Feminist science studies is a rich and diverse interdisciplinary field with genealogies in science practice, history, social sciences, and philosophy. Science studies has been a vital resource to feminist, queer, critical race, post- colonial, and disability theory and has also been profoundly shaped and extended by work in these fields. This class introduces core epistemological interventions and innovations in feminist and postcolonial science studies in order to frame readings of exciting new and classics works in the field.

Jews’ contributions to American popular culture over the past two centuries, from Emma Lazarus’s verse on the Statue of Liberty to Jill Soloway’s television series Transparent. Negotiating identity within different popular media, with attention to specific Jewish communal rhythms and to the American social, political, and cultural climate. Traces concerns of Jewish American identity in such forms as graphic art, comedy, music, film, theater, and poetry.

Examines histories, representations, and creative output of Jews who identify beyond the bounds of normative gender and sexuality categories, as well as the idea of Jewishness as itself a "queer" set of histories and perspectives. Organized thematically around such topics as hybridity, "passing," and the gendered Jewish body from the Torah to contemporary television.

This class will examine Chinese literary traditions in various different genres such as fiction, poetry and drama from the 16th through the 18th centuries from perspectives of gender and sexuality. Through the class, you will learn to examine Chinese literary tradition from the perspective of gender, discussing the gendering of new modes of expression in de/constructing men and women as social categories over the long course of Chinese literary history.

This course serves as an introductory exploration of the field of disability studies. It asks: how do we define disability? Who is disabled? And what resources do we need to properly study disability? Together, students investigate: trends in disability activism, histories of medicine and science, conceptions of “normal” embodiment, the utility of terms like “crip” or "disabled” and the representation of disability in culture. Enrollment limit of 20.

Topics course.Instrument specific topics course designed for research students (special studies, honors, SURF, etc.) requiring access to microscope equipment in the Center for Microscopy and Imaging (CMI). Each semester, three six-week courses are offered. All students meet the first two weeks to discuss their projects and the last week to present their work. During the remaining three, students learn how to operate a microscope independently (see topics). Evaluation will be through engagement in assigned activities. 400 level work cannot overlap with this course work.