Music, Society, and Culture
This course introduces students to the music of a variety of world areas. For each unit, students examine a diverse array of genres, analyzing music's relationship to religious life, aesthetics, politics, social organization, and identity. We also discuss the impact of globalization, transnationalism and immigration on the shaping and transformation of musical practice and meaning in each region. Reading materials, listening assignments, and discussion topics are supplemented by in-class performance workshops, designed to give students firsthand experience in non-Western performance traditions. The course will give attention to the music of El Movimiento (the Chicano/a/e movement) of the Rocky Mountain region. This course counts toward the Analytical Inquiry: Society and Culture requirement.
Activist Media
Activist Media is for students who are interested in exploring the ways media is intersected with various forms of social and political movements both as media content consumers and makers. We will explore how citizens, protesters, journalists, PR professionals, tech developers, and hacktivists harness a diverse range of media tools and platforms for activism and social change.
Producing Video for Social Media
This course provides participants with a basic understanding of video production. Video is arguably the most engaging form of communication in that it involves both auditory and visual cues and draws on emotions in order to create meaning.
Internship in Spanish
This course serves as curricular, intellectual, and professional support to a 10-week Spanish internship. Students will be matched to an internship with a community partner (private or public agency, institutional office, non-profit or community organizer) whose mission aligns with students’ professional aspirations in a variety of disciplines.
Latino Cultures in the United States
Interdisciplinary study of Latino contemporary issues in the United States incorporating aspects of the distinct socio-historical, political, economic, and cultural dynamics that have contributed to the shaping, development and increasing prominence of Latino communities.
American Women’s History
This course is a survey of American women’s history from the colonial period to the present. Students will examine the social, cultural, economic, and political developments shaping American women’s public and private roles over several centuries, in addition to the ways in which women gave meaning to their everyday lives.
Social Movements
The study of social movements is fundamentally the study of how and why groups collectively try to make social change. In order to explore these theoretical questions, we will examine some of the historic watersheds of social movements in the U.S. (including labor, civil rights, and feminist struggles), their more contemporary manifestations, and other important contemporary movements such as global justice movements, racial justice, and LGBTQI* movements.
Audio Documentaries
Audio Documentaries covers the technical, creative, and ethical aspects of podcasting as a form of audio nonfiction storytelling in the digital space.
Popular Music and Social Justice
This course examines a range of 20th and 21st century popular music (blues, folk, rock, hip-hop, musicals, etc.) to better understand the complex relationships between music and social (in)justices.
Producing Video for Social Media
This course provides participants with a basic understanding of video production. Video is arguably the most engaging form of communication in that it involves both auditory and visual cues and draws on emotions in order to create meaning.
Audio Documentary
Audio Documentary teaches the skills of podcasting and the techniques of nonfiction storytelling used in established public radio programs like This American Life, Serial, or Radiolab, as well as podcasts like Nice White Parents, The Daily, and Revisionist History Podcast.
Narrating Memory, History, and Space
This course explores the interplay between the concepts of narration, space, and everyday city life through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses. The course has been slightly modified to address how cities, and city-life in particular, have been impacted by COVID-19.
Digital Anthropology
This course introduces students to the theories and methods necessary for doing research in digital anthropology.