In this class, we will use the lens of economic analysis to examine how environmental problems arise and what can be done to resolve them. This will include an assessment of relevant environmental policies (e.g., carbon tax & cap-and-trade programs), how these policies function, and what impacts they have on people and the economy. Topics include market failures and externalities, pollution, climate change, management of renewable and nonrenewable resources, sustainability, biodiversity, and others.

This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to the political and cultural landscape of Latin America through the lenses of some of its social movements. It focuses on some of the region's most recent polemics and political innovations in order to establish the foundation for a deeper understanding of contemporary Latin America while interrogating its geopolitical boundaries. Some themes are the impact of social movements on national policy shifts, the significance of indigenous groups for political discourse, or the use of human right agendas in local contexts.

This first-year seminar confronts the critical differences in the ways the Greco-Roman philosophical world and the Judaeo-Christian culture understood and experienced the divine nature and the relationship of diviity to humanity. Hence, we read Sophocles' Oedipus tragedies against the Book of Job, Plato's Phaedo against Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and Cicero's Conerning the Nature of the Gods as seminal texts in coming to grips with the problem of knowing God.

Mount Holyoke's mission is "purposeful engagement in the world" but in a multilingual world, our goal can only be achieved with the help of translators and interpreters. As the US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 46% increase in translation work 2012-2022, we consider it as a scholarly, professional and lay activity. Challenging stereotypes of translation as derivative or faulty, we reflect on the wealth of languages and cultures at Mount Holyoke College and how the curriculum depends on the work of translation.

For the past 75 years, Wonder Woman has been a cultural icon and an ambassador of social justice. Since her first appearance, Wonder Woman has taught millions of girls -- and boys -- the strength of sisterhood, peace, understanding, acceptance, and empowerment. Wonder Woman's lessons are accessible to each of us, regardless of social identities. We will explore Wonder Woman's origins, her depictions in art, media, and social movements and how we can find -- and be -- Wonder Woman in 2017. Anti-racism, feminism, and pacifism are some of the topics that will be covered.

From Shakespeare's plays within plays to Rowling's diary of Tom Riddle, from Velázquez to Escher, writers and artists have consistently embedded moments of self-referentiality within their works to raise representational questions such as the relationships between illusion and reality, between truth and fiction, between past, present and future time, between words and worlds, and so on. We will explore these and other paradoxes by examining a variety of artistic forms including poetry, stories, plays, painting, and film.

How do we represent ourselves? How can the self -- that is to say, subjective experience, private life, identity, consciousness -- be translated into written form? How, in turn, does writing fashion and construct the self? Throughout history, authors and thinkers have engaged these questions in countless texts and textual forms -- in essays, confessions, autobiographies, and poetry. This seminar will sample influential and innovative works of literary self-portrayal from around the world, exploring how a wide variety of writers have rendered themselves in language, narrative, and text.

In this course, we will analyze fiction by women writers located in the United States from 1900 to the present. We will focus on themes of gender, race, and sexuality, and explore experiments in form as well as content. Writers may include Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Jennifer Egan, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Carson McCullers, Gertrude Stein, Monique Truong, and Edith Wharton.

This course examines the political, economic, and cultural forces driving debates around the creation, expansion, and reform of the European Union. It examines the economic and political logic for integration, as well as the cultural and economic challenges pushing against integration, and provides an in-depth look at the specific challenges facing the EU.

This course examines the political, economic, and cultural forces driving debates around the creation, expansion, and reform of the European Union. It examines the economic and political logic for integration, as well as the cultural and economic challenges pushing against integration, and provides an in-depth look at the specific challenges facing the EU.