Global Issues and Social Justice

Practice Philanthropy: A Call to Action

Fang Shu

Tuesday, 2:00PM-4:30PM (Hybrid)

This course has been designed for students who intend to make an impact and make the world a better place using their own philanthropic resources.

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'Your sloppy, fragile heart': Disability Across Disciplines

Mark Kelley

Online

Disability is at the heart of law, medicine, technology, education, and art. That is, both the meaning of "disability" and the actions of disabled people have shaped these fields to the present. This seminar will explore this fact to showcase the methods and value of the intersectional turn in Disability Studies.

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Radical Female Voices

Niurca Marquez

Wednesday, 2:00PM-3:15PM (Hybrid)

n this course, we will explore themes around place-making and positioning (in arts, humanities and sciences) from a feminist perspective. We will engage with the writings of Audre Lourde, Gloria Anzaldúa, Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, Adriana Cavarero, Hannah Arendt, and adrienne maree brown, among others.

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You Crit Like a Girl: The Unique Role of Women in Gaming, Entertainment, and Media

Connie Viamonte

Tuesday, 4:00PM - 6:30 PM

This course will investigate gender through the lens of modern media and entertainment.

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Business, Human Rights and Peace: The Role of Corporations in Conflict Resolution

David Wernick

Tuesday, 2:00PM-4:30PM (Hybrid)

This course has been designed for students who intend to make an impact and make the world a better place using their own philanthropic resources.

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One Health: Of the People, By the People, For the People

Alok Deoraj

Online

The course, "One Health: Of the People, By the People, For the People" enables students to examine the historical influence of demographic, epidemiological and socio-cultural transitions at the intersection of environment, health, and wellbeing.

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Behind the Lens: Race and Ethnicity in the Media

Aisha Hamid

Tuesday, 9:30 - 10:45 AM (Hybrid)

Many are unaware of the extent to which media shapes their lives. Mass media has the capacity to influence thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It also has the capacity to influence our social and political culture.

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Great IDEA (Inclusion Diversity Equity Access) for Change

Meredith Newman

Friday, 1:30PM - 2:45PM (Hybrid)

Great IDEAs for Change examines the multiple manifestations of equity and inclusion in the public and non-profit sectors. Issues of diversity and access to equal opportunities will be explored through a variety of learning resources as well as experiential learning, site visits, and interactions with community leaders.

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Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces

Pioneer Winter

Tuesday, 12:30PM - 3:15PM (Yearlong)

Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces examines the public and private lives (and deaths) of individuals marginalized within and across our vibrant, shared histories.

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Identity Consciousness and Performance: Liminality

Niurca Marquez

Tuesday, 3:30 - 4:45 PM (Online Live)

This course analyzes the root and development of three of the most common terms used to describe cultural and/or racial mixing or blending and uses them as a starting point to examine the performance and literature about the experience of the "third" or liminal spaces. You will learn about these three distinct terms for mixed cultural expressions and what they mean in a series of fields like sociology, psychology, religion, gender studies, ethnography, performance and the arts, to name a few.

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Social Movements

Shedrick Boren

Monday, 5:00PM - 7:40PM

Social change starts with a vision and evolves to transform society. There are many types of social movements that have changed history, and many individual leaders have made a difference.

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If You Could, Would You? Exploring the ethical and moral questions of new technologies on the self

Gabriela Alvarez

Tuesday, 12:00PM-1:15PM (Hybrid)

In our pursuit of maximizing human potential, the implications of new technologies are often ill-conceived and can have dire ramifications. This course will use the British television science-fiction anthology Black Mirror to explore these ethical dilemmas centered around human enhancement. Furthermore, students will be challenged to consider if and how to mitigate these modern-day crises.

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Art as Persuasion

Pioneer Winter

Online

Art as Persuasion fully online course focuses on the cultural and political appropriation of visual and performance art for the purposes of public conformity, propaganda, and dissent (1935-present day).

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