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Classes
SHUM 1802
Course Description
This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as "America." We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history—territorial expansion and empire, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1802, HIST 1802, LATA 1802, LSP 1802
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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 165
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Garcia, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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SHUM 2023
Course Description
This course centers Black women who have often described their reproductive health experiences as "fighting for our lives." While grounded in an exploration of Black women 's experiences in the US, this ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2023, ASRC 2023, FGSS 2023, GOVT 2022, HIST 2023, SHUM 2023, STS 2023
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Africana Ctr B01
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chresfield, M
- TBA
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chresfield, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2023, ASRC 2023, FGSS 2023, GOVT 2022, HIST 2023, SHUM 2023, STS 2023
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Africana Ctr B01
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chresfield, M
- TBA
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chresfield, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2080
Course Description
More than 400 years after his death, Shakespeare remains an inescapable part of world culture. His influence can be traced at every level, from traditional art forms like theater, poetry, and opera to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 2080, PMA 2681
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Gilbert, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2082
Course Description
The Middle Ages are usually imagined as a time of manly men and feminine women: no room for gender ambiguity in Conan the Barbarian! Yet gender, then as now, was in fact unstable, multiple, and above all, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: FGSS 2082, HIST 2082, MEDVL 2082
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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 Uris Hall G20
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Falk, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2435
Course Description
Maoism and Chinese Communism are not history after Mao's death in 1976. In China, Maoism holds the key to the enduring success of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one of the most remarkable organizations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2435, HIST 2435
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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 Goldwin Smith Hall 348
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Sun, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 132
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Welker, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Welker, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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- F McGraw Hall 145
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Welker, M
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2460
Course Description
Japanese pop culture—anime, manga, video games, music and more—has been a major phenomenon with massive worldwide popularity for the last three decades. In this course, we will explore a wide range of ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 2260, FGSS 2260, PMA 2460
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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 104
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Wong, K
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2462
Course Description
In this course we will read some of the most influential micro-history writers and explore examples of different subgenres of microhistory, such as individual biographies, family histories, social histories ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2462, JWST 2462, NES 2462
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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 366
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Minawi, M
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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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 115
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Frazier, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2701
Course Description
This course considers both music and digital games in light of their playability. It aims to provide students with critical frameworks for addressing the diverse roles played by music in digital games ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: MUSIC 2701
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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 Lincoln Hall B20
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Moseley, R
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2703
Course Description
From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, "Thinking Media" offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2703, ENGL 2703, GERST 2703, MUSIC 2703, PMA 2703
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF Goldwin Smith Hall 142
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Born, E
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 2805
Course Description
Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805, ASIAN 2285, VISST 2805
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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 G22
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McGowan, K
Pan, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3175
Course Description
This course uses the history of the Spanish Inquisition, and the richness of its archival records, to explore the variety of ways in which the pursuit of heresy was intertwined with transforming how knowledge ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 3175, JWST 3175, NES 3175
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 106
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Juni, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3475
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: LAW 6030, PHIL 3475, PHIL 6475
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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 Uris Hall 204
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Yost, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3615
Course Description
How can we account for the contemporary popularity of podcasts? In what ways do they build on, and break from, earlier forms of writing for the ear? In this class we will study innovative podcast fictions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3616, ENGL 3615
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Braddock, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3636
Course Description
Shortly after the 2016 election, The New Yorker published an article entitled "The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming." This course examines what the Frankfurt School knew by introducing students to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3541, ENGL 3920, GERST 3620, GOVT 3636
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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 Malott Hall 253
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3741
Course Description
This StudioLab course connects critical design teams with researchers, NGOs, and nonprofits working on human rights, public health, and environmental and land rights in the US and abroad. Practicing methods ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3741, INFO 4940, INFO 6940
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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
- WF Sibley Hall 101
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
McKenzie, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 3750
Course Description
This course explores the practice, theory, and methodology of humanities research, critical analysis, and communication through writing and oral presentation. We will study the work and impact of humanists ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ANTHR 3950, ARTH 3755, ASIAN 3375, NES 3750
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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 A D White House 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Caswell, P
Chen, A
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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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Haines, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4035
Course Description
This class examines the history and holdings of Cornell's teaching collection of ancient Greek and Roman objects. Designed to start a systematic inventory of the collections, it requires hands-on engagement ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 4035, ARKEO 7035, ARTH 4035, ARTH 6035, CLASS 4035, CLASS 7035
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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Section Topic
Topic: Cornell's Plaster Cast Collection
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall GM09
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Goldwin Smith Hall GM09
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Alexandridis, A
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4109
Course Description
This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4109, AMST 6109, HIST 4109, HIST 6109, SHUM 6109
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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
- R Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Baptist, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4112
Course Description
This course provides students with a challenging and interdisciplinary examination of race and space in North American history. It engages public history and critical geographic study through the lens ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4111, AMST 6111, ASRC 4102, ASRC 6102, HIST 4112, HIST 6112
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Hyman, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4127
Course Description
Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASIAN 4415, ASIAN 6615, BSOC 4127, CAPS 4127, FGSS 4127, FGSS 6127, HIST 4127, HIST 6127, STS 4127, STS 6127
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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 McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Roebuck, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4172
Course Description
Tolstoy is impossible. An aristocrat who renounced the privileges of wealth and rank. A man of titanic appetites who repudiated meat, alcohol and sex. A Christian who did not believe in God and tried to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 4172, RUSSL 4172
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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
- M Uris Hall 498
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Litvak, O
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Instruction Mode: In Person
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall 369
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Litvak, O
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4180
Course Description
This seminar will read key texts in critical video game studies to consider how race, gender, indigeneity, and sexuality shape the code and the machines that we play. In addition to critical readings by ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 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
- T Rockefeller Hall 189
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Byrd, J
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Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4202
Course Description
There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4602, ASRC 6602
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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 Stimson Hall G01
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Assie-Lumumba, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4258
Course Description
Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean/African American Dialogues thinks through Julius Scott's theorization of "the common wind' of resistance in the age of the Haitian Revolution to consider ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4258, MUSIC 4258, SHUM 4258
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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 Africana Ctr B01
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Barson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4258, MUSIC 4258, SHUM 4258
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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
- TR Africana Ctr B01
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Barson, B
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4474
Course Description
This course explores the intricacies of identity-making and processes of racialization in the Atlantic World from ca. 1500 onward. The range of topics covered include the encounters between Europeans and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4474, HIST 6474, JWST 4474, JWST 6474
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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
- R Uris Hall 312
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Juni, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4537
Course Description
This course offers a broad survey of contemporary Shi'i beliefs, practices, and politics with a focus on Twelver or Imami Shi'ism. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual and political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4637, ANTHR 7637, NES 4537, NES 6537, RELST 4537, RELST 6537
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 124
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Golestaneh, S
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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: AIIS 4674, AMST 4674, AMST 6674, HIST 4674, HIST 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 McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Parmenter, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4683
Course Description
How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4683, AMST 6683, ANTHR 4183, ANTHR 7183, SHUM 6683
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Bize, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4688
Course Description
This advanced seminar centers underthought fissures within the field of Trans Studies. These fissures take the form of failed crossings between incommensurable positions. We will examine: the vexed relation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4688, ASRC 6688, FGSS 4688, FGSS 6688, LGBT 4688, LGBT 6688, SHUM 6688
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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 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Amin, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4689
Course Description
Seemingly timeless concepts of natural sex and gender have a history. In fact, they have many histories, some of which are only just starting to be written. This class examines the relationship between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4989, FGSS 4689, FGSS 6689, FREN 4689, FREN 6689, LGBT 4689, LGBT 6689, MEDVL 4689, MEDVL 6689, SHUM 6689
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Campbell, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4690
Course Description
Frontiers and borders are at the heart of our international system. From the Great Wall of China to Donald Trump's plans to build wall along the US-Mexico border, frontiers have always been invested with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4690, HIST 6690, SHUM 6690
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Florea, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4691
Course Description
How do we cross from an era of destruction and devastation to one of hope and possibility? When we see the signs of endings and extinctions all around us, can we move forward with courage and creativity? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4691, CLASS 6691, JWST 4695, JWST 6695, MEDVL 4691, MEDVL 6691, NES 4695, NES 6695, RELST 4691, RELST 6691, SHUM 6691
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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 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Chen, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
This class is for 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
- M A D White House 110
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Caswell, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
This class is for seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4773
Course Description
What does it mean to travel across political and cultural boundaries? How are people's thought, behavior, and identity shaped by such experiences and vice versa? How do historians explore and represent ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 4773, HIST 4773, HIST 6773
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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
- M McGraw Hall 365
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Du, Y
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 4800
Course Description
The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450, PMA 6450, SHUM 6800
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Bunn, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 4916
Course Description
China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4816, ARTH 6816, ASIAN 4473, ASIAN 6673
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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
- T Goldwin Smith Hall G20
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Pan, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T McGraw Hall 215
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Haines, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6109
Course Description
This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 4109, AMST 6109, HIST 4109, HIST 6109, SHUM 4109
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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
- R Sibley Hall 211
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Baptist, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6683
Course Description
How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4683, AMST 6683, ANTHR 4183, ANTHR 7183, SHUM 4683
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Bize, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
SHUM 6688
Course Description
This advanced seminar centers underthought fissures within the field of Trans Studies. These fissures take the form of failed crossings between incommensurable positions. We will examine: the vexed relation ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4688, ASRC 6688, FGSS 4688, FGSS 6688, LGBT 4688, LGBT 6688, SHUM 4688
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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 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Amin, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6689
Course Description
Seemingly timeless concepts of natural sex and gender have a history. In fact, they have many histories, some of which are only just starting to be written. This class examines the relationship between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4989, FGSS 4689, FGSS 6689, FREN 4689, FREN 6689, LGBT 4689, LGBT 6689, MEDVL 4689, MEDVL 6689, SHUM 4689
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Campbell, E
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6690
Course Description
Frontiers and borders are at the heart of our international system. From the Great Wall of China to Donald Trump's plans to build wall along the US-Mexico border, frontiers have always been invested with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 4690, HIST 6690, SHUM 4690
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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
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Florea, C
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6691
Course Description
How do we cross from an era of destruction and devastation to one of hope and possibility? When we see the signs of endings and extinctions all around us, can we move forward with courage and creativity? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4691, CLASS 6691, JWST 4695, JWST 6695, MEDVL 4691, MEDVL 6691, NES 4695, NES 6695, RELST 4691, RELST 6691, SHUM 4691
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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 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
SHUM 6800
Course Description
The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450, PMA 6450, SHUM 4800
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Bunn, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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SHUM 6819
Course Description
Urban Justice Labs are innovative seminars designed to bring students into direct contact with complex questions about race and social justice within the context of American urban culture, architecture, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ARCH 6319, ART 6419, ENGL 6919, MUSIC 6819, PMA 6819
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Sound, Music, and Public Space
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T A D White House 109
- Jan 22 - May 7, 2024
Instructors
Obadike, K
Obadike, M
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)