Class Roster - Fall 2021 - Subject - Society for the Humanities

SHUM 1100

Art Histories: An Introduction

This lecture course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by a selection of professors from the department, in collaboration with members of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 1100
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))

Class Number & Section Details

16140 SHUM 1100 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm Mcgraw Hall 165
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Robinson, C
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

17857 SHUM 1100 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
- F 10:10am - 11:00am Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Robinson, C
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

17858 SHUM 1100 DIS 202
Meeting Pattern
- F 11:20am - 12:10pm Goldwin Smith Hall 283
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Robinson, C
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

17859 SHUM 1100 DIS 203
Meeting Pattern
- M 10:10am - 11:00am Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Robinson, C
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

17860 SHUM 1100 DIS 204
Meeting Pattern
- M 11:20am - 12:10pm Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Robinson, C
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 1615

Introduction to Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a village the size of Ithaca that grew into a world empire. In this course students will be introduced to some of its literature, art, and famous personalities in the classical period ... view course details

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Syllabi:

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 1615
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

16139 SHUM 1615 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- MWF 1:30pm - 2:20pm Uris Hall 262
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Fontaine, M

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Aeneid Author Virgil	Virgil	9780199231959 Oxford University Press	$12.00 - $15.95
Required	Ancient Rome: An Anthology Of Sources Author Francese	Francese	9781624660009 Hackett Publishing Co	$18.75 - $25.00
Required	How to Keep Your Cool Author Seneca	Seneca	9780691181950	$12.75 - $16.95
Required	On Duties: A Guide To Conduct, Obligations, And Decision-Making Author Curtius	Curtius	9781534802254 Createspace	$13.50 - $17.99
Required	Perpetua's Journey Author Rea, Jennifer	Rea, Jennifer	9780190238711	$16.50 - $21.95
Required	The Fables of Phaedrus Author Phaedrus	Phaedrus	9780292724730 University Of Texas Press	$15.00 - $19.95

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SHUM 1900

Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World

How might we engage with communities, whether here in Ithaca or across the globe, in our diverse histories, experiences, and perspectives? What structural forces shape inequalities and how do communities ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 1900
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)

Class Number & Section Details

16148 SHUM 1900 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 2:45pm - 4:00pm McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Villenas, S

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South Author Stuesse	Stuesse	9780520287211 University Of California Press	$22.50 - $29.95
Required	Standing in the Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home after Katrina Author Browne	Browne	9781477307373 University Of Texas Press	$18.75 - $24.95
Optional	Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders Author Miller	Miller	9780872868342 City Lights Books	$11.25 - $14.95

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SHUM 2008

The Aesthetics of Displacement

This course analyses autobiographical writings by authors who experienced settler colonialism, forced removals, and historical erasure. The course is intended to help answer questions around voice, indigeneity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2008, ENGL 2908, NES 2008
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)

Class Number & Section Details

18979 SHUM 2008 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- TR 2:45pm - 4:00pm Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Ghanayem, E
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 2101

South Asian Diaspora

This interdisciplinary course (with an emphasis in anthropology) will introduce students to the multiple routes/roots, lived experiences, and imagined worlds of South Asians who have traveled to various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2100, ANTHR 2410
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

16106 SHUM 2101 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- TR 2:55pm - 4:10pm McGraw Hall 215
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Munasinghe, V
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 2220

From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan

This seminar will explore some of the major political and cultural trends in the United States, from the era of the Democratic New Dealer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, through the era of the conservative Republican, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2220, HIST 2220
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

19086 SHUM 2220 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- TR 2:45pm - 4:00pm Morrill Hall 404
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Glickman, L

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Edition: 15) Author Faludi	Faludi	9780307345424 Crown/Archetype	$15.00 - $20.00
Required	Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House Author Zeitz	Zeitz	9780143111436 Penguin Publishing Group	$13.50 - $18.00
Required	Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam Author Logevall	Logevall	9780520229198 University Of California Press	$25.50 - $33.95
Required	My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days In The Deep South Remembered Author Raines	Raines	9780140067538 Random House, Inc.	$13.50 - $18.00
Required	Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Edition: Revised) Author McGirr	McGirr	9780691165738 Princeton University Press	$21.75 - $28.95
Canvas Delivered Course Material - Direct Bursar Billed After Trial or Opt-Out	Instant Access - see Canvas course Author Instant Access	Instant Access	Macmillan	$9.55
Canvas Delivered Course Material - Direct Bursar Billed After Trial or Opt-Out	Instant Access - see Canvas course Author Instant Access	Instant Access	Macmillan	$9.55
Canvas Delivered Course Material - Direct Bursar Billed After Trial or Opt-Out	Instant Access - see Canvas course Author Instant Access	Instant Access	Mcgraw-Hill Higher Education	$9.55

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SHUM 2437

Economy, Power, and Inequality

How do humans organize production, distribution, exchange, and consumption? What social, political, environmental, and religious values underlie different forms of economic organization? And how do they ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2437
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

17948 SHUM 2437 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm Sibley Hall 208
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Welker, M

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Author McGhee	McGhee	9780525509561 Random House Publishing Group	$21.00 - $28.00

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SHUM 2455

Introduction to Bioethics

Bioethics is the study of ethical questions raised by advances in the medical field. Questions we'll discuss will include: Is it morally permissible to advance a patient's death, at his or her request, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2455, STS 2451
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

16141 SHUM 2455 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm Physical Sciences Building 120
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Markovits, J
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

16142 SHUM 2455 DIS 201
Meeting Pattern
- F 11:15am - 12:05pm Rockefeller Hall 102
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Staff
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Class Number & Section Details

16143 SHUM 2455 DIS 202
Meeting Pattern
- F 12:20pm - 1:10pm Rockefeller Hall 102
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Staff
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 2650

Introduction to African American Literature

This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2650, ASRC 2650, ENGL 2650
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

16878 SHUM 2650 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- TR 11:25am - 12:40pm Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Spires, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 2711

Archaeology of the Roman World: Italy and the West

With megacities, long-distance trade, and fluid identities, the Roman empire can seem uncannily close to our modern world. This course adopts a thematic approach to explore whether this is a valid parallel, ... view course details

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Syllabi:

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2711, ARTH 2711, CLASS 2711
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

17292 SHUM 2711 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 11:25am - 12:40pm Rockefeller Hall 132
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Van Oyen, A
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 2750

Introduction to Humanities

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi:

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2751
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Section Topic

Topic: 9/11 and Its Afterlives
Class Number & Section Details

8446 SHUM 2750 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- TR 1:00pm - 2:15pm A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Ghosh, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Enrollment preference will be given to students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program.

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SHUM 2754

Wondrous Literatures of the Near East

This course examines Near East's rich and diverse literary heritage. We will read a selection of influential and wondrous texts from ancient to modern times, spanning geographically from the Iberian peninsula ... view course details

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Syllabi:

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2754, JWST 2754, NES 2754
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18033 SHUM 2754 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- TR 11:25am - 12:40pm McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Starr, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 3010

Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World

When sugar "was king," that is, when it was valued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as we might value petroleum today, European nations went to war in order to possess the sugar producing islands ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3015, ASRC 3010, LATA 3015, ROMS 3010
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18431 SHUM 3010 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- MW 1:00pm - 2:15pm Africana Ctr 111
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Aching, G

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Black Jacobins Author James	James	9780679724674 Random House, Inc.	$13.50 - $18.00
Required	Sugar In The Blood Author Stuart	Stuart	9780307474544 Western Publishing Company	$12.75 - $16.95
Required	Sweetness & Power Author Mintz	Mintz	9780140092332 The Penguin Group	$13.50 - $18.00

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SHUM 3434

Underground Railroad Seminar

This course offers undergraduates a unique approach to exploring the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad in Central New York. It is an experiential course that includes visits to specific known ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3434, ASRC 3434
Credits and Grading Basis

3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))

Class Number & Section Details

17418 SHUM 3434 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- T 12:25pm - 2:20pm Africana Ctr 111
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Aching, G

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Classic Slave Narratives Author Gates	Gates	9780451532138 New American Library	$6.00 - $7.95
Required	Gateway to Freedom Author Foner, Eric	Foner, Eric	9780393352191	$12.75 - $16.95
Required	Twelve Years a Slave: A Memoir of Kidnap, Slavery and Liberation Author Northup, Solomon	Northup, Solomon	9780143106708 Penguin Publishing Group	$12.75 - $17.00

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SHUM 3475

Philosophy of Punishment

This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 6030, PHIL 3475, PHIL 6475
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

17176 SHUM 3475 LEC 001
Meeting Pattern
- MW 2:45pm - 4:00pm Rockefeller Hall 122
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Yost, B

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Other	PKT: PHIL 3475 / 6475 F21 (P) Packet Author Yost	Yost	11013528	$50.25
Required	The Problem of Punishment Author Boonin, David	Boonin, David	9780521709613 Cambridge University Press	$25.50 - $33.99

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Department Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 3520

(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

This course will offer an overview of theoretical and historical responses to bodily and cognitive difference. What was the status of people with (dis)abilities in the past, when they were called monsters, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3520, FREN 3520
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

17136 SHUM 3520 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- MWF 1:30pm - 2:20pm Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Long, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 4661

Rethinking Boundaries of the Human: Crip Ecology, Disability, and Otherness

This course draws on feminist, queer, and crip theories; animal studies; disability studies; indigenous studies; and environmental studies to examine anthropocentrism and various forms of violence that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4260, COML 6260, FGSS 4661, SHUM 6661
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18045 SHUM 4661 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- M 11:20am - 1:15pm A D White House 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Kim, E
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 4663

Utopia Lost? Failure and its Aftermaths

What does it mean to consider something a failure? What happens when a movement or campaign never quite gets off the ground, never got the traction they wanted, when a dream never comes to fruition? This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4493, ANTHR 7493, COML 4261, COML 6261, NES 4663, NES 6663, SHUM 6663
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18085 SHUM 4663 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- T 11:20am - 1:15pm A D White House 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Golestaneh, S

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America Author Warren, Louis S.	Warren, Louis S.	9780465015023	$26.25 - $35.00
Required	Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice Author Scott	Scott	9780822356219 Duke University Press	$19.50 - $25.95
Required	The Queer Art of Failure Author Halberstam, Jack	Halberstam, Jack	9780822350453	$19.50 - $25.95

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SHUM 4664

Death in the City: Funerary Architecture in Muslim South Asia

This seminar examines the development and transformation of Muslim funerary landscapes in the Indian subcontinent from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries. It explores the relationship between sepulchral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4664, ARTH 6664, ASIAN 4471, ASIAN 6641, SHUM 6664, VISST 4664
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18134 SHUM 4664 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- R 9:05am - 11:00am A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Quraishi, F
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 4665

Female Complaints: Gender in Early Modern Lyric and Modern Theory

This course asks how Renaissance lyric poetry (including Petrarch, Labé, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Wroth) negotiates questions of gender through poetic innovation and, just as often, through the use of poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4262, COML 6262, ENGL 4965, FGSS 4665, ROMS 4655, ROMS 6655, SHUM 6665
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18112 SHUM 4665 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- R 2:40pm - 4:35pm A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Kadue, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 4671

Political Theories of Comparison, Creolization, Decolonization

Recent years have seen political theorists grappling with the afterlives of colonialism by engaging in projects of comparison, decolonization, and creolization, among others. This course presents an overview ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6365, SHUM 6671
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

19976 SHUM 4671 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- M 2:40pm - 4:35pm A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Adalet, B

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory Author Nichols, Robert	Nichols, Robert	9781478006732	$19.50 - $25.95
Required	Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, du Bois, and Justice As a Political Craft Author Valdez, Inés	Valdez, Inés	9781108704809	$22.50 - $29.99
Canvas Delivered Course Material - Direct Bursar Billed After Trial or Opt-Out	Instant Access - see Canvas course Author Instant Access	Instant Access		$13.94

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SHUM 4750

Senior Capstone Seminar for Humanities Scholars

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis

1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Class Number & Section Details

19076 SHUM 4750 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- T 10:10am - 11:00am A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Reynolds, M
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment is restricted to seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis

1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Class Number & Section Details

19114 SHUM 4750 SEM 102
Meeting Pattern
- T 1:30pm - 2:20pm A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Tally-Schumacher, K
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment is restricted to seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session.
Credits and Grading Basis

1-2 Credits Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)

Class Number & Section Details

19115 SHUM 4750 SEM 103
Meeting Pattern
- R 9:05am - 9:55am A D White House 109
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Ghosh, D
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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Enrollment is restricted to seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

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SHUM 4803

What Is Classics? Towards a Critical Disciplinary History

Within the long roiling and much heralded 'crises of the humanities', Classics is experiencing a contemporary crisis of its own. These queries are not least shaped around the disciplines continuing cultural ... view course details

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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4803, CLASS 7803, SHUM 6803
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)

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19024 SHUM 4803 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- MW 2:45pm - 4:00pm Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Pelliccia, H
  Umachandran, M
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 6308

Design Justice Workshop

Design Justice Workshops bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue related to race, social justice, and the urban environment. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6408, ARCH 6509, ASRC 6380
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

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Topic: Black Memory Workers and their Spatial Practices:
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19656 SHUM 6308 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- W 9:05am - 11:00am
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Richardson, R
  Robinson, P

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Black Manhattan Author Johnson	Johnson	9781632461155 Ig Publishing, Incorporated	$12.75 - $16.95
Required	Harlem Between Heaven And Hell Author Taylor	Taylor	9780816640522 University Of Minnesota Press	$20.25 - $27.00
Required	Hip-Hop Architecture Author Cooke, Sekou	Cooke, Sekou	9781350116146	$26.25 - $34.95
Required	Racecraft: The Soul Of Inequality In American Life Author Fields	Fields	9781781683132 Verso Books	$14.25 - $18.95
Required	Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America Author Anderson	Anderson	9781633451148 Museum Of Modern Art	$33.75 - $45.00
Required	Souls Of Black Folk Author Dubois	Dubois	9780140189988 The Penguin Group	$10.50 - $14.00
Required	The Aesthetics of Equity Author Wilkins, Craig L.	Wilkins, Craig L.	9780816646616	$18.75 - $25.00
Required	The Chiffon Trenches Author Talley, André Leon	Talley, André Leon	9780593129272	$13.50 - $18.00

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SHUM 6661

Rethinking Boundaries of the Human: Crip Ecology, Disability, and Otherness

This course draws on feminist, queer, and crip theories; animal studies; disability studies; indigenous studies; and environmental studies to examine anthropocentrism and various forms of violence that ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4260, COML 6260, FGSS 4661, SHUM 4661
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

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18047 SHUM 6661 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- M 11:20am - 1:15pm A D White House 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Kim, E
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SHUM 6663

Utopia Lost? Failure and its Aftermaths

What does it mean to consider something a failure? What happens when a movement or campaign never quite gets off the ground, never got the traction they wanted, when a dream never comes to fruition? This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4493, ANTHR 7493, COML 4261, COML 6261, NES 4663, NES 6663, SHUM 4663
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18091 SHUM 6663 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- T 11:20am - 1:15pm A D White House 110
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Golestaneh, S

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America Author Warren, Louis S.	Warren, Louis S.	9780465015023	$26.25 - $35.00
Required	Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice Author Scott	Scott	9780822356219 Duke University Press	$19.50 - $25.95
Required	The Queer Art of Failure Author Halberstam, Jack	Halberstam, Jack	9780822350453	$19.50 - $25.95

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SHUM 6664

Death in the City: Funerary Architecture in Muslim South Asia

This seminar examines the development and transformation of Muslim funerary landscapes in the Indian subcontinent from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries. It explores the relationship between sepulchral ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4664, ARTH 6664, ASIAN 4471, ASIAN 6641, SHUM 4664, VISST 4664
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18138 SHUM 6664 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- R 9:05am - 11:00am A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Quraishi, F
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 6665

Female Complaints: Gender in Early Modern Lyric and Modern Theory

This course asks how Renaissance lyric poetry (including Petrarch, Labé, Ronsard, Shakespeare, Wroth) negotiates questions of gender through poetic innovation and, just as often, through the use of poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4262, COML 6262, ENGL 4965, FGSS 4665, ROMS 4655, ROMS 6655, SHUM 4665
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

18118 SHUM 6665 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- R 2:40pm - 4:35pm A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Kadue, K
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SHUM 6671

Political Theories of Comparison, Creolization, Decolonization

Recent years have seen political theorists grappling with the afterlives of colonialism by engaging in projects of comparison, decolonization, and creolization, among others. This course presents an overview ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6365, SHUM 4671
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)

Class Number & Section Details

17591 SHUM 6671 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- M 2:40pm - 4:35pm A D White House 201
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Adalet, B

Status	Title	Author	ISBN/Publisher	Retail Price Range
Required	Theft Is Property!: Dispossession and Critical Theory Author Nichols, Robert	Nichols, Robert	9781478006732	$19.50 - $25.95
Required	Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, du Bois, and Justice As a Political Craft Author Valdez, Inés	Valdez, Inés	9781108704809	$22.50 - $29.99
Canvas Delivered Course Material - Direct Bursar Billed After Trial or Opt-Out	Instant Access - see Canvas course Author Instant Access	Instant Access		$13.94

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SHUM 6803

What Is Classics? Towards a Critical Disciplinary History

Within the long roiling and much heralded 'crises of the humanities', Classics is experiencing a contemporary crisis of its own. These queries are not least shaped around the disciplines continuing cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi:

Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4803, CLASS 7803, SHUM 4803
Credits and Grading Basis

4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)

Class Number & Section Details

19025 SHUM 6803 SEM 101
Meeting Pattern
- MW 2:45pm - 4:00pm Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 26 - Dec 7, 2021
- Instructors
  
  Pelliccia, H
  Umachandran, M
To be determined. There are currently no textbooks/materials listed, or no textbooks/materials required, for this section. Additional information may be found on the syllabus provided by your professor.

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SHUM 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction

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SHUM 1615 Introduction to Ancient Rome

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SHUM 1900 Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World

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SHUM 2008 The Aesthetics of Displacement

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SHUM 2101 South Asian Diaspora

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SHUM 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan

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SHUM 2437 Economy, Power, and Inequality

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SHUM 2455 Introduction to Bioethics

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SHUM 1100

Art Histories: An Introduction

SHUM 1615

Introduction to Ancient Rome

SHUM 1900

Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World

SHUM 2008

The Aesthetics of Displacement

SHUM 2101

South Asian Diaspora

SHUM 2220

From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan

SHUM 2437

Economy, Power, and Inequality

SHUM 2455

Introduction to Bioethics

SHUM 2650

Introduction to African American Literature

SHUM 2711

Archaeology of the Roman World: Italy and the West

SHUM 2750

Introduction to Humanities

SHUM 2754

Wondrous Literatures of the Near East

SHUM 3010

Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World

SHUM 3434

Underground Railroad Seminar

SHUM 3475

Philosophy of Punishment

SHUM 3520

(Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History

SHUM 4661

Rethinking Boundaries of the Human: Crip Ecology, Disability, and Otherness

SHUM 4663

Utopia Lost? Failure and its Aftermaths