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Global Issues and Social Justice

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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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