Public opinion about LGBT people and rights has changed dramatically over the last several decades in the direction of increasing acceptance. How can we explain changes over time in public opinion? This course focuses on the role of mass media, thus we examine how portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have shifted over time. Then, we analyze how these portrayals impact attitudes about LGBT people, support for public policies, and voting in elections.

This course will examine high-level vision and memory from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. We will discuss current brain-based theories of high-level vision and memory, including accounts of visual object recognition, accounts of recognition memory and accounts of amnesia. We will examine the organization of these functions in the brain: Does the brain contain a "module" for faces? Do we have a brain region specialized for "expertise"?

This course will provide students with a broad overview of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) across the lifespan. Students will learn about the defining characteristics (behavior, communication, sensory/motor issues) and biological and neurological bases of ASD. Identification and diagnosis, assessment, and approaches to intervention within family and school settings will be discussed. Ethical and cultural issues will also be discussed.

In this seminar graduate students will examine the relationship between the United States and Japan since 1853. After introducing students to the general diplomatic history of US Japan relations, the course will focus on other types of transnational history between the two countries. From gender to religion to race, students will explore the important role that individual actors, organizations, and ideas have played in connecting Japan and the United States, particularly at the sub-state level.

The Vikings are both celebrated and misunderstood in popular culture. This class will use a range of literature and archaeological evidence to explore the historical realities behind the myths. Particular themes will be religion and the role of women.

Not available at this time.

This graduate course surveys the history of sexuality in the Americas with an emphasis on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America in the twentieth century. In reading classic texts and recent works in the field, we will explore the various ways historians have employed sexuality as a category of analysis and how its construction has intersected with formations of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and ability. This course blurs the artificial borders of the nation-state and highlights works that employ a transnational methodology and offer comparative models.

This seminar will explore the history and methodology of the discipline of the history of science, technology, and medicine (HSTM). Readings will include important texts in the history of HSTM since it emerged as a field in the 20th century, as well as more recent examples of various methods and theories that define the state of the field at present.

The roots of racism and sexism and the issues they raise. The cultural, biological, and social contexts of race and gender and examination of biological variation, genetic determinism, human adaptation, and the bases of human behavior. (Gen Ed SB, U)

The definite integral, techniques of integration, and applications to physics, chemistry, and engineering. Sequences, series, and power series. Taylor and MacLaurin series. Students expected to have and use a Texas Instruments 89 Titanium Graphing Calculator. Prerequisite: MATH 131 or equivalent. Honors section available. (Gen.Ed. R2)

[Note: Because this course presupposes knowledge of basic math skills, it will satisfy the R1 requirement upon successful completion.]