Advance your success as a college student! Through weekly workshops, presentations and assignments you will develop study and writing skills, understand own values system and connect with campus mentors.

Students will examine the military heritage of the United States from the colonial period to the early twenty first century. Emphasis is placed on using common themes that relate to the American experience in war to determine how periods of peace and war challenged the nation and influenced the development of its military policy. The American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, U.S.

This seminar is organized around the question of how Blackness figures into (or should figure into) our study of race in the United States in what Saidiya Hartman calls the afterlife of slavery. We will begin with a historical formulation of that question, and move on to interventions in and re-theorizations of it, particularly in the context of the institutionalization of multiculturalism in the latter twentieth century and contemporary scholarships that make connections between Black studies and questions of Indigeneity and Asianness. Readings may include key texts by W. E. B.