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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Global Media Cultures explores how people living in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and beyond produce and consume media in both immediate (local) and distributed (global) contexts. Drawing from a (once more, global) range of written texts that reckon with the political, economic, and technological constraints and affordances of media, communication, and culture around the world, students will watch complementary popular forms of entertainment in order to understand how these artifacts process and document the human experience, as well as the meanings they express to audiences, whether these audiences are domestic, diasporic, or transnational. Engaging with and writing about these materials, the class is structured to radiate outward, from media-specific to nationally-specific considerations, and then beyond, to transnational and finally global media convergence.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the American idea and ideals of heroes, villains, and great stories - both in media and the everyday world. Students will apply critical theory to folk tales, the different ways we learn about American history ("Remember the Alamo", G. Wash. and the cherry tree, etc.), Disney, and more. Students will undertake two major research projects, as well as complete reflective assignments related to their research process.
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4.00 Credits
This course will give students an opportunity to learn more about issues both locally, nationally, and internationally that impact our lives. Potential issues that will be explored include (but are not limited to) systemic racism in the criminal justice system, police use of force, mass incarceration, human trafficking, mental health and the criminal justice system, wrongful conviction, gun control and gun violence, hate crimes, and environmental criminology.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of non-Western dance forms, including classical, ceremonial and folk/traditional, in their historical and cultural contexts. This course is enhanced by observing video and live performances.
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4.00 Credits
This course looks at the lens and screen arts (photography, film, video, animation, and new media). By exploring creative, lens-based image practices from around the world, students will learn how these creative image practices build real and imagined communities transnationally. Addressing images through photographic genres and modes such as portraiture, landscape, documentary, and more, the course will take a comparative approach that allows us to look at a range of cultures outside the US. Within this comparative framework, certain units may focus on one specific region of the world and its diasporic communities.
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4.00 Credits
A capstone Spartan Studies Culminating Experience seminar in which each student will create a 'critical video essay' thesis project, supplemented with a written thesis paper, focused on a film, animation and new media related topic of their choice approved by the instructor of record. Pre-requisites: Completion of all the other Spartan Studies requirements except the Culminating Experience course.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of selected cities in relation to transnational, intercontinental, and global connections. Students examine evidence revealing how patterns of social relationships, norms, institutions, and civil society and civic engagement in these cities have been shaped locally, how they have changed over time, and how they have been connected to global patterns such as trade, empire, migration, and the exchange of ideas and practices such as race, class, gender, and technology.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the history of wars and revolutions in modern times, including political, cultural, economic and social clashes and upheavals. Investigating the interconnections between local events and global transformations, students examine evidence revealing how wars and revolutions have shaped, and been shaped by, social relationships, norms, and institutions, including civil society and civic engagement. The course explores how wars and revolutions have changed over time, and how they have been connected to global patterns such as trade, empire, migration, and the exchange of ideas and practices such as race, class, gender, and technology.
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4.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course represents the culmination of the Spartan Studies Program. Through common readings, students explore a selected historical topic or theme. The class examines how historians draw upon the humanities and/or natural sciences, as well as other social sciences, and how historians have analyzed the histories of these disciplinary areas. Students reflect upon their previous coursework in History and in their Spartan Studies courses, and complete a guided project integrating methods from different disciplinary areas. This course is open to students of all majors.
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4.00 Credits
This course delves into creating stories for social impact with a focus on a social problem that needs urgent attention. Students will learn the principles of solutions journalism, how to identify compelling narratives that showcase solutions to the specific social challenge and how to craft stories that highlight both the challenges and solutions. They will also engage in critical discussions about the ethics and responsibilities of solutions-oriented storytelling in the context of the crisis.
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