The Humanities for Just Communities initiative will offer the following courses for Fall 2023.
All of these courses will include a project that makes an intervention in the year's social justice theme (Migration, Displacement, and Cultural Resilience), and students in these courses will present their project to the broader 海角社区 community in the Spring showcase!
An 8-unit course that examines Asian and Asian American political activists who have been crisscrossing the Pacific, building and rebuilding networks of resistance to colonialism, marginalization, and exploitation.
An FYS course that examines how speaking any non-English language in the United States is an act of political resistance and linguistic resilience.
An FYS course on how migration has shaped food production, distribution and consumption and in turn, how migrant communities have negotiated heritage, assimilation and resistance through foodways.
A course on the extraordinary twentieth-century demographic shift that impacted Black communities across the United States, redesigned the fabric of American cultural and political life, laid the foundations for the civil rights and Black power movements, and continues to inform our ongoing quest for social justice today.
A course about subverting various forms of oppression that perpetuate patriarchal domination, xenophobia, and national exclusion in film.
A course that focuses on displacement as a defining feature of Mediterranean history from antiquity to the present.