OSU Courses

Focuses on engineering fundamentals of aeronautics and astronautics, including an introduction to aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, orbital mechanics and mission planning. Presents current industry practices in aerospace vehicle specifications, manufacturing, flight testing and certification.

Explores the fundamentals of mechanical engineering applications to aerospace. Features an overview of modern aircraft and spacecraft analysis, with an emphasis on performance, stability, structures, materials, FAA and FAR standards and current professional practices in the conceptual design of aerospace vehicles. Integrates course topics into students projects.

Introduces current practices for space systems engineering for Earth-orbiting and interplanetary spacecraft. Discusses fundamentals of space mission design, space environment, astronautics, flight dynamics, guidance and navigation, stability and control, thermal control, power, communications, and propulsion.

Studies rocket propulsion concepts, building on fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and chemistry. Analyzes and designs liquid, solid, and hybrid propellant rockets, and explores electric and nuclear propulsion systems. Investigates and discusses social, environmental, and ethical issues around rocketry.

Examines the theory and practice of financial accounting, the processing and controls phases of the accounting system, and reporting to external parties. Emphasis is placed on the accounting cycle and financial statement structure and content. The emphasis on the accounting cycle includes the processing and tracing of transaction data from source documents to financial statements.

Continuation from ACTG 317 and the theory and practice of financial accounting and the reporting to external parties. Covers financial reporting objectives to provide information that is useful in investment and credit decisions, in assessing cash flow prospects, and about company resources and claims to those resources.

Continuation from ACTG 318 and the theory and practice of financial accounting and the reporting to external parties. Covers financial reporting objectives to provide information that is useful in investment and credit decisions, in assessing cash flow prospects, and about company resources and claims to those resources.

Reinforces and builds on the language and concepts of management accounting. Emphasizes different models for product costing and examines their effects on profit planning, budgeting, motivation, and control.

Covers the analysis of data as it pertains to accounting professionals. The focuses include analytic techniques for decision making and the examination of “big data” involving accounting information. Hands-on experiences will develop skills with select software tools used in data analytics for accounting professionals.

Explores advanced financial accounting theory and practice, building on the External Reporting course series ACTG 317 / ACTG 318 / ACTG 319. Focuses on topics including corporate combinations, consolidated financial statements, and other emerging accounting issues.

Explores key information systems issues such as planning, acquisition, delivery, and monitoring from a risk and control perspective. Covers the use of IT audit standards, guidelines, and frameworks and build data analysis tool skills.

Covers concepts related to business taxation and focuses primarily on 1) basic income tax law as it relates to businesses, 2) the role of income taxes in decision making processes, and 3) basic income tax research. Intended to assist students in preparation to become a professional, and thus contains components designed to aid in the development of technical, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

Covers concepts related to taxation and primarily focuses on income tax law as it relates to individual income taxes, tax planning, and tax research.

Examines external financial statement auditing and assurance services. Introduces generally accepted auditing standards and the audit process. Covers audit planning, risk assessment, internal control evaluation and testing, audit evidence, substantive testing, analytical procedures, fraud considerations, and audit reporting. Emphasizes professional judgment and the role of auditing in enhancing the credibility of financial information.

An advanced course covering audit theory, current audit practice and auditor professional skills. Includes in-class activities, readings, presentations, research and group discussions of relevant advanced audit topics. Understand the use and future of data analytics in the audit profession. Theory, current audit practice and auditor professional skills.

Develops the understanding and skill to use financial statements for investment decisions, credit decisions, performance analysis, and forecasting. Three main topic areas: analysis overview, accounting analysis, and financial analysis. CROSSLISTED as ACTG 442 / FIN 442.

Explore issues, opportunities, and challenges in the dynamic and diverse employment field of agricultural and resource economics.

Introduces students to the economic intuition surrounding the climate change conundrum by identifying the role of economic theory, institutions, and data to help society address and adapt to the multi-dimensional problem. Explores challenges in global climate policy cooperation, inter-generational and equity issues in economic damages from climate change, and uncertainties inherent in climate policy decisions. Analyzes strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, including market-based solutions like carbon pricing, along with adaptation options related to sea-level rise, agriculture, forests and migration.

Economic and business principles applied to the management of firms in agricultural and food industries, including farms, ranches and nurseries, agricultural input suppliers, packers, shippers, processors and food manufacturers and distributors; firm-level goal setting, information management and financial analysis.

Organization and functions of agricultural and food markets both domestic and international; market channels and supply chains for various agricultural commodities and food products; role of agribusiness, cooperatives, and government in marketing decisions.

Introduces economic principles central to sustainability and sustainable development. Explores how theory, institutions, and incentives contribute to understanding sustainability challenges as well as shedding light on potential solutions. Utilizes tools like benefit-cost analysis and ecosystem valuation, while examining how economics informs and connects with ecology, ethics, and other social sciences. Analyzes policies and collective actions that promote resilience, equity, and long-term wellbeing across diverse social and ecological contexts at local, national and global scales through real-world case studies. CROSSLISTED as AEC 230X / SUS 230X.

Students are introduced to the challenges of eradicating extreme poverty and achieving sustainable economic development in the world. Topics include: the measurement of poverty and inequality; analysis of food security and agricultural development; the role of health and education in economic development; credit markets; risk and insurance; climate change and biodiversity; gender equality; rural-urban and international migration; population growth and development; institutions and economic performance; the political economy of development.

Examines how economic forces and social institutions contribute to environmental degradation and help build management solutions. Explains key economic concepts for valuing environmental resources and evaluating the trade-offs of alternative management approaches from private markets to regulation. Applies the concepts and theories to topical environmental issues such as water pollution and conserving biodiversity.

Examines how economic forces and social institutions contribute to environmental degradation and help build management solutions. Explains key economic concepts for valuing environmental resources and evaluating the trade-offs of alternative management approaches from private markets to regulation. Applies the concepts and theories to topical environmental issues such as water pollution and conserving biodiversity.

Examines the unique challenges of agricultural and food systems and their economic consequences. Applies rational choice theory, models of supply and demand, and models of market structure, with particular attention on price formation for agricultural and food products. Analyzes how market inter dependencies, government policy, the behavior of firms, and market structure within agricultural and food systems affects performance of the U.S. agri-food system.

Builds data management and analysis skills. Emphasizes application of tools and techniques to real-world data sets, including production, sales, and other information relevant to business and policy decisions. Specific topics include basic spreadsheet functions, lookups, pivot tables, array functions, and efficient management of imports and merges.

A general introduction to federal environmental law and policy in the U.S. Familiarizes students with basic legal institutions and concepts of the American legal system, outlines the transition of environmental policy from its common law roots to its modern administrative law form, and gives an overview of the major federal environmental statutes. Relationships among legal theory and process and economic principles are emphasized.

Uses economic reasoning and data to explain the causes, consequences, and solutions for natural resource management problems. Builds intuition for essential economic theory that describes how natural resource markets work. Examines markets for minerals, forest products, and marine resources using economic models and data. Analyzes solutions for problems in natural resource markets, and how to make natural resource management work better.

An examination of the theories of consumer behavior and demand, production cost, the firm, supply, and competitive and monopoly market structures.

Complementing the private-decision focus in AEC 311, the present course focuses on the intermediate microeconomic theory of social welfare and public decision-making. Topics include exchange, monopoly, game theory, social welfare, externalities, public goods and choice, asymmetric information, uncertainty, and cost-benefit analysis. Substantial attention will be given to the implications of these theories for real-world problems, especially regarding resource and environmental issues.

Explores the challenge of fostering economic development in low- and middle-income countries that does not compromise future prosperity while conserving or improving environmental outcomes. Emphasizes the relationship between causes of poverty and environmental damage and the design of solutions that address both sides of that relationship.

Application of principles of economics to identify the causes, consequences, and ways of dealing with natural resource problems, including problems associated with fisheries, forests, water resources, and land. Conceptual topics and policy applications. Emphasis is on developing students' skill in applying an economic way of thinking about natural resource management.

Provides an overview of the interrelationships between economic activity, the environment, and public policy. Through case studies, discussion groups, readings, and group activities, students learn how economists define and analyze environmental problems and the types of policies they advocate for managing environmental quality. CROSSLISTED as AEC 352 / ECON 352.

Introduces tools of economic analysis for understanding coastal and marine resource management. Surveys a selection of current topics in the field, emphasizing innovation in production and stewardship, institutions, and sustainability.

Application of legal principles to business decision making in farming, ranching, and the agricultural support industry. Consideration of the obligations arising out of contract, tort, property, water, public land, and natural resource law.

Examines the operation and outcomes of food systems using a systems thinking framework, with particular focus on food supply chains, natural processes, technology, labor, and public policy related to food and agriculture. Analyzes the causal connections between food system activities and how they give rise to a wide range of environmental and social challenges, from climate change to food insecurity. Evaluates public and private policy intended to improve food system outcomes. Emphasizes analysis based on scale, historical changes, social and cultural perspectives, and emerging alternative food system practices.

Introduces students to the geography of poverty in the United States and the “social safety net” that the U.S. has constructed to reduce poverty and its negative effects. The course focuses on the geography of the social safety net, the operation and administration of the safety net, and how recent changes in the social safety net may have disadvantaged rural people and places.

Legal relationships arising out of rights to air, water, and land. The impact of federal and state regulation on pollution control and on the production, use, and disposal of hazardous materials.

Develops the fundamental tools for Benefit-Cost Analysis, a technique for evaluating a project or investment by comparing the economic benefits with the economic costs of the activity. Examines the tricky topic of how to measure the benefits of non-market such as good health and higher environmental quality. The methods introduced here apply to a wide variety of situations. Explores the broad issues of how to think about uncertainty and risk, how to discount future costs and benefits, to value lives saved, and other challenging topics.

Application of economic analysis to questions related to the choice of an appropriate form of business organization for a wide variety of food system enterprises. Topics include costs of contracting, costs of ownership, enterprise scope and scale, and the dynamics of business ownership and structure. Particular emphasis is given to entrepreneurial enterprises and cooperative businesses in the food system.

Emphasizes application of economic, financial, and strategic management principles to agricultural and food industries using case studies to analyze business decision making for alternative business management strategies.

Examines the economics of uncertainty and risk and how decision making within agricultural and food sectors is affected by them. Topics include economic analysis of risk, management of agricultural production risk with insurance, commodity price risk management using futures and options, and how agribusiness managers can manage strategic risk.

Introduces students to applied econometrics: the use of statistical techniques to estimate and test economic relationships. Topics include multiple regression models, multicollinearity, and simultaneous equations. The applications and labs will focus on econometric analysis of real world problems pertaining to issues in environmental, food, and resource economics and policy.

Examines how market prices and quantities can be explained and predicted using quantitative economic models applied to data. Analyzes demand-supply-price relationships by developing spreadsheet-based economic simulation models and econometric models.

Explores the leading methods for evaluating the impact of public programs and policies, specifically focusing on causal inference and empirical applications. Methods covered include randomized experiments as well as techniques to estimate impacts using observational data sources common in health, education and development settings.

Provides a non-technical, accessible primer on sustainable agricultural development and its relationship to sustainable development. Uses economic principles and tradeoff analysis to evaluate the sustainability of agricultural development pathways at the global and national scales, and agricultural systems at the agroecosystem and farm-household scales. Reviews the sustainability challenges facing agriculture in the developing, transitional and industrialized worlds. Examines demand-side and supply-side strategies and policies to improve agricultural sustainability, including product certification and labeling, investment in private and public R&D, and farm-level taxes and subsidies.

Principles of agricultural and food policy formulation; agricultural price and income policies in relation to land use, water, and food policies; interrelationships among U.S. and foreign agriculture and trade policies.

Explores fundamental financial concepts in the context of agriculture and food businesses, including analysis of financial ratios, the use of leverage, compounding and discounting, capital budgeting, and risk management. Emphasizes the application of these concepts and tools to management decisions.

Principles, trends, issues, barriers, policies, strategies and decisions involved in domestic and international marketing of perishable and storable agricultural commodities and food products from the point of production to the point of consumption. Topics include firm-level marketing concepts, the integration of marketing with firms’ overall strategic management goals, as well as comparative studies across multiple outlets for agricultural and food products, to include local, regional, and global markets.

Examines the basic concepts, theories and methods of anthropology, including its four main sub-fields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Emphasizes the biological, cultural and historical processes that shape human behavior.

Unpack language, race and racism--as well as the intersections between those ideas-- as cornerstones to understanding identity and society as inherently socially constructed notions. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 159 / ES 159 / WLC 159. (Bacc Core Course)

Introduces methods for designing solutions to address needs of low-resource or other vulnerable peoples using tools from engineering and social sciences, and investigates techniques to bring ideas to market sustainably through social entrepreneurship. Multidisciplinary teams will step through the design process, including detailed needs assessment and customer discovery, critique and application of theoretical frameworks, exploration of the diffusion process and relevant system/institutions, prototyping, plans for technical and user experience testing, and considering implementation. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 201 / HEST 201.

Introduces methods for designing solutions to address needs of low-resource or other vulnerable peoples using tools from engineering and social sciences, and investigates techniques to bring ideas to market sustainably through social entrepreneurship. Multidisciplinary teams will step through the design process, including detailed needs assessment and customer discovery, critique and application of theoretical frameworks, exploration of the diffusion process and relevant system/institutions, prototyping, plans for technical and user experience testing, and considering implementation. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 201 / HEST 201.

Defines culture and how the concept of culture developed in Anthropology, including how anthropologists study culture via fieldwork. Discusses how language impacts culture and how globalization has impacted languages and cultures worldwide. Includes discussion on how race is seen from a non-Western perspective. Uses an anthropological perspective to consider religion, human political history, economic processes, sexuality, health care practices and the arts.

Defines culture and how the concept of culture developed in Anthropology, including how anthropologists study culture via fieldwork. Discusses how language impacts culture and how globalization has impacted languages and cultures worldwide. Includes discussion on how race is seen from a non-Western perspective. Uses an anthropological perspective to consider religion, human political history, economic processes, sexuality, health care practices and the arts.

Introduces Indigenous people's histories and social contexts within North America, with a concentration of analysis on West Coast cultures. Examines misconceptions of Indigenous peoples and building corrective images of Indigenous history, culture, rights, and contexts in society. Addresses traditional and contemporary Tribal society including cultural history, ecological adaptations, population, family and gender roles, religious ideology, political and economic systems, stereotypes, history, settler colonialism, traditional ecological knowledge, and Indigenous people's contexts within the present era.

Examines the European culture area from the anthropological perspective on contemporary issues with historical roots, exploring images of Europe in the popular imagination in contrast to European realities related to food, rural and urban life, gender relations and family, regional and national identity, migration and cultural diversity. Examines geo-politics, economics and the role of European Union.

Explores the historical and contemporary human contours of the world region known as Latin America. Surveys the evolution of this region and its peoples from the pre-European period to the present. Analyzes social inequalities and forms of resistance and the intersections of race, ethnicity, status, and gender/sexuality that distinguish this region of the world.

Surveys cultural adaptations of peoples of Africa, including discussions of human origins, early languages, subsistence patterns, and early civilizations. Addresses the Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism, analyzes roots of ethnic conflict, and examines public health issues. Explores ethnographic accounts of diverse peoples with attention the unique and creative strengths of African communities.

Examines Chinese society and culture from an anthropological perspective. Explores dramatic changes in people’s lives as China has transitioned within a few generations from a poor, agrarian society to a socialist revolutionary society and, finally, to the economic and geopolitical power that it is today. Emphasizes China’s changing role in the world as reflected in arts, politics, language, and media.

Explores connections to institutions encompassing family, language, health and health care, gender, government, society and science from a bioanthropology evolutionary perspective. Uses evolutionary theory as a foundation to examine causes and correlations between biology, environment and culture that impact our ability to create, maintain and change institutions that frame our lives.

Uncovers past human stories through its unique examination of material culture and social structures. Explores how archaeological data, field methods, and analytical techniques reveal individual behaviors, societal interactions, and cultural expressions. Delves into these aspects, so that students gain insights into how people lived, interacted, and shaped their worlds in different times and places.

Investigates origins of modern people (Homo sapiens), using evolutionary and anthropological approaches, including understanding our connection with non-human primates. Explores human biological variation and its adaptive significance using key bio-anthropology concepts and methods, including discussion of historical interpretations of this variation. Discusses current research and career opportunities in bio-anthropology.

Examines human biological diversity, historical and cultural constructions of the race concept, and social consequences of racial and ethnic categorization in the United States. Illustrates the inadequacy of race as a scientific category while acknowledging its relevance in creating very real social categories. Emphasizes an anthropological perspective on human biology, historic antecedents and the legacy and modern impact of the race concept in current society as part of a complex system of oppression.

Examines human biological diversity, historical and cultural constructions of the race concept, and social consequences of racial and ethnic categorization in the United States. Illustrates the inadequacy of race as a scientific category while acknowledging its relevance in creating very real social categories. Emphasizes an anthropological perspective on human biology, historic antecedents and the legacy and modern impact of the race concept in current society as part of a complex system of oppression.

Examines the relationship between language, culture, and thought, and the primary ways in which language constitutes social relations. Describes the structure and communicative function of language with attention to diverse language forms and dialects. Analyzes linguistic processes that threaten language diversity and applies theoretical concepts to situational uses of language across cultures.

Examines the linguistic aspects of ethnic, class, and gender differences in the United States of America, with a focus on language attitudes. Uses both oral and written materials and quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Examines the linguistic aspects of ethnic, class, and gender differences in the United States of America, with a focus on language attitudes. Uses both oral and written materials and quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Summarizes the distribution of wealth observed cross-culturally and through time, with a particular focus on the United States. Examines through the lens of anthropology the factors that contribute to economic inequality, evaluating how cultural constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, and other aspects of identity affect wealth distribution.

Fosters understanding of meanings of foods and foodways in the United States as they have developed through time and across geographic and social space. Uses food as a lens to explore general topic areas such as work, family, and identity. Critically examines core issues shaping American culture and society. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 261 / FCSJ 261.

Focuses on decolonizing discourse for several foundational issues using critical perspectives of Indigenous people through anthropology theory, methods, and effects of research on Indigenous peoples. Privileges Indigenous scholarship and perspectives in anthropology. Involves the application of decolonized anthropological thought, methods, and practice within Indigenous society.

Examines biological, social and structural determinants of human health in the United States and cross-culturally with a central focus on how local and global inequities in the distribution of power and wealth determine health and disease patterns. Emphasizes the ways structural, institutional, and ideological oppression undermine wellbeing, producing conditions of dis-ease using historical and contemporary examples of difference, power, and oppression across cultural, economic, and political institutions. Explores Community resilience and approaches to dismantling systems of oppression as mechanisms for restoring health.

Introduces students to our closest living relatives, the primates. Uses theories and concepts from evolutionary biology to explore the diverse anatomical and behavioral adaptations of different primate species. Explores the relationships between anatomy, behavior, and ecology on the individual and community level. Provides an evolutionary and ecological framework with which to view primates (including humans) and all living organisms.

Survey of peoples around the world. Early settlement, cultural history, ecological adaptations, population, family and gender roles, religious ideology, political and economic systems, modern social changes, and contemporary issues pertaining to indigenous peoples in culturally distinct regions of the world. Emphasis is placed on dispelling stereotypic images, both past and present. (NC) (Bacc Core Course)

Survey of peoples around the world. Early settlement, cultural history, ecological adaptations, population, family and gender roles, religious ideology, political and economic systems, modern social changes, and contemporary issues pertaining to indigenous peoples in culturally distinct regions of the world. Emphasis is placed on dispelling stereotypic images, both past and present. (NC) (Bacc Core Course)

Survey of peoples around the world. Early settlement, cultural history, ecological adaptations, population, family and gender roles, religious ideology, political and economic systems, modern social changes, and contemporary issues pertaining to indigenous peoples in culturally distinct regions of the world. Emphasis is placed on dispelling stereotypic images, both past and present. (NC) (Bacc Core Course)

Overview of the evolution and prehistory of the human species, including the development and interaction of human biology, technology, and society.

Overview of the evolution and prehistory of the human species, including the development and interaction of human biology, technology, and society.

Explores the archaeology and prehistory of Mesoamerica from Paleo-Indian times through the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures to the Spanish Conquest. Themes include the transition to settled agriculture, emergence of social inequality and political authority, the role of the natural environment, and the rich cultural heritage of Mesoamerican civilizations.

In this course on archaeological inference, or the thought process of forming our understanding about the past, we will take a guided tour of the main stages of archaeological research design and try our hand at making archaeological inferences. We begin by learning about the basic conceptual problems in the study of the past, then, we engage with the theories and models used to address them, and finally we apply this knowledge in hands-on analytical activities during the laboratory sessions with archaeological artifacts. Lec/lab.

An examination of the communicative functions of language and the role of language in the construction of social relations. Covers the origins, structure, and diversity of language. Explores the relationships between language and thought and the use of linguistic models in the study of culture. (SS)

Engages medical and environmental anthropology research to critically explore the values, meanings and ideologies associated with ecological and public health issues in localities throughout the world. Draws on theory from relevant literature and ethnographic case studies from around the world, and covers key topics related to how people are affected by, and respond to, climate change, pollution, “natural” disasters, and other forms of environmental, political, and socioeconomic change.

Examines contemporary food systems in historical, cultural, and social justice contexts and evaluates different approaches to solving problems such as food insecurity, erosion of cultural foodways, and exploitation of agricultural laborers. Includes term project, involving individual and group tasks where groups investigate a particular food justice problem, describe what makes it multi-faceted and resistant to simple solutions, then imagine potential solutions rooted in and responsive to the multifaceted nature of the problem. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 361 / FCSJ 361.

Examines contemporary food systems in historical, cultural, and social justice contexts and evaluates different approaches to solving problems such as food insecurity, erosion of cultural foodways, and exploitation of agricultural laborers. Includes term project, involving individual and group tasks where groups investigate a particular food justice problem, describe what makes it multi-faceted and resistant to simple solutions, then imagine potential solutions rooted in and responsive to the multifaceted nature of the problem. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 361 / FCSJ 361.

Covers foundational theories, concepts, and approaches in anthropology as a means to understanding how anthropologists past and present use theory. Compares and contrasts prominent theories and their application to current events and situations.

Designed for anthropology majors, this course involves students in learning about and practicing anthropological research methods. Students practice ethnographic fieldwork by conducting participant observation and interviews, writing fieldnotes, analyzing real-life material for cultural values and power differences, and writing up a research paper.

Introduces the foundational theory and concepts of social network analysis (SNA) and explores practical applications of SNA in environmental science, public health, business, politics, education, and public life. Also explores how the Internet, social media, and other information and communication technologies are affecting social networks and culture in the 21st century. (Bacc Core Course)

Explores why only some people and places in the world have well-functioning health systems and freedom from various kinds of health risks, what global health programs and movements have tried to do about these inequities, and what students, professionals, and communities need to do together to achieve big gains in health equity today. Emphasizes that seeking solutions requires understanding how biophysical and socio-cultural processes interact to impact human health.

Explores why only some people and places in the world have well-functioning health systems and freedom from various kinds of health risks, what global health programs and movements have tried to do about these inequities, and what students, professionals, and communities need to do together to achieve big gains in health equity today. Emphasizes that seeking solutions requires understanding how biophysical and socio-cultural processes interact to impact human health.

Introduction to global conflicts. Investigates the origins of global conflicts in cultures of militarism and analyzes the historical connections of militarism with capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other structures of power. Explores anthropological, historical, and interdisciplinary methods to explain the implications and wide-ranging consequences of global conflicts and militarisms and to analyze how they forge relations between people in distant places. Applies concepts and frameworks from the humanities and social sciences to generate critical and original analyses of global conflicts. Analyzes global resistance to conflict and militarization and develops creative alternatives to conflict in dialogue with peers.

Introduction to global conflicts. Investigates the origins of global conflicts in cultures of militarism and analyzes the historical connections of militarism with capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other structures of power. Explores anthropological, historical, and interdisciplinary methods to explain the implications and wide-ranging consequences of global conflicts and militarisms and to analyze how they forge relations between people in distant places. Applies concepts and frameworks from the humanities and social sciences to generate critical and original analyses of global conflicts. Analyzes global resistance to conflict and militarization and develops creative alternatives to conflict in dialogue with peers.

Examines human health and healing systems from evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives. Using a case study approach, explores individual- and population-level experiences of illness and healing, while providing the tools to evaluate global disease patterns and international health promotion and education programs.

Examines human health and healing systems from evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives. Using a case study approach, explores individual- and population-level experiences of illness and healing, while providing the tools to evaluate global disease patterns and international health promotion and education programs.

ANTH 405H

HNRS – Honors Course Designator

Explores how anthropological concepts and methods can be used to understand how forms of difference are linked to structures and systems of power to produce inequity and oppression. Assesses anthropology’s role in efforts to advance social justice, building on the discipline’s successes and learning from its failures using historical and contemporary case studies.

Covers the principles, procedures, and purpose of archaeological lithic analysis and the anthropological interpretation of lithic technologies used by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Introduction to the analytical and descriptive methods and techniques used by historical archeologists to study late 18th through 20th century machine and handmade objects.

Provides fundamental practical skills and theoretical perspectives for the analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramics. On the practical side, students will learn both basic and advanced techniques for describing and analyzing pottery assemblages encountered by field archaeologists. On the theoretical side, the course will explore the diversity of research questions in which pottery can play a critical role, as well as the various ways in which ceramic data can be interpreted.

Reviews the development of culture in the Old and New Worlds with special emphasis placed on the when, where, and how of early domestication of plants and animals. Examines the process of urbanization.

Reviews the development of culture in the Old and New Worlds with special emphasis placed on the when, where, and how of early domestication of plants and animals. Examines the process of urbanization.

The initial human occupation of the Western Hemisphere is explored with particular emphasis on northeast Siberian cultural progenitors, routes and timing of entry into the Americas, population dispersal theory, the paleoenvironmental record, and human cultural responses to the conditions of the last frontier prior to 8,000 years ago.

The development of regional hunting and gathering adaptive strategies in North America from 8000 B.C. to the historic period are examined against a backdrop of changing climate, natural disasters, population growth, and human invention.

Description and analysis of requirements and demands of cultural resource management. Historical development of cultural resource laws and appropriate field techniques and strategies to implement legislation.

Materials and theories relating to prehistoric aboriginal cultures of the Northwest. Evaluation of different theories on the origins and adaptations of prehistoric populations to ecological zones within the Northwest; comparisons of the cultural development through prehistoric times of the Columbia Plateau, intermontane and coastal zones of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Special emphasis on the theories of origin, subsequent development of prehistoric cultures in the Northwest, and the present circumstances of archaeology in the Northwest.

Provides an introduction to geoarchaeological concepts and methods. Emphasis will be placed on the use of geoscientific perspectives and datasets to solve archaeological problems.

Constructs a unique hands-on training experience while creating collaborative opportunities with students, community members, and professional staff. Devises archaeological survey and excavation familiarity using practical skills, archaeological methods, and techniques. Creates the effective use of equipment, site surveying, and mapping techniques. Generates effective site excavation strategies, record keeping, field cataloging, report writing, and field camp management.

Provides an in-depth review of the concepts and approaches employed to study cultural aspects of past foraging peoples using archaeological research methods and theoretical perspectives.

The evolutionary history of the primate order as it is represented by fossils of the Paleocene through the Holocene. Special attention given to development of the Hominoids in the Miocene, the Australopithecines in the Pliocene, and members of the genus Homo in the Pleistocene. Lec/lab.

Overview of human biology and its various subfields, applications of human biology in areas of nutrition, health, growth, adaptation, and demography. Understanding adaptive variations among populations and individuals in responses to environment, disease, and nutritional stress.

Identification and analysis of human skeletal materials in an archaeological context.

Examines human nutrition and food systems from comparative, biocultural and evolutionary perspectives. Long-term evolutionary processes are examined within an ecological framework as significant factors affecting human biology and susceptibility to diet-related disease. An emphasis on anthropological methods in nutritional assessment including anthropometry, paleodietary assessment and nutritional participant-observation will provide students with the tools to evaluate human diet from skeletal and fossil collections through contemporary cross-cultural populations.

Concepts and practices in the use of anthropology in legal matters and police cases, especially involving identification of human remains.

The Arctic is on the frontline of today's most pressing global problems. This course uses Arctic perspectives to explore issues affecting us all: climate change, environmental conservation, traditional ecological knowledge, development, energy extraction, indigenous rights, and indigenous media. Using insights from Arctic perspectives, we will plot pathways toward potential solutions. (Bacc Core Course)

The Arctic is on the frontline of today's most pressing problems. This course uses Arctic perspectives to explore issues affecting us all: climate change, environmental conservation, traditional ecological knowledge, development, energy extraction, indigenous rights, and indigenous media. Using insights from Arctic perspectives, we will plot pathways toward potential solutions. (Bacc Core Course)

Examines human reproduction and sexuality from the perspective of the New Biocultural Synthesis, a theoretical approach in anthropology that examines the interface of evolved biological, sociocultural and political-economic factors that interact to produce complex human behaviors and biologies. Topics are presented from a life-history perspective where questions related to human reproduction and evolutionary history are examined across the lifespan from mating and conception through elderhood and menopause. Lec/lab.

The study of folklore/popular culture in its social and historical context. Examines content, structure, communicative potential, and performative aspects of various forms of oral and written expression. Includes familiarization with the analysis of myths, legends, tall tales, proverbs, riddles, and play languages. (FA)

Analyzes the deep history and cultural contexts of the Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon from multiple academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, linguistics, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies. Synthesizes historic and prehistoric themes including Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), arts and crafts (material culture), settler colonization, treaties & removal, reservation life, federal Indian policy, termination & restoration, and survivance of contemporary cultural identity. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 454 / ES 454.

Aims to bridge theory and practice by developing connections between the university campus and members of local, national, and/or global activist communities. Emphasizes the relationship of reproductive rights to human rights and economic justice. Develops an understanding of how reproductive justice relies on an intersectional framework and recognizes that reproductive oppression is not an individual concern, but a structural issue.

Introduces the cross-disciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS), also called social studies of Science, Technology and Society. Examines how science and technology shape social-cultural and environmental changes, and conversely how social-cultural and environmental changes shape science and technology. Reviews science, technology and society from various perspectives in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy/ethics, and political science.

Unpack language, race and racism--as well as the intersections between those ideas-- as cornerstones to understanding identity and society as inherently socially constructed ideas. Better understand how racism is produced and reproduced in talk and text (this will include symbols and signs), especially in the context of the denial of racism. Focuses on the language of racism, and more specifically, types of discourse that construct Whiteness as dominant over Color. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 459 / ES 459 / LING 459.

Involves an intensive field experience, learning and developing practical skills for operating socially and culturally in another culture. Students engage in anthropological and mixed research topics, methods, and analysis, such as research ethics, research design, participant observation, ethnographic interviewing, community mapping, qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

The emerging interdisciplinary field of neuroanthropology combines anthropological understandings of human biological and cultural variation with recent findings in neuroscience. Key topics include socialization and enculturation, addiction, ritual, depression, and psychiatric disorders.

Concentrates on study of the socio-cultural dynamics in rural communities as they develop in national and global contexts of political and economic change. Includes anthropological readings on rural issues in domestic and international contexts and a research paper on a contemporary rural issue. (Bacc Core Course)

Examines historical and current trends in energy around the globe. Course themes include the role of energy in economic development, cultural innovation in energy production, social problems that arise from energy shortages or the uneven distribution of energy resources and social and cultural changes required as societies attempt to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.

Examines the background of Indian treaties and reservations with discussions of present issues such as health care, education, the Indian Child Welfare Act, fishing rights, and religious freedom.

Study of the practices and ideologies of gender as they intersect with those of ethnicity, race, class, and culture.

Study of the practices and ideologies of gender as they intersect with those of ethnicity, race, class, and culture.

Discusses the use of anthropological skills and methods to solve real-world problems. Addresses professional opportunities for anthropology graduates; provides career development opportunities; and assesses learning outcomes.

Examines past and present interactions between humans and their environments. Emphasizes the concept of system and process of human adaptation.

Tourism is among the world's largest industries. Seeks to understand the relationships between the industry and the other cultural productions. Explores the cultural practices and impacts of tourism in relation to both host and guest communities, and travel as cultural practice.

Focuses on the multiple aspects of population movements around the globe. Investigates the history of recent human migration; current theories, trends and policies; as well as issues of immigrant incorporation and anti-immigrant politics.

Investigates relations between human communities and the values of community members. Resource issues integrate concepts from social science, economics, and ecology. (Bacc Core Course)

Investigates relations between human communities and the values of community members. Resource issues integrate concepts from social science, economics, and ecology. (Bacc Core Course)

Examines the ideological and theoretical bases of world assistance programs and their effects on different sectors and classes, including women. Causes of world hunger in terms of agronomic, mainstream economic and radical economic paradigms are developed and contrasted.

Summarizes the distribution of wealth observed cross-culturally and through time. Determines the relation between wealth distribution and economic productivity. Shows the impact of industrialization and economic wealth distribution in Western civilization and cross-culturally. Evaluates how cultural practices affect wealth distribution in Western and non-Western societies. (Bacc Core Course)

The role of food in human cultures, both past and present. Includes discussion of different food procurement styles, social movements and the political economy of food. Looks at the symbolic aspects of food as well as its relationship with the environment. CROSSLISTED as ANTH 486 / FCSJ 486 and ANTH 586 / FCSJ 586.

Provides information on the basics of archaeological laboratory work. Students learn the day-to-day operations of a lab, how to classify and catalog artifacts, and how to do artifact analysis, research hypothesis.

Methodology course focused on the collection and processing of multiple speech genres, including personal narrative, oral history, folklore, and songs. Attention is given to ethics, legal issues, different forms of transcription, and the politics of representation.

Supports students beginning their Oregon State journey by introducing them to the university’s mission and goals, sharing the tools and resources it offers its students, and assisting students in developing strategies for their personal and academic success and well-being.

Presents an integrated view of both established and entrepreneurial businesses by studying their common characteristics and processes in a global context. Introduces theory and develops basic skills in the areas of accounting, finance, management, and marketing, with an emphasis on social responsibility and ethical practices. Explores how businesses can create value for themselves and society by addressing environmental and social challenges.

Helps you learn the fundamentals of personal finance. It is crucial you are prepared to be prudent managers of your financial resources, enabling you to achieve long- and short-term financial goals and security. In addition, this course will examine how your background experiences, values, goals, and decisions can impact your financial future.

Explore business concepts while designing a start-up company. Listen to inspirational speakers, practice networking skills and learn business etiquette as part of the Business Beavs in Action summer camp.

Provides an immersive experience regarding responsible business practices. In addition, from an entrepreneurial prospective, students have the opportunity to explore ways in which real social change is being conducted worldwide.

Students will understand the process of developing and executing a marketing plan in the context of a business model. Each student will participate in a Case Study conducting a small business-marketing plan.

Understand College of Business major and academic options as they relate to one’s professional career path. Explore one’s interests, values, strengths and abilities through self-assessments. Connect with faculty, alumni and peers while developing one’s professional brand and building business and communication skills. Create tangible career relevant artifacts.

First course in a two-course sequence. Begins a conversation on self-management, offering opportunities for active reflection on critical skill sets necessary for success in today's global market. Builds a foundation of entrepreneurial knowledge and gaining a competitive edge while becoming aware of your role in managing your own career.

First course in a two-course sequence. Begins a conversation on self-management, offering opportunities for active reflection on critical skill sets necessary for success in today's global market. Builds a foundation of entrepreneurial knowledge and gaining a competitive edge while becoming aware of your role in managing your own career.

Second course in a two-course sequence. Topics include evaluating entrepreneurial capabilities, creativity and innovation, opportunity recognition, impression management, and responsible business practices. Continues a conversation on self-management, offering opportunities for active reflection on critical skill sets necessary for success in today's global market.

Second course in a two-course sequence. Topics include evaluating entrepreneurial capabilities, creativity and innovation, opportunity recognition, impression management, and responsible business practices. Continues a conversation on self-management, offering opportunities for active reflection on critical skill sets necessary for success in today's global market.

Begins a conversation on self-management, offering opportunities for active reflection on critical skill sets necessary for success in today's global market. Focused on building a foundation of entrepreneurial knowledge and gaining a competitive edge while becoming aware of your role in managing your own career. BA 167 / BA 168 presents an integrated view of both established and entrepreneurial business organizations by studying their common processes and characteristics. The series introduces theory and develops basic skills in the areas of management, finance, accounting, and marketing.

Continues the conversation on self-management, focused on building a foundation of entrepreneurial knowledge and gaining a competitive edge while becoming aware of your role in managing your own career. BA 167 / BA 168 presents an integrated view of both established and entrepreneurial business organizations by studying their common processes and characteristics. The series introduces theory and develops basic skills in the areas of management, finance, accounting, and marketing.

Covers Microsoft Excel software skills necessary for evidence-based problem-solving, including workbook editing, formula creation, charting, and pivot tables. Emphasizes hands-on learning, using Excel functions to perform data analysis to enhance decision-making.

Imparts an understanding of the purpose of accounting, common financial statement items, and the principles of internal controls. Focuses on recording the impact of economic events on account balances using U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and the creation and analysis of financial statements to aid in external decision making.

Imparts an understanding of the purpose of accounting, common financial statement items, and the principles of internal controls. Focuses on recording the impact of economic events on account balances using U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and the creation and analysis of financial statements to aid in external decision making.

Builds an understanding of the role of managerial accounting in a business, focusing on the development and use of information to evaluate production costs and operational performance in support of short- and long-term organizational decision-making.

Builds an understanding of the role of managerial accounting in a business, focusing on the development and use of information to evaluate production costs and operational performance in support of short- and long-term organizational decision-making.

Covers concepts and principles used by marketing professionals. Designed explicitly for business majors, it’s an introduction to the relationships between customers, products, and companies in a competitive and dynamically evolving marketplace.

Covers concepts and principles used by marketing professionals. Designed explicitly for business majors, it’s an introduction to the relationships between customers, products, and companies in a competitive and dynamically evolving marketplace.

Provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. business law, including the legal system, contracts, torts, intellectual property, agency, employment, and business organization forms. Emphasizes practical legal knowledge and explores how laws impact business operations with a focus on risk management, contract disputes, business formation, and compliance with government regulation. Introduces legal challenges in business through real cases and legal terminology.

Provides a comprehensive overview of U.S. business law, including the legal system, contracts, torts, intellectual property, agency, employment, and business organization forms. Emphasizes practical legal knowledge and explores how laws impact business operations with a focus on risk management, contract disputes, business formation, and compliance with government regulation. Introduces legal challenges in business through real cases and legal terminology.

Introduces basic tools of finance and applications of financial theory in use today. Explores rates of return, the time value of money, and other tools that can be applied to capital budgeting decisions, and the logic and fundamentals of financial statements. Focuses on students’ approach to financial decision-making and emphasizes quantitative approaches to decision making. Introduces students to equity and debt markets and securities, and serves as a stepping stone to advanced courses in finance.

Introduces basic tools of finance and applications of financial theory in use today. Explores rates of return, the time value of money, and other tools that can be applied to capital budgeting decisions, and the logic and fundamentals of financial statements. Focuses on students’ approach to financial decision-making and emphasizes quantitative approaches to decision making. Introduces students to equity and debt markets and securities, and serves as a stepping stone to advanced courses in finance.

Explores a systems perspective to understanding the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Addresses ethical and diversity issues as they are relevant in entrepreneurial and established ventures.

Diagnoses individual and small-group behavior and develops skills in improving individual and small-group performance in entrepreneurial and established ventures. Emphasizes professional skill development and the practical application of theory and research. Integrates concepts of ethics, diversity, and cross-cultural relations.

Diagnoses individual and small-group behavior and develops skills in improving individual and small-group performance in entrepreneurial and established ventures. Emphasizes professional skill development and the practical application of theory and research. Integrates concepts of ethics, diversity, and cross-cultural relations.

Topics include evaluating entrepreneurial capabilities, creativity, business plan creation, opportunity assessment and feasibility analysis, business implementation, new product introduction, and seeking funds.

Topics include evaluating entrepreneurial capabilities, creativity, business plan creation, opportunity assessment and feasibility analysis, business implementation, new product introduction, and seeking funds.

Introduces and integrates some core concepts from Operations Management (OM) and Business Information System (BIS) disciplines by introducing a process-oriented view of the flow of materials, information, products, and services through and across organizational functions. Helps students to: identify information-bearing events and actors, model and analyze business processes, assess, and improve process efficiency, recognize probabilistic components of business processes, and understand the interactions between human behavior and process design. Addresses hands-on, case-based assignments allow for practicing some principles and concepts.

Introduces and integrates some core concepts from Operations Management (OM) and Business Information System (BIS) disciplines by introducing a process-oriented view of the flow of materials, information, products, and services through and across organizational functions. Helps students to: identify information-bearing events and actors, model and analyze business processes, assess, and improve process efficiency, recognize probabilistic components of business processes, and understand the interactions between human behavior and process design. Addresses hands-on, case-based assignments allow for practicing some principles and concepts.

An introductory course on statistical inference with an emphasis on business applications. Coverage includes descriptive statistics, random variables, probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, statistical inference for means and proportions using one and two samples, and linear regression analysis.

An introductory course on statistical inference with an emphasis on business applications. Coverage includes descriptive statistics, random variables, probability distributions, sampling and sampling distributions, statistical inference for means and proportions using one and two samples, and linear regression analysis.

Designed to give students an early start on the process of career planning and development. The process involves thoughtful self-assessment, career exploration, planning and follow-through with preliminary employment strategies.

Designed to give students an early start on the process of career planning and development. The process involves thoughtful self-assessment, career exploration, planning and follow-through with preliminary employment strategies.

Part of Blueprint – a 12 course professional development course series to guide the student from college to career. Topics include characteristics of exemplary leadership, analyzing own strengths and talents, and developing a plan for strengthening leadership capacity.

Examines how a culture of effective dialogue fosters employee engagement.

Part of Blueprint – a 12 course professional development course series to guide the student from college to career. First of four courses dedicated to the foundations of personal finances. Topics include basics of personal finances and resources available; setting academic plan; setting strategic financial goals; budgeting.

Supports transfer students’ transition to Oregon State by introducing them to the university’s mission and goals, sharing the tools and resources it offers its students, and assisting students in developing strategies for their personal and academic success and well-being.

Develop career-based skills and gain knowledge on how to communicate one's value in the workplace. Explore effective job search strategies and design a personalized professional growth plan.

Part of Blueprint – a 12 course professional development course series to guide the student from college to career. The second of a four course series in Blueprint that is dedicated to the foundations of personal finances for life here at OSU.

Operations are the processes by which an organization transforms inputs (e.g., labor, material, and knowledge) into outputs (products and services). Operations managers are responsible for designing, running and improving the processes and systems to efficiently accomplish this for production or service businesses. Focuses on the concepts and tools employed by operations managers to provide their organization a competitive advantage. Topics include statistical tools and quantitative methods (descriptive statistics, probabilities, sampling, interval estimation and hypothesis testing) and operations management concepts (strategies, forecasting, process design, capacity utilization, quality systems, supply chain management, inventory management, resource planning, sustainability and lean systems.)

Looks at how the accounting model reflects business transactions and events. Introduces both financial and managerial accounting and the creation, interpretation, and analysis of financial statements. Students obtain an understanding of the determination, organization, and management of costs and revenues including management decisions based upon this information.

Integrated view of international business including current patterns of international business, socioeconomic and geopolitical systems within countries as they affect the conduct of business, major theories explaining international business transactions, financial forms and institutions that facilitate international transactions, and the interface between nation states and the firms conducting foreign business activities.

Integrated view of international business including current patterns of international business, socioeconomic and geopolitical systems within countries as they affect the conduct of business, major theories explaining international business transactions, financial forms and institutions that facilitate international transactions, and the interface between nation states and the firms conducting foreign business activities.

Consists of large-group sessions as well as small-group break-out sessions for each country individually. It is vital to attend all sessions as valuable information pertaining to your study abroad opportunity will be presented.

Develops business professional skills in individual moral self-awareness and organizational ethical analysis in order to examine, diagnose, and navigate ethically relevant work situations.

Develops business professional skills in individual moral self-awareness and organizational ethical analysis in order to examine, diagnose, and navigate ethically relevant work situations.

Provides an overview of the functional activities necessary for the creation/delivery of goods and services. Topics covered include productivity; strategy in a global business environment; project management; quality management; location and layout strategies; supply chain and inventory management; material requirements planning; JIT; work-place safety; maintenance and reliability; sourcing and sustainability.

Provides an overview of the functional activities necessary for the creation/delivery of goods and services. Topics covered include productivity; strategy in a global business environment; project management; quality management; location and layout strategies; supply chain and inventory management; material requirements planning; JIT; work-place safety; maintenance and reliability; sourcing and sustainability.

Focuses on the creative process applied toward business and societal problems, specifically, on identifying and developing innovative solutions to complex problems, fostering a creative culture, and providing practical tools for enhancing individual and team creativity. Uses exercises, simulations, and real-world business scenarios.

The core concepts of entrepreneurship, using entrepreneurship to craft innovative responses to social problems. Entrepreneurial skills are as valuable in the social sector as they are in business. Includes both profit and non-profit firms that have programs designed to create social value.

Introduces students to the field of innovation in both theory and practice. Examines different forms of innovation and the conditions under which innovation efforts succeed and fail. Approaches innovation from three perspectives—the innovation environment, invention, and commercialization.

Focuses on the opportunities and the problems characteristic of family businesses: entrepreneurship, management succession, transfer of ownership, mixing family and business roles, family conflicts, personnel issues, non-family employees, and outside advisors.

Introduces students to digital tools commonly used by entrepreneurs including AI-powered solutions. Engages students in a shared class project and guided individual exploration tools like landing page builders, social media platforms, digital analytics, and content creation systems. Prepares students to test, refine, and develop their own business ideas, whether it is a future main venture or a meaningful side gig.

Emphasizes the real-world application of entrepreneurial tools and strategies. Engages students in testing, experimenting with, and potentially launching their venture ideas through hands on implementation. Recognizes that success may mean a full launch, a robust side gig, or a well-designed prototype or experiment. Evaluates outcomes based on skillful application, learning, and decision-making rather than solely on business performance or revenue generation.

Introduce students to the field of information management. Topics include information systems technology, the strategic role of IT, the business applications of networks, databases and Internet technologies, and the development and implementation of information systems. Use relational database models to design a real-world case study.

Introduce students to the field of information management. Topics include information systems technology, the strategic role of IT, the business applications of networks, databases and Internet technologies, and the development and implementation of information systems. Use relational database models to design a real-world case study.

Introduces students to the basics of data science and data analytics for handling of large-scale databases. Provides an overview of the main data-analytic techniques and topics including data visualization, linear and nonlinear regression analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, classification, and clustering methods.

Introduces students to the basics of data science and data analytics for handling of large-scale databases. Provides an overview of the main data-analytic techniques and topics including data visualization, linear and nonlinear regression analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, classification, and clustering methods.

Create a strong foundation for one's career through developing or enhancing one's professional brand, crafting effective career documents, and building strong business communication skills. Explore different career options and develop a plan to achieve one's career goals.

Covers concepts and principles used by marketing professionals. An introduction to the relationships between customers, products, and companies in a competitive and dynamically evolving marketplace.

Covers concepts and principles used by marketing professionals. An introduction to the relationships between customers, products, and companies in a competitive and dynamically evolving marketplace.

Uses concepts learned in Principles of Marketing and Difference, Power, and Oppression Foundations courses to examine how systemic power in markets reproduces constructed differences between consumer groups and results in intersecting inequities. Explores links between historic inequities and contemporary inequities, and compares approaches for dismantling inequities through marketing activities.

Part of Blueprint – a 12-course professional development course series to guide the student from college to career. Continues to build a foundation of financial planning, offering students the tools to successfully prepare for future wealth. Topics include: budgeting for life after graduation, planning for new earnings and income, saving for your future self, and keeping your money and yourself secure.

Part of Blueprint – a 12 course professional development course series to guide the student from college to career. Fourth of four courses dedicated to the foundations of professional financial planning so the student can have the tools needed to successfully manage their career pathway.

Explores fundamental business, legal, and policy issues raised by environmental law, sustainable business practices, and clean energy policies, and their impact on business and management practices.

Examines the strategic management of an organization's system and technologies in support of innovation and new product/service development. Topics include how successful new products are conceived, developed, and launched; the internal and external factors that create barriers or opportunities for success. Explores strategic issues and works on new product development in a company.

Applies entrepreneurial and innovation processes to new business start-ups, existing small businesses, and new ventures within larger organizations; new venture planning, project management, and productivity improvement. Applies concepts and develops communication skills through cases and projects.

Explores and analyzes family enterprise governance practices. Addresses the governance of established family enterprises as distinct from publicly-held firms. Examines succession, stewardship, conflict resolution, communications, legal, and financial aspects, estate planning, strategy, philanthropy and other topics that drive successful family enterprise governance.

Applies frameworks and models of strategic management for understanding and analyzing a firm's effort to create and sustain competitive advantages. Uses an experiential approach to integrate and apply concepts of strategic management with elements of marketing, operations, finance, accounting, and organizational behavior for making decisions from a general manager’s perspective. Explores the differences between strategic and tactical approaches to business decisions and the impact of the external environment on deploying internal resources.

Applies frameworks and models of strategic management for understanding and analyzing a firm's effort to create and sustain competitive advantages. Uses an experiential approach to integrate and apply concepts of strategic management with elements of marketing, operations, finance, accounting, and organizational behavior for making decisions from a general manager’s perspective. Explores the differences between strategic and tactical approaches to business decisions and the impact of the external environment on deploying internal resources.

Develop a complete business plan including product specs with prototype, financial analysis, market analysis, marketing plan, management structure and proposed financing.

Emphasizes "hands on" learning in which students will exercise commercialization concepts on recently awarded Oregon State University patents or individual commercialization projects. Covers process and tools to assess the business viability of a technical idea, and to develop the best business approach for commercialization.

Explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on industries, societies, and the global economy. Examines AI's influence on the future of work, ethical challenges, and policy implications. Emphasizes the development of strategies for navigating AI’s opportunities and risks in business and societal contexts.

Applies analytical and artificial intelligence methods for better organizational decision making. Applies computational methods over large amount of data to gain competitive advantage. Covers basic IT strategy concepts for the identification of the opportunities for analytical/AI solutions. Introduces various machine learning methods with hands-on experience using software package to implement such solutions. Provides link between computational methods and typical issues in various aspects of organizations, including customer relationship management, internet marketing, supply chain management, information security, and human resource management.

Familiarize students with the major activities involved in collecting and managing data for a data analytics project, including extracting information from relational databases, mapping organizational requirements into a data design, transforming data into information, and exploring basic concepts underlying No Structured Query Language (NoSQL) data management and analysis methods.

Explores and visualizes data in business analytics projects. Focuses on exploring and wrangling data to discover interesting analysis questions and prepare for other analytics activities. Pays special attention to data visualization methods and their overall place in data science and business analytics.

Examines how machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies can be used to improve decision-making. Covers the fundamental principles and techniques of ML, NLP, and uses real-world examples and cases to place ML and NLP techniques in context. Provides hands-on experience with ML and NLP software.

Explores the social context of our modern understanding of the group of diseases called cancer. Stimulates critical thinking about how trends in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care are influenced by the way we view social categories such as race, gender, and socioeconomic class. Demonstrates that access to medical advances is informed by societal beliefs regarding the role of government and other authoritative institutions. (Bacc Core Course)

Explores the fundamental concepts of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell biology. Emphasizes cell structure and function at the molecular level.

Explores the fundamental concepts of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell biology. Emphasizes cell structure and function at the molecular level.

Explores the transmission of genetic information from storage to function through hands-on laboratory projects. Introduces students to fundamental molecular biology concepts and techniques, including isolation of DNA, polymerase chain reaction, construction of recombinant plasmids, genetic crosses, concepts of molecular taxonomy, quantification of gene expression in model organisms, and analysis of protein expression and subcellular localization.

Explores concepts in molecular genetics and genomics and introduces experimental approaches in genomics research through the analysis of genomic data and use of open-source software.

Deals with the molecular basis of cellular function, with emphasis upon modern developments, and the foundation for practical applications of this knowledge. Involves the conceptual background necessary to appreciate the applications of molecular biology. Opportunities will be given to discuss public policy issues and questions: What are the moral and practical problems that flow from identification of an individual as being at risk for a late-appearing genetic disorder, such as Huntington's disease or certain cancers? Does the scientific or public value of knowing the entire DNA sequence of the human genome justify a situation in which individual or small-scale research cannot be supported? What issues arise when the fruits of biological research, mostly publicly funded, are commercialized? Should a novel organism be patented? How can biotechnology be applied to environmental problems?

Evaluates how the molecular aspects of medical advances contribute to inequality in our society. Analyzes the current, ongoing ways that institutions of scientific and medical power ascribe difference to groups of people, who are subjected to the deficits that result, and how other individuals may be unwitting beneficiaries. Examines the work of groups and individual advocates who are dismantling medically oppressive policies and practices.

Develop python programming language skills to analyze biomolecular data, particularly nucleic acid and protein sequences. Design python programs to represent and analyze biological sequences and data. Apply fundamental concepts including reading and writing of sequence files, subsequences, reverse complement, finding sequence patterns, subroutines, and control structures, parsing genomic data files, extracting information from biomolecular data, translating RNA to protein with basic python, curve fitting such as binding curves.

Service course for students desiring a short introduction to biochemistry.

An introduction to the field of neuroscience. Topics include structure of neurons, outline of signaling in the central nervous system, Nernst equation, action potentials, synaptic transmission, chemical signaling in vision, disease and drugs.

Considers how organisms experience and interact with their environment by sensing a combination of light, pressure waves, chemicals, and tactile signals. Explores how signals are detected via highly specialized sensory cells located throughout the body and are relayed to the brain through the nervous system. Examines the five major sensory systems (vision, hearing, olfaction, touch, and gustation) and several other, equally important, sensory systems (proprioception, magnetosensation and somatosensation). Explores the diverse and fascinating mechanisms by which other members of the animal kingdom sense environmental stimuli.

Examines the neurobiology and neuropharmacology of drugs of abuse. Investigates the specific mechanism of action and resulting behavioral effects of various categories of drugs of abuse. Examines the neurobiological basis of drug addiction. Considers in both lectures and discussions drug laws and how our society perceives drug use.

Explore the complex and exquisitely coordinated developmental processes that establish the structure and function of the mammalian nervous system. Examine the genetic and developmental programs that create the fundamental patterning of the nervous system, survey the roles of non-neuronal cells in shaping brain function, and investigate ways in which internal and external stimuli sculpt and refine neural circuitry.

Sequence course for students with a limited background in physical chemistry.

Sequence course for students with a limited background in physical chemistry.

History and theory of cell biology; microscopy and other techniques to study cells and organelles; membranes; organelles; protein import; cell signaling; cytoskeleton; polarity; cell cycle; stem cells; pattern formation; cancer biology.

Apply physical, mathematical, and computational models to cellular and sub-cellular systems. Explore thermostatistics of two-state systems in biology and case studies including protein function, binding, and cooperativity. Examine biophysics and mechanics of membranes, modeling of macromolecular and protein structure, and diffusion and hydrodynamics at the molecular and cellular scales. Explore the connection between energetics and kinetics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium cellular processes.

An introduction to structural biology, the discipline focused on understanding the structural properties of biological macromolecules--especially proteins and nucleic acids--and relating them to their function. Introduces students to the vocabulary and tools of this discipline, covering both the fundamental physico-chemical principles governing the structure and function of biological macromolecules and a selected set of widely used experimental and theoretical approaches to their characterization.

Examines quantitative properties of biological systems and biological phenomena using concepts derived from mathematics and physics.

Explores fundamental concepts needed to understand the software and methods used in bioinformatics. Discusses and evaluates contemporary techniques such as databases, gene and genome annotations, functional annotations, sequence alignment, motif finding, secondary structure prediction, phylogenetic tree construction, high-throughput sequence data, ChIP-Seq peak identification, transcriptome profiling by RNA-Seq, microRNA discovery and target prediction.

Covers aspects of transmission genetics (Mendel’s laws, mapping strategies) informed by the machineries required for genetic information storage, transcription, translation, and protein processing. Analyses of state-of-the-art primary literature and lectures give a perspective on important “model” organisms, including examples from among bacteria, plants, fungi, and animals.

Introduces computational modeling of biomolecules, including proteins and lipids. Examines basic principles of physics-based approaches such as molecular dynamics (MD), docking, atomistic vs. coarse-grained descriptions of molecules, and balance between chemical accuracy and adequate exploration of length/time-scales. Investigates force-field parametrization from thermodynamic data, experiments, and quantum mechanical data. Considers tools for creating simulation inputs and processing of structural files (e.g., protein databank), basic usage of open-source MD simulation packages, data processing, analysis of simulation trajectories, and visualization of molecular models. Examines practical usage of AlphaFold/RosettaFold for developing starting structures for MD simulations.

Examines how the structure and function of biological macromolecules arises from the organic chemistry of their fundamental building blocks. The organic chemistry of biochemistry will be a focus, including the mechanisms by which enzymes catalyze biological reactions.

Covers the mechanisms and regulation of the pathways by which cells break down fuel molecules, conserve some of the released energy in the form of reactive nucleotides, and use this energy to create biological building blocks from simpler metabolites.

Focuses on genetic biochemistry, including the synthesis of nucleotides, DNA synthesis and repair, RNA synthesis and processing, and protein synthesis and modification.

Investigate proteins and other biological macromolecules using fundamental laboratory techniques in biochemistry. Design hypothesis-driven experiments to express, purify and characterize recombinant proteins. Interpret data and communicate results to a scientific audience.

Critically examine how data analysis can support legitimate conclusions from biological datasets and also how deceptive visualizations, misleading comparisons, and spurious reasoning can lead to false conclusions. Analyze data to break down the logical flow of an argument and identify key assumptions, even when they are not stated explicitly.

Develops competency in scientific computing and data analysis with broad applications to the life sciences. Introduces the Python programming language as a versatile, powerful tool for visualizing and analyzing data and for performing reproducible research. Focuses on real-world datasets originating across the life sciences. Provides a foundation for future work in data-intensive disciplines.

Explores theory and practice behind widely used computational methods for biological data analysis. Covers principles of programming for reproducible research as well as computational techniques for testing hypotheses, inferring dataset parameters, and making predictions from biological data.

Synthesizes knowledge and skills in biology, mathematics, statistics, and computer science to implement, in writing, an analysis strategy.

Reflects upon experiential learning projects and builds professional skills, including oral and a hard-copy written presentations, a curriculum vitae or resumé, and job or graduate school application. Requires students listening and responding to other student presentations.

Emphasizes computational and applied mathematical methods for modeling and analyzing biological networks. Covers various network centralities, topological measures, clustering algorithms, probabilistic annotation models and inference methods. Introduces those concepts in the context of protein interaction, gene regulatory, and metabolic networks. Uses graph frameworks, data frames (and related data structures for data science), and programming in Python or R. CROSSLISTED as BDS 446 / CS 446.

Examines machine learning or pattern recognition applications in analyses of biological data. Applies supervised learning techniques for recognizing useful patterns in genome-scale datasets, with emphasis on carefully considered scientific interpretation of machine learning model outcomes. Explores Python Scikit-Learn libraries for implementing model-based analyses.

Explores how genomes underlie and influence biological phenomena, across the diversity of life, from prokaryotic microbes to eukaryotic multicellular organisms. Examines genome organization in the first part of the course: the structure of chromosomes and chromatin; genes and gene families; and mechanisms that remodel genomes, such as mutation, recombination and transposable elements. Summarizes models of genome expression and regulation in the second part of the course: transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms and genotype-to-phenotype relationships. Illustrates how recent technological advances and genome-wide assays enable investigation of these topics.

Explores principles of comparative genomics. Examines methods for genome assembly and annotation. Discusses genomic approaches for the study of structural change, whole genome duplication, and gene family evolution. Lab topics include the analysis of next generation sequencing data and conducting comparative genomic analyses.

Translate fundamental knowledge on genetics and genomics to study evolution and functional genes in populations. Apply skills in computer science to process, analyze, and draw conclusions from microbial populations at the ecosystem level.

Introduces conceptual approaches and associated laboratory techniques that rely on genome-scale datasets to investigate the function of, and interactions between, genes as well as their RNA/protein products. Examples include: predicting protein function based on nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis; large-scale genetic approaches to identifying novel genotype-phenotype associations; and analysis of transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic datasets, which measure changes in RNA transcripts, proteins and metabolites, respectively, to explore gene function and cellular/organismal networks. Provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the wide range of available large-scale technologies can be applied to solve biological problems.

Introduces the concepts and practice of ecological engineering including characteristics, classification, and modeling of ecosystems; ecosystem protection; and sustainable uses of ecosystems, including treatment wetlands, land treatment systems, and ecologically sensitive stormwater management, to meet the needs of human societies.

Develops programming skills in Python, including basic programming tasks, data analysis, data visualization, and optimization, with applications in Ecological Engineering. Builds computational thinking skills.

The study of ecology in the context of engineering. Develops an understanding of the patterns associated with species distribution in the natural world. Examines the theories of competition, predation, disease and mutualism that help explain the functioning of biological communities. Discusses interactions between abiotic and organismal factors, the environment, and ecological properties and processes.

Fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid motion, conservation of mass, momentum and energy for incompressible fluids, dimensional analysis, ecological engineering applications.

Theory and design of hydraulic systems for ecological engineering applications.

Provides a quantitative description of fundamental ecohydrologic processes, the interactions between water and the atmosphere, soils, and plants, as well as techniques for estimating the movement of water through ecosystems.

An introduction to simulation modeling and analysis of a variety of biological and ecological systems. Systems approaches to describing ecological systems.

A study of the transport processes of fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer applied to biological organisms and ecological systems.

Introduction to modern measurement methods for ecological and environmental applications includes sensors and systems for measuring soil, water and atmospheric properties.

Applies ecological engineering principles to the modeling, analysis and design of microbial processes in the environment.

Explores critical issues in the planning and management of engineering projects and high-technology work to deliver intended outcomes. Analyzes economic, time, and performance parameters of engineering projects from the organizational and resource perspectives. Introduces network optimization and simulation concepts. Applies fundamental engineering economics concepts to planning and managing projects in a holistic approach that incorporates stakeholder input.

Explores applications of ecological principles to engineering design that include considerations of self-organization, uncertainty, sustainability, resilience, the role of humans in ecosystems, and system-scale impacts and benefits.

Multipurpose river use; natural physical processes in alluvial rivers; channel modification practices; river structures; design practices; impact of river modification; problem analysis; and impact minimization.

Focuses on the application of natural and nature- based features (coastal dunes, marshes, cobble berms, woody debris, etc.) in engineering design to mitigate the effects of flooding and erosion in coastal, estuarine and coastal influenced riverine areas. Explores conception/planning, policy frameworks, resilience, risk, design, and adaptive management. CROSSLISTED as BEE 455 / CE 455.

Problem solving in nonpoint source pollution. Methods for evaluating the extent, rate, timing, and fate of Non-Point Source (NPS) pollutants in agricultural and urban environments.

Examines strategies for using a variety of biological processes for treating municipal, agricultural and industrial contaminants.

Explores engineering design processes for ecological engineering applications, including but not limited to specifications, performance criteria, timelines, project logistics, developing alternatives and alternatives selection criteria, and principles and practices of working in engineering teams. Involves a hands-on experience in solving complex, open-ended design problems often encountered in ecological engineering practice, including satisfying physical, legal, economic, social and environmental constraints.

Designs engineering processes for ecological engineering applications, including specifications, performance criteria, timelines, and project logistics. Applies principles and practices of working in engineering teams.

Discussion of matters relating to a dental career. Includes application procedures, the importance of various requirements, admissions, professional school curricula, financing education and related matters. Speakers are included.

Introduction of incoming BioHealth Sciences students to college life with an emphasis on faculties, facilities, services, and curricula in BHS. Exposure to career opportunities for students interested in the BioHealth Sciences.

Introduces general properties of cellular microbes and viruses, microbial biochemistry and genetics, pathogenesis and disease, immunity, and microbial infections. Emphasizes medical microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health. CROSSLISTED as BHS 255 / MB 255.

Explores the BioHealth Sciences and Microbiology major and careers related to each. Emphasizes professional development outcomes through relevant social and cognitive concepts. Examines regional experiential learning and networking opportunities. CROSSLISTED as BHS 290 / MB 290.

Explores biological, technical, and bioinformatic concepts related to the analysis and preparation of microbiological samples relevant to human health and infection. Applies these concepts during the performance of activities, exercises, and computational analyses of microbial DNA sequence data.

Focuses on interactions of the innate and adaptive immune responses in the context of infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiencies and immunotherapies.

Explores how microorganisms contribute in beneficial and detrimental ways to human health. Emphasizes microbial contributions to cancer, gut health, chronic infection and autoimmune diseases.

Introduces basic principles of disease, focused on structural and functional changes of cells, tissues and organs, and their relationships to clinical disease. Emphasizes the cellular to organ level, but covers molecular mechanisms, as pertinent.

Properties of viruses, their biology, pathogenesis and concern to society. Emphasis on viruses causing human disease. CROSSLISTED as BHS 340 / MB 340.

One health is the concept that human, animal and environmental health are all intertwined. Utilizes current one health issues such as disease outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance to encourage students from diverse fields to develop interdisciplinary collaboration and communication skills. CROSSLISTED as BHS 415 / VMB 415.

Explores ecosystems, including biodiversity, species interactions, human impacts, and conservation biology. Examines biological themes and research in the context of current issues in science and society. Incorporates organisms and technologies to explore biology and develop skills for lifelong learning.

Explores human biology, including aspects of human disease and health. Examines biological themes and research in the context of current issues in science and society. Hands-on laboratories focus on using specimens, models, and technologies to explore biology and develop skills for lifelong learning.

A field-focused learning experience exploring the varied marine life and habitats on the Oregon coast, including rocky shores, sandy beaches, mud flats, bays and estuaries. Students will also be introduced to the breadth of marine science course offerings and research at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center located in Newport, Oregon.

Survey of marine organisms, the environments they inhabit, and their evolutionary adaptations for thriving in those environments. The course will also highlight current conservation challenges that threaten marine life, such as climate change, overfishing, and pollution.

Explores critical foundations of biological sciences, including scientific inquiry, genetics, evolution, and ecology. Emphasizes the application of core concepts to solve human and environmental problems. Reinforces general course content while cultivating student skills in critical thinking, scientific writing, and experimental design.

Explores fundamental concepts in molecular and cellular biology, beginning with biomolecules and the origin of life, and ending with genomics. Emphasizes applications of molecular and cellular biology to solve human problems. Reinforces general course content, through companion laboratory experiments, while cultivating student skills in critical thinking, scientific writing, and experimental design.

Explores basic plant and animal physiology from an evolutionary perspective. Emphasizes topics of great importance to human society, including human and plant disease. Reinforces general course content, through companion laboratory experiments, while cultivating student skills in critical thinking, scientific writing, and experimental design.

Explores fundamental biological concepts and theories about the cellular and molecular basis of life including cell structure and function, metabolism, genetic basis of inheritance and how information flows from DNA to proteins, with a focus on the iterative process of science.

Explores fundamental biological concepts and theories about the cellular and molecular basis of life including cell structure and function, metabolism, genetic basis of inheritance and how information flows from DNA to proteins, with a focus on the iterative process of science.

Explores fundamental biological concepts and theories about the structure and function of diverse organisms (including plants and animals), evolution and development, transformation of energy and matter, and body systems at a multicellular organismal level.

Explores fundamental biological concepts and theories about the structure and function of diverse organisms (including plants and animals), evolution and development, transformation of energy and matter, and body systems at a multicellular organismal level.

Explores the unity and diversity of life through evolutionary mechanisms and relationships, and adaptation to the environment. Examines population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

Explores the unity and diversity of life through evolutionary mechanisms and relationships, and adaptation to the environment. Examines population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

The first of a three-term introductory series. Using a strong gross anatomy focus, course topics address fundamental concepts of biology as they apply to human anatomy and physiology and then focus on understanding the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the human skeleton, muscular and integumentary systems. BI 231 is a required prerequisite to BI 232 and BI 233. The BI 241 Lab is optional but prerequisite for either of the subsequent BI 242 or BI 243 lab courses in the series. Lec.

Examines the structure and function of the human body through a body systems approach. Explores anatomy and physiology of the integumentary, skeletal and muscular systems at the relevant levels of biological organization (chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system). Covers neurophysiology and excitable membranes. Includes foundational aspects such as anatomical terminology and homeostasis.

The second of a three-term introductory series. Using a strong gross anatomy focus, course topics address the structures, functions and regulatory mechanisms involved in the human nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. Lec.

Examines the structure and function of the human body through a body systems approach. Explores anatomy and physiology of the central and peripheral nervous, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems at the relevant levels of biological organization (chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system). Covers special senses and the autonomic nervous system.

The third of a three-term introductory series. Using a strong gross anatomy focus, course topics address the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the human cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems. Lec.

Examines the structure and function of the human body through a body systems approach. Explores anatomy and physiology of the respiratory, digestive, immune, lymphatic, urinary, and reproductive systems at the relevant levels of biological organization (chemical, cellular, tissue, organ, and organ system). Covers acid-base balance and human development.

The first of a three-term introductory series. Using the human cadaver (prosection), course topics address fundamental concepts of biology as they apply to human anatomy and physiology and then focus on understanding the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the human skeletal, muscular and integumentary systems. Physiology demonstrations illustrate functions of organ systems.

The second of a three-term introductory series. Using the human cadaver (prosection) and dissection of preserved specimens with a strong gross anatomy focus, course topics address the structures, functions and regulatory mechanisms involved in the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. Physiology demonstrations illustrate functions of organ systems.

The third of a three-term introductory series. Using the human cadaver (prosection) and dissection of preserved specimens with a strong gross anatomy focus, course topics address the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the human cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems. Physiology demonstrations illustrate functions of organ systems.

First of a three-term series. Explores the fundamental concepts of biology as they apply to human anatomy and physiology and examines the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the skeletal, muscular and integumentary systems.

Second of a three-term series. Explores the structures, functions and regulatory mechanisms involved in the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems.

Third of a three-term series. Explores the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems.

Explores fundamentals of transmission, population and molecular genetics.

Explores fundamentals of transmission, population and molecular genetics.

Emphasizes hands-on applications of the molecular tools commonly used in ecology and evolution such as PCR, gel electrophoresis, fragment analysis, and DNA sequencing. Utilizes research projects requiring acquisition and analysis of genetic data. Examines strategies for effectively communicating science to diverse audiences.

The first of a three-term advanced series. With a strong focus on the physiological underpinnings of disease, course topics address the fundamental concepts of human anatomy and physiology and then focus on understanding the structures, functions, regulatory mechanisms and common pathologies involved in the skeletal, muscular and integumentary systems.

The second of a three-term advanced series. With a strong focus on the physiological underpinnings of disease, course topics address the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. Lec.

The third part of a three-term advanced series. With a strong focus on the physiological underpinnings of disease, course topics address the structures, functions, and regulatory mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems. Lec.

The first of a three-term advanced series. Using the human cadaver (prosection) and physiological data acquisition equipment, course topics address the fundamental concepts of human anatomy and physiology and then focus on understanding the structures, functions, regulatory mechanisms and common pathologies involved in the human skeletal, muscular and integumentary systems. Lab.

The second of a three-term advanced series. Using the human cadaver (prosection), dissection of preserved specimens, and physiological data acquisition equipment, course topics address the structures, functions, regulatory mechanisms and common pathologies involved in the human nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems. Lab.

The third of a three-term advanced series. Using the human cadaver (prosection),dissection of preserved specimens, and physiological data acquisition equipment, course topics address the structures, functions, regulatory mechanisms and common pathologies involved in the human cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary and digestive systems. Lab.

Analyzes DNA's roles in shaping our senses of social identity and interconnectivity. Examines the role of genetics in the construction of race and gender concepts and associated oppression. Investigates historical and contemporary examples of eugenics, with focus on Oregon. Analyzes advances in genetic biotechnologies and their consequences. Explores and evaluates diverse approaches to overcoming race-based oppression.

Examines interactions of society and the marine environment, emphasizing the ecological, biogeochemical, economic and sociological significance of the oceans. Explores topics of current critical importance, including ecosystem services valuation, fisheries and aquaculture, rippling effects of planetary biogeochemical change, ocean acidification, marine diseases, marine pollution, protecting marine habitats, and conserving marine biodiversity.

Ecological interactions and principles in different marine habitats. Topics include the organisms (plants, invertebrates, vertebrates) found in major habitats and interactions between organisms. Habitats discussed include coral reefs, rocky shores, kelp forests, near-shore waters, open-ocean waters, and the deep sea. Emphasis is placed on how organism-organism interactions produce varying patterns of distribution, abundance, body size, diversity, stability, and succession.

A field-based introduction to the diversity of ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest coast. Biological and physical processes affecting the distribution, structure, community composition and physical features of these systems are explored through a variety of lectures and field trips. Ecosystem services and human impacts are examined.

Explores how historical colonialism and racism influenced early conservation and the development and application of conservation policy and science. Examines the impact of conservation’s colonial history on present-day communities. Compares strategies for re-defining conservation success and incorporating local communities, knowledge, and values. Emphasizes approaches to removing structural barriers to diverse participation in conservation and conservation careers.

Examines the interactions between organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments at the population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels of organization.

Examines the interactions between organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments at the population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels of organization.

Explores the use of ecological field research methods in local ecosystems, including data collection, analysis, and synthesis. Integrates student research projects and communication of research results in written and oral formats. Examines strategies for effectively communicating science to diverse audiences.

Explores the Earth’s biodiversity and unprecedented extinction crisis. Examines the evolutionary and ecological processes that have created this diversity of life, the importance of biodiversity in maintaining the earth's ecosystems, and methods used to conserve biodiversity for future generations.

Investigates Western biodiversity frameworks across scales, from DNA to species to ecosystem, and applies them in Nepal. Explores impact of anthropogenic activities and structures, such as nature-based tourism and hydropower dams, on biodiversity in Himalayan regions of Nepal. Examines human-wildlife coexistence and the impacts of conservation strategies in Himalayan ecosystems on target species and local human communities.

Explores basic methods and principles of scientific illustration and visual communication of scientific concepts with a focus on biological topics. Examines techniques for illustrating organisms or communicating concepts using media such as pen and ink, colored pencils, watercolor, and select digital tools. Includes hands-on projects and the production of a comprehensive portfolio.

Fossils provide a direct window into the evolution, extinction, and ecology of past life on Earth. A process-based study of the marine and terrestrial fossil record is taken to explore the topics of preservation, macroevolution, extinction of biotas, biomechanics, paleoecology, and climate change. Required laboratory and weekend field trip.

Formal analysis of genetic and ecological mechanisms producing evolutionary change; special topics include speciation, ecological constraints, adaptive radiations, paleontology, biogeography, the origin of life, molecular evolution, and human evolution.

Formal analysis of genetic and ecological mechanisms producing evolutionary change; special topics include speciation, ecological constraints, adaptive radiations, paleontology, biogeography, the origin of life, molecular evolution, and human evolution.

Explores the diversity of flora and fauna of the Pacific Northwest marine environment, including fish, algae, and invertebrates. Examines ecological patterns and processes characteristic of marine communities. Considers current policy questions regarding marine resource management. Culminates in a research project that includes data analysis, writing, and presentation.

In-depth dissection of the orientation, innervation, and functional significance of muscles and muscle groups. Topics include muscle identification, joint anatomy and variation of human form. Student expectations include vascularization and detailed joint anatomy. The laboratory component will consist of the dissection of the muscular anatomy of a human cadaver. Lab fee.

Explores the theory and practice of modern phylogenetic analysis. Emphasis placed on tree reconstruction algorithms, assessment of statistical support, and contemporary issues in phylogenetics. Lab will focus on the use of phylogenetic software and the analysis of molecular data sets. Offered even years.

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of biodiversity. Focuses on abiotic (geological, climatological) and biotic (ecological, evolutionary) factors that govern diversity across space and through time, emphasizing assembly of communities, global change, and conservation in today’s rapidly changing world. Offered odd years.

Covers theoretical and empirical views of the structure and function of populations from across the tree of life, emphasizing the integration of ecological and evolutionary approaches. Builds analytical skills by applying models of population dynamics to analyze and interpret quantitative population data. Applies concepts of population biology to real-world problems.

An introduction to disease ecology--the study of disease processes in natural populations and communities. Focuses on (I) the role parasites play in the ecology and evolution of animal populations, including humans; and (II) the relevance of ecological and evolutionary considerations in managing infectious diseases. Not offered every year.

Provides the biophysical basis for several medically-important signals, the operating principles of specific sensors used for acquiring those biomedical signals, and an introduction to signal acquisition, processing, and interpretation in the context of those biosignals. Emphasizes conceptual understanding of these topics through active engagement in group discussions, assembling specific sensor systems using off-the-shelf electronics systems, and use of the sensors to acquire, process, and interpret biosignals.

Introduces thermodynamics as applied to biological and biophysical systems. Presents first and second law of thermodynamics, phase and reaction equilibria, and statistical thermodynamics in the context of molecular interactions, binding equilibria, metabolism, and biomolecular transport common to living systems. Explores the thermodynamics of macromolecules (including proteins and DNA).

Introduces the concepts of mass and fluid transport in the context of problems of interest in bioengineering. Emphasizes conceptual understanding of both microscopic and macroscopic mass and momentum transport with a focus on how these processes work in the body.

Introduces the concepts of mass and fluid transport in the context of problems of interest in bioengineering. Emphasizes conceptual understanding of both microscopic and macroscopic mass and momentum transport with a focus on how these processes work in the body.

Deepens students understanding of fluid transport and introduces the concept of heat transport in the context of problems of interest in bioengineering. Emphasizes conceptual understanding of both microscopic and macroscopic momentum and heat transport with a focus on how these processes work in the body.

Applies engineering concepts (mass and energy conservation, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena) to cellular- and system-level human physiology. Explores design considerations for biomedical interventions and devices.

Introduces numerical and analytical methods for modeling and analyzing bioengineering and biomedical engineering systems/data. Emphasizes application of several techniques including: fitting statistical distributions to data, solving differential equations numerically, matrix decompositions and their uses, and data clustering and regression.

Analyzes material interactions with human tissue, with emphasis on the role of interfacial chemistry and physics in cell adhesion, infection, blood coagulation and thrombosis. Explores preparation of functional hydrogels, and material coatings and derivatizations including immobilized bio-active molecules.

Survey of theory and practical current methods for chemical modification and conjugation of proteins and other biomolecules. Topics include permanent and cleavable cross-linkers, protein modification reagents, immobilization of enzymes/DNA, enzyme-antibody conjugates, protein-protein interactions, PEGylation and labeling of proteins, and solid-phase peptide synthesis.

The characterization of molecular, biological, and engineered surfaces by modern surface analytical techniques. Topics include surface sensitive modes of electron spectroscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. Students will interpret surface analytical data and gain access to the surface science literature.

Emphasizes fundamental laboratory techniques in bioengineering used to assess and manipulate molecular, cellular, and tissue level models.

Emphasizes design and analysis of bioreactors using suspension and immobilized microbial cultures.

Explores application of engineering methods and principles to the study of mammalian cells. Emphasizes mathematical models of cellular processes (e.g., cellular mass transport, protein-ligand interactions, cellular mechanics) and methods for probing the physical characteristics of biological molecules and cells.

Emphasizes application of basic mass transfer, reaction kinetics and thermodynamic principles to understanding, selection, and development of strategies for the recovery of products from bioreactors.

Explores fundamentals of image formation, enhancement, and analysis for medical and biological applications. Presents common medical imaging and biomedical diagnostic imaging types and resultant format. Provides opportunity to work with real image sets to perform enhancement and analysis operations for the purpose of increasing diagnostic specificity and sensitivity as well as extracting quantitative information.

Material balances, thermophysical, and thermochemical calculations.

Material balances, thermophysical, and thermochemical calculations.

Energy balances, thermophysical and thermochemical calculations.

Energy balances, thermophysical and thermochemical calculations.

Applies material and energy balances, with an emphasis on data analysis important to chemical engineers, bioengineers, and environmental engineers. Emphasizes contextual learning through collaborative learning with peers and the use of process flow simulation modeling and analysis software.

Material balances, thermophysical, and thermochemical calculations. Energy balances, thermophysical and thermochemical calculations.

Introduces professionalism and engineering ethics through presentation of ethical theory, professional engineering responsibility, codes of ethics, conflicts of obligation, conflicts of interest, risk and safety, and loyalty and dissent. Explores the social and political dimensions of engineering and “macroethical” topics such as sustainability and bioethics.

Unit operations and unit processes; preparation of technical reports.

Unit operations and unit processes; preparation of technical reports.

Focuses on hemp processing technologies including harvesting, drying, extraction of cannabinoids, fractionation and separation of various fractions, product formulation, waste management, storage, quality, and safety practices.

Introduces the engineering design process and graphic skills that are used by civil and construction engineers. Topics include design process, geometric construction, multiviews, auxiliary views, sections, dimensioning, tolerances and engineering drawing standards. Students participate in team design projects and presentations. Graphic and design projects from the areas of civil and construction engineering.

Basic principles of virtual design and construction (VDC) focusing on skills required for generating design and construction information models. Parametric modeling and design constraints are introduced. Students will utilize construction drawings and documentation to create accurate 3D models. Use of design and construction information models for making estimates of quantities and cost, and for determination of constructability problems.

Classify attributes and quantify properties of civil and construction engineering materials including portland cement concrete, asphalt concrete, wood, and metals. Implement and interpret data from standard laboratory material testing methods.

Classify attributes and quantify properties of civil and construction engineering materials including portland cement concrete, asphalt concrete, wood, and metals. Implement and interpret data from standard laboratory material testing methods.

Introduces concepts of construction with green building materials. Specific concepts include evaluation of what truly makes a material "green", long-term performance (e.g., durability) of materials, material production and life cycle cost analysis. Concepts of green building programs, guidelines and specifications will be introduced.

Portland cement hydration, microstructural development, fresh and hardened properties, testing standards, durability, alternative cements.

Focuses on characterization of asphalt materials and mixtures, current laboratory testing technology for asphalt binders and mixes, engineering of asphalt mixes to meet design requirements, asphalt recycling process, environmental impacts of asphalt pavements, and recent developments in asphalt technology.

Introductory design principles presented with the use of GIS and geospatial information (remote sensing, GPS, surveying, and aerial photography) for civil engineering problem solving. Introduction to the integration of geospatial data and analysis for decision making and management for site selection, mitigation, change analysis, modeling and assessment. Standard software and custom programming used in course. Students participate in both individual and team projects and presentations. Projects from the area of civil engineering.

Focuses on fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid motion, conservation of mass, momentum and energy for incompressible fluids, dimensional analysis, civil engineering applications.

Focuses on fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid motion, conservation of mass, momentum and energy for incompressible fluids, dimensional analysis, civil engineering applications.

Analysis of large civil engineering fluid systems including conduit flow, multiple reservoirs, pipe networks, pumps, turbines, open channel flow, and hydraulic structures.

Use of surveying equipment, Gaussian error theory applied to measurements, calculations of position on spherical and plane surfaces, state plane coordinate systems, introduction to global positioning systems.

Explores modern reality capture technologies in engineering, emphasizing practical skills in digital data analysis for project management and communication. Engages with 3D laser scanning, drone-based photogrammetry, and Building Information Modelling (BIM) through hands-on lab activities. Builds expertise in geospatial data acquisition, processing, and analysis using state-of-the-art equipment and advanced software tools, including Python scripting. Focuses on data-driven solutions for construction and engineering challenges, fostering innovative problem-solving and collaboration strategies. Prepares for future trends in technology with an eye on ethical considerations.

Curve problems in highway design, including circular, vertical, compound curves and spirals; earth distribution analysis; preliminary office studies; paper location procedures and field layout problems.

Introduces basic soil mechanics including the identification and classification of soil. Computations for soil compaction and consolidation, flow through porous media, effective stress, and compressibility of soil.

Applies fundamental soil mechanics principles to analyses of slope stability, retaining structures, and foundation support.

Analysis of statically determinate structures (beams, frames, trusses, arches, and cables). Approximate analysis, influence lines, deflections.

Analysis of statically indeterminate structures (beams, frames, trusses). Deflections. Energy methods, introduction to matrix methods.

Introduction to design of steel members, connections and structural systems.

Introduces highway engineering standards. Topics including an overview of geometric design, cross-section design, and roadside design. Emphasizes types of highway surfaces, highways and the environment, pavement design, highway construction, and its maintenance.

Covers linear wave theory and wave forces on ocean structures. Explores guided design of a fixed and floating body system for offshore renewable wind and wave energy. Reviews studies on excitation, drag, and system performance analyses on Oregon coasts. CROSSLISTED as CE 411 / MIME 411.

Fundamentals of hydrology, the hydrologic cycle, precipitation, streamflow, hydrograph analysis and hydrologic measurements.

Presents Geographic Information System (GIS) technology for developing solutions to water resource problems: water quality, availability, flooding, the natural environment, and management of water resources. Typical GIS data models for hydrologic information are presented. Synthesis of geospatial and temporal water resources to support hydrologic analysis and modeling are covered.

Planning and design criteria of coastal infrastructure, including breakwaters, jetties, sea walls, groins, piers, submerged pipelines, harbor design, and tsunami defense. Use of laboratory models, numerical simulations, and field observations for design.

Theory, planning, analysis, and design of hydraulic structures. Application of basic principles detailed analysis and design. Engineering planning and design of water resource systems.

Explores engineering career paths; ethics and professionalism, project planning, execution and delivery; team building/management; dispute resolution; partnering; effective decision making; uncertainty and risk analysis; and current industry design and construction methods.

The application of systems analysis to structuring, analyzing, and planning for civil engineering projects. Concept of the system and its environment; setting goals, objectives, and standards; evaluation criteria; solution generation and analysis; evaluation and optimization. Project management using precedence node diagramming; resource allocation and leveling; time-cost trade-off; and PERT.

Fundamentals of construction industry contracts, including technical specifications, and issues related to time, money, warranty, insurance, and changed conditions.

Focuses on design and construction of temporary structures including formwork, shoring, and earth retaining structures.

Introduction to problem formulation and optimization techniques for design of complex water resources systems.

Explore the principles of using sound as a sampling tool and the applications of acoustics in a variety of marine disciplines. Examine the physics of underwater sound and sound propagation in the ocean, including the effects of oceanographic variability such as temperature/salinity stratification, seafloor/surface reflections, internal waves, turbulence, and presence of biological organisms. Break down the principles underlying acoustic remote sensing methods in oceanography including sonar, sub-bottom profilers, acoustic tomography, and passive acoustic detection. Explore modern research in acoustical oceanography, and the associated scientific literature. CROSSLISTED as CE 439 / OC 436.

Focuses on the application of natural and nature- based features (coastal dunes, marshes, cobble berms, woody debris, etc.) in engineering design to mitigate the effects of flooding and erosion in coastal, estuarine and coastal influenced riverine areas. Explores conception/planning, policy frameworks, resilience, risk, design, and adaptive management. CROSSLISTED as BEE 455 / CE 455.

Geometry of terrestrial and vertical photographs, flightline planning, stereoscopy and parallax, stereoscopic plotting instruments, analytical photogrammetry, orthophotography, introduction to photo interpretation, and aerial cameras.

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) theory, networks, and fieldwork; control specifications, methods and problems in obtaining large area measurements; precise leveling; network adjustments using least square techniques; field instrument adjustments.

Introduction to U.S. public land survey; Oregon state statutes, common law decisions, and administrative rules dealing with boundary law; case studies; unwritten land transfers; original and resurvey platting laws; guarantees of title; deed descriptions.

Criteria, theory, design, and construction for foundations of structures; use of in-situ tests for geotechnical engineering; computer applications.

A comprehensive overview of evaluating stability and performance for natural and engineered slopes. Design aspects include construction of road embankments, slope remediation techniques and application of geosynthetics for slope stabilization, slope and wall construction, and drainage.

Basic principles of reinforced concrete design; strength, stability, and serviceability criteria; design of reinforced concrete members for flexure and shear. Detailing, development length and splices.

A critical examination in depth of masonry design topics.

Study of basic wood properties and design considerations. Design and behavior of wood connectors, beams, columns and beam columns. Introduction to plywood and glued laminated members. Analysis and design of structural diaphragms and shear walls.

Prestressed concrete analysis and design, systems of prestressing, materials, economics.

Introduction to transportation engineering systems characteristics, traffic estimation, comprehensive transportation planning, highway economics, driver and vehicle characteristics, highway operations and capacity, signalization and control. Introduction to intelligent transportation.

Design and rehabilitation of pavement structures for streets, highways, and airports.

Use of field surveying equipment; error analysis; plane surveying methods applied to construction; plane coordinate computations; topographic mapping; and introduction to GPS.

Training in construction safety with emphasis on hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention.

Fundamentals of estimating and bidding construction projects; plan reading, specification interpretation; quantity take-off; types of estimates; estimating and methods of construction for sitework, concrete, and carpentry; estimating subcontracts, estimating job overhead and home office overhead; estimating profit, and computer-aided estimating.

Fundamentals of estimating and bidding construction projects; plan reading, specification interpretation; quantity take-off; types of estimates; estimating and methods of construction for sitework, concrete, and carpentry; estimating subcontracts, estimating job overhead and home office overhead; estimating profit, and computer-aided estimating.

Principles of construction planning, scheduling, and resource optimization; scheduling techniques and calculations; methods for integrating project resources (materials, equipment, personnel, and money) into the schedule.

Explore fundamentals of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering, including the identification and classification of soil, principles of compaction, effective stress, soil strength, slope stability, earth pressure, shear strength and bearing capacity of strip footings.

Introduction to statically determinate analysis and design of steel structures.

Analysis and design of building elements of concrete and timber; detailing and fabrication.

Preparing and effectively presenting detailed and complete proposals for the execution of construction projects.

Planning and preparing cost estimates, schedules, site logistics plans for executing construction projects; presenting written and oral construction proposals.

Explores heavy civil construction methods. Focuses on construction equipment types, capabilities, costs, productivity, and the selection, planning, and use of equipment needed for a construction project. Develops an estimate using production and costs from an actual project. Introduces soil characteristics, concrete construction, quantity analyses, and movement on construction sites.

Building construction management and methods.

Project management concepts for construction; concepts, roles and responsibilities, labor relations and supervision, administrative systems, documentation, quality management, and process improvement.

Principles and applications of electrical components of constructed facilities; basic electrical circuit theory, power, motors, controls, codes, and building distribution systems.

Principles and applications of mechanical components of constructed facilities; heating, ventilating, air conditioning, plumbing, fire protection, and other mechanical construction.

Provides some extra preparation for students before enrolling in a general chemistry course. Emphasizes the skills required to be successful in general chemistry and the use of those skill in the context of chemistry concepts.

Introduces the concepts of chemistry and the importance of these concepts in understanding color. Introduces the physical and chemical origins of color and human color perception. Investigates color in nature, art, and daily life through topics such as light interaction, molecular structure, and structural color. Explains phenomena including sunsets, rainbows, fireworks, color-blindness, and the Aurora Borealis. Emphasizes interdisciplinary connections between science, art, and history.

Introduces students to the fundamentals of chemistry and the practice of science. Covers atomic structure and the periodic table, including the biological and terrestrial abundance of the elements, chemical bonding and molecular structure, and the transformations of substances through chemical reactions, including how these transformations contribute to climate change.

A general chemistry sequence intended for majors in fields other than the physical sciences.

A general chemistry sequence intended for majors in fields other than the physical sciences.

Introduction to organic chemistry and the chemistry of biological systems. Organic nomenclature and fundamental reactions, emphasizing topics such as amino acids, proteins, biochemical energy, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). Intended as a terminal course in chemistry, not to serve as a prerequisite to higher numbered chemistry courses. Lec/lab. Does not count toward a chemistry minor.

An introduction to general, organic, and biological chemistry. Intended as a terminal course in chemistry, not to serve as a prerequisite to higher numbered chemistry courses.

Explores and applies principles and applications of introductory chemistry. Emphasizes introduction to measurement, components of matter, quantitative relationships including introductory stoichiometry, and major classes of chemical reactions. Prepares students with little to no previous chemistry experience for the General Chemistry series.

Introduces the structures, properties, and fundamental concepts in chemistry. Focuses on problem-solving with chemical concepts, developing an understanding of how processes and materials are used throughout all fields of engineering work. Topics include components of matter, atomic structure, chemical reactions, dimensional analysis, stoichiometry, light and the electromagnetic spectrum, chemical bonding, molecular shapes, thermochemistry, solutions, and gases. (Core Education course if taken with CH 204 )

A sequence of selected chemistry topics for engineering students.

Introduces the structures, properties, the fundamental concepts in chemistry, and interpretation of data. Focuses on problem-solving with chemical concepts, developing an understanding of how processes and materials are used throughout all fields of engineering work. Topics include components of acids and bases, chemistry of the elements, organic chemistry, and biochemistry.

Uses modern, sophisticated laboratory instrumentation and techniques to investigate chemical systems, acquire data, make and record observations, analyze data, and communicate findings. (Core Education course if taken with CH 201 )

Three-hour weekly session for the development of laboratory skills in general chemistry for engineers.

Explores and applies principles and applications of chemistry. Emphasizes measurement, components of matter, atomic and molecular structure, quantitative relationships including foundational stoichiometry, and major classes of chemical reactions. (Core Education or Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 227Z or CH 271 )

Explores and applies principles and applications of chemistry. Emphasizes measurement, components of matter, atomic and molecular structure, quantitative relationships including foundational stoichiometry, and major classes of chemical reactions. (Core Education or Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 227Z or CH 271 )

Explores and applies principles presented in CH 221Z to the study of the solid, liquid, and gaseous states of matter. Explores and applies principles of stoichiometry, thermochemistry, kinetics, and foundational equilibrium to the study of aqueous and gas-phase chemical reactions. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 228Z )

Explores and applies principles presented in CH 221Z to the study of the solid, liquid, and gaseous states of matter. Explores and applies principles of stoichiometry, thermochemistry, kinetics, and foundational equilibrium to the study of aqueous and gas-phase chemical reactions. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 228Z )

Builds upon the principles presented in CH 222Z, explores thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium, and applies them to the study of aqueous acid-base reactions, solubility, and electrochemistry. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 229Z )

Builds upon the principles presented in CH 222Z, explores thermodynamics and chemical equilibrium, and applies them to the study of aqueous acid-base reactions, solubility, and electrochemistry. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 229Z )

Focuses on experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 221Z including the fundamentals of chemical measurements, quantitative relationships in chemical analysis, and understanding atomic and molecular structure. (Core Education or Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 221Z )

Focuses on experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 221Z including the fundamentals of chemical measurements, quantitative relationships in chemical analysis, and understanding atomic and molecular structure. (Core Education or Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 221Z )

Conducts experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 222Z including the fundamentals of intermolecular interactions, stoichiometric relationships, chemical equilibria and their application to the synthesis, identification, and analysis of chemical compounds. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 222Z )

Conducts experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 222Z including the fundamentals of intermolecular interactions, stoichiometric relationships, chemical equilibria and their application to the synthesis, identification, and analysis of chemical compounds. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 222Z )

Conducts experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 223Z including the principles of chemical equilibria and their application to chemical analysis using volumetric and electrochemical methods. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 223Z )

Conducts experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 223Z including the principles of chemical equilibria and their application to chemical analysis using volumetric and electrochemical methods. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 223Z )

Focuses on experiments that correspond to the topics covered in CH 221Z including the fundamentals of chemical measurements, quantitative relationships in chemical analysis, and understanding atomic and molecular structure. (Core Education or Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 221Z )

A general chemistry laboratory sequence for students majoring in chemistry. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 222Z )

A general chemistry laboratory sequence for students majoring in chemistry. (Bacc Core Course if taken with CH 223Z )

A basic course in modern chemical analysis. Self-paced laboratory.

Covers aliphatic and aromatic chemistry. Introduces nomenclature, mechanism and synthesis of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, alkyl halides, and alkynes.

Covers aliphatic and aromatic chemistry. Introduces nomenclature, mechanism and synthesis of alkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, alkyl halides, and alkynes.

Service course covering aliphatic and aromatic chemistry. Introduction to nomenclature, mechanism and synthesis.

Service course covering aliphatic and aromatic chemistry. Introduction to nomenclature, mechanism and synthesis.

Professional course for majors in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and other students who need a year of organic chemistry. In-depth treatment of major classes of organic compounds. Interrelation of mechanistic and synthetic approaches.

Professional course for majors in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and other students who need a year of organic chemistry. In-depth treatment of major classes of organic compounds. Interrelation of mechanistic and synthetic approaches.

Professional course for majors in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and other students who need a year of organic chemistry. In-depth treatment of major classes of organic compounds. Interrelation of mechanistic and synthetic approaches.

Laboratory course in organic chemistry for nonmajors, designed to supplement CH 331, CH 332 and CH 334, CH 335, CH 336.

First term of integrated laboratory program for chemistry majors highlighting techniques in organic, physical, and analytical chemistry. First-hand experience is gained using specialized glassware, scientific equipment and instrumentation plus computers. Essential technical laboratory standards and technical writing are emphasized.

First term of integrated laboratory program for chemistry majors highlighting techniques in organic, physical, and analytical chemistry. First-hand experience is gained using specialized glassware, scientific equipment and instrumentation plus computers. Essential technical laboratory standards and technical writing are emphasized.

First-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. Lec/lab.

First-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. Lec/lab.

Sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in water, soil, air, and living environments and the effects of technology thereon.

Fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry including atomic structure, bonding models for molecules and solids, symmetry, acid/base chemistry, oxidation-reduction, and metal-ligand complexes.

Descriptive chemistry of the elements, focusing on main-group compounds, transition metal complexes, and solid-state chemistry.

Examines the intersection of inorganic chemistry and biology, emphasizing the roles of metal ions in biological systems and coordination chemistry. Topics including metalloproteins, metalloenzymes, metal-ligand bonding, redox chemistry, and the impact of biological environments on metal reactivity. Covers metal-based pharmaceuticals, imaging agents, and biomimetic catalysts. Builds a strong understanding of coordination chemistry for advanced studies in bioinorganic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and materials science.

Analyzes fundamental aspects of metalloenzymes in metabolism and synthesis, technical applications of hydrogenases, or metal-containing pharmaceuticals. Explores concepts of coordination chemistry in biological environments and analyzes the influence of such an environment on the reactivity of a metal center. Gains foundational tool for the development of metalloenzyme applications, material synthesis, and pharmaceutical development.

A professional sequence for majors in chemistry and related disciplines. Chemical equilibrium, analytical electrochemistry, separations, spectroscopy, instrumentation, and treatment of data.

A professional sequence for majors in chemistry and related disciplines. Chemical equilibrium, analytical electrochemistry, separations, spectroscopy, basic electronics and instrumentation, and treatment of data.

Analytical methods employed in the study of biologically important molecules. Separations (chromatography, electrophoresis), spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, biosensors, and immunoassays.

Explores fundamental polymer chemistry topics including synthesis, reactivity, molar mass distribution, and structure–property relationships, with special emphasis on polymerization methods. Examines step growth, free radical, controlled radical, anionic, cationic, coordination and ring-opening polymerization. Covers polymer stereochemistry, reactivity, and common characterization techniques for polymer chemists.

Use of infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectra for determination of structures and stereochemistry of complex organic molecules.

Thermodynamics, electrochemistry, solutions, kinetic theory of gases, chemical kinetics, quantum theory and statistical mechanics, molecular structure and spectroscopy.

Thermodynamics, electrochemistry, solutions, kinetic theory of gases, chemical kinetics, quantum theory and statistical mechanics, molecular structure and spectroscopy.

Thermodynamics, electrochemistry, solutions, kinetic theory of gases, chemical kinetics, quantum theory and statistical mechanics, molecular structure and spectroscopy.

Explores mathematics concepts like functions, logarithms, calculus (multivariable), differential equations, and vector analysis, applied specifically to solve problems within the field of physical chemistry, including topics like thermodynamics, kinetics, and quantum mechanics. Serves as an optional supplementary recitation course for CH 440.

Elementary wave mechanics and matrix mechanics of atoms and molecules. Quantum basis of chemical structure.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. Lec/lab.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic and physical chemistry. Lec/Lab.

Covers experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Explores the synthesis, identification, and characterization of inorganic, organic, and polymer materials and develops scientific written projects that align with the standards of the discipline.

Covers experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Explores the synthesis, identification, and characterization of inorganic, organic, and polymer materials and develops scientific written projects that align with the standards of the discipline.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Second-level integrated laboratory course for majors in chemistry and related disciplines, covering experimental techniques of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry.

Introduces the definitions and basic principles of materials chemistry in secondary batteries. Examines the chemistry and materials currently in use and proposed for power batteries and storage batteries. Discusses in detail the state-of-the-art technologies for lithium-ion batteries, including anode and cathode materials. Addresses the opportunities about emerging storage batteries and other topics related to successful battery startup companies.

CHE 299H

Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, equations of state, and thermodynamic network.

Thermodynamic mixtures, fugacity, phase equilibrium, and chemical reactions equilibrium.

Introduction to engineering ethics and safety concepts. Topics include professional engineering responsibility, codes of ethics, ethical assessment, conflicts of interest, loyalty and dissent, life-long learning, hazard identification, risk and safety, and process safety management.

Applies momentum and energy transfer phenomena to fluid (i.e., gases and liquids) flow for the design of processes in chemical, biological, and environmental engineering.

Applies momentum and energy transfer phenomena to fluid (i.e., gases and liquids) flow for the design of processes in chemical, biological, and environmental engineering.

A unified treatment using control volume and differential analysis of heat transfer, prediction of heat transport properties, and introduction to heat transfer operations.

A unified treatment using control volume and differential analysis of heat transfer, prediction of heat transport properties, and introduction to heat transfer operations.

A unified treatment using control volume and differential analysis of binary mass transfer, prediction of mass transport properties, and introduction to mass transfer operations.

A unified treatment using control volume and differential analysis of binary mass transfer, prediction of mass transport properties, and introduction to mass transfer operations.

Engineering lab practices and the application of the macroscopic balances of mass, energy, and chemical species; fluid flow, heat and mass transfer experiments by teams for demonstrations of principles established in previous transport phenomena courses.

Fundamental principles for process dynamic modeling used in the control of process variables such as pressure, temperature, flow rate and chemical composition.

Mass transfer operations; design of separation processes.

Theoretical and empirical analysis of several unit operations, use of formal work processes, safety, teamwork, oral and written communication, and personal accountability.

Equips students with a toolbox of instrumental techniques important in chemical, biological, and environmental engineering and the background required to determine the appropriate instrumental technique to address a specific problem.

Short-cut techniques and other abbreviated and useful methods for specifying equipment sufficient for the preliminary design of processes and equipment; estimating capital and manufacturing costs based on equipment specifications.

Continues the application of Chemical Engineering practice started in CHE 431. Focuses on the transformation from preliminary design to detailed design. Explores safety, ethics, economics, and environmental impacts as considerations in chemical processing and plant design. Relates the design experiences alongside career engagement activities and future career goals in chemical engineering.

Design of chemical reactors for economical processes and waste minimization. Contacting patterns, kinetics and transport rate effects in single phase and catalytic systems.

Focus on the technology associated with processing thin films and patterning of thin films for solid state devices with topics including chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, plasma etching, and thin-film characterization.

Polymer engineering and science with an emphasis on practical applications and recent developments. Topics include polymer synthesis, characterization, mechanical properties, rheology, and processing at a level suitable for most engineering and science majors.

Principles of energy conversion from chemical/mechanical energy to electrical energy including an overview of conventional energy systems and of likely renewable energy systems with a focus on the fundamental physico-chemical and thermodynamic concept for each technology. The economics of energy systems will also be discussed.

A foundation in the principles of solar energy processes is provided. Topics covered include photovoltaics and solar thermal, and will cover the fundamental solid state physics of semiconductors to applied heat transfer analysis of solar collectors. The course objective is to equip students with an adequate depth of understanding of the operational principles of solar energy systems, and to cover the breadth of the various approaches employed in active solar energy systems.

Introduces principles and processes of electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems. Topics include fundamentals of electrochemistry and concepts of electrochemical energy storage systems. Examples from batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors devices will be discussed.

Principles of PID feedback control based on models of chemical processes; analysis and implementation of proportional, integral and derivative tuning; cascade, feedforward, ratio and deadtime compensation; multivariable control and control system design issues and methods.

The varieties of computer hardware and software. The effects, positive and negative, of computers on human lives. Ethical implications of information technology. Hands-on experience with a variety of computer applications.

Overview of fundamental concepts of computer science. Introduction to problem solving, software engineering, and object-oriented programming. Includes algorithm design and program development.

Provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of computer science. Studies basic computer programming techniques and application of software engineering principles.

Provides an overview of the fundamental concepts of computer science. Studies basic computer programming techniques and application of software engineering principles.

Equipping students with the theory and practice of communications security, this course explores how social movements can remain effective in the context of mass surveillance and state repression.

Covers a variety of fundamental topics in computer programming relevant to anyone who wants to write or work with computer code in their work or studies. Teaches basic computational thinking and programming skills which will allow students to solve a variety of real-world problems. In addition, students will learn more advanced topics such as how some basic algorithms work and can be written in computer code.

An introduction to the discrete mathematics of computer science, including logic, set and set operations, methods of proof, recursive definitions, combinatorics, and graph theory.

Abstract data types, dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees and graphs, binary search trees, hash tables, storage management, complexity analysis of data structures.

Abstract data types, dynamic arrays, linked lists, trees and graphs, binary search trees, hash tables, storage management, complexity analysis of data structures.

Introduces functional organization and operation of digital computers. Coverage of assembly language; addressing, stacks, argument passing, arithmetic operations, decisions, macros, modularization, linkers, and debuggers.

Explores systems-level programming using compiled languages such as C and C++. Explores terminals, shells, C and C++ syntax, pointers, memory models, and more. Learn to design and implement C and C++ programs, navigate language build pipelines, use terminals and shells, solve problems with different memory models, and manage dynamic memory. Gains practical skills for real-world coding challenges.

How to design and implement a multi-tier application using web technologies: Creation of extensive custom client- and server-side code, consistent with achieving a high-quality software architecture.

Introduction to system administration. Network administration and routing. Security issues. Computer, server, and network hardware.

Survey of models of computation including finite automata, formal grammars, and Turing machines.

Survey of models of computation including finite automata, formal grammars, and Turing machines.

Recurrence relations, combinatorics, recursive algorithms, proofs of correctness.

Recurrence relations, combinatorics, recursive algorithms, proofs of correctness.

Fundamental concepts in artificial intelligence using the unifying theme of an intelligent agent. Topics include agent architectures, search, games, logic and reasoning, and Bayesian networks.

Fundamental concepts in artificial intelligence using the unifying theme of an intelligent agent. Topics include agent architectures, search, games, logic and reasoning, and Bayesian networks.

Explores the data science life cycle using appropriate Python libraries. Topics include current data science areas, data gathering, cleaning, formatting, and types, an introduction to supervised (decision trees) and unsupervised (clustering) learning, exploratory data analysis, data communication, decision science methodologies, storytelling, and narratives in data science.

Emphasizes design and implementation of relational databases, including data modeling with ER or UML, diagrams, relational schema, SQL queries, relational algebra, user interfaces, and administration.

Explores basic principles of usability engineering methods for the design and evaluation of software systems. Includes the study of human-machine interactions, user interface characteristics and design strategies, software evaluation methods, and related guidelines and standards.

Introduction to the "front end" of the software engineering lifecycle; requirements analysis and specification; design techniques; project management.

Introduction to the "back end" of the software engineering lifecycle implementation; verification and validation; debugging; maintenance.

Introduction to the "back end" of the software engineering lifecycle implementation; verification and validation; debugging; maintenance.

Introductory course on computer security with the objective to introduce concepts and principles of computer systems security. Notions of security, basic crytographic primitives and their application, basics of authentication and access control, basics of key-management, basics of malware and software security.

Computer network principles, fundamental networking concepts, packet-switching and circuit switching, TCP/IP protocol layers, reliable data transfer, congestion control, flow control, packet forwarding and routing, MAC addressing, multiple access techniques. CROSSLISTED as CS 372 / ECE 372.

Explores enterprise architectures and how organizations secure those environments. Analyzes a virtual network environment, implements an appropriate security architecture, and defends it from a series of known attacks. Develops corrective actions and recommendations.

Introduces operating systems using UNIX as the case study. Emphasizes system calls and utilities, fundamentals of processes, and interprocess communication.

An introduction to the concepts found in a variety of programming languages. Programming languages as tools for problem solving. A brief introduction to languages from a number of different paradigms.

In-depth exploration of the social, psychological, political, and ethical issues surrounding the computer industry and the evolving information society.

In-depth exploration of the social, psychological, political, and ethical issues surrounding the computer industry and the evolving information society.

Directed and undirected graphs; paths, circuits, trees, coloring, planar graphs, partitioning; computer representation of graphs and graph algorithms; applications in software complexity metrics, program testing, and compiling.

Introduction to the theory and practice of modern cryptography. Fundamental primitives including pseudorandom generators, block ciphers, hash functions. Symmetric-key cryptography for privacy and authenticity. Public-key cryptography based on number-theoretic problems.

Explores and applies machine learning models and methods including unsupervised learning and supervised learning. Focuses on gathering, cleaning, and preparing data for various analyses. Distinguishes between unsupervised methods including clustering, and dimensionality reduction and supervised modeling methods including Decision Trees, Random Forest, Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machines, and Regression). Covers Training and Testing, Confusion Matrices, x-fold cross validation, visualization options, decision science, ethical considerations, and data communication. Uses Python, Sklearn, and related Python packages/libraries.

Introduces machine learning and data mining algorithms and tools that are widely employed in industrial and research settings. Explores supervised learning for prediction problems, both discrete and real-valued; unsupervised learning for clustering data and discovering patterns in data sets; and reinforcement learning for controlling complex processes based on positive and negative feedback. Applies machine learning and data mining techniques to real problems with programming assignments and written homework assignments.

Introduces machine learning and data mining algorithms and tools that are widely employed in industrial and research settings. Explores supervised learning for prediction problems, both discrete and real-valued; unsupervised learning for clustering data and discovering patterns in data sets; and reinforcement learning for controlling complex processes based on positive and negative feedback. Applies machine learning and data mining techniques to real problems with programming assignments and written homework assignments.

Explores and applies several neural network architectures, including fully-connected, convolutional, and sequence model based network structures. Topics including gradient descent and optimization, feed forward and back propagation methods, loss functions, activation functions, training, testing, and validation of the networks, as well as other types of advanced networks. Applications including areas such as text sentiment analysis, image classification, and language translation.

Relational database design, normalization, file structures, disk storage, query processing and optimization, team development of database applications.

Emphasizes computational and applied mathematical methods for modeling and analyzing biological networks. Covers various network centralities, topological measures, clustering algorithms, probabilistic annotation models and inference methods. Introduces those concepts in the context of protein interaction, gene regulatory, and metabolic networks. Uses graph frameworks, data frames (and related data structures for data science), and programming in Python or R. CROSSLISTED as BDS 446 / CS 446.

Theoretical and practical treatment of 3D computer graphics using OpenGL: geometric modeling, transformations, viewing, lighting, texture mapping, shading, rendering, and animation.

Applies 3D computer graphics methods to visually understand scientific and engineering data. Methods include hyperbolic projections; mapping scalar values to color spaces; data visualization using range sliders; scalar visualization (point clouds, cutting planes, contour plots, isosurfaces); vector visualization (arrow clouds, particle advection, streamlines); terrain visualization; Delauney triangulation; and volume visualization.

Emphasizes theoretical and practical treatment of computer graphics shaders, including both RenderMan and GPU shaders. Explores programming in both RenderMan and OpenGL shading languages.

Introduces data visualization concepts and techniques that aid knowledge discovery. Explores visualization design principles that are beneficial to cognitive learning and natural to human perception are the focus. Discussion topics will include graphs, trees, texts, time series and multivariate data.

Provides a theoretical foundation of the history, key concepts, technologies, and practices associated with modern Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. Provides opportunity to explore and make contributions to FOSS projects with some mentoring and guidance.

Emphasizes real-world, hands-on learning in a high-tech web/mobile-based company environment. Covers research in the development of product ideas, hypotheses, and business models to create customer experiments. Conducts prototyping and statistical analysis to develop, optimize, and evaluate solutions. Includes rapid iteration/refactoring based on customer input, web analytics, and user engagement metrics.

Inclusive design is designing software that works for a wide variety of differently abled customers. Teaches the skills needed to design inclusively without having to have a separate design for each differently abled customer.

Computer architecture using processors, memories, and I/O devices as building blocks. Issues involved in the design of instruction set architecture, processor, pipelining and memory organization. Design philosophies and trade-offs involved in Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architectures. CROSSLISTED as CS 472 / ECE 472.

Introduces concepts related to digital forensics, its role and importance, and tools and techniques for collecting and curating digital evidence. Discusses the role of evidence in the justice system and related legal aspects pertaining to digital forensics. Introduces tools and techniques for digital forensics.

Examines principles of computer operating systems: concurrent processes, memory management, job scheduling, multiprocessing, file systems, performance evaluation, and networking.

Theoretical and practical survey of parallel programming, including a discussion of parallel architectures, parallel programming paradigms, and parallel algorithms. Programming one or more parallel computers in a higher-level parallel language.

Covers advanced computer networking concepts: queuing theory, quality-of-service, buffer management, resource allocation and sharing, service models, scheduling policies, and performance modeling and analysis. CROSSLISTED as CS 476 / ECE 476.

Basic concepts and techniques in network security, risks and vulnerabilities, applied cryptography and various network security protocols. Coverage of high-level concepts such as authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and availability applied to networking systems. Fundamental techniques including authentication protocols, group key establishment and management, trusted intermediaries, public key infrastructures, SSL/TLS, IPSec, firewalls and intrusion detection CROSSLISTED as CS 478 / ECE 478.

Explores content on the subject of compilers; attribute grammars, syntax-directed translation, lex, yacc, LR(1) parsers, symbol tables, semantic analysis, and peep-hole optimization.

Game and simulation development is very much a data and math-intensive activity. A certain number of actions must be produced, and producing them by hand is hard. This is a middleware CS course that fills in many of the missing pieces for those wanting to enter the simulation and game development worlds in a software tool-building capacity.

Introduction to concepts and techniques for developing mobile applications. Become familiar with modern mobile structure, implementation, development tools, and workflow.

Covers developing RESTful cloud services, an approach based on representational state transfer technology, an architectural style and approach to communications used in modern cloud services development.

Explores advanced concepts and techniques for developing client-side web applications. Emphasizes modern application design using contemporary tools and technologies such as component-based UI frameworks.

Explore the Data Science major and the interdisciplinary options within the major. Examine career goals and pathways to data science careers. Explore the concept of professional development. Expose students to data science applications in various fields and prepare them to be critical thinkers of future career paths.

Explores the data life cycle which includes how data are created, collected, imported, described, used and analyzed. Considers how data are used properly and ethically. Examines regression and classification methods, experiments with basic tools in Python, and compares output between regression and classification models. Provides a brief overview of recent data science trends, including its societal impact and limitations.

Focuses on learning Python programming essential for data science. Explores Python's data types and associated methods. Learns to load, clean, merge, transform, and plot data. Develops skills to write Python functions to solve simple problems arising in data science. Gains proficiency with key libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and matplotlib. Adopts best practices for creating reproducible and efficient code.

Analyzes the social impacts of data-driven tools and policies. Examines how systemic bias is reflected in data analyses and data-driven tools. Discusses approaches to scientific reproducibility and to data privacy. Examines ways that data tools often increase structural inequities, and how those effects can be mitigated using either technological or policy approaches.

Introduces supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, including linear and nonlinear regression methods, model selection techniques, regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines, and clustering. Situates these methods within a probabilistic statistical framework. Examines how to compare and assess the performance of prediction and classification methods. Provides the tools to apply these methods in the Python programming language and interpret their output.

Focuses on data analysis methods for complex, heterogeneous, and multi-modal data, including network, image, text, and dependent data. Covers building distributed data analysis pipelines, developing neural network models, and applying techniques for network and dependent data analysis. Explores key tools and frameworks in R and Python to design and implement comprehensive analysis pipelines for modern data challenges.

Introduces main concepts of Bayesian analysis from the statistical foundations to model implementation. Reviews and implements a variety of widely used models from a Bayesian perspective including linear regression, Poisson and Negative Binomial regression, and logistic regression. Emphasizes the computational implementation of these models and discusses numerical approximations for posterior inference, including Markov Chain Monte Carlo approaches.

Imparts methods to make causal conclusions from data. Builds foundations of causal inference for randomized trials through the perspective of potential outcomes. Extends this foundation to causal inference for observational studies. Develops methodologies for causal inference using regression modeling of real and simulated data for randomized experiments and observational studies.

Examines discrete-time (DT) signals and systems. Explores DT signals and linear time-invariant systems in time and frequency domains. Applies DT convolution in the time domain. Presents complex sinusoids and phasor representation for frequency analysis. Analyzes signals and systems in DT using DT Fourier series and transform.

Examines and employs techniques for the analysis of linear circuits, including circuit laws and theorems, DC circuit responses, first-order circuit behaviors, operational amplifier characteristics, and applications. Explores fundamental semiconductor devices and device fabrication.

Examines and employs techniques for the analysis of linear circuits, including circuit laws and theorems, DC circuit responses, first-order circuit behaviors, operational amplifier characteristics, and applications. Explores fundamental semiconductor devices and device fabrication.

Applies circuit analysis and design techniques for alternating current (AC) and frequency-dependent circuits.

Examines continuous-time (CT) signals and systems. Explores CT signals and linear time-invariant systems in time and frequency domains. Applies CT convolution in the time domain. Analyzes signals and systems in CT using CT Fourier transform, CT Fourier series, and Laplace transform.

Design, minimize, and simulate combinational and sequential circuits using a Hardware Description Language (HDL). Develop simulation and hardware implementations, utilizing Field Programable Gate Arrays (FPGA), for logic designs within the course.

A first course in digital logic design. Data types and representations, Boolean algebra, state machines, simplification of switching expressions, and introductory computer arithmetic.

This laboratory course accompanies ECE 271. Illustrates topics covered in the lectures of ECE 271 using computer-aided design, verification tools, and prototyping hardware.

Explores theory and practice of semiconductor processing techniques. Introduces students to process simulation.

Analyze and design analog electronic circuits, including device characteristics of diodes, MOSFETs, and bipolar junction transistors; transistor amplifier circuits and biasing techniques; small- and large-signal circuit characteristics; and, design of linear circuits.

Fundamental device characteristics including diodes, MOSFETs and bipolar transistors; small- and large-signal characteristics and design of linear circuits.

Transient operation of MOSFETs and bipolar transistors; multistage amplifiers; frequency response; feedback and stability.

Explores the fundamentals of electrical energy generation, transmission, and distribution, along with modern trends for renewable generation and load, energy storage, and transportation electrification. Topics including fundamentals of the power grid; types of generation and their characteristics; types of loads; power conversion technologies such as DC to AC converters; energy storage technologies; and social, environmental, and economic factors of power technologies.

Focuses on energy conversion principles for electric machines. Topics including steady state characteristics of direct current, induction, permanent magnet, and synchronous machines. Performs analysis via space vectors.

DC, PMAC, and induction machine testing, operation, and control.

Introduction to system design and group projects. Design and fabrication of an electrical engineering project in a small group.

Uses techniques learned in ECE 341 to design electrical systems, work in project groups, and apply engineering tools for the fabrication and testing of electrical products. Emphasizes operation of electrical testing equipment and demonstrates effective instrumentation and tool utilization. Examines impacts associated with electrical engineering practice. Gains experience and insights through career-related experiences and engagement.

Examines theory and practice of discrete-time signals and systems. Explores sampling and reconstruction from samples. Reviews basics of discrete-time, linear time-invariant systems. Studies z transform, its properties and relationship to discrete-time Fourier transform and its applications to infinite impulse response filter analysis, realizations and design. Explores discrete Fourier transform, its efficient implementations through Fast Fourier transform, and its applications to realization and design of finite impulse response filters.

Analytical techniques for continuous-time and discrete-time signal, system, and circuit analysis. Lec.

Explores analytical techniques for continuous-time and discrete-time signal, system, and circuit analysis.

Explores discrete and continuous probability concepts, single and multiple random variable distributions, expectation, and functions of random variables. Emphasizes electrical and computer engineering applications.

Models and analyzes linear continuous systems in time and frequency domains. Introduces fundamentals of single-input-single-output control system design. CROSSLISTED as ECE 356 / ME 320.

Explores computer organization, how major components in a computer system function together in executing a program, and assembly language.

Explores computer organization, how major components in a computer system function together in executing a program, and assembly language.

Computer network principles, fundamental networking concepts, packet-switching and circuit switching, TCP/IP protocol layers, reliable data transfer, congestion control, flow control, packet forwarding and routing, MAC addressing, multiple access techniques. CROSSLISTED as CS 372 / ECE 372.

Analyze static and quasi-static electric and magnetic field problems.

Transient and steady-state analysis of transmission line circuits with application to engineering problems.

Application of magnetic materials in the design of magnetic devices. Properties of magnetic materials; engineering design of actuators, sensors and data storage devices. Introduction to spintronics.

Overview of sensor technologies including materials, physics of operation, applications and system integration.

Introductory physical chemistry of solid surfaces, thermodynamics, and kinetics applied to synthesis of nanomaterials such as nanoparticles, nanowires, thin films, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphene, etc. Characterization of nanomaterials, applications of nanomaterials, nano-synthesis techniques, integration of nanotechnology, and emerging nanotechnology topics.

Semiconductor fundamentals and physical principles of pn junctions and Schottky barrier diodes.

Theory and physical principles of bipolar junction and field-effect transistors.

Theory and practice of basic semiconductor processing techniques. Introduction to process simulation.

Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits in CMOS technology; current mirrors, gain stages, single-ended operational amplifier, frequency response, and compensation.

Analysis and design of analog integrated circuits in CMOS technology; cascoded current mirrors, cascoded gain stages, single-ended and fully differential operational amplifier, common-mode feedback, noise, and distortion.

Fundamentals and applications of devices, circuits and controllers used in systems for electronic power processing.

Analyzes generalized machine theory and techniques for dynamic analysis of electromechanical machines, including reference frame theory (dq).

Emphasizes fundamentals and control of real and reactive power, steady-state load flow studies, unbalance, stability and transient system analysis.

Explores fundamentals of smart power grids. Focuses on technology advances in transmission and distribution systems, policy drivers, assets and demand management, and smart grid security.

Reviews transportation electrification history, hybrid electric vehicle architecture, powertrain components and their modeling and control, vehicle system dynamics and controls.

Fundamental concepts of analog and digital telecommunication systems: modeling, analysis, and design of analog amplitude and angle modulation systems; probabilistic performance assessment of modulated signals over noisy channels; introduction to baseband digital modulation techniques such as binary pulse amplitude modulation and pulse position modulation and their demodulation in the presence of random noise.

Modeling, analysis, design of baseband and passband digital communications systems: geometric representation of signals; correlator receivers for M-ary digital communications systems; decision theory and its application to digital communication systems in additive white Gaussian noise environment; generation, transmission, and reception of passband digital modulated signals (BPSK, QPSK, FSK PAM); basics of information theory and channel encoding.

Wireless networks: personal area (IEEE 802.15.4a), local area (IEEE 802.11), metropolitan area (IEEE 802.16), and mobile cellular networks (e.g., CDMA); physical-layer techniques for data modulation and multiple access; RF system engineering aspects of mobile cellular networks (e.g., system capability for voice and packet data traffics, RF coverage for a certain propagation environment).

Analysis and design of discrete-time linear-time invariant systems for processing discrete-time signals: DT-LTI system properties, DT signal analysis using Discrete-Time Fourier Transform, Discrete Fourier Transform and z-Transform, frequency response and transfer function. Signal sampling and reconstruction, digital processing of continuous-time signals, FIR and IIR digital filter design, and filter structures.

Introduction to digital image processing including fundamental concepts of visual perception, image sampling and quantization, image enhancement in spatial and frequency domains (through 2D Fourier transform), image restoration, and color image processing. Implementation of algorithms using Matlab Image Processing Toolbox.

Combinational and sequential logic design using CMOS transistors; analysis of power consumption and logic delay of digital logic; clock design including skew, jitter, and dynamic clock energy consumption; supply voltage and power supply noise sources; dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS); sub-threshold logic design and effect on energy/robustness; custom digital integrated circuit design including transistor layouts and CAD entry; CMOS scaling and the effect on process variability and power consumption.

Computer architecture using processors, memories, and I/O devices as building blocks. Issues involved in the design of instruction set architecture, processor, pipelining and memory organization. Design philosophies and trade-offs involved in Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architectures. CROSSLISTED as CS 472 / ECE 472.

Implementation of embedded computer systems focusing on the development of hardware and software for an embedded microcontroller system. Topics include internal microcontroller architecture, interfacing peripheral devices, mixed analog and digital systems, and hardware and software implementation of several systems using a microcontroller and peripherals.

Examines custom and semi-custom digital integrated circuit design as used in VLSI systems. Introduces the use of CAD/CAE tools, design management, and design methodology.

Covers advanced computer networking concepts: queuing theory, quality-of-service, buffer management, resource allocation and sharing, service models, scheduling policies, and performance modeling and analysis. CROSSLISTED as CS 476 / ECE 476.

Design of multimedia systems used in information technology covering the hardware, software, applications, and networks. Components covered include multimedia representation, coding and compression techniques, wireless networks, networking for multimedia, and embedded system for multimedia.

Basic concepts and techniques in network security, risks and vulnerabilities, applied cryptography and various network security protocols. Coverage of high-level concepts such as authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and availability applied to networking systems. Fundamental techniques including authentication protocols, group key establishment and management, trusted intermediaries, public key infrastructures, SSL/TLS, IPSec, firewalls and intrusion detection CROSSLISTED as CS 478 / ECE 478.

Photodetectors, laser theory, and laser systems. CROSSLISTED as ECE 482 / PH 482 and ECE 582 / PH 582.

Optical fibers, fiber mode structure and polarization effects, fiber interferometry, fiber sensors, optical communication systems. CROSSLISTED as ECE 483 / PH 483 and ECE 583/PH 583.

Introduction to antennas and radiowave propagation.

Introduction to basic design techniques required for the design of high-frequency circuits and systems.

Examines the economic approach to addressing social problems. Explores the virtues and limits of markets to promote the social good and examines how this economic approach can help to understand and address social problems arising from ascribed differences and inequitable distribution of power, including poverty, discrimination, and climate change.

Examines how consumers and firms make choices when facing scarce resources, and how those choices are related to government policy and market outcomes, such as prices and output.

Examines how consumers and firms make choices when facing scarce resources, and how those choices are related to government policy and market outcomes, such as prices and output.

Examines the aggregate activity of a market economy, economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and the use of fiscal and monetary policy to address macroeconomic problems.

An examination of demand theory, production and cost theory, game theory, behavioral economics, competitive and imperfectly competitive markets, and general equilibrium and welfare economics.

Explains determinants of demand and supply. Analyzes alternative market structures and behavioral economics. Assess impact on social welfare of alternative assumptions regarding market competition, externalities, asymmetric information, behavioral economics. Applies behavioral economics to analysis of public policy. Explains why policies often fail to achieve objectives.

An examination of macroeconomic aggregates, income determination, aggregate demand and supply. The basic macroeconomic models will be discussed such as Keynesian, Classical, Monetarist, and Neo-Classical.

Applies economics principles to the analysis of professional and amateur sports. Examines the sports business (league organization; revenue sharing; competitive balance), labor markets in sports (productivity; compensation of players discrimination; amateurism and college sports), and the public policy of sports (financing of franchises and stadiums; anti-trust regulation) and related topics.

Mathematical methods of economic analysis. Theory of economic structure and optimization developed through calculus and linear algebra, dynamic systems analyzed through integral calculus and difference and differential equations. The mathematical tools are developed in conjunction with their application to economic problems. Some acquaintance with calculus recommended.

Nature and functions of money; functions and operations of depository institutions; the money market; central banking and monetary policy.

An overview of international economics with an emphasis on current events and applications, including classical and modern trade theory and the study of trade and exchange-rate policies.

Discusses how various securities meet the needs of different economic agents and the efficiency of financial markets in meeting those needs. Topics include interest rates, valuation, investment risk, trading and market structure, arbitrage, market efficiency, debt markets, equity markets, and financial derivatives.

Provides an overview of the interrelationships between economic activity, the environment, and public policy. Through case studies, discussion groups, readings, and group activities, students learn how economists define and analyze environmental problems and the types of policies they advocate for managing environmental quality. CROSSLISTED as AEC 352 / ECON 352.

An economic analysis of discrimination, focusing on labor market inequities for women and minorities. Historical and current trends in pay, education, and employment disparities, economic explanations for such disparities, and econometric evidence for wage and employment discrimination.

Emphasizes economic analysis of the effects of social, cognitive, and emotional factors on individual decision making and their implications for market outcomes and policy making. Topics include time inconsistency, decision making under risk, cognitive dissonance, heuristics, social preferences, and experimental economics.

Systematically studies strategic interactions among multiple decision makers with applications in economics, politics, sociology, law, computer science, sports, and biology. Topics taught include static, sequential, and repeated games of perfect and imperfect information.

Introduction to probability and statistics with an emphasis on estimation and hypothesis testing. Applications to economic models.

Application of statistical techniques, including sampling theory, hypothesis testing, and multiple regression analysis, to economic models. Economic modeling, analysis of economic data, and policy analysis are emphasized.

Emphasizes the econometrics behind causal inference and data science. Covers contemporary econometric methods, including random assignment, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity design, differences-in-differences, and synthetic control methods.

Basic methods of economic research: concepts and models; data sources, collection, and presentation; hypothesis formulation and testing; policy analysis. Written assignments apply methods.

Composition and growth of government spending; theory of public expenditure; analysis of public expenditure programs; benefit-cost analysis; theory and practice of taxation; analysis of local, state, and federal taxes; government borrowing and fees; current issues in tax and expenditure policy.

Theory of public problems and decision making. Evaluation of public policy strategies, selected public programs and individual public projects considering the full range of efficiency and equity effects. Direct and indirect impacts of policy, strength of implicit incentives, administrative feasibility, and problems of policy implementation.

Examines the phenomenon of globalization using economic analysis to explore controversial themes of the globalization debate--offshoring, sweatshops, child labor, environmental standards, intellectual property protection, cultural diversity, economic development, immigration, and governance.

Theories and policies of exchange rate regimes; fixed, floating and managed floats; internal and external trade and capital balances; international capital flows and institutions.

Describes the patterns of income, growth, poverty, and inequality across countries and through history with a focus on low-income countries. Examines definitions of development, theories of economic growth, development metrics, and the forces that have led to the distribution of wealth across the world. Analyzes inequality, population, education, health, trade, sustainability, foreign aid, urbanization and related topics.

The study of the causes of market structure, the behavior of firms in game theoretic settings, and the welfare implications of competitive and imperfectly competitive markets; United States antitrust and other laws regulating business behavior.

The analysis of the effectiveness of laws and government regulations in fostering economic efficiency and fairness. Topics include the design of laws and policies to promote social welfare and the study of the effectiveness of criminal law, antitrust law, and the government regulation of business in promoting social goals.

The application of microeconomic theory and quantitative methods to management decisions. Case-oriented course emphasizing actual business decisions.

Examines history of K-20 education in the United States. Analyzes education decisions and career choices. Assesses impact of funding formulas, major education reforms, teacher experience, unions on student learning outcomes. Analyzes how educational attainment impacts technological change, economic growth and wage gap in the United States.

Reviews and analyzes the economics and structure of world markets for various traditional energy (e.g., oil, coal, natural gas), as well as renewable energy (wind, geothermal and solar) with the latter focusing on the Pacific Northwest electrical industry structure and regulatory framework.

Interaction of workers and firms in labor markets, social policy and its effects on labor markets, human capital theory and education policy, discrimination and other sources of wage differentials, immigration, unemployment, inequality.

Analyze economic inequality. Describe and measure inequality, historical and current trends in inequality, causes and consequences of inequality, and policy implications.

Explores the craft, culture and racial significance, and emotional impact of contemporary young adult fiction. Examines Young Adult fiction as a category of reading audience that contains multiple genres. Considers such urgent topics as race, immigration, and gender identity while also attending to formal elements such as significant detail, tone, symbolism, and metaphor as portrayed in the young adult experience.

Interprets works of young adult literature within their cultural contexts from around the world, including varying definitions of adolescence. Employs critical methods to analyze literature and identify its historical, cultural, and social influences.

Invites students to enter imaginative narratives and confront the challenges of being human. Provides opportunities for the appreciation of fiction, including deeper awareness of craft and insight into how reading fiction can lead to self-enrichment. Includes reading a variety of types of fiction, from diverse perspectives and eras, and develops skills in discussion, literary analysis, and critical thinking.

Invites students to delve into the biggest questions about life and culture alongside the seemingly smallest issues of words and sounds. Provides opportunities for the appreciation of poetry, including deeper awareness of craft and insight into how reading poetry can lead to self-enrichment. Reads a variety of types of poetry and poetic forms, from diverse perspectives and eras, and develops skills in discussion, literary analysis, and critical thinking.

Focuses on modern and contemporary examples of science fiction and fantasy literature with particular attention paid to the historical evolution as well as the structural constitution of each genre. Hypothesizes that both genres reflect the anxieties and aspirations of the eras that produce and consume them, as well as their characteristic material constraints and affordances. Introduces students to a range of modern classics in both genres, including contemporary science fiction and fantasy written by women and people of color.

Focuses on the American true crime genre, from its origins in the earliest colonial literature to the contemporary popularity of crime stories in various media. Pays particular attention to true crime examples from the last five decades, tracing the genre’s evolution and rise in popularity. Develops a collective understanding of how the true crime genre has evolved, why it has become so popular, and how its constituent texts reflect the cultural assumptions and anxieties of their American eras, especially in terms of their relationship to the genre’s core ideas of violence and truth. (Bacc Core Course)

The earlier plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

The earlier plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

The later plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

The later plays. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

English literature presented in chronological sequence. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

English literature presented in chronological sequence. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

English literature presented in chronological sequence.

English literature presented in chronological sequence.

English literature presented in chronological sequence.

Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of Asia.

Explores representative works of literature from nonwestern cultural traditions, specifically from Africa, within a global context. Examines fiction, poetry, prose and film in a multiplicity of genres from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. Analyzes representations of Africans and African culture through a comparative critical lens to understand the transformative powers of humans within various historical contexts in a globalized world.

Explores representative works of literature from nonwestern cultural traditions, specifically from Africa, within a global context. Examines fiction, poetry, prose and film in a multiplicity of genres from precolonial, colonial and postcolonial Africa. Analyzes representations of Africans and African culture through a comparative critical lens to understand the transformative powers of humans within various historical contexts in a globalized world.

Explores Latin American and/or Caribbean literature and culture. Examines the different ways writers use aesthetic techniques to represent history, cultures and identities. Emphasizes multiple perspectives on historical and cultural contexts as well as the encounter of languages, cultures, identities and worldviews that interact with global forces.

Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of the Middle East.

Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama from nonwestern cultural traditions. Covers literature of the Middle East.

Representative works of poetry, prose, and drama written by European authors.

Explores Greek and Roman mythology, its allusions, and continuing influences. Examines excerpts from Classical literature and their adaptations in a variety of modes (statues, film, dance, novels, internet memes) up to the present day. Investigates why we continue to turn to powerful archetypes to express the human experience and when and how they fail in this regard.

Explores subjects essential to human happiness, such as gratitude, kindness, joy, grief, grace, disgrace, emotional and spiritual growth, community, social identity, and global stewardship through the reading of poetry. Explores approaches arising from the reading of poetry, such as Reader Response techniques, imagination studies, and self-awareness inquiries. Develops rewirement models in conjunction with literary analysis and critical writing. (Bacc Core Course)

Introduces students to the varieties of reading necessary to the writer’s life. Surveys the main literary devices common to fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and engages students in the understanding of these devices through analysis and creative practice.

Explores African-American literature and culture through critical engagement with literary, philosophical, and political texts, as well as contemporary scholarship on racial identity, oppression, and justice. Emphasizes the social construction of race, how this process impacts population groups, and how the African-American community responds politically, artistically, and philosophically.

Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales, and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.

Surveys a variety of genres, including fairy tales, folktales, and fables, nonsense poetry, picture books, historical and fantasy novels, examining how these texts represent childhood and connect with historical, cultural, and psychological contexts.

An exploration of the key figures, themes, theories, and works of American environmental literature.

Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.

Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.

Readings from American literature presented in chronological sequence, important eras and movements with emphasis on major writers.

Study of the literature of American minorities: North American Indian, black, Chicano/Chicana, Asian, Middle Eastern, gay and lesbian.

An interdisciplinary study of film, literary, and philosophical visions of the future. Three hours of lecture and separate screenings each week. Film fee required. CROSSLISTED as ENG 265 / FILM 265.

Biblical structure, literary types, ideas, influences.

Biblical structure, literary types, ideas, influences.

What’s the difference between reading a book for pleasure and reading it for a class? What kinds of skills are necessary for upper-level work as an English major? What exactly is literary criticism? Pursue these questions by studying a selection of texts paired with works providing historical and critical context. Learn how to think and write like a literary critic by reading carefully, discussing these works in class, and writing analytical essays.

Explore the conventions of academic writing, with the goal of developing original textual interpretations and situating those interpretations in relation to secondary sources. Develop an understanding of a broader scholarly conversation by writing about issues of difference, including but not limited to categories of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and ability. Practice evaluating scholarly resources, including secondary sources and archival research.

Prepares English and Creative Writing majors for post-graduation career seeking through self-reflection, professional networking, and job-seeking exercises. Emphasizes NACE career competencies by identifying personal strengths and transferrable skills. Engages with career resources, alumni insights, and professional development activities. Develops practical skills in crafting career-related documents and includes participation in career-related events. CROSSLISTED as ENG 304 / WR 304.

An introduction to the prose genre in British literature with intensive practice in reading and writing practices for literary study.

Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers from the beginnings to Chopin.

Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers Modernist Period from Dreiser to Faulkner.

Chronological survey of the novel in America. Covers Post-World War II: Mailer to the present.

Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author through the relations of text and performance. Topics change from term to term and may include content from film, drama, digital sources, and other visual media. (H) (Bacc Core Course)

Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author through the relations of texts to material artifacts and/or static visual objects (e.g., paintings, engravings, printed matter, or photographs). Topics change from term to term. (Bacc Core Course)

Study of a particular theme, genre, movement, or author as informed by patterns of globalization, issues in international relations, and/or landmark moments of cultural exchange. Topics change from term to term.

Study of fiction, memoir, and film representing Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry. Reviews history of racial Anti-Semitism and rise of Nazism as context for textual analysis of Holocaust literature. Examines literary and filmic form as productive to social awareness of the roots, events, and aftermath of the Holocaust. (Bacc Core Course)

Introduces the diverse means by which literature and the arts represent coastal and marine life. The working thesis is that modern cultural artifacts and literary theories are reflected in and have the power to transform the societal challenges facing coastal community and ocean health. Explores the significance of such interdisciplinary translations through a variety of generic perspectives including poetry, short story, philosophy, creative nonfiction, and graphic narrative.

Focuses on study and analysis of critical frameworks and methodologies for the interpretation of literature and culture.

An introduction to the prose and poetry written by Native Americans of the North American continent.

Study of important literary works of any genre by American women from historical, thematic, or formalist perspectives.

Surveys short stories from the 19th century to the present. Analyzes and identifies major styles, formal elements, and themes of the short story form. Explores the historical development of the genre and contemporary trends.

The first course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Conquest to Civil War. CROSSLISTED as ART 386 / ENG 386.

The second course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Civil War to Harlem Renaissance. CROSSLISTED as ART 387 / ENG 387.

The third course in an interdisciplinary sequence that examines the development and interrelationships of American art and literature from contact to the present. Covers Great Depression to Postmodernity. CROSSLISTED as ART 388 / ENG 388.

Selected English novels focusing on those from the Victorian period.

Particular genres, themes, and writers in medieval literature. Topics change from term to term. (H)

Investigates how the “medieval period”, spanning the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century CE) and the Fall of Constantinople (1453) and generally cast as European, was a complex millennium of global travel, commerce, and cultural exchange, far more heterogeneous than contemporary television, movies, and medievalising fantasy literature usually depicts. Identifies how the literature, travelogues, and life narratives written in Europe, Africa, and Asia reflect political, religious, philosophical, and artistic interpenetration. Examines how these texts help us redefine the medieval and illuminate modern discourses of the nation-state, debates about race and ethnicity, and the concerns of post- and decoloniality.

Explores literature and culture of the medieval and early modern periods, 1000 BCE – 1700 CE. Topics vary and address current conversations in medieval and early modern studies. Content may include a variety of genres and include modern responses to premodern texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the premodern development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.

Explores literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1700-1900). Topics vary and address current conversations in eighteenth-century, Romantic, and/ or Victorian studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.

Shakespeare's works from a variety of critical and scholarly perspectives. Not offered every term. (H)

Explores literature and culture of the twentieth century and beyond. Topics vary and address current conversations in Modernist (early 20th c.), Postmodernist (late 20th c.) and/ or Contemporary (21st c.) period studies. Content may include a variety of genres as well as modern responses to older texts and traditions. Emphasizes texts in their historical context and examines the development of social categories, concepts, and/or crises.

Studies in the literature and contexts of the period of Irish writing often referred to as the Irish Renaissance. Authors may include Yeats, Joyce, Shaw, O'Casey, Gregory, Synge, Bowen, Moore, Behan, O'Brien, Kavanaugh, Cronin. Sometimes offered as a study of Joyce's works alone. Topics change from term to term. (H)

Particular essayists and journalists, movements, problems, conventions, and types of nonfiction writing in English. Topics change from term to term.

Particular cinematographers, movements, types, conventions, or problems in film. Topics change from term to term. Lecture and separate screenings each week. Film fee required. CROSSLISTED as ENG 452 / FILM 452.

Advanced study of major and influential authors from various cultures and backgrounds. Subjects change from term to term. Not offered every year. (H)

Particular dramatists, movements, conventions, and types of world drama. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H)

Particular novelists, movements, conventions, and types of the novel throughout its history. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term. (H)

Particular poets, movements, problems, conventions, and types of poetry in English or English translation. Topics change from term to term.

Study of literature in its relationship to society and culture; study of literary culture. Topics change from term to term. Not offered every term.

Creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and film from the mid-19th century to the present, examining relationships between rural and urban, and investigating the development of important patterns in how the physical environment is perceived, represented, interpreted, and used in the United States.

Special topics in American literary history. Organized around movements, regions, themes, or major authors. Topics change from term to term.

Practices, approaches, histories, and theories of teaching literature appropriate for secondary through college settings. Considers text selection, assignments, and evaluation. (H)

A study of the origins, changes, and reasons for changes in the grammar, sounds, and vocabulary of English from its earliest stages through its modern forms.

A study of women and literature in an international context, focusing on the cultural differences among women and the effects of gender on language and literature.

Explores the science of design and Design Thinking, including vetted ways of approaching and defining design problems, assessing stakeholder needs, ideation and concept generation, and prototyping and experimental design. Gives students experience conducting work in teams of engineering designers to solve complex, real-world engineering problems. Introduces methods to assess problem-solving skills and assumptions, and employ computational thinking. Reinforces core mathematics and science knowledge, while emphasizing advanced professional and communication skills in an engineering design team setting.

Explores fundamental computational concepts and practices with algorithmic thinking. Focuses on problem solving skills, algorithm design, debugging, and writing programs using universal design principles. Articulates limitations in these solutions related to social or structural inequities such as: racial, cultural, gender, socioeconomic and accessibility. Explores computation through an application to specific topics.

Explores fundamental computational concepts and practices with algorithmic thinking. Focuses on problem solving skills, algorithm design, debugging, and writing programs using universal design principles. Articulates limitations in these solutions related to social or structural inequities such as: racial, cultural, gender, socioeconomic and accessibility. Explores computation through an application to specific topics.

Analysis of linear circuits. Circuit laws and theorems. DC responses of circuits. Operational amplifier characteristics and applications.

Analysis of linear circuits. Circuit laws and theorems. DC responses of circuits. Operational amplifier characteristics and applications.

Sinusoidal steady-state analysis and phasors. Application of circuit analysis to solve single-phase and three-phase circuits including power, mutual inductance, transformers and passive filters.

Laplace transforms, Fourier series, Bode plots, and their application to circuit analysis.

Analysis of forces induced in structures and machines by various types of loading.

Analysis of forces induced in structures and machines by various types of loading.

Kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, and work-energy and impulse-momentum relationships applied to engineering systems.

Kinematics, Newton's laws of motion, and work-energy and impulse-momentum relationships applied to engineering systems.

Properties of structural materials; analysis of stress and deformation in axially loaded members, circular shafts, and beams, and in statically indeterminate systems containing these components.

Properties of structural materials; analysis of stress and deformation in axially loaded members, circular shafts, and beams, and in statically indeterminate systems containing these components.

Introduction to graphical communication theory, including freehand sketching techniques, geometric construction, multi-view, pictorial, sectional and auxiliary view representation and dimensioning techniques. Practical application of theoretical concepts using solid modeling software to capture design intent and generate engineering drawings.

Supports transfer students’ transition to Oregon State by introducing them to the university’s mission and goals, sharing the tools and resources it offers its students, and assisting students in developing strategies for their personal and academic success and well-being.

Analyzes how engineering practices, technologies, and institutions reflect and shape societal power structures. Examines historical and contemporary cases where engineering decisions impact systemic inequities. Explores how engineering methods and standards can embed cultural biases. Applies inclusive approaches and ethical frameworks throughout the engineering process. Develops strategies for creating equitable technological systems. Integrates theoretical foundations with case studies and discipline-specific projects.

Examination of technological innovations and alternatives required to maintain human quality of life and environmental sustainability.

Working in multi-disciplinary teams, design, implement, and document a piece of public art work or science museum display. Projects may be made of any media, but must demonstrate creativity both in the engineering used to create them and the technology and society message they convey. CROSSLISTED as ART 352 / ENGR 352.

Time value of money; economic study techniques, depreciation, taxes, retirement, and replacement of engineering facilities.

Covers analysis and modeling techniques of complex systems to support engineering decisions. Explores stochastic descriptive modeling and its implementation in the engineering field. Focuses on modeling uncertainty using Monte Carlo simulation and discrete event simulation through in-class activities to supplement the lectures. Utilizes data analysis and techniques to implement randomness in various models.

Solidifies concepts covered in ECE 322 through the design, analysis, simulation, construction, and evaluation of electronic circuits. Provides students with experience designing, building, and testing electronics circuits, including diode circuits and rectifiers, and transistor amplifiers using both bipolar and MOS transistors.

Introduces the concepts and applications of fluid mechanics and dimensional analysis with an emphasis on fluid behavior, internal and external flows, analysis of engineering applications of incompressible pipe systems, and external aerodynamics.

Analyzes conductive, convective and radiative energy transfer using control volume and differential analysis and prediction of transport properties.

Introduces the fundamentals of experimentation, including the identification and application of sensors and data acquisition equipment to construct experiments to test hypotheses. Emphasizes the use of instrumentation and measurement techniques to obtain meaningful data from mechanical and electrical systems. Includes both analog and digital measurement methods. Analyzes data for trends, employs uncertainty analysis and probability, and reports confidence intervals. Effectively communicates experimental results, data analysis, and conclusions.

An introduction to materials and their structures and properties. The physical and chemical phenomena responsible for the electrical, mechanical, and thermal behavior of solids will be studied.

Discusses organization in managing engineering projects. Analyzes time, cost, and performance parameters using a team-project-based laboratory scenario. Introduces methods to properly perform network optimization, including resource leveling and techniques to reduce project duration. Introduces milestone definition and risk analysis using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Explores numerical analysis of calculations and models in the engineering setting. Predicts numerical error. Performs root finding, numerical differentiation and integration, curve fitting, optimization, and Fourier analysis. Solves linear systems of equations and ordinary differential equations. Processes images. Engineering specific applications may include: root finding for heat transfer fin sizing, solving linear systems for electrical nodal analysis, applying differential equations solution algorithms to solve a quarter car suspension model, and curve fitting for engineering data analysis.

Presents basic concepts of dynamic behavior, and the analytical and computational techniques for predicting and assessing dynamic behavior. Focuses on modeling a basic system, compound system, dynamic stability, and natural behavior to continuing and abrupt inputs.

Introductory course to the policies and laws governing energy generation and transmission in the United States with a focus on electricity. History of regulations give context to understand current regulation and potential future policies. Laws regulating the use of alternative energy resources covered in a practical setting.

Analyzes energy use in transportation, residential, and industrial sectors to understand how new technologies improve energy efficiency. Applies tradeoff techniques to decide between less efficient, less expensive systems versus more efficient, more expensive systems. Compares international energy consumption and evaluates energy losses for heating, cooling and electronic systems.

Modeling and analysis of linear, continuous-time systems in the time and frequency domains. Fundamentals of single-input-single-output control system design using both time-domain and frequency-domain techniques.

Survey of technical fundamentals and operational principles of conventional and renewable energy conversion systems to understand the environmental and sustainable issues for energy systems currently in use or may be used in the future to power our industrial society.

Modeling and analysis of electrical power systems and power system equipment, including transformers and transmission lines. Computational methods applied to power flow analysis. Fault analysis utilizing the method of symmetrical components.

Covers energy storage techniques involving electrochemical, mechanical and emerging options. Integrates energy storage media, its effects on the bulk power system, and design tradeoffs to understand environmental impacts, cost, reliabilities, and efficiencies for commercialization of bulk energy storage.

Reviews basic securities such as stocks, bonds, options, and futures as well as the market infrastructures and mechanics surrounding each instrument. Explores basic valuation techniques and the theory underlying stocks and bonds. Topics including risk and reward characteristics of investments; sources of investment information; domestic and international security markets; investment characteristics of common stocks, debt securities, convertible securities, option contracts, and investment companies; real property investment; economic market analysis; technical market analysis; tax aspects of investments; and investment management.

Covers capital market theory and the valuation of risky assets, capital budgeting, valuing the firm's securities, capital structure theory, long-term financing alternatives, cost of capital, dividend policy, working capital management, financial analysis and planning, mergers, and takeovers.

Provides students with structure and guidance in their preparation for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Level exam. Students systematically prepare for and are tested on the 18 sections of the exam.

Hands-on experience of managing two investment portfolios. Each member in the Oregon State Investment Group (OSIG) should act as a financial analyst to analyze a chosen company by performing the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) or Residual Income Model (RIM), the relative valuation, and the SWOT analyses. The weekly seminar offers opportunities for students to present their analyses and offer comments and suggestions to other's presentations.

Each student will act as a financial analyst to analyze a chosen company using models learned in FIN 437. Provides students with an opportunity to practice security valuation and get familiar with the tools. Focuses on various measures of portfolio performance.

Each student will act as a financial analyst to analyze a chosen company using models learned from FIN 437. Provides students additional opportunity to practice security valuation and strengthen their understanding of the tools. Introduces ways to develop an efficient portfolio.

Examines fixed income assets and the markets in which they trade. Topics include a broad survey of various fixed income instruments, their issuers, critical components, risks, pricing, yields, and underlying sources of volatility. Includes important institutional features of the bond, mortgage, and mortgage-backed securities markets and strategies for constructing portfolios.

Provides an overview of financial markets and financial institutions that form the economic system of trading financial and real assets both domestically and internationally. Explore concepts of financial theory, institutional detail, regulatory environments and the history of financial markets. Explore the legal, ethical, technological and global issues facing financial managers, markets, and institutions.

Develops the understanding and skill to use financial statements for investment decisions, credit decisions, performance analysis, and forecasting. Three main topic areas: analysis overview, accounting analysis, and financial analysis. CROSSLISTED as ACTG 442 / FIN 442.

Explores the quantitative and qualitative skills necessary for the construction, revision, and evaluation of financial portfolios. Covers the portfolio formation and asset allocation process. Provides an understanding of equity portfolio management strategies and portfolio performance evaluation. Culminates with a discussion of bond portfolio management strategies. Emphasizes the general approach used in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.

Investigates financial hedging activities for corporations and financial institutions using futures, options, and other derivative securities. Identifies risk attributes, valid hedging rationales, and management of hedging programs.

Emphasizes international monetary environment; foreign exchange risk management; source and availability of funds to finance trade and multinational operations; taxation planning and control; international portfolio diversification; international banking; capital budgeting; political risk evaluation of performance.

Develop an understanding of the banking system in the United States and gain insight into managing the financial assets of a bank. Emphasis on understanding the regulatory framework of the United States banking system, the organizational structures of banks, and managing the financial performance of a bank. Focus on integrating the theoretical framework of financial asset management with the “hands on” technical skills of risk mitigation and financial optimization strategies to increase a bank’s return on assets and equity.

Explores international equity markets; international bond markets, foreign exchange markets; derivative markets; cryptocurrency markets; trading strategies; global financial crisis; volatility index VIX; market stabilization mechanisms.

Examines fintech and the application of AI and data-driven technologies in financial markets and financial services. Develops technical skills in data management, visualization, machine learning, and natural language processing for fintech applications. Analyzes the impact of AI on the future of finance, including ethical considerations, regulatory challenges, and evolving industry trends. Provides hands-on experience in leveraging fintech and AI for competitive advantage in financial contexts.

Provides an overview of professional approach to personal financial planning. Topics included are client/planner interaction, financial statement development and analysis, time value of money, cash flow and debt management, risk management, education planning, retirement planning, tax planning, estate planning, special needs planning, business entity selection and taxation, economics and external environment study, ethics and practice standards of Certified Financial Planner. Formulates a comprehensive financial plan that best fits a client while following ethics and professional responsibilities.

Introduces basic concepts of risk management process in financial planning which involves measuring risk exposures, comparing, and contrasting various risk management tools to manage risk exposures. Uses the risk management tools which include insurances on health, life, disability, auto and property. Enhances a student’s approach to Insurance planning.

Introduces basic concepts of tax planning. Covers income tax systems and ways to minimize tax liability in compliance with IRC. Provides an understanding of how to calculate taxes on various investments and learn strategies to manage tax liability.

Focuses on Retirement Planning. Develops appropriate retirement plans for individuals and small businesses. Examines qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, IRAs, and Social Security. Discusses regulatory and tax considerations.

Introduces Estate Planning and focuses on developing an appropriate technique to estate planning given a client’s objectives and needs. Covers the legal, tax, financial and non-financial aspects of the estate planning process. Topics include trusts, wills, probate, charitable giving, wealth transfers and related taxes.

Explore issues facing entrepreneurial business ventures: financial statement forecasting, financial analysis, cash flow assessment, financial controls, asset management, valuations, and understanding funding options at different points in the business life cycle including Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, angel investors, venture capital, bank loans, and going public.

Introduces natural hazards, as seen through the lens of popular media and compared to foundational concepts in the physical sciences. Explores the causes and consequences of natural disasters via exercises and activities designed to develop students' skills in critical thinking, scientific analysis and problem solving.

Explores our planet. Discovers Earth’s natural wonders, from the deepest ocean trenches to the highest mountain peaks; examine processes that mold the natural environment; experience the relevance of earth science concepts to daily life including volcanoes, earthquakes, the formation and use of earth resources, and global environmental change.

Experience the highly varied geology of Oregon. Explore field geology sites, discover the diversity of world class geology in driving distance from Corvallis, and learn how to find, analyze, and understand these sites. Includes field trips.

Explores earth materials and processes that originate in Earth’s interior and their societal relevance. Studies minerals, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, the processes that form them, and the geologic settings where they are found. Examines science concepts and theories including earth’s structure, tectonic cycle, rock cycle, and crustal deformation. Considers consequences of tectonic activity including earthquakes and volcanic eruptions for daily life and decision making. Uses the process of science in active learning activities to develop comprehension and insight.

Explores interactions among Earth’s systems (Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere) that shape landscape features. Examines concepts like tectonic and rock cycles, weathering, hydrology, and glaciology. Considers climate variations and their impact on erosion, deposition, and resulting features. Emphasizes the identification, landscape formation processes, practical implications for daily life of features such as: meandering rivers, cirques, and haystacks. Uses the process of science in active learning activities to develop comprehension and insight.

Explores interactions among Earth’s systems (Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere) that shape landscape features. Examines concepts like tectonic and rock cycles, weathering, hydrology, and glaciology. Considers climate variations and their impact on erosion, deposition, and resulting features. Emphasizes the identification, landscape formation processes, practical implications for daily life of features such as: meandering rivers, cirques, and haystacks. Uses the process of science in active learning activities to develop comprehension and insight.

Examines major stages and critical events in planet Earth’s history, with emphasis on the interactions between global tectonics, biological evolution, and the climate system. Explores fossils and fossilization, geological time, catastrophic events that drove mass extinctions, and the role of humans as geological agents. Uses rocks and fossils during laboratories to provide a hands-on complement to lecture topics and to introduce methods of investigation of the geological record.

Explores problem-based numerical data analysis in the Earth Sciences, with an emphasis on practical skills in visualizing and interpreting geoscience data sets.

Explores volcanism on Earth and the impact of volcanic activity on people, infrastructure, and natural resources around the world. Examines the procedures, protocols, and technologies applied to mitigating hazard and risk to societies. Emphasizes the roles and interactions of different stakeholders (public, press, authorities, scientists) during volcanic crises.

Explores the formation, occurrence, and use of earth resources including metallic minerals, building materials, energy resources (including fossil fuels and nuclear energy), and water resources. Develops an understanding of the environmental consequences of resource use including surface and groundwater pollution, waste disposal, air pollution and acid rain, and global climate change. Analyzes the implications of resource use and availability for economic development and geopolitical relations. Assesses the economics and policies that have shaped resource extraction, and the vulnerabilities and risks associated with those extraction methods.

National parks as classrooms to study geological processes and the importance of preserving natural landscapes.

Study of global change over different time scales during the history of the earth, with emphasis on evolution of its atmosphere, plate tectonics, paleoclimates, and mass extinctions.

Introduces the principles of crystal morphology, habit, and symmetry. Explores the physical and optical characteristics of minerals and their origins in mineral structure. Uses both microscopes to view thin sections and large hand samples to identify minerals. Investigates how the processes of mineral formation and growth are caused by geological processes from igneous crystallization to sedimentary precipitation to metamorphic alteration.

Examines the origin, classification and identification of igneous rocks using hand samples, textures and minerals. Develops advanced petrographic microscope skills to identify common minerals and textures in thin sections. Evaluates magmatic processes including crystallization, cooling histories and relationship to tectonic environment.

Examination of surficial processes and terrestrial landforms of the earth, including slopes, rivers, glaciers, deserts, and coastlines.

Evaluates the potential distribution of life in the Universe, presents the science and technology used to search for life, and explores the societal impacts of its discovery.

Explores the fundamental science on the causes of, and solutions to, global warming that underly the policy issues facing global citizens, communities, and governments. Applies the science of climate change and documentation of its impacts to identify and evaluate options for adaptation and mitigation around the world.

Analysis of geometry and kinematics of geologic structures including brittle and ductile faults, folds, joints, deformation fabrics.

Explores the resources and emerging technologies needed for the green energy revolution and future climate security. Includes renewable energy development, critical minerals, and carbon sequestration. Considers personal choices, socio-economic issues and geopolitical barriers to implementation and identifies strategies by which those barriers might be overcome. Builds skills in interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration.

Basic principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy. Sedimentology is largely concerned with classifying and interpreting the origin of sedimentary rocks. Stratigraphy provides formal rules and strategies for organizing sedimentary (and other) rocks into a temporal framework. Reconstruction of Earth history with various approaches centered on paleoclimatology, paleogeography, paleooceanography, and tectonics.

Earthquake hazards in the Northwest; responses to reducing earthquake risk at state, local, and personal levels.

Explore basic groundwater concepts, including quantifying water levels, groundwater flow, and groundwater-surface water interactions. Apply hydrogeology concepts to actual management and environmental problems. Understand factors that impact how water flows through the ground and its availability for human consumption and for ecosystem health.

Build skills to identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Recognize and locate rock unit contacts. Establish a field traverse objective based on observations and collect structural and depositional data. Analyze collected field data through the development of geological maps, interpretive cross-sections, and stratigraphic columns. Interpret geological history in these products and written reports.

Independent reading in specialized topics guided by and discussed in faculty conferences. Faculty sponsor must be prearranged.

Petrogenesis of igneous rocks. Petrographic analysis using polarizing microscopes.

Examines the origin, classification and identification of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks using hand samples, textures and minerals. Develops mastery of advanced petrographic microscope skills to identify common minerals and textures in thin sections. Evaluates sedimentary structures and metamorphic grade and their relationships to tectonic environment.

A survey of volcanoes: their distribution, forms, composition, eruptive products, eruptive styles, and associated phenomena.

Principles of geochemistry applied to problems of earth science.

An introduction to natural processes at and near the earth's surface, as well as an examination of the impact of human activities on the natural environment. Study includes discussion of the sources, transformations, transport, and fate of contaminants.

Effect of landform processes upon human activity; consequences of resource management strategies on erosional balance within landscape; identification of mitigation of natural hazards; role of geomorphic process studies in environmental planning.

Explores the morphodynamic approach to coastal landforms, processes, and evolution including the impacts and response of humans to coastal change. Considers coastal morphodynamics as the mutual adjustment of topography and fluid dynamics involving sediment transport. Applies this paradigm by giving equal attention to coastal processes and the associated morphological responses to coastal evolution in a wide variety of coastal systems.

Principles of the origin, distribution, and importance of metallic mineral deposits formed by magmatic, hydrothermal, and sedimentary processes.

Tectonics of the present day as based on surface geology, geodesy, seismicity, and crustal structure; description of active faults and folds; use of neotectonics in evaluation of earthquake hazard. Field trip(s) may be required; transportation fee charged.

Geophysical observations as constraints on geologic interpretation.

Mass balance of glaciers, physics of glacial flow, processes of glacial erosion and deposition, glacial meltwater, glacial isostasy and eustasy, and Quaternary stratigraphy.

Introduction to geochronology, climate proxies, climate forcing, and climate modeling applied to paleoclimate problems. Emphasis on Quaternary climate history.

Introduces fundamental principles of groundwater hydrology used by environmental scientists, geologists, and engineers. Examines groundwater occurrence, flow, and solute transport. Explores how geologic properties influence groundwater systems. Uses Darcy’s Law, aquifer characteristics, flow nets, well hydraulics, and groundwater modeling. Develops quantitative skills for analyzing groundwater movement and evaluating hydrogeologic conditions in natural systems.

Stratigraphic principles applied to Quaternary deposits. Survey Quaternary dating methods. Proxy records of glaciation and climate change. Quaternary stratigraphy of North America, emphasizing stratigraphic records of ice sheets, glaciers, and pluvial lakes.

Collect field data to make geological maps, cross-sections, columns, and reports.

Field trip to a mineral district in the western United States, emphasizing detailed mapping of outcrops, trenches, and underground workings. Prepare final maps and a report suitable for presentation to management or publication.

Examines the unequal distribution of social, economic, and political power that creates winners and losers from climate change. Explores case studies of climate-change-related environmental degradation, conflict, conservation, climate denial, renewable energy, and investment. Discusses concepts and actions to promote climate justice.

Uses geographic concepts to study the people, place, and regions of the world. Explores perspectives, ideas, events, and processes such as globalization, development, colonization, green revolution, urbanization, that have shaped human experience globally and locally. Analyzes the impact of human-environmental interactions and inequitable systems in relation to the global movement of peoples, ideas, cultures, and societies.

Explores the dynamic interactions between Earth's climate and internal and surface processes that shape the environment for life. Examines how energy inputs from the Sun drive global temperature patterns, winds and ocean currents. Evaluates how climate patterns drive ecosystems and the distribution of biomes. Investigates how processes such as rock weathering, mass movements, glaciers and rivers shape landscapes. Reflects upon how humans depend upon and alter these processes.

Explores how cultural representations from around the world articulate specific understandings of space, place, and human-nature relationships shaped by unique historical and geographical processes. Critically assesses the interdependencies between different regions, examining their connections within a global context. Engages with diverse perspectives to challenge common stereotypes about various cultures and regions, drawing from the lived experiences of people worldwide. Requires the creation of a unique project that effectively communicates insights by integrating artistic, cartographic, and analytical elements, allowing for deep engagement with a chosen issue or subject matter.

Explores how cultural representations from around the world articulate specific understandings of space, place, and human-nature relationships shaped by unique historical and geographical processes. Critically assesses the interdependencies between different regions, examining their connections within a global context. Engages with diverse perspectives to challenge common stereotypes about various cultures and regions, drawing from the lived experiences of people worldwide. Requires the creation of a unique project that effectively communicates insights by integrating artistic, cartographic, and analytical elements, allowing for deep engagement with a chosen issue or subject matter.

Explores the social construction of disasters, challenging the notion that disasters are natural. Emphasizes the role of difference, power, and oppression in creating differential disaster vulnerabilities. Examines how practices of disaster risk reduction can prevent disasters and mitigate their impacts by addressing structural inequities as the drivers of risk, while also supporting social equity, justice, and peacebuilding.

Uses geographic concepts to study the places and people of the Global South. Topics covered include definitions of the “Global South;” challenges that face communities and environments in the Global South; how regions in the Global South influence global processes; and perspectives on identity, development, governance, sustainability, and well-being that emerge from various regions in the Global South.

Explores the influence of Western Culture and Philosophy on processes of globalization. Examines western perspectives associated with developed countries on identity, development, politics, population, migration, sustainability, urbanization, and well-being. Considers challenges faced by communities and their environments in the Global North, and assesses different regions responding to these challenges.

Examines underlying principles of geospatial science, including measurement of location using GPS, representation and manipulation of digital data in geospatial form, and characterization of the Earth's surface using reflected electromagnetic energy. Develops skills to collect geospatial data, critically evaluate it for error, place it in an hypothesis-testing framework, assess emergent relationships according to underlying principles, and report on findings. Links patterns in geospatial data with natural and human-caused drivers.

Explores underlying principles of maps as forms of communication. Examines how maps are used as media to shape narratives across communication mediums. Develops skills necessary to use maps to make and support arguments in multiple mediums. Emphasizes the socially constructed nature of all maps and builds experience in the analysis of underlying assumptions, elisions, and design decisions contained in a given map as a piece of media.

Considers the historical and current impact of human activities on bio-physical systems, planetary and human health. Introduces students to the broad field of human-environment geography and systems thinking using case studies from the US and beyond. Explores potential solutions to unsustainable habits, practices, and industries.

Explores Africa's rich cultural landscapes and human experiences, addressing historical, social, cultural, developmental, and environmental themes. Examines Africa's interactions with the world, emphasizing globalization's impact on its evolving landscapes and societies.

Examines the diverse landscapes, peoples and cultural traditions of Latin America, a vast region extending from the United States-Mexican border to the southern tip of South America. Applies humanistic approaches from cultural geography to analyze perspectives, ideas, and worldviews represented in Latin America’s maps, cultural landscapes, and place-based creative works.

Introduces students to the field of human-environment geography, focusing on how human institutions, social systems, and cultural processes shape collective behavior and societal outcomes in the context of climate change. Explores climate-related challenges, and examines how governance structures, market systems, cultural norms, and planning practices influence patterns of vulnerability, emissions, adaptation, and transformation. Emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative methods for analyzing human–environment interactions and explores pathways for institutional and societal change toward a more resilient future.

Explores the geography of environmental conflicts; examines how social processes and institutions influence access and use of natural resources; and the social constructs from which difference, power, and oppression emerge. Applies the experiences of women, minority, and under-represented communities to contemplate more integrated, equitable and sustainable approaches to resources management, in the United States and beyond. Explores personal skills in transforming conflicts, as well as concepts of distributive, procedural, and restorative justice.

Explores the evolution of urban water systems over the past 3,000 years. Provides an introduction to urban studies within the broader social sciences by examining how societies adapt to environmental challenges in urban settings. Examines international and US hydro ingenuity. Delves into current water challenges and introduces sustainable solutions for our water future. Gives special consideration to social, economic and political factors that shape urban decision making.

Explores the history and current practices of land use and community planning. Characterizes how U.S. government and societal institutions create and dismantle rules, policies, and perceptions regarding how and for whom landscapes are utilized and the impacts of those decisions. Applies real-world land use scenarios and examines how quantitative and qualitative data can be used to analyze human-environmental impacts of land use decisions.

Examines human relationships to Earth’s systems with an emphasis on what we might do, collectively and individually, so that our natural environment, our economies, and our societies can thrive in the future. Applies interdisciplinary and teamwork approaches to producing and communicating possible solutions to today’s sustainability challenges.

Examines human relationships to Earth’s systems with an emphasis on what we might do, collectively and individually, so that our natural environment, our economies, and our societies can thrive in the future. Applies interdisciplinary and teamwork approaches to producing and communicating possible solutions to today’s sustainability challenges.

Spatial distributions and change over time of species, communities, and biomes. Effect of climate, tectonics, disturbance on evolution, extinction, and succession. Implications for conservation.

Introduction to the geography of global wealth and inequality with a focus on contemporary development, underdevelopment, and globalization problems in Asian, African, Caribbean, Latin American, and Pacific Island countries.

Examines the complex interactions between population dynamics, resource consumption, and environmental sustainability. Explores global patterns in population growth and consumption, investigating the causes and consequences of these trends on both ecosystems and human societies. Uses a multidisciplinary approach that includes environmental science, sociology, and economics, to address pressing challenges such as resource depletion, pollution, and climate change. Analyzes sustainable solutions, evaluating their impacts, and developing targeted communication products to engage real-world stakeholders. Emphasizes collaborative, solution-oriented learning, preparing students to critically address and communicate strategies for managing population and consumption in an interconnected world.

Examines how social and environmental determinants of population health are impacted by anthropogenic climate change both spatially and temporally. Introduces theoretical approaches and methods from human-environment geography and public health to construct a cross-disciplinary framework for considering risk, vulnerability, and social justice in relationship to climate change and human health outcomes. Evaluates the influence of political and economic processes on health disparities and inequity. Central focus on the United States, while relying on international perspectives for contextual and comparative purposes. CROSSLISTED as GEOG 332 / H 332.

Examines the uneven distribution of environmental resources, hazards, and risk among social groups and the emergence and historical context of the environmental justice movement in the United States. CROSSLISTED as ENSC 333 / GEOG 333.

Policy and science of the hydrologic cycle. Emphasis on interaction between water's natural time-space fluctuations and human uses.

Policy and science of the hydrologic cycle. Emphasis on interaction between water's natural time-space fluctuations and human uses.

Explores the multifaceted challenges of managing and mitigating hazards in a world increasingly affected by climate change, urbanization, and social inequality. Examines the biophysical processes behind hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and wildfires, as well as the social, economic, and ethical dimensions that shape vulnerability and resilience across diverse communities. Employs interdisciplinary teamwork and real-world case studies so that students will develop skills in analyzing complex hazard scenarios, evaluating mitigation strategies, and creating targeted communication products for various stakeholders. Provides a holistic, solution-oriented approach to understanding and addressing the impacts of hazards and disasters on a global scale.

Fundamentals of spatial data, geographic information systems (GIS), and introductory spatial analysis, programming, and modeling.

Develop skills in design and conduct of geospatial analyses using various spatial data structures, techniques and models. Acquire, clean, integrate, manipulate, visualize and analyze geospatial data. Explore various quantitative methods, practice investigating quantitative problems and develop competence in coding.

Create, evaluate, and critique maps using cartographic theories and techniques for effective geovisual communication.

Focuses on fundamentals of satellite remote sensing and image analysis. Topics include physical principles of remote sensing from the ultraviolet to the microwave, sensors and sensor technology, and environmental applications of remote sensing through image analysis.

Fundamentals of snow hydrology. Physical principles of snow formation, snowpack accumulation, energy balance, snowcover-climate interactions, snow metamorphism, snowpack ablation, snowpack/snowmelt chemistry, remote sensing of snow, avalanches, field methods, snowmelt/runoff modeling techniques, and watershed processes.

Examines watershed hydrology in the context of water resources management. Examines conceptual, quantitative, and geographic analyses of the hydrologic cycle. Explores historical and enduring challenges of watershed management for water extremes, water use, and climate.

Causes and consequences of conflict over natural resource management at local to global scales; principles for managing social-ecological systems for resilience.

Climate change poses challenges for human security and well-being, and for social and economic development. Evaluate how climate change impacts vary based on vulnerability, exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity, and risk.

Examine why nations rise and fall based on water availability and investigate why the United States is no exception. Explore how the US develops, protects, governs and manages its water resources and how it will cope with climate change and conflict. Discover resilience and sustainability through case studies.

Investigate why water is a critical resource that supports life, livelihoods, and the environment. Understand that where rivers crosses political boundaries, the sharing of water presents challenges and opportunities. Interpret how international basins are governed; Evaluate how dams and water development affect ecology and people; and apply water conflict management frameworks to emerging international water issues.

Development of a conceptual framework for land use study; analysis of land as a resource, land use trends, land use principles, and management issues as related to planning, focusing on the American West, the fastest growing region in the nation.

Apply GIS skills and techniques to analyze and plan future land uses. Evaluate alternative models including suitability analysis to identify suitable land uses that incorporate community goals, comply with site constraints, and minimize use conflicts. Apply geodesign principles and practices to explore and analyze how land use planning decisions can impact the natural environment, local economies, and society. Assess regulatory and market-based implementation strategies. Evaluate how regional planning principles can promote smart growth and build resilient communities that minimize land use conflicts, mitigate hazard risk, and improve community livability.

Environmental site assessment is a primary tool for environmental science professionals. Apply environmental science concepts to evaluate features of a specific natural area and conduct a land suitability analysis. Create a conceptual site design and management plan that complies with federal, state, and local regulations and environmental laws. CROSSLISTED as ENSC 452 / GEOG 452.

Explores the state of science on environmental change in the western United States and globally, including population and climate change, and the extent to which human behavior can affect drivers and outcomes of such changes. Develops skills in oral, visual, and written communication of science via both traditional and social media. Examines the best science available standard and addresses debates about advocacy in science.

Focuses on practical applications of technologies and problem solving skills to spatial analysis within a geographic information system (GIS). Develops a foundation in spatial thinking and guides students through the process of designing and conducting spatial analyses applied to geographic problems. Builds skills using various forms of spatial data, models and techniques including spatial statistics and spatial data science. Emphasizes application and synthesis in a spatial analysis project including written and oral presentation.

Explore the extension of geographic information systems (GIS) through programming. Examine design and writing of computer programs to automate geospatial analysis. Apply basic principles of programming languages to write, apply, and interpret results of scripts. Develop custom functions and analyze coding information to learn new skills. Emphasizes building foundations and pragmatic approaches to designing and constructing programs and scripts for geospatial analysis.

Explores data science methods used to gather, validate, organize, analyze, and summarize large amounts of environmental and ecological information. Focuses on developing analytical workflows that are efficient, reproducible, and modular using tools such as the R coding language, RStudio, GitHub, and JupyterLab. Examines case studies including climate change, biodiversity assessments, epidemic modeling, marine spatial planning, and natural resource management.

Applications and implications of geospatial science (GIS, remote sensing, and spatial analysis) in intelligence, human, environmental, and ethical domains. Concepts and practices of ethics in geospatial science, including data access, management, visualization, and decision-making.

Explores advanced concepts, techniques, and theories of Cartography. Examines current research in color theory, typographic design, and other aspects of thematic, reference, and analytic maps. Focuses on the design, compilation, construction, and analysis of maps in multiple formats and created for diverse audiences. Constructs a professional level cartographic portfolio of work using GIS, publishing, and image editing software packages.

Examines concepts, theories, and techniques of web programming, digital storytelling, online project management, and web-based cartographic principles. Explores the history, present, and potential future of online mapping libraries, technologies, and data. Builds foundational concepts for compiling, constructing, and analyzing interactive maps. Creates online, interactive web visualizations using open-source tools.

Intermediate concepts and techniques for satellite image processing including image enhancement, clustering, classification, machine learning, change detection, and time series analysis. Hands-on experience with open-source, large volume data and geospatial programming within Google Earth engine.

Crystal structure, microstructure, and physical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and amorphous materials. Also includes elementary mechanical behavior and phase equilibria.

Crystal structure, microstructure, and physical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and amorphous materials. Also includes elementary mechanical behavior and phase equilibria.

Examines mechanical behavior of materials, relating laboratory test results to material structure and elements of mechanical analysis.

Explores the statistical interpretation of entropy, heat capacity, enthalpy of condensed phases, solution thermodynamics, liquid-solid and solid-solid phase equilibria. Considers the principles of thermodynamics governing phase stability with a focus on liquid-solid and solid-solid equilibria, and phase stability in two-component systems. Examines the relationship of Gibbs free energy to phase stability.

Introduction to properties of metals and alloys including solidification, diffusion, solid solutions, intermediate phases, annealing, heat treatment and phase transformation with a focus on ferrous and non-ferrous metal systems. Identifies relationships between material composition, structure, and properties resulting from synthesis, processing or service. Explores the knowledge of ferrous and non-ferrous alloy systems and their significant metallurgical properties and applications.

Focuses on theories and key concepts of the metallurgy of welds. Topics include welding methods, heat input, diffusion, solidification, phase transformation and welding defects.

Introduction of incoming microbiology students to college life with an emphasis on faculties, facilities, services, and curricula in microbiology. Exposure to career opportunities in microbiology.

Explores microbiology as it affects our everyday lives. Examines the fundamental roles and properties of microorganisms across the Tree of Life, and their impact on health, food/water sanitation, environment, industry, and genetic engineering. Engages in scientific conversations discussing historical and current concepts in microbiology, and their relevance to daily life and to society. Builds proficiency in hands-on laboratory experiments, and analysis and communication of the results.

Introduces general properties of cellular microbes and viruses, microbial biochemistry and genetics, pathogenesis and disease, immunity, and microbial infections. Emphasizes medical microbiology, infectious diseases, and public health. CROSSLISTED as BHS 255 / MB 255.

Emphasizes cytology, physiology, virology, growth and control of growth with coverage of the role of microorganisms in nature, in disease, and as useful tools.

Emphasizes cytology, physiology, virology, growth and control of growth with coverage of the role of microorganisms in nature, in disease, and as useful tools.

Development of laboratory techniques; exercises designed to reinforce concepts covered in MB 302.

Introduces concepts of bacterial molecular genetics. Topics including DNA replication, mutation, DNA repair, DNA recombination, transposons, bacteriophages, genetic manipulation, and gene regulation.

Scientific writing, laboratory notebook composition, experimental design, and laboratory experiments in bacterial molecular biology.

Molecular structure and function, macromolecular assembly, energy production and use, and cellular growth.

A survey of the diversity, ecology, and physiology of microbes in aquatic systems, with emphasis on their roles in food webs, chemical cycling, and human health. Provides the background knowledge and quantitative/analytical skills necessary to interpret and critique current and historical research in the fields of general aquatic microbiology.

Properties of viruses, their biology, pathogenesis and concern to society. Emphasis on viruses causing human disease. CROSSLISTED as BHS 340 / MB 340.

Emerging and reemerging infectious disease is a contemporary global issue of great concern. To understand and evaluate the issue, the course covers germ theory, disease history and ecology, microbial pathogenesis and the immune response, historic plagues, and the biological, environmental, population and social changes that contribute to disease emergence.

Explores basic theory and applications of immunochemistry, immunogenetics, and cellular immunology. Examines immunologically related diseases.

Laboratory on the applications of current immunological techniques.

Explores microbial evolution from the earliest lifeforms to the modern roles of microbes in global biogeochemical cycles. Emphasizes fundamental concepts in microbial genomics and metagenomics using the global carbon cycle as a backdrop to understanding the evolution of microbial biodiversity. Covers foundational concepts needed for later coursework in genome bioinformatics.

Examine patterns of microbiological communities and how those patterns relate to environmental factors. Collect and process samples, analyze the resultant data and present those results. Focus on the microbial ecology of freshwater and marine systems as a foundation for discovery and learning using current analytical techniques.

Examines bacteria pathogenic for humans, emphasizing the structural, physiological and genetic mechanisms of pathogenesis. Explores the role of the immune system in pathogenesis and protection.

Examines properties of viruses, their biology and pathogenesis. Emphasizes viruses causing human and animal diseases.

Laboratory experiments to illustrate concepts presented in MB 430 and/or MB 434, focusing on pathogenic microorganisms.

Examines the biodiversity, function, and medical importance of the communities of microorganisms that inhabit the human body. A diverse array of topics will be discussed, including how the human microbiome is studied, case studies of specific aspects of the human microbiome, and emerging theories of how the microbiome influences human health.

Role of microorganisms in food spoilage, infection, and intoxication; also basic principles in contamination control and germicidal treatment during processing, preparing, and distributing food for consumption.

Laboratory techniques to accompany MB 440 / MB 540.

Explores the interactions of microorganisms with their environment and each other in a variety of natural habitats. Examines the roles and uses of microbes in anthropogenic activities such as pollution and climate change. Investigates microbial adaptations that enable their widespread success in all environments. Illustrates the roles of trophic interactions in maintaining carbon and nitrogen cycles.

Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of biotechnology, focusing on the use of microorganisms as tools in everyday applications, in genetic engineering, and in medical, industrial, agricultural, and environmental processes. Covers current topics such as CRISPR, systems and synthetic biology, biofuels and vaccines. Includes excursions into general plant, animal, and medical biotechnology, as well as the biotechnology workforce, regulations and ethics.

Introduction to fermentation microbiology that emphasizes the evolution of key physiological traits and biochemical pathways within key microbial genera. Explores the microbial ecology of processes used to make alcoholic beverages, food ingredients, and fermented foods. CROSSLISTED as FST 479 / MB 479.

Covers a broad overview of parasitology with emphasis on medical parasitology. Explores important groups and host/parasite relationships among all taxa from invertebrates to vertebrates, including mammals.

Introduction to diseases of fish including pathogens important to aquaculture and ornamental industries as well as to wild fish populations and conservation programs. CROSSLISTED as FW 491 / MB 491 and FW 591 / MB 591.

Introduces computational methods to solve engineering problems. Translates fundamental mathematical and engineering concepts into data structures and algorithms; extends and solidifies fundamental computational skills for effective and efficient practice. Develops skills for effective visualization of data.

Introduces and applies concepts of kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies, with applications to mechanical systems of current interest to engineers.

Introduces basic concepts of thermodynamics, by applying the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Solves engineering problems involving closed and open systems, as well as basic power and refrigeration cycles. CROSSLISTED as ME 310 / NSE 310.

Determination of stresses, deflections, and stability of deformable bodies with an introduction to finite element analysis.

Models and analyzes linear continuous systems in time and frequency domains. Introduces fundamentals of single-input-single-output control system design. CROSSLISTED as ECE 356 / ME 320.

Models and analyzes linear continuous systems in time and frequency domains. Introduces fundamentals of single-input-single-output control system design. CROSSLISTED as ECE 356 / ME 320.

Introduces basic concepts of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Applies conservation equations and dimensional analysis to solve engineering problems relevant to incompressible pipe systems and external flows, as well as conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer. CROSSLISTED as ME 330 / NSE 330.

Introduces basic concepts of fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Applies conservation equations and dimensional analysis to solve engineering problems relevant to incompressible pipe systems and external flows, as well as conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer. CROSSLISTED as ME 330 / NSE 330.

Introduces the concepts and applications of fluid mechanics and dimensional analysis with an emphasis on fluid behavior, internal and external flows, analysis of engineering applications of incompressible pipe systems, and external aerodynamics. CROSSLISTED as ME 331 / NSE 331.

Introduces the concepts and applications of fluid mechanics and dimensional analysis with an emphasis on fluid behavior, internal and external flows, analysis of engineering applications of incompressible pipe systems, and external aerodynamics. CROSSLISTED as ME 331 / NSE 331.

Analyzes conductive, convective and radiative energy transfer using control volume and differential analysis and prediction of transport properties.

Analyzes conductive, convective and radiative energy transfer using control volume and differential analysis and prediction of transport properties.

Analyzes advanced power and refrigeration cycles, exergy destruction during steady and transient processes, compressible flow processes and systems with inert and reactive gas mixtures.

Illustrates the function, operation, and application of common mechanical engineering instruments, measurement principles, and statistical analysis. Demonstrates elements of measurement systems, including transduction, signal conditioning, and data recording. Examines function and operation of digital data acquisition systems.

Explores analytical and numerical methods for solving representative mechanical engineering problems.

Explores analytical and numerical methods for solving representative mechanical engineering problems.

Applies organization, planning, economics, and the use of creativity and optimization in solving mechanical design problems. Case studies and/or industrial design problems.

Applies organization, planning, economics, and the use of creativity and optimization in solving mechanical design problems. Case studies and/or industrial design problems.

Explores machine design, including systems, machine elements, and components. Details the steps in taking applied loads, changing them to stresses, and producing predictions and likelihood of failure. Investigates how specific components behave and how they should be sized to meet design goals. Investigates mechanical systems to identify where failure is likely to occur and how to redesign components to avoid failure.

Explores machine design, including systems, machine elements, and components. Details the steps in taking applied loads, changing them to stresses, and producing predictions and likelihood of failure. Investigates how specific components behave and how they should be sized to meet design goals. Investigates mechanical systems to identify where failure is likely to occur and how to redesign components to avoid failure.

Explores the study of mechanical linkages or mechanisms. Categorizes and systematically dissects existing mechanisms to understand the function and behavior of complete devices as well as function and behavior of individual links and joints in a mechanism. Builds upon the knowledge of kinematic analysis of position, velocity, acceleration, and jerk in the context of planar and non-planar mechanisms. Discusses the synthesis of such mechanisms as well as best practices in creating new mechanisms. Uses computation to fully understand and design intended mechanical movements.

Provides a project-based design experience that advances understanding of real-world product design, through aligning the mechanical design process with relevant engineering materials and manufacturing knowledge. Discusses common material properties and selection criteria, manufacturing processes and design considerations for manufacturing processes, design for advanced manufacturing, and DIY fabrication methods. Employs professional engineering communication skills, including product documentation, memo-writing, report writing, and video presentations.

Elasticity theory, failure theories, energy methods, finite element analysis.

Analyzes and models the dynamic responses of single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems.

Analyzes and models the dynamic responses of single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems.

Applies modern Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software to the design of mechanical components, and development of the underlying theoretical and computational approach.

Integration of the concepts, laws, and methodologies from fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics, into a set of practical tools for thermal energy systems design and analysis.

Studies combustion science based on the background of chemistry, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, mass transfer, and heat transfer. Introduces concepts including stoichiometry, energetics of chemical reactions, flame temperature, equilibrium product analyses, chemical kinetics, and chain reactions.

An intermediate heat transfer course seeking to lay a foundation for determining the heating and cooling characteristics with a variety of modern and classical processes. Included is design of multi-component heat transfer systems.

Analyzes experiments related to thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Focuses on proper experimental methods and data and discusses uncertainty analysis related to thermal and fluids measurements.

Analyzes experiments related to thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Focuses on proper experimental methods and data and discusses uncertainty analysis related to thermal and fluids measurements.

Techniques for measurement of structural response and material properties. Proper use of rosette strain gauges, load cells, and displacement transducers. Full-field strain measurement using photoelasticity and digital image correlation. Proper implementation of material testing standards. Characterization of anisotropic composite materials.

Focuses on the study of ideal fluid flow as applied to aerodynamics and external flows; thin airfoil theory, panel method and blade element method.

Studies idealized compressible flows, including in nozzles and diffusers, as well as shocks/expansion waves and their interactions. Introduces supersonic flight and propulsion systems.

Develops and applies a formalized approach to materials selection within the engineering design process. Examines property definitions, measurements, and trends among the major materials families. Configures and uses property comparison charts derived from a comprehensive materials database. Identifies active design constraints and trade-space approaches to conflicting design objectives. Evaluates materials selection case studies, and application of concepts to student-defined projects with an emphasis on balancing sustainability metrics against traditional performance criteria and dollar costs.

Review of applied stress analysis in isotropic materials. Analyze anisotropic materials, fibers and matrices, mechanics of composites including properties and applications, principles of composites manufacturing, experimental characterization of composites, composites light-structures.

Fracture mechanics and fatigue mechanisms: mechanisms of ductile and brittle fracture. Environmentally induced fracture and fatigue. Considerations in design of engineering materials and structures will be discussed.

Covers the tools available to project managers, the human and organizational dimensions in different project environments, some computer applications, cases, and a project.

Covers the tools available to project managers, the human and organizational dimensions in different project environments, some computer applications, cases, and a project.

Provides in-depth coverage of best practices pertaining to the process of attracting, selecting, and hiring new employees in modern organizations. Emphasizes recruitment tactics, legal issues related to staffing, the criteria organizations use to make hiring decisions, and the strengths and weaknesses of various techniques used to evaluate prospective applicants throughout the selection process. Considers implications for the organization, the hiring manager, and the job-seeker.

Focuses on understanding and designing methods of compensation aimed at motivating and rewarding employee contributions to the organization. Covers employee contributions including behavior, skills and goods/services that employees produce as individuals, teams, business units, projects or organizations. Topics include pay strategies and structures, performance measurement and evaluation, and various non-salary incentives.

Explores the theory and evidence associated with mentoring and coaching. Develop coaching and mentoring skills. Apply evidence-based coaching and mentoring processes as a means to improve developmental relationships and enhance self-development.

Personnel administration for line supervisors and managers. Integrates systems approach to understanding government regulation of employment, resolution of workplace personnel problems, and performance-based personnel management.

Focuses on analysis, skill development and application of management research to real-life organizational influence, persuasion, negotiation and conflict management situations.

Develop an understanding of how a market-orientation can help firms to profitably deliver value to targeted customers. Through a combination of case discussions, preparation of a client project, lectures and in-class activities, analyze complex marketing challenges; make strategic decisions for products, services, and brands, based on marketing principles; and persuasively communicate decisions.

Introduces the fundamentals of market research. Provides a basic understanding of marketing research and relevant decisions in the process.

Examines the major digital channels and platforms for digital marketing, theories and techniques of digital marketing, implementation considerations, and associated risks and limitations.

Examines the fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and how they can be integrated into an overall marketing strategy to maximize brand visibility and performance.

An integration of people, process and technology. Emphasizes how individuals and companies can gain the return on investment that they expect through technology implementation, service and business process mapping, employee training, customer relationship, customer life time value, technology solutions that track customer data and employee performance.

Emphasizes coverage and utilization of principles and theory of personal selling to address sales opportunities in a variety of contexts. Focuses on the use of sales skills by professional salespeople.

Introduces sales principles and the sales process, with a focus on practical application of personal selling skills in any business situation. Content balances theory with skills development in a variety of business contexts.

Explore qualitative research methods through hands-on learning and experiences. Gain an overall understanding of qualitative research and methods such as focus groups, in-depth interviews, and observational research. Develop a qualitative research project from proposal to final reporting.

Understanding the processes that lead to purchase, so as to improve decisions on segmentation and the appropriate marketing mix for each segment. How consumers and households make decisions, and why different individuals/groups make different decisions. Application of behavioral science concepts at individual, subcultural and cultural levels. Effects of consumerism and regulation also are considered.

Understanding the processes that lead to purchase, so as to improve decisions on segmentation and the appropriate marketing mix for each segment. How consumers and households make decisions, and why different individuals/groups make different decisions. Application of behavioral science concepts at individual, subcultural and cultural levels. Effects of consumerism and regulation also are considered.

Analysis of the influence of marketing communications on the attitudes and behaviors of consumer and industrial buyers. Identification and examination of the major decisions made by marketing/advertising managers in implementing the promotional mix.

Management of retail business with emphasis on strategic planning, analysis, and control, focused on middle- and upper-middle management decisions.

Consideration of cultural, political, regulatory, economic and trade barriers in the design of marketing plans for product development, pricing, channels of distribution; and promotion alternatives in a global market.

Formulation of strategic and tactical marketing plans for organizations (both profit and not-for-profit) in the service sector of the economy. Projects or cases are used to provide a comprehensive experience.

Identifies and analyzes marketing problems and opportunities. Conducts market and competitive analysis. Implements marketing concepts, strategies, and tactics to achieve the marketing objectives of the business enterprise. Projects or cases are used to provide a comprehensive experience.

Arithmetic of signed numbers, order of operations, simplifying algebraic expressions, solutions of linear equations, and inequalities. Rules of exponents, addition, subtraction, and multiplication of polynomials, factoring, solution of quadratic equations by factoring, reducing rational expressions. Word problems involving linear equations, graphing of linear equations, inequalities.