HSP Elective Courses

Africana Studies and Research Center

• SHUM 2528 Borderland History of Jazz: Mexico and African America (FA23)
• SHUM 3010 Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World (SP23)
• SHUM 3206 Black Women and Political Leadership (SP23)
• SHUM 3310 Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminisms (SP24)
• SHUM 3334 Black Body Politics: Histories, Theories, and Debates (FA23)
• SHUM 3434 Underground Railroad Seminar (FA22)
• SHUM 3510 Caribbean Literature: Caribbean Radical Intellectual Tradition (FA23)
• SHUM 4212 Black Women’s Autobiography in the 21st Century: WritingHerStory (FA20)
• SHUM 4301 A Dilemma Revisited: African Americans, Inequality and K-16 Education in America (FA20)

Anthropology

• SHUM 1900 Global Engagements: Living and Working in a Diverse World (FA22)
• SHUM 2245 Health and Disease in the Ancient World (FA23)
• ANTHR 2421 Worlding Sex and Gender (FA23)
• SHUM 2437 Economy, Power, and Inequality (FA22)
• SHUM 2482 Anthropology of Climate Change (SP23)
• SHUM 3230 Humans and Animals (SP21) 
• SHUM 3465 Anthropology of the Body (FA23)

Archaeology

• SHUM 3030 Community Engagement in Archaeology 

Asian American Studies

• SHUM 2101 South Asian Diaspora (FA22)
• SHUM 4040 Fictions of Dictatorship (FA22)

Asian Studies

• SHUM 2208 Introduction to Southeast Asia (FA23)
• SHUM 2247 Controversy and Debate in Islam (SP21)
• SHUM 2267 Women and Society in China 
• SHUM 2269 Korea Popular Culture (FA23)
• SHUM 2460 Japanese Pop Culture (SP23)
• SHUM 3324 Modern and Contemporary Korean Literature (FA23)
• SHUM 3325 Game Studies and Japan (SP23)
• SHUM 4406 Media and Theory in Japan (SP21)
• SHUM 4426 Narrating Choson Korea: History and Memory (SP21)
• SHUM 4451 Gender and Sexuality in Southeast Asian Cinema (FA23)

Classics

• SHUM 1615 Introduction to Ancient Rome (FA22)
• SHUM 2711 Archaeology of the Roman World: Italy and the West (FA21)
• SHUM 2729 Climate, Archaeology and History (SP23)
• SHUM 2812 Hieroglyphs to HTML: History of Writing (SP22) 
• CLASS 3635 Queer Classics (FA23)

Comparative Literature

• COML 2009 Prison Literature (FA22)
• SHUM 2241 Game of Thrones: Multi-Media Fantasies (FA23)
• SHUM 3977 Body Politics in African Literature, Cinema, and New Media (SP21)
• SHUM 4948 Pleasure and Neoliberalism (FA23)

English

• SHUM 2350 Literature and Medicine (SP23)
• SHUM 2650 Introduction to African American Literature (FA22) 
• SHUM 2675 Cultures of the Cold War (SP22) 
• SHUM 2770 Representing Racial Encounters, Encountering Racial Representations (FA20)
• SHUM 3637 Loving Latinx L.A.: Music, Literature, Art, and Stage (SP24)
• SHUM 3721 Playing God: Medieval and Early Renaissance Drama (SP21) 
• SHUM 3742 Africans and African Americans in Literature (SP23) 
• SHUM 3778 Free Speech, Censorship, and the Age of Global Media (FA23) 
• SHUM 3980 Latinx Popular Culture Matters (FA22) 
• SHUM 4605 Black Speculative Fiction (SP23)

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• SHUM 3720 Food, Gender, and Culture (FA20)
• SHUM 4123 Archipelagoes: Cartographies of Race, Sound, and Sexuality (FA20)

French

• SHUM 3520 (Dis)ability Studies: A Brief History (FA23)
• SHUM 3560 Freud and the Invention of Psychoanalysis 

German Studies

• SHUM 2703 Thinking Media (SP23)
• SHUM 3075 Print Matters (FA22)
• SHUM 3535 Science, Fiction, Media (FA23)
• SHUM 3610 Fables of Capitalism (SP23)
• SHUM 3636 Introduction to Critical Theory 

Government

• SHUM 2011 September 11 and the Politics of Memory (FA23)

History

• SHUM 1802 Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History (SP23)
• SHUM 1930 A Global History of Love (SP23)
• SHUM 2010 Atlantic Travelers (FA23)
• SHUM 2025 Apartheid's Afterlife (SP22)
• SHUM 2132 Law and Society in Early Modern and Modern China (FA23)
• SHUM 2158 St. Petersburg and the Making of Modern Russia (FA20)
• SHUM 2195 Biography, History, and Modernity (FA23)
• SHUM 2220 From the New Deal to the Age of Reagan (FA23)
• SHUM 2315 The Occupation of Japan (FA20)
• SHUM 2335 Making Public Queer History (FA21) 
• SHUM 2354 African American Visions of Africa (SP23)
• SHUM 2512 Black Women in the 20th Century (SP23)
• SHUM 2542 The Making of Contemporary Africa (FA22)
• SHUM 2792 Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History (SP23) 

History of Art

• SHUM 1100 Art Histories: An Introduction (FA23)
• ARTH 2550 Introduction to Latin American Art (FA23)
• SHUM 2800 Introduction to the Arts of China (FA23)
• SHUM 2805 Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds (SP23)
• SHUM 3625 Paris, Capital of Modernity? (SP22)
• SHUM 3651 Women in New Media Art (SP21)
• SHUM 4035 Greco-Roman Art at Cornell (FA20)
• SHUM 4866 Producing Cloth Cultures (SP22)
• SHUM 4916 Modern Chinese Art (SP23) 

Music

• SHUM 2006 Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal (FA20)
• SHUM 2244 The Music, Art, and Technology of the Organ (SP23) 
• SHUM 2260 Music of the 1960s (FA20)
• SHUM 2701 Music and Digital Gameplay (SP23)
• SHUM 3315 Music and Money (SP21)  

Near Eastern Studies

• SHUM 2515 Anthropology of Iran (FA23)
• SHUM 2754 Wondrous Literatures of the Near East (FA23)
• SHUM 3655 Minorities of the Modern Middle East (SP23) 
• SHUM 3707 Race and Sex: Arabian Nights (FA22)
• SHUM 4659 The Idea of Biblical Israel (FA23)

Performing and Media Arts

• SHUM 3747 Staging Faith: Contemporary Theatre and Lived Religions (SP21)
• SHUM 4701 Nightlife (SP23) 
• SHUM 4860 Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Transformation (FA23)

Philosophy

• SHUM 2455 Introduction to Bioethics (FA23)
• SHUM 2510 Philosophy of the Arts 
• SHUM 3475 Philosophy of Punishment (SP23)

Romance Studies

• SHUM 4360 Literature and Film After Climate Change (FA20)

Science & Technology Studies

• SHUM 4561 Evaluation and Society (SP23)

Society for the Humanities

• SHUM 4651 Curating Fashion Exhibitions (FA20)
• SHUM 4680 Art and the Remapping of the World (SP23)
• SHUM 4800 Rural Humanities Seminar (FA23) 

Sociology 

• SHUM 4540 Fascism, Nationalism, and Populism (FA23)