An introduction to chemical processes integral to understanding soils, agriculture and the environment, focused on basic chemistry principles as they effect carbon and nitrogen cycling, soil fertility, water contamination, organic matter and energy relations.

Examination of the influence of political factors, including institutions and interests, on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of public policy. Examines the role of information and expertise in politics.

In this course students will think critically about the various "wild tongues" that have defined U.S. Latinx literature and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Our analysis will center on issues of power as they are experienced by diverse U.S. Latinx populations. Specifically, we will focus on Latinx writers, performers, and scholars that push the boundaries of acceptable gender, sexuality, and racialization within U.S. Latinx cultures, focusing specifically on Caribbean and Chicanx populations in the United States.

Fourth in the sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.

Third course in the sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics.

First in a sequence of four courses providing students with skills necessary to communicate in Spanish on a variety of general-interest topics. For students who have little or no Spanish.

A reexamination of central concepts in the history of political thought - e.g. power, equality, freedom, capitalism, domination, responsibility, citizenship, empire, and revolution - from the perspective of African American political struggles. Particular attention will be paid to how political thinkers have theorized the complex and contradictory relationship between race and modern democracy. Readings draw from David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, WEB Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)

Continued introduction to classical Latin vocabulary, grammar, and syntax via readings in Latin, with background on Roman imperial society. Prerequisite: LATIN 110 or equivalent with a grade of C or higher.

This course examines labor and work in the U.S., from colonial America to the present. We will consider: 1) the relationship between workers, employers, and the state; 2) the strategies that workers? movements have used to build power, along with employers? strategies to minimize that power ; 3) the internal workings of unions, such as democracy, politics, and union structure; and 4) the roles of workers? organizations in reproducing (or changing) inequalities stemming from gender, race, citizenship status, and other identities.

In his definitive book, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, film historian Thomas Bogle critically analyzes a range of racial distortions, caricatures, and demeaning stereotypes that have represented African Americans since the birth of film and television. This course surveys a range of media images of Black people to understand how these portrayals reflect and shape the politics of race and gender in the US.