Finding Dante: The Inferno

This course focuses on Inferno, the first canticle of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265- 1321), the culture that originated it, and connections with today’s world. In particular, the course pays attention to Dante’s ties to classical and medieval Christian culture, his political views, his ideas on language, his involvement in contemporary intellectual debates, his efforts to use poetry for ethical and religious ends, and his literary experimentation.

Naturl Res Conservn& Restoratn

This integrative course explores the conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems. Topics include past land use history and its effect on current forest composition, evaluating forest ecological properties including keystone resources and species, theory and practical application of ecosystem restoration, and the design and management of protected areas. The legal and regulatory framework of resource conservation, conservation incentives and enforcement, and working with local constituencies is also considered.

Naturl Res Conservn& Restoratn

This integrative course explores the conservation and restoration of forest ecosystems. Topics include past land use history and its effect on current forest composition, evaluating forest ecological properties including keystone resources and species, theory and practical application of ecosystem restoration, and the design and management of protected areas. The legal and regulatory framework of resource conservation, conservation incentives and enforcement, and working with local constituencies is also considered.

Intro/Environmental History

This course offers an introduction to the methods and key debates in environmental history, the history of the relationship between humanity and the “rest of nature.” Since the 1970s, environmental historians have used an environmental lens to examine politics, economy, religion, gender, race, migration, art, music, literature and culture. In addition to typical archives of texts and other historical remnants created by people, environmental historians also avail themselves to “natural” archives, including the ice core, tree-ring and lake sediment samples collected by climate scientists.

American Right, 1920- Present

This course explores the history of conservatism in the United States, from the 1920s to Trump. Students examine the key ideas, leaders, and movements that fueled and defined the rise of the modern right, broadly construed. The course goes beyond electoral politics, exploring the relationship between conservatism and American life – especially in the realms of race, gender, religion, and capitalism.

T-Race, Class, Complicity

Offered as ENG 384rc and AMS 351rc. This nonfiction writing seminar uses the concept of ownership as an entry point for artful explorations of the social landscape. Writing in the essayistic tradition of James Baldwin and Joan Didion, the course interprets “ownership” broadly, including the literal ownership of property and the metaphorical ownership of a national identity, a self, and a narrative. Students' work is informed by visits to special collections, the art museum, and the botanic garden, while also incorporating personal experience.

T-Race, Class, Complicity

Offered as ENG 384rc and AMS 351rc. This nonfiction writing seminar uses the concept of ownership as an entry point for artful explorations of the social landscape. Writing in the essayistic tradition of James Baldwin and Joan Didion, the course interprets “ownership” broadly, including the literal ownership of property and the metaphorical ownership of a national identity, a self, and a narrative. Students' work is informed by visits to special collections, the art museum, and the botanic garden, while also incorporating personal experience.

Colq:ResilienceStrategAmerica

How does one care for themselves and their communities when government or other structural supports are no longer available—and perhaps never have been? What strategies of resilience have people developed in the USA in response? This course examines past and current economies of care such as: seed saving (including by enslaved Africans); queer and trans mutual aid; class-based neighborhood associations; Latinx sanctuary; Jewish farming groups, food cooperatives; Asian American women’s giving circles; fair trade and ethical consumerism; and disability careshift collectives.

Colq: National Parks

National Parks loom large in the public imagination of the United States. They have come to symbolize the greatness of America through the beauty of its vast and varied terrain and the expansive freedom these spaces imbue. While National Parks have generated a sense of national belonging since the creation of Yellowstone in 1872, they have also been spaces of Indigenous dispossession and racial exclusion.

Intro to Black Women's Studies

This course examines historical, critical and theoretical perspectives on the development of Black feminist theory/praxis. The course draws from the 19th century to the present, but focuses on the contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that achieved notoriety in the 1970s and initiated a global debate on Western and global feminisms. Central to the exploration is the analysis of the intersectional relationship between theory and practice, and of race, gender and class.
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