This class will identify queer producers of culture, queer presumably heteronormative cultural artifacts, and critique queer cultural discourse.
Global Protest: Social Movements in Age of Globalization
The course go back and forth between the nature of specific social movements and scholarly debates about social movements in general.
Dialogues with Utopia
The goal of this course will be to learn something about various utopian visions and how they reflect or challenge our values and beliefs.
History of Labor and Work in the United States, 1880—1945
This is a course on the history of the American workers and the American labor movement from 1880 to 1945.
Immigration, Migration, and Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa
By completing this course, students will gain an in-depth knowledge about the role of migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The Irish American Experience
This course will examine the historical experience of the Irish, one of the largest ethnic groups in America.
Ecopoetics
This course examines poetry published in the nineteenth and twentieth-‐centuries, as well as contemporary times, through the lens of nature.
Queer of Color Theory
This seminar investigates the theoretical work of queer people of color, primarily in the U.S., from the 1970s to the present.
Geographies of Environmental Justice
This course examines issues of environmental quality and social justice. It takes the premise that all people have a right to live in a clean environment.
The Politics of Race and Violence in Brazil
This class investigates the race/gender/sexuality aspects of violence in Brazil, and how this violence maintains social hierarchies in the nation.