(Offered as STAT 360 and MATH 360) This course explores the nature of probability and its use in modeling real world phenomena. There are two explicit complementary goals: to explore probability theory and its use in applied settings, and to learn parallel analytic and empirical problem-solving skills. The course begins with the development of an intuitive feel for probabilistic thinking, based on the simple yet subtle idea of counting. It then evolves toward the rigorous study of discrete and continuous probability spaces, independence, conditional probability, expectation, and variance.

(Offered as STAT 360 and MATH 360) This course explores the nature of probability and its use in modeling real world phenomena. There are two explicit complementary goals: to explore probability theory and its use in applied settings, and to learn parallel analytic and empirical problem-solving skills. The course begins with the development of an intuitive feel for probabilistic thinking, based on the simple yet subtle idea of counting. It then evolves toward the rigorous study of discrete and continuous probability spaces, independence, conditional probability, expectation, and variance.

(Offered as SPAN 426 and EUST 426) Spanish antifascist heroes, saboteurs and spies have driven the longest antifascist resistance in Europe. Spaniards have been at the vanguard of antifascism from the time of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, to the fight against Nazi genocide during World War II, to opposition to the populist Vox party of the twenty-first century. This course will consider the men and women of diverse left-wing political beliefs who risked their lives to put down fascist movements in Spain and throughout Europe.

(Offered as SPAN 381, ARCH 381, ARHA 389 and LLAS 381) Antithetic to urban order and western culture, the desert has been a racialized space for the indigenous other in the Americas. Considered barbaric and lawless in the nineteenth century, today the desert is a militarized environment, a surveilled territory, and a site for nuclear extractivism. The desert has a visual history that speaks through different media, from oil painting to experimental cinema, from performative actions to thermal imaging and digital activism.

(Offered as SPAN 381, ARCH 381, ARHA 389 and LLAS 381) Antithetic to urban order and western culture, the desert has been a racialized space for the indigenous other in the Americas. Considered barbaric and lawless in the nineteenth century, today the desert is a militarized environment, a surveilled territory, and a site for nuclear extractivism. The desert has a visual history that speaks through different media, from oil painting to experimental cinema, from performative actions to thermal imaging and digital activism.

(Offered as SPAN 381, ARCH 381, ARHA 389 and LLAS 381) Antithetic to urban order and western culture, the desert has been a racialized space for the indigenous other in the Americas. Considered barbaric and lawless in the nineteenth century, today the desert is a militarized environment, a surveilled territory, and a site for nuclear extractivism. The desert has a visual history that speaks through different media, from oil painting to experimental cinema, from performative actions to thermal imaging and digital activism.

(Offered as SPAN-325 and LLAS-325) Many countries in the Spanish-speaking world were ruled by a dictator, autocrat or military junta over the course of the 20th century. This interdisciplinary course examines how artists, filmmakers, writers and activists have resisted the censorship, cultural repression and authoritarianism of dictatorships in Latin America and Spain. We will focus on the history of repressive regimes and the cultures of protest in Argentina, Chile, Spain and Guatemala through films, stories, music, artwork, textiles, poetry and other representations.

(Offered as SPAN 301 and LLAS 301) This course provides an introduction to the diverse literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world over the course of six centuries, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Students will learn the tools, language, and critical vocabulary for advanced work reading the canon of Hispanic literatures from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, identifying aesthetic trends, historical periods and diverse genres such as poetry, narrative, theater and film.

(Offered as SPAN 301 and LLAS 301) This course provides an introduction to the diverse literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world over the course of six centuries, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Students will learn the tools, language, and critical vocabulary for advanced work reading the canon of Hispanic literatures from Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean Basin, identifying aesthetic trends, historical periods and diverse genres such as poetry, narrative, theater and film.

(Offered as SPAN 205 and LLAS 205) Heritage learners of Spanish are students who have grown up speaking, listening, reading and/or writing Spanish with family or in their community. Because of their unique backgrounds, Spanish heritage language learners (SHLLs) are bilingual and bicultural. They function between a Hispanic and an American identity. This fluid and multiple identity can bring challenges, as SHLLs try to fit into both groups.