Add/Drop's Saviors: Six Fall 2023 Courses with Seats Available
This fall, six courses with seats available are being offered in collaboration with the Center for Global Studies. These courses are part of the Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Initiative, which employ the use of languages other than English to explore and discuss topics in their original context.
Two classes are half-credit “lab” classes that are supplemental to their respective full-credit philosophy courses: the first one focuses on aspects of classical Chinese through the study of key Confucian passages; the other focuses on Classical Greek through the study of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Epictetus’ Encheridion. These classes are designed to expose their students to the linguistic elements of classical Chinese and Greek, while facilitating discussions in English.
“Hebrew in the Media: From National Literature to International Films and TV Shows” is a Center for Jewish Studies course for students with intermediate or advanced Hebrew skills that wish to improve their language skills through discussing multicultural media and participating in interactive projects and writing workshops with Israeli scholars such as Etgar Keret. “Perspectives in Art as Culture: Ukrainian Arts and Culture as Resistance” is a course that combines basic elements of Ukrainian language as well as art, highlighting its important history within Ukrainian resilience and resistance. Each week, students will explore both the language and traditional art forms such as arts and crafts, and dance. Exploring Personhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries” is a course for students with intermediate French proficiency through the Center for the Humanities that studies how personhood has been portrayed throughout Arabic, Anglophone, and Francophone cultures. Finally, “Neotropical Acuatic Ecosystems: Their Importance, Sustainable Use and Conservation”, will discuss the biological richness of the Orinoco and Amazon basins in South America and its environmental ramifications—fully in Spanish! Find the links to more information on each of these exciting courses here:
PHIL 151/ CGST 224: Living a Good Life: Chinese Lab
PHIL 152/ CGST 225: Living a Good Life: Greek Lab
CHUM 380/ CGST 334: Exploring Personhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries