Preparation for comprehensive exam in fields of history or sociology.

The course critically examines how identity, ethical concerns, socio-political and economic hierarchies, and national and international institutional structures undergird global health and define its trajectories.

Examines how race is an issue in medicine and science in ways such as education, professions, treatments, experiments, and as a subject of analysis.

Introduces statistical reasoning and trains students in methods and tools of quantitative research in the humanities and social sciences.

Students will explore how people organize to amplify their voices, build power, and enact change. They will apply theory and organizing skills to advance change on campus.

Gender as a dimension of social life that shapes and is shaped by the economy, schooling, family, politics, medicine and health, race, and social class.

Students will explore how people organize to amplify their voices, build power, and enact change. They will apply theory and organizing skills to advance change on campus.

This course introduces students to the cultural and intellectual history of science and democracy in the twentieth century. It will explore how contemporary institutions, norms, practices, and problems of contemporary science emerged out of debates over the core values and ethical commitments of scientists. Situating these debates in the context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the course will draw on a wide range of scientific disciplines and political commentators. It will expose students to a range of methods in the humanities, ethical dilemmas, and provide the opportunity to reflect on their own position as future scientific leaders.

This course engages with the overlapping histories of computing, intelligence, and games with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The course begins when computers were human beings, laboring in the production of numerical calculations. It ends with computers as ubiquitous and ever-present; the connecting web between house-hold appliances, the medium for communication and love, and the platform for fast-twitch reflexes and new kinds of human achievement. Tracing these histories will involve encounters with historical tools for understanding how issues around labor, gender, embodiedness, and psychology shaped computers and were shaped by them — and will involve work with primary source materials, oral histories, and engagement with video and table-top games.

Transformation of the North American environment since 1500, including different notions of nature, romantic responses to wilderness during industrialization, rise of conservation movements, and environmental policy.