Sustainability Course Repository

Courses that examine religious traditions, spiritual practices and worldviews in a global context. These courses examine diverse religious traditions with respect to sacred texts, doctrines and beliefs, rituals, ethics, and spiritual practices in a global context. Emphases can include the study of a specific religious tradition, comparison and dialogue between religious traditions, and/or applying theological/spiritual perspectives and methods of analysis to global issues. Courses will include e...

Read more about UCOR-3100 : Yoga: History and Practice

Courses that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the humanities. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of the humanities as they relate to ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Dystopain Literature

Empires are often associated with power, and utopia with impossible visions.  What are the global challenges created by legacies of modern imperialism?  How are these reflected in unequal contemporary political and economic relations?  We will explore how African Diaspora intellectual history has engaged with inequality in the discourse of justice.  Under the rubric of empire and utopia, we will explore how freedom and justice, and philosophical and material progress are encoded in African Diasp...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Empires and Afro-Uptopia

Courses that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the humanities. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of the humanities as they relate to ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Europe and Its Others

Courses that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the humanities. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of the humanities as they relate to ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : From the Margins of Empire

When faced with global issues like social and environmental injustice, how can one person (or a committed few) make a difference? This course will consider the multicultural history and literature of the United States; through examination of novels, poetry, film, and historical documents, we will understand the roots of social and environmental justice and be inspired by models of individual advocacy, then participate in our own advocacy through service learning and a creative, impactful final p...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Literature and Activism

Why do people sometimes rise up against political or cultural institutions? How do the reasons for and goals of these revolutions change depending on the historical, political, and social contexts in which they take place? How can previous revolutions help us understand and/or problematize recent revolutions? How can a revolution be a force for social justice? This course asks you to consider these questions through the lens of literary texts that respond to and help incite political and social ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Literature and Revolution

Trauma is a prevalent mode of remembering and writing history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What can literature of trauma teach us about the experience of bearing witness to, and giving testimonies of, trauma? As a Humanities and Global Challenges core course, we will foreground the close-textual analysis of literary texts in conversation with the historical, political, legal, and ideological contexts in which and about which they were written. Our focus on the literary representa...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Narratives of Trauma

Courses that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the humanities. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of the humanities as they relate to ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Navigating Climate Change

Courses that explore important global issues through the lens of a specific discipline in the humanities. Each course focuses on a particular issue/challenge and course content assists students in understanding key disciplinary knowledge and approaches that provide insight into the issue. Students explore ways to productively think about and address the issue. These courses help students increase their understanding of complex global issues, develop knowledge of the humanities as they relate to ...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Origins of Cultural Identity