'This course will look at how the question 'Who am I?' has formed works of literature. We will investigate how identity is formed or not formed by forces such as society, circumstance, and family. We'll examine body image, race, gender, class, personal voice, perception, and ancestry.

'This course will look at how the question 'Who am I?' has formed works of literature. We will investigate how identity is formed or not formed by forces such as society, circumstance, and family. We'll examine body image, race, gender, class, personal voice, perception, and ancestry.

'This course will examine some key works of Irish literature and culture to understand issues central to the history and politics of Ireland, including colonialism, nationalism and national identity, gender relations, the politics of the Irish language, and sectarianism. We will also explore how the history of Ireland has led to particular literary and cultural forms. In addition to viewing films and examples of visual culture, we will read authors such as Swift, Edgeworth, Lady Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce.'

'We will explore cultural and political issues by reading current books, newspapers, and magazines. Frequent writing assignments.'

'This course examines African American, Asian American, Chicana/o-Latina/o and Native American literature and cultural politics. Examining the historical intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, we will explore themes of cultural identity, segregation and community formation, citizenship, labor, class, and family. Authors may include Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, Josefina Lopez, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Joy Kogawa.'

'This course examines African American, Asian American, Chicana/o-Latina/o and Native American literature and cultural politics. Examining the historical intersection of race, gender, and sexuality, we will explore themes of cultural identity, segregation and community formation, citizenship, labor, class, and family. Authors may include Toni Morrison, Danzy Senna, Josefina Lopez, Sherman Alexie, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Joy Kogawa.'

'This seminar meets to discuss practical issues in doing advanced research in art history and architectural studies. Depending on student projects, activities could include reading primary sources, critical assessment of texts and archival materials, use of library and digital resources, and visual analysis. Students might think about how to organize research into a thesis, or how to make sense of research and internship experience off-campus or during study abroad.'

'This introductory studio architecture course is a rigorous series of design investigations into architecture and the built environment. Students will develop and apply traditional and contemporary architectural skills (drawings, models) to interdisciplinary and significant design problems. Creative and indexical study and analysis will be used to generate and foster a broad range of concepts and language to solve architectural issues involving site, construction, inhabitation, function, form, and space.'

'This course examines the critical influence of the three most important Athenian dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, on the works of modern dramatists and filmmakers, including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Ridley Scott, Jules Dassin, Theodoros Angelopolous, and others. Attention is given to the different concepts of tragedy underlying the genre, such as the tragedy of self-knowledge and illusion, the tragedy of desire, the tragedy of sin and redemption, and tragedy as protest against social injustice.'

'A survey of the political, social, and cultural history of Rome from the Republic to the Empire, down to the early fourth century and the rise of Constantine. We shall strive to recreate the entire experience of the peoples of the Roman Empire and those who came in contact with it as it rose to become the dominant power in the Mediterranean. Topics include their history, war, trade and technology, religion, republican government and imperial administration, slavery, economics, and the Roman family.