Invertebrates are an incredibly diverse group of organisms that live in nearly all ecosystems across the earth. As ectotherms, invertebrates must develop plastic responses to environmental variation in order to survive. In this course, we will explore these plastic responses in marine invertebrates at all levels of organization -- from cellular to ecosystem scales -- through hands-on activities, projects, and synthesis of primary literature.

In this moment of climate emergency, how and why do we make meaning? What possibilities do various media production practices offer us for engaging with, and orienting ourselves in relationship to, what is absolutely overwhelming? If we are telling stories in the face of a radically uncertain future, who is our audience? In collaboration with students in the linked ENGL-219CH creative writing course, we will work across media to find stories, and find ways of telling stories, that help us relate to this moment, and, crucially, to each other.

Intended for advanced Film Media Theater students, this course will explore scripted television series production through an immersive hands-on process. We will work as a class to write and produce an original limited scripted television series, modeling the industry by creating our own "writers' room" and shooting/editing four short episodes.

How do the stories we tell about the past shape our connection to one another and our ability to imagine emancipatory futures? This course will consider how people in -- and in relation to -- the United States have envisioned more just and inclusive communities, launched democratic initiatives, and reached for solidarity in the context of ongoing histories of harm. We will explore ways to mobilize such visions and struggles even as we work to reveal the histories of injustice obscured by celebratory nationalist narratives.

With a historical and transnational approach, this course will explore bi/multicultural identities and communities in the Spanish-speaking world, primarily of the 20th and 21st centuries. Mestizos, Cuban-Americans, Chinese-Argentinians, Afro-Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Moroccans and West Africans in Spanish cities... Is Catalonia Spain?

Since the 1950s, the pharmaceutical industry, one of the world's largest economic sectors and a core constituent of globalized corporate power today, has built a transnational empire that affects not only health and food chains, science, politics, stock markets, and the private/public distinction, but has completely changed what it means to be human or animal. We will study several key examples of these transformations, and how pharma produces knowledge on the backs of impoverished humans and animals as trial subjects.

This intensive seminar provides a crash course in research and writing tools, critical methods, and career options for art history majors. Students will design their own research projects, conceptualize exhibitions, give oral presentations, and hear from a variety of art world professionals. They will refine their research, writing, and speaking abilities, while learning to interpret art through lenses ranging from formalism to Postcolonialism. They will draft applications for internships, jobs, and graduate programs.

This seminar investigates the multiple connections between modern forms of Christianity and fossil fuels. The course begins with a consideration of recent scholarship that details how workers' everyday experiences in coal mines and oil fields profoundly shaped their religious sensibilities. We then examine how fossil fuel companies funded many of the most significant Christian institutions in the United States-both liberal and conservative -- during the twentieth century.

This seminar investigates the multiple connections between modern forms of Christianity and fossil fuels. The course begins with a consideration of recent scholarship that details how workers' everyday experiences in coal mines and oil fields profoundly shaped their religious sensibilities. We then examine how fossil fuel companies funded many of the most significant Christian institutions in the United States-both liberal and conservative -- during the twentieth century.

This course surveys the evolution of Italian literary culture from its origins to modern times. Short readings, class discussions, written work, and movie screenings are aimed at developing skills in oral expression and expository writing in Italian.