In this course, we explore the ways in which artists in theater and dance create performances.  In particular, we will focus on collaboration as the primary mode of artists' creative research.  How do collaborating artists play with one other?  What kinds of conversations are the most generative?  How can we interact playfully with movement, text, space, and time?  How do the design elements of performance (such as light, sound, objects, etc.) “play” with each other?  Study of performance conventions and forms, seminal performance works, and theoretical reading

Double course. Open to senior majors in Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies who have received departmental approval.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: an emphasis on written work, readings, and independent research. They will be required to meet regularly with the professor.

Open to senior majors in Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies who have received departmental approval.

Spring semester. The Department.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: an emphasis on written work, readings, and independent research. They will be required to meet regularly with the professor.

(Offered as SWAG 322 and LLAS 322) Through the reading of novels, testimonios, manifestos, digital media posts, and non-fiction monographs, we will investigate the connections between key historical events in the Americas and the intellectual and cultural work of Latina, Latinx, and Latin American feminist writers.

(Offered as BLST 294 [D], EUST 294, HIST 295 [EU/TR], and SWAG 294) This research-based seminar considers the enduring presence of people of African descent in Europe from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment, a fact that both confounds and extends canonical theories of African diaspora and black internationalism.  Focusing particularly on the histories of black people in Britain, Germany, and France, this course will take an interdisciplinary approach in its study of the African diaspora in Europe.

This course provides an introduction to historical and contemporary intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist theory. We begin the course by first asking the questions: What is theory? Who gets to participate in theory building? How is feminist knowledge production influenced by power, privilege and geopolitics? We will explore the ways in which feminism is multi-vocal, non-linear, and influenced by multiple and shifting sites of feminist identities.

(Offered as BLST 117 [US] and SWAG 117) What role has “race” played in shaping the American imagination? How has its use as a metaphor in U.S. national life influenced our understandings of power, privilege, and justice? In what ways has popular culture influenced our understanding of race, and how do “creatives” today resist, reject, and reimagine racial and ethnic difference on social media? How do gender, sexuality, and other categories of difference intersect with race and ethnicity, and can these intersections give us a better understanding of American culture?

Normally to be taken as a single course but, with permission of the thesis advisor, as a double course (499D) as well.

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Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: quantitative work, writing intensive, use of computational software, independent research

Linear regression and logistic regression are powerful tools for statistical analysis, but they are only a subset of a broader class of generalized linear models. This course will explore the theory behind and practical application of generalized linear models for responses that do not have a normal distribution, including counts, categories, and proportions. We will also delve into extensions of these models for dependent responses such as repeated measures over time.

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