This course will apply a sociological lens to understanding inequality in American higher education. We will examine how the conflicting purposes of higher education have led to a highly stratified system of colleges and universities. We will also address the question of how student's social class, race, ethnicity, and gender affect their chances of successfully navigating this stratified system of higher education. Finally, we will examine selected public policies aimed at minimizing inequality in student's access to and success in college.

Advanced study of a major Russian literary text. Discussion, conversation, oral reports, papers.Prerequisite: 332 or permission of the instructor.

Topics course. A study of the individual's struggle for self-definition in society: from the superfluous man, through the underground man, to the role of women. Emphasis on the social, political, and ideological context of the works considered. Authors treated include Pushkin, Lermontov,Gogol, Goncharov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. In translation.

Selected special topics which will vary from year to year; typically some subset of the following: climate physics, cosmology, general relativity, nuclear and particle physics, optics, solid state physics. Prerequisites will vary with the topics of the course. An introduction to the structure and history of the universe. Topics will include the big bang model, the cosmic microwave background radiation, inflation and the early universe, dark matter and dark energy, accelerated expansion and the possible futures of the universe, and multiverse theories.

The concepts and relations (force, energy, and momentum) describing physical interactions and the changes in motion they produce, along with applications to the physical and life sciences. Lab experiments, lectures, and problem solving activities are interwoven into each class. Discussion sections offer additional help with mathematics, data analysis, and problem solving. This course satisfies medical school and engineering requirements for an introductory physics I course with labs.

The concepts and relations (force, energy, and momentum) describing physical interactions and the changes in motion they produce, along with applications to the physical and life sciences. Lab experiments, lectures, and problem solving activities are interwoven into each class. Discussion sections offer additional help with mathematics, data analysis, and problem solving. This course satisfies medical school and engineering requirements for an introductory physics I course with labs.

Same as HST 260. The development of Latin American society during the period of Spanish and Portuguese rule. Social and cultural change in Native American societies as a result of colonialism. The contributions of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans to the new multi-ethnic societies that emerged during the three centuries of colonization and resistance. The study of sexuality, gender ideologies and the experiences of women are integral to the course and essential for understanding political power and cultural change in colonial Latin America. Basis for LALS major.

Topics course. This course probes the discourse on war and peace in German culture from the 17th century to the present. We will look at examples from literature, film, art, music, and popular culture: Gryphius, Heine, Remarque, Brecht, Boll, and others. Conducted in German. Highly recommended for students wishing to participate in the Junior Year Abroad Program in Hamburg. Prerequisite: 250 permission of the instructor, or by placement.

A survey of the Jewish-German dialogue from the 18th century to contemporary Germany: the importance of the Jewish presence in German culture; representations of the Jew in German literature, film, and opera; the role of antisemitism in German history from the Middle Ages to the present. Texts by Lessing, the Grimm Brothers, Heine, Wagner, Thomas Mann, Lasker-Schuler, Celan, Kluger, Behrens; films by Lubitsch, Chaplin, Harlan, Levy, Goldfinger. Conducted in English.

The voices of medieval women juxtaposed with the voices of men seeking to defame them (the antifeminist tradition) and those raised to defend them. How did women writers of the Middle Ages engage with the conventions and rhetoric of misogyny? What genres did women practice and in what way did they transform those genres for their own purposes? To what extent did women writers question the traditional gender roles of their society?