All Courses
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2021FA - 532 Topics in Biochem Engr (Glycosciences)
The objective of this course is to introduce students to advanced concepts in glycosciences, biochemical engineering, and associated biotechnology-based solutions to address several challenges being faced by our modern society in a myriad number of areas. Specific application areas to be explored in this course include Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceutical & Biological Drugs, Food & Nutrition Supplements, Advanced Biomaterials, Cellulosic Biofuels & Industrial Bioproducts.
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2021FA - CHAPS 16:082:530:01
This course offers an introductory overview of themes that together construct the idea of cultural heritage and preservation studies.
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CS 583 Quantum Computing: Programs and Systems (2021 Fall)
Quantum Computing: Programs and Systems will be structured around reading and discussing several foundational research papers in realizing quantum computers. Students will also complete programming assignments to implement algorithms in open-source quantum frameworks. The goal of the course is to bring students up-to-speed on recent developments in realizing quantum computers, which will be a strong foundation for pursuing research or to be a subject expert in industry.
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Fall'21: 505: Social Media & Social Movements
We are in the midst of deeply uncertain and confusing times as the current epoch is one where social movements, fake news, worldwide resistance, social media, climate change and “tipping points,” reality television show presidencies (i.e. Modi, Bolsonaro, Duterte and not too long ago, Trump), nothing less than the world’s worst pandemic in a century (from which we are still reeling), all cloud over the nation’s and the world’s future. These topics will be tackled in this probing grad-level seminar which will seek to help empower students with an intellectual self-defenses against the confusing times and overloads of misinformation. Gaining the practical and useful skill of a healthy level of news media literacy will be a leading objective of this course, but so will advancing one’s critical thinking abilities when it comes to analyzing and sizing up the leading issues of the day, taking into full consideration the mainstream news media during the digital age of social media.
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Fall'21: 594: Digital Media Ethics
“Digital Media Ethics” is a graduate-level seminar exploring the many facets of the leading ethical issues of the digital age. The overriding goal of the course is to help us become more conscious of the many ethical decisions we take on a daily basis and improve our moral compass, digitally speaking, in accordance with many of the leading issues of the day. What are the leading ethical quandaries in the age of digital and social media and how can we best address them in both theoretical and practical terms? That will be a central and guiding question for the course that we will all seek to answer throughout the semester.
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2021FA - HONORS SEM HUMANIT 21:525:252:61
What is the power of factual storytelling? How do you patrol the boundary between fact and memory in nonfiction? Should you try? How does a story change when the people at its center tell it? What happens when they approach their stories from the outside, in as well as the inside, out –– simultaneously subjective and objective in approach? What effect does this double consciousness have on readers, and can we achieve it too? We will read essays, journalism, history, and memoirs by and about migrants in the United States and their descendants; and with this work as a guide, we will also write from our own lives.