A course continuing the development of quantitative skills and quantitative literacy begun in MTH/QSK 101. Students continue to exercise and review basic mathematical skills, to reason with quantitative information, to explore the use and power of quantitative reasoning in rhetorical argument, and to cultivate the habit of mind to use quantitative skills as part of critical thinking. Attention is be given to visual literacy regarding graphs, tables and other displays of quantitative information and to cultural attitudes surrounding mathematics. Prerequisites: MTH 101/QSK 101.

This course is a combination of two distinct but related areas of study: studio art and mathematics. Students are actively engaged in the design and fabrication of three-dimensional models that deal directly with aspects of mathematics. The class includes an introduction to basic building techniques with a variety of tools and media. At the same time each student pursues an intensive examination of a particular-individual-theme within studio art practice. The mathematical projects are pursued in small groups. The studio artwork is done individually.

An advanced research and writing workshop on the history of the women's movement in the U.S., with emphasis on the radical organizing traditions and methods of women of color, immigrant women, working-class and LGBTQ communities. Students develop historical research methods as they work with archival materials and historical scholarship.

Topics course. This seminar introduces students to the major themes, debates and works in Latin American environmental history within the larger context of global environmental history and historiography. We trace the changing human-environment relationship over time from before the European conquest of the Americas to the present, the changing ways that historians have approached this issue, and how these historical and historiographical dynamics played out in different regions of Latin America, especially the Caribbean, Mexico and Brazil.

Survey of women's and gender history with focus on race, class and sexuality. Draws on feminist methodologies to consider how study of women's lives changes our understanding of history, knowledge, culture and the politics of resistance. Topics include labor, racial formation, empire, im/migration, popular culture, citizenship, education, religion, medicine, war, consumerism, feminism, queer cultures and globalizing capitalism. Emphasis on class discussion, analysis of original documents, and the emerging, celebrated scholarship in the field of U.S. women's history.

Topics course. Historical debates surrounding slavery, diaspora, gender and social identity, particularly of African-descended people, throughout the Atlantic world, tracing the experiences of black people from Western Africa and the Middle Passage to the British colonies, the United States, Haiti and the British Isles. A focus on enslavement in the United States but also on forced laborers throughout the larger Atlantic World. Particular attention to the historiography of slavery, including methodology, African cultural retentions as well as questions of agency, resistance and humanity.

How much can historians learn about the daily lives of the mass of the population in the past? Can a people's history recapture the thoughts and deeds of subjects as well as rulers? Critical examination of attempts at total history from below for selected English and French locales. The class re-creates families, congregations, guilds and factions in a German town amid the religious controversy and political revolution of the 1840s. 

The emergence, expansion and maintenance of the Russian Empire to 1929. The dynamics of pan-imperial institutions and processes (imperial dynasty, peasantry, nobility, intelligentsia, revolutionary movement), as well as the development of the multitude of nations and ethnic groups conquered by or included into the empire. Focus on how the multinational Russian empire dealt with pressures of modernization (nationalist challenges in particular), internal instability and external threats.

The Mediterranean world from the fall of Rome to the age of conversion. The emergence of the Islamic world, the Byzantine state and the Germanic empire. Topics include the monastic ideal, Sufism and the cult of saints; the emergence of the papacy; kinship and kingship: Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, the high caliphate, and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire; literacy and learning. The decline of public authority and the dominance of personal power in societies built on local relations.

The Mediterranean world from the fall of Rome to the age of conversion. The emergence of the Islamic world, the Byzantine state and the Germanic empire. Topics include the monastic ideal, Sufism and the cult of saints; the emergence of the papacy; kinship and kingship: Charlemagne and the Carolingian renaissance, the high caliphate, and the continuation of the Eastern Roman Empire; literacy and learning. The decline of public authority and the dominance of personal power in societies built on local relations.