This journal club is open to graduate students who have an interest in reviewing the current scientific literature in the field of plant-microbe-soil interactions.

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Our understanding of animal migration has progressed by leaps and bounds in recent decades, but how do we know what we know? This seminar will focus on understanding the foundations of the modern study of migration and incorporate studies from a wide range of taxa. Course materials will emphasize a reading of both the classical and contemporary primary literature.

Romanian VII is the third part of a four-part intermediate course sequence in Romanian. The course is offered through the Five College Supervised Independent Language Program. The independent study format includes small group conversation sessions and an evaluation by an outside evaluator. Students studying Romanian develop speaking and listening skills needed for study abroad in Romania or the Republic of Moldova and to support course work in European Studies.

This course examines the history of U.S. occupation of Hawai'i as a case study of U.S. imperialism. The class examines the history of the rise and fall of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, the establishment of Hawai'i as a U.S. territory and the current status of Hawai'i as the 50th state in the United States. The class looks at the role of missionaries in introducing capitalist economy in Hawai'i, Native Hawaiian resistance to American annexation, indigenous land struggles as a result of urbanization and U.S.

This course is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Native American and Indigenous Studies. This course looks at the diverse histories of Indigenous nations across North America, as well as histories of shared experiences with ongoing colonialism, legacies of resistance and connections to place. The class focuses on Indigenous perspectives, intellectual traditions and critical interventions across time through the work of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, literary scholars, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, writers and activists.

This course considers the stereotype of the “ecological Indian,” a racial trope that has perpetuated the idea that Native North Americans are naturally closer to nature or are natural conservationists. The class looks at how this stereotype has shaped non-Native ideas about Indigenous peoples in what is now the United States, the effects these ideas have had on Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and the varied ways Indigenous peoples have thought about ecological relationships.