In this course, we will study all of Jane Austen’s six major novels. In addition, we study one film adaptation…
Before Timothy McVeigh, Taliban, Al-Qaeda and ISIS/ISIL, Russia provided the world with visual imagery and vocabulary to refer to terror…
This course explores the links between politics and literature in America, focusing on the way in which fiction is able…
This seminar considers the purpose and history of the university and different conceptions of liberal learning. Is the university primarily…
How shall we live together? Humans are unique among living creatures in that we cannot live solitary lives by ourselves,…
This course explores the place of music within the carceral system of the United States, particularly since the early 20th…
Although women now attend and graduate from college at a higher rate than men, they remain underrepresented in STEM majors…
This course is dedicated to the following, twinning questions: 1) How do we define energy in the literary humanities and…
What, if any, responsibilities accompany democratic citizenship? Voting? Active participation in politics? Obeying laws? Volunteering in one’s community? Preserving natural…
Happiness is a fundamental goal in many societies, despite being elusive for many people. In recent years, social scientists have…