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The course engages with the self-legitimizing and framing of agency and identities —ethnic, gender, socio-economic— in the works of a range of early modern writers some of whom did not live in accordance to the contemporary expectations of their biological gender— from diverse locations across Hispanic territories in Europe and the Americas. Materials can include letters, novellas, drama, poetry, autobiography, chronicles and historical records from canonical authors as well as previously marginalized voices. Students explore the early modern Hispanic world from metropolitan, colonized and colonizing perspectives and engage with questions of (self-)representation within artistic, social and political structures in the early modern world. The study of various genres allows students to consider the multiple ways and implications of creating, defending, and circulating notions of identity as well as recording agency in this period.

What does it mean to study religion anthropologically? This course introduces students to anthropological approaches of studying religion. Students explore how anthropologists have struggled to define religion, and what debates and contestations about definition can tell us about the assumptions of classic anthropological understandings of religion, and how our thinking has changed since. Students explore multiple religious beliefs, meanings, experiences, expressions, and practices across diverse sociocultural environments. Through an engagement with anthropological works on ritual, self-cultivation, and joy, students learn how religion is understood, experienced, and expressed. 

This course introduces students to the languages of the Bible. It provides students with a basic orientation to the biblical languages: Hebrew and Koine Greek. It enables students to read and translate simple Hebrew and Greek phrases and constructions. Students are able to read and translate, with assistance, selected biblical passages.

How has race become a method for categorizing and ordering humanity? How has the politics of anti-racism sought to dismantle both racial orders and the categories they rely on? In this course, students grapple with these questions by exploring the diverse intellectual voices have sought to understand and theorize racism and anti-racism. These thinkers include those who were engaged in struggles against imperialism and colonialism, in addition to contemporary forms of racial domination.

This course examines the burgeoning development of contemporary Chinese art in relation to its shifting socio-political and cultural realities since the end of the Cultural Revolution. Structured around a series of thematic studies on major exhibitions and artworks made and displayed at different stages, this course addresses issues relating to art criticism, institutional censorship, public engagement and art market, investigating unprecedented transnational flows and cross-cultural exchanges within the increasingly interconnected, yet unevenly developed contemporary art world. This course draws particular attention to the practices of Chinese women artists, including Shen Yuan, Lin Tianmiao, Yin Xiuzhen, Lu Qing, Xing Danwen, Kan Xuan, Cao Fei and others, interrogating and challenging the unacknowledged, unquestioned and marginalized status of women in the mainstream discourses of Chinese avant-garde art. Prerequisite: One 1000-level Art History course.

This course offers a description of a system to make a link between the microscopic properties of the particles in the system and its macroscopic behavior at equilibrium. It is based on the idea that the macroscopic state of the system is realized as the average over a large number of independent microscopic states. This demonstrates the basis of these statistical principles and their applications to various problems in physics, chemistry, and material science as statistical thermodynamics bridges many disciplines as it makes the link between the physical description of a given particle and the behavior of a statistical ensemble of those particles. 

In this course, students focus on the alimentary system and supporting bony structures, learning about the macro and micro structure and the pathologies that may occur in this system.

This course provides students with an understanding of the wider social and environmental determinants of health and how the determinants impact health attitudes, behaviors, and health outcomes. This also addresses strategies and interventions at the individual, community, national, and global levels.

This course examines the evolution of British painting, sculpture, architecture and music from Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815 to the Wall Street Crash in 1929. Students observe, analyze and assess the role of art and artists within this rapidly evolving society and the British world in the 19th and early 20th century. Topics include the conservative canvases of Victorians at the Royal Academy to the Modernist abstractions of the Rebel Art Centre, and the painters of the Great War in The Roaring Twenties in the West End of London.

This course introduces the concepts and methods of decision making and analysis, which involves the application of mathematical modeling and analysis to business problems. Models are simplified representations of real situations and can be invaluable tools in decision making. Students learn the basic elements of modeling-how to formulate a model and how to use and interpret the information a model produces. The emphasis is on models that are widely used in diverse industries and functional areas, including finance, operations, and marketing. Applications include production planning, revenue management, sales force planning, risk management, portfolio optimization, among others. Spreadsheets and other tools are used to implement, solve, and analyze the models  developed.