HUM Courses

The Simpson Center offers a variety of courses at the graduate level that reflect its commitments to crossdisciplinary research, digital humanities and public scholarship.

Course Offerings

Fall 2013

• ENGL 593/LIT 596: Theories of the Text

Spring 2013

• Decoding the Landscape: A Microseminar with Dolores Hayden & Anne Whiston Spirn
• Who Knows What and Why that Matters: Activism, Collaboration and Struggle in the Global South
• Defining Democracy, Ancient and Modern: A Microseminar with Josiah Ober
• Diaspora, Storytelling, and Imperial Formations

Winter 2013

• Rock the Archive: Popular Music Studies and Digital Scholarship
• Learning and Teaching in the Digital Age: A Microseminar with Cathy N. Davidson

Fall 2012

• Synthetic Biology in Question
• Transnationalism, Visuality, and Identity: A Microseminar with Shu-mei Shih

Spring 2012

• Women Who Rock Digital Scholarship, Part II
• Indigneous Encounters: Knowledge Production, Activism, Decolonization
• Feminisms, Institutions, and Alliances: A Microseminar with Richa Nagar
• Performance Theory, Methods, and Politics: A Microseminar with Diana Taylor
• Rethinking Marxism

Winter 2012

• Women Who Rock Digital Scholarship, Part 1

Fall 2011

• Writing through the Image

Spring 2011

• Now Urbanism
• Community Based Participatory Media
• Rebuilding Culture, Reclaiming Identity through Performance
• Ethics for a Good Life: The Role of Cosmopolitanism and Honor in Kwame Anthony Appiah's Writings