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How should we balance the need to produce cheap food with environmental damage? Should we be using low-cost airlines? Is it now immoral to have children? Should animals be granted the same rights as human beings? The climate crisis gives rise to many daily and long-term moral questions concerning how we should live and behave. This course introduces students to environmental ethics, the branch of philosophy concerned with how our moral values and decisions impact the natural world. Through a series of talks and discussions, this course grapples with the difficult environmental moral dilemmas we face as humans and encourage students to reflect and consider how we face these challenges.

This course is intended not just for historians, but also for humanities students, social scientists, and scientists and engineers who want to learn not only how the world has been transformed by innovation, by imitation, and by historically novel machines, structures and processes which have resulted.  It is concerned primarily with innovation in the material, and that taking place in the context of capitalism. However, it also covers the socialist world, and the poor world, of the 20th century. It is also an invitation to learn about how to think about this central transformation in human history. The course also provides tools for examining such elusive yet important notions as invention, innovation, science, technology, and introduce key debates surrounding questions of machines, production, and efficiency in the historiography of the 20th century, relating them to various different forms of analysis from political economy to gender studies, in sites from the factory to the field and the home, covering the globe.  

This course examines Indigenous peoples as agents of geopolitical change. It introduces colonial/decolonial geographies to demonstrate the geopolitical implications of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. Key themes include: territory and geopolitics; Indigenous identities, subject-formation and intersectionality; Indigenous knowledges, rights and political agency; and, Indigenous relationships with non-Indigenous peoples.

In this course, students uncover the fascinating world of processes in businesses and daily lives. They explore how things get made, from the smallest gadget to the largest machines. It's not just about factories and assembly lines; it's everything from a coffee shop to the latest tech companies and the processes they use. Students explore how to design these processes, keep them running smoothly, and constantly improve them.

This is a course in the rigorous treatment of Fourier series and related topics, including Fourier series, Fourier coefficients, trigonometric polynomials and orthogonality; properties of Fourier coefficients; Bessel's inequality, Parseval's identity and the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma; various notions of convergence of Fourier series, including pointwise, uniform and mean square convergence. Summability methods, convolution and Young's inequality; Fourier Analysis in broader contexts; for example, Fourier integrals, Fourier expansions in groups, Schwartz spaces and tempered distributions.

Do feminists everywhere share universal concerns? How have feminists in non-Western societies navigated the twin challenge of responding to patriarchy and to Western imperialism? How have they reacted to feminist scholarship in the West? What specific challenges have feminists in the Arab world and in China been responding to, historically and in the contemporary period? What importance have Islam and Confucianism had, respectively, in the formulation of feminist demands in these two parts of the world? In this course, students consider the question of the convergence and divergence of feminist discourses and ideas, East and West. Students will read primary texts written by feminists in China and in the Arab world, starting with the classical period of each tradition, and moving to the contemporary period.

This course will cover practical and conceptual approaches to the study of plant and animal ecology covering population dynamics, community structure and ecosystem ecology.

Framing the study of gangs in the context of debates on globalization, youth studies and urban sociology, this course approaches street gangs as a lens through which to analyze broader processes of social change and inequality in the contemporary era. Taking in perspectives from children and young people involved alongside the social, economic, cultural, and political forces shaping these experiences, the course equips students with an understanding of gangs that is sensitive to both the micro- and macro-level forces at work in the global era.

This class explores how technology is transforming banking and finance, with a focus on distributed ledger technology (DLT), blockchain, and innovations such as digital currencies, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and decentralized exchanges. It also examines the rise of Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in financial markets and services. The class reviews these developments through a legal and regulatory lens, highlighting key challenges and opportunities. No prior knowledge of FinTech or related fields is required.

This course covers the economics of discrimination guided by economic theory and evidence. In the first part of the course, students look at some broad stylized facts relating to discrimination in the labor market (both racial and gender) and then explore some of the leading economic theories of the causes and consequences of discrimination, why it tends to persist despite the economic inefficiencies involved, the role for corrective policies, and to the extent the negative effects of discrimination are transmitted inter-generationally. The second part of the course includes the empirical measurement of discrimination, an overview of the economic consequences of racial and gender discrimination, which policies have been implemented to promote equality for underrepresented groups, and examines the relationship between economic inequality and intergenerational mobility. The second part also covers econometric methods used in the literature on the economics of discrimination.