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SHUM 1802
Introduction to Latinos in U.S. History

This course seeks a fuller recounting of U.S. history by remapping what we understand as "America." We will examine traditional themes in the teaching of U.S. history—territorial expansion and empire, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  6880 SHUM 1802   LEC 001

    • TR Mcgraw Hall 165
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Garcia, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 2023
Fighting for Our Lives: Black Women's Reproductive Health and Activism in Historical Perspective

This course centers Black women who have often described their reproductive health experiences as "fighting for our lives." While grounded in an exploration of Black women 's experiences in the US, this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 19765 SHUM 2023   SEM 101

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    • MW Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Chresfield, M

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Chresfield, M

  • 19868 SHUM 2023   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  • 20168 SHUM 2023   SEM 102

  •  
    • MW Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Chresfield, M

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Chresfield, M

SHUM 2080
Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

More than 400 years after his death, Shakespeare remains an inescapable part of world culture. His influence can be traced at every level, from traditional art forms like theater, poetry, and opera to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 2080, PMA 2681

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19993 SHUM 2080   LEC 001

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SHUM 2082
Of Ice and Men: Masculinities in the Medieval North

The Middle Ages are usually imagined as a time of manly men and feminine women: no room for gender ambiguity in Conan the Barbarian! Yet gender, then as now, was in fact unstable, multiple, and above all, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: FGSS 2082, HIST 2082, MEDVL 2082

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20515 SHUM 2082   SEM 101

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    • TR Uris Hall G20
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Falk, O

  • 20516 SHUM 2082   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 2435
Global Maoism: History and Present

Maoism and Chinese Communism are not history after Mao's death in 1976. In China, Maoism holds the key to the enduring success of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), one of the most remarkable organizations ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 2435, HIST 2435

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20517 SHUM 2435   SEM 101

  •  

  • 20518 SHUM 2435   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 2437
Economy, Power, and Inequality

How do humans organize production, distribution, exchange, and consumption? What social, political, environmental, and religious values underlie different forms of economic organization? And how do they ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ANTHR 2437

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18708 SHUM 2437   LEC 001

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  • 18709 SHUM 2437   DIS 201

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    • F McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Welker, M

  • 18710 SHUM 2437   DIS 202

  •  
    • F McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Welker, M

SHUM 2460
Japanese Pop Culture

Japanese pop culture—anime, manga, video games, music and more—has been a major phenomenon with massive worldwide popularity for the last three decades. In this course, we will explore a wide range of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2260, FGSS 2260, PMA 2460

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17929 SHUM 2460   LEC 001

  •  

SHUM 2462
Personal Histories of Global Events: Microhistorical Approaches to the Writing of Global History

In this course we will read some of the most influential micro-history writers and explore examples of different subgenres of microhistory, such as individual biographies, family histories, social histories ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 2462, JWST 2462, NES 2462

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20521 SHUM 2462   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR McGraw Hall 366
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Minawi, M

  • 20522 SHUM 2462   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Minawi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 2650
Introduction to African American Literature

This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2650, ASRC 2650, ENGL 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17203 SHUM 2650   SEM 101

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SHUM 2701
Music and Digital Gameplay

This course considers both music and digital games in light of their playability. It aims to provide students with critical frameworks for addressing the diverse roles played by music in digital games ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 2701

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  7298 SHUM 2701   LEC 001

  •  
    • MWF Lincoln Hall B20
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Moseley, R

SHUM 2703
Thinking Media

From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato's cave to virtual reality, "Thinking Media" offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  7607 SHUM 2703   LEC 001

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SHUM 2805
Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARTH 2805, ASIAN 2285, VISST 2805

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  7624 SHUM 2805   LEC 001

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  • 18645 SHUM 2805   DIS 201

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    • F White Hall 110
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • McGowan, K

      Pan, A

SHUM 3175
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition: Inquisitors, Heretics, and Truth in the Early Modern World

This course uses the history of the Spanish Inquisition, and the richness of its archival records, to explore the variety of ways in which the pursuit of heresy was intertwined with transforming how knowledge ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 3175, JWST 3175, NES 3175

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20567 SHUM 3175   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR Morrill Hall 106
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Juni, M

  • 20568 SHUM 3175   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 3475
Philosophy of Punishment

This course addresses central debates in the philosophy of legal punishment. We will analyze the leading theories of punishment, including the familiar retributivist and deterrent alternatives, as well ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LAW 6030, PHIL 3475, PHIL 6475

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7179 SHUM 3475   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Uris Hall 204
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Yost, B

SHUM 3615
Podcast, Radio, Gramophone: Literary Technologies of Sound

How can we account for the contemporary popularity of podcasts? In what ways do they build on, and break from, earlier forms of writing for the ear? In this class we will study innovative podcast fictions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3616, ENGL 3615

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20018 SHUM 3615   SEM 101

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    • TR Uris Library 311
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Braddock, J

SHUM 3636
Introduction to Critical Theory

Shortly after the 2016 election, The New Yorker published an article entitled "The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming." This course examines what the Frankfurt School knew by introducing students to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16956 SHUM 3636   SEM 101

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    • TR Malott Hall 253
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Fleming, P

SHUM 3741
Design Thinking, Media, and Community

This StudioLab course connects critical design teams with researchers, NGOs, and nonprofits working on human rights, public health, and environmental and land rights in the US and abroad. Practicing methods ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3741, INFO 4940, INFO 6940

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20017 SHUM 3741   DES 504

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    • WF Sibley Hall 101
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • McKenzie, J

SHUM 3750
Humanities Scholars Research Methods

This course explores the practice, theory, and methodology of humanities research, critical analysis, and communication through writing and oral presentation. We will study the work and impact of humanists ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ANTHR 3950, ARTH 3755, ASIAN 3375, NES 3750

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18347 SHUM 3750   SEM 101

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  • 18348 SHUM 3750   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Caswell, P

      Chen, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4005
Archaeology of Slavery and Indenture

This course offers a global survey of the archaeology of social inequality that demonstrates the historical and geographical range in forms of enslavement, captivity, and exploitative labor. Is there a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18534 SHUM 4005   SEM 101

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    • T McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Haines, J

SHUM 4035
Cornell's Collection of Greek and Roman Art

This class examines the history and holdings of Cornell's teaching collection of ancient Greek and Roman objects. Designed to start a systematic inventory of the collections, it requires hands-on engagement ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Cornell's Plaster Cast Collection

  • 18578 SHUM 4035   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • 18579 SHUM 4035   LAB 401

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 4109
The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History

This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 20575 SHUM 4109   SEM 101

  •  
    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Baptist, E

  • 20576 SHUM 4109   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4112
The Historical Geography of Black America

This course provides students with a challenging and interdisciplinary examination of race and space in North American history. It engages public history and critical geographic study through the lens ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 20584 SHUM 4112   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR McGraw Hall 145
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Hyman, C

  • 20585 SHUM 4112   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4127
The Body Politic in Asia

Visions of bodily corruption preoccupy ruler and ruled alike and prompt campaigns for moral, medical, and legal reform in periods of both stability and revolution. This seminar explores the links between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 20586 SHUM 4127   SEM 101

  •  
    • M McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Roebuck, K

  • 20587 SHUM 4127   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4172
Tolstoy: History and Counter-Culture

Tolstoy is impossible. An aristocrat who renounced the privileges of wealth and rank. A man of titanic appetites who repudiated meat, alcohol and sex. A Christian who did not believe in God and tried to ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: HIST 4172, RUSSL 4172

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20581 SHUM 4172   SEM 101

  •  
    • M Uris Hall 498
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Litvak, O

  • 20582 SHUM 4172   DIS 201

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    • W Uris Hall 369
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Litvak, O

SHUM 4180
Critical Approaches to Video Games

This seminar will read key texts in critical video game studies to consider how race, gender, indigeneity, and sexuality shape the code and the machines that we play. In addition to critical readings by ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4680

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 20000 SHUM 4180   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • 20001 SHUM 4180   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Byrd, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 4202
Women and Gender Issues in Africa

There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4602, ASRC 6602

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19768 SHUM 4202   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Stimson Hall G01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Assie-Lumumba, N

SHUM 4258
Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean and African American Dialogues

Jazz and the Common Wind: Afro-Caribbean/African American Dialogues thinks through Julius Scott's theorization of "the common wind' of resistance in the age of the Haitian Revolution to consider ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4258, MUSIC 4258, SHUM 4258

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 19766 SHUM 4258   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Barson, B

  • 20182 SHUM 4258   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Barson, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4258, MUSIC 4258, SHUM 4258

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20181 SHUM 4258   SEM 102

  •  
    • TR Africana Ctr B01
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Barson, B

SHUM 4474
Race and Identity in the Atlantic World

This course explores the intricacies of identity-making and processes of racialization in the Atlantic World from ca. 1500 onward. The range of topics covered include the encounters between Europeans and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: HIST 4474, HIST 6474, JWST 4474, JWST 6474

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20811 SHUM 4474   SEM 101

  •  
    • R Uris Hall 312
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Juni, M

  • 20812 SHUM 4474   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4537
Shi'ism: Poetics and Politics

This course offers a broad survey of contemporary Shi'i beliefs, practices, and politics with a focus on Twelver or Imami Shi'ism. Through a close examination of ethnographies, intellectual and political ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 19986 SHUM 4537   SEM 101

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SHUM 4674
Dispossession, Truth, and Reconciliation

The dispossession of Indigenous nations by Europeans represents the foundation of the past five centuries of North American history. Yet the truth of that history remains cloaked behind various Western ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 20594 SHUM 4674   SEM 101

  •  
    • TR McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Parmenter, J

SHUM 4683
Disturbing Settlement - Engaged

How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17137 SHUM 4683   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 4688
Trans Studies at a Crossroads

This advanced seminar centers underthought fissures within the field of Trans Studies. These fissures take the form of failed crossings between incommensurable positions. We will examine: the vexed relation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17144 SHUM 4688   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 4689
Sex, Gender, and the Natural World in Medieval Culture

Seemingly timeless concepts of natural sex and gender have a history. In fact, they have many histories, some of which are only just starting to be written. This class examines the relationship between ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17150 SHUM 4689   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 4690
Borders, Frontiers, and Walls in Global History

Frontiers and borders are at the heart of our international system. From the Great Wall of China to Donald Trump's plans to build wall along the US-Mexico border, frontiers have always been invested with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4690, HIST 6690, SHUM 6690

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17157 SHUM 4690   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 4691
Crossing the Apocalypse

How do we cross from an era of destruction and devastation to one of hope and possibility?  When we see the signs of endings and extinctions all around us, can we move forward with courage and creativity? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17161 SHUM 4691   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 4750
Senior Capstone Seminar for Humanities Scholars

This course is designed to support seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program working on their capstone projects. Students in the course will be guided in their project research and writing. The course ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6542 SHUM 4750   SEM 101

  • This class is for seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  6652 SHUM 4750   SEM 102

  • This class is for seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 4773
Twice A Stranger: Transnational Figures and Their Stories

What does it mean to travel across political and cultural boundaries? How are people's thought, behavior, and identity shaped by such experiences and vice versa? How do historians explore and represent ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: CAPS 4773, HIST 4773, HIST 6773

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 20596 SHUM 4773   SEM 101

  •  

  • 20597 SHUM 4773   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 4800
Rural Humanities Seminar

The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450, PMA 6450, SHUM 6800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  7644 SHUM 4800   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  • 16867 SHUM 4800   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 4916
Modern Chinese Art

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  6202 SHUM 4916   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 6005
Archaeology of Slavery and Indenture

This course offers a global survey of the archaeology of social inequality that demonstrates the historical and geographical range in forms of enslavement, captivity, and exploitative labor. Is there a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 18654 SHUM 6005   SEM 101

  •  
    • T McGraw Hall 215
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Haines, J

SHUM 6109
The Practice and Theory of Public History: Slavery and Self-Emancipation in US History

This course will offer students the opportunity to both study and shape the ways in which US public culture attempts to remember and forget some of the most contentious aspects of American history: racialized ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 20579 SHUM 6109   SEM 101

  •  
    • R Sibley Hall 211
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Baptist, E

  • 20580 SHUM 6109   IND 601

  •  
    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Baptist, E

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

SHUM 6683
Disturbing Settlement - Engaged

How have land and its inhabitants been transformed through processes of settlement? How might alternatives to settlement persist and be reactivated in ecologies profoundly shaped by capitalism and colonialism? ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17140 SHUM 6683   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 6688
Trans Studies at a Crossroads

This advanced seminar centers underthought fissures within the field of Trans Studies. These fissures take the form of failed crossings between incommensurable positions. We will examine: the vexed relation ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17147 SHUM 6688   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 6689
Sex, Gender, and the Natural World in Medieval Culture

Seemingly timeless concepts of natural sex and gender have a history. In fact, they have many histories, some of which are only just starting to be written. This class examines the relationship between ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17154 SHUM 6689   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 6690
Borders, Frontiers, and Walls in Global History

Frontiers and borders are at the heart of our international system. From the Great Wall of China to Donald Trump's plans to build wall along the US-Mexico border, frontiers have always been invested with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4690, HIST 6690, SHUM 4690

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17159 SHUM 6690   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 6691
Crossing the Apocalypse

How do we cross from an era of destruction and devastation to one of hope and possibility?  When we see the signs of endings and extinctions all around us, can we move forward with courage and creativity? ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  • 17167 SHUM 6691   SEM 101

  •  

SHUM 6800
Rural Humanities Seminar

The Rural Humanities seminar will introduce students to the public humanities as both a disciplinary inquiry and a set of practices grounded in public and community engagement. It is intended to train ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: PMA 4450, PMA 6450, SHUM 4800

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  •  7645 SHUM 6800   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • Topic: Documenting Local Lives: Filmmaking As Research

  • 16868 SHUM 6800   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Bunn, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

SHUM 6819
Urban Justice Lab

Urban Justice Labs are innovative seminars designed to bring students into direct contact with complex questions about race and social justice within the context of American urban culture, architecture, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Sound, Music, and Public Space

  • 18811 SHUM 6819   SEM 101

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

  • Topic: Sound, Music, and Public Space

  • 19557 SHUM 6819   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Jan 22 - May 7, 2024

    • Obadike, K

      Obadike, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)