A survey of American literature from the;literature of exploration to the Civil War, with;special attention to the formation of an American;literary tradition, along with the political,;social, and religious contexts that helped shape;the imaginative responses of American writers to;their culture.

This course provides introduction and development of fundamental concepts including stoichiometry, reactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, atomic structure, chemical bonding, and acid-base reactions. The laboratory emphasizes basic skills, quantitative chemical measurements, and principles discussed in lectures.

This class will examine the ways Romantic-era writers figured revolution and the reaction against it, in the wake of the French Revolution's spectacular but failed promises of liberty, fraternity, and equality for all. We will pay special attention to how British writers envisioned their own versions of freedom and equality, extending them to women, slaves, and the poor. Likewise we will explore how this project for social change was necessarily related to revolutions in language and aesthetics.

In which our heroes will explore contemporary and;classic fabulist fiction, fairy tales, and mythic;fiction in order to produce their own short;stories. Some of the authors we may read include;Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Isak Dineson,;Gabriel García Márquez, Nalo;Hopkinson, Porochista Khakpour, Larissa Lai,;Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Bruno;Schulz.

This course provides introduction and development of fundamental concepts including stoichiometry, reactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, atomic structure, chemical bonding, and acid-base reactions. The laboratory emphasizes basic skills, quantitative chemical measurements, and principles discussed in lectures.

This course provides introduction and development of fundamental concepts including stoichiometry, reactions in aqueous solutions, thermochemistry, atomic structure, chemical bonding, and acid-base reactions. The laboratory emphasizes basic skills, quantitative chemical measurements, and principles discussed in lectures.

This course examines fiction by some of the key;British and Irish writers from the first half of;the twentieth century (1900-1945). We will be;interested in the ways in which the form and;content of the novel and the short story have;been impacted by changes in social and cultural;contexts. The course will cover topics such as;the end of empire and the pervasive influence of;music on modernist writers. The reading list will;include works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf,;Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen.

This course explores the major theoretical;frameworks developed and debated by;anthropologists of the past two decades. It;covers core issues in anthropological;epistemology, the relationship of ethnography to;social and cultural theory, trends in;anthropological analysis, and the place of;anthropological theory in broader academic and;public discourses.

This seminar will focus on emerging innovations;in the development, use and governance of;reproductive and genetic technologies (RGTs). How;do novel developments at the interface of;fertility treatment and biomedical research raise;both new and enduring questions about;the'naturalness' of procreation, the politics of;queer families, the im/possibilities of;disabilities, and transnational citizenship? Who;has a say in what can be done and for which;purposes?

Language is integral to human experiences across;cultures. Interpersonal communication holds;social worlds together, lending them ;significance. This course examines language as a;complex, embodied field of cultural practice and;performance. It bridges core concepts within;linguistic anthropology and semiotics -- such as;relativity, indexicality, performance, and;language ideology -- with critical analyses of;social fields including race, gender, and;sexuality. Illustrative examples are drawn from;Western and non-Western societies.