Exposes the beginning graduate student to exemplary works and methodologies of disciplines oriented to humanities and social sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, history, communication, fine arts, and literature. Cross-listed with SSCI 5025. Max hours: 3 Credits. This course must be taken in the first fall semester as an MH student in the program.
Offered every Fall semester.
The second of three required Master of Humanities core courses, this course introduces beginning graduate students to methodologies and intellectual frameworks for gathering, organizing, and developing interdisciplinary research. Focus is on the application of theories and methods of research, interpretation and analysis in humanistic research through readings that explore philosophical and cultural discourses have altered theory and method. Course note: Students must repeat this course if they earn a C+ or lower and must have permission from the instructor to repeat the course. Students will only earn 3 credits for this course, even if they must repeat it. Cross-listed with PHIL/SSCI 5013. Max hours: 3 Credits. This course must be taken in the first spring semester and an MSS or MH student in the program.
Offered every Spring semester.
Provides graduate-level interdisciplinary study in the historiography, methodologies, and theories used to understand how visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, film and performance art influence the making of culture. Students gain critical skills for analyzing a variety of visual and aesthetic products of culture. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Studies sexuality, gender and identity representation from classical antiquity through the present in the visual arts. Uses the literature of visuality, feminism, race and queer theory. Explores representations of femininity, masculinity and androgyny and their reinforcement and challenge to gender-identity norms. Cross-listed with SSCI 5720 and WGST 5720. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits.
This course provides beginning graduate students grounding in critical theorists, key analytic models, and their application in disciplines which comprise the humanities (philosophy, literature, art history, visual studies, history, communication) for the purpose of graduate-level, interdisciplinary humanities research. Examines questions about reality, knowledge, ethics that affect research and writing in the humanities. Course note: Students must repeat this course if they earn a C+ or lower and must have permission from the instructor to repeat the course. Students will only earn 3 credits for this course, even if they must repeat it. Max Hours: 3 Credits.
First Amendment jurisprudence including free speech/responsibility, sedition/seditious libel/dissent, prior restraints, time/place/manner restrictions, hate/intimidating speech, defamation, privacy/security tensions, intellectual property/public good, advertising, corporate speech, sexual expression, and public status of religion. Cross-listed with HUMN 4325, SSCI 4325, SSCI 5325, PSCI 4325 and PSCI 5325. Max hours: 3 Credits.
This course advocates for our critical consideration of the manifestations of colonial inheritance. From the politics of natural disaster, to animals, to food and the limitations imposed upon everyday lives, the legacies of colonialism sit on every doorstep. Repeatable. Max Credits: 9. Topics courses are special and subject to change. This is an example of one of our program topics courses.
A survey of the United States legal system, including lawmaking powers, jurisdiction, court procedures, professional ethics and major principles of business law, contracts, estates and probate, family law, property and torts. Cross-listed with SSCI 4251/HUMN 4251/HUMN 5251. Term offered: fall. Max hours: 3 Credits. Offered every Fall semester.
Introduces interdisciplinary social research through a critical examination of various methodological approaches. Each student formulates a research proposal which includes a research question, a review of the literature, and methods of study. Max Hours: 3 Credits. Offered every Spring semester.
This course provides graduate-level interdisciplinary study in historiography, methodologies and theories of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and considers how culture is constructed around these categories. Cross-listed with WGST and SSCI 6010. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Engaging extensive primary and secondary source material, course applies an interdisciplinary approach to diversity and conflict that often surrounds the quest for economic, moral and social inclusion in the United States. Cross-listed with HUMN 5540. Max hours: 3 Credits. Offered every Fall semester.
Western empires disseminate political, social, economic & cultural practices through complex interplay of cultural practices. Visual production is a complex site for meaning making within imperialism. Examines how visual discourses operated to create meaning for audiences, through focus on postcolonial critique. Cross-list SSCI 5770. Max hours: 3 Credits.
