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3.00 Credits
This course compares and applies current applications of computer vision, natural language processing, and data analytics.
Prerequisite:
AIML 1010
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3.00 Credits
Deep learning mimics the human brain enabling systems to make predictions with incredible accuracy. Deep learning technology is essential to everyday products and services such as digital assistants, voice-enabled TV remotes, and credit card fraud detection as well as emerging technologies such as self-driving cars. Students In this course identify the main deep learning algorithms and applications.
Prerequisite:
AIML 2010
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3.00 Credits
Natural language processing machines understand and respond to text or voice with text or speech of their own. Natural language processing is used in voice-operated products and customer service chatbots along with a growing list of new products. Students in the course identify the main natural language processing algorithms and applications.
Prerequisite:
AIML 2010
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3.00 Credits
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of U.S. history, society, thought, and imagination with special focus on the Rio Grande Valley as a microcosm of the nation. This course will examine the social construction of identity and difference, the culture of everyday life, and local and global perspectives of the United States, historically, in our present moment, and with a look toward the future. This course will introduce students to prevalent theories and methods within the discipline including, but not limited to critical race, feminist, and post-colonial theory.
Prerequisite:
Reading & Writing Skills 1
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3.00 Credits
This course considers a range of theoretical approaches to the study of popular culture, including cultural studies and feminist theory as well as key concepts and key debates in the study of popular culture. It explores the ways popular culture is implicated in the formation of social determinants such as ethnicity, race, gender, class, and sexuality and conversely, how these social determinants are implicated in the formation of popular culture. The course also considers the ways in which popular culture serves as a site of ongoing political struggle. The aim of the course is to provide students with a critical vocabulary to make sense of broader significance and relevance of popular culture--why popular culture matters. To accomplish this, we will investigate a number of popular expressive forms including magazines, fandom, digital music, and hip hop.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the field of American Studies through an interdisciplinary examination of race, class and ethnicity in the United States and in a global context. Using a schedule of keywords, we will engage a range of central themes and concerns. We will examine histories of injustice, and resistance to injustice. Readings and assignments encourage students to notice the privilege and oppression at the core of U.S. society. The class will challenge the widely accepted assumption that we as a nation have moved beyond race and racism. Through readings, films, online sources, and our assignments, this course aims to increase our knowledge of inequity in our society, and the impact of those inequities on various societies and individuals.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the complex histories, social issues, and cultural experiences of peoples of the southwestern United States. Course materials and discussions also demonstrate the possibilities of interdisciplinary study of regional American culture. It is multicultural in content and multidisciplinary in methodology. We will examine cross-cultural relationships among the peoples of the Southwest within the framework of their expressions and experiences in art, culture, religion; social and political economy.
Prerequisite:
Reading & Writing Skills 1
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how theoretical concepts of environment, science, and technology are bound up with everyday practices and broader understandings of nature and society (i.e, bodies, natural resources, race, gender, and sexuality). This course is interdisciplinary in its approach.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to cultural studies and the alternative interpretations of American history and culture. Particular attention will be paid to indigenous history, country music, tattoos, and American mobilization for war. Course materials and lectures will frequently utilize cultural traditions to explore key concepts and issues. Additionally, this course will require students to assume an analytical and critical perspective on academic interpretive models. We will read texts that exemplify critical Marxist, feminist, and reflexive anthropological approaches.
Prerequisite:
Students must have successfully completed 6 hours of AMST prior to AMST 2110
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course requires students to work 45, 90, or 135 hours, depending on the internship placement. The internship will serve as an applied learning experience by observing, analyzing and participating in a related workplace.
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