Students will explore the critical role that athletics and black sports figures have played in debates about racial uplift, citizenship, civil rights, gender norms, and sexuality from the late nineteenth century through the present. Our task will be to examine amateur, collegiate, and professional sports as sites where social markers of race, class, gender, and sexuality have been constructed.

This graduate level course introduces students to the dynamic emerging field of history communication. It is based on the premise that, just as the sciences have prepared a generation of scientists to be Science Communicators, translating insights gained in lab to wide public audiences, so too should history prepare History Communicators to communicate new historical scholarship to non-experts in today's complex media environment.

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to the key topics, questions and debates in 19th- and 20th-century African American history. Readings and discussions will consider the ways historians have researched and written about topics such as: the trans-Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, cultural and racial identity formations, gender and sexuality, religion, popular culture and leisure, labor and class, and nationalism and emigration. Readings will include foundational texts, recent scholarship, and primary sources.

This seminar is designed to introduce graduate students to the key topics, questions and debates in 19th- and 20th-century African American history. Readings and discussions will consider the ways historians have researched and written about topics such as: the trans-Atlantic slave trade, resistance movements, cultural and racial identity formations, gender and sexuality, religion, popular culture and leisure, labor and class, and nationalism and emigration. Readings will include classic texts, recent scholarship, and primary sources.

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The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from 1876 to the 1980s. Topics include late 19th-century industrialization, the farm crisis, urbanization; emergence as a world power; the Progressive Era; the 1920s, the Depression, World War II; domestic problems and foreign relations since 1945. Several sections, some emphasizing films. (Gen.Ed. HS)

The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from 1876 to the 1980s. Topics include late 19th-century industrialization, the farm crisis, urbanization; emergence as a world power; the Progressive Era; the 1920s, the Depression, World War II; domestic problems and foreign relations since 1945. Several sections, some emphasizing films. (Gen.Ed. HS)

The development of social, political, economic, and intellectual life in the United States from 1876 to the 1980s. Topics include late 19th-century industrialization, the farm crisis, urbanization; emergence as a world power; the Progressive Era; the 1920s, the Depression, World War II; domestic problems and foreign relations since 1945. Several sections, some emphasizing films. (Gen.Ed. HS)

The purpose of this course is to prepare exploratory track students to achieve academic success at UMass. The curriculum will aim to orient students to the health science fields and the major options within, assist students with major exploration outside of the health sciences, create strategies for academic success, transition to campus life and learn how to effectively navigate and utilize campus resources.

The course is designed to introduce students to the concepts, approaches, methods, and goals of medical anthropology. In doing so we will undertake an examination of the interplay between biology and culture and how health, illness, medicine and therapy exist in different cultures. Central to this concern is the idea that culture plays a central role in definitions of health and illness.