cool classes

This religion course introduces students to debates about the senses in Islam, including exploring the relationship between sound and the sacred.

This co-taught linguistics course, which explores five issues in which modality effects might be evidenced in Mandarin and American Sign Language, is experimental, as the professors and students form and test hypotheses against data together.

This biology course for non-majors explores how human activities impact Earth’s climate and, in turn, all living things on the planet.

The Fall 2018 iteration of the “Impact Investing” course chose to support Vega Coffee, a direct-trade venture whose products are now available in the Coop and new Library Cafe.

This English course introduces students to the early English novel, as well as to the tradition of scholarship that seeks to explain its origins.

This music course examines musical change over a thousand-year span, uncovering how—and why—Western music evolved from a monastic ritual of plain, unaccompanied song into a secular entertainment for elite audiences in modern cities.