Where do we get clean water? Where does water go when it rains? This course explores these topics using a systems thinking approach to gain an understanding of how our water resources are tied to the surrounding ecosystem and human populations. Topics include the water cycle, hydrologic budgets, urban impacts and low impact development/green design. Students will read primary literature, complete problems sets, compute water budgets, and complete a group design project designed to address a water use/treatment challenge. At the 100-level no previous experience is needed.

Where do we get clean water? Where does water go when it rains? This course explores these topics using a systems thinking approach to gain an understanding of how our water resources are tied to the surrounding ecosystem and human populations. Topics include the water cycle, hydrologic budgets, urban impacts and low impact development/green design. Students will read primary literature, complete problems sets, compute water budgets, and complete a group design project designed to address a water use/treatment challenge. At the 100-level no previous experience is needed.

Higher education institutions have long operated within structures and norms that position professors as experts and students as learners. In response, educators influenced by critical perspectives have sought to empower 'student voice' in the academy as a radical and transformative intervention. How can we understand these efforts in a post-truth, neoliberal education context in which notions of expertise are increasingly unsettled? We will examine case studies of SaP programs across U.S.

Thinking with Animals: a transdisciplinary inquiry into human relations with animals: Across the world, humans have viewed animals as: ancestors, teachers, friends, members of the family, meat, workers, pests, and threats. Everywhere, the 'human' is defined in relation to the 'animal.' Yet this relation is construed in diverse and contradictory ways. Ideas about what it means to 'be (an) animal' have long structured visions of belonging and otherness, as well as violence, racism, and oppression.

Musical analysis is, essentially, the attempt to bridge the gap between our intuitions about music and our conscious knowledge of it. In analyzing works that we feel to be intrinsically worthwhile we are trying to correlate our subjective responses with observable analytical properties in the music. This course explores a number of well-established approaches to musical analysis through guided listening, notation-based analyses, discussion, and some compositional exercises.

Every culture bears unique sensibilities to sounds. People cultivate distinctive ways of hearing, understanding, and relating to them. Different instruments are devised to encapsulate distinctive cultural values, not only acoustically but also visually in their material forms. This course explores diverse music cultures of the world through the lens of critical organology (the critical study of musical instruments).

Art making helps us imagine paths forward in the face of overwhelming present challenges. In this course students will be introduced to a range of sculpture techniques while studying artists and writers who are dreaming of more just, liberatory, and sustainable futures. With space to address their own identities areas of interest, students will make sculptures as speculative objects for future living. Students will learn techniques for wood fabrication, soft sculpture and mixed media through both small assignments and larger projects.

In this course we will consider found materials for their metaphorical value and their practical affordances. Students will develop a material research practice to help them manipulate, shape and join materials effectively. At the same time, they will reflect on, study and leverage the affective, cultural, and phenomenelogical content that found and re-used materials carry. This course will include exercises for touching, prodding, speculating and experimenting with materials and support for students to consider their material environments and develop their own expressive material languages.

This course explores the interrelations between critical Indigenous studies and anarchism, examining how Indigenous communities resist colonialism and assert autonomy through decentralized, egalitarian practices. Students will investigate historical and contemporary examples of Indigenous resistance, focusing on how these movements challenge oppressive structures and promote self-determination.

How has compulsory education been used to perpetuate colonialism and its associated discourses, like racism, cisheteronormativity, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, ableism, and Indigenous dispossession? Conversely, how can radical and ancestral approaches to teaching and learning insurrect subjugated knowledge and unite people in a shared struggle for liberation?