cool classes

By exploring the historical and musical development of social groups from the African diaspora, students better understand the relationship between music and marginality.

Rooted in number theory, Visiting Assistant Professor Anthony Kling’s class examines how to protect critical information in our digital age.

While advancing students’ proficiencies in key areas of language studies, this class develops narrative skills in thinking and talking about food in Chinese.

From Shakespeare to Virgil, Visiting Assistant Professor Danielle Allor’s class explores early literature’s portrayal of trees.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Santucci delves into Roman eating and explores humanity’s relationship with its food.

In this course, students explore the rich culinary history of France and how it intersects with gender, identity, class, and politics.

The course studies fish in the context of harvest, including the million dollar question in the field: “How many can we take out and still have enough for the future?”

This community-engaged learning course has partnered with the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia and is creating lesson plans for their future antiracism workshops.

This sociology course explores the family as a social institution shaped as much by historical, social, and political conditions as it is by our individual experiences.

This music course explores the world’s musical traditions through selected case studies from each of ten regions: Oceania, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North America, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.