Global Issues and Social Justice

Susan Davies March 19, 2018 Global Issues and Social Justice

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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PhotoVoice as Community Engagement

Armando Matiz Reyes, Mark Padilla

Wednesday 3:00PM - 5:40PM

PhotoVoice is an approach to community and civic engagement that involves the production of photographs taken and captioned by community members through workshops and training.

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Third World Cinema

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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Urban Inequality in HBO's The Wire

Matthew Acevedo

Online

This two-semester course explores themes of urban inequality, issues of race and class, and topics related to social justice and the power of institutions, using the HBO program The Wire as a literary text.

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Business Ethics & Society

Michelle Romero

Thursday 6:25PM - 9:05PM

This course will bring your attention to the moral dilemmas and problems that arise in business and to consider ethical principles and standards that ought to be applied, when there is no clear or obvious course of action that should be taken

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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. Why have they been left out? How have we been affected by their lives, deaths, and secret legacies?

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