Moving on after high school sports end can leave you feeling a little defeated. What do you do with all of this extra time? What are your goals since you are no longer chasing a trophy? This course will help you transition by applying your on-field skills to a different arena. In addition, identifying what you enjoyed from your athletic experience that you want to continue in your collegiate life can enhance your experience. This course will help you celebrate your past, identify your future interests and design your next big play.

Water is a critical resource for humanity, required for life itself. But our uses of water go far beyond a liquid to drink. In this seminar we will follow the Connecticut River from its headwaters to the ocean discussing the uses, impacts and challenges from an ecosystem perspective. We will look at how humans use the watershed, and how those uses have changed the river, how the fish that use the river have been affected and what we are trying to do to improve the situation.

Taught by a former lawyer who has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (and raised three kids), this course covers stuff you need to know for navigating the challenges of daily life. Classes will address adjusting to college life,managing personal finances,buying a used car, dealing with landlords, filing tax returns, getting an internship, and lots more.

Learnabout making and makerspaceson campusin this First Year Seminar. This seminar brings students of all majors tothe All-Campus Makerspaceto begin their journey with ahands-onintroduction to multiplefabricationandprototypingtechnologies, including3D printing, electronics, woodworking, and mold-making. Learn more about othermakerspaces and related resourceson campusandfind out how to efficiently navigate this networkin order to complete your own projects, coursework, or research.

In this seminar, we use a radio phone-in conversation about college to discuss college life, its significance, structures, and outcomes. We also discuss conversations, their significance, structures, and consequences. And similarly, we discuss Communication its significance, structures, and outcomes. We will use hand-on methods to study and break down conversations while learning how to learn about communication and how to learn in general. The seminar will be based on conversations, individual and group work in class.

here are currently over 2 million people living in prisons and jails across the United States ?more incarcerated people per capita than any other country in the world.What is the carceral state and how do particular gendered and racialized bodies get caught up in its logics?How do gender, race, sexuality, and class shape systems of discipline, punishment, surveillance, and control?What is ?anti-carceral feminism?

Your DNA offers a chance to explore, discover and reconciliate with the past. Pieces of your DNA have come together for this moment from different ancestral places over time. With increasing accuracy your DNA offers mechanistic insight into your peculiar characteristics suggesting lifestyles and medical treatments. Your DNA is also being used today in ways that you may not wish. How do you want your DNA used? This course will examine the social life of DNA and the need for a new bioethics.

How do global processes give rise to legal change? Globalization is changing the contours of law and creating new global institutions and norms. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying globalization, its relation to law, and the social, cultural and political changes that result.

Contemporary short fiction provides a striking opportunity for readers to reflect upon, deepen, and see in prismatic clarity ourselves and our time. It also has the potential to haunt, inspire, challenge, and amuse us. In this class, we will critically analyze a broad scope of short stories from a diversity of perspectives. We will ponder theorist Viktor Shklovsky?s assertion that fiction is ?an artifact that has been intentionally removed from the domain of automized perception,?

This course provides students with entry points to understand the complexities of gender and sexuality diversity, to critically examine the social construction of identities, and to consider what it might mean to queer understandings of gender and sexuality. Drawing on work from the fields of anti-oppression education and queer theory, the course exposes students to concepts that serve to identify, name, and explain social inequalities related to gender and sexuality diversity.