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Feminism and Buddhism both are concerned with suffering and liberation from suffering. Both seek to bring about change through the development of awareness and the overcoming of ignorance. Both address these issues as they pertain to individual minds and bodies and to group-level processes and social structures. How can these two fields engage in closer conversation with each other?

The university is in crisis, or so we are often told. University budgets are shrinking while tuition and student debt are increasing exponentially, especially for women and students of color. And yet, we're here. As students, instructors, and staff we continue to look to the university as a productive space for thinking and working. And Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies is here as an academic field dedicated to a collective engagement with the way power constitutes bodies, desires, knowledge, and ways of being in the world.

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This course will cover foundational texts and core debates in the study of development. What is development? How have conceptualizations of "development" and theories of "development" changed over the past century? The course will focus on both domestic and international processes to illuminate a range of development challenges using examples from around the world.

This course examines how traditional ideas of crime, punishment, and justice square with the expansion of copyright law in an age of computers. It looks at how copyright expansion affects creators, consumers, and anyone who wants to communicate virtually. It examines computer law and its interfaces with copyright and criminal law through the lens of high-profile incidents, including the music industry's file sharing lawsuits, WikiLeaks, the Aaron Swartz case, and other current topics.

This course homes in on the nexus of political contestation and legal
interventions over the question of same-sex marriage. Drawing on legal
studies, sociology, anthropology, comparative religion, history and other
interdisciplinary scholarship, we will investigate how same-sex marriage
fits into post-Cold War American political and legal culture, with an
emphasis on the social movements and political entities which have forced
the issue via traditional activism, media spectacle and lawfare.

Do you wonder where food comes from? This course explores the labor that produces food, from the farm to the plate. Three broad areas are examined: 1) how social structures shape work processes; 2) who works in the food industry and features of working conditions; 3) workers' movements to improve pay and conditions. With a focus on farm work, meatpacking, and restaurant work, we'll explore issues of gender, race, class, and immigration.

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