Students will read major works, representing both "canonical" and emerging authors, from across the Caribbean. Lectures and discussions will address central themes in Caribbean writing, as well as issues of form and style.

The goal of this course is to explore the multiple sociocultural factors that influence the success of students and ask fundamental questions about the relationship between higher education and society. Why do some students learn more and "get further ahead" than others? Why do some students get more involved in co-curricular activities than others? What factors shape how institutions are run and organized, who attends four-year vs. two-year institutions, and what curricular materials are taught?

Selected topics of contemporary interest on microwave systems: advanced radars, active and passive microwave remote sensing instruments, large scale antennas, and microwave integrated circuits. Prerequisites: E&C-Eng 584 and graduate standing.

In this course, students will go behind the curtain of public education. Students will actively engage in making sense of the history, politics, promises and pitfalls of the US education system; a system in which most have participated in for 12+ years. Students will discover multiple and often competing purposes of schooling, examine important developments and trends in education using the latest available data, and consider the value of education in their own lives.

We are living in a time of multiple global crises: climate change, massive inequality, racial tension, and now pandemic. These are not one-time events in a specific location, after which normalcy can be restored. Rather these crises are in continuous development over extended periods of time, with no end in sight. Although we may respond with the feelings of rage, sadness or apathy, the dominant emotion is fear.

This course explores the cultural practice and institution of classical Greek tragedy as practiced by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and it examines modern cinema's engagement with and adaptation of important plays from that tradition. We will study ten plays in translation to examine the structure of tragedy and its cultural, religious, and political function in fifth-century BCE Athens. The reading of each tragedy will be paired with the screening of at least one cinematic adaptation.

The course offers a wide selection of Italian poetry from Giacomo Leopardi to contemporary singer-songwriters and aims to explore various interpretations of the concept of 'modernity' in poetry

Now that our world is increasingly virtual, what is the significance of material objects? How has the history of craft in Japan come to shape our current understanding of what Yanagi Setsu rhapsodized as the beauty of everyday things?? This course examines the history of artisans and designers in Japan in order to analyze the meaning of materiality, craftsmanship and skill, technique and applied knowledge, and our human relationship with things.

The United Nations declared 2015 to 2024 the International Decade of People of African Descent. The International Decade is a follow up of the process from the 2001 UN World Conference against Racism, where the international community designated the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as a Crime against Humanity. In that spirit, this course will explore the issue of reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States. Reparations to the descendants of captive Africans has been debated in African-American political discourse for decades.