Topics in Advanced Swahili I focuses on developing advanced reading and speaking skills, expanding vocabulary, and improving the ability to describe/narrate in detail and support opinions. Topics are chosen in consultation with the program director. Students studying Swahili develop speaking, listening, reading, writing, and cultural etiquette skills needed for study abroad in East Africa (especially Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) and to support course work in African studies.

In this interdisciplinary laboratory course, we will explore the topic of imaging biological material, beginning with optics and basic microscopy. Students will perform hands-on exercises in the use of the light microscope, digital cameras, and image processing and quantification. Common pitfalls in imaging biological samples will be covered. Students will perform experiments to test and quantify various aspects of cell migration, cell cycle regulation, mitosis and endocytosis.

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This colloquium accompanies SLHS 316: Introduction to Aural Rehabilitation and is intended to be taken in the same semester as the course. SLHS 316 takes a public health approach to hearing health, discussing public policy and specific management options for children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing. In this one credit course accompanying SLHS 316, we will delve deeper into possible risks of prelingual hearing impairment on children?s speech, language, educational, and social life outcomes. We will discuss mitigating environmental factors as well as individual resilience.

Introduction to computational modeling of the musculoskeletal system and simulation of human movement. Topics include the mechanical and physiological properties and principles underlying the development of human musculoskeletal models and the use of these models to simulate human movement. Emphasis will be placed on an inverse dynamics approach and implementation of these principles in musculoskeletal modeling and simulation software to analyze a variety of human movements.

Study of the structure and function of cell, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems in the human body. Integration and regulations of system function from an applied perspective through clinical applications.