This seminar in social and literary studies of childhood will take up multiple perspectives on young people as writers of poetry. We will explore the work of recent scholars in childhood studies, literary studies, children's literature studies, and critical literacy studies who contemplate questions about young people as consumers and/or producers of culture; as potential poets in the future and/or actual poets in the present; as objects of adult teachers' pedagogical ideas and/or as subjects producing and performing their own ideas and artistry.

The mental health professions offer a range of approaches for the treatment of human suffering but there is often little explanation as to what the various treatments are and how they are thought to work. A central question this class will pursue is on what basis should one choose a psychotherapist and type of psychotherapy? We will examine what psychotherapy is from a range of perspectives with the intention of developing a moral and ethical framework through which psychotherapeutic practice can be critically understood.

Lions and Maasai, elephants and Bushmen, camels and Tuareg - Africa is seen as the continent of colorful cultures, picturesque people and thatched huts. This course introduces students to some of the key themes and debates in the anthropology of tourism, exploring the commodification of culture and nature in Africa as objects with marketable value.

Scholars are accustomed to using the term "history" in the dual sense of both historical events and the writing of history. In recent years, they have also turned increasingly to the relationship between "history and memory": as the journal of that name puts it, "the manifold ways in which the past shapes the present and is shaped by present perceptions." The course explores some of the ways that groups and individuals have recalled, interpreted, and appropriated the past, primarily in modern and contemporary Central Europe.

This writing seminar is open to all Division II and III students who are undertaking a major research and writing project. Students will present their work-in-progress several times during the semester and will be required to provide thoughtful written feedback on one another's work. Together we will provide a supportive, engaging, and intellectually challenging community in which to workshop our work and address shared issues of writing. The focus of the seminar will be on writing narratives and history, but all research interests are welcome.

Recently, several states including New York, Massachusetts and California have passed Domestic Workers Bill of Rights legislation. This legislation establishes clear standards for defining the length of the work day, the right to sick days and maternity leave as well as appropriate rest and meal breaks. These recent victories bode well for future organizing efforts, but also draw inspiration from historical movements of domestic, laundry and hospital workers.

When discussing conflict, it is common for the language of reconciliation to be deployed as if its meaning and requirements are common knowledge. Further, it is assumed that reconciliation is somehow necessarily connected to forgiveness and truth, such that figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu suggest we can have "No Future Without Forgiveness." Peace workers, however, tend to have very specific and contextually dependent understandings of reconciliation that often seem in tension with other accounts.

This course investigates the roles of law, culture and technology in creating and re-defining families. It focuses on the ways in which systems of reproduction reinforce and/or challenge inequalities of class, race and gender. We examine the issues of entitlement to parenthood, LBGTQ families, domestic and international adoption, surrogacy, birthing and parenting for people in prison, and the uses, consequences and ethics of new reproductive technologies. The questions addressed included: How does a person's status affect their relation to reproductive alternatives?

Ever since Leonardo da Vinci produced his anatomical drawings and German artists studied corpses of executed prisoners, the visual arts and the medical sciences converged. While artists strove for the anatomically "correct" representation of eroticized male and female nudes, scientists enhanced the truth-value of their anatomical drawings by employing the new classicizing style. Also in religious art, spiritual truths were conveyed in a sensuous, erotic manner, as the many depictions of semi-nude saints, Christ, and the Virgin Mary demonstrate.

This course will explore the legal regime in the United States in which citizens and activists work to protect public health and the environment, and various approaches to environmental activism. How does the law help protect us and our environment? What are its shortfalls? Who are the stakeholders in this system? What can you do to make change happen?