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This course will analyze characteristics of computer mediated communication systems such as networked multimedia, discussion boards, blogs, wikis, chat, instant messenger and 3-D virtual environments. Students will participate in online communication systems.

This seminar invites students to look beyond the screen and ask how social media, TV, movies, and documentary films shape what we think we know about disability and neurodiversity. Why are disabled characters so often framed as inspirational, tragic, villainous, or "quirky"? Who gets to tell these stories, and what changes when disabled actors, writers, producers, and filmmakers are involved? Students will explore key concepts in disability studies by examining how media reflects, reinforces, and reshapes cultural understandings of difference.

Through the viewing of full-length feature films and documentaries, this course takes you through the history of the Chinese in the United States, from the era of the Gold Rush in the 1850s, the succeeding decades of the exclusionary period of the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the roaring '20s, the Second World War, the Civil Rights Movement, and down to the tumultuous last fifty years.

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction, also known as the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary, occurred 66 million years ago and is one of the ?Big Five? mass extinctions in Earth history. The two leading hypotheses to account for the rapid and widespread loss of many terrestrial and marine organisms are: 1) impact by an asteroid, and/or 2) massive volcanism. An impact crater dating to the K/Pg event is preserved at the northernmost tip of the Yucatan Peninsula and fallout deposits from the impact are global and coincide with mass extinction.