Proposing faculty member: Lisa Zwicker Date approved at Gen Ed Committee level: 1.27.2025 Category: Common Core Component: Literary & Intelectual Traditions Description: This course explores the experiences of Jews in Poland from the first settlements in the tenth century up to the present day when only 4,500 Jews remain in Poland. Some students in this… Read more »
Literary & Intellectual Traditions
Literary & Intellectual Traditions: WGS-N 390 (VT: Women in Social Movements)
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 »
THTR-T 399 (VT: LGBT Theater Post-Stonewall)
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 »
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.