Service providers, professionals, and researchers in different fields encounter clients who speak a language other than English. Such interactions are often mediated by spoken language interpreters, thus adding a completely different dimension and complexities to such encounters. This course introduces the framework of the interpreting task, the interpreter?s role, code of ethics, and standards of practice.

This course introduces the complex task of spoken language interpreting, with a focus on developing critical-thinking, decision-making, cognitive skills related to interpreting, and basic interpreting skills. Coursework includes a historical overview of interpreting, typical settings, legal frameworks in different countries, codes of ethics and standards of practice in different subdomains, professional organizations, various theories and research in the field, role-play practice, and self-assessment.

This course introduces students to translation history, theories, and practice. Coursework includes glossary development, applied translation strategies and techniques, translation of texts in different fields, reflection on translation performance, and exploration of different online and traditional research methods for source and target language terms. Course content also encompasses discussions of equivalence, linguistic and cultural considerations, an understanding of the translator as a social being, and translation as cultural mediation in a globalized world.

In this class, students will acquire hands-on experience in diverse aspects of the research process in any field of Biology, from familiarizing themselves with a research topic, generating interesting questions, designing experiments, acquiring technical skills, collecting and analyzing data, to writing and/or presenting their results. To inquire about enrollment, students should approach a Biological Sciences faculty member to identify mutual areas of interest. Typically, these conversations should occur well before registration, and the decision by the faculty member will depend on lab capac

How does one write a life, especially if it’s one’s own? This writing workshop addresses the profound complexities, challenges, and pleasures of the genre of the memoir, through intensive reading, discussion, and both analytical and creative writing. Our readings will be drawn from a range of mostly contemporary memoirists with intersectional identity locations—and dislocations—drawing from a range of voices, experiences, and representations, pursuing what the class comes to identify as our own most urgent aesthetic and ethical questions.

Is “fake news” really new? This course examines the long contest over truth and falsehood in media, with particular focus on the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present. It covers information literacy, the long history of media and journalism in America, conspiracy theories, and the relationship between information and democracy. Students will learn to fact check, reflect on their own engagement with information networks, and study the politics of information in today’s world. (E)

Topics course.
: This course will introduce students to the history and sociology of feminisms in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Course materials will include primary documents, secondary sources and historical fiction in English. However, students who are able to read Spanish will have the option of engaging with texts in that language. (E)