Category: Culture & Diversity

ENGL 2144: Social Media for Social Justice and Activism

Instructor: Powell TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Service Learning With the rise of digital activism being used to spur social change, students will analyze the success of movements such…

ENGL 2026: Intro to Disability Lit

Instructor: Glaser MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM Disability Studies began as an academic field in the latter 20th century in response to activist challenges to legal and…

ENGL/EVST 2030: Literature and the Environment

Instructor: Carlson TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM How did “nature” and “ecology” get imagined into being? How can we reimagine them today? What is the role of…

ENGL 2028: Theater and Performance Studies

Instructor: Andersen MWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM Nineteenth-century melodrama combined music, spectacle, intense emotions, and sweeping gestures to stage sensational stories that pit ordinary heroes against powerful villains. Due…

ENGL 3079: Creative Writing and the Environment

Instructor: Staff online Students will explore how creative writing engages, interrogates, reveals, and impacts environmental issues and concerns: What are the ways in which fiction writers, poets, nonfiction…

ENGL 3049: Creative Writing and Social Change

Instructor: Garza WF 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Environmental Degradation: Poetic Resistance in Climate Change Apocalypse What does the environment have to do with society? Where do we…

ENGL/AFST 2083: African American Literature Survey I

Instructor: Boutelle MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM In this course we will study works of fiction and nonfiction by African American writers from the eighteenth century to…