Tri-College DSpace Repository: Recent submissions

  • If We Must Die: Armed Self-Defense during the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1967 
    Palomo, Martin (2018-12)
    This paper looks over the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1967 and analyzes the role that armed self-defense played during this period. By looking at the violence that erupted following the 1954 Brown v. Board of ...
  • Regulating paradise; following the changing culture of smoking in Buenos Aires, 2003-2018 
    Caldwell, Naomi (2018-12)
    This paper examines the rapid change in smoking culture in Buenos Aires, from celebrated to medicalized, following the ratification of the World Health Organization’s treaty for tobacco control in 2003. It attempts to use ...
  • Crossing the Century: Cross-Dressing in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century San Francisco 
    Jin, Alexander (2018-12)
    This paper explores cross-dressing in the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn-of-the- twentieth-century (c.1890-1910) and narrates the extraordinary lives of Edward James Livernash and Milton Matson, two individuals who ...
  • No Last Words: Class, Cultural Production, and the Black Radical Tradition in the Pre-Classical Civil Rights Movement, 1909–1948 
    Chen, Anna Livia (2018-12)
    This paper argues that the strategic shape of the 1954–1965 classical civil rights movement was neither inevitable nor a simple progression of American values, but was the result of extensive ideological contestation ...
  • "Our situation is 180 degrees different": Resettled Refugees' Understanding of Citizenship, Formal Schooling, and Agency 
    Shafiei, Ava (2019)
    This study problematizes the conceptualization of refugees as passive victims of structural violence by recentering the voices of resettled refugees and their articulations of agency. Using semi-structured interviews ...
  • Intensive Chemical Structure and Bonding 
    Stephen Podowitz-Thomas (2019-01)
    Structure and bonding in molecules starting from nuclear and electronic structure of atoms. This course introduces the theories of chemical bonding that rationalize and predict the structures and bulk properties of molecules ...
  • Chemical Dynamics 
    Alex Norquist; Kelly Matz (2019-01)
    An introduction to chemical thermodynamics, equilibrium, electrochemistry and kinetics. Microscopic properties are used to develop basic chemical concepts of energy, enthalpy, entropy, and the Gibbs Energy, and their ...
  • Quantum Chemisty 
    Casey Longergan (2019-01)
  • Organic Reactions and Synthesis 
    Robert L. Broadrup (2019-01)
  • Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome 
    Marilyn Evans (2019-01)
    According to the ancient historian M. I. Finley, there have been only five genuine slave societies, and two of them were ancient: those of classical Greece and Rome (the other three are the United States, the Caribbean and ...
  • Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World 
    Marilyn Evans (2019-01)
    In this course, we will explore the various ways in which people in the Greek and Roman world created constructs of race and ethnicity. Drawing on sources ranging from Greek and Roman historiography, to artworks, and Roman ...
  • Advanced Documentary Production 
    Vicky Funari (2019-01)
    This studio class will explore the craft of documentary filmmaking beyond the basics. Students will produce short documentaries on topics of their choosing, developing them from start to finish, with a focus on how to ...
  • Hybrid Cinema- Fiction/Non-fiction and the Exploration of Reality 
    Sally Berger (2019-01)
    How as spectators, makers, activists, scholars, do we respond to the way stories are presented to us as a kind of truth – whether dramatically or realistically told? How do these approaches appeal to or coerce us, overwhelm ...
  • la cultura del trabajo y la labor literaria en America Latina: relatos ociosos 
    Giselle Roman-Medina (2019-01)
    En este curso, los estudiantes reflexionarán sobre nociones culturales entorno al trabajo y al ocio, prestando especial atención a proyectos literarios y autoriales contemporáneos anclados en historicidades latinoamericanas. ...
  • Elementary Spanish 2 
    Ariana Huberman (2019-01)
    This course is the second part of the introduction to the Spanish language. Both parts of Elementary Spanish need to be taken consecutively in one school year. The goal for this course is to achieve a basic level of ...
  • Espanol Intermedio 
    Lina Martinez Hernandez (2019-01)
    In this class we will learn how to learn from each other. Interdepence, understood as the co-existence of our autonomy and our dependence on others to have a meaningful life journey, will be our guiding principle. How can ...
  • Sociology of the Body: Theorizing the Body Across Dualisms 
    Shelly Ronen (2019-01)
    We tend to think of our bodies as organic vessels – biological and chemical objects that house our rational selves. But our bodies also carry social meanings, and enable social life. Consider: when is a fetal body really ...
  • Foundations in Social Theory 
    Unknown author (2019-01)
    Before one can practice sociology, it’s necessary to get a sense of the foundations on which the discipline is constructed. This course is designed to provide this. It more specifically examines the development of sociological ...
  • Sociology 215: Quantitative Methods 
    Unknown author (2019-01)
    This course is an introduction to the use of quantitative data in sociology. The emphasis of the course is on understanding how researchers use such data to make sociological arguments. In order to appreciate this it is ...
  • Religion and U.S. Politics: Sexuality, Race, Gender, and the Regulation of America Bodies 
    Brett Krutzch (2019-01)
    This course examines the reasons legislators and others frequently invoke religion in political debates that focus on gender and sexuality even though the United States is a secular democracy. The class will question if ...

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