This is a discussion based course that examines cultural practices from around the world in relation to issues of identity and self-definition. Students engage with ways of reading the contemporary world through cultural metaphors and theoretical critical angles. Students explore a wide range of visual, virtual, performative and written texts in order to refine their critical cultural analysis. Students curate their own content by selecting areas of research and choices of materials for further investigation.

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Are people born knowing right and wrong, good and evil? What does ?evil? look like, and do you know it when you see it? This course will investigate how humans have represented ?good,? ?evil,? and related concepts across a variety of cultural contexts throughout time. Concerns guiding our readings may include the suffering of the innocent, the existence of evil, and the development of a moral consciousness and responsibility. We may also consider how discourses of good and evil shape and are in turn shaped by race, gender, and class.

This course explores a selection of works of dystopian and utopian fiction and may include examples from film, television, and other media, in addition to literature. An important part of this exploration will be to consider the relationship between this imaginative fiction and the real world conditions which may have prompted it. We will also discuss what these texts have to offer us as warnings for our own society or ideas for a better future.

This class offers an introduction to the short story as a literary genre and will cover works from different parts of the world. The course is designed to familiarize students with the analytical tools to read, interpret, and discuss short fiction. We will explore the cultural contexts and the power relations operative with each individual story, especially with reference to race, class, and gender. Assigned texts may include fantastic tales, surprise endings, or science fiction. (Gen. Ed. AL)

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This is an intermediate-level course in American Sign Language. The course expands students' skills to communicate in a wider array of situations, to further develop their language fluency and to advance their level of comprehension of ASL in culturally appropriate ways.

This is an intermediate-level course in American Sign Language. The course expands students' skills to communicate in a wider array of situations, to further develop their language fluency and to advance their level of comprehension of ASL in culturally appropriate ways.