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Archaeology in the Digital Age

Instructor: Justin Leidwanger

Archaeology

United Nations Peacekeeping

Instructor: Bertrand Patenaude

International Relations

Accessing Architecture Through Drawing

Instructor: John Barton

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Shakespeare, Playing, Gender

Instructor: Patricia Parker

Comparative Literature

Newly added! Spring!

Engineering the Micro and Nano Worlds: From Chips to Genes

Instructor: John (J) Provine, Roger Howe

Electrical Engineering

The Changing Face of Mental Illness in Women: Historical, Medical and Artistic Approaches

Instructor: Katherine Williams, Regina Casper

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Gender and Media

Instructor: Patti Hanlon-Baker

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos

Instructor: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

Classics, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

Instructor: Londa Schiebinger

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History

Religion, Ecology and Environmental Ethics

Instructor: Ariel Evan Mayse

Religious Studies

Bon Appétit, Marie Curie! The Science Behind Haute Cuisine

Instructor: Markus Covert

Bioengineering

Self-Made: Culture, Identity, and Histories of Reinvention in America

Instructor: Katherine J Lennard

American Studies

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Batman, Hamilton, Díaz, and Other Wondrous Lives

COMPLIT 55N

Instructor:

Jose Saldivar

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

Black and White Relations in American Fiction and Film

AMSTUD 42Q

Instructor:

Christina Mesa

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine

SOMGEN 150Q

Instructor:

Marcia Stefanick

WAY-ED, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

"Crayones cera" by Jorge Barrios - Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crayones_cera.jpg#/media/File:Crayones_cera.jpg

Comparative Fictions of Ethnicity

COMPLIT 51Q

Instructor:

David Palumbo-Liu

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Occupy, Lagos, Nigeria, political, rally, Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, 2012. By Temi KOGBE [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

Contemporary African Politics

POLISCI 46N

Instructor:

David Laitin

WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Spring

By Available from the U.S. Army's website, http://web.archive.org/web/http://www4.army.mil/armyimages/armyimage.php?photo=1836, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=218993

Dare to Care: Compassionate Design

CHEMENG 90Q

Instructor:

John Moalli

WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

Gay Autobiography

HISTORY 36N

Instructor:

Paul Robinson

WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Spring

Teen scientist Alexa Dantzler in the lab by Intel Free Press via Flickr, 10141713806_830f130617_k

Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment

HISTORY 44Q

Instructor:

Londa Schiebinger

WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Heartfulness: Mindfulness, Compassion, and Responsibility

CSRE 47Q

Instructor:

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

How to Make a Racist

PSYCH 21N

Instructor:

Steven Roberts

WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

Cropped Fresco Image. "Fresco showing a woman so-called Sappho holding writing implements, from Pompeii, Naples National Archaeological Museum (14842101892) restored" by Carole Raddato, P. Herden - https://www.flickr.com/photos/carolemage/14842101892/. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fresco_showing_a_woman_so-called_Sappho_holding_writing_implements,_from_Pompeii,_Naples_National_Archaeological_Museum_(14842101892)_restored.jpg#/media/File:Fresco_

Imagining Women: Writers in Print and in Person

FEMGEN 188Q

Instructor:

Valerie Miner

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

PSY performing ‘Gangnam Style’ at Seoul College, Seoul. Author: korea.net, Wikipedia.

Kangnam Style: K-pop and the Globalization of Korean Soft Power

KOREA 101N

Instructor:

Dafna Zur

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

"Salem witch2" by Baker, Joseph E., ca. 1837-1914, artist. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.09402.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information.

Madwomen and Madmen: Gender and the History of Mental Illness in the U.S.

FEMGEN 41Q

Instructor:

Margo Horn

WAY-ED, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

The art studio at San Quentin State Prison. Photograph by Peter Merts. Courtesy of San Quentin State Prison. http://sfaq.us/2016/12/san-quentin-state-prisons-art-studio/

Prisons and Performance

TAPS 20N

Instructor:

Janice Ross

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

Psychology of Xenophobia

PSYC 86Q

Instructor:

Rania Awaad

WAY-ED, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Keith Haring: Red Dog for Landois, 1987, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm.

Queer Sculpture

ARTSTUDI 150Q

Instructor:

Terry Berlier

WAY-CE, WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Spring

Melba Roy heads the group of NASA mathematicians, known as "computers," who track the Echo satellites. By NASA (Great Images in NASA Description) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Race and Gender in Silicon Valley

CS 80Q

Instructor:

Cynthia Lee

WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Sappho: Erotic Poetess of Lesbos

CLASSICS 16N

Instructor:

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

WAY-CE, WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Winter

"Nelson Mandela 20080513" by South Africa The Good News - [1]. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nelson_Mandela_20080513.jpg#/media/File:Nelson_Mandela_20080513.jpg

South Africa: Contested Transitions

HISTORY 48Q

Instructor:

Joel Samoff

WAY-ED, WAY-SI, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

Terrorism

HISTORY 3N

Instructor:

Robert Crews

WAY-ED, WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent

TAPS 12N

Instructor:

Rush Rehm

WAY-ED, WAY-ER

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

"Black Lives Matter protest" by The All-Nite Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/otto-yamamoto/15305646874/. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Understanding Race and Ethnicity in American Society

SOC 45Q

Instructor:

C. Matthew Snipp

WAY-ED, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

"DA-ST-96-01245". Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DA-ST-96-01245.JPEG#/media/File:DA-ST-96-01245.JPEG

United Nations Peacekeeping

INTNLREL 60Q

Instructor:

Bertrand Patenaude

WAY-ED

Sophomore Preference

2019-2020
Winter

"Female bluegrass band" by JS North - Sweet By and By. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Women Making Music

MUSIC 14N

Instructor:

Heather Hadlock

WAY-A-II, WAY-ED

First-Year Preference

2019-2020
Autumn

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