Collins Options Course - Edible Wild Plants: Spring
We will be spending time in the outdoors observing, learning, drawing, collecting, and tasting edible wild plants. SustainCollins course – open to all residents.
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Collins Options Course - Spring Break for Kids
Learn about the resourcefulness and resilience of children dealing with the trauma of domestic violence while providing them with a fun-filled Spring Break here in Bloomington.
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Politics, Identity, and Resistance - Digital Youth Activism: East Asia
This course establishes the conceptual foundations and provides substantial knowledge of youth activism in a digital era from a feminist perspective.
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Politics, Identity, and Resistance - Modern Religion in Social Media
In this course, we explore important themes in modern religion through the lens of social media, with particular focus on the United States.
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Politics, Identity, and Resistance - University/Race/History: US and South Africa
This course situates contemporary social movements in history by exploring universities’ ties to the Atlantic slave trade, settler colonialism and apartheid.
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Science and the Universe - The Mathematics of Voting
This is a course in the procedural, rather than social, aspects of elections. We will study the mathematics of such procedures as first-past-the-post voting, ranked-choice voting, approval voting, districting, and district apportionment, to see how the specific rules of a democracy impact different notions of ‘fairness.’
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Collins Colloquium - Making Faces: Drawing and Illustration
The purpose of the seminar is for each student to explore and discover their own unique approach to portrait painting in terms of technique and style as they will be exposed to exercises within the seminar, interpreting the most telling part of our body, the human head and neck.
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Culture, The Arts, and Society - Tainted Love: Gothic Romance
We will examine how the Gothic was parodied (or was it?!) in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, tracing its evolution onto the windswept moors of Victorian England (also: vampires), and into the mid-twentieth century pulp Gothic Romance novel.
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Uses of the Past - The Myth of The Frontier
Settler colonialism is not only a historical phenomenon, it is also an ongoing political, cultural, social, and racial reality in contemporary society. To strip away the exceptionalist narrative of how the United States became a nation, this course compares the United States to two other British settler colonies: Australia and Canada.
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Uses of the Past - Gender, Sexuality, and Global History
This course engages with global issues of race, gender, and sexuality by examining case studies from the 20th Century.
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Collins Options Course - Internship in Student Self-Governance and Management
Our students gain a great deal of experience in self-government and management through our educational programming, arts management, and other student groups. This internship helps Collins students learn how these opportunities relate to their academic and professional goals.
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