues in privacy enhancing technologies for the Internet. The topics covered in the course include anonymous communications, Internet censorship and circumvention, Internet surveillance, privacy-preserving social networking, and private computation and storage.

Have you ever wondered how governments, companies, and organizations surveil and restrict the activities and behavior of their Internet users? If so, you may find this course interesting. This is a seminar course that targets special issues in privacy enhancing technologies for the Internet. The topics covered in the course include anonymous communications, Internet censorship and circumvention, Internet surveillance, privacy-preserving social networking, and private computation and storage.

This course is designed to introduce students to the role of culture in education. After exploring the theoretical basis of culture, and its relationship to education, students will be exposed to a range of cultural perspectives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. (Gen.Ed. SB, G)

Students will use analytics to study a wide variety of issues affecting the sport industry. Topics examined include: player performance measurement, in-game decision making, player selection/team building, and general administration such as marketing, pricing, contracts, stadium management, etc. Students will learn not only how the recent application of analytics has improved each of these areas within the professional and collegiate sport industry, but also how analytics can improve decision making in any other field of business.

Educational neuroscience is an emerging field concerned with the scientific study of cognitive and neurobiological substrates underlying learning and instructions. One overarching goal of the field is to ground educational practices in findings from cognitive research and brain sciences, although there exist scientific and pragmatic challenges to be overcome. In this course, we will critically evaluate how scientific exploration of the mind and brain can inform educational practices.

This seminar course examines the fundamental cognitive, motivational, and affective processes that underlie parenting behavior. Primary emphasis will be placed on (i) understanding how endocrine, sensory and experiential information is integrated within the relevant neural circuitry that yields this complex behavior under healthy conditions, and (ii) how neuropsychological dysfunction, as with maternal mental disorders, leads to disturbances in parenting and in the mother-infant relationship.

Preparation and uses of financial statements of business enterprises; the accounting process of recording, classifying, and interpreting business transactions. Conceptual problems analyzed include accounting for inventories, depreciation, and capital stock.

The use of economic analysis to analyze issues related to the sport industry. Topics include ticket pricing strategies, monopolization, players' labor markets, revenue-sharing, salary caps, competitive balance, and the subsidization of stadiums.