History, Culture, and The Arts

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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The Power of Black Music in America: Its History, Language, and Culture from the past until today

Trina Sanders

Online

In this course, we will examine Black music's power and how it has shaped Black History in the past and today.

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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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Social Movements: From the American Revolution to Black Lives Matter

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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The Tao of Sports

Joseph Lichter

Monday, Wednesday 12:30PM – 1:45PM

In the “The Tao of Sports”, students analyze the unique and popular human experience called sports particularly by examining them through a lens of physical and social sciences.

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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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Banned Lit Club

Gabriela Alvarez

Thursday, 12:00-1:15PM

Book bans are the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material – of images, ideas, and information – that these are morally or otherwise objectionable in the light of standards applied by the censor.

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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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Graphic Voices

Gretchen Scharnagl

Monday & Wednesday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

We will read and discuss graphic works ranging from the graphic novel, to outsider artist comics, and including coloring books, to discover the potential of this language to disseminate important stories and historic, social, psychological, artistic or scientific content.

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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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Inventing America: Ideas, Ideals, and Ideologies

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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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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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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Law, Literature and Pop Culture

Andrej Milic

Online

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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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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