Exciting news! We have three new Honors courses to promote for Spring 2025!! Have questions about changing your schedule? Stop by any day for a drop-in advising appointment!
⭐⭐ POLS 3910 // CRN: 55155
Honors: Elections Around The World
(Note: this course satisfies the Department major requirement for a research prep class)
⭐⭐ ARTH 2910 // CRN: 55215
Honors Topics in Art History: ART NOW! Global Activist Art Practices
(Note: this course counts toward the Social Justice minor!)
This course, structured around collaborative group research and discussion, will study activists and artists from around the world who employ artistic methodologies and tactics in their political advocacy. Interrelated contemporary concerns such as the effects of and fights over extractive industries, the climate emergency, war, refugee crises, boundary conflicts, settler-colonial territorial expansion, rights for the marginalized, and other issues will emerge as the embedded content of the work discussed.
⭐⭐ ARCH 0975 // CRN: 41668
Architecture & the American Cultural Landscape: Physical Dimensions of Cultural Settings
(Note: this is a US Society Gen Ed!)
This course explores the relation of the physical environment, understood as both given and constructed, to the larger and more ephemeral cultural context which it at once delimits and enables. The resultant scene-like spatial situations have been described within some academic disciplines as “cultural landscapes,” a term meant to describe distinct geographical areas or properties that represent the combined work of nature and humans. Deploying this concept of cultural landscapes as a framework, the course will plumb American culture with an emphasis on its physical dimension, exploring the ways that culture is engaged, reflected, and modified in the substance and configuration of those places wherein and through which we live our individual and collective lives.
