A study of topics and issues relating to women's health, including menstrual cycle, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy, abortion, menopause, depression, eating disorders, nutrition and cardiovascular disease. Social, ethical and political issues will be considered including violence, the media's representation of women, and gender bias in health care. An international perspective on women's health will also be considered.

In the United States and abroad, in the past and today, the nature and scope of women's education is deeply connected to religious, economic, and social norms and beliefs. Why and how we educate women are interdisciplinary questions that draw on issues of national identity and culture. In this course, students will explore the politics, history and sociology of this subject, beginning in the United States and ending with a global perspective.

This course teaches students to extend and refine their academic capacities to become autonomous learners. Course content includes research on motivation and cognitive development as well as application of critical thinking and study skills. The class format consists of lectures, readings, discussion, and guest speakers with a focus on individual application of skills. Students who take this course will be better prepared to handle coursework, commit to a major, and take responsibility for their own learning. Priority will be given to students referred by their dean or adviser.

This interdisciplinary course explores the practice and ethics of community-based learning (CBL) through relevant readings and lectures. Students interact with guest speakers (faculty, community partners, and peers) who provide first-hand perspectives on how CBL connects to local, national, and global issues. The course provides a point of entry and orientation to students new to CBL, as well as an opportunity for in-depth discussion among students at all levels of familiarity with CBL. IDP 120 serves as the gateway course for the Community Engagement and Social Change Concentration.

This course offers an interdisciplinary, critical examination of race largely in the context of the United States. Although race is no longer held by scientists to have any essential biological reality, it has obviously played a central role in the formation of legal codes (from segregation to affirmative action), definitions of citizenship, economics (from slavery to discriminatory loan arrangements), culture (dance, fashion, literature, music, sport), and identities. Where did the concept of race come from? How has it changed over time and across space?

Arranged individually with graduate students.

By permission of the department.

Topics course. The captivity of Europeans and European Americans -- especially women -- by Native Americans has been a persistent theme in mainstream literary and popular culture since early colonial times. This course examines several cases of such captivity in historical and cross-cultural context as well as some of the many more instances in which Native Americans and other non-Europeans were captives.

Topics course. Explores significance of im/migrant workers and their transnational social movements to U.S. history in the late 19th and 20th centuries. How have im/migrants responded to displacement, marginalization, and exclusion, by redefining the meanings of home, citizenship, community, and freedom? What are the connections between mass migration and U.S. imperialism? What are the histories of such cross-border social movements as labor radicalism, borderlands feminism, Black Liberation, and anti-colonialism?

Survey of the major economic, political and social changes of this period, primarily through the lens of race, class, and gender, to understand the role of ordinary people in shaping defining events, including industrial capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, mass immigration and migration, urbanization, the rise of mass culture, nationalism, war, feminism, labor radicalism, civil rights, and other liberatory movements for social justice.