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Major issues and actions from the beginning of the Civil War to the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Focus on political and social history: transition from slavery to emancipation and Reconstruction; the Age of Booker T. Washington; urban migrations, rise of the ghettoes; the ideologies and movements from integrationism to black nationalism. (Gen.Ed. HS, U)

This course charts the life and death of silent cinema from the beginnings of film to the coming of sound (and after). We exhume the cinema's prehistory in motion studies, optical toys, and popular entertainments such as magic lantern shows and wax museums; then survey the critical reception of early cinema and major theoretical debates about the specificity of the film medium. The second half of the course addresses reception in more depth.

In this class, we use ethnographic and historical research to examine what law and kinship can teach us about how the past shapes the present in post-colonial South Asia. We examine how a perspective that seriously considers law and kinship can help us better understand contemporary dilemmas in South Asia, ranging from controversy over women's right to inherit property, to the role of caste in contemporary democratic politics. As we do so, we read ethnographies, historical texts, and primary documents. No prior knowledge about South Asia necessary. (E)

Resisting Aggression with Defense (R.A.D.) addresses violence as a sexist phenomena. Social constructs of masculinity promotes the notion that all men know "to fight" and that they are never the victims of violence. Violence can affect and victimize all genders. Statistics and recorded data indicate that a high percentage of reported aggressive or violent instances involve men in some capacity. This program's directive is the development of realistic and responsible self defense options for men that resist and deescalate confrontational situations.

The Rape Aggression Defense system (R.A.D.) is a program of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques. The system is a comprehensive course for women that begins with risk awareness, prevention, reduction, and avoidance, while progressing on to the basics of hands-on defense training. It is dedicated to teaching women defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense/martial arts tactics. The RAD system of realistic defense provides women with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance.