Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 3187 |
HRST-205-01 |
Law literature social justice |
1.00 |
SEM |
Staff, Trinity |
R: 5:00PM-8:00PM |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: Open only to students in the Trinity Prison Seminar Series/Hartford Correctional Center. |
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What is justice? Whose justice is it? Should an unjust law be obeyed? Is the rule of law simply a means to secure the position of the powerful in society, or does the law provide a genuine possibility of equality for all? What lessons should a twenty-first century audience learn from literary depictions of legal and moral conflict in Ancient Greece and during the slavery and Jim Crow eras in the United States? These and other literary works will allow us to consider the role of race, class, gender, sexuality, and dis/ability in our relationship to the law and to each other: Sophocles' Antigone, Herman Melville's Billy Budd, selected short stories of Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. |
| 2658 |
HRST-230-01 |
Gender, Law, and Empire |
1.00 |
SEM |
Terwiel, Anna |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
HUM
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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NOTE: This course is taught at the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, CT. Only open to members of the York program. |
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This course will examine the contested legacies of colonial empires with respect to gender and the law. The course will consider how (de)colonization, globalization, and diverse forms of activism shape the construction and practice of laws and rights in gendered ways. Course materials, discussions, and assignments will provide an intersectional perspective on the interlocking nature of gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other identity categories. The course will highlight specific legal cases of historical and contemporary importance in North America to explore the connections between gender, law, and empire. Students will learn about how oppression, expressions of agency, and transformation are made possible. Topics include historical and contemporary legal debates over the regulation of citizenship, indigeneity, land, violence against women, sexuality, reproduction, and gendered work. This course is taught at the York Correctional Institution in Niantic, CT. Only open to members of the York program. |
| 2420 |
HRST-314-01 |
Global Radicalism |
1.00 |
SEM |
Heatherton, Christina |
TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: AMST-314-01 |
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In the early twentieth century, struggles against racism, capitalism, and colonialism, encircled the globe. From Irish republicanism in Dublin, Bolshevism in Moscow, revolution in Mexico City, to anti-lynching crusades in Birmingham, these movements represented the largest waves of rebellion sustained by the global economy. This seminar offers an overview of these struggles and spaces. Through examination of primary and secondary sources, students will consider radical social movements from distinct yet overlapping traditions. We will discuss how radicals confronted issues of racism, gender, and nationalism in their revolutionary theories. Taking a uniquely spatial approach, we will observe how geographies of accumulation emerged alongside sites of global resistance. Throughout we will consider these debates' contemporary relevance, observing how global radicalism might be charted in our present world. |
| 2941 |
HRST-316-01 |
Ecofeminism and Human Rights |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aldrete, Diana |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
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HUGI
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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By examining the contributions of both ecofeminism and intersectional environmentalism this course highlights how the same ideologies and historical injustices against women, queer folk, and the environment are connected to Human Rights violations. This course is designed to provide theoretical, historical, and scientific paradigms to analyze and understand the ways in which women and queer folk are treated as inferior under Western heteronormative standards, as well as how the natural environment has been deemed inferior and separate from humans/men and culture (via capitalist ideals of progress/modernity). Using a feminist, queer, environmental justice lens, this course will further explore the connections between sexism, racism, gender and sexuality discrimination, class exploitation, and environmental destruction. |
| 2477 |
HRST-349-01 |
Global Migration/Refugee Lab |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hussain, Shaznene
Alic, Erna |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOGI
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL |
Cross-listing: AMST-349-01, INTS-349-01 |
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Provides an experiential-based introduction to the practical challenges of
refugee and immigrant resettlement and integration and to the development
of effective policies and implementation strategies to address them. Students
will be placed with a community-based organization working with
immigrants and refugees 10-12 hours a week and attend (weekly or
biweekly) seminar class meetings to integrate their onsite learning
experience and responsibilities with discussions of assigned readings and
relevant concepts in participatory action research and diaspora studies. Seminar meetings will be organized around enrolled students' existing class schedules. |
| 2243 |
HRST-369-01 |
Intl Human Rights Law |
1.00 |
LEC |
Carbonetti, Benjamin |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB5
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: POLS-369-01 |
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This course offers a comprehensive survey of the evolution of international human rights law, focusing on the major actors and processes at work. Which rights do individual human beings have vis-a-vis the modern state? What is the relationship between domestic and international legal processes? Are regional human rights mechanisms like the European system more influential than international ones? More generally, how effective is contemporary international human rights in securing accountability and justice? We use specific cases and contemporary debates to study a range of treaties and emerging institutions, including ad hoc war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. |
| 1286 |
HRST-373-01 |
Hum Rts Thru Perfmnc:Incarcrtd |
1.00 |
LEC |
Lea, Joseph |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
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ARIP
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Cross-listing: THDN-373-01 |
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NOTE: There are 3 seats reserved for first-year students, 6 seats reserved for sophomores, 6 seats reserved for juniors, and 4 seats reserved for seniors. |
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NOTE: Due to the continued presence of the Covid virus, the prisons may not allow in-person visits again this year. We will continue to explore these topics via visits from released individuals and remote links with people living and working in prison in the US and abroad |
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In this course we will examine selected human rights issues through a multi-disciplinary approach that includes readings, discussion, journal writing, site visits and art-making. This semester's study will look at life behind the razor wire-what are the human rights issues that emerge in the world of the incarcerated? Topics included in our investigation will be mass incarceration, sentencing, collateral damage, rehabilitation vs. punishment, gender-specific issues and the impact of the arts on prisoners and the institution of prison. |
| 1088 |
HRST-399-01 |
Human Rights Studies |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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| 1087 |
HRST-497-01 |
Senior Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single term project. |
| 2520 |
HRST-499-01 |
Senior Thesis Part 2 |
1.00 |
IND |
Staff, Trinity |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
WEB
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course is the second part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis. |
| 3031 |
EDUC-314-01 |
Human Rights and Education |
1.00 |
SEM |
Speciale, Teresa |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
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GLB5
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Educational Studies 200 or HRST 125, or permission of instructor. |
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Since the end of the Second World War, education has emerged as simultaneously a right in and of itself, a crucial space that can either reproduce discriminatory practices or subvert and resist them, and a means through which knowledge of human rights can be promoted. But what do these developments in human rights and education mean in the everyday lives of formerly and currently colonized and oppressed peoples in the US and around the world? Who, if anyone, should have a right to education? If they have a right to education, do they have a right to a particular kind of education? Our course will explore these and other questions through readings, discussions, and a collaborative research project. |
| 3003 |
FILM-313-01 |
Reels of Change |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aponte-Aviles, Aidali |
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
Cross-listing: HISP-313-01 |
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Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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For more than 135 years, films have shaped information, interpretation, and understanding. Like any other cultural product, cinema is able to convey the spirit of the time and location. Therefore, it is necessary to examine its viewpoints, interpretive decisions, and biases. This course looks at Hispanophone motion pictures as primary historical sources and as metaphors of sociopolitical, historical, and cultural change. Films from Spain, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific will be examined to analyze them as representations of cultural change. We will study how these films react to and are influenced by political and sociocultural contexts, how filmmakers use film to represent their experiences and history, how cinema frames the fears and concerns at a period in time, and how viewers reinterpret their meaning. This course will be taught in Spanish. |
| 3002 |
HISP-313-01 |
Reels of Change |
1.00 |
SEM |
Aponte-Aviles, Aidali |
W: 6:30PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
Cross-listing: FILM-313-01 |
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Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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For more than 135 years, films have shaped information, interpretation, and understanding. Like any other cultural product, cinema is able to convey the spirit of the time and location. Therefore, it is necessary to examine its viewpoints, interpretive decisions, and biases. This course looks at Hispanophone motion pictures as primary historical sources and as metaphors of sociopolitical, historical, and cultural change. Films from Spain, the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific will be examined to analyze them as representations of cultural change. We will study how these films react to and are influenced by political and sociocultural contexts, how filmmakers use film to represent their experiences and history, how cinema frames the fears and concerns at a period in time, and how viewers reinterpret their meaning. This course will be taught in Spanish. |
| 2766 |
HIST-232-01 |
South Africa/Anti-Apartheid Mv |
1.00 |
SEM |
Markle, Seth |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
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GLB2
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with HRST |
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The creation of the apartheid state in South Africa gave birth to a litany of sociopolitical movements aimed at dismantling a system of white minority rule. In what ways can a digital archive open up a window onto this rich and dynamic history of the anti-antiapartheid movement in South Africa between 1948 and 1994? This course will seek to answer this question by primarily utilizing Aluka's "Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa", a collection of over 190,000 primary and secondary sources that shed considerable light on how marginalized peoples and communities sought to realize a democratic alternative to settler colonialism during the era of decolonization in Africa. Topics such as political leadership, nonviolent civil disobedience, coalition building, state repression, armed guerilla resistance, nationalism, international solidarity and truth and reconciliation will inform the ways in which we search for sources of historical evidence contained in Aluka's digital archive. |
| 2447 |
THDN-345-01 |
Theater for Social Change |
1.00 |
STU |
Simmons Jr, Godfrey |
MW: 10:00AM-12:00PM |
TBA |
Y |
ARIP
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Enrollment limited to 14 |
Waitlist available: Y |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with EDUC, HRST |
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NOTE: Seat reservations: 4 seniors, 4 juniors, 4 sophomores, 2 first years. |
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The course introduces documentary-based ensemble theatre making and performance as a mode of participatory action research for initiating social change. During the semester students will engage in the process of making and performing an original work of theatre that investigates real circumstances, examines existing perceptions, identifies critical issues, and generates a public forum for social dialogue. The course work will focus on techniques based on the work of Augusto Boal and other methodologies. It will include individual research to explore ethical questions and diverse perspectives regarding freedoms and limitations of academic and personal expression in the context of maintaining responsibility and well-being within a multicultural society. |