This course explores promising approaches to some of the world?s most intractable issues and asks whether these approaches could or should be adopted (or adapted) elsewhere. It also explores strategies for bringing about these and other solutions to social issues. Many of the strategies that help create social change are also strategies that, when adapted for individuals, can help individuals become effective social change leaders. Therefore, we will often explore how the strategies work, both at the macro level and at the personal level.

The Practicum offers MPH students the opportunity to design a unique experience and apply the theories, principles and methods presented in the Public Health Core to address very real public health concerns. This course satisfies the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) requirements for the MPH Applied Practice Experience.

This seminar course is designed to provide audiology graduate students with the theoretical background and practical approaches to clinical counseling. Topics include counseling theories and approaches, health literacy, populations with special needs (parent, adolescents, adults, groups), and compassion fatigue.

Students learn the skills to communicate in a wider array of situations, further develop their language fluency, and advance their level of comprehension of ASL in culturally appropriate ways. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing questioning and answering skills. Interaction activities allow students to rehearse what they have learned. Additional information about the Deaf community and Deaf culture will be included. This course is appropriate for students who have taken American Sign Language, Level II or equivalent proficiency in the past.

Students learn the skills to communicate in a wider array of situations, further develop their language fluency, and advance their level of comprehension of ASL in culturally appropriate ways. Grammar is introduced in context, with an emphasis on developing questioning and answering skills. Interaction activities allow students to rehearse what they have learned. Additional information about the Deaf community and Deaf culture will be included. This course is appropriate for students who have taken American Sign Language, Level II or equivalent proficiency in the past.

An integrative and interdisciplinary approach to catalysis science that builds on the fundamentals of chemistry, physics and chemical engineering. Overview of catalysis subdisciplines, methods of catalyst and nanomaterials synthesis, characterization of nanomaterials and surfaces, principles of reactivity of molecular, solid and biocatalysts with illustrations from industrial processes.

R has emerged as a preferred programming language in data science. This course covers advanced topics in R programming to develop powerful, robust, and reusable data science tools. By the end of this course, students should be able to use git and GitHub for version control and collaboration, organize statistical programming and data analysis projects into R packages, and make code robust with informative error messages and unit testing.

From Pauli Murray to Audre Lorde to the twenty-first-century practice of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, many of our most visionary black feminist theorists have also been poets. Taking seriously Lorde's insistence on poetry's thought- and world-building function, this course traces a history of black feminist theorizing that puts poetry and poetics at the center in order to ask after how and what poetry allows us to know. Possible authors include: Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Dionne Brand, M.

This course will provide students with a deeper understanding of various ways in which scientists can effectively engage and communicate with the public. Topics covered include models of public engagement, science-society interaction, and practical communication skills building.

Indonesian VIII is the fourth part of a four-part intermediate course sequence in Indonesian. The course is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The course format combines independent study with small group conversation sessions. Students studying Indonesian develop speaking, listening, and basic literacy skills needed for study abroad in Indonesia and to support course work in Southeast Asian Studies.