This course will explore a variety of questions and concerns about the 'Islamic constant presence' in Spanish history in order to understand critically the emphatic interest of ISIS in reconquering Spain. From an interdisciplinary perspective employing historical and literary texts, media, legal documents, art, and movies, we will study the Spanish-Islam connection, starting at the period of the supposed coexistence between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages.

In this lab course, students will focus on the development of academic identity and self-efficacy in college students. In particular, students will learn more about how students make sense of and integrate feedback on their academic progress by engaging in an action research project involving the practice of academic peer coaching. In addition, students will learn about interviewing methods and program assessment. Central to our discussions and analyses will be issues of race, class, gender, and age. Students interested in education, mentoring, or nonprofits will especially benefit.

After reviewing the classic defense of capitalism as an engine of freedom, progress, and productivity, we will examine major shifts in the critique of capitalism from the early 19th to the early 21st century. This critical conceptual history will range over successive claims that capitalism foments labor exploitation and class inequality, imperialism, instrumentalism, the commodification of culture, the privatization of the commons, and the re-making of subjectivities to suit market imperatives.

This lab-based course is an introduction to modern, investigative, experimental physics. The course is intended as a bridge between the structured introductory lab experience and independent research. Students will engage in a semester-long experimental project, participating in experimental design, construction, debugging and implementation. Students will practice presenting and interpreting experimental results and will be encouraged to develop follow-up experimental questions of their own.

This course will explore the concept of generation within sociology, and its differences from other structural concepts such as class and gender. In particular, the course will concentrate on the generational cultures of the 1960s, the 1980s, and the contemporary millennial generation. It will focus in large part on generational uses of media, and how media use contributes to the rise of generational cultures and consciousness.

Are we running out of drinking water? Is fracking safe? When is peak oil? This course is a basic geology course that focuses on two earth materials we use every day: fresh water and fossil fuels. We cover where groundwater is found and why, the depletion and contamination of groundwater, and some major aquifers. We will also explore the formation, worldwide distribution, and extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas.

This course introduces the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other geospatial technologies in the social sciences and the humanities. The student will learn to collect, process, and analyze quantitative data within the spatial (geographic) context where they occur. Course content may include research topics from current faculty.

To mark the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II, this seminar explores the impact of films depicting the European Holocaust from the first encounter between the liberators and the survivors up to the present day. We analyze the global contexts in which the films came into being and the changing reception of the films with the advent of digital distribution.

The screenplay is a unique and ephemeral form that exists as a blueprint for something else: a finished film. How do you convey on the page a story that will take shape within an audio-visual medium? The screenwriter must have an understanding of both the language of narrative film as well as the general shape and mechanics of film stories.

After reviewing the classic defense of capitalism as an engine of freedom, progress, and productivity, we will examine major shifts in the critique of capitalism from the early 19th to the early 21st century. This critical conceptual history will range over successive claims that capitalism foments labor exploitation and class inequality, imperialism, instrumentalism, the commodification of culture, the privatization of the commons, and the re-making of subjectivities to suit market imperatives.