Courses

A continuation of MATH 131. Topics include limits and continuity; mean value theorem; antiderivatives; integrals and integration techniques; applications of the definite integral; the calculus of logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions. This course prepares students who have taken MATH 131 to continue into MATH 143. Students who fail or withdraw from this course multiple times may be prohibited from majoring in the sciences or mathematics; seethe bulletin language for your major.

Investigations into colonial encounters between differently racialized groups of people: savages, aborigines, natives, and whites.

This course deals with the interaction between the political and economic institutions of capitalist democracies. Topics covered include the relationship between capitalism and democracy, and between democracy and inequality, as well as the politics of economic policy in advanced capitalist societies.

This seminar will investigate the efficacy of human rights discourse by studying theory in combination with case studies as exemplified in both history and literature. Students will focus on how human rights theory inherited from Enlightenment philosophy comes into conflict with local crises caused by forcing universal systems of human rights.

This course will examine how major writers of the Caribbean address questions of cultural and national identity in their poetry, fiction, essays, and drama.

This course will examine how major writers of the Caribbean address questions of cultural and national identity in their poetry, fiction, essays, and drama.

This course is designed to examine the various religious expressions in Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Puerto Rico, with a focus on a comparative analysis of Santeria, Espiritismo, Christianity, and Voodoo (African origins and Christian rituals).

This interdisciplinary course of the study of the Caribbean will begin with examinations of what constitutes the Caribbean and an understanding of Caribbean space. We will then study its peoples, contact between Europeans and indigenous peoples, African enslavement, and resistance, Indian indentureship and other forced migrations. The course will explore a cross-section of leading thinkers and ideas while giving attention to identity, migration, and the creation of the Caribbean diaspora.

Each semester a different racial or ethnic minority will be selected for intensive study, with emphasis on how its community and culture have changed through time. Students will be encouraged to participate in field research within the racial or ethnic community under examination. May be repeated once if topic varies.

A study of the Celtic literature of the British Isles from the age of Beowulf to the age of Chaucer, focusing primarily on the treatment in prose and verse of the figures of the king, the goddess, the warrior, and the poet in Irish and Welsh tradition. Attention is given to the relationships among Celtic, English, and continental literatures. All readings in English translation.