Afro-Caribbean Studies is an advanced introduction to the history, culture, and politics of people of African descent in the Caribbean basin suitable for both graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. After a broad synopsis of the region's history, the course has a focus on the politics of select Caribbean states, from 1900 to the present; viz., Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. It will discuss major issues that affect the Caribbean region, namely, migration, poverty, regional economic cooperation and political integration, democratic institutions, and U. S.

Southern literature by African Americans, including slave narratives, autobiography, fiction and poetry. Concepts and issues of time, oppression and violence, culture and tradition, family and community, roots of social change as they impact factors of identity, race, class, and gender. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

This course explores and analyzes topics pertaining to sex, reproduction, and culture in the United States and abroad through a medical anthropology lens. We cover themes of reproductive agency, contraception, reproductive politics, and more through an approach of the life course. Articles, films, news reports, and other materials will be used to discuss weekly case studies corresponding to each thematic topic.

China's prominence is growing on the international stage from joining the World Trade Organization to hosting the Olympic Games in 2008. Yet a myriad of representations of China as an impoverished developing country, a socialist state with an authoritarian government, and the next superpower circulates in the global imaginary. Set against this backdrop of discordant imaginaries, this course will examine the political, economic, social and cultural transformations from the start of China's economic reform (late 1970s) to today.

The study of theatrical performancetext, acting, performance space, elements of spectacle, audiencein relation to changing social, economic, political, and aesthetic movements. Explores the widest possible range of theatrical conventions available to the theater artist. Focus on research techniques.

An introduction to selected scientific aspects of dance, including anatomical identification and terminology, physiological principles, and conditioning/strengthening methodology. Also taught at Mount Holyoke.

Not available at this time.

This class for students majoring or minoring in psychology will cover a wide range of topics within forensic psychology. After a quick history of forensic psychology along with a review of specialty practice guidelines, we will examine the criminal legal system and hallmarks of major mental illnesses. The topics that will be covered in the class include competence to stand trial, criminal responsibility, malingering, violence risk assessment, juvenile and family forensic issues, and becoming a forensic psychologist.

Taking a comparative and grounded approach, this class explores the diverse and transformative consequences of social media as they become ubiquitous and taken for granted in our everyday lives. It takes as a starting point people?s everyday engagement with social media and analyzing the cultural patterns and social outcomes of practices such as memes, selfies, Facebook friending, social media fundraising, and digital mourning.