Topics course. How much control does or should a writer have over his or her public image? Should artists be held responsible for the political or social consequences of their work? How do such questions as censorship and plagiarism play out when racial, religious or sexual difference is at stake? This course examines literary texts and essays by some of the more controversial names in contemporary Francophone literature, to be studied alongside films, interviews, television appearances, and critical and popular reviews.

Why can some writers be called intellectuals? What is an intellectual? Why are French intellectuals unique? This course studies the emergence of political activism and the figure of the French "intellectual engage" through readings from key social and historical moments and from a variety of genres. We trace how public debates on highly controversial topics such as intolerance, fanaticism, the death penalty, feminism, racism, and the role of media have influenced intellectuals to become committed to transforming French politics and society.

This course examines the connections between natural resource management and environmental justice in the U.S. and the Global South. We study the benefits and limits of traditional top-down approaches to the management of forests, land, fisheries, biodiversity, underground resources, water, food, and genomes in different parts of the world.

Same as ENV 150. A geographic information system (GIS) manages location-based (spatial) information and provides the tools to display and analyze it. GIS provides the capabilities to link databases and maps and to overlay, query and visualize those databases in order to analyze and solve problems in many diverse fields. This course provides an introduction to the fundamental elements of GIS and applies the analysis of spatial data to issues in geoscience, environmental science, and public policy. Enrollment limited to 20.

Same as GEO 150. A geographic information system (GIS) manages location-based (spatial) information and provides the tools to display and analyze it. GIS provides the capabilities to link databases and maps and to overlay, query, and visualize those databases in order to analyze and solve problems in many diverse fields. This course provides an introduction to the fundamental elements of GIS and applies the analysis of spatial data to issues in geoscience, environmental science, and public policy. Enrollment limited to 20.

Topics course. This capstone course for the environmental concentration in climate change brings together students to work on team-based projects related to climate change. Project work is complemented by lectures, readings, discussions and field trips throughout the Pioneer Valley. Enrollment limited to 15. (E)

Topics course. Victorians mourned and marked their dead with elegies and stone angels, novels and black ostrich plumes. This course studies the representation and commemoration of the dead in literature, art and social practice. Readings from poetry, fiction, theory and etiquette books, in the context of mourning attire from Smith's Historic Clothing Collection and a range of objects from other archives. Particular attention to ways in which grief intersected with Victorian discourses of gender, sexuality, race and class.

We explore the ways in which medieval and early modern poets addressed their monarchs using the language of gender and how those texts conveyed carefully constructed and sometimes concealed messages. We begin with Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, a courtly poem that displays Chaucer's talents as poet, translator, and dramatist, a poem as dazzling as his Canterbury Tales, and like the Tales, informed by the political tensions of Ricardian England.

Same as AAS 245. A study of one of the first cohesive cultural movement in African-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 and subjects include Zora Neale Hurston, David Levering Lewis, Gloria Hull, Langston Hughes, and Nella Larsen among others. Enrollment limited to 40.

Topics course.