This course will examine heterosexism and transgender oppression in K-12 schools in the U.S. Additionally, this course will focus on how teachers and administrators can work to create transformative and liberatory spaces for GLBT youth in education. Students will be introduced to topics such as nontraditional family structures, bullying, bystander intervention, youth development and adultism.

This course provides an overview of the immigrant rights movement, emphasizing diverse undocumented Latina/o students throughout the K-20 pipeline.

This course introduces various genres of children's literature, including literature for adolescents; explores equity and social justice issues; and examines approaches to using literature in the preK-12 curriculum with an emphasis on social-emotional learning and making literature accessible to all learners. Students will read a variety of texts across genres and discuss ways to integrate literature into curriculum and learning as they expand their knowledge and appreciation of children's literature. Literature will be examined from multiple perspectives.

This course explores writings by women in French-speaking Africa from its early beginnings in the late 1970s to the present. Special attention will be given to social, political, gender, and aesthetic issues.

Study of twentieth-century narratives of childhood from French-speaking cultures. How has the conception of childhood varied across time and different societies? What forms and techniques have writers, filmmakers, and artists used to render early life experiences? With what social, psychological, and aesthetic issues have their stories engaged? What ideologies underlie and limit the Western 'family romance' model of development?

The field of chemical biology applies chemical perspectives and tools to the study of biological systems. In this course, we will examine the ways that synthetic chemistry has provided techniques that support, complement, and expand on those used in biochemistry, drug discovery, and molecular and cell biology. Topics may include solid phase biomolecule synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, bioconjugation, molecular probes, protein engineering, drug delivery, and synthetic biology.

Leonardo da Vinci ushered in the High Renaissance in painting and established an archetype for the visionary that persists to this day. Artist, architect, military engineer, scientist, and author, he has been credited with inventing the helicopter and corkscrew, not to mention new modes of representation. His best known works--the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, the Vitruvian Man--are among the foremost icons of western culture. In this seminar, our goal is to look at these paradigms, and Leonardo himself, with fresh eyes.

The seminar explores the early history of liberal arts college collections and the pioneering women who founded them. Research in the college archives and museum and department files will supply answers to how and when marble sculpture, plaster casts, and scientific specimens came to Mount Holyoke. The course illuminates a major, forgotten role of women in shaping of the liberal arts in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Final projects will culminate in a virtual exhibition and WordPress site that will be linked to museum and department websites.

Certain American films stand out as works of art by combining strong narrative structure with striking visual presence. Ten of those films, from the silent era to the present, will be studied. In addition to weekly discussion, students will be responsible for analyzing opening sequences. Among the films to be considered are: The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, Sunset Boulevard, Touch of Evil, Vertigo, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Do the Right Thing, and Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Bombarded daily by thousands of images, we often lack sufficient visual literacy to understand fully how they shape our reality. The course explores roles that images have played in earlier cultures and in our own, how people view, analyze, and articulate their understanding of the visual world. Topics include living statues, votive offerings, voodoo figures, relics, idolatry, iconoclasm, propaganda, and censorship.