Spring 2018 courses address current events

Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are offering a number of classes next spring related to topics you read about in the news every day. As they explore recent events and our current national climate in their research and scholarship, students have the opportunity to engage with their expertise through numerous courses, including the sample courses below:

• LSP 4635/AMST 4633/ASRC 4635/ENGL 4635 Art! Poetry! Power!

• LSP 4000/6000/LATA 4000/6000 Contemporary Issues in Latino/Latin America

• STS 4041 Controversies in Science, Technology and Medicine

• ASIAN 2247 Controversy and Debate in Islam

• LSP 2300/4300 Cultures and Communities

• ASIAN 3376/6676 Digital Asia

• PHIL 1901 Discussions of Justice - The Challenge of Democracy Now

• PHIL 2410 Ethics

• ENGL6780 Experimental Writing & Transmedia Theory

• STS 2621 Gendering Religion, Science and Technology

• COML/ROMS 2021 Humans and Climate Change

• SOC 3040 Immigration and Public Policy

• ASIAN 2250 Intro to Asian Religions

• ASIAN 2240 Intro to Modern Central Asia

• GERST 4620 Introduction to Critical Theory

• LING 2223 Language and the Law

• LSP 2010/SOC 2650/AMST 2655/DSOC 2650 Latinos in the United States

• STS 4451 Making Science Policy: The Real World

• MATH 1340 Mathematics and Politics

• ASRC 3550 Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty

• LSP 3405/AMST 3405/ANTHR 3405/EDUC 3405 Multicultural Issues in Education

• LSP 4720/6720/AMST 4720/ENGL 4720 New Latinx Writing

• SOC 2250 Obama and the Meaning of Race

• ASIAN 3311/6611 Performing Islam in Southeast Asia

• SPAN 2240 Perspectives on the Caribbean

• AMST 3010 Photography and the American Dream

• SOC 3480 Politics and Culture

• STS 6061 Science, Technology and Capitalism

• SOC 2208 Social Inequality

• ASRC 4516 Sociology of Race and Education

• GERST 4375 The Holocaust/History Writing

• AMST 1147 FWS: The Legal Life of American Racism

• SHUM 4624 The Politics of Imprisonment

• ASRC 4115 The Willard Straight Takeover and the Legacy of Black Students

• SHUM 4622 Thinking Through Transparency

• ASRC 4509 Toni Morrison's Novels

• SHUM 4620 Undocumentation