Learn the vascular plants of the region in their natural habitats through field trips and in the laboratory with the use of botanical keys and manuals. Field experience will include some collecting and pressing of specimens. The class also visits the herbarium and greenhouses. Recognition of certain plant families and familiarity with terminology will be gained.

Prerequisite: Introductory biology. or consent of instructor.

Not available at this time

Social, economic, and environmental dimensions of tourism. Selected problems in travel and tourism including psychological, sociocultural and economic impacts. Uses the discipline specific knowledge of Tourism Policy and Planning as a platform for integrating skills and knowledge that students have acquired from prior courses and life experiences. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BS-HTMGT majors.

The OASIS First-Year Seminar is specifically designed to help undeclared students make a smooth transition to college, identify programs of interest, and be successful at UMass. The curriculum covers the process of declaring a major (self-assessment, career & majors exploration), as well as time management, essential skills and how to navigate UMass requirements, opportunities, resources and procedures. OASIS instructors also serve as the student's academic advisor for the semester; students will be required to meet with them, and complete in- and out-of-class assignments.

Exploration of historical experiences of Afro-Latin American populations since Independence within and outside the nation state. We will question how and why one might study those whose governments define them not as peoples of African descent but as part of a mixed-race majority of Hispanic cultural heritage, who themselves may often have supported this policy, and who may have had compelling reasons to avoid official scrutiny.

This course is designed to give students the basic computational and statistical skills to organize and summarize data and will serve as an introduction to the fundamental principles of biostatistical inference. The course emphasizes general statistical concepts, including interpretation of numeric data summaries and basic analysis methods, using a variety of examples and exercises from biomedical and public health studies. Data analysis with the open-source, freely available statistical programming environment, R (http://cran.us.r-project.org) will be emphasized.

The goal of this course is to introduce some statistical modeling approaches, which have been developed in the last few years and are widely used in medical and public health research, but are not covered in the core courses of the MS/PhD programs in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Topics include penalized regression, methods for classification, evaluation of predictions, and robust regression. The cross-validation and bootstrapping procedures, which are important in evaluating and performing inference for models, will be introduced.

The current best testing and analysis practices; emerging new approaches, going beyond the testing of programs to include the testing and analysis of all software artifacts across the lifecycle.

Continuity, limits, and the derivative for algebraic, trigonometric, logarithmic, exponential, and inverse functions. Applications to physics, chemistry, and engineering. Students expected to have and use a Texas Instruments 89 Titanium Graphing Calculator. Prerequisites: high school algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, and analytic geometry. Honors section available first semester. (Gen.Ed. R2)

[Note: Because this course presupposes knowledge of basic math skills, it will satisfy the R1 requirement upon successful completion.]

This course will develop an understanding of the ethical questions raised by media coverage in a democratic society at a time of focus on profit over news values and on entertainment over substance. Issues discussed will include: accuracy and fairness, diversity, conflicts of interest, privacy, deception, relationships with sources and photojournalism. We will also learn to identify news values--or lack of them--both as professionals and as consumers. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Journ majors.