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205/405: French Cinema on the Edge – GE, IT This course charts the emergence of French cinema from its invention as a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution to its confident affirmation as the most modern of art forms with the mid-century New Wave. Throughout, we consider film in relation to social movements, world wars, and political and economic developments, including how film served colonial ideologies as well as anti-colonial revolt. You will develop vocabulary and skills for critically

possible for women and men to effectively balance work and family life.  She noted, however, “It is not a given that Norway will continue to be a leading country within gender equality.  Much of the development moving forward will deal with the degree to which one manages to maintain a political understanding that family life and work life must be seen in context.” The topic of each year’s Harstad lecture is purposefully designed to reach beyond an audience familiar with Norwegian culture and society

raisonnable à croire que de croire une injustice.”  In English:  Madame Dupin; photo from Wiki Commons ``That women are inferior to men ...is more reasonable to believe than to believe (that there is) injustice.`` They chose these words because they conveyed Dupin’s incisive irony, and because they remain relevant today. For along the same lines, one could say that it is more “reasonable” to believe that poverty is the result of laziness than to consider the social, political, and economic structures that

resources that address vital questions about how we shape good, meaningful, and beautiful lives–questions that our discipline still struggles to address. The social sciences expose our students to larger contexts in which to explore human behavior—-historical processes, economic realities, political movements, and cultural influences. Mathematics and the natural sciences reinforce our students’ understanding of psychology’s fundamental methodologies of inquiry and analysis. The breadth of imagination

broader Tacoma area. The significance of “Lavender” Lavender Graduation Ceremonies are held across the country every year. The origin of the term “lavender” has many variations. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), lavender is a combination of the pink triangle that gay men were forced to wear in concentration camps and the black triangle designating lesbians as political prisoners in Nazi Germany. The LGBTQ civil rights movement took these symbols of hatred and combined them to make symbols

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actively speaks out against hatred and prejudice—including direct statements disavowing racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination in law or policy related to sexual orientation and gender identity. For its part, the university community works to create an environment in which every student, faculty, and staff member feels heard, seen and valued. That includes community members of all races, all faiths or no faith, all sexual and gender identities, political perspectives, all physical and mental