Discover who you are, how to maximize your strengths and promote your best self with confidence. Students will take both the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the CliftonStrengths assessments, which will provide insight into their personality, natural talents, values, and skills. They will learn about themselves through in-class activities and journal assignments that are designed for self-reflection and personal growth around relationships, working on teams, understanding stress/conflict, one's innate talents, and how these factors contribute to career satisfaction.

In this course, we will focus on basic aspects of human perception and attention, and how they are relevant to areas of computer science, such as data visualization, human-computer interaction, and computer vision. We will also explore how applied research in these areas contributes to understanding the basic perceptual and cognitive mechanisms. Topics may include saliency models, memory, mental imagery, motion perception, eye-tracking, ensembling coding, and visual comparisons.

This course in composition and rhetoric studies takes up questions of the relationship between writing production and various aspects of culture (e.g. identity, geography, economy, etc.)

This concepts and critical thinking course examines the relationship between journalism, gender and sexuality in newsrooms, news coverage and news audiences, with attention to both historical developments and modern issues. Students will analyze how news and popular media construct, depict and reinforce gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to race, class and privilege, with the help of historical artifacts, news coverage, nonfiction books, popular media clips, first-person experts and feminist, queer, political and communication theories.

In this course, students will work in conjunction with UMass Athletics to produce live video sports content for ESPN+, NESN, web streaming and in-house video. Through lectures, observation, analysis, hands-on labs and working as crew for UMass sporting events, students will gain an understanding of the production elements of a live sports broadcast.