PRTR

Exploration of the arts as a way to understand and experience how queerness has been expressed, repressed, denigrated, and celebrated in visual arts, music, film, poetry, and dance.

Students learn about women's engagement with early movie culture, conduct their own historical research, and collaborate on building a web site that brings this knowledge to a public audience.

This performance-based course explores Shakespeare's clowns, jesters, and fools (the characters as well as the performers who originated them). Examines the comic traditions from which Shakespeare drew his inspiration, and considers how Shakespeare's work continues to influence contemporary comedy practices. No experience with Shakespeare or performance is necessary.

Introduces Shakespeare's works, focusing on representative examples drawn from the range of genres in which he wrote; poetry, comedy, history, tragedy, and tragicomedy.

Examines perceptions of vegans, critically questioning an array of negative stereotypes commonly associated with vegans and veganism. Also examines problems in mainstream veganism, such as white privilege, single-issue optics, consumerism, and perfectionism. Considers stigmas used to negate urgent planetary issues, such as animal ethics and animal exploitation, the impact of factory farming and animal agriculture on global climate change, and environmental racism and food apartheid. Students learn principles and practices of non-violent communication, build a theoretical vocabulary, develop their ability to understand and assess arguments, deepen their analytical skills and critical thinking abilities, and enhance their interpretative skills through writing assignments.

Explores indigenous American relationships with other-than-human nature. Studies prehistoric through contemporary beliefs and practices. Emphasis on North America but may also include attention to Central or South American cultures' relationships with nature. Features films, writings, and artwork by indigenous American people.