rFLA Seminars Maymester 2021

Instructor: Julia Maskivker Instructor: Elke Framson Course Title: Ethics and Social Justice Course Title: Transcultural Competence CRN: 60057 RFLA 100C; Meets: MTWRF 1:00 - 3:30 CRN: 60053 Course number: RFLA 200H This course will examine basic ethical dilemmas in contemporary society Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar including abortion, to assisted suicide, immigration, duties to help the Meets: MTWRF 9:00 - 11:30; counts towards German minor poor and others. How can we learn to communicate appropriately and effectively with people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds? In this seminar, Instructor: MacKenzie Moon Ryan we will explore the links between culture, language and communication, Course Title: Fashion Through Film analyze the challenges of intercultural interaction, and learn ways to CRN: 60056 Course number: RFLA 200A overcome them. Through theoretical and activity-based learning, Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar students will gain a solid foundation for the development of intercultural Meets: MTWRF 9:00 - 11:30 sensitivity and transcultural competence, so that they can successfully Fashion through Film explores how fashions chart social change across communicate, operate, and co-operate in diverse settings at home and from ca. 1850-2000s in the United States. From Ma Rainey’s Black abroad.. Bottom to Clueless, we will explore how rising hemlines in the Twenties Instructor: Maria Paniagua-Tejo led to hip-hop fashions of the Nineties by examining fashion history texts and applying them to popular film. Bring popcorn. Course Title: Spanish Gastronomy Explosion CRN: 60054 Course Number: RFLA 200H Instructor: Sunni Witmer Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar Course Title: Global Popular Music Meets: MTWRF: 9:00 - 11:30 Course number: RFLA 200A Explore the origins and presence of the boom in Spanish Cuisine both Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar in Europe And America CRN: 60063; Meets MTWRF: 9:00 - 11:30 The pop music aesthetic, which began in the 1960s in the United Instructor: Li Wei States and Great Britain, has now moved to all corners of the Course Title: Otherness in World Music globe. The study of this worldwide musical style is the focus of CRN: 60055 Course Number: RFLA 200H this course. Topics include: the globalization of music and the Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar music industry; the impact of colonialism on local musical Meets: MTWRF 9:00 - 11:30; ECMP traditions; the commodi cation of culture; musical traditions and This course examines cultural borrowing, identity politics, and modernity; the role of m၁usic in politics; and, social diversity in technological exploitation in world popular music. pop music. Associated genres such as rap, hiphop, and reggae will also be explored. In addition to written assignments, Instructor: Victoria Brown listening projects are also assigned. No prior musical background Course Title: How Dare You Write That is required to take this course. CRN: 60072 Course Number: RFLA 200H Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar Instructor: Robert VanderPoppen Meets: MTWRF 1:00 - 3:30 Course Title: Greek and Roman Myth in Art According to researcher Brené Brown, wholeheartedness includes CRN: 60067 Course number: RFLA 200S “cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar morning and think… I am enough.” Using this definition, students will Meets: MTWRF 9:00 - 11:30 consider their internal dialogue and the actions they take in their lives A study of how ancient Greeks and Romans and their Renaissance as they envision what it means to be a responsible leader and live a encountered myth in their daily lives and used it to structure their meaningful life. Students will engage in self-reflection, the art of worldview. storytelling, and performance from a place of vulnerability and courage.

Instructor: Anca Voicu Course Title: Economics of Pandemics Instructor: Gregory Cavenaugh CRN 60073 Course Number: RFLA 200C Course Title: Performance of Modern Ritual Prereq: RFLA 100-level seminar CRN 60051 Course Number: RFLA 300 Meets: MTWRF 1:00 - 3:30 Prereq: One 100-level and Two 200-level RFLA seminar courses This is a unique course, which explains the impact that the COVID-19 Meets: MTWRF 1:00 - 3:30; WCMP pandemic has on the U.S. and the world economy and discusses the This course explores the communicative and social functions of rituals measures deployed by governments and international organizations to in contemporary everyday experience. Ritual lies at the intersection of contain it in order to bring the economy up to speed and mitigate the the symbolic and the transformative. A wedding ritual, for instance, is adverse impact of the Great Lockdown. In doing so, we will discuss how both an attempt to symbolize ideals and a speech act that produces a pandemics of similar nature, in the past, have affected the world married couple. This performance-based course explores how ritual economy and how the current one may play out. functions in contemporary Westernized cultures to create, sustain, and transform identities Instructor: Lucy Littler Course Title: Racial Fictions CRN: 60052 Course number: RFLA 300 Prereq: One 100-level and Two 200-level RFLA seminar courses Meets: MTWRF 9:00 - 11:30; WCMP Is race fact or fiction? Like a novel, is “race” designed to draw audiences in and solicit their belief in its version of the truth? Or is it more than a story? Is “race” a reality that meaningfully impacts individuals, communities, and ideologies? Our course will consider these compelling questions—not only how we attempt to answer them from multiple disciplinary perspectives, but also the ethical implications and consequences of asking, and what we can do with our developing perspectives.