Topics course. This course addresses a broad range of urban, social and cultural issues while also strengthening skills in oral expression, reading and writing, through the medium of short stories, essays, articles, images, music and film. In order to promote a hands-on approach to understanding culture, class assignments also encourage students to explore the Brazilian community in Boston. Prerequisite: POR 100Y or POR 125 or the equivalent.

This course applies a sociological lens to understanding inequality in American higher education. We examine how the conflicting purposes of higher education have led to a highly stratified system of colleges and universities. We also address the question of how students' social class, race, ethnicity and gender affect their chances of successfully navigating this stratified system of higher education. Finally, we examine selected public policies aimed at minimizing inequality in students' access to and success in college. Prerequisites: SOC 101 and permission of the instructor.

Topics course. A study of the individual's struggle for self-definition in society: from the superfluous man, through the underground man, to the role of women. Emphasis on the social, political, and ideological context of the works considered. Authors treated include Pushkin, Lermontov,Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. In translation.

The concepts and relations (force, energy and momentum) describing physical interactions and the changes in motion they produce, along with applications to the physical and life sciences. Lab experiments, lectures and problem-solving activities are interwoven into each class. Discussion sections offer additional help with mathematics, data analysis and problem solving. This course satisfies medical school and engineering requirements for an introductory physics I course with labs.

The concepts and relations (force, energy and momentum) describing physical interactions and the changes in motion they produce, along with applications to the physical and life sciences. Lab experiments, lectures and problem-solving activities are interwoven into each class. Discussion sections offer additional help with mathematics, data analysis and problem solving. This course satisfies medical school and engineering requirements for an introductory physics I course with labs.

Same as HST 260. The development of Latin American society during the period of Spanish and Portuguese rule. Social and cultural change in Native American societies as a result of colonialism. The contributions of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans to the new multi-ethnic societies that emerged during the three centuries of colonization and resistance. The study of sexuality, gender ideologies and the experiences of women are integral to the course and essential for understanding political power and cultural change in colonial Latin America. Basis for LALS major.

Topics course. This course examines the vagaries of reconstructing and reorienting culture and society in occupied Germany and Austria after 1945. Attempts to create a new culture out of the devastation of the war not only had to confront challenges of a material, existential and artistic nature, but also the influx of new impulses from abroad in film and radio that competed with more traditional cultural media. Works by Bachmann, Boll, Eich, Aichinger and many others. Conducted in German. Prerequisite: GER 250 or equivalent.

The physical and psychological components of stress, identification of personal stress response patterns and techniques for daily stress management. Enrollment limited to 20. 

This course explores the ways in which philosophers and artists have imagined the links between language and the world. We read mostly pre-20th century theories of language-Plato's Cratylus, St.

A study of the major writers of modern Africa with emphasis on several key questions: in what contexts did modern African literature emerge? Is the term "African literature" a useful category? How do African writers challenge Western representations of Africa? How do they articulate the crisis of independence and postcoloniality? How do women writers reshape our understanding of gender and the politics of resistance? Texts may include Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ng?g?