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  • SPN 315 - Creativity and Dissidence in Modern Latin America

    4 credits (Spring)
    A study of selected, representative works from the 1920s through the 1960s. Emphasis on texts manifesting social conscience and artistic experimentation; treatment of the culture of protest and imaginative cultural expression. Consideration of poetry, narrative, and visual arts. Conducted in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Aparicio
  
  • SPN 317 - Readings in U.S. Latinx Literature and Culture

    4 credits (Fall)
    This discussion-based course provides a broad approach to U.S. Latinx literature. We will explore filmic and literary texts that voice the multiple and varied experiences of different generations of U.S. Latinxs from different national origins and cultures. We will pay particular attention to the construction of identity in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and class; bilingualism and code-switching; the experiences of the exile, the immigrant, and the refugee; the marketing of the U.S. Latinx identity; and the construction of community. Texts and films may be in English (with some Spanish) while discussions and written work will be in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Petrus
  
  • SPN 320 - Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking World

    4 credits (Fall and/or Spring)
    Examines diverse cultures of the Spanish-speaking world, including Latin America, Spain and the United States. May focus on one or multiple regions. Possible topics include: food, cultures, immigration, visual cultures. May use academic articles, film, literary texts, music. Taught in Spanish. Variable content. May be repeated for credit when content changes. Up to 8 credits may count toward the major. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.

    Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
    Note: Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Staff
  
  • SPN 343 - The Art of Language

    4 credits (Fall and Spring)
    Study of Spanish grammar to improve ability to express oneself with ease. Students will review and strengthen their understanding and use of morphological and syntactic aspects of Spanish while developing their competence to explain how the structure of Spanish functions.

    Prerequisite: SPN 285 .
    Note: Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Valentín
  
  • SPN 377 - Modernization and Innovation in Contemporary Latin America

    4 credits (Fall)
    A study of selected, representative works since 1960, including internationally respected literature of the “Boom,” subsequent fiction, and recent poetic revolutions. Conducted in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Aparicio
  
  • SPN 379 - U.S. Latinx Identities and Sexualities

    4 credits (Spring)
    This interdisciplinary course focuses on Latinx sexualities and identities. This course will focus on literary analysis of a variety of genres and cultural texts that have served as inspiration and influence for diverse communities of Latinxs. Students will explore artistic and theoretical contributions by Latinx scholars and artists related to the construction, the performance, and the questioning of gender roles. We will study the relation between literary works and the formation and conceptualization of Latinx and Chicanx identities and communities. Finally, we will focus on artistic-intellectual interventions that reflect the heterogeneity of more contemporary Latinx and Chicanx communities, with special attention to the diversity of thought on gender and sexuality. At the end of the course, students will present their research on gender roles, power, and sexual hegemonies based on literary analysis of Latinx cultural texts. Texts will be in English, Spanish, or Spanglish. Class discussion and all written work will be in Spanish. 

    Prerequisite: SPN 311 SPN 312 SPN 314 SPN 315 , SPN 317  or SPN-295 on literature.
    Note: Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Petrus
  
  • SPN 383 - The Latin American Colonial World

    4 credits (Fall)
    A study of the texts and debates surrounding initial encounters between Spaniards, indigenous and African peoples in the “New World,” and the establishment of Colonial culture and society. Spanish, indigenous, mestizo, and African perspectives are considered through the study of myth, narratives, poetry, autobiography, and film. Conducted in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Benoist
  
  • SPN 384 - Spanish Dialectology

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will examine the history and diversity of the Spanish-speaking world, from both historical and synchronic perspectives. The diachronic perspective will focus on the historical, cultural, social, and linguistic factors that were involved in the origin of different Spanish dialects. The synchronic perspective will provide a linguistic description (phonological, morpho-syntactic, and lexical) of various Spanish dialects as spoken today. Students will work with oral and written texts produced in different varieties of Spanish in order to recognize those varieties and identify the linguistic features that characterize each of them.

    Prerequisite: SPN 343  or LIN 114  and permission of instructor.
    Note: Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Valentín
  
  • SPN 385 - Studies in Contemporary Spanish Literature and Film

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course examines Spanish narrative and film from the 20th and 21st centuries to explore the development of a modern, global Spain. Topics discussed include Franco’s dictatorship, the democratic transition, human rights, and the place of cultural production in social movements for “historical memory.”  Conducted in Spanish.

    Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Phillips
  
  • SPN 386 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course examines medieval and early modern literature in its cultural and historical context. The specific topic of the course may vary to focus on a specific genre, author, or theme. Conducted in Spanish. For current course content please see the variable topic course listing below or search the online live schedule of courses.

    Prerequisite: SPN 311 , SPN 312 , SPN 314 , SPN 315 , SPN 317 , or SPN-295 on literature.
    Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
    Instructor: Pérez

Special Topics-Fall

  
  • ANT 295-01 - Special Topic: Nature and Culture on the American Prairie

    4 credits (Fall)
    Grinnell lies at the center of North America’s tallgrass prairie, a region steeped in history yet constantly changing.  We will examine the major transformations in the prairie region: migration of prairie into the area 8000 years ago, indigenous people’s adaptations, nineteenth century culture clashes, destruction of the prairie for agriculture, rise of industrial agriculture and globalization, changing demographics, late twentieth century movements to reclaim environmental and community vitality, and artistic commentaries on the above.  Field trips. 

    Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
    Note: Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Andelson
  
  • ANT 295-02 - Special Topic: The Anthropology of Disaster

    4 credits (Fall)
    Disasters have become increasingly common throughout the world.  The chances that we will be affected, directly or indirectly, by a major disaster increases daily.   Using ethnographic case studies of recent disasters in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe, students will critically examine the ways in which natural, sociocultural and technological systems interact to produce catastrophe.   

    Prerequisite: ANT 104 .
    Instructor: Kulstad
  
  • ARH 295-01 - Special Topic: Arts and Visual Cultures of China

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course explores the arts and visual cultures of China from the Neolithic period through the nineteenth century. We will consider diverse media including painting, prints, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, jade, and architecture, as well as works in the College Art Collection. A central theme will be the role that various (non-Han Chinese) ethnic groups played in shaping  the arts of the Chinese court, with special emphasis on cultural exchange with Central Asia and the Steppe.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Not open to first-years
    Instructor: Shea
  
  • ARH 295-02 - Special Topic: Modern Architecture and Globalization

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course offers a survey of developments in modern architecture from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period, with a focus on globalization. In the course, we will discuss the aesthetic, political, and social contexts of architecture, including colonialism, urbanization, industrialization, semiotics, and consumerism. Reading texts by architects, critics, and scholars, students will examine local, regional, and national examples of modern architecture in conjunction with prominent global trends in the field.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Instructor: Rivera
  
  • ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Visualizing Freedom and Abolition in the New World - A Mixed Media Installation.

    2 credits (Fall)
    This course will explore ideas and images of freedom and abolition from the Caribbean to the Midwestern frontier, resulting in a permanent installation for the new HSSC building. Students will research images regarding the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plantation economies and the abolitionist movement, and will collaborate with artist Edouard Duval-Carrie in a mixed media artwork made from epoxy resin in molds. Each “block” will use images to tell a different history regarding freedom and abolition. 

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Dates September 18 to September 27 and October 23 to November 1. Short course deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Duvall
  
  • ART 295-02 - Special topic: Sculpture: Multiples

    4 credits (Fall)
    In this course students will explore replication of form in sculpture. Using rigid and flexible moulds as well as direct casting we will work with a variety of materials including plaster, concrete, wax, paper, ceramic, fabric, latex, and rubber. Students will work with traditional and innovative practices to develop original creative work.

    Prerequisite: ART 111 .
    Instructor: Running
  
  • BIO 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Methods in Forensic Entomology

    2 credits (Fall)
    Forensic entomology entails the utility of insects in litigation, including criminal investigations. By tracking colonization and succession of insects to a corpse, scientists can approximate the location and time of death of a body. Students will explore the identity and biology of insects that colonize a corpse throughout the various stages of decomposition. This methods-based course emphasizes application of biological concepts from cellular to ecological levels, and underscores the interaction of biology and society.

    Prerequisite: BIO 252 .
    Note: Meets August 24 to October 12. Half semester deadlines apply
    Instructor: Villarreal
  
  • CSC 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Molecular Programming and Nanoscale Self-Assembly

    4 credits (Fall)
    Molecular programming is an interdisciplinary field that aims to program both the function and structure of matter at the nanoscale. The primary focus of this course is an overview of the most  prevalent molecular programming language: the chemical reaction network. We will explore their ability to compute, how they are programmed, and how to compile them into physical molecules. We will also survey methods of self-assembly, including DNA origami and DNA tile self-assembly.

    Prerequisite: CSC 161  and CSC 208 .
    Instructor: Klinge
  
  • ECN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Experimental and Behavioral Economics

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course is an introduction to the tradition and methods of behavioral economics, including the use of experiments. Behavioral economics applies insights from psychology to improve our understanding of the decision making process and generate better predictions about the behavior of economic actors. Behavioral economists have developed a variety of theoretical tools supported by laboratory experiments as well as empirical findings from large data sets, field experiments and even “natural” experiments.

    Prerequisite: ECN 280 .
    Instructor: H. Chen
  
  • EDU 295-01 - Special Topic: Critical Literacy for Diverse Learners

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course will examine literacy and literacy education from historical, theoretical, critical, and pedagogical perspectives. Guiding questions include: How do schools define literacy?  To what extent do schools draw upon variously situated students’ home-based and community-based literacy practices? How do students acquire literacy in a second language if they do not possess literacy in their primary home language? What is the relation between critical literacy practices (e.g., media literacy, new literacies) and school-based, academic literacy?

    Prerequisite: EDU 101 .
    Instructor: Jones
  
  • ENG 295-02 - Special Topic: Literary Tourism

    2 credits (Fall)
    A special topic  course on reading and writing as a kind of  literary tourism, presented in partnership with  the International Writing Program, featuring  award-winning Kenya novelist Yvonne Adhiamo  Owuor.

    Prerequisite: ENG 205  or ENG 206 ; waivers my be given to students with some previous coursework in literature. See Professor Dean Bakopoulos to request a waiver.
    S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Owuo
  
  • ENG 395-01 - Special Topic: Screenwriting

    4 credits (Fall)
    A seminar on the conception, writing, and production of low-budget, place-based independent films. Students will study acclaimed independent films while writing their own screenplays. In addition, students will participate in the pre-production discussions of a screenplay set in contemporary Grinnell, written by the course professors, and directed by visiting artist Julian Goldberger. 

    Prerequisite: ENG 205 ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
    Instructor: Bakopoulos, Nutting
  
  • GEN 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Grinnell Scholar’s Seminar

    1 credits (Fall)
    Discussion seminar focused on the research and theory of learning, cognition, and motivation, and on the human and environmental factors that impact these processes. Students will practice  evidence-based strategies and apply them to the students’ existing courses with opportunities for reflection and feedback.

    Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and others with instructor permission.
    Note: Instruction is available without credit (from the Academic Advising Office) to students who cannot take the course or who need only occasional assistance. Meets September 18 to November 15, 1/2 semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Backous
  
  • GWS 295-01 - Special Topic: Disability & Race

    4 credits (Fall)
    In this course, we will study the intersections of race and disability in their historical production, systemic overlap as ableism and racism, cultural representation, and political experiential dimensions. Through interdisciplinary examples, we will discuss the production of whiteness through definitions of health and disease, the role of race in the medicalization of physical, mental, and intellectual difference, and the ”fantasies of identification” that attempt to fix embodied social identities.

    Prerequisite: GWS 111 
    Instructor: Koch-Rein
  
  • GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Transnational Transgender Studies

    4 credits (Fall)
    In this course we will consider the movement of transgender phenomena, knowledges, and practices across regions, nations, and rural-urban spaces. We will draw on a range of disciplines and cultural imaginaries - sexology, anthropology, history, and film - to study examples of localizing trans* in specific inter/national, cultural contexts, including India, Iran, China, Brazil, the Philippines, Namibia/South Africa, Mexico, Japan, and North America. How do these approaches view transgender phenomena, what are their agendas and perspectives, how do they situate the people and communities they study? What do they teach us about gender, sexuality, and how to understand them in context? Looking at examples of transnational analyses, we will formulate and discuss our own expectations for Transnational Transgender Studies.

    Prerequisite: GWS 111  and GWS 249 
    Instructor: Koch-Rein
  
  • HIS 295-01 - Special Topic: The History of U.S.-Latin American Relations.

    4 credits (Fall)
    This class surveys the relations between the U.S. and Latin America from 1810 to the 1990s. The course provides an overview U.S. policy towards Latin America and how these relations shaped the region, but it also tries to demonstrate that Latin Americans also played a role in shaping hemispheric relations and that both sides were affected culturally and politically by this entangled history.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Silva
  
  • HIS 295-02 - Special Topic: The Crusades in the Middle East

    4 credits (fall)
    See REL 295-02 .

  
  • HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Politics of Human Thriving

    2 credits (Fall)
    Cross-listed as: SST 295-01 . What does it mean to live beyond mere existence–to thrive as a human being? This course, tied to the 2017-2018 Center for Humanities annual theme, the Politics of Human Thriving, will explore this question from a variety of perspectives.  Topics throughout the year will include belongingness, sexual violence, race, gender, and the intersection of arts and activism. Students will read and discuss selections from visiting scholars and will attend related Human Center programming.

    Prerequisite: None.
    S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Elfenbein
  
  • HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Mental Health Policy and Outreach

    2 credits (Fall)
    This course will examine specific issues in state and national mental health policy that are largely unknown or misunderstood by the public. We will learn how to use data analysis and digital humanities to prepare digital stories that are compelling and accessible for a general audience. Students will coordinate with Non-Profits to create materials such as brief videos, podcasts, and info-graphics, which can be disseminated through social media and traditional media outlets.

    Prerequisite: Second-semester standing.
    Note: Meets August 25 to October 13. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Nyden
  
  • HUM 295-03 - Special Topic: The Open Door: An Introduction to Arabic Literature

    2 credits (Fall)
    The course will use literature (in translation) to explore cultural, political and social developments in the modern/contemporary Arab world. We will read a collection of translated works from different Arab authors, examining issues such as identity, feminism, alienation, and encounters with the West.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Dates: August 28 to October 9. Short course deadlines apply. Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Ramadan
  
  • LAT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Petronius

    4 credits (Fall)
    Readings from Petronius’ Satyrica, a controversial, hilarious, biting satire of imperial Rome and arguably the first extant novel of the Western world. Analyses and discussions will give special attention to the Satyrica’s genre and form, style, and cultural context (including ancient homosexuality, Roman slavery, and the principate).

    Prerequisite: LAT 222 .
    Instructor: Dixon
  
  • MAT 295-01 - Special Topic: Introduction to Data Science

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course introduces core topics in data science using R programming. This includes introductions to getting and cleaning data, data management, exploratory data analysis, reproducible research, and data visualization. This course incorporates case studies from multiple disciplines and emphasizes the importance of properly communicating statistical ideas.

    Prerequisite: MAT 209 . Suggested: CSC 151  or computer programming experience.
    Instructor: Jonkman, Kuiper
  
  • PHI 295-01 - Special Topic: African-American Political Thought

    4 credits (Fall)
    Co-requisite: This course will survey the deep and dark history of dreams, accomplishments, and roadblocks that have constituted and continue to influence the ways Blacks in America negotiate a compromised political position. Traversing history from the captured slave, to the Reformation and Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights movement in the modern day reflections on the role of civil society, police, and entertainment; we will reflect on the desires, goals, and hurdles that Blacks have faced while trying to articulate a sense of freedom within a white supremacist regime.
    Prerequisite: PHI 111 .
    Instructor: Mubirumusoke
  
  • PHI 295-02 - Special Topic: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course examines the distinctive questions and challenges that inform the practice of the social (or human) sciences from a philosophical perspective. Some key topics we will consider are: the relationship between the natural and social sciences; the nature of social explanations (i.e., the relevance and nature of causation, explanation, prediction, laws, and social mechanisms according to the social sciences); the significance of interpretation and meaning for understanding human behavior; reductionism, individualism, and holism in the social sciences; objectivity and value judgments; the idea and practice of critical social science for social critique.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Instructor: Koo
  
  • POL 295-01 - Special Topic: Political Psychology

    4 credits (Fall)
    Using tools drawn from cognitive and social psychology, the course examines how individuals construct attitudes, engage in political decision-making, and interact with others in the public sphere. The course provides an overview of the subfield, as it delves into the key issues and controversies in the study of the political psychology.

    Prerequisite: POL 101 .
    Instructor: Dawkins
  
  • POL 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Seminar in Comparative Politics

    4 credits (Fall)
    A research-oriented advanced course in comparative politics. The first half of the course will examine a selection of primary theories and methodological approaches taken in comparative politics. In the second half of the course, students will develop an independent research project that builds on earlier work conducted at the 200-level. The course emphasizes empirical political science employing a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches.

    Prerequisite: POL 255 POL 257 POL 258 POL 261 POL 262 , or POL 273 .  Completion of MAT 115  or MAT 209  strongly recommended.
    Instructor: Lussier
  
  • PSY 295-01 - Special Topic: Health Psychology Across Lifespan

    4 credits (Fall)
    In this course we will explore psychological and social processes that contribute to physical health and wellness across the life span. We will focus on the development of thoughts and behaviors, such as risk taking, eating, and physical activity that contribute to health outcomes. We will explore how stress, coping, and thriving contribute to physical health. We will examine psychological responses to chronic and terminal illness. Finally, we will consider strategies of health promotion.

    Prerequisite: PSY 113 .
    Instructor: Ellis
  
  • PSY 295-02 - Special Topic: Cross-cultural Psychology

    4 credits (Fall)
    Psychological findings are often presented as if they are universal. In this course we will examine theories and processes in cognition, perception, language, development, and mental health from a cross-cultural perspective. There will be a focus on examining universality and difference across culture and on the interactions between psychology subfields (e.g., the influence of language on cognition). Students will read primary and secondary literature and be evaluated on discussion, written reflections, and exams.

    Prerequisite: PSY 113 .
    Instructor: E. Kelty-Stephen
  
  • REL 295-01 - Special Topic: The Life of the Qur’an

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course explores the life of the Qur’an as a text and cultural object. We explore literary and other aspects of the Qur’an and how Muslim communities have brought the Qur’an to life throughout history. In addition to reading selections of the Qur’an, we will see how the Qur’an receives expression in material, visual, and aural culture.

    Prerequisite: REL 101 REL 102 REL 103 REL 104 REL 105 , or second-year standing.
    Instructor: Saba
  
  • REL 295-02 - Special Topic: The Crusades in the Middle East

    4 credits (Fall)
    Cross-listed as: HIS 295-02 . What did it feel like to get crusaded? In this course, we will examine the roughly two-century period from the First Crusade in 1095 to the final expulsion of Latin Crusaders from the Middle East in 1291. Our explorations will center on the perspectives of the invaded, rather than the invaders. How did Muslims, Jews, and Easter Christians of the medieval Middle East respond to the presences of the Frankish invaders from Europe?

    Prerequisite: REL 101 REL 102 REL 103 REL 104 REL 105 HIS 100  , or ssecond-year standing.
    Instructor: Saba
  
  • SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: American Whiteness

    4 credits (Fall)
    This course examines whiteness as a specific racial formation with a distinct history, proactive and defensive politics, and institutional and personal investments. To give whiteness a  specific content, we will study the historical expansion of the category, the formal and informal advantages that accrue to whiteness, the internal diversity of the category, and the continuous challenges to whiteness, both conceptual and material. We will use historical, economic and sociological studies of racial formation to “capture” whiteness in production and re-creation cycles. The course will make use of empirical and advances theoretical insights to gain leverage on studying whiteness.

    Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
    Instructor: Erickson
  
  • SOC 295-02 - Special Topic: Analyzing Religion: A Sociological Agenda

    4 credits (Fall)
    Does religion oppress or liberate? Is it alienating , or a force of social solidarity? Are we becoming more secular? This is a course in the social scientific study of religion as a social institution. It examines behavior, belonging and belief, as well as the relationships and processes that sustain religious systems of meaning. Examines cults, new religious movements, capitalism, and the impact of religion on other social categories such as gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.

    Prerequisite: SOC 111 .
    Instructor: Snook
  
  • SST 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Overview of Finance and Valuation

    .5 credits (Fall)
    This is a short course offered by financial expert Stephen Moyer ‘79. The course will cover a range of topics in the areas of financial analysis and corporate valuation. The course will be of particular  interest to students who are interested in preparing for careers in investment banking and other areas of financial services. Through interactive case studies, students will learn how to build a 3S project, conduct corporate valuations, perform credit analyses, structure LBO transactions and IPOs.  Students will be required to complete between 10 and 15 hours of readings and assignments outside of the scheduled class periods. Students will receive the required readings well in advance of the intensive course.

    Prerequisite: ECN 326  or complete (with documenting certificates) two online courses offered by Coursera (www.coursera.org): Introduction to Financial Accounting and More Introduction to Financial Accounting.
    Note: Dates: August 31 to September 3. Short course deadlines apply.
    Instructor: S. Moyer
  
  • SST 195-03 - Introductory Special Topic: SOLIYA Cross-Cultural Dialogue

    .5 credits (Fall)
    Develop 21st century skills such as multi-cultural awareness, empathy, and cross-cultural communication. Gain an understanding of the perspectives of others around the world concerning current socio-political issues and why they may feel the way they do. Students meet (virtually) with the same group of 10-12 students from institutions around the world to share opinions, hear others’ ideas about critical issues, and build contacts with future leaders.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Dates: November 6 to November 30. Short course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: C. Moisan, Duke
  
  • SST 295-01 - Special Topic: Politics of Human Thriving

    2 credits (Fall)
    See HUM 295-01 .

  
  • SST 295-02 - Special Topic: Preparing for Off-Campus Study: Methods Training for the Field

    1 credits (Fall)
    This course is for students applying for, going on, or thinking about off-campus study who would like tools, methods, and ideas to make the most of it. The instructor will introduce  students to basics of ethnographic research methods. Some issues covered include: establishing personal goals; interacting with people of other cultural backgrounds; observing and   interviewing; documenting and reflecting on an experience; and responding ethically to a student’s unique position.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Dates: September 4 to November 13. Half-semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Larson
  
  • SST 295-03 - Special Topic: Ethical Leadership in the Workplace

    2 credits (Fall)
    This course address several ethical issues in the workplace settings focusing on effective communication and analytical skills toenhance leadership skills. Students will frequently discuss case studies, engage in group work, and prepare memos. Sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership. Taught by Steve Weiss ‘77, retired general counsel and senior VP of MidAmerican Energy Company, and retired administrative law judge at the Illinois Commerce Commission.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Class time will run from 90-105 minutes per week. Dates: September 11 to November 20. Half-semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Weiss
  
  • SST 295-04 - Special Topic: Real Life Entrepreneurship

    1 credits (Fall)
    Students will gain insights into business realities and pitfalls.  They will learn the  basics on how to start and build a company as an  entrepreneur, and how to improve a business  segment within an existing company as an  intrapreneur.  Through examination of real-life  scenarios, students will become familiar with  common sense approaches to business, with  thinking-outside-the-box, and with the  lowest-common-denominator method of thinking.  This is a Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership sponsored alumni short course; taught by Sanjay Khanna ‘85.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Dates: October 24 to November 09. Short course deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Khana
  
  • THD 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Jazz-Tap Dance Technique, Repertory and Choreography

    1 or 2 credits credits (Fall)
    An exploration of Jazz-Tap dance technique, repertory, and choreography. Jazz or Rhythm Tap uses the whole body as a musical instrument and focuses on the production of sound as music. All forms of tap share common roots in Africa polyrhythms and European musical phrasing and body positions. In addition to learning social and concert dances from tap tradition  and vernacular jazz repertory; we will look at filmed historical performances and tap history.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Dates: October 30 to November 10. Short course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Kilkelly

Special Topics-Spring

  
  • AMS 295-01 - Special Topic: Migrants, Refugees, and Diasporas

    4 credits Spring)
    See SOC 295-01  or PCS 295-01 .

    Instructor: Quinsaat
  
  • ANT 295-01 - Special Topci: Lenses on Antisemitism/Anti-Semitism

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course examines themes informing anti-Jewish attitudes channeled into a “new anti-Semitism” focused exclusively on Jewish nationality and nationalism, terms to be explored during this semester. Cumulatively, the readings provide a loose overview of theological, racial, social and political anti-Semitism. Political anti-Semitism offers up important corollary questions concerning the relationship(s) between identities, power and knowledge, the consequences of globalization on stereotypes and (mis)representation of people/places, and importantly, the role and political consequences of academic activism.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Instructor: Gibel Mevorach
  
  • ANT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Global Ethography and Transnationalism

    4 credits (Spring)
    Ethnography has historically consisted of in-depth descriptions and examinations of micro-level interactions occurring in very specific localities, hence anthropologist would travel to “the field” to do their work. Many anthropologists have increasingly decoupled the notations of ethnography and locality and have become interested in examining cultural formations that transcend national borders, the formation of new identities and grappled with new forms of representation that these entail. This course examines how anthropologists do global ethnography and how they explore the emergence of transnational identities where attachments, sense of belonging and allegiances are reconfigured and challenged.

    Prerequisite: ANT 104  and ANT 280 .
    Instructor: Escandell
  
  • ARH 295-01 - Special Topic: The Global Mongol Century: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: EAS 295-01 . In this class, we will explore the arts and visual cultures of Mongol-controlled lands in Eurasia ca. 1250-1400. Loosely following Marco Polo’s travels, we will ”travel” from Italy to China, recreating the visual landscape of particular urban centers. Using primary documents and visual material, including illuminated manuscripts, textiles, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, we will come to a clearer understanding of the interwoven networks in Eurasia during this period.

    Prerequisite: ARH 103 
    Instructor: Shea
  
  • ARH 295-02 - Special Topic: Gender & Sexuality East Asian Art

    4.00 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: EAS 295-02 . This class explores themes of gender and sexuality in the arts of China, Japan, and the East Asian Steppe, from the beginning of the Common Era to the present day. We will be looking at a variety of media, including paintings, prints, photographs, and ceramics, as well as the diverse cultural contexts in which this art was produced and consumed.

    Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
    Instructor: Shea
  
  • ARH 295-03 - Special Topic: Art, Media & the Built Environment in Cuba

    4 credits (Spring)
    In his famous 1961 speech to artists, writers, and intellectuals, Fidel Castro proclaimed: “Within the Revolution, everything…” Castro was indicating not only the terms of censorship for the new socialist government, but the ideological means of cultural production that would come to dominate the island nation in the following decades. This class analyzes art, media, and the built environment as they relate to concepts of revolution, utopia, and cubanidad, or “Cubanness.” Looking at material ranging from works by Cuba’s artistic vanguardia of the 1920s to contemporary debates regarding internet access and new media, we explore how the visual can be both symbolic of state interests and illustrative of subversions to the state.

    Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
    Note: This course includes required travel to Cuba over spring break. Students will be required to pay a $400 participation fee (most other required travel expenses will be covered). This fee will be added to the student tuition bill and is due by the first day of classes. If payment of this fee causes you financial concern, please contact Gretchen Zimmermann in the Financial Aid Office to discuss loan options to cover this additional cost for attendance.
    Instructor: Rivera
  
  • ARH 295-04 - Special Topic: Riverscaping: American Art and Ecology

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will look at 19th to 21st century American art by examining the human domination of geographical territories and natural resources. We will use academic perspectives including science, literature, music, and film to address how race, class, and sexuality are bound within a framework of ecology in American art. Although largely based on reading and discussion, this class will also include field trips and guest presentations.

    Prerequisite: ARH 103 .
    Instructor: Sivert
  
  • ART 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Art/Biology Investigations through Drawing


    See BIO 195-01 .

  
  • ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Print Matters: History, Theory, Praxis

    4 credits (Spring)
    See GRM 295-01 .

    Instructor: Byrd, Chen
  
  • ART 295-02 - Special Topic: Just for You: Between Art and Performance

    2 credits (Spring)
    See THD 295-02 .

  
  • BIO 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Art/Biology Investigations through Drawing

    1 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: ART 195-01 . This  course will provide a general understanding of  the philosophical links between art and biology.  Through the combination of artistic and  scientific methodologies the group will explore  the shared forms and symmetries of organisms as  well as aspects of their development.  Experimental drawing methods will be practiced in  biological collections, the laboratory, and the  field.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Dates: April 2 to April 20. Short course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Anderson
  
  • BIO 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: Global Health: Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, and the United States


    See SOC 195-01 .

  
  • CHI 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Love and Impermanence, Feast and Reclusion: Major Themes in Classical Chinese Lyrical Tradition


    Cross-listed as: EAS 195-01  and GLS 195-01 . We will read in translation and study  the formulation of a Chinese lyrical tradition  through reading a selection of famous Chinese  poems from the antiquity to medieval China. As we  appreciate the individual poems by examining the  metric, structural and stylistic features unique  to classical Chinese poetry, the historical and  cultural contexts in which these poems were  produced and consumed will also be considered. 

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Plus-2 option available.
    Instructor: Tang
  
  • CLS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Greek Ethical Thought

    4 credits (Spring)
    See PHI 395-01 .

  
  • EAS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Love and Impermanence, Feast and Reclusion: Major Themes in Classical Chinese Lyrical Tradition

    4 credits (Spring)
    See CHI 195-01  or GLS 195-01 .

  
  • EAS 295-01 - Special Topic: The Global Mongol Century: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo


    See ARH 295-01 .

  
  • EAS 295-02 - Special Topic: Gender & Sexuality East Asian Art

    4 credits (Spring)
    See ARH 295-02 .

  
  
  • ECN 295-01 - Special Topic: Globalization and Trade Policy

    4 credits (Spring)
    The main theme of this course is globalization with a focus on international trade. We start out by discussing past and current trends in world trade; theoretical foundations of why and what nations trade and their welfare implications. We then introduce the political economy of trade policy and institutions of trade as well as examine trade agreements. Through readings and class discussions we cover current debates/controversies in trade-related globalization topics.

    Prerequisite: ECN 111 .
    Instructor: Karacaovali
  
  • ECN 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Advanced Econometrics

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course expands upon the econometrics background provided by ECN 286, exploring the underlying properties of the estimators and learning to program their calculation in STATA.  We will use matrix algebra to derive and calculate ordinary least squares, restricted least squares, generalized least squares, and instrumental variables, and use maximum likelihood estimation to explore, probit, logit, tobit and sample selection models.

    Prerequisite: ECN 286 .
    Instructor: Montgomery
  
  • EDU 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: How Colleges Work: An Introduction to US Higher Education

    2 credits (Spring)
    This course provides an overview of how colleges  work. It surveys the purpose of higher education,  and examines US higher education from systemic,  organizational, professional, economic, and  sociological perspectives. Encountering  literature such as college leadership roles,  faculty worklife, and student development, this  course will introduce students to the study of  higher education and some of the prominent  authors and theories in the field.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Dates: March 12 to May 09. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Robinson
  
  • EDU 295-01 - Special Topic: Education Policy and Politics

    4 credits (Spring)
    Over the past 60 years schools in America have shifted from highly localized institutions to institutions that are increasingly influenced by state and national policy makers. This change has brought ideas about how students should learn, what students should learn, and how schools should be organized to the forefront of political campaigns and platforms.

    Prerequisite: EDU 101  or second-year standing.
    Instructor: Hastings
  
  • ENG 295-01 - Special Topic: Lighting the Page: Digital Methods in Literary Studies

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will introduce students to methods used in the digital humanities, with a special emphasis on applications to literary studies. Readings will include literary texts as well as recent contributions to criticism and theory in digital humanities. The three major sections of the course will involve 1) engaging the theory and practice of electronic literature, then writing a work of e-lit; 2) creating a group web project about geography and race in Washington, D.C. based on Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City, and 3) engaging in computational text analysis of literary works and student writing, including introductory exercises in Python programming. No technical skills are required, but willingness to gain them is fundamental to the course.

    Prerequisite: ENG 120  or ENG 121 .
    Instructor: Simpson
  
  • ENG 295-02 - Special Topic: Contemporary Irish Fiction

    1 credits (Spring)
    The  course in contemporary Irish fiction will take an  overview of current Irish writing with a general  focus on global anxieties around migration and  identity. As  a country, which has traditionally  seen so many of its people emigrating to other  parts of the world, Ireland has, through its  vibrant contemporary literature, begun to reflect  wider perspectives on the key issues of belonging  and refuge. In a series of seminars, which allow  for open discussion on attitudes towards home and  family, students will have the opportunity  examine a shifting cultural awareness in Irish  writing, taking a close look at three women  writers - Edna O’Brien, Anne Enright, Molly  McCloskey - whose work reflects the changing  understanding of the times we live in. Students  will create their own story, essay, or series of  poems, along similar theses as a final project in  the course.

    Prerequisite: ENG 205  or ENG 206 .
    Note: Dates: April 2 to April 16. Short course deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Hamilton
  
  • ENG 295-03 - Special Topic: Citizen Maxine Waters: Selling the Shadow and the Vulnerabilities of Black Women

    1 credits (Spring)
    Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has emerged as the embodiment of popular resistance to Trump’s  policies and persona. More than a meme, Waters represents much of what the popular media likes to believe about Black women: that they are impenetrable, outspoken, and fearless. The truth is, Black women’s emotional realities are much more complex. This class mines Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric to identify the literary and cultural practices Black women employ to combat invisibility, hypervisibility, and misrecognition.

    Prerequisite: ENG 120  or GWS 111 .
    Instructor: Benjamin
  
  • ENG 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Screenwriting

    4 credits (Spring)
    A seminar on the conception, writing, and production of low-budget, place-based independent films. Students will study acclaimed independent films while writing their own screenplays. In addition, students will participate in the pre-production discussions of a screenplay set in contemporary Grinnell, written by the course professors, and directed by visiting artist Julian Goldberger.

    Prerequisite: ENG 205 ENG 206 , or ENG 207 .
    Instructor: Bakopoulos
  
  • GEN 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Grinnell Scholar’s Seminar

    1 credits (Spring)
    Discussion seminar focused on the research and theory of learning, cognition, and motivation, and on the human and environmental factors that impact these processes. Students will practice evidence-based strategies and apply them to the students’ existing courses with opportunities for reflection and feedback.

    Prerequisite: Open to first-year students and to others with instructor permission.
    Note: Instruction available without credit (from the Academic Advising Office) to students who cannot take the course or who need only occasional assistance. Dates: January 29 to March 12. 1/2 semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only.
    Instructor: Backous
  
  • GEN 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: First Year Experience

    1 credits (Spring)
    Course aims to support first-year students successful transition to college by developing skills and supporting their development. Topics include self-care, coping, mental health, harm reduction, sexual respect, consent, healthy relationships, active bystanderism, personal identity, dialogue across difference, self-governance, diversity and social justice basics, belonging and flourishing, and mentorship.

    Prerequisite: Open to first-year students only.
    Note: Dates: January 29 to March 12. 1/2 semester deadlines apply. S/D/F only
    Instructor: Gilbert
  
  • GLS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Love and Impermanence, Feast and Reclusion: Major Themes in Classical Chinese Lyrical Tradition

    4 credits (Spring)
    See CHI 195-01  or EAS 195-01 .

  
  • GRM 295-01 - Special Topic: Print Matters: History, Theory, Praxis

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: ART 295-01 . This course is an introduction to cultures of print. Students will learn to historicize and theorize the materials, techniques, and processes related to analog and digital print media. Students will produce intaglio, relief and letterpress prints using analog and digital processes. Examining specific events, moments and movements, students will pose questions how cultural history and print processes intersect.

    Prerequisite: None if taken as GRM-295-01; ART 111  if taken as ART-295-01.
    Instructor: Byrd, Chen
  
  • GRM 295-02 - Special Topic: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Germany

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: HIS 295-02 . This seminar explores the relationship between race, gender, and sexuality in modern German history. From this perspective, we will explore anti-Semitism; same-sex sexuality; colonialism; as well as war genocide. We will also pay attention to significance of intimacy and difference in the histories of Germany’s postwar reconstruction as we consider narratives that destabilize Germany’s racialized and gendered national identify until this day.

    Prerequisite: HIS 100  or second-year standing.
    Instructor: Samper Vendrell
  
  • GWS 295-01 - Special Topic: Dogs, Identities, & Culture

    4 credits (Spring)
    In this course we will investigate how categories such as race, class, gender, disability, and sexuality speak to dog cultures and cultural dogs. We will discuss human-dog relationships, histories, and material practices (e.g. dog boutiques, dog fighting, service dogs, solider dogs) and will analyze visual and narrative dog representations. We will approach dogs as “companion species” (Donna Haraway) in feminist theory through interdisciplinary perspectives ranging from animial studies to history, legal studies, and ethics.

    Prerequisite: GWS 111 .
    Instructor: Koch-Rein
  
  • GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Masculinity & American Literature

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course examines how masculinities are represented, contested, and negotiated in American literature. Foregrounding female and transgender masculinities, we will analyze the role of race, class, gender, and sexuality in depictions of masculinities in literature. We will ask why so many canonical texts, exhibit anxiety about masculinity in crisis, and link that literary history to our present and social and political context. At the same time, we will read marginal texts that offer a fluid range of masculine possibilities.

    Prerequisite: GWS 111  and GWS 249 .
    Instructor: Allen
  
  • GWS 395-02 - Advanced Special Topic: Queering Race, Racing Queer

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will examine what queer studies scholarship can teach us about the social construction of race in the US. To do so, the course will provide an introduction to queer of color critique and other queer studies scholarship that centrally engages questions of race, exploring this dynamic field including its origins in women of color feminism, foundational texts, and recent scholarship.

    Prerequisite: GWS 111  and GWS 249 .
    Instructor: Vitulli
  
  • HIS 295-01 - Special Topic: Digital Methods in Historical Studies

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will introduce students to methods used in the digital humanities, with a special emphasis on applications to historical studies. Students will create projects and study existing digital projects, with a special focus on U.S. History in a global context. Readings will include primary sources as well as recent contributions to theory in digital humanities. We will learn general principles of working with humanistic data as well as techniques such as building online exhibitions, digital mapping, and computational analysis of text. No technical skills or experience in digital humanities work are required, but willingness to gain both are fundamental to the class.

    Prerequisite: HIS 100 .
    Instructor: Purcell
  
  • HIS 295-02 - Special Topic: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Modern Germany

    4 credits (Spring)
    See GRM 295-02 .

  
  • HIS 295-03 - Special Topic: When the World Becomes Global: Early Modern Empire, Expansion, & Exchange

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course will explore how and why the world became integrated, interdependent, and ‘global’ through 1)processes of colonization and expansion; 2)the emergence of modern capitalist instruments and market; 3)intensified voluntary and forced migration; and 4)intellectual, cultural, scientific, and biological exchange. We will engage with scholarship that has redefined the field of world history by de-centering the role of Europe and distinguishing the heterogeneous imperialism of the early modern era from the Western hegemony of the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.

    Prerequisite: HIS 100  or second-year standing.
    Instructor: Chou
  
  • HIS 295-04 - Special Topic: Islamic Empires

    4 credits (Spring)
    This class explores the history of and life in Islamic Empires. After a brief survey of the first Islamic Empires, we will focus on the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires during the early modern and modern periods. Our explorations will center political and religious history, also incorporating intellectual history and cultural expression to gain an appreciation of the richness and diversity of Islamic Empires in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Mediterranean regions.

    Prerequisite: HIS 100  or second-year standing.
    Instructor: Saba
  
  • HUM 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Native American Performance: Playwrights + Mediamakers

    4 credits (Spring)
    See THD 195-01 .

  
  • HUM 195-02 - Introductory Special Topic: The Cypher Paradigm: Hip Hop, Education, Praxis & Action


    See SST 195-01  or MUS 195-01 .

  
  • HUM 295-01 - Special Topic: Politics of Human Thriving

    2 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: SST 295-01 . This 2017-2018 Humanities Center Seminar explores what it means to thrive—and who gets to decide—through a range of topics. In the fall this will include belonging and the intersection of race and sexual violence, and in the spring race, gender, and the intersection of the humanities and activism. Students will engage selections from visiting scholars and will attend related programming. The class meets irregularly throughout the semester based on the Center’s programming schedule.

    Prerequisite: None.
    S/D/F only
    Instructor: Elfenbein
  
  • HUM 295-02 - Special Topic: Intersections of Religion, Self, and Society

    2 credits (Spring)
    See REL 295-02  or SST 295-02 .

  
  • HUM 295-03 - Special Topic: Journal PublishingL Building Community in the Prairie Region

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: SST 295-03 . This course will engage students as editors, publishers and entrepreneurs in creating an issue or Rootstalk, an interdisciplinary journal examining life and culture in the prairie region. The class will gather students, Grinnell visiting alumni, faculty and staff mentors to move the Spring 2018  issue from concept through publication. We will also be leveraging the journal as a tool for community-building as a form of activism. We’ll explore various outreach methods, as well as  adapting some of the tools of anthropological  research to our purposes. No experience in publishing or community action is required, and the course may be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Instructor: Andelson, Baechtel
  
  • HUM 295-04 - Special Topic: The Season of Migration to the North: Encountering the “Other”

    2 credits (Spring)
    This course will use literature (in translation) to explore literary expression and critique of the politica  and social developments in the modern/contemporary Arab world through encounters with the “Other” – cultural or geographical. We will be engaging with various texts written by  Arab authors who try to pose and answer questions about identity and belonging through encountering the “Other”.

    Prerequisite: Second-year standing.
    Note: Dates: April 2 through May 17. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Ramadan
  
  • JPN 295-01 - Special Topic: Phonolgy: The Case of Japanese

    4 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: EAS 295-03  and LIN 295-02 . Phonology is the scientific study of the sound  patterns of languages. This course examines the  bases of phonological theory from rules to  constraints through various phonological and  morphophonological phenomena in Japanese. We will  examine various languages other than Japanese to  broaden our understanding of the central tenets  of phonological theory. This course further  explores the nature of language acquisition from  the viewpoints of phonological theory and  experimental phonology, including second language  acquisition.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Instructor: Kojima
  
  • LIN 295-01 - Special Topic: Choreolinguistics: Bridging the Art and Scienceof Language and the Body

    2 credits (Spring)
    Cross-listed as: THD 295-01 . This course explores the ways that the disciplines of Choreography and Linguistics create a theory and share that theory with others. Specifically, we will be asking: What are the meaningful units in language and dance? How do we identify them? What is their underlying structure? What characteristics do we use to recognize and identify them? And how do we put them together into larger units and use them to communicate.

    Prerequisite: LIN 114 LIN 216 THD 113 , or THD 225 .
    Note: Dates: January 29 to March 14. No class on February 5 or March 5. 1/2 semester deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Hansen, Miller
  
  • LIN 295-02 - Special Topic: Phonolgy: The Case of Japanese

    4 credits (Spring)
    See JPN 295-01  or EAS 295-03 .

  
  • MAT 295-01 & 02 - Special Topic: Introduction to Data Science

    4 credits (Spring)
    This course introduces core topics in data science using R programming. This includes introductions to getting and cleaning data, data management, exploratory data analysis, reproducible research, and data visualization. This course incorporates case studies from multiple disciplines and emphasizes the importance of properly communicating statistical ideas.

    Prerequisite: MAT 209 . Suggested CSC 151  or computer programming experience.
    Instructor: Kuiper, Jonkman
  
  • MAT 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Applied Data Science

    4 credits (Spring)
    Students will work in small teams on an applied data science project completing the full spectrum of the data science process including developing the problem statement, collecting and processing data, implementing the quantitative methods in an appropriate programming environment, and generating conclusions supported by data.

    Prerequisite: CSC 207  and MAT 306 , MAT 310  or MAT 295 Intro to Data Science
    Instructor: Blanchard
  
  • MUS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: The Cypher Paradigm: Hip Hop, Education, Praxis & Action


    See SST 195-01  and HUM 195-02 .

  
  • PCS 195-01 - Introductory Special Topic: Holocaust Refugees in Ireland

    1 credits (Spring)
    This short course will examine Ireland as place of refuge for Jewish people fleeing the Holocaust. Even though Ireland remained a difficult destination for people fleeing Nazi occupied Europe, the testimony of survivors who made it to the Irish free state in the 30’s and 40’s provides compelling evidence of Irish ttitudes at that time. Taking the personal story of Sabina Wisniak, who fled Berlin and made it to Ireland, remaining in Dublin without legal status through the war years, students will be offered a view into the complex historical and social context under conditions of neutrality in the newly independent Irish state.

    Prerequisite: None.
    Note: Dates: April 2 to April 16. Short course deadlines apply.
    Instructor: Staff
 

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