You may already have read that trees communicate with each other, or that forests are complex networks of resource exchange….
In this course, we will examine how French topography, in particular coastal topography, has had an impact on French cultural…
Jewish life and civilization in Spain have been compared to a drama in which moments of cultural flourishing are mixed…
Animals have been central to the human imagination since the days of cave paintings. They have always played key roles…
This course is dedicated to the following, twinning questions: 1) How do we define energy in the literary humanities and…
This seminar focuses on the literary production of Latinos living in the U.S. Using a variety of materials (essays, documentaries,…
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, numerous Iberian intellectuals promoted the idea that Portugal and Spain could combine efforts to…
This course provides an introduction to the study of language (the science of Linguistics) through an exploration of how humor…
This course explores the role the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) played in the construction of a…
Set in plague-stricken Florence of 1348, Boccaccio’s Decameron begins with a portrait of social unravelling and civic collapse that is…