Network Collaborative Classes meet in person, with periodic online engagement with sections of the class being taught on other OSUN campuses

 

 

The Peculiar Institution of American Slavery

 

Professor: Myra Armstead  

 

Course Number: HIST 191

CRN Number: 10702

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Barringer 102

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Human Rights

The Atlantic World created between 1500 and 1800 developed a unique form of chattel slavery–one that was generationally racialized for people of African descent. This course will examine this form of human bondage and its resonances in colonial British North America and the United States. It will begin with the American South by examining the emergence of Africanized chattel slavery. Using as a case study, Historic Brattonsville, a former cotton plantation in South Carolina's upcountry consisting of over 750 acres and 30 buildings, and which exploited over 200 enslaved Black bodies, the first part of the course will further examine the contours of slavery and slaveholding in that region of the country, particularly after the rise of cotton as its main cash crop.  It will next examine slavery and slaveholding in the American North by focusing on the European settler colonies there, with a special focus on Rhode Island and New York's Hudson Valley. Finally, for both areas the course will interrogate present imaginaries concerning the legacies of Diasporic enslavement for descendant communities. The social-cultural construction of race and its meaning(s) as a historical phenomenon is a central concern of the course.

 

Sustainable Development and Social Enterprise

 

Professor: Eban Goodstein  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 310

CRN Number: 10322

Class cap: 25

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tues  Thurs     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

One way to achieve the UN SDGs is through social enterprise: creating mission-drive businesses and non-profit organizations. This cross-institution course provides a critical introduction to the SDGs, and the forces behind global change. Students will work with and learn from other classes in the global OSUN network, while conducting and sharing research projects on local enterprise solutions to issues like energy, food, affordable housing, immigration, or gender equity.

 

Leading Change for Sustainability

 

Professor: Aurora Winslade

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 327

CRN Number: 10324

Class cap: 25

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Mon  10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204

  Wed 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 100

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

This is a collaborative, cross-institution course in leading change in organizations where student teams develop and advance proposals for organizational innovation within the university. Examples might include carbon footprint analysis, expansion of local food offerings, improved daycare or transportation for students and workers, or improved recycling system. Bard students will work with classes from Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh and Lithuania through a mixture of synchronous on-line learning, and in-person labs. The course will culminate in a “shark tank for sustainability” between teams from the different universities. Topics include understanding why change fails more often than it succeeds, the key factors that drive successful organizational change, the role of the change facilitator, and tools for designing and facilitating processes that bring forth the group intelligence.

 

Free Speech

 

Professor: Pinar Kemerli  

 

Course Number: PS 218

CRN Number: 10631

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 308

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Human Rights

(Human Rights Core Course) An introduction to debates about freedom of expression. What is 'freedom of speech'? Is there a right to say anything? Why? We will investigate who has had this right, where it has come from, and what it has had to do in particular with literature and the arts. What powers does speech have, who has the power to speak, and for what? Debates about censorship, hate speech, the First Amendment and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be obvious starting points, but we will also explore some less obvious questions: about faith and the secular, confession and torture, surveillance, the emergence of political agency. In asking about the status of the speaking human subject, we will look at the ways in which the subject of rights, and indeed the thought of human rights itself, derives from a 'literary' experience. These questions will be examined, if not answered, across a variety of literary, philosophical, legal and political texts, with a heavy dose of case studies (many of them happening right now) and readings in contemporary critical and legal theory.