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Your search for courses · during 25SP · tagged with ACE Theoretical · returned 12 results

  • 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 Rich 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 Rich 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
  • 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 Rich 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
  • 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 Rich 2
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 110 with a grade of C- or better or ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) with a grade of B 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 ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) with a grade of B 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 Required: For field trips and campus events.

    • 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
    • Extra time

  • 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 Rich 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
  • 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 Required

    • 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
  • 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
    • 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.

    Sophomore Priority

    • Spring 2025
    • HI, Humanistic Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 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
  • 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 Rich 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 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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