Third-Year Russian I

This course advances skills in reading, understanding, writing, and speaking Russian, with materials from twentieth-century culture. Readings include fiction by Chekhov, Babel, Olesha, Nabokov, and others. Conducted in Russian, with frequent writing and grammar assignments, in-class presentations, and occasional translation exercises. Two seminar-style meetings and one hour-long discussion section per week.

Modern French Poetry

This class will introduce students to essential voices in French and Francophone poetry, from the mid-nineteenth century to the contemporary era. It will focus on the emergence of poetic modernity, through some key themes such as the representation of identity and the self; the idea of dissonance; the conflict between realism and the fantastic; and the complex relation with the French language and French literary tradition.

Scott Guimond

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Electrician
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Electric Shop
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Service Building/Police Department
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Room 003C2

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Intro to Feminist Theory

This course explores the overlapping dualities of the feminine and the masculine, the private and the public, the home and the world. We examine different forms of power over the body; the ways gender and sexual identities reinforce or challenge the established order; and the cultural determinants of 'women's emancipation.' We emphasize the politics of feminism, dealing with themes that include culture, democracy, and the particularly political role of theory and on theoretical attempts to grasp the complex ties and tensions between sex, gender, and power.

S-Latinidades Across/Americas

In this course, we will use our bodies and our minds to study the cultures and ways of Latinxs and those of contemporary indigenous people with roots in Latin American. In selected readings, film screenings, and a performance workshop with renowned Chilean dramaturge and artist Ivan Monalisa, students will examine notions of the noble savage, the mongrel, the Indian, the Mexican, informing US hegemonic cultural perceptions, rules of law, and human interactions for centuries.

Friendshp-Law,Politics,Society

Why aren't we hanging out with friends? In this one-credit, first-year seminar, we will explore friendship in the contemporary United States. You might have heard the reports, and you might have even experienced it yourself-- friendship is in decline, and loneliness is pervasive. But why? What effects does this have on our local and national communities?
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