Explores how the rabbis of the Talmud concerned themselves with bodies particularly in relation to bioethical issues surrounding conception, life, and death. Focuses on the conceptualizations of gender and health in rabbinic literature as well as on questions of power dynamics in Jewish law as it pertains to women specifically.

Topics course: People did not discover America; they made it. This course introduces students to the history of working people in North America and beyond. We will begin with labor systems among Native American societies prior to European contact and will conclude with current debates about the future of work and capitalism in the United States and elsewhere. (E)

Topics course: This course explores the intimate relationship between gender and imperialism from U.S. independence to the present. From colonial visions of virgin lands to nuclear testing on the Bikini atoll, Americans for a long time understood empire through the lens of gender. Among the course’s major themes are indigenous politics, interracial mixing, Atlantic slavery, capitalism, migration, and imperialism in the Pacific. Throughout our discussions, we will pay special attention to the ways in which everyday people colluded and collided with U.S. imperialism. (E)

The Pacific Ocean covers a third of our earth’s surface. Home to over a thousand languages and thousands of years of rich histories, the Pacific has been and continues to be one of the most diverse regions of cultural, social, economic, and environmental interaction. We begin our course with the settlement of the Pacific Islands from Southeast Asia over 40,000 years ago and end with current debates about the geostrategic and economic significance of the Pacific today. (E)

Same as HST 264. Women have been key players in revolutionary movements. They have organized militant workers’ movements, built alternative institutions, and waged armed struggle. Why have women joined revolutionary movements? How did gender shape their participation? How have women defined the meaning and practice of revolution? We will consult primary and secondary sources to understand the goals of radical women and how they shaped revolutionary theories such as Marxism, Maoism, anarchism, and feminism.

Same as LAS 264. Women have been key players in revolutionary movements. They have organized militant workers’ movements, built alternative institutions, and waged armed struggle. Why have women joined revolutionary movements? How did gender shape their participation? How have women defined the meaning and practice of revolution? We will consult primary and secondary sources to understand the goals of radical women and how they shaped revolutionary theories such as Marxism, Maoism, anarchism, and feminism.

This course investigates how the brain regulates the production and release of hormones, as well as how hormones act on the brain to affect behaviors such as aggression, affiliation, parenting, sexual behavior, feeding and learning. Concurrent enrollment in NSC 324 is recommended when both courses are offered. Prerequisites: NSC 210 and one of BIO 200, 202 or 230, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20.

Psychologist Annie P. Rogers asserts, "Every sentence we speak is continually surrounded by what is not said and may in fact be unsayable... However, to hear the unsayable I had to consider words as revealing both a conscious narrative about experience and an unconscious one," and while mental health and wellness have become a more openly discussed subject, the experience remains almost unsayable. So, how does the poet grant a reader access to such complicated experience, the speaker's interior landscape? How is it communicated-recreated-within the reader?

The course is designed for creative writers interested in the 'literary magical,' in women's visions, and in discovering the richness of their own imaginations - in a powerful literary vein that will adhere to conventions of no particular genre. Students will be asked to: reimagine the real; write the future, the past, or the now, as they flourish in their own imaginarium; and discover what strange and unique visions might invigorate their writing.

Stories guide our lives. They teach us how to make meaning and how to make sense of meaning. In this course, we will read. We will read twenty-first century novels by African American authors and consider how they make meaning and how this meaning comes to represent our individual, collective and national stories. We'll consider the following questions: What is a story? What makes a story? How does meaning inform our reading of stories or our telling? Authors may include: Toni Morrison, Kiese Laymon, Jesmyn Ward, D. Watkins, Chimamanda Adichie.