The theory and application of instrumental methods of analysis. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, six hours.

This course examines the nuances of leadership within communities. To learn what makes an effective community leader and the role a leader plays in community action, students will explore the importance of framing ideas, mobilizing resources, and developing social capital. This course expands on theories to highlight correlation with servant leadership, community behavior, and collaborative leadership styles. Finally, working with community visioning, change and ambiguity will reinforce the need for flexibility within the community leader's toolkit.

Food Systems and Society tracks food from farm to table, including growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, and disposal. Policy and culture determine who eats what and who benefits and loses in any given food system. As a result food systems vary considerably across the world with each evolving to affect overall health. The course will assess sustainability of food systems and explore the ethical, economical, socio-ecological, and environmental factors that affect local, regional, national, and global food system development.

This course promotes the thoughtful examination of writing instruction at the middle and high school levels Throughout the course, learners are introduced to strategies and skills they can use to enhance their own writing and the writing of their students. Using a process approach, students learn how to communicate ideas effectively in a variety of genres and for a multitude of purposes.

Students in this course study the theory and practice of fault-tolerant and dependable computing systems. The course will introduce sources of faults, error and failures in computer controlled systems and approaches to design masking and recovery techniques at the hardware, software, and systems level.

Theory and practice of the gravity and magnetic methods of geophysical exploration as applied to geological, archeological, environmental, and planetary exploration problems. The course includes principles of instrumentation, surveying, reduction of anomalies, and their interpretation.

A study of the principles and methods of earthquake and engineering seismology. Specifically, the course will focus on the concepts of the seismic source, path, and site effects phenomena, as well as the practical aspects of seismic hazard assessment.

An advanced literature course focusing on comparative or transnational periods, themes, genres, national or ethnic traditions, or one or more authors. Possible areas of study include transatlantic connections, diasporic communities, or comparisons between English language authors and foreign authors in translation. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement.

examine behavior and life histories. Topics addressed include: the optimality approach, constraints on optimality, kin and group selection, predator and prey behaviors, social and mating behaviors, and life history evolution.

Study in special topics in equine science and management. May be repeated under a different subtitle to a maximum of fifteen credit hours. Hours are variable with each special course.