Offered as CSC 235 and SDS 235. Visual analytics techniques can help people to derive insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous and often conflicting data. During this course, students learn the foundations of the emerging, multidisciplinary field of visual analytics and apply these techniques toward a focused research problem in a domain of personal interest. Students who elect to take this course as a programming intensive course should have previously taken CSC 212. In this track, students learn to use R, Python and HTML5/JavaScript to develop custom visual analytic tools.

Offered as SDS 109 and CSC 109. The world is growing increasingly reliant on collecting and analyzing information to help people make decisions. Because of this, the ability to communicate effectively about data is an important component of future job prospects across nearly all disciplines. In this course, students learn the foundations of information visualization and sharpen their skills in communicating using data. This course explores concepts in decision-making, human perception, color theory and storytelling as they apply to data-driven communication.

Each musical tradition is best explained and understood by its own system of theory. This course introduces four musical traditions and their corresponding theories: Tuvan Throat Singing, Dagomba Dance Drumming, Javanese Gamelan and Hindustani classical music. Topics include theory fundamentals, listening methods, compositional approaches and aesthetics. Learning about these traditions opens doors to new modes of listening and to hearing familiar music in a brand new way.

This course provides a critical survey of rock music, tracing the music’s development from blues and blackface minstrelsy to heavy metal, grunge and techno. Emphasis throughout is placed upon understanding musical developments in the context of American race and gender relations and the politics of youth cultures in the U.S. Discussions include: Elvis Presley and American race relations; Jimi Hendrix and the blues; girl groups; the rise of arena rock; and the significance of the DJ in hip hop. Enrollment limited to 45.

This course looks at the intersection of mathematics and social justice thru the lens of wealth in America. Social justice topics include wealth distribution, taxes, the Gini index and the poverty cycle. Mathematical topics include mathematical modeling, logic, set theory, statistics and probability. Enrollment limited to 25. (E)

Women’s experience and constructions of gender in the commonly recognized major events of the 20th century. Introduction to major thinkers of the period through primary sources, documents and novels, as well as to the most significant categories in the growing secondary literature in 20th-century European history of women and gender. Enrollment limited to 40.

This course is focused on teaching and training the Olympic Lifting movements of Snatch and Clean & Jerk. The class is focused on teaching the movements and their variations in class while students also work on strength outside of class time. Prerequisite: previous knowledge of resistance training such as ESS 945wt, working with strength and conditioning as an athlete, or outside experience. Enrollment limited to 12.