From Octavia Butler to N.K Jemisin, Black Feminist and Queer Theories in Science
Through the analytical lenses offered by Black feminist and queer theories, this course engages works of Black speculative fiction as modes of theorizing questions of race, gender, sexuality, class, environmental justice, interpersonal politics, and more. Through course readings, seminar discussions, and creative writing projects, students will critically analyze works of speculative fiction written by Black authors and broaden their knowledge of Black speculative literature, with a particular focus on science fiction and fantasy. Prerequisites: This course doesn't have any Pre Requisites
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Tagged With: Writing & CommunicationsEducation, Ethnic & Gender Studies
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Performing Ethnography and the Politics of Culture
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Resistance in Black Popular Culture
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Black Panthers, Brown Berets: Radical Social Movements of the Late-20th Century
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Dixieland? - Literature and Culture of the American South
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Food, Identity, and Place: You Are What You Eat and Where You Eat It
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Leadership, Law and Social Movements
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More Than A Game: Leadership and Social Change in Sports
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Race, Gender & Horror: Reading Psychoanalysis in American Film & Fiction
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Social Change
Do you enjoy making meaningful art, being creative, and being part of an engaged and caring community? This course will provide an opportunity for you to cultivate a creative practice, engage in dialogue about the potential for art to be a catalyst for social change, and build a critical toolbox of resources and experiences to strengthen individual and collaborative art-making. Experienced and novice art makers, musicians, dancers, poets, and multimedia creators will find new ways to channel your creative energies into an Action Plan with community impact. Through a contemporary and historical lens, you will explore the relationship between the self and the collective to understand better the collaborative relationship between the “artist” and the “audience.” You will leave this course prepared to continue developing a socially-conscious creative practice in their community.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyVisual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsModern Culture & MediaPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Anthropology of Religion
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Becoming Animal Lovers: Perspectives within Cultural Anthropology
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Forensic Anthropology: Who is Jane/John Doe?
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness: An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Global Health: Inequality, Culture, and Human Well-being Around the World
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Language, Oppression, and Empowerment
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Leadership and the Politics of Food
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On Illness and Health: An Approach through Anthropology
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Reimagining Leadership: Art and Activism
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Why do we want to help? Motivations, History, and Critiques of Humanitarianism
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Writing from the Heart: Empathy and Ethnographic Writing Seminar
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A Molecular Toolbox for Research & Medicine
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Anatomy, Behavior, and Evolution: Fishy Solutions to Life Underwater
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Ancient DNA: Uncovering the Secrets of Our Species
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Antibiotic Drug Discovery: Identifying Novel Soil Microbes to Combat Resistance
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At the Scene: Crime Solving in the 21st Century
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Athlete 101: The Simplified Science of Training
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Black Lives Matter Less: How Structural Racism Affects Health
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Breakthroughs: An Exploration of Laboratory Organisms in Biomedical Research
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Cancer Biology: An Evolving Puzzle
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Cancer Biology: Discovering Molecular Mechanisms & Novel Therapeutic Strategies
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Cell and Molecular Biology
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Characterizing C. elegans Using Reverse Genetics
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Deciphering the Human Genome
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Disease in America: Investigation and Response to Outbreaks
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Experimental Pathology: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Human Disease
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Forensic Science - CSI Providence
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Frontiers of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
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Genetics Beyond Mendel
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Healthcare Communication: Empathy, Social Media, False Data
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Healthcare in America
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Human Behavior and Addiction
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Identification and Study of Wild-Caught Nematodes
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Infectious and Epidemic Disease
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Innovation Inspired by Nature: A Biomimicry Challenge
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Introduction to Genetics and Epigenetics: We are not just our DNA!
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Introduction to Medicine: Do You Want to Be a Doctor?
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Laboratory Medicine: Using Model Organisms in Biomedical Research
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Laboratory Research in Biomedicine
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Leadership and Global Health
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Moral Medicine: Questions in Bioethics at the Cutting Edge
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Not So Basic: Exploring The pHun World of Acids and Bases
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Research Techniques in Molecular Biology
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Scholar-Athlete: Sport Physiology
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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The Great Diseases: Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Epidemics
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The Scientific Exploration of Exercise Training
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Toxicology & Environmental Health
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Understanding Evolution: Theory, Evidence, Implications & Controversy
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Animal Minds: Comparative Neuroanatomy and Animal Behavior
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Biomarkers: How can we democratize health?
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Blood and Brains: Comparative Physiology of the Neurovasculature
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Brain Basics: From Biology to Behavior
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Coding to Read and Control the Brain
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Free Will and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Decision-Making
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How Our Experiences Shape Our Brains: An Experimental Approach
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Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
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Neuroscience in Health and Disease
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and networks of nerve cells, or neurons, that travel throughout the body. Although the field of neuroscience is relatively new, being recognized only in recent decades as a formal discipline, it is growing and expanding at a very rapid rate. The rapid growth of neuroscience and the pace of biomedical research make understanding neuroscience valuable for any student interested in biomedical or health sciences. Moreover, because neuroscience integrates biology, chemistry, physics, physiology, and psychology, it provides various avenues of opportunities for students who come from different academic backgrounds or interests.
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Tagged With: BiologyNeuroscienceMedicine & Health Studies
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Psychoactive Drugs: Brain, Body, and Society
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Psychology Across Species: Animal Cognition and Behavior
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Psychopathology: Investigating the Biology and Psychology of Mental Illness
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Unlocking Tactical Performance to Optimize Human Physicality
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Acid/Base Chemistry: From Food to Everyday Phenomena
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Biochemistry, The Magic that Keeps Us Alive
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Factory to Faucet: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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Molecular Biology and Biochemistry: From DNA to Enzymes
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Nanotechnology: Mystery Science or Small Materials Doing Big Things?
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Organic and Biochemistry: Key Pathways to Success for the Pre-Med Student
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Archaeology of Ancient Greece
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Greek Mythology
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Mythology
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Playing with Death: Games in the Ancient World
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Rome, Italy - Making of an Eternal City
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The American Presidents and the Western Tradition
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Troubled Origins: Accounting for Oneself (Nietzsche to Eribon)
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Artificial Intelligence: A Computational Account of Intelligence
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Cybersecurity Ethics
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Data Science and Machine Learning
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Ethical Questions of the Information Age
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Introduction to Computational Mathematics and Big Data Visualization
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Introduction to Cryptography
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Introduction to Machine Learning and AI with Python
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Introduction to Statistical Programming in R
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Introduction to Systems Thinking and Game Design
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The Art of Science Communication
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An Introduction to Game Theory
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Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction
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Brown University-Hult Business BootCamp
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Economania
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Econometrics: Statistical Tools to Understand Economic Data
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Economics for Beginners: Principles and Applications
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How a Nation's Economy Works: An Introduction to Macroeconomics
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I Heart Startups: An Entrepreneurship Incubator
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Introduction to Behavioral Finance
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Introduction to Econometrics
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Introduction to Microeconomics
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Leadership in Changing Business: Social Entrepreneurship
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Making Informed Financial Decisions in Today's World Economy
Have you thought about where you would like to be financially in 10, 20, and 30 years? Do you hope to retire at some point in your life? How will you get there? Does your home country have a robust financial plan for its future? Unfortunately, many people, governments, and organizations have not planned or adequately prepared to meet their economic goals. This course will explore the factors that will likely make it even more difficult for your generation to be as financially secure as that of your parents and grandparents. Factors such as Covid, deficit spending, lower government benefits, increased life expectancy, volatility in financial markets, changes in labor market demographics, and prolonged low-interest rates will present challenges. This course will help you understand global economic factors and lead to more informed financial decisions.
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Tagged With: Economics
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Principles of Economics
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Principles of Financial Accounting
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Technology and Its Effect on Business and World Economies
When your parents were young, their telephones were attached to walls, computers took up entire rooms, and they purchased consumer goods in a store. Today, with advances such as the "Internet of Things," we can forgo the store entirely and order all of our goods online using mobile apps. Technology "runs" our lives from online education to paying a friend through an app or signing up online for a vaccination appointment. We now experience services and products unimagined even a few years ago, such as mind-controlled computing or Robin the Robot. These innovations affect our everyday lives and shape our communities, businesses, and governments. This course explores innovation and incentives to create new products and services, the "winners" and "losers" of innovative activities, and the profound effects of technological advancements on businesses and economies worldwide.
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Tagged With: Economics
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Egyptology 101
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The Quest for Immortality in the Ancient World
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Alternative Energy Engineering: An Introduction
The world relies on energy. This course considers the engineering application of efficiently utilizing energy sources to produce useful work. It considers advances since the start of the Industrial Revolution with wind, water, steam, electricity, internal and external combustion machines up to modern efforts with solar, nuclear, ocean, wind, and controversial approaches. Engineering tradeoffs, limitations, penalties, and projections are discussed along with a strong hands-on component of demos and device building.
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Tagged With: EngineeringEnvironmental Studies
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Biomedical Engineering: The Smart Design of Medical Implants and Devices
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Engineering Biomedical Systems
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Engineering Design Studio: Learning by Making in the Brown Design Workshop
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Engineering with Arduino: Learning Electronics and Programming
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Fluid Mechanics Through Hovercraft Physics
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Flying Robots: How to Build and Program Small UAVs
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Introduction to Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D Printing
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Introduction to Engineering and Design
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Introduction to Numerical Methods and Computational Science and Engineering
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Learning Matlab by Simulation of a 4-Rover Game
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Materials Engineering: A Revolution in the Making
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Materials Science and Engineering: Designing for Society's Needs
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Renewable Energy Engineering: Wind and Solar Power
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Solar Energy & Engineering
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Space Tourism: The Science and Engineering Behind the Trend
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"All of them Witches!": Race, Gender, and Witchcraft in Popular Culture
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20th Century Literary Movements and Theories
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Apocalypse Now
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Beyond the Book: Text, Image, and Experiments in the In-between
This course will explore the possibilities of what we can make, quite literally, from our own experience: what happens when our hand doesn’t stop moving, goes from writing to visual art, and back again? We will draw on a combination of creative nonfiction, poetry, and collage, and, working from personal experience and the world around us, make physical objects (chapbooks, hybrid essays, comics, etc.) that blend forms and themes and ask: what is “creative work”? In what ways can social media and technology contribute to the creative process, and how can they help us see alternative examples of the “book”? How can they hinder it? How can we look at the personal—our past and present experience, the ways we interact with the world, the ways we talk to ourselves and synthesize our surroundings—as a way to connect with individuals and the world at large?
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Tagged With: Visual Art & Art HistoryCreative WritingEnglish & World LiteratureModern Culture & Media
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Comedy and Cruelty
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Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
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Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry
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Experimental Writing
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How Poetry Matters: Reading Experimental Poetry in the Pandemic Era
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Innovative Writing Across Media: An Introduction to the College Workshop
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Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
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Introduction to Fiction Writing
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Language and Social Justice
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Law and Literature
This course considers how law and literature contribute jointly to our sense of justice and our understanding of injustice. Through novels, poetry, film, legal writings, and legal opinions, we examine how law and literature create interrelated narratives that shed light on issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureLegal StudiesModern Culture & MediaPolitical Science
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Law and Literature
What is the relationship between law and literature? How do these supposedly separate disciplines contribute to our sense of justice and our understanding of injustice? We examine these questions through novels, legal writings, legal opinions, and film, in order to discover how law and literature create interrelated narratives that shed light on issues like identity, sexuality, injury, policing, speech, and silence. We read literary and legal narratives to see to how they inform each other, but also illuminate each other’s blind spots.
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Tagged With: English & World LiteratureLegal StudiesWriting & Communications
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Literature, Culture, and American Identities
America has been described as a melting pot and a nation of immigrants, but what does it mean to be an “American” and to claim an “American” identity? This course will introduce students to the study of personal and group identity in U.S. literature and culture. Crossing multiple genres, historical periods, and cultural forms (fiction, film, TV), we will examine a diverse range of texts by African American, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, Jewish American, and Native American writers. We will ask how these writers have come to understand the United States, and how they have used literary and cultural expression to represent their own experiences and the experiences of their communities in the U.S.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesModern Culture & Media
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Love Stories
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Medical Diagnostics: Observation, Interpretation, the Art of Being a Better MD
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Monstrosities: The Meaning of Monsters in the Modern World
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Multimedia Storytelling
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OTP [One True Pairing]: The Courtship Plot from Jane Austen to Jane the Virgin
What’s love got to do with it? This course examines how the courtship plot, from meet-cute to marriage, shapes cultural understandings not only of romance, but also of gender, race, class, sexuality, and genre. In this course, you will engage critically with novels from the nineteenth century to the present, alongside films and TV shows. The course seeks to enable you to become better readers, critics, and writers.
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Tagged With: Creative WritingEnglish & World LiteratureWriting & Communications
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Putting Your Ideas Into Words
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Read, Think, Write - Approaching the College Essay
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Reading, Writing, Traveling: An Exploration in Creative Nonfiction
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Suspicious Minds: American Literature and the Paranoid Imagination
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Web-Based Language Art
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Writing Flash Fiction
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Writing for College Admissions
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Writing for College and Beyond
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Writing Seminar I: Presenting Yourself in Words
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Writing Seminar II: Writing About Media
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Writing Seminar III: Composing the Academic Essay
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Writing Speculative Fiction
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Applying Environmental Leadership To The Global Climate Crisis
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Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Alaska
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Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Rhode Island
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Build A Better Mousetrap: Solving Environmental Conundrums
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Climate Change & Health: Infections and Inequalities
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Conservation of Endangered Species
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Marine Ecology: Studying and Safeguarding Our Most Vulnerable Ecosystems
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Marine Ecosystems in the Balance: Protecting a Changing Estuary
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Nature as Our Teacher: Learning Skills to Shape Change
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People and their Environment
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Research Methods in Marine Science
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You Can’t Spell “Earth” Without “Art”: Art & Environmental Leadership
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Immersive Italian
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Intermediate to Advanced Spanish
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Kafka and the Philosophers
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Screening Social Justice in the Spanish-Speaking World
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Dynamic Earth
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Habitable Worlds: Possible Places for Life in the Solar System and Beyond
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"In the Good Old Days" - The Idea of Nostalgia
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A People's History of War in America
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Popular Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
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Power and the Production of History
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Segovia, Spain - Spanish Life and Culture
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Setting Sail: Early American History from the Water
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U.S. Politics, Public Policy and Social Justice
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Warfare in the Ancient World
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Ancient Art in the Flesh: Discovering Ancient Art at the RISD Museum
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Art, Fashion, and Gender in the Modern Age
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Trends in Modern Art
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Financial Mathematics: Applications in Investment Analysis
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Introduction to Applied Geometry
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Linear Algebra
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Logic & Paradox
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Mathematical Modeling of Finance: An Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
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Number Theory: An Introduction to Higher Mathematics
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Real-world Networks: using Math to understand Complex Systems
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Set Theory: The Dazzling Foundation of Abstract Mathematics
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Statistics in the Real World
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The Frontier of Knowledge: An Intro to Mathematical Research and Discovery
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Around the World in 10 Days: Exploring Tourism
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Celluloid Deaths: Cinema, Pleasure, and Death
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Documentary Production and Practice
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From Mayberry to Netflix: Topics in Television Studies, Race, Gender, and Class
Television’s modes of content creation, distribution, and consumption are changing rapidly. Some would argue that television has usurped film as the preeminent visual medium of our age, while others would suggest that television and film are converging to the point that these very labels are becoming meaningless. Regardless, alternative modes of production and distribution allow for a plethora of diverse shows that no longer have to “play in Peoria.” Concurrently, issues of race, gender, and class on television are more prominent and pervasive than ever. But is increased representation—of minority, female, and LGBTQ characters—enough? What is “good” or “bad” representation, or should we eliminate this binary altogether? How do we define quality and/or relevant television? The purpose of this course is to collect the tools that we need in order to think critically about what we watch.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyHistory & American StudiesModern Culture & MediaPolitical Science
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Introduction to Film Analysis
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Post-Cinema? New Media and the Digital Turn
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Sound and Story: Introduction to Podcasting and Audio Journalism
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The *@#%* Media: Enough Disinformation!
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The People vs. The Media: Race and Gender in Representations of Crime
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Hands-On Medicine: A Week in the Life of a Medical Student
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Medicine in Action: A View into the Life of a Medical Student
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"Who Run the World? Girls": Women's Music for Social Change
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Electronic Music Production: From Idea to Practice
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Arguing About Arguing and Thinking About Thinking
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Contemporary Moral Issues
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Contemporary Political Philosophy
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Equity and Justice: The Meaning of Equality in a Time of Systemic Oppression
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Implicit Bias - What is it and Who is to Blame?
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Introduction to Philosophy
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Nevertheless, She Persisted: Current Issues in Feminist Philosophy
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Science, Perception, and Reality
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An Introduction to Quantum Computing
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Basic Physics (A)
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Basic Physics (B)
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Evolution and Exploration of our Solar System
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From Newton to Nanotechnology: History and Applications of Physics
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Introduction to Nanotechnology
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Introductory Astronomy: Exploring the Cosmos
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May The Force Be With You: Physics for the Ages
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Quantum Mechanics and the Nature of Reality
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Smartphone & Computational Physics
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What Does It Take to Discover a Particle?
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"This Is What Democracy Looks Like!"
Democracy is conventionally conceived as a tidy set of procedures and principles: elections, voting, legislation, checks and balances, majority rule. But it becomes a lot more complex when we look at the history of democratic thought, which has often been associated with revolutionary activity, large social movements, and messy conflict. In this course, we will examine the history of democratic thought, explore questions about rule and authority, and come to broaden our understanding of how democracy’s central values and ideals might reinvigorate democracy in our contemporary moment.
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Tagged With: Philosophy & ReligionPolitical Science
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Animals Among Us: Humans, Nonhumans, and Politics
What is an animal? To begin, you may point to your dog or cat nearby, the bird outside the window, or perhaps a selfie — these are all particular animals. Yet humans take great effort in distinguishing themselves from other animals. And our society and politics are based on these distinctions— otherwise, we couldn’t use animals as food, scientific research, or even pets. In this course, we will explore the place of animals in western political theory: How do foundational texts establish the separation of humans from other animals? How are animals confined, included in, or excluded from our (human) political systems? Lastly, we will look at various historical, literary, philosophical, and ethnographic texts from different parts of the world that present diverse impressions of animals. This course offers a window to the complex ways that theories and practice intersect in the study of animals.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyClassics & Ancient WorldPhilosophy & ReligionPolitical Science
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Debating Democracy: Threats and Prospects
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Ethics and International Affairs
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Great Trials That Changed History: A Judge's Perspective
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Introduction to U.S. Law and The Way Lawyers Think
Because the law affects nearly all aspects of daily life, understanding our society’s legal framework empowers students to step into leadership roles, use the law to help others, change the law, and change the world around them. Students will learn how to think and analyze issues like a lawyer, lawmaker, and judge as we explore different types of law, such as criminal law, civil rights, litigation, business law, and more.
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Tagged With: EconomicsLegal StudiesPolitical Science
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Introduction to Women’s Studies
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Law, Ethics, and Democracy
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Making Sense of the World: Analyzing the Key Players in the International System
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Political Theory Through Science Fiction: Utopias, Dystopias and Allegories
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Posting Power - Digital Media and the Transformation of Politics
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Race, Justice, and American Democracy
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The American Presidency
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The International Human Rights of Political and Environmental Migrations
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The Political Economy of Cities: American and Comparative Perspectives
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The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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The United States Supreme Court: The 2021-22 Term in Review
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Transforming Conflict
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U.S. Foreign Policy: Past, Present, and Future
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Abnormal Adolescent Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology
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Application of Management Principles & Behavior for Leadership in Organization
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Becoming You: Human Development Across the Lifespan
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Children's Thinking
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Conducting Research at the Forefront of Science: Cannabis Use in the U.S.
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Critical Thinking About Human Behavior
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Culture and Psychology
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Current Controversies in Mood Disorders
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Deja-Vu and Tricks of the Mind
What is deja-vu, and how do psychologists explain it? How can understanding memory, attention, and perception help us make sense of deja-vu?
This course provides an overview of memory, how it works, and how it—along with attention and perception—plays “tricks.” What follows is an explanation of how the mind can confuse us through forgetting, misremembering, and experiences such as deja-vu. In doing so, techniques for enhancing memory, attention, and awareness are introduced.
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Tagged With: Psychology
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Freud: Psychoanalysis and Its Legacies
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Genetics, Epigenetics and Human Behavior
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Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology
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Media and Mental Health
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Personality Disorders: Research and Treatments
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Psychology and Culture
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Psychology and Health: Emotions, Behaviors, and Disease
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Psychology of Resilience
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Psychology of Stress and Trauma
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Psychology of Willpower and Motivation
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Social Psychology: How Attitudes and Relationships Shape Human Behavior
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Statistical Methods
A survey of statistical methods used in the behavioral sciences. Topics include graphical data description, probability theory, confidence intervals, principles of hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation, and regression, and techniques for categorical data. Emphasizes application of statistical methods to empirical data. By the end of the summer semester, students who successfully complete this course should:
know how to collect useful and meaningful data,
know methods for analyzing data using a calculator, an Excel spreadsheet, and specialized computer programs such as R and SPSS,
know how to interpret statistical results reported in scientific literature,
know how to present statistical results in scientific literature.
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Tagged With: Math & Computer SciencePsychology
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Stranger than Fiction: Debunking Popular Myths in Psychology
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The Mind, Brain, and Behavior
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The Psychology of Denial, Skepticism, and Conspiracy
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Transgenerational Trauma and Epigenetics: How Trauma Can Be Inherited
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Why do people use drugs? Contemporary Theories of Health Behaviors and Addiction
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From Idea to Publication: Building Your Own Research Project
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Racism and Health: From a Physiological to Societal Perspective
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The End of the World
Living now amid the Covid-19 pandemic, thoughts of whether humanity can defeat the virus and, if so, what will become of the world post-pandemic greatly trouble the mind. While our anxieties at present are very real and valid, concern over humanity’s end and the end of the world is not new. The theme of the apocalypse features prominently in some of the most lucrative Hollywood movies that dramatize global catastrophes—extreme global warming, astrological forces, pandemics—that threaten humanity’s end. That concern over the world ending is at the forefront of the present-day human mind is indicated by the sheer popularity and success of these films. Such anxieties have also been revealed by recent crazed responses over the uncertainty of what would happen after Dec 21, 2012, the last day of the Mayan calendar, and when the clock struck midnight to usher in the year 2000 (Y2K). However, this kind of apocalyptic thinking is not born out of modernity. It originated over 2,000 years ago in the religions of Judaism and Christianity and has shaped human thinking and catalyzed human action ever since. What can we learn from the history of the apocalyptic mindset, and how might it better help us understand ourselves and the world we live in today? How has belief in the apocalypse shaped human behavior for better or worse? If this topic and these questions are of interest, then this is the course for you.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyClassics & Ancient WorldPhilosophy & Religion
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Child Development in Historical, Societal and Cultural Context
In this highly interactive course, you will explore how historical, social, and cultural factors impact the development of children at home and within their learning environment. Through engaging discussions, debates, interactive readings, and illustrative case studies, you will explore how structural inequalities related to race/ethnicity, gender, social class, disability, learning styles, and sexual orientation influence individual growth and learning. You will also explore some of the best practices in supporting child development and be able to apply this knowledge to current or future work with children.
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Tagged With: Education, Ethnic & Gender Studies
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Environmental Sociology for A Rapidly Warming World
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Finance for the Poor: Microcredit, Poverty, and Development
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Gender, Race and Class in Medical Research and Practice
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Globalization and Development: The Case of China
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Informed Leadership: Science, Technology and Society
From the development of vaccines to the first test of the atomic bomb, the social landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries has been shaped by technological, medical, and scientific advancements. In this course, you will analyze the ever-shifting relationship between science and society through readings drawn from Science, Technology, Studies (STS), Environmental Studies, Bioethics, the History of Science, and the Philosophy of Science.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyHistory & American StudiesLegal StudiesMath & Computer SciencePhilosophy & ReligionPolitical ScienceMedicine & Health StudiesPublic Health
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Leadership and Intercultural Communication
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Leadership and Social Change
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Leadership for Educational Equity
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Social Entrepreneurship
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Social Impact of Natural and Human-made Disasters
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The Climate Crisis and Society
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The F-Word: Examining the Science, Culture, and Politics of Fatness
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The Sociology of Health Inequalities
There is arguably no resource more important for social life than good health. The state of a person's health determines whether they can work, go to school, and participate in family and social life. However, the risk of developing and dying from particular diseases is not equally distributed within countries, or across countries, around the globe. This course introduces concepts, theories, and methods for understanding how social factors influence the distribution of health and illness. We will examine trends in global health inequality and investigate how factors such as race, gender, occupation, and migration affect health. We will think critically about social factors as risk factors for poor health and discuss the implications for health policy and practice in both high and low-and-middle-income countries.
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Tagged With: Anthropology & SociologyMedicine & Health StudiesPublic Health
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Women and Leadership
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(Re)Imagining the Body: What can a body do?
How does the body perform itself? And what at all is a body? These are the underlying questions to the fundamental question profoundly binding philosophy and performance: ‘What can a body do?’. From philosophical questions about the nature of the body, to issues of gender, race, sexuality, trauma, disability, artificial intelligence, and death, we will see how bodies carry, produce, and perform meanings. With different visual and performance artworks, we will examine how bodies are being represented, discuss what is being expected from bodies, and speculate on the possibility for bodies to be thought of differently. Prerequisites: This is a reading intensive and interdisciplinary course.
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Tagged With: Music, Performing & Media Arts
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Acting
Acting is about doing! Explore your unique potential. You will develop valuable acting, collaboration, and communication skills. This is a useful, challenging, and fun exploration of the art of acting.
In class, students work on scenes, applying new techniques. There will be multiple presentations of scene work, the final one open to the public. Develop physical, vocal, emotional, and intellectual skills. CREATE a supportive collaborative space. Have fun exploring!
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Tagged With: Performing & Media ArtsEnglish & World LiteratureHistory & American StudiesPsychologyMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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Culture War Bootcamp: Curation, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship in the Arts
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Effective Communication: Presenting to the Public
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Persuasive Communication
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Persuasive Communication and Public Speaking
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Playwriting I
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Presenting to the Public
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Something to Offer and Something to Learn: Becoming a Better Communicator
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Writing for Performance/Designing Creative Inquiry
Humans not only communicate through stories, we build our lives around them. We inherit stories, invent them through both necessity and imagination; we justify wars based on stories, we create borders based on stories, we make stories out of love and family and fear and longing and joy. The ability to focus on a story, to follow a line of curiosity, or inquiry, has powerful implications for discovery and for how we shape the future of our world. Constructing a rigorous creative practice is one of the most exciting and important things we can do. This course will provide a workshop setting in which those who are interested in storytelling, in writing, in play (playwriting, play-making), in the big ideas that shape our lives, will focus on the development of a single performance text.
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Tagged With: Creative WritingPerforming & Media ArtsWriting & CommunicationsMusic, Performing & Media Arts
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