Fall 2023 RFLA Seminar Courses

Course: 90513 RFLA 100A 01

Instructor:  R Simmons

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Visual Journals

Prereqs:  Fee: $50

Course Description:  This course will examine identity and memory through the visual journal, a mixed media fusion of creative writing and art. Journaling is a practice of self-reflection that helps create meaning in our lives. Students will engage in timed writing activities, group critiques, and mixed media techniques. Weekly written and visual reflections focus on memory, identity, aspirations, and perceived obstacles to success. Fee $50.

Course: 90805 RFLA 100C 01

Instructor:  A McClure

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Identities: Conformity&Deviance

Course Description:  Who am I? Am I truly unique or merely a product of my environment? How might my personality, values, feelings, and behaviors differ had I been born on the other side of the planet, in another time, or even just in another body? In this course, we will address precisely these kinds of questions by examining the complex processes through which identity is formed within society. In particular, we will explore the ongoing tension between human agency and social structure. We will examine the conditions under which people are likely to conform or deviate from social norms. We will employ a sociological perspective to make sense of all these questions and many more.

Course: 90518 RFLA 200A 01

Instructor:  M Ryan

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Art for Rollins

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  Art is all around at Rollins, but have you ever considered these visual artworks closely? We live in close proximity to artworks at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at the Alfond Inn, and others owned and on display around campus. In this course, we will focus on visual art at Rollins to explore the cultural dynamics of collecting, the ethics of purchasing, acquiring, owning, and contextualizing, and the issues involved in displaying artwork on campus. We will consider how different cultures inform artworks collected and displayed, and how artworks can inherit different meanings depending on time, place, and audience. We will critically examine artworks themselves as well as their place at Rollins College.

This course considers differing cultures involved in the visual arts at Rollins—collectors who may be donors and alumni, viewers who may be current students of a younger generation, and faculty and staff who work to serve both populations through the care and display of artwork at Rollins. We will also consider changing cultural norms associated with the ethics of purchasing, acquiring, owning, contextualizing, and displaying visual art at Rollins.

Course: 90519 RFLA 200A 02

Instructor:  A Hope

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Intro to Sculpture

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; Fee: $50

Course Description:  This studio course introduces the fundamentals of contemporary sculptural practice with an emphasis on spatial awareness, problem-solving, and conceptual development. Consideration is given to the range of three-dimensional form as found in both contemporary art and design, and in different cultural and historical contexts, as well. There is a course fee of $50.

Course: 90520 RFLA 200A 03

Instructor:  C Archard

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: One Hit Wonders

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  This course will survey the contributions of women performers, composers, conductors, and patrons in the world of music, both Western and "non-western." Students can expect to be listening and thinking critically about music from a variety of genres, time periods, and perspectives ranging from Hildegard von Bingen’s medieval liturgical roots to Ella Fitzgerald’s American Popular Music. The overall approach will be topical rather than chronological, allowing for a comparative study of different musical styles, surrounding cultural and historical issues related to gender. The course will examine assumptions made about music and musicians in culture, and call into question the control of the music that is preserved, distributed, and held in high regard.

Course: 90523 RFLA 200A 04

Instructor:  J Sinclair

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Marriage of Music and Lyrics

Prereqs:  Prereq; RFLA 100

Course Description:  Poetry is the “music” of language as music is the “language” of sound, and for every musical term there is a parallel poetic or literary term. So prominent is the musical quality of poetry that Edgar Allen Poe describes it as “music…. combined with pleasurable sounds.”

Course: 90522 RFLA 200A 05

Instructor:  D Flick

Days/Times:  MWF 12:00-12:50P

Course Title: Music Meets Life

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  With music and creativity at its core, this course will focus on the countless ways that music touches our daily lives and will celebrate how music can both define us as individuals and bring us together as one world. At no time in history have artists had such a broad reach to influence change and help shape our future. So, whether your interests tend toward being the creator, promoter, producer, performer, or consumer, music’s modern frontier provides a place of limitless opportunity and diversity.

Course: 90521 RFLA 200A 06

Instructor:  J Roos

Days/Times:  MWF 12:00-12:50P

Course Title: Masters Go to the Movies

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  While a script may help us in knowing what to think, music helps us to know how to feel. Music in a film enhances the action and mood and together facilitates an integrated work of art that becomes bigger than the sum of its parts. One can hardly listen to a movie score and not notice that musical classics have always been a part of the movies. From Bach to Bernstein, Mozart to Mancini, and Williams to Wagner this class will listen to great music found in movies and study the musicians that made it possible.

Course: 90524 RFLA 200A 07

Instructor:  R Simmons

Days/Times:  MW 2 :30-3 :45P

Course Title: Graphic Narratives

Prereqs:  Prereq; RFLA 100; Counts as ART 221; Fee: $50

Course Description:  What stories can you tell about your experiences as a Rollins student? How do these stories highlight the college mission of being a "global citizen and responsible leader"? This course asks you to research and create a visual narrative that explores the meaning of your liberal arts experience at Rollins College.

Course: 91225  RFLA 200A 08

Instructor:  N Garzon

Days/Times:  T,R 8:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Course Title:  Theater, Brutality,  & US Intervention

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; CE course

Course Description:  This class will explore early and modern theater works born out of colonization, neo-colonization, and violence; works that search for social justice through theater in a world where U.S. foreign policy, corporations, and the legacy of colonization continue to oppress so-called “developing countries.” Students will learn about the Latin American countries and the context in which the works were produced and will participate in stage readings (will read out loud). 

Course: 90517 RFLA 200C 01

Instructor:  S Gonzalez Guittar

Days/Times:  MWF 12:00-12:50P

Course Title: Intersections of Latinx Experi

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  This course presents an overview of the Latinx experience in the United States with a special focus on intersectionality, stereotypes, and identity formation and management. In this course, we will answer questions such as: Who makes up Latinxs in the U.S.? How is the Latinx experience similar/different from other ethnic groups in the U.S.? How do social institutions affect Latinxs’ identity and life chances? Topics include but are not limited to Latinx identity, family and household structure, gender roles, sexuality, educational attainment, labor force participation, and health outcomes among Latinxs living in the U.S.

Course: 90514 RFLA 200C 02

Instructor:  L Poole

Days/Times:  MW 2:30-3:45P

Course Title: Identities and Conflict: 1960s

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  This course focuses on identities and cultural collisions, examining events, people, and grassroots uprisings in the United States that led to a number of conflicts: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, women's rights, gay rights, counterculture, and the rise of the environmental movement. The echoes of this era are still being felt today, as evidenced by continuing debates about race, rights, and power in the twenty-first century. This turbulent era shaped the modern identity of the United States and of Americans. We will spend the semester identifying and analyzing this amazing decade and will investigate documents and primary historical sources to do so. We likely will discover a variety of interpretations of different events and movements and that is the beauty and agony of history—we never stop learning or reinterpreting past events. Importantly, we will look at how the following decades were affected by the 1960s.

Course: 91219 RFLA 200C 04

Instructor:  L Poole

Days/Times:  MW 2:30-3:45P

Course Title:  Global Perspectives of Education

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: In this course, we analyze the economic, political, and social issues that affect students’
and families’ lives in case study countries across the world. We also examine the educational experiences of students who come from marginalized groups in these countries, with special emphasis on indigenous, rural, female, and migrant/refugee people. We will discuss key educational initiatives developed by governmental and non-governmental organizations. The result is to reconsider our own beliefs and to broaden our global perspectives about education, in light of what we have learned.

Course: 90515 RFLA 200C 03

Instructor:  Z Gilmore

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Fantastic Archaeology

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; Counts as ARCH 200 level min & ANT 200 level maj

Course Description:  This course focuses on pseudoscientific and supernatural claims about the human past. Through in-depth analyses of archaeological frauds and popular alternative theories, students examine how archaeologists know what they claim to know. Students learn how to critically evaluate scientific evidence and explore the broader societal impacts of pseudoscientific arguments.

Course: 90516 RFLA 200C 04

Instructor:  Y Yao

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: China's Rise

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  China’s dramatic rise recently is an unprecedented phenomenon in world history that is changing global as well as regional economics and geopolitics. This course will help students understand what accounts for China’s rapid rise, what are the strengths and weaknesses of China’s model of modernity, what challenges China is facing, and what impacts and implications China’s rise has on the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Course: 90655 RFLA 200C 07

Instructor:  J Eisele

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title:  Inequalities in Media

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:   Some may view popular culture as unworthy of academic study; indeed, popular cultural texts are often described as trashy, lowbrow, lacking merit, and even harmful. In this course, however, we will be examining the importance and impact of popular culture on our lives. Questions we will consider in this course include: What does "popular" mean? What makes something "popular"? Why should we study popular culture? What is the sociological approach to studying popular culture? What lessons about our social world does a study of popular culture provide? How are power and inequality reproduced through popular culture?

Course: 91223 RFLA 200C 08

Instructor: W Zhang

Days/Times:  W 4:00 - 6:30

Course Title: Asian Dynamics

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; Meets with ASA 203/303

Course Description:  
The importance of Asia derives from its large population, long history, complex and diverse societies and cultures, and rising economic significance. As the peoples and nations of the world become increasingly interconnected, successful leaders will benefit from a mastery of this key region. ASA203 (303) - Dynamics of the Asian Community in the 21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Study on the Past, Present, and Future of Asia will provide a unique opportunity for students to study one of the most important regions in the world today and to examine one of the most pressing issues of our time: the rise of Asia in the 21st century. Through the international seminar series given by multiple Asian Study scholars, students will develop a comprehensive understanding of the historical, social, cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped modern Asia. The goal of the course is to help students grow and become global citizens, who can look forward to the prospects of cooperation with people around the globe in building a better, conflict-free world. No previous knowledge about or experience in Asia is required to take this course.

Course: 90534 RFLA 200H 01

Instructor:  A Prieto-Calixto

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Spanish Identity Thru the Lens

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  In this course, we will explore how the Spanish-speaking world defines its ethnic, religious, cultural, and national identities through film, documentary, and other visual artifacts. We will consider how diverse Spanish identities have been created, revised, and used.

Course: 90535 RFLA 200H 02

Instructor:  V Machado

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Nature Spirituality

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  What do the Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century, robber barons in the 19th century, the behavior of Mexican pesos in the late 1990s, and the recent housing crisis all have in common? Each has contributed to a slowdown in the economy causing rises in unemployment and slow growth of some consequence. But why do such panics and crashes occur that involve actions by seemingly rational people resulting in economic pandemonium? This course explores the causes, consequences, and social impact of periods of economic havoc over the past three centuries. We take a broad approach to the historical examples studied to include asset bubbles and banking crises but also sovereign debt bankruptcies and hyperinflations. We examine competing frameworks to understand these episodes of economic turmoil and the challenges each crisis presents for policymakers to stabilize the economy. In these efforts, basic economic concepts are introduced along with data and facts to think about the economic phenomena.

Course: 90536 RFLA 200H 03

Instructor:  J Liu

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Mind and Meditation

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon

Course: 90537 RFLA 200H 04

Instructor:  M Paniagua-Tejo

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Spanish Gastronomy Explosion

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  The course explores Spanish gastronomy as a cultural phenomenon that reflects the rich and diverse heritage that emerges in a context of exchanges among Spain, the Middle East, Asia, and the New World. The coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews for centuries in the Iberian Peninsula and the arrival of Spain to America, resulted in a collision of cultures that can be traced down through the food. This course is designed to provide a thorough overview of food culture in the modern world, focusing on Spain and Latin America, with a special emphasis on the intersection of gastronomy in literature and film. The course will also explore aspects of food politics by thinking about trade agreements between developed and developing countries, food policy, and changing cultural conceptions of food in the Hispanic World. We will study Hispanic cuisine and gastronomical traditions through the centuries, focusing on topics including food and sociability, modes and techniques of food preparation and consumption, and urban and rural traditions and artifacts.

After taking this course, students will be able to:

• Identify the major diet components in the different areas of the Hispanic World
• Recognize main food ingredients and their cultural significance
• Describe the major cultural trends and historical developments associated with food production and intake
• Distinguish food production and cooking methods associated with the Hispanic World
• Examine the role of food and cultural identity, specifically in literature and film
• Think critically and reflect on literature, film, history, and current political trends
• Enrich their exploration of the Hispanic World through an engagement with Spanish and other Hispanic cultures.

Course: 91218 RFLA 200H 05

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title:  Studies in Literature

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon

Course: 90896 RFLA 200H 06

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title:  Studies in Literature

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon

Course: 90538 RFLA 200H 05

Instructor:  L Littler

Days/Times:  TR 11:00-12:15P

Course Title: Love Stories

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; Meets with ENG 190 (91142)

Course Description:  Love is a fundamental human experience—But what exactly is it? And what happens to love when viewed or experienced through the often-challenging societal pressures of money, race, and gender? We will also consider the importance of love stories. Why do we need stories? How do we use them? How do they influence our goals, relationships, identities, etc.?

Course: 90656 RFLA 200H 06

Instructor:  E Russell

Days/Times:  MWF 12:00-12:50P

Course Title: Medical Stories

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  In this course, we will examine the ways that storytelling and medicine have shaped each other. For centuries, literature and visual culture have snatched from medicine thrilling or moving stories of death, illness, and god-like doctors. More recently, developments called “the medical humanities” or “narrative medicine” have infiltrated medical training; in this field, doctors “read” their patients and are encouraged to write stories themselves in order to more fully connect with their patients’ humanity. This fall, we will explore both of these intersections to ask what reading fiction might bring to medicine and what the universal experience of having a body—a body that gets sick and will die—brings to the study of literature.

Course: 91222 RFLA 200H 09

Instructor: S Coffman-Rosen

Days/Times:  T, R 11:00 - 12:15

Course Title:  Disability, Body & Identity

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  How do we relate to bodies, minds, and identities that are different than our own, and how does that determine our place in a changing society? In this course, we will examine how disabilities, bodies, and identities intersect and determine how we interpret and occupy bodies in intersecting categories. Course topics include media and disability; becoming disabled; disability, race, gender, and sexual orientation; Deafness and Deaf culture; aesthetics and fashion; disability and sports; and “outsider” sexuality. You will examine your own "body politic," and the bodies of others. Course readings will be supplemented with film, cultural artifacts, personal writing, and interactive projects.

Course:  91239 RFLA 200H 10

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times: T,R 9:30 - 10:45

Course Title: The Big Questions

Prereqs:  RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming Soon

Course:  91254 RFLA 200H 11

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times: T,R 9:30 - 10:45

Course Title: The Big Questions

Prereqs:  RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming Soon

Course:   91270 RFLA 200H 12

Instructor:  Y Yan

Days/Times: T, R 9:30 - 10:45

Course Title: Korean Cinema: Pop Culture

Prereqs:  RFLA 100

Course Description: How does cinematography reflect and change society, politics, and history? How do the 20th-century makings of Korean film articulate Korea’s local, regional, and global politics and the evolution of Korean cultural and aesthetic sensibilities through her contemporary eras? The turbulent recent history of South Korea has produced a society that is engaged with a variety of local and global social forces in complex and contradictory ways. The sweeping social changes in South Korean society have engaged it in a struggle to redefine and re-examine itself, and its relation to such basic ideas as gender, class, tradition, and nation. Contemporary films provide an especially interesting entry into these issues and how Koreans have been thinking about them. This course is intended to enhance students` understanding of a variety of historical, social, and cultural issues of South Korean society by analyzing relevant contemporary South Korean films.
This course examines Korean society and culture through cinematic representations. Through film, the course provides a broad understanding of the major social and political changes in Korean society, as well as a brief history of Korean cinema and the transformations in the structure of the Korean film industry. While critically engaging with Korean films in reverse-chronological order, we will explore several themes recurring in the history of Korean cinema, including tradition, national division, civil war, struggles against colonialism and military dictatorship, and identity. All films will be screened with English subtitles.

Course: 90526 RFLA 200S 01

Instructor:  P Bernal

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A; Lab M 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Course Title: Science & Culture of Chocolate

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description:  The Science and Culture of Chocolate examines the harvesting of cacao and the production, health effects, and properties of chocolate.  This course also examines the cultural importance of chocolate from the cultures of Mesoamerica to the present day.  Chocolate started as a drink and it became a bar fairly recently as a result of technological innovations that eventually made possible the business that chocolate is today.  From Bean to Bar, from Maya to Valentine’s Day – if you will.

Course: 90528 RFLA 200S 02

Instructor:  E Rokini

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A; lab T 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Course Title:  Physics of Musical Instruments

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: This course traces the development of musical instruments from prehistory to modern day. The content emphasizes the creativity of successive generations of instrument makers, focusing on the scientific aspects of each new innovation. The result of each innovation is put into the context of how it affected the development of music. Prerequisite of math competency.

Course: 90529 RFLA 200S 03

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times:  TR 08:00-09:15A; Lab M 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Course Title: Environmental Science

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon.

Course: 90530 RFLA 200S 04

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A; lab W 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Course Title: Environmental Science

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon.

Course: 90531 RFLA 200S 05

Instructor:  A. Hashim

Days/Times:  R 08:00 - 9:30A-lab class time: T, R 9:30 - 10:45

Course Title:  Biomolecules in Action

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100

Course Description: Coming soon.

Course: 90546 RFLA 300 01

Instructor:  J Queen

Days/Times:  MWF 12:00-12:50P

Course Title: Psychology Saves the World

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP

Course Description:  For every career, there is a psychological application.  Psychology is used to solve problems in fields as diverse as business, education, law, sports, and mental health. Students will research topics in applied psychology corresponding to their academic and professional goals, and create projects to share this knowledge with their peers.

Course: 90541 RFLA 300 02

Instructor:  B Allen

Days/Times:  MW 2:30-3:45 p.m.

Course Title: America's Gifts

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as AMST elective

Course Description:  This course explores the uniquely American circumstances that gave rise to the development of jazz, baseball, and National Parks. All of these icons of Americana exhibit many of the dynamic (and often conflicting) forces at work in American history. For example, the preservation of land in National Parks ran directly counter to the essentially materialistic and exploitative approach to nature that governed 19th-century America. Jazz represents the collision of European and African musical forms, which produced an unprecedented opportunity for exploration and innovation. And (sadly), baseball is at odds with a contemporary American culture that is increasingly violent, impatient, and overbearing. Underlying themes of the course include the roles of race, class, gender, and capitalism, as well as the relationship between the individual and the group.

Course: 90545 RFLA 300 04

Instructor:  M Breckling

Days/Times:  TR 08:00-09:15A

Course Title: CountryMusic-Industry Defining

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as AMST elective

Course Description:  Despite country music’s roots in the folk music of Appalachia and the American south, since it first became a commercialized art form in the 1920s, entrepreneurs have attempted to manipulate the images of country performers to either exaggerate or downplay their representation of southern identity, all in an effort to expand the style’s share of the music market. This course will examine the history of country music from three perspectives: its musical style and its evolution, its portrayal of the culture of the American south, and the influence of the country music industry on how those identities are projected in order to appeal to the broadest audiences. Students will learn about country music styles and their origins from the 1920s until today.

Course: 90539 RFLA 300 05

Instructor:  L Littler

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Racial Fictions

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as AAAS & AMST elective

Course Description:  In this course, we will examine race as fiction—a carefully constructed narrative that draws audiences in and solicits their belief in its “truth.” We will consider how race has been made, revised, and used in American culture. Course texts will include novels, multidisciplinary scholarship, news media, and pop-culture artifacts.

Course: 90540 RFLA 300 06

Instructor:  B Stephenson

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: American Renaissance

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP

Course Description:  The American Renaissance was a generational effort to mold unparalleled prosperity into a new urban civilization.  The movement began in the 1880s and disappeared after 1930, the last full flourish of the Renaissance that began in Italy in the 15th Century.  The Rollins campus is a product of this era, and the principles that informed its human-scaled design are imprinting a new urban renaissance.  This course will also assess a point of origin for the Italian Renaissance, the classical ideal of the "good  Life," and explore its relevance in the 21st century.

Course: 90544 RFLA 300 07

Instructor:  M Robinson

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: AsianAmer Identity Thru Repres

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as ASA & SWAG elective

Course Description:  This course will examine how Asian American Identity is represented through various means including, but not limited to media, the arts, gender, food, and politics.  Students will first gain a historical and contextual foundation of Asians in America and the challenges and consequences that representation or misrepresentation that Asian Americans face.

Course: 90807 RFLA 300 08

Instructor:  H Mesbah

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: Global Journalism

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP

Course Description:  This class is about global news, global media organizations and networks, and global issues presented in specific global media outlets. Students will analyze news in the global press, explore the historical, legal, ethical, and political contexts of those news outlets, and critique theories and effects of globalization.

sake, art + activism, aesthetic experience, public art, debates about "art" vs. "craft," and Culture Industry commodities. Students will ultimately gain the ability to recognize competing values lenses used in these debates and to develop an informed, critical analysis of what is at stake ethically, politically, and artistically in such cases. 

Course: 90657 RFLA 300 09

Instructor:  S Parsloe

Days/Times:  TR 09:30-10:45A

Course Title: My Body, Myself

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as SWAG elective

Course Description:  This course explores how we communicate to (re)create embodied identities, producing and resisting cultural definitions of “normalcy.” We will focus on specific embodied experiences, including illness, injury, disability, fatness, queerness, and race. We will also consider how people respond to identity threats, including their own changing, unpredictable bodies. As part of your semester-long interview-based project, you and a partner will develop a podcast episode exploring one aspect of embodiment that you find particularly fascinating.

Course: 90945 RFLA 300 10

Instructor:  S Coffman-Rosen

Days/Times:  T, R 8:00-9:15 AM

Course Title:  Critical Disability Studies

Prereqs:  Prereq: Two RFLA 200 & WCMP; Counts as CMC 200 level elective

Course Description: How do we relate to bodies, minds, and identities that are different than our own, and how does that determine our place in a changing society? In this course, we will examine how disabilities, bodies, and identities intersect and determine how we interpret and occupy bodies in intersecting categories. Course topics include media and disability; becoming disabled; disability, race, gender, and sexual orientation; Deafness and Deaf culture; aesthetics and fashion; disability and sports; and “outsider” sexuality. You will examine your own "body politic," and the bodies of others. Course readings will be supplemented with film, cultural artifacts, personal writing, and interactive projects.

Course: 91220 RFLA 300 12

Instructor:  TBA

Days/Times:  MW 2:30-3:45P

Course Title: Power in America

Prereqs:  Prereq: RFLA 100; Counts as AMST elective

Course Description: Coming soon