This course studies early America (1500-1820) with an explicit focus on the history of women while also considering changes in meanings and definitions of gender and sexuality over time. In addition to analyzing primary documents written by and about women, we consult the work of recent scholars in the fields of early American history, women?s history, and gender and sexuality studies to help us interpret these voices from the past.

What do Americans want? What do they fear? What is an "American"? How do we draw the line between those who belong and those who do not? How do we define citizenship, its rights and responsibilities? How do race, gender, class and other differences affect the drawing of these boundaries, and the contents of consciousness? This course introduces some of the exciting and innovative approaches to cultural analysis that have emerged over the last three decades.

Topics Course: On the Media This one-credit lecture series course surveys the history of media in America from the colonial period to the present. Lectures will address broadsides, newspapers and magazines, radio, film, television and contemporary digital media, and in each case will focus on how media construct political and social subjects and shape values, desires and debates in American culture.

Topics course. Careful not to essentialize a ?black? experience, this seminar seeks to explore the recent turn in scholarship that examines the socio-cultural dynamics involved in the trafficking and spread of rap music and hip hop culture globally. Using ethnographies that privilege African and African-descended sites, we will investigate the extent to which race shapes the lived experiences of these populations, and to what extent does hip hop?s black cultural framings facilitate new, black identities that see themselves as connected to the African diaspora.

Same as AAS 170. An introduction to the themes, issues and questions that shaped the literature of African Americans during its period of origin. Texts include poetry, prose and works of fiction. Writers include Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley.

same as ENG 184. An introduction to the themes, issues and questions that shaped the literature of African Americans during its period of origin. Texts will include poetry, prose, and works of fiction. Writers include Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley.

Same as ENG 323. This seminar will focus on Toni Morrison?s literary production. In reading her novels, essays, lectures, and interviews, we will pay particular attention to three things: her interest in the epic anxieties of American identities; her interest in form, language, and theory; and her study of love.

This course is a sociocultural view of the black church. It focuses attention on the development of the black church in the United States while locating the black church within the African diaspora. We will explore the history of black religious expression during slavery that created the merging of African spiritually and Protestantism in the Afro-Caribbean and the United States. We will also explore the contemporary growth of the Pentecostal/holiness tradition in the Caribbean and Africa, as well as the more recent influence of Judaism and Islam on the African American religious experience.

This course is designed for students with a very strong background in chemistry. The elementary theories of stoichiometry, atomic structure, bonding, structure, energetics and reactions are quickly reviewed. The major portions of the course involve a detailed analysis of atomic theory and bonding from an orbital concept, an examination of the concepts behind thermodynamic arguments in chemical systems, and an investigation of chemical reactions and kinetics. The laboratory deals with synthesis, physical properties, and kinetics.

Admission by permission of the director of the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration. Normally, enrollment limited to CESC concentrators only.