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<\/a>In his second year at Bates, Assistant Professor of English Jos\u00e9 Villagrana is teaching a new course, \u201cMilton and the English Civil War.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
Lecturer in Anthropology Kristen Barnett looks forward to teaching her two sections of \u201cIntroduction to Archaeology.\u201d\u00a0She began teaching the course three years ago and has completely overhauled it.<\/p>\n
Now the course focuses more attention on concepts of social justice, ethics, and \u201ctensions between Indigenous communities and the archaeological community,\u201d she explains. The course will also delve into questions of how certain colonizing practices are \u201cestablished and perpetuated through archaeology.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Bates faculty member since 1991, Professor of Physics Hong Lin is trying something new this year: teaching one of the department\u2019s upper-level courses, \u201cElectrodynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be my first time teaching this course, but I love the topic,\u201d she says. Lin has taught a similar course, \u201cElectricity and Magnetism,\u201d which covers the material at a lower level. \u201cIt will be good to help students see the topic in more depth,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Lecturer in Anthropology Kristen Barnett has revamped the introductory archaeology course. (Jay Burns\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n
In one of 39 First-Year Seminars, which are geared toward the college\u2019s newest students, Professor of Anthropology Elizabeth Eames will teach \u201cDisney Demystified: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Magic Kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Popular culture being what it is, \u201cwe all have a bit of Disney in us,\u201d Eames says. In other words, \u201cDisney is a cultural text. And from that text, we can discern America\u2019s beliefs and values. And we can unearth the cultural politics embedded in Disney productions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor of Psychology Georgia Nigro is teaching \u201cCommunity-Based Research Methods.\u201d Offered in a variety of disciplines, methods courses give students a chance to exercise their emerging research skills.<\/p>\n
This fall, Nigro says, her 18 students \u201care going to learn with a community partner, the Restorative Justice Institute of Maine<\/a>.\u201d The institute is working closely with the Lewiston School Department, which is seeking to infuse restorative practices into the local schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n