HM&FNART101-SEC05 Traversing Differences: Local Fall 2023

This course focuses on themes that highlight issues of equity and social and environmental justice in the Americas, primarily the United States, from humanity's relationship to nature to its relationship to the socio-political forces and formations it constructs. A key focus of the course is to develop students' "cultural" and "information literacy" alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking, by interrogating works that thematize the evolution of US cultural life, and its role in shaping social, economic, and political life in diverse historical and geographical contexts drawn from transformative writers and their texts from the past and the present. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

HM&FNART102-SEC03 Traversing Differences: Global Fall 2023

This course focuses on issues of equity, diversity, and social and environmental justice in the global and international arena. The course will develop students' cultural, and information literacy alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking. Reading texts from literature, history, philosophy and the social sciences, the course examines the tools of literary, philosophical, and political analysis with which we routinely address practices of discrimination and related issues of unequal power relations and asks to what extent they can be freed from the hegemonic pressures and forms of violence they are confronting. (Gen. Ed. AL, DG)

HM&FNART102-SEC02 Traversing Differences: Global Fall 2023

This course focuses on issues of equity, diversity, and social and environmental justice in the global and international arena. The course will develop students' cultural, and information literacy alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking. Reading texts from literature, history, philosophy and the social sciences, the course examines the tools of literary, philosophical, and political analysis with which we routinely address practices of discrimination and related issues of unequal power relations and asks to what extent they can be freed from the hegemonic pressures and forms of violence they are confronting. (Gen. Ed. AL, DG)

HM&FNART101-SEC01 Traversing Differences: Local Fall 2023

 HM&FNART 101 is a small, discussion-based, interdisciplinary course that uses works ranging from philosophical, historical, and sociological writings to fiction and poetry to consider critical questions confronting us today, such as social and environmental justice, human rights, the role of technology, the place of the arts, and how to understand and mediate among differences. By reading these works deeply and engaging imaginatively with multiple perspectives, we will think through issues that are critical to US culture[s], past and present, and reflect creatively and critically about both our society and ourselves. In short, this course is designed to enable students to challenge their understanding of themselves and reflect on how they navigate the world as ethical human beings. Course readings will include canonical and underappreciated texts. (AL DU, 4 credits.) 

HM&FNART101-SEC03 Traversing Differences: Local Fall 2023

This course focuses on themes that highlight issues of equity and social and environmental justice in the Americas, primarily the United States, from humanity's relationship to nature to its relationship to the socio-political forces and formations it constructs. A key focus of the course is to develop students' "cultural" and "information literacy" alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking, by interrogating works that thematize the evolution of US cultural life, and its role in shaping social, economic, and political life in diverse historical and geographical contexts drawn from transformative writers and their texts from the past and the present. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

HM&FNART102-SEC01 Traversing Differences: Global Fall 2023

This course focuses on issues of equity, diversity, and social and environmental justice in the global and international arena. The course will develop students' cultural, and information literacy alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking. Reading texts from literature, history, philosophy and the social sciences, the course examines the tools of literary, philosophical, and political analysis with which we routinely address practices of discrimination and related issues of unequal power relations and asks to what extent they can be freed from the hegemonic pressures and forms of violence they are confronting. (Gen. Ed. AL, DG)

HM&FNART101-SEC04 Traversing Differences: Local Fall 2023

This course focuses on themes that highlight issues of equity and social and environmental justice in the Americas, primarily the United States, from humanity's relationship to nature to its relationship to the socio-political forces and formations it constructs. A key focus of the course is to develop students' "cultural" and "information literacy" alongside the skills of close reading, textual analysis, oral and written communication, and critical thinking, by interrogating works that thematize the evolution of US cultural life, and its role in shaping social, economic, and political life in diverse historical and geographical contexts drawn from transformative writers and their texts from the past and the present. (Gen. Ed. AL, DU)

HM&FNART101-SEC02 Traversing Differences: Local Fall 2023

This is a small, discussion-based, interdisciplinary course that uses works ranging from philosophical, historical, and sociological writings to fiction and poetry to consider critical questions confronting us today, such as social and environmental justice, human rights, the role of technology, the place of the arts, and how to understand and mediate among differences. By reading these works deeply and engaging imaginatively with multiple perspectives, we will think through issues that are critical to US culture[s], past and present, and reflect creatively and critically about both our society and ourselves. In short, this course is designed to enable students to challenge their understanding of themselves and reflect on how they navigate the world as ethical human beings. Course readings will include canonical and underappreciated texts. (AL DU, 4 credits.)