Second-Year Experience

Students in Core Year 2 Painting a Mural

In your second year at Champlain, you'll dive into science and culture, deeply exploring relationships between the two.

How does perspective affect science? How does science affect culture? Through projects, research, and discussions, you'll practice examining the contexts and sources of knowledge.

You'll take one Foundations course and one Perspectives course each semester of year two. In the Foundations courses, you'll develop the set of skills you'll use to explore, analyze, and interrogate ideas in the Perspectives courses of your choice.

Fall Semester

COR 201 | Core Foundations: Making Meaning through Science

Science holds an elevated place in society. The knowledge and meaning that science makes are seen as having a particular and special value. This course explores knowledge and meaning making in order to allow a thoughtful analysis of, and then engagement with, science as a way of knowing, and then engages with the methods and theories of the sciences themselves, to understand the analytical, creative, and generative possibilities of science.

COR 202 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on _____

While each section of COR 202 addresses a different problem, issue, or topic, they all focus on interdisciplinary research. You will collect, analyze, and assess information from different disciplines in order to recognize patterns, contextualize arguments and synthesize ideas while collaborating on a project. Emphasis will be placed on helping you translate and apply what you learn about interdisciplinary research to other professional contexts.

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Ed Cafferty

Humans have lived together in groups for thousands of years. They have had conflicts with other people and groups. They sometimes treat each other as equals but often they don't. They may dominate others through beliefs, norms, values, violence, and laws. We will explore the many ways people interact with each other and how relationships have change over time. This course will include student group activities, guest speakers, videos, and class discussions.

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Ed Cafferty

Humans have lived together in groups for thousands of years. They have had conflicts with other people and groups. They sometimes treat each other as equals but often they don't. They may dominate others through beliefs, norms, values, violence, and laws. We will explore the many ways people interact with each other and how relationships have change over time. This course will include student group activities, guest speakers, videos, and class discussions.

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Veruska Cantelli

What motivated me was curiosity, the only kind of curiosity that is worth acting upon; not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. This semester we will unpack the complexity and dynamic force of post/decolonial identity through an interdisciplinary approach. We will follow the painful journey of a Senegalese woman trapped into a racial web of a white French bourgeois household, dive into the clash and the search for independence in Algeria, unpack women's voices out of India and follow Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's questioning of the role of the English language as a dominant colonial force. Our guiding force will be non-western lens, we will challenge our assumptions, be inspired, and learn from the giants of postcolonial theory.

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Veruska Cantelli

What motivated me was curiosity, the only kind of curiosity that is worth acting upon; not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. This semester we will unpack the complexity and dynamic force of post/decolonial identity through an interdisciplinary approach. We will follow the painful journey of a Senegalese woman trapped into a racial web of a white French bourgeois household, dive into the clash and the search for independence in Algeria, unpack women's voices out of India and follow Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's questioning of the role of the English language as a dominant colonial force. Our guiding force will be non-western lens, we will challenge our assumptions, be inspired, and learn from the giants of postcolonial theory.

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Weiling Deng

From Hello Kitty and Rilakkuma to Build-A-Bear Workshop and Matryoshka Doll, from vintage tin vehicles to drones and VR/AR, toys construct our emotional, cognitive, and intellectual worlds. Toyland is not simply a fairyland insulated from what is otherwise considered "real." Its materiality is both a built world and a world in the making where humans simultaneously play the roles of customer, player, character, dreamer, maker, and instrument. This course takes a critical view of toys in conversation with cultural and psychological interpretations. In this course, we inquire how toys rehearse real-world geopolitics and biopolitics, ranging from anti-war movements, Black power, feminist and queer critiques within the U.S. to critical studies of kawaii/cuteness, techno-Orientalism and Ornamentalism, post-Soviet nostalgia, and the corporate empires built on contemporary computational machines and algorithms. The learning goal is to gain a wider definition of toys and "read" them as a voluminous interface through which gendered and race-based world-building messages travel between large-scale politics and the intimate sphere of daily life, in the wake and aftermath of the Cold War.

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Weiling Deng

From Hello Kitty and Rilakkuma to Build-A-Bear Workshop and Matryoshka Doll, from vintage tin vehicles to drones and VR/AR, toys construct our emotional, cognitive, and intellectual worlds. Toyland is not simply a fairyland insulated from what is otherwise considered "real." Its materiality is both a built world and a world in the making where humans simultaneously play the roles of customer, player, character, dreamer, maker, and instrument. This course takes a critical view of toys in conversation with cultural and psychological interpretations. In this course, we inquire how toys rehearse real-world geopolitics and biopolitics, ranging from anti-war movements, Black power, feminist and queer critiques within the U.S. to critical studies of kawaii/cuteness, techno-Orientalism and Ornamentalism, post-Soviet nostalgia, and the corporate empires built on contemporary computational machines and algorithms. The learning goal is to gain a wider definition of toys and "read" them as a voluminous interface through which gendered and race-based world-building messages travel between large-scale politics and the intimate sphere of daily life, in the wake and aftermath of the Cold War.

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Amy Howe

How do we understand the power of "rural life" in American and global imaginaries? This course will explore the fascinations, realities, multiplicities, and politics of what the term and experiences of "rural" mean. We will look at a range of primary and secondary literary, economic, and social sources that examine the place, history, and politics of rural representation, development, research, and self-determination. Students will have hands-on opportunities to conduct in-depth research on selected case studies in partnership with rural humanities networks in and outside of Vermont and the North Country region.

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Amy Howe

How do we understand the power of "rural life" in American and global imaginaries? This course will explore the fascinations, realities, multiplicities, and politics of what the term and experiences of "rural" mean. We will look at a range of primary and secondary literary, economic, and social sources that examine the place, history, and politics of rural representation, development, research, and self-determination. Students will have hands-on opportunities to conduct in-depth research on selected case studies in partnership with rural humanities networks in and outside of Vermont and the North Country region.

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Isabella Jeso

Research is about learning how to ask the right kinds of questions and figuring out how to answer those questions through discussion, reflection, and writing. What value can be found in exploring philosophical ways of knowing? What is a way of knowing? We will answer these foundational questions as we explore the intersections of reading, writing, and thinking through perspectives from varying knowledge fields or academic disciplines as we study specific topics. This class explores course texts and digital content, viewing selected learning resources from the perspectives of deconstructionist theory, modern psychoanalytic theory, and new historicism theory. In these procedures, we will also be consciious of what reading can do for how the mind comes to know what it seeks to know. Moreover, we will be self-reflective about what writing on a topic can do for developing your mind. Additionally, we will ask what conferencing/speaking, or the sharing of ideas through discussion and collaboration, can do for the collective and individual knowledge acquisition; looking at why the search for certainty in what is known or in what we come to know, is generally a futile exercise. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Self-Knowledge provides students opportunities to explore these issues through learning activities, evaluating the impact of such academic/intellectual exercises on the mind's development and on its own self-preservation. Therefore, students will be guided in further developing their critical thinking skills.

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Isabella Jeso

Research is about learning how to ask the right kinds of questions and figuring out how to answer those questions through discussion, reflection, and writing. What value can be found in exploring philosophical ways of knowing? What is a way of knowing? We will answer these foundational questions as we explore the intersections of reading, writing, and thinking through perspectives from varying knowledge fields or academic disciplines as we study specific topics. This class explores course texts and digital content, viewing selected learning resources from the perspectives of deconstructionist theory, modern psychoanalytic theory, and new historicism theory. In these procedures, we will also be consciious of what reading can do for how the mind comes to know what it seeks to know. Moreover, we will be self-reflective about what writing on a topic can do for developing your mind. Additionally, we will ask what conferencing/speaking, or the sharing of ideas through discussion and collaboration, can do for the collective and individual knowledge acquisition; looking at why the search for certainty in what is known or in what we come to know, is generally a futile exercise. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Self-Knowledge provides students opportunities to explore these issues through learning activities, evaluating the impact of such academic/intellectual exercises on the mind's development and on its own self-preservation. Therefore, students will be guided in further developing their critical thinking skills.

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Isabella Jeso

Research is about learning how to ask the right kinds of questions and figuring out how to answer those questions through discussion, reflection, and writing. What value can be found in exploring philosophical ways of knowing? What is a way of knowing? We will answer these foundational questions as we explore the intersections of reading, writing, and thinking through perspectives from varying knowledge fields or academic disciplines as we study specific topics. This class explores course texts and digital content, viewing selected learning resources from the perspectives of deconstructionist theory, modern psychoanalytic theory, and new historicism theory. In these procedures, we will also be consciious of what reading can do for how the mind comes to know what it seeks to know. Moreover, we will be self-reflective about what writing on a topic can do for developing your mind. Additionally, we will ask what conferencing/speaking, or the sharing of ideas through discussion and collaboration, can do for the collective and individual knowledge acquisition; looking at why the search for certainty in what is known or in what we come to know, is generally a futile exercise. Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Self-Knowledge provides students opportunities to explore these issues through learning activities, evaluating the impact of such academic/intellectual exercises on the mind's development and on its own self-preservation. Therefore, students will be guided in further developing their critical thinking skills.

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Mike Kelly

This course centers on the idea that schools are products of the communities that create them. On the surface, that sounds like a mundane way to spend a semester, but when slasher films, banned books, parental pressure and Taylor Swift are used to study it, the odds of this being a section you'd be interested in taking improve. Through the lenses of history, film, education and cultural anthropology, this course asks questions about the role high school plays in our culture complete with all its joys and horrors.

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Fia Moser-Hardy

How many ways can you describe a color? Can you write a poem about it? Can you explain it through science? Can you express your feelings about it through a dance? Can you research the history of its usage and cultural symbolism? How might people from different disciplines approach this question, and how might they collaborate to create a cohesive, multi-disciplinary response? You have a unique way of viewing the world around you that has the potential to spark advancements through the use of the creative process. Many processes mirror the creative process. In this course, you will explore your own process in creating and expressing new ideas through the intersection and integration of varying subjects such as visual art, dance, creative writing, science, and cultural studies. You will learn how you can develop your own process and merge your process with others' processes to create new and innovative projects through a collaborative experiment of "ekphrastic" art.

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Flavio Rizzo

What motivated me was curiosity, the only kind of curiosity that is worth acting upon; not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. This semester we will unpack the complexity and dynamic force of post/decolonial identity through an interdisciplinary approach. We will follow the painful journey of a Senegalese woman trapped into a racial web of a white French bourgeois household, dive into the clash and the search for independence in Algeria, unpack women's voices out of India and follow Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's questioning of the role of the English language as a dominant colonial force. Our guiding force will be non-western lens, we will challenge our assumptions, be inspired, and learn from the giants of postcolonial theory.

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Flavio Rizzo

What motivated me was curiosity, the only kind of curiosity that is worth acting upon; not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself. This semester we will unpack the complexity and dynamic force of post/decolonial identity through an interdisciplinary approach. We will follow the painful journey of a Senegalese woman trapped into a racial web of a white French bourgeois household, dive into the clash and the search for independence in Algeria, unpack women's voices out of India and follow Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's questioning of the role of the English language as a dominant colonial force. Our guiding force will be non-western lens, we will challenge our assumptions, be inspired, and learn from the giants of postcolonial theory.

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Gary Scudder

We routinely throw around the word "evil" - even if we're simply grousing about our professors - but what does the concept even mean? In this class we will study different religious, philosophical, psychological, and sociological interpretations, and maybe in the process begin to answer the question: why does evil exist? During the class students will read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Capote's In Cold Blood, and excerpts from thinkers as varied as St. Augustine, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt.

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Gary Scudder

We routinely throw around the word "evil" - even if we're simply grousing about our professors - but what does the concept even mean? In this class we will study different religious, philosophical, psychological, and sociological interpretations, and maybe in the process begin to answer the question: why does evil exist? During the class students will read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Capote's In Cold Blood, and excerpts from thinkers as varied as St. Augustine, Machiavelli, and Hannah Arendt.

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Erik Shonstrom

Who's in the driver's seat? We often assume our brain is directing behavior, making decisions. But the science of embodied cognition offers a much more complex picture. Our bodies, evolutionary history, and subjective sensorimotor perception are guiding our daily lives much more than we think. This section is an interdisciplinary exploration of the way in which the body's interaction with our environment dictates behavior: it makes us who we are. We'll move, smell, taste, listen, dance (salsa, anyone?) and move our bodies to understand how our bodies aren't just part of us; they are us.

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Erik Shonstrom

Who's in the driver's seat? We often assume our brain is directing behavior, making decisions. But the science of embodied cognition offers a much more complex picture. Our bodies, evolutionary history, and subjective sensorimotor perception are guiding our daily lives much more than we think. This section is an interdisciplinary exploration of the way in which the body's interaction with our environment dictates behavior: it makes us who we are. We'll move, smell, taste, listen, dance (salsa, anyone?) and move our bodies to understand how our bodies aren't just part of us; they are us.

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Kelly Thomas

How can we best understand sexuality and sexual desire? As humans, we are sexual creatures, yet sexual desire is often viewed by society as taboo and carefully regulated. This section examines potential reasons why, and subsequent repercussions. This is not a how-to course on human sexuality; rather, we will inquire into how we are (or are not) formally educated about sexual desire; how our beliefs about sex and sexuality are formed through religious traditions and cultural expectations; how we encounter representations of sex through visual and performing art, and media; and how industries and laws have formed to sell and regulate sexual content.

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Kelly Thomas

How can we best understand sexuality and sexual desire? As humans, we are sexual creatures, yet sexual desire is often viewed by society as taboo and carefully regulated. This section examines potential reasons why, and subsequent repercussions. This is not a how-to course on human sexuality; rather, we will inquire into how we are (or are not) formally educated about sexual desire; how our beliefs about sex and sexuality are formed through religious traditions and cultural expectations; how we encounter representations of sex through visual and performing art, and media; and how industries and laws have formed to sell and regulate sexual content.

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Caroline Toy

How do you "imagine" religion? What is it supposed to be, and what is it supposed to do? Why does it show up so much in "secular" popular media like TV, movies, and video games? This course explores how portrayals of religion and religious practices influence culture and public life, including media, activism, and public space. You'll finish the course with an interdisciplinary research project on a related topic of your choice and learn from your classmates' research. This class involves a brief (less than two-hour) off-campus field experience that you will undertake with a group of peers.

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Ciaran Buckley

We jump straight in with class conversations on current Supreme Court cases. By looking at a seemingly daunting and divisive topics head on, you will see these topics as challenging, but not intimidating. We will practice the process of finding and making arguments from different perspectives. Some current Supreme Court themes we will look at are: beginning of life, free speech, separation of Church and state, God, second amendment rights, AI. In-class discussions/conversations paired with a series of executive summaries will help you in analyzing and finding solutions to complex issues. We will have conversations about developing our ability to create an environment where each perspective is considered to collaborate around making progress toward common goals.

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Amanda Young

What does it mean to follow your passion through a multidisciplinary lens? In this course we explore how different fields of study can help us understand and cultivate our passions. This course encourages you to investigate your interests by integrating insights from psychology, sociology, history, arts, and sciences. By blending these perspectives together, you can gain a deeper understanding of what motivates us, how our passions shape our worldviews, and their impact on our personal and professional lives. In this course, students will engage with a variety of texts, ranging from academic articles to biographies and case studies. They will learn to conduct comprehensive research that reflects the complexity of their interests. Through workshops, collaborative projects, and individual research assignments, students will develop the skills to examine their interests from multiple angles, fostering a deeper appreciation for interdisciplinary inquiry. This course challenges students to think critically about the role of passion in innovation and societal advancement, encouraging them to pursue their interests with both rigor and creativity. By the end of the course, students will have the tools to explore their passions through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. Get ready to embark on an exciting journey that not only deepens your understanding of your passions but also equips you with the necessary skills to pursue them.

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Spring Semester

COR 203 | Core Foundations: Making Meaning through Culture

Culture impacts everything we do, experience, and learn, but what is culture? Where does it come from, how does it form, and why does it have such a wide and deep impact on people's lives? This course explores culture as a system of meaning and meaning-making in order to allow for a more thoughtful analysis of, and then engagement with, cultural texts and media using different methodological approaches.

COR 204 | Theoretical Perspectives on _____

In this course, you will go in depth about a theoretical perspective that asks you to interrogate systems of power and power relationships. You will learn about the history of that perspective, including how it too was shaped by multiple contexts and compares with other viewpoints. You will use that perspective to analyze a specific topic, collection of texts, or cultural phenomena.

You can explore the Spring 2023 Theoretical Perspectives topics below. Please note that current and previous topics are not guaranteed to be available in future semesters.

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Ariel Burgess

This course explores theories of "self." We will examine US cultural narratives such as "rugged individualism" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," alongside non-western theories of relationality, interdependence, and kinship. As we face climate change and the sixth mass extinction, how do these different theoretical perspectives of "self" affect the way we think about, interact with, and navigate the more-than-human world?

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Ariel Burgess

This course explores theories of "self." We will examine US cultural narratives such as "rugged individualism" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," alongside non-western theories of relationality, interdependence, and kinship. As we face climate change and the sixth mass extinction, how do these different theoretical perspectives of "self" affect the way we think about, interact with, and navigate the more-than-human world?

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Ariel Burgess

This course explores theories of "self." We will examine US cultural narratives such as "rugged individualism" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," alongside non-western theories of relationality, interdependence, and kinship. As we face climate change and the sixth mass extinction, how do these different theoretical perspectives of "self" affect the way we think about, interact with, and navigate the more-than-human world?

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Al Capone

In this course we will examine the language of rights and the power structures that sustain this dialogue. We will explore the ethical, political and cultural theories and assumptions which provide the foundation for our contemporary use of rights language. We will closely examine how various types of rights (human, political, and social) are conceived and exercised in our world today and how those rights demonstrate an exercise of power. There will be the ability for each student to conduct independent research and analysis in this course using the methodologies of philosophy, political science and sociology.

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Al Capone

In this course we will examine the language of rights and the power structures that sustain this dialogue. We will explore the ethical, political and cultural theories and assumptions which provide the foundation for our contemporary use of rights language. We will closely examine how various types of rights (human, political, and social) are conceived and exercised in our world today and how those rights demonstrate an exercise of power. There will be the ability for each student to conduct independent research and analysis in this course using the methodologies of philosophy, political science and sociology.

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Weiling Deng

In this course, we will delve into the intersection of gender, race, and technology. We will examine how gender- and race-based biases are encoded in the technology of media, video games, robots, drones, and artificial intelligence. This course brings together insights from fields such as critical media studies, science and technology studies, feminist and queer theory, post-humanism, and racial capitalism. Through analyzing power structures, representation, and inequality in technology design, usage, and access, students will learn to interrogate how the structural violence of antiblack and anti-Asian racism, settler colonialism, and patriarchy are fundamental to human-technology interaction and to the definition of human. Students will engage in class discussions, group projects, and case studies that encourage critical thinking, collaborative learning, a deeper appreciation for the complexities of these issues.

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Weiling Deng

In this course, we will delve into the intersection of gender, race, and technology. We will examine how gender- and race-based biases are encoded in the technology of media, video games, robots, drones, and artificial intelligence. This course brings together insights from fields such as critical media studies, science and technology studies, feminist and queer theory, post-humanism, and racial capitalism. Through analyzing power structures, representation, and inequality in technology design, usage, and access, students will learn to interrogate how the structural violence of antiblack and anti-Asian racism, settler colonialism, and patriarchy are fundamental to human-technology interaction and to the definition of human. Students will engage in class discussions, group projects, and case studies that encourage critical thinking, collaborative learning, a deeper appreciation for the complexities of these issues.

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David Kite

Ethics is the theory of deliberation and choice in human affairs. Students will study traditional systems of moral philosophy and will use these to analyze relevant issues in personal, social and political spaces. The goal will be to develop skills of thoughtful and reflective deliberation about ethical values, choices and actions.

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Gary Scudder

We all watch movies, but how do we watch movies? How do we dig deeper, find the more complex meaning, in films? One of the best theoretical approaches - and also one of the most misunderstood - is to hold a Marxist lens up to movies, essentially examining them in relation to deeper issues of economic and social class issues. This class will explore a century of films, ranging from early classics like Battleship Potemkin to modern blockbusters like Black Panther.

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Mike Lange

People make meaning with food. One of the most powerful meanings that can be made with food is personal and cultural identity. How many people have a special dish that they bring to every family gathering? How often do we try a new version of something and think, "that's not what I grew up with"? Why do people argue endlessly about what constitutes "proper" pizza? Because food is a powerful vehicle for meaning and identity. In this section, you will explore two foods (and the processes for acquiring them) that are strongly connected to the culture and identity of Vermont: maple syrup and venison. Whether you grew up here or first stepped foot in the state recently, this section will give you tools and perspectives about the state that surrounds you now.

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Mike Lange

People make meaning with food. One of the most powerful meanings that can be made with food is personal and cultural identity. How many people have a special dish that they bring to every family gathering? How often do we try a new version of something and think, "that's not what I grew up with"? Why do people argue endlessly about what constitutes "proper" pizza? Because food is a powerful vehicle for meaning and identity. In this section, you will explore two foods (and the processes for acquiring them) that are strongly connected to the culture and identity of Vermont: maple syrup and venison. Whether you grew up here or first stepped foot in the state recently, this section will give you tools and perspectives about the state that surrounds you now.

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Mike Lange

People make meaning with food. One of the most powerful meanings that can be made with food is personal and cultural identity. How many people have a special dish that they bring to every family gathering? How often do we try a new version of something and think, "that's not what I grew up with"? Why do people argue endlessly about what constitutes "proper" pizza? Because food is a powerful vehicle for meaning and identity. In this section, you will explore two foods (and the processes for acquiring them) that are strongly connected to the culture and identity of Vermont: maple syrup and venison. Whether you grew up here or first stepped foot in the state recently, this section will give you tools and perspectives about the state that surrounds you now.

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Kerry Noonan

The Illuminati? Q-Anon? 5-G? Area 51? Lizard people? Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere, showing up in politics, healthcare, and other important areas of our lives. What makes these narratives compelling? Why do people come to believe them? What function do they serve? How are they spread from person to person? We will use the tools and theories of folklorists to examine the history of such beliefs, analyze their types and structures, explore psychological and cultural reasons for their acceptance, and delve into the symbolic content and possible meanings of these narratives that offer to explain the inexplicable.

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Kerry Noonan

The Illuminati? Q-Anon? 5-G? Area 51? Lizard people? Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere, showing up in politics, healthcare, and other important areas of our lives. What makes these narratives compelling? Why do people come to believe them? What function do they serve? How are they spread from person to person? We will use the tools and theories of folklorists to examine the history of such beliefs, analyze their types and structures, explore psychological and cultural reasons for their acceptance, and delve into the symbolic content and possible meanings of these narratives that offer to explain the inexplicable.

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Gary Scudder

We all watch movies, but how do we watch movies? How do we dig deeper, find the more complex meaning, in films? One of the best theoretical approaches - and also one of the most misunderstood - is to hold a Marxist lens up to movies, essentially examining them in relation to deeper issues of economic and social class issues. This class will explore a century of films, ranging from early classics like "Battleship Potemkin" to modern blockbusters like "Black Panther."

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Gary Scudder

We all watch movies, but how do we watch movies? How do we dig deeper, find the more complex meaning, in films? One of the best theoretical approaches - and also one of the most misunderstood - is to hold a Marxist lens up to movies, essentially examining them in relation to deeper issues of economic and social class issues. This class will explore a century of films, ranging from early classics like "Battleship Potemkin" to modern blockbusters like "Black Panther."

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Kristin Wolf

The natural world is conceived of and defined in countless ways—as a source of subsistence and spirituality, wonder and wanderlust, resources and responsibilities. It is home to humans and non-humans alike, but is often differentiated from the built world as nature is differentiated from culture. What histories, traditions, events, perspectives, and power dynamics define our relationship to the natural world and what do they imply for our future? In this course we will study theoretical perspectives of nature, the environment, and the anthropocene and explore how they influence and are influenced by our relationship to the natural world.

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Kristin Wolf

The natural world is conceived of and defined in countless ways - as a source of subsistence and spirituality, wonder and wanderlust, resources and responsibilities. It is home to humans and non-humans alike, but is often differentiated from the built world as nature is differentiated from culture. What histories, traditions, events, perspectives, and power dynamics define our relationship to the natural world and what do they imply for our future? In this course we will study theoretical perspectives of nature, the environment, and the anthropocene and explore how they influence and are influenced by our relationship to the natural world.

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Kristin Wolf

The natural world is conceived of and defined in countless ways—as a source of subsistence and spirituality, wonder and wanderlust, resources and responsibilities. It is home to humans and non-humans alike, but is often differentiated from the built world as nature is differentiated from culture. What histories, traditions, events, perspectives, and power dynamics define our relationship to the natural world and what do they imply for our future? In this course we will study theoretical perspectives of nature, the environment, and the anthropocene and explore how they influence and are influenced by our relationship to the natural world.

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