GERM-UA 283 Topics: Albrecht Durer & German Renaissance
Taking its cue from Thomas Piketty’s recent Capital in the Twenty-First Century and from nineteenth century discussions to examine Capitalism…
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PERF-UT 306 Race and Performance
This semester, the course will consider various forms of performance (including performance art, visual art, sound art, literature, politics, and…
UPADM-GP 260: What Really Matters? Leadership with No Regrets
In study after study, people lying on their deathbeds overwhelmingly say they regret five things at their end of their…
UPADM-GP 251: Legal & Ethical Approaches to Islam
We will study the formation and development of Islamic law and philosophy. We will examine the evolution and development of…
UNDSW-US 112: Lobbying, Legislation, and Social Action
This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to how legislation works, lobbying, and taking social action through a social…
UNDSW-US 89: Film, Literature and Mental Health
Artists often explore powerful issues of mental health through literature and film. “No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness…
UNDSW-US 87: Food Justice
Food used to be consumed to just sustain life, but now eating can have a political, cultural, and social meaning.…
HI-UY 2514: Introduction to New York City History
This course looks at the history and development of the City of New York, from Verazzano’s exploration to the present.…
STS-UY 3204W: Science and Difference
This course critically examines the various frameworks through which science operates to construct difference in living populations. It analyzes the…
STS-UY 2634: Psychology of the Internet
This class investigates aspects of human behavior in terms of the Internet. The Internet is a technological phenomenon that allows…
STS-UY 2314 It’s About Time
From looking at a watch and noting the change from day to night and counting the days, months and years,…
STS-UY 2244: Magic, Medicine and Science
This course looks at the metaphysical and epistemological origins of three systems of thought—the organic, the magical and the mechanical—and…
STS-UY 2144: Ethics and Technology
This course considers how technology shapes and patterns—and is shaped and patterned by—human activities, from a moral point of view.…
STS-UY 2004: Science, Technology and Society
his course introduces important issues, historical and contemporary, related to science and technology from a variety of social, political and…
CAMS-UA 113: The Nature of Success
What makes a person successful? What contributes to failure? What do these terms really mean anyway? This course is designed…
HIST-UA 293: Medicine and Disease in America
This seminar will explore the immense historical importance of infectious disease, in particular, using it as a lens to confront…
HIST-UA 283: The University: What Was It? What Is it? What Should it Be?
This course explores the nature & function of higher learning beginning with the Greeks & the ancient academy through the…
HIST-UA 264 Northern Europe in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation
This course explores the history of Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700. These three centuries were marked by massive transformations…
HIST-UA 182 Hist of Modern Ireland I: 1580-1800
History of Ireland I (1534–1800) is a survey of the principal events, conditions, and historical figures that shaped Irish history…
HIST-UA 160 Imperial Cities: Rome, Constantinople, Istanbul
A comparative study of the cities of Rome, Constantinople and Istanbul, the capitals of the most powerful empires of the…
HIST-UA 104: The Medieval Life Cycle. From Birth to Rebirth
This seminar will examine the human life cycle as it was experienced and interpreted by men and women of medieval…
COLIT-UA 852: Sounds of Italy 1910-1970
This course will acquaint students with a variety of sound artifacts and sound related texts, grouped around topics significant for…
COLIT-UA 866: The Unquiet Dead
Human life and artistic narrative can both be presumed to share one crucial defining feature: each always comes to an…
MEIS-UA 718 Introduction to Ancient Indian Literature
An introductory course designed to acquaint students with the great works of the ancient Indian literary tradition, a major part…
COLIT-UA 726: Chinese Literature & World Literature
What is Chinese literature, and what is world literature? Is Chinese literature world literature? Are these questions even worth asking?…
COLIT-UA 550: French Fashion, Taste & Style
French Fashion, Taste, and Style Course description: Clothing is a text to be read in modernity, and authors and artists…
ITAL-UA 400 From Polenta to Marinara: History of Italian Food
In this course we will cover the Italian varieties of food in their past and present forms. The first half…
MEDI-UA 271 Dante’s Divine Comedy
This course is dedicated to a one-semester guided reading of the Divine Comedy in its entirety. The text will be…
EAST-UA 953: Meiji Japan and the Nation-State
When did the samurai become Japanese? It’s not as absurd a question as it seems. Using Japan’s transformation from the…
EAST-UA 953: Transpacific Racism & Anti-Racism
The course examines trans-Pacific encounters between East Asia and the U.S., with a particular focus on the crossings of minor…
EAST-UA 952: Of Bandits, Saints, and Beasts
Although Confucianism and its “down to earth” approach to ethics and political rule dominated Chinese government since the middle of…
EAST-UA 951: Cosmopolitan Desires and Korean Imaginations
This course examines critical and aesthetic cosmopolitan discourses in contemporary cultural formations in Korea. We will take a look at…
EAST-UA 708 Japanese Animation & New Media
This course looks at the terms and conditions of Japanese animation (primarily, though not exclusively, anime) as, in many ways,…
EAST-UA 552 The Cold War in Asia: 1945-2001
This course will focus on U.S. foreign policy in Asia since 1945. The ways U.S. global interests and concerns sought…
CLASS-UA 150: Cities & Sanctuaries of Ancient Greece
.What impact did built urban development have on local communities across the ancient Greek world? What was the relationship between…
CLASS-UA 294: Staging Ancient Drama: Playing the Greeks
This course combines practical workshops with scholarly discussion to examine different aspects of how ancient Greek plays were staged. Themes…
CLASS-UA 293 Belief & Practice in Greek Religion
The religions of ancient Greece and Rome are often thought of as highly pragmatic: they focus on ‘practice’, on ritual…
CLASS-UA 293 Greek Islands: Myth, Archaeology, and Networks
From the birth of Apollo on Delos to the Byzantine monasteries of Patmos; from the from the copper mines of…
CLASS-UA 291: Taking Offense: Literary Transgression and Censorship in the Ancient World
This class will explore ancient literature that violates (whether deliberately or unintentionally) conventions of taste and decorum to offend, leading…
CLASS-UA 291:,Fate and Free Will in Ancient Greek/Roman Thought
In this seminar, we will study the various discussions of determinism, fate, and free will in ancient Greek and Roman…
SCA-UA 366 Constitution and People of Color
Examines how the American legal system decided constitutional challenges affecting the empowerment of African, Latino, and Asian American communities from…
SCA-UA 157 Hip Hop & Politics
In places ranging from the political theory of Adolph Reed to the comedy of Bill Cosby we find a critique…