• ARCY 4999

    Undergraduate Thesis Writing
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    Spring 2025

    Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by archaeology majors who have been accepted into the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Distinguished Majors Program.Prerequisite: acceptence into DMP program

  • EURS 5000

    Perspectives on Europe and the World
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    Fall 2025

    This course introduces students to a variety of disciplinary approaches to the study of Europe (history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and culture). Stress will be laid on how combining perspectives from different fields of study can help deepen understanding of specific problems of European life. Emphasis on student interpretation of readings and analysis of central issues in Europe's development across time.

  • DS 5001

    Text as Data
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    3.77

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    Summer 2025

    Covers foundations and applications of NLP with a focus on the most popular form of unstructured data ¿ text. Convert source texts into structure-preserving analytical form and then apply information theory, NLP tools, and vector-based methods to explore language models, topic models, sentiment analyses, and GenAI techniques. Focus is on unsupervised methods to explore cognitive patterns in texts, with real-world examples and demonstrations.

  • DS 5002

    How to Train your LLM: Engineering LLMs for Custom Tasks
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    Spring 2025

    Train your own LLM for a custom task. Learn about the LLM lifecycle from architecture, to pre-training, to supervised finetuning, to deployment, to model editing/updating, including discussing LLM limitations. End up with your own trained LLM, a HuggingFace model card you can show off in technical interviews, and a plan for how to stay up to date with this fast-moving field.

  • DS 5003

    Healthcare Data Science
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    Summer 2025

    Provides healthcare domain knowledge, healthcare data understanding, and data science methodologies to solve problems. Understand data types, models, and sources, including electronic health record data; health outcomes, quality, risk, and safety data; and unstructured data, such as clinical text data; biomedical sensor data; and biomedical image data. Querying with SQL, data visualization with Tableau, and analysis and prediction with Python.

  • DS 5012

    Computation for Data Science
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    Fall 2025

    Provides a foundation in discrete mathematics, data structures, algorithmic design and implementation, computational complexity, parallel computing, and data integrity and consistency. Case studies and exercises will be drawn from real-world examples (e.g., bioinformatics, public health, marketing, and security).

  • DS 5030

    Understanding Uncertainty
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    Fall 2025

    Provides an in-depth exploration of probabilistic and statistical methods used to understand, quantify, and manage uncertainty. Learn foundational concepts in probability and statistics, simulation techniques, and modern approaches to parameter estimation, decision theory, and hypothesis testing. Topics include parametric and nonparametric methods, Bayesian and frequentist paradigms, and applications of uncertainty in real-world problems. 

  • DS 5050

    Deep Learning in Environmental Science
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    Spring 2025

    Equips students with some of the most used deep learning architectures. Explore feed-forward networks, convolutional neural networks, UNETs, encoders-decoders, generative adversarial networks and transformers. Analyze tools of explainable AI. Focused on climate applications, apply these techniques to real-world data, solving problems in prediction, pattern recognition, and data-driven insights.

  • PSHM 5080

    Legal and Ethical Decision-Making in Healthcare
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    Spring 2025

    Focuses on principles & theories of law related to healthcare delivery, management & administration. Examines the application of laws on healthcare liability prevention & the risks managers face. Explores legal & ethical issues in healthcare systems; and investigates the healthcare administrator as decision-maker, leader and moral agent. Evaluates situations with potential ethical/legal implications.

  • DS 5100

    Programming for Data Science
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    3.67

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    Spring 2025

    An introduction to essential programming concepts, structures, and techniques. Students will gain confidence in not only reading code, but learning what it means to write good quality code. Additionally, essential and complementary topics are taught, such as testing and debugging, exception handling, and an introduction to visualization. This course is project based, consisting of a semester project and final project presentations.