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Race and Mediation — MS4102.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Brian Michael Murphy
Credits: 4
Media technologies, such as photography, were instrumental in establishing modern conceptions of race. But the reverse is also true—racial ideas deeply shaped our belief that media technologies have the ability to faithfully represent reality. In this advanced course, we will engage an exciting area of scholarship and artistic practice, located at the intersection of media
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Race, Class, and Apartheid — POL4207.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This class examines the South African system of Apartheid, seeking to understand its origins, practice, and consequences. We will read from a wide range of sources including scholarly and political texts to understand how race and class structured South African society and how the transition to a post-Apartheid society has confronted the past. We will frame this discussion by
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Race, Class, Environment — SCT4102.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
What is the relationship between racism, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? Are these modes of injustice the consequence of a single overarching structure (e.g. capitalism or colonialism) against which resistance should be aimed? Are they formed by overlapping, but relatively autonomous, structures that nonetheless form a Gordian knot of oppression? Or are they
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Race, Robots, and Asian American Literature — LIT2603.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
From Blade Runner to Ex Machina, visions of robotic futures are populated with Asian bodies, settings, and cultural forms. How is it that robots became so closely linked to the racialization of Asian/American people? What might we learn about the latter by examining how the former shows up in our cultural imagination? And how have Asian diasporic writers handled these
Literature Society Culture and Thought

Rawls and Justice — PHI4132.02

Spring 2026
Instructor: Paul Voice
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

John Rawls (1921-2003) was arguably the most important and influential political philosopher of the twentieth century. His first major work, A Theory of Justice (1971) transformed the field of political philosophy and his ideas and arguments remain at the center of the philosophical debate on the question of justice. This course consists of a

Philosophy

Rawls and Justice — PHI4132.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
John Rawls (1921-2003) was one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. His first major work, A Theory of Justice (1971) transformed the field of political philosophy and his ideas and arguments remain at the center of the philosophical debate on the question of justice. This course consists of a careful study of the main arguments in his early and
Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel Mouffe, and
Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxemburg, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel
Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxemburg, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel
Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel Mouffe, and
Society Culture and Thought

Re-Thinking Society: Radical Visions — PHI2161.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 4
In this introductory course you will read a wide range of political philosophers and theorists who rethink and reimagine society. Beginning with the “masters of suspicion”, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, and Freud, we will explore radical social visions from thinkers such as Rosa Luxumburg, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Franz Fanon, Steve Biko, Michel Foucault, John Rawls, Chantel
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 2
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Ethnography — ANT4218.01) (cancelled 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course is an advanced exploration of theory and the history of anthropology by using the most basic of anthropological texts, the ethnography. By carefully analyzing a series of classic and more current ethnographies, students will look at the relationship between approaches, how ethnographic data is presented to the reader and how the shape of the text determines how the
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and works. The aim of this short course is to acquire a firm understanding of Marx’s central concepts.
Society Culture and Thought

Reading Marx — PHI4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Paul Voice
Credits: 2
Marx's ideas remain an important source of political and social science thought. This class requires students to engage in a close and critical reading of a number of Marx's essays and to assess his work in the light of critical philosophical responses.
Society Culture and Thought

Really Cold Cases: Exploring America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.01) (cancelled 9/18/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and other tools, we will explore America’s most notorious unsolved cases from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. Focusing on specific cases will illuminate larger contexts, including changing understandings of “criminality,” modern policing methods, incarceration policies, the development of forensic science,
Society Culture and Thought

Really Cold Cases: Investigating America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and mixed reality (VR/AR) resources, we will craft narratives of individuals caught up in America’s most notorious unsolved cases, from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. For our historically grounded storytelling, we will explore “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths
Society Culture and Thought

Really Cold Cases: Investigating America’s Most Notorious Unsolved Crimes, 1850-1950 — HIS2340.02

Spring 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Using films, documentaries, podcasts, historical newspapers, and mixed reality (VR/AR) resources, we will craft narratives of individuals caught up in America’s most notorious unsolved cases, from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1950. For our historically grounded storytelling, we will explore “portraiture,” a unique methodology that “seeks to unveil the universal truths
Society Culture and Thought

Relational Psychoanalysis and it's Discontents — PSY4227.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: David Anderegg
Credits: 4
This advanced seminar will feature developments in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. The 1980s saw a period of ferment in psychoanalytic theory during which several challenges to classical Freudian analysis were articulated. This course will begin with a brief review of these challenges, including object relations theory and self psychology. But the “winner,” so to speak, has
Society Culture and Thought

Religion in Global Politics — POL4206.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 4
Contrary to the expectations of modernization and secularization theories, religion is a resilient and resurgent influence in contemporary politics and governance, both locally and internationally. This course explores the intricate and interdependent relationships between religion and politics across the globe. Readings, lectures, discussions and assignments will examine basic
Society Culture and Thought

Renaissance and Reformation — HIS2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1700. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, and paintings, we examine large-scale
Society Culture and Thought

Renaissance and Reformation — HIS2110.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
This course is a survey of the cultural, social, and religious movements that transformed Europe between 1350 and 1700. These revolutions in Western thought gave birth to the Enlightenment, and the intellectual outlook that still characterizes our culture today. Using primary source materials such as letters, literature, court records, diaries, and paintings, we examine both
Society Culture and Thought

Representing Sexuality and Gender On Screen — MS4105.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Teddy Pozo
Credits: 4
This advanced media studies course explores the relationship between censorship and self-expression, with a particular focus on queer and feminist readings of Hollywood cinema and the history of the adult film and video industry in the United States. From the Motion Picture Production Code, to the ratings system, to SESTA-FOSTA, U.S. media industries have sought respectability
Visual Arts Society Culture and Thought