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Explore exciting topics with faculty during orientation
Sunday, August 21, The Tatkon Center, North Campus
University CoursesFall 2016The Art of HorticulturePLHRT 2010
Taking America’s Pulse: Creating and Conducting a National Opinion PollGOVT 3189 / COMM 3189
Race and Social Entrepreneurship: Food Justice and Urban ReformASRC 4330 / AMST 4033
Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of RefusalCOML 2006 / MUSIC 2006 / AMST 2006 / ENGL 2006
NetworksCS 2850 / ECON 2040 / INFO 2040 / SOC 2090
Freud and the Invention of PsychoanalysisFREN 3560 / ROMST 3561 / COML 3781 / FGSS 3651 / STS 3561
Ethics of EatingPHIL 1440
Controversies about InequalitySOC 2220 / DSOC 2220 / GOVT 2225 / ILROB 2220 / PAM 2220 / PHIL 1950 / AMST 2225
American CapitalismHIST 1540 / AMST 1540 / ILR 1865
A Global History of LoveHIST 1930 / ASIAN 1193 / FGSS 1940 / LGBT 1940
Spring 2017Science FictionCOML 2035 / ENGL 2035 / STS 2131
Personal Genomics and MedicineBIOMG 1290
Medicine, Culture, and SocietyANTHR 2468 / BSOC 2468 / STS 2468
Introduction to Global HealthNS 2600
Introduction to Environmental PsychologyDEA 1500 / COGST 1500 / PSYCH 1500
Imagining Migration in Film and LiteratureGERST 3581 / PMA 3481 / VISST 3581 / COML 3580 / AMST 3581
Ethical Issues in Health and MedicineSTS 2051 / BSOC 2051
Chemical EcologyBIOEE 3690 / BIONB 3690 / ENTOM 3690
Interested in learning more about University
Courses? Visit universitycourses.cornell.edu.
Want to enroll in a University Course?
Simply register the same way you do for all
of your other courses.
A great undergraduate education
should help you explore the world at
large and engage with challenging
topics. Toward these ends, the
Explore! series is designed to ignite
your intellectual curiosity, provide
you with opportunities to meet
great professors, and explore some
of Cornell’s distinctive academic
offerings.
The Explore! series features informal, interactive workshops. The courses represented are all part of the University Courses Initiative. University Courses examine exciting subjects through new and different lenses, from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.
After each session, continue the
discussion over complimentary sandwiches in the Tatkon Center.
2016 S E R I E S
Explore Sessions are on
Sunday, August 21, at the
Tatkon Center, North Campus
EXPLORE!
PROFESSORS
SESSIONSIf Inequality Is the Problem, What’s the Solution?
The evidence of inequality is everywhere. The amount, its causes, and the proposed solutions to inequality are often the subject of fierce political, academic, and public debate. This course introduces students to ongoing social scientific debates about the sources and consequences of inequality, while also explor-ing how social inequality is enacted and reinforced in everyday life. Topics explored include: “Wealth, Poverty, and the American Class System,” “Education, Schools and Achievement,” and “Race, Discrimination, and Punish-ment.” If these issues interest you, consider enrolling in the University Course, Controver-sies About Inequality, with Professor Haskins, fall 2016.
3330 Tatkon Center
4–5 p.m.
Imagining Migration through Film and Literature: Mere Entertainment or Something More?
What role should imagination play in public life concerning migration, one of the most controversial factors reshaping communities today? The world over, in places as diverse as Ger-many, Turkey, the USA, Mexico, France, Iran, Morocco, and Japan, creative arts challenge us to understand social bond-ing in new and surprising ways. What is the difference between ethnicity and ethnoscapes? What do the art forms of literature and film know about migration that we can’t learn from the news media or politicians? If these topics interest you, con-sider enrolling in the University Course, Imagining Migration, with Professors Adelson and Haenni, spring 2017.
3331 Tatkon Center
4–5 p.m.
Taking America’s Pulse: Creating and Conducting a National Public Opinion Poll
Who will win the U.S. presi-dential election? What does the public think? Answer these questions—and any other that come to mind—by taking America’s pulse in fall 2016. In this course, students design, conduct, and analyze an original national-level public opinion survey. All survey questions are deter-mined based on students’ research interests (political or otherwise). Students will learn a variety of skills in this class, such as survey design, interviewing techniques, experimental techniques, and data analysis. In lieu of a final exam, students generate pro-fessional research posters to display their research findings. There are no prerequisites for this course. If these topics interest you, consider enroll-ing in the University Course, Taking America’s Pulse, with Professors Enns and Schuldt, fall 2016.
3330 Tatkon Center
5:30–6:30 p.m.
A Global History of Love
What is love? Who has the right to love? Who can we love? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, then you need to take this course. In this introductory course, we explore how love has been experienced and expressed over time across the globe. This inevitably involves queries about sexuality, gender, dating, and family in art, film, and modern technologies such as the Internet, scientific advances in medicine, and social media. If you want to know how love, romance, and sex, were orga-nized, managed, and revolution-ized, then enroll in the University Course, A Global History of Love, with Professors Loos and Ghosh in fall 2016, fasten your seat belts, and prepare for a wild ride.
3331 Tatkon Center
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Punk Culture—Music, Art, Literature, and the Politics of Refusal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2014 exhibition Punk: Chaos to Couture, Patti Smith’s 2010 National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids, and Russian punk collective Pussy Riot’s ongoing activism exemplify punk culture’s national and global relevance. This ses-sion borrows from Kroch Library’s punk archive to introduce you to the sonic, visual, and literary history of a subculture whose politics of refusal helped shape a new language of rebellion and do-it-yourself ethics that transformed mainstream music and culture through its influence on Nirvana, Green Day, and others. If these topics interest you, consider enroll-ing in the University Course, Punk Culture: The Aesthetics and Politics of Refusal, with Professors McEnaney and Peraino, fall 2016.
3330 Tatkon Center
7–8 p.m.
Slow Murder and Food Justice: An Overview of a Movement
This interactive presentation will provide an overview of the issue of food justice and give a preview of a fall class focused on the topic in relation to Ithaca. It will also look briefly at service learning approaches for bringing about social equity and justice in relation to food availability, access, and sustain-ability for those on a fixed or low income. If these topics interest you, consider enrolling in the University Course, Race and Social Entrepreneurship, with Professor Rooks, fall 2016.
3331 Tatkon Center
7–8 p.m.
Anna Haskins is an assistant professor of sociology.
Leslie Adelson is a professor of German studies.
Sabine Haenni is an associate professor of performing and media arts.
Peter Enns is an associate professor of government.
Jonathan Schuldt is an assistant professor of communication.
Tamara Loos is an associate professor of history.
Durba Ghosh is an associate professor of history.
Tom McEnaney is an assistant professor of comparative literature.
Judith Peraino is a professor of musicology.
Noliwe Rooks is an associate professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, sexuality studies.
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