360掳 - Literatures in English Stories

Mural of pioneering women

360掳: Women in Walled Communities

This 360掳 examines the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with aparticular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the 鈥渃ritical spaces鈥 that can open up within them.

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360掳: Foodways and Migration

This 360掳聽uses the frameworks of history, cultural studies, and archeology to examine the relationship between foodways and migration.

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360 Performance Across Language and Cultures

360掳: Performance Across Language and Culture

A series of international festivals such as the Globe to Globe Cultural Olympiad in London in 2012 has raised the visibility of cross-language productions, yielding a messy but rich trove of reception records in social media, scholarship, and reviews. This 360 takes a close look at these phenomena, asking students to engage it as performers, audience members, teachers, and scholars 鈥 studying and experimenting with multilingual and vernacular stagings.

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360掳: Poetics and Politics of Race

The goal of this 360掳 is to unpack how meaning is made from representations of race鈥攆rom artifacts in an anthropological context, to representations in literature, to how people teach and learn.

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360掳: Origin Stories

This year-long cluster explores the intersections of scientific, philosophic and humanistic ways of thinking about, writing about, and visually representing ways we look at origin stories.

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360掳: Decolonizing Knowledges

This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences.

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360掳: Migrations

This 360掳 uses the lenses of cultural studies, history, and sociology to critically and comparatively examine migration in different national contexts and historical moments.

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360掳: Arts of Resistance

This cluster of three courses is about the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with a particular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the 鈥渃ritical spaces鈥 that can open up within them.

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360掳: Eco-Literacy

This Eco-Literacy 360掳 cluster considers our participation in the environment from the perspectives of economics, education, and various forms of literary and visual expression. Our goal is to develop a vocabulary for thinking, feeling and talking about the ways in which the places we live affect each of us, and how each of us affects the places we live.

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360掳: Children's Books

Through the College鈥檚 Ellery Yale Wood Collection of children鈥檚 and young adult books, students will investigate childhood, explore literature, and creatively engage in the process of writing children鈥檚 literature.

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Mural of pioneering women

360掳: Changing Education

Changing Education, the first 360掳 offering at 麻豆视频, is inspired by the College's 125th anniversary in 2010-11.

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360掳: Food and Communication

This cluster focuses on the idea that food is a medium, a cultural vehicle that transports and is transportable and transportive.

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