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Resilience, Transformation, and Equilibrium: The Science of Materials

Instructor: Yoda R Patta, Ph.D.

Materials Science & Engineering

Just Feelings

Instructor: Roanne Kantor

English

Behind the Big Drums: Exploring Taiko

Instructor: Stephen Sano, Linda Uyechi

Asian American Studies, Music

Zionism and the Novel

Instructor: Russell Berman

Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies

Cystic Fibrosis: From Medical Conundrum to Precision Medicine Success Story

Instructor: Ron Kopito

Biology

Sport, Exercise, and Health: Exploring Sports Medicine

Instructor: Calvin Hwang

Orthopaedic Surgery

The Artist in Ancient Greek Society

Instructor: Jody Maxmin

Art & Art History, Classics

Engineering the Micro and Nano Worlds: From Chips to Genes

Instructor: John (J) Provine, Roger Howe

Electrical Engineering

Mending a Broken Heart: The Anatomy, Physiology, and Psychology of Congenital Heart Disease

Instructor: Manchula Navaratnam, M. Gail Boltz, Samuel Rodriguez, MD

Anesthesia

Race, Blackness, Antiquity

Instructor: Sarah Derbew

Classics, Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

Animal Behavior: Sex, Death, and Sometimes Food!

Instructor: Joseph Garner

Comparative Medicine

Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

Instructor: Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH

Comparative Medicine

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A pink flamingo head with a blurred out flamingo behind it

Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human

HISTORY 42Q

Instructor:

Alison Laurence

WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Spring

A watercolor painting of colorful coronavirus shaped particles.

Art and Healing in the Wake of COVID-19: A Health Humanities Perspective

ITALIAN 62N

Instructor:

Laura Wittman

WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

Barred windows in Newark NJ with ‘Belong’ written above them.

Belonging in a Diverse Society

PSYCH 11N

Instructor:

Greg Walton

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Shylock After the Trial by John Gilbert (late 19th century). http://teachingshakespeareblog.folger.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/05/Shylock-3-AP.jpg

Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism

HISTORY 86Q

Instructor:

Rowan Dorin

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Winter

epSos.de , "Exchange Money Conversion to Foreign Currency" via Flickr

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

ECON 23N

Instructor:

Michael Boskin

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

Graph of income inequality from Mother Jones. "inequality-averagehouseholdincome" by Vince_Lamb is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Causes and Consequences of the Rise in Inequality

ECON 22N

Instructor:

Luigi Pistaferri

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Challenging Sex and Gender Dichotomies in Medicine

SOMGEN 150Q

Instructor:

Marcia Stefanick

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Spring

A polluted body of water with factories and buildings behind it.

Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts

CEE 41Q

Instructor:

Alexandria Boehm

WAY-AQR, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Winter

Whole painted eggs in the kitchen, expressing a spectrum of emotions from sadness to joy or madness. Photo by Tengyart on Unsplash

The Cultural Shaping of Emotion

PSYCH 28N

Instructor:

Jeanne Tsai

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

Doctors delivering baby in a hospital delivery room.

Demystifying Pregnancy: Physiology, Policy and Politics

OBGYN 82Q

Instructor:

Cynthia DeTata

Sylvie Blumstein

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Energy, the Environment, and the Economy

ECON 17N

Instructor:

Frank Wolak

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Winter

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-EDP, WAY-SI, Write-2

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

The Good Death

RELIGST 10N

Instructor:

Anna Bigelow

WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

United States seen from orbit. Photo by NASA on Unsplash

Government by the Numbers

ECON 19Q

Instructor:

Mark Duggan

Steve Ballmer

WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

How Beliefs Create Reality

PSYCH 20N

Instructor:

Alia Crum

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History

HISTORY 9N

Instructor:

Steven Press

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Winter

Oil on canvas, 1888 by William Powell Frith. Public Domain

Income and Wealth Inequality from the Stone Age to the Present

HISTORY 12N

Instructor:

Walter Scheidel

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Chair Yellen and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speak and answer questions at the Inaugural Michel Camdessus Central Banking Lecture at International Monetary Fund headquarters on July 2, 2014. United States government creative works. A government work is generally not subject to copyright in the United States and there is generally no copyright restriction on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of a government work.

International Organizations and Accountability

INTNLREL 63Q

Instructor:

Erica Gould

WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

3 generation family by Anton Diaz, Flickr.

Joys and Pains of Growing Up and Older in Japan

JAPAN 82N

Instructor:

Yoshiko Matsumoto

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

Maps in the Modern World

HISTORY 95N

Instructor:

Karen Wigen

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Spring

My visit to a reconciliation village in Rwanda

Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation

INTNLREL 62Q

Instructor:

Pawel Lutomski

WAY-ER, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Winter

Colorful image of smart phone talking with a data cloud.

Mathematical Mindsets - The Interplay of Identity & Knowledge in Learning & Life

EDUC 115N

Instructor:

Jo Boaler

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Neuronal Activity, DARPA. Wikipedia, courtesy of Massachusetts General Hospital and Draper Labs.

Neuroforecasting

PSYCH 24N

Instructor:

Brian Knutson

WAY-SI

First-Year Preference

2021-2022
Winter

"Day 14 Occupy Wall Street September 30 2011 Shankbone" by David Shankbone - Own work. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Day_14_Occupy_Wall_Street_September_30_2011_Shankbone.JPG#/media/File:Day_14_Occupy_Wall_Street_September_30_2011_Shankbone.JPG

Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance

TAPS 180Q

Instructor:

Rush Rehm

WAY-ER, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Autumn

Psychology of Xenophobia

PSYC 86Q

Instructor:

Rania Awaad

WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

Sophomore Preference

2021-2022
Winter

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