This course will focus on election laws in the United States, with a particular focus on the consequences of such laws for either mitigating or enhancing inequalities in who participates and has influence over elections and politics more generally. The class will involve in-depth investigations into laws relating to areas such as voter identification, absentee and early voting, redistricting, and campaign finance. Students will read cutting edge research in each area and will also conduct their own original research into an area of election law.

Vietnamese for Heritage Speakers II is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Vietnamese develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in Vietnam and to support course work in Asian Studies.

Introduction to the processes of natural resource policy formulation, administration of public lands, and social values related to managing the nation's renewable natural resources. History of current federal laws, policies, and programs, and discussion of the roles of various resources management agencies.

Economic theory of the macro-economy. Determinants of unemployment rates, inflation rates, national income, GDP. Tools of public policy available which can be used to promote macroeconomic goals. (Gen.Ed. SB)

This class will help students become effective peer writing tutors. They will explore the theoretical and practical relationships among writing, learning and thinking by reading in the fields of composition studies, rhetoric, literacy studies, cognitive psychology and education.

Modern Irish IV is the fourth part of a four-part elementary course sequence in Modern Irish (also known as Irish Gaelic). The course is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Modern Irish develop speaking and listening skills useful for study abroad in Ireland and to support course work in Celtic Studies.

In 2011, a wave of protest and revolt swept across much of the Middle East and North Africa, a phenomenon that has sometimes been referred to as the "Arab Awakening," and more commonly as the "Arab Spring." It can be argued that from the beginning, the terms of discourse have been sodden with old orientalist fictions of a timeless (Arab) East. The "Arab Spring" recalls an abnormally drawn out winter in much the same way that the "Arab Awakening" recalls an unnaturally protracted sleep.

The study of social inequality is critical to understanding our contemporary world. In this seminar, we will focus on class, racial, and gender inequality. We will explore the origins and social consequences of these forms of inequality. Our examples will be drawn primarily from the United States, but the course will also touch on issues of inequality throughout the globe.