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Adriana Estill

As Arlene Dávila points out in Latinos Inc, Latinidad—the term that names a set of presumably common attributes that connects Latinxs in the U.S.— emerges in part from communities but, importantly, is developed heavily by the media, advertising, and other political and social institutions, including academia. This course studies the production of Latinidad across and through various media, including television, advertising, and music. We will consider how individual writers and artists contribute to the conversation. Throughout, we will engage with social and cultural theories about race, gender, sexuality, and community. 

Mark Kanazawa

Prerequisite: Economics 110 and 111

Adriana Estill

Nancy Cho

Kofi Owusu

Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission

Serena Zabin

This course will examine the world of history outside the walls of academia. Looking at secondary-school education, museums, and public policy, we will explore the ways in which both general and specialized publics learn and think about history. A central component of the course will be a civic engagement project.

Prerequisite: One History course

Extra Time Required.

Annette Igra

George Vrtis

Since the nation's founding, the percentage of Americans living in cities has risen nearly sixteenfold, from about five percent to the current eighty-one percent. This massive change has spawned legions of others, and all of them have bearing on the complex ways that American cities and city-dwellers have shaped and reshaped the natural world. This course will consider the nature of cities in American history, giving particular attention to the dynamic linkages binding these cultural epicenters to ecological communities, environmental forces and resource flows, to eco-politics and social values, and to those seemingly far-away places we call farms and wilderness.

Prerequisite: History 205 or permission of the instructor

Melinda Russell

A survey of American music with particular attention to the interaction of the folk, popular, and classical realms. No musical experience required.

Laurence Cooper

Cross-listed with POSC 258. Is personal ambition a threat to peace and the public good or is it a prod to nobility and heroism? Does it exemplify the opposition between self and society or does it represent their intersection and mutual support—or both? And what is the nature of political ambition, especially the ambition to rule: what does the would-be ruler really want? We will take up these and related questions by studying several classic works of philosophy and literature. Readings will likely include works by Plato, Xenophon, and Shakespeare as well as American founders, statesmen, and moral leaders. Seminar paper required.

Cross-listed with POSC 258

Cross-listed with POSC 258.00

Sharon Akimoto

Prerequisite: Psychology 110 or instructor permission. Psychology 256 or 258 recommended

Michael McNally