This course examines post-graduate opportunities, expectations, and strategies in agricultural economics. Students will explore information relevant to writing resumes, completing job applications, and participating in job interviews.
An advanced treatment of production economics with emphasis on flexible product and factor price situations, factor demand functions, multiple product production, and poly-periodic production theory.
This course is a graduate-level survey of environmental and natural resource economics. Students will use mathematical models and econometric analysis to address topics including externalities and other market failures, environmental policies, management of renewable and nonrenewable resources, and non-market valuation.
Principles of selection of internal combustion engines . Operating principles of internal combustion engines including fuel injection, ignition, lubrication, and maintenance. Power transmission application and efficiency are considered. Lecture, two hours per week; Lab, two hours per week.
The functional requirements and principles of operation of systems for the handling and processing of food and agricultural products are studied. The areas covered are mass and energy balances, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, refrigeration, food freezing, evaporation, drying and special topics such as extrusion and microwave heating.
This course covers contemporary topics in enterprise data, analysis, and decision making. Past coverage has included Data Mining, Data Communications, and Valuation of Information. The topics covered would also be valuable to students from programs such as Computer Science, Telecommunications, Statistics, and Engineering.
This course explores contemporary global health issues from an anthropological perspective. We will examine health effects of economic collapse, disasters and socio-political changes in industrialized and developing countries. We also study the growing global health and humanitarian industries. Topics include in chronic and infectious diseases, environmental illnesses, pharmaceuticals, and the commerical traffic in tissues, organs and other bodily substances.
Social organization is a core component of anthropology. This seminar encompasses both historical and contemporary approaches to this central focus of the discipline. It includes the major theoretical approaches to the study of social organization and examines key concepts such as kinship and collective identity. Topics include how human groups are defined, organized, perpetuated, and change; as well as the role of individuals in broader social structures.
This course is designed to study the archaeology of political systems. The goals are to discuss the major trends, concepts, and perspectives in researching event and process in the evolution of political organization and social integration. A corollary goal is to examine the empirical evidence for, and archaeological correlates of, political evolution. It is not intended as a comprehensive coverage of all theories about past political systems, or as a survey of the rise and development of political forms in complex societies around the world.
Biology 198 is one of the Scholars courses for biology majors in the Department of Biology Scholars Program. This course is designed to provide a solid introduction to 21st century bioscience research. Students will learn how to critically read, interpret, understand and discuss original literature. Students will learn how to discuss data and information from the original literature appropriately, develop reasonable hypotheses from current 21st century bioscience problems and provide plausible conclusions and presentations in regard to those problems using original information and data.
