CC106 - Critical Inquiry Seminar:
Courses in this category encourage students to grapple with social issues in the contemporary world by engaging with empirical, descriptive, and/or interpretive approaches to human interactions. Potential topics of consideration include human behavior, social patterns, cultural phenomena, agency and constraints, and the relationship between individual and larger social structures. Meets the Critical Learning: SHB requirement.
Prerequisite: FYP Course. Must take with CC First Year Foundations 120.
Degree requirement — Critical Learning: SHB
1 unit — Gould, Guessous, Hughes, Leza, Murphy-Geiss, Peters, Ratchford, Regan, Wade
Offerings
| Term | Block | Title | Instructor | Location | Student Limit/Available | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Learning Community, Teaching Change Topic Details | Page Regan | Palmer Hall 232A | 12 / 0 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Language, Power, and White Supremacy Topic Details | Christina Leza | Barnes Science Center 403 | 13 / 1 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Feminist Texts, Feminist Subjects Topic Details | Nadia Guessous | Interdisciplinary House LowerClass | 12 / 0 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: #EverybodyWantstoSaveTheWorld #SharingMemesfromtheToilet Topic Details | Paulina Inara Rodis | Palmer Hall 127 | 13 / 0 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Markets and Morality Topic Details | Dan Johnson | Tutt Library 317 | 12 / 0 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Constructing Social Problems Topic Details | Gail Murphy-Geiss | Palmer Hall 124 | 11 / 2 | 07/30/2025 |
| Spring 2025 | Block 5 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: The Political Science of Critical Issues Topic Details | Elizabeth Coggins | Palmer Hall 219 | 16 / 10 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Histories of Race and Film Topic Details | Jamal Ratchford | TBA | 16 / 4 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior Topic Details | Greg Peters | TBA | 16 / 2 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Feminist Texts, Feminist Subjects Topic Details | Nadia Guessous | TBA | 16 / 4 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Language, Power and White Supremacy Topic Details | Christina Leza | TBA | 16 / 3 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Learning Community: Teaching Change Topic Details | Page Regan | TBA | 16 / 1 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Inconvenient Facts: The Sociological Imagination Topic Details | Gail Murphy-Geiss | TBA | 16 / 3 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Surveillance Society Topic Details | Cayce Hughes | TBA | 16 / 0 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Introduction to West Africa through its Literatures and Cinema Topic Details | Ibrahima Wade | TBA | 16 / 6 | 07/30/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Central Europe's Post-Communist Journey, 1989 to Present Topic Details | John Gould | TBA | 16 / 1 | 07/30/2025 |