Rauterica Ford

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Primary Title:  
Assistant Director of Student Financial Services
Institution:  
Smith College
Department:  
Student Financial Services
Email Address:  
rford@smith.edu

Dog People

Canidae are the most abundant and adaptive mammals on earth. There are more dogs alive, both wild and domesticated, than ever in history. More American families own dogs than ever, and all of the associated markets--food, gear, vet care, boarding, training-are experiencing dramatic growth. The bond between humans and dogs is like no other interspecies relationship. What special philosophical challenges does it pose?

The Biology of Inequality

Wherever one looks, one finds an association between wealth and health. The greater an individual, family or large social group's access to resources and political power, the better their health and nutrition. As well, how, how well, and why this connection applies also varies. In this course we will start with the data showing the connections between inequalities and measures of health such as life expectancy and infant mortality, exploring the US over time and more equitable countries.

How People Learn

As a result of cognitive psychology and education research, we have excellent understanding of human learning, its social and cultural nature, and the varied approaches to teaching, testing and assessment that lead to success. There is strong evidence that implementing these ideas would improve learning for all, including those who are under- resourced. In this seminar we will work to understand the findings by reading, discussing, and evaluating a selection of theoretical works and primary research from cognitive psychology and examine their practical applications to education.

Global Migrations

This class we will interrogate central concepts that frame the phenomenon of global migration in much of the public, policy, and academic discussion. We will investigate the ways notions that encode relations of race and power have been produced and normalized: border crisis; migrant illegality/criminality; northern wealthy nations (and border states within the US) as victims of migrant invasions.

To Recycle Is Not Enough

Tossing something in the trash is an almost thoughtless, automatic part of our daily existence. How are our habits, practices, systems, and institutions around waste tied in with domination and social inequality? Who does the dirty work, and how is this related to inequalities around class, gender, and race? How have historical changes in materials and waste systems shaped our contemporary understanding of our selves, and our relations with each other? What social assumptions allow waste relations to be seen as an acceptable and inevitable part of contemporary life?

Intro Comp Science II

A continuation of COSC 111. This course will emphasize more complicated problems and their algorithmic solutions. The object-oriented programming paradigm will be discussed in detail, including data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. Other topics will include stacks, queues, linked lists, programming for graphical user interfaces, and basic topics in probability. A laboratory section will meet once a week to give students practice with programming constructs.

Intro Comp Science II

A continuation of COSC 111. This course will emphasize more complicated problems and their algorithmic solutions. The object-oriented programming paradigm will be discussed in detail, including data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. Other topics will include stacks, queues, linked lists, programming for graphical user interfaces, and basic topics in probability. A laboratory section will meet once a week to give students practice with programming constructs.

Intro Comp Science II

A continuation of COSC 111. This course will emphasize more complicated problems and their algorithmic solutions. The object-oriented programming paradigm will be discussed in detail, including data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. Other topics will include stacks, queues, linked lists, programming for graphical user interfaces, and basic topics in probability. A laboratory section will meet once a week to give students practice with programming constructs.

T-Categorical Data

Theory and applications of statistical methods for the analysis of categorical data. The course includes an overview of statistical methods for analyzing discrete data including binary, multinomial and count response variables.  Nominal and ordinal responses will be considered.  Topics may include contingency table and chi-squared analyses, logistic, Poisson and negative-binomial regression models.  R statistical software will be used.  Prerequisites: SDS 291 or SDS 290 or equivalent.
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