This course offers a practical, experience-based introduction to design thinking tools and techniques. Students explore design for social impact through individual assignments and by working in teams. In this service-learning course, students will participate in a community project or placement guided by an organizational partner that contributes to the public good. By developing projects on and off campus, students will build core skills in creative research, art direction, visual design, prototyping, and the ability to work collaboratively.

A deeper investigation into the methods and strategies for mold making and casting. This course will focus on developing technical ability with a range of contemporary molding and casting materials and techniques.

Offered as HST 208 and MES 208. This course examines the history of the modern Middle East from a global perspective. How have gender, economy, ecology and religion shaped Middle Eastern empires and nation-states within a broader world? The course begins with transformations in Egypt, Iran and the Ottoman Empire between 1800 and World War I. Next, it turns to experiences of colonialism, the rise of independent nation-states and the birth of new political movements.

Offered as HST 208 and MES 208. This course examines the history of the modern Middle East from a global perspective. How have gender, economy, ecology and religion shaped Middle Eastern empires and nation-states within a broader world? The course begins with transformations in Egypt, Iran and the Ottoman Empire between 1800 and World War I. Next, it turns to experiences of colonialism, the rise of independent nation-states and the birth of new political movements.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest and Shakespeare's sonnets. Restrictions: Not open to first-years.

This course provides a forum for training in statistical consulting. Application of statistical methods to real problems, as well as interpersonal and communication aspects of consulting are explored in the consulting environment. Students enrolled in this class will become eligible to conduct consulting projects as consultants in the Statistical Consulting and Collaboration Services group in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

This is a course designed to introduce students to the theories, methods, and debates in the sociological approach to ethnography. At its most general, ethnography is a method of studying and learning about people most often within the context of their own environment and everyday practices. It is often characterized by immersion into that context, participation, and the use of qualitative inquiry.

By examining the theories and practices of communication as applied to sustainable social change, students will participate in formulating communication and media strategies to explore ways that ensures target audiences are reached to effectively enhance knowledge transfer and create social change.

This course explores time literacy, a re-imagining of time management that seeks to interweave one?s one needs and ways of thinking together with academic progress over the semester. The course involves identifying an appropriate way to record and structure information about assignments and exams, developing routines that work for you as an individual, and evaluating progress along the way.

This course studies architectural techniques for efficient hardware design for machine learning (ML) systems including training and inference. Course has three parts. First part deals with convolutional and deep neural network models. Second part deals with parallelization techniques for improving performance of ML algorithms.