The moral and ethical theories of animal rights and welfare as they pertain to farm animals. Exploration of the history of farm animal welfare and the assessment of the animal rights and welfare movement today. Special attention given to the economic, ethical, and welfare aspects of current animal husbandry practices.

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Quantitative techniques of production planning and control, including master production scheduling, manufacturing resources planning, operation scheduling, materials management, just-in-time production, facility layout, and forecasting.

This interdisciplinary graduate seminar examines the process through which the global movement of people exposes the invention, construction, and ongoing reconstruction of race across time and geography. From the perspective of both immigrant and native, we begin with a historical consideration of the racialized subject in the United States, spanning from forced African slave migration to 19^th century discourses on the European `other.? We will evaluate how 20th & 21st century US immigration trends challenge preexisting race-ethnic hierarchies while also enforcing them.

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Simulation techniques. Random number generators. Basic statistics for analysis of simulation results. Techniques for speeding up simulation. Simulation of processors, cache memory, and computer networks. Elementary queueing theory and Markov chains. Prerequisites: E&C-Eng 314 or equivalent; undergraduate course on computer architecture.

Introduction to the sociology of mental illness, definitions and descriptions of mental illness, social and cultural causes for mental illness, family and public reactions and the problems of measuring mental illness and methods for its cure. Prerequisite: 100-level SOCIOL course.