The Course Thread Program allows UC Berkeley undergraduates to explore intellectual themes that connect courses across departments and disciplines. Without creating new majors or minors, the program instead highlights connections between existing courses. Course Threads help students see the value in educational breadth while also pursuing a more in-depth and well-rounded knowledge on one particular topic. Course Thread topics include: Human Rights, Cultural Forms in Transit, The Historical & Modern City, Visible Language, Humanities & Environment, Human-Centered Design, Old Things, and Sciences & Society.
Students following a thread enroll in at least 3 courses from the thread over the course of their study at Berkeley, and participate in at least one year-end symposium. The Course Threads Program is made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Patricia J. Williams (link to: http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Patricia_Williams)
Professor of Law, Columbia University
Renowned feminist legal scholar Patricia Williams received her JD from Harvard University in 1975 and has been at Columbia University Law School since 1991. She has published widely in the areas of race, gender, and law, and on other issues of legal theory and legal writing. Her books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster's Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. She is a columnist for The Nation and a MacArthur fellow.
Trinh T. Minh-ha (link to: http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/19)
Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, UC Berkeley
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Rhetoric and of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley, is a filmmaker, writer, and composer. She has authored eleven books, including Elsewhere, Within Here (2010), The Digital Film Event (2005), When The Moon Waxes Red (1991), and Woman, Native, Other (1989). Her work also includes seven feature-length films, among them Night Passage (2004), The Fourth Dimension (2001), and A Tale of Love (1996), which have been honored in numerous retrospectives around the world, and she has contributed to a number of collaborative multimedia installations, including Old Land New Waters, 2007-2008 (3rd Guangzhou Triennale 2008), L'Autre marche (Musee du Quai Branly, 2006-2009), The Desert is Watching (Kyoto Biennial, 2003), and Nothing But Ways (Yerba Buena, 1999).
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November 10, 2009
Prof. Bob Infelise gives an introduction to pollution control: civil enforcement.
For more information on key environmental issues, visit Berkeley Law's environmental blog, http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/, or the Video and Audio Resources page, http://www.law.berkeley.edu/2866.htm.
Excerpts from UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau's back-to-school media briefing on Aug. 26, 2010. (3:05 min.)
Produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations
For full story: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/08/27_pressbriefing.shtml