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This course is writing-intensive course intended for seniors across methodologies who are in the final stages of their senior work. With Black studies serving as the overarching body of knowledge, this course provides its students with a deep and expansive exploration of the Black
In this course, we will be uncovering, re-positioning, and affirming historical legacies and traditions that stand the risk of being lost forever, and explore how to use them to fight discrimination, racism and hate today. We will do so using Sankofa, a quest for knowledge through critical examination, patient investigation,
Speculative fiction is storytelling that starts with something real, some phenomenon observable in the present or recent past, and asks “What if?” - extrapolating into the future or alternate realities. Critical fabulation, as coined by Saidiya Hartman in the essay “Venus in Two Acts,” is a method for recovering unwritten histories. By
Are islands only geographic, or can they be social? Can a community be an island, the way an island can be a community? For almost two centuries, linguists have used the metaphor of “speech islands” to describe groups of people speaking one language who live surrounded by speakers of another. These communities may be
In this course, students will explore contemporary Taiwanese society, one of Asia’s safest, happiest, and most progressive, through audio, video, and print media. They will examine everyday life, social trends, and Taiwan’s political landscape, including women’s 42% representation in the legislature, the rise of single women keeping pets, and Taiwan as the first Asian
Working in collaboration with the local Park-McCullough Historic Governor’s Mansion, students will create a new archive of the historic dress collection.
Coins, cash, credit, capital. A medium of exchange, a store of value, a unit of account, a measure of wealth. Money seems to come in many forms and to serve many functions. This course is a quest to discover what money really is from a diversity of perspectives in economic thought. We will address questions such as: Should money be
The Semitic language family has the longest documented legacy of any in the world, spanning nearly 5,000 years. Its dozens of distinct but connected languages – among them Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Syriac – have animated metropolises from Babylon to Carthage to Dubai; over centuries, they have voiced revelation to billions of Jews
In this course, we examine five moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied routes of the Silk Road. These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century. We will be reading travel narratives written by these adventurers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta,
What is capitalism? When and where did it begin? This course offers an introduction to key features of capitalism as an economic system and a way of life that has had profound social and political consequences for human societies around the world. It is the primary aim of this course to get a better sense for what capitalism really is,
Even now, or perhaps especially now, the state of our moving and breathing bodies is critical to how we operate in the world. This course is open to students of any discipline who wish to explore the impact and implications of embodiment and its relationship to art, culture, politics and power. <
