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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Text, Image, Sound - Radio Arts and Worldbuilding
This seminar explores radio and audio media as artistic genres with the potential to build and shape communities.
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Politics, Identity, and Resistance - Liberation in Black Sexuality in the US
The course is designed to explore how Blackness within African American culture and sexuality has developed and been portrayed in the United States from enslavement into modernity.
Culture, the Arts, and Society - Philosophy as Literature
This course explores a range of topics at the intersection of philosophy and literature, all of which are related to the question of what it would mean to pursue a philosophical problem through fiction.
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Culture, the Arts, and Society - Photographing Identity: Meanings and Representations
In this class, we will consider identity and its representations in the context of documentary photography.
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Culture, the Arts, and Society - Technology in Chinese Culture and Literature
This course examines how modern technologies, from powerful gunboats to everyday objects, have been represented, imagined, and fantasized in China from the late nineteenth century to today.
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Uses of the Past - Invention of a Teenage Girl
In this course, we will explore how the “teenage girl” as a cultural construct has been invented and reinvented, and reshaped by war, social movements, and moral panics.
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Uses of the Past - Sick! A Global History of Disease
This course will explore a multitude of outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics that have affected the globe over the last two millennia.
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Peer Instructor Workshop
This course prepares current Collins residents to teach Q199 the following fall.
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Collins Options Course - Internship in Student Self-Governance and Management
This course is for returning students and student leaders at Collins who wish to translate their contributions to the living-learning center into a deeper academic experience. Students will do reading and writing that correlates with their position at Collins and leads to a more meaningful reflection on their impact on the community and on the possible translations of their work to the broader world. For more information, contact Collins director, Lara Kriegel at lkriegel@indiana.edu.
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