Society for the Humanities (SHUM)Arts and Sciences
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Classes
SHUM 1100
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 1100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Anderson, B
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Anderson, B
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Anderson, B
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Anderson, B
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 1615
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 1615
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MWF Uris Hall 202
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Fontaine, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 1900
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 1900
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR McGraw Hall 215
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Villenas, S
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2101
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2100, ANTHR 2410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Malott Hall 230
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Munasinghe, V
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2208
Course Description
What is Southeast Asia? How does this faraway, "exotic," region intersect with our realities? This course introduces key questions in the study of Southeast Asia (which includes Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2208
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 231
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Formichi, C
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Malott Hall 205
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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- F Malott Hall 205
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Staff
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SHUM 2437
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2437
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Welker, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- R Uris Hall G26
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2455
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2455, STS 2451
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 122
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Markovits, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F Uris Hall 204
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Staff
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Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
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Staff
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 2542
Course Description
Most people learn about Africa through the media. However, media critics note that coverage is disproportionately skewed toward negative stories - poverty, war and corruption. While these factors are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2542, HIST 2542
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Byfield, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2650
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2650, ASRC 2650, ENGL 2650
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Spires, D
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 2750
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2050
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: 9/11 and Its Afterlives
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Ghosh, D
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2950
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: The Case of Climate Change
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Meeting Pattern
- MW A D White House 109
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Levine, C
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2754
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2754, JWST 2754, NES 2754
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3075
Course Description
"Print Culture from the Medieval to the Modern" employs texts and images in the Kroch Rare Books Library and Johnson Museum of Art as a prism to consider how advances in printing technology transformed ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GERST 3075
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 302
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
McBride, D
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3434
Course Description
This seminar offers students the unique opportunity to explore the abolition movement of upstate New York and to visit and research some of the Underground Railroad routes in Ithaca and the Central New ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3434, ASRC 3434, ASRC 6464
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Meeting Pattern
- W Klarman Hall K155
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Aching, G
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3707
Course Description
Popular consciousness of The Thousand and One Nights tends to focus on the female protagonist's inexhaustible oratory talents. Less frequently marveled at is the way in which the text's frame story and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3708, FGSS 3708, NES 3707, NES 6706, VISST 3707
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Uris Hall 302
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Instruction Mode: In Person
What does the representation of sexual encounter in the Arabian Nights ('Alf layla-wa layla) have to do with a politics of race and gender? This course explores the millenia-long history of mediations and translations of this ancient Perso-Arabic text across literature, film, and popular culture, in the Middle East and in Europe. We will pay attention to the transmission of phobic tropes about female sexuality and miscegenation, or "interracial" sex as they manifest in various versions of 1001 Nights across time and space.
SHUM 3778
Course Description
This course will help us understand how our ideas about free speech are shifting in an age of global information by surveying the history of censorship from the late 16th-century to the present day. In ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3778
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Library 311
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Kalas, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4005
Course Description
This course offers a global survey of the archaeology of social inequality that demonstrates the historical and geographical range in forms of enslavement, captivity, and exploitative labor. Is there a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4005, ANTHR 7005, ARKEO 4005, ARKEO 7005, SHUM 6005
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Haines, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4040
Course Description
Fictions of dictatorship, as termed by scholar Lucy Burns, denote both the narratives and spectacles produced by authoritarian governments and the performances, events, and cultural objects that work against ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4040, AMST 4040, COML 4040, PMA 4740
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Library 311
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Balance, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4200
Course Description
Community-engaged archaeology brings together knowledgeable communities located within and beyond academic institutions who collaborate to produce higher-quality accounts of the past. In this course, students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one field studies. Combined with: ANTHR 4200, ANTHR 7200, ARKEO 4200, ARKEO 7200, SHUM 6200
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Uncovering the Underground Railroad
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 215
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Sanft, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Students will be expected to participate in occasional Saturday field days.
SHUM 4540
Course Description
This course a offers comparative political sociology of democratic and non-democratic institutions in the United States and beyond. Topics will include nationalism, fascism and populism. My focus will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4543, SOC 4540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 204
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Berezin, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 6673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4674
Course Description
The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4674, AMST 6674, HIST 4674, HIST 6674, SHUM 6674
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4675
Course Description
How have epidemics and pandemics changed social worlds and created new futures? How is colonization political and microbial? What will it take to repair human-animal-environmental relations when they can ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4472, ANTHR 7472, FGSS 4675, FGSS 6675, SHUM 6675, STS 4675, STS 6675
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parrenas, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4676
Course Description
This hybrid course in health humanities and creative nonfiction explores the theme of repair by approaching illness narratives as encounters for deep listening. As both art and advocacy, creative essays ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4976, FGSS 4676, FGSS 6677, SHUM 6676
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Stabile, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4750
Course Description
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M A D White House 109
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Cain, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment is restricted to seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Sat/Unsat(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Vachali, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Enrollment is restricted to seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 6005
Course Description
This course offers a global survey of the archaeology of social inequality that demonstrates the historical and geographical range in forms of enslavement, captivity, and exploitative labor. Is there a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4005, ANTHR 7005, ARKEO 4005, ARKEO 7005, SHUM 4005
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R McGraw Hall 366
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Haines, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6200
Course Description
Community-engaged archaeology brings together knowledgeable communities located within and beyond academic institutions who collaborate to produce higher-quality accounts of the past. In this course, students ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one field studies. Combined with: ANTHR 4200, ANTHR 7200, ARKEO 4200, ARKEO 7200, SHUM 4200
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Uncovering the Underground Railroad
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 215
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Sanft, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Students will be expected to participate in occasional Saturday field days.
SHUM 6308
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARCH 6318, ARCH 6418, ROMS 6310
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Community/Engagement: Methods for Critical Theory
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Class Number & Section Details
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- R Sibley Hall 157
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Pinkus, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 6673
Course Description
Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 4673, AAS 6673, ARTH 4673, ARTH 6673, ASIAN 4467, ASIAN 6667, FGSS 4673, FGSS 6673, SHUM 4673, VISST 4673, VISST 6673
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Lee, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6674
Course Description
The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4674, AMST 6674, HIST 4674, HIST 6674, SHUM 4674
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR A D White House 110
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6675
Course Description
How have epidemics and pandemics changed social worlds and created new futures? How is colonization political and microbial? What will it take to repair human-animal-environmental relations when they can ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4472, ANTHR 7472, FGSS 4675, FGSS 6675, SHUM 4675, STS 4675, STS 6675
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Parrenas, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6676
Course Description
This hybrid course in health humanities and creative nonfiction explores the theme of repair by approaching illness narratives as encounters for deep listening. As both art and advocacy, creative essays ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4976, FGSS 4676, FGSS 6677, SHUM 4676
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R A D White House 201
- Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
Instructors
Stabile, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person