CLCS 4610 - What Matters

This course explores a fundamental idea, problem, or challenge that is central to our understanding of ourselves and our world—and to our ability to live in it. Topics may include the climate and the environment, social justice, empathy, mass media, artificial intelligence, etc. Texts will be drawn from literature, film, media culture, theory, visual arts, etc. Through studying a topic of significant human and more-than-human value, students will gain a better sense of their role in an interconnected world. Required for the CLCS major. Taught in English.