Do you know your legal rights?

With the success of Everything Everywhere All At Once there is an increased interest in learning more about the history of Chinese immigrant families. We will read Iris Chang?s Chinese in America and watch a few films celebrating Chinese American families to learn more about this forgotten history.

Having a plan helps you achieve more and stress less. Learn how neuroscience can inform goal setting and time management strategies that can help you create an effective first-year plan that focuses on balance, productivity, and well-being.

Images abound. They fill our social media feeds, they are staged to convey our aspirations for ourselves, and they increasingly hold powerful sway over our cultural discourses. Critic Sean O?Hagan has called photography ?the medium of our time, not just defining our globally connected digital image culture, but propelling it.? In this class, we will practice Dr. Jennifer Roberts? concept of ?deceleration? by slowly reading Susan Sontag?s classic book, On Photography, and contemplating her theories on photography and images.

1984 will mark the 40th anniversary of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book. Created by UMass alumni and originally distributed at a comic book convention, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has become one of the most enduring and prolific comic creations of the 20th and 21st century. What started as a pastiche of several popular comics in the early 1980s has now been made into several film series, video games, television shows as well as a successful line of popular toys. Each decade seemingly brings about a new depiction of the Turtles and their rogues? gallery.

In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer's workshop geared for beginning writings of fiction or creative nonfiction. Students will read instructive texts and participate in writing and thinking exercises in order to think about the important stories in their lives and how to begin to tell these, and other stories, as an anchor point toward beginning to understand themselves in the changing contexts of their lives as college students.

Based on psychology and neuroscience, learn how your brain can be trained to help you be more confident, productive, and happy. Learn proven stress reducing techniques to make life easier, and to: Increase productivity and focus; Improve interactions with others, both personally and professionally; Increase self-awareness and self-confidence; Manage difficult emotions productively; Improve skills to attain better life balance.

A seminar on time management from practical and theoretical perspectives. This course involves identifying and improving skills related to time management. Students will focus on how to manage their time for college academics and extracurricular activities and how to develop overall time literacy in order to establish productive routines based on what works for you.

Water is one of the basic elements needed for life systems to exist and survive. While it is abundant in supply, it is not always available where it is needed. This course will cover concepts and issues related to water resources through regional and global ecosystem perspectives.

he popularity of Bernie Sanders, the celebrity-like status of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, both avowed socialists, along with polls indicating positive attitudes towards socialism among many youth, are a few markers of an openness to left radicalism hardly seen for nearly a half-century. Yet long-term, anti-communist ideology has largely buried a diverse, yet hardly known spectrum of homegrown U.S. socialist traditions.