CHID 212: Critical Perspectives in Belonging in Western Europe (A&H, DIV)
Emergence of ideals now associated with Western Europe through analysis of literary, artistic, or cinematic sources. How those ideals contrast with reality as experienced by marginalized others within and without its borders.
CHID 250B: Climate Change and the Emotions (A&H, SSc)
From historic fires, floods, and temperatures to species extinction. We are living in a time of tremendous ecological loss. This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the feelings that arise in the face of the climate crisis, such as ecoanxiety and climate grief, while surfacing other feelings that attend our connection to the natural world including wonder, joy, and love.
CHID 250E: Black Sea Ecologies: Politics, Culture, and the Environment (SSc)
We will study the dynamics of history, culture, and power in the Black Sea Region. Home to many peoples: Bulgarians, Romanians, Russians, Georgians, and Turks. We will study the turbulence between East and West, Europe and Asia, migrations, diasporas, EU expansion, human rights, and the environmental crises.
CHID 250H: Politics, Philosophy, and Public Health (Ssc)
Some of the most critical challenges of our current era are related to public health. Whether we are considering police and state violence, COVID-19, racism, or oppression more broadly, they all cause poor health outcomes. These issues are political but a thorough understanding of how to address them must also be rooted in philosophy as many of our epistemological and ethical frameworks are not sufficient.
CHID 270A: Black Slavery and Indigenous Dispossession: Twin Tools of Settler Colonialism (SSc)
The course takes the dual phenomenon of indigenous American territorial dispossession and African enslavement in the Americas as its point of departure and is guided by a growing body of scholarship that understands dispossession and enslavement as closely entwined tools of European colonizing across the hemispheric Americas beginning in the late 15th century.
CHID 390: Bad Art (Ssc)
Bad art is assumed to be art lacking artistic skill and complexity. We will think of bad art as referring to a host of institutional histories, practices, and counter-practices that highlight how value in art has often normalized social inequalities.
CHID 395: Ethnographic Otherwise (A&H, SSc, W)
This course invites students to critically explore and conduct ethnographic research. We begin with conversations about research histories and ethics focusing on the colonial foundations of anthropology and related disciplines. We then consider alternative/decolonial research practices and explore multiple forms of ethnographic engagement such as multispecies, sensorial, and multi-modal work.