Fall 2018
Approved
Pathways to Policy
This cluster focuses on how policies in particular domains -- environment, economy, health, and education -- are developed and implemented in different national contexts. The primary areas of focus are the US (capitalist), Cuba (socialist), and China (post-socialist).
Courses:
- ECON 385: Democracy and Development (Rock, Economics)
- SOCL 317: Comparative Social Policy (Karen, Sociology)
360 Course Units: 2 units
Field Component: Week-long field study in Havana, Cuba
Special Programming: Guest speakers, class dinners
Prerequisites: None. Students are encouraged to consider enrolling in a Spanish course at the appropriate level for them, but are not required to do so.
Open/Closed: All courses open to non-360 students
Approved
Empires
This 360 cluster consists of three courses that examine different aspects of “empires.” It brings together historical, linguistic, and scientific perspectives in the study of imperial experiences and their present-day implications. Building empires is a common human experience. Temporally, it appeared some 5000 years ago and has lasted until the present day. Spatially, it stretches all over the world. It gives meanings to peoples’ cultures and affects the contemporary political landscape and life experience. Together, this cluster offers rich and diverse understandings and interpretations of “empires” in human experience.
Courses:
- EALC 265: Chinese Empires: Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties (Jiang, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
- HLTH 115: Introduction of Health Studies (White, Chemistry)
- LING 140: Language and Empire in Mesoamerica (Lillehaugen, Linguistics)
360 Course Units: 3 units
Field Component: 2-week field study in China (tentatively scheduled October 12-26, 2018)
Special Programming: local field trips, guest speakers
Prerequisites: none
Open/Closed: All courses open to non-360 students
Academic Year 2018-2019
Approved
Textiles in Context: Analysis, Interpretation, and Exhibition
This cluster provides a multidisciplinary approach to the technical analysis, historical interpretation, and museum display of early Byzantine textiles. Students will undertake technical analysis of materials and production techniques, and how to relate technical evidence to questions of early Byzantine textiles' function, social meaning, and public display in both the early medieval and contemporary periods. Students will be introduced to the shifting uses of these objects in life and death as well as the changing ways in which scholars have interpreted and displayed these objects over time. Equipped with this background, students will organize an original exhibition of early Byzantine textiles from the Jefferson University Collection and present their knowledge and interpretations at the College and to wider communities through the exhibition and through their contributions to the Jefferson University publicly accessible online collection catalog.
Courses:
- Fall 2018
- CHEM 208/310: Analysis of Art: Early Byzantine Textiles (Weldon, Special Collections)
- HART 218: Byzantine Textiles in Life, Death, and Afterlife (Walker, History of Art)
- Spring 2019
- HART 301: Topics in Exhibition Strategies: Byzantine Textiles (Robbins, History of Art)
360 Course Units: 3 units
Field Component: Hands-on textile analysis, overnight field trip to regional museums in Fall 2018, organization and execution of original exhibition and catalog in Spring 2019
Special Programming: Guest speakers
Prerequisites: none
Open/Closed: CHEM 310 and HART 218 open to non-360 students; HART 301 available only to 360 students
Spring 2019
Approved
From the Cosmos to the Self: Exploring the Structures of Knowledge Creation
This 360 uses the lenses of cultural studies, sociology, and physics to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures to community and personal experiences. It exposes students to the ways in which our social locations inform our world-views as well as our disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. We will probe Western and indigenous cosmologies, normative and alternative gender and sexuality structures, and imperial and decolonial racial systems.
Courses:
- ENGL 274: Speculative Ethnic Fiction (Harford Vargas, English)
- PHYS XXX: Physics Seminar (Daniel, Physics)
- SOCL 251: Queering Utopia (Sledge, Sociology)
360 Course Units: 3 units
Field Component: Week-long field study in Mexico (tentatively March 8-17, 2019)
Special Programming: TBA
Prerequisites: PHYS 121
Open/Closed: All courses available to 360 students only
