Focus Courses
This year many courses are being designed with a focus on race and racial justice.
- AAA/REL 203 Global Religions of India, Liz Wilson
- AMS/HST/WGS Women in U.S. History, Kimberly Hamlin
- AMS 205 Intro to AMS/Defining the American Dream, Kimberly Hamlin
- AMS/HST 216 Introduction to Public History, Helen Sheumaker
- ARC 107 Global Design, Diane Fellows
- ARC 301/302/401/402C Architecture Design Studio, Diane Fellows
- ARC 405V/505V Film + Mixed Multi-Media (Culture, Identity, Place), Diane Fellows
- ART 498 Exhibition on the History of the Representation of Race, Pepper Stetler
- ATH/ENG/GER 219 Introduction to Linguistics, John Jeep
- ATH 231 Foundations of Cultural Anthropology, Neringa Klumbyte
- CRE 151 Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- ENG 122 Popular Fiction: Detective Fiction, Cynthia Klestinec
- ENG 388 Studies in Prose, Cynthia Klestinec
- ENG 225 Race, Law, and Literature (Prodesse Scholar Course), Andrew Hebard
- ENG 225H Race, Law, and Literature, Andrew Hebard
- ENG 225H Race and Visual Culture, Anita Mannur
- ENG 275 American Literature to 1900, Andrew Hebard
- ENG 298 Introduction to Literary & Cultural Study, Katie Johnson
- ENG 323 Intermediate Nonfiction, Daisy Hernandez
- ENG690 Literatures of the Future, Tim Melley
- FRE 131 Masterpieces of French Literature in Translation, Elisabeth Hodges
- FRE 201 Intermediate French, Anna Klosowska
- FRE 310 The Arts of the French Renaissance, Anna Klosowska
- HST112 A Survey of American History, 1877 to present, Helen Sheumaker
- HST/LAS 217 Modern Latin America, Elena Albarran
- HST/BWS 221 Survey of African American History, Clayton Vaughn-Roberson
- HST 236 Social History of Medicine and Disease, Kimberly Hamlin
- HST 333A Postwar Europe (since 1945), Instructor TBD
- HST/AMS 367 The United States in the 1960s, Clayton Vaughn-Roberson
- HST 386 Race in U.S. History, Instructor TBD
- HST 470B Germany 1918-1945, Erik Jensen
- HUM 320 Humanities Lab, Teaching African American History and Antiracism Philosophy, Tammy Brown and Durrell Callier
- HUM 490 Race and Racism: Imagining Inclusive and Equitable Societies, Stefanie Dunning and José Amador
- JRN 101H/JRN 101C Introduction to Journalism, Rosemary Pennington
- PHL 131H Introduction to Ethics, Elaine Miller
- PHL 394 Existentialism, Elaine Miller
- PHL 470/570 Advanced Aesthetics (Spring 2022), Elaine Miller
- PSY 325 Psychology of Prejudice and Minority Experience
- REL/WGS 313 Marriage Across Cultures, Liz Wilson
- SOC 279 African Americans in Sport
- SOC 323 Social Justice and Change
- SOC 348 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC 470 Social/Political Activism
- THE 291 World Stages I, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
- THE 292 World Stages II, Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
- WST 301 Interdisciplinary Problems (Reparations and Restitutions) Jacqueline Daugherty, Rodney Coates
Miami Global Plan Changes
Miami’s general education program, the Global Miami Plan, is being rebranded to become the Miami Global Plan that will include a new Diversity, Equity & Inclusion requirement and a Cultural Consciousness requirement. Both requirements carry three credits and are aligned with many of the goals of the 2021-2022 FOCUS theme. The DEI requirement aims to: foster ethical citizenship; promote awareness of historical and social contexts in which identities and social disparities are created (with a US focus); and provide building blocks for further inquiry. The Cultural Consciousness requirement seeks to: foster self-reflection and further intercultural learning; promote deeper understanding of self and others (e.g., biases, norms); and develop skills for human engagement in a multicultural, multilingual world. Approximately ten DEI and Cultural Consciousness courses will be piloted during the 2021-2022 academic year.
