Consideration of some of the most important theories about right and wrong, good and evil, and virtue and vice. In each case, one focus will be on clear and accurate formulation of the theory. Another focus will be on understanding and evaluating classic objections to the theory. Readings from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Bentham, Mill, Kant, Ross, Moore, and others. (Gen.Ed. AT)

This course will study critical digital media production, using the Prison Birth Project's work at the intersection of the reproductive justice movement and the battle for incarcerated people's rights as the applied focus of course work. Assigned readings will focus on documentary ethics and questions of representation, reproductive justice and the carceral state, grassroots fundraising, alternative organizational structures, and the relationship between art and activism.

This class examines the role of material culture in American life as a historical lens to interpret the values and meanings people assign to things. We will consider the world in which we live as a means to better understand how human behavior both affects and is affected by material culture. All societies articulate with and are, in part, embodied in and informed by material culture. This is especially true of modern American culture with its "embarrassment of riches" and things.

This course sets canonical Jewish American literature in creative dialogue with contemporary Jewish American writers, filmmakers, and performance artists to explore how early twentieth-century figures (Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Henry Roth) continue to influence --inspire--a rising generation of authors. The key mediating figure in this generational dialogue is Philip Roth, whose work we will examine as well.

This course sets canonical Jewish American literature in creative dialogue with contemporary Jewish American writers, filmmakers, and performance artists to explore how early twentieth-century figures (Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Henry Roth) continue to influence --inspire--a rising generation of authors. The key mediating figure in this generational dialogue is Philip Roth, whose work we will examine as well.

Since the 1990s Latin America has witnessed increasing societal and political debates over sexual and reproductive rights. Issues such as abortion, gay marriage, transgender rights, sexual education and assisted reproductive technology have risen to the top of some countries' agendas after decades of silence, taboos, and restrictive or non-existent legislation. The course aims to provide a survey of sexual and reproductive rights in the region as a whole while at the same time highlighting the disparities that exist within it.