This course introduces students to fundamental calculus concepts. The course prioritizes mathematical thinking, underlying concepts, and clear communication while de-emphasizing symbolic manipulation and rote exercises. We will apply the ideas of calculus such as derivatives, related rates, optimization, and integrals in a variety of contexts including epidemiology, ecology, and environmental sustainability. Students will use computers routinely to carry out calculations, experiment with parameter choices, and create informative graphs.

Fundamental forces of electricity and magnetism govern the interactions of atoms and molecules, and consequently most of macroscopic processes, from biological to astrophysical. Physics II is an introductory course on electromagnetic theory and covers topics such as electromagnetic induction, electric circuits, and physical and geometric optics. The course will approach these topics in the active-learning style, with problem-solving sessions and mini-lectures.

This is a Lab section for NS-205, Physics II and students must be concurrently enrolled in both

What is an empire? Is the United States an empire? These are just some of the questions we are dealing with throughout the semester. We are going to learn about the concept of "empire" (and all its attendant themes and topics) through the lens of Philippine history. This course therefore provides you with a chance to learn not only about the culture and history of a non-U.S./non-Western country, but also the way empires are created, sustained, and maintained.

This course is an introduction to the rich and growing field of medical anthropology: its theories, methods, and applications. Course materials will include full length ethnographies as well as a variety of shorter texts and visual work. Topics will include the culture of medicine, the experience of illness, immigration, embodiment, caregiving, addiction, violence, and humanitarian intervention. We will focus on how ethnographic research and social theory can enrich understanding of (and raise issues about) medicine and public health that are often left out of other disciplinary approaches.

This course brings together African American literary studies, critical children's literature studies, and childhood studies to think about Black children as the audience, subjects, or authors of poetry primarily in the mid to late 20th century United States. A major focus of the course is the work of Gwendolyn Brooks in the genres of poetry for young audiences and poetry for adults on themes of childhood.

This work-in-progress Div III seminar is designed for students in their first or second semester of work on a Division III project in areas related to critical social inquiry including (but not limited to) critical youth studies, critical education studies, and interdisciplinary projects spanning critical social inquiry and humanities and/or arts. Students will conduct multiple work-in-progress presentations on their project and will be expected to provide timely and thoughtful feedback on peers' written work.

We will read short fiction and narrative essays from published authors in order to better understand the decisions they made and how those decisions serve their narratives. In other words, we will read and try to understand their decisions by trying to read them as writers would. We will also think through how these pieces consider the effects of trauma on the body, identity, psyche, and how these authors use these effects to better form their narratives. Authors to include Lahiri, Kincaid, O'Connor, Alexie, and Adichie.

Employs an intersectional philosophical approach to the study of human sexuality. Specific topics include ethical, epistemological (knowledge), and political questions related to sexual orientation, lust, casual sex, adultery, love, sexual orientation and practice, different types of relationships, and the intersectionality of sexual identity and orientation with other identities such as race, gender, and disability status.