This course is a critical overview and investigation of health as it relates to the experiences of gender and sexual minority people. We will begin with exploring theoretical understandings of health and marginalization, and use those as frameworks to examine various domains of health. Areas of interest will include mental health, sexual and reproductive health, substance use, disability, and issues related to body size and image. We will end by looking at other structural issues that affect gender and sexual minority health, such as access to care, health education, and health policy.

This is a performance seminar focusing on the female characters in Shakespeare and using Tina Packer's (Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company) Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays as the jumping-off point for exploration of Shakespeare's plays. In her book, Packer traces the evolution of Shakespeare's female characters, while examining his own growth as a writer from youthful misogynist, to lover, to unabashed feminist.

This class offers junior and senior majors training and guidance in various forms of graduate- and professional-level presentation, including preparation of/for portfolios, application letters and statements, interviews, auditions, talks, writing samples, and the effective use of digital tools. Designed to facilitate a successful transition to professional work in theatre or to advanced study, the course is structured in part according to the needs of the majors who enroll.

This course offers a broad survey of American drama in the context of performance traditions such as minstrelsy, melodrama, realism, the Broadway musical, and the avant-garde. We read works that challenge and expand concepts of national identity and their connection to discourses of race, class, ethnicity, and gender. How do the characters and landscapes of these plays reflect historical events and theatrical inventions? What do they tell us about what it means to be an 'American,' and how have our answers changed over time?

During the Spanish Empire (16th-18th centuries), witches, prostitutes, transvestite warriors, lesbians and daring noblewomen and nuns violated the social order by failing to uphold the expected sexual morality of the ideal woman. They were silenced, criticized, punished, and even burned at the stake. Students will study contradictory discourses of good and evil and beauty and ugliness in relation to gender in the Spanish Empire.

This course will introduce students to the various varieties of Spanish throughout the world including North and South America, Spain, North Africa and regions where Judeo-Spanish is spoken. Topics will include the historical reasons for the presence and development of Spanish in different regions and the main causes of language variation, such as contact with other languages and social factors. The analysis of oral texts (audio and video recordings) will be a main component of the coursework.

This course investigates the creative economy through a sociological lens. Through case studies of various creative industries, as well as examination of the creative sector as a whole, we will examine how the cultural economy influences, and is influenced by, social phenomena. We will explore issues such as how value is produced in the field of fashion modeling, how music and other creative industries drive urban economies, how local crafts enter global markets, and how norms and values influence the adoption of e-commerce in the market for fine art.

What is "culture"? How has it changed over time? This course examines the definition (including religion, language, food, etc.), the social settings in which culture is produced, and the products of culture we consume (literature, film, music, painting, theatre, fashion, popular magazines, graffiti, and television, etc.). Course topics include: how to analyze culture and who produces it, the forces shaping markets for artistic objects and performances, politics and culture, the effects of censorship, globalization, and class differences.

How do we end political violence and achieve peace? This course focuses on the context for negotiation and bargaining strategies, including what types of actors are involved in negotiations, the contours of the mediation environment, the timing of intervention and talks, the use of leverage to get warring parties to the table, and the transformation of processes across multiple stages from initial mediation to implementation to enforcement.

What is ethical life and what is its relationship to democratic politics? Ethical life, or sittlichkeit, refers not to ethics but to the patterns of norms, habit, and thinking that elaborate, compliment, or resist laws and political institutions. In this course, we will explore how the sphere of ethical life that is outside of political rule and legislation influences the shape of our politics. Our first readings, which will include Hegel, Nietzsche, William Connolly, and Judith Butler, will help us learn how theorists have understood the relationship between ethical and political life.