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European, Mughal, Ottoman, and Russian; the development of the world economic system, especially comparing the West with China and Japan; and cultural globalization in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. (4) HIST 107 : Ancient Near East - IT, GE Surveys the history of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean regions, including ancient Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Persia, Greece, and Rome. Major themes include empire building, religion, law, art, and literature. Students learn to investigate historical

Narratives in MuseumsGiven their ability to control, solidify, and create narratives of cultural identity, museums have increasingly become contested spaces. Museum studies and curatorial practices have recently begun to (re)contextualize their place and meaning in postcolonial and decolonial contexts. Their contents and exhibits, often disputed examples of material culture themselves, anchor these narratives, but the physical context of the museum building itself is a central yet under-studied component

late Roman Empire in regional, indigenous, mono-, di-, and poly-theistic systems, focusing on layers of life infused with distinctly religious significance: (1) family, (2) city, and (3) empire. Course content includes origin stories; operations of nature; locale and legitimacy of authority; ritual; forms and places of worship; definition and basis of moral behavior; public order; the body and sexuality; the nature of divinity; health; fertility; and death and the afterlife within the historical

Eighteenth-Century ‘It-Narratives’”  Leihua Weng & Danielle Villanueva, “Dynamics of Cultural Politics in the Feminist Campaigns in Contemporary China” Wendy Call & Hilary Vo, “Sense of Place on the Page: Research for a New Creative Writing Guide” 2016-17: Nancy Simpson-Younger & Julianna Schaus, “Quotations in the Wimsey-Vane Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers” Michael Zbaraschuk & Haley Gredvig, “The Final Papers of William Hamilton” 2017-18: Art Strum & Matthew Salzano, “Social Justice, Deliberative

encounter texts from a variety of historical and geographic contexts, exploring how literary form and genre develop over time and within specific communities. Organizing themes may include: Race and Empire, Nature and the Human, Language and Power, and Gender and Sexuality. Required for all English major and strongly recommended for first-years. (4) ENGL 287 : Special Topics in English To provide undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing courses not yet available in the regular

MSNBC.com (now part of NBCNews.com) and wrote multiple narratives for the online medical magazine Mosaic. He has also written for outlets such as Wired, Scientific American, CNN Travel, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, ENSIA, and bioGraphic. Nelson also edited two chapters on microbiology and food safety for the bestselling six-volume Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (The Cooking Lab) and contributed a chapter to The Science Writers’ Handbook (Da Capo). He lives in Seattle. Dr. Bryn