This seminar is based on gene expression being influenced by our choices- what we eat, physical activity, environment, and overall lifestyle. It is fascinating how we can choose to live well by modifying our intake or activities and in turn controlling the expression of genes that are directly related to obesity, diabetes, CVD, and cancer.

This seminar will provide evidence-based research regarding how technology can be used to change behavior. While the focus will be on changing physical activity and sedentary behavior, students will also learn how these technologies can be applied to other behaviors of interest (e.g., diet, alcohol intake).

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In this course, students will learn to evaluate and interpret images by considering their social and cultural function and examining their potential to create meaning and communicate ideas. Students will consider how they currently create and consume images, and thereby explore the influence of images on their lives.

This course homes in on the nexus of political contestation and legal
interventions over the question of same-sex marriage. Drawing on legal
studies, sociology, anthropology, comparative religion, history and other
interdisciplinary scholarship, we will investigate how same-sex marriage
fits into post-Cold War American political and legal culture, with an
emphasis on the social movements and political entities which have forced
the issue via traditional activism, media spectacle and lawfare.

This seminar is a required course for Commonwealth Honors College students where students participate in a topical seminar-style course designed by its instructor. While the subject matter of each section is different, advanced knowledge of the topic is not required. While the subject matter of each section is different, the requirements for each section are the same. In this colloquium, students will engage deeply with material they have already encountered in the regular section of the course through further readings, conversation, and group work.

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