Who are we? This is the question that Latin American writers, artists, philosophers and politicians have attempted to answer through fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, and film. Through representative cultural texts from figures such as D. F. Sarmiento, Jos Martí, Gabriela Mistral, Marta Rojas, and Hugo Chávez, we will explore discourses of identity, different sociopolitical positions, and the representation of race and gender in the construction of 'latinoamericanidad.'

In 1492, the Spanish conquest forever changed indigenous America and created a 'new' world. European imperial discourses collided with resistance movements and the emerging voices of oppressed peoples, including indigenous communities, women, and mestizos. This course traces the tensions between imperialist and resistance discourses during both the colonial period and today. We will analyze the 'fighting words' that consolidated the Spanish empire and later opened the path to Latin American independence.

Are you avant-garde? To be 'avant-garde' once meant to be 'ahead of your time' or to be situated along the cutting edge of an artistic or political movement. In the first part of the twentieth-century, a cadre of artists in Europe as well as in Latin America put forward subversive critiques of art by considering innovative form and content as political tools for change. In this class we will read avant-garde artists from Spain and Latin America alike to explore the productive tensions between peninsular and Latin American trends as well as between art and activism, theory and practice.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the repressive, right-wing military regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) have shaped contemporary thought and cultural production in Spain. Cinema in particular shows a persistent concern with war and memory. The films studied in this course raise a number of philosophical and political questions to this effect. How does the devastation of war register through the medium of film? How do censorship and propaganda condition memory, and how does the past return in a postdictatorship? What and why do people choose to remember or to forget?

This course provides an overview of statistical methods, their conceptual underpinnings, and their use in various settings taken from current news, as well as from the physical, biological, and social sciences. Topics will include exploring distributions and relationships, planning for data production, sampling distributions, basic ideas of inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests), inference for distributions, and inference for relationships, including chi-square methods for two-way tables and regression.

This course provides an overview of statistical methods, their conceptual underpinnings, and their use in various settings taken from current news, as well as from the physical, biological, and social sciences. Topics will include exploring distributions and relationships, planning for data production, sampling distributions, basic ideas of inference (confidence intervals and hypothesis tests), inference for distributions, and inference for relationships, including chi-square methods for two-way tables and regression.

A fundamental fact of science is that repeated measurements exhibit variability. The course presents ways to design experiments that will reveal systematic patterns while 'controlling' the effects of variability and methods for the statistical analysis of data from well-designed experiments. Topics include completely randomized, randomized complete block, Latin Square and factorial designs, and their analysis of variance. The course emphasizes applications, with examples drawn principally from biology, psychology, and medicine.

In this course students will learn about statistical methods for analyzing categorical data. Chi-square tests, measures of association, logistic regression, and loglinear modeling techniques. Background should include estimation, hypothesis test, regression modeling, and the analysis of variance.

An introduction to performance through a variety of improvisational exercises designed for developing basic techniques. After exploring visual, aural, tactical, and literary performance sources, the students will rehearse and present two performance projects.

An introduction to performance through a variety of improvisational exercises designed for developing basic techniques. After exploring visual, aural, tactical, and literary performance sources, the students will rehearse and present two performance projects.