This Junior Year Writing course offers a variety of topics in Middle Eastern Studies.

This is a course taught in Italian and meant for students who have completed the 200 level language courses. The goal of the course is to improve the understanding of Italian advanced grammar. This will be accomplished through: reading, analysis and discussion of a wide range of Italian texts, both literary and non-literary, in order to gain familiarity with many styles, registers and uses of the language.

Literary and expository texts as well as audio-visual materials prepare students to read and discuss German fiction and non-fiction with understanding and enjoyment. Review of the chief aspects of German grammar. Stresses improvement of reading facility and vocabulary with continued practice in speaking and writing. Prerequisite: GERMAN 120 or equivalent.

This course will help students learn to assess the causal effects of education policies and practices. Educational and social science researchers often want to know the effect of a particular teaching practice, what effects accountability policies have on student learning, or the effect of financial aid policies on college completion, etc. Historically, however, education research that utilizes quantitative methods have been correlational, and thus, do not to allow researchers to understand causal effects.

How can social scientists convey data through narrative and reports geared toward general audiences or specific stakeholders? How can they convey those data through visuals geared toward non-scientists? This hands-on course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to generate strong, data-driven communication.

Basics of surface chemistry and vacuum technology will be introduced. Various analytical instruments such as XPS, UPS, SIMS, NMR, FTIR and Raman will be included in this course. Principles, instrumentation and applications of instruments will be covered. Emphasis will be on developing the ability to solve characterization problems in molecules, materials, devices and biological matters. Particular attention is given to the criteria for selecting the appropriate characterization techniques. Students will have lab demonstrations in the analytical laboratory environment.

This seminar investigates Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx art from the colonial period to the present. Despite the growing fame in mainstream popular culture of Afro-Latinx artists like Cardi B, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Amara La Negra, the misconception that Latin Americans and US Latinxs are all brown mestizos (people of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry) persists. In this course we will analyze the critical role that art and visual culture has played in (mis)shaping of Afro-Latinidad.

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 S'etsu 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.

This seminar engages with historical trajectories and theoretical traditions aimed at organizing around and constituting egalitarian relations.