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This course examines the mapping of race, gender, and sexuality onto Latinx bodies in popular culture. Working chronologically from the early 20th century to the present, we will examine popular depictions of Latinx people in television, film, music, and print culture. In particular, we will analyze how moral panic has been historically displaced onto Latinx bodies - from Carmen Miranda to Alicia Machado. We will also consider Latinx bodies as agents of resistance to normative discourses, such as those of purity, cleanliness, and religiosity.

Continuation of SPANISH 301. Prerequisite: SPANISH 301 or consent of instructor.

This course will explore the role that community supervision plays in the U.S. Criminal Justice System. The course will span the evolution of probation services from the 19th Century father of probation, John Augustus, to the modern day focus on evidence based practices supervision. Likewise, the history of parole will be explored from its origin in England and Ireland to its current practice in community corrections. We will also focus on the federal probation system, which is practiced across the United States and its territories.

This course will look at the ways policing and surveillance shape our social lives. While the two topics overlap, they are not identical, and this course will examine them both separately and together. Topics covered will include procedural justice, the role of trust in police-citizen interactions, police discretion, privacy and place, social media, and corporate surveillance.

Basic issues in political sociology and politics: interaction between the political and social-cultural spheres, sources and manifestations of political inequality; variety of social conflict and its major theories; relationship between political ideas and political behavior. Issues of political violence and coercion, political propaganda and legitimation, intellectuals and political power.

This courses focuses on five data collection techniques: participant observation, respondent interviewing, informant interviewing, systematic observation of naturally occurring behavior, and documents and archives.

An interdisciplinary course exploring the 19th-century revival of the Viking image, using literature, philosophy, music and the visual arts to trace the motif as an expression of nationalism ca. 1800-1914. One course objective is to introduce major Scandinavian cultural figures such as H. C. Andersen, Kerkegaard, Ibsen, Sibelius, and Edvard Munch in their cultural contexts.

The Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for his nearly 200 tales and stories. Andersen's overall literary legacy, however, also includes novels, poems, dramas, and travel books. This course offers students the opportunity to gain an appreciation of Andersen the complete artist. We will begin the course by examining some of Andersen's most popular tales.

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