The World Health Organization defines Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and people's access to power, money and resources." SDoH have a major impact on the health of individuals and communities, and are the source of significant health inequities.

How can we sustain drinking water resources at the scale of community? The goal of this course is to explore and extend geoscience approaches to managing the waters flowing in streams, lakes, wetlands, and underground. Topics include sources of drinking water, water quality and abundance, the hydrologic cycle, and intersections of water science with environmental justice.

How can we sustain drinking water resources at the scale of community? The goal of this course is to explore and extend geoscience approaches to managing the waters flowing in streams, lakes, wetlands, and underground. Topics include sources of drinking water, water quality and abundance, the hydrologic cycle, and intersections of water science with environmental justice.

A foundational source for religious doctrine and commentary, the Bible has also made an enduring impact on literary writing. This course provides an opportunity to study selections from the Bible largely pertaining to Western Christianity, and engage with later narratives that came to use the Christian Bible as a source. Theoretical and critical approaches will help guide the study of the biblical text in relation to its genres, styles, contexts, and its history of compilation.

A foundational source for religious doctrine and commentary, the Bible has also made an enduring impact on literary writing. This course provides an opportunity to study selections from the Bible largely pertaining to Western Christianity, and engage with later narratives that came to use the Christian Bible as a source. Theoretical and critical approaches will help guide the study of the biblical text in relation to its genres, styles, contexts, and its history of compilation.

This seminar explores travel as a project of moral formation, asking how people use travel to form a sense of identity to purify themselves of what they consider to be morally evil, and to develop a sense of self that is in alignment with what they consider to be morally pure. This includes not just where we go but how we go there. The label 'tourist' is often deemed inauthentic, and yet it's hard to say what is different between tourism and a more substantive form like 'travel,' or how it is different from religious pilgrimage.

This seminar explores travel as a project of moral formation, asking how people use travel to form a sense of identity to purify themselves of what they consider to be morally evil, and to develop a sense of self that is in alignment with what they consider to be morally pure. This includes not just where we go but how we go there. The label 'tourist' is often deemed inauthentic, and yet it's hard to say what is different between tourism and a more substantive form like 'travel,' or how it is different from religious pilgrimage.

This course asks: how do large, macroscopic forces of racial violence, trauma, and identity manifest themselves in the everyday lived experiences of individuals? We will explore this question through a semester-long exploration of artistic production from the Asian-American diaspora, including paintings, films, novels, memoirs, and music. Materials to be explored include the film "Everything Everywhere All at Once"; the novels and poetry of writers such as Viet Thanh Nguyen and Ocean Vuong; the music such as Japanese Breakfast, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, and The Linda Lindas.

Experimental Studio delves into methods ranging from alternative photography to water-based painting experiments. We will experience traditional and experimental approaches to art making and exercise connections between disciplines. Topics include artwork as a byproduct of movement and creative responses to current events. This course will challenge students to research the specificity of their project material choices - investigating the history, political economy, metaphors and the phenomenological potential of materials.

Explore computer science by building curious machines! Situated in the Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab, this course seeks to demystify the technology around us. Students will discover how computational thinking bridges interactive physical and digital systems through hands-on lab activities and collaborative projects. Along the way, the course will highlight some of the many beautiful and challenging problems facing computer scientists today.