Tuesday-Thursday 3:30 - 5:10

This class will teach you about seemingly complicated financial topics in a very comprehensible manner that will help you make informed financial decisions to ensure a secure financial future. We begin with identification of common financial problems among the "young, fabulous and broke" and how to avoid them. After thinking about life and financial priorities, we address why thinking about retirement now must be at the top of your list. We examine how to compute your retirement needs and how to get there, primarily with a focus on investing in common stock. You will learn how to think smart about big ticket purchases such as cars, housing, and graduate/professional education. Finally we will make sure you understand how to create a safety net to protect your future.

Monday/Wednesday 4:00-5:20

This course provides an exploration of the world around us using an integrated and conceptual approach that includes the major themes: life science, physical science and environmental sciences. Topics of matter and motion, electricity and magnetism, sound and light, astronomy and earth science will be integrated to understand natural phenomena. In addition, students in the course will investigate the role of science through reading "Science in the News" and other current science-focused publications. 

Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:50pm

Can we replace our "worn-out" body parts with space-age materials? Will the day come when an injured athlete buys a tendon for the next big game? If so, who will have access, and when do we cease to be human? Become familiar with the extraordinary advances happening in bioengineering, including regenerative medicine, gene therapy, and mRNA vaccines, with the potential to cure diseases and create designer babies. Discuss science and pseudoscience: Goop, gurus, and the FDA, all the while getting a birds' eye view of the US and global health care systems. By the time you finish this course, you'll know how a pig heart could save your life, how stem cell research could affect your future, the purpose of animal testing, and whether we're going to have Iron Man suits any time soon.

Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:50pm

This course provides an overview of a broad range of ways of understanding "criminal justice" - as an academic discipline, a philosophical construct, and, most especially, a system and process defining a large-scale enterprise characterized by a complex and fascinating array of public and private agencies, laws, rules, theories, policies, practices, technologies, problems and controversies. Emphasis is placed upon a critical understanding of the key foundations [e.g., constitutions, statutes, case law, administrative rules], components [e.g., law enforcement, courts, corrections], processes [e.g., legislation, arrest, prosecution, conviction, sentencing, correctional intervention], and goals [e.g., due process, crime prevention and control, retribution, reparation] of the criminal justice system and, to a far lesser degree, related social control mechanisms such as mental health, juvenile, and civil justice systems.

Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:50

This course provides a basic introduction to data science, science, medicine, economics, and business. We evaluate surveys, test performance, analyze large data sets, and more. This course will help students understand how data is generated, collected, and used. Both inferential and computational thinking will be applied to practical problems and common problems faced by all in the sciences. Students will learn basic computer programming and statistical inference by working hands-on with real-world problems. Data projects will be selected from the basic sciences, including biology, ecology, environmental science, genomics, chemistry, and physics. The applications will focus on experimental design, basic simulation, and data analysis.

Tuesday/Thursday 3:30 – 4:50

Have you ever wondered why musical compositions from different parts of the world sound so dissimilar? Discover how an artist's creative imagination is molded by the cultural values of the society at large. Listen to guest musicians demonstrate different styles of playing and attend a live concert. Examine folk, art and popular music from around the world and discuss the wonderful sounds that are produced.

Monday/Wednesday: 4:00-5:20

Being creative is about solving problems or approaching opportunities in novel and valuable ways. This course is designed to help ALL students better harness their full creative potential – whether you think: “I am not creative” or “I already have more ideas than I can handle”, this class will help you come up with more creative ideas that offer more value and have greater impact on the world. Although creativity has been studied by nearly every professional domain, this course focuses on creativity as a driver of organizational innovation – from non-profits to small businesses and large corporations to students’ own entrepreneurial startups, creativity and innovation are critical to providing value and ensuring long-term survival. Throughout this course students will develop important life skills while learning to creatively solve problems through a number of real-world innovation challenges. No matter what career or profession you are going into, being more creative and appreciating how and why modern organizations function the way that they do will help you to be more valuable, more employable, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial.

Monday/Wednesday 4:00-5:20

Explore the complexity and diversity of American society through the study of sport and leisure. To what extent does the way we play or spectate sports, the way we plan or experience leisure time, reflect American values? As we trace a brief history of the United States through the lens of sport and leisure, we will observe how concepts of freedom, democracy and equality are tested through time. Issues of race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and socio-economic class will be prominent, as we observe American ideals both upheld and contradicted in the context of the way Americans recreate.

Monday/Wednesday 4:00-5:20

Movies, cinematic arts, episodic narrative, and media arts have played a central role in how we understand diverse racial and ethnic identities. The course will study Hollywood as well as more recent streaming studios such as Amazon and Netflix as they engage in evolving portrayals of African American, Indigenous, Asian American, South American and Mexican descent, Italian American identities and more. From early cinema to the present the course will ask critical questions such as: How are stereotypes built upon century-old cinematic and moving image traditions and how are they functioning still today? What cinematic representations of "self" have creators from marginalized racial and ethnic groups developed as a source of engagement and resistance to mainstream commercial views? How do diverse racial and ethnic cinematic representations intersect with gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, disability, and age? The course will trace the impact of racism throughout the history of cinematic arts as well as provide opportunities for group discussion to share personal experiences with diversity through viewing, researching, and critiquing cinematic and media arts.