Global Issues and Social Justice

Dynamic Tensions

Michelle Romero

Thursday 5:00PM - 7:00PM (Yearlong)

This class focuses on the dynamic tensions between business, law and ethics.

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Intelligence Services in Contemporary International Relations

Thaddeus Kontek

Tuesday, 9:30AM - 12:15PM

The course will provide an overview of the nexus between diplomacy and international relations and the intelligence services.

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Third World Film

Elizabeth Hanly

Online

This is a course that leaves Hollywood film-making behind in the dust. Instead, it explores film from the so-called Third World, focusing in particular on work from Africa and the Middle East.

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Sex and the City

Amy Huseby

Monday, 2:00PM - 4:45PM

This course surveys literature from fifteenth-century to present by considering the co-constitutive nature of two major issues: sexuality and urbanization.

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Third World Film: Africa

Elizabeth Hanly

Online

While much of the world celebrates the work of the great film-makers of the U.S.A, France, Germany and Japan, extraordinary filmmaking has been accomplished, often in nearly impossible circumstances, across the Third World.

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The Intersection of American Higher Education and Social Justice

Sonja Montas-Hunter

Tuesday, Thursday, 6:25PM - 7:40PM (Hybrid)

College campuses across the country have been at the center of many of our political activism because they reflect the racial, cultural and socioeconomic heterogeneity of the American society.

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Social Movements: From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter

Shedrick Boren

Monday, Wednesday, 5:00PM - 6:15PM

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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Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces

Pioneer Winter

Tuesday, 12:30PM - 3:15PM

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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Art as Persuasion

Pioneer Winter

Online

Art as Persuasion 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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Urban Inequality in HBO's The Wire

Matthew Acevedo

Online

This course explores themes of urban inequality, issues of race and class, and topics related to social justice and the power of institutions by using the HBO program The Wire as a literary text. This course covers the first three seasons of the show and related topics.

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