This co-taught seminar explores what it means to “do math ethically,” to emphasize the ways in which mathematics is inherently political, and to think about antiracism in mathematical disciplines.
This intensive first-year writing seminar considers students’ fluid relationship to identities that they examine, explore, and take on through course materials.
Students learn some of the current understanding of how galaxies in our Universe form and evolve over time, as well as the data science techniques commonly used by extragalactic researchers in their work.
This anthropology course explores human attempts to extend sensory capacities through robots, sensors, nonhuman animals, and plants, considering how colonialism, race, disability, gender, and surveillance shape the desire to sense beyond the human.
This history course explores Indigenous women’s experiences in the history of Latin America including the dynamics of women’s social movements in the region, whose agendas often conflict with established gendered traditions.
This course explores anthropological approaches to the law and legal regimes, with special emphasis on the relationship between law, power and politics, social hierarchy, and the institutionalization of inequality in the United States in the context of the War on Drugs.
This health studies course explores the human experience of cancer patients and their families to provide a lens to critically examine the healthcare system and sociopolitical conditions of their societies.
This modern Japanese language course immerses students in an array of common Japanese media forms that subtly reinforce powerful, widely held, and often unquestioned historical, cultural, and political preconceptions underlying popular ideas about Japanese identity.
