Proposing Faculty Member: Barbara Spinda, Description: Zombies are here! Can you survive the zombie apocalypse? More importantly, do you know how to start a zombie apocalypse? Zombies are not so different from humans, except for a few key characteristics. This course explores scientific and technical issues in modern society through the lens of a potential… Read more »
Common Core
CJUS-B 190 (VT: The Criminal Justice Hip-Hop Playlist )
Proposing Faculty Member: Chloe Robinson Description: This course introduces students to the distinctive perspectives the social sciences employ in building an understanding of our world. The course also focuses on the individual in relation to and as a product of that social world. It requires students to develop an appreciation of the processes of social… Read more »
ENG-A 399 (VT: Working Class Art and Aesthetics)
Proposing Faculty Member: Benjamin Balthaser Short Description: This course is designed to explore the representation, cultural reproduction, and meaning of class in the United States. While many Americans proudly claim their working class roots, cultural representations of people who work for a living are few and far between. This course will focus on artists, writers,… Read more »
COMM-T 190 (VT: How to Share Information, Win Friends, and Influence People)
Proposing Faculty Member: Kari Wilson Short description:Course presents students with a recognition of the ways that social media sites impact human minds, bodies, and institutions by studying content creation, dissemination, and reception. Specific topics include mass communication, the history of the Internet, personal and organizational social media use, textual analysis, and ethics.
WGS-B 190 (VT: Coming to America: Race, Gender and Immigration)
Proposing Faculty Member: Christina Gerken Description: This course will examine how immigrants have shaped America and how the immigration experience alters their own gender, racial, and class identity. Much of the recent debate about immigrants and asylum seekers has perpetuated negative stereotypes and portrayed immigration as an “unprecedented problem.” This course will provide historical context and… Read more »
HSC-B 190 (VT: Flint Water Crisis: What the Eyes Don’t See)
Proposing Faculty Member: Jenny Daranek Description: This course will provide students the opportunity to learn more about the Flint Water Crisis. Students will have the opportunity to connect the Flint Water Crisis to the five determinants of health. Students will develop an understanding of five determinants of health and apply them to the Flint Water… Read more »