History, Culture, and The Arts

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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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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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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Identity Consciousness and Performance: Hybridity, Mestizaje and Transculturality

Niurca Marquez

Tuesday, 3:30PM - 4:45PM (Hybrid)

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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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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Things and Images: Political, Historical, Cultural

Gretchen Scharnagl

Monday, Wednesday 2:00PM - 3:15PM

The class considers how objects and images and our understanding of the power of visual communication through evidence, artifact, residue and collections, affect our memories, create our memories, or dictate memories.

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Music

Lisa Boskovic

Online

This course explores the topic of music across multiple disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, education, history, business, law, politics, medicine, and technology.

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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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Player One

Maikel Alendy

Wednesday, 11:00AM - 12:15PM (Hybrid)

This hybrid course analyzes the anthropological, biological, business implications and significance of play throughout the human experience.

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Creative Non-Fiction: Oral Histories

Elizabeth Hanly

Tuesday, 5:00PM - 7:40PM

This is a course in storytelling, in writing and reading creative nonfiction. It is a course in finding the stories that are all around us all the time.

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The Tao of Sports

Joseph Lichter

Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM – 1:45PM

In the “The Tao of Sports”, we investigate why sports are such a unique and popular human experience.

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Aural Engagement: Music, Religion and Culture

Niurca Marquez

Wednesday, 2:00PM-4:45PM

This course introduces students to the interrelations between music and society from a global perspective.

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Age of Propaganda

John Tsalikis

Monday, 10:00AM - 12:45PM

This course will deal with the various forms of propaganda and misinformation in the U.S. and other countries.

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

Jason Calloway

Wednesday 9:00AM - 11:45AM

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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Art Society Conflict

John Bailly

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

The Art Society Conflict (ASC) seminar examines the vital role visual art plays in the social and cultural dialogue surrounding controversial issues.

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