This seminar, taught by the Chair of the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department, introduces students to the complex historical and contemporary context for anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim sentiment in the US and world today. These two very timely problems will be considered in their own terms, followed by a comparative perspective with one another, and, to a lesser extent, with other forms of cultural bias. The course will look at the following questions. How have anti-Semitism and Islamophobia developed historically?

Through videos, podcasts and discussion we will focus on famous and not so famous examples of scientific hoaxes and malfeasance from Piltdown Man to Theranos. Primarily we will answer the question: "Did good people do bad science or did bad people use good science wrong?" Classes will be discussion based.

In this honors colloquium, in addition to the requirements of the base course, students will need to complete additional work, research, and/or writing as directed by the instructor. Students will perform analysis of some type of data related to the course, and will learn how to create an annotated bibliography or literature review. Additionally, they will display their findings in either a paper or a presentation. Students will learn more in-depth how Sociologists do their research, how to locate and identify peer-reviewed academic work, and to explore a topic of interest to them.

The public health community - individuals and organizations - have an important role to play in shaping how populations receive and gain access to accurate health information. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention defines health communication as "the and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health." This class will provide an introduction to the issues and methods associated with effective communication of health related information.

Focusing on so-called campaigns of "nonviolent direct action," "people power," "unarmed insurrection," or "color revolutions," this course will apply sociological perspectives to the causes, effects, and dynamics of resistance in political and non-institutional mobilizations. Among the topics: how organized, strategic, and mass-mobilized popular resistance sometimes brings about change, only to spawn its own forms of domination.

A seminar in writing poetry for students who demonstrate familiarity with the basics of imagery, rhythm, and form. Students write regularly, read and criticize one another's writing, read in contemporary poetry.

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.