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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ACE Theoretical · returned 36 results

  • ARCN 111 Archaeology of the Americas 6 credits

    This class will examine how archaeologists know the past, focusing on North and South America. The course is organized by themes including migration (first peopling of the Americas, trans-Atlantic slave trade), early cities (Caral in South America, Teotihuacan in Central America, Cahokia in North America), and the environment (domestication, over hunting). Remember–the past is not something natural and static that waits to be “discovered.” The past changes depending on who gets to tell the story–it is not neutral! Whose past is legitimate? Which voices get heard or ignored? In this course, you will find out!

    • Spring 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
    • LTAM Electives SOAN Pertinent Course Ltam Elective Group 1 MARS Supporting Archaeology Pertinent
    • ARCN  111.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
    • M, WAnderson Hall 122 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • FAnderson Hall 122 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • ARTH 262 Architectural Studies in Europe Program: Community-Engaged Design 3 credits

    In recent years, architects and urban planners have increasingly moved away from the total-design methods that often typified the Modern Movement of architecture in which the master planner oversaw every aspect of design “from the teaspoon to the city.” In its place, many designers have engaged local resources and forms of knowledge rooted in communities as the basis for architecture and urban planning schemes. This course considers case studies in community-based design practices by looking at both the products of such labor as well as the distinct processes that empowered residents to refashion their own surroundings from the ground up.

    Requires participation in OCS Program: Architectural Studies in Europe

    • Winter 2024
    • International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • Participation in Architectural Studies in Europe program

    • Art History Post-1800 Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Arts Arth Post 1900
    • ARTH  262.07 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
    • Size:26
  • CCST 275 I’m A Stranger Here Myself 6 credits

    What do enculturation, tourism, culture shock, “going native,” haptics, cross-cultural adjustment, and third culture kids have in common? How do intercultural transitions shape identity? What is intercultural competence? This course explores theories about intercultural contact and tests their usefulness by applying them to the analysis of world literature, case studies, and the visual arts, and by employing students’ intercultural experiences as evidence. From individualized, self-reflective exercises to community-oriented group endeavors, our activities will promote new intercultural paradigms in the classroom and the wider community. Course designed for off-campus returnees, students who have lived abroad, or who have experienced being outsiders.

    • Winter 2024
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Ccst Princ Cross-Cult Analysis Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Ccst Reflectng Cross-Cult Exp
    • CCST  275.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Éva Pósfay 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 205 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • CLAS 165 Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy 6 credits

    In this course we will explore how the Greeks and Romans conceptualized their own notions of racial difference, and also consider how these concepts have influenced later historical periods, including our own. In doing so, students will be able to identify the difference between the way ancient peoples and modern societies think about race and ethnicity, and demonstrate how contemporary discussions of these topics have been shaped by our encounters with antiquity.

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
    • Classics Core Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • CLAS  165.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • T, THLanguage & Dining Center 205 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • CS 399 Senior Seminar 3 credits

    As part of their senior capstone experience, majors will work together in teams (typically four to seven students per team) on faculty-specified topics to design and implement the first stage of a project. Required of all senior majors.

    • Fall 2023, Winter 2024
    • Senior standing. Students are strongly encouraged to complete Computer Science 252 and Computer Science 257 before starting Computer Science 399.

    • Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl
    • CS  399.01 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
    • Size:8
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • T, THOlin 312 9:15am-10:00am
    • CS  399.02 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
    • Size:8
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • T, THOlin 312 1:15pm-2:15pm
    • CS  399.03 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Eric Alexander 🏫 👤
    • Size:8
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • T, THOlin 312 2:25pm-3:25pm
    • CS  399.04 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Amy Csizmar Dalal 🏫 👤
    • Size:8
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • TOlin 302 9:00am-10:00am
    • CS  399.05 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Amy Csizmar Dalal 🏫 👤
    • Size:12
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • TOlin 302 2:15pm-3:15pm
    • CS  399.08 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Layla Oesper 🏫 👤
    • Size:19
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • M, WOlin 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FOlin 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • 1st 5 weeks, students in this section of CS 399 must also enroll in the fall term section of CS 400-01 which meets during the last 5 weeks of the term

    • CS  399.01 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Jeff Ondich 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • M, WOlin 304 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FOlin 04 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • 1st 5 weeks. Students in this section of CS 399 01 must also enroll in the CS 400 08 24/WI

    • CS  399.02 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Anna Rafferty 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • M, WOlin 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FOlin 04 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • 1st 5 weeks, Students in this section of CS 399 02 must also enroll in CS 400 09 which meets the last 5 weeks of 24/WI

  • 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 2024
    • Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
    • Economics 110 and 111

    • EDUC Cluster 3 Pub Pol&Reform Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Democracy, Society & State 2 Public Policy Core Amst Democracy Activism Class POSI Elective Non POSC subjct Economics Major Elective
    • ECON  270.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
  • EDUC 138 Multicultural Education 6 credits

    This course examines the historical and contemporary issues surrounding the concept of “multicultural education.” The 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 deepen students’ understandings of what it means to live in a multicultural society. Offered at both the 100 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have previously taken a 100- or 200-level Educational Studies course should register for EDUC 338; students who have not taken a previous Educational Studies course should register for EDUC 138.

    Students with prior EDUC courses should register for EDUC 338

    • Fall 2023
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
    • Ed Studies Core Course Africana Stds Social Inquiry Amst Space and Place Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • EDUC  138.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Ryan Oto 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 114 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWillis 114 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • 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. Offered at both the 100 and 300 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly.

    Extra time

    • Fall 2023, Spring 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
    • 100 or 200-level Educational Studies course or instructor permission

    • Ed Studies Core Course Africana Stds Social Inquiry Amst Space and Place Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl
    • EDUC  338.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Ryan Oto 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WWillis 114 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWillis 114 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • EDUC  338.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
  • EDUC 395 Senior Seminar 6 credits

    This is a capstone seminar for educational studies minors. It focuses on a contemporary issue in American education with a different topic each year. Recent seminars have focused on the school to prison pipeline, youth activism, intellectual freedom in schools, and gender and sexuality in education. Senior seminars often incorporate off campus work with public school students and teachers.

    Extra Time required.

    • Spring 2024
    • Educational Studies minor or instructor permission

    • EDUC Senior Seminar Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl
    • EDUC  395.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Anita Chikkatur 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:35pm
  • 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 2023
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
    • Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Amst Democracy Activism Class Amst Prodctn Consmptn Culture
    • ENGL  228.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Pierre Hecker 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLaird 205 10:10am-11:55am
  • ENTS 215 Environmental Ethics 6 credits

    This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought. It investigates such questions as whether we can have moral duties towards animals, ecosystems, or future generations; what is the ethical basis for wilderness preservation; and what is the relationship between environmentalism and social justice. The Academic Civic Engagement aspect of the course for Spring 2024 will involve beaver monitoring in the Arb and participation in planning the BeaverFest campus and community event in May.

    • Fall 2023, Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry
    • ENTS2 Sci, Cul, Pol Pub Pol Env Pol & Sustainablty Public Policy Ethics Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • ENTS  215.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • ENTS  215.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • ENTS 249 Troubled Waters 6 credits

    This course considers the contrast between the ways various religions conceive of water as sacred, and the fact that today’s intersecting environmental crises mean that drought, flooding, sea level rise, and lack of access to clean water and safe sanitation have made the human relationship with water more fraught and complex than ever before. We will look at specific situations of environmental injustice (including Flint, Michigan; Jackson, Mississippi; and the protests at Standing Rock) as well as reading more theoretical and theological takes on water, water justice, and water activism.

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • ENTS2 Sci, Cul, Pol RELG Pertinent Course Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • ENTS  249.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • ENTS 288 Abrupt Climate Change 6 credits

    Abrupt climate change is very fast change related to “tipping points” and threshold crossings. Such change is evident in historical climate records going back millions of years. Includes interpretation of historical paleoclimate data and proxy measurement methods, evolving theories for abrupt change, the role of complex earth systems processes, and trends in global climate change today. Link to human concerns will be made by exploring several case studies on past human civilizations affected by abrupt climate change. Includes a final project on the emerging science of abrupt climate change.

    • Spring 2024
    • Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
    • Biology 125 or 126, or Chemistry 123 or 128 or any 100-level Geology, or Physics (two five-week courses or one ten week course from 131 through 165)

    • ENTS2 Environ Science Pub Pol Env Pol & Sustainablty
    • ENTS  288.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Trish Ferrett 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • HIST 126 African American History II 6 credits

    This course analyzes Black Freedom activism, its goals, and protagonists from Reconstruction until today. Topics include the evolution of racial segregation and its legal and de facto expressions in the South and across the nation, the Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance, Black activism in the New Deal era, the effects of World War II and the Cold War, mass activism in the 1950s and 1960s, white supremacist resistance against Black rights, Black Power activism and Black Internationalism, the “War on Drugs,” racialized welfare state reforms, and police brutality, the election of Barack Obama, and the path to #BlackLivesMatter today.

    • Winter 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • EDUC Cluster 2 Soc & Culture American Music Foundations HIST Africa & Diaspora AMST 2 Term Survey AMST Group II Topical Africana Studies Survey Course Amst Democracy Activism Class Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Amst Space and Place History Modern HIST US History Africana Studies Pertinent
    • HIST  126.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • T, THLeighton 330 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.

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • HIST US History History Modern American Music Group 3 Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Amst Prodctn Consmptn Culture Amst Democracy Activism Class Global Dev & Sustainability 2 HIST Africa & Diaspora Africana Studies Humanistic in Africana Studies Survey Course Africana Studies Pertinent CAMS Elective
    • HIST  220.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 226 U.S. Consumer Culture 6 credits

    In the period after 1880, the growth of a mass consumer society recast issues of identity, gender, race, class, family, and political life. We will explore the development of consumer culture through such topics as advertising and mass media, the body and sexuality, consumerist politics in the labor movement, and the response to the Americanization of consumption abroad. We will read contemporary critics such as Thorstein Veblen, as well as historians engaged in weighing the possibilities of abundance against the growth of corporate power.

    • Fall 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
    • American Music Group 3 HIST US History Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl History Modern Amst Prodctn Consmptn Culture Amst Democracy Activism Class Global Dev & Sustainability 2 POSI Elective Non POSC subjct
    • HIST  226.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 202 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • HIST 235 Making and Breaking Institutions: Structure, Culture, Corruption, and Reform in the Middle Ages 6 credits

    From churches and monasteries to universities, guilds, governmental administrations, the medieval world was full of institutions. They emerged, by accident or design, to do particular kinds of work and to benefit particular persons or groups. These institutions faced hard questions like those we ask of our institutions today: How best to structure, distribute, and control power and authority? What is the place of the institution in the wider world? How is a collective identity and ethos achieved, maintained, or transformed? Where does corruption come from and how can institutions be reformed? This course will explore these questions through discussion of case studies and primary sources from the medieval world as well as theoretical studies of these topics.

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
    • HIST Ancient & Medvl MARS Core Course MARS Supporting Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl POSI Elective Non POSC subjct RELG Pertinent Course EUST transnatl supporting crs
    • HIST  235.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 304 8:30am-9:40am
    • FLeighton 304 8:30am-9:30am
  • HIST 284 History, Culture, and Commerce Africa and Arabia Program: Heritage in Africa and Arabia 4 credits

    Through lectures, readings, and visits to museums and archaeological and other heritage sites, this course examines the rich cultural heritage of East Africa and Arabia. Students will investigate a range of sites, reflecting on the deep and enduring connections between Africa’s and Arabia’s historical trading systems and cultures. The course also examines the influence of various European powers.

    Requires participation in OCS Program: History, Culture, and Commerce: Africa and Arabia

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
    • 100 or 200 level Africana Studies or History course and participation in OCS program

    • Africana Studies Survey Course Africana Studies Humanistic in Middle East Supporting Group 1 HIST Asia HIST Africa & Diaspora History Modern Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • HIST  284.07 Spring 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
  • 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.

    • Spring 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
    • HIST US History Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl Amst Space and Place Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Amst Democracy Activism Class
    • HIST  301.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Meredith McCoy 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
  • HIST 335 Finding Ireland’s Past 6 credits

    How do historians find and use evidence of Ireland’s history? Starting with an exploration of castle archaeology and digital reconstruction, and ending with a unit on folklore and oral history collections from the early twentieth century, the first half of the course takes students through a series of themes and events in Irish history. During the second half of the course, students will pursue independent research topics to practice skills in historical methods, and will complete either a seminar paper or a digital project.

    • Fall 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
    • History Modern HIST Early Mdrn Europe MARS Supporting EUST Country Specific Course Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl History Atlantic World History Environment and Health Polisci/Ir Elective MARS Capstone Dig Art&Hum XDisc Collaboratn
    • HIST  335.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Susannah Ottaway 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
    • T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
  • IDSC 203 Talking about Diversity 6 credits

    This course prepares students to facilitate peer-led conversations about diversity in the Critical Conversations Program. Students learn about categories and theories related to social identity, power, and inequality, and explore how identities including race, gender, class, and sexual orientation affect individual experience and communal structures. Students engage in experiential exercises that invite them to reflect on their own social identities and their reactions to difference, diversity, and conflict. Students are required to keep a weekly journal and to participate in class leadership. Participants in this class may apply to facilitate sections of IDSC 103, a 2-credit student-led course in winter term.

    Application required, Only students with instructors consent allowed to register

    • Fall 2023
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • Studies in Ethics GWSS Additional Credits EDUC Cluster 2 Soc & Culture Ccst Reflectng Cross-Cult Exp GWSS Elective
    • IDSC  203.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤 · Trey Williams 🏫 👤
    • Size:8
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • IDSC 285 Ethics of Civic Engagement 3 credits

    This course explores vexing ethical questions raised in academic civic engagement practice. With structured reflection on students’ varied civic engagement experiences and a group project aligned with the instructor’s work, students will consider questions arising from asymmetries of power, the relationships between scholarship and advocacy, scholarly and community knowledges, empathy with others and a student’s own moral commitments, and practices of civic engagement and community organizing. Offered biennially by rotating faculty, course themes will vary accordingly. The 2023 theme is Indigenous engagement in Minnesota.

    Extra time with community partner, flexibly scheduled

    • Fall 2023
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • IDSC  285.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • THLeighton 330 3:15pm-4:55pm
  • MUSC 126 America’s Music 6 credits

    A survey of American music with particular attention to the interaction of the folk, popular, and classical realms. No musical experience required.

    • Winter 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
    • American Music Gateway AMST 1 Term Survey Africana Stds Literary/Artisti Amst Prodctn Consmptn Culture Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit American Studies Survey 1 Amst Democracy Activism Class Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • MUSC  126.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • MUSC 339 Music and Humanitarianism 6 credits

    Can music be a form of international aid? How do humanitarian interventions inform musical encounters? This course approaches these questions by considering the ethical and political ambivalence of humanitarian projects in global perspective. As we will explore, musicians navigate this ambivalence when performing in televised fundraisers and music festivals, alongside international NGO programs, and throughout their own experiences of displacement. We will study musical recordings, film, and critical readings in order to discover how music offers multi-sensory perspectives for engaging with the anthropology of humanitarianism and Critical Refugee Studies.

    • Winter 2024
    • International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
    • Amst America in the World Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • MUSC  339.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty: Staff
    • Size:15
    • T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
  • PHIL 119 Meaning of Life 6 credits

    Does life have a meaning? To answer this, we will first inquire into more basic questions about agency that provide a foundation for our topic: Is everything fated? Is fate compatible with free will? Is happiness in our control? After developing your ideas on the answers to those questions, we will turn to various approaches to meaning in life, both those that affirm meaning and deny it. We will cover, for example, approaches to the meaning of life grounded in narrative, divinity, creativity, and more.

    • Winter 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
    • PHIL  119.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THCMC 209 10:10am-11:55am
  • PHIL 304 Decolonial Feminisms 6 credits

    This course familiarizes students with major issues and debates within the emerging field of decolonial feminist philosophy. We will start by considering some of the historical, geopolitical, and theoretical underpinnings from which decolonial feminisms emerged. We will then investigate core concepts and problems pertaining to decolonial feminisms as a critical methodology and as a practice to build solidarity between and across anti-racist, anti-colonial, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist schools of thought and/or political coalitions. We will pay particular attention to Latina feminist philosopher María Lugones and her development of the “colonial modern gender system” and her articulation of “decolonial feminism.”

    • Spring 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
    • One prior course in Philosophy or a relevant area of studies or permission of the instructor.

    • Philosophy Advanced Philosophy Prac/Value Theory GWSS Elective Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Amst America in the World Amst Space and Place Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl LTAM Electives
    • PHIL  304.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • POSC 120 Democracy and Dictatorship 6 credits

    An introduction to the array of different democratic and authoritarian political institutions in both developing and developed countries. We will also explore key issues in contemporary politics in countries around the world, such as nationalism and independence movements, revolution, regime change, state-making, and social movements.

    • Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
    • International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
    • EUST transnatl supporting crs Ccst Princ Cross-Cult Analysis SAST Supprtng Social Inquiry East Asian Supporting LTAM Electives
    • POSC  120.00 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 305 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FLeighton 305 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • Sophomore Priority

    • POSC  120.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WCMC 301 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FCMC 301 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • Sophomore Priority

    • POSC  120.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
    • FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
    • Sophomore Priority

  • POSC 232 PS Lab: Public Policy Analysis 3 credits

    How do we read news reports, government documents, and follow policy debates? How do we understand public policy process and outcomes? How do we evaluate governmental and non-governmental policies that affect provision and production of public goods? How do we conduct benefit and cost analysis of a public policy? Students will learn how to conduct archival document research, benefit-cost analysis, and public policy analysis.

    • Spring 2024
    • Social Inquiry
    • POSI Methods Sequence Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • POSC  232.02 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • WHasenstab 002 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • POSC 288 Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C., Program: Global Politics & Pub Policy in Washington DC 6 credits

    Students will participate in a seminar centered around meetings with experts in areas of global politics and policy. Over the course of the term they will collaborate in groups to produce a presentation exploring the political dimensions of public policy with a focus on how problem identification, institutional capacity, and stakeholder interests combine to shape policy options.

    Requires participation in OCS Program: Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C.

    • Winter 2024
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Mathematics 215, Statistics 120 or other statistics courses and participation in Washington DC OCS program

    • Democracy, Society & State Democracy, Society & State 2 POSI Elective Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Pub Pol Other Comparative
    • POSC  288.07 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • POSC 289 Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C., Program: Politics & Public Policy in Washington DC 6 credits

    Students will participate in a seminar centered around meetings with experts in areas of U.S. politics and policy. Over the course of the term they will collaborate in groups to produce a presentation exploring the political dimensions of public policy with a focus on how problem identification, institutional capacity, and stakeholder interests combine to shape policy options.

    Requires participation in OCS Program: Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C.

    • Winter 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
    • Mathematics 215, Statistics 120 or other statistics course and participation in Washington DC OCS program

    • Leadership, Peace, Security 2 Polisci/Ir Elective Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • POSC  289.07 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
  • 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 2024
    • Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
    • RELG Christian Traditions MARS Supporting GWSS Additional Credits Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl Pub Pol Public Health GWSS Elective RELG Pertinent Course
    • RELG  233.00 Winter 2024

    • Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • 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.

    • Spring 2024
    • Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
    • American Music Group 3 Democracy, Society & State 2 Africana Stds Social Inquiry Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Amst Democracy Activism Class GWSS Elective GWSS Additional Credits Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl POSI Elective Non POSC subjct
    • SOAN  225.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
  • SOAN 228 Public Sociology of Religion 6 credits

    This course focuses on special topics in the public sociology of religion. We will look at the intersection of race, religion, and politics in the U.S.; the intersection of science and religion in Indigenous-led environmental movements; and varieties of public religion around the world—including Islamic feminism and democracy in Egypt and Indonesia, Coptic Christianity and the Muslim Brotherhood, orthodox Jewish movements in Israel, American evangelicals in the U.S., and Black church mobilization in the U.S. civil rights movement. As we do so, we will examine core theoretical perspectives and empirical developments in the contemporary sociology of religion.

    • Spring 2024
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • The department recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses number 200 or above

    • RELG Pertinent Course
    • SOAN  228.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Wes Markofski 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • SPAN 250 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 2024
    • International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • Spanish 204 or the equivalent

    • Spanish 220-290 LTAM Electives Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • SPAN  250.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Ingrid Luna 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FLanguage & Dining Center 244 2:20pm-3:20pm
  • SPAN 319 Works on Work: Films and Literature on Labor in Latin America 6 credits

    This course studies the cultural representation of labor in Latin America. It focuses on the racial division of labor over the colonial, industrial, and neoliberal periods. We will analyze a wide range of visual and literary representations of Native, Black and women workers under the Encomienda labor system; peonages during the period of independence and specific national contexts (i.e. rubber tapper); industrial workers throughout the twentieth century (blue-collar workers); as well as the role of unemployment and precarized labor within the context of globalization.

    • Spring 2024
    • International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
    • Spanish 205 or above

    • Latin Americal Literature LTAM 300 Level Lit Courses LTAM Electives Ltam Elective Group 1
    • SPAN  319.00 Spring 2024

    • Faculty:Héctor Melo Ruiz 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 231 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 231 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • SPAN 347 Spanish Studies in Madrid Program: Welcome to the Spanish Revolution. From the “Spanish Miracle” to the “Indignant Movement” (1940-2021) 6 credits

    When we travel to another country are we tourists or travelers? What are our expectations when traveling? How do we get to know a place, its people, and culture? In this course we will walk through the history of some of the most important cultural and historical landmarks that mark the different transitions that Spain has gone through. We will become travelers who read, think, observe, and reflect upon political, cultural, and social questions connected to each text we read and every place we visit. This program includes several workshops with guest speakers, and significant contact with social collectives and communities in Spain.

    Requires participation in OCS Program: Spanish Studies in Madrid

    • Fall 2023
    • International Studies Social Inquiry
    • Spanish 205 and participation in OCS Madrid Program

    • Spanish Peninsular Literature Acad Cvc Engmnt/Theortcl
    • SPAN  347.07 Fall 2023

    • Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
    • Size:25

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