Native American Art

(Offered as ARHA 180 and AMST 211) This course will examine works of art created by Native American artists, including painting, sculpture, photography, and performance and installation art, from the late nineteenth century to today.  Students will study important movements and consider individual artists who worked primarily as painters, including the Iroquois realists of the late nineteenth century; the Studio School of Southwestern artists, printmakers, and illustrators; the Kiowa Six and their important role in creating modern Native American murals; abstract expressionists like Ka

A/P/A Sports

Asians and Pacific Islanders are increasingly visible in the realm of American competitive sports. These athletes are often noteworthy to Americans because they seem anomalous. In this course, we will consider the histories from which these athletes emerge, of sports diffusion across the Pacific Zone, to enrich understanding of the larger history of American sports and API history and identity.

Race, Educ. & Belonging

(Offered as AMST 200, EDST 200, and SOCI 200) Disproportionate numbers of students of color drop out or disengage from schools in America each year. Responding to the framework of “drop out,” critical educational scholars have argued that many school practices, policies, and cultures “push out” already marginalized students, or at the very least, do not take sufficient steps to create an inclusive culture that supports all students’ participation and sense of belonging.

The Embodied Self

(Offered as AMST 115 and SOCI 215) The course is an interdisciplinary, historically organized study of American perceptions of and attitudes towards the human body in a variety of media, ranging from medical and legal documents to poetry and novels, the visual arts, film, and dance.

The Embodied Self

(Offered as AMST 115 and SOCI 215) The course is an interdisciplinary, historically organized study of American perceptions of and attitudes towards the human body in a variety of media, ranging from medical and legal documents to poetry and novels, the visual arts, film, and dance.

Leadership for Social Impact

Nonprofit organizations serve social missions rather than distributing profits. Strategic leadership and values are central to serving those missions effectively while ensuring survival. This course will allow you to examine your assumptions about leadership and learn about the theoretical and strategic issues and the ethical dilemmas associated with leading for social change.

Vertebrate Ecology

This course will provide students with a broad understanding of the ecology, evolution, and natural history of vertebrate life including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. The labs will be focused on gaining hands-on experience in typical methods and techniques for sampling vertebrates in the wild.

The Opioid Epidemic

The opioid epidemic is a complex public health issue with interrelated social, political, historical, and biological elements. Class readings, activities, and assignments are designed to help students better understand the root causes of the current opioid epidemic, to explore how public policy has influenced and can influence the epidemic, to identify potential ways to improve healthcare and reduce harm for people with opioid use disorder, and to address the structural contributors to the epidemic.

Cultivating/Microbiologist You

This is an interactive course taught as a seminar (workshops, discussions, and guest presentations). This course aims to optimize student success and increase students' sense of belonging in the major by describing how to successfully move through the Microbiology curriculum, discussing the varied careers in Microbiology, and addressing issues pertaining to identifying as a scientist and Microbiologist. This course is intended for newly declared Microbiology majors (i.e. second semester first year or second year students).

Abelian Varieties

Topic covered will include: Line bundles on complex tori and their cohomology, theta functions, the Riemann conditions for a complex torus to be an abelian variety, the dual abelian variety and the Poincare line bundle, the Riemann-Roch theorem, Lefschetz theorem and embeddings in projective space, endomorphisms of abelian varieties, curves and their jacobians, Fourier-Mukai transformations.
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