Tabea Linhard

Student instructors gain mastery of their subject of interest by practical application in teaching a course. Students are supervised by the faculty sponsor as approved by the Dean of Undergraduates. Students must have taken COLL 300 in developing the course. Repeatable for Credit.

Throughout history, people have moved across natural and political borders, but migration has become one of the most contentious issues of our time. This course examines what happens when border crossing becomes a crisis—both a period of acute struggle, danger, or instability and a moment when difficult or consequential decisions must be made. We will consider who defines such situations as crises, who is deemed responsible, and who bears the heaviest burdens. Students will explore how different groups—migrants on the move, host communities, and institutional actors—experience border crossings, and how institutions shape, manage, or intensify these crises. The course concludes with a further question: can engaging with individual accounts of border crossings—whether written, audio, or visual, and accessed through testimonies, oral histories, literature, and other cultural materials—help alleviate or prevent crisis conditions?

Mellon II, or the "Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Research and Writing Seminar II" is a semester-long, three-credit workshop intended to guide and mentor graduate students who are launching or continuing the dissertation writing process. The goal of the seminar is for each participant to complete a full draft of a dissertation chapter, an outline of the remaining dissertation, and a conference or fellowship proposal. Repeatable for Credit.