This course provides an overview of the epidemiology of population mental health throughout the life course. Students will explore how epidemiologic methods are used to study major mental disorders in populations. Topics include: classification of mental disorders; methods for assessing mental disorders in populations; risk and preventive factors for common disorders; and the development and evaluation of interventions for promoting mental health.

This course provides an overview of fundamental research methods and analytical tools utilized in conducting genetic epidemiology studies. It will also cover the ethical, legal, and logistical challenges faced when conducting this sort of research.

This course examines the political and moral ramifications of technological and data-driven innovations, with a particular concern on the digital harms experienced by minority populations and vulnerable communities. The course invites reflection on diverse normative ideals that should guide tech platforms, regulators, and workers toward social arrangements based on care, hospitality, and responsibility.

The course will introduce students to the key concepts of galaxy formation and evolution using the Milky Way and Local Group as a laboratory. We will begin with a brief survey of the physical processes that govern galaxy structure and study the role and implications of dark matter. The students will then spend the remaining semester working in small teams on projects that use modern data sets to explore some of these findings.

In this course, we will examine feminist theorizations, critiques, and accounts of gender and sexuality in the context of nation-state formations, colonization, globalization, and migration. We will interrogate how the gendered body becomes a target of violence, regulation, and objectification, but also functions as a site of resistance. We will also examine how the body serves as a marker nation and identity, and a locus generating knowledge, both scientific and experiential.

Ethnography, the signal methodology of anthropology, is now a widespread research method, taken up by scholars across disciplines seeking to understand social processes in everyday life. Queer scholars in the United States pioneered the use of ethnographic methods within the US, arguing that queer communities constituted 'subcultures' that should be studied in their own right. This course begins with these earlier works, from the 1970s and 1980s, and will quickly move to a survey of contemporary queer ethnographic work.

With lab. Effect of environmental factors on soil formation and land use. Relationship between soil morphology, classification, and use interpretations. Application of soils information to on-site sewage disposal, wetland identification, and other environmentally significant problem areas. Prerequisite: introductory course in chemistry, geology, soils, or environmental science; or consent of instructor.

From the letters of Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett, to mission statements of companies such as Google and Facebook, the business world is filled with texts that reveal the forces and people shaping that world today. This course is designed for students from all majors who are interested in learning about the importance of creating and possessing compelling narratives in the world of business. Students will acquire the skills to read texts critically and apply newly gained perspectives to current news in the business press, going around and beyond the conventional mathematical approaches.

Southern literature by African Americans, including slave narratives, autobiography, fiction and poetry. Concepts and issues of time, oppression and violence, culture and tradition, family and community, roots of social change as they impact factors of identity, race, class, and gender. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

This course will examine the development of Afro-American music during the twentieth century with an especial focus on links to the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. In particular, the class will survey the variegated styles and productions of artists, including Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, James P.