A hands-on workshop in the production of documentary films. Students will learn about the art and craft of non-fiction filmmaking and create two to three short documentaries using high definition video and Adobe Premiere editing suites.

This exploration of historical methodologies aims to help students learn to locate, evaluate and synthesize primary sources. Students in this course undertake original primary source research through a detailed semester-long investigation of a single historical event. Topics vary by instructor.

Few periods in United States. history experienced as much change and turmoil as the "Long Sixties" (1954-1975), when powerful social movements overhauled American gender norms, restructured the Democratic and Republican parties, and abolished the South's racist "Jim Crow" regime. This course examines the movements that defined this era.

A seminar on literary criticism east and west, from the classical period to the Renaissance in Europe, as well as in ancient China and the medieval Islamic world. Commonalities in all our texts: what constitutes art and beauty in verbal expression? What is the purpose of literature? Who may have access to literature? What are sacred and canonical texts, and how shall they be approached? What is the connection between literature and truth, literature and morality? What are the proper techniques for composing good literature? What is the function of the study of rhetoric?

This course offers extensive practice of literary translation with readings of key texts by translators of Iberian and Latin American literatures. Students will work on a semester-long project of their choice that is a translation involving any language combination of Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, and English. As students become familiar with the varying views of translation, they will develop their ability to talk and write about translators' strategies and choices, and recognize translation as a scholarly activity.

What are the most pressing issues facing children and adolescents today, and how do we, as psychological scientists, apply problem solving to address those issues and generate potential solutions? In this seminar, we will work together as a whole class and in smaller teams to address these questions, within six broad domains in childhood: abuse/maltreatment, poverty, chronic health conditions, school readiness and failure, learning disabilities, and psychopathology.

Functional MRI has become one of the leading methods in cognitive neuroscience for exploring brain-behavior relationships. Through a combination of lectures and lab exercises involving real functional MRI data, this course provides students with the conceptual and hands-on experience they will need to independently design and analyze functional MRI studies. Students will learn to use MATLAB/SPM for analyzing functional MRI data.

This course will explore current events using a Social Psychological lens. This course implores students to delve deeply into the news of today and explore the underlying motivations and consequences of global events.