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Mental health is a major concern among young people of high school and college age. They experience anxiety and depression at rates higher than ever seen. They need to learn about the nature of these experiences and how they can cope better with the factors that produce them.

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the theories regarding the mechanisms of development of abnormality, with the specific forms that behavioral disorders can take and with the variety of methods that have been developed to combat psychological problems and to return people to the state of well-being. Further, students at all levels find abnormal psychology inherently interesting and informative. Not only do they better understand people, but their new knowledge helps them with understanding art, fiction, films and other places where psychopathology is often depicted.

Topics include: advanced integration, Taylor series; and multivariable differentiation, optimization and integration; and applications to statistics and science.

This course is a short treatment of MATH 112 and 211 with a lab component. It is not appropriate for students who have taken MATH 211.

Readings in the medieval and subsequent Arthurian tradition.

This is an online course. How do bees learn? Does your dog love you? Why does Nemo have a dad? In this class, we’ll use biology concepts to explore how and why animals do the things they do. Students will study the principles of natural selection and adaptation and use these ideas to analyze contemporary research on animal behavior.

Students will observe animals in Lullwater Nature Preserve and Zoo Atlanta, as they find food, woo mates, and build places to live. Using these observations, they will develop their ability to design experiments that investigate key concepts in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Multicellular life evolved in a bacterial world, so it is not surprising that humans and other animals live in close association with bacteria. In this class, we will explore different types of human and insect relationships with bacteria, with an emphasis on mutually beneficial relationships, and learn about the amazing biology of these partnerships, highlighting genomic, evolutionary, and functional studies. We will also learn about what different systems can teach us about microbiome biology and function in general, and discuss potential applications in health, agriculture, and the environment.

At the end of this course, students will:

1. Know the different types of animal/bacteria relationships.
2. Be able to describe different types of mutually beneficial animal/bacterial relationships and give examples.
3. Understand how evolutionary, genomic, and functional studies can advance knowledge on mutually beneficial animal/bacterial relationships, and how these studies can teach us about general patterns of the biology and function of animal/bacterial partnerships.
4. Be able to talk about potential applications of studies on animal/bacterial relationship in health, agriculture, and the environment.

This course introduces the development of Chinese language from proto Sino-Tibetan roots to modern standard Chinese, and presents the chronological changes in syntax and phonology. We will discuss key historical stages in Chinese developments, and analyze it from the view of linguistics aspects.

This is an online course. This two-week course is designed to give students a foundational knowledge of clinical trials through their components, design, and execution. Throughout this course we will review key topics including the elements the strong clinical research proposal, ethical considerations needed while designing and conducting a clinical study, as well as how to interpret clinical data from both popular media outlets and government and private institutional constructs.

This course aims to increase student interest in clinical research careers and their capacity to critically evaluate clinical studies. The format of this course will favor open discussion, active learning, and student-led activities as they have been shown to produce favorable outcomes when compared to traditional lecturing.

Through completion of this course students should obtain the skills and knowledge needed to:

• Understand the design and preparation of clinical trials and comprehend study type, statistical measures, efficacy, ethical adherence and more
• Identify primary research articles from their secondary media reports and feel comfortable speaking about these studies in both lay and scientific formats
• Understand ethical considerations surrounding clinical research and how they have been navigated in the past and present.
• Critically interpret and analyze clinical trials for their design, efficacy, and outcomes
• Familiarize themselves with regulatory bodies involved in governing clinical research
• Gain exposure to various careers in clinical research and understand the importance of translation science to the entirety of the medical field.

This course considers core concepts at the intersection of constitutional law and society, including topics like freedom of speech and Big Tech, search and seizure, and the right to privacy. We will approach this study using ideas and techniques in the study of American constitutional law. Critically, students will also be asked to consider how the law both reflects and impacts society. Students will reflect on new (and future) conflicts over civil liberties that arise following changes in culture, growth in science, and advances in technology.

By the end of this course, students will have learned to

1. Understand general problems of American civil liberties and civil rights
2. Identify these central problems in various real world examples in the United States
3. Define core concepts/models of constitutional law
4. Evaluate and analyze explanations of law as historically and socially constructed

In Culture and Social Movements, students will study the critical role that arts and culture has played in past and current social movements, including the Civil Rights Movement, the movement to end poverty, and modern day struggles surrounding racial justice. Utilizing a wide array of books, videos, artwork, and articles, students will grasp the breadth of cultural work across several mediums. In a final presentation, students will connect past movements and their cultural work to present day struggles.

This course is open to students who have had some French (FREN 101 or two years in high school).

It is designed to help students build proficiency in French reading, writing, speaking and listening in the context of cultural exploration.

Introduces students to the growing field of development studies and provides a solid foundation for subsequent course work in the Minor. Key topics include human rights, gender, environment, poverty and inequality, democratic reforms and governance, market reforms, rural development, and conflict.

Course Description: What are the most challenging health issues facing the world today? This course will allow students to explore global health topics including comparative health systems, foreign aid, maternal health, AIDS, vector-borne and parasitic diseases, communicable diseases, mental health, and refugee health.

Through experiential exercises and case studies, students will gain a more nuanced understanding of critical public health issues across the globe. As future medical practitioners, researchers, academics, and policy makers, students will understand the influence they could have as global change makers.

An examination of American religious history and culture from the colonial period to the present.

The history of religions in the United States provides a diverse landscape to study. Immigration, missions, nation-building, music, urbanization, oppression, gender politics, civil religion, solitary seekers, social experimentation, and consumer culture -- it's all there, and more. Religious lives and practices reflect a broad array of circumstances, communities, and commodities. Materials and discussions in this course will cover both so-called religious traditions in the American context (Hinduism, Judaism, Native American, and so on), and less recognized but just as vital religious cultures alive and thriving in the American context. This online course will also address conflicting definitions of religion at work in American history, and question lines of authority and power in making distinctions between real religion and false religion.

Sociology in general and this course specifically is about the study of human social behavior. This course will help you become knowledgeable and thoughtful about human society and social behavior, of which we are all part. This course provides a grounding in the sociological approach, and what sociologists have come to know about the social world. Throughout the course, you will come to grasp ways that our lives are structured.

The course will include multiple discussions, engaging readings, and relevant videos. The primary outcome of this course will be to prepare a group presentation from course materials and experiences in which you will assemble information and argue about the role of one of the following in society: gender, race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, social class, sexual identity, and age.

An intensive introduction to the fundamentals of classical Latin, equivalent to both Latin 101 and 102.

This course is an introduction to the concepts and methods related to the study of environmental sciences. Students will be introduced to relevant theories from physical, ecological and social sciences. This course is intended for majors and minors in Environmental Sciences.

Concepts of computational decision-making have a wide range of applications in today’s world ranging from self-service checkouts to advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning involving humanoids as companion robots that can detect various needs of users such as loneliness and/or social isolation and initiate a conversation to address that need.

This course is an introduction to fundamental concepts of computational decision making. The emphasis would be on developing familiarity with the notations, underlying theory, fundamental concepts, and practices while discussing several examples of such decision-making in the real-world.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Develop an understanding of the term “Computational Decision-Making” and identify how concepts of the same are applied in real-world problems in different domains;
2. Understand the foundations of knowledge-based systems and how to represent the same for decision-making;
3. Understand propositional logic, digital logic circuits, and real-world applications of the same;
4. Develop a familiarity with the concept of algorithms and understand the working of specific algorithms in different real-world applications such as data compression and encryption/decryption for the secure transmission of messages and data over a network.

Branding and Marketing are crucial functions in all industries, businesses, and organizations, as well as for professionals in the workforce. Global brands like Apple, BMW, Coca-Cola, Google, Starbucks, etc. drive sustaining value for organizations and shareholders, and marketing of these brands is becoming increasingly crucial to successfully compete in today's world. In addition, we all have a personal brand that can define how we are perceived by others. Understanding and marketing your personal brand well is critical for professional success, regardless of your future career goals. This course will examine why brands are important, the essential strategies for successfully marketing brands in today's digital economy, and how to manage and market your personal brand.

In this highly interactive course, students will learn about all aspects of branding and marketing from Brad Taylor, a 23-year Sales and Marketing veteran of the Coca-Cola Company.

Specific areas covered will include what a brand is and why it matters, how a brand creates sustainable value, how to develop effective brand positioning statements, essential marketing strategies and tactics to effectively connect all the consumer touch points with a brand, and how to build and manage your personal brand for professional success.

During this course, all students will engage in

1. A small team project where each team will conjure up a new brand (real or realistic) and develop a brand positioning statement for that brand, and
2. An individual project where each student will create a brand positioning statement, LinkedIn profile, and "elevator speech" for their personal brand.

Political systems of major nations in comparative perspective.

This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of modern political systems. It outlines the major concepts and methods of comparative political analysis and applies them to a selection of democratic, authoritarian and hybrid regimes. In each case we will examine the key institutions and patterns of political behavior, as well as the historical and social contexts of present-day politics.

Through a series of practical assignments, students will explore the research and conceptual interests of graphic design. Through these projects, students will learn and employ methodologies of visual communication through creating various graphic design projects in 2-dimensional, digital formats.

In this hands-on course, students will create digital designs and drawings, both for graphic design and for visual art purposes. Through these projects, students will gain fluency in using the Adobe Creative Suite software, specifically Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Research and conceptual interests of design will also be explored, splitting the focus of the semester equally onto both the theory and the creation of digital art and design.

Course notes:
A student subscription to Adobe CC will be necessary for this course and can be purchased at a rate of $19.99/mo (with a year contract, though you can cancel the year early for a partial refund). How to sign up for this subscription will be discussed at the beginning of class and does not need to be purchased prior to the semester start. No other fees or textbooks will be required for this class.

Study of correct reasoning, including the recognition, analysis, and criticism of arguments; relevant topics include informal fallacies, syllogistic reasoning, and systems of deduction.

Logic is the study of argumentation and correct reasoning. Logicians ask questions like: What makes for a good or bad argument? Can we codify the rules of legitimate argumentation? What are common traps and tropes of reasoning? While these questions may seem abstract and academic, this class will focus around being reflective about how we tend to reason in our everyday lives and how we can start to reason better. Beginning from elementary investigations into the basics of argumentation, we will construct a foundation for understanding the intricacies of formal logic. While understanding such material will not enable you to win every argument, it will allow you to make your commitments and your reasoning clear.

An exploration of diverse ways of being religious (for example, in thought, action, community, and experience) as they are displayed in several traditions and cultures.

This Introduction to Religion is centered on religious violence and conflict, ranging from more or less civil disagreements to ever-worse behavior, including religious violence. We question the concept of "religious violence," as well as problematic terms such as "cult," "terrorism" and "holy war." Is religion to blame for violence? Might we say, if a religion is violent, perhaps it is not true religion? If people who kill others think what they were doing is "religious" (or "sacred")-what do we do with this claim? We will also look at polemics and inter-religious disagreement (mainly Buddhist/Christian debates), and at the relation of attacks on people and attacks on symbolic objects. We will look at examples from Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.

The study of religion is essential in today's world because we humans as a species seem to be so bad at disagreeing. On the one hand, we are called to make a judgement of our own. On the other hand, we can hardly understand the phenomena of religious violence if we simply condemn it as "evil"-we have to understand what we don't agree with. We have to allow ourselves to follow the train of thought, even while we consider it to be wrong. When "disagreement" involves mass murder, our capacity to understand is stretched to breaking point.

Assessment will include comments on readings, a paper, a take-home final reflection, attendance and participation.

A course designed to provide a firm grounding in the rudiments of sculptural practice. Students are exposed to an overview of processes, tools, and materials used in sculpture.

A course designed to provide a firm grounding in the rudiments of sculptural practice. Drawing on historical and contemporary modes of art making this course investigates aesthetic and technical strategies of generating and understanding sculpture. Students are guided toward the realization of three-dimensional form with an emphasis on developing formal language, acquiring basic skills of spatial, conceptual, and technical issues. Students are instructed in the safe use of power and hand tools.

This short course will provide a hands-on exploration of modern astrophysics. After being introduced to key topics from the formation of planetary systems to the accelerated expansion of the universe, students will work with comprehensive databases, telescopic observations, and computer models, to investigate contemporary scientific questions. Class meetings and activities will focus on employing the scientific method, the interpretation of data, the use of evidence-based reasoning, as well as serve as an introduction to a wealth of technical skills that prepare students for success in any field.

In addition to learning about astronomy, students will be able to:

• become more comfortable in their ability to process and analyze data;
• make evidence-based arguments and apply mathematical reasoning;
• pick up a new skill that will serve them in future studies, whether that is managing data better in excel with macros, applying statistical analyses, using python, or doing quick order of magnitude style calculations to help in their assessment of a solution to a problem.

A patient comes into the clinic with a high fever, shaking chills, heavy sweating, nausea/vomiting, and massive headache. She is looking to you for answers. To give her answers, you must first start asking questions. In this course, we will discuss microbiology from a medical point of view, using case studies as our guide. Topics covered will include a general introduction to microbiology, methods for identifying microbial species, the diversity of microbial species, and microbes that cause infection in the different organ systems. This will be followed by completing a class case study involving diagnosis of bacteria, viral, fungal, or parasitic infection.

Focusing on sequential thinking, iteration, functional composition, data types and variables, conditional statements, and recursion, this course will equip students with the fundamentals of computational thinking and computer programming. Students will practice representing a problem and its solution in a way that can be understood and executed by an automated agent. Students will achieve these goals by working on practical computer programming exercises in the Python programming language using its Turtle Graphics library.

Turtle Graphics is a computational tool that allows programmers to move a visual device named "turtle" on a computer screen using code. As the turtle moves it draws figures on the screen. Programming a turtle makes it possible to visualize computational concepts and algorithms that are normally abstract and invisible.

All living things, from the smallest single celled organism to human beings, are made up of proteins that are synthesized by a piece of cellular machinery called the ribosome. Proteins allow for life, but in some cases, erroneous proteins can cause diseases, emphasizing the importance of regulating proteins present in living organisms.

In this course we will discuss protein expression and structure, human diseases caused by protein misfolding and aggregation, and recombinant protein expression that can treat health problems, such as diabetes.

An exploration of literary works (fiction, poetry, drama, essays) that have had or have a popular readership, and an examination of the factors governing popular taste and literary production.

In this course, we will study Rowling's Harry Potter series, both in terms of its literary value and because the novels are excellent examples of the ways in which texts in our society are read, reread, interpreted, and used. We will discuss the texts in terms of their rhetorical arguments, their historical context, the literary and philosophical tropes they employ, and readers' responses to them. These texts tell us a great deal about our society and our selves; that's what we are here to investigate.

This class introduces students to the methods that archaeologists and historians use to study the ancient world by looking at the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, the two cities have provided an invaluable window into daily life in the early Roman Empire.

Students will look at everything from graffiti to fine artwork, homes within and outside the city walls, and the ways in archaeological and textual evidence can be used together.

This is an online course. The purpose of this course is to give students an overview of how scholars and theorists conceptualize social movement cooptation. From green-washing, to exploitative companies claiming a “social justice” orientation, to elite media institutions using the discursive and tactical repertoires of social movements, these sets of practices have raised interesting questions about the nature of political desire, the politics of representation, and the ways that elites manage to eke out substantial personal and institutional advantages by the selective use of anti-elite and social justice discourses.

By the end of this course students will:

• understand some of the sociological debates about how to define social movements, activism, and co-optation
• be able to identify the processes of bureaucratization and the ways that elite institutions can bend social justice discourses to their own ends
• gain a better understanding about contemporary debates about the nature of movements, the politics of representation, and the limitations of bureaucratic organization

This course will provide an overview of social psychology: the study of how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others. Topics to be covered include persuasion, social influence, stereotyping and prejudice, relationships, aggression, and prosocial behavior. In addition to building conceptual understanding, we will discuss real-world applications and implications of social psychological phenomena for daily life.

Students will gain an understanding of the strong (but usually unrecognized) social forces that influence our perceptions, judgments, and actions.

Taught by Emory Law School faculty, this course introduces students to the study of law in the United States. Students will study core areas of law, read, and analyze important judicial opinions, and debate some of the thorny questions our legal system presents.

In addition, they will participate in simulated exercises to discover what it really is like to practice law, exploring the lawyer’s role as a proactive, problem-solving advocate. The course concludes with students delivering a formal oral argument.