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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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Section Topic
Topic: Ornament
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Baker Laboratory 335
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Ornament
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Ornament
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Ornament
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Ornament
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Robinson, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2010
Course Description
The objective of this seminar is to introduce students to the subjects of mobility and empires in the early modern Atlantic World. Through close reading of primary and secondary sources and discussions, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2010
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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
- MW Rockefeller Hall 189
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Bassi Arevalo, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2011
Course Description
As a country, we are what we remember. But who decides what facts and stories about the past are important enough to memorialize? What does that decision tell us about power and truth? This class will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2012, GOVT 2011
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G26
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Margulies, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2132
Course Description
China was and still is regarded in the Western world as a country without the rule of law. In this course, students examine recent scholarship that challenges this simplified understanding of the role ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 2280, CAPS 2132, HIST 2132
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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
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 181
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Du, Y
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2195
Course Description
Drawing on a combination of primary and secondary sources, this course explores the multiple forms and evolution of biographical writing from the Renaissance onward. We will interrogate the relationship ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2195, JWST 2195
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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
- TR McGraw Hall 145
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Juni, M
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Additional Information
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Morrill Hall 106
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Space Sciences Building 105
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Space Sciences Building 105
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2220
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2220, HIST 2220
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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
- TR McGraw Hall 215
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Glickman, L
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2241
Course Description
In this course we will use the Game of Thrones series as a way of familiarizing ourselves with different tools of cultural analysis and approaches in literary theory (such as narratology, psychoanalysis, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2241
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Bachner, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2245
Course Description
The history of humankind is also a history of health and disease; the rise of agricultural societies, ancient cities, and colonial empires had wide-ranging effects on diet and nutrition, the spread of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2245, ARKEO 2245, BSOC 2245
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Uris Hall 262
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Velasco, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2269
Course Description
This course introduces Korean popular culture in global context. Beginning with cultural forms of the late Chosŏn period, the course will also examine popular culture during the Japanese colonial period, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AAS 2269, ASIAN 2269, PMA 2465
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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
- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Markovits, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 112
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 105
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Rockefeller Hall 103
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 2515
Course Description
This course explores the major debates that define the study of contemporary Iran. Drawing from ethnographic works, literary criticism, intellectual histories and more, we will examine historical events ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 2415, NES 2515, RELST 2515
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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 White Hall 106
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Golestaneh, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2528
Course Description
Since the early 20th century, perhaps no form of music has reflected more elements of American culture than jazz. At various points, jazz has signified working class defiance, African American cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 2528, MUSIC 2528, SHUM 2528
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 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 Academic Surge A 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Barson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2528, MUSIC 2528, SHUM 2528
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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 Academic Surge A 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Barson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2550
Course Description
This course is designed to introduce students to Latin American art from the pre-Columbian period to the present. It will cover the arts of ancient civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Moche, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2555, ARTH 2550, LATA 2050, VISST 2550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 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 Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Cohen-Aponte, A
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Additional Information
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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Uris Hall G26
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Starr, D
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2800
Course Description
This course offers a survey of the art and culture of China from the Neolithic period to the twenty-first century to students who have no previous background in Chinese studies. The course begins with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2800, ARTH 2800, ASIAN 2288
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 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 Goldwin Smith Hall G19
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Sibley Hall 208
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3324
Course Description
This course examines major writers, works, and developments in modern Korean literature from the early twentieth century to the present. Beginning with the cultural transition at the end of the Chosŏn ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 3324
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Statler Hall 445
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Yi, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3334
Course Description
The body has been crucially important to Black liberation politics. Not only has it been a site of contestation and control, but it has also served as a productive site of protest, alliance, and collective ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3334, ASRC 3334, FGSS 3334
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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
- MW Uris Hall 262
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Chresfield, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3465
Course Description
This class considers the relationship between the body, knowledge and experience. We investigate the production and reproduction of the body across different times and spaces. Students examine specific ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 3465, BSOC 3460, STS 3460
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr B01
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Langwick, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3520
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one practicum. Combined with: FGSS 3520, FREN 3520
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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
- MWF Uris Hall 312
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Long, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Additional 1 hour meeting with instructor each week and plus time spent at the Alternatives school. Conducted in English.
SHUM 3535
Course Description
From videophones to walkie-talkies, transatlantic tunnels to interstellar travel, or perpetual motion to wireless energy, science fiction frequently presents visions of the future based on radical media ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3535, GERST 3535, PMA 3544, STS 3535
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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 Uris Library 311
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Born, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3635
Course Description
This course engages classical antiquity and its reception through the prism of queer studies. Cruising Homer, Sappho, Euripides, Plato, Ovid and more, we will explore how queer theoretical frameworks help ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3635, FGSS 3636, LGBT 3635
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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
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 122
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Lambert, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3778
Course Description
Disinformation, gag laws, de-platforming, violent hate speech, recommendation algorithms, chatbots, image generators. This course will help us make sense of our increasingly volatile public sphere by surveying ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. 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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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Library 311
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Kalas, R
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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
3 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
- W McGraw Hall B65
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
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 4233
Course Description
This seminar explores musical, aesthetic, physiological, and mythical concepts of touch in relation to music. Focusing on the relationship between the body of the musician and musical sound, we will develop ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 4233, MUSIC 6233
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Lincoln Hall 316
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Richards, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4451
Course Description
Examines the new cinemas of Southeast Asia and their engagement with contemporary discourses of gender and sexuality. It pays special attention to the ways in which sexuality and gendered embodiment are ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4451, ASIAN 6631, COML 4451, COML 6651, FGSS 4451, FGSS 6331, LGBT 4451, LGBT 6331, PMA 4451, RELST 4451, RELST 6631
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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
- MW Malott Hall 207
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Fuhrmann, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 498
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Berezin, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4666
Course Description
In this course, we will take an inter-and multidisciplinary approach that examines works of fiction, film, performance, and photography to explore how specters intervene in and mold the social, political, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 4666, LATA 6666, SHUM 6666, SPAN 4666, SPAN 6666
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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 Klarman Hall KG42
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Troconis Gonzalez, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4682
Course Description
This is course explores—and aims to disturb—"settlement." Attending to the close historical and economic relationship between the settlement of settler colonialism and the settlement of settled agriculture, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4682, AMST 6682, ANTHR 4182, ANTHR 7182, SHUM 6682
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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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Bize, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4684
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4684, ARTH 6684, COML 4684, COML 6684, ENGL 4984, PMA 4684, PMA 6684, SHUM 6684, VISST 4684, VISST 6684
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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
- M A D White House 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Wells, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4685
Course Description
This course studies how radical movements mobilize both aesthetic and affect in their political organizing. Broadly, the study of aesthetics concerns how we experience beauty in the world. Affect studies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4686, AMST 6686, FGSS 4685, FGSS 6685, GOVT 6985, SHUM 6685
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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 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Shomali, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4686
Course Description
We all have friends and value the company of others, but what does it mean to be in a friendship? Against the backdrop of our contemporary moment characterized by borders, oppression, and injustice, this ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4186, ANTHR 7186, FGSS 4686, FGSS 6686, SHUM 6686
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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
- M A D White House 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Yusupov, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4687
Course Description
This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4687, COML 6687, FGSS 4687, FGSS 6687, GOVT 6995, LGBT 4687, LGBT 6687, PHIL 4995, PHIL 6995, SHUM 6687
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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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Zurn, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4692
Course Description
Media is a notoriously unwieldly concept, at once self-evident and generalizable beyond the bounds of conceptual utility. Yet one feature that tends to inhere in both the narrowest and broadest of definitions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4692, COML 6692, NES 4696, NES 6696, PMA 4692, PMA 6692, SHUM 6692
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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 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 4750
Course Description
This course is designed to support seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program working on their capstone projects. Students in the course will be guided in their project research and writing. The course ... view course details
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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Chen, A
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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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Caswell, P
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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 4860
Course Description
To explore cultural aspects of imprisonment through a focus on theatre produced by those incarcerated. Does making theatre in prison seem to assist in transformation? Students create work with PPTG members ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one laboratory. Combined with: PMA 4680
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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
- M Judith Eissner Pavillion 201
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Levitt, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4948
Course Description
The comparative seminar explores pleasure and its relationship with neoliberalism. We will adopt an interdisciplinary approach and a historical trajectory, starting with the Ancient world through ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4948, COML 6948, ENGL 4948, FGSS 4948, FGSS 6948, GOVT 6945, ROMS 4948, ROMS 6948
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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 Uris Hall 438
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Diabate, N
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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
3 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
- W McGraw Hall B65
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
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 6666
Course Description
In this course, we will take an inter-and multidisciplinary approach that examines works of fiction, film, performance, and photography to explore how specters intervene in and mold the social, political, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LATA 4666, LATA 6666, SHUM 4666, SPAN 4666, SPAN 6666
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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 Klarman Hall KG42
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Troconis Gonzalez, I
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6682
Course Description
This is course explores—and aims to disturb—"settlement." Attending to the close historical and economic relationship between the settlement of settler colonialism and the settlement of settled agriculture, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4682, AMST 6682, ANTHR 4182, ANTHR 7182, SHUM 4682
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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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Bize, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 6684
Course Description
This interdisciplinary seminar brings together critical theory and global visual arts to analyze the problem of work over the long twentieth century. By focusing on the labor of visual artists and their ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4684, ARTH 6684, COML 4684, COML 6684, ENGL 4984, PMA 4684, PMA 6684, SHUM 4684, VISST 4684, VISST 6684
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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
- M A D White House 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Wells, S
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 6685
Course Description
This course studies how radical movements mobilize both aesthetic and affect in their political organizing. Broadly, the study of aesthetics concerns how we experience beauty in the world. Affect studies ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4686, AMST 6686, FGSS 4685, FGSS 6685, GOVT 6985, SHUM 4685
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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 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Shomali, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 6686
Course Description
We all have friends and value the company of others, but what does it mean to be in a friendship? Against the backdrop of our contemporary moment characterized by borders, oppression, and injustice, this ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4186, ANTHR 7186, FGSS 4686, FGSS 6686, SHUM 4686
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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
- M A D White House 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Yusupov, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 6687
Course Description
This richly interdisciplinary course examines trans issues in the transnational context of North and South America. Focusing on the tensions and cross-pollinations of (especially US and Canadian) trans ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4687, COML 6687, FGSS 4687, FGSS 6687, GOVT 6995, LGBT 4687, LGBT 6687, PHIL 4995, PHIL 6995, SHUM 4687
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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 110
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Zurn, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/
SHUM 6692
Course Description
Media is a notoriously unwieldly concept, at once self-evident and generalizable beyond the bounds of conceptual utility. Yet one feature that tends to inhere in both the narrowest and broadest of definitions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4692, COML 6692, NES 4696, NES 6696, PMA 4692, PMA 6692, SHUM 4692
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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 109
- Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023
Instructors
Vaziri, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For more information, please see: https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/