Approved GEN Themes Courses
Please see below for courses approved for one of the GEN: Themes categories. This page is updated as courses are approved by the Office of the University Registrar.
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(Last Updated: 01/21/2026)
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- AFAMAST 3083 "Civil Rights and Black Power Movements"
- Examines the origins, evolution, and outcomes of the African American freedom struggle, focusing on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
- AFAMAST 3084 "Citizens Behind Bars: Black Leadership and the Politics of Liberation in African American History"
- Every day more human beings are locked inside of jails, prisons, or secured facilities across the United States than in any other country on the planet. This course explores the history of citizenship in captivity and the legacy of liberatory movements led by incarcerated citizens in the US from the era of settler colonization and slavery to the present age of mass incarceration. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3084 & WGSST 3084.
- AFAMAST 3110 "Social (In)Justice and the Black Experience"
- This course will provide a historical grounding/foundation of Black social justice movements in America to help students understand some of the most pressing issues facing African Americans today. In so doing, this course will focus on key events, movements, and ideas that have shaped and informed Black peoples’ social justice efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- AFAMAST 3440 "Theorizing Race"
- Introduction to issues of "race," consideration of the historical emergence and development of ideas of "race" and of racist practices, along with their contemporary formations. Cross-listed with PHILOS 3440.
- AFAMAST 4610 "African Americans and the Law"
- This is an interdisciplinary course that puts major legal cases affecting African Americans into conversation with their historical underpinnings, as well as the social contexts and how those contexts manifest in African American cultural productions. A central goal of the course is to interrogate the idea of a “colorblind” justice system.
- ANTHROP 3306 "Anthropological Perspectives on Indigenous Citizenship: Native North Americans"
- An introduction to complex questions about the citizenship and sovereignty of Indigenous Native Americans, including what constitutes indigenous citizenship and how it is attained, ideas about justice amid difference in Native American societies, and some of the ways that changing power relations shaped racial, ethnic, and gender identities of American Indians.
- ANTHROP 3419 "Latin American Cultures and Migration in Global Perspective"
- An intensive ethnographic investigation of Latin American and Caribbean migration (Mexico, Ecuador, The Dominican Republic) including the history of migration; contemporary movement; and transnationalism.
- ANTHROP 5525 "Applied Anthropology for Social Change: Research, Justice, and Citizenship"
- This course equips students with practical anthropological research skills to collaboratively address social problems through client- and community-based projects. By integrating themes of citizenship, diversity, and justice, students learn to ethically engage with stakeholders, apply qualitative and quantitative methods, and develop plans to contribute to more equitable and inclusive societies. Approved as 4-credit hour High Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- ANTHROP 5624 "The Anthropology of Food: Culture, Society and Eating"
- Explores food traditions, global expansion of foods and the production/exchange of food in culture and society.
- ANTHROP 5626 "More: Culture and Economic Life"
- An analysis of economic rationality in non-market and market societies; resource allocation, work organization, product disposition, exchange, money, trade, and development.
- ANTHROP 5627 "Migrants and Refugees: The Anthropology of Mobility"
- This course is an anthropological investigation of human mobility with a focus on the movement of migrants and refugees. Credit for 2202 is recommended but not required.
- ARABIC 2702 "Gender and Citizenship in Modern Arabic Literature"
- Reading and analysis of representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries; by contemporary women authors. Cross-listed with WGSST 2702.
- ARABIC 3601 "Philosophy and the Just Society in the Classical Islamic World"
- Surveying the development and major subjects and thinkers of the most vivid period of Arabic philosophy. Cross-listed with PHILOS 3221.
- ART 3008 "Artists as Leaders and Engaged Citizens"
- This course focuses on the role of the artist as a citizen and leader for a just and diverse world. Students will learn about the interface of art and citizenship, including such topics as: art as a social and political practice; the potential for art to advance critical and creative thinking about contemporary social issues; creative/collaborative forms of leadership.
- ARTSSCI 3120 "Information, Citizenship, and Social Justice"
- An exploration of the intersections of citizenship and justice through the lens of information; how the creation of and access to information impacts the ability to act as a global, national and digital citizen and is an issue of justice.
- CIVICLL 3300 "How Politics Breaks Your Brain"
- Does politics make people smarter or dumber? Students will leave this class with an increased ability to navigate cognitive and moral errors that corrupt political reasoning among citizens in diverse societies. Topics covered include the intersection of citizen identity and politics, the ethics of partisan loyalty, and the role of social groups in the formation of our individual political beliefs.
- CLAS 2206 "Politics and Political Thought in the Ancient World"
- An advanced overview of the governance, politics, and political thought of ancient Greece and Rome. You will trace the development of the ideals and practices of ancient democracy, oligarchy, monarchy, and citizenship within their historical contexts; and examine how some of the earliest political theory was shaped by the societies in which philosophers and theorists lived.
- CLAS 3210 "Classics and African American Political Thought"
- To explore ideas of citizenship and political life in ancient Greek and Roman texts (focusing on the 5th century BCE-1st century CE) and in African American texts (with attention to the 18th to 20th centuries). To examine recent developments in scholarship on Black Classicisms. To understand political thought to shed light on the challenges that US-American democracy faces today.
- CLAS 3301 "Law, Citizenship, and Empire in Later Rome"
- This course explores the historical, social, religious, and cultural processes that led to the codification of Roman law by Justinian and his predecessors (this is primarily a historical course, not a course in jurisprudence). Also, this course will examine how changing notions of citizenship within the later empire effected and were affected by the practice and creation of law.
- CLAS 3302 "Citizenship in Democratic Athens"
- This class explores the performance of citizenship in ancient Athens. We will study how eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers sought to marginalize Athens’ democratic nature, we will then cover Athens’ transformation from oligarchy to tyranny, learn about democracy in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, and examine Athens’ political structure.
- CLAS 3224 "Citizens and Subjects of Rome: Empire, Slavery, and Law"
- This upper-level course focuses on the people of the Roman empire, its citizens, subjects, and neighbors. Focusing on different groups (e.g., the lower classes of Rome, the Greek speaking colonies in Italy, foreigners serving in the army, provincials, enslaved individuals, women), this course surveys how Rome, through its laws, restricted access to citizenship and full participation in government. Cross-listed with History 3224.
- COMM 2367 "Persuasive Communication"
- This course is designed to increase your understanding of persuasive communication as it relates to citizenship and the American experience. As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors.
- COMM 2367H "Persuasive Communication"
- This course is designed to increase your understanding of persuasive communication as it relates to citizenship and the American experience. As an advanced level writing course, the course is specifically designed to improve your persuasive writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills as specific citizenship behaviors. Honors version of COMM 2367.
- COMM 2850 "Media and Citizenship"
- This course provides an overview of media’s role in citizenship by learning about media industry operations, how media influence us, critical evaluation of media, media responsibility and literacy, and how our experiences and biases affect the current relationship between mass media and democracy. We will learn how to engage with media to promote informed, active, and responsible citizenship.
- COMPSTD 3007 "Technology, Science, and Citizenship"
- This course introduces tools from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to analyze how technoscience shapes rights, recognition, and civic participation in the United States and around the world.
- COMPSTD 4021 "Banned Books and the Cost of Censorship"
- This course examines competing understandings of citizenship through an interdisciplinary examination of the dramatic rise of book banning in recent years. By reading banned books and examining the debates surrounding them, we establish important connections between diversity, justice, and citizenship.
- COMPSTD 4822 "Native American Identity"
- Historical and contemporary issues of American Indian identity, primarily in U.S.; focus on American Indian authors, artists, and scholars.
- CSCFFS 3000 "Women & Money: Citizenship in a Modern World"
- Discover how money shapes our lives, and how we can shape it in return. This course introduces the powerful impact of finance in society, with a focus on women's experiences and financial empowerment. Explore what it means to be a finance-informed citizen as you learn how to bank wisely, build credit, invest for the future, spot scams, and navigate money in relationships, careers, and communities.
- CRPLAN 4597 "The Global Environment in Planning"
- A review of challenges in developed and developing countries, examining planning issues associated with economic development, social equity, growth and rural development.
- ECON 3048 "Ethics and Social Responsibility in Economic Life"
- Examines the role of ethical norms and social constraints in determining economic outcomes. GE Individuals and Groups course. ECON 1100.01, 1100.02, 2001.01, 2001.03H, 2002.01 or 2002.03H is recommended.
- EDUTL 3995 "Transnational Critical Literacy: Media, Race, and Citizenship"
- This course draws together scholarship in media literacy and media race representations in transnational contexts and, more specifically, in East European area studies, and critical media literacy in education to comparatively examine how citizenship is constructed and “taught” through media. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with SLAVIC 3995.
- EDUTL 5005 "Equity and Diversity in Education"
- Focuses on issues of diversity, equity, teacher beliefs, and multicultural education. Emphasis is placed on the roles of identity and lived experience and it's influences on approaches to teaching and learning in educational settings.
- EDUTL 5440 "Philosophical Perspectives on Race, Education, and Citizenship"
- This course allows participants to pursue philosophical questions at the intersection of race, education, and political life. These include: Does education play a very specific role in racialized patterns of benefit/detriment? What role does race play in understandings of educational policy & practice? How does race affect understandings of 'education for citizenship'?
- ENGLISH 2276 "Arts of Persuasion"
- Introduces students to the study and practice of rhetoric and how arguments are shaped by technology, media, and cultural contexts.
- ENGLISH 2276H "Arts of Persuasion"
- Introduction for honors students to the study and practice of rhetoric and how arguments are shaped by technology, media, and cultural contexts.
- ENGLISH 3000 "Writing for Social Change"
- In this course we will use academic writing and research practices across various forms of media to investigate the role of citizenship historically and currently, exploring the ways that we as citizens can work towards a more just and diverse society. We will develop a definition of citizenship that emphasizes a citizen’s relationship to their local, national, and global environments.
- ENGLISH 3011.01 "Digital Activism"
- This course is both critical and creative. Students will tinker with digital media tools and think about digital media and social change and citizenship within a rich and safe environment, investigating and experimenting with the consequences of humans' relationships with digital media; studio days will afford hands-on guidance in mobilizing digital media for the purpose of protest and activism.
- ENGLISH 3011.02 "Social Media Rhetoric"
- This course examines the everyday rhetoric of social media, focusing on how people use social media to engage in the public sphere, to form communities, and to encounter other political, cultural, and global communities.
- ENGLISH 3110 "Citizenship, Justice, and Diversity in Literatures, Cultures, and Media"
- Since the beginning of the modern nation state, cultural texts (poems, novels, films, pamphlets, zines, short stories, advertisements, comics, etc.) have been the essential medium through which the discourse of citizenship has been developed, constructed, refined, and debated. In this course student examine a range of literary periods, genres, and media focused on citizenship and social justice.
- ENGLISH 3264 "Monsters Without and Within"
- Storytellers have long used monsters not only to frighten us but also to jolt us into thinking deeply about ourselves, others, and the world we live in. This course examines how various horror genres use monsters to explore issues of wellbeing and citizenship, and debates about race, gender, sexual orientation, mental health, social justice, and personal responsibility.
- ENGLISH 3265 "Fictions of Creation: Robots, Androids, AIs, and Clones"
- Today, as creatures that humans once only dreamed of creating—robots, AIs, androids, and clones—are becoming part of our reality, those fictions have acquired a new urgency. This course will explore stories of human-made creatures, old and new, and examine how they challenge us to think of issues surrounding justice, community, citizenship, structures of power, and humanity.
- ENGLISH 3395 "Literature and Leadership"
- In this course students consider leadership as a component of national citizenship and literature as a mode of exploring and analyzing a range of perspectives on leadership. The course will encourage students to think about how responses to power are mediated by race, gender, and class and how literary study can help them reflect on and articulate their own leadership strengths and aspirations.
- ENGLISH 3595 "Literature and Law"
- This course examines how legal structures, practices and concepts are represented and explored in and through literature written in English (poetry, fiction, drama, and/or essays).
- ENGR 2300 "Exploring Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Engineering Contexts"
- This course engages with thematic concepts and definitions of citizenship, diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through historical and contemporary lenses. Students explore the applications and implications of these concepts across a wide range of engineering contexts. Students will approach the writing process from a rhetorical perspective.
- ENGR 2301 "Exploring Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Engineering Contexts: Integrative Designation"
- Students will use the engineering design and writing processes to define a meaningful problem within specific local or global communities and formulate and propose a solution to that problem. Students will explore themes of diversity and inclusion in engineering and citizenship in a just and diverse world through a comprehensive, semester-long proposal project. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- ENR 2400 "Citizenship Across the Rural-Urban Divide"
- Foundational concepts of citizenship in historical, current, and social science contexts; definitions, benefits, and responsibilities of citizenship. Citizenship and community participation in rural, urban, or suburban locations, differing perspectives, community institutions and civic engagement. Impacts of agricultural and environmental issues locally, nationally, and globally.
- ESLTECH 3315 "Surviving the Infocalypse: Digital Citizenship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
- This course provides students with the opportunity to develop their critical digital citizenship skills in the context of the explosion of synthetic media.
- ETHNSTD 3340 "Border Citizens: Latinx Gender Studies"
- Often deemed outsiders and foreigners in US soil, Latinxs thinkers have complicated and diversified our definitions of citizenship. The class will not only address the struggles over citizenship rights endured by this community, it will also expose students to Latinx theories and visions of national belonging across various borders and binaries. Cross-listed with WGSS 3340.
- FRENCH 3803 "Cultures of Resistance"
- Examine how the concept of citizenship through resistance has been represented in literature, film, music, and comics of the French-speaking world created to inspire activism at crucial historical moments. Study how citizens have exercised the right to effect change in society through producing, consuming, and redeploying defiant cultural artifacts.
- FRIT 3054 "The 21st-Century Skill: Intercultural Competence for Global Citizenship"
- In this course students will develop cultural self-awareness, intercultural empathy, and an understanding of the patterns of behavior and values of people from different cultural contexts - all skills necessary for working and succeeding in the 21st century.
- GEOG 2400.01 "Economic and Social Geography"
- Economic activity is a form of social relationship that connects us to people and places in our community and around the world. Develop a spatial understanding of the economy and society, focusing on issues such as globalization and inequality. Tie these geographic perspectives to your own position in global economies and explore how this poses challenges and opportunities for global citizenship.
- GEOG 2400.02 "Economic and Social Geography: Research-Focused"
- Economic activity is a form of social relationship that connects us to people and places in our community and around the world. Develop a spatial understanding of the economy and society, focusing on issues such as globalization and inequality. Do extensive research using these geographic perspectives to explore your own position in global economies and opportunities for global citizenship. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- GEOG 3650 "A World Divided? Place, Space, and Regions in World Affairs"
- This course embraces a new approach to world regions by focusing on the ways that the constantly changing social and physical features of our planet are intertwined with, and inform, world affairs. This exploration is carried out in this class through a focus on contemporary geographical issues that reveal the diverse and dynamic social and physical environments we inhabit.
- GEOG 5502 "Data Justice and the Right to the Smart City"
- Neoliberal governance of cities affecting cultural, civic, and environmental politics; urban geographies of difference; politics and social economy of global cities; the uneven landscape of access and opportunity; shadow governance; and the built form.
- GERMAN 3250 "Citizenship in the Age of Technology: Exploring Social Justice through Science Fiction in Germany"
- Investigating the promises & pitfalls that technologies once confined to the pages of science fiction pose to our relationships, our communities, and our world, with a specific focus on the challenges they will bring to our concept of citizenship. Recent German science fiction will illuminate the debate on the future of democracy as it unfolds in Germany, the USA & in a broader global context.
- GERMAN 3252.01 "The Holocaust in German Literature and Film"
- This course will provide an overview of the historical events we call the Holocaust, including their pre-history and their aftermath. This information will provide the necessary background for discussing some of the questions that have occupied the fields of philosophy, literature, aesthetics, and ethics over the last sixty years. Taught in English.
- GERMAN 3252.02 "The Holocaust in German Literature and Film"
- German 3252.02 is an online version of German 3252.01. This course will provide an overview of the historical events we call the Holocaust, including their pre-history and aftermath. This information will provide the necessary background for discussing some of the questions that have occupied the fields of philosophy, literature, aesthetics, and ethics over the last sixty years. Taught in English.
- GERMAN 3254H "Representations and Memory of the Holocaust in Film"
- Students will view, discuss, and examine major filmic representations of the Holocaust from several countries from the 1940s through the present. Students will learn how these films have contributed to our understanding of its events, challenged notions of social responsibility and belonging, and coped with the problem of representing something often considered unrepresentable. Taught in English.
- GERMAN 3351 "Democracy, Fascism, and German Culture"
- Culture and politics of three periods in German history that are relevant to today's challenges: the Weimar Republic, National Socialism & World War II, and the Cold War. Focus not just on tensions between democratic and anti-democratic political movements, but also on the ways that the opinions of ordinary citizens and ideas spread through media can (de-)stabilize democracy. Taught in English.
- German 3456 "Global Changemakers"
- This course explores what it means to be a global changemaker, emphasizing critical thinking, truth- telling, and advocacy for change. Students will study the qualities of changemakers through and examine global citizenship, cultural diversity, and social equity. Team-taught with faculty members in South Asian Studies and Slavic. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with SASIA & Slavic 3456.
- GERMAN 3798.02 "Global May Germany"
- Students will explore and experience the cosmopolitan and increasingly diverse Berlin by learning about some of the most influential or memorable persons who live or have lived in the city–from its establishment as a capital of the Prussian Kingdom in the 18th century to its present role as capital of a reunified, democratic Germany and a center of European and global politics and culture. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- HDFS 4570 "Firearms, Families, and Citizenship: Global Perspectives"
- This course equips students with critical thinking/research skills to analyze global firearms citizenship issues through diverse lenses (familial, cultural, ethical, social, democratic resilience). Students will develop a nuanced understanding of the complex landscape surrounding firearms and will cultivate evidence-based perspectives for shaping policy and strengthening democratic citizenship. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- HISTART 4630 "American Art: Inventing the Americans - The Art of Nationhood, Citizenship, and Democracy, 1776-1900"
- A study of architecture, painting, and sculpture in America from 1776-1900, with a particular focus on how ideas about nationhood, citizenship, and democracy were negotiated in and through works of art and visual culture.
- HISTORY 2201 "Ancient Greece and Rome"
- Comparative historical analysis of ancient Mediterranean societies in the Near East, Greece and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Fall of Rome, with a focus on citizenship. Students will compare notions of citizenship in empires and authoritarian regimes with smaller, more egalitarian city-states and republics, and analyze the ideological similarities and differences between antiquity and today.
- HISTORY 2272 "Reacting to the Past: Citizenship in Historical Context"
- Study the history of citizenship through a series of role-playing games! Students will explore the history of Ancient Athens, Renaissance Italy, and Revolutionary France by taking on an assigned persona and working in teams to respond to historical documents and events. Be prepared to work individually in reading primary documents and writing preparation, and in teams during class sessions.
- HISTORY 2642 "Global History 1500 to Present"
- Provides an overview of the history of the world from 1500 to the present day, chronicling how a world of subjects and empires became a world of states and citizens.
- HISTORY 3001 "American Political History to 1877"
- This course introduces students to the complex contestations between American citizens and global actors over the meaning of American democracy, beginning in the pre-colonial period and ending with the period of Reconstruction (1865-1877). Students come to better understand the shifting contours of American democracy and what it has meant to be an American citizen at different times in history.
- HISTORY 3002 "U.S. Political History Since 1877"
- History of American political institutions, ideas, and culture from Reconstruction to the present.
- HISTORY 3014 "Gilded Age to Progressive Era, 1877-1920"
- Advanced study of U.S. social, political, cultural, foreign policy history from 1877-1920: Industrialization; immigration; urbanization; populism; Spanish-American War; progressivism; WWI.
- HISTORY 3025 "American Revolution(s)"
- What is the legacy of the American Revolution? And how did many movements ultimately fashion the revolution that broke out in 1775? Using a broad geographic and chronological lens, students will examine the repercussions as well as reconsider the legacy (and relevance) of the revolution and its many revolutionaries in the construction of the nation, American citizenship and their lived experience.
- HISTORY 3083 "Civil Rights and Black Power Movements"
- Examines the origins, evolution, and outcomes of the African American freedom struggle, focusing on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
- HISTORY 3084 "Citizens Behind Bars: Black Leadership and the Politics of Liberation in African American History"
- Every day more human beings are locked inside of jails, prisons, or secured facilities across the United States than in any other country on the planet. This course explores the history of citizenship in captivity and the legacy of liberatory movements led by incarcerated citizens in the US from the era of settler colonization and slavery to the present age of mass incarceration. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3084 & WGSST 3084.
- HISTORY 3105 "History of Brazil"
- Known for its beaches, carnival, and soccer, Brazilian history is a far deeper story of colonialism, slavery, agricultural wealth, immigration, industrial development, political conflict over authoritarianism and democracy, and more. This course studies the history of precolonial Brazil to the present, with a focus on Brazilian citizenship and the challenges of creating a diverse and just society.
- HISTORY 3213 "Slavery in the Ancient World"
- Study of slavery as an institution and ideology of ancient Greece and Rome, including its importance in the ancient family, economy, and culture.
- HISTORY 3213H "Slavery in the Ancient World"
- Study of slavery as an institution and ideology of ancient Greece and Rome, including its importance in the ancient family, economy, and culture. Honors version.
- HISTORY 3216 "War in the Ancient Mediterranean World"
- A survey of military history from the late Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, with an emphasis on the ways in which warfare and militaries connected to modes of citizenship, belonging, and participation in the societies of Antiquity.
- HISTORY 3224 "Citizens and Subjects of Rome: Empire, Slavery, and Law"
- This upper-level course focuses on the people of the Roman empire, its citizens, subjects, and neighbors. Focusing on different groups (e.g., the lower classes of Rome, the Greek speaking colonies in Italy, foreigners serving in the army, provincials, enslaved individuals, women), this course surveys how Rome, through its laws, restricted access to citizenship and full participation in government. Cross-listed with Classic 3224.
- HISTORY 3245 "The Age of Reformation"
- The history of the Protestant, Catholic, and Radical Reformations of 16th- and early 17th-century Europe.
- HISTORY 3250 "Subjects to Citizens: A History of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe"
- A history of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe from the crisis of the Old Regime and the French Revolution to the end of the Napoleonic Empire. The course also considers changing conceptions of citizenship during the period, from subjects under monarchical rule to citizens of rapidly changing revolutionary and post-revolutionary governments.
- HISTORY 3265 "20th-Century German History"
- Exploration from 1914 to the present of German cultural, economic, political, and social history.
- HISTORY 3270 "History of World War I"
- A global history of World War I, with a particular focus on citizenship. As the first war in history waged by enormous citizen-soldier armies, this course considers citizenship within this paradigm-shifting conflict that would transform the global balance of power and power dynamics, as well as alter cultural and societal attitudes and practices both inside and outside of Europe.
- HISTORY 3351 "Intellectual and Social Movements in the Muslim World"
- Upper-level lecture/discussion course on significant intellectual and social movements in the Middle East and vicinity from the advent of Islam to the present.
- HISTORY 3480 "Israel/Palestine: History of the Present"
- The course will enable students to reflect on the ways in which the past informs interpretations of the present and the ways in which the present informs interpretations of the past. The course will adopt a broad definition of the “present”, investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict primarily against the background of the collapse of the Oslo peace process in the early 2000s.
- HISTORY 3501 "U.S. Diplomacy: 1920 to the Present"
- The formulation of U.S. foreign policy and foreign relations around the world from the aftermath of World War I to the modern day.
- HISTORY 3560 "Citizenship and American Military History: 1607 – 1902"
- American military history, 1607-1902; with emphasis on citizenship, the formation of national security policy, war-waging, and the reciprocal impact of society and military institutions.
- HISTORY 3561 "Citizenship and American Military History: 1902 to the Present"
- This course examines how uniformed service impacted Americans' conception of citizenship from the aftermath of the Spanish-American War through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland on September 11, 2001.
- HISTORY 3570 "World War II"
- A study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of World War II, with a particular emphasis on chancing conceptions of citizenship. In many ways, the war was used as a tool to define what it was to be a nation and a citizen of that nation, and what that meant for each country’s interests around the world when those ideals clashed.
- HISTORY 3595 "Strategic Thought in History"
- This course is an applied or mobilized history course intended for students interested in political history, public service, as well as in the conceptual tools and responsibilities of citizenship. It will equip students to think rigorously and historically about the principles and pitfalls of setting strategies as well as the role of citizens in strategic decision-making.
- HISTORY 3670 "Trans-National History of World War II in Europe"
- One of three Spring prerequisite courses to the World War II Study Program’s May term in Europe. Only students accepted into the program during the October registration period may enroll. This class will deepen the contextual knowledge of students about the different national histories and the specific sites they will encounter in May.
- HISTORY 3676 "Leadership in History"
- This course employs the lessons, models, and narratives of history to consider different characteristics of leadership and analyze how those qualities might shape students' own vision of what it means to be an informed citizen, leader, and follower.
- HISTORY 3680 "Religion and Law in Comparative Perspective"
- Comparative, interdisciplinary approach to studying religion and law. Drawing on concrete cases, historical studies, and theoretical literature, the course explores how the relationship between religion and law has been configured differently in different liberal democracies, such as the U.S., France, and Israel, and what this might mean for contemporary debates. Cross-listed with RELSTDS 3680.
- HISTORY 3712 "Science and Society in Europe, from Newton to Hawking"
- The history of science from the eighteenth through to the late twentieth century. Students will study major developments in the physical, geological, biological and chemical sciences, and the relation of the history of science to social, economic, political and cultural developments in European history.
- HISTORY 5255 "Europe Since 1989: Multiple Europes after the Cold War"
- This course explores the post-Cold War history of Europe. Students will pay attention to multiple definitions and changing understandings of Europe, teasing out the evolution in European identities in the last 30 years. Fundamentally, this is a class about what it means to be European, which allows students to learn about the multiple meanings, manifestations, and interpretations of citizenship.
- HTHRHSC 4000 "Application of Ethical Decision Making in Health Care"
- Participation in this course will include ongoing examination of ethical theories, bioethical principles, personal ethics, and an ethical decision-making process for application in the allied health professions. Ethics as it contributes to the definition of citizenship will be explicitly explored.
- HTHRHSC 4590 "Global Health Inequalities: An Introductory Course"
- The focus of this course is on recognizing health inequalities locally and beyond. Students will examine why communities in both the Global North and South do not have equitable access to high-quality health services and most importantly what can be done to promote equity.
- INTSTDS 3450 "Human Rights: An Introduction"
- Provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the conceptual history as well as the practice of human rights and its connection to global and domestic citizenship. It traces the evolution of the concept of rights, which emerges from modern revolutions and expands citizenship rights around the world, and explores how these events are connected with the emergence of global conceptions of rights.
- INTSTDS 3350 "Introduction to Western Europe"
- Presents an introductory overview of the historical background to modern Western Europe. It surveys the development of society & politics, as well as the evolution of art and music.
- INTSTDS 4873 "Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context"
- Examination of contemporary religious movements within the context of larger political, cultural, and economic processes, including post-colonialism, modernization, and globalization. Cross-listed with RELSTDS 4873.
- ISLAM 3201 "Muslims in America and Europe: Citizenship and Living Between Worlds"
- What does it mean to live as modern Muslims in western societies? How do they cope with prejudice, Islamophobia, traditions, integration, war, migration, and new opportunities? We explore the experiences of religious minorities in the U.S. and Europe for Muslims whose families are originally from the Arab world, Iran, South Asia, Turkey, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.
- JEWSHST 3480 "Israel/Palestine: History of the Present"
- The course will enable students to reflect on the ways in which the past informs interpretations of the present and the ways in which the present informs interpretations of the past. The course will adopt a broad definition of the “present", investigating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict primarily against the background of the collapse of the Oslo peace process in the early 2000s.
- LING 3605 "Language and Social Justice"
- This course introduces students to the role that language plays in both affording and denying citizens their rights to equal treatment and opportunity under the law.
- LING 4602 "Language and Belonging in the U.S."
- Relationships between language and social diversity in the general American speech community; discussion of how individuals and social groups distinguish themselves on the basis of language. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- MUSIC 3364 "Musical Citizenship: Activism, Advocacy and Engagement in Sound"
- This course examines the sonic expressions of people's status, identity, rights, and duties as political subjects across multiple scales of place. We will consider the value of cultural advocacy in the public sector and social activism in the public sphere and the importance of partnering with (non)governmental institutions, community organizations, and grassroots affiliates to advance musical art.
- MUSIC 3364E "Musical Citizenship: Activism, Advocacy and Engagement in Sound"
- This course examines the sonic expressions of people's status, identity, rights, and duties as political subjects across multiple scales of place. We will consider the value of cultural advocacy in the public sector and social activism in the public sphere and the importance of partnering with (non)governmental institutions, community organizations, and grassroots affiliates to advance musical art.
- NELC 3025 "Citizenship and Diaspora: Living in Between Countries and Cultures"
- This course examines histories, lived experiences, and artistic representations of citizenship and diaspora. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on South Asia, specifically India/Pakistan, and the Middle East, specifically Israel/Palestine, two societies in which citizenship and diaspora have been particularly significant and complex, as well as diasporic communities in the US. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with SASIA 3025.
- PHILOS 2332.01 "Engineering Ethics for a Diverse and Just World"
- This course provides students in engineering fields analytical and critical tools to become ethically attuned citizens who promote and sustain justice in a diverse world.
- PHILOS 2332.02 "Engineering Ethics for a Diverse and Just World with High Impact Research"
- This course provides students in engineering fields analytical and critical tools to become ethically attuned citizens who promote and sustain justice in a diverse world. Course requires an original research project. Approved as a 4-credit hours High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry.
- PHILOS 2390 "Ethics and Leadership in a Diverse World"
- Students will engage with leading scholarship on the justification of authority, democratic citizenship, morally responsible decision-making, and virtue ethics to understand how citizenship in a just and diverse society shapes our ideals and practices of ethical leadership.
- PHILOS 3221 "Philosophy and the Just Society in the Classical Islamic World"
- Surveying the development and major subjects and thinkers of the most vivid period of Arabic philosophy. Cross-listed with ARABIC 3601.
- PHILOS 3440 "Theorizing Race"
- Introduction to issues of "race," consideration of the historical emergence and development of ideas of "race" and of racist practices, along with their contemporary formations. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3440.
- PHILOS 5440 "Philosophical Perspectives on Race, Education, and Citizenship"
- This course allows participants to pursue philosophical questions at the intersection of race, education, and political life. These include: Does education play a very specific role in racialized patterns of benefit/detriment? What role does race play in understandings of educational policy & practice? How does race affect understandings of 'education for citizenship'?
- PHR 3540 "Health Citizenship: Advocacy and Change-Making"
- The goal of the Health Citizenship: Advocacy and Change-Making elective is to build a foundation of knowledge of historical and current state and federal issues that impact healthcare and cultivate skills to become effective changemakers to improve the healthcare system.
- POLITSC 2110 "American Government Culture and Behavior"
- Focuses on political elites, theories of American Democracy, development of institutions, and importance of mass political behavior and organized interests.
- POLITSC 2120 "Follow the Science: The Politics of Health"
- In the 20th Century, chronic conditions became the leading killers of Americans and the federal government came to play a much more expansive role in health, including the approval of treatments, regulation of harmful substances, promotion of healthy habits, and funding healthcare. Students will survey these developments and apply the resulting insights to contemporary health policy debates.
- POLITSC 2145 "Native American Politics"
- Overview of the politics and governance of Native Americans. Topics include diversity of political structures designed by Indigenous peoples in North America, their dynamic relationships with the US federal government, the major historical events relevant to Native politics, and salient contemporary issues in Native American politics.
- POLITSC 2150 "Voters and Elections"
- Students will engage in an in-depth study of the mechanics of democracy. Students will take a close look at various forms of voting and representation around the world and examine the motivation and tactics of elite actors (candidates, reporters, interest groups, political parties, media personalities, etc.) and the voting public.
- PSYCH 2750S "Empowering Minds: The Science and Politics of Reading"
- Equitable access to literacy is critical to being an active citizen. We introduce an overview of reading as a cognitive process and socio-political act. We aim to provide students with the tools necessary to advocate for evidence-based literacy policies. Students will participate in community literacy programs. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning.
- PSYCH 3900 "A Practical Guide to Ruling the World"
- Contemporary and historical research research as applied to governing and the governed, including social and political psychology, behavioral economics, and more. Reading and discourse on psychological research including: flags and symbols, authoritarianism, patriotism, protests and rebellion, taxation, the media, police psychology, conspiracy theories, and immigration.
- PUBAFRS 2120 "Public Service and Civic Engagement"
- This course introduces students to the role an engaged citizenry plays in a democracy. Students will explore trends in civic engagement, the reasons behind these trends, and their consequences; along with issues of social equity in engagement and strategies to increase civic participation.
- PUBAFRS 2150 "Nonprofit Organizing for Diversity and Justice"
- The nonprofit sector is one of the primary venues in which Americans engage in citizenship behaviors, while also serving multiple roles which are central to the advancement of a well-functioning democracy. Through a combination of readings, writings, dialogic debates, and guest speakers, students will become informed nonprofit sector stakeholders and participants.
- PUBAFRS 3210 "Civics, the Making of Law, and the Development and Implementation of Public Policy"
- This course is an introduction to the range of topics that exists at the intersection of civics, public policy, and law. It provides a grounding in the operation of the three branches of American government and the complexities of their interrelationships, as well as the democratic challenge of organizing them for the promotion of the common good and the advancement of a just & equitable society. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.
- PUBAFRS 3220 "Citizenship in the Age of Big Data: Law, Technology, and Social Justice"
- This course equips students with an in-depth understanding of civil liberties and rights during a time of swift technological transformation. We will explore what it means to be a citizen in the age of big data and how technological transformations can either uphold or challenge core constitutional protections. Key focal points include surveillance, algorithmic bias, and free speech.
- RELSTDS 3678 "Religion and American Culture"
- Thematic approach to the intersections of religion and American culture, with attention to varied topics such as pluralism, nationalism, race, gender, sexuality, law, media, science, economics, and popular culture. 2370 recommended.
- RELSTDS 3680 "Religion and Law in Comparative Perspective"
- Comparative, interdisciplinary approach to studying religion and law. Drawing on concrete cases, historical studies, and theoretical literature, the course explores how the relationship between religion and law has been configured differently in different liberal democracies, such as the U.S., France, and Israel, and what this might mean for contemporary debates. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3680.
- RELSTDS 4873 "Contemporary Religious Movements in Global Context"
- Examination of contemporary religious movements within the context of larger political, cultural, and economic processes, including post-colonialism, modernization, and globalization. Cross-listed with INTSTDS 4873.
- PHILOS 3440 "Theorizing Race"
- Introduction to issues of "race," consideration of the historical emergence and development of ideas of "race" and of racist practices, along with their contemporary formations. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3440.
- SASIA 3025 "Citizenship and Diaspora: Living in Between Countries and Cultures"
- This course examines histories, lived experiences, and artistic representations of citizenship and diaspora. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on South Asia, specifically India/Pakistan, and the Middle East, specifically Israel/Palestine, two societies in which citizenship and diaspora have been particularly significant and complex, as well as diasporic communities in the US. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with NELC 3025.
- SASIA 3220 "Citizenship in South Asia"
- By way of examining literature, historical accounts, primary writings from known historical figures, and contemporary Indian film, this course engages students with a look at how citizenship is imagined in nation states, how it was imagined in colonial India, and how it is manifest in post-colonial South Asia.
- SASIA 3456 "Global Changemakers"
- This course explores what it means to be a global changemaker, emphasizing critical thinking, truth- telling, and advocacy for change. Students will study the qualities of changemakers through and examine global citizenship, cultural diversity, and social equity. Team-taught with faculty members in German and Slavic. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with German & Slavic 3456.
- SASIA 3635 "Desi Diaspora: South Asians in the United States"
- This course is designed as a multi-disciplinary introduction to communities with South Asian heritage who live in the United States of America. The material for the class centers on the South Asian diaspora in the US. The class aims to teach students the connections between diasporas, identities, nationalism, citizenship, and if diasporic communities’ have lived experiences that are unique.
- SASIA 3625 "Understanding Bollywood, knowing India: Hindi Cinema since 1960"
- Explores life in India from the lens of Hindi language cinema. Course engages with social class, gender, sexuality, Indian diaspora in the West, family structure, marriage, politics, caste, language (special focus on multilingualism in India), religion, and globalization, and how these relate to lived experiences of people in Indian society. Not for Film Studies credit.
- SCANDVN 3270 "Revenge"
- Revenge is the engine of the medieval Icelandic sagas, stories of a Viking Age society just beyond the reach of kings, where honor is the main currency, and a pithy verse or a legal stratagem may overmatch even a steel axe. Learn about the workings of blood feud, about a distant society’s concepts of citizenship and justice, and find unexpected parallels in our here and now.
- SLAVIC 2797.02 "Central European Study Abroad"
- Introduction to the history, geography, and politics of Hungary and Poland. This program explores contemporary Central Europe through a historical lens, addressing questions of cultural identity, citizenship, diversity, and justice through on-site study in Budapest and Warsaw. No prior knowledge of Hungary or Poland required.
- SLAVIC 3320.01 "Queer Comrades: Sexual Citizenship and LGBTQ Lives in Eastern Europe"
- Through the lens of film, literature, theater, and art, this course explores what it means to be a queer citizen of Eastern Europe. Countering ideas of inherent backwardness, which tend to erase the existence of a diverse group of people, we will get to know works of art that bear witness to the wealth of queer experiences in 20th-century Eastern Europe.
- SLAVIC 3320.02 "Queer Comrades (and Zines): Research Focused Sexual Citizenship and LGBTQ Lives in Eastern Europe"
- *Researched-focused section* Through the lens of film, literature, and art, this course explores what it means to be a queer citizen of Eastern Europe. Countering ideas of inherent backwardness of the region, we will get to know works of art that bear witness to the wealth of queer experiences in 20th century Eastern Europe. Includes a semester-long research project involving zine making. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry.
- SLAVIC 3456 "Global Changemakers"
- This course explores what it means to be a global changemaker, emphasizing critical thinking, truth- telling, and advocacy for change. Students will study the qualities of changemakers through and examine global citizenship, cultural diversity, and social equity. Team-taught with faculty members in German and South Asian Studies. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with German and SASIA 3456.
- SLAVIC 3711 "Theatre, Identity, and Citizenship in Eastern Europe"
- How have theatre and performance reflected on issues of citizenship in Eastern Europe? How have they wrestled with the national, ethnic, gender, religious, and cultural identities of their authors, performers, and audiences? This course approaches these questions from multiple angles—through readings and discussions as well as theatrical practice of staging scenes from our plays. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with THEATRE 3711.
- SLAVIC 3995 "Transnational Critical Literacy: Media, Race, and Citizenship"
- This course draws together scholarship in media literacy and media race representations in transnational contexts and, more specifically, in East European area studies, and critical media literacy in education to comparatively examine how citizenship is constructed and “taught” through media. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EDUTL 3995.
- SOCIOL 2368 "Urban Social Problems"
- The place of the city in social organization; the emergence, nature, and problems of modern urbanism; projects based in census and field data.
- SOCIOL 3200.01 "Sociology of Immigration"
- Provides a sociological understanding of contemporary migration both globally and with a particular focus on the U.S. The course will examine why migration occurs; how it is sustained over time; and how immigrants are incorporated into the host society. Social relations as central to understanding immigration will be a focus of the course.
- SOCIOL 3200.02 "Sociology of Immigration"
- Provides a sociological understanding of contemporary migration both globally and with a particular focus on the U.S. The course will examine why migration occurs; how it is sustained over time; and how immigrants are incorporated into the host society. Social relations as central to understanding immigration will be a focus of the course. COIL version. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- SOCIOL 3306 "Sociology of Poverty"
- A study of low-income peoples, especially concerning the effect of poverty on them, and their consequent social participation.
- SOCIOL 3597.01 "World Problems in Global Context"
- Sociological analysis of contemporary world societies - non-industrialized, industrializing, and industrialized - with special attention to major social institutions and patterns of social change.
- SOCIOL 3597.02 "World Population Problems"
- General introduction to population studies, emphasizing how population growth and structure have caused or aggravated social problems in various countries.
- SOCIOL 3798.03 "Genocide and its Aftermath in Rwanda"
- Course explores the 1994 Rwandan genocide through active learning experiences in Rwanda. Topics include: origins and causes of the genocide in Rwanda and globally; forms of violence, participants, and victims; aftermath and legal response including gacaca courts and collective memories; and human rights, development, and economic growth in Rwanda today.
- SOCIOL 4462 "Advanced Social Stratification"
- In-depth theoretical and empirical questions driving the field of inequality, poverty, and social mobility in the 21st century will be explored. We will focus on class, race, and gender inequality in the US, though the course will also develop tools for understanding inequality and poverty across times and places. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- SPANISH 3798.11 "Bolivia: Cultures and Identities"
- This interdisciplinary course introduces students to the History, Politics, Cultures, and Identities of Bolivia. It explores its main geographical regions; the heritage and traditions of its peoples; and the different political and cultural currents within the country and its different regions. Students will be encouraged to think critically about Bolivia, the U.S. and different global forces. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- THEATRE 3711 "Theatre, Identity, and Citizenship in Eastern Europe"
- How have theatre and performance reflected on issues of citizenship in Eastern Europe? How have they wrestled with the national, ethnic, gender, religious, and cultural identities of their authors, performers, and audiences? This course approaches these questions from multiple angles—through readings and discussions as well as theatrical practice of staging scenes from our plays. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with SLAVIC 3711.
- THEATRE 3712 "American Justice on Stage: Self-images from 1830-Present"
- This course will explore how American justice is depicted on stage and in popular entertainment from the 1830s-present. Looking at various productions that focus on diverse American identities and communities, we will consider the historical development of what it means to be an American citizen, and how American justice is perceived and disseminated through its dramatized self-representations.
- TURKISH 3350 "Contemporary Issues in Turkey"
- This course provides an introduction to contemporary issues in Turkey. It interweaves the lived realities of present-day Turkish citizens with significant historical dates, personalities, and events. It considers the lives of communities on the margins and the various strategies they employ in everyday life to navigate expectations of family, community, and state.
- TURKISH 3797 "Virtual Education Abroad in Istanbul, Turkey"
- The course offers a virtual education abroad experience that includes immersive opportunities such as virtual reality visits to important sites in Istanbul, online conversations and collaborations with students in Turkey, and workshops and demonstrations with Turkish scholars and artists in cooking, music and dance, language, and more.
- WGSST 2702 "Gender and Citizenship in Modern Arabic Literature"
- Reading and analysis of representative works of the 19th and 20th centuries; by contemporary women authors. Cross-listed with ARABIC 2702.
- WGSST 3084 "Citizens Behind Bars: Black Leadership and the Politics of Liberation in African American History"
- Every day more human beings are locked inside of jails, prisons, or secured facilities across the United States than in any other country on the planet. This course explores the history of citizenship in captivity and the legacy of liberatory movements led by incarcerated citizens in the US from the era of settler colonization and slavery to the present age of mass incarceration. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3084 & HISTORY 3084.
- WGSST 3200 "Gender & Law"
- This course explores the intersection of law, citizenship, and the construction of gender, sexuality, and race, framed through diverse feminist perspectives on justice. By investigating the ways in which law influences experiences of belonging, we critically assess relationships between legal systems and justice.
- WGSST 3340 "Border Citizens: Latinx Gender Studies"
- Often deemed outsiders and foreigners in US soil, Latinxs thinkers have complicated and diversified our definitions of citizenship. The class will not only address the struggles over citizenship rights endured by this community, it will also expose students to Latinx theories and visions of national belonging across various borders and binaries. Cross-listed with ETHNSTD 3340.
- WGSST 3370 "Sexualities and Citizenship"
- We explore the intersections between sexuality and citizenship by approaching citizenship from three different analytic frames, including: citizenship as a (negative and positive) mechanism of state power; citizenship as an international mechanism for global recourse; and citizenship as a community-based ethos.
- WGSST 4403 "Gender, Race & Leadership"
- This course explores citizenship and leadership by analyzing case studies of leadership from women and people of color throughout American history. Using both activist and scholarly perspectives, students will explore and challenge modes of leadership through the intersectional lens of race and gender, with an emphasis on the role of citizens and citizenship in what it means to be a leader.
- WGSST 4520 "Women of Color and Social Activism"
- Examination of multiple forms of social activism among women of color from various parts of the world concerning local, national, and international issues including broader social justice issues such as racism, sexism, immigration, incarceration, medicine, civil rights, citizenship, political economy, population control, and environmentalism.
- WGSST 4921 "Intersections: Approaches to Theorizing Difference"
- Examines intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender diversity in various sites within American culture (e.g., legal system, civil rights discourse, social justice movements).
- YIDDISH 3399 "The Holocaust in Yiddish Writing and Film"
- We will analyze texts, films & other media produced during and after the Holocaust & consider how these materials open up different perspectives on a seemingly well-known history. We will also consider how these materials participate in ongoing debates about citizenship & statelessness, justice & restitution, the representation of violence, and cultural memory. Readings & discussion in English.
- AFAMAST 2367.07S "Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus"
- This service-learning course focuses on collecting and preserving literacy narratives of Columbus-area Black communities. Through engagement with community partners, students refine skills in research, analysis, and composition; students synthesize information, create arguments about discursive/visual/cultural artifacts, and reflect on the literacy and life-history narratives of Black Columbus. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning. Cross-listed with ENGLISH 2367.07S.
- AFAMAST 3260 "Global Black Cultural Movements"
- This course focuses on hemispheric studies in the Americas, examining black cultural movements emerging after emancipation through the present. It considers the ways people of African descent in the Americas have used cultural productions--literature, poetry, film, music, visual art, and performance--to construct identities; agitate for equality; and understand aesthetics as political and beautiful.
- AFAMAST 3310 "Global Perspectives on the African Diaspora"
- Study of historical processes, key figures and ideas, and cultural expressions of the worldwide dispersion of people of African descent from different times and places.
- AGRCOMM 2330 "Public Perceptions of Agricultural and Environmental Issues"
- Students will explore vital issues in food, agricultural, and environmental sciences and be exposed to methods to critically evaluate, effectively communicate, and influence decisions made about these issues. They will engage with issue stakeholders and investigate the impacts that their varying perceptions have on the food system, the environment, and society. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- ANTHROP 3072 "The Newark Earthworks, An Interdisciplinary Course"
- This course is designed to give students an opportunity to learn about the indigenous peoples of ancient Ohio, an amazing complex of earthen mounds they created, and the many ways we can know about and further study them.
- ANTHROP 3360 "The Anthropology of Human-Animal Shared Environments"
- This course introduces multispecies studies – a field of research and writing that examines nonhuman life forms as objects of analysis and as beings with relevant social, biological, and political lives. We will explore how multispecies scholars engage with nonhumans across multiple dynamic worlds utilizing a range of classic and emerging theoretical frameworks.
- ANTHROP 3411 "Human Ecological Adaptations"
- A study of the interactive relationships between humans and their environments, past and present, with a focus on human biology.
- ANTHROP 3623 "Environmental Anthropology"
- Theory and ethnographic examples of human-environment interactions, focusing on the role of culture and behavior in environmental adaptation.
- ARABIC 3702 "Place, Space, and Migration in Modern Arabic Literature and Film"
- This course on modern Arabic literature and culture in translation focuses on questions of belonging, relationship to space, and migration. It examines how Arabic literary narratives, films, documentaries, and other arts have imagined modes of belonging to spaces such as cities and nations, the natural world (and even the universe!) from the early postcolonial period to the present.
- ART 3011 "Art and Science: Learning with Plants"
- Through knowing, learning, and sharing, we will investigate plants and their relationships with humans. Scientific methods such as microscopy, experiment design, data recording, and analysis will be used alongside artistic methods of observation, speculation, rendering visible, and creative synthesis. Discoveries will be documented as scientific reports and artwork will be created. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with Molecular Genetics 3011.
- ASTRON 2020 "The Night Sky"
- This course uses the planetarium and observations of the sky to understand the motion of the Sun, Moon, and planets, and how humans have interpreted them. It considers the large number of foreign worlds that have been discovered orbiting the Sun and other stars, and visualizes their skies. It reflects on how the night sky affects human cultures, and how it might affect cultures on other worlds.
- BIOLOGY 2750 "Scientific Thought in an Anecdotal World"
- Examination of the intersection of modern biological methodologies with the cultural environment, focusing on the sharing of information, identification of validated biological discovery, and comparison with misinformation encountered in our lived environment.
- CLAS 3700 "Pompeii"
- This course investigates the cities and sites destroyed by Vesuvius, including the urban fabric of Pompeii and Herculaneum. We will look at Pompeii’s urban design, public and private spheres and their decoration, and at the wider cultural, geographical and historical contexts of the art produced by and for its residents.
- CLAS 3701 "Domestic Space and Public Life in the Roman World"
- In this course, we study ancient Roman domestic spaces (houses, apartments, villas, and palaces) and the relationship between these spaces and the built and natural environments of the ancient Roman world. Our goals are to understand the distinct significance of domestic space in the Roman world and to reflect on what housing means for us in our own environments and communities.
- COMM 2331 "Strategic Communication Principles"
- The role of strategic communication in business, including basic principles of integrated marketing, theory, and ethical standards.
- COMPSTD 3072 "The Newark Earthworks, An Interdisciplinary Course"
- This course is designed to give students an opportunity to learn about the indigenous peoples of ancient Ohio, an amazing complex of earthen mounds they created, and the many ways we can know about and further study them.
- CYBRSEC 2111 "Social Engineering: Spams, Scams, and Saving your Assets"
- Cyberspace connects people and technology, but humans often misunderstand this ecosystem, leaving them vulnerable to Social Engineering. Students will learn about social engineering tactics, manipulation, and defense strategies and the ethical use of this knowledge. Students will be taught to create their own presentation to train a demographic to detect, avoid, and defend against such attacks.
- EARTHSC 2206 "Principles of Oceanography"
- Introduction to the four basic disciplines of oceanography: biological, geological, chemical, and physical. Relevance of oceanography in contemporary issues.
- EARTHSC 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EEOB and History. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EEOB 2911 and HISTORY 2911.
- EARTHSC 5242 "Exploring the Natural History of The Bahamas"
- The study of the geology and natural history of the small Bahamian island of San Salvador including an international 7-day field trip to the island during spring break. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- EDUTL 3101 "Playing Our Way Into Learning"
- Playing is at the heart of being human. In this course we'll play together as we explore the significance of theories and practices of playful learning and teaching in informal as well as formal settings.
- EDUTL 4303 "Language, Diversity, and Education"
- This course is designed to develop your critical language awareness with respect to language diversity and to prepare you to engage effectively with linguistically diverse populations in educational contexts. We explore language diversity, how it shapes teaching and learning, and how we can reshape linguistic environments to make them more equitable.
- EEOB 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EEOB and History. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EARTHSC 2911 and HISTORY 2911.
- ENGLISH 2367.05 "Writing About the U.S. Folk Experience"
- Concepts of American folklore and ethnography; folk groups, tradition, and fieldwork methodology; how these contribute to the development of critical reading, writing, and thinking skills in the context of lived environments.
- ENGLISH 2367.08 "The U.S. Experience: Writing About Video Games and Virtual Worlds"
- Emphasizes persuasive and researched writing, revision, and composing in various forms and media. Focusing on digital literacy, development of critical thinking skills and skill in producing analytical prose, students explore key conversations in the field of game studies and analyze a variety types of video game writing. No prior knowledge of video games or game studies is required.
- ENGLISH 2367.07S "Literacy Narratives of Black Columbus"
- This service-learning course focuses on collecting and preserving literacy narratives of Columbus-area Black communities. Through engagement with community partners, students refine skills in research, analysis, and composition; students synthesize information, create arguments about discursive/visual/cultural artifacts, and reflect on the literacy and life-history narratives of Black Columbus. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 2367.07S.
- ENGLISH 3019 "The Language of Place: Interpreting our Surroundings"
- This is a course in the rhetorical theory and analysis of space and place as meaningful human product. Students examine the rhetorical purpose and effect of space and place as concept or idea, specific location, as metaphor, metonym, or icon, as local marker or national or global landmark, and learn to appreciate how the visuo-spatial experience of places and spaces profoundly impacts our lives.
- ENGLISH "3350 “Time & Space Travel in Science Fiction”
- This course will focus on a classic trope in science fiction: traveling to imaginary lands and times. Travel has allowed writers to reimagine human relationships to lived environments by inviting comparisons between the past and present, between the here and there.
- ENGLISH 3360 "Ecopoetics"
- 'Ecopoetics' is a thematic literature course focused on interpretation and analysis of literary texts that represent interactions between humans and the natural world within specific cultural and historical settings, through a contextual examination of how human activity has impacted the environment, how social and natural systems interact, and the long-term impact of human choices.
- ENR 3500 "Community, Environment, and Development"
- Social change related to natural resource and environmental issues. Includes a focus on community-level initiatives, environmental social movements, and issues of environmental justice.
- ENR 3500H "Community, Environment and Development"
- Social change related to natural resource and environmental issues. Includes a focus on community-level initiatives, environmental social movements, and issues of environmental justice.
- FAES 3797.05 "Panama: Through the Lens of AgriCulture, Diversity and Sustainability
- Provide perspective of agriculture and other economic sectors that influence food, fiber, and fuel. Designed to educate and prepare students to experience various applications of agriculture and production systems within socioeconomic and ethnically diverse contexts. 4 credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- FRENCH 2803.01 "Paris"
- Exploration of the lived environment of the city of Paris through the study of its history, geography, population, and cultural production, including but not limited to art, architecture, cinema, literature, and fashion.
- FRIT 3061 "Mediterranean Food Cultures"
- This course approaches food as a way of talking about culture and identity in an ever-changing world of human and environmental interactions. Through the study of literature, film, music, and social media, it explores how the lived environments of the regions surrounding the Mediterranean Sea have shaped and continue to shape their cuisines and thus their cultural identities.
- GEOG 2200 "How to Map Your World: Visualizing Space and Place"
- This course introduces students to the power of maps in spatial representation and spatial literacy through the creation of thematic maps and analysis of descriptive statistics, probabilities, and hypothesis testing. students will utilize geographic information technology to create a variety of thematic maps which aid in critically evaluating issues present in our global society.
- GEOG 2500 "Cities and their Global Spaces"
- Globalization and urbanization; urban economies, spaces, and societies; function, form, and pattern in developed and developing world cities.
- GEOG 3703 "Living with Artificial Intelligence"
- This course examines issues surrounding AI from the vantage point of human geography, which broadly engages the construction of personal, social, cultural, political, economic, and ecological spaces in relation to societal developments. Effects of AI sweep across space, yet unevenly as individuals and groups experience it differently.
- GEOG 3800 "Geographical Perspectives on Environment and Society"
- Geographical understanding of interactions between society and environment; how historical and contemporary views of the environment influence people's actions toward the environment and other people.
- GERMAN 3352 "The Development of Contemporary Dresden"
- Investigation of German life and culture, past and present, through an exploration of the city of Dresden and surroundings; summer study abroad course with first-hand experience of German culture. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- GERMAN 3689 "Words Across The World"
- Language, at the heart of our social life, drives much of what humans do: converse, convey beliefs and views, label, categorize, include and exclude people. We'll critically examine how we use language to interact with our lived environments (LE); analyze and discover ways in which words are used and manipulated to impact our LE; and how changes and developments in our LE can have a direct effect on language. Cross-listed with NELC 3689 & SPANISH 3689.
- HISTART 3905 "The Developing World on Screen"
- Exploration of the relationships between the lived environments of the developing world and their representations in film. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with INTSTDS 3905.
- HISTART 4798.03 "Gothic Art, Architecture, and Ecology in Paris"
- This course investigates the cathedrals of Gothic Paris and the Ile de France, the most famous monuments of European medieval art. The course explores the history of these buildings in their cultural, political, social, artistic, environmental, and ecological contexts. The course covers medieval buildings but also the sculptures, stained glass, textiles, and precious objects that filled them.
- HISTART 4798.04 "Venice Past/Present/Future: Art, Architecture, and Environment in the Lagoon City"
- This Education Abroad class looks Venice as a singular site, one with extreme and exceptional environmental conditions. This precarious habitat influenced the production of unique forms of art, architecture, civil engineering, politics, government, and culture over the last 1500 years. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- HISTORY 2206 "History of Paris, Origins to the Present"
- A history of Paris, France, as told through the human stories of its diverse inhabitants and shaped by the collective memories and stories surrounding the legendary City of Lights. Using a social and cultural history of the city, the course will examine and analyze the rich, complex, and multi-faceted environments that have shaped life in Paris for more than two millennia.
- HISTORY 2701 "History of Technology"
- Survey of the history of technology in global context from ancient times.
- HISTORY 2710 "History of the Car"
- The car has shaped the world we live in today. Ideas of capitalism, technology, and consumerism are inherently linked to its creation and expansion in modern society. This course will examine the development of the car in the 20th century, first in the United States and then how its global expansion has come to define global society today.
- HISTORY 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EarthSc and EEOB. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EEOB 2911 and EarthSC 2911.
- HISTORY 3072 "The Newark Earthworks, An Interdisciplinary Course"
- This course is designed to give students an opportunity to learn about the indigenous peoples of ancient Ohio, an amazing complex of earthen mounds they created, and the many ways we can know about and further study them.
- HTHRHSC 4700 "Global Aging"
- Study of health and well-being of older adults in developed and developing countries and immigrant communities with the exploration of impact and requirements within the lived environment.
- INTSTDS 3905 "The Developing World on Screen"
- Exploration of the relationships between the lived environments of the developing world and their representations in film. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with HISTART 3905.
- KNOW 2310 "Seeing and Making"
- Introduction to the design of the physical environment through direct experience and practices of making, including urban walks, drawing and physical model making. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- KNSISM 3100 "Where Sport Happens"
- An examination of spaces & places where sport occurs: playground, park, pitch, course, field house, rink, arena, ballpark, racetrack, stadia, etc. Students explore how/where/why such spaces get built; how players/participants/spectators define themselves within boundaries; the impact on local economies, community identities, national images; changes over time; & how they are imagined/re-imagined.
- LING 3501 "American Indigenous Languages in Context"
- This interdisciplinary course explores Indigenous languages of the Americas and their speakers, histories, and ecologies. It engages with concepts in linguistics, anthropology, and biology in order to understand how environmental factors shape language structure and linguistic diversity, in ways that render Indigenous languages distinct from majority or colonial languages.
- LING 3603 "Language Across Cultures"
- Investigation of relationships between language and culture in different societies with a view to shedding light on cross-cultural similarities and differences.
- LING 3803 "Ethics of Language Technology"
- Students will learn about how language processing systems are created, and at what
steps in the process bias and unfairness might creep in. They will learn about efforts to define, detect and quantify bias, and how different ethical principles can lead to different results. Finally, students will discuss different ways to remedy the ethical problems of language technology.
- Students will learn about how language processing systems are created, and at what
- MEDREN 3211 "Medieval Kyoto: Portraits and Landscapes"
- Exploration of cultural, political and economic life in Kyoto, Japan from ca. 900-1467 with emphasis on role of imperial court and rising warrior class. Taught in English.
- MEDREN 3217 "Shakespeare's London"
- A study of the history, society, and culture of London in the age of Shakespeare and the Tudors and Stuarts from the Protestant Reformation to the Great Fire (1666).
- MOLGEN 3011 "Art and Science: Learning with Plants"
- Through knowing, learning, and sharing, we will investigate plants and their relationships with humans. Scientific methods such as microscopy, experiment design, data recording, and analysis will be used alongside artistic methods of observation, speculation, rendering visible, and creative synthesis. Discoveries will be documented as scientific reports and artwork will be created. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with ART 3011.
- MUSIC 3352 "Soundscapes of Ohio"
- This course examines the historical and present-day sonic lived environment of Central Ohio. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- NELC 2244 "Films of the Middle East"
- Overview of contemporary films from different Middle Eastern countries; how filmmakers of the region view, present, and construct their countries using particular modes of representation.
- NELC 3667 "Messages from Beyond: Divination, Prophecy, and the Occult in Religion and Culture"
- In this course, we will explore how people from antiquity to our time have sought to find meaning in the complexity and uncertainty around their physical and social environment to access what they perceived as hidden realms as sources of meaning. Students will learn how messages from beyond guide their daily lives, provide them with sources of authority or companionship for their art of philosophy. Cross-listed with RELSTDS 3667.
- NELC 3689 "Words Across The World"
- Language, at the heart of our social life, drives much of what humans do: converse, convey beliefs and views, label, categorize, include and exclude people. We'll critically examine how we use language to interact with our lived environments (LE); analyze and discover ways in which words are used and manipulated to impact our LE; and how changes and developments in our LE can have a direct effect on language. Cross-listed with GERMAN 3689 & SPANISH 3689.
- PUBHLTH 3310 "Current Issues in Global Environmental Health"
- Fundamental concepts and principles of environmental health are presented through a critical review and discussion of current issues in global environmental health.
- RELSTDS 3667 "Messages from Beyond: Divination, Prophecy, and the Occult in Religion and Culture"
- In this course, we will explore how people from antiquity to our time have sought to find meaning in the complexity and uncertainty around their physical and social environment to access what they perceived as hidden realms as sources of meaning. Students will learn how messages from beyond guide their daily lives, provide them with sources of authority or companionship for their art of philosophy. Cross-listed with NELC 3667.
- RUSSIAN 3360 "Russian Landscapes: Nature and the Environment in Russian-Language Literature, Film, and Art"
- We will explore how writers, poets, film directors, painters, and thinkers of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation have depicted the diverse natural surroundings, including grasslands, steppe, desert, tundra, mountains, and their relation to the people who inhabit them.
- SLAVIC 3370 "Cultures of Manufacturing: Environments of Industrial Production in the Czech Lands"
- This course focuses on the impact of industrial modernity on human culture through an environmental lens. How does manufacturing labor create changing environments that determine the interaction between humans—from the workplace to society at large? We study these questions through the lens of culture, in workshops, and during a week-long study abroad in Czechia. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.
- SPANISH 3689 "Words Across The World"
- Language, at the heart of our social life, drives much of what humans do: converse, convey beliefs and views, label, categorize, include and exclude people. We'll critically examine how we use language to interact with our lived environments (LE); analyze and discover ways in which words are used and manipulated to impact our LE; and how changes and developments in our LE can have a direct effect on language. Cross-listed with GERMAN 3689 & NELC 3689.
- THEATRE 4500 "Costumes on Screen: Storytelling through Clothing"
- This course is an introduction to costume as it relates to the creation and interpretation of lived environments in film, television, and other media through storytelling and the visual and embodied communication of clothing. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry.
- AEDE 2501 "Introduction to Sustainability"
- This high-impact research course introduces students to principles from various disciplines related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Students will evaluate key concepts and examine tradeoffs that are a part of sustainability action using case studies representing diverse perspectives. Cross-listed with ENR 2501.
- AEDE 2501E "Introduction to Sustainability"
- Introduces students to principles from various disciplines related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Students will evaluate key concepts and examine tradeoffs that are a part of sustainability action using case studies representing diverse perspectives.Team-taught course with faculty member in ENR. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with ENR 2501E.
- ANTHROP 3050 "Social and Ecological Systems: From Problems to Prospects"
- This high-impact research course surveys the diverse past, present, and future of human-environment relationships. Students will investigate key contemporary issues, discover their cultural and historical causes, and explore how constructive solutions can be achieved. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- ANTHROP 3411 "Human Ecological Adaptations"
- A study of the interactive relationships between humans and their environments, past and present, with a focus on human biology.
- ANTHROP 3623 "Environmental Anthropology"
- Theory and ethnographic examples of human-environment interactions, focusing on the role of culture and behavior in environmental adaptation.
- ANTHROP 4597.03H "Models of Sustainability and Resilience, Lessons from the Past"
- History of modern biotic communities, biological evidence of climatic change during the late glacial and Holocene, and exploration of the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic functions.
- CIVILEN 3530 "Learning From Disasters: Extreme Events and Their Impact on Infrastructure, Engineering, and Society"
- Introduction to six dimensions of sustainability while learning the main impacts and threats caused by various extreme events through the study of academic publications and reports covering six major extreme events. Long term impacts and recovery from extreme events, how historical decisions in planning, engineering and/or urban development, legislation play important roles. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with EARTHSC 3530.
- COMM 2596 "Communicating Science, Health, Environment, & Risk"
- This course provides a general introduction to the fields of science, risk, environmental and health communication from multiple perspectives including psychological, social, cultural, and sustainability sciences. Students will apply theories and research covered in class to address real-world challenges of communicating science, health, environment, and risk to wide audiences.
- COMPSTD 4420 "Cultural Food Systems and Sustainability"
- Considering food as both a material good and marker of individual or collective identity, this interdisciplinary course asks students to think reflexively of how food and foodways (i.e., socio-cultural practices related to food production and consumption) are being transformed amid changing lived environments at various scales. This course includes a required agricultural experiential component.
- COMPSTD 4444 "The Sustainability Games"
- This course is all about "serious" games: games that go beyond mere entertainment and veer into learning-by-playing. Focusing our academic journey on sustainability-themed tabletop games -- en route to creating your own -- you and your fellow players will be challenged to deconstruct, assess, and envision a future where everyone has a seat at the table now and in the future. Who's ready to play?! Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- CRPLAN 3210 "Sustainable Urban Planning Policy and Practice"
- This is an undergraduate course on sustainable urban planning policy and practice. The course has been designed to provide theory and practice based experiences regarding the concept of sustainable development as it relates to planning. The focus of the course will be on the relationship between land use planning and sustainable development, although other planning subjects will be addressed.
- EARTHSC 2203 "Environmental Geoscience"
- Concepts and challenges of geological hazards and resources, environmental pollution, and health; regional and long-range planning; and global change and sustainability.
- EARTHSC 2210 "Energy, Mineral Resources, and Society"
- Geologic origin, world distribution, and uses of mineral resources critical to society; topics include mineral and fossil fuels, metallic ores, and industrial minerals.
- EARTHSC 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EEOB and History. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EEOB 2911 and HISTORY 2911.
- EARTHSC 3530 "Learning From Disasters: Extreme Events and Their Impact on Infrastructure, Engineering, and Society"
- Introduction to six dimensions of sustainability while learning the main impacts and threats caused by various extreme events through the study of academic publications and reports covering six major extreme events. Long term impacts and recovery from extreme events, how historical decisions in planning, engineering and/or urban development, legislation play important roles. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with CIVILEN 3530.
- EEOB 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EEOB and History. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EARTHSC 2911 and HISTORY 2911.
- ENGLISH 3020 "Writing About Sustainability"
- This course asks students to consider their place in the natural world by conducting primary and secondary research, analyzing data, composing and revising written arguments, and becoming more proficient with the conventions of academic discourses. We will employ rhetorical theory as one approach to engage in advanced, in-depth, and scholarly investigations about sustainability.
- ENGLISH 3022 "Media Sustainability"
- This course explores the sustainability of digital media infrastructure and its impact on the environment as well as the social and cultural effects of the web, analyzing the ecological impacts of producing and maintaining digital devices and the internet, the human cost of modern manufacturing practices, and the social and cultural upheavals caused by digital computing and networking.
- ENGLISH 3340 "Reimagining Climate Change"
- The course focuses on literature and media (fiction, non-fiction, film, video games, comics) that discuss the broad issue of climate change and the long relationship between humans and the environment.
- ENR 2501 "Introduction to Sustainability"
- This high-impact research course introduces students to principles from various disciplines related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Students will evaluate key concepts and examine tradeoffs that are a part of sustainability action using case studies representing diverse perspectives. Cross-listed with AEDE 2501.
- ENR 2501E "Introduction to Sustainability"
- Introduces students to principles from various disciplines related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Students will evaluate key concepts and examine tradeoffs that are a part of sustainability action using case studies representing diverse perspectives. Team-taught course with faculty member in AEDE. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with AEDE 2501E.
- ENR 3200 "Environmental and Natural Resources Policy"
- This course covers topics such as the constitutional foundations of environmental policy, the role of congress and the executive branch in designing policy and bureaucratic agencies in implementing them, and the courts system as the final arbiter for environmental disputes. It also covers some of the foundational legislation in the U.S. to protect the environment and advance sustainability.
- ENR 3400 "Psychology of Environmental Problems"
- The theory and psychology behind individual and group behavior as it relates to environmental problems.
- FABENG 3210 + 3211 "Introduction to Humanitarian Engineering"
- This course will introduce students to the field of Humanitarian Engineering, cover a variety of potential career paths in this field, explore engineering equations as they apply to problem solving in low-resource settings, introduce students to reflection and communication skills for working as engineers in sustainable development and discuss cultural constraints for engineering problems. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.
- FABENG 3400.01 "Sustainability of the Food Supply Chain"
- Sustainability of the food supply chain depends on the efficiency of transforming raw food materials into consumer food products. This course introduces key operations in each sector of the supply chain along with sustainability parameters, focusing on energy, water, and waste. Students will recognize the challenges of maintaining a sustainable food supply while minimizing environmental impact. Cross-listed with FDSCTE 3400.01.
- FDSCTE 3110 "Alternative Packaging for a Greener Environment"
- This Sustainability course focuses on the dependence of humans on earth and environmental systems through the lens of alternative packaging. Plastic packaging accounts for >30% of global plastic consumption. Sustainable alternatives to current packaging methods are urgently needed. This course addresses sustainability through the dimensions of engineering, technology, and design. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.
- FDSCTE 3400.01 "Sustainability of the Food Supply Chain"
- Sustainability of the food supply chain depends on the efficiency of transforming raw food materials into consumer food products. This course introduces key operations in each sector of the supply chain along with sustainability parameters, focusing on energy, water, and waste. Students will recognize the challenges of maintaining a sustainable food supply while minimizing environmental impact. Cross-listed with FABENG 3400.01.
- FRIT 3061 "Mediterranean Food Cultures"
- Considering it more than a biological necessity, this course approaches food as a way of approaching a region's cultures in an ever-changing world of human and environmental interactions and explores how concerns over agricultural sustainability thus translate into concerns over cultural specificity. Students will examine Mediterranean cuisines through literature, film, music, and social media.
- GEOG 3597.03 "Climate Justice"
- This is a course about the political economy of climate change and the political philosophy of climate justice.
- GEOG 3755 "Geography of the European Union and the Challenges of Sustainability"
- Study abroad in Cyprus. Geographic factors in the economic, social, and political progress of European integration; major problems of the area in the light of their geographic background. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Education Abroad & Away.
- GEOG 3801 "Political Ecology"
- Introduces students to a geographical school of nature-society thought. It situates PE in the hundred years of geographic thought on nature-society relations prior to PE's emergence in the 1970s, and follows how the field developed since then.
- GEOG 3900.01 "Global Climate Change: Causes and Consequences"
- An advanced overview of how Earth’s climate changes over time and engage the consequences currently facing our planet. Fundamentals of climate dynamics and broader political, economic, and legal dimensions are explained. Students will explore links between climate and society’s energy usage, then critically evaluate scale-specific strategies for mitigation and adaptation.
- GEOG 3900.02 "Global Climate Change: Causes & Consequences"
- An advanced overview of causes and consequences of Earth’s changing climate. It engages the fundamentals of climate dynamics and broader political, economic and legal dimensions. Student research investigates the nature and extent of a particular climate change consequence for society and critically evaluates strategies for mitigation and adaptation.
- GERMAN 3354.01 "From Viking Saga to Climate fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures"
- This course explores how sustainable human-nature relationships are conceived, represented, and reflected in the literatures of Nordic and German-speaking countries, from the medieval period to the present—e.g., in Icelandic saga; Gothic Romantic narrative; modern fairy tale; graphic novel; poetry; song; philosophical essay; and climate science-fiction. Cross-listed with SCANDVN 3354.01.
- GERMAN 3354.02 "From Viking Saga to Climate Fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures"
- This 4+ credit GE course explores how sustainable human-nature relationships are conceived, represented, and reflected in the literatures and cultures of Scandinavian, Nordic, and German-speaking countries, from the medieval period to the present—e.g., in Icelandic saga; Robinsonade; modern fairy tale; philosophical essay; nuclear disaster fiction; climate fiction; film; & environmental activism. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with SCANDVN 3354.02.
- HCS 2204 "Ecology of Managed Plant Systems"
- Origin, diversification, and biogeography of plants inhabiting managed landscapes.
- HISTORY 2702 "Food in World History"
- Survey of the history of food, drink, diet and nutrition in a global context.
- HISTORY 2704 "Water: A Human History"
- History of human use and understandings of water from ancient to modern times, with case studies taken from different geographic locations. Sometimes this course is offered in a distance-only format.
- HISTORY 2711 "History of Nuclear Energy"
- Nuclear energy has been vaunted as a sustainable energy source yet remains a controversial part of the world's energy matrix today. This course will historicize its development from the product of WWII scientific tests to the promise of limitless energy in the 1960s and 1970s, to the infamous catastrophes of Chernobyl and Fukushima, to present day advances and climate change issues.
- HISTORY 2911 "The Climate Crisis: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Mitigation"
- Examination of the basic science of climate change, of the ability to make accurate predictions of future climate, and of the implications for global sustainability by combining perspectives from the physical sciences, the biological sciences, and historical study. Team-taught with faculty members in EarthSc and EEOB. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with EEOB 2911 and EarthSC 2911.
- HISTORY 3700 "American Environmental History"
- The history of American ecosystems from the last Ice Age to the present; focusing on sustainability and historical debates over the causes and consequences of environmental change.
- HISTORY 3706 "Coca-Cola Globalization: The History of American Business and Global Environmental Change 1800-Today"
- This course offers an introduction to the fields of environmental history and business history, beginning with the industrial revolution of the early nineteenth century and ending in the twenty-first century. It chronicles the rise of some of America’s biggest multinational corporations and examines how these firms, working with governments and other institutions, shaped global change.
- ISE 3600 "Technology Innovation for Sustainability"
- Society faces many challenges in terms of improving its environmental challenges. This course is designed to expose you to many of these challenges and the different technical and non-technical perspectives that will be necessary to understand and create solutions and a more sustainable future.
- ITALIAN 3001 "Green Italy"
- This course traces the history of Italian environment and landscape narratives with a focus on the last two centuries by analyzing the effect of human-driven land consumption, pollution, and economic transformations on natural spaces in Italy.
- PHILOS 2342 "Environmental Ethics"
- Examination of the moral issues generated by the impact of human beings on the natural environment.
- PLNTPTH 4321 "Managing Biological Invasions for Forest Sustainability"
- Explores the causes and consequences of, and management options for, biological invasions of forest environments by pathogens and insect pests that lead to widespread tree mortality. These invasions contribute to ecosystem degradation, with ecological and socio-economic impacts and implications for the sustainability of forest ecosystems, industries, and the beings that depend on them.
- PUBHLTH 4325 "Climate Change, Sustainability and Human Health"
- Students taking this course will critically evaluate how international, national, regional, state, and local sustainability goals will work synergistically with climate change policy that is designed to mitigate the public health impacts from the effects of climate change and improve climate change adaptation or reduce community vulnerability and increase community resilience to climate change.
- SCANDVN 3354.01 "From Viking Saga to Climate fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures"
- This course explores how sustainable human-nature relationships are conceived, represented, and reflected in the literatures of Nordic and German-speaking countries, from the medieval period to the present—e.g., in Icelandic saga; Gothic Romantic narrative; modern fairy tale; graphic novel; poetry; song; philosophical essay; and climate science-fiction. Cross-listed with GERMAN 3354.01.
- SCANDVN 3354.02 "From Viking Saga to Climate Fiction: Nature in Nordic and Germanic Literatures"
- This 4+ credit GE course explores how sustainable human-nature relationships are conceived, represented, and reflected in the literatures and cultures of Scandinavian, Nordic, and German-speaking countries, from the medieval period to the present—e.g., in Icelandic saga; Robinsonade; modern fairy tale; philosophical essay; nuclear disaster fiction; climate fiction; film; & environmental activism. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with GERMAN 3354.02.
- SLAVIC 3380 "Female Environments: Lived Experience of Spaces of Socialism and Post-Socialism"
- This course explores the lived environments of socialism and post-socialism though the lens of women, with a focus on home, natural environments, and war-time environments. Using fiction, film, visual arts, architecture, and interdisciplinary research, we study the intersection of personal experience and collective history.
- SOCIOL 3460 "Environmental Justice"
- Examines environmental issues from a sociological perspective, especially human causes of environmental change such as technology, population, and consumption, and social reactions.
- SPANISH 4542 "Taco Planet: Food, Sustainability & Latin(x) American Cultures"
- Examines the history, policies, visual representations, culinary techniques, and literatures that bring together Latin(x) American identity, expressive cultures, and culinary practices. Students will visit local businesses and complete instructional kitchen class gatherings to inventory how they can contribute to more sustainable and ethical consumer choices. Taught in English.
- AFAMAST 5650 "Blackness and the Body in Science and Medicine"
- This course considers the need for and pursuit of social justice when black bodies are subjected to commodification and systemic subordination. The course focuses on what Frantz Fanon called the “corporeal schema” of blackness as well as the social construction of blackness to think about the relationship between black bodies and social justice pursuits in medicine and science.
- ANATOMY 2150 "Pop Culture Anatomy and Physiology"
- Pop culture includes icons from movies, TV shows, books, & comics. Often, pop culture showcases anatomy and medicine through inaccurate depictions or anatomical modifications are justified as “fantasy elements” and not explained using current anatomic knowledge. The Pop Culture Anatomy course is a 3 CH course that teaches systemic human anatomy and physiology using characters from pop culture.
- ANTHROP 3340 "The Anthropology of Mental Health"
- Provides an introduction to global mental health through the lens of medical anthropology. Students will gain a holistic understanding of prescient concerns in global mental health and the ways in which anthropology can contribute an understanding to the experience, diagnosis, treatment, and management of mental health issues by diverse populations.
- ANTHROP 3301 "Human Biological Diversity & Health"
- Survey of modern human biological diversity; examination of the underlying evolutionary and adaptive mechanisms responsible; exploration of the interplay between biology and behavior in adaptation.
- ANTHROP 3302 "Introduction to Medical Anthropology"
- Relationship of anthropology to the art and science of medicine.
- ANTHROP 5601 "The Anthropology of Sex, Drugs, and HIV"
- Biocultural and sociocultural aspects of health in modern and prehistoric populations.
- ANTHROP 5602 "Women's Health in Global Perspective"
- A cross-cultural comparison of the political, economic, social, and biological issues surrounding women's health
- ANTHROP 5700 "Anthropology, Public Health, and Human Rights"
- This course provides an introduction to the relationship between medical anthropology and global public health with an emphasis on social justice and health as a human right. Health policy, evidence-based medicine, children’s health, HIV, TB, chronic disease, citizenship and deservingness, and other health topics will be discussed and analyzed from a cross-cultural and ethnographic perspective.
- ANTHROP 5702 "Anthropology in/of the Clinic"
- Investigates how health systems are products of historical, socio-political, and economic forces. Explores how anthropological perspectives, concepts and ethnography can be practiced in clinical settings to facilitate culturally competent care, inform public policy and programs, and reduce health disparities. An ideal course for students pursuing careers in healthcare related professions.
- BIOETHC 3000 "Case Studies in Medical and Healthcare Ethics"
- The field of medical ethics has been and is continually shaped by major cases, both famous and infamous. This course surveys the causes and contexts, as well as the philosophical and ethical issues embedded within these cases.
- BIOLOGY 2105 "Human Biology in Cinema"
- Human Biology in Cinema will explore biological insights related to human health and wellbeing through the lens of mainstream films. These biological insights will enhance comprehension and appreciation of films and in turn the films will provide a narrative structure that make the information more accessible and memorable. Films will serve as a starting point for a class discussion each week.
- BIOLOGY 2360 "Zombie Biology"
- Zombie Biology is a novel approach to learning biology using zombie media as a tool for critical analysis. This course will have a heavy emphasis on human biology, the body systems, and infectious disease as well as examining examples of “zombie” pathogens and parasites in non-human animals.
- CHEM 3301 "Science and Process of Drug Development"
- The course focus is on the science and public policy that govern drug development. The principles of chemistry and biochemistry are applied to research and development of drug therapeutics. The drug approval process of drug safety, toxicity, and clinical trials will focus on pharmaceutical industry challenges of drug affordability, safety, and drug development impact on global public health.
- CIVICLL 2200 "The Pursuit of Happiness: An American Tradition"
- The Declaration of Independence names “the pursuit of happiness” as an unalienable right. This course introduces the tradition of inquiry on happiness and the good life that informed the American Founders, as well as accounts of happiness from contemporary social science. Considers obstacles to measuring happiness and explores why our intuitions about what will make us happy are often wrong.
- COMM 2985 "Media and Well-Being"
- The course has two main goals. The first is to explore, via media use theories, how to use media in ways that promote personal health and well-being. The second is to become skilled at communicating this information with others to inform and persuade them to adapt healthy media habits.
- COMM 3442 "Violence in Society and Violence in the Media"
- This course examines the causes, consequences, and solutions to human aggression and violence. It discusses how aggression and violence are defined and measured, aggression theories, individual risk factors, contextual risk factors, protective factors, and aggression targets. It examines in detail violent media research. It also discusses how to reduce anger, aggression, and violent media effects.
- COMM 4736 "Health Communication in Interpersonal Contexts"
- Study of communication relevant to health care in various face-to-face contexts.
- COMM 4737 "Health Communication in Mass Mediated Contexts"
- Overview of theory and research related to the role of mass media as they affect the public's health behavior.
- COMPSTD 4645 "Cultures of Medicine"
- Humanistic, scientific, and clinical perspectives on medical issues; literary uses of medical themes; medicine as art and science. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry.
- EDUCSTD 4245 "Education and the Art of Living: Philosophical Perspectives on Meaning, Well-being, and Learning"
- This course dives into the intriguing relationship between education and well-being through a variety of philosophical lenses. We'll explore how your educational experiences can impact your physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual well-being. Through critical and logical thinking, you'll connect what you learn in class to your life outside of it.
- ENGLISH 2277 "Introduction to Disability Studies"
- Foundational concepts and issues in disability studies; introduction to the sociopolitical models of disability.
- ENGLISH 2367.06 "Writing about Disability"
- Students will critically examine writing about disability, health, and wellness from a variety of genres (scholarly essays, personal essays, documentaries, comics, music, film) and use their findings to produce creative, scholarly, and professional documents appealing to multiple audiences and rhetorical situations.
- ENGLISH 3031 "Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Wellness"
- Students examine rhetorical concepts and how rhetorical devices construct our understanding of our bodies, health and wellness. Students learn how power structures and ideologies enable commonplace rhetorical devices to structure normative beliefs about bodies, health, and wellness and how rhetoric shapes perceptions of health and wellness and makes and unmakes healthy bodies, including your own.
- ENGLISH 3161 "Drug Use & Addiction in Literature"
- Students will read fiction, poetry, memoirs, songs, comics, and films that portray drug use and addiction. Through literature students will discover the history of the human experience with substance use and abuse, and learn how literary texts provide human beings with unique tools to describe, explain, and analyze the complicated relationship between people and drugs.
- ENGLISH 3264 "Monsters Without and Within"
- Storytellers have long used monsters not only to frighten us but also to jolt us into thinking deeply about ourselves, others, and the world we live in. This course examines how various horror genres use monsters to explore issues of wellbeing and citizenship, and debates about race, gender, sexual orientation, mental health, social justice, and personal responsibility.
- ENGLISH 3361 "Narrative and Medicine"
- Study of fictional and nonfictional narratives offering diverse perspectives on such medical issues as health, illness, aging, treatment, healing, wellbeing, and doctor-patient relationships.
- FDSCTE 2300 "Role of Food Science in Human Health"
- This course explores the role of food in an individual's health by addressing mainstream controversies. Students will have an understanding of food supply chain, food components, food safety, food processing, food additives, labeling, food laws and regulations and their impact on ensuring a safe food supply and protecting consumer's health.
- FDSCTE 3100 "Global Cuisines: Food Science and Health"
- This course discusses elements impacting food safety and human health through the lens of global cuisine. Faculty will introduce related concepts in food and health sciences and illustrate how advancements in science, technology, and globalization impact food, health, and wellbeing. Students will develop an appreciation of cuisines and sound judgement on dietary practices for health and wellbeing.
- FDSCTE 4597.01 "Alcohol and Society"
- The historical, nutritional, medical, social, technical, and economic aspects of the use of beverage and industrial alcohol.
- HISTORY 2703 "History of Public Health, Medicine, and Disease"
- Survey of the history of public health, disease and medicine in a global context.
- HISTORY 3307 "History of African Health and Healing"
- African approaches to health and healing; interaction between religion, culture and healing; intersections and contradictions between African and Western concepts of health and healing.
- HISTORY 3708 "Vaccines: A Global History"
- This course examines the history and biology of vaccines. We explore the discovery and development of vaccines, along with the political and cultural controversies that have surrounded them for centuries. Team-taught course with faculty member in Pharmacy. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with PHR 3708.
- HISTORY 4706 "Chronic: Illness, Injury, and Disability in Modern History"
- This seminar explores the emergence of “chronic”—the disease category and the illnesses it names—over the course of the 20th century. We consider the political economic, environmental, and techno-social conditions that gave rise to chronic illness in modern history, and consider factors including public health policy, the pharmaceutical industry, activism, pop culture, and more.
- HTHRHSC 3400 "Introduction to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention"
- An introduction to health promotion with an emphasis on the issues and factors that impact and influence health of individuals, groups and societies demonstrating the role of disciplinary research on identifying and addressing issues of health and health promotion.
- HW 2102 "Optimizing Personal Health, Happiness, & Wellbeing"
- Application of evidence-based concepts and strategies to manage stress through cognitive-behavioral skills building. Strengthen resiliency, set goals, problem solve and engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors to improve personal health, happiness and well-being.
- JEWSHST 3636 "Jewish Bodies: Health, Gender, & Sex"
- This course examines how Jewish bodies have been defined, represented, transformed, and challenged from ancient times to the present day. We will explore how pre-modern thinkers conceived of healthy bodies and diseased bodies and contrast their understandings with contemporary approaches to health and well-being.
- KNHES 2995 "Food is Function, Movement is Medicine"
- This integrative course provides an introduction to the powerful and widespread impact of food and fitness on human health. This course will examine essential components of a healthy lifestyle, including eating patterns, optimizing physical activity plans, improving sleep, managing stress with healthy coping strategies, forming and creating positive relationships and adopting healthy habits. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching.
- MEDCOLL 3585 "Health and Wellbeing in Eastern Europe"
- MEDCOLL 3585 is designed to acquaint students with medical care and wellbeing within the context of Eastern European population health markers. Course content will focus exclusively on exploration of small Eastern European countries’ medical care and wellbeing developments and policies following the Cold War.
- MUSIC 2032S "Drumming for Wellness"
- Students will learn research, theories, skills, and techniques relevant to the use of music in settings in which the focus is to assist in the rehabilitation, treatment, or well-being of people with motor disorders and their caregivers. Course will not count as an elective for music degree programs. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning.
- MUSIC 3010 "Public Health and Opera"
- This course explores six public health themes that are dramatized in opera as a popular artistic medium. Students will be introduced to the public health aspects of the issue and then presented with information about how the issue has been represented in multiple operas, ranging from the 1700s to current day. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with PUBHLTH 3010.
- NURSING 3798 "Nursing Study Tour Cyprus"
- Provides an introduction to global health, well-being and sustainability concepts, examining the blueprint to transform our world through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Examination of how current and historical human and natural systems impact well-being. Comparison of approaches in Cyprus and the US for addressing some of the most pressing health issues of young adults. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Education Abroad & Away.
- PHILOS 2456 "Philosophy of Sport"
- What is sport? How are sports similar to, and different from, games and arts? What can philosophical analysis add to scientific findings about sporting performance? What, if any, contribution does playing and/or watching sports make to a good, happy, and/or meaningful life? This course explores the nature of sport as a human activity and the value of sport; its role in well-being in particular.
- PHILOS 2465 "Death and the Meaning of Life"
- Explore the question of whether there is a relationship between mortality and a meaningful life.
- PHILOS 3430 "The Philosophy of Sex and Love"
- This course will explore both historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives on both sex and love, and the many ways in which sex and love are integral to human health and well-being.
- PHR 2400.01 "Addicting Drugs: Effects, Introductory Neurobiology, and Regulation"
- Overview of effects, regulation, and mechanism of action of addicting drugs, with an introduction to function of the nervous system and how this function is altered by drugs.
- PHR 2410 "Drugstore Science"
- This course introduces the science behind common drugstore products, including over-the-counter (OTC) medications and drug-cosmetics, including how these products work, potential non-drug alternatives, and various drug-related issues involving their use. Note: Content of this course is not intended to be considered as professional medical advice or to replace advice from a healthcare provider.
- PHR 2367.01 "Drug Use in American Culture"
- This course investigates a given drug by assessing its historical use, clinical properties and risks, its role in American culture, and other issues surrounding its use/abuse in the United States. Students will analyze various sources of information and effectively communicate key messages using a variety of platforms.
- PHR 2367.02 "Drug Use in American Culture"
- This course investigates a given drug by assessing its historical use, clinical properties and risks, its role in American culture, and other issues surrounding its use/abuse in the United States. Students will analyze various sources of information and effectively communicate key messages using a variety of platforms. Online delivery only.
- PHR 3301 "Science & Process of Drug Development"
- The course focus is on the science and public policy that govern drug development. The principles of chemistry and biochemistry are applied to research and development of drug therapeutics. The drug approval process of drug safety, toxicity, and clinical trials will focus on pharmaceutical industry challenges of drug affordability, safety, and drug development impact on global public health.
- PHR 3350 "Cosmetic Pharmaceuticals: Science and Beauty Beyond Skin Deep"
- This class educates students about the cosmetic products and ingredients society uses daily. These cosmetic products directly affect the health and well-being of individuals and societies in various ways. The course analyzes pharmaceutical ingredients, consumer safety standards, compound development, industry marketing, and societal trends to deepen knowledge of beauty and self-care products.
- PHR 3440 "Drugs that Changed the World"
- Medications have profoundly affected the human experience. The discovery and use of medications such as antibiotics, contraceptives, and vaccines have reshaped our society in the last century. While many of these medications have had a generally positive impact on human populations, they are not free of controversy. This course will explore their complex history, science, and societal impact.
- PHR 3550 "Cosmetic Pharmaceuticals: Science and Beauty Beyond Skin Deep"
- This class educates students about the cosmetic products and ingredients society uses daily. These cosmetic products directly affect the health and well-being of individuals and societies in various ways. The course analyzes pharmaceutical ingredients, consumer safety standards, compound development, industry marketing, and societal trends to deepen knowledge of beauty and self-care products.
- PHR 3708 "Vaccines: A Global History"
- This course examines the history and biology of vaccines. We explore the discovery and development of vaccines, along with the political and cultural controversies that have surrounded them for centuries. Team-taught course with faculty member in History. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3708.
- PLNTPTH 3920 "Psychedelic Studies: Neurochemistry, Plants, Fungi, and Society"
- This course covers information necessary for a foundational understanding of the psychedelic studies field, including relevant neurobiology, ethnobotany, chemistry, history, psychology, and policy debates.
- POLITSC 2120 "Follow the Science: The Politics of Health"
- In the 20th Century, chronic conditions became the leading killers of Americans and the federal government came to play a much more expansive role in health, including the approval of treatments, regulation of harmful substances, promotion of healthy habits, and funding healthcare. Students will survey these developments and apply the resulting insights to contemporary health policy debates.
- PSYCH 2303 "Positive Psychology"
- Introduction to the field of positive psychology. Topics include positive affect, subjective well-being, optimism, psychological strengths, emotional intelligence, compassion, humor, and spirituality.
- PSYCH 2311 "Psychology of Motivation"
- In this course we will survey (while reflecting on everyday applications) the integral role that motivation and related concepts, such as drive, need, affect, and emotion, play within Psychological Science to understand human behavior and identity formation.
- PUBHEPI 2410 "Epidemiology in Public Health"
- The course will cover the principles and procedures in the field of epidemiology, with a focus on the application of the principles of epidemiology.
- PUBHEPI 3411 "Public Health Field Investigation"
- This course provides an applied study in investigating and responding to outbreaks, disasters, and other acute public health events.
- PUBHHBP 3510 "Role of Behavior in Public Health"
- Introduction to concepts of health behavior and its role in public health; social determinants of health; applications to selected community health problems and issues.
- PUBHHMP 3610 "United States and International Health Care"
- Introduction to the history, organization and politics of the global health care system, critical review of selected issues using different analytic frameworks.
- PUBHLTH 2010 "Critical Issues in Global Public Health"
- Public health concepts examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, and results of public health practices domestically and internationally. Presents the pressing global public health concerns of the 21st century.
- PUBHLTH 2010H "Honors Critical Issues in Global Public Health"
- Critical Issues Global Public Health presents global public health practice and research, examining the philosophy, purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities, and results of public health practice at the global, national, state, and local levels.
- PUBHLTH 3010 "Public Health and Opera"
- This course explores six public health themes that are dramatized in opera as a popular artistic medium. Students will be introduced to the public health aspects of the issue and then presented with information about how the issue has been represented in multiple operas, ranging from the 1700s to current day. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching. Cross-listed with MUSIC 3010.
- RELSTDS 3681 "Religion and Work"
- This course centers the workplace as a critical site for understanding contemporary patterns of American religiosity. We will explore a range of perspectives on how spiritual practices, experiences of religious discrimination, and productive labor promote and/or inhibit various dimensions of well-being, including emotional, career, spiritual, and creative.
- RELSTDS 3777 "Religion, Health, and Healing"
- This course explores religious strategies for healing the sick and managing the many sources of disease and distress that afflict human beings, the needs these strategies meet, and the ways they carve out space for themselves under the banner of “spirituality.”
- SOCIOL 2290 "Sociology of Death and Dying"
- Provides a sociological overview of death and dying, including the demographics of death, social epidemiology, and social meanings of death and dying.
- SOCIOL 3630 "Medical Sociology"
- Sociological analysis of the distribution of disease, and the nature of health care institutions, health professions, and the delivery of health care services.
- SOCIOL 4629 "Health Disparities in Social Context"
- Analysis of the social determinants of health and health disparities with a focus on stratification/inequality. Includes variations in health disparities over the life course.
- SOCIOL 5450 "Sociology of Global Health and Illness"
- Sociological study of health and illness from a global perspective. Topics include health, illness, and related behaviors; disease processes; correlates of diseases; global efforts to improve health; and comparative health care systems.
- SOCWORK 2110 "Sport and Positive Youth Development"
- This course focuses on how characteristics of individuals, families, peer systems, schools, neighborhoods & other environmental contexts contribute to the development of social, academic, & health-related problems among youth. Students will apply the knowledge & skills of generalist practice to the design and delivery of prevention and youth development programs in sport/recreation/play settings.
- SOCWORK 3597 "Adolescent Sexual Health, Sexuality, and Parenthood: A Global Perspective"
- This course is designed to provide a broad understanding of the biological, psychosocial, and cultural forces that influence adolescent sexual health, sexuality, and family formation decisions. International comparisons will be emphasized with respect to teenage sexual trends and national policies and programs designed to control adolescent and young adult sexual adaptations and fertility.
- SPHHRNG 4530 "Introduction to Autism"
- This course provides an overview of the identification and diagnosis of autism, scientific perspectives on etiology, and the neurobiological underpinnings of autism, as well as treatment components of autism.
- WGSST 2325 "Health and Inequality"
- An interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between health and gender under political, biological, economic, spiritual, cultural and/or socially constructed influences.
- WGSST 2326 "Feminist Perspectives on Addiction"
- This course offers a multicultural feminist perspective on addiction. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will explore addiction within the contexts of social construction, mental health, and public policy.
- WGSST 3400 "Reproductive Rights and Justice"
- This class takes an interdisciplinary feminist approach to investigate the history and contemporary politics of reproduction beyond a “pro-life” versus “pro-choice” dichotomy. In this class, students will consider whether reproductive justice is an act of health and wellbeing and address the inequalities in reproduction that lead to impacts on mental, physical and social health.
- AFAMAST 3086 "Black Women in Slavery and Freedom"
- Traces the experiences and struggles of African American women from slavery through the Civil Rights/Black Power era. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3086.
- AFAMAST 3370 "Being African American"
- We examine the particular experiences of first and second generation Africans in America, for whom today's amplified "us vs. them" rhetoric threatens to fracture what W.E.B. Du Bois called an African American sense of "two-ness." What are the constraints on a doubly conscious "African" and "American" identity in the United States? What are the challenges of sustaining a fragile social pluralism?
- AFAMAST 3376 "Arts and Cultures of Africa and the Diaspora"
- An overview of African and African diaspora cultures from a historical perspective. Cultural media will include art, literature, film, dance and photography. Cross-listed with HISTART 3102.
- ANTHROP 3419 "Latin American Cultures and Migration in Global Perspective"
- An intensive ethnographic investigation of Latin American and Caribbean migration (Mexico, Ecuador, The Dominican Republic) including the history of migration; contemporary movement; and transnationalism.
- ANTHROP 5627 "Migrants and Refugees: The Anthropology of Mobility"
- This course is an anthropological investigation of human mobility with a focus on the movement of migrants and refugees. Credit for 2202 is recommended but not required.
- CLAS 3203 "War and Displacement in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature"
- This course focuses on 1) war and displacement in ancient Greek and Roman literature and 2) current scholarship on migration, mobility, and immobility in the ancient world. We investigate whether and how ancient literary texts (typically produced by elite men) can be used to study broader phenomena in the experience of ancient peoples, such as displacement, exile, and captivity.
- COMPSTD 4597.02 "Global Culture"
- Engaging with the Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Theme, this course examines contemporary global cultural flows, the concepts useful in analyzing them, and the questions they raise about power and cultural change, focusing on concepts that may include but are not limited to empire, slavery, capitalism, decolonization, nationalism, labor, tourism, and media. Specific topics vary by instructor.
- COMPSTD 4597.03 "Global Folklore"
- Examines contemporary folklore around the world; introduces students to key concepts in folklore scholarship; focuses on transmission and transformation of cultural knowledge and practice, particularly in situations of conflict or upheaval.
- ECON 3900.01S "The Other Side of the Border: Immigration Economics"
- This is a service-learning opportunity with Esperanza International in Tijuana, Mexico. The course will introduce micro and macroeconomic issues related to immigration. This case study will focus on the opportunity costs for immigrants, the effects of the flow of money, and the loss of labor and human capital on economic growth. Students will work with the immigrant community.
- ETHNSTD 3242S "Migration & Resettlement in Central Ohio: A Community-Based Learning Course"
- This course compares aspects of displacement & resettlement in newcomer communities with an emphasis on Central Ohio. Students compare experiences of communities with ties to Latin America & other regions of the world (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East). Through work with local advocates, students examine how resettlement is experienced differently depending on national origin & legal status. Cross-listed with SPANISH 3242S. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning.
- ETHNSTD 3408 "Disaster, Displacement and Recovery in 21st Century Latinx Graphic Narratives"
- This course explores notions of disaster, forced displacement, crisis and recovery in Latinx graphic narratives of the 21st century. Students will experience comics as a unique and full-bodied communication form putting special emphasis on non-fictional comic art created, produced, and distributed by Latinx-identified multidisciplinary sources and independent artists. Cross-listed with HISTART 3408.
- ETHNSTD 3562 "Contemporary U.S. Latinx Art"
- This course provides an overview of contemporary Latinx Art in the United States from its origins in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement through today. U.S. Latinx Art refers to the artistic, visual, and creative production emerging from Latinx communities in the context of diaspora after immigration from Latin America. Cross-listed with HISTART 3562.
- ETHNSTD 3572 "Central American Migrants in the United States"
- Survey of the history and culture of Central Americans in the United States. Through an interdisciplinary approach spanning the humanities and social sciences, students will analyze the history of mass exodus and migration from Central America, settlement and formation of diaspora communities in major urban areas, and community work and organizing of Central Americans in key cities across the U.S.
- HISTART 3102 "Arts and Cultures of Africa and the Diaspora"
- An overview of African and African diaspora cultures from a historical perspective. Cultural media will include art, literature, film, dance and photography. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3376.
- HISTART 3408 "Disaster, Displacement and Recovery in 21st Century Latinx Graphic Narratives"
- This course explores notions of disaster, forced displacement, crisis and recovery in Latinx graphic narratives of the 21st century. Students will experience comics as a unique and full-bodied communication form putting special emphasis on non-fictional comic art created, produced, and distributed by Latinx-identified multidisciplinary sources and independent artists. Cross-listed with ETHNSTD 3408.
- HISTART 3562 "Contemporary U.S. Latinx Art"
- This course provides an overview of contemporary Latinx Art in the United States from its origins in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement through today. U.S. Latinx Art refers to the artistic, visual, and creative production emerging from Latinx communities in the context of diaspora after immigration from Latin America. Cross-listed with ETHNSTD 3562.
- HISTART 4240 "Arts of the Black Atlantic"
- This class explores the visual and cultural history of the Black Atlantic—a phrase used to define the relationship between dissonant geographical locations that were forged into relationship with each other through the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Of particular focus will be how and why migration and mobility come to be contested terms for Black artists, critics, and activists.
- HISTORY 2675 "The Indian Ocean: Communities and Commodities in Motion"
- This course traces how people, goods, and ideas moved across the Indian Ocean world before 1500. Through shipwrecks, trade records, and travelers' accounts, we'll examine what enabled connections (monsoons, technologies) and what limited them (geography, social hierarchies). Students will analyze how these patterns of mobility and constraint shaped societies from East Africa to Southeast Asia.
- HISTORY 3070 "Native American History from European Contact to Removal, 1560-1820"
- Major issues and events in Native American history from before the European invasion and colonization through the early 1820s.
- HISTORY 3086 "Black Women in Slavery and Freedom"
- Traces the experiences and struggles of African American women from slavery through the Civil Rights/Black Power era. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3086.
- HISTORY 3252 "People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe"
- Study of migration movements in Europe from the age of industrialization to the present.
- HISTORY 3254 "Europe Since 1950"
- Europe from Division to Unification.
- HISTORY 3376 "The Silk Road: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in Eurasian History"
- A study of the commercial and cultural relations among Chinese, Indian, Iranian, and Roman/Islamic civilizations.
- HISTORY 3465 "American Jewish History"
- Study of topics in American Jewish history from the colonial era to the present. Cross-listed with JEWSHST 3465.
- HISTORY 3500 "U.S. Diplomacy from Independence to 1920"
- Between 1776 and 1920, the United States transformed from a fragile confederacy of bickering states into a globe-spanning empire. This class will consider American foreign relations exploring the contested ideas of ideology and expansion that motivated official policy and international affairs, with a particular emphasis on themes of expansion, immigration, and migration.
- JEWSHST 3465 "American Jewish History"
- Study of topics in American Jewish history from the colonial era to the present. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3465.
- LING 3902 "Language Endangerment and Language Death"
- Examines language endangerment and language death to reach an understanding of the forces threatening the survival of over half of today's 6,000 languages.
- MUSIC 3348 "Music on the Move in a Globalized World"
- Survey of globalization's effects on musical cultures around the world; explores both the role of diasporic migration and the use of recording and broadcasting technology.
- SLAVIC 3800 "Bilingualism: Life in Two Worlds"
- The majority of the world population is becoming increasingly bilingual, and bilingualism is viewed as the rule rather than the exception in the 21st century. This course explores the multifaceted aspects of a bilingual individual that more often than not happens to be an immigrant. Navigating multiple languages is examined as an aspect of migration, mobility, and immobility.
- SOCWORK 5004 "International Social Work"
- Examines a variety of social issues through a global perspective in order to fully appreciate the role of culturally diverse and country-specific responses to social problems.
- SOCWORK 5005 "Human Trafficking: Domestic and Global Perspectives"
- Provides a comprehensive understanding of domestic and global human trafficking by examining the causes and economics of human trafficking from a social work perspective.
- SOCWORK 5030 "Global Social Work Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality"
- This course examines the nature and dimensions of poverty and inequality in the U.S. and across the world, considers individual and social consequences of poverty, and examines historic and contemporary approaches to ameliorating poverty including review of major poverty and social welfare policy and programs. Focuses on helping students understand why poverty matters to social workers.
- SPANISH 3242S "Migration & Resettlement in Central Ohio: A Community-Based Learning Course"
- This course compares aspects of displacement & resettlement in newcomer communities with an emphasis on Central Ohio. Students compare experiences of communities with ties to Latin America & other regions of the world (e.g. Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East). Through work with local advocates, students examine how resettlement is experienced differently depending on national origin & legal status. Cross-listed with ETHNSTD 3242S. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Service Learning.
- WGSST 3505 "Transnational Feminisms"
- This course centers on the following questions: How have feminists analyzed, represented, and responded to cross-border migration and mobility in the contemporary world? How have gender and sexuality shaped mobilities and immobilities of various kinds, and how have the possibilities of movement been shaped--or constrained--by gendered identities and oppressions?
- WGSST 4404 "Regulating Bodies: Global Sexual Economies"
- Regulation of women's bodies and sexual practices in national and international contexts. Topics include: state regulation of reproduction, population control, and migration of sexualized labor.
- ASTRON 2142 "Black Holes"
- This course will tell the story of black holes: how they were conceived as theoretical ideas, how they might form from dying stars, how they were discovered, what roles they play in cosmic history, how they distort space and time, how they produce tiny but detectable gravitational wave signals, and some of the remaining mysteries they present to contemporary physics.
- ASTRON 2143 "Cosmology: History of the Universe"
- Description of the history of the universe from Big Bang to present; how observations led to discovery of this history.
- HISTORY 3711 “Science and Society in Europe, from Copernicus to Newton”
- A survey of the history of science and its place and relationship to European society in the early modern period. Students will understand the various strands that constitute the scientific revolution in early modern Europe, modern intellectual history, how revolutions in thought occur, and will practice analytical and communications skills in working with both secondary and primary sources.
- LING 3802 "Language and Computers"
- Introduction to human language technology, explaining the computational and linguistic principles behind such familiar technologies as web search, spam filtering, and text generation
- LING 4052 "Linguistics and the Scientific Method"
- Provides a strong grounding in fundamental principles of scientific reasoning illustrated through concrete examples across the Natural and Social sciences with emphasis on Psychology and Linguistics. This course is suitable for students from all backgrounds including non-science majors. Students will gain understanding of what it means to "do science."
- PHILOS 2650 "Introduction to the Philosophy of Science"
- A survey of the main philosophical problems relating to the natural sciences.
- PHILOS 2660 "Metaphysics, Religion, and Magic in the Scientific Revolution"
- A philosophical examination and critical exploration of the interconnection between the natural scientific, religious and magical traditions in the emergence of the Scientific Revolution.
- PHYSICS 2100 "Physics and Technology for Future Presidents"
- Using physics concepts and scaling laws, students will explore problems of societal importance, including energy security and sustainability, global warming, space technologies, and quantum physics. This will establish a knowledge base for future leaders in government, companies, and organizations who must adapt to an ever-changing world where technologies play a critical role.
- ANTHROP 3300 "Human Origins"
- The search for human origins through a reconstruction of the human and non-human primate fossil records of the last 60 million years; emphasis on human skeletal, behavioral, and social patterns.
- ANTHROP 3409 "Primate Evolution"
- Examination of the origin, radiation, and (in some cases) extinction of each primate clade including prosimians, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.
- ANTHROP 5609 "Dental Anthropology"
- Evolutionary anthropology of human and non-human primate teeth.
- ASTRON 2140 "Planets and The Solar System"
- We study the formation, current properties, and evolution of the Sun, planets and minor bodies of the Solar System; how they compare with planetary systems around other stars; and how people, over millennia, inferred that the Earth was not at the center of the Universe.
- ASTRON 2141 "Life in the Universe"
- We will learn about scientists' ongoing quest for answers to some of the most fundamental human questions: How did life originate on Earth? Is there life on other worlds? Are we alone in the universe? What is the long-term future of life in the universe?
- ASTRON 2143 "Cosmology: History of the Universe"
- Description of the history of the universe from Big Bang to present; how observations led to discovery of this history.
- EARTHSC 2205 "The Planets"
- Survey of the origin and evolution of our Universe, Solar System, Planets and moons with focus on surface environments, dynamics, and the ability to host life. Add EarthSc 1200 for Legacy General Education (GEL) Physical Science lab credit.
- EARTHSC 2207 "Dead Ends and Dinosaurs: A History of Earth and Life"
- Mass extinctions and their causes throughout Earth history. Links between climate and evolution of life over geologic time.
- EEOB 2250 "Dynamics of Dinosaurs"
- A review of current information on dinosaur biology, emphasizing scientific approaches to reconstructing dinosaurs as living, dynamic animals.
- EEOB 2260 "Discovering Biodiversity using Integrative Research"
- This course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) will build science literacy and critical thinking skills by focusing on captivating ecological relationships and the conservation of biodiversity. Students will develop proficiencies and content knowledge about the origins and evolution of local and global natural systems. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry.
- HISTORY 3704 "HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory"
- This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of HIV/AIDS, tracing the evolution of the virus at both the molecular level and within in its global historical context. This course is team-taught by a virologist and a historian.
- MICRBIO 3704 "HIV: From Microbiology to Macrohistory"
- This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of HIV/AIDS, tracing the evolution of the virus at both the molecular level and within its global historical context. This course is team-taught by a virologist and a historian.
- AFAMAST 2295 "Resisting Slavery in the Americas"
- This class examines the history of slave uprisings in the Americas to explore how slavery was experienced, imagined, & contested by the enslaved. We use primary & secondary written sources to delve deeper into the ideologies, tactics, & meanings of slave resistance. We explore how race, gender, ethnicity & class as well as their intersectionality shaped the contours of slavery in the America.
- AFAMAST 3080 "Slavery in the United States"
- The African American experience in slavery, focusing on the rise of the slave trade, slavery in the colonial and antebellum eras, the Civil War, and abolition. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3080.
- AFAMAST 3230 "Black Women: Culture and Politics"
- Examination of the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical forces, dynamics, and processes affecting women throughout the Africana world.
- AFAMAST 4342 "Religion, Meaning, and Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora"
- While the practice of religion in Africa is as diverse as its people, three major belief systems define the practice: African Traditional Religion, Islam, and Christianity. This course will examine classical and contemporary definitions of African Traditional Religion/s and the introduction and adaptations of Islam and Christianity in Africa, as well as religious practices in the African Diaspora.
- AFAMAST 4571 "Black Visual Culture and Popular Media"
- An examination of African Americans in visual culture and the theories of representation in popular media.
- ANTHROP 3350 "Native Americans of the Ohio Valley from the Ice Age to the Colonial Period"
- The archaeology and cultural history of Native Americans in the Ohio Valley from the Ice Age to the Colonial Period. The forgotten story of the Native Americans of our region.
- ANTHROP 3452 "Archaeology of the Pacific Islands"
- Introduces the prehistory of the Pacific Islands from an archaeological perspective. It emphasizes voyaging, colonization, and the emergence of cultural complexity.
- ART 3204 "The Language of Drawing: Word and Image"
- Examination of the relationship of text and image in contemporary drawing. Through readings and lectures, we will examine how one reads a drawing or work of art via the lenses of history, cultural history, and material culture. This class will examine the technologies historically used in making both text and image--printing press, calligrapher’s brush, pencil, photography, computer, etc.
- CHINESE 4409 "(Counter-)Culture in Contemporary China"
- The course surveys the cultural landscape of contemporary China, with a strong focus on the lived experiences, voices, perspectives, and perceptions of underprivileged and marginalized communities in that country. These topics are examined through the lens of traditional and popular (counter-)culture as well as social justice and equality.
- CLAS 2301 "Classical Archaeology"
- Principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites. Cross-listed with HISTART 2301.
- CLAS 3217 "Family, household, and kinship in the Ancient World"
- This upper-level course focuses on the family as a foundational unit of ancient Mediterranean societies. Through a survey of primary and secondary literature, the students will engage with the evolution of familial networks from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, with a focus on the Greco-Roman world. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3217.
- CLAS 3223 "The Later Roman Empire"
- An advanced survey of Rome's history in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries with focus on themes of decline, fall, and transformation. Cross-listed with HISTORY 3223.
- COMPSTD 3130H "Introduction to Performance Studies"
- This introduction to performance studies examines the pervasiveness of performance as a central element of social and cultural life. We will consider a broad array of performances on and off the stage, live and recorded, scripted and improvised, sacred and profane. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with THEATRE 3130H.
- ENGLISH 3260 "Poetry and Transformation"
- This course will study poetry as a form that offers a particular way of engaging with both the self and the world. Students will explore poetry across multiple media and from different places and times.
- ENGLISH 3262 "Adaptation and Literature"
- Students will study adaptations across media forms (text, film, comic, radio, video game, podcast, etc.) in order to analyze the relationship between form and content, medium and theme, style and substance.
- FRENCH 3802 "Made in Quebec: From Poutine to Pop Music and Everything in Between"
- Through exploring Quebec's cultural products (cuisine, sports, music, cinema, fashion, etc.), students examine how transformational forces like language policy impact the creation/consumption of culture across different communities, the roles different subgroups play in shaping Quebec's pop culture, and their ongoing influence on this French-speaking province’s evolving cultural identity.
- FRENCH 3804 "French Kiss"
- Exploration of cultural texts (stories, songs, films, paintings, photos, etc.) that represent love and sex in France, from medieval courtly love, to 18th-century libertinism, to the swinging 1960s, to dating apps and the #Me Too movement. Examination of the historical and cultural, and therefore changing, nature of "acceptable" and "unacceptable" forms of love and sex.
- GERMAN 3434 "Bad Science-Toxic Intersections Between Cultural Politics & Intellectual History in German Tradition"
- Developments in science and technology raise key political questions and often reveal global fault lines — recent debates around AI, climate change, pandemics and public health show this. This course delves into the sometimes-toxic cultural politics of science historically, surveying key case studies (in biology, linguistics, medicine and more) from German history between 1780 and 1940.
- HISTORY 2202 "Medieval History: Late Rome to the Early Renaissance"
- Medieval history from the late Roman Empire to the early Renaissance. Primary emphasis will be on cultures in Medieval Europe, but students also will be introduced to the Medieval societies and cultures throughout other regions such as the eastern Mediterranean, the Near East and North Africa.
- HISTORY 2210 "Classical Archaeology"
- Principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites.
- HISTORY 2220 "History of Christianity"
- The history of how the messianic beliefs of a small group of Jews transformed into a worldwide religion of amazing diversity. Our approach will be historical and contextual: How have Christian beliefs, practices and institutions changed over time and adapted to and changed different cultures? Some topics include developments in theology, spirituality, modes of authority, social structures.
- HISTORY 2231 "The Crusades"
- In this deconstruction of the crusades, students examine the many cultures of the western Afro-Eurasian world engaged in crusading activity from the 8th century to the early modern era. They will consider how the crusades impacted cultures, traditions, economies, religious ideology and military practice; and ultimately how these events transformed the medieval world.
- HISTORY 2401 "History of East Asia in the Pre-Modern Era"
- Introduction to societies and cultures of pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan; the East Asian geographical and cultural unit.
- HISTORY 3030 "History of Ohio"
- Survey of economic, social, political development of the geographic area that became Ohio from Native Americans to present.
- HISTORY 3080 "Slavery in the United States"
- The African American experience in slavery, focusing on the rise of the slave trade, slavery in the colonial and antebellum eras, the Civil War, and abolition. Cross-listed with AFAMAST 3080.
- HISTORY 3085 "African American History Through Contemporary Film"
- Uses contemporary film to explore the history of African American life, culture, politics, and resistance.
- HISTORY 3088 "Policing America"
- In America's age of mass incarceration, understanding how criminal law enforcement has and hasn't changed over time is crucial for reckoning with public safety challenges today. This course tracks the history of American policing from the 17th century to today and unearths crucial developments in the aftermaths of chattel slavery, Jim Crow segregation and late 20th-century Black freedom struggles.
- HISTORY 3217 "Family, household, and kinship in the Ancient World"
- This upper-level course focuses on the family as a foundational unit of ancient Mediterranean societies. Through a survey of primary and secondary literature, the students will engage with the evolution of familial networks from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, with a focus on the Greco-Roman world. Cross-listed with CLAS 3217.
- HISTORY 3223 "The Later Roman Empire"
- An advanced survey of Rome's history in the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries with focus on themes of decline, fall, and transformation. Cross-listed with CLAS 3223.
- HISTORY 3227 "Gnostics and Other Early Christian Heresies"
- Examines the early Christian philosophical movement known as 'the Gnostics' whose beliefs, based on the stories of the Bible, Platonist philosophy, and the new revelation of Jesus, shocked other Christians.
- HISTORY 3229 "History of Early Christianity"
- A survey of the history of Christianity from its Jewish and Greco-Roman roots to the late sixth century.
- HISTORY 3230 "Saints and Demons in Medieval Europe"
- Study of the development of Medieval Christianity from Constantine to the early sixteenth century.
- HISTORY 3245 "The Age of Reformation"
- The history of the Protestant, Catholic, and Radical Reformations of 16th- and early 17th-century Europe.
- HISTORY 3251 "Europe in the Age of Industry and Empire, 1815-1914"
- Europe in the Age of Industry and Empire examines a period in European history when various ‘Great Powers’ sought to cling to the traditions of the Old Regimes, while Europe simultaneously transformed due to revolution, industrialization, and imperialism. Other topics include: liberalism, socialism, Romanticism, modernism, nationalism, and the emergence of mass culture and mass politics.
- HISTORY 3253 "20th Century Europe to 1950"
- Exploration of the major historical events and issues from approximately 1900 to 1950.
- HISTORY 3260 "Britain in the 19th Century"
- An introduction to the political, economic, and social history of Britain and the British empire from the eighteenth to early twentieth century.
- HISTORY 3282 "History of the Soviet Union"
- History of the Soviet Union from the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of communism in 1991.
- HISTORY 3375 "Mongol World Empire: Central Eurasia, 1000-1500"
- This course will address the social, cultural, and political history of medieval Central Eurasia, focusing on the Mongol Empire and its legacy.
- HISTORY 3475 "History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"
- This course follows the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its inception in the late 19th century to the early 21st century. Course materials include secondary historical sources, a variety of primary documents, short stories, memoirs and films. These materials will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the history of the conflict from multiple perspectives.
- HISTORY 3552 "War in World History, 1900 - Present"
- Study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of warfare around the world, 1900-present.
- HISTORY 3580 "The Vietnam War"
- Study of the background, causes, conduct, and consequences of the Vietnam War, 1945-1975.
- HISTART 2301 "Classical Archaeology"
- Principles, methods, and history of archaeological investigation in the ancient Greek and Roman world, illustrated through a selection of major classical sites. Cross-listed with CLAS 2301.
- ISLAM 3501 "Traditions of Islam"
- This course explores the development of, and the dynamics behind, four traditions of Islam during its formative and classical periods (ca. 600-1200 AD): Islamic scriptural tradition, tradition of Islamic law and jurisprudence, tradition of Islamic politics and rulership, and the Islamic tradition of divinity. This course is conducted entirely in English.
- ITALIAN 3051 "Italian Romances"
- This course familiarizes students with the adaptability and influence of romance storytelling, from its medieval foundations (King Arthur) to its continued popularity in different forms (fantasy, science fiction, romance novels). Students learn to identify how its themes inform how we ascribe value to some people(s) and deny it to others; and to evaluate how stories can imagine more just worlds.
- LING 3102 "Lost Languages Lost Cultures"
- This class will examine 6 great decipherments, how scholars were able to crack the code, the nature of these writing systems, and the languages, cultures, and history unlocked. We will look in detail at what methods epigraphists and linguists used to accomplish this and what gaps remain in our understanding.
- MOLGEN 2690 "Genes and Society"
- This team taught, interdisciplinary course (crosslisted as PHILOS 2690) provide science-based exposure to topics in classical and modern genetics but with an emphasis on social and ethical issues. Together we will discuss what genes are, and how they work, and how your genome influences traits and behaviors in the context of social beliefs and philosophy. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with Philosophy 2690.
- MUSIC 3360 "The Brazilian Experience: Surveying Brazilian Culture through Music and Education"
- This course offers an in-depth experience into the complex musical culture that exists in the country of Brazil. Beginning with an introduction to Brazilian history, we, focus specifically on the evolution of the musical artform the country has experienced in its 500-year history. Approved as a 4-credit-hour High-Impact Practice: Education Abroad and Away.
- NELC 3102 "Lost Languages Lost Cultures"
- This class will examine 6 great decipherments, how scholars were able to crack the code, the nature of these writing systems, and the languages, cultures, and history unlocked. We will look in detail at what methods epigraphists and linguists used to accomplish this and what gaps remain in our understanding.
- NELC 3168 "The History of God"
- Exploration of how the idea of a single God developed in religions having their origins in the ancient near East and the Mediterranean (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hellenistic philosophy) from ancient times to the present. Cross-listed with RELSTDS 3168.
- NELC 3804 "Culture and Society in Ancient Egypt"
- In this 4-credit-hour research intensive course, students will develop an advanced understanding of how cultural traditions and transformations over time impacted the daily lives of the ancient Egyptians. Topics include the land of Egypt and its people, art and writing, international relations, women and children, religion and ritual, the legacy of ancient Egypt and more. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- PHR 3710 "From Botanicals to Pharmaceuticals: The Evolution of Culture on Drug Production and Policies"
- In this course, students will examine the pivotal moments and paradigm shifts in the early rise, development, and maturation of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences as a profession with a keen eye on the role that power and authority played in this developmental process.
- PHILOS 2690 "Genes and Society"
- This team taught, interdisciplinary course (crosslisted as MOLGEN 2690) provides science-based exposure to topics in classical and modern genetics but with an emphasis on social and ethical issues. Together we will discuss what genes are, and how they work, and how your genome influences traits and behaviors in the context of social beliefs and philosophy. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Interdisciplinary and Integrated Collaborative Teaching. Cross-listed with MOLGEN 2690.
- PHILOS 3210 "History of Ancient Philosophy"
- Major figures and issues in Greek philosophy: presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.
- RELSTDS 3168 "The History of God"
- Exploration of how the idea of a single God developed in religions having their origins in the ancient near East and the Mediterranean (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hellenistic philosophy) from ancient times to the present. Cross-listed with NELC 3168.
- RELSTDS 3672 "Native American Religions"
- Comparative survey of indigenous religions of North America; patterns and diversity in religious experience, cosmologies, myths, rituals, social organizations, and sacred roles. RELSTDS 2370 recommended.
- RELSTDS 3888 "Death, Dying, and the Afterlife"
- This course explores how religious traditions, past and present, have managed death and
imagined the afterlife: from taking care of the dying, tidying up corpses, and assisting spirits in their journey from this world to the next, to banishing ghosts, accessing the power of those who have returned from the realms of the dead, and seeking out paths to immortality.
- This course explores how religious traditions, past and present, have managed death and
- RELSTDS 4370 "Research Seminar on Religion in Ohio"
- Over the last fifty years, central Ohio has become an incredibly diverse part of the country, with a large and growing number of different religious, cultural, and ethnic communities. This course is an intensive 4-credit seminar that will explore this rich diversity of religious life in our region with special attention to questions of traditions, cultures, and transformations. Approved as a 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research & Creative Inquiry.
- SASIA 5241 "Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Studies"
- A connection of the disparate threads of the geographic and cultural entity of South Asia, offering an overview and interdisciplinary perspective on the factors that affect everyday life in the region.
- SCANDVN 3350 "Norse Mythology and Medieval Culture"
- What do we know about Thor and Odin and how do we know it? What do the Norse Myths tell us about the worldview and beliefs of pagan Scandinavia? What did medieval Christians think about these same stories? Students will read the most important surviving textual sources on Scandinavia’s pre-Christian mythology and learn to analyze them as vehicles for meaning.
- SLAVIC 2365.01 "Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe"
- This course looks at the development of sports as a substitute and arena for battle between countries, as well as the rise of sports culture more generally in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of nationhood, politics, and corporeality. In this course, students will learn about the history and culture of sports, spectatorship, fandom, the Cold War, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- SLAVIC 2365.99 "Sports, Socialists, and Society in Russia and Eastern Europe (Online)"
- This course looks at the development of sports as a substitute and arena for battle between countries, as well as the rise of sports culture more generally in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of nationhood, politics, and corporeality. In this course, students will learn about the history and culture of sports, spectatorship, fandom, the Cold War, and Central and Eastern Europe.
- SLAVIC 4595 "The Politics of Difference in Southeast Europe"
- Given the long, and deeply entrenched, otherization of Southeast Europe, this upper-level course examines the politics and cultural nuances of difference by situating it within Southeast Europe and focusing on the history, cultures, and cultural products of ethnic and national “minority” groups and migrant populations.
- THEATRE 3130H "Introduction to Performance Studies"
- This introduction to performance studies examines the pervasiveness of performance as a central element of social and cultural life. We will consider a broad array of performances on and off the stage, live and recorded, scripted and improvised, sacred and profane. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Research and Creative Inquiry. Cross-listed with COMPSTD 3130H.
- THEATRE 3710 "Global Performance Traditions"
- This course examines contemporary manifestations of global performance ritual traditions, including those of Asia and the Asian Diaspora, Africa and the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas. Historical and cultural context is used to center our discussion of the tradition in contemporary practice.
- THEATRE 5798.03 "Study Tour: London"
- Group international travel experience. This course explores the landscape of contemporary British performance by immersing students in a demanding daily schedule of live performances, guest lectures, and museum and exhibition visitations in London and in Stratford-upon-Avon, placing contemporary British performance into is cultural and historical contexts. Approved as 4-credit hour High-Impact Practice: Global and Intercultural Learning: Abroad, Away, or Virtual.