This course traces political and legal struggles over the right to vote and access to electoral power in the United States from the founding to the present, focusing on issues such as the voting rights of people of color and women, the Voting Rights Act, reapportionment, redistricting, voting restrictions such as voter ID laws, and voting expansion measures such as same day registration, early voting, and voting by mail. Throughout, the course focuses on the interaction between law, political institutions, and social movements in struggles over the right to vote.

In this course, students will explore the in-water research activities that are conducted by a research team to assess the threats that sea turtles are exposed to in the waters off of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. Activities will include careful capture and tagging, weighing, taking body measurements, and collecting samples before the turtles are released once again into the ocean. Students will also discuss how mangrove wetlands play an important role in coastal and marine ecosystems of Costa Rica's Pacific coast.

The class will explore advanced topics in general relativity, picking up where P568/821 left off. Topics in black hole physics will include BH solutions with rotation and in the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant; BH thermodynamics and Hawking radiation. We will discuss interior solutions to Einstein's equations for stars and neutron stars. The physics of gravitational radiation will be presented in more depth, including the derivation of the quadrupole formula for power radiated by a source.

This class examines the history of American Gridiron Football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.

This class examines the history of American Gridiron Football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.

This class examines the history of American Gridiron Football from its earliest days as a game played primarily at elite colleges through its development into the most popular spectator sport in the United States. It examines the complex and contentious history of race and ethnicity in football, and its place in American politics from Theodore Roosevelt?s intervention to keep the sport legal to present-day controversies over everything from race and sexuality to patriotism.

Americans today are experiencing the impact of climate change, as well as urban sprawl, fracking, oil spills, mountains of trash, unsafe drinking water, unhealthy air, and their favorite plants and animals? loss of habitat. How did we get into this mess? How can we get out? This course examines the history of the interaction of humans with the natural environment of North America since European settlement.

Weekly seminar for freshman physics majors. Focus on professional development for physics majors, philosophy of science, thinking like a scientist, and talks from faculty on their research in physics.