The world is rich in data and our ability to process, manipulate, analyze, and visualize that data is growing in power. This course discusses how to understand and solve real-world problems using modern programming techniques.

The world is rich in data and our ability to process, manipulate, analyze, and visualize that data is growing in power. This course discusses how to understand and solve real-world problems using modern programming techniques.

The world is rich in data and our ability to process, manipulate, analyze, and visualize that data is growing in power. This course discusses how to understand and solve real-world problems using modern programming techniques.

The purpose of this course is to prepare exploratory track students to achieve academic success at UMass. The curriculum will assist students with major exploration and declaration, create strategies for academic success, transition to campus life and learn how to effectively navigate and utilize campus resources. To achieve these goals students will engage in reflective self-assessments and connect with faculty, staff and peers to learn more about academic options and opportunities at UMass and skills to develop to be successful at UMass and beyond.

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Connecting Health and Society. What does it mean to be a part of a broader community, and what can we ask of our neighbors when we need them to protect our health? Where are the lines between individual responsibility and the community?

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Connecting Health and Society. What does it mean to be a part of a broader community, and what can we ask of our neighbors when we need them to protect our health? Where are the lines between individual responsibility and the community?

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Connecting Health and Society. What does it mean to be a part of a broader community, and what can we ask of our neighbors when we need them to protect our health? Where are the lines between individual responsibility and the community?

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Leadership and Health. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it take to become a leader? This course will cover features of leadership that are important for success in your professional life, and will discuss how leadership skills shape the responses that individuals, organizations, and nations can use to influence health.

This seminar will support your transition to college and introduce you to a topic in public health and health sciences. The first six weeks will provide foundational skills for students to thrive at UMass. The last seven weeks will focus on exploring the topic: Leadership and Health. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it take to become a leader? This course will cover features of leadership that are important for success in your professional life, and will discuss how leadership skills shape the responses that individuals, organizations, and nations can use to influence health.

HFA Connect RAP: Inequality, Injustice & Mindfulness in the Humanities and Fine Arts is an interactive First Year Seminar designed to support students enrolled in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts (HFA), either as an HFA major or a student in the HFA Exploratory Track. Through using creative and mindful-based contemplative practices such as journal writing, drawing and coloring, this course supports first year students interested in the humanities and fine arts as they critically explore and examine issues of inequality and injustice.