This course combines three perspectives: inferential thinking, computational thinking, and real-world relevance. Financial decisions are increasingly data-driven, and require more than inferential thinking. Computational thinking and real-word considerations are also needed for finance professionals to function effectively. Students will utilize all three perspectives to make better financial decisions. The course teaches critical concepts and skills in computer programming (with Python) as well as statistical inference, in conjunction with hands-on analysis of financial datasets.

This independent study involves working with a faculty member as an Undergraduate Course Assistant (UCA) for a Public Health Sciences course. UCAs attend class sessions, assist with development and administration of course materials and activities, and support student learning and engagement. By participating in these activities, UCAs develop communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills in addition to strengthening their own understanding of course content.

This introductory course is designed to give students the basic skills to organize and summarize data, along with an introduction to the fundamental principles of statistical inference. The course emphasizes an understanding of statistical concepts and interpretation of numeric data summaries along with basic analysis methods, using examples and exercises from medical and public health studies.

This course will explore the development of young children from prenatal through toddlerhood. The theories that have shaped our understanding of child development will be examined from a lens of equity and racial justice; the cognitive, linguistic, physical, adaptive, and social-emotional areas of development will be analyzed, and a special focus will be placed on disabilities that can impact infant and toddler development.

Though reading often seems automatic and effortless, it is an extremely impressive cognitive feat. This seminar reviews what is known about how the mind accomplishes this task. Among other topics, we will address the neural systems underlying reading, the sources of individual differences in reading skill (including dyslexia), the process of learning to read, and reading in non-alphabetic writing systems (e.g., Chinese).

Continuation of basic skills acquisition: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The rest of the principal structures and vocabulary of Portuguese. Oral participation strongly emphasized. Prerequisite: PORTUG 110 or equivalent.

Women have made tremendous gains in every aspect of social, economic and political life in the United States, particularly since the second wave of the women's movement in the 1960s. Yet, women's progress in terms of achieving elected office has reached a puzzling plateau since the 1990s. We will examine the course of women's movements towards achieving political incorporation in the United States.

A theoretical consideration of different feminisms including liberal-feminism, socialist-feminism, anarcha-feminism, radical feminism and eco-feminism. Also examines: the relation between feminist theory and practice; the historical development of feminism; feminist issues within the canon of political theory; the problem of identity and difference(s) as related to race, class, and gender.

The course will address elementary concepts in continuum mechanics: conserved scalar and vector fields, and the stress tensor, and Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of the balance laws. Examples of motion - extensional, shear, and rigid body motion will be discussed, along with the basic equations of elasticity. We will study the basic equations of fluid mechanics, the Navier-Stokes equations, and its solutions in special cases, for viscous flows and low Reynolds number hydrodynamics.

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