Introduction To Computation

Lecture, discussion. Basic concepts of discrete mathematics useful to computer science: set theory, strings and formal languages, propositional and predicate calculus, relations and functions, basic number theory. Induction and recursion: interplay of inductive definition, inductive proof, and recursive algorithms. Graphs, trees, and search. Finite-state machines, regular languages, nondeterministic finite automata, Kleene's Theorem. Problem sets, 2 midterm exams, timed final.

Social Change in the 1960's

Few periods in United States. history experienced as much change and turmoil as the "Long Sixties" (1954-1975), when powerful social movements overhauled American gender norms, restructured the Democratic and Republican parties, and abolished the South's racist "Jim Crow" regime. This course examines the movements that defined this era.

S- Thinking with Feeling

Traditionally, feeling has been regarded as private, internal, and subjective, a barrier to the production of knowledge. By contrast, in this seminar we will foreground feminist/queer/critical race approaches in order to ask: what does thinking with feeling allow us to know? Together, we will chart the multiple genealogies of affect theory; consider the role of feeling and affectivity in the production of race, gender, dis/ability, nation, and discipline; and attend to the structures of feeling that undergird existing scholarship.

S-People of Color Feminisms

This course will examine writing by women, queer and trans of color scholars, with an emphasis on interventions from the US. We will consider how power relations, and resistive responses to oppression have been thought about by these scholars, and by their creative counterparts. Through a variety of analytics including political and affective economies, performativity, and performance, we will examine the correspondences and tensions both within and between these related but distinct schools of thought.

S- Reading the Body

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of "the body" through the intersectional lens of women's, gender, sexuality studies, critical race theory, social justice feminism, dis/ability studies, and queer theory. What is the body and how is it shaped by and also entangled in systems of power? In what ways is the body a political battleground and site for feminist struggle and resistance? How do we define "deviant" and/or "pathological" bodies and which bodies get to count as "normal"?
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