This Inside-Out Prison Exchange course brings together students from Valparaiso University and residents of a local correctional facility to engage in meaningful dialogue about philosophy, justice, the criminal justice system, imprisonment, and human behavior. […]
Category: Spring Semester Courses
CC 300 CX: Cross-Cultural Engagement in English Studies (Performing Arab)
This course examines multiple contested and overlapping traditions in how Arab identity is performed and represented on contemporary stages and screens. […]
CC 300 BX: Memories of Nazism in Literature and Film: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
In this course, we will compare the diverse ways that German speakers have represented the Nazi past in prose, drama, and film with those more familiar to Americans. […]
CC 300 AX: US History and Culture of Suburbia
In the second half of the 19th century, Americans increasingly moved to the space between city and country—close to urban employment and other advantages, but in quieter, greener places especially geared to family life. This course takes a historical look at the American suburb, mid 19th century to the present, from the perspective of the built environment. […]
CC 499: Senior Colloquium
Museums reveal what cultures value most. In their architecture, collections, and public programs museums demonstrate how people organize knowledge, think about the past, and see themselves in relation to others. This seminar will examine the history of museums in Europe and America from the Renaissance to the present, tracing the development of a wide variety of institutions, including art museums, natural history museums, history museums, and science and technology museums. […]
CC 205: Word and Image
This course introduces students to certain problems in the history of visual and literary representation from Plato to the present. Among the variety of questions that will be considered this semester are: What is representation and how do words and images operate? Can words claim legitimacy that images may not and vice-versa? What do makers of representations owe their viewers/readers? […]
CC 201 A: Christ College Symposium
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