Stories

Mural of pioneering women

360簞: Women in Walled Communities

This 360簞 examines the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with aparticular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the critical spaces that can open up within them.

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360簞: Trauma and Resilience through Comics

This 360簞 pulls together theoretical perspectives on comics, narration, trauma, and recovery to explore critical dimensions of the global experience of trauma, with a focus on interdisciplinary understandings of suffering and survival.

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360簞: To Protect the Health of the Public

This 360簞 has as its goal a deepened understanding of public health. To do so, we offer three courses that focus on policy, history, culture, the place and power of government, and public and personal responsibility.

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360簞: The Transforming Legacy of Oil

This 360簞 combines courses from Growth and Structure of Cities, Economics, and History to assess how oil has affected our built environment as well as local and global economies.

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360簞: Struggles for Global Health Equity

This 360簞 aims to help students begin to understand both significant problems of and promising approaches to the practiceand studyof community health promotion.

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360簞: Arts of Resistance

This cluster of three courses is about the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with a particular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the critical spaces that can open up within them.

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360簞: Children's Books

Through the Colleges Ellery Yale Wood Collection of childrens and young adult books, students will investigate childhood, explore literature, and creatively engage in the process of writing childrens literature.

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A group of students pose in front of a spiky blue sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 2018.

360簞: Biennials and Conservation

Students engage a deeper history of Contemporary Artone that considers the ways in which an artwork's exhibition and its care structure its meaning in complex ways.

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360 Contemplative Traditions

360簞: Contemplative Traditions

This 360簞, taught by professors of chemistry, psychology, and East Asian Languages and Cultures (formerly East Asian Studies), examined the history, science and practice of meditation and other mindful practices.

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360簞: Textiles in Context

This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles.

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Six students cluster on a wooden platform with volcanic mountains, voluminous grey clouds, and a calm lake in the background. A student and a facilitator converse in the foreground, standing on large rocks near a retaining wall.

360簞: Decolonizing Knowledges

This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences.

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Two rows of students and dancers (some kneeling in front) pose for cameras.

360簞: Paradigms of Revival

Black Liberatory Education, Embodiment & the Arts

In a fundamentally decolonial spirit, this course cluster examines the ways colonialism has contained, collected, captured, and commodified Blackness, a practice that circulates objectified images of the peoples, cultures, and cultural objects of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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