This course explores the errors, inaccuracies, and appropriate portrayals of common principles of environmental health science. Major films such as Erin Brockovich, The Day After Tomorrow, and Outbreak are popular movies that are premised on science and how the environment interacts with human health.

How do epidemics happen? How do we respond? What is the intersection between practice and policy? What happens when epidemiologic desirability meets political and cultural reality? We?ll explore epidemic diseases around the world and in history, and the role that we can play in their management.

The World Health Organization describes climate change as the biggest public health threat of the 21st century. This course will provide an overview of the key impacts of climate change on population health. We will discuss current impacts and projected future impacts through the 21st century, with a focus on climate justice and health equity. We will additionally cover difficulties in communicating climate change risks to the public and strategies for adaptation and mitigation to prevent and/or lessen projected impacts of climate change on health.

This advanced seminar course will introduce theories and empirical research aimed at understanding psychological processes in diverse groups, as well as explaining the causes and consequences of identity-related differences. Topics covered include disparities in health and mental health, social identity, power and marginalization, and developmental processes across social and cultural contexts. We will also explore the nature of and future directions for multicultural psychology and diversity science.

Relevant forms of Black cultural expressions contributing to the shape and character of contemporary Black culture; the application of these in traditional Black writers. Includes: West African cultural patterns and the Black past; the transition-slavery, the culture of survival; the cultural patterns through literature; and Black perceptions versus white perceptions. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)

Relevant forms of Black cultural expressions contributing to the shape and character of contemporary Black culture; the application of these in traditional Black writers. Includes: West African cultural patterns and the Black past; the transition-slavery, the culture of survival; the cultural patterns through literature; and Black perceptions versus white perceptions. (Gen.Ed. AL, DU)

Students will learn about international policies surrounding human rights for people with disabilities. This course will be structured around the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). Students will learn about varying definitions of disability, education, employment, healthcare and family perspectives.

A reexamination of central concepts in the history of political thought - e.g. power, equality, freedom, capitalism, domination, responsibility, citizenship, empire, and revolution - from the perspective of African American political struggles. Particular focus will be given to how political thinkers have theorized the complex and contradictory relationship between race and modern democracy. We will also place emphasis on the international and imperial dimensions racial politics in the United States.

The terms "international" and "global" are sometimes catchalls that do more harm than good in revealing the origins behind existential assumptions and structural imbalances of a concept or scholarship. This course seeks to tackle what it means to accuse global politics and the sociology of International Relations (IR) as "Eurocentric" and re-orient how we perceive and interpret politics.