Lecture: For nonscience majors. Introductory survey of astronomy. How we learn about the Universe and what we already know of it, how it originated, evolves, and its ultimate fate. Emphasis on modern research in solar phenomena, stellar evolution (including white dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars, and black holes) and galaxy studies (including quasars).

This course is designed to develop the core financial management competencies needed for success in large and small organizations. Students will learn the tools and techniques for effective planning and budgeting as well as how to control, evaluate and revise plans. The use and development of internal and external financial reports will be studied with an emphasis on using financial information in decision-making. Special emphasis will be placed on current regulations and trends as they impact public and nonprofit financial management.

This course traces the development of Buddhist thought and practice in America, and considers what it means to be Buddhist (or to practice Buddhism) in the United States. Topics to be considered include: socially engaged Buddhism, the secularization of meditation, Buddhist practice in prisons, and science and Buddhism. Film screenings and site visits to local Buddhist organizations are required outside of regular class meetings.

An introductory course surveying fundamental principles and findings in classical and contemporary psychology. Students must enroll in a discussion section. Discussion sections are limited to 22.

This course will explore the concept of environmental human rights, focusing on the environmental justice movement in the United States and its global linkages to environmental human rights law. Course materials focus on the similarities and differences between legislative, administrative, judicial and international organization responses to toxic and hazardous environmental conditions. Who has power, and how do those in power interface with communities most affected by environmental injustices?

The history of the novel in America has always been intertwined with the production of an image of the American man. From Hawthorne's attempt to best the "mobs of scribbling women" to the idealized loner cowboy, from the hard-boiled journalistic prose of Hemingway to the misogynist rantings of Roth, we might say that the epitome of the American self-made man is the novelistic protagonist. In this course, we will combine literary study and gender theory to begin to examine the myth of the American man, considering both how it is constructed and undermined in American literature.

Cultural anthropology helps us better understand processes of power -- interrogating structural inequality and injustice, resistance and identity, whether local or global. It does this through its principle method, ethnography: the on-the-ground investigation of practices and meanings in people's daily lives. In this course, we will critically analyze ethnographies on a range of intersecting topics (including class, race, gender, and global migration). We also will explore the power of ethnographic representations and the ethnographic method itself.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, covering the major concepts and puzzles in both historical and logical contexts, including non-locality and indeterminacy. Designed for the non-scientist, although proficiency in high school algebra is assumed.

Poet, playwright, dramaturge, stage director, screenwriter, musician, painter, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca also symbolizes the resistance to Francoist repression and has become an icon for LGBT and left-wing activists. His figure epitomizes the collective memory of the Spanish Civil War, and he is arguably the most canonical author in twentieth-century Spanish literature. This course will study Lorca's poetic and dramatic production, and the body of criticism of his texts paying special attention to the use of critical theory in the analysis of his works.