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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the ways that practitioners and patients from around the world narrativize medical conditions, health treatments, and the body. Our emphasis will be on medicine and the body not as static and known entities but as things that require "understanding," in the senses that they both necessitate interpretation and should be approached compassionately. Our texts will include everything from medical memoirs, to ethnographies, to fiction. We will consider such questions as: How do public and personal interpretations of health impact wellbeing? How do understandings of health differ globally? And, how are health practices nationalized, gendered, and racialized?
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4.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to narratives of immigrants to major cities as the foundation for our investigation into how ever-shifting local urban cultures inform and are informed by inter- and intra-continental networks of people, businesses, organizations, and political bodies. Through writing about migrant literature, films, plays, music, and/or other cultural artifacts, students will trace how "local" experiences from around the world influence the ever-shifting cultural milieux of the contemporary "global" city. Students will closely read and watch the stories of immigrants to a city chosen for the focus of the class using critical texts drawn from several humanities disciplines such as history, literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and film studies to gain an understanding of what makes a "global" city.
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4.00 Credits
This course practices humanistic ways of thinking in a global context through adaptation. The course will study how and why human cultures continually return to the same stories. Beginning with close reading of significant texts or authors, the course will explore how those texts have been adapted, translated, and reimagined by and for new cultures. Texts will be drawn from a range of genre and media and several humanistic disciplines. The course culminates in a multimodal adaptation project.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores how ecological crisis shapes cultural expression and the extent to which the arts can intervene in environmental issues. Given the global nature of catastrophic climate change, what meaningful ways of thinking, making and acting are available to us on an individual and local level? How do the humanities offer tools for such action? To answer these and other pressing questions, we will analyze artistic works (which may include literature, visual art, performance or film) from cultures within and outside of the United States. We will then put these works into conversation with theoretical texts in the humanities.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the history, implications, and controversies surrounding banned, challenged, and censored books both locally, in the United States, and globally, throughout the world. It provides students with a unique opportunity to engage with literature that has challenged societal norms and to evaluate why. Together, we will discuss the cultural and political contexts that sparked the controversies surrounding these texts. Students who complete this course will have a deeper understanding of the impact of censorship on literature and society and the importance of defending the right to read and express ideas freely.
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4.00 Credits
In this humanities course students will study the role music plays in shaping and responding to social movements on a local, national, and global scale, considering what the function, potential, and limits of musical protests were in transforming civic life over the course of the twentieth century.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to moral thinking and to local and global ethical controversies across the world, predominantly outside of the United States. Students will learn the basics of critical thinking and moral reasoning in a cross cultural context, and use African, Anglo-European, Chinese, Indigenous, and Islamic moral frameworks to critically and respectfully examine global and local moral debates.
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4.00 Credits
We will explore questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and value/ethics by engaging with philosophical texts and ideas from parts of the world outside the United States. We will examine a foundational text from ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and/or Roman philosophy (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, the ancient Stoics) and one from early modern philosophy by a French or German philosopher (i.e., Descartes or Kant). We will have additional readings and activities that support, challenge, or complement the foundational philosophical texts from geographically distant parts of the ancient and early modern world by bringing them into conversation with our own lives in our local communities.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores three traditions of philosophy, religion, and contemplative mind-body practice from parts of the world outside the United States: Indian Vedic philosophy, Chinese Daoism, and Zen Buddhism. Students will explore connections between these global traditions and their own actions as individuals within specific local communities, critically examine philosophical/religious texts, learn through writing while cultivating knowledge and skills distinctive of the humanities and the discipline of philosophy, experience contemplative practices (i.e., hatha yoga, qigong, and/or meditation) outside of class, and engage in respectful discussion in which they compare/contrast and critically assess these global traditions and their associated contemplative practices.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces analytic and continental approaches to the study of aesthetics through philosophical explorations of Hip Hop. Students will analyze scholarly themes, perspectives, and critiques, centered on questions of the social, political, and philosophical import of a variety of forms of local and global hip hop aesthetical productions and topics including sexism, homophobia, class, and race. Students will also critically engage others in a group project, while developing their own theoretical attitudes towards critical questions of epistemology, classical aesthetics, post-modernity, and existentialist thought through analyses of traditional and contemporary thinkers, artists, texts and media.
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