Somatics enhances proprioceptive awareness, uses imagery to deepen anatomical understanding, prevents injury, and promotes coordinated, responsive movement. This course is an experiential study of anatomy and somatic methods, emphasizing their impact on dance practices. While primarily movement-based, the course also critically examines how somatics incorporates ancient medicine, Africanist traditions, and Eastern philosophy, often without acknowledgment, leading to universalization.

This course explores the relationship between the temporal and material structures of everyday life-including objects, housing, gifts, dress, food, drugs, sex toys, accessories, and technologies-and queer identities, communities, and practices. Taking an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach that includes narrative, archival, ethnographic, visual, and historical sources, we will consider not only how queer life shapes and is shaped by objects, but also the extent to which "objecthood" can be tied to structural and state power through the politics of consumption.

The organization of production across national borders has transformed labor markets around the world, with profound effects on workers' lives. What role have social constructions of gender played in shaping employment outcomes in the global economy? What has been the impact of these employment dynamics on gender relations? What strategies are available to increase wages, promote equal opportunity, fight discrimination in the workplace, and secure greater control over working hours and conditions?

This course will focus on studying and applying various physical activity and wellness concepts critical to achieving a state of total well-being. This encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of the whole person. The course will introduce students to the methods and means of developing and maintaining balanced lifetime habits of wellness. The course will provide a complete and practical source of knowledge that will lead to the development and understanding of healthy lifestyles and attitudes.

This course will focus on studying and applying various physical activity and wellness concepts critical to achieving a state of total well-being. This encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of the whole person. The course will introduce students to the methods and means of developing and maintaining balanced lifetime habits of wellness. The course will provide a complete and practical source of knowledge that will lead to the development and understanding of healthy lifestyles and attitudes.

"The animal, what a word!" Under the gaze of his cat, Derrida ponders the difficulty of representing the non-human animal. Yet, animals permeate the stories we tell. How do various narrative modes impact our relationships with animals? How do different cultural histories and perspectives of animals affirm or challenge assumptions regarding the non-human? Given the ongoing Sixth Extinction, can stories about animals compel us to envision a multispecies justice that ensures conditions of livability for all?

The wrath of Achilles. The travels of Odysseus. The blinding of Oedipus. The myths of Greece and Rome continue to exert a hold on our collective imagination. But for the ancient Greeks and Romans who produced these stories about gods and demigods, myth was more than a source of entertainment, it offered insight into matters of more pressing concern, from political strife, to mental health, to the nature of humankind and its place in the cosmos.

Using the lens of anthropology and Latinx studies, this course offers theoretical and practical tools for understanding difference, transforming conflict and advancing social change. We will learn how racial, ethnic and other social differences are created through culture, power, language and representation.

Students will learn basic skills on ethnographic methods in anthropology as they are introduced to issues of food and culinary cultural practices, politics and history. Selected readings and films will explore the intersections of food with colonialism, race and ethnicity, gender, health, political economy, and social movements. The course has a focus on Latinx and Latin American/Caribbean foodways, however students will apply the course's conceptual toolkit in a wide range of cultural settings.