This course coves how media, both traditional news media and newly emerging digital communication technologies, relate to community diversity. Specifically, the course focuses on the relationships between media and community (power) structure, community institutions/organizations, social movements and minority groups, urban/rural communities, gender/race/ethnicity/class and more.
This course examines the structure and function of the long-term care sector with emphasis on nursing homes and the role of noninstitutional alternatives. Analysis focuses on the impact of changes in reimbursement and regulatory policy, interorganizational relations, newly emerging treatment modalities, and the influence of the external organizational, economic, and political environment.
Through lectures, demonstrations and audiovisuals, students are introduced to disease processes, their manifestations, and laboratory studies used for diagnoses and prognoses. Open to students wishing to explore the field of clinical laboratory sciences.
Students will examine ethical issues in biomedical research using a case-study approach. Representative issues addressed may include data selection and retention, plagiarism, scientific review of grants and manuscripts, scientific misconduct, and informed consent.
The study of basic principles of fixation, processing, infiltration, and embedding techniques and their application for human and animal tissues. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours per week.
Kinetics and equilibria of photochemical and "dark" atmospheric reactions. Atmospheric statics and dynamics including lapse rates, inversions, and vertical and horizontal air motion. Single and area source diffusion. Stack meterology.
Theory and practice as related to the chemical and physical processing of polymer systems. Polymer rheology, heat transfer in polymer flows, polymer engineering properties. Polymer processing operations and materials selection; flow instabilities.
A lecture course exploring the fundamental chemical and physical aspects of a range of characterization methods as applied to polymeric systems; the primary objective will be the development of a broad understanding of the various tools available for polymer characterization both on the molecular level and as bulk materials.
The course is concerned with the structure, chemistry, processing, utilization, environmental aspects, and conversion of hydrocarbon resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, oil shale, and heavy oil. The laboratory component, which is taught off-campus at the Center for Applied Energy Research, covers characterization methods for fossil fuels.
An introductory course in the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, including: phenomenological equations relating flows and forces, Onsager's law, and entropy production in continuous processes.
