This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of queer studies, including its historical formations and recent innovations. We will explore the roots of queer theory in feminist theories of subjectivity and desire, queer of color critique, and queer critiques of traditional domains of knowledge production, including psychoanalysis and visual culture. Students will examine a wide range of media and forms of documentation ranging from archival material and oral histories, to critical theory.

If othering is intrinsic to human constitutions of self/identity, are othering discourses and practices universal across different human groups in different time periods? Does othering have the same political, economic, and social consequences for all those othered by a particular group? These questions will be examined through a focus on one set of othering discourses and practices—race.

Is mass forced migration unique to recent world history? Can the history of the nation-state also be read as a history of refugee making? Are contemporary humanitarian and human rights frameworks and institutions adequate to the task of addressing protracted statelessness, and forced migration brought about by the intersection of conflict, economic collapse, and climate change? These questions will be examined through anthropological, historical, and philosophical scholarship on forced migration, citizenship, nationalism, human rights, and humanitarianism. (E)

The CCX 320 seminar provides a forum for Community Engagement and Social Change concentration students to develop research projects that synthesize their prior coursework and practical experiences. In a typical capstone project, a small group of students focus on a particular social justice issue, research past and present community-based efforts around the issue, and develop a community action plan in collaboration with an off-campus community partner. Students are provided with readings, discussions, mentoring and other support to complete capstone projects.

Conclusions drawn from data are useful only when they are interpreted in the appropriate context. Appreciating such context often requires expertise in a particular knowledge domain. Many courses outside of the program provide students with opportunities to conduct a substantial data analysis project and have that work evaluated by a domain expert. This course provides that opportunity for knowledge domains specific to program faculty. Topics may include public health, sports analytics, music information retrieval, ecology, etc.

Independent work in biochemistry can be conducted with any member of the biochemistry committee and, upon approval, also with other members of the biological sciences and chemistry departments and program in neuroscience and behavior.

Independent work in biochemistry can be conducted with any member of the biochemistry committee and, upon approval, also with other members of the biological sciences and chemistry departments and program in neuroscience and behavior.