* Note: all “preview” courses for the upcoming academic year are subject to change.
2023 – 2024 Academic Year Preview
FALL QUARTER 2024
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WINTER QUARTER 2024
INTER 120: Imagine A World: Creating Fantasy and Science Fiction
If you enjoy fantasy, gaming, sci-fi, or storytelling, this course will tap your creative imagination while exploring cultural diversity and social organization. Students will use anthropological and literary perspectives to create a culture (i.e., world-building) while exploring meaning-making, environment, social injustice and cultural change in literature and the real world.
This section is on-ground; in-person on Mondays and Wednesdays, and online; synchronous on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Fridays, will be asynchronous online. The balance of instruction occurs online as directed by the course syllabus.
This section is part of INTER 120- Imagine A World, a 10-credit Interdisciplinary Studies course, with ANTH& 206 IDI AND ENGL& 101 IDI OR ENGL 271 IDI.
Students will be required to add:
ANTH& 206, Section IDI
AND
ENGL& 101, Section IDI
OR
ENGL 271, Section IDI
To their cart and select both classes when checking out.
INTER 155: The Wire: Life On The Streets and War On Drugs
How do cops become corrupt? Are all lawyers shady? Can a drug dealer be honorable? What is the code of the street? These questions (and more!) will be uncovered, using HBO¿s The Wire! This class will examine the psychological nature of community perception of local policing activities and the social behaviors of West Baltimore inner-city residents during the 1990s and dive into the ¿War on Drugs¿ through HBO¿s show The Wire.
This section is on-ground; in-person on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and online; synchronous on Mondays and Wednesdays. On Fridays, this section will be asynchronous online. The balance of instruction occurs online as directed by the course syllabus.
This section is part of INTER 155- The Wire: Life On Streets, a 10-credit Interdisciplinary Studies course, with PSYC 240 IDI AND CJ&112 IDSI OR CJ 253 IDI.
Students will be required to add:
PSYC 240, Section IDI
AND
CJ&112, Section IDI
OR
CJ 253, Section IDI
To their cart and select both classes when checking out.
SPRING QUARTER 2024
Dreams have long fascinated both scientists and artists alike. This 10-credit interdisciplinary course will approach the mystery of dreaming from duel perspectives of psychology and creative writing. Students will study the psychology behind dreaming while learning to become more spellbinding storytellers.
This section is part of Interdisciplinary Studies, INTER 180- Art & Science of Dreams, a 10-credit Interdisciplinary Studies course, with PSYC 205 IDS (32250) AND ENGL 237 IDS (32240) OR ENGL 238 IDS (32242) or ENGL 239 IDS (32247).
Last Updated February 14, 2024