"Any map presents the global as a local utterance, for any attempt to represent 'the world' inevitably bespeaks the mapmaker's own placement." Vilashini Cooppan In this course, we will interrogate the way literary texts map the world. We will think of the author as a mapmaker, the text as a map, and readers like ourselves as interpreters who redraw the textual map. Case studies will include the traveller abroad (Dadi's An African in Paris), the exile (Albahari's Snow Man), and the cosmopolitan postcolonial subject (Walcott's The Fortunate Traveller).

Sleep is the single most common form of human behavior - you spend nearly a quarter of a century asleep across your lifespan! Why do we, and almost every other animal, spend so much time in this behavioral state? What happens neurologically during sleep? What constitutes healthy sleep? What happens when sleep is disrupted or disordered? Throughout this course, you will gain knowledge about sleep, in all its form and function. Sleep will be examined from the level of the neuron to the level of behavior, and we will discuss how these change across the lifespan.

This course will create a solid foundation in Vectorworks and Lightwright, key CAD/spreadsheet programs used in lighting design for theater. The goal is to supply the students with the computer-drafting knowledge required of the graduate lighting design program.

Today's society is more visual than ever before. The rapid expansion of the Internet in the 1990's followed by the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the early 21st century have put people across the globe in front of screens not just capable of text and photos, but video media as well. Science and nature are facets of our world that lend themselves well to this "video media revolution." Video media can transform the complexities of science and nature into something more tangible and tractable.

Landscape patterns resulting from interactions of biotic, abiotic, and cultural resources and processes over time. Understanding these dynamics as a prerequisite to appropriate planning and design interventions.

An independent biotechnology research experience in a UMass laboratory. Basic cell and molecular biology techniques including cell culture, media preparation, solution preparation, PCR and Western blot will be taught. This class satisfies the first requirement of the Biotechnology Research Experience series for the BS Animal Science Biotechnology Concentration.

How do we dwell in our cities? Through what economic, political, and social processes are our living environments constituted? What does it mean to be shelterless and homeless in our propertied world? This course will look at housing processes and housing policies in and across a range of global contexts. It will explicitly adopt a comparative and transnational approach to the geography of housing, showing how a globalized perspective provides important insights into local shelter struggles and housing policy debates.