This course explores the diversity, biology, and ecological roles of fungi across ecosystems. Lectures introduce foundational concepts including fungal life histories, symbioses (e.g., mycorrhizae and endophytes), decomposition, nutrient cycling, and fungal responses to environmental change. In the laboratory, students gain hands-on experience collecting and identifying fungi, quantifying fungal colonization and biomass, and designing experiments to test ecological hypotheses.

In this course we will study money as a social, legal, and political institution. We draw on sociology, economics, history, and legal studies to ask: What is money? Who creates it? Who controls it? And who bears the costs when it fails? Throughout the course we will cover foundational theories of money, competing frameworks, how money interacts with the law, race and colonialism, and finally new frontiers in digital and global finance.

(formerly Exercise Science)

This course examines the ways that history is communicated outside the classroom through museums, historic sites, monuments, civic celebrations, archives, historic preservation, and community oral history projects. It is a hands-on course, with field trips and group service projects as well as reading and discussion, which makes it a good way to explore your career interests after graduation.