ENROLL

Kevin A Wolfe

Ashley E Smith

Sophomore Priority.

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: AMST 115.WL0 (Synonym 44794)

Adriana Estill

Richard Keiser

Prerequisite: American Studies 115 or sophomore standing

Alessandra L Williams

This course will look at dance as a field in which bodies articulate a history of sexuality, nation, gender, and race. Students will survey a range of dance forms in the United States and indigenous communities of the Americas as well as the Caribbean, South Asia, and South Africa. Specific explorations will include classical Indian dance, Native American performance, jazz, contact improvisation, and Hip-Hop performance. Through reading comprehension, written reflections and analyses, classroom dialogue, and oral presentation work, we will outline dance history in terms of anti-colonial and civil rights movements from Modernism through Post-Modernism—that is, from the imperialism at the dawn of the twentieth century to current late-capitalism. Students will be introduced to interdisciplinary methodologies in dance studies by learning to: conduct dance analysis in their accounts for gesture and social context; theorize according to the intersection of multiple social categories; and write autoethnographies or critical inquiries into personal experience.

Kathryn L Wegner

Sophomore Priority

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: EDUC 110.WL0 (Synonym 45860)

Jeff Snyder

Ann Leming

Prerequisite: Educational Studies 234

2nd 5 Week.

Jeff Snyder

Prerequisite: 100 or 200-level Educational Studies course or instructor permission

Extra Time Required

Nancy Cho

Ellen L Manovich

This course offers a survey of the American experience from the end of the Civil War through World War II. Although we will cover a large number of major historical developments--including Reconstruction, the Progressive movement, World War I, the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II--the course will seek to emphasize the various beliefs, values, and understandings that informed Americans' choices throughout these periods. A particular theme will be individual Americans' varied personal experiences of historical trends and events. We will seek to understand the connections (and sometimes the disconnections) between the past and present.

Harry M Williams

George Vrtis

Ellen L Manovich

This course will examine the world of history outside the walls of academia. Looking at secondary-school education, museums, and public policy, we will explore the ways in which both general and specialized publics learn and think about history. A central component of the course will be a civic engagement project.

Prerequisite: One History course, first year students require instructor permission

Extra Time Required

Andy Flory

Daniel Groll

Children are naturally curious. They want to know about the world and their place in it. In other words, children are naturally philosophical. This course is about helping children explore and develop their nascent philosophical abilities via children's literature. To that end, the bulk of this course is devoted to preparing for, and then making, visits to a first grade class at Greenvale Park Elementary School in Northfield. Along the way, we'll explore the philosophy that can be found in all kinds of kids' books and learn about presenting complicated ideas in simpler form. In consultation with the instructor, this course will count toward either the Practical/Value requirement or the Theoretical requirement in the Philosophy Major for students who elect to write a final research paper.

Prerequisite: Previous Philosophy course

Extra time T or TH mornings in May

Anna Moltchanova

Melanie Freeze

Sonja Anderson

How can we best understand the role of religion in the world today, and how should we interpret the meaning of religious traditions -- their texts and practices -- in history and culture? This class takes an exciting tour through selected themes and puzzles related to the fascinating and diverse expressions of religion throughout the world. From politics and pop culture, to religious philosophies and spiritual practices, to rituals, scriptures, gender, religious authority, and more, students will explore how these issues emerge in a variety of religions, places, and historical moments in the U.S. and across the globe.

Michael McNally

Janell Rothenberg

Despite increasingly interacting with technology in our everyday lives, the design of technology does not always reflect our diversity as users. As the study of human diversity, anthropology provides a framework to question assumptions about the uniformity of cultural experience. In this course, we apply anthropology to study user experience in order to propose ways to make technologies more inclusive and culturally sensitive. We will read ethnographies of technology and speak with tech industry professionals who use anthropological methods. Students will apply what they learn by conducting user experience research and designing for diversity in Carleton’s IdeaLab. 

Wes Markofski

The classical American pragmatist tradition of Jane Addams and John Dewey presents us with a vision of ethical democracy that accounts for the vast ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity of the United States. But what are we to make of this vision in practice? Can the cultivation of diverse human experiences and relationships among citizens lead to more robust and ethical democratic institutions? Or, as the culture war thesis implies, are our differences so great that American democracy is doomed to a future of intractable conflict? We will explore these questions drawing on influential studies of democratic theory and practice.

Prerequisite: The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses number 200 or above

Annette Igra

Sophomore Priority

Waitlist for Juniors and Seniors: WGST 110.WL0 (Synonym 45407)

Katie L Bashore

The politics of sex are everywhere--in media, law, medicine, and everyday life. To say that sex is political is to imply that sex intersects with other interests--nation and market building, globalization, and so forth. In this course, we will explore various "sex panics," as they ask us to revisit the boundaries of the "normative" in relation to sex and its intersections with race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and ability. Sex panics--and, as we'll also explore, "sex scandals" occasion not only the revision of discourses on sex but on identity, politics, and cultures more broadly.