43 Courses
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The American Novel Since 1945
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The American Novel Since 1945
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Richard Wright, Black Boy
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
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Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (cont)
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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Nabokov and Modernism
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Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (cont)
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Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Jack Kerouac, On the Road (cont)
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J D Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
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Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
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Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
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Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (cont)
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (cont)
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont- 2)
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Philip Roth, The Human Stain (cont -3)
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Edward P Jones, The Known World
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Edward P Jones, The Known World (cont)
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (cont)
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Review for Final Exam
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The American Revolution
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Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution
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Being a British Colonist
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Being a British American
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"Ever at Variance and Foolishly Jealous": Intercolonial Relations
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Outraged Colonials: The Stamp Act Crisis
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Resistance or Rebellion? (Or, What the Heck is Happening in Boston?)
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Being a Revolutionary
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The Logic of Resistance
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Who Were the Loyalists?
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Common Sense
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Independence
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Civil War
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Organizing a War
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Heroes and Villains
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Citizens and Choices: Experiencing the Revolution in New Haven
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The Importance of George Washington
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The Logic of a Campaign (or, How in the World Did We Win?)
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Fighting the Revolution: The Big Picture
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War and Society
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Confederation
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A Union Without Power
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The Road to the Constitutional Convention
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Creating a Constitution
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Creating a Nation
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Being an American: The Legacy of the Revolution
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The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
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Introductions: Why Does the Civil War Era Have a Hold on American Historical Imagination?
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Southern Society: Slavery, King Cotton, and Antebellum America's "Peculiar" Region
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A Southern World View: the Old South and Proslavery Ideology
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A Northern World View: Yankee Society, Antislavery Ideology, and the Abolition Movement
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Telling a Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality
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Expansion and Slavery: Legacies of the Mexican War and the Compromise of 1850
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"A Hell of a Storm": The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Birth of the Republican Party
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Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas, and the Impending Crisis of the Union
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John Brown's Holy War: Terrorist or Heroic Revolutionary?
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The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis
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Slavery and State Rights, Economies and Ways of Life: What Caused the Civil War?
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"And the War Came," 1861: The Sumter Crisis, Comparative Strategies
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Terrible Swift Sword: The Period of Confederate Ascendency
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Never Call Retreat: Military and Political Turning Points in 1863
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Lincoln, Leadership, and Race: Emancipation as Policy
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Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War
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Homefronts and Battlefronts: "Hard War" and the Social Impact of the Civil War
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"War So Terrible": Why the Union Won and the Confederacy Lost
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To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings
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Wartime Reconstruction: Imagining the Aftermath and a Second American Republic
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Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction
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Constitutional Crisis and the Impeachment of a President
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Black Reconstruction in the South: The Freedpeople and the Economics of Land and Labor
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Retreat from Reconstruction: the Grant Era and Paths to "Southern Redemption"
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The End of Reconstruction: Disputed Election of 1876, and the Compromise of 1877
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Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory
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Legacies of the Civil War
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000
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Course Introduction: Rome's Greatness and First Crises
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The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
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Constantine and the Early Church
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The Christian Roman Empire
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Transformation of the Roman Empire
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Barbarian Kingdoms
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Survival in the East
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The Reign of Justinian
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Clovis and the Franks
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Frankish Society
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Britain and Ireland
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Monasticism
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Mohammed and the Arab Conquests
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Islamic Conquests and Civil War
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of the Abbasid Period
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Crucial Seventh Century
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: The Splendor of Byzantium
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Charlemagne
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne
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The Early Middle Ages, 284-1000: Crisis of the Carolingians
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Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000
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The Moral Foundations of Politics
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Information and Housekeeping
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
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Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition
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Origins of Classical Utilitarianism
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Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice
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From Classical to Neoclassical Utilitarianism
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The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility
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Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis
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Marx's Theory of Capitalism
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Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice
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The Marxian Failure and Legacy
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Appropriating Locke Today
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Rights as Side Constraints and the Minimal State
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Compensation versus Redistribution
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The Rawlsian Social Contract
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Distributive Justice and the Welfare State
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The "Political-not-Metaphysical" Legacy
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The Burkean Outlook
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Contemporary Communitarianism, part I
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Contemporary Communitarianism, part II
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Democracy and Majority Rule, part I
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Democracy and Majority Rule, part II
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Democratic Justice: Theory
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Democratic Justice: Applications
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The Poetry of John Milton
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Introduction: Milton, Power, and the Power of Milton
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The Infant Cry of God
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Credible Employment
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Poetry and Virginity
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Poetry and Marriage
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Lycidas
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Lycidas (cont)
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Areopagitica
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Paradise Lost, Book I
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God and Mammon: The Wealth of Literary Memory
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The Miltonic Simile
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The Blind Prophet
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Paradise Lost, Book III
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Paradise Lost, Book IV
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Paradise Lost, Books V-VI
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Paradise Lost, Books VII-VIII
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Paradise Lost, Book IX
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Paradise Lost, Books IX-X
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Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII
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Paradise Lost, Books XI-XII (cont)
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Paradise Regained, Books I-II
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Paradise Regained, Books III-IV
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Samson Agonistes
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Samson Agonistes (cont)
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The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food
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Introduction: What We Eat, Why We Eat and the Key Role of Food in Modern Life
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Food Then, Food Now: Modern Food Conditions and Their Mismatch with Evolution
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Biology, Nutrition and Health I: What We Eat
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Biology, Nutrition and Health II: What Helps Us and Hurts Us
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Biology, Nutrition and Health III: The Psychology of Taste and Addiction
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Culture and the Remarkable Plasticity of Eating (Presentation by Ashley Gearhardt)
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Hunger in the World of Plenty
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Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues
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From Ancient to Modern Farming: The Green Revolution and the Prospect of Feeding the World
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Sustainability I: The Impact of Modern Agriculture on the Environment and Energy Use
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Sustainability II: The Impact of Modern Agriculture on Biodiversity, Genetic Modification and Animal Welfare
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Public Health vs. Medical Models in Nutrition Change: Saving Lives One or a Million at a Time
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Eating Disorders and Obesity (Guest Lecture by B. Timothy Walsh)
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Perspectives of the Food Industry (Guest Lecture by Derek Yach)
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Economics, Nutrition and Health: Subsidies, Food Deserts and More
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Everyone but Me: The Pervasive Reach and Powerful Influence of Food Marketing on Food Choices
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The Politics of Food I: How Politics Affects National Nutrition Policy (Guest Lecture by Rogan Kersh)
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The Politics of Food II: The Issues, the Fights and Who Controls the Frame
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The Law and Opportunities to Improve Nutrition and Health (Guest Lecture by Stephen Teret)
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Schools and Nutrition: Where Health and Politics Collide (Guest Lecture by Marlene B. Schwartz)
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Sustainability and Health Food Access (Guest Lecture by Melina Shannon-DiPietro and Jennifer McTiernan)
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