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AFST 100 Gender and Sex in African History 6 credits
This course looks at the ways that Africanist historians, art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have examined gender and sexualities in selected cases on the African continent. Students will study the complexities of gender and sexual experiences, practices, identities, and communities within various historical and cultural contexts.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2020, Fall 2021
- Argument and Inquiry Seminar International Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 100.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:14
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:00pm
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AFST 100.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:16
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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AFST 215 Contemporary Theory in Black Studies 6 credits
This course examines the work of a major theorist in the Black intellectual tradition within the last seventy years. Students are invited to take a dedicated dive into primary scholarship by focusing on a figure such as bell hooks, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis, Charles Mills, Saidiya Hartman, Frank Wilderson, Maya Angelou, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and/or Cornel West. Students should expect an opportunity to examine primary scholarship and build analytical skills to trace themes and methods. This year’s focus will be on ethical, social, and political theory of bell hooks (1952 – 2021).
- Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 215.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AFST 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AMST 225 Beauty and Race in America 6 credits
In this class we consider the construction of American beauty historically, examining the way whiteness intersects with beauty to produce a dominant model that marginalizes women of color. We study how communities of color follow, refuse, or revise these beauty ideals through literature. We explore events like the beauty pageant, material culture such as cosmetics, places like the beauty salon, and body work like cosmetic surgery to understand how beauty is produced and negotiated.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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AMST 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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AMST 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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AMST 396 Producing Latinidad 6 credits
As Arlene Dávila points out in Latinos Inc, Latinidad—the term that names a set of presumably common attributes that connects Latinxs in the U.S.—emerges in part from communities but, importantly, is developed heavily by the media, advertising, and other political and social institutions, including academia. In this course we consider how ideas and imaginings of who Latinxs are and what Latinidad is develop within political spaces (the electorate, the census), in local places, and through various media, including television, advertising, and music. We will consider how individual writers and artists contribute to the conversation. Throughout, we will engage with social and cultural theories about racial formation, gender, and sexuality.
- Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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American Studies 115 or instructor consent
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ARTH 214 Queer Art 6 credits
Beyond surveying the rich history of arts by LGBTQA+ individuals, this course takes as its object of study the ways in which the arts have been used to question, undermine, and subvert the gendered and sexual norms of dominant cultures—in short, to queer them. In so doing, such visual and performative practices offer new, alternative models of living and acting in the world based on liberatory politics and aesthetics. This course will consider topics such as: censorship of queer artists; art of the AIDS crisis; activist performance; the sexual politics of public space; and queer intersections of race, class and gender in visual art among others.
Extra time
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Any one art history course
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ARTH 214.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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ARTH 214.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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ARTH 220 The Origins of Manga: Japanese Prints 6 credits
Pictures of the floating world, or ukiyoe, were an integral part of popular culture in Japan and functioned as illustrations, advertisements, and souvenirs. This course will examine the development of both style and subject matter in Japanese prints within the socio-economic context of the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on the prominent position of women and the nature of gendered activity in these prints.
- Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ARTH 220.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 220.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 10:00am-11:10am
- FBoliou 104 9:50am-10:50am
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ARTH 220.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FBoliou 161 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ARTH 240 Art Since 1945 6 credits
Art from abstract expressionism to the present, with particular focus on issues such as the modernist artist-hero; the emergence of alternative or non-traditional media; the influence of the women’s movement and the gay/lesbian liberation movement on contemporary art; and postmodern theory and practice.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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Any one term of art history
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ARTH 240.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 10:10am-11:55am
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 104 11:30am-12:40pm
- FBoliou 104 11:10am-12:10pm
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ARTH 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Ross Elfline 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WBoliou 161 11:10am-12:20pm
- FBoliou 161 12:00pm-1:00pm
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BIOL 101 Human Reproduction and Sexuality 6 credits
The myths surrounding human reproduction and sexuality may out weigh our collective knowledge and understanding. This course will review the basic biology of all aspects of reproduction–from genes to behavior–in an attempt to better understand one of the more basic and important processes in nature. Topics will vary widely and will be generated in part by student interest. A sample of topics might include: hormones, PMS, fertilization, pregnancy, arousal, attraction, the evolution of the orgasm, and the biology of sexuality.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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BIOL 101.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 133 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 101.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 101.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THHulings 310 1:45pm-3:30pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 101.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHulings 316 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 101.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHulings 316 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 101.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Matt Rand 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THHulings 316 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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CAMS 225 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream 6 credits
After Americans grasped the enormity of the Depression and World War II, the glossy fantasies of 1930s cinema seemed hollow indeed. During the 1940s, the movies, our true national pastime, took a nosedive into pessimism. The result? A collection of exceptional films chocked full of tough guys and bad women lurking in the shadows of nasty urban landscapes. This course focuses on classic as well as neo-noir from a variety of perspectives, including genre and mode, visual style and narrative structure, postwar culture and politics, and gender and race.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:28
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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CAMS 225.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:15pm-3:00pm
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CAMS 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Carol Donelan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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CAMS 258 Feminist and Queer Media 6 credits
The focus of this course is on spectatorship—feminist, lesbian, queer, transgender. The seminar interrogates arguments about representation and the viewer’s relationship to the moving image in terms of identification, desire, masquerade, fantasy, power, time, and embodied experience. The course first explores the founding essays of psychoanalytic feminist film theory, putting these ideas into dialogue with mainstream cinema. Second, we consider the aesthetic, narrative, and theoretical interventions posed by feminist filmmakers working in contradistinction to Hollywood. Third, “queering” contemporary media, we survey challenges and revisions to feminist film theory presented by considerations of race and ethnicity, transgender experience, and queerness.
- Spring 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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CAMS 258.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time required, evening screenings
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CAMS 258.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Candace Moore 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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DANC 266 Reading The Dancing Body: Topics in Dance History 6 credits
This course will look at dance as a field in which bodies articulate a history of sexuality, nation, gender, and race. Students will survey a range of dance forms in the United States and indigenous communities of the Americas as well as the Caribbean, South Asia, and South Africa. Specific explorations will include classical Indian dance, Native American performance, jazz, contact improvisation, and Hip-Hop performance. Through reading comprehension, written reflections and analyses, classroom dialogue, and oral presentation work, we will outline dance history in terms of anti-colonial and civil rights movements from Modernism through Post-Modernism—that is, from the imperialism at the dawn of the twentieth century to current late-capitalism. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary methodologies in dance studies by learning to: conduct dance analysis in their accounts for gesture and social context; theorize according to the intersection of multiple social categories; and write autoethnographies or critical inquiries into personal experience.
- Spring 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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DANC 266.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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DANC 266.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
- M, WWeitz Center 215 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 215 2:20pm-3:20pm
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DANC 266.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
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DANC 266.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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DANC 266.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 168 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 165 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 257 Economics of Gender 6 credits
This course uses economic theory and empirical evidence to examine gender differentials in education, marriage, fertility, earnings, labor market participation, occupational choice, and household work. Trends and patterns in gender-based outcomes will be examined across time, across countries, and within socio-economic groups, using empirical evidence from both historical and recent research. The impact of government and firm policies on gender outcomes will also be examined. By the end of the course, students will be able to utilize the most common economic tools in the study of gender inequality, as well as understand their strengths and weaknesses.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 257.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 257.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 257.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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ECON 257.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 257.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 257.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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ENGL 217 A Novel Education 6 credits
Samuel Johnson declared novels to be “written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and introductions into life.” This course will explore what kinds of education the novel offered its readers during a time when fiction was considered a source of valuable lessons and a vehicle for corruption. We will read a selection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, considering how they engage with contemporary educational theories, notions of male and female conduct, and concerns about the didactic and imaginative possibilities of fiction. Authors include Richardson, Lennox, Austen, Edgeworth, and Dickens.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 218 The Gothic Spirit 6 credits
The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the rise of the Gothic, a genre populated by brooding hero-villains, vulnerable virgins, mad monks, ghosts, and monsters. In this course, we will examine the conventions and concerns of the Gothic, addressing its preoccupation with terror, sex, and the supernatural. As we situate this genre within its literary and historical context, we will consider its relationship to realism and Romanticism, and we will explore how it reflects the political and cultural anxieties of the age. Authors include Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen, M. Shelley, and E. Bronte.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 218.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jessica Leiman 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ENGL 227 Imagining the Borderlands 6 credits
This course engages the borderlands as space (the geographic area that straddles nations) and idea (liminal spaces, identities, communities). We examine texts from writers like Anzaldúa, Butler, Cervantes, Dick, Eugenides, Haraway, and Muñoz first to understand how borders act to constrain our imagi(nation) and then to explore how and to what degree the borderlands offer hybrid identities, queer affects, and speculative world-building. We will engage the excess of the borderlands through a broad chronological and generic range of U.S. literary and visual texts. Come prepared to question what is “American”, what is race, what is human.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Adriana Estill 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 230 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENGL 319 The Rise of the Novel 6 credits
A study of the origin and development of the English novel throughout the long eighteenth century. We will situate the early novel within its historical and cultural context, paying particular attention to its concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. We will also consider eighteenth-century debates about the social function of novels and the dangers of reading fiction. Authors include Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Walpole, and Austen.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one other six credit English course
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ENGL 327 Victorian Novel 6 credits
We will study selected British novels of the nineteenth century (Eliot’s Middlemarch, Dickens’ Bleak House, Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Du Maurier’s Trilby, C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre, and E. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights) as literary texts and cultural objects, examining the prose and also the bindings, pages, and illustrations of Victorian and contemporary editions. Using Victorian serial publications as models, and in collaboration with studio art and art history students, students will design and create short illustrated serial editions of chapters that will be exhibited in spring term.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course or instructor consent
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ENGL 327.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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ENGL 327.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Susan Jaret McKinstry 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 235 The Human Body in the Francophone World 6 credits
What can a body do? How does it mean? Cultural attitudes elicit distinct responses to this question, and French-speaking cultures in France, North Africa, and West Africa produce particular responses, as do gendered and differently abled bodies. At the same time, isn’t every body like every other body, but different? Through literature, cultural readings, podcasts, and film, this course will examine various aspects of the human body in francophone culture, including gender, athletics, manual labor, artistic expression, sexuality, dance, and “personal development.” Taught in French.
- Winter 2022
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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French 204 or the equivalent
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FREN 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 347 Gender and Sexuality in the Francophone World 6 credits
From Marie/Germain Garnier, an early modern trans figure, to the contemporary singer of Christine and the Queens (aka “Chris”), from Senghor’s “Femme noire” to Sylvie Chalaye’s “Corps marron” [brown body], conceptions of gender and sexuality are essential to the study of francophone cultures. We will explore examples of historical and contemporary manifestations of gender and sexuality in France, francophone Africa, Lebanon, and Québec. “GPS” (Genre, Politique, Sexualité), including the intersectional questions of race and class in context, will be analyzed through novels, films, graphic novels, sociological studies, poetry, and music. Conducted in French.
- Fall 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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One course beyond French 204 or instructor permission
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FREN 347.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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FREN 347.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Cathy Yandell 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 205 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 205 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GERM 221 (re/ex)press yourself: Sexuality and Gender in Fin-de-Siècle Literature and Art 6 credits
This course explores German and Austrian literature and art of the turn of the century (c. 1880-1920) with a focus on the topics of sexuality and gender. We will read, among others, Freud, Schnitzler, Wedekind, Hofmannsthal; study artists such as Klimt and Kokoschka; and listen to composers such as Mahler, Zemlinksy, and Schoenberg. Texts and class discussions will be in English.
In Translation
- Spring 2018, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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GERM 221.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GERM 221.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Juliane Schicker 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 244 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 150 Working Sex: Commercial Sexual Cultures 6 credits
Why is the sale of sex criminalized? Who participates in sexual labor and for what reasons? What are the goals and tactics of sex worker social movements? Sexual commerce is an integral facet of U.S. society and the global economy, and yet it elicits strong and paradoxical reactions. This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of commercial sexual cultures. Taking a transnational approach, we will examine historical, political, and economic changes in sexual economies and the regulation of commercial sex. Course readings explore how sex workers have collectively organized to resist criminalization and fight for a better future.
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GWSS 150.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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GWSS 200 Gender, Sexuality & the Pursuit of Knowledge 6 credits
In this course we will examine whether there are feminist and/or queer ways of knowing, the criteria by which knowledge is classified as feminist and the various methods used by feminist and queer scholars to produce this knowledge. Some questions that will occupy us are: How do we know what we know? Who does research? Does it matter who the researcher is? How does the social location (race, class, gender, sexuality) of the researcher affect research? Who is the research for? What is the relationship between knowledge, power and social justice? While answering these questions, we will consider how different feminist and queer studies researchers have dealt with them.
- Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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GWSS 200.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 243 Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe Program: Situated Feminisms: Socio-Political Systems and Gender Issues Across Europe 7-8 credits
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.
OCS GEP GWSS Program in Europe
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the WGST Europe OCS Program required
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GWSS 244 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Cross-Cultural Feminist Methodologies 7-8 credits
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.
OCS GEP GWSS Program in Europe
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance into the WGST Europe OCS Program required
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GWSS 250 Politics of Reproductive Justice 6 credits
Feminist mobilization around reproductive rights in the US has changed in its focus and intensity over the past 50 years. Black American and other transnational feminists have argued about the necessity of distinguishing between reproductive rights and reproductive justice. How has this argument impacted the ideology and collective-change strategies of different feminist communities mobilizing for reproductive rights? What collective-change strategies have they proposed and what obstacles have they faced? This course has a major civic engagement component that requires students to work with feminist non-profit organizations in and around Northfield or in the greater Twin Cities area.
Extra Time
- Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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GWSS 250.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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GWSS 265 Black Feminist Thought 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to thirty years of black feminist politics, writing, social and cultural analysis, and research. This course begins with a sketch of contemporary thinking about blackness by noted scholars who illuminate the relationship between blackness, black life, systems of sex/gender, biopolitics, and black/queer feminist knowledge production. We go on to historicize the formation of black feminism as a dynamic and fluid area of study within and across the humanities and social sciences. The history of black feminist thought presented in black women’s studies as an inherently decolonial and transformative praxis that centers intellectual radicalism both inside and outside of the academy.
- Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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GWSS 265.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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GWSS 289 Pleasure, Intimacy, Violence 6 credits
This is an interdisciplinary course that explores how pleasure, intimacy, and violence are shaped by historic and ongoing processes of inequality in the United States. We will explore how our understandings of sexuality are influenced by discourses and practices of race and race-making in the U.S. by focusing on the relationship between micro-level (interpersonal) and macro-level (societal) violence. The topics of rape, family violence, and intimate partner violence will be examined from a structural vantage point, emphasizing the mutually constituting roles of gender, race, class, and nationality. The concepts of “pleasure” and “enjoyment” are foregrounded throughout the course.
- Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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GWSS 289.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 325 Women’s & Gender Studies in Europe Program: Continental Feminist, Queer, Trans* Theories 7-8 credits
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.
OCS GEP GWSS Program
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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Acceptance to WGST Europe OCS Program
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HIST 122 U.S. Women’s History to 1877 6 credits
Gender, race, and class shaped women’s participation in the arenas of work, family life, culture, and politics in the United States from the colonial period to the late nineteenth century. We will examine diverse women’s experiences of colonization, industrialization, slavery and Reconstruction, religion, sexuality and reproduction, and social reform. Readings will include both primary and secondary sources, as well as historiographic articles outlining major frameworks and debates in the field of women’s history.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 122.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 123 U.S. Women’s History Since 1877 6 credits
In the twentieth century women participated in the redefinition of politics and the state, sexuality and family life, and work and leisure as the United States became a modern, largely urban society. We will explore how the dimensions of race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality shaped diverse women’s experiences of these historical changes. Topics will include: immigration, the expansion of the welfare system and the consumer economy, labor force segmentation and the world wars, and women’s activism in civil rights, labor, peace and feminist movements.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 123.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 218 Black Women’s History 6 credits
This course focuses on the history of black women in the United States. The class will offer an overview of the lived experiences of women of African descent in this country from enslavement to the present. We will focus on themes of labor, reproduction, health, community, family, resistance, activism, etc., highlighting the diversity of black women’s experiences and the ways in which their lives have been shaped by the intersections of their race, gender, sexuality, and class.
- Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 218.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 319 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 218.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Rebecca Brueckmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 229 Working with Gender in U.S. History 6 credits
Historically work has been a central location for the constitution of gender identities for both men and women; at the same time, cultural notions of gender have shaped the labor market. We will investigate the roles of race, class, and ethnicity in shaping multiple sexual divisions of labor and the ways in which terms such as skill, bread-winning and work itself were gendered. Topics will include domestic labor, slavery, industrialization, labor market segmentation, protective legislation, and the labor movement.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 229.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 303 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 229.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 229.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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HIST 229.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 236 The Worlds of Hildegard of Bingen 6 credits
Author, composer, artist, abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) used words, images and sound to share unique mystical experiences with her community and the broader world. At the same time, developments in Christian-Jewish relations, church-state relations, and the arts made the Holy Roman Empire a dynamic environment for religious, cultural, and political innovation. Through close examination of Hildegard’s works (writings, images, and music) and her contemporaries informed by current scholarship, we will investigate this period of creativity, conflict, and possibility, especially for women. Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections.
Extra time relates to a collaboration with the early music ensemble Sequentia and work with Carleton Special Collections
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HIST 236.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 270 Nuclear Nations: India and Pakistan as Rival Siblings 6 credits
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 India and Pakistan, two new nation states emerged from the shadow of British colonialism. This course focuses on the political trajectories of these two rival siblings and looks at the ways in which both states use the other to forge antagonistic and belligerent nations. While this is a survey course it is not a comprehensive overview of the history of the two countries. Instead it covers some of the more significant moments of rupture and violence in the political history of the two states. The first two-thirds of the course offers a top-down, macro overview of these events and processes whereas the last third examines the ways in which people experienced these developments. We use the lens of gender to see how the physical body, especially the body of the woman, is central to the process of nation building. We will consider how women’s bodies become sites of contestation and how they are disciplined and policed by the postcolonial state(s).
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 270.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Amna Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 202 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 202 1:10pm-2:10pm
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HIST 289 Gender and Ethics in Late Medieval France 3 credits
Acknowledged by contemporaries as one of the leading intellects of her time, Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1431) was an author of unusual literary range, resilience, and perceptiveness. In addition to composing romances, poetry, quasi-autobiographical works, royal biography, and political theory, she became one of the most articulate critics of the patriarchy and misogyny of her world and a critical voice in defense of female capability. Using Christine’s writings along with other contemporary documents as a foundation, we will explore perceptions of gender, the analysis and resistance to misogyny, the ethics love and personal relations, and the exercise of patriarchal power (and resistance to it) in domestic and public spheres in late medieval France.
- Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 289.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:William North 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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 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 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies
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IDSC 203.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 330 3:10pm-4:55pm
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IDSC 203.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 132 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:45pm-3:30pm
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IDSC 203.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤 · Trey Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 114 Philosophy of Love and Sex 6 credits
This course is an examination of theories and attitudes concerning love and sexuality that have been prevalent in the Western world. We will explore philosophical and theological conceptions of sex and love and ethical issues related to these topics (including monogamy, same-sex marriage, cultural differences, pornography, and consent.) The course will focus on contemporary U.S. beliefs and practices examined through the lens of the different beliefs and practices concerning intimacy within the cultures of the U.S. The lens of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation will be ongoing themes of the class and included in all topics.
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry
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PHIL 114.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Cynthia Marrero-Ramos 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PHIL 257 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Philosophy 6 credits
This course provides a survey of contemporary issues in feminist philosophy as well as a selection of feminist theories of gender. For the latter, we will cover intersectional theory, narrative theory, and feminist theories of embodiment, among others. For the former, we will attempt to answer the following kinds of questions in this course: How does feminism interact with nationalism? How do categories of gender, sex, sexuality, race, nationality, and class affect our willingness to attribute knowledge or epistemic authority to others? How does the application of these categories affect our awareness of the social spaces that we inhabit? How do we know our sexual orientation? What is oppression? Should gender impact custody decisions? How does the criminal justice system reinforce structures of oppression? This course will ask students to analyze feminist arguments that support diverse answers to these questions and more.
- Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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PHIL 257.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PHIL 257.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Hope Sample 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 276 Imagination in Politics 6 credits
The course explores the bipolarity of imagination, the fact that imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in contemporary politics. The main focus of the course is the capacity literature and film have to either increase the autonomous capacity of individuals to engage culture and language in a creative and interactive manner in the construction of their identities, or in a direction that increases their fascination with images and myths and, consequently, the escapist desire to pull these out of the living dialogue with others.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 280 Feminist Security Studies 6 credits
Feminist security studies question and challenge traditional approaches to international relations and security, highlighting the myriad ways that state security practices can actually increase insecurity for many people. How and why does this security paradox exist and how do we escape it? In this class, we will explore the theoretical and analytical contributions of feminist security scholars and use these lessons to analyze a variety of policies, issues, and conflicts. The cases that we will cover include the UN resolution on women, peace, and security, Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, violence against women, and conflicts in Syria, Uganda, and Yemen.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 280.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 280.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 308 Global Gender Politics* 6 credits
How have gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources contributed to the global crises of violence, sustainability, and inequity? Where and why has the pursuit of gender justice elicited intense backlash, especially within the last two decades? In this course, we will explore the global consequences of gender inequality and the ongoing pursuit of gender justice both transnationally and in different regions of the world. We will investigate a variety of cases ranging from land rights movements in East Africa, to the international movement to ban nuclear weapons. Finally, we will pay special attention to how hard-won gains in women’s rights and other related inequalities in world affairs are being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms.
- Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 308.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 308.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 002 1:50pm-3:45pm
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POSC 339 LGBTQ Politics in America 6 credits
The advancement of LGBTQ rights in the United States has experienced unprecedented success over the last twenty years, shifting public attitudes and legal protections for LGBTQ Americans. This course provides a discussion of LGBTQ history and in-depth analysis of how LGBTQ policy victories were achieved, including background on the strategies and tactics used to generate results. We will take a critical look at such milestones and examine what they mean for the entire LGBTQ population, including queer people of color, transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, the disabled, and the economically disadvantaged.
- Spring 2022
- Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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RELG 218 The Body in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam 6 credits
Mind and body are often considered separate but not equal; the mind gives commands to the body and the body complies. Exploring the ways the three religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam think about the body will deepen our understanding of the mind-body relationship. We will ask questions such as: How does the body direct the mind? How do religious practices discipline the body and the mind, and how do habits of body and mind change the forms and meanings of these practices? Gender, sexuality, sensuality, and bodily function will be major axes of analysis.
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RELG 218.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 221 Judaism and Gender 6 credits
Questions raised by feminism and gender studies have transformed religious traditions and dramatically changed the way scholars approach the study of religion. In this course, we will consider how reading Jewish tradition with attention to gender opens up new ways of understanding Jewish history, texts, theology and ritual. We will also consider how women and feminism have continually and newly envisioned Jewish life. We will interrogate how Jewish masculinity and femininity have been constituted through, reinforced by, and reclaimed/transformed in Jewish texts, law, prayer, theology, ethics and ritual, in communal as well as domestic contexts.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Shana Sippy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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RELG 221.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WGoodsell 03 9:50am-11:00am
- FGoodsell 03 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 221.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Chumie Juni 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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RELG 227 Liberation Theologies 6 credits
An introduction to liberationist thought, including black theology, Latin American liberation theology, and feminist theology through writings of various contemporary thinkers. Attention will be directed to theories of justice, power, and freedom. We will also examine the social settings out of which these thinkers have emerged, their critiques of “traditional” theologies, and the new vision of Christian life they have developed in recent decades. Previous study of Christianity is recommended but not required.
- Spring 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 227.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 227.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Lori Pearson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233 Gender and Power in the Catholic Church 6 credits
This course introduces students to the structure, history, and theology of the Catholic Church through the lens of gender and power. Through a combination of readings and conversations with living figures, students will develop the ability to critically and empathetically interpret Catholicism in its various manifestations. Topics include: God, rituals, salvation, the body, women, materiality, sex; the authority of persons, texts, and tradition; conflicts and anxieties involving masculinity, feminist theologies, the ordination of women as priests, the censuring of heretical theologians, and the clerical sex abuse crisis. Conditions permitting, this course will include trips to local Catholic sites.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 426 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 233.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234 Angels, Demons, and Evil 6 credits
Besides humans, animals, and gods, what other beings populate the cosmos? Where do evil, sin, and suffering come from? What can be done about them, and can their existence be justified philosophically? This course explores the problem of evil through an exploration of angels and demons in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman traditions from antiquity to the present, with a focus on late antiquity. Special attention will be given to the bodies of angels and demons: Are they gendered? Where do they dwell? What do they know, and what can they do to humans? This course will also consider modern articulations of systemic, historical injustice.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 234.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 304 12:00pm-1:00pm
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RELG 234.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sonja Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 330 2:20pm-3:20pm
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SOAN 114 Modern Families: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Family 6 credits
What makes a family? How has the conception of kinship and the ‘normal’ family changed over the generations? In this introductory class, we examine these questions, drawing on a variety of course materials ranging from classic works in sociology to contemporary blogs on family life. The class focuses on diversity in family life, paying particular attention to the intersection between the family, race and ethnicity, and social class. We’ll examine these issues at the micro and macro level, incorporating texts that focus on individuals’ stories as well as demographics of the family.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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SOAN 114.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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SOAN 114.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 305 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 114.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 114.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Liz Raleigh 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 426 8:30am-9:40am
- FLeighton 426 8:30am-9:30am
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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.
- Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 225.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm
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SOAN 257 India Program: Culture and Politics in India 6 credits
India is a region of immense diversity where more than one billion people live. We will explore social structures in India–through a focus on key areas of everyday life such as family, religion, economy, systems of stratification and social movements. Close attention will be given to religious nationalism, globalization and militarism as dominant trends affecting contemporary India. We will consider: How has India been represented in the Western imagination and why do such representations matter? What are the forces of modernity and tradition in India? What are the similarities and differences in systems of stratification in India and the United States?
- Winter 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 323 Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment 6 credits
Why are so many sustainable development projects anchored around women’s cooperatives? Why is poverty depicted as having a woman’s face? Is the solution to the environmental crisis in the hands of women the nurturers? From overly romantic notions of stewardship to the feminization of poverty, this course aims to evaluate women’s relationships with local environments and development initiatives. The course uses anthropological frameworks to evaluate case studies from around the world.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am
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SPAN 244 Spain Today: Recent Changes through Narrative and Film 6 credits
Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has undergone huge political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations. Changes in the traditional roles of women, the legalization of gay marriage, the decline of the Catholic church, the increase of immigrants, Catalan and Basque nationalisms, and the integration of Spain in the European Union, have all challenged the definition of a national identity. Through contemporary narrative and film, this course will examine some of these changes and how they contribute to the creation of what we call Spain today.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Spanish 204 or equivalent
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLanguage & Dining Center 335 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLanguage & Dining Center 335 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 244.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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SPAN 244.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 136 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 136 12:00pm-1:00pm
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SPAN 244.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Palmar Álvarez-Blanco 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 133 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 133 12:00pm-1:00pm
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THEA 260 Space, Time, Body, Minds 6 credits
What is a body? What can bodies do? These questions guide our journey into the elements of space/time/body/mind as anchor points to explore contemporary performance art. We will engage feminist technoscience studies, geographies of space and place, trauma-informed care practices, intersectional women of color feminisms, and art as activism to deepen our evolving understandings of spacetimebodyminds. Students will develop performance solos in their chosen artistic mediums that take up and respond to bodies as theoretical, material, concrete, and abstract. The course is open to all students, regardless of experience level, with an interest in: movement, performance, art, community building, feminist theory, and collective creation. Assignments will include a mix of viewings, creative response sheets, journal prompts, embodied exercises, and a research-based photo essay.
- Winter 2021, Fall 2021
- Arts Practice
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THEA 260.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:16
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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THEA 260.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:16
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:10am-11:55am
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Online