Literary & Intellectual Traditions

Proposing Faculty Member: Darryl Heller Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intellectual Traditions Description: This class will explore significant social movements from the 19th through the 21st Century. Unlike a course in sociology, which tend to look at social movements from a structural and organizational perspective, this course will use the lens of gender as an analytical framework… Read more »

Proposing Faculty Member: Jason Resler Description: This course introduces students to LGBT theatre and its history, focusing on plays and musicals written after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. The course looks at important works in the cannon placing them in their historical context. Discussion focused, this writing intensive course will explore the connections and various perspectives… Read more »

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.