ANTH | 307-1 | 42821 | Ancient Egypt | 3 | ANTH 307 Special Topic: Ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt through an archaeological lens. Early settlements through the rise of Pharaonic empires - economic and political organization, intercultural interactions, subsistence, art, architecture, writing, and religion.
This section is a 100% virtual class with no scheduled class sessions. |
ANTH | 339-1 | 43640 | Animals-Human Evol and Society | 4 | Special Topic: Animals in Human Evolution & Society. Examine relationships between humans and non-human animals, including the role of animals in human evolution, domestication, animals as food, conservation and human-wildlife conflict, animal ethics in scientific research, and biotechnology. |
ART | 301-1 | 42685 | Gender and Sexuality in Art | 3 | This course explores modern art and visual culture through the lens of gender and sexuality. Major themes include queer art, women as artists and subjects, and the body in representation. |
ART | 304-1 | 43009 | American Art and the Landscape | 3 | This course takes a comprehensive look at the history of American art and its relationship to the environment, from the earliest landscape paintings to contemporary ecoart. |
ART | 354-1 | 43423 | A Year in the Art World | 1 | Based on Matthew Israel's 2020 book A Year in the Art World: An Insider's View, this weekend workshop will explore the creative, intellectual and economic systems that support the world of contemporary art. |
ART | 354-2 | 43424 | Art Conservation | 1 | Learn about the preservation of art and artifacts in this weekend workshop. Topics include technical and ethical considerations, as well as training and careers related to the field. |
COMM | 480-1 | 42775 | Rhetoric of Science | 4 | Special Topic Description: Rhetoric of Science will offer hands-on skills to critique, articulate and persuade on science debates. Topics include: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental justice, climate resilience, animal liberation, racialized science, vaccine discourse, popular science discourse and much more. Rhetoric of science is the practice of citizen science, public dialogue and reflection about how to use and navigate scientific knowledge. |
CS | 480-1 | 43341 | Artificial Intelligence | 2 | Special topic description:
Learn the fundamentals of the study and design of intelligent systems. These include expert systems, constraint satisfaction problems, propositional and first order logic and selected algorithms used for machine learning. |
CS | 480L-1 | 43342 | Artificial Intelligence | 1 | Special topic description:
Learn the fundamentals of the study and design of intelligent systems. These include expert systems, constraint satisfaction problems, propositional and first order logic and selected algorithms used for machine learning. |
ENGL | 240-1 | 42638 | Postcolonial Fictions | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Analyze shorts stories, short films, essays, and film adaptations by artists and intellectuals from Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, India, the Caribbean, Palestine, and Ireland through postcolonial and transnational feminist frameworks. Examine how writers and filmmakers represent the effects of colonization, imperialism, and settler-colonialism. Consider the role of storytelling and the imagination in decolonizing the mind. |
ENGL | 306-1 | 43540 | Stories from the Anthropocene | 3 | Special Topic Description:
Stories from the Anthropocene: People, Nature, and the Imagination. Including contemporary fiction, films, and poetry, this course examines the intersections of our natural world, technology, and ourselves. Works by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Nnedi Okorafor (Lagoon), and Wanuri Kahiu (Pumzi) help us explore hope and imagination in the face of environmental devastation. |
ENGL | 313-1 | 43541 | Genre Theory | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Genre Theory: Outside the Box(es). What is genre studies, and why should you care? (It¿s more complicated than you might think!) We¿ll explore the many approaches to genre theory through popular and scholarly texts and across multiple media. |
ENGL | 336-1 | 42754 | Performing Race & Gender | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Analyze literature exposing rewards/punishments for accepting/resisting scripts of race, gender, sexuality. Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, George Johnson's banned memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, and more.
This course is cross-listed with ES 336 and WS 336. |
ENGL | 350-1 | 42864 | Bodies, Beasts and Botanicals | 4 | Special Topic Description:
In this course we will be reading/thinking about the relationships between humans, animals and plants in the early modern period |
ENGL | 420-1 | 43086 | Critical Plant Studies | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Engage with botanical subjects and critical theory through a variety of fields, including land art, eco-poetry, therapeutic horticulture, Black ecologies and landscape architecture. From a transdisciplinary framework, we will question the privileged place of the human in relation to plant life, and consider the following (and more): "being plant," plants and speculative fiction, BIPOC agrarianism and how the vegetal challenges our climate narratives. |
ENGL | 620-1 | 43087 | Critical Plant Studies | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Engage with botanical subjects and critical theory through a variety of fields, including land art, eco-poetry, therapeutic horticulture, Black ecologies and landscape architecture. From a transdisciplinary framework, we will question the privileged place of the human in relation to plant life, and consider the following (and more): "being plant," plants and speculative fiction, BIPOC agrarianism and how the vegetal challenges our climate narratives. |
ES | 336-1 | 42755 | Performing Race & Gender | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Analyze literature exposing rewards/punishments for accepting/resisting scripts of race, gender, sexuality. Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, George Johnson's banned memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, and more.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 336 and WS 336. |
FILM | 378-1 | 43453 | Art & Craft of Film Editing | 4 | Explore how films and their story(ies) are shaped through editing choices. Learn and practice the art and craft of film editing. Open to all students. No prerequisites |
FILM | 465-1 | 43454 | Representation in Film Matters | 4 | This course examines the distinctive styles and filmic techniques of selected BIPOC and Trans filmmakers, studying the intention and impact of their films that have continued to carry significant influence on the development of the Hollywood cinematic narrative, challenging both viewers and the movie industry to shift their demands and expectations. |
FISH | 480-1 | 43644 | Applied Bayesian Analysis | 2 | Introduction to Bayesian statistical analysis, with a focus on natural resources applications. Bayesian perspectives on probability and statistical inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, formulating and coding familiar statistical models in Bayesian software, model goodness-of-fit, extensions to more complex models. |
FISH | 580-1 | 43645 | Applied Bayesian Analysis | 2 | Introduction to Bayesian statistical analysis, with a focus on natural resources applications. Bayesian perspectives on probability and statistical inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo, formulating and coding familiar statistical models in Bayesian software, model goodness-of-fit, extensions to more complex models. |
FOR | 480-1 | 42977 | SAF Conference | 1 | SAF Quiz Bowl Team |
HIST | 397-2 | 43578 | Swift, Gulliver's Travels | 1 | This reading seminar will read and discuss Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), which is widely hailed as one of the greatest English novels of all time. |
INTL | 480-1 | 42872 | IEW Leadership | 1 | This section is a 100% virtual class with no scheduled class sessions. |
PHIL | 480-1 | 42659 | Humboldt Philosophy Forum | 1 | Special Topic Description:
The Humboldt Philosophy Forum covers topics of
contemporary significance and aims to increase understanding of the diversity of ideas, values, and practices embodied by our culture. |
RS | 300-2 | 42419 | Living Myths | 3 | This section is a 100% virtual class with no scheduled class sessions. |
RS | 393-1 | 42420 | Women Saints and Mystics | 3 | Across religious traditions, the mystical experience represents a unique, and at times, a penultimate moment of spiritual life. Poets, artists, and various other leaders have historically dedicated their lives to expressing the insights of the mystical experience and towards contemplative practice, music, and theology aimed at recreating that experience. This interreligious course will explore mystical, religious literature and art with an emphasis on the role of women mystics and the theoretical questions that arise from the study of comparative mysticism. |
RS | 394-3 | 42423 | Zen Experiential Weekend | 1 | Students will be able to attend in person or online, asynchronously. |
SOC | 280-2 | 43626 | Intro to Cannabis Studies | 3 | Intro Cannabis Studies |
SOC | 480-2 | 43627 | Humboldt and Cannabis | 4 | Cannabis Course |
SPED | 781-1 | 43390 | SPED Policies and Procedures | 3 | Special Education Policies and Procedures. |
SPED | 781-2 | 43391 | SPED TPA support | 1 | Special Education TPA Support. |
SW | 442-1 | 41943 | Environ. Justice Social Work | 3 | This class will integrate principles, values, and lessons learned from the Environmental Justice Movement. You will learn about environmental racism, fence-line communities, cumulative impacts, and social determinants of health. The class will center EJ and the development of research, social policy, and community practices to better serve impacted communities. |
SW | 442-2 | 41944 | Child & Family Welfare | 3 | This course provides an ecological context for family events and patterns of child maltreatment, its consequences and the dynamic potential for change. Students will learn all aspects of the child welfare system: intake, emergency response, family maintenance, family reunification, permanency planning and adoptions. This class meets synchronously approx. once a month on Thursdays from 6-8pm, please review DL co-hort course rotation calendar. |
SW | 442-3 | 43555 | Leadership in Social Work | 3 | This course will be designed as a mentoring workshop to help guide you through completion of accumulating community based research or service project that demonstrates your practice knowledge of leadership in Social Work.
This class meets synchronously approx. once a month on Thursdays from 6-8pm, please review DL co-hort course rotation calendar. |
TA | 367-1 | 43403 | Workshop in Physical Theatre | 1 | Special Topic Description:
Course focuses on actor training in physical theatre techniques through a series of projects in storytelling through movement, mime, clown, and viewpoints. Students will perform and deepen acting and public presentation skills. |
WS | 336-1 | 42591 | Performing Race & Gender | 4 | Special Topic Description:
Analyze literature exposing rewards/punishments for accepting/resisting scripts of race, gender, sexuality. Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath, Michelle Cliff's Abeng, George Johnson's banned memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, and more.
This course is cross-listed with ENGL 336 and ES 336. |