CS 1100 Introduction to the Humanities: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Instructor: Lee Wiles-Op
MWF 2:15-4:05pm, 7-wk summer session
Instructor: Andrew Lyness
TR 11:10-12:30pm, 7-wk summer session
This course explores the role of literature and the arts in constructing, maintaining, and questioning the values and beliefs of diverse cultures and historical periods; topics vary. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 1100H (100H) or 100. GE lit and diversity global studies course.
CS 2101 Literature and Society
Instructor: Ricky Crano
TR 10:55am-1:35pm, 7-wk summer session
Study of relationships among politics, society, and literature; analysis of social and political elements of literature and film from diverse cultures and historical periods.
Prereq: English 1110 (110) or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 2101H (201H, 201). GE lit and diversity global studies course.
CS 2340 Introduction to Cultures of Science and Technology
Instructor: Nancy Jesser
TTh 9:00AM - 1:40PM
In this course we will examine the intersection between science and the public in the US through local representations and enactments. We will visit and analyze the projects of such educational sites as COSI, the Zoo, Orton Geology Museum, and possibly Creation Museum, as well as other OSU mini museums. Then we would look at national education media (NOVA, Nature, Discovery/Nat Geo, etc.) and examine how they represent science, scientific or technical projects, and the scientists.
The Second half of the course will be devoted to examining the ways that the public and lay subjects participate in scientific/technical projects as citizens, citizen scientists and research subjects. Some of the projects we will examine (and participate in when possible) will be crowd-sourced data projects like the Audubon Bird Count, “Fold-it” protein game, etc. We will also examine as the use of people and the public as subjects in clinical trials and as data or tissues. Students will focus on local OSU projects (OSU’s linguistics project at COSI, recruitment of research subjects locally, the OSU Office of Commercialization and Knowledge Transfer, OSU IRB which determines if experiments using human subjects are valid and ethical). Students may also focus projects of the global flows of research from OSU to global projects. The exact nature of projects will be determined by student interest and availability. Prereq: English 1110 (110), or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 2341 (272). GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
CS 2367.04 Science and Technology in American Culture
Instructor:Seth Josephson
TuTh 9:35AM-10:55AM, 7-wk summer session
Role of science and technology in comtemporary American society; their relationship to human values; sources of concern about their impact; evaluation of selected issues.
Prereq: English 1110 (110), or equiv, and Soph standing. Not open to students with credit for 2367.04H (367.02H) or 367.02. GE writing and comm: level 2 and cultures and ideas and diversity soc div in the US course.
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CS 2370H Introduction to Comparative Religion
Instructor: Lindsay Jones
TR 9:00am-1:40pm, Maymester
This course will consist of an intro to the academic study of religion. Personal attacks on others beliefs will not be tolerated. We are interested in studying religions in their historical contexts, not in promoting (or denying) universalistic claims to Truth. Attendance, reflective essays, midterm and final exams are cores to this course. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to define and address several general phenomenon of 'religion'; basis information about several specific religious traditions --i.e, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist; describe some of the major theoretical and methodological problems that are at issue in the comparative study of religion(s).
Prereq: English 1110 (110) or equiv. Not open to students with credit for 270H or 2370 (270). GE cultures and ideas and diversity global studies course.
CS 4597.02: Global Culture
Instructor: Oded Nir
TR 3:55-5:15PM, 7-wk summer session
Examines the contemporary cultural flows, the concepts useful in analyzing them, and the questions they raise about power and cultural change. Prereq: Completion of Second Writing course. Not open to students with credit for 597.02, GE Diversity: Global Studies and Cross Disciplinary Seminar
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CS 5691 A Place Between The Rivers: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Citizenship in Central Ohio
Instructor: Robert Livingston
MWF 2-5:10, Maymester
This class proposes to deepen your understanding of environmental citizenship by taking a closer look at the transformation of the rivers of Central Ohiothe Olentangy, the Scioto, and Big Darby Creek. We will combine fieldwork at a series of sites, from the Wetlands Research Park down through the Whittier Peninsula and beyond, with readings in environmental theory and ecocritical reflection. Shaped by histories both natural (glaciation, speciation) and human (Native, colonial, modern), our corner of the world is currently being reshaped by projects both intentional (urban growth, economic development, ecological restoration) and unintended (climate change, biodiversity loss). What stories are being told about these changes, and how can we, in turn, become more active participants within them? We will be outdoors, on the rivers, for much of the class, engaging in restoration work with the Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW) and the Audubon Center, as well as meeting with officials and professionals involved in dam removal and watershed remediation. Readings include selections from Gary Snyder, Scott Russell Sanders, Jeremy BendikKeymer, Ann Zwinger and others.
Prereq: Not open to students with maximum qtr cr hrs for 651. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.