This course explores black identity as one that is rooted in the politics of space and place. Using the anthropological study of the African Diaspora, we investigate the development of "race" as a category and the construction of political and cultural migrating identities. Scholarly texts are accompanied by ethnography, film, guest lectures and music.

Same as ENG 282. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movements in Afican-American history. This class focuses on developments in politics, and civil rights (NAACP, Urban League, UNIA), creative arts (poetry, prose, painting, sculpture) and urban sociology (modernity, the rise of cities). Writers include Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen among others.

What does death and dying mean in black culture, given the evidentiary history of black death, even the ways that blackness-as an idea-signifies death? Using a cultural studies perspective, this course looks at the distinction between and representational meanings of death and dying in black culture. To do this, we consider different historical periods and cultural forms; we think about gender, sexuality, class, religion, region; we think about genre and nationalism, as well as death and dying's not-too-distant relatives: memory, agency, loss, love. Not open to first-year students.

This course examines historical, critical and theoretical perspectives on the development of Black feminist theory/praxis. The course draws from the 19th century to the present, but focuses on the contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that achieved notoriety in the 1970s and initiated a global debate on "western" and global feminisms. Central to our exploration is the analysis of the intersectional relationship between theory and practice, and of race, to gender and class.

An introduction to some of the major perspectives, themes, and issues in the field of Afro-American studies. Our focus is on the economic, social and political aspects of cultural production, and how these inform what it means to read, write about, view and listen to Black culture.

Explores the social, economic and political causes and effects of the mass protest movements that came to be known as the Arab Spring or the Arab Uprisings. Through a wide range of readings, documentaries, media accounts, social media content, and other materials we dissect the most significant, and still unresolved, political transformations in the Middle East in the last 100 years. A previous course in Middle Eastern politics, history or culture recommended, but not required.

This class explores modes of screenwriting that give weight to cinematic elements usually ignored by orthodox screenplay form. We treat the pictorial and audio-visual as content rather than mere style, and we explore ways to write the visual in addition to dialogue. Throughout the class, the emphasis for student writing is on personal content and human-scaled stories rather than historical film genres. Weekly writing exercises includes both original content and scenes for established characters in finished films or TV shows.

This course explores various aspects of film sound from both a theoretical and a historical perspective. Emphasis is placed on the development of critical listening skills through regular exercises in close listening and audio-visual analysis. Topics addressed include the history of sound technology; the aesthetics and politics of sound design; the voice in cinema; and film music.

Topics course In high school algebra you learned a formula for finding the roots of a quadratic equation. The advanced algebra courses you have had in college probably seemed to have very little in common with that early goal. In this course we return to the problem of how to factor a polynomial. Our work requires learning about the algebraic structures rings and fields. This course begins with the fundamentals of rings and fields and then cover extension fields and Galois theory. Finally, using all this structure we are able to understand fully how to factor polynomials and find their roots.

Same as SDS 220. An application-oriented introduction to modern statistical inference: study design, descriptive statistics; random variables; probability and sampling distributions; point and interval estimates; hypothesis tests, resampling procedures and multiple regression. A wide variety of applications from the natural and social sciences are used. Classes meet for lecture/discussion and for a required laboratory that emphasizes analysis of real data. MTH 220 satisfies the basis requirement for biological science, engineering, environmental science, neuroscience and psychology.