This course provides an introduction to the field of multi-media (e.g., air, water, soil, food) environmental health risk assessment and how society incorporates risk assessment findings into regulations and policy.

The toxicological activity of toxic substances found in the general environment and in industrial settings. Topics include biochemical mechanisms for absorption, excretion, tissue distribution, metabolic transformations, and conjugations; comparative metabolism of animal species; special applications to the toxicology of heavy metals, pesticides, and other industrial chemicals.

This course provides an approach to the current challenges in the interactions between development and the environment, using the lens of the current tools of behavioral sciences. By looking at the micro-foundations of how economic agents interact through their behavioral and institutional restrictions and incentives, we will tackle the questions that today many societies around the world face regarding their attempts to lift people out of poverty, eliminate injustices and preserve the natural base for future generations.

Marxian theory. Topics include historical materialism, class, value and surplus value, the labor process, and accumulation and crisis. Additional topics vary with instructor.

Fulfills the Junior Year Writing requirement.

This course will provide an overview of machine learning (ML) with special attention to applications for social and behavioral analytics. Machine learning combines insights from artificial intelligence, probability theory, statistical inference, and information theory to help automate tasks involving pattern recognition, prediction, and classification. "Learning" is analogous to "inference" in statistics and, in fact, the modern statistical toolkit includes various machine learning methods developed to handle large (and messy) datasets.

Film is never confined to the cinema, home theater, laptop, tablet, or phone where it plays. Rather, it radiates in innumerable ways out into the people and institutions that constitute our world, shaping, reflecting, challenging, and guiding us. As you complete your studies at the University, consider how your college experience has prepared you for the future. How do the film classes you have taken in theory, history, genres, and national and transnational cinemas inform your creative work in screen media?

This course introduces students to the principles and applications of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the built environment. Students will learn how to assess environmental impacts associated with building materials, construction activities, and operational energy use. The course will emphasize Whole-Building LCA (WBLCA), Embodied Carbon (EC) accounting, and integration with Building Information Modeling (BIM). Case studies and real-world data will be used to analyze sustainability trade-offs and decision-making in design and construction.

This course probes the construction of identity and its various expressions in the domestic architecture, wall painting and portraiture of the ancient Romans. We will examine the way the Roman house reflects notions of Romanness through its plan, orientation, and programs of the illusionistic frescoes; we will also study the rhetoric of Roman portraits, with particular attention to the representation of aristocrats and the imperial family. If time permits, we will also explore those of the Vestal Virgins, Rome's premier priestesses.

This studio course focuses on both analog and digital forms of self-publishing as a mode of creative practice and knowledge production. Through readings, discussion, field trips, guest lectures, and the production of their own publications, students will gain insight into the many facets of building independently published work?from content creation to printing to distribution? and evaluate approaches to disseminating it to their intended audiences.