This course will examine how lawyers, social activists, and everyday people have used litigation to change the social and legal landscape in the post-war United States. Through reading numerous in-depth case studies of seminal civil and criminal cases, we will explore such questions as: How and why have social movements used "the law" to advance their causes? What are the pros and cons of using litigation to achieve social change (or right a wrong), versus other tools such as direct action, lobbying, and community organizing?

Finnish I is the first part of a four-part elementary course sequence in Finnish. The course is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Finnish develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in Finland and to support course work in European Studies and Scandinavian Studies.

Critical reading and appreciation of selections from major anthologies and authors of various poetic genres written in Classical Chinese from the Zhou dynasty to the present. Prerequisite: CHINESE 451.

Race and Sport investigates how racial and gender formation degraded, defamed and denied women and people of color the opportunity to participate in sport. The course will recognize the important milestones overcome and those yet to be broken. This course puts a premium on students being able to critically analyze the institution of sport.

This course will familiarize students with the basics of conducting quality ethnographic research from a critical perspective. We will begin with one reality of our times: New media technologies offer research subjects increased access to the tools necessary for ethnographic representation of the self and communities. This means the ethnographer no longer has a monopoly on particular forms of power- namely the tools of representation and access to the technologies needed to circulate her representations of herself, "Others", institutions, or culture in general.

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.