Sustainability Course Repository

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 : Scientific Controversies

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 : Sex, God and Free Speech

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 : The Savage Wars of Peace

The course studies the realities of our southern border from a social science perspective and includes an optional short-term study abroad component. It will explore the human consequences of the global forces at work along the border region using a multidisciplinary approach. The course develops in students an educated awareness of the complexity of the border issues facing Mexico and the US and a greater sense of what it means to be a global citizen.

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Us-Mexico Border

How has well-being been represented (in popular and academic discourses) as a thing to be attained in the 21st century? This course will offer a more complex perspective on the lived experience of well-being particularly in an era in which humans face potential catastrophe from myriad sources: environmental, political, social, economic, etc. We will read literary narratives of homelessness (exile, dislocation, refugee-ism, a sense of being estranged or a stranger, etc.) that, simultaneously, loc...

Read more about UCOR-3400 : Well-Being and Catastrophe

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. 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 a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Crime & Punishment: Modern Age

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. 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 a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Critical Issues in Education

Courses in the social sciences that explore important global issues through the lens of the social sciences. 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 a social science as it relates...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Culture Clash

This course explores the construct of hate from historical, psychological, sociological, organizational, and criminal justice perspectives. It inquires into the human capacity to define, and then dehumanize another and the processes that involve curtailing, controlling, or combating that capacity. In being exposed to the nature of hate in the US and abroad, students will: examine hate as a cultural practice; explore its communicative and social cognitive foundations; examine hate from a legal an...

Read more about UCOR-3600 : Deconstructing Hate

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-3600 : Genocide in the Modern World