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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
In this course, we will explore how indigenous social movements in the Global South and Global North have used art as a medium to their political struggles. This class responds to the necessity to an interdisciplinary approach to indigeneity and political action. In this class, the student will be expose to indigenous performance, spoken word, painting, poetry, novels among other artistic expressions. The topics covered in this class range from environmental justice struggles, gender and sexuality studies, indigenous sovereignty as well as indigenous science and religions.
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4.00 Credits
Alternative dispute resolution has become an increasingly important aspect of the American justice system. As court systems become overwhelmed, alternative means of conflict resolution are essential. This course explains the theory and practice behind various means of conflict resolution, including mediation, negotiation, facilitation, and advocacy. Through case studies, class exercises, role-plays and assignments, students will learn how to analyze various conflict situations and develop theory-based strategies and skills to ethically and effectively respond to the situation.
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4.00 Credits
This past October, in a South Carolina high school, a Black teenage girl was violently flipped out of her desk chair by the school resource officer while her Black male teacher passively looked on. The schoolteacher had called the officer because this Black teenage girl refused to put away her phone or some other typical teenage behavior. The video of this incident was captured on phones by other students in the class and spread like wild fire over social media. Quickly-too quickly-a cacophony of voices rose to justify the officer's excessive use of force, while others cried out in anger and pain at the violence enacted on this Black teenage girl. Why was the national outcry over this incident so mixed? This course sets out to investigate a set of complex question: does the U.S. deny Black women love? What is the relationship between love and citizenship? Why are Black women both vilified in the news media and sexually glorified in music videos? Through a variety of disciplinary perspectives-history, law sociology, cultural anthropology, visual art and literature-we will focus on the key issues of Black feminist theory that can help shed light on the longevity of public policies and laws put into place during slavery that allows for the systematic abuse of Black women and how this manifest today in law, education, culture and society. This course will begin by investigating Black female stereotypes-such as jezebel, sapphire and the mammy and their more recent manifestations such as welfare queen and baby mama-and how these manifest in the court of law, political speeches and in stand-up acts by popular Black comedians to understand how sexism, class oppression and racism deny Black women basic human rights.
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4.00 Credits
Food Justice seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what, and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly. This course will examine impacts of colonization on local and traditional foods, health, hunger, justice, and land management policies and the re-emergence of Indigenous practices with land, water, and food systems management. Permaculture principles and indigenous land ethics will guide our process of learning. In addition, this course will examine food justice from diverse theoretical, applied, and ethical perspectives (e.g., race, ethnicity, class, equity, law, economy, ecology, sovereignty, globesity and wellbeing). Empirical evidence now confirms the relationship among poverty, the built environment, nutrition, and chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
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2.00 Credits
Through a critical analysis of key films portraying historic and current social justice struggles, this course will explore the representation of oppositional activism, methods of and calls to resistance, and decolonial liberation movements as represented in contemporary world cinema. Examples will include feature length films as well as documentaries in order to problematize how points of view and specific mediums affect narratives and how political commitments are manifest in artistic productions. Of special interest will be the portrayal of ongoing activist struggles amidst structural inequality and violence, how individual state actors are perceived as either facilitating or suppressing these, civil societal responses to these confrontations within the individual cinematic narratives, the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and the interventionist practices through which developed nations influence governance, human and civil rights, and economic decisions in the developing world. Texts and discussions will particularly address issues of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and other markers of identity informing global movements and activism. Films may include profanity, violence, and/or sexually explicit images.
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4.00 Credits
This MTSE will travel from Amsterdam, Netherlands through Germany, Switzerland and into northeastern Italy, visiting important sites used for scientific experimentation in the neurological and medical sciences prior to and during WWII. A major unifying theme for the course will include examining the problematic relationships between science, society, and policy, including an analysis of the power relations and ethics of scientific research in both neuroscience, criminology, and education and experimental implementation during that time period. This class will include readings, discussions, and site visits focused on issues of eugenics' role in experiments up to and including World War II; the nature of eugenics experiments; and the ethical and social context of these scientific experiments. The class will conclude in Genoa, Italy with a final submission of daily entry journals. This course fulfills the Engaging the World requirement.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to Hopi and Din cultures. It includes social, educational, environmental, political, economic, artistic, health and caring aspects of lived histories and practices. Students will have the opportunity to explore the complex histories, worldviews, and perceptions of the environment, relationships, and values of Din/Hopi people through a variety of perspectives. All students will participate in a nine-day field trip designed to explore health issues, educational practices, and ecosystems on Hopi and Din Nations in northern Arizona and southern Utah. Students will visit Indian Health Services and private health care facilities, schools, Hopi and possibly Din families, museums, and National Park sites. Students will participate in a guided field and river trip on the San Juan River. Students will also visit related organizations in Salt Lake City after field experience. Students from all majors are welcome.
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2.00 Credits
This course tracks the conceptualizations of justice that have been and are currently conveyed in film, including but not limited to the relationship between crime and various notions of justice. These depictions include social issues such as class, gender, and race.
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2.00 Credits
Through a critical analysis of key films featuring the plight of citizens against totalitarian and authoritative states, this course will explore the representation of armed and political resistance and the subsequent punishment of such actions through state violence in contemporary world cinema. Of special interest will be the portrayal of revolutionaries and activists, political prisoners, state actors, and the citizenry in general in order to discuss how these films might privilege certain ideologies and courses of action while criticizing others; how these conflicts are portrayed as extending beyond national borders through geopolitics and the intervention of developed nations within the developing world; and how race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and other markers of identity are represented within these works. Films may include profanity, violence, and/or sexually explicit images.
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2.00 Credits
This course addresses the use of art in justice struggles. Topics will include music, performance, painting, digital media and any art expression that has been used as a tool of resistance, autonomy and communication in social justice struggles around the globe. The class covers a diverse array of topics and theoretical perspectives such as decolonial theory, indigenous studies, black feminisms, feminist cultural production, ecofeminism, environmental justice studies, disability studies, among other areas of study. To explore these topics, the course will analyze multiple cases of artistic expressions which have made an impact in society both in the Global South and the Global North.
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