This advanced language course enhances students’ competence in the four skills in Chinese—speaking, listening, reading, and writing—by exploring music concepts and practices in China from Confucius writing on the topic to Peking Opera.
Growing out of the ten-year-old Lagim Tehi Tuma/”Thinking Together” program, this education course explores transnational and diasporic Black language study and Black studies by engaging with a community in Northern Ghana.
This history course investigates the origins of income inequality in the contemporary world via intensive examination of the societies of early modern China and the Ottoman Empire.
This English course, which begins with Amiri Baraka and ends with Beyonce’s “Lemonade,” explores the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s as an essential link to 21st-century Black culture.
This environmental studies course explores the biology of plants using case studies of economically important plants to illuminate themes like hybridization, monoculture, and adaptation.
In this fine arts course, students learn the basic techniques of Chinese calligraphy, its historical roots and development, and its importance in Chinese culture
In this visual studies course students learn the craft of digital video production and post-production through the creation of short video projects focused on the genres of speculation, especially about the future of humans and human societies, as a creative framework.
In this first-year writing seminar, students learn to read and write, critically and purposefully, on what has become a new and highly populated public space: the internet.
