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  • AFST 213 Race, Racism, and the Beloved Community in the US 6 credits

    Race and racism played a significant role in the construction of the United States of America. But so did the quest for a more perfect union and the beloved community. This course introduces students to the complexity of racial ideology and the ways it privileges one group of people while placing others at a disadvantage. We shall examine the experiences of all racialized groups (Blacks, Asians, American Indians, Latinos) and how they resisted the injustice against them. Most importantly, we shall analyze how their quest for liberation brought America closer to its foundational ideal that all humans are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have previously taken any AFST course should register for AFST 300; students who have not should register for AFST 213.

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical AFST Core AFST Humanistic Inquiry AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
    • AFST  213.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • AFST 300 Race, Racism, and the Beloved Community in the US 6 credits

    Race and racism played a significant role in the construction of the United States of America. But so did the quest for a more perfect union and the beloved community. This course introduces students to the complexity of racial ideology and the ways it privileges one group of people while placing others at a disadvantage. We shall examine the experiences of all racialized groups (Blacks, Asians, American Indians, Latinos) and how they resisted the injustice against them. Most importantly, we shall analyze how their quest for liberation brought America closer to its foundational ideal that all humans are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. Offered at both the 200 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have previously taken any AFST course should register for AFST 300; students who have not should register for AFST 213.

    • Spring 2025
    • 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.

    • ACE Theoretical AFST Core AFST Humanistic Inquiry CL: 300 level AMST Democracy Activism AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
    • AFST  300.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • AMST 263 Ethics of Indigenous Engagement 3 credits

    This course explores ethical questions raised in academic civic engagement with Indigenous Nations, communities, and organizations. How might curricular, co-curricular, and institutional engagement proceed “in a good way”? How can we interrupt a history of extractive relationships between academic institutions and Native peoples? How should partnerships reflect Indigenous sovereignty and work from meaningful overlaps between academic and Indigenous priorities? What is the right relationship between scholarship and advocacy? How can Indigenous knowledges, values, and pedagogies reshape academic inquiry? These questions will be explored through case studies, conversations with Indigenous partners, and structured reflection on student's varied engagement experiences.

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
    • AMST  263.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤 · Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • ASST 285 Mapping Japan, the Real and the Imagined 6 credits

    From ancient to present times, Japan drew and redrew its borders, shape, and culture, imagining its place in this world and beyond, its From ancient times to the present, Japan drew and redrew its borders, reimagining its cultural and racial identity, and its place in this world and beyond. This course is a cartographic exploration of this complex and contested history. Cosmological mandalas, hell images, travel brochures, and military maps bring to light Japan’s religious vision, cartographic imagination, and political ambition that dictated its geopolitical expansion and the displacement of minority peoples at home, defining its real and imagined boundaries. We will explore a variety of maps, focusing on those in Carleton’s unique library collection.

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical ASST East Asia CL: 200 level EAST Supporting MARS Supporting POSI Elective/Non POSC RELG Pertinent Course RELG XDept Pertinent ASST Humanistic Inquiry DGAH Cross Disciplinary Collaboration DGAH Humanistic Inquiry
    • ASST  285.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Asuka Sango 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • CLAS 116 Greek Drama in Performance 6 credits

    What is drama? When and where were the first systematic theatrical performances put on? What can Athenian tragedies and comedies teach us about the classical world and today’s societies? This course will explore the always-relevant world of Ancient Greek theater, its history and development, through the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. We will decode the structure and content of Greek tragedies and comedies, ponder their place in the Athenian society and the modern world, and investigate the role of both ancient and contemporary productions in addressing critical questions on the construction and performance of individual and communal identities.

    • Fall 2024
    • LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 100 level ENGL Foreign Literature THEA Minor Acting CLAS Literary Analysis THEA Literature Criticism History CLAS Elective GRK Minor Elective LATN Minor Elective
    • CLAS  116.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Anastasia Pantazopoulou 🏫
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • ECON 270 Economics of the Public Sector 6 credits

    This course provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the government’s role in the U.S. economy. Emphasis is placed on policy analysis using the criteria of efficiency and equity. Topics include rationales for government intervention; analysis of alternative public expenditure programs from a partial and/or general equilibrium framework; the incidence of various types of taxes; models of collective choice; cost-benefit analysis; intergovernmental fiscal relations.

    • Spring 2025
    • QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 110 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the Macroeconomics AP exam or received a ECON 110 requisite equivalency and ECON 111 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the Microeconomics AP exam or received ECON 111 requisite equivalency OR has received a score of 6 or better on the Economics IB exam.

    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level ECON Elective POSI Elective/Non POSC PPOL Core EDUC 3 Public Policy Educational Reform
    • ECON  270.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • EDUC 338 Multicultural Education 6 credits

    This course focuses on the respect for human diversity, especially as these relate to various racial, cultural and economic groups, and to women. It includes lectures and discussions intended to aid students in relating to a wide variety of persons, cultures, and life styles.

    Extra time

    • Spring 2025
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies SI, Social Inquiry
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): One 100 or 200 level Educational Studies (EDUC) course with grade of C- or better.

    • ACE Applied ACE Theoretical AFST Social Inquiry AMST Space and Place CL: 300 level EDUC Core AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
    • EDUC  338.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
  • ENGL 228 Banned. Censored. Reviled. 6 credits

    What makes a work of art dangerous? While present-day attacks on books, libraries, and schools feel unprecedented, writers and artists have always had to fight efforts to suppress their work, often at great personal and societal cost. We will study literature, films, graphic novels, images, music, and other materials that have been challenged and attacked as offensive, taboo, or transgressive, and also explore strategies of resistance to censorship.

    • Fall 2024
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level ENGL Historical Era 3 ENGL Tradition 2 AMST Production Consumption of Culture
    • ENGL  228.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLaird 205 10:10am-11:55am
  • ENTS 289 Climate Change and Human Health 6 credits

    This course will survey the relationship between climate change and human health. The course will begin by exploring the science of the Earth’s climate before turning to an exploration of topics that illuminate the intimate relationship between climate change and human health. These include short-lived climate forcers and the climate and health impact of mitigation measures, extreme heat/drought, mosquito-borne diseases, indoor air pollution/biomass combustion/cookstoves, and biodiversity conservation.

    • Fall 2024
    • QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): BIOL 125 or BIOL 126 or CHEM 123 or CHEM 124 or CHEM 128 or one 100 Level Geology course or 6 credits of Physics from courses 131-165 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 or better on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam or requisite equivalency.

    • ACE Theoretical CL: 200 level ENTS Environmental Science PPOL Environmental Policy & Sustainability
    • ENTS  289.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Deborah Gross 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WBoliou 161 9:50am-11:00am
    • FBoliou 161 9:40am-10:40am
  • ENTS 313 Conscious Nature: Towards and Anthropology of Non-Human Beings 6 credits

    The core of anthropological thought has been organized around the assumption that the production of complex cultural systems is reserved to the domain of the human experience. While scholars have contested this assumption for years, there is an emerging body of scholarship that proposes expanding our understandings of culture, and the ability to produce meaning in the world, to include non-human beings (e.g. plants, wildlife, micro-organisms, mountains). This course explores ethnographic works in this field and contextualizes insights within contemporary conversations pertaining to our relationship with nature, public health, and social justice movements that emerge within decolonized frameworks.

    Recommended preparation: SOAN 110 or SOAN 111.

    • Spring 2025
    • IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level ENTS Topical Seminar GWSS Elective LTAM Electives
    • ENTS  313.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
  • GWSS 244 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Research

    This course explores the following questions: What is the relationship between methodology and knowledge claims in feminist research? How do language and narrative help shape experience? What are the power interests involved in keeping certain knowledges marginalized/subjugated? How do questions of gender and sexuality, of ethnicity and national location, figure in these debates? We will also pay close attention to questions arising from the hegemony of English as the global language of WGS as a discipline, and will reflect on what it means to move between different linguistic communities, with each being differently situated in the global power hierarchies.

    Acceptance in the Carleton OCS Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program.

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

    • ACE Theoretical CL: 200 level GWSS Elective EUST Transnational Support
    • GWSS  244.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Iveta Jusová 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Credits:7 – 8
    • Acceptance in OCS Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program

  • GWSS 325 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Gender and the Biopolitics of Health across Europe

    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 the Carleton OCS Women's and 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 GWSS Elective EUST Transnational Support
    • GWSS  325.07 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Iveta Jusová 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • Credits:7 – 8
    • Acceptance in OCS Women's & Gender Studies in Europe Program

  • HIST 154 Social Movements in Postwar Japan 6 credits

    This course tackles an evolving meaning of democracy and sovereignty in postwar Japan shaped by the transformative power of its social movements. We will place the anti-nuclear movement and anti-base struggles of the 1950s, the protest movements against revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty of the 1960s, and environmentalist movements against the U.S. Cold War projects in Asia to see how they intersect with the worldwide “New Left” movements of the 1960s. Topics include student activism, labor unionism, Marxist movements, and gangsterism (yakuza). Students will engage with political art, photographs, manga, films, reportage, memoirs, autobiographies, interview records, novels, and detective stories.

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied ACE Theoretical ASST East Asia CL: 100 level EAST Supporting HIST Asia
    • HIST  154.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Seungjoo Yoon 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • HIST 220 From Blackface to Blaxploitation: Black History and/in Film 6 credits

    This course focuses on the representation of African American history in popular US-American movies. It will introduce students to the field of visual history, using cinema as a primary source. Through films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the seminar will analyze African American history, (pop-)cultural depictions, and memory culture. We will discuss subjects, narrative arcs, stylistic choices, production design, performative and film industry practices, and historical receptions of movies. The topics include slavery, racial segregation and white supremacy, the Black Freedom Movement, controversies and conflicts in Black communities, Black LGBTQIA+ history, ghettoization and police brutality, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism.

    Extra time

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • ACE Theoretical AFST Humanistic Inquiry AFST Pertinent AFST Survey Course AMST Democracy Activism AMST Survey 2 CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level HIST Modern AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity HIST Africa & Its Diaspora HIST United States
    • HIST  220.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 233 The Byzantine World and Its Neighbors 750-ca. 1453 6 credits

    The Byzantine world (eighth-fifteenth centuries) was a zone of fascinating tensions, exchanges, and encounters. Through a wide variety of written and visual evidence, we will examine key features of its history and culture: the nature of government; piety and religious controversy; art and music; the evolving relations with the Latin West, Armenia, the Slavic North and West, and the Dar al-Islam (the Abbasids and Seljuk and Ottoman Turks); gender; economic life; and social relations.Extra Time for special events and a group project (ecumenical council).

    Extra Time for special events and a group project (ecumenical council).

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning WR2 Writing Requirement 2 CX, Cultural/Literature
    • ACE Theoretical ARCN Pertinent ARTH Pre-1800 CL: 200 level HIST Ancient & Medieval HIST Asia HIST Pre-Modern MARS Core Course MARS Supporting MEST Supporting Group 1 EUST Transnational Support
    • HIST  233.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
    • FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
  • HIST 301 Indigenous Histories at Carleton 6 credits

    Carleton’s new campus land acknowledgement affirms that this is Dakota land, but how did Carleton come to be here? What are the histories of Indigenous faculty, students, and staff at Carleton? In this course, students will investigate Indigenous histories on our campus by conducting original research about how Carleton acquired its landbase, its historic relationships to Dakota and Anishinaabeg people, histories of on-campus activism, the shifting demographics of Native students on campus, and the histories of Indigenous faculty and staff, among others. Students will situate these histories within the broader context of federal Indian policies and Indigenous resistance.

    • Fall 2024
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies No Exploration WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Applied ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism AMST Space and Place CL: 300 level AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity DGAH Cross Disciplinary Collaboration HIST United States
    • HIST  301.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THCMC 210 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • JAPN 206 Japanese in Cultural Context 6 credits

    This course advances students’ proficiency in the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing in Japanese. The course also integrates elements of traditional Japanese civilization and modern Japanese society, emphasizing cultural understanding and situationally appropriate language use.

    • Spring 2025
    • LP Language Requirement No Exploration
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): JAPN 205 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 206 on the Carleton Japanese Placement exam.

    • ACE Applied ACE Theoretical ASST East Asia ASST Language CL: 200 level EAST Supporting
    • JAPN  206.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Miaki Habuka 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 243 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 243 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • PHIL 119 Meaning of Life 6 credits

    Does life have a meaning? To answer this, we will explore various cross-cultural approaches to the meaning of life, both those that affirm meaning and deny it. We will cover, for example, approaches to the meaning of life grounded in divinity, creativity, striving, and more. We will also inquire into related questions about agency: Is fate compatible with meaning in life? Is meaning distinct from happiness? Is meaning a moralized concept? In addition, there will be room for student choice of topics.

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 100 level PHIL Traditions 1 PHIL Value Theory 2
    • PHIL  119.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THWeitz Center 230 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • PHIL 219 American Pragmatism 6 credits

    The class is a survey of this distinctly North American tradition, which understands knowing the world as inseparable from exercising one’s agency within it. We will especially focus on the tradition’s directedness towards various dimensions of social improvement and the notion that philosophy is a tool in the realization of an inclusive American democracy.

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry
    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level PHIL Prac/Value Theory PHIL Social and Political Theory 1 PHIL Traditions 2
    • PHIL  219.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • PHIL 324 The Self 6 credits

    When one is told, “Take good care of yourself!” the reflexive ‘yourself’ refers to both the object and agent of care. What is it, this ‘self’, and how do you take good care of it? This course will discuss historical and contemporary answers to these questions, as well as the related notions of identity, personhood, agency, and self-knowledge. Moreover, some philosophical traditions deny the existence of the self; in their account of living well, what is experiencing the living? Or, if we understand the self as relational, does one need to take care of others to take care of oneself? Finally, if one’s self is socially constructed, how do we change society to avoid its possible disfiguring influences on the self and to enable every self’s flourishing?

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies 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.

    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level PHIL Advanced PHIL Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Mind 2 PHIL Social and Political Theory 1
    • PHIL  324.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Anna Moltchanova 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • POSC 204 Media and Electoral Politics: 2024 United States Election 6 credits

    Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion. Students will conduct a study of the effects of campaign ads and news using our multi-year data set of content analyzed election ads and news. We study a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how political communication affects U.S. elections.

    • Fall 2024
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CAMS Extra Departmental CL: 200 level POSI Elective AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity DGAH Critical Ethical Reflection
    • POSC  204.00 Fall 2024

    • Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
    • Size:28
    • T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • POSC 372 Mansions and Shantytowns: Politics of The Spaces We Live in 6 credits

    This course explores theories about spaces/places and investigates the impact of our physical environment on a broad range of social and political issues. We will look at how parks, monuments, residential communities, and other features of our cities and towns are made, who makes them, and in turn, their effects on our daily lives. Students will engage with important contemporary issues such as residential segregation, public space management, protest policing, etc. Most of the course will focus on urban politics, with a brief foray into rural issues. The goal of this course is to encourage students to think about everyday environmental features in a more systematic and theoretic manner and design social scientific inquiries into spatial issues.

    • Winter 2025
    • IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level POSI Elective
    • POSC  372.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WHasenstab 109 9:50am-11:00am
    • FHasenstab 109 9:40am-10:40am
  • RELG 233 Gender and Power in the Catholic Church 6 credits

    How does power flow and concentrate in the Catholic Church? What are the gendered aspects of the Church’s structure, history, and theology? Through readings, discussions, and analysis of current media, students will develop the ability to critically and empathetically interpret issues of gender, sexuality, and power in the Catholic Church, especially as these issues appear in official Vatican texts. Topics include: God, suffering, sacraments, salvation, damnation, celibacy, homosexuality, the family, saints, the ordination of women as priests, feminist theologies, canon law, the censuring of “heretical” theologians, Catholic hospital policy, and the clerical sex abuse crisis.

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 200 level GWSS Elective MARS Supporting PPOL Public Health RELG Christian Traditions RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  233.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • SOAN 225 Social Movements 6 credits

    How is it that in specific historical moments ordinary people come together and undertake collective struggles for justice in social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Standing Rock, immigrant, and LGBTQ rights? How have these movements theorized oppression, and what has been their vision for liberation? What collective change strategies have they proposed and what obstacles have they faced? We will explore specific case studies and use major sociological perspectives theorizing the emergence of movements, repertoires of protest, collective identity formation, frame alignment, and resource mobilization. We will foreground the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, and class in these movements.

    • Winter 2025
    • IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies SI, Social Inquiry
    • ACE Theoretical AFST Social Inquiry AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level GWSS Elective POSI Elective/Non POSC AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity
    • SOAN  225.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • SOAN 313 Conscious Nature: Towards and Anthropology of Non-Human Beings 6 credits

    The core of anthropological thought has been organized around the assumption that the production of complex cultural systems is reserved to the domain of the human experience. While scholars have contested this assumption for years, there is an emerging body of scholarship that proposes expanding our understandings of culture, and the ability to produce meaning in the world, to include non-human beings (e.g. plants, wildlife, micro-organisms, mountains). This course explores ethnographic works in this field and contextualizes insights within contemporary conversations pertaining to our relationship with nature, public health, and social justice movements that emerge within decolonized frameworks.

    Recommended preparation: SOAN 110 or SOAN 111.

    • Spring 2025
    • IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level ENTS Topical Seminar GWSS Elective LTAM Electives
    • SOAN  313.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
  • SPAN 320 Death and Dying Under Capitalism: An Ecological and Humanistic Perspective 6 credits

    Within the capitalist system, the concept of dying well (Ars moriendi) has progressively lost its collective sense and meaning, relegated instead to the realm of individual responsibility. Simultaneously, the notion of a dignified death has ceased to be an inalienable right for all individuals, becoming contingent upon inherited privileges and access to private resources. Death, transformed into a taboo, coexists with an apocalyptic culture and a state of eco-anxiety stemming from ecological crises and the looming extinction of numerous species, potentially including humans. Some of our guiding questions will be: What implications does dying under capitalist conditions entail? Can cultural representation do more than merely comply with, comment or oppose these scenarios? Our exploration will encompass a diverse array of texts, films, and workshops featuring various guest speakers.

    • Winter 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry IS, International Studies
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): One SPAN course numbered 205 or higher excluding Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better.

    • ACE Applied ACE Theoretical CCST Encounters CL: 300 level SPAN Peninsular Literature
    • SPAN  320.00 Winter 2025

    • Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • SPAN 369 The Carnival Trail: Carnival Literature in Latin America 6 credits

    Carnivals are frequently associated with colourful crowds, merrymaking and excess. But what role do carnivals play in the construction of national and collective identities? We will try to answer this and other questions focusing on films, paintings, and literary texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that represent some of the most popular carnivals in Latin America: Candombe (Uruguay), Yawar Fiesta (Peru), Blacks and Whites (Colombia), Oruro (Bolivia), and Rio (Brazil). We will analyze them from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes literary criticism, anthropology, and history. Students will engage with debates about nation, popular culture, modernity/modernization, and intangible cultural heritage.

    • Spring 2025
    • IS, International Studies SI, Social Inquiry
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): One SPAN course numbered 205 or higher excluding Independent Studies with a grade of C- or better. Not open to students that have taken SPAN 250.

    • ACE Theoretical CL: 300 level LTAM Electives SPAN Latin American Literature
    • SPAN  369.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 335 9:40am-10:40am

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