Data science is an exciting discipline that allows you to turn raw data into understanding, insight, and knowledge. The course will first focus on data visualization and data transformation, and then introduce other topics including exploratory data analysis and programing. This course will help students learn the most important tools in R to do data science. Students will gain hands-on experience through in-class coding activities and homework assignments.

This course offers an overview of the life of a legislator, from the campaign trail to the State House.

Problems, politics, and issues of state government in the U.S. The key factors inhibiting and facilitating the reemergence of the states in the political system. Significance of state government in the development and implementation of local and federal policies. (Gen.Ed. SB)

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Advanced jazz technique, including body isolations, syncopation, specific jazz dance traditions, and movement analysis. Emphasis on musical and rhythmic phrasing, efficient alignment, performance clarity, and performance style. Taught on one campus each semester. Location alternates between the University and Smith. Placement in the course is by Five College audition.

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Ritual, theology, and myth in the Roman world, from the Republican period to the ascent of Christianity. Interactions and rivalries of Roman religion, Judaism, Mithraism , the cult of Isis and Christianity. Emphasis on types of worship: public state religions, private mystery cults, missionary doctrines. (Gen.Ed. HS)

From Pauli Murray to Audre Lorde to the contemporary 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 at the center in order to ask after how and what poetry allows us to know.

Many areas of application of computer-related technology to schools, including instruction, research, administration, the systems approach, and general societal impact of the computer.