Weekly lectures by guest artists and faculty, group discussions in residence halls and Fine Arts Center classrooms, attendance at Fine Arts Center Performing Arts Series events, Department of Music and Dance events, and University Museum of Contemporary Art exhibitions. Presents an international perspective emphasizing cultural and social diversity. Topics include elements and styles of Western European "classical" music; artistic expression of African-American culture in jazz; styles, choreography and production of dance; theater; photography and visual art.

This course will explore the causes and consequences of cross-national variation in judicial and constitutional systems, and in the politics of law. From where do these differences emerge? To what degree do they persist? What does it mean to say that there has been a global trend towards a judicialization of politics? Does that trend suggest some kind of cross-national convergence? Do judicial empowerment and rights consciousness look the same in every national context? How should scholars understand the spread of bill of rights?

In this course students will be introduced to the architecture and mechanical properties of soft and hard biological tissue and finite element analysis techniques used to model both hard and soft tissues at the anatomical scale. Students will execute a term project to develop and predict the response of tissue to mechanical loads using a commercial finite element tool such as ANSYS Workbench.

This course will examine how justice interventions are designed and implemented to redress mass violence, including periods of war and authoritarian reign. It will focus on truth commissions, which are quasi-judicial bodies designed to investigate, document, and publicize information about a period of violence. In examining transitional justice and truth commissions, this class will address the history of violence in a dozen countries, and how truth commissions have been used to redress them. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Legal majors.

This course is designed to introduce students to a maternal and child public health perspective, which is focused on identifying and meeting the needs of women, infants, children, adolescents, and families. We will examine problems, programs, and policies related to these populations, with an emphasis on the United States. This course will use the life course perspective to examine how social, economic, and political context affect health and development over a lifetime.

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This course examines the modern history of England, with some discussion of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, from the Glorious Revolution to the present.

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This course introduces undergraduate students to the field of reproductive epidemiology - population level research into aspects of human reproductive health, with a focus on their public health significance, descriptive epidemiology, etiology and prevention. Using a combination of lectures and small group discussions of published peer reviewed research, this class addresses both methodologic and substantive challenges to reproductive and perinatal epidemiological research.

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