Society for the Humanities (SHUM)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

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SHUM 4605
Bio-Politics and Poetics of Nakedness

In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4947, FGSS 4947

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16450 SHUM 4605   SEM 101

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SHUM 4606
The Powers of Skin in Africa

This class considers the capacities and powers of skin in Africa. Students will read classic historical and ethnographic texts about practices involving skin together with range of theoretical approaches ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ANTHR 4106, ASRC 4066

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16471 SHUM 4606   SEM 101

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SHUM 4608
Victorian Masculinities

This course will focus on Victorian genders with a special emphasis on masculinities. Additionally, we will spend time reading and thinking about secondary works which interrogate and historicize our principal ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4908, FGSS 4608

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16481 SHUM 4608   SEM 101

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SHUM 4609
Deep Skin in Digital Architecture

The building skin separates and provides a controlled atmosphere for the interior space of a building, set off from the surrounding environment. When architecture is understood as an organism, and the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6308, STS 4601, VISST 4609

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16477 SHUM 4609   SEM 101

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SHUM 4610
Media and Elemental Things

The pervasiveness of media in and through the planet has rendered the term "media" a muddy one, situated between technics, nature, and human. This seminar develops a set of theoretical frameworks ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: STS 4610, VISST 4610

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16479 SHUM 4610   SEM 101

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SHUM 4611
Screening Blackness

The seminar "Screening Blackness" provides a theoretical, cultural, and historical focus on "blackness" in film, media, and visual culture. Considering questions of performance, censorship, embodiment, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4611, PMA 4961

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16474 SHUM 4611   SEM 101

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SHUM 4612
The Body's Edge in Performance

This course examines how skin and bodily margins in drama, performance art, and film shape the way we understand the human and its markers of identity, from the strange carapace that Oedipus presents in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 4602, COML 4785, PMA 4965

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16490 SHUM 4612   SEM 101

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