{"id":307,"date":"2023-04-13T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stpl\/?page_id=307"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:27:15","slug":"requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stpl\/requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/11\/Events_975x975-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/stpl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/2022\/11\/Events_975x975-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Silhouettes of people in a space with flowers and artistic effects projected on the walls.\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          What is required to apply? \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The graduate certificate is open to Ph.D. students in any USC program. To complete the certificate, doctoral students are required to take <strong>one core course<\/strong> and <strong>three elective courses<\/strong> (see courses below).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the completion of these course requirements, students must demonstrate a focus on STS as a meaningful component of their doctoral dissertation. This will include working with faculty with expertise in STS on the doctoral committee (as a primary advisor or minor member). Faculty will be responsible for judging the adequacy of the STS component in the student\u2019s dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions? Contact <a href=\"mailto:stscertificate@usc.edu\"><strong>stscertificate@usc.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"links-container\">\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/forms.gle\/Wnbn5zwN2GmrHLNu8\n  target=\"_blank\"  aria-label=\"Read more about Apply Here\"  \n>\n    Apply Here \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#000\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--spacer \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--spacer\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Core Course Required \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-WZgMzP2zzY\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-WZgMzP2zzY\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 569\/SOCI 653: Introduction to Science &#038; Technology Studies<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-WZgMzP2zzY\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-WZgMzP2zzY\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course is designed to provide newcomers with an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Science &amp; Technology Studies (STS) at the doctoral level. It presents canonical and contemporary scholarship, providing an overview of some of the major themes and issues that occupy the field, with attention to different disciplinary areas of application and concern. STS provides tools for critical analysis of the forms of political, epistemological, and cultural authority that underpin scientific knowledge and technological systems. We will read examples of sociological, historical, and ethnographic approaches to the study of knowledge production, its relationship to technology, and political and social order. This course will provide doctoral students with a cross-disciplinary foundation for analyzing the material and epistemological dimensions of their proposed independent research sites.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n          \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Pre-Approved Spring 2026 STS Elective Courses\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ANTH 525: Graduate Seminar in Medical Anthropology<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-YjcdQiBL0P\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-YjcdQiBL0P\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Prof. Peter Redfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 2:00\u20134:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examines issues in the anthropology of health, illness, medicine, and the contemporary biosciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 620: Virtual Qualitative Research Methods<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-YjcdQiBL0P\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-YjcdQiBL0P\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Prof. Christina Dunbar-Hester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, 12:30\u20133:20 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Focuses on interpretive methods as applied to digital sites and objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ENGL 585: Foundations in the Environmental Arts and Humanities<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-YjcdQiBL0P\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-YjcdQiBL0P\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: 115%;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Prof. Devin Griffiths<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: 115%;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">Monday, 2:00\u20134:50 p.m.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: 115%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black;\">How do we think and write about the environment in an era of environmental crisis? How might our scholarship and creative practices shape the world to come? These questions will be central to our seminar, which will examine major works of the environmental arts and humanities (EAH) to explore how a variety of artists, academics, and activists have explored the interpretation of nature and the place of humans within it. Though centered on the twentieth century, this seminar will explore the wider field of the environmental arts and humanities from its seeds in nineteenth-century natural history and nature writing to its emergence as a full-fledged and deeply interdisciplinary research program in the twenty-first. Our readings will pair primary readings of creative works of fiction, poetry, art, and personal narrative, with secondary sources drawn from fields as diverse as ecological science, history, art history, sociology and anthropology. Over the course of fifteen weeks, we will consider the following topics: Indigenous knowledge and land management; histories of environmental racism; ecofeminism; environmental affects, including climate anxiety and ecological mourning; histories of environmental science, ecology, and ecosystem; deep ecology; the Western conservation movement; \u201cslow violence\u201d and the environmentalism of the poor; extractivism and energy cultures; world perspectives on environmental history and colonialism; nature poetry and locodescription; \u201ccli-fi\u201d; environmental activism and the divestment movement; and green Marxism.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">MDES 401 (IR 409 and ANTH 401): Environment and Politics in the Middle East<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-YjcdQiBL0P\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-YjcdQiBL0P\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Prof. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday and Wednesday, 5:00\u20136:20 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe myth of wilderness,\u201d William Cronon writes, \u201cis that we can somehow leave nature untouched by our passage.\u201d The deep relationship between human cultures and the natural world is the subject of this course, and we will use the social, cultural, historical, and political underpinnings and implications of human\u2013nature interactions in the Middle East to study themes that are at once local and global. In particular, we will examine the co-creation of environments and societies in the Middle East, asking questions about the nature of \u201cnature,\u201d its influence on politics in the region, and vice versa. Using the region\u2019s most pressing environmental challenges sites of exploration, we will study the role of nonhuman forces like mosquitos, monsoons, and natural gas in these stories, and we will in turn analyze how those political systems have created, altered, maintained, and destroyed those same environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-YjcdQiBL0P\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">PSYC 4-599: Luddite Cognition<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-YjcdQiBL0P\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-YjcdQiBL0P\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>PSYC 4-599: Luddite Cognition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prof. Jason Zevin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday and Wednesday, 2:00\u20133:50 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLuddite\u201d is most often used as a derogatory term for someone who automatically (and futilely) resists technological change. But the historical Luddites were technologists \u2014 skilled textile workers in nineteenth-century England \u2014 and their objections were not to technological innovations as such, but to the reordering of social life they promised.\u00a0In this course we will explore the possibilities for a Luddite approach to cognition. We will consider the early development of cognitive science in the mid\u2013twentieth century. Specifically, we\u2019ll investigate how the \u201ccognitive revolution\u201d was contingent on the development of the digital computer, and related technologies spawned by the boom in scientific research during the Second World War. New theories were preferred over old because they could be written out (or imagined) as computer programs, not necessarily because they provided a more accurate view of the mind or brain. We will ask: What methods, theories, and insights were swept aside because they did not fit this new research program? Are they worth recovering? How might they be recovered?\u00a0We will also consider the situation today, when AI seems poised to infiltrate every aspect of our lives. When we define cognition in terms of the capacities of large language models, face- and object-recognition systems, and so forth, what is left out? And how do we get it back in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Pre-Approved Fall 2025 STS Elective Courses\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-caA3ip6BOc\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-caA3ip6BOc\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">HIST 542: Readings in Science and Technology Studies<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-caA3ip6BOc\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-caA3ip6BOc\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Aro Velmet<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m to 12:20 p.m<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-caA3ip6BOc\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-caA3ip6BOc\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ANTH 607: Infrastructure and the Environment<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-caA3ip6BOc\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-caA3ip6BOc\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Andrew Lakoff<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesdays, 2 to 4:50 p.m\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Pre-Approved Spring 2025 STS Elective Courses\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 670: Culture and Economy<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-tfjmcgXy2g\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-tfjmcgXy2g\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Manuel Castells<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 20955, ASC 228<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesdays, 12:30\u20133:20 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an advanced graduate seminar that aims to explore and analyze the interaction between culture and economy by observing different types of economic practices in a diversity of contexts. The purpose of the seminar will be the generation of new knowledge in this field. Students will be expected to develop research and original thinking and to produce a research paper of publishable quality. Students are welcome to use the seminar as a testing ground in theory and methodology for work related to their theses and dissertations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 573: Networked Publics: Theories &#038; Encounters<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-tfjmcgXy2g\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-tfjmcgXy2g\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Mike Ananny<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 20851D, ANN-408<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thursdays, 9:30\u201312:20 Examines models of a democratic public sphere, with special focus on design and use of networked information infrastructures supporting free speech.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-tfjmcgXy2g\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">CTCS 673: Theories of the Digital<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-tfjmcgXy2g\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-tfjmcgXy2g\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><b>Professor Tara McPherson<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 18187D, SCA 216<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fridays, 10 a.m.\u20131:50 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the digital? How does the digital reconfigure our understandings of truth, our bodies, the everyday, power, and space? How is the digital intertwined with cultural understandings of gender, sexuality, and difference? Is the digital like and unlike older media? How have digital studies been organized and institutionalized? This course examines various methodologies and theories through which scholars have engaged digital media in order to think through these questions and others. Our concerns will be multiple. We will consider digital media through a variety of lenses: as a technology, as platforms, as code, as a cultural experience, as a variety of texts, as ideology, and as industrial practice. We will focus primarily on digital media within the context of the U.S., but we will also examine the digital\u2019s global contexts at key junctures, and you are invited to introduce international comparisons from your own experience and interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Upon completion of the class, you will have improved your ability to analyze digital media through aesthetic, formal, and cultural registers. You will also have a solid understanding of the ways in which intellectuals and scholars have grappled with digital media as an emergent and powerful phenomenon, including a variety of methodologies that have been utilized in the study of digital media. Finally, you will better grasp the ways in which digital media shape our experiences of self, other, nation, race, gender, sexuality, temporality, and place.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Pre-Approved Elective Courses\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following courses are pre-approved to apply toward the certificate. Other courses may be applied toward the certificate, as approved by the STS faculty advisor. One of these courses may be a research workshop geared toward doctoral prospectus development. Unless approved by the program director, directed research may not be counted towards the award of the certificate.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">AMST 640: Race, Technology, Power<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Juan de Lara<\/strong>, this course will introduce graduate students to an emerging \ufb01eld of scholarship that examines how race, science, and technology are mutually constituted. We will draw from a number of academic disciplines, including science and technology studies, ethnic studies, critical race studies, and the social sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The class is divided into three sections. Section one will use scienti\ufb01c objects and genetic coding to illustrate how racial thinking has been shaped by and been central to technological innovation. In section two, we will interrogate the multiple ways that race and technology have transformed governance and human subjectivity. The \ufb01nal section will focus on more recent efforts to contest entrenched networks of power and to push for social justice through online platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">AMST 700: Theories and Practices of Professional Development<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This seminar is the \u201cprospectus course,\u201d in which each person completes a draft of his\/her dissertation prospectus by the end of the Fall semester. Along the way, we will talk about how each dissertation project fits into the disciplines of American and Ethnic Studies, including practical matters of preparing for the job market and less tangible issues such as theories of these disciplines and their related scholarly and pedagogical practices.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ANTH 499: The Future of Facts in Latin America<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professors Andrea Ballestero (USC)<\/strong> with <strong>Eden Medina (MIT)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If in the 20th century facts were presumed objective entities, in the 21st facts are up for grabs as manufactured doubt and distrust of expertise saturate the public sphere. To understand the future of facts, we need to expand studies of disinformation with approaches that examine the nature of facts in a global context. This requires going beyond truth\/falsehood, fact\/fiction discourses. This class takes an expansive approach and examines the making, use, and erasure of facts in Latin America. It will ask: Who produces a fact? Where is it produced? How is it circulated? And, how is it discredited?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will learn social science and humanities tools to expand the analysis of facts and better understand what is often referred to as the post-truth era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our case studies will include the role of genetic information in violent disappearances in Chile, the making of medical claims in Nicaragua, organizing aquifer protection in Costa Rica, inventing new technologies for the green revolution in Mexico, accounting for the body in legal proceedings in Colombia, distrusting algorithms in Costa Rica, religious facts in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Featuring:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parallel local field trips in Los Angeles, CA and Cambridge, MA. (*fully funded, students will have no out-of-pocket costs*)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lecture series on the nature and future of facts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opportunity to interact across institutions and with faculty participants in the Future of Facts in Latin America Working Group<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ANTH 449: Feminist Science and Technology Studies<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Familiarizes students with foundational debates in feminist science and technology studies; examines new horizons that emerge when feminist STS theories and methodologies are mobilized<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ANTH 609: Global Biopolitics<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Peter Redfield<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matters of life and death are increasingly matters of contemporary political and ethical concern.\u00a0 Power exercised in the name of life has addressed an extraordinary range of phenomena, from wellness regimes, vaccination campaigns and rewilding, to biometric systems of identification, concentration camps and aerial bombing.\u00a0 On the one hand new technologies extend possibilities of protecting and enhancing human (or more than human) existence, on the other they highlight enduring patterns of neglect and active eradication.\u00a0 In this course we will examine keywords in cultural theory related to biopolitics, looking at concepts they name, and considering how they might inform critical analyses of colonial, state, and corporate control of populations.\u00a0 In addition to working through a set of influential late 20th century theoretical writings and more recent responses, we will examine a series of case studies in which life and death are centrally at stake.\u00a0 Part of the course will be open to individual definition for those who might have established projects.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-6-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 573: Networked Publics: Theories &#038; Encounters<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course introduces students to historical and contemporary debates around how publics are made, what they can look like, and what they should be. It traces normative models of the public across communication institutions and infrastructures, focusing on the role that networked information technologies play in how publics are imagined and realized.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-7-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 574: Science &#038; Technology Studies for Communication &#038; Media Studies<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How does knowledge acquire the status of fact, and how does it travel through the world? What is the relationship between science, technology, and social order? It\u2019s tempting to see new technologies, especially new media technologies, as drivers of political and social change. But technological artifacts also embody the values and assumptions \u2014 and conflicts \u2014 of the societies that produce them, in complicated and surprising ways. This course provides an introduction to the field of Science &amp; Technology Studies, examining the intersection of technology, knowledge, power, and society, with particular attention to cases and theories relevant to the study of communication and media. It takes as its premise that assumptions about society may come to be embodied in technological artifacts and technical knowledge, and undertakes to study how social relations get \u201cinside\u201d technology.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-8-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 632: Cultures of Artificial Intelligence<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Jennifer Petersen<\/strong>, the course will draw on literatures including feminist STS, histories of technology, and social theory to investigate the development and implications of AI. The focus will be on a critical genealogy of concepts and forms of knowledge central to AI.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-9-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-9-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 647: Network and Society<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-9-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-9-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced research seminar examining the interaction between communication technology, society, economy, politics and culture from interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-10-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-10-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 652: Ethnographic Field Research in Communication<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-10-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-10-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester<\/strong>, the course explores ethnography as research mode including theory and practice of ethnographic research; epistemological and political underpinnings of ethnographic research.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-11-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-11-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">COMM 670: Culture and Economy<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-11-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-11-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Manuel Castells<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is an advanced graduate seminar that aims to explore and analyze the interaction between culture and economy by observing different types of economic practices. The purpose of the seminar will be the generation of new knowledge in this field. Students will be expected to develop research and original thinking and to produce a research paper of publishable quality.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-12-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-12-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">CSCI 631: Privacy in the World of Big Data<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-12-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-12-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy challenges that arise in the world driven by data. An overview of algorithmic and technical approaches to addressing them.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recommended Preparation:<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> thorough understanding of algorithms, proof-based mathematics, and basic probability.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-13-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-13-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">ENGL 509: Marx, Darwin, and the Evolution of Social Theory<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-13-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-13-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Devin Griffiths<\/strong>, this course will examine the dialogue between two of the nineteenth century\u2019s most influential theorists of social change, while tracing their impact on later discussions of race, aesthetics, labor, and environmental thought<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-14-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-controls=\"section-1-14-8_D5yhXCam\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Engl 591: 20th Century American Literature and Cultures (\u201cUnmaking the End of the World\u201d: Intro to the Environmental Humanities) <\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-14-8_D5yhXCam\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-14-8_D5yhXCam\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taught by <strong>Professor Devin Griffiths<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do we think and write the end of our world? How might our writing shape the world to come? These questions will be central to our seminar, which will examine major works of the environmental humanities to explore how a variety of writers, academics, and activists have explored the interpretation of nature and the place of humans within it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In today\u2019s world, environmental challenges have become increasingly urgent, complex, and interconnected. Addressing these challenges requires a holistic perspective that draws upon the insights and methodologies of various academic disciplines. This graduate seminar in the environmental humanities invites students to engage in a deep exploration of the intricate relationship between humans and the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though centered on the twentieth century, this seminar will explore the wider field of the environmental humanities from its seeds in nineteenth-century natural history and nature writing to its emergence as a full-fledged and deeply interdisciplinary research program in the twenty-first. Our readings will pair primary readings of creative works of fiction, poetry, art, and personal narrative, with secondary sources drawn from fields as diverse as ecological science, history, art history, sociology and anthropology. Over the course of fifteen weeks, we will consider the following topics: Indigenous knowledge and land management; histories of environmental racism; ecofeminism; environmental affects, including climate anxiety and ecological mourning; histories of environmental science, ecology, and ecosystem; deep ecology; the Western conservation movement; \u201cslow violence,\u201d and the environmentalism of the poor; extractivism and energy cultures; world perspectives on environmental history and colonialism; nature poetry and locodescription; \u201ccli-fi\u201d; environmental activism and the divestment movement; and green Marxism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the course, seminar participants will contribute to weekly discussions, select and present one additional primary source document from the historical collections of either the Huntington or Clarke libraries, and produce a 15-page critical research paper with bibliography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who Should Attend: This seminar is open to graduate students from a variety of academic backgrounds, including but not limited to literature, history, philosophy, environmental studies, anthropology, communications, and related fields. 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