What is America? What is an American? How can community shape social change? Students will explore these and other questions as they study how contemporary Native American communities are reclaiming and revitalizing their heritage in this team-taught course.
Why has humanity been so slow to address climate change? What role can humans play in solutions? Should geoengineering play a role? CLLC-L 230 Geoengineering and Climate Change looks at the philosophical, scientific, and ethical perspectives.
GEOG-G 306 Geographies of Resilience explores the origin of the concept of resilience. Students will also have a hands-on experiences with both the theoretical concept itself and its applications, especially in the state of Indiana.
Languages are disappearing at a rate of about one every two weeks, due mainly to environmental destruction. Dr. David Stringer's section of COLL-C 104, Language Hotspots and Biodiversity, explains how the extinction of language diversity and biodiversity are interconnected.
SOAD-N 110 Introduction to Studio Art for Nonmajors: Shaping Change - A Practice of Art and Community is Kristy Hughes’s “dream class." She hopes that the students learn about and contribute to what art can do in a community.
Social problems can be daunting and discouraging, but FOLK-F 253 Folklore and New Social Problems helps students look at problems in depth and see the creative and communal responses of people, communities, and groups around the world.
Dr. Matthew Houser and Dr. Jen Lau’s section of BIOL-L 104 Introductory Lectures offers an interdisciplinary perspective on environmental issues. Exploring what drives human’s behavior, students will learn to see environmental issues as complex social-ecological systems issues.
Dr. Oana Panaïté’s FRIT-F 225 Contemporary France grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic. While it specifically focuses on France, the class invites comparisons with the United States.
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People who are stigmatized find ways to adapt and express themselves in society. Dr. Susan Seizer explores stigma and encourages compassion in ANTH-E203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion.
According to graduate student Anushka Sen, change can be difficult, but also leads to resilience. Sen’s course CLLC-L 210 Metamorphosis: Art and Politics explores changes—sometimes outside one’s own power, sometimes within themselves, sometimes both—through various artistic forms.
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