Introduction to Microeconomics
Introduction to the economics of markets and market economies. Basic concepts of demand, supply, production, prices, allocation of resources, and distribution of income. Public policy applications. (Gen.Ed. SB)
Organic Vegetable Prodctn
Students will learn organic insect, disease, and weed control, greenhouse production and construction, irrigation practices, planting and fertility, harvesting and marketing techniques, as well as how to manage money, people and natural resources.
World Politics
Introduction to the principles and practices of international relations in the political, military, economic, and environmental realms. Study of the development of the contemporary system to explore the effects of the structure of the international system, the institutions through which states conduct their relations, and domestic characteristics on the relations among states. (Gen.Ed. SB, DG)
Independent Study
Not available at this time
HISTORY OF DISABILITIES
This seminar serves as an exploration of the history of disability and the historical treatment of disabled people in the United States. In this course, collectively, we will begin to understand the evolution of the social construct of disability as a cultural, historical, and spatial phenomenon. Together, students investigate chronological and tropical themes such as: histories of medicine, science, and psychiatry, asylum, immigration, normalcy, eugenics, freak shows, and disability rights movement. Permission of the instructor required. Enrollment limited to 12.
MEDIA REPRESENTN-DISABILITIES
This course serves as an introductory exploration of ability and disability in media (e.g., film, television, comedy, politics, art, and other cultural forms and representations). It asks: how do we define disability in the media? How is disability portrayed? And what resources do we need to properly analyze disability representation?
Adv. Sem. in Ethnomusicology
Designed for music and non-music majors, this advanced seminar examines core theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and the debates that have shaped its practice since its origins in the early twentieth century as comparative musicology. Drawing on musical traditions from different parts of the world and supplemented by workshops conducted by visiting professional musicians, the course explores the interdisciplinary approaches that inform how ethnomusicologists study the significance of music "in" and "as" culture.
Renaissance Bodies
(Offered as HIST 430 [EUP/TC], EUST 430 and SWAG 430) "Renaissance Bodies" investigates the ways in which early modern sciences and the figurative arts of the Renaissance collaborated to represent body-centered visual knowledges ranging from the "secrets of women" to scientific "monstrosities." The course also examines the ways in which Catholicism enhanced body-centered, sensual and visual forms of devotion. Discussions center on the eroticization of male, female, and queer bodies in a variety of discourses and visual rhetorics.
Early Mod Eur Global
(Offered as HIST 127 [EU/P/TC/TE] and EUST 127) This course introduces students to the history of Europe in the age of imperialism and colonization. It analyzes the emergence of "modernity" as a result of conquest and colonization, the globalization of commerce, the Atlantic slave trade, and the genocide of indigenous peoples. We will investigate instances of resistance to European imperialism and carefully examine the society that produced global capitalism.