In this course we will consider the relationship between sports and society with a particular focus on how sports shape cultural ideas of racialized masculinities in the United States. Using a historical analysis, we will examine ways in which involvement in sports reflect and challenge social norms about gender, sexuality, race, and class. In addition, we will explore the interplay of athletic involvement and spectatorship across the lifespan in relation to views of masculinity. We will examine youth sports, high school and college athletics, professional sports, and amateur involvement.

Selected topic in the philosophy of mind, such as intentionality of the mental, relation between the mental and the physical, connection between thought and action, and ways of verifying the existence of various mental states.

Introduction to Interpreting and Translation: Research and Practice I is the first part of a two-semester certificate in the study of translation and interpreting across a range of contexts. While no prior experience in interpreting or translation is necessary, students must have command of English and at least one other language. This course introduces students to relevant research in the inter-disciplinary area of interpreting and translation studies and to a number of practical skills required of professional interpreters and translators.

The seminar will examine the co-constitutive historical formations of race and caste in relation to the expansion of capitalism and European high colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Rather than seeing this as a period for the 'origins' of race or caste, the course will examine the ways in which race and caste were discursively mediated in the period of high colonialism to shape the kind of racialized hierarchies that we are familiar with today.

This course will explore today's opioid epidemic through the lenses of biology, history, the arts, and literature. We will critically examine and seek to understand the epidemic through the lenses of public health, human biology, medicine, sociology, political science, and public policy.

Abstract algebra forms a key part of the ideas behind high school mathematics and is the basis for several parts of the Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure for secondary school math teachers. This course will cover the parts of abstract algebra most important for building a deep understanding of the ideas of high school mathematics and their interconnections. It will focus on the properties of rings (especially the integers and polynomial rings over fields), and fields. During the course, we will be making connections between these topics and high school mathematics.

Students will become familiar with the broad outlines of Polish history from its beginnings in the medieval period through the collapse of communism in 1989 and beyond.

This course aims to heighten your awareness of writing as both practice and concept. ?Writing Studies? is an interdisciplinary area of study at the intersection of literacy studies, communication, digital studies, education, and linguistics that is interested in how written texts?public documents, technical and professional communication, social media, etc.?reflect and impact social organization and change. The course invites students to explore writing in society through a problem-posing approach, focusing attention on how writing is understood, used, and learned. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)