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This course is for seniors in their final year at UMass. The course is intended to help students enter a career field or obtain their first job directly after graduation. It is also suitable for students applying for fellowships, internships, and graduate or professional schools. Supervised by a History Department faculty member with the assistance of the HFA Career Development Services Team, meetings will also feature alumni guests who will share their career experiences and offer advice.

This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

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Witches, ghosts, priestesses, healers, and other entities have been driving forces in the destruction of oppressive worlds. This course will explore the role of religion and spirituality in liberation movements. It will center femmes (people subjected to misogyny) and their creation of otherworldly power that resists heteropatriarchy, racial capitalism, and imperialism. We will learn how practices such as deity worship, ancestor veneration, hauntings, spiritual cursing, collective ritual, and more, have been used to birth new worlds.

This seminar trains students in historical research techniques and the writing of history, and fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. See the History Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions.