Liberal Education (LE) Summer Courses

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ANTH 3306W: Medical Anthropology

Learn about relations among human affliction, health, healing, social institutions, and cultural representations cross-culturally.

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Other "Global Perspectives" LE Courses

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CSCL 3335: Aliens: Science Fiction to Social Theory
In English, the word “alien” designates both immigrants from other countries and beings from other worlds. But the deeper philosophical significance of aliens says as much about us as it does about them.
 

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Other "Race, Power, and Justice in the United States" LE Courses

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HIST 1011W: Civilization and the Environment: World History to 1500

Examine the forces that pushed humans to continually explore new environments and develop higher levels of social organization and cross-cultural interaction.

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Other "Environment" LE Courses

American Studies
AMST 3214: Queer Kinship: Undoing the American Family

Explore how the heteronormative nuclear family structure symbolizes modern capitalist society as this course asks: How is the American family always already queer?

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Other "Race, Power, and Justice in the United States" LE Courses

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ARTH 3311: Baroque Art in Seventeenth Century Europe

Study the works of major masters to trace the development of illusionistic ceiling decoration, explore art's subservience to Church and royal court, and more.

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Other "Arts/Humanities" LE Courses

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ENGL 1051: Progress & Madness: Literature, Science & Technology

Explore the conflicts and conversations that occur at the frontiers of scientific thinking and technological innovation by examining select literary and cinematic texts.

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Other "Literature" LE Courses

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GEOG 1502: Mapping Our World

Learn how maps and other spatial technologies like phones, drones, and GPS work, and use web-based tools to make maps.

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Other "Technology & Society" LE courses

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STAT 3011: Introduction to Statistical Analysis

Learn statistical methods in a basic computing environment to uncover, for example, the mathematical reasoning behind facts in daily news.

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Other "Mathematical Thinking" LE Courses

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GWSS 3003: Gender and Global Politics

Explore similarities and differences in women's experiences throughout world, from cross-cultural and historical perspectives.

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Other "Social Sciences" LE Courses

American Studies
AMST 2031: Chasing the American Dream

How did this dream of unlimited opportunity come about? Explore economic opportunity and inequality in the U.S.

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Other "Historical Perspective" LE Courses

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COMM 3676W: Communicating Terrorism

Explore terrorism as an ethical and international problem, including different cultures' historical trajectories for terrorism.

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Other "Global Perspectives" LE Courses

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JOUR 3771: Media Ethics

Examine the ethical and unethical ways that communicators respond to objectivity challenges, and identify values and principles that can lead to sound, ethical decisions under the most difficult circumstances.

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Other "Civic Life & Ethics" LE Courses