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FISH / BIO 340 - Lorenz Hauser, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

In the past few decades, molecular genetics has become one of the fastest growing fields in the life sciences. The application of molecular methods has spread to virtually all fields of modern biology, including ... (more)

COM 407 / POL S 451 - Kirsten Foot, Communication

Pundits and presidential candidates have declared the advent of ‘politics online.’ ... This course will be run as a workshop in which students will be required to engage as participant-observers in a candidate and issue campaign of their choice, as well as ... (more)

CSE 444 - Dan Suciu, Computer Science & Engineering

Databases are at the heart of modern commercial application development. Their use extends beyond this to many applications and environments where large amounts of data must be stored for efficient update and retrieval. The purpose of this course is to ... (more)

ENGL 287 - Riki Thompson, English

This intermediate expository writing course is designed for students with previous college-level expository writing experience ...

While we consider the uses of writing in the world, both institutionally and informally, we will also explore the place of emotion(s) in writing ... (more)

HSTAA 432 - Brian Casserly, History

The study of history involves both process and content.  As part of this class we will learn the process of history, how to be historians and what it is that historians do.  This will involve working with primary sources, the tools that historians use to understand the past, such as ... (more)

STAT 538 - Marina Meila, Statistics

Optimization -- finding maxima or minima of functions -- is necessary in most cases when a problem has been "solved on paper" or just formulated, but we need to follow with computing the value of its solution. Most practically interesting problems and many theoretical ones do not have analytical solutions. Therefore ... (more)