This course explores the legal status of women in the United States historically and today, focusing in the areas of employment, education, sexuality, reproduction, the family and violence. We study constitutional and statutory law as well as public policy. Some of the topics we cover are sexual harassment, domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination, and pregnancy discrimination. We study feminist activism to reform the law and examine how inequalities based on gender, race, class and sexuality shape the law.

Topics course. An overview of Korean film history, from its colonial beginnings to the present, tracing the correlation between film and major historical, political and cultural events or shifts over the past century. Topically organized, the course covers some major moments in modern Korean (film) history, and explores issues of cultural identity in the ways that the domestic movie industry has interacted with the foreign filmic audience.

This course examines the emergence of queer studies during the early 1990's and explores the shape the decade takes through analyses of politics and popular culture. The Queer '90s historically situates queer studies within the Clinton era-amid the AIDS crisis, the backlash against identity politics and conservative attacks against the National endowments of the Arts.

Same as EAS 100. This introductory course looks comparatively at the histories of China, Japan and Korea from the late 18th century to the present. It examines the struggles of these countries to preserve or regain their independence and establish their national identities in a rapidly emerging and often violent modern world order. Although each of these countries has its own distinctive identity, their overlapping histories (and dilemmas) give the region a coherent identity. We also look at how individuals respond to and are shaped by larger historical movements. Open to all students.

Topics course. This class looks at how Latin American filmmakers and writers have imagined this region's place in the post Cold War global configuration since the 1990s. Through the analysis of films such as Amores Perros (2000), and El secreto de sus ojos (2009), as well as recent literary works by authors from various backgrounds, students explore cultural production as an alternate means of negotiating conflicts related to immigration, drug trafficking, free trade agreements, media and consumer culture and continuing political instability.

Same as EAS 100. This introductory course looks comparatively at the histories of China, Japan and Korea from the late 18th century to the present. It examines the struggles of these countries to preserve or regain their independence and establish their national identities in a rapidly emerging and often violent modern world order. Although each of these countries has its own distinctive identity, their overlapping histories (and dilemmas) give the region a coherent identity. We also look at how individuals respond to and are shaped by larger historical movements. Open to all students.

Topics course. This course embarks upon the critical study of both the past and the contemporary Spanish-speaking world by examining the relationship between cuisine, race and national identity. Through native and imported foodways we interpret the history of Spain, Latin America, the U.S. Southwest and the Ottoman Empire by examining migrations, empires, multiple geographic locations and identity.

Same as EAS 100. This introductory course looks comparatively at the histories of China, Japan and Korea from the late 18th century to the present. It examines the struggles of these countries to preserve or regain their independence and establish their national identities in a rapidly emerging and often violent modern world order. Although each of these countries has its own distinctive identity, their overlapping histories (and dilemmas) give the region a coherent identity. We also look at how individuals respond to and are shaped by larger historical movements. Open to all students.

Same as EAS 100. This introductory course looks comparatively at the histories of China, Japan and Korea from the late 18th century to the present. It examines the struggles of these countries to preserve or regain their independence and establish their national identities in a rapidly emerging and often violent modern world order. Although each of these countries has its own distinctive identity, their overlapping histories (and dilemmas) give the region a coherent identity. We also look at how individuals respond to and are shaped by larger historical movements. Open to all students.

Topics course. This course makes reference to the pioneering legacy of key figures in Brazilian filmmaking, such as Susana Amaral, Helena Solberg and Tizuka Yamasaki. These directors' early works addressed issues of gender and social class biases by subtly shifting the focus of their films to marginalized or peripheral subjects. We also examine the work of contemporary filmmakers, among them Lucia Murat, Tata Amaral, Lais Bodanzky and Anna Muylaert, focusing on the ways in which they incorporate sociopolitical topics and/or gender issues. Course conducted in Portuguese.