All Courses
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2022SP - STUDIES IN CHAPS 16:082:594:01
This cultural heritage seminar course explores the history and material culture of the memorialization of individuals, social groups, and historic events through time, cultures, and landscapes. Our course material will include local, national, and global case studies and examples drawn from the fields of cultural heritage, cultural resource management, historic preservation, archaeology, anthropology, history, art history, death studies, landscape architecture, and the contemporary world. Why and how do we choose to remember/memorialize some individuals and events over others? What does the form and design of cemeteries, monuments, and monuments reveal about communities, culture, politics, and cultural/historical memory? Which memorial sites and spaces stay secular – and which become sacred ground? How are material objects and art spaces used in acts of grief, memory, and commemoration? How and when do acts of memorialization become vehicles for mediating and reinterpreting the past? How and why do some sites associated with the dead and historic events become contested ground while others are forgotten? What is the role and purpose of “dark tourism” and studies of “negative heritage” as part of remembering and forgetting in the contemporary world?
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2022SP - ART&HISTORY OF FILM 21:089:256:01
An introduction to the evolution of cinema from the earliest technological leaps though the rise of an art form and global industry. This survey is intended to give students the analytical tools and emotional vocabulary to “read” motion pictures and engage with their own filmmaking with an awareness of the history and the evolution of film ideas and technologies in both time and space. We will look at how films are shaped by their context and by each other — and at how, in their turn, films shape us. By the end of the class you will have a good overview of the history and elements of cinema, as well as the capacity to engage with cinema as a specific, if protean, art form. You will also have seen films from eras and places you would have never picked, and grow to love most of them and know precisely why you hate some of the others.
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2022SP - CON. CRIMINOL. THEO. 27:202:518:01
This is the second course of a two-part graduate sequence introducing students to major theories of crime and criminal justice. The first course focused on reading (and writing about) classical texts on the etiology of crime; this course examines more contemporary contributions related to individual patterns of stability and change in offending—crime and the life course, criminal careers, bio-social criminology—and related theories that integrate critical/ historical perspectives as well as individual/contextual influences. In the second part of the course readings and lectures will explore theoretical approaches on reactions to crime from a more institutional perspective (police, courts, law/punishment. The main goals of the course are a) to deepen the students’ understanding of criminological theories and related assumptions, propositions and empirical foundation, b) to develop a knowledge base of theories that explain the operation, structure and consequence of CJ institutions/organizations in the United States and beyond c) to strengthen critical thinking and writing abilities.