Comprehensive study of broad topics, normally limited to an intensive survey of the literature and scholarship of the period as a whole.

An in-depth study of black American literature, with concentration on major texts by major black writers.

This course focuses on gender as a primary category for literary analysis. Topics will vary, from a group of authors, an historical period or an aesthetic movement, to a genre, a theme, or an aspect of literary theory. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits.

Explores the issues, debates, and conflicts that define culture and society in contemporary France. Emphasis on speaking and listening skills in french.

This course explores the physical, cultural, and political geography of the European continent. Diversity of populations and physical landscapes is stressed. The geographic context for current events that are changing the face of Europe are presented.

A seminar in political geography, including, for example, electoral systems; state theory; post-Cold War democratization; the geography of revolutionary change; critical geopolitics; political economy of environmental movements; political economy of globalization discourses and practices. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.

Seminar in geography and social theory, including, for example, theories of human spatiality; marxist, neo- marxist, and post-marxist theory; postmodernism and poststructuralism; feminist theory; actor network theory; identity theory; geographic thought and society; technology and society. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.

Specific topics will vary, but all courses taught under this title focus on the contributions, interplay, intersections, constructions, history, and confrontations that the social categories and lived experiences of gender, race, and class produce in the United States. Examines opportunities for civic responsibility and social justice. May be repeated up to a maximum of 9 credit hours under different subtitles; allow multiple registrations during same semester.

This course is organized around three selected but interrelated themes to help us examine the interconnections between gender, power, and violence in different cultural settings. We will examine state, institutional, and interpersonal violence and critically analyze the ways in which gender and power are articulated at each of these levels. In our discussions, we will pay special attention to the various forms (physical, psychological, economic, sexual, and symbolic) violence may take and analyze the causes and consequences of different articulations of gender, power, and violence.

A broad survey of the social, economic, political and cultural development of Latin America from the fifteenth century to 1810. Includes analysis of such topics as pre-Columbian societies on the eve of conquest, the Iberian kingdoms in the Age of Expansion, the conquest and colonization of the indigenous cultures of the New World, the establishment of Spanish and Portuguese institutions, the relations between the Church and the State, the encomienda and the hacienda, slavery and the impact of the Bourbon Reforms on America.