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Your child’s art class involves a lot more than just the Crayola marker scribble-scrabble that will end up hanging on your refrigerator. “Good arts education is not about the product,” says Jamie ...

The Visual Communication Design department's undergraduate curriculum is structured to encourage the development of both generalized and specialized activities, as well as hybrids of both. Students ...

This course provides an overview of a range of resources and practical bioinformatic tools that are used in molecular biology. Scientists actively developing and applying bioinformatic tools in their ...

Please refer to The University's Office of Undergraduate Studies for additional course-related university polices: http://www.ugst.umd.edu/courserelatedpolicies.html ...

The course describes basic electrical and magnetic phenomena, as well as laws for electrical circuits, both at direct current and alternating current. The course gives a thorough introduction to ...