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(Re)Presenting Culture — ANT4204.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Anthropologists use ethnographic writing and films to present cultures to outsiders. Both inscribe/transcribe social life, but the portraits they create differ. Theoretical considerations as well as stylistic conventions influence both the shape and the content of the final product. In this course we examine closely a body of films to explore how each genre (e.g., observational
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

20th Century Afrocaribbean Writers — LIT2537.01) (day/time updated as of 10/9/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: An Duplan
Credits: 4
To date, the Afrocaribbean world has produced some of the most essential poetry, fiction, and scholarship of the Americas. Poets like the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite also double as social scientists, as Brathwaite’s Development of Creole Society in Jamaica illuminates a picture of the linguistic development of Jamaica under British colonial rule. Similarly, Glissant’s idea of
Black Studies Literature Society Culture and Thought

A History of Economic Thought — PEC2268.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course explores how ideas about the economy – from money, to labor, to distribution – have changed over time. We will focus on modern theories of the economy, including those of the mercantilists, physiocrats, classical political economists, and neoclassical economists, placing these ideas in their global context. Our most central focus will be on thinkers working within
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Adult Psychopathology — PSY2379.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Currently, 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience a mental health disorder. This course will explore the types and causes of adult psychopathology, as well as the assessment, treatment, developmental course, and related research in psychotherapy for adult disorders. The professional, ethical, and cultural issues related to psychopathology and its treatment will
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Advanced Workshop in Philosophy — PHI4403.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Credits: 2
This course is for students who are pursuing advanced work in philosophy, and is designed to be taken in conjunction with the SCT Senior Seminar. We will read and respond to a range of philosophical work. The course will emphasize habitual writing and fostering a sturdy philosophical reading and writing practice, along with regular sharing of one’s work, with feedback.
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Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
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Aesthetics — PHI2253.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
Why do we care about art? Why and how do artworks move us? What, if anything, do artworks mean, and how do we know? This course takes up these and other questions relating to the philosophy of art and artworks. This course will look at the philosophical tradition of aesthetics, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, up to the present day. We will also look at the role of
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African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts is a major challenge for the international community and the continent’s peoples. Africa accounts for the largest and highest number of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations, but these “stabilization” missions have mostly failed to stabilize the continent, and  large segments of the African population
CAPA Black Studies Society Culture and Thought

African Conflict Resolution — POL4254.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Rotimi Suberu
Credits: 2
The prevention, management and resolution of African conflicts constitute a defining challenge for the international community, including the United Nations (UN), which has mounted multi‐billion dollar peace operations on the continent. Despite the peace dividend from these operations and other interventions, large segments of the African population continue to live in deadly
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

AI and Ethics — CS2140.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Darcy Otto
Credits: 4
If you had a robot who always tied your shoes for you, would you ever have learned how to tie your shoes yourself? What about if that same agent did all your arithmetic and all your writing, and eventually shaped all your decisions? The promise of AI is fraught with ethical questions that strike at the very heart of what it means to be human and to act as a moral agent in
Science and Mathematics Society Culture and Thought

America and the Middle East — Canceled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Mansour Farhang
Credits: 2
This course is a study of U. S. geopolitical involvement in national and regional affairs of the Middle East from World War I to the present. It is designed to enable the students to place today’s headlines into historical context and provide a range of analytic perspectives to evaluate the motives, methods of implementation and consequences of decisions intended to advance U.
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

America in the World: Past, Present, Future — HIS4204.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Even while responding to recent global and national events that seem unprecedented, the United States continues to confront the dilemmas running throughout its diplomatic history-national security versus individual liberties, unilateralism versus multilateralism, competing domestic constituencies, and conflicting visions of America's role in the world. Newly declassified
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American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions, and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to clean air and water, forests, energy, public lands, and
Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Neo-Imperialism: The Anthropology of Mercenaries, Contractors, Bankers and other Rogues — ANT4220.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Noah Coburn
Credits: 4
This course takes an anthropological approach to look at the ways in which America has projected its power internationally since 2001.  This ranges from its military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, its more passive policies on Syria and Libya and its more subtle use of development funds and soft power to shape the world beyond its borders.  These attempts, however,
CAPA Society Culture and Thought

Anarchist Anthropologies — ANT2185.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Steve Moog
Credits: 4
Anthropology is an invaluable tool for understanding the world around us. The discipline is also inextricable from problematic histories and inherent power dynamics embedded in its research methodologies. Several decades of efforts to “decolonize” anthropology have led to significant gains in addressing power imbalances created by perspectives mired in colonial, racist, and
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Anatomy of a Philosophical Essay — PHI2145.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 1
This course will provide an in-depth look at a single model philosophy essay over seven course meetings, in order to gain a deeper understanding of its form, content, context, aims, and purpose.  Students will thereby obtain a deeper understanding of the academic research paper in general as a form in which scholars present, publish, and test their ideas.  Possible
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Ancient Greek Philosophy — PHI2146.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Karen Gover
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to Ancient Philosophy.  We will study the ideas and works of the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus. Using the course texts, in-class writing practices, class discussion, and group work students will gain familiarity with philosophical ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, some of which are complex
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Ancient Greek Philosophy — PHI2124.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Doug Kremm
Credits: 4
Ancient Greece produced some of the most provocative and influential thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition. In this course, we will read through some of the classic texts by these thinkers and grapple with the central questions they raise: What is justice? What is knowledge, and how does it differ from mere opinion? What makes an action, a person, or a whole society
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Anthropological linguistics and biocultural knowledge — LIN2109.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Leah Pappas
Credits: 4
This course provides an overview of the relationship between linguistics and anthropology and the methodologies for studying the key areas of inquiry for both disciplines. We will cover topics relating to the processes by which language can both reflect and create identity, cultural practices, power, and cognition. We’ll focus in particular on the biocultural—the relationship
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Anthropology and the Body — ANT2140.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Cecilia Salvi
Credits: 4
The body has been crucial (but sometimes overlooked) in anthropological theory since the early days of the discipline. This course begins with an introduction to recent anthropological analysis and methods of studying the body as both social and individual, biological and cultural, object and subject. We then explore its conceptualization in relation to topics such as the self,
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Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values
Society Culture and Thought

Anthropology of Art — ANT4212.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Credits: 4
This course is an exploration of art as defined and practiced in different cultures. We will look at how peoples of diverse world cultures create, use, manipulate, conceptualize, exchange, and evaluate objects of material culture. We will look at how material items are considered to be artistic or aesthetic in some fashion, and think of how and if we can translate those values
Society Culture and Thought