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The history of the Jewish graphic novel, including the role of Jewish secularism in its development, and major antecedents and related works including illustrated books, journalistic cartoons, and comics and sequential art.

In this course students will think critically about the various "wild tongues" that have defined U.S. Latinx literature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our analysis will center on issues of power as they are experienced by diverse U.S. Latinx populations. Specifically, we will focus on Latinx writers, performers, and scholars that push the boundaries of acceptable gender, sexuality, and racialization within U.S. Latinx cultures, focusing specifically on Caribbean and Chicanx populations in the United States.

This seminar is designed to support students doing Division IIIs in the arts, humanities, and cultural studies. Course content will balance selected readings in cultural theory and in methods of critical cultural analysis with opportunities to practice, present, and workshop student projects at various stages of the Div III process. All forms of writing and practice are welcome, as are interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and hybrid projects (for example, a research/performance piece; an analytical essay on literature/philosophy; or an art installation with a significant written component).

This course will explore the important relationship between food, public health, and social justice. We will examine the historical, cultural, economic, and political factors that have contributed to disparities in food access, and thus disparities in health.Lack of healthy food access is a social determinant of health, negatively impacting low-income, underserved, and minority populations. Asking the "where, what, and how" we eat will guide a discussion of health equity and health policy.

Using computers for system design and decision making under uncertainty. Monte Carlo methods, modeling discrete-event stochastic systems, random number generation, time-advance mechanisms, output analysis, simulation-based optimization. This course counts as a CS Elective toward the CS major (BA or BS).

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