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

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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.