Advanced survey of the development of theoretical and analytical approaches in geography emphasizing philosophy of science and current approaches and methodologies. Practical discussions and exercises in framing research projects, and proposal, grant, and thesis writing. Students lead discussions in their areas of specialization. Primarily for entering graduate students in Geography.

Principles and practices governing the establishment and management of small fruit plantings. Basic botany course suggested.

Water is one of the basic elements needed for life systems to exist and survive. While it is abundant in supply, it is not always available where it is needed. This course will cover concepts and issues related to managing water resources through regional and global ecosystem perspectives.

Perhaps no genre has addressed the prospect of the world's end more fully than science fiction. In many science fiction narratives, the end of the world spells disaster. A future is imagined in which sinister forces threaten the continuation of life as we know it. In other narratives, leaving the world behind may represent a kind of liberation: from the tedium of everyday life, or from oppressive contemporary social and political systems. This course presents a series of investigations focused on compelling moments, themes and expressions within the wider universe of science fiction.

This course examines social structures and meanings that shape contemporary family life. Students look at the ways that race, class and gender shape the ways that family is organized and experienced. Topics include the social construction of family, family care networks, parenthood, family policy, globalization and work. Prerequisite SOC 101. Enrollment limited to 35.

This seminar provides a guided tour through the scientific literature on psychotherapy. We begin with a historical overview of the field including a review of the major systems of psychotherapy (psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and humanistic). We then devote some time to developing critical skills for reading the scientific literature.

Introduction to reading, writing, and speaking Yiddish as a step toward understanding the Eastern European Jewish cultural legacy. For beginning students with no prior knowledge of the language.

This course will begin by studying gender and race in Brazil as it appears in the work of three Brazilian scholars?the sociologist Gilberto Freyre's Masters and Slaves, the historian Junia Furtado's Chica da Silva: a Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century, and the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro's The Brazilian People: the Formation and Meaning of Brazil?that show the ways gender and race remain interrelated in Brazilian society since colonization.

This seminar will consider gender, sexuality, and race in the realm of the law, with a focus on questions of identity, privacy, and the family. Drawing on U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence, gender and sexuality studies, sociological literature, policy papers, documentary, and international law, we will examine the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race are constructed, contested, and regulated within legal, legislative, and juridical frameworks, across systems, spaces, and temporalities.