This course provides an introduction to the skills necessary for becoming good producers and consumers of psychological research. Students learn to develop research questions, survey related literature, design rigorous and ethically sound studies, and collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data. Students build on their computer skills relevant for psychological research and learn to read and critique original empirical journal articles. The course culminates in an original, collaborative research project, a final paper, and an oral presentation.

This transdisciplinary course is an introduction to Latin America through its cultural production (literature, film, music, painting, dancing, comics, performance, among others). We are going to address some of the most important moments of the continents' history: independence period, modernization, nationalism, Mexican Revolution, Latin America and the Cold War, Cuban Revolution, Literary Boom in Latin America, Southern Cone cultural production during dicatorships, politics of memory, popular media and mass culture.

This course addresses different ways in which women see the world and create worlds and experiences through filmmaking in Latin America. What role do women directors play in contemporary Latin American culture? How can feminist theoretical frameworks shape an understanding of the topics and forms in circulation? How do the affective labor issues regarding the film industry affect the women as film creators?

Dramas focused on the always-fraught dynamics of the family have dominated American theatre since the appearance of Royall Tyler's "The Contrast" in 1789. This course examines the trajectory and endurance of the form, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works through realist, avant-garde, and absurdist plays of the twentieth century, and on to the adoption and revision of the form by writers of color and by gay, lesbian, and transgender artists.

Dramas focused on the always-fraught dynamics of the family have dominated American theatre since the appearance of Royall Tyler's "The Contrast" in 1789. This course examines the trajectory and endurance of the form, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works through realist, avant-garde, and absurdist plays of the twentieth century, and on to the adoption and revision of the form by writers of color and by gay, lesbian, and transgender artists.

Through a balanced and integrated approach students will learn to develop literacy in early childhood/elementary schools. Class members will learn about emergent literacy, diagnosing language needs, integrating phonics skills in a literature-based program, the teaching of process writing, children's fiction and nonfiction literature, and the use of portfolios for assessment. Course required for spring semester practicum students. Course evaluation is based on written and oral work done individually and in groups. Requires a prepracticum.