Stories
360掳: Struggles for Global Health Equity
This 360掳 aims to help students begin to understand both significant problems of and promising approaches to the practice鈥揳nd study鈥搊f community health promotion.
360掳: The Mediterranean as a Crossroads: History, Migrations, Identities
This 360掳, composed of courses in History and French, examines the social, historical, artistic and cultural shape of the Mediterranean through the study of circum-Mediterranean port-cities and their populations.
360掳: To Protect the Health of the Public
This 360掳 has as its goal a deepened understanding of public health. To do so, we offer three courses that focus on policy, history, culture, the place and power of government, and public and personal responsibility.
360掳: Centering Critical Blackness
This cluster interrogates the ways diasporic bodies navigate change, boundaries, and disrupt systems, particularly through movement and education, from an Afro-feminist and womanist perspective.
360掳: 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.
360掳: Women in Walled Communities
This 360掳 examines the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with aparticular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the 鈥渃ritical spaces鈥 that can open up within them.
360掳: Taste
What are the stories behind the flavors that we taste? How much of taste is individual, and how much is social? Why do some flavors taste good to us, while others don't? Why do different people sometimes have very different reactions to the same foods? How do taste preferences change across space and over time?
360掳: Foodways and Migration
This 360掳聽uses the frameworks of history, cultural studies, and archeology to examine the relationship between foodways and migration.
360掳: Science, Democracy, and Truth
How can we use science to respond to the criticisms of those in power that might disagree with our fundamental assumptions about the reliability of scientific facts?
360掳: Renewable Energy
In an effort to shift focus toward a more scientific approach to renewable energy, this two-course 360掳 gave students the opportunity to explore energy alternatives from a data-driven perspective.
360掳: Eurasia in the Anthropocene: Trans-Siberian Ecological Perspectives
This cluster focuses on the ecology of Russia and its largest neighbor to the East, China, through various cultural, scientific, and social lenses.
360掳: Space and Identity
This 360掳 brings together three different disciplinary perspectives to explore the notion of individual and group identity across time and space in urban environments. (Taught Spring 2013)