| Faculty | Course | Department | Course Description |
| Renata Leitao | DEA 4800: Ethical Design: Engine of Positive Change | Human Ecology | Design has the power to change how we view and interact with the world which can cause positive or negative impacts. Modern society faces various issues which are all closely related to the ethical aspects of design: humanitarian crises, labor exploitation, injustice in the workplace, loss of diversity, overconsumption, pollution, lack of transparency and pseudo-solutions to name a few. This course will discuss various ethical issues in design that impact individuals, community/society, economies, cultures, social dynamics, and the environment. |
| Tashara Leak | NS 2061: Site-Specific Preparation for Engaged Learning in Global and Public Health Sciences | Human Ecology | This course provides pre-engagement preparation tailored to the research project or site where students will complete the experiential learning required for the GPHS major. Students will meet with the faculty member in charge, at a time and place to be arranged. |
| Jaleesa Reed | FSAD 3330: Retail Buying and Merchandising | Human Ecology | This course builds on the knowledge around product development, consumer research, and pricing from FSAD2310: Fashion Product Management by focusing on the fashion product cycle at the buying, planning, and merchandising stages. Students will learn the steps of the buying process, how to interpret retail and consumer data to make buying decisions, and how to create buying, assortment, and merchandising plans for a season. |
| Nathan Matias | COMM 4940: Governing Human-Algorithm Behavior | CALS | Algorithms that monitor and influence human behavior are everywhere—directing the behavior of law enforcement, managing the world’s financial systems, shaping our cultures, and flipping a coin on the success or failure of movements for change.In this course for (15) upper-level undergraduates and (5) PhD students, you will learn about the design of adaptive algorithms and the feedback patterns they create with human behavior. You will learn about the challenge they represent for social policy, about ways to research their behavior, and about emerging policy ideas for governing these complex patterns. |
| Roger Figueroa
Bautista |
NS 2061: Site-Specific Preparation for Engaged Learning in Global and Public Health Sciences | Human Ecology | This course provides pre-engagement preparation tailored to the research project or site where students will complete the experiential learning required for the GPHS major. Students will meet with the faculty member in charge, at a time and place to be arranged. |
| Marlen Gonzalez | HD 4630: Introduction to Functional MRI Analysis for Human Neuroimaging | Human Ecology | Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a method of observing relationships between in-vivo neural activity and behavior. This method is a truly interdisciplinary feat combining engineering, physics, and biology, but is at times reduced in popular media as “pretty brain pictures.” In this course, students will learn the promises and limitations of fMRI methods and becomes educated consumers and skeptics of both popular and scientific literature. In addition, students will be able to see a demonstration of hands-on data analysis. The final project will be an oral presentation and a written study proposal to include a literature review, the design of an fMRI paradigm, and an analysis plan |
| Misha Inniss-Thompson | HD 4560/PSYCH4560: Black Girlhood Studies: Rememory, Representation, and Re-Imagination | Human Ecology | How has history shaped our notion of Black girlhood? What is our collective understanding of Black girlhood? How do we see and understand Black girls? In this seminar course, we will use a mixture of lectures and facilitated discussions to provide an overview of Black girlhood as it relates to historical and current-day social, political, and cultural constructions of Black girlhood in the United States. We will also interrogate how Black girls deconstruct and interrupt these social constructions by engaging in scholarly works, popular press articles, poetry, music, film, and novels. Throughout the course, we will make space to imagine a world where Black girls’ ways of knowing, being, and experiencing the world are honored within and beyond a psychological perspective. |
The add/drop period ends on February 5th, 2024.
