Cancer is currently the second largest cause of death in the United States. One would think that science would have developed a cure for cancer by now, but it hasn't. Why is developing treatment options so difficult? This course will address the biology of malignancy and treatment including some traditional and cutting-edge strategies. We will uncover the truth behind cancer misconceptions and explore some of the ethical and social justice considerations of disease research (including some of the darker examples from cancer research's past).

Young activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez has written that "the youth of the world are continuing to rise to power and shape our culture." In this course, we will examine texts written by youth, and youth action and activism primarily in the contemporary US, as forms of enacting such power and shaping. We will use methods from critical youth studies and literary studies to take seriously young people's social-political and cultural engagements.

Employs an intersectional philosophical approach to the study of human sexuality. Specific topics include ethical, epistemological (knowledge), and political questions related to sexual orientation, lust, casual sex, adultery, love, sexual orientation and practice, different types of relationships, and the intersectionality of sexual identity and orientation with other identities such as race, gender, and disability status.

Explore the function of the endocrine system and its role in behavior, specifically as examined in animal model systems. The social, nutritional and sensory environment of an organism can dramatically affect the expression of specific hormones. Those hormones, in turn, can determine the development, degree of plasticity and output of the nervous system. Thus, the behavior of an organism is set in a background of endocrine influences. This course examines the endocrine system and how it interacts with the nervous system to influence behavior in a range of organisms.

Virtually every object we interact with in our daily lives was, in some way, designed by someone. In this studio design course, students will explore the theory and practice of industrial design-the design of everyday objects. We will explore the tactics of human-centered design, design processes from concept to fabrication, and the craft of executing a final product. Students will tackle an array of small skill-building projects, working toward a final piece-in most cases, a functional object and/or prototype.

Is music raced? Is it sexed? How do musical sounds and performances become racialized and sexualized? How does music reflect, reproduce, and/or contest gender and racial boundaries? How do individuals use music to express their cultural identity? Such questions hint at the undeniable yet ineffable influence of race and sex on the US musical imagination. This seminar will consider the fraught intersection of race, power, and desire in contemporary popular music (hip hop, electronic dance music, rock, pop, punk, R&B/soul, world music, etc.).

This course focuses on the broad fundamentals of western music, theory, and literacy (how to read western music notation). We will study concepts such as pitch, melody, timbre, and texture, and learn about rhythm, intervals, scales, chords, and harmony. We will also develop our musical understanding through composing music and through "deep listening" in classwork and concerts. Students are required to attend a once/week ear training class, either Monday or Thursday evening, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm.

This course will explore a selection of the main theoretical ideas and methods of the scientific study of animal behavior. We will explore functional and evolutionary bases of animal behavior, including reproductive behavior, mating systems, parental care, altruism, social behavior, communication, and cognition. Readings will come from books and primary scientific literature. We will focus in detail on animal senses, which we will learn about through reading the book "An Immense World".

Everything has a history," the American Historical Association tells us. In order to understand why something is the way it is today, we need to understand how it began and how it got to be this way. This seems so obvious to historians that they are surprised to find not everyone thinks like this. Historical reasoning needs to be taught. We begin by looking at the ways that historians formulate questions, evaluate evidence, and draw conclusions. And the fact that something was not "always this way" means it can change. Understanding history is thus also essential to active citizenship.

This course invites students to explore dance as a vehicle for dialogue with the world around us including the land, environmental systems, architecture/ built environment, human and non-human communities, and the histories and politics that shape both where we dwell and how we dwell there. Desire lines are the pathways etched on a landscape by people following their preference rather than a proscribed route. Building from this term, we will acknowledge and investigate the physical and affective imprints that we make as we move.