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ACBS 160D1 - Human and Animal Interrelation
This course examines the diversity, functions, and nature of human-animal interrelationships over time, geographic region, and world cultures, through a multi-disciplinary approach. The course focuses on domesticated animals, the different pathways to domestication, the effects of domestication on both human and domesticated animals e.g., changes in biology, impacts on the rise and fall of civilizations and cultures). The course also addresses the ethics of animal use and standards of welfare. Through critical analysis and discussion, students learn how diverse perspectives and the integration of information from multiple disciplines provide a holistic understanding of current issues in the field of Human-Animal Interaction.

AED 210 - Resiliency+Human Potentl
The course provides a background in resiliency research to assist learners in acquiring the knowledge and strategies to enhance personal and professional resilience. Understand, assess, plan, and apply resiliency practices that manage stress to foster academic, personal and professional development.

AFAS 335 - Rap, Culture And God
This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

AIS 210 - Amer Indian Languages
This course surveys American Indian languages and the communities that speak them, focusing on a representative sample for closer study. The role of language in maintaining cultural identity is examined, and prospects for the future of American Indian languages are assessed.

ANTH 201 - Resources and Civilizations
The availability and use of metals, petroleum, coal, industrial minerals, and other nonrenewable resources has shaped the history of world societies from the Stone Age to the present, and will continue to be a core part of future human development. This course covers how nonrenewable resources form and how they are extracted; the diverse ways that global civilizations have extracted and used nonrenewable resources over time, and how resource use shaped their history; and how the distribution of resources and the development of resource technology around the world created our modern global sociopolitical and economic framework. Other topics covered include nonrenewable resource exhaustion, space mining, resource substitution and associated energy costs, and unintended social and environmental consequences of nonrenewable resource extraction and use.

ARC 220 - History Applied Building Tech
This course provides an overview of global developments in building technology throughout history focusing on the Industrial Revolution to today, exploring core questions and conditions that shape architectural solutions.

AREC 365 - Food Economy & Efficiencies
Few questions are more fundamental than how we feed the world¿s people. Yet, the coexistence of food insecurity and food waste begs the question: how can we feed the population efficiently, sustainably, and equitably? This course familiarizes students with the food economy and its efficiencies while identifying where gaps occur as food flows from producers to consumers. These gaps frequently lead to food insecurity with a less healthy populous, as well as food waste, an issue in more developed societies. By examining 1) the food supply chain and markets, 2) food insecurity, 3) food loss and waste along the food supply chain and 4) food policies through the lens of marginalized populations, students will gain insights into the economic forces that shape the food system. This course stimulates critical thinking and problem solving through economic, nutritional science and policy-making perspectives, which may lead to potential resolutions for those who struggle to afford and consume healthy, wholesome foods.

ART 150B1 - Engaging Visual Culture
In this course, we will engage with concepts and practices of visual culture which includes art) as they relate to our daily lives and to our own productive and consumptive practices. These concepts and practices necessarily have private, public, and profound political and educational affects. In this course, students critically examine visual images, historical and contemporary, and explore how meanings are structured and perpetuated.

ART 160D3 - Museums as Cultural & Communit
Museums as Cultural and Community Institutions introduces students to how museums operate internally and externally within their communities by engaging with museum collections, exhibitions, and educational programming. Students will examine museums in their communities, as well as national and international museums. Throughout this course, students will consider whose voices are elevated in museum spaces and who is left out. They will explore the interdisciplinary connections museum visitors can make through synthesizing ideas, sharing perspectives, and learning together.

ASTR 214 - Life in the Cosmos
This course explores key questions in astrobiology and planetary science about the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility that such phenomena have arisen elsewhere in the Universe. We examine what it means for a planet to be alive at scales ranging from cellular processes up to global impacts of biological activity. We survey international space-exploration activities to search for life within the Solar System, throughout our Galaxy, and beyond.

CLAS 160B1 - Meet the Ancients: Greece/Rome
Journey into the past to discover the worlds of the ancient Greeks and Romans. From democracy and republicanism to literature, philosophy and art, the contributions of these two cultures serve as the foundation for much of what has been described as western culture. This course explores who these peoples were, how these civilizations developed, what ideas and institutions they created, and why the Greeks and Romans matter today. Through this exploration into the Greco-Roman world, this course builds connections between the multiple types of evidence that scholars draw upon to paint a picture of the ancient past. Close readings of texts provide a humanistic perspective on classical culture; archaeological data inform us about social scientific trends in demography and economics; environmental evidence from ice cores, botanical remains, and soil samples enable a natural science perspective on the past; and some of the world's most famous objects--from the Venus di Milo to Grecian vases--allow for artistic insights. In this course, students will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each disciplinary approach to understanding the past, and ultimately weave together multiple strands of evidence to create their signature assignment. Upon completing Meet the Ancients, students will not only have a better understanding of Greco-Roman history and culture, they will, above all, have a deeper understanding of the different perspectives used to approach ancient history and the skills to evaluate and synthesize diverse types of evidence.

CLAS 305 - Greek+Roman Religion
Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

EAS 201 - Myth, Memory, and Mind
What would it be like to visit China, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula in premodern times? What is East Asian Studies? This course offers an introduction to the histories, cultures, languages and scripts, religions, and literatures of traditional East Asia. It also invites students to participate in the interdisciplinary knowledge production that is East Asian Studies. While we explore what has been historically shared among these East Asian societies, our emphasis is on how East Asia has always been diverse and heterogeneous. We encourage students to debunk the popular myths about East Asia--particularly premodern East Asia--as an exotic and homogeneous place. This will not only inform our understanding of today's East Asia in its historical context, it will also prompt us to actively address the historical legacy of orientalism.

EAS 270 - War & Revolution in East Asia
This course examines conflict, typically expressing itself in violence and often resulting in wars and revolutions, as defining moments in the modern history of East Asia when opposing social movements, and their affiliated ideas about political, cultural, and economic organization, confront one another over questions of power and autonomy. The course explores how conflict introduces new social dynamics that may have led to revolutionary changes in ideas and institutions.

ECON 150C2 - Climate Science and Economics
Introduces the fundamentals of climate change: what is it, what does it mean, and what to do about it. Describes economic approaches to managing climate change. Shows how a climate scientist's perspective leads to one set of policy recommendations and an economist's leads to another. Students adopt these perspectives through quantitatively-based projects, with introductions to climate modeling and economic modeling.

ECON 205 - Ethics+Econ/Wealth Creat
We will study the ethics and the economics of such phenomena as market competition, institutions of private and public property, trade restrictions, globalization, and corporate welfare. How do people create wealth? How do societies enable people to create wealth? Are some ways more ethical than others? Why do some societies grow rich while neighboring societies remain poor? People have various ways of creating wealth. Which are ethical and which are not? Why? PHIL 205 is not an introduction to the principles of Economics and is not a substitute for ECON 200, ECON 201A or ECON201B.)

ENGL 160A2 - Food Writing
ENGL 160A2 explores food writing and its relationship to culture. Exploring food as both personal and cultural symbol, students will develop an appreciation for how food traditions reflect and shape cultural societies and diverse worldview. Course materials will include diverse perspectives with emphasis on marginalized groups such as migrant, incarcerated, and Indigenous food communities. Students will explore their own food memories in reflective writing and storytelling to find connections between personal food histories and social or environmental justice. Using various rhetorical strategies and drawing from research, field study, oral history, and lived experiences/traditional knowledge, students will practice food writing for a variety of audiences in four key genres: recipe card, podcast, food memoir, and manifesto. Workshop and revision will be important aspects of the course.

ENGL 307 - Business Writing
Business writing is an Engaged Learning course that provides applied, hands-on experiences with professional business writing. The course explores how to address ethics of communication and how to navigate opportunities and challenges presented when writing business correspondence. Students engage in rhetorical analysis, research, persuasion, reflection, and revision in professional contexts. Students write a variety of workplace genres, including emails, memos, proposals, resumes, cover letters, white papers, and digital web spaces.

ENGL 308 - Technical Writing
Technical Writing is an interdisciplinary professional writing course where students use a rhetorical lens to explore the conventions and practices of STEM fields. Working both individually and in collaborative teams, students analyze scientific and technical information and learn how to compose, format, and design scientific and technical documents for STEM audiences. Students learn to translate technical information for various audiences--subject matter experts, non-specialists, users with special needs--in ways that are engaging, accurate, and understandable.

ENVS 210 - Environmental Essentials
We are well on our way to understanding what is needed to get to a carbon neutral more sustainable way of life and address critical and emerging environmental issues such as micro-pollution and waste, water scarcity, climate change, loss of habitat and biodiversity, land use change, the food-water-energy nexus, and global shifts in population. But how might the perspectives of university students, environmental and social scientists, activists, influencers and other community members work together to build connections and get humanity there faster? And how might science literacy coupled with social and cultural awareness provide pathways for long term solutions? This course will help you to answer these questions through exploring the underlying science while considering how your own worldviews the experiences, biases, perceptions, preconceived notions, skepticism, fears, behaviors and knowledge gaps every human possesses) play a role in the socio-cultural complexities of environmental issues. Upon completing this course, students will be able to bust the myths, challenge the naysayers, make science-informed decisions as global citizens, promote cultural awareness, and save planet earth.

ENVS 310 - Ecosystem Health and Justice
Across America, one in four Americans lives within 3 miles of a hazardous waste site U.S. General Accounting Office, 2013). This means that one's zip code can be more important than their genetic code. Today's complex environmental health and justice challenges have far-reaching impacts and require an ability to interweave different data sources to build connections across disciplines and social positions. Students will learn how using an environmental justice framework and merging different datasets and forms of knowledge can uncover the underlying assumptions inequality, distribution of power and privilege, oppression/marginalization) that contributes to and produces unequal protection. Students will learn from diverse individuals who are generating creative and systems-based environmental health solutions. After the course, students will demonstrate an ability to build connections among various stakeholders and use multiple perspectives to solve challenges. Students will not only gain a fundamental understanding of environmental science and legislation, public health, and justice, they will build connections and apply the ecological model of health to design solutions at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and community levels to create a more equitable society.

ESOC 150B1 - Social Media and Ourselves
This course is designed as a gateway to understanding how social media sites influence and are impacted by our selves, as well as the role of social media in our relationships. This course with its focus on social media sites in particular, will examine the various implications and functions of social media in contemporary times. The study of new media takes place across disciplinary divides and from multiple theoretical perspectives. This course will thus explore social media research from across academic traditions. With a focus on both theory and practical applications, this course gives learners opportunities to think intellectually about how mobile technologies and being online impacts daily living, personal health, individual success, and interpersonal relationships.

FREN 231 - Fashion in France and Italy
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day

GEOS 214 - Life in the Cosmos
This course explores key questions in astrobiology and planetary science about the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility that such phenomena have arisen elsewhere in the Universe. We examine what it means for a planet to be alive at scales ranging from cellular processes up to global impacts of biological activity. We survey international space-exploration activities to search for life within the Solar System, throughout our Galaxy, and beyond.

GEOS 222 - The Beauty of Landscapes
This course uses landscape art art portraying landscapes and art made from landscapes) of the Americas as an entrée to exploring the geologic processes of landscape evolution, the mathematics that describe that evolution, and the history of the people of the Americas through their relationship to the land.

GER 114 - How to Learn a Foreign Languag
The goal of the course is to provide students with important tools to help them become successful foreign language learners. Students will become familiar with basic elements of language such as parts of speech and the pronunciation of new sounds as a means of enabling them to anticipate and effectively deal with problems in pronunciation, vocabulary building, and sentence formation that often come up in foreign language study. They will also learn about the intertwining of culture and language, such as how expressions of politeness and body language differ across cultures. They will also be exposed to different language teaching and learning styles, typical mistakes language learners make, and strategies for making language learning more effective. This information will be presented in the context of the wide variety of languages taught at the University of Arizona

GER 150B1 - Become Transcult:Study Abroad
This course helps students prepare for challenges of intercultural communication during study, work, and travel abroad and in their home country. Using perspectives and methods from various disciplines, we analyze differences in verbal and nonverbal behavior, communication style preferences, intercultural relationships, conflict resolution styles, and adaption to life in culturally different environments including in education, tourism, business, and healthcare contexts).

GER 160D1 - Eroticism+Love/Mid Ages
Courtly love was a discovery of the High Middle Ages and became the dominant theme in literature, the arts, philosophy, and even in religion. This course will examine the concept of love as discussed by medieval poets from the 11th through the 15th centuries and cover the wide spectrum of European history culture seen through the lenses of the theme of love.

GWS 150B1 - Gender & Contemporary Society
Over the past 20 years, we have seen a proliferation of new terms to help keep pace of the shifting meanings of and experimentations with gender: gender non-binary; gender fluid; transgender; racialized gender; and, cisgender, to name a few. Never has there been a more urgent and exciting!) time to take a class that carefully navigates these terms and the important subject positions they represent. How have these shifts influenced the work of visual artists? What new tools do literary scholars need in order to analyze innovative creative writing that seeks to destabilize gender? How have sociologists expanded their presuppositions about the social transmission of gender roles? And how can we, as students of this class, build connections between the artists, literary scholars, and sociologists in order to create our own robust interdisciplinary frameworks that are capacious enough to apprehend new and dynamic gender formations? In addition to exploring these questions, we will consider the ways that gender influences, and is influenced by, social differences, social status, and political and economic systems. We will track the connections between the individual and institutions such as mass media, science, education, and the family. By the end of the semester students should have developed a facility with gender as a key term of interdisciplinary analysis and should have a good understanding of the dynamic interactions between gender, race, sexuality, nation, embodiment, and socio-economic class.

GWS 160C1 - Techn+Soc:Intro Sci+Tech
This course is an introduction to the social, historical, and ethical contexts of knowledge, science and technology. Although science and technology are perhaps the defining features of contemporary Western society, all cultures have distinct forms of knowledge and technical practices, which reflect their relationships to the natural world and other peoples. In this course we will discuss a range of questions relevant to scientists, engineers, and the general public, about the contexts of technoscience, basing these discussions on a broad historical understanding of science and technology in various cultures

GWS 200 - Gender, Identity, and Power
This course examines how ideas about women, gender, and sexuality have been created through the arts, literature, laws, and science. The course explores these ideas as both concepts and lived experiences from multiple perspectives and considers how they inform power, knowledge, and identity.

GWS 240 - Gender in Transnational World
This interdisciplinary course provides an introduction to concepts of gender as understood in U.S. society, economy, politics, and culture. The course examines gender through complex relations of power such as race, class, sexuality and considers historical and transnational contexts. Engaging multiple fields, texts, and approaches, students gather a conceptual tool box with which to explore gender and make connections to the world around them.

GWS 242 - Gender & Education
Recently, there has been an increasing focus on gender in educational research and practice. Scholars and practitioners are taking note not only of the differential outcomes for students in relation to gender, but are also discussing how systems of privilege and oppression e.g., sexism, heteropatriarchy, transgender oppression) mediate educational environments. Furthermore, there has been a call by some to address gender in expansive, non-binary ways that include students with diverse genders beyond just thinking about men and/or women. In this class, students will survey the current literature regarding gender in education--both K-12 and postsecondary education--as well as discuss how policies and practices both inhibit and promote expansive understandings of gender as a social identity. Students will also develop educational interventions that reflect this literature.

GWS 317 - Science Fiction Study
Science fiction is studied as a genre of film and print fiction in which we can imagine future societies and future science and technology in utopian and dystopian forms, paying particular attention to race/class/gender and depictions of identity and otherness, as well as social power in imagined societies.

GWS 321 - Women In Judaism
This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

HED 242 - Gender & Education
Recently, there has been an increasing focus on gender in educational research and practice. Scholars and practitioners are taking note not only of the differential outcomes for students in relation to gender, but are also discussing how systems of privilege and oppression e.g., sexism, heteropatriarchy, transgender oppression) mediate educational environments. Furthermore, there has been a call by some to address gender in expansive, non-binary ways that include students with diverse genders beyond just thinking about men and/or women. In this class, students will survey the current literature regarding gender in education--both K-12 and postsecondary education--as well as discuss how policies and practices both inhibit and promote expansive understandings of gender as a social identity. Students will also develop educational interventions that reflect this literature. HED 397C - Native SOAR This service-learning course emphasizes current issues in K-12th grade and college education with a focus on Indigenous Native American) students. Students spend approximately 3 hours per week providing in-person and/or virtual mentoring to middle and high school students in Tucson and throughout the Southwest.

HIST 150C4 - World Hist 1600-Present
An introduction to concepts and methods from the humanities and social sciences for exploring world history since the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific voyages of the late fifteenth century. Topics include: the origins of global trade circuits; the rise of empires; the environmental impact of colonialism and cultural exchange; patterns of international migration; industrialization and urbanization; political philosophies and popular movements; constructions of race, class, and gender; war and geopolitics; technology and culture; and the place of fine art and music in social and political life.

HIST 160D1 - Food & Power in Global History
Are we really what we eat? Why do certain foods appeal and others repel? How do foods move from their original homes into our own? How has our cuisine evolved? And how do food and consumption reflect status and power? Food & Power in Global History takes a world history approach to investigate these and other questions by considering the cultural, economic, and geopolitical discovery, evolution, and migration of food and drink from pre-modern times to the present. We explore the discovery, invention, and adaptation of new foods from early human history to our own post-Columbian era, when local foods have become truly global. Food and drink have transformed continents and trading networks, and made and broken empires. Food is a site of cultural exchange and interaction, and it is also an expression and marker of identities. Wars have been fought to control food access. Dining, retail, and industrialization have reshaped the way we look at food. We will trace the origins, migration, and reinvention of global foods to understand how it is that food choice, food waste, and famine are more abundant today than at any point in human history.

HIST 246 - History of American Capitalism
This course provides a long-term historical perspective on the origins and development of American capitalism, combining three interrelated thematic fields in U.S. history: economic history, business history, and labor history.

HIST 247 - Nature & Technology in US Hist
This course explores the development of technology and concepts of nature in the United States, from the eighteenth century to the present. It interprets the historical roots of the relationship between human knowledge and the environment by examining how science and technology have shaped our understanding, use, and control of nature.

HIST 270 - War & Revolution in East Asia
This course examines conflict, typically expressing itself in violence and often resulting in wars and revolutions, as defining moments in the modern history of East Asia when opposing social movements, and their affiliated ideas about political, cultural, and economic organization, confront one another over questions of power and autonomy. The course explores how conflict introduces new social dynamics that may have led to revolutionary changes in ideas and institutions.

HIST 362A - Culture Food & Health in Japan
How do we know what is good for us, who gets to decide, and how does healthy change over time? This seminar explores these basic questions through the lens of Japanese food culture: the dietary trends, choices, and ideas of proper consumption that help shape the relationship between people's bodies and the world around them. We will discuss how and why eating right became such an important issue in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present and ask what the everyday experience of eating can tell us about the core themes, concepts, and events in Japanese and East Asian history. By putting Japanese foodways in conversation with global gastronomy, we will investigate what makes food cultural and what makes it historical. This course welcomes undergraduates of all interests and majors, and no prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is required. Additional materials in East Asian languages will be made available upon request.

HNRS 150C1 - Knowledge, Power and Nature
This interdisciplinary course facilitates students to critically examine how different factors shape the relationships between human beings and the natural world from social, physical, and earth science perspectives. We explore science and society's current understanding of environmental challenges and the role and perspectives of different stakeholders involved in complex and relevant challenges, like inequity in climate change adaptation. Students will engage in hands-on and out-of-the-classroom activities to investigate and design actionable solutions to bring about sustainable and just change. Moreover, students will develop skills to synthesize and translate learned concepts and discussions to student-driven projects.

HNRS 160D4 - Musical Heritage of Nrth Amer
This course takes a regional approach to sonic heritage by exploring the intersections of ethnicity and place in North American musical cultures. Focusing on Canada, the United States, and the U.S.-Mexico border region, students will examine the historical and contemporary lived experiences of ethnic communities within North America through analysis of their sounding cultures. Musical case studies provide the pathway to understand culture, develop skill in the critical analysis of musical sound and performance, and identify the interconnections of music with the lives, histories, politics, and beliefs of the people and societies which make and consume it. This will be accomplished through reading, listening, and writing assignments, as well as musical performance workshops, media, and direct engagement with cultural practitioners and scholars.

HNRS 203H - Art and Borders
Art reflects and shapes how people encounter, and understand, their world. This course takes an expansive view of art as a network of interconnected expressive cultural forms that gain meaning from their shifting social and cultural referents. Through visual art, music, dance, and architecture, students will explore the varied meanings and manifestations of borders as physical, political, conceptual, emotional, and imaginative cultural spaces with which humans interact. Synthesizing the methods, concerns, and perspectives of art history and ethnomusicology, this class uses direct engagement with expressive cultural media like houses of worship, ritualized musical genres, and public murals to give students facility with the critical language to discuss and evaluate art, and a foundation in critical theories that help frame understandings of expressive culture as integral to the formation of our culturally-embedded selves.

HPS 150C1 - Dvlpmnts in Dis & Public Hlth
In this course, we will examine how infectious diseases like plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 have shaped geography, politics, religion and culture and how advances in science and medicine have influenced responses to disease.

HPS 300 - Public Health in 21st Century
This course focuses on emerging and re-emerging causes of morbidity and mortality domestically and globally, and current technologies in public health initiatives. The course explores complex public health issues of concern. It builds connections from a multidisciplinary perspective, critically evaluating and analyzing quantitative evidence to understand health impact in diverse populations, including marginalized populations. The course takes a deep dive into examining social determinants of health, how they play a role in health outcomes, and generating knowledge to tailor specific health interventions for different groups.

HPS 387 - Hlth Disparities & Minor Hlth
The course will explore gaps in health outcomes associated with race/ethnicity, social class, sex, sexuality, nationality and migration status. Societal, environmental, and institutional factors that underlay health disparities between and within nations will be considered.

HRTS 200 - Introduction to Human Rights
An introduction to human rights, especially through community engagement. Students will be introduced to the history and theory of human rights as well as a range of current issues. Students will also complete a mini-placement within a community organization and will be introduced to ethical, political, and cultural issues in working with community groups to advance human rights.

HSD 401 - Design for Health Workshop: Addressing Human Health Challenges with Design Thinking
In this General Education Building Connections course, you will gain creative confidence and hands-on problem-solving experience. You will work on addressing health seekers’ needs within the healthcare system, which will require you to apply the design thinking process—Notice, Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, and Reflect—to understand and clearly define the real (as opposed to the perceived) need, explore design options/concepts, analyze options, prototype your design, and pitch your design recommendation and implementation plan. Using project-based learning techniques, this experiential learning course will enable you to learn about a subject through the experience of exploring an open-ended, student-driven topic in healthcare delivery and patient-centered service experiences. Appropriate for undergraduate students in any discipline, through enhanced group collaboration, you will build intellectual and practical skills in inquiry and analysis, critical and creative thinking, written and oral communication, teamwork, and problem solving.

ISTA 263 - Learning in Information Age
Students will examine how the human learning process has been impacted by digital technologies; compare the learning adaptation skills of people from various generations and cultures; explore how the process of human learning is informing the development and design of computers that learn; and identify the moral and ethical implications of using computers that learn within our culture.

ITAL 230 - Intro to Italian Culture
This gateway course introduces students to Italian thought and culture through multiple perspectives and disciplines including history, philosophy. literary traditions and cultures, arts and architecture, film, cultural studies and geography. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad historical understanding of Italian culture and a deeper sense of the interdisciplinary perspectives that contribute meaning to individual and collective Italian identities. Taught in English.

(ITAL 231 - Fashion in France and Italy)
The study of fashion is an important conduit for the expression of social identity, political ideas, and aesthetic taste. This course considers the history of style, fashion and dress in France and Italy from a cultural and fashion studies perspective. After a general introduction to models of interpretation and conceptual terms, FREN/ITAL 231 surveys topics in French and Italian fashion design and history from the 1300s to the present day

JOUR 150C1 - News in Society
From accusations of fake news and biased reporting to sensationalism, trust in media has never been lower. But the importance of quality information sources has never been higher. This course will explore media from the perspective of the journalist, the news consumer and society as a whole. We will analyze how the news media as an influential institution shapes political, social and cultural conversations in society and acts as a check on government power. The course will provide a behind-the-scenes look at how journalists do their job and let you experience being a reporter first-hand. We will explore the sometimes-deadly clash between individual expression and government control, your rights under the First Amendment, and analyze why campus preachers can say hateful things but you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. Students who complete the course will understand the role media plays in a society and be able to navigate the complex world of fake news, filter bubbles and talking heads, becoming engaged and educated consumers of information.

JPN 362A - Culture Food & Health in Japan
How do we know what is good for us, who gets to decide, and how does healthy change over time? This seminar explores these basic questions through the lens of Japanese food culture: the dietary trends, choices, and ideas of proper consumption that help shape the relationship between people's bodies and the world around them. We will discuss how and why eating right became such an important issue in Japan from the seventeenth century to the present and ask what the everyday experience of eating can tell us about the core themes, concepts, and events in Japanese and East Asian history. By putting Japanese foodways in conversation with global gastronomy, we will investigate what makes food cultural and what makes it historical. This course welcomes undergraduates of all interests and majors, and no prior knowledge of Japanese language or history is required. Additional materials in East Asian languages will be made available upon request.

JUS 160D1 - Jewish Thought+Culture
This course explores Jewish thought and culture, religious ideas and practices through multidisciplinary perspectives including biblical studies and rabbinics, theology, philosophy, history, law and medical ethics. Students learn foundational concepts of Judaism and apply them to larger philosophical questions about the evolution of religion and morality in today's world. What are Jewish understandings of virtue, of man's status, role and responsibility to the earth? What are the attributes and nature of God in Judaism and how do they differ from Christianity and Islam? How did Jewish notions of politics, social contract, and the covenant impact the structure and nature of the United States? How does Judaism view abortion, organ transplantation and genetic engineering?

(JUS 321 - Women In Judaism)
This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

LAR 350 - Parks and Urban Public Spaces
This course exams the history, function, politics and design of parks, gardens and other urban public spaces in American cities. A typology of public space will be presented and used to examine public life today and how design and public involvement influence the nature of public space. The course will examine contemporary issues in parks and public space such as place-making, environmental integrity and sustainability, diversity and accessibility issues, children and nature, and the privatization of public space.

(LAS 335 - Rap, Culture And God)
This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

(LING 114 - How to Learn a Foreign Languag)
The goal of the course is to provide students with important tools to help them become successful foreign language learners. Students will become familiar with basic elements of language such as parts of speech and the pronunciation of new sounds as a means of enabling them to anticipate and effectively deal with problems in pronunciation, vocabulary building, and sentence formation that often come up in foreign language study. They will also learn about the intertwining of culture and language, such as how expressions of politeness and body language differ across cultures. They will also be exposed to different language teaching and learning styles, typical mistakes language learners make, and strategies for making language learning more effective. This information will be presented in the context of the wide variety of languages taught at the University of Arizona

LING 150A1 - Language in the World
All human communities have language -and our language is central to our lives. We use language not only to communicate with each other, we use to in our dreams, in our art, and some have even argued that language is the stuff of thought itself. This course introduces concepts and methods in linguistics -the scientific study of language -along with important concepts and tools from psychology, anthropology, biology, computation, and philosophy.

LING 150C1 - Linguistics in the Digital Age
Language is increasingly being produced and interpreted by machines and this fact ripples through humans' lives in an increasing variety of linguistic interactions. This course asks students to explore the applications of linguistic analysis to the problems posed and opportunities created by the creation and dissemination of language in the digital world. Students will learn about computational corpus-based, machine-learning) and analytic linguistic and anthropological) approaches to the production and understanding of language, and the ways these may interact to magnify or diminish problematic properties of public speech, and reveal or conceal its authorship, especially in the digital world. In collaboration with the WikiEducation initiative, students will actively engage in the critical review of Wikipedia resources to assist in the identification and remediation of problematic language.

LING 210 - Amer Indian Languages
This course surveys American Indian languages and the communities that speak them, focusing on a representative sample for closer study. The role of language in maintaining cultural identity is examined, and prospects for the future of American Indian languages are assessed.

(MNE 201 - Resources and Civilizations)
The availability and use of metals, petroleum, coal, industrial minerals, and other nonrenewable resources has shaped the history of world societies from the Stone Age to the present, and will continue to be a core part of future human development. This course covers how nonrenewable resources form and how they are extracted; the diverse ways that global civilizations have extracted and used nonrenewable resources over time, and how resource use shaped their history; and how the distribution of resources and the development of resource technology around the world created our modern global sociopolitical and economic framework. Other topics covered include nonrenewable resource exhaustion, space mining, resource substitution and associated energy costs, and unintended social and environmental consequences of nonrenewable resource extraction and use.

MUS 231 - What is Jazz?
The story of jazz has been told through anecdotes by the audience, music critics, historians, extant recordings, memorabilia, and musicians. Never has all of the evidence pointed to a single answer to What is Jazz? Students will employ two distinct perspectives towards answering this question across the semester, that of an artist and that of an historian. The course also examines the ways society and the music industry has at times privileged, but often disadvantaged jazz artists based upon their gender, race, or their preferred modes of expression. By the end of the semester, students will know what they like and dislike about jazz, and will be able to answer the question What is jazz to you?

(NAFS 365 - Food Economy & Efficiencies)
Few questions are more fundamental than how we feed the world¿s people. Yet, the coexistence of food insecurity and food waste begs the question: how can we feed the population efficiently, sustainably, and equitably? This course familiarizes students with the food economy and its efficiencies while identifying where gaps occur as food flows from producers to consumers. These gaps frequently lead to food insecurity with a less healthy populous, as well as food waste, an issue in more developed societies. By examining 1) the food supply chain and markets, 2) food insecurity, 3) food loss and waste along the food supply chain and 4) food policies through the lens of marginalized populations, students will gain insights into the economic forces that shape the food system. This course stimulates critical thinking and problem solving through economic, nutritional science and policy-making perspectives, which may lead to potential resolutions for those who struggle to afford and consume healthy, wholesome foods.

(PA 205 - Ethics+Econ/Wealth Creat)
We will study the ethics and the economics of such phenomena as market competition, institutions of private and public property, trade restrictions, globalization, and corporate welfare. How do people create wealth? How do societies enable people to create wealth? Are some ways more ethical than others? Why do some societies grow rich while neighboring societies remain poor? People have various ways of creating wealth. Which are ethical and which are not? Why? PHIL 205 is not an introduction to the principles of Economics and is not a substitute for ECON 200, ECON 201A or ECON201B.)

PAH 201 - Applied Humanities Practice
This course introduces the common techniques and technologies involved in applied humanities work, providing students with the concepts and skills they need to plan, conduct, analyze, and evaluate conceptually rigorous, publicly-facing, and community-enriching projects. Over the course of the semester we will: 1) survey practical approaches and research methods commonly used in the applied humanities; 2) examine exemplary projects that have employed these ways of doing, and in the process gain insight into how to adapt them for other projects; and 3) explore a variety of tools and technologies that support data collection, sharing, analysis, and implementation, culminating the design of your own applied humanities project. PAH 230 - Video Games as Artifacts This course introduces students to the techniques and varying contexts of critically appreciating video games. In addition to studying the ways that digital games, and their creators, play upon consumer's senses, students will develop a working vocabulary of evaluative terms e.g., taste, judgement, pleasure, style, beauty) that can be usefully and sometimes uniquely applied to objects derived from the video game medium. They will also learn and practice a set of critical and practical skills designed to help them both understand the role of critical judgement in the experience of play, as well as how play itself may be an integral part of a game's overall look and feel. Through the course of the semester, we will: 1) briefly survey the history of media criticism, paying particular attention to how conventional understandings of terms such as critique and effect may or may not apply to video games; 2) examine research-informed case studies to learn and practice techniques for thinking about how and why game evaluation has developed as it has over the last half-century, as well as how it differs from the judgement of other forms of artistic expression; and 3) generate substantive original critiques of video games past and present.

PAH 240 - Some We Love, Some We Eat
Human and animal lives have always been intertwined, and animals are omnipresent in human society on both metaphorical and practical, material levels. Animals often play a central role in cultural metaphors and myths, but they are also physically present in homes and workplaces, and in local as well as global economies. Both levels in this complex web of relationships structure society in areas as varied as art, economy, entertainment, health, law, media, and science. However, the ways in which human society deals with its coexistence with animals, and the ways it interacts with, uses, and handles them; are complex and embedded in paradoxes that are often affected by structures of power. The purpose of this course is to stimulate critical reflections on different social constructions and the ethical and moral implications of human relationships with animals. Over the course of the semester we will: (1) examine the evolution of human/animal relationships over time, (2) consider the unique roles that different species play in human lives and the ways we treat them as a result, and (3) engage in interviews, personal reflections, argumentative essays, and research reports about human/animal relationships.

PAH 260 - Asian Pacific American Culture
From Bruce Lee to Crazy Rich Asians, from General Tso's Chicken to Korean tacos, and from Yuri Kochiyama to Kamala Harris, Asian Pacific American (APA) cultures and public figures have transformed and been transformed by their relationship to other cultures in the United States. We will consider some of these notable examples as models and highlight how they represent public culture, connecting to contemporary debates in the field of Asian Pacific American studies. Course themes will include: the cultural construction of race; representations of APAs in the media; APA gender and sexuality; hybridity and multi-generational diasporas; consumption and APA food culture; politics of the model minority; collective APA action and urban cultures; and the culture of refugees and war. Methods of intercultural competence and public humanities, both key applied humanities approaches to engaging with a globalized world, will be introduced as frames through which these APA Studies themes can be understood and analyzed.

PAH 350 - Health Humanities
We are all participants in receiving and interpreting healthcare. This course will encourage and support the development of participants' abilities to gain expanded knowledge and to engage actively as critical, discerning, humane participants in the present and future delivery of healthcare and of health and wellness in any context. The course provides theory and practice in an inclusive and applied approach to humanities-based ways of thinking and knowing. We are all participants in receiving and interpreting healthcare, so all students are welcome. For students with the goals of advanced study in the health or other related professions: this course will enable you to provide healthcare, shape policy around it, or engage with health and wellness in other capacities in our globally connected world. As participants in the course you will engage with an inclusive, outward-facing, and applied discipline. You will be offered tools to improve transcultural communication skills by deep reading and reflection on core humanities approaches to the world of health and wellness and their interaction with global cultures. We will use a mixture of discussions and small and whole group activities. Course activities may include active engagement in discussions online and in class, and critiquing a range of written texts, from those written by classroom peers to academic papers, literary texts of various kinds, or film narratives on health, wellness, and global understandings of those issues.

PFFP 150B2 - Personal Finance Foundations
This course describes the prominent characteristics of consumption behavior, societal change that has influenced consumer-driven societies and pressures for change in the future. The course will examine the important economic variables that, on the one hand, have led to a rapidly growing worldwide consumer demand for goods and services and, on the other hand, have resulted in increased debt, overspending and an inability to achieve long term personal financial goals. An objective analysis of both personal and global consumption habits will provide the transition into sustainable strategies to increase personal financial solvency. The course will not provide you with the answers to achieving your personal financial goals, but rather will examine our consumer society and expose you to the major reasons why people spend and save. The aim of the course is to provide you with sufficient information to make judgments for yourself about your consumption patterns and long-term financial health.

(PHIL 205 - Ethics+Econ/Wealth Creat)
We will study the ethics and the economics of such phenomena as market competition, institutions of private and public property, trade restrictions, globalization, and corporate welfare. How do people create wealth? How do societies enable people to create wealth? Are some ways more ethical than others? Why do some societies grow rich while neighboring societies remain poor? People have various ways of creating wealth. Which are ethical and which are not? Why? PHIL 205 is not an introduction to the principles of Economics and is not a substitute for ECON 200, ECON 201A or ECON201B.)

PHP 205 - Telehealth: Not just clin care
Telehealth is not just about clinical care. This course explores how the fields of business, health, policy and technology are integrated into the delivery of telehealth. Students will explore the multiple perspectives of telehealth and apply an interdisciplinary approach, demonstrating the integral role each of these disciplines play in a comprehensive telehealth delivery system.

PLG 202 - Cities of the World
This course introduces students to urban planning and the role of cities through the systems that compose the built environment and support urban societies. Students will explore how cities are organized through physical and social infrastructures such as water, energy, waste, transportation, jobs, and housing, among others. Through case studies of these urban systems from a range of international and US cities, students will learn about different approaches to meeting the material and social needs of collective life and situate them within their sociocultural contexts. Students will build connections among these systems to the urban experiences they structure by reading and interpreting a range of cultural texts that provide commentary on urban life, which include art, film, literature, and performance. The course will show how the organization of cities shapes social life even as shared cultures shape the priorities and possibilities for urban planning. Students will consider the movement of urban planning ideas and apply their learning to imagine local changes to planning in their own built environment that promote sustainable, future-oriented cities in an interconnected world.

POL 209 - Diversity and Politics
Focus on the politics of diversity and inclusion in a fast-changing world. Attention to national-ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, religious, and socioeconomic factors, among others, that underlie human diversity and the political conditions for cooperation, conflict, and well-being. Consideration of decision-making and political-institutional settings that may extend from the local and regional to the national and international.

(PPEL 205 - Ethics+Econ/Wealth Creat)
We will study the ethics and the economics of such phenomena as market competition, institutions of private and public property, trade restrictions, globalization, and corporate welfare. How do people create wealth? How do societies enable people to create wealth? Are some ways more ethical than others? Why do some societies grow rich while neighboring societies remain poor? People have various ways of creating wealth. Which are ethical and which are not? Why? PHIL 205 is not an introduction to the principles of Economics and is not a substitute for ECON 200, ECON 201A or ECON201B.)

PTYS 212 - Sci+Pol Of Climate Change
This course explores the science of climate change and the political and commercial issues related to global warming. The first part of the course focuses on the scientific basis of climate change. The students will investigate the concepts and principles required for understanding planetary climates. They will assess the observational evidence for climate change and quantify the relative roles of natural and human drivers in causing it. They will connect and compare recent changes to historical climate trends and examine predictions for the consequences of future climate change on the environment and our lives. The second part of the course focuses on the political and commercial issues related to climate change mitigation. The students will analyze policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and explore their impacts from the perspectives of policymakers, commercial interests and the public.

(PTYS 214 - Life in the Cosmos)
This course explores key questions in astrobiology and planetary science about the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility that such phenomena have arisen elsewhere in the Universe. We examine what it means for a planet to be alive at scales ranging from cellular processes up to global impacts of biological activity. We survey international space-exploration activities to search for life within the Solar System, throughout our Galaxy, and beyond.

RELI 227 - Religion and Film
This course explores religion and its relationship with visual storytelling culture. We will analyze, explore, and challenge various religious, pop-cultural, ideological, and moral messages as presented in various types of film, from art house cinema to blockbuster movies, and genres ranging from horror to comedy.

RELI 235 - Religion, Violence, and Terror
This course will study critical theories about the role of religion in acts of terrorism and violence. Through the examination of a range of case studies, this course will explore ways in which religion has been the motivation and justification behind violent conflict, aggression, and persecution.

(RELI 305 - Greek+Roman Religion)
Religious beliefs and cult practices in ancient Greece and Rome. All readings in English.

(RELI 321 - Women In Judaism)
This course examines religion and gender through the study of women in Judaism. How do scholars construct a history of women in ancient Judaism when Jewish sacred texts are written by and for men? How have modern Jewish women accommodated feminist ideals without undermining the authority of the established tradition? What impact has the feminist movement had on Jewish communal institutions in the United States and Israel? In this course, we explore these questions and others by examining the influence Jewish religious beliefs and practices have played in the formation of Jewish women's identities, image and their understanding of power and authority. Students study the role of women in the formation of Judaism and Jewish society as a culturally constructed and historically changing category through archaeology, biblical studies, rabbinics, theology, folklore, social and political movements.

(RELI 335 - Rap, Culture And God)
This course is a study of popular culture and religion in African-American and Latin@ communities, with a focus on the place of rap music in the cultural identity of these traditions. The class will begin with a study of some major themes in cultural studies concerning identity, class, race, and gender in addition to a study of the role of religion in Black and Latin@ communities. We will consider the approaches and self-understandings of identity and culture in rap music with special attention to the voices of protest, resistance, and spirituality among rap artists.

RELI 363 - Religion and Sex
In this course, students will analyze attitudes towards sexuality in major world religions, both globally and in the context of the United States.

RELI 367 - Yoga
In this course we examine the philosophy, practice, historical roots, and development of yoga. Students are asked to use and reflect on the disciplinary perspectives of the historian to examine premodern primary texts in English translation) that provide a window into the origins of yoga, as well as the perspectives of the anthropologist and cultural critic to examine contemporary yoga practices. Students will compare and contrast perspectives of Indian yogis and contemporary international yoga influencers in order to understand how the experience of yoga differs across time and culture and how social systems of power and inequality are both subverted and reinforced by yoga and its practitioners.

RNR 150C1 - Sustainable Earth
Life support systems on planet Earth are becoming progressively more challenged by a global human population that has exceeded 7 billion people. With a focus on natural resources, we will explore how society deals with threats to the planetary goods and services on which all life depends. Sustainability lies at the intersection of the environment, society, and economics. We will explore environmental, societal, and economic strategies and perspectives humans have developed to become effective stewards of our natural resources and achieve a sustainable Earth.

RNR 160D1 - Wildlife, Conserv, & Culture
For as long as humans have been on earth, we have coexisted with animals on their planet. From food, to art to culture, wildlife have been symbols in religion, advanced societies through agriculture, medicine, and fueled human innovation and creativity. There are an estimated 8.7 million different species, with rapid extinction resulting in losses before they've ever been described. Here we learn how other species have shaped and influenced cultures throughout human history and how efforts dedicated toward conservation began and have evolved over time. Topics covered include a basic introduction to wildlife diversity and biology followed by the history of wildlife in human disease and medicine; wildlife domestication for food security and companionship; wildlife in artistic inspiration and creation; and wildlife in technological innovation. Medicine, art, food, clothes, and technology have all been influenced by our wild counterparts. Come meet them!

(RSSS 114 - How to Learn a Foreign Languag)
The goal of the course is to provide students with important tools to help them become successful foreign language learners. Students will become familiar with basic elements of language such as parts of speech and the pronunciation of new sounds as a means of enabling them to anticipate and effectively deal with problems in pronunciation, vocabulary building, and sentence formation that often come up in foreign language study. They will also learn about the intertwining of culture and language, such as how expressions of politeness and body language differ across cultures. They will also be exposed to different language teaching and learning styles, typical mistakes language learners make, and strategies for making language learning more effective. This information will be presented in the context of the wide variety of languages taught at the University of Arizona

RSSS 160D1 - Intro to Russia Through Music
This course will introduce students to Russian history and culture as reflected in the country's music. Students will examine Russian folklore, religion, history, and literature; they will survey how key Russian narratives have been embedded in folk and religious music, opera, ballet, film scores, pop, rock, and rap music, and how such music articulates Russian values.

SPAN 210 - Latin America on Film
Throughout its history, Latin America has witnessed a conflict of social, cultural and political differences. The challenges of defining Latin America have been arduous and at times difficult. Each academic discipline has taken a narrow prospective view of what is Latin America. Therefore, this class Introduces students to the concept and origins of popular culture and to social theories used to analyze its impact on self, culture in modern consumer societies and national and regional images of identity. Students will focus on understanding the history, politics, cultural, and social reality changes in Latin America.

TLS 353 - Rec/Leisure in Contemp Society
Students in this course will gain a broad level understanding of the theoretical foundations that shape the recreation and leisure studies field, how current issues/events are influencing the field of recreation and leisure and those who work in it, where and how recreation fits into an ever-changing social and physical environment, the barriers marginalized populations face when seeking to engage in recreation and leisure i.e., social and environmental justice issues), and how recreation and leisure may change in the future. Students will be asked to use critical thinking skills to connect course content with their personal experiences to generate and disseminate their original content and new perspectives. Students will also have the opportunity to express their ideas through a variety of communication mediums and applications e.g. video presentations, storyboards).

Exploring Perspectives: Artist Courses

AFAS 245 - African Literature Matters    
Introduction to African literature coming from the African continent and the diaspora, which explores the representation of Black experience in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. Select themes (such as liberation, oppression, identity) will invite students to reflect on current debates in historical perspective. Taught in English.

AFAS 373 - US & Francophone Hip-Hop Cult
Examination of the historical, ethical, social, and political impacts and perspectives of hip-hop artistic practices and works on communities and societies in the United States and in the French-speaking world. Taught in English.         

ARC 160C1 - Architecture and Society    
The purpose of this course is to lay the foundation for architectural literacy and develop an understanding of architecture's role in society from ancient times to the present day. This is accomplished through studying the major components that affect architecture: region, culture, and technology. The basis of this knowledge is found in understanding the relationship between a society and the forms it creates, as the built environment has a permanent and profound impact on personal health, productivity, and happiness, and on community life. The course follows these factors chronologically, examining the world culture using a regionally comparative method that emphasizes cross-cultural perspectives, from ancient civilizations to contemporary society around the globe.

ARH 320 - Intro European Mod Art          
Establishes an understanding of the power of visual images in constructing artistic, gendered, cultural, social, and political identities through studying the chronological theories, methods, practices, movements and audiences of European Modern Art, circa 1855-1945.

ART 150B2 - Asian Art and Visual Culture              
This course will introduce students to Asian art and visual culture, focusing on the art and architecture of South, Southeast, and East Asia. Students will explore the artistic and cultural traditions of these areas, beginning in ancient times and continuing up to the 19th century, and they will gain a deeper understanding of Asian world-views, life styles, and related cultural practices and traditions. Students then are expected to apply this fundamental understanding to examining Asian arts, crafts, cultural practices, and aspects of popular culture that are ubiquitous and observable in current U. S. contexts.

ART 242 - Intro to Photo Concepts           
In this course, students will examine photographic history, theory, and practice. You will learn to apply the viewpoint of an artist to analyze image-based creative expressions, explore diverse perspectives, and investigate challenges faced by local, national, and online communities. Students will put this perspective into practice through the thoughtful creation of digital photographs, written reflections, and peer critique.

ART 358 - Creative Strategies in Visual   
This course examines issues, principles, methodologies, theories and visual language of graphic design, illustration and new media. Students will be required to keep a journal, create and write a case study, create four visual responses to design prompts, and participate in on-line discussions.

DNC 100 - Looking At Dance       
Origins of dance as human expression in ritual, social, and theatrical context. Twentieth century developments in ballet, modern dance, movie, and show dancing.

DNC 101 - Dance Appreciation  
Students will explore dance as a communicative and multicultural art form in society. This course is an introduction to the aesthetic and critical dimensions of viewing various genres of theatrical, ethnological and ritual dance. Students will critically engage with the field of dance by viewing numerous dance videos, gaining awareness and understanding of dance forms, acknowledging personal aesthetic values, and by forming a well-rounded appreciation for dance.

EAS 240 - Images of Buddhism   
What does it mean to imagine the Buddha? This course guides students in narrating the lives of Buddhist images by tracing their creation and movement in Asia as well as in cultural encounters within Europe and the U.S. Today art critics continue to discuss Buddhist elements in the work of iconic artists like Georgia O'Keefe and Mark Rothko, Tibetan mandala coloring books are being used for stress relief, and Zen aesthetics inform a broad range of fashion and design platforms. This course provides tools for critically reexamining the categories of East and West within this cultural moment. Through creative processes such as drawing, writing, and conversation, students interact with diverse imagery such as Chinese painted caves, Himalayan esoteric portraits of enlightened reality, and Japanese temple complexes. They interpret Buddhist texts describing the construction of buddha bodies in art, ritual, and in the mind. Students also engage with the work of contemporary performance artists inspired by Buddhist ideals of discipline and impermanence. Reflecting upon these experiences, students uncover how the categories of East' and West have obscured the understanding of Buddhist art, artists, and communities. They document the ways in which power dynamics of colonialism and Orientalism have been integral to making these categories. In response to their findings, students work together to generate a virtual exhibition reimagining images of Buddhism and telling their stories.

ENGL 201 - Intro Writ Creat Nonfict        
Beginning techniques of creative nonfiction writing taught through exercises, the writing of original nonfiction, workshop and reading in contemporary nonfiction.

ENGL 209 - Intro Creative Writing: Poetry             
Beginning techniques of poetry writing taught through exercises, the writing of original poetry, workshop and reading in contemporary poetry.

ENGL 210 - Intro Writing Of Fiction          
Beginning techniques of fiction writing taught through exercises, the writing of original fiction, workshop and reading in contemporary fiction.

ENGL 215 - Creative Writing: Craft           
Multi-genre creative writing course introducing the craft of creative writing (craft elements and aesthetic strategies) via intensive reading as writers in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

(ENGL 245 - African Literature Matters)
Introduction to African literature coming from the African continent and the diaspora, which explores the representation of Black experience in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. Select themes (such as liberation, oppression, identity) will invite students to reflect on current debates in historical perspective. Taught in English.

ENGL 248B - Intro to Fairy Tales
Follows fairy tales from their beginnings in storytelling circles into the literary culture and new media.

(FREN 245 - African Literature Matters) 
Introduction to African literature coming from the African continent and the diaspora, which explores the representation of Black experience in a variety of geographical and cultural settings. Select themes (such as liberation, oppression, identity) will invite students to reflect on current debates in historical perspective. Taught in English.

(FREN 373 - US & Francophone Hip-Hop Cult)     
Examination of the historical, ethical, social, and political impacts and perspectives of hip-hop artistic practices and works on communities and societies in the United States and in the French-speaking world. Taught in English.

FTV 352 - Looking at Movies       
Looking at Movies provides an introduction to the history and aesthetics of cinema as a major art form of the 20th century from the perspective of the film artist working within the context of the Hollywood film industry. During this course, students will examine film artists' methodologies in terms of their use of filmic technology, film form/aesthetics, and genre categories in successive historical contexts. Students will also analyze the development of film form, styles, and genres and the impact their specific cultural contexts have on how films make meaning and address cultural issues by actively watching and analyzing selected example films.

HNRS 222 - Exploration in Creative Writng            
Part critical studies and part writing workshop, this class engages students with creative writing with an emphasis on understanding writing as a craft-based discipline. This class may cover one or more genre or form of writing; you will gain confidence in your ability to think critically about the craft, style, and context of a variety of texts. Together, we will engage in close reading, active discussion, generative exercises, reflection, research, and experiential activities, as you create and revise original pieces of work and practice meaningful and constructive peer feedback.

ISTA 401 - Installation Design     
This course is a hands-on, project-based approach to understanding and designing art installations. Enrollees will learn principles, tools, and techniques of rapid prototyping and installation design, and will collaborate to design and implement a large-scale installation by the end of the semester. The course lectures will also provide an overview of the history, theory, and aesthetics of installation art.

JPN 245 - Japanese Popular Culture        
This course will explore contemporary Japanese society by investigating its colorful, dynamic, and rich output of visual culture. More specifically, we will look at manga, cinematic anime, and items of material culture, illustrating how these examples of popular art teach us about the various aspects of life in Japan.

LAS 337 - Mexican Music and Culture     
This course offers a full panoramic view of Mexican music, using history as a point of departure and linking Mexican music across eras, styles, and performance traditions.  In doing so, students learn both the repertory and the musicians. Starting with music from the Pre-Hispanic to contemporary musical practices such as cumbia, rock, mariachi and many others.

(MAS 337 - Mexican Music and Culture)
This course offers a full panoramic view of Mexican music, using history as a point of departure and linking Mexican music across eras, styles, and performance traditions.  In doing so, students learn both the repertory and the musicians. Starting with music from the Pre-Hispanic to contemporary musical practices such as cumbia, rock, mariachi and many others.

MUS 109 - American Pop Music and Society        
In this course, students will learn to apply the perspective of diverse musical artists to address questions about how popular music developed in the United States, how popular music styles/genres influence one another both musically and socially throughout history, how popular music shapes social interaction and worldview, how genre categorization has changed throughout history, how the development of technology shapes the creation/promotion of popular music, how music is marketed by demographic, and how listeners and artists are affected by genre categorization. Students will put this perspective into practice via active listening, observation, personal reflection, and critical analysis of music within its historical and cultural contexts.

MUS 328 - Frank Sinatra Voice of an Arti
Frank Sinatra's ability to interpret songs in performances and recordings earned him space among the most culturally influential figures in America during the 20th century. He practiced his art through every technological change and evolving music business practice during his life, most of which still shape the music industry today. Understanding his creative process and career decisions provides insight into many popular musicians/actors. Knowing the recordings of Sinatra helps listeners hear how any singer may express vulnerability and the complexity of human emotions. This course allows for students an opportunity to explore Sinatra and his art, and also to connect it to their musical tastes and experiences.

(MUS 337 - Mexican Music and Culture)
This course offers a full panoramic view of Mexican music, using history as a point of departure and linking Mexican music across eras, styles, and performance traditions.  In doing so, students learn both the repertory and the musicians. Starting with music from the Pre-Hispanic to contemporary musical practices such as cumbia, rock, mariachi and many others.

(RELI 240 - Images of Buddhism)
What does it mean to imagine the Buddha? This course guides students in narrating the lives of Buddhist images by tracing their creation and movement in Asia as well as in cultural encounters within Europe and the U.S. Today art critics continue to discuss Buddhist elements in the work of iconic artists like Georgia O'Keefe and Mark Rothko, Tibetan mandala coloring books are being used for stress relief, and Zen aesthetics inform a broad range of fashion and design platforms. This course provides tools for critically reexamining the categories of East and West within this cultural moment. Through creative processes such as drawing, writing, and conversation, students interact with diverse imagery such as Chinese painted caves, Himalayan esoteric portraits of enlightened reality, and Japanese temple complexes. They interpret Buddhist texts describing the construction of buddha bodies in art, ritual, and in the mind. Students also engage with the work of contemporary performance artists inspired by Buddhist ideals of discipline and impermanence. Reflecting upon these experiences, students uncover how the categories of East' and West have obscured the understanding of Buddhist art, artists, and communities. They document the ways in which power dynamics of colonialism and Orientalism have been integral to making these categories. In response to their findings, students work together to generate a virtual exhibition reimagining images of Buddhism and telling their stories.

SPAN 160C1 - Arts+Politics: Latin Am      
This course deals with the relationship between politics and cultural expressions in Latin America. These cultural expressions studied are literature, muralism, music, paintings, documentaries, escrache and cinema. How do these expressions relate to what was, and it's still happening in Latin American society? How do people in power shape systems? How do artists criticize or support governments? How do their art reflect their context? Students will investigate and analyze how governments collaborate shaping the system, and explore how changes such as dictatorships, revolutions, conquests, etc., affect a society, and discuss how art helps us have a better understanding of our history and our role as global citizens.

TAR 303 - Ritual to Rap 
How do American musicals inform our society's relationship with, and understanding of, marginalized and oppressed groups?  What do we learn about our culture and ourselves by absorbing the stories and hearing the voices of characters that appear in these works? From Ritual to Rap explores the oppression and conflict around political struggles for equality. Marginalized voices from our culture are explored through the lens of contemporary musical theatre performance. A survey of historical theatrical conventions beginning in Classical Athens and culminating with the current art form.  This course focuses on contemporary performances and includes a survey of important Broadway works from Show Boat to Hamilton and beyond.

Exploring Perspectives: Humanist Courses

AFAS 150B1 - Contemporary Afro Brazil 
This course challenges historical and contemporary popular culture perceptions of Brazil as a tourist haven and paradise replete with festivities and beautiful beaches while also reinforcing an interdisciplinary and  multiple perspective approach to the study of Afro-Brazilian people's history, cultures, arts, music, dance, cinema, cuisines, and sports, and the protracted  systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic rights, as well as the racial and educational inequalities and disparities that Brazilians of African descent have experienced over the years.

AFAS 160A1 - The Africana Experience   
This course will introduce students to the fundamental issues and concepts in the Africana experience in Africa and the United States from a humanist and interdisciplinary perspectives. Principal topics of discussion will be drawn from areas of history, philosophy, political-economy, literature and the arts, religion and society.

AFAS 160D1 - Intro:African Amer Lit        
Introduction to African American literature will explore the linguistic and cultural roots and traditions of literary writing by African Americans in three centuries of American history focusing on select readings in poetry, drama, non-fiction, and fictional prose. The overall goal of the course is to introduce students to different perspectives of American history, through an Africana lens, and apply the different genres, contexts, and content of literary production by African American writers from the 1700s to the late 20th century, to an overall critique of American Culture.

CLAS 160D2 - Classical Mythology            
The myths, legends, and folktales of the Greeks, Romans and the peoples of the ancient Near East have remained popular for thousands of years. Together we'll not only learn about these stories themselves, but also think about why these stories are so popular, where they came from, and what insights they give us into the various people and cultures who created and reinterpreted them across the millennia.

EAS 160A1 - The Worlds of Buddhism     
An introduction to Buddhism as both a global religion and an array of cultural traditions, with emphasis on its various forms and development in South, Southeast, and East Asian cultures & history.

EAS 160A3 - Chinese Civilization
This course offers an introduction to the Chinese civilization from the earliest times to the end of the 18thcentury. It will cover major historical eras and events, as well as the traditions of thought and practices running through them. Literary and artistic genres will be introduced as means to better understand larger social trends. Students will practice close reading and analysis of historical documents, literary compositions, and cultural artifacts. Through these hands-on engagements, they will get to know the diverse voices and perspectives within the Chinese tradition and explore their contemporary relevance. Absolutely no previous experience with the study of China is necessary. At the same time, we hope to bring new perspectives to those who already have some familiarity with Chinese history and culture.

ENGL 160D2 - Nonhuman Subjects          
Monsters are cool--but they're also interesting, and also sometimes deeply problematic. The category of the non-human (or, more broadly, the Other) raises key questions about human identity, human values, and the cultural boundaries we construct to cordon off the horrific, the weird, the frightening, the monstrous, or the non-human. As a result, we won't focus simply on particular monster-types like the zombie, the vampire, or the cyborg. Instead, we'll look at the monster-figure in literature and film as a key indicator of cultural history: the symbolic carrier of cultural values, problems, and ideological tensions. These cultural issues can include things like political dissension, systems of religious belief, social order and disorder, human nature, or distinctions of race/class/gender. As we'll see, monsters often become symbols in the cultural, political, and intellectual clashes that mark Western history. In order to better understand our cultural roots, then, we have to come to terms with the historical and ideological tensions behind those clashes. In this course, we'll demonstrate that through well-organized analytical arguments that present strong textual evidence and display critical thinking.

ENGL 265 - Major American Writers        
This class will introduce students to the study of American writers working in English. Through a specialized selection from the many interweaving traditions that make up American Literature, students will be introduced to the beauty, strangeness, pleasure, and difficulty of this diverse field. In these seminars, students will engage with the work of specific authors, explore new methods for understanding their work, and ask important questions about the significance of literature for human life.

ENGL 280 - Intro To Literature   
Stories, poems, plays: literature is the art of putting words together to make meaning. Through literature, humans have explored the deepest human questions of beauty, life, meaning, politics, ethics, and belonging. This class introduces students to the significance and study of imaginative literature. In these seminars, students will read literary texts, analyze their form and content, and write creative and critical interpretations based on textual evidence.

ENGL 300 - Literature and Film  
Comparative study of literature and cinema as aesthetic media. Given the breadth and complexity of film and literature, including historical, technical, and narrative elements, class is broken into three modules Film, Literature, and Aesthetics, Adaptation and Intertextuality, and Cultural and Ideological Connections.

FTV 325 - German Cinema           
This course provides a historical overview from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on genres and movements such as expressionism, film noir, propaganda, New German Cinema, the Berlin School,  by filmmakers such as Lang, Murnau, Riefenstahl, Ade and Akin. Films will be analyzed and discussed as aesthetic works and historical cultural products, and social issues such as gender, class, race, ethnicity and national identity will be explored. This course may be applied toward the major or minor.

FTV 375 - TV and U.S. Culture    
This course explores the connections between television and culture in the United States from the start of the mass audience centered network era of the 1950s to the current niche audience, multi-platform post-network period. Through the humanist perspective, students will screen a variety of television episodes that exemplify contemporaneous cultural conditions in order to examine the role of television as a social force that both reflects and influences American culture, particularly in the realm of race and gender representation. Students will also explore the commercial imperatives of the TV industry to understand the connections between TV content and advertising, and how these imperatives dictate how cultural elements are depicted.

GER 246 - German Culture, Science & Tech          
This course explores shifting attitudes towards science, technology, nature, and the environment in the German-speaking world, through a range of cultural works (e.g., media documents, literary texts, films). In addition to examining the ways in which technological and ecological ethics have changed over history, the course will also consider what roles cultural works have played in public debates around scientific discoveries and technological advances.

GER 273 - Wicked Tales Strange Encounter          
The 19th century introduces us to the strange figures with which we have become fascinated: We only need to turn on the TV to find these same fairy tales and magical events, mythical creatures and hybrid monsters, ghosts and other undead. These motifs, their contexts, and their development in the past and present will guide us in our exploration of 19th-century literature, art, and music of the German-speaking countries from romanticism to the cusp of modernism. Taught in English.

(GER 325 - German Cinema)       
This course provides a historical overview from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on genres and movements such as expressionism, film noir, propaganda, New German Cinema, the Berlin School,  by filmmakers such as Lang, Murnau, Riefenstahl, Ade and Akin. Films will be analyzed and discussed as aesthetic works and historical cultural products, and social issues such as gender, class, race, ethnicity and national identity will be explored. This course may be applied toward the major or minor.

GER 371 - Contemporary German Culture            
This course introduces students to topics that shape contemporary Germany. We will examine a broad range of topics addressed in films, literature, public debates and consider Germany's role in a global setting. Taught in English.

HIST 160B1 - Hist Westrn Civilization       
This course explores the civilizations of the West by considering the development of the ideas and ideologies that shaped the institutions of the West, development directed by Human interaction and conflict on a social, political, religious, and cultural level, in addition to the intellectual. Themes of particular interest include the structure and dynamics of power, competing configurations of deity and ritual, image and architecture as tools in the acquisition of authority, and the construction of a social normative on the grounds of class, culture and gender.

HIST 160C1 - Making Am Cult:1600-1877               
This course introduces students to the history of the United States before 1877. It focuses on the creation of a distinctive set of American cultures. Central themes include the colonial meeting of Spanish, French, English, native American, and African American cultures; the development of distinctly American Creole cultures in the eighteenth century; race and conquest; the American Revolution and the creation of a republican political culture; the transformation of that political culture through struggles over industrialization and wage labor, slavery, and women's rights; and the revolution in American political culture and social relations during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

HIST 203 - Anct Medt:Power+Identity    
This course will focus on the ancient Mediterranean and adjoining regions from 800 BCE to the third century CE of the Roman Empire, emphasizing concepts of power and identity in their Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman contexts.

HIST 207 - Games in Medieval Europe    
Games and play are important aspects of all cultures. They provide entertainment and recreation, but they also reflect and influence many other aspects of life. We will investigate the importance of games and play in shaping medieval and early modern societies by exploring a wide variety of leisure activities, including board games (like chess), equestrian sports (like hunting), ball games (like skittles), and gambling (with dice, cards, and just about anything else imaginable!).  We will also explore what role people at this time believed games and play had in maintaining health.  Through our examination of games and play, we will explore the cultural, social, political, religious, economic, legal, military, environmental, and intellectual history of the medieval and early modern world. We will critically engage (and also play!) with a wide selection of medieval and early modern texts, images, and material objects from around the world; and you will use these sources (and ones you discover!) to do your own historical research on games and play.

HIST 277A - Hist Mid East 600-1453          
In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

HIST 277B - People's History Middle East              
This course approaches the history of the modern Middle East through a Humanist perspective. We consider the Ottoman Empire, the Arab lands, and Iran from 1453 to the present through the interconnected spheres of political, economic, and social history. We will identify major historical periods, figures, geographical features, and movements that have shaped the region and assess the effects of colonialism and imperialism. Lectures, readings, writing, and discussions develop case studies to emphasize the interplay between individual lives, structural diversity and inequality, and historical contingency. Through guided primary source analysis and close readings of a range of texts, students will develop the tools to consider different temporal and spatial scales. Finally, students will consider their own positionality as historical actors in relation to the people of the modern Middle East.

HIST 316 - Warfare and Violence              
From the time of our stone-age ancestors violence has been an integral feature of human societies. Variously expressed as the organized violence of state-directed warfare, the smaller-scale conflicts of tribes and clans, or the actions of lone individuals, violence is a depressingly-common feature of the human experience. This course analyzes the impact and function of violence from the late-Neolithic onwards, culminating with the more-complex state structures, legal systems, and military bureaucracies that have emerged in the modern age. Topics of particular focus will include how technology relates to and facilitates violence; the impact of warfare on civilian populations; the effect of violence on individuals; legal efforts to frame and define legitimate violence; and the mythologizing of violent acts (and actors) in historical memory. Students will gai a broad understanding of warfare and violence as expressed in a variety of Western and non-Western contexts including Europe, Africa, the Near East and the Americas. By taking this course students will develop a greater understanding of the concept of violence as a historical phenomenon, and be better prepared to analyze the place and function of modern/contemporary expressions of violence, both between and within human societies.

HUMS 150B1 - Mind-Altering Substances             
This course will be an introduction to the many uses of psychotropic substances in the ancient world. We will explore the different roles that these mind-altering substances played within various religious and medical traditions and investigate the role of Cannabis, psychedelics and alcohol within the economic, social and political realms of antiquity. In order to do this, we will read portions of primary texts in translation and learn to interpret visual and material culture. The primary focus will be to understand how these psychotropic substances were employed within all aspects of society. By understanding the various uses of psychotropic substances in a comparative context, students may better understand how to think critically about the role of drugs beyond their recreational use, thereby fostering an understanding of different cultures and their uses of psychotropics.

ITAL 250C - Italian Theatre          
How did the Italian historical context and theatrical spaces impact the creation and reception of theatrical texts? How did these texts shape the context of the Italian society? What is intermediality? How do media re-narrate, re-interpret, and adapt literary texts? How do media cross linguistic, space/time, and cultural borders? What gets lost in the translation of texts across different media? What is produced instead? These are some of the questions we will explore to improve our understanding of intermediality, or the relations among different media (theatre, opera, film), using the humanist's tools and methodologies (historical and social contextualization, close reading, critical analysis, scholars' production).We will engage with the history of Italian theater from 16thto 20thcentury, contextualizing, reading, and analyzing plays and libretti by Machiavelli, Da Ponte, Goldoni, Mascagni, Pirandello, Fo, and Ginzburg. We will combine a traditional approach to canonical texts of the Italian theatrical tradition with an interdisciplinary methodology that compares literary and visual texts.

ITAL 330D - Women In Italian Society     
Comprehensive study of images of Italian women in literary, historic, religious texts, the visual arts, and their effects on the cultural productions of women writers and artists. We will examine issues of gender, education, social class, desire, religion, law, and the family. This course may be applied toward the major or minor in Italian or Italian Studies (please speak with an advisor for more information). Taught in English.

MENA 160A1 - The Religion of Islam       
This course provides an overview of the Qur'an, life and teachings of Muhammad, and the differences between Sunni and Shi'i Islam. Students also receive an introduction to Islamic intellectual traditions and cultures.

(MENA 277A - Hist Mid East 600-1453)   
In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

(MENA 277B - People's History Middle East)        
This course approaches the history of the modern Middle East through a Humanist perspective. We consider the Ottoman Empire, the Arab lands, and Iran from 1453 to the present through the interconnected spheres of political, economic, and social history. We will identify major historical periods, figures, geographical features, and movements that have shaped the region and assess the effects of colonialism and imperialism. Lectures, readings, writing, and discussions develop case studies to emphasize the interplay between individual lives, structural diversity and inequality, and historical contingency. Through guided primary source analysis and close readings of a range of texts, students will develop the tools to consider different temporal and spatial scales. Finally, students will consider their own positionality as historical actors in relation to the people of the modern Middle East.

PAH 160D2 - Living the Good Life             
This interdisciplinary course analyzes myths and cosmologies that reflect various societal approaches to the grand mysteries of life as represented in language, culture, and narratives. Beginning with an overview of myth as a moving force in life, students generate a list of grand mysteries to pursue answers that explore the past, present, and future. Select texts analyzing myth as well as works of fiction and contemporary film and television will round out the course as students work toward analyzing their own cosmology, a chosen mythology, or develop their own unique mythology for the digital age. Particular emphasis will be paid to myths and cosmologies of groups in conflict and an analysis of the clash resulting from competing perspectives.

PAH 160D4 - Life in the City of Tomorrow             
This course explores the past, present, and future of urban life by looking at speculative representations of cities. We focus especially on practices of time travel and world building used by futurists and creatives as tools for thinking about how our cities ought to be. In addition to engaging with a range of materials that demonstrate these practices over the course of the term, we will also experiment with using these practices as methods for problem solving, critical study, and the creation of urban futures in the real world, taking into particular consideration markers of identity such as race, gender, or class.

PAH 330 - The Video Game Industry       
This course introduces students to the structures, practices, and study of the video game industry. Over the course of the semester we will: 1) survey the origins of the video game industry, paying particular attention to its connection to the broadcasting and film industries; 2) examine the video game industry in terms of its major spheres (development, publishing, distribution/sales, paratexts, consumption, and regulation); and 3) explore tools and techniques for theorizing video game business and conducting market analyses for academic and commercial purposes.

PHIL 150B1 - Personal Morality 
Students will explore the nature of morality in general and examine opposing sides of particular moral debates. Topics may include: abortion, animal rights, the ethics of immigration, genetic enhancement, and euthanasia. This course aims to help students become more reflective and open-minded about morality, while also providing them with the skills to successfully defend their own moral beliefs.

PHIL 160D1 - Justice and Virtue 
We all want to live good lives.  To have a good life, in the sense I have in mind, is to be happy, where `happiness' is understood in something like the sense in which the Declaration of Independence proclaims that we each have an inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.  But what is it to live a good life?  What is it to be happy?  To the extent that the kind of life you live is up to you, this is a pressing question.  If you take the question seriously, others soon follow.  To what extent is it up to me whether or not my life is a good one?  It's tempting to think that moral obligations can conflict with your living a good life, so that you have to choose between doing what is right and doing what would make you happy.  But can such conflicts arise?  And, if so, which should one choose?  How, if at all, does your ability to live a good life depend on the particular society in which you live?  These, and other questions about justice and the good life, have long occupied philosophers.  In this course, we will, together, explore these questions, drawing on what four great philosophers have to say about them:  Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Mill.

PHIL 220 - Philosophy of Happiness         
Happiness matters to us; and now it is in the news. There are large numbers of self-help books telling us how to be happy. Some nations are planning to measure the happiness of their citizens to find out how it can be increased. There is a huge new field of `happiness studies', and new focus on happiness in positive psychology as well as fields like politics and law. Much of this material is confusing, since often it is not clear what the authors think that happiness is. Is it feeling good? Is it having a positive attitude to the way you are now? Is it having a positive attitude to your life as a whole? Is it having a happy life? Can some people advise others on how to be happy? Philosophers have been engaged with the search for happiness for two thousand years. They have asked what happiness is, and have explored different answers to the question, including some of the answers now being rediscovered in other fields. In this course we will ask what happiness is, and examine critically the major answers to this question. We'll look at the rich philosophical tradition of thinking about happiness, at contemporary answers, and also at some recent work in the social sciences. We'll examine the contributions being made to the ongoing search to find out what happiness is, and how we can live happy lives.

RELI 160A1 - Gods, Goddesses & Demons            
This course is an introduction to multiple concepts of the divine in South Asia. We will explore the different ways that the religious traditions of South Asia understand supernatural beings and forces. In order to do this we will read portions of primary texts in translation, examine iconography, and watch rituals as they unfold. In addition to learning about the South Asia traditions, we will put those conceptions of the divine in conversation with those rooted in a European context, forcing you to learn to think critically about the ways people from different cultures view the world around them.

RELI 160D4 - Intro to World Religions     
This course explores the diversity of religions and religious experiences across the globe. Religions to be examined include, but are not limited to, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as well as indigenous traditions.

(RELI 277A - Hist Mid East 600-1453)       
In this course, students take a humanistic disciplinary perspective to explore the cultural products of the pre-modern Middle East and answer questions about its historical development. Using primary sources in translation and secondary scholarship, students will explore the context of the rise of Islam; the process of conversion and expansion across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia; the crystallization of Shi'ism and changing notions of religious authority; and the impact of Turkish migrations and Mongol conquests. They will become familiar with major genres of pre-modern Middle Eastern literary, religious, and scientific writings, and use techniques of close reading to answer questions about those texts' ideological positions and contexts.

RELI 280 - Intro to Bible: New Test           
This course introduces students to the New Testament in light of the contexts in which it was written and compiled, and as a window into reconstructing the world of early Christianity. The course will also examine how various Christian communities have understood the meaning and authority of the New Testament.

RSSS 150B1 - East European Cinema Soc Cntxt   
East European Cinema in a Social Context (RSSS150) introduces students to a variety of excellent films that have come out of Eastern Europe in the last 100 years or so. Students will learn about the socio-political and cultural contexts of these films, the societies in which they were produced, and the events and situations that they depict. The goal of the course is to increase students' understanding and knowledge of Eastern European societies, cultures, and history while at the same time enhancing their appreciation and understanding of particular film masterpieces and cinema in general. By engaging them in the close study of these films, the course should help students develop analytical and viewing skills. Students should emerge from this course with a strong understanding of cinematic terms, an enriched understanding of diverse cultures of the region, and the tools for further exploration in a variety of academic disciplines (language, film, history, etc.). For purposes of this course, Eastern Europe includes the geographical area bounded by the Czech Republic in the west, Russia in the east; Poland in the north, and the former Yugoslavia & Greece in the south.  We will watch a selection of movies from different areas.

RSSS 160C2 - Russia: Hist /Global Context            
This course examines contemporary Russian culture and politics in a historical context, determining how the country's past influences present day culture and politics. We will learn of Russia's recent cultural and artistic triumphs within the context of Russia's rich history.  In discussing Russian literary and cinematic works of the early 21st century, we will assess the impact of history on Russian consciousness and identity, noting how Russia presents itself around the world, and how it is perceived by other nations.

RSSS 340 - Russian Writers+Society         
This course is designed to be an introduction to the Golden Age of Russian literature. We will read a selection of classic Russian texts, with representative works from canonical authors like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, among others. The writers we will read not only played a key role in the development of Russian literature, but their handling of life's greatest issues (the existence of God, the meaning of life, struggle for gender equality, the organization of society, the mystery of death, etc.) have influenced cultural, intellectual, and political movements throughout the world. The course readings are organized chronologically and by theme, and we will trace the progression of the major literary movements of the era (sentimentalism, romanticism and realism) while exploring the individual style/technique of each author. Works will be considered within their cultural context --historical, social, ideological and intellectual --in order to provide a better understanding of Russian thought, culture, and literature. All readings, discussions and written assignments will be in English.

RSSS 345 - WW II: Soviet Cultural Exper 
A cultural exploration of the Soviet experience of WWII, The Great Patriotic War. Students examine how the Soviets shaped the narrative of this conflict in poetry, prose, speeches, music, posters, paintings, monuments, and film.             

Exploring Perspectives: Natural Scientist Courses

ANTH 160D2 - Origins of Hum Diversity 
Our story begins around seven million years ago as the human lineage began to diverge from the great apes. Our story is one of curiosity, innovation, exploration, expansion, and diversity.  Early humans, including our direct ancestors, accumulated a vast spectrum of complex cognitive, physical, behavioral, and cultural traits as they spread across the face of the Earth and adapted to environments in every corner of the planet. Understanding the bewildering phenotypic and cultural variability observed in humans today requires a Bio-Cultural perspective, integrating theories, methods and data from the natural and social sciences. While variability in appearance and practice sometimes divides us and highlights our differences, humans today share ~99.9% of our DNA, and we are united by common concerns such as the search for food, love, need for companionship, and the necessity to support the next generation of the human species. This course takes a chronological approach as we explore the hominin family tree through the study of fossil species, critical cultural developments including the origins of technology and changes in diet, economy and social relationships. Within this framework we will cover the basics of Darwinian evolution, highlighting the interaction of biological and cultural forces in shaping what we are today. Throughout this course, we will also examine how societal values, inequality, racism, and colonialism have impacted our understanding of what it means to be human. The signature assignment for this course will involve a deep look at how our evolutionary past, and how different conceptualizations of it resonate in the contemporary world.

ANTH 170C1 - The Nature of Humans     
In this course students will identify and apply the approaches of a biological anthropologist to investigate a) how our evolutionary history has shaped our biology, b) how and why there are similarities and differences between humans and other species, and) how and why there are similarities and differences between humans.

ASTR 170B1 - Exploring Our Universe     
This course tells the story of how astronomers explore our Universe. You will engage in a variety of activities that illustrate historical and contemporary ideas and methods which reveal the mysteries of the Cosmos. Astronomy will be placed in a cultural context that allows you to reflect on the relevance of science in society today.

(ASTR 206 - Exploring Our Solar System)
Our Solar System is filled with an incredible diversity of objects. These include the sun and planets, of course, but also many hundreds of moons -- some with exotic oceans, erupting volcanoes, or dynamic atmospheres. Billions of asteroids and comets inhabit the space between and beyond the planets. Each body is unique, and has followed its own evolutionary history. This class will explore our current understanding of the Solar System and emphasize similarities that unite the different bodies as well as the differences between them. We will develop an understanding of physical processes that occur on these bodies, including tectonics, impact cratering, volcanism, and processes operating in their interiors, oceans, and atmospheres. We will also discuss planets around nearby stars and the potential for life beyond Earth. Throughout the class, we will highlight the leading role that the University of Arizona has played in exploring our Solar System.

BE 170A1 - Water Use and Sustainability               
This fully online course helps students explore the natural science perspective of water use and sustainability. Students will develop an understanding of how water influences and interacts with world around them and analyze the effects of human interaction with water. Students will develop an understanding of their Water Footprint, and their role in making a difference in world of water.

BE 170A2 - Formation Planetary Biosystem         
Question: How did our planetary biosystem form, and how common is the formation of biosystems such as our own in the universe? This course describes the formation of our planetary biosystem. Space and matter formed in the first 9 billion years of the universe. The sun, Earth, and moon formed in the first few hundred million years of the solar system. Algae and plants evolved in the billions of years of the Precambrian and helped prepare the climate for animal life. Invertebrates and vertebrates evolved in the sea in the Paleozoic Era. Reptiles and birds dominated the Mesozoic Era. Mammals and finally humans dominated the Cenozoic Era. In the last several thousand years, agriculture and civilization dramatically altered the Earth's biosystem that we experience in the modern world.

CHEM 151 - Chemical Thinking I
Integrated lecture-lab course designed to develop a basic understanding of central ways of knowing, thinking, and acting in chemistry that are useful to explain and predict the physical and chemical properties of chemical substances in real-world systems. Additionally, students participate in experimental activities that promote the development of fundamental science and engineering practices.

CHEM 152 - Chemical Thinking II               
Integrated lecture-lab course designed to develop a basic understanding of central ways of knowing, thinking, and acting in chemistry that are useful to explain, predict, and control the extent and rate of chemical processes in real-world systems. Additionally, students participate in experimental activities that promote the development of fundamental science and engineering practices.

CHEM 161 - Honors Chemical Thinking I
This Honors version of Chemical Thinking is designed to help students develop a basic understanding of central ways of knowing, thinking ,and acting in chemistry that are useful to explain and predict the physical and chemical properties of chemical substances in real-world systems. Additionally, students participate in experimental activities that promote the development of fundamental science and engineering practices. As an Honors course, students will go deeper into the concepts, explore the scientific literature, and use it to think about the costs and benefits of the decision's humans make to diversify and control matter and energy.

ENVS 170A1 - Intro Environmental Sci    
In this course, students will have the opportunity to investigate emerging environmental changes, such as global warming, ozone depletion, the fate of plastic in the oceans, water quality, and food security through the lens of a natural scientist.  We will explore urbanization and population as key drivers of environmental changes, and analyze sustainability and life cycles of consumer products. Throughout the course, we will identify the root causes and the role humans play in environmental changes and look at different ways we are responding to them. Students will develop narratives of personal connections to the natural systems, make more informed decisions through scientific literacy, understand their individual impacts and develop solutions, create scientific visual representations to communicate to diverse audiences, and develop data interpretation skills.

ESOC 210 - Hacking & Open Source Culture         
The course explores the history, development, and evolution of our digital society by examining the early hackers, geeks, innovators and renegade hippie technologists that shaped our current digital reality.  In addition, the course introduces students to theories and practices of information sharing including the public domain, information as a common public good, hacking and collaborative innovation, copyleft, open source software, open access publishing, and the creative commons.

GC 170A1 - Intro to Global Change          
The basics of physical science are presented within the context of global environmental change processes (climatic change, global warming, deforestation, etc.) that impact Earth and its inhabitants. Includes hands-on activities, discussions, computer exercises, and a capstone project.

GEOG 230 - Our Changing Climate           
Climate change is among the most important issues of our time. In this course students will learn and apply the perspective of the climate scientist to answering questions about the natural systems, physical processes, and human dimensions of climate change, its impacts, and pathways to solutions. Students will put this perspective into practice using the tools and approaches of the climate scientist, working with quantitative information such as analyzing and interpreting data, as well as linking science to solutions through interactive activities.

GEOS 170A1 - Earth Stories: Dynamic Planet       
In this course, students will learn to apply the perspective of the geoscientist to questions about how and when Earth formed, how it has evolved over time, how those changes are recorded and deciphered in the geologic record, what geological phenomena can tell us about planetary dynamics and geological hazards, how geological processes create change on our planet, and how humans interact with and influence the natural environment. Students will put this perspective into practice via the scientific method, using the tools and methodologies of geoscientists, and working with quantitative information in a variety of ways, such as creating and interpreting data sets and graphs.

GEOS 218 - Geol Disasters+Society          
Geological disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, flooding, heat waves, etc.) are potentially life-changing events that are a feature of normal Earth processes. This course will acquaint students with the scientific principles governing these events, and their frequency and magnitude. We will address how we, as a society, plan for, mitigate (or increase!) the risks of, respond to, and recover from these events to limit the loss of life and property.

HNRS 219 - Our Human Footprint            
This course addresses the science behind our knowledge of human impact on the planet and how we measure and communicate that impact, with an emphasis on out-of-the-classroom experience and critical thinking. We will consider multiple areas of scientific interest, including cities and transportation systems, changes to earth processes, overfishing and species extinctions on land, creation and use of hazardous chemicals, waste generation, and the use of antibiotics and resources such as fossil fuels and water.

HWRS 170A1 - Earth: Our Watery Home
What makes Earth special?  How have the unique conditions on Earth given rise to life -and how might these conditions change?  We will address these questions from a natural science perspective. But, we will also consider how scientific understanding can be communicated effectively so that we can make better decisions as conscious and unconscious stewards of our watery planet. Through this course, you will learn basic scientific concepts and you will learn how to combine this understanding with quantitative reasoning, creative expression and multidisciplinary thinking to identify, understand, and address the challenges facing planet Earth.

MSE 220 - 3-D Printing and the Environ 
3-D Printing (also known as Additive Manufacturing (AM)) involves the direct conversion of 3-D computer aided designs into physical objects with applications impacting such fields as aerospace, architecture, microelectronics, medicine, and space exploration.  It represents a revolution in the manufacturing and distribution of products and systems to the consumer while offering a dramatic potential for reduction in the environmental impact of product design, development, and realization.  The course will provide students will direct experience in 3-D printing methods through hands-on, group projects focusing on this unique and growing manufacturing methodology. Students will examine the characteristics of materials amenable to 3-D printing and the environmental ramifications of this process for the large-and small-scale production of objects by exploring its impact on the primary stages of the product lifecycle.  In these respects, the course provides a platform to extend student appreciation for, and understanding of, the fundamental relationships between material structure and properties and control of these relationships through the use of the 3-D printing.  Moreover, the course integrates this exploration of additive manufacturing technology development with its potential to transform the production and supply of goods to the consumer and, finally, the environmental consequences of the widespread adoption of this technology in the context of sustainable development.

NSC 170C1 - Nutrition, Food, and You     
Only for students who have not taken NSC 101 (Introduction to Human Nutrition). Nutrition, Food, and You covers the basic principles of human nutrition. Topics include the classification of nutrients, how they are used by the body, and the relationship between health and disease. These topics will be explored through the lens of a natural scientist and quantitative data analysis. Students will learn to evaluate nutrition research, apply nutrition concepts to dietary patterns and meal planning, and explore concepts from a personal angle and practical application.

PLS 170C2 - Biotechnology & Sustainability          
To tackle global problems now and in the future, humans need to create innovative and sustainable solutions. Natural scientists practicing modern biotechnology have answers to the questions: How can we better provide for the growing human population by improving the productivity of plants and animals? How can we prevent and treat existing and emerging human diseases? How can we make industrial processes and agriculture more sustainable? But the use of biotechnology can be controversial, such as when it involves the genetic modification of organisms (i.e., the creation of GMOs). In this class, you will be presented with many examples of biotechnological advances developed by natural scientists and be given the background to understand them so that you can decide if the reward is worth the risk. Subjects covered may include developing new vaccines, making faster-growing salmon, cloning pet dogs, producing biofuels to replace fossil fuels, manufacturing pharmaceuticals in the milk of various animals or in plants, and discovering cures or preventatives for human ailments.

(PTYS 206 - Exploring Our Solar System)
Our Solar System is filled with an incredible diversity of objects. These include the sun and planets, of course, but also many hundreds of moons -- some with exotic oceans, erupting volcanoes, or dynamic atmospheres. Billions of asteroids and comets inhabit the space between and beyond the planets. Each body is unique, and has followed its own evolutionary history. This class will explore our current understanding of the Solar System and emphasize similarities that unite the different bodies as well as the differences between them. We will develop an understanding of physical processes that occur on these bodies, including tectonics, impact cratering, volcanism, and processes operating in their interiors, oceans, and atmospheres. We will also discuss planets around nearby stars and the potential for life beyond Earth. Throughout the class, we will highlight the leading role that the University of Arizona has played in exploring our Solar System.

RNR 170C1 - Our Place in Nature: Bio & Env         
This course involves the study of nature emphasizing humans as a component of it. We learn how living things and physical processes function and interconnect to generate the complex environments of our planet. Our perspective is based on the methods natural scientists use to understand nature. We examine on how this understanding may lead to solutions to challenges in the environment, medicine, and agriculture. Our approach throughout this course focuses on the roles of quantitative information in decision making in natural science and other aspects of modern life. We apply the key elements of the practice of natural science to evaluate and interpret quantitative information and develop hypotheses about biological phenomena relevant in our lives. We locate or collect data, organize and analyze these data, and develop conclusions from these analyses. Finally, we examine communication of our findings to multiple audiences using a variety of representations.

Exploring Perspectives: Social Scientist Courses

AED 408 - Divrs Isu Cntmp Society            
This course is designed as a work world preparation course for all majors.  As students ready to leave the relative safety of the cocooned worlds of their chosen disciplines, this course provides practical tools and information necessary to succeed in a diverse and changing world of work.  By combining interactive learning, current and relevant readings, and key presenters, the course will help completers integrate more smoothly into the next phase of their lives.  As the world shrinks and we find ourselves playing roles in an increasingly diverse society, understanding the communication process and how culture, race and gender affect interpersonal communication becomes ever so more important for all of us.  The class will take an objective look at our own beliefs and the beliefs and systems espoused by our chosen disciplines.  The students who graduate today will create the way our fields operate in the future.

AFAS 260 - Ethnic & Race Relations in US              
Analysis of minority relations and mass movements in urban society; trends in the modern world, with special reference to present-day race problems and social conflict.

AFAS 280 - Brazilian Identity       
This course takes representations and experiences of citizenship in modern Brazil as the springboard for the study of cross-cultural membership in society. How are understandings and experiences of citizenship bound up with the definition and institutionalization of race/ethnicity, class, and gender? This broad question will be examined in specific areas in Brazil such as public health, urban and rural development, environment, education, law, politics, and pop culture. The course covers theoretical readings and case studies from different geographical areas. Instructional materials are interdisciplinary, drawing mainly on the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography.

AFAS 376 - Global Soccer             
While the British invented football (as soccer is known around the world), the French were key players in structuring it worldwide. This interdisciplinary course is about the emergence and growing notoriety of soccer in France, the French - speaking world, and as a worldwide global phenomenon through explorations in the following areas: cultural and global studies, philosophy, history, institutions, anthropology, sociology, and language. The course presents several important themes that allow to understand the popularity and identification of the populations with soccer worldwide, as well as the human values it represents: olympism, pacifism, imperialism, colonialism and post - colonialism , national identities, race, politics, gender, and globalization.

ANTH 150A1 - Race, Racism, & American Dream
This course offers a critical analysis of race and racism in the United States through an anthropological lens. We explore everyday experiences of race and racism and set these in dialogue with historical and contemporary patterns of racial inequality, asking who has access to the proverbial American Dream. Course themes include: (1) the social and historical construction of race; (2) the systemic nature of racism and the marginalization of Black, Indigenous, Latino/x/e, and Asian American people from the past to the present; and (3) the racial ideologies upholding white supremacy and white privilege. Students in this class will reflect on their own lived experiences in addition to exploring how we are constantly exposed to cultural and political messages about race, racism, and privilege. This class will address contemporary issues of racial justice and expose students to foundational texts in critical race studies written by scholars of color.

ANTH 150B1 - Many Ways of Being Human          
This course introduces the student to anthropological perspectives on cultural diversity. The course focuses on gender, race, ethnicity and class through readings by and about peoples throughout the world.

(ANTH 280 - Brazilian Identity)  
This course takes representations and experiences of citizenship in modern Brazil as the springboard for the study of cross-cultural membership in society. How are understandings and experiences of citizenship bound up with the definition and institutionalization of race/ethnicity, class, and gender? This broad question will be examined in specific areas in Brazil such as public health, urban and rural development, environment, education, law, politics, and pop culture. The course covers theoretical readings and case studies from different geographical areas. Instructional materials are interdisciplinary, drawing mainly on the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography.

ANTH 317 - Latin American Immigration
Migration is currently re-shaping American cities, families, urban landscapes, rural areas, politics, and altering the nation's racial and cultural make up.  In response, societal attitudes and power dynamics that structure their incorporation shift, often engendering competing perspectives about immigrants' efforts to belong and carve out a place for themselves within the United States as A nation of Immigrants. This course will focus on the quasi-permanent presence of undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable noncitizens living in the United States, focusing in particular on those who come from Latin America.

ECON 200 - Basic Economic Issues           
This course explains how economists see the world. Students learn about basic concepts such as opportunity cost, marginal analysis, supply and demand, and some notions from game theory. We explore how individuals, households, businesses, governments, and societies deal with the fundamental problem of scarcity, and how people achieve gains-from-trade or handle conflict. Students will also be exposed to economy-wide statistics and models that help us understand business cycles.

EDP 150B1 - Current Issues Psych of Gender       
An in depth exploration of societal and familial influences on gender development along with considerable self-exploration of individual conceptions of gender.

EDP 200 - Evolution+Human Developm 
An examination of human psychological and behavioral development across the lifespan with a focus on how the processes of evolution have influenced individual development.

ENGL 322 - Word Meaning & Structure  
An in-depth introduction to the sounds, structures, meanings and history of English words. Why are English alphabet letters pronounced the way they are? How do we use our mouths to make the sounds of English? What makes certain poems/song lyrics sound rhythmic and others not? What are the rules that govern the construction of English words from suffixes and prefixes? How do children identify and acquire words from the speech they hear? How did English come to be the language spoken in England? How have different speech communities changed and expanded their English variety? Why is English full of borrowed words? Why is English spelling so inconsistent? How does language ideology about 'proper English' affect speakers of different varieties of English?

FITS 204 - Consumers & Shopping            
A study of consumer behavior and fashion adoption processes in contemporary society, the nature of fashion theories, the life-cycle, social and cultural processes and evolution of fashion, and the role of fashion in the global economy in general and in the fashion business industry in particular. In addition, because of the size and reach of fashion we will recognize the cause and effects of this industry on the world's environment and inhabitants.

FREN 150B1 - Holocaust in France & Italy              
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts,  survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.

(FSHD 200 - Evolution+Human Developm)           
An examination of human psychological and behavioral development across the lifespan with a focus on how the processes of evolution have influenced individual development.

GEOG 222 - Fundamental Geog. Techniques       
Data literacy is essential for navigating today's digitally-mediated world.  In this course, students explore and apply quantitative data to investigate real-world geographic problems.  Operating in a two-part sequence, students first learn foundational data skills for accessing human and physical geographic data, as well as analyzing data through basic statistical methods.  Specific emphasis is placed on both the strengths and limitations of quantitative data. The concluding section of the course introduces students to principles of effective data visualization, essential for communicating data-driven analysis to policymakers, community members, and other stakeholders.  These skills, which are foundational for upper-level classes in the social sciences and policy analysis more broadly, also help students prepare for the employment market.

GEOG 367 - Population Geography         
In this course, students explore the characteristics, geographic distribution, and growth/decline of population at local, regional, national, and global scales.  Students learn the components of population change--fertility, mortality, migration, and immigration--by considering relationships to political, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions.  Specific emphasis is placed on demographic processes and contemporary population issues throughout the world through the lens of social/racial justice, diversity and equity.  These include, but are not limited to urbanization, food security, domestic migration, aging, public health, morbidity and mortality, family planning, the decennial census, and immigration.  The applied framework of the course helps students identify sources of data, measures, and methods of analysis commonly used in population geography.

GWS 459 - Constructions of Gender        
This course uses the concept of social construction to analyze how gender organizes our social experiences. It shows how cultural understandings of gender, particularly those that permeate language, media representations, and socialization processes, impact how individuals understand the self, interpret the social world, and interact with social institutions. It encourages students to move beyond an understanding of gender as an individual attribute, and towards understanding gender as a broad and enduring social structure that operates at multiple levels.

HED 350 - Student Outreach      
This course will introduce students to literature on college access, outreach, academic achievement, and resiliency. Students will learn about inequities that permeate the U.S. public education system and discover solutions to those inequities. The service-learning component of this course (known as Project SOAR) will allow the students to take meaningful action while they apply their learning as mentors to students at under-resourced Tucson middle schools on a weekly basis.

HIST 150C2 - Modern Latin America        
An interdisciplinary introduction to Latin American societies from the 1820s to the present that gives special emphasis to diversity within Latin America and to dynamic and, hence, historical processes of social, political, cultural, and economic change over time.

HIST 150C3 - U.S.Society+Inst Snc1877   
This course examines and analyzes the social, political, and economic transformations of American Society since Reconstruction. It focuses on multiple levels of society as well as the groups and individuals who comprised it.

HPS 178 - Personal Health+Wellness      
Introduces and analyzes basic personal and community health problems, with emphasis on current scientific information essential to health promotion and maintenance of individual health.

HPS 200 - Introduction to Public Health 
This course provides a broad survey of national, state and local (relevant to Southwest U.S.) community health sciences and services including cultural/ethnic issues. Examines the concepts of health and wellness. Introduces health education as a foundation for population-based healthcare.

(HUMS 376 - Global Soccer)        
While the British invented football (as soccer is known around the world), the French were key players in structuring it worldwide. This interdisciplinary course is about the emergence and growing notoriety of soccer in France, the French - speaking world, and as a worldwide global phenomenon through explorations in the following areas: cultural and global studies, philosophy, history, institutions, anthropology, sociology, and language. The course presents several important themes that allow to understand the popularity and identification of the populations with soccer worldwide, as well as the human values it represents: olympism, pacifism, imperialism, colonialism and post - colonialism , national identities, race, politics, gender, and globalization.

(ITAL 150B1 - Holocaust in France & Italy)             
The course examines the origins, development, and implementation of discriminatory racial policies in France and Italy as well as their impact on Jewish citizens during and after World War II through the study of historical texts,  survivor testimonies, war memoirs, memorials, commemorations and film.

LAS 150B1 - Mod Lat Am:Race, Rights, Revol       
In this course, students will apply a social science perspective to the study of Latin America as a complex region. This course will examine the historical, political, economic, and social factors contributing to racism, inequality, and violence in Latin America, as well as how Latin Americans have fought for social justice and waged social revolutions to challenge systems of oppression. This course emphasizes the experiences, struggles, and contributions of marginalized populations such as women, Black and Indigenous people, economically disadvantaged, and members of LGBTQIA+ communities. Using the analytical tools and qualitative methods of social scientists, students in this course will analyze how specific case studies exemplify broader regional trends; identify the historical antecedents of current events; and propose solutions to pressing global problems. Along the way, students will reflect on their own stereotypes about Latin American countries and peoples and come to a greater understanding of the importance of learning about this dynamic region of the world.

(LAS 204 - Comp Politics- Age of Globaliz)             
Survey of the major political systems and analysis of comparative political concepts, with a view to preparation for more advanced study.

LAS 280 - Brazilian Identity          
This course takes representations and experiences of citizenship in modern Brazil as the springboard for the study of cross-cultural membership in society. How are understandings and experiences of citizenship bound up with the definition and institutionalization of race/ethnicity, class, and gender? This broad question will be examined in specific areas in Brazil such as public health, urban and rural development, environment, education, law, politics, and pop culture. The course covers theoretical readings and case studies from different geographical areas. Instructional materials are interdisciplinary, drawing mainly on the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography.

LAS 312 - U.S.-Latin America Relations   
How does power shape international relations? In this course, students will apply a social science perspective to the study of U.S.-Latin American relations. The course is organized around the concept of power, and how asymmetric power relations between the United States and Latin American countries contributes to inequality and in justice between states (global) and within societies (social). In this course, students identify and explore social science approaches to the global power structure and use theory to analyze five hemispheric challenges: unequal economic development, cross border displacement, insecurity, climate change, and global health inequalities. In addition, students explore how a social scientist's position in the global power structure shapes their perspective through a comparison of the main U.S. approach(realism) and the main Latin American approach(dependency). Students use the analytical tools and methods of social science to identify how U.S. imperialism shapes the five hemispheric challenges, and to connect imperialism to structural injustice at the international level. Finally, throughout the course, students reflect on their position in the global power structure and how they can contribute solutions to hemispheric problems.

(LAS 317 - Latin American Immigration) 
Migration is currently re-shaping American cities, families, urban landscapes, rural areas, politics, and altering the nation's racial and cultural make up.  In response, societal attitudes and power dynamics that structure their incorporation shift, often engendering competing perspectives about immigrants' efforts to belong and carve out a place for themselves within the United States as A nation of Immigrants. This course will focus on the quasi-permanent presence of undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable noncitizens living in the United States, focusing in particular on those who come from Latin America.

LING 320 - Language + Social Issues        
Focuses on the theme that individuals identify with groups (in part) on the basis of the language or dialect they use. Examines the role of the individual as a language-using being with the problems of self-identity and of social difference, not only in our multilingual-multicultural country, but in the world as well.

(LING 322 - Word Meaning & Structure)
An in-depth introduction to the sounds, structures, meanings and history of English words. Why are English alphabet letters pronounced the way they are? How do we use our mouths to make the sounds of English? What makes certain poems/song lyrics sound rhythmic and others not? What are the rules that govern the construction of English words from suffixes and prefixes? How do children identify and acquire words from the speech they hear? How did English come to be the language spoken in England? How have different speech communities changed and expanded their English variety? Why is English full of borrowed words? Why is English spelling so inconsistent? How does language ideology about 'proper English' affect speakers of different varieties of English?

MAS 150B2 - Social Justice          
This course focuses on issues of social difference, identity, and social status as these are reflected in scholarship about social justice, and applied to social justice issues in the local, national, and international stages. The course has two distinct foci: 1) Learning about the historical and structural foundations that have led to social injustice in the United States over time, and 2) Learn about how communities and movements have organized against these injustices to help move society forward. Students will develop their analytic writing by crafting a five-page analysis paper and through weekly discussion board posts reflecting on course material. In doing so, students will develop informed opinions about social and economic inequalities and movement for social justice that exist locally and across the world. Students will explore scholarship that addresses youth, race and ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, policing and mass incarceration, immigration and social justice. We will begin the course by defining what we mean by social justice and related concepts such as racism, anti-racism, morality, activism, dignity, and solidarity. The class will then focus on current interdisciplinary approaches that emphasize the use of ethnography, oral history, and other social science methodologies to understand how local experiences relate to larger social phenomena. Cases will focus primarily on issues in the United States, and immigration to the United States, but we will also engage scholarship pertaining to related issues in other countries in order to benefit from a global perspective. Through case studies we will consider: 1) How youth and other marginalized people experience and impact structural and cultural conditions relating to globalization and neoliberalism, 2) Diverse techniques employed by activists for achieving social justice, including 3) Techniques employed by immigrants to achieve social justice regardless of immigration status. We will also juxtapose these case studies with popular representations of youth, immigrants and other marginalized communities in order to understand the role that gender, race, age, religion, class and other factors play into multiple layers of Othering in how youth and immigrants are (mis)represented in the mass media, by politicians and in academic scholarship.

MAS 150C1 - Pop Cult/Media+Latin Id    
In this course, we analyze the experience of Latinx communities through the study of popular culture and media studies. Drawing from interdisciplinary sources, students will explore current theoretical ideas and debates about popular culture, identity and representation. It is a central course for students interested in the social sciences, as well as for students interested in cultural and media studies.

(MAS 317 - Latin American Immigration)
Migration is currently re-shaping American cities, families, urban landscapes, rural areas, politics, and altering the nation's racial and cultural make up.  In response, societal attitudes and power dynamics that structure their incorporation shift, often engendering competing perspectives about immigrants' efforts to belong and carve out a place for themselves within the United States as A nation of Immigrants. This course will focus on the quasi-permanent presence of undocumented immigrants and other vulnerable noncitizens living in the United States, focusing in particular on those who come from Latin America.

(PA 312 - U.S.-Latin America Relations)  
How does power shape international relations? In this course, students will apply a social science perspective to the study of U.S.-Latin American relations. The course is organized around the concept of power, and how asymmetric power relations between the United States and Latin American countries contributes to inequality and in justice between states (global) and within societies (social). In this course, students identify and explore social science approaches to the global power structure and use theory to analyze five hemispheric challenges: unequal economic development, cross border displacement, insecurity, climate change, and global health inequalities. In addition, students explore how a social scientist's position in the global power structure shapes their perspective through a comparison of the main U.S. approach(realism) and the main Latin American approach(dependency). Students use the analytical tools and methods of social science to identify how U.S. imperialism shapes the five hemispheric challenges, and to connect imperialism to structural injustice at the international level. Finally, throughout the course, students reflect on their position in the global power structure and how they can contribute solutions to hemispheric problems.

PAH 150A2 - Weird Stuff              
Few claims seem to arouse more interest, evoke more emotion, and create more confusion than those dealing with the paranormal, the supernatural, or the mysterious. Weird stuff, as it is often called; astrology, ghosts, fairies, ESP, psychokinesis, UFO abductions, channeling, dowsing, near-death experiences, prophetic dreams, demon possession, time travel, and parapsychology, among others clearly defies conventional wisdom and understanding, yet belief in them is a widespread component of human culture, often exerting a profound effect on people's lives. Why are such unusual beliefs part of the human experience for so many? Why do some people find such phenomena to be compelling, while others reject them outright? How do we decide which claims are credible? What distinguishes rational from irrational claims? This course is designed to help students answer such questions, to understand why people believe weird stuff, and through that process become more empathetic and independent thinkers and learners.

POL 202 - Intro International Relations  
Study of the international system, its actors and their capabilities; ends and means of foreign policy; international tension, conflict, and cooperation.

(POL 204 - Comp Politics- Age of Globaliz)            
Survey of the major political systems and analysis of comparative political concepts, with a view to preparation for more advanced study.

(POL 312 - U.S.-Latin America Relations)
How does power shape international relations? In this course, students will apply a social science perspective to the study of U.S.-Latin American relations. The course is organized around the concept of power, and how asymmetric power relations between the United States and Latin American countries contributes to inequality and in justice between states (global) and within societies (social). In this course, students identify and explore social science approaches to the global power structure and use theory to analyze five hemispheric challenges: unequal economic development, cross border displacement, insecurity, climate change, and global health inequalities. In addition, students explore how a social scientist's position in the global power structure shapes their perspective through a comparison of the main U.S. approach(realism) and the main Latin American approach(dependency). Students use the analytical tools and methods of social science to identify how U.S. imperialism shapes the five hemispheric challenges, and to connect imperialism to structural injustice at the international level. Finally, throughout the course, students reflect on their position in the global power structure and how they can contribute solutions to hemispheric problems.

(PORT 280 - Brazilian Identity)   
This course takes representations and experiences of citizenship in modern Brazil as the springboard for the study of cross-cultural membership in society. How are understandings and experiences of citizenship bound up with the definition and institutionalization of race/ethnicity, class, and gender? This broad question will be examined in specific areas in Brazil such as public health, urban and rural development, environment, education, law, politics, and pop culture. The course covers theoretical readings and case studies from different geographical areas. Instructional materials are interdisciplinary, drawing mainly on the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography.

PSY 101 - Intro to Psychology     
Survey of psychology including history, systems, and methods; structure and functions of the nervous and endocrine systems; learning; motivation and emotion; perception; memory; thought and language; personality; development; social cognition and behavior; psychopathology and psychotherapy.

PSY 150A1 - Structure of Mind & Behavior           
This course serves as an introduction to mind and behavior. Broad coverage of various topics in psychology including: the science of psychology, biological underpinnings of thoughts and conscious awareness, learning, memory, cognition, emotion, personality, social influences on mind and behavior, psychological disorders, and methods of treatment.

(PSY 200 - Evolution+Human Developm)
An examination of human psychological and behavioral development across the lifespan with a focus on how the processes of evolution have influenced individual development.

SERP 200 - Mass Med+Const Disablity    
Enrolled students will explore and recognize how disability is constructed in American mass media. They will analyze the influence of these constructions on individual, political, and social responses to persons with disabilities.

SERP 416 - Disability Persp+Narratv        
Exploration of the disability lived experience and societal perspectives and their impact; key concepts include ableism, normalcy, language, identity, intrinsic/extrinsic barriers, access, inclusion

SOC 150B1 - Social Issues in America      
The primary objective of the course is to provide students with an opportunity to become conversant with and think critically about various contemporary social problems that bear directly on aspects of their lives and futures and that are relevant to their communities and the nation more broadly.

(SOC 260 - Ethnic & Race Relations in US)             
Analysis of minority relations and mass movements in urban society; trends in the modern world, with special reference to present-day race problems and social conflict.

SOC 324 - Sociology Of Sexuality              
The social construction and historical emergence of gender and sexual identities, attitudes, norms, and behaviors. Impact of individual and community sexual attitudes and behaviors on other sociological and psychological functioning.

(SOC 367 - Population Geography)          
In this course, students explore the characteristics, geographic distribution, and growth/decline of population at local, regional, national, and global scales.  Students learn the components of population change--fertility, mortality, migration, and immigration--by considering relationships to political, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions.  Specific emphasis is placed on demographic processes and contemporary population issues throughout the world through the lens of social/racial justice, diversity and equity.  These include, but are not limited to urbanization, food security, domestic migration, aging, public health, morbidity and mortality, family planning, the decennial census, and immigration.  The applied framework of the course helps students identify sources of data, measures, and methods of analysis commonly used in population geography.

(SOC 459 - Constructions of Gender)      
This course uses the concept of social construction to analyze how gender organizes our social experiences. It shows how cultural understandings of gender, particularly those that permeate language, media representations, and socialization processes, impact how individuals understand the self, interpret the social world, and interact with social institutions. It encourages students to move beyond an understanding of gender as an individual attribute, and towards understanding gender as a broad and enduring social structure that operates at multiple levels.

(SPAN 280 - Brazilian Identity)   
This course takes representations and experiences of citizenship in modern Brazil as the springboard for the study of cross-cultural membership in society. How are understandings and experiences of citizenship bound up with the definition and institutionalization of race/ethnicity, class, and gender? This broad question will be examined in specific areas in Brazil such as public health, urban and rural development, environment, education, law, politics, and pop culture. The course covers theoretical readings and case studies from different geographical areas. Instructional materials are interdisciplinary, drawing mainly on the fields of History, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Geography.

TLS 150B1 - Sport, Leisure & Consumer Cult        
This course will encourage you to think critically about practices of sport, leisure, and consumption through the lens of a social scientist. We will explore the economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that shape sport and leisure consumption, as well as how such consumption shapes individual and collective identities and inequities. You will be encouraged to regularly reflect on your personal relationship with sport and leisure, as well as your own consumer behaviors.

TLS 310 - Lrng Stratgs for Youth/Adults 
Learning Strategies for Youth and Adults is an introduction to exploring perspectives of theory, research, and applications of effective and efficient learning strategies. Through a variety of reflective and research-oriented writing assignments, students will develop a better understanding of themselves as learners, have opportunities to apply learning strategies to concurrent coursework, and develop an appreciation for original research as it relates to academic learning.