This course will examine the development of Afro-American music during the twentieth century with an especial focus on links to the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement. In particular, the class will survey the variegated styles and productions of artists, including Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, James P.

This seminar will sample the recent critical debate on truth, representation and relativism; we will look at a selection of scientists, critics, writers, and artists as well, in order to describe a variety of dances on the head of this pin. Ours will be a cross-disciplinary investigation of the claims on truth - or the will to truth - across a

Students in this workshop course will learn about the emerging field of
Social Justice Humanities by connecting with a series of case studies
that illustrate ways that historians can contribute to national
dialogues around pressing social issues.

The seminar deals with the role of the court painting and design atelier in the three late Islamic Empires: Ottoman Turkey, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India, with special attention to arts of the book and architectural decoration.

Workforce planning includes strategic assessment of internal and external labor markets, the legal context, and the future labor needs of the organization. Effective recruiting requires identification of labor sources, targeting talent, and training recruiters. Employee selection topics include measurement, assessment, and hiring of candidates. Post-hire issues including socialization, retention, and separation are also covered.

This is an intensive graduate reading and discussion seminar, which approaches infrastructure networks as geographically interconnected constellations of technology and material flow, organized by institutions, policy, and economic and political relationships. Many of the readings will draw from the professor's expertise in dams, hydropower, and electric grids and policy, but readings will also touch on other water and energy infrastructure and policy, transportation networks, and perhaps other kinds of infrastructures.

Explore the history of food and its influence on present day culinary trends. Investigate international cuisines and food traditions. Learn how to plan events for special occasions, create menus, and provide competent service to guests from diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities.

This course examines the ways US lands, waters and resources are organized by policies and law, how this has changed over time, and why. We examine underlying structures of law and policy that are often taken for granted. We uncover the political-economic origins of key policies, and trace their long-term social and environmental effects. A key goal is creative and critical comparison: thinking about different ways land, waters, resources and policy have been or might be organized, how and why this changed or might change, and the consequences for the environment and people.

For this course, fiction, film, poetry, music and video games will be our primary texts.

The roots of racism and sexism and the issues they raise. The cultural, biological, and social contexts of race and gender and examination of biological variation, genetic determinism, human adaptation, and the bases of human behavior. (Gen Ed SB, U)