First Year Perform: Piano
This is a full-year course. Prerequisite: MUS 100 or equivalent. Credits: 4, at the completion of two semesters. Department application required.
Race & Amer. Imagination
(Offered as BLST 117 [US] and SWAG 117) What role has “race” played in shaping the American imagination? How has its use as a metaphor in U.S. national life influenced our understandings of power, privilege, and justice? In what ways has popular culture influenced our understanding of race, and how do “creatives” today resist, reject, and reimagine racial and ethnic difference on social media? How do gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference intersect with race and ethnicity, and can these intersections give us a better understanding of American culture?
Race & Amer. Imagination
(Offered as BLST 117 [US] and SWAG 117) What role has “race” played in shaping the American imagination? How has its use as a metaphor in U.S. national life influenced our understandings of power, privilege, and justice? In what ways has popular culture influenced our understanding of race, and how do “creatives” today resist, reject, and reimagine racial and ethnic difference on social media? How do gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference intersect with race and ethnicity, and can these intersections give us a better understanding of American culture?
Advanced French II
From folktales and plays to comic books and news, this course invites students to engage with different uses and users of the French language across various media in order to examine how stories are told and why. In this course, students reflect on elements such as perspective and audience, contexts and motivations, as well as questions of relevance, adaptation, and endurance in the creation and transmission of particular narratives.
Transform your Transfer Exp
Transferring to UMass is a big step, whether you are coming from a community college, another 4-year state university, or a smaller liberal arts college. This class is set up to help transfer students connect with each other and with campus resources. Through a series of discussions, dialogues, workshops and field trips, students will build strong connections and find their home at UMass.
Wesley Abraham Berdugo
Primary Title:
Departmental Assistant
Institution:
UMASS Amherst
Department:
UMass Dining - Worcester Commons
Email Address:
wberdugo@umass.edu
Office Building:
Worcester Dining Commons
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great's conquests in the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia made him one of the most talked about figures in antiquity. Despite the availability of numerous primary sources, our ability to understand Alexander is made difficult because most of the primary sources were composed hundreds of years after his untimely death. Through weekly source comparisons, journals, and two short research papers, students will practices methods of historical research, and, in so doing, discover that Alexander was as protean in antiquity as he is today.
Introductory Neurobiology
Do you ever wonder how your brain is organized? How neurons communicate with one another, and function together, or what goes wrong in different neurological diseases. This course is an introductory survey into neurobiology, from molecular and cellular mechanisms to nervous system organization and animal behavior. We will delve into foundational knowledge about nervous system anatomy, physiology, connectivity, and function that can be built upon in future upper level courses.
Honors Thesis
Honors Thesis expectations are high. The intended end-product is a traditional research manuscript with accompanying artifact(s), all theses:
- are 6 credits or more of sustained research on a single topic, typically conducted over two semesters.
- begin with creative inquiry and systematic research.
- include documentation of substantive scholarly endeavor.
- culminate in an oral defense or other form of public presentation.
Women in the Bible
Offered as JUD 214 and REL 214. This course focuses on the characterization and lives of women in ancient Israel through close readings of the text. The course looks at depictions of various named and unnamed female biblical characters to illuminate the range of roles women occupied and the variety of ways the Bible viewed women. The course also explores women in biblical law, sex/gender in prophetic and wisdom literature, goddess worship in the ancient Near East and the female body as a source of metaphor.