This seminar will consider the academic and public debates of "What counts as literacy?" and "What counts as reading?" in school contexts. Drawing on the research of multiliteracies, multimodalities, and critical literacies, course participants will explore how these pedagogies can support diverse learners for critical engagement their schools, communities, and society.

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to frameworks, research, and methods of inquiry for understanding college environments as systems that shape learning and development. We will examine higher education settings, particularly in terms of mission, policies, culture, and structure. In this course, we consider the campus as a ?field of study? and ?learning laboratory? to understand how learning and knowledge production are shaped in and through the higher education environment. The goal is to enable you to investigate, analyze, assess, and strategize

This is a course designed to introduce the key theories at use in sociology and other related academic disciplines, with close attention paid to inequality, solidarity, individualism, bureaucracy and capitalism. The goal is to provide a theoretical web and collaborative learning experiences wherein students will be able to situate social theories and debates in relation to one another, in relation to the theories/perspectives of other disciplines, and also in relation to important issues of the day.

This is a course designed to introduce the key theories at use in sociology and other related academic disciplines, with close attention paid to inequality, solidarity, individualism, bureaucracy and capitalism. The goal is to provide a theoretical web and collaborative learning experiences wherein students will be able to situate social theories and debates in relation to one another, in relation to the theories/perspectives of other disciplines, and also in relation to important issues of the day.

This is a course designed to introduce the key theories at use in sociology and other related academic disciplines, with close attention paid to inequality, solidarity, individualism, bureaucracy and capitalism. The goal is to provide a theoretical web and collaborative learning experiences wherein students will be able to situate social theories and debates in relation to one another, in relation to the theories/perspectives of other disciplines, and also in relation to important issues of the day.

This is a course designed to introduce the key theories at use in sociology and other related academic disciplines, with close attention paid to inequality, solidarity, individualism, bureaucracy and capitalism. The goal is to provide a theoretical web and collaborative learning experiences wherein students will be able to situate social theories and debates in relation to one another, in relation to the theories/perspectives of other disciplines, and also in relation to important issues of the day.

This course offers a survey of the Political Economy of Public Health. This is an emergent research stream that seeks to understand the distal political and economic causes of population health, and represents a return to the origins of public health, captured by Rudolph Virchow's famous dictum: "Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale." It extends the social determinants of disease tradition, making it more dynamic and moving further upstream.

Malnutrition as it exists in developing countries and its socioeconomic background. Protein-energy malnutrition, famine, vitamin and mineral deficiency diseases, synergism between nutrition and infection, and the role of international agencies in fighting malnutrition. Prerequisite: NUTRITN 352 or consent of instructor.