Society Culture and Thought

Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Credits: 4

Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how

Society Culture and Thought

Families: Love and Power in the Domestic Sphere — ANT2120.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Credits: 4

Interpersonal relations constitute the cement of society. What does it mean to be a sibling, a friend, a spouse or a lover? We will examine relatedness as a fundamental aspect of society and social organization by looking at some of the classic and most recent anthropological findings on the topic of family, kinship, friendship, networking, and community. We will analyze how

Society Culture and Thought

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

As a constitutional structure for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Federalism and Peacebuilding — POL4103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 2

As a constitutional design for combining self-rule and shared rule, federalism often crops up in negotiations designed to rebuild or reconcile societies torn or threatened by civil wars in contexts as diverse as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ukraine in Europe, Myanmar and the Philippines in Asia, Iraq and Syria in the Middle East, and South Sudan and Somalia in Africa. But are federal

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01) (day/time updated as of 10/6/2023

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? Does feminist freedom include freedom from gender? Is affirmative consent

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Freedom — PHI2254.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 4

Feminism imagines a world free of gender-based oppression and injustice. But what exactly does such freedom involve? In this course, we’ll investigate the interplay between gender, feminist theory, and philosophical views about freedom. Some prompting questions include: Is individual freedom enough? What does ubiquitous pornography mean for sexual freedom? How does politics

Philosophy

Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability — SCT2133.01

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. We will draw on critical geographies of disability to think about the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body and the body-mind; spaces of the home and institutions; and im/mobility and spatial access. We will also

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Geographies of Dis/ability, Care, and Embodiment — SCT2133.01

Instructor: Emily Mitchell-Eaton

Credits: 4

In this course we will engage anti-racist feminist theory, crip theory, and human geography to think critically about dis/ability. Topics include: the built environment and institutional design; geographic scales of the body, the home, and institutions; trauma, pathology, illness, and recovery; desire and pain; and im/mobility. We will consider how disability is shaped by (and

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Feminist movements have deep and interesting intellectual roots. In this course, we will excavate and investigate these roots. Throughout the course we will explore various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, body, equality, difference, desire, freedom, power,

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI4130.01

Instructor: Karen Gover

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 2

This course provides an introduction to the key concepts and debates that pertain to feminist philosophy, including the nature of sex, gender, and the body, essentialism, oppression, care ethics, and feminist theories of knowledge. Students will learn what it is to approach these topics from a philosophical angle, while at the same time keeping an eye on the historical,

Society Culture and Thought

Feminist Philosophy — PHI2102.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 4

Contemporary feminism is a multi-faceted social justice movement to end gender-based oppression. Throughout its history, feminism has had a complicated relationship with philosophy. In this course, we will explore that relationship, as well as various contested conceptual terrains, such as: agency, affinity, equality, difference, freedom, intersectionality, power, sexuality,

Society Culture and Thought

Field Methods — LIN4112.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 4

This course is designed to equip students with the basic methodologies necessary to carry out linguistic fieldwork on un(der)documented languages. Students will be trained in the skills and tools of language documentation and description by working with a speaker of a language previously unknown to them. Students will learn techniques of data collection, elicitation, management

Society Culture and Thought

First Hundred Days (Again) — APA2030.01

Instructor: David Bond

Credits: 2

Marx once quipped that all historical personages happen twice, as it were: "First time as tragedy, second time as farce." Marx clearly got the second coming of Trump wrong: the first time was a farce, this time around its tragedy. The bewildering saga of the 2024 presidential election and bludgeoning start to the new administration in 2025 has overturned much of the

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Flourishing: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics — PHI2136.02

Instructor: Catherine McKeen

Credits: 2

Virtue is a habit. To be ethical is to choose the mean between extremes. Happiness is not a goal, but a state. In popular culture, Aristotle's ethical views are often represented in slogan form. In this seven-week course, we will interrogate and unpack the meanings of and ideas behind these slogans. We will carefully investigate the theory embodied in Aristotle's central

Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism,

CAPA Environment Politics

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

Environment Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism, structuralism,

Society Culture and Thought

Foundations of Political Leadership — POL2115.01

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Credits: 4

As an interactive process between leaders and their followers or supporters, political leadership is a socially ubiquitous, yet analytically elusive and normatively contentious, concept. This exploration of the qualities of political leaders and the process of political leadership will accomplish five things: (1) Survey contributions to studies of political leadership from

CAPA Society Culture and Thought

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Credits: 4

Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical

Society Culture and Thought

From an Indigenous Point of View — ANT4205.01

Instructor: Miroslava Prazak

Credits: 4

Using the novel as ethnography, this course examines world cultures through literary works of authors from various parts of the world. We explore the construction of community in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial times; independence movements; issues of individual and social identity; and the themes of change, adaptation and conflict. Student work includes an analytical

Society Culture and Thought