The Humanities for Just Communities initiative will offer the following courses for Fall 2024.
All of these courses will include a social justice project that makes an intervention in the year's social justice theme - Protest, Abolition, and Freedom Movements - and students in these courses will present their project to the broader 瓜子TV community at the Spring showcase!
An 8-unit course on the ways visual artists challenge and critique dominant systems of power, and catalyze movements of social change.
An FYS course that dissects notions of freedom and the denials of freedom in carceral systems.
An FYS course that dissects the complex and myriad ways in which race and the environment interact.
A course that focuses on how enslaved people and freedpersons struggled to make freedom a reality.
An FYS course that examines how religious communities have imagined a hopeful future.
A course on the myriad ways in which Black women write toward a different kind of world.