Spectacular Spring 2024 CLA Courses
Happy final few weeks of fall semester! The College of Liberal Arts is delighted to share a collection of engaging and enriching courses being offered across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Learn about these opportunities for deep dives into a range of topics, themes, fields of study, and creative mediums!
Examine the medium of graphic novels through a selection driven by wars and conflicts in Asia and the Middle East, exploring state violence, social movements, art making, and much more.
Learn about the history, culture, and lived experience of American Indian people in Minnesota by studying self-representation and histories of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) and Dakota peoples through film, music, oral traditions, and written texts.
Cultivate your curiosity about the sonic as an art modality through creative projects where sound is used as the primary material. Learn more by reading this feature story.
Work with a team to plan, script, and shoot video productions in a multi-camera television studio. Learn how media aesthetics shape the presentation of themes and messages.
Learn how knowledge is made about transgender life across disciplines and media, as well as medicine, history, anthropology, and gender studies.
How do social justice movements shape people? Explore the ideas and practices of effective cause-based movements, with regular visits from community activists, artists, and advocates.
Build an understanding of the relations between Russians and Ukrainians, exploring their coexistence and the ups and downs in Russian-Ukrainian relations for over a thousand years.
What does the US President do, and why? Why is so much power entrusted to just one person? Analyze these questions by evaluating the history, evolution, and current state of the “highest office in the land.”
Why are people who learned English in New York City more likely to pronounce Mary, merry, and marry differently than those who learned English in Minneapolis? Learn the answer to this question through phonetics, the science of speech production, and develop your skills in phonetic transcription across languages, speech development, dialects, and individual speech styles.
Critically examine the ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities and long-term problems associated with criminal justice supervision in the US.
Develop methods for analyzing avant-garde performances across the Global South that aim to make transformative social interventions.
Examine the rich and complex ways people inform and persuade others via the internet.
