This course will explore the rich and diverse history of Australian and New Zealand cinema. From the films of the Australian Film Renaissance of the 1970s to the latest acclaimed works, we will examine the unique cultural, social, and political contexts that have shaped these dynamic film industries. We will explore the work of pioneering filmmakers such as Peter Weir, Jane Campion, and George Miller, as well as contemporary directors like Taika Waititi, Ivan Sen, and Warwick Thornton.

In this course, students will read and try their hand at different types of music writing, including music journalism, reviews, fiction, memoir, and literary non-fiction. Our reading and listening will cover a broad range of music styles, including rock/pop, rap, R&B, jazz, folk/traditional music, western classical, and others. In addition to learning basic music terminology and concepts to strengthen how we communicate about music, we will do "deep listening" with respect to the music itself -- its lyrics, structure, style, and performance.

This course asks what "daily life" has meant and means in Palestine today. Centering work by diverse Palestinians, we will engage: accounts of village and urban life in Palestine before 1948, ethnographies and oral histories of the Nakba, and studies of ecology, cuisine, identity, and struggle in the past and today, as well as contemporary literature by Palestinian writers and poets. Members will collaborate on an ongoing 'glossary' project and will also propose and carry out independent studies of their own, which they will then present to the class.

Fundamental forces of electricity and magnetism govern the interactions of atoms and molecules, and consequently most of macroscopic processes, from biological to astrophysical. Physics II is an introductory course on electromagnetic theory and covers topics such as electromagnetic induction, electric circuits, and physical and geometric optics. The course will approach these topics in the active-learning style, with problem-solving sessions and mini-lectures.

Across the world, humans have viewed animals as: ancestors, teachers, friends, members of the family, meat, workers, pests, and threats. Everywhere, the 'human' is defined in relation to the 'animal.' Yet this relation is construed in diverse and contradictory ways. Ideas about what it means to 'be (an) animal' have long structured visions of belonging and otherness, as well as violence, racism, and oppression. As nonhuman animals vanish or recede from humananimal settlements, their images proliferate around us.

This course is designed to introduce students to some foundational theories and practices of critical media studies, an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that analyzes the complex interactions between media, culture, politics, and ideology. We will explore a variety of U.S. media texts and platforms in relation to specific issues and events. As the 2024 general election, which is also a presidential election, coincides with the semester, we will devote ongoing, but not exclusive, attention to media-related election issues, and the question "What constitutes 'truth' in a 'post-truth' era?".

This course offers a survey of Indigenous liberation movements, struggles, histories, and aspirations in the Global South. Utilizing theoretical lenses like decolonial theory, international human rights law, environmental justice, Indigenous abolition, and Indigenous anarchism, students will gain a broad appreciation for autonomy and resistance movements in Abya Yala (the Americas), the Pacific, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. Keywords:ndigenous studies, Global South, decolonization, human rights

With humans as our primary model system, we will cover cellular and general tissue physiology and the endocrine, nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, reproductive, respiratory, and renal organ systems. Primary emphasis is on functional processes in these systems. A focus will be on cellular and molecular mechanisms common across systems. Students will engage in class problems, lectures, and reading textbook literature. Basic knowledge of and comfort with biology, chemistry and math is necessary. Keywords:physiology, anatomy, biology, science, health

This course is an intensive laboratory experience to complement the physiology and health science/biology courses. Students explore fundamental physiological principles and laboratory techniques through completion of multiple lab activities. Concepts may include metabolism, membrane transport, enzyme activity, endocrinology, sensory physiology, and others. Students will also practice the research skills of hypothesis formation, experimental design, data analysis, and information presentation. Note that organ dissections are also a part of this course.

Poetry thrives in the senses. In this class we'll explore-and try out-the many ways that poetry engages the visual, including: how it renders the world in description, how it imagines via poetic image, how it responds to visual art (in a mode called ekphrasis), and how it becomes an art object itself (the concrete). We'll look at the many ways that poets join their texts with visuals, including erasure and blackout poetry, comics poetry, broadsides, typography, alt text as poetry, and more.