Through lectures, class discussions, outside speakers, films and site visits, this Community-Based Learning course will engage Puerto Rican history, culture, and immigration with a focus on Puerto Rican communities in Western Massachusetts. In particular, Students will understand how Puerto Ricans in Holyoke have negotiated their cultural identity and place in the educational system.

The goal of this course is to offer students sophisticated linguistic tools that will allow them to interact and communicate in Portuguese in socio-cultural contexts that go beyond their immediate personal experience and daily life. The course is designed for students who have previous experience with Portuguese and are already familiar with the majority of the grammatical structures of the language. Through the use of authentic written texts, videos, and songs, students will broaden and deepen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities in Portuguese.

Through lectures, class discussions, outside speakers, films and site visits, this Community-Based Learning course will engage Puerto Rican history, culture, and immigration with a focus on Puerto Rican communities in Western Massachusetts. In particular, Students will understand how Puerto Ricans in Holyoke have negotiated their cultural identity and place in the educational system.

Love is constantly thematized in Medieval and Renaissance literature. From a variety of perspectives, authors try to account for what love is, what its effects are on the body and the soul, how one is supposed to obtain it and keep it, and also how and why it can be avoided. Writing about love is also questioning what is considered essentially good or bad for oneself and the community. In this course, students will explore medieval and early modern love theories and practices in a selection of Spanish texts, as they reflect on literature as a means for ethical interrogation.

The goal of this course is to offer students sophisticated linguistic tools that will allow them to interact and communicate in Portuguese in socio-cultural contexts that go beyond their immediate personal experience and daily life. The course is designed for students who have previous experience with Portuguese and are already familiar with the majority of the grammatical structures of the language. Through the use of authentic written texts, videos, and songs, students will broaden and deepen their reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities in Portuguese.

This course surveys the theory and practice of using recordings of electrical activity of the brain to study aspects of human cognition. Lectures will describe how event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been used to address issues related to language, memory, attention, and perception, and students will gain experience critically reading and evaluating research reports in this area. Students will also learn how to collect, process, statistically analyze, and interpret ERP data through the completion of group research projects.

This course examines health data and outcomes. The course will focus on quantitative analysis of health (mental and physical) indicators and outcomes. As part of the class, students will be introduced to concepts and techniques of clinical interviewing and clinical case studies. Students will interact with researchers and practitioners from the community. The course will also emphasize research, clinical, and professional ethics.

This course examines the spatially uneven, changing, and contested relationships between environment and development in Central and South America. We will focus on theories of development and of the causes and consequences of environmental degradation, reading these theories through the recent history of Latin America. Major topics include (post)colonialism, biodiversity conservation, resource extraction, gender relations, poverty reduction, peasantries and agriculture, and vulnerability to global change.

This course examines contemporary Asian American film and visual culture through the lens of cultural recovery, self-invention, and experimentation. Focusing primarily on film and photography, we will explore issues of race and visuality, Hollywood orientalism, memory and postmemory, and racial impersonation and parody. Students will engage with a variety of theoretical and critical approaches. Artists may include Nikki S. Lee, Margaret Cho, Tseng Kwong Chi, Jin-me Yoon, Justin Lin, Binh Dahn, Richard Fung, Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, and Alice Wu.

This class is designed to immerse students in some of the most extraordinary science writing published today. Drawing from magazines, the web, and longer works such as 'Five Days at Memorial,' 'Tom's River' and 'The Sixth Extinction,' we will closely examine how writers bring complex scientific material to life for the general reader. Students will be coached through a series of writing challenges culminating in the production of one magazine-length work.