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 |
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Professor: Myra Armstead |
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Course Number: HIST 191 |
CRN Number: 10702 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Tue
Thurs 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM Barringer 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference
and Justice |
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Crosslists: Africana Studies; American &
Indigenous Studies; Human Rights |
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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. |
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Sustainable Development and Social
Enterprise |
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Professor: Eban Goodstein |
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Course Number: ES/EUS 310 |
CRN Number: 10322 |
Class cap: 25 |
Credits: 4 |
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Tues
Thurs 8:30 AM - 9:50
AM Olin 204 |
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SA Social Analysis |
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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. |
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Leading Change for Sustainability |
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Professor: Aurora Winslade |
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Course Number: ES/EUS 327 |
CRN Number: 10324 |
Class cap: 25 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204 Wed 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem
Kayden Center 100 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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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. |
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Free Speech |
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Professor: Pinar Kemerli |
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Course Number: PS 218 |
CRN Number: 10631 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed
10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin
308 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: Human Rights |
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(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. |
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