This course brings together many skills and new ways of approaching interdisciplinary material. We anticipate that everyone will develop as they need, but we hope that by the end of the year you will be well on your way toward doing all these things. You will be better able:
- to speak to the questions “What is Justice?”
- to propose some definitions about key concepts in the disciplines introduced in the course
- to understand the value and challenges of the questions attached to conceptual thinking and complicated understandings
and more generally
- to understand and appreciate a wide array of humanistic texts, including things like dance, novels, paintings, poetry, films, theater, sculptures, buildings, and digital media;
- to observe patterns and create compelling connections between seemingly disparate texts;
- to recognize and articulate observations about change through time—of social structures; cultural production; values, attitudes, or beliefs; and other examples of human creative and imaginative work;
- to read texts (of all sorts) closely and critically for analytic and rhetorical purposes;
- to make fair and effective use of the work of others;
- to draft and revise arguments;
- to draw upon multimodal and archival resources (visual, auditory, textual, digital) to serve specific rhetorical goals;
- to speak and write with precision and persuasion;
- to read more carefully and critically;
- to use our minds with discipline and creativity;
- to work both individually and collaboratively in ways that demonstrate both leadership
- for others in the course and service to others in the course.