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Asian Languages and Civilizations

M/W/F 2:30-3:20pm
Immerses students in classical Indian dance through practical workshops, gesture training, and exposure to live or recorded performances. Alongside hands-on practice, students explore cultural contexts and critically analyze foundational texts like Bharat Muni’s Nāṭyaśāstra and Nandikeśvara’s Abhinaya Darpana, complemented by film screenings. The curriculum covers historical, cultural, and performative aspects of major dance traditions, including Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, and Sattriya, bridging theory and practice for a holistic understanding.

Earth Science

M/W 2:30-3:20pm + recitation
While many introductory environmental courses remain purely conceptual, ERTH 1150 is a hands-on, data-driven deep dive into the urgent, real-time decisions that define the American West. Today’s headlines are dominated by severe drought, intense groundwater mining, changing energy portfolios, and proposed local mining expansions. This course gives you the scientific tools to evaluate these headlines yourself! In our weekly recitations, you won't just read about these issues, you will work actively with maps, real case data, and calculations. No prior geology/earth science background is required.

Geography

T/Th 2:00-3:15pm
Latinx Geographies is an emergent field of study contained within the larger discipline of Geography. It owes its institutional existence to the disciplinary interventions by Critical and Black Geographers. The intellectual traditions and epistemic roots of Latinx Geographies are deep and broad. These epistemic roots stem from analyses of Race and Space which foreground geography as a vital element in the (academic and non-academic) sense for apprehending freedom and un-freedom. In the last couple decades, there has been a proliferation of scholarship that is working to push this even further. In this class, we embrace the tensions, contradictions, and radical possibilities of what constitutes Latinx geographies in what and all it can mean for the making of a liberatory Geography.

History

HIST 2500: Fact and Fiction in History: King Arthur and the Crusades
M/W/F 11:15am-12:05pm
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History cont.

T/Th 9:30-10:45am
English history in the 14th and 15th centuries (1300s-1400s) can read like a catalog of catastrophe: climate change, the Black Death, peasant revolts, long periods of foreign and civil war and five kings forcibly removed from the throne. Yet this period is also saw renewed forms of religious devotion, famous military victories, and the exaltation of kingship and. anew English national identity. At the same time, these centuries also witnessed the growing importance of the common people in English politics and forged the notion that English government should aspire to serve the common good of the realm.

M/W/F 1:25-2:15pm
When the United States declared its existence in 1776, the world was shocked. How had a powerful empire been torn apart seemingly so suddenly? In reality, there was nothing sudden about it. The Declaration of Independence was the culmination of forty years of conflict and change. This course revolves around three famous conflicts—the War of Jenkins’ Ear, the Seven Years’ War, and the American Revolution—and explores the lived experiences of Europeans, American colonists, Native American peoples, and peoples of African descent throughout Europe, North America, and the Caribbean during one of history’s most tumultuous eras.

Linguistics

T/Th 2:00-2:50pm + recitation
Presents techniques for computer programming in high level programming languages such as Python to address a range of problems with a specific focus on language processing and linguistics. The class is suitable for students with little to no prior experience in computing or programming.

T/Th 11:00am-12:15pm
This course provides an overview of the ways Artificial Intelligence technologies (primarily large language models) are reshaping language and society. We will be reading scholarly work that is both supportive of and critical towards language technologies, particularly in relation to their influence and impact on the social world. The purpose of doing so is to develop critical literacy toward ever-evolving AI technologies that are hyped and criticized in equal measure. Students will leave the course with knowledge across three main themes: (1) how AI and large language models are similar and different from human cognition; (2) problems posed to the AI enterprise by sociocultural research on language; and (3) ethics and impact of AI technologies on groups of people and the environment.