This seminar compares literary depictions of love, sex, and marriage from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries by writers from England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, Spain, and Sweden. (N.B. Students will be able to study... more

This course is an introduction to the art and craft of documentary filmmaking, and to the difficult challenges and complex techniques of the form. Students learn to use the basic technological/creative tools to capture and edit moving images and... more

This class is for students who wish to work on independent projects with the goal of creating a cohesive and technically strong body of work. The course will address one's understanding of photography's unique vocabulary and will further... more

This course is an introduction to mammalian nervous system, with emphasis on the structure and function of the human brain. Topics include the function of nerve cells, sensory systems, control of movement, learning and memory, and diseases of the... more

Who determines what is true and worth knowing? How has the construction of knowledge and academic traditions from across the globe been impacted by such phenomena as (post)modernity, (neo)colonialism, and (neo)liberalism? Why do any of the... more

The experience of mental illness as well as the work of psychotherapy are recurrent themes in popular movies. This course will seek to help students understand how portrayals of mental illness and psychotherapy impact the ways in which viewers... more

This writing course focuses on the way writers can represent complex experiences of time. Writers of both fiction and nonfiction need to be able to set up a chronology of events; suggest duration or change, continuity or discontinuity; define... more

This seminar compares literary depictions of love, sex, and marriage from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries by writers from England, France, Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, Spain, and Sweden. (N.B. Students will be able to study... more

The Creative Writing Workshop is open to both new and accomplished poets with an interest in expanding the boundaries of assumptions about what it means to be a writer of color, or writer writing within a social justice context. We will investigate... more

Schedule: Students who register for this class will be expected to complete the reading before the start of class and to join a shared discussion on a Moodle blog 1-to-2 weeks before class. One synchronous introductory meeting will be held during... more

In the past ten years, American society has increasingly become more polarized. From politics to education, from race relations to climate change, our nation's views seem characterized by deep division and unbendable beliefs. And yet many... more

This course is an introduction to mammalian nervous system, with emphasis on the structure and function of the human brain. Topics include the function of nerve cells, sensory systems, control of movement, learning and memory, and diseases of the... more

Wildlife migrations are among Earth's most impressive natural phenomena. Consider the physiological stamina and navigational skills of a shorebird finishing up a grueling nesting season in Alaska, then embarking on a migration that requires a... more

The experience of mental illness as well as the work of psychotherapy are recurrent themes in popular movies. This course will seek to help students understand how portrayals of mental illness and psychotherapy impact the ways in which viewers... more

This subject introduces ideas developed in feminist theory about the social and political construction of areas of experience relating to the body, gender and sexuality. Issues analyzed in the subject include transsexualism, reproduction,... more

Who determines what is true and worth knowing? How has the construction of knowledge and academic traditions from across the globe been impacted by such phenomena as (post)modernity, (neo)colonialism, and (neo)liberalism? Why do any of the... more

Schedule: Tuesday & Thursday, 6:00pm-9:20pm. This course is synchronous, but will record class for students who wish to take the course asynchronously. This course will analyze the principal movements and processes which have led to the rise... more

We will study the history of Europe during a period of unprecedented conflict and nearly uninterrupted turmoil. Two world wars, revolutions, social and national antagonisms, ideological combat, racial hatreds, and extraordinary political leaders,... more

The experience of mental illness as well as the work of psychotherapy are recurrent themes in popular movies. This course will seek to help students understand how portrayals of mental illness and psychotherapy impact the ways in which viewers... more

In the past ten years, American society has increasingly become more polarized. From politics to education, from race relations to climate change, our nation's views seem characterized by deep division and unbendable beliefs. And yet many... more