Collins Options Course - Cultural Diversity: Skills and Communication
This course is designed to help you recognize and understand the opportunities and challenges of cultural diversity.
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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 - Animals, Humans, and Literature
In this class we will read literary works of different eras and cultural traditions, focusing on the representations of non-human animals and their allies.
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Text, Image, Sound - Environmentalism and Extremes
This class will focus on answering how we go from early environmentalism to the wide variation of answers we witness today. SustainCollins course – open to all students.
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Text, Image, Sound - School Stories in Popular Culture
Why are school narratives so important to culture today? And what can they tell us about modern education and how we might reform it for the future? This course seeks to answer these and other questions surrounding fictions set at schools.
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Science and the Universe - Art Inspired by Mathematics
In this course, we will develop concrete connections among works of art in many artistic disciplines via abstract mathematical structures.
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Culture, the Arts, and Society - ACT Humanities Seminar
This class is the capstone seminar for the ACT Humanities Program. It is a hands-on exploration of how the arts and humanities have been used locally and globally to foster social change, connections, and development.
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Culture, the Arts, and Society - Photographing Home: Meanings and Representations
In this class, we will consider home and its representations in the context of documentary photography.
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Culture, the Arts, and Society - Self-Governance, Sustainability, and the Arts
Please note: students enroll in the course in the spring preceding the summer travel. Through this course, you’ll learn about and then witness Mexico’s local and global arts scene, cultural diversity, archaeological heritage, and community-based political institutions. Includes a required summer field experience in Oaxaca, Mexico, May 7-21. Application online: go.iu.edu/ASPIREoaxaca (deadline tba). SustainCollins course – open to all residents.
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Uses of the Past - Archives in Science
Though we may think of archives in the traditional sense as a collection of print materials that have been produced, collected, and preserved by people, this course will explore the archives produced by nature.
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Uses of the Past - Memories of World War II in Russia
Students will analyze the war's treatment in Soviet and Russian popular culture, public history, and policy by critically examining a wide variety of historical and contemporary primary sources, from speeches and newspaper articles to famous photographs, movies, and monuments.
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Uses of the Past - Pirates, Piracy, and History
This course uses interdisciplinary approaches to understand piracy in popular culture, the lived experiences of individual swashbucklers, and the world of the Golden Age of piracy.
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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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