Stories
360°: Space and Identity
This 360° brings together three different disciplinary perspectives to explore the notion of individual and group identity across time and space in urban environments. (Taught Spring 2013)
360°: Struggles for Global Health Equity
This 360° aims to help students begin to understand both significant problems of and promising approaches to the practice–and study–of community health promotion.
360°: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism
This 360 will examine that question in the context of Ҵý’s mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.
360°: Taste
What are the stories behind the flavors that we taste? How much of taste is individual, and how much is social? Why do some flavors taste good to us, while others don't? Why do different people sometimes have very different reactions to the same foods? How do taste preferences change across space and over time?
360°: Science, Power, and Truth
How can we use science to respond to the criticisms of those in power that might disagree with our fundamental assumptions about the reliability of scientific facts?
360°: Science, Democracy, and Truth
How can we use science to respond to the criticisms of those in power that might disagree with our fundamental assumptions about the reliability of scientific facts?
360°: Constraints: Storytelling in the Digital Age
This cluster is based on the theoretical and interdisciplinary work that suggests that humans think in the form of stories.
360°: Centering Critical Blackness
This cluster interrogates the ways diasporic bodies navigate change, boundaries, and disrupt systems, particularly through movement and education, from an Afro-feminist and womanist perspective.
360°: Women in Walled Communities
This 360° examines the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with aparticular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the “critical spaces” that can open up within them.
360°: Shakespeare in Global and Local Landscapes
In this cluster we approach Shakespeare as both a way of responding creatively to the contemporary world and as a way to create community and a context for learning.
360°: Trauma and Resilience through Comics
This 360° pulls together theoretical perspectives on comics, narration, trauma, and recovery to explore critical dimensions of the global experience of trauma, with a focus on interdisciplinary understandings of suffering and survival.
360°: To Protect the Health of the Public
This 360° has as its goal a deepened understanding of public health. To do so, we offer three courses that focus on policy, history, culture, the place and power of government, and public and personal responsibility.