This course emphasizes the acquisition of appropriate vocabulary and practice in solving problems of contrastive syntax.

This course emphasizes the acquisition of appropriate vocabulary and practice in solving problems of contrastive syntax.

This is a required course for students who have passed the fluency exam and plan to enroll in the interpretation and translation certificate program. This course is designed for highly bilingual students to improve language skills in both languages and elevate proficiency to professional levels.

This course explores how the U.S. educational system both promotes socioeconomic opportunities and maintains socioeconomic inequalities.

Examination of processes by which gender is socially constructed. Topics include distinction between biological sex and sociological gender, causes and consequences of gender inequality, and recent changes in gender relations in modern industrial societies. 

This course explores the past, present, and future of hip and cool. Examine the social psychology of the hipster; the roles of race, class, gender, and location; and see how hipness is marketed, purchased, and performed.

This course focuses on racial and ethnic relations that continue to permeate American lives, color our national character, and shape the structure of American society.

Through our everyday interactions, we make and remake our social worlds and these worlds make and remake us. This course examines social processes shaping experience, definition, and enactment of self and personal identity.

This course examines the new field of the sociology of emotions from a constructionist and interactionist perspective. Instruction addresses such issues as definition and the social and cultural construction of emotion.

Survey of characteristics of social life, processes of social interaction and tools of sociological investigation.

Get a thorough overview of the role of a showrunner in this intensive workshop that prepares you for success in the television industry.

Create dynamic, richly drawn characters audiences will love in this practical workshop for writers looking for an edge.

Get insider tips on how to identify the best managers and agents who can take your career to the next level.

Hear directly from successful TV writers and creators in this course that demystifies the industry and how to break in and stay in.

Learn critical skills to develop a powerful, unique premise for your fiction or nonfiction in this intensive workshop dedicated to the magic that makes stories work.

Learn how publishers launch a new book and what roles the book’s editor plays in its success from that point forward.

Create a plan for your nonfiction project in this course designed to help you identify your story and use the right tools to bring it to life.

Make substantial progress on a romance novel draft in this course for students who have completed Romance Writing I.

Learn how studios review and approve screenplays as you get hands-on experience in the critical art of writing coverage on scripts.

Learn about how the Writers’ Program can help you achieve your writing goals in this informative, interactive session that includes an opportunity for advising.