Students will engage in contemplative practices related to the materiality of care, reflecting on the tools we use, the values we hold, and the journeys we undertake. This will include exploration of internal journeys (such as self-care and memories) and external journeys (such as travel to places and journeys undertaken through internet connectivity).

MW 12:30-2:20 P.M. 

Is diversity an outdated requirement? How do privileged groups reenact existing power relations in art, literature, film, and historical texts? In this class, students will examine existing hierarchies pertaining to race, gender and sexuality, class, ability, statehood and species. 

TTH 3:30-5:20 P.M. 

Students will read, analyze and discuss the work of scholars like Gloria Anzaldua, Quo-Li Driskall, Andrea Smith, Mark Rifkin and Scott Lauria Morgensen.

WF 3:30-5:20 P.M.

Students will examine a variety of texts that address the water crisis to understand how water's meaning had changed as people became aware of risks in supply (pollution and natural/man-made scarcity).

TTH 1:30-3:20 P.M. 

This course will explore the interdisciplinary study of Vienna at the turn of the century. Students will discuss intellectual and cultural trends of this complex period in time.

TTH 1:00-2:20 P.M. 

Influence of Hans Christian Andersen and the fairy tale on modern Scandinavian tales and stories. Investigates the significance of the fairy tale in the modern world, with attention to writers such as Isak Dinesen, Knut Hamsun, Villy Sorensen, William Heinesen.

MW 12:30-2:20 P.M.

Students will analyze Korean literary strategies in texts that grapple with social, cultural, and personal identities. Students will engage with the ways texts deploy narrative, imagery, metaphor, and other elements to achieve their rhetorical purposes.

TTH 3:30-5:20 P.M.

In this course, students will discover strategies of reading and imagined dialogues between texts from disparate places. Topics vary depending on the specific curriculum offered by the faculty member. 

TTH 2:30-4:20 P.M.

This course introduces students to religious studies in the Horn of Africa through focusing on key figures of worship in that region. Students will gain insights into how this class connects to careers in global studies, public health, education, and more!

WF 9:30-11:20 A.M.

Examine elements of traditional Jewish prayers to see how they have shaped modern Jewish poetry. Course taught in English.

TTH 11:30-1:20 P.M.

Survey of verbal, customary, and material folk traditions in ethnic context. Theories of ethnic folklore research applied to the traditions of American communities of Scandinavian, Baltic, or other European ancestry.

TTH 2:30-4:20 P.M.

This course examines selected Scandinavian literary and social-political texts, films, art to manifest the reality behind the myths of sexual freedom in Scandinavia.

TTH 11:30-1:20 P.M. 

Scandinavian history from the Enlightenment to the Welfare State with emphasis on the political, social, and economic development of the modern Scandinavian nations of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland.

MW 12:30-2:20 P.M.