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The course explores the basic concepts of global health, trends and indicators, determinants, and interventions to improve health. The world has moved from the era of International Health to Global Health with the understanding that the matters regarding health is inseparable in accordance to the national boundaries. Global Health refers to the idea of approaching health issues together as a global citizen and this brings efforts from various actors including state governments, international organizations, private foundations and non-governmental organizations to more. Recently, more non-health related actors are increasingly getting involved with the issues of global health with the rise of new infectious disease in addition to accelerating burden of non-communicable diseases. Today, the issues of Health is reaching major areas that used to be dealt in the realms that were considered irrelevant to health including economy, politics, and international relations. 

This course presents a practical approach (based on Excel examples) to understand the principles of management science and to apply them to business decision problems. Developing models of practical decision-making problems and solving them using Excel Solver, one learns how important and useful the scientific decision making process based on management science is for solving problems in real-world business applications. Focusing on management science modeling skills, this course covers linear programming, simplex method, sensitivity analysis, transportation models, integer programming, and others (if time permitted). Students learn the fundamental knowledge and analytical skills in management science. Management science (also called Operations research) combines the three broad disciplines of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Business Applications. This course aims to develop the ideas of developing, analyzing, and validating mathematical models for decision problems, and their systematic solution. The course involves modeling and mathematical analysis. 

The course examines the fundamental principles and concepts of physics. Topics include Newtonian Mechanics, Wave Mechanics, and Thermodynamics. Professor combines lectures with interactive in-class exercises. This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence in Introductory Physics for science majors.

Phonetics deals with the sounds of the spoken languages of the world. This course addresses the following questions: In human speech, how are sounds produced and perceived? How can they best be described and represented? How can one assess them better or differently through using computers? The course also includes practice in the production of a variety of sounds from different types of languages. 

This course covers topics in phonetics, including but not limited to acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics and auditory phonetics. The course also introduces and analyzes segments and suprasegments of world languages with respect to theories of phonetics sciences. 

Course Prerequisite: Introduction to Linguistics I and II, or consent of the instructor.