Class No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
1086 |
AMST-840-05 |
Autistic Blackness |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cancelled
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HUM
|
Q2 |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Cross-listing: ENGL-440-05, ENGL-840-05 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on August 7. |
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NOTE: Open to seniors and graduate students. Other undergraduate students should contact Professor Diana Paulin for permission to enroll. Diana.paulin@trincoll.edu |
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How might autism and blackness be read alongside each other in a way that matters? By examining how the histories, lived experiences, and representations of autism and blackness intersect, it is possible to move beyond narrow understandings of both and create space for more diverse ways of being in our communities and in our world. What does it mean to recognize that autism is part of the neurodiversity of blackness historically and contemporaneously? What sort of creativity and meaning does the nonlabeled black autists presence add to our understanding blackness? We will examine this topic through an interdisciplinary lens that explores theoretical and historical perspectives of blackness, autism, and neurodiversity/neurodivergence, as well as primary sites of inquiry, including life writing, film, digital media, and performance/ |
1043 |
AMST-857-05 |
American Crime Fiction |
1.00 |
SEM |
Mrozowski, Daniel |
MW: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
N/A |
|
HUM
|
Q1 |
|
Enrollment limited to 5 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Cross-listing: ENGL-857-05, ENGL-457-05 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on June 23. |
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Crime fiction has been an amazingly resilient and pliable genre, a cultural barometer registering revisions to cultural fantasies about knowledge and power, sex and gender, race and ethnicity, violence and freedom. Its character types are interwoven into the fabric of popular culture, from the detective to the sociopath, the femme fatale to the street tough. This course will trace an alternative American history through the brutal, lurid, and stylish crime fiction of the 20th century. We will explore its pulp roots through Dashiell Hammett, its modernist peaks with Raymond Chandler, its post-war weirdness in Chester Himes and Patricia Highsmith, and its contemporary renaissance by George Pelecanos. |
1037 |
AMST-881-05 |
Coffee Power and Cultures |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cancelled
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|
Q1 |
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on June 23. |
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Coffee has long connected and stratified communities globally and locally. This course will investigate how coffee has played central roles in the formation of power structures, politics, and relations worldwide. We will explore how coffee houses have brewed revolutions, from the American patriots to women suffragists to colonial Singaporeans. Our studies will also focus on early production and trade practices, including slavery and the triangular trade, to more recent developments, such as organic and fair trade coffees. Additional discussions will cover coffee as a status symbol and conspicuous consumption, the bean to cup movement, coffee and gender construction, and the meanings of coffee places, as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage spaces to third spaces. We will hold several class meetings off campus. |
1098 |
ENGL-816-05 |
Walden |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cancelled
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|
HUM
|
Q2 |
|
Enrollment limited to 10 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Also cross-referenced with AMST |
Cross-listing: ENGL-416-05 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on August 7. |
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Henry David Thoreau was a pioneer of social distancing, but his work speaks to contemporary life in other ways, too. He followed his conscience into conflict with federal law. He studied the natural world so fastidiously that scientists use his journals to document global warming. Thinkers today still argue fervently about Thoreau, and there is even a video game about his time at Walden Pond. This course explores Thoreau's writings, especially WALDEN. Students will read Thoreau collaboratively, using an interactive digital text to engage in asynchronous dialogue in the margins of Thoreau’s works. They will also undertake independent research and writing within a thematic focus of their choosing, possibly including Ecology & Climate, Solitude & Sociality, Ethics & Political Resistance, or Transcendentalism & Eastern Philosophy. |
1099 |
ENGL-826-05 |
Shakespeare's Poetry |
1.00 |
SEM |
MacConochie, Alex |
TR: 6:00PM-9:00PM |
N/A |
|
HUM
|
Q2 |
|
Enrollment limited to 12 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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|
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Cross-listing: ENGL-426-05 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on August 7. |
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Shakespeare, most famous now as a dramatist, first gained fame for a poem written in quarantine: Venus and Adonis. Written during a plague, Shakespeare’s first major poem is a love story that spends most of its time on obstacles to love: physical and emotional distance, differences in social status, death. These themes recur throughout Shakespeare’s poetry, from his tragic tale of ancient Rome, Lucrece, to the twisted love triangle of the sonnets, with their complex commentary on friendship, trust, betrayal, and mortality. In addition to reading Venus and Adonis, A Lover’s Complaint, Lucrece, and the Sonnets in the historical context of Elizabethan England, students will use online databases to study original texts of Shakespeare’s poems, and develop an online “edition” of a Shakespearean sonnet |
1087 |
ENGL-840-05 |
Autistic Blackness |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cancelled
|
|
HUM
|
Q2 |
|
Enrollment limited to 8 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
|
|
|
Cross-listing: ENGL-440-05, AMST-840-05 |
|
NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on August 7. |
|
NOTE: Open to seniors and graduate students. Other undergraduate students should contact Professor Diana Paulin for permission to enroll. Diana.paulin@trincoll.edu |
|
How might autism and blackness be read alongside each other in a way that matters? By examining how the histories, lived experiences, and representations of autism and blackness intersect, it is possible to move beyond narrow understandings of both and create space for more diverse ways of being in our communities and in our world. What does it mean to recognize that autism is part of the neurodiversity of blackness historically and contemporaneously? What sort of creativity and meaning does the nonlabeled black autists presence add to our understanding blackness? We will examine this topic through an interdisciplinary lens that explores theoretical and historical perspectives of blackness, autism, and neurodiversity/neurodivergence, as well as primary sites of inquiry, including life writing, film, digital media, and performance/ |
1042 |
ENGL-857-05 |
American Crime Fiction |
1.00 |
SEM |
Mrozowski, Daniel |
MW: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
N/A |
|
HUM
|
Q1 |
|
Enrollment limited to 5 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
|
|
|
Cross-listing: AMST-857-05, ENGL-457-05 |
|
NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on June 23. |
|
Crime fiction has been an amazingly resilient and pliable genre, a cultural barometer registering revisions to cultural fantasies about knowledge and power, sex and gender, race and ethnicity, violence and freedom. Its character types are interwoven into the fabric of popular culture, from the detective to the sociopath, the femme fatale to the street tough. This course will trace an alternative American history through the brutal, lurid, and stylish crime fiction of the 20th century. We will explore its pulp roots through Dashiell Hammett, its modernist peaks with Raymond Chandler, its post-war weirdness in Chester Himes and Patricia Highsmith, and its contemporary renaissance by George Pelecanos. |
1018 |
PBPL-806-01 |
Methods of Research |
1.00 |
LEC |
Ellis, Chad |
MW: 6:00PM-9:00PM |
N/A |
|
|
Q2 |
|
Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 6-week session scheduled to end on August 14. |
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This course is intended to empower students to evaluate common forms of research critically, and to give them some experience in conducting research. Through a series of weekly assignments and class projects, students will be introduced to the shaping of research questions; hypothesis testing, writing a research paper, conducting interviews and surveys, giving a professional presentation, and presenting simple tabular data to prove a point. The course does not require an extensive mathematics background. Regular attendance and access to a computer, e-mail, and the Internet are expected. |
1021 |
PBPL-817-05 |
Education and Immigration |
1.00 |
SEM |
Chambers, Stefanie |
MW: 6:00PM-9:30PM |
N/A |
|
SOC
|
Q1 |
|
Enrollment limited to 9 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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|
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Cross-listing: POLS-304-05 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on June 23. |
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This course is designed to introduce students to urban educational policy, with particular focus on the major issues and challenges facing urban and suburban policymakers. After a brief overview of the shape and history of the American school system, we will move toward considering a variety of different perspectives on why it has proven so difficult to improve America's schools. We will examine standards-based, market-driven, professionally-led and networked models of reform, looking at their theories of change, implementation challenges, and the critiques leveled against these approaches. We will examine a variety of recent reform efforts at both the federal and state levels. Special attention will be paid to the ways in which immigration and educational policy interact. |
1033 |
PBPL-830-01 |
Federal Courts & Public Policy |
1.00 |
SEM |
Fulco, Adrienne |
TR: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
N/A |
|
|
Q1 |
|
Enrollment limited to 10 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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|
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Cross-listing: PBPL-430-01 |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 6-week session scheduled to end on June 30. |
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Over the past 30 years, the Supreme Court has been called upon to resolve many important and often controversial public policy questions. The purpose of this course is two-fold: (1) to familiarize students with the role of the federal courts as a policy making institutions; and (2) to carefully analyze actual cases as a means of assessing the scope of the Court's power to shape public policy, especially in areas where there is little political consensus. Readings will include texts and articles on the role of the federal courts and several of the recent court cases. |
1019 |
PBPL-870-05 |
Polarization and Policy-Making |
1.00 |
SEM |
Dudas, Mary |
TR: 6:00PM-9:30PM |
N/A |
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|
Q2 |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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NOTE: This course will take place throughout a 5-week session scheduled to end on August 7. |
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This course will examine the interaction between policy and polarization. We will first survey the contours and history of polarization in America with a focus on the development of the national political parties. We will then examine the interaction of policy making and polarization at the national and state levels: how does polarization affect policy making at the national and state levels; how does policy affect polarization; why have some states become more polarized than others; and how does that polarization affect policy making at the state level? Finally, we will assess the relationship between policy making and polarization at the national and state levels using the case studies of health care and abortion. |
1095 |
PBPL-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
N/A |
Y |
|
|
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the director of public policy studies. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
1119 |
PBPL-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
N/A |
Y |
|
|
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: Remote |
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A research project on a special topic approved by the instructor and with the written approval of the director of public policy studies. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |