How is identity built, performed, projected onto others, and imposed from outside¿and what does a camera have to do with any of it? Combining photography and cultural/media studies, students spend the semester producing photographic projects¿self-portraiture, street photography, staged tableaux, collaborative portraiture¿in response to a rotating set of prompts: poetry, essays, film, music, and interviews.

Using China, India, and Japan as comparative case studies, this course examines how nations are imagined, constructed, contested, and transformed by integrating the methods and perspectives of both the social sciences and humanities. Students explore nationalism in these three cases through the distinct perspectives of political science, history, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

International politics is a high-stakes game where bluffing, bargaining, and miscalculation can shape world events. This course explores why leaders take risks, why cooperation breaks down, and how strategic choices ripple outward. Students also build practical negotiation skills¿tools for analyzing incentives, managing uncertainty, and navigating strategic interactions across many professional and civic settings. The course centers on three immersive simulations: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Partition of India, and contemporary disputes in the South China Sea.

This interdisciplinary course examines financial markets and decision-making using perspectives and methods from multiple disciplines such as finance, economics, statistics , ethics and artificial intelligence. Topics covered will include collecting, cleaning, and analyzing market and fundamental data; building predictive and risk models; and communicating results with clear visuals and reproducible notebooks.

Who is allowed to live, and who is allowed to die? Population offers an introduction to demography from a social, historical, and critical perspective. The field of population studies integrates theory and methods from anthropology, ecology, economics, epidemiology, philosophy, sociology, and statistics (among other disciplines). This course surveys intellectual history in core subjects of demography (mortality, fertility, migration), introduces basic quantitative methods of formal demography, and concludes with discussion of contemporary issues.

This course teaches students how to answer one of the most important questions in business analytics: what causes what, and what should be done about it. Students learn to distinguish causal effects from correlations and to design, analyze, and communicate evidence that supports high-quality business decisions. The course combines modern causal inference with Causal AI methods that use machine learning to estimate heterogeneous impacts and optimize targeting, while emphasizing identification, assumptions, and decision relevance.

This course equips students with the tools to analyze data that evolve over time and to produce forecasts that support real business decisions such as demand planning, staffing, budgeting, capacity management, sales forecasting, and risk monitoring. Unlike cross-sectional analytics, time series data contain dependence, trend, seasonality, and structural change. The course teaches students to recognize these patterns, model them appropriately, and generate forecasts with uncertainty measures that stakeholders can use in practice.

This course is an examination of Black feminist theory as an intellectual, political, and lived methodology. The course examines how race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability operate as interlocking systems of power and resistance. Students will engage foundational and contemporary texts by scholars and activists, alongside cultural texts, political manifestos, and grassroots organizing practices. Emphasis is placed on Black feminism as both critique and praxis- connecting theory to activism and collective liberation.

This course studies literary, philosophical, and theological responses to the problem of suffering, mainly as it relates to questions about God¿s existence, human purpose, the nature of creation, and how we define good and evil. If God exists, how can evils be explained? How does one reconcile claims of God¿s goodness and justice with the observable facts of evil and suffering in the world?

This multidisciplinary course explores theoretical approaches to explaining and understanding the emergence of fascism and related social movements in various time periods from the 1600s to the present. Readings range from classical political economy and political theory, to 20th Century analyses from the perspectives of business theorists and psychologists, to legal theorists, philosophers, playwrights, novelists, sociologists, and beyond.