Graduate research seminar in American history. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.

This is an the introductory linguistics course designed for majors and minors in Linguistics. May be of use to students in other disciplines. Prerequisite for most LIN courses.

This course covers the use of remote sensing technologies and their application in natural resource management, land use/land cover analysis, city and regional planning and environmental monitoring. This course covers the basic remote sensing principles, the range of space/air borne sensors/data, key techniques for digital image processing, and applications particularly related to diverse land surfaces including the built environment, water, soil, and vegetation.

Field-based, regionally specific study of selected topics in cultural, economic, environmental, physical, political, social, or urban geography. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits with change in field site.

An open topics writing course focused on rhetorical analysis of issues of academic, political, social, or cultural significance. Students will interpret, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies employed in print and digital texts.

This course will offer students a survey of the primary concepts and phenomena that relate to the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) where second has reference to languages acquired after the first, or native, language. This course will provide a cursory look at a number of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic issues at the heart of second language learning, as well as an overview of the complex processes and mechanisms that drive that learning.

This course provides an introduction to the field of linguistics, with a focus on the major subfields of linguistics: phonetics (the sounds of language), phonology (the sound structure of language), morphology (the structure of words), and syntax (the structure of sentences). The class explores the relevance of linguistics for language teaching and careers in education. The English language will be the primary, but not exclusive, focus in this class.

For undergraduate majors in WRD with a standing of 3.0 in the major and permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Each student pursues a course independently under the guidance of a faculty member and produces at least one major project.

An introduction to theories of how people think about and enact genders and sexualities. Students will learn key scholarly concepts in order to understand queer theory as an interdisciplinary approach to gender and sexuality studies. Queer theory challenges hegemonic stories and assumptions, and demands new explanations for phenomena. Applied to the study of gender and sexuality, queer theory becomes a framework for challenging "normal" and building new narratives that are inclusive and intersectional.

Independent research in Russian and Eastern Studies on an advanced level for undergraduate and graduate students. Students will be required to establish a written contract with the relevant faculty member describing the tasks to be completed in the course. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits, or a total of six credits of RAE 395 and 495G.