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Your search for courses · during 24FA · meeting requirements for HI, Humanistic Inquiry · returned 35 results

  • AFST 225 Black Music, Resistance, and Liberation 6 credits

    For every defining moment in black history, there is a song. Every genre of black music makes a statement not only about the specific historical epoch it was created but also about the people’s dreams. For black people, songs are a means of resistance to oppression and an expression of the will to live. Through the analysis of black music, this course will expose students to black people’s struggles, hopes, and aspirations, and also American history, race relations, and much more. The class will read insightful texts, listen to songs, watch films, and engage in animated discussions.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): One course that applies toward the Humanistic Inquiry requirement with a grade of C- or better.

    • AFST Core AFST Humanistic Inquiry AMMU Soundtracks America CL: 200 level MUSC Elective MUSC Ethnomusicolgy or Pop
    • AFST  225.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • AMST 115 Introduction to American Studies 6 credits

    This overview of the “interdisciplinary discipline” of American Studies will focus on the ways American Studies engages with and departs from other scholarly fields of inquiry. We will study the stories of those who have been marginalized in the social, political, cultural, and economic life of the United States due to their class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, citizenship, and level of ability. We will explore contemporary American Studies concerns like racial and class formation, the production of space and place, the consumption and circulation of culture, and transnational histories.

    Sophomore Priority

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • AMMU Music Foundations CCST Seeing and Being Cross-Cult CL: 100 level EDUC 2 Soc and Cult Context HIST Pertinent Courses HIST US History
    • AMST  115.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • Sophomore Priority.

  • AMST 215 Trains of Thought: Contemplating Local Commuter and Passenger Rail 6 credits

    Meeting with mass-transit professionals, urban planners, and community organizers to discuss contemporary rail policy, students in this seminar will search local archives and develop public-facing informational materials about the Dan Patch Corridor, which passes through Northfield. This rail line was identified by MnDOT in 1998 as the most feasible southbound commuter-rail route for the Twin Cities. From 2002 until 2023, however, the state legislature prohibited it from further transportation studies. Meanwhile, grassroots rail advocates proposed reestablishing long-distance passenger service from Minneapolis to Kansas City. What are the arguments for and against reviving rail services? What does the community think?

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning
    • ACE Applied AMST Democracy Activism AMST Space and Place CL: 200 level
    • AMST  215.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Baird Jarman 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • AMST 238 9/11 and the War on Terror in American Culture 6 credits

    An exploration of how the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and the subsequent War on Terror impacted American culture. We will focus on issues of both form (the elements determining the look and feel of post-9/11 artwork) and content (the social and moral concerns driving post-9/11 culture). Shared texts will include novels, short stories, poetry, music, art, and films. Particular attention will be paid to themes such as race and racism, religion and religious discrimination, immigration and xenophobia, debates over American exceptionalism, critiques of American capitalism, the “death of irony,” attempts to define “truth,” and the spread of conspiracy theories. 

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • AMST America in the World AMST Prdctn Consmptn Cult AMST Race Ethnicty Indign CL: 200 level
    • AMST  238.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Christopher Elias 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
  • CCST 208 International Coffee and News 2 credits

    Have you recently returned from studying or living abroad? This course is designed to help you keep in touch with the culture you left behind, while deepening your understanding of current issues across the globe. Relying on magazines and newspapers in the local language or in English-language media, students will discuss common topics and themes as they play out in the countries or regions where they have lived or studied. Conducted in English. 

    Recommended Preparation: Participation in an off-campus study program (Carleton or non-Carleton), substantial experience living abroad, or instructor permission.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • CCST Reflectg Cross-Cult Exp CL: 200 level
    • CCST  208.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Laura Goering 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • THLanguage & Dining Center 335 3:10pm-4:20pm
  • CLAS 384 Food and Foodways of the Ancient Mediterranean 6 credits

    We need food to live, but food also plays a crucial cultural, social, and economic role in our lives. As such, the study of food and foodways offers a cornucopia of approaches and insights into the lives of ancient peoples. This seminar will explore what, why, and how food was consumed, produced, traded, and thought about in the ancient Mediterranean world. We will study archaeological and literary sources of ancient evidence alongside modern scholarship and theoretical frameworks. Topics in the second half of the course will be driven by student interests as they develop their own research and present it at the department Symposium.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): Two Classics (CLAS) courses with a grade of C- or better.

    • ARCN Pertinent CL: 300 level CLAS Core CLAS Required
    • CLAS  384.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Jake Morton 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • DANC 266 Reading the Dancing Body 6 credits

    Dance is a field in which bodies articulate a history of sexuality, nation, gender, and race. In this course, the investigation of the body as a “text” will be anchored by intersectional and feminist perspectives. We will re-center American concert dance history, emphasizing the Africanist base of American Dance performance, contemporary black choreographers, and Native American concert dance. Through reading, writing, discussing, moving, viewing videos and performances the class will “read” the gender, race, and politics of the dancing body in the cultural/historical context of Modern, Post Modern and Contemporary Dance.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • AFST LitArtistic Analysis AMST Prdctn Consmptn Cult CL: 200 level DANC History Theory Lit GWSS Elective
    • DANC  266.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • EUST 278 Cross-Cultural Psychology Sem in Prague: Politics & Culture in Central Europe-Twentieth Century 6 credits

    This course covers important political, social, and cultural developments in Central Europe during the twentieth century. Studies will explore the establishment of independent nations during the interwar period, Nazi occupation, resistance and collaboration, the Holocaust and the expulsion of the Germans, the nature of the communist system, its final collapse, and the post-communist transformation.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Acceptance in Cross-Cultural Studies in Prague Program and student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 110 with a grade of C- or better.

    • CL: 200 level
    • EUST  278.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Ken Abrams 🏫 👤
    • Size:24
  • FREN 210 Coffee and News 2 credits

    Keep up your French while learning about current issues in France, as well as world issues from a French perspective. Requirements include reading specific sections of leading French newspapers, (Le Monde, Libération, etc.) on the internet, and then meeting once a week to exchange ideas over coffee with a small group of students.

    Sophomore Priority

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): FREN 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the French Language and Culture AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the French: Language B IB exam or equivalent.

    • CL: 200 level
    • FREN  210.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • WLanguage & Dining Center 335 3:10pm-4:20pm
    • Sophomore Priority.

  • GERM 209 German for Music Enthusiasts 2 credits

    From chart-topping hits to old classics, explore the sounds of the German-speaking world while honing your language skills. Each weekly session explores the cultural and social context of selected songs, providing valuable insights into contemporary German society. Engage in interactive singing sessions to learn and perform these songs, improving your pronunciation and language fluency. No prior musical experience is required.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): GERM 204 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the German Language and Culture AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the German: Language B IB exam or equivalent.

    • CL: 200 level GERM Major/Minor
    • GERM  209.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • WOlin 104 9:50am-11:00am
  • GWSS 243 Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Situated Feminisms: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe

    This course examines the history and present of feminist and LGBTQ activisms across Western and East-Central Europe. We study the impact of the European colonial heritage on the lives of women and sexual/ethnic minorities across European communities, as well as the legacies of World War II, the Cold War, and the EU expansion into Eastern Europe. Reproductive rights, LGBTQ issues, “anti-genderism,” sex work, trafficking, and issues faced by ethnic minorities are among topics explored. These topics are addressed comparatively and historically, stressing their ‘situated’ nature and considering their divergent sociopolitical national frameworks.

    Acceptance in OCS Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.

    • CL: 200 level EUST Transnational Supp GWSS Elective
    • GWSS  243.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Iveta Jusová 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Credits:7 – 8
  • GWSS 325 Gender and Biopolitics of Health

    Addressing the impact of Anglo-American influences in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, this course examines European, including East-Central European, approaches to key gender and sexuality topics. It raises questions about the transfer of feminist concepts across cultures and languages. Some of the themes explored include nationalism and gender/sexuality, gendered dimensions of Western and East-Central European racisms, the historical influence of psychoanalysis on Continental feminist theories, the implications of European feminisms in the history of colonialism, the biopolitics of gender, homonationalism, as well as Eastern European socialist/communist theories of women’s emancipation.

    Acceptance in OCS Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program. Students register either for GWSS 225 or GWSS 325. Those who have not taken a previous Gender Studies course should register for GWSS 225, unless they obtain permission from the instructor. Students who have completed a 100- or 200- level Gender studies course, may choose to register for either GWSS 325 or GWSS 225.”

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.

    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level EUST Transnational Supp GWSS Elective
    • GWSS  325.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Iveta Jusová 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Credits:7 – 8
  • HIST 125 African American History I: From Africa to the Civil War 6 credits

    This course is a survey of early African American history. It will introduce students to major themes and events while also covering historical interpretations and debates in the field. Core themes of the course include migration, conflict, and culture. Beginning with autonomous African politics, the course traces the development of the United States through the experiences of enslaved and free African American women and men to the Civil War. The main aim of the course is for students to become familiar with key issues and developments in African American history and their centrality to understanding U.S. history.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • AFST Humanistic Inquiry AFST Pertinent AMMU Music Foundations AMST Democracy Activism AMST Race Ethnicty Indign AMST Survey 2 CL: 100 level EDUC 2 Soc and Cult Context HIST Africa & Diaspora HIST Modern HIST US History
    • HIST  125.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century 6 credits

    This course explores developments in European history in a global context from the final decade of the nineteenth century through to the present. We will focus on the impact of nationalism, war, and revolution on the everyday experiences of women and men, and also look more broadly on the chaotic economic, political, social, and cultural life of the period. Of particular interest will be the rise of fascism and communism, and the challenge to Western-style liberal democracy, followed by the Cold War and communism's collapse near the end of the century.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • CCST Encounters CL: 100 level EUST Core Course EUST Transnational Supp FFST History and Art History FREN Pertinent HIST Early Mdrn Europe HIST Modern POSI Elective/Non POSC
    • HIST  141.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:David Tompkins 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 231 Mapping the World Before Mercator 6 credits

    This course will explore early maps primarily in medieval and early modern Europe. After an introduction to the rhetoric of maps and world cartography, we will examine the functions and forms of medieval European and Islamic maps and then look closely at the continuities and transformations in map-making during the period of European exploration. The focus of the course will be on understanding each map within its own cultural context and how maps can be used to answer historical questions. We will work closely with the maps in Gould Library Special Collections to expand campus awareness of the collection.

    Extra time is required for a one-time map show in the library which we will schedule at the beginning of term.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied CL: 200 level DGAH Cross Disc Collabortn EUST Transnational Supp HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Early Mdrn Europe HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting SDSC XDept Elective
    • HIST  231.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Victoria Morse 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • HIST 262 Borders Drawn in Blood: The Partition of Modern India 6 credits

    India’s independence in 1947 was marred by its bloody partition into two nation states. Neighbors turned on each other, millions were rendered homeless and without kin, and gendered violence became rampant, all in the name of religion. Political accounts of Partition are plentiful, but how did ordinary people experience it? Centering the accounts of people who lived through Partition, this course explores how divisions and differences calcified, giving birth to national and religious narratives that obscure histories of intersecting identities. With right wing Hindu nationalism ascendant in India and Islamic nationalism in Pakistan on the rise, Partition alas is not over. 

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • ASST South Asia CL: 200 level HIST Asia HIST Modern SAST Humanistic Inquiry
    • HIST  262.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • HIST 274 The Andes Under Inca & Spanish Rule 6 credits

    This course examines imperial rule in the Andes under both Inca and Spanish rule. Indigenous intermediaries will be highlighted throughout, including the ethnic lords (kurakas) who mediated the competing interests of their communities and the state, as well as the indigenous and mestizo writers who drew from Andean and European traditions to craft a new kind of history of the Andes and the Inca dynasty. Visions of the Inca past and the strategies of survival developed by ethnic lords and communities during Spanish rule will inform our study of the Great Andean Rebellion, which foreshadowed the Latin American wars of independence by a generation.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • CL: 200 level HIST Latin America HIST Pre-Modern LTAM Electives MARS Supporting
    • HIST  274.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Andrew Fisher 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 298 Junior Colloquium 6 credits

    In the junior year, majors must take this six-credit reading and discussion course taught each year by different members of the department faculty. The course is also required for the History minor. The general purpose of History 298 is to help students reach a more sophisticated understanding of the nature of history as a discipline and of the approaches and methods of historians. A major who is considering off-campus study in the junior year should consult with their adviser on when to take History 298.

    Required for History majors and minors

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): Two 6 credit History courses excluding HIST 100 – A&I , Independent Study and Comps with a grade of C- or better.

    • ASST Disciplinary ASST Methodology CL: 200 level
    • HIST  298.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:18
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 336 Controversial Histories: Ideological Conflict and Consensus in Historical Perspective 6 credits

    This seminar explores how people in diverse times and places discussed, debated and decided the issues and ideals that shaped their lives, communities, and world. Particular attention will be paid to the role of institutions and individuals; communicative networks and textual communities; the forms and functions of polemical discourse; and the dynamics of group formation and stigmatization in the historical unfolding of conflict and consensus. Theoretical readings and select case studies will provide the common readings for the seminar. Each student will pursue a research project of 25 pages on this theme in a period and region of their choosing. 

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 300 level MARS Capstone
    • HIST  336.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
  • IDSC 251 Windows on the Good Life 2 credits

    Human beings are always and everywhere challenged by the question: What should I do to spend my mortal time well? One way to approach this ultimate challenge is to explore some of the great cultural products of our civilization–works that are a delight to read for their wisdom and artfulness. This series of two-credit courses will explore a philosophical dialogue of Plato in the fall, a work from the Bible in the winter, and a pair of plays by Shakespeare in the spring. The course can be repeated for credit throughout the year and in subsequent years.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • CL: 200 level
    • IDSC  251.01 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
    • Size:18
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • MHasenstab 105 8:00pm-9:45pm
    • IDSC  251.02 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
    • Size:18
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • MHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:45pm
  • MUSC 205 Disability in Popular Music: Representations, Roles, and Receptions 6 credits

    How do public discourses around bodies and minds shape different styles of popular music? How do musicians and fans challenge ableism? Are certain disabilities more prominent in certain kinds of musics? And: can any of this even be heard? To address these questions, we will explore the life and music of artists such as Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, Victoria Canal, Billie Eilish, and Django Reinhart, and examine how disability functions in subcultures such as punk, hip hop, and K-pop. Readings will be drawn from cultural disability studies, music theory, media studies, and the medical humanities.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 200 level MUSC Ethnomusicolgy or Pop
    • MUSC  205.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Jeremy Tatar 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • PHIL 257 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Philosophy 6 credits

    We will analyze different theories about the distinction between sex and gender. Then we will turn to contemporary issues in feminism for the remainder of the course. These issues include, but are not limited to, conservative feminism, reproductive justice, fetishes, disability, ethics of pronouns, whether men are oppressed, and responsibility for oppression. We will read selections from Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, Robin Dembroff, Karina Ortiz Villa, Robin Zheng, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Audre Lorde, and more. In addition, there will be room for student choice of topics.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CGSC Elective CL: 200 level GWSS Elective PHIL Interdisciplinary 1 PHIL Prac/Value Theory PHIL Social and Political Theory 2
    • PHIL  257.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • PHIL 260 Philosophy of Race 6 credits

    What is race? How do we define racism? How have philosophers defined race historically? What does it mean to examine race philosophically? US history, culture, and politics are haunted by the specters of race, racism, and slavery. Ideas about race and racism permeate nearly all aspects our lives evidenced by the mainstream media’s obsession with questions like: Does racism still exist? Should critical race theory be taught in schools? Do “Black Lives” or “All Lives” matter? In this course, we will investigate the ways in which ideas about race and racism in the US have been and are continuously re-defined for the sake of preserving white supremacy and white-supremacist institutions.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • AFST Humanistic Inquiry AMST Race Ethnicty Indign CL: 200 level PHIL Prac/Value Theory PHIL Social and Political Theory 1 PHIL Value Theory 2
    • PHIL  260.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 301 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • PHIL 274 Existentialism 6 credits

    We will consider the emergence and development of major themes of existentialism in the works of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, as well as “classical” existentialists such as Heidegger, Sartre and De Beauvoir. We will discuss key issues put forward by the existentialist movement, such as “the question of being” and human historicity, freedom and responsibility and look at how different authors analyzed the nature and ambitions of the Self and diverse aspects of subjectivity.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 200 level EUST Transnational Supp PHIL Continental Philosophy 2 PHIL Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind 1 PHIL Prac/Value Theory PHIL Theoretical Area
    • PHIL  274.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • PHIL 323 Living Wisely 6 credits

    For Aristotle, and many following him, practical wisdom (phronesis) guarantees both goodness and happiness. Sounds like a deal! Unfortunately, it’s not clear how we go about getting, or even recognizing, this intellectual virtue. Its insights cannot be demonstrated like a mathematical proof or captured in abstract rules. But we’re not stuck with undefended intuitions or a relativism that makes what is good or beneficial up to us. What is this wisdom supple enough to navigate between such extremes? We’ll read original thinkers in the broader Aristotelian tradition and scholars interpreting Aristotle’s texts as we think about this and related questions.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 100, 200 or 300 level PHIL course NOT including Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.

    • CL: 300 level PHIL Advanced PHIL Traditions 1 PHIL Value Theory 2
    • PHIL  323.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Allison Murphy 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 303 10:10am-11:55am
  • POSC 160 Political Philosophy 6 credits

    Introduction to ancient and modern political philosophy. We will investigate several fundamentally different approaches to the basic questions of politics–questions concerning the character of political life, the possibilities and limits of politics, justice, and the good society–and the philosophic presuppositions (concerning human nature and human flourishing) that underlie these, and all, political questions.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 100 level PHIL Social and Political Theory 1 PHIL Traditions 2 POSI Core
    • POSC  160.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THCMC 301 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • POSC 260 “A Savage Made to Inhabit Cities”: The Political Philosophy of Rousseau 6 credits

    In this course we will study what Rousseau considered his greatest and best book: Emile. Emile is a philosophic novel. It uses a thought experiment–the rearing of a child from infancy to adulthood–to explore human nature and the human condition, including their political dimensions. Among Emile's themes are natural goodness and the origins of evil; self-love and sociability; the differences and relations between the sexes; citizenship; and the principles of political right. The book also addresses the question of how one might live naturally and happily amid an unnatural and unhappy civilization.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • CL: 200 level POSI Elective
    • POSC  260.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • RELG 110 Understanding Religion 6 credits

    How can we best understand the role of religion in the world today, and how should we interpret the meaning of religious traditions–their texts and practices–in history and culture? This class takes an exciting tour through selected themes and puzzles related to the fascinating and diverse expressions of religion throughout the world. From politics and pop culture, to religious philosophies and spiritual practices, to rituals, scriptures, gender, religious authority, and more, students will explore how these issues emerge in a variety of religions, places, and historical moments in the U.S. and across the globe.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CCST Encounters CCST Seeing and Being Cross-Cult CL: 100 level RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  110.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • RELG 120 Introduction to Judaism 6 credits

    What is Judaism? Who are Jewish people? What are Jewish texts, practices, ideas? What ripples have Jewish people, texts, practices, and ideas caused beyond their sphere? These questions will animate our study as we touch on specific points in over three millennia of history. We will immerse ourselves in Jewish texts, historic events, and cultural moments, trying to understand them on their own terms. At the same time, we will analyze them using key concepts such as ‘tradition,’ ‘culture,’ ‘power,’ and ‘diaspora.’ We will explore how ‘Jewishness’ has been constructed by different stakeholders, each claiming the authority to define it.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 100 level JDST Pertinent MARS Supporting MEST Studies Foundation RELG Breadth RELG Jewish Traditions RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  120.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • RELG 130 Native American Religions 6 credits

    This course explores the history and contemporary practice of Native American religious traditions, especially as they have developed amid colonization and resistance. While surveying a broad variety of ways that Native American traditions imagine land, community, and the sacred, the course focuses on the local traditions of the Ojibwe and Lakota communities. Materials include traditional beliefs and practices, the history of missions, intertribal new religious movements, and contemporary issues of treaty rights, religious freedom, and the revitalization of language and culture.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied AMST Democracy Activism AMST Space and Place CL: 100 level RELG Breadth RELG Pertinent Course RELG Traditions Americas
    • RELG  130.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
  • RELG 278 Love of God in Islam 6 credits

    As the chosen messenger of God's final revelation, Muslims consider Muhammad to be God's beloved par excellence. He is believed to have not only received God's words but to have also experienced the divine. For Muhammad's followers, love has been a central means of attaining experiential knowledge of God. The Islamic tradition, particularly in the form of Sufism, developed a highly sophisticated literature for understanding God through love. This course will trace and analyze the historical development of this literature and the practices associated with it from the Qur'an (600s) to Rumi (1200s).

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 200 level MARS Core Course MARS Supporting MEST Pertinent MEST Pertinent RELG Islamic Traditions RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  278.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Kambiz GhaneaBassiri 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLibrary 344 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLibrary 344 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Death and Loyalty 6 credits

    This course explores the history of samurai since the emergence of warrior class in medieval times, to the modern developments of samurai ethics as the icon of Japanese national identity. Focusing on its connection with Japanese religion and culture, we will investigate the origins of the purported samurai ideals of loyalty, honor, self-sacrifice, and death. In addition to regular class sessions, there will be a weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm), which will enable students to study samurai history in context through gaining first-hand experience in the ritualized practice of kyudo.

    Extra Time for weekly kyudo (Japanese archery) practice on Wednesday evening (7-9 pm)

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied ASST East Asia ASST Humanities CL: 200 level EAST Supporting MARS Core Course RELG Buddhist Traditions RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  282.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
  • RELG 329 Modernity and Tradition 6 credits

    How do we define traditions if they change over time and are marked by internal conflict? Is there anything stable about a religious tradition—an essence, or a set of practices or beliefs that abide amidst diversity and mark it off from a surrounding culture or religion? How do people live out or re-invent their traditions in the modern world? In this seminar we explore questions about pluralism, identity, authority, and truth, and we examine the creative ways beliefs and practices change in relation to culture. We consider how traditions grapple with difference, especially regarding theology, ethics, law, and gender.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • CL: 300 level EUST Transnational Supp PPOL Forgn Policy & Security RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course RELG Traditions Americas
    • RELG  329.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WLeighton 303 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 303 9:40am-10:40am
  • SPAN 246 Not by Blood: Family Beyond Kinship 6 credits

    Motherhood is central in Latin-American literature of the twenty-first century. Beyond the tendency to represent motherhood as a paradise of love and snuggles, Latin-American writers have been proposing new reconfigurations of family. Families that are not bonded by blood. In this class we will study novels, poems, and short stories about these non-traditional families, for example, families that are led by trans-women, families that are formed between species (with plants or animals), among others. We will analyze what insights these fictional families can offer on topics such as race, reproductive rights, legalization of abortion, marriage equality, and new feminisms.

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): SPAN 205 – Conversation and Composition with a grade of C- or better or equivalent.

    • ACE Applied AFST Humanistic Inquiry CL: 200 level LTAM Electives SPAN Latin Amer Literature
    • SPAN  246.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
  • SPAN 349 Madrid Program: Four Masters of Spanish Art 6 credits

    This course offers an in-depth view of four of the greatest Spanish masters of all time—El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, and Picasso. The course combines class lectures at the Complutense University in Madrid with weekly museum visits and excursions outside Madrid to study, in person, iconic works of Western art such as El Greco’s The Disrobing of Christ in Toledo’s cathedral, Velázquez’ Las Meninas and Goya’s Black Paintings at the Prado Museum, and Picasso’s Guernica at the Reina Sofía Museum. Special attention will be given to artistic theory in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.

    Acceptance in Carleton OCS Madrid Program

    • Fall 2024
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • Acceptance in the Spanish Studies in Madrid Program and student has completed the following course(s): SPAN 205 or a higher course with a grade of C- or better.

    • ARTH Pertinent CL: 300 level EUST Country Specific SPAN Peninsular Literature
    • SPAN  349.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Humberto Huergo 🏫 👤
    • Size:25

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