Graduate Courses

For students who wish to conduct studies related to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Topics approved in advance are investigated by the student with the supervision of a faculty adviser. Either a paper, a journal article, a report, or an equivalent project is required.

This course will cover issues concerning gender & inequality in education from early childhood to post-secondary education including professional schools with an emphasis on what happens to the success of girls in the elementary & secondary school settings once they enter post-secondary & graduate/professional education as well as the workforce. As there are limited opportunities to foreground gender in this manner, this course will be focused on it. The topics include how schools have historically shortchanged female students even after mass coeducation in the United States in the 1960s & 1970s & the passage of Title IX; single-sex education for females & for males at the primary, secondary & post-secondary levels; the differences between coeducation & mixed-sex education; legal issues & gender equality in education; & how gender, race & class come

together in schools

A second year course in advanced statistical techniques that covers useful quantitative tools in health & policy research. Assuming a strong foundation in regression & the general linear model, this course focuses on data analysis that utilizes models for categorical, discrete or limited outcomes that are commonly seen in health & policy studies. Examples include health status, number of clinic visits, etc. In this course students will also learn the principles of likelihood-based inference, which will assist them in some of the more advanced statistics courses.

This course provides a hands-on introduction to using generative AI in social
science research. Students use AI to classify text corpora, parse unstructured documents, analyze images, and create synthetic data and simulations. The course also reviews ethical questions that arise with the use of AI in social science research. Assignments focus on using AI to answer social and policy questions with real-world datasets.

This course serves both as a methods course and a math content course. Students will concurrently learn Euclidean Plane Geometry content and equitable pedagogical approaches for teaching this content at the secondary level.

This course provides an overview of occupational therapists’ evaluation & intervention roles, & responsibilities related to working with older people in a variety of settings. Students will examine the influences of physical, social, cognitive, psychological, cultural, & societal functioning on occupational performance. Strategies to address age-related changes will be discussed. The political ramifications of aging are also addressed.

This survey class is intended for students to experience a fuller range of techniques over two semesters. Each semester can be taken independently from the other. The first semester focuses on blowing, hot casting, stained glass, mosaic, and kiln casting (fusing and slumping). The second semester concentrates on coldworking, sandblasting, lampworking, and beadmaking.

Examines dress and textiles as signifiers of cultural identity and expression, transmitters of design and tradition, and their centrality to the social and economic structure of a selection of cultures worldwide. Addresses the impact on dress of factors including religious/symbolic beliefs, ideas of gender, trade, and technology, with emphasis on the traditions of Asia, the Americas, and Africa and their global intersections.

Using food as a lens, this course examines the history, culture, and political economy of Berlin and Prague, focusing on how each has been shaped by socialist/post-socialist political economies and ideology. Topics will include food vis-a-vis the European Union; ostalgie; immigration; industrial and recent sustainable agriculture; and the emerging food culture. Employing contemporary and historical perspectives, the course will include lectures by established scholars, visits to museums, markets, restaurants, farms, and cooperatives, wholesale and retail outlets.

This course is an interdisciplinary and intercultural examination of human communication through food in Ireland. Explores the social, economic, political, and cultural ramifications of food production and consumption. Students will have a unique opportunity to explore various local, regional and transnational, and food rituals.

This course explores how food traditions and heritage are identified, supported, and
promoted at national and global levels, and examines their role and functions in Spaniards’ everyday life. Through visits to markets, bakeries, wholesale and retail outlets, tapas and wine bars, restaurants, and menu del día eateries we examine how tradition and heritage are brought into the 21st century in public spaces that are also symbolic for local and national identities. Food professionals and experts, designers and scholars help us understand the dynamics of this unique country.

This master's level course explores the food and foodways of the culturally and historically rich culinary landscape of Mexico. In the city of Puebla, which is considered to be the birthplace of modern Mexican cusine, students will be fully immersed in traditional Mexican culinary and nutritional practices though classroom instruction, guest, lectures, cooking classes, and a wide variety of field trips to markets, local farms, restaurants, and production sites.

In Shanghai, food stalls, restaurants and marketplaces have migrated online. The Coronavirus pandemic intensified this virtualization. This course treats mobile food delivery as a media infrastructure and examines how new delivery systems form part of a distributed urban ecosystem. Students use critical cartography and digital storytelling to explore cultural, economic and political issues raised by the growth of food delivery apps, such as food production reorganization, socio-economic conditions of delivery workers, and shifts in the city's built environment.

We explore the performance of French identity through the lens of food to unpack how gender, race, socioeconomic status, and immigration clash with the espoused French national ideal of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”. Through visits to markets, restaurants, bakeries, wholesale and retail outlets, farms, and cooperatives, we explore the material culture that makes possible acquiescence and resistance to these ideas of identity and ultimately will discover the limits and possibilities implicit in our own personal ideals.

This course delves into the intersection of food, art, and ethics, exploring how art
can challenge and expand our understanding of ethical issues related to food. Examining a diverse array of artistic expressions reveals how artists use food to encourage, critique, or re-imagine existing power structures and social, economic, environmental, and political dynamics. We critically explore how art can shape belief systems, values, and actions, and offer creative possibilities of how people might live.

This course is an interdisciplinary and intercultural examination of human communication through food in Shanghai. Explores the social, economic, political, and cultural ramifications of food production and consumption. Students will have a unique opportunity to explore various local, regional and transnational, and food rituals.

Examination of current global music management issues. Topics include international market research, selection of international target markets, planning & decision-making, how to utilize the global reach of the Internet, how to measure & predict global music trends, & cultural diversity issues in the music industry

A study abroad course program that examines the higher education system of Germany in comparison to the US and other countries. Germany now provides strong leadership in Europe in terms of economic growth and leadership of the European Union; less known is its robust system and diversified system of universities and its commitment to internationalization. Through visits to universities, policy organizations, and government planning agencies, students will have the opportunity to meet with rectors, faculty, researchers, and students themselves. Our goals will be to understand the opportunity structures for all groups in the country, including the large immigrant populations.

Examines globalization and higher education in Brazil with comparison to the United States through an historical overview and an analysis of contemporary issues. Students will gain an understanding of the variety of higher education institutions in Brazil (large/small, public/private/religious, etc.) and will become familiar with issues of equity and access, internationalization in higher education, faculty and student mobility, variation among public versus private universities economic structures, the role of foreign university partnerships, and other higher education issues. Visits to public and private universities and colleges in Brazil allow students to engage in discussions with directors, faculty members, deans and students.

A study abroad course program that examines the higher education system of Ghana in comparison to the US and other countries. Through visits to universities, policy organizations, and government planning agencies, students will have the opportunity to meet with administrators, faculty, researchers, and students themselves. Our goals will be to understand the opportunity structures for all groups in this developing national context.