Consider independently exploring a topic of interest under the guidance of a faculty member. Once you identify the subject, take time to research our faculty and their publications. It is important to ensure your interests intersect before asking if they will work with you. This work will be graded and may apply to your upper-level Political Science degree requirements.

In this course, we will explore the American constitutional system as prescribed by the United States Constitution, and as developed by the myriad subsequent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court throughout this nation's history. Broadly, we will focus on the areas of institutional powers, federalism, and government involvement in commerce, regulation, and taxation. Across these areas, students will learn about the legal, social, historical, and political contexts in which the Supreme Court reaches its decisions.

Like many inter/disciplinary fields, both English and WGSS have struggled to frame their subjects and objects of knowledge in constitutively intersectional ways. That is: without continually reverting to cis White heteronormativity as the ?universal? default. By centering diverse expressions of Black feminist lives and thought, this course will explore the deep interconnections between storytelling, writing and knowledge production, asking foundational questions such as: What is the relationship between embodiment and bodies of work?

This course is designed to allow an advanced student of Urdu to focus on topics and domains of language use relevant to his/her individual goals. Weekly assignments will be chosen by the student and mentor in consultation with the program coordinator. Students are expected to write, present ideas orally, and to work with the language mentor to facilitate each week's discussion. The goal is to increase oral and written fluency, breadth of vocabulary, and cultural knowledge in the areas of interest. This course may be repeated with changes in topic and focus.

An advanced course focuses on developing reading and speaking skills, expanding vocabulary, and improving the ability to describe/narrate in detail and support opinions. Topics chosen in consultation with the program director.

From the absorbing tales of the One Thousand and One Nights and the haunting melancholy of pre-Islamic poetry to the inimitable beauty of the Quran, Medieval Arabic literature is fascinating and inexhaustible. Via English translations, this course introduces students to a rich diversity of Arabic literary texts written from the sixth century to the dawn of the modern period, stretching from the cosmopolitan cities of Muslim Spain to the empires of Central Asia and beyond.

This course presents basic concepts in managerial theory by examining such functions as leadership, organization, supervision, and evaluation. Lecture material includes a thorough examination of current techniques in veterinary facility management, technician utilization, client communication, marketing, record keeping, inventory control, and malpractice.

Multidisciplinary professional writing course. Research, analyze, reference and write in the formal and informal text conventions used by Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources Conservation, & Veterinary and Animal Sciences.