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2022 Themester courses

Wenches, Witches, Welfare Queens: Stereotypes and Images of Black Women in U.S. History

AAAD-A386 — S&H DUS
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM

From items on grocery store shelves to tropes on movie and TV screens, “Wenches, Witches, and Welfare Queens” ask students to grapple with the historically constructed nature of images and identities, analyze the manner in which identities can constrain peoples’ life chances and choices, and consider, ultimately, how the ability to craft identities for oneself, and for others, is about power.

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Contemporary Black Poetry: "Blacker than a Hundred Midnights"

AAAD-A 479 — A&H
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM

We will read, listen to, and visit with Black poets/performers who challenge us to understand differently what it means to BE Black in the world, and what it means to claim, honor, and/or challenge the multiple narratives that re/shape those identities.

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Comparative American Identities

AMST-A 200 — A&H DUS
MW 4:45 PM–6:00 PM

This course examines the formation of legal, social, cultural, and economic identities within the United States and within U.S.controlled territories. Who counts as American? To what ends have citizens and non-citizens assumed, claimed, or refused American identity?

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U.S. Arts and Media: Race in American Art

AMST-A 204/ARTH 200 — A&H

This course examines representations of racial identity in American visual culture from the colonial period through the present day with a particular focus on evolving conceptions of Native American, African American, Euro American, Latinx, Arab, Muslim, and Asian American identities.

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The Anthropology of Citizenship

ANTH-E 400
TuTh 11:30 AM–12:45 PM

This course will examine citizenship as a growing focus of anthropological concern, attending to how it shapes everyday life, experiences of inclusion and exclusion, and bases for community formation.

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Medieval Literature: Defining Human Identity in Medieval European Literature

CMLT-C 321 — A&H GCC
TuTh 4:45 PM–6:00 PM

This course explores representations of individual and community identity in literature by Jewish, Muslim, and Christian authors in Europe from the 6th through 15th centuries.

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Literature and Politics: Performing Asian/Asian American Identity

CMLT-C 343 — A&H

In this class we will study Asian and Asian American performance texts in direct comparison in order to better understand the dynamic relationships between performance and identity as applied to various conceptions and politics regarding Asian identity(s) globally.

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Critical Approaches to Arts and Humanities: Researching White Supremacism and Antisemitism on Social Media

COLL-C 103 — A&H CAPP
MW 9:10 AM–10:00 AM (lecture); discussions at various times

This course covers online conversations in English from across the globe to ask what are prominent forms of such online hate? Who are frequent disseminators and how does hate speech travel across the globe? What are current discussions of dealing with hate speech between censorship, free speech, and counter-speech? What are the historical roots of white supremacism and antisemitism?

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Fashioning Identity: Art + Artifacts + Fashion Theory

COLL-S 104

In this summer Intensive Freshmen Seminar, we will study dress and identity, drawing on readings from history, art, sociology, anthropology, and business/economics, while also using important artifacts and campus collections.

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Relational Identity: Self, Other and the In-Between

CLLC-L 210 — A&H
MW 11:30 AM–12:45 PM

To what extent do we choose our identities? Is identity determined by one's self-knowledge, or in the "eye of the beholder"? Do our "roots" shape who we become? In this course we will explore liberatory and socially responsible answers to these questions through readings in the social sciences and humanities, interactive activities, and creative, mixed-media journaling.

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Video Game Narratives

ENG-L 210 — A&H
TuTh 11:30 AM–12:45 PM

This course interrogates what stories are possible through and as video games.

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Indiana Folklore and Identity

FOLK-F 360 — A&H DUS
TuTh 3:00 PM–4:15 PM

The class explores a range of traditional music, foodways, and festivals in Indiana, and how identity is constituted through these folklore genres.

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Wenches, Witches, Welfare Queens: Stereotypes and Images of Black Women in U.S. History

GNDR-G 302 — S&H DUS
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM

From items on grocery store shelves to tropes on movie and TV screens, “Wenches, Witches, and Welfare Queens” ask students to grapple with the historically constructed nature of images and identities, analyze the manner in which identities can constrain peoples’ life chances and choices, and consider, ultimately, how the ability to craft identities for oneself, and for others, is about power.

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Sociolinguistics, Identity, and Performance in Spanish Speech

HISP-S 495
TuTh 9:45 AM–11:00 AM

This course explores linguistic variation in the Spanish language related to identity and identifying of self and others through sound patterns, lexical choices, and morpho-syntactic variables.

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Disability in the United States

HIST-A 398 — S&H DUS
MW 9:45 AM–11:00 AM

In this reading-intensive seminar, we will explore disability as it has pertained to a variety of institutions, eras, and events in U.S. history, including slavery and emancipation, immigration, the Progressive Era, World Wars I and II, and the Great Depression.

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Wenches, Witches, Welfare Queens: Stereotypes and Images of Black Women in U.S. History

HIST-A 394 — S&H DUS
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM

From items on grocery store shelves to tropes on movie and TV screens, “Wenches, Witches, and Welfare Queens” ask students to grapple with the historically constructed nature of images and identities, analyze the manner in which identities can constrain peoples’ life chances and choices, and consider, ultimately, how the ability to craft identities for oneself, and for others, is about power.

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Human Dilemmas: Genetics and Eugenics

HUBI-B 300 — N&M
TuTh 1:15 PM–2:30 PM (lecture); discussion at various times

This course examines the foundational principles of genetics and the controversial history of eugenics -- the social philosophy and scientific practices that define human worth in terms of genetic fitness.

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Global Healing

INTL-I 302
TuTh 11:30 AM–12:45 PM

This seminar will explore identity as a mobilizing force among those in settler colonial states who hope to share commitments to social, environmental, and climate action across cultures, histories, and projects.

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Issue Forum: Affirmative Action

PACE-C 200
Saturday, October 1, 11:00 AM–4:30 PM

The PACE-C 200 Issue Forum (1 credit hour) is an opportunity for students to engage in a one-day experience in democratic deliberation. Student conversations will focus on the topic of Affirmative Action: How should identity impact opportunity?

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Identity as Property

POLS-Y 300 — S&H
MW 9:45 AM–11:00 AM

This course engages texts written in a number of different disciplines—literary theory, anthropology, philosophy, political theory—and written by authors who self-identify or are identified as either “European” or “non-European” or “hybrid” of both in order to investigate two cases of this belonging: nationality and cosmopolitanism; and authorship and authority.

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The Multilingual Self: Identities, Identification, and the Learning of Additional Languages (Special Topics in Second Language Studies)

SLST-S 319
TuTh 11:30 AM–12:45 PM

In this course we will examine identity and identification and their relationship to language learning and/or loss as described in research and language learners’ narratives and autobiographies.

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