This month’s programming suggestions from Films On Demand can help students and researchers learn more about autism spectrum disorder, honor a key figure in French literature and history, brush up on robotics, and study difficult topics such as sexual assault. Subscribers can also explore the complete calendar (accessible via the menu in the header, top left of the platform) for the year’s milestones, holidays, and events—a handy source for ideas throughout the year.

April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Non-Consensual Sexuality: Clinical Conversations for the Human Sexuality Classroom (Item #111663)
• Courts, Not Campuses, Should Decide Sexual Assault Cases: A Debate (Item #114401)
• Consent on Campus: A Nightline Event (Item #114848)
• Rape on the Night Shift (Item #114693)
• The Legacy of Tailhook (Item #142574)
• TEDTalks: Gretchen Carlson—How We Can End Sexual Harassment at Work (Item #160726)
• The Founder of #MeToo Doesn’t Want Us to Forget Victims of Color (Item #145897)

World Autism Awareness Day, April 2, 2019

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Autism in America (Item #137723)
• Autism: Insight from Inside (Item #128513)
• Living with Autism (Item #86529)
• Unlocking Autism—Against the Odds: Inspiring Stories of Disability (Item #115778)
• Ideas Roadshow: Autism—A Genetic Perspective Part 1 (Item #93900) and Part 2 (Item #93901)

Birthday: Émile Zola, April 2, 1840

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Emile Zola: A Concise Biography (Item #43995)
• Emile Zola (Item #7718)
• Paris and the 19th-Century Novelists (Item #133077)
• La Bête Humaine (Item #115898)

National Robotics Week, April 6–14, 2019

Consider these titles for your classes:

• The Age of Robots series (Item #110733)
• Rise of the Robots (Item #151284)
• The Truth about Killer Robots (Item #168271)
• Robots Taking Over: What Will Humans Do? Ethical Markets 6 (Item #95287)
• The Joy of AI (Item #169044)