History, Culture, and The Arts

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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Law, Literature and Pop Culture

Andrej Milic

Thursday, 6:00PM-7:15PM (Online Live)

The law informs all areas of human existence and yet permeates in a prevalent way throughout pop culture narratives. To properly understand humanity and anthropology we must look at the impact of law throughout history.

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Adult Topics on Narrative Medicine

Amilcar Castellano-Sanchez

Tuesday, 1:00PM – 3:30PM

This course aims to bring forth the unbreakable -- yet not well-valued and sparsely characterized -- connection between the worlds of text (narrative, poetry, short stories, memoirs, interviews, and film adaptations) to the worlds of medical ailments and medical practice.

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Our Stories: An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Socialization

Aisha Hamid

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

This course seeks to survey the stories of racial and ethnic “others” in literature, film, music and art to explore the personal experiences of minorities grappling and navigating this reality.

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Miami in Miami

John Bailly

Wednesday, 10:00AM-3:45PM (Yearlong)

This is a seminar that explores the history, culture, and people of Miami.

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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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Medical Art History to the Renaissance

Amilcar Castellano Sanchez

Monday, 1:00PM – 3:30PM

This course encompasses the study of medical world history as it has occurred through time portrayed in different forms of art, i.e. visual, written, performed in a global perspective thus emphasizing certain areas in this review such as: anatomy, physical diagnosis, different types of illness -with a focus on infectious diseases-; a few specialties such as: obstetrics / gynecology, surgery, and psychiatry amongst others also including selected examples of preventive medicine and therapeutic approaches; all from the perspective of the vast historical registry available to us.

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The Bicycle

Mathew Acevedo

Online

The bicycle is the world’s most prevalent method of human transportation, far exceeding the number of cars on the road and having a significant impact on how many people on Earth live, work, and play. This course will be an interdisciplinary study of the bicycle and bicycling, exploring the history of the bicycle, the science and technology of bicycles, socio-political aspects of bicycling, the business and economics of the bike industry, and different cycling traditions (road, mountain, commuting, urban, leisure, etc.).

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Culture and Expression: Yesterday's Censorship, Suppression and Propaganda

Jason Calloway

Wednesday 9:00AM - 11:45AM (Yearlong)

For as long as humankind has gathered in groups, we have sought to express ourselves through various means: music, visual art, dance, speech, and literature.

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Miami Studies: Unpacking and Curating Stories from the Past

Julio Capo and Rebecca Friedman

Monday, 2:00PM - 5:00PM

This interdisciplinary and skill-oriented honors seminar focuses on what we call "Miami Studies," an emergent field of study that centers Miami and its many surrounding communities, cultures, and histories.

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Identity Consciousness and Performance: Hybridity, Mestizaje and Transculturality

Niurca Marquez

Tuesday, 3:30-4:45pm (Online)

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 space as applicable beyond just cultural studies.

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Creative Non-Fiction: Personal Essays and Memoir

Elizabeth Hanly

Tuesday 2:00PM - 4:45PM

This is a course in storytelling, in writing and reading creative nonfiction.

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Player One

Maikel Alendy

Summer 2021: Online Fall 2021: Tuesday, 11:00PM-12:15PM (Hybrid)

Inspired by courses taught by Emily Wood and neuroscience research conducted by Stuart Brown, this course challenges students to think differently about play and its relevance to human social and biological development.

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Inventing America

Jose Rodriguez

Tuesday, Thursday 2:00PM - 3:15PM

Since the inception of the United States, the concept of American democracy has been contested. While we were taught in elementary school that The Founding Fathers came together in Philadelphia to write the Constitution, we were not told how little they all agreed on as to what that constitution should contain.

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What's Going On?: America and the World

Elizabeth Hanly

Tuesday, 6:25PM - 9:05PM (Online Live)

This course sets out to untie the knot we are living. It presumes that we can agree that Frontline, a documentary series aired on the Public Broadcasting Network, is a reliable source, or at least a place to begin.

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