The United States of America incarcerates more youth than any other country in the world. What role does education play in this phenomenon? This course explores the socio-educational factors at the heart of the school to prison pipeline, a term for the disturbing trend in which punitive policies have led to youth being funneled out of schools and into the criminal justice system at an alarming rate.

This course was designed to help students think critically about how historical narratives are constructed. Biographies provide a compelling way to examine historical questions, debates and ways of attaching meaning to broader historical developments. They offer a critical entry-point into constructing narratives that reflect the range and complexity of African American lived experiences.

In the twentieth century, the ideals of "national self determination" and "national liberation" created powerful political movements throughout the world. But what happened when two peoples claiming the right of "self determination" lived amongst each other? In India, Palestine and Ireland, the British sought to solve the problem through partition: dividing a territory to accommodate conflicting national aspirations. Rather than solving a problem, this solution led to some of the century's longest conflicts and ethnic cleansing.

This course will explore the work of scholars, essayists, and creative writers in order to use their prose as models for our own. We'll analyze scholarly explication and argument, and we'll appreciate the artistry in our finest personal essays and short fiction. Students will complete a series of critical essays in the humanities and natural sciences and follow with a personal essay and a piece of short fiction. Students will have an opportunity to submit their work for peer review and discussion; students will also meet individually with the instructors.

There are close to 54 million Latin@s residing within the United States, accounting for the largest "minority majority" within the United States. This rise in numbers is largely caused by economic, political and other social policies, prompting Latin@s to reside into new regions, cities, and towns that were once hostile to them, accounting for new demographic shifts and thus, Remapping las Americas. In the process, Latin@s have undeniably emerged as a significant political, cultural, economic and social force.

This course is the second semester of second-year Spanish. Students enrolled should have taken LS201 or the equivalent and be able to use the present, future, preterit, imperfect tenses, command forms and present subjunctive with some fluency. This course will solidify grammatical structures of Spanish through activities that practice all four skill areas: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Attention will be given to more sophisticated use of the subjunctive and compound tenses.

This course is the first semester of second year Spanish. Students enrolled in this course should have taken LS102 or the equivalent and be able to use the present, future, preterit and imperfect tenses with some fluency and have a working knowledge of the present subjunctive. This course, taught almost entirely in Spanish, is designed to reinforce grammatical structures introduced in first-year Spanish through activities that practice all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Attention is given to using command forms and the present subjunctive.

This course introduces the third mostly widely used language in the United States and Canada. It is intended to give an overview of both the language and the culture of the deaf community. Emphasis will be focused on learning basic grammatical structure as well as developing receptive and expressive signing skills using in everyday conversation, also being able to give a skit in American Sign Language. Cultural aspects of the Deaf community will be shared through readings, videotapes/DVDS, presenters and class discussion.

Elementary Chinese I: This course will be taught by a visiting professor of Chinese from the Hampshire College China Exchange program and supervised by Professor Kay Johnson. It will cover the first semester of beginning Chinese. The second semester of beginning Chinese language will be offered during the spring semester. The course will follow the Integrated Chinese textbook series. The class will cover speaking, reading, and writing Chinese characters.

A yearlong course that introduces the basics of Modern Standard Arabic, this course concentrates on all four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Beginning with the study of Arabic script and sound, students will complete the Georgetown text Alif Baa and finish Chapter 13 in Al Kitaab Book I by the end of the academic year. Students will acquire vocabulary and usage for everyday interactions as well as skills that will allow them to read and analyze a range of texts.