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Introduction to syntactic theory, with implications for universal grammatical theory in general. Topics include theories of phrase structure, the form and functioning of transformations, grammatical relations, anaphora and control, cord order problems, universals of grammar, relations between grammatical theory and learnability, language acquisition.

This course will focus on the crucial first step - How to Begin your Independent Thesis or Project. The course will function as your Pre-499Y (thesis/project research) in which you will create your thesis abstract, assemble a committee in the field of your interest, and a proposal draft. Finding and utilizing appropriate sources and narrowing a specific topic of information (that is, locating, organizing, critiquing, and using the literature available on specific topics) are essential to those who research.

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This course considers what value do creative works have for advancing public health. Inspired by the concepts of narrative medicine and medical humanism, we will encounter a range of creative texts (e.g., contemporary literary novels, memoirs, film) as paired with scientific and investigative writings to reflect on how creative representations can create and support population health.

This seminar will generate an overview of the debates, scholarship, and politics of queer and transgender studies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The visibility and rubric of "emergence" with respect to LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex) people, communities and politics in these `regions?

This course will be an exploration, analysis, and discussion of what meaning do we attach to the images of racial political, social, and cultural figures. We will focus on how black womanhood has been historically and continues to be reconstructed through representations, images, as well as on our imagination.

In popular discourse, the LGBTQ rights movement is often framed as one long struggle from the dark old days of queer oppression to the triumph of queer rights as epitomized by gay marriage, gays in the military, and the visibility of LGBT celebrities. Such a discourse positions the here and now of the modern US as the most progressive time and place - a discourse that props up narratives of US exceptionalism while ignoring the continued marginality and violence faced by the most marginal queer and gender nonconforming folks.