Signed languages are natural human languages used by Deaf communities around the world, yet they have historically been misunderstood or overlooked in the study of language.
Course Description:Learn how China got to be China. This course introduces students to the main written language of dynastic China. Our sources will be key works from pre-Han and Han dynasty philosophical and historiographical traditions.
Introduction to Human Rights and the problems they seek to address. Using key episodes of humanity like slavery, genocide, and racism. Examines how international movements for social justice led to the emergence of the international Human Rights system.
In every culture food lies at the center of a complex value system that involves religious beliefs and rituals, social hierarchies, and gender distinctions.
Learn how China got to be China. This course introduces students to the main written language of dynastic China. Our sources will be key works from pre-Han and Han dynasty philosophical and historiographical traditions.
This course provides a systematic approach to understanding Hanzi by examining the logic of their form, sound, and meaning, while addressing common misconceptions about Chinese characters.
Examination of major myths of Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Near East; their place in the religion, literature and art of the societies that produced them; their subsequent development, influence and interpretation. General Education: AH; WC; WE.
This course will focus on advanced Spanish grammar and composition. We will think of writing as a process: a cycle of drafting, giving and receiving feedback, and revising in response to that feedback, one that writers repeat and refine with every new draft.
Read Italian Literature! This course travels from contemporary Italian stories like Igiaba Scego’s “Salsicce” to nineteenth-century poetry on the vastness of the universe to Renaissance epic to the dark realms of Dante’s Inferno—all in the origin
