This course explores humans' ubiquitous and multifaceted engagement in dance, the psychological foundations of dance, and the psychological outcomes of engaging in dance. Dance can make us feel, can elicit memories, can help us form social connections, and is embedded in culture. We will discuss these interdisciplinary connections between dance and areas of psychological study including cognitive, social, developmental, clinical, and cultural psychology.

Students will be exposed to a variety of advanced statistics and methods commonly used in clinical psychological research. Statistics and methods that will be covered include but are not limited to: data cleaning strategies, moderation, mediation, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Students will complete secondary analyses of pre-existing datasets to answer hypotheses related to advancing our understanding of mental health and well-being.

Arts education is a common experience in childhood and adolescence. This course presents an overview of developmental psychology research methods and research in psychology of the arts. Students will work in teams to analyze multi method longitudinal data on children's K-12 participation in theatre and their development of psychosocial skills. The course will involve methodological considerations including open science practices, data cleaning and management, coding bias, construct validity, reliability, and individual differences, as well as issues surrounding longitudinal studies.

A foundational course tailored for beginners, focusing on the study of vocabulary and grammar within the context of contemporary Italian culture. The curriculum features interactive class activities and discussions, enriched by daily speaking exercises, online activities and projects. By the end of the semester, students will achieve a novice-to-high level of proficiency in understanding, speaking, and writing the Italian language and culture through active engagement.

A foundational course tailored for beginners, focusing on the study of vocabulary and grammar within the context of contemporary Italian culture. The curriculum features interactive class activities and discussions, enriched by daily speaking exercises, online activities and projects. By the end of the semester, students will achieve a novice-to-high level of proficiency in understanding, speaking, and writing the Italian language and culture through active engagement.

A course tailored for beginners who are familiar with ITAL-101 materials, focusing on deepening their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar within the context of contemporary Italian culture. The course curriculum features interactive class activities and discussions, enriched by daily speaking exercises, online activities and projects. By the end of the semester, students will achieve a novice-high level of proficiency in understanding, speaking, and writing the Italian language and culture through active engagement.

Italian Media and Culture is a course tailored for intermediate students. In this course, we focus on deepening our knowledge of contemporary Italian culture through original readings, media (podcasts and pop music), and current news. By the end of the semester students will have a high-intermediate/advanced knowledge of Italian.

This two-credit course will improve students' conversational skills and confidence and will help students communicate more effectively at an intermediate level in Italian. The course will cover a range of topics, from politics, to the professional world, to the environment, to college life, social media, and the arts. Materials include podcasts, short readings, and videos.

This seminar explores Romance languages, literatures and cultures through the prism of translation. By comparing translations from Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian between each other and into English, we will map out the boundaries, intersections and middle grounds of this language family. Students will engage with the different traditions of translation studies in these languages and critically analyze translators' paratexts.

In this course, we will explore the complex history, contested legacy, and contemporary resonance of Weimar Germany, from the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 to Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Was this dynamic interregnum in Germany's political history merely a prelude to catastrophe, or can we understand it instead as a site of daring political experimentation in which radically different visions of democracy, authority, mass politics, and public welfare were all up for grabs?