This course offers students the chance to explore the diversity of grassroots politics, social movements, and alternative democratic practices within contemporary Latin America. The course will first introduce students to various theoretical frameworks to understand social movements. It will then focus on a rigorous comparative analysis of contemporary Latin American social movements oriented towards different political issues.

This course examines the rise, fall, destruction, and transformation of post-1960s U.S.-based liberation movements. Beginning with struggles for civil rights and black liberation, Native sovereignty, women's liberation, gay liberation, and anti-imperialism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the course traces the trajectory of movements for freedom from the late 1960s to our contemporary moment. In this reading-intensive course, students will work closely with primary documents, memoir, art, literature, and film to create their own creative final projects.

Too often 'Western' historical narratives consider Africans and African Diasporans as 'People Without History'. Such a notion refers to peoples who cultures do not possess or have few formally written histories. This class employs archaeological evidence in order to investigate histories of imperialism, colonialism, genocide, slavery, resistance and black nationalism, dismantling the colonial library by exploring local histories once marginalized, silenced and erased.

This course is an introduction to international development history and theory, through the lens of population. "Overpopulation" has been seen as an impediment to nations' economic and social development and a global environmental and security crisis requiring an emergency response on an international scale. This course will challenge this account of population and explore notions of modernity, environmental sustainability, gender, race and place in international development theory.

This course will provide an introduction to economics from a political economy perspective. We will examine the historical evolution and structure of the capitalist system, distinguishing it from other economic systems that have preceded it, such as feudalism, and existed alongside it, such as state socialism. Most of the class will be devoted to examining economic theories that have been developed to explain and support the operation of this system.

China Rising: Reorienting the 21st Century: After a brief overview of the Maoist era, this course will examine the rapid economic, political, and social changes that have swept China in the last three decades. We will examine major issues in China's astonishingly rapid transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society (e.g.

How did Victorians conceive of the body? In a culture associated in the popular imagination with modesty and propriety, even prudishness, discussions of sexuality and physicality flourished. This course explores both fictional and non-fictional texts from nineteenth-century Britain in conjunction with modern critical perspectives. We will discuss debates over corsetry and tight-lacing, dress reform, prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts, sexology, hysteria, and other topics relating to science and the body, alongside novels, poetry, and prose by major Victorian writers.

What does the term "race" mean? Is it an appropriate and/or legitimate way to talk about human diversity? What does it mean in different places? Rather than exploring these questions in the abstract, in this course we will look at a grounded history of this concept. That "place" is Latin America and the Caribbean and the historical periods we will explore include the colonial encounter, post-independence nation building, and the contemporary moment. The course is designed to first introduce students to broadly global understandings of racial ideology.

This course will introduce students to the major controversies and discourses debated in the study of mental illness. Two major controversies in clinical psychology highlighted are: the debate focusing on nature vs. nurture and the individual vs. society. The course will be part of a series of seminars designed to explore the epistemological, theoretical, and practice implications of concepts of mental illness and culture. Questions to be debated include: what is mental illness? Who defines it? How have the categories changed over time (historically) and place (culturally)?

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the Twentieth Century's most important intellectual and political figures. His writings, which span from the turn of the century until the Civil Rights era, are still some of the most quoted, referenced, and anthologized. This course will examine the public and private life of Du Bois, through a critical evaluation of his contributions as an organizer, race theorist, cultural critic, political journalist, public intellectual, and family man. How did Du Bois impact the study of global black experiences? How might he fit within a Black Radical Tradition?