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. (Not offered 2025-26).
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 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Language, Power, and White Supremacy Topic Details | Christina Leza | Barnes Science Center 403 | 13 / 1 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Feminist Texts, Feminist Subjects Topic Details | Nadia Guessous | Interdisciplinary House LowerClass | 12 / 0 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: #EverybodyWantstoSaveTheWorld #SharingMemesfromtheToilet Topic Details | Paulina Inara Rodis | Palmer Hall 127 | 13 / 0 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Markets and Morality Topic Details | Dan Johnson | Tutt Library 317 | 12 / 0 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2024 | Block 1 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: Constructing Social Problems Topic Details | Gail Murphy-Geiss | Palmer Hall 124 | 11 / 2 | 05/20/2025 |
| Spring 2025 | Block 5 | Critical Inquiry Seminar: The Political Science of Critical Issues Topic Details | Elizabeth Coggins | Palmer Hall 219 | 16 / 10 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Histories of Race and Film | Jamal Ratchford | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Evolutionary Perspectives on H | Greg Peters | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Feminist Texts, Feminist Subje | Nadia Guessous | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Language, Power and White Supr | Christina Leza | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Learning Community: Teaching C | Page Regan | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Inconvenient Facts: The Sociol | Gail Murphy-Geiss | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Surveillance Society | Cayce Hughes | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Introduction to West Africa th | Ibrahima Wade | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |
| Fall 2025 | Block 1 | Central Europe's Post-Communis | John Gould | TBA | 25 / 25 | 05/20/2025 |