The BOLTWOOD Project is a course that supports a student-run civic engagement and leadership program designed to provide enrichment, recreation, and socialization for adults and children of diverse intellectual or physical ability. Under the guidance and supervision of student leaders, students enrolled in this course participate in small groups that organize weekly enrichment activities at multiple sites throughout the region.

Description of electric and magnetic fields in a dynamical context-electromagnetic radiation theory, optics, plasma physics, relativistic electrodynamics, cavity resonators, waveguides. Prerequisite: PHYSICS 422.

Advanced course in undergraduate classical mechanics covering Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Topics include: conservation laws, oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance, central force problems and planetary orbits, rigid body mechanics, an introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action, generalized coordinates, with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics.

In this course we will explore how footwear can affect biomechanics, energetics, injury risk and performance in various sports and activities of daily living. Topics include: shoe design, mechanical, subjective, biomechanical and running economy testing, minimalist and maximalist shoes, super shoes, prosthetics and robotic shoes.

(formerly Exercise Science)

This course explores the significance of the public sphere - from pamphlets, newspapers and letters to radio, television, the internet and social media - and its relationship to participatory, democratic society. Moving back and forth between the history of the public sphere and contemporary debates about the tensions between media and democracy, students will learn why democracies prescribe protected roles of the media, how media manipulation plays a role in politics, and how media spaces serve as deliberative spaces.

This seminar explores critical literacies as sociocultural and sociopolitical practices across languages, literacies, and contexts. Participants will investigate how these practices can deconstruct/reconstruct power relations in texts, teaching, and research.