The course will trace the development of ethnographic film from its beginnings at the turn of the century to the present. In addition to looking at seminal works in the field, more recent and innovative productions will be viewed and analyzed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in filmmaking, and the problematic relationship between seeing and believing. Requirements include film critiques, a film proposal, and a final exam.

The course will trace the development of ethnographic film from its beginnings at the turn of the century to the present. In addition to looking at seminal works in the field, more recent and innovative productions will be viewed and analyzed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in filmmaking, and the problematic relationship between seeing and believing. Requirements include film critiques, a film proposal, and a final exam.

The course explores the many organizations outside schools that affect education, investigates the benefits and risks of these organizations, highlights their potential contribution to social transformation, and provides opportunities for students to explore careers in education beyond teaching in schools.

The course explores the many organizations outside schools that affect education, investigates the benefits and risks of these organizations, highlights their potential contribution to social transformation, and provides opportunities for students to explore careers in education beyond teaching in schools.

This seminar examines how the diverse policy contexts in which children are born and raised have dramatic implications for their life trajectories. We will explore how, when and why government intervenes in children’s lives, through family, pre-/school, community, and digital media contexts, aiming to improve their developmental trajectories. From this basis, we investigate the effects of policies on children locally, nationally, and internationally. Drawing from a variety of case studies and empirical research, students will gain a deep understanding of policy goals, development, implementation, and implications. After gaining familiarity with early childhood policies, students will develop their own early childhood policy.

This course serves as the foundation to the Early Development & Learning Science minor. It will help students understand how best to promote children’s robust early development and learning, integrating a variety of different perspectives. A wide range of approaches, representing different disciplines—education neuroscience, psychology, public health, public policy, and social work—will be presented by visiting lecturers to impart key aspects of supporting young children. Each perspective is necessary to understand and integrate with the others to most effectively address the complex problems facing young children and their families today.

The second of a two-semester sequence introducing students to Chinese literature in translation. In addition to literary sources, a wide range of philosophical and historical texts will be covered, as well as aspects of visual and material culture. 7B focuses on late imperial, modern, and contemporary China. The course will focus on the development of sound writing skills.

Chinese 1B (5 units) is designed for students who have successfully completed Chinese 1A or the equivalent. A good command of the Chinese phonetic system (pinyin) and knowledge of 300-400 Chinese characters are the prerequisites for this class. The class will continue to focus on training students in the four language skills-- listening, speaking, reading, and writing with a gradually increasing emphasis on translingual and transcultural competence. By the end of this semester, you are expected to reach the proficiency levels of intermediate low in the listening, speaking, reading, and writing four areas stated in the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.

Note: this class counts as an approved elective for the Public Health major and the STS minor The 2020 outbreak of the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was the most significant public health emergency of the 21st century so far. For many, the experience of contagion, stringent public health measures, and quarantine, the idea of healthy carriers, and the racialization of a virus were a novel experience. The history of medicine shows how societies have faced health crises in the past and how they have changed in their approach to illness and disease over time. This course is designed as a survey course in the history of medicine in the United States. We will address themes such as epidemics of the past, the medical marketplace and the emergence of a medical profession, the rise of germ theory and the new public health, vaccination, medical experimentation and racialized medicine, medical views of women and their bodies, popular understandings and experience of health and illness, health activism, as well as biomedicine and the intensification of medical technology. This course focuses on the relationship among medicine, science, and society, and the ways in which culture frames medical definitions and interpretation of bodies, health, and disease. In examining these issues, the course will pay particular attention to how people are affected differently by medical practices and technologies depending on their race, gender, and class. Instructor bio: Suzanne Winter's research areas include medical history, hospital history, women’s history, and the history of communication technologies.

What is the history and evolution of environmental thinking and writing in the USA? How have certain ‘environmental classics’ shaped the way in which we think about nature, society and progress? Why did these become ‘classics’ and why/how did they influence environmental thought and policy? What is their relevance today? This course includes substantial reading assignments.