This course is designed to introduce students (targeted for Juniors and Seniors, but open to all students) to the fundamentals of planning and organizing job/internship search strategies. Emphasis is placed on Industry research and effective use of employment search tools (e.g., resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking and management of career pathways). The course stresses the value of the liberal arts degree in the labor market and develops job/internship search skills that will be useful throughout life.

This course explores how human rights have been constructed across transnational, imperial, national, and local spaces in a variety of idioms while exposing students to their contested genealogies and limits. We explore the history, philosophy, and rhetoric of human rights through different lenses. This class engages students in the study of a variety of primary sources with readings drawn from political philosophy, legal texts, to novels and films. We will read the original UN Declaration of Human Rights, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Declaration of the Establishment of a New Economic Order (1974), UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples among others.

This online interdisciplinary, collective, and performance-based course invites all participants to transform their environments into virtual sonic, theatrical spaces by uniting listening and technological skills with acts of social change. Amid the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, the arts have become more important than ever to help us react to, respond with, and reconsider the ways in which we engage the world around us. Artists are creating new modes of collaboration and in the process addressing both social justice issues and inequities. This course examines both the results and the processes that lead to the development of such work through live, remote performance. In just 10 days, students will form an arts collective, develop new communication and creative skills, engage the methods of Deep Listening, and exhibit a public, live virtual performance.

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) is a radical American filmmaker whose dark, disturbing and deeply personal art is unlike any other American filmmaker. His mastery of various cinematic genres (e.g., crime films, films noir, science fiction films, war films, horror films, erotic films) almost always turns on his characters' violent attempts to control the world around them through personal power. This deeply ironic obsession (with the exception of his brilliant final film, EYES WIDE SHUT), leads to abject failure in the absolute self-destruction or madness of his self-entrapped characters. Kubrick is concerned with the gradual degeneration of the self into forms of mechanical inanimacy (cf. the spacemen and H.A.L. in 2002: A SPACE ODYSSEY, his most famous film). Or he is drawn to a psychotic search for identity in the haunted house of the human mind, as in THE SHINING. Madness is a common Kubrick theme, as we see in his brilliant satire of humankind's death-obsessed love for 'The Bomb' in the Cold War classic, DR. STRANGELOVE . In spite of these claims, Kubrick is a supremely meticulous stylist, driven by the desire to create perfect works of art in an imperfect world. In his mise-en-scene, his brilliant use of cinematography, his daring use of color in his color films, Kubrick is famous for his extravagantly elliptical and complex cinematic techniques. His films are dazzling in their beauty, even amidst their dark, pessimistic subject matter. A modern-day Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick is often disparaged for the analytical 'coldness' and impersonality of his films, while others praise him for creating a body of work that captures brilliantly the spirit of modern despair in his infinitely inventive, beautifully crafted, works of art. A paradoxical artist from the beginning to the end of his film career, Stanley Kubrick is an American filmmaker without peer. Films to be discussed: DR. STRANGELOVE, BARRY LYNDON, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, THE SHINING, EYES WIDE SHUT. (with sidelong glances at THE KILLING, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, FULL METAL JACKET) Enrollment Limit: 25

This course will introduce students to different models and theories of comparative culture with the goal of preparing students to enter a foreign culture and navigate cultural differences successfully. Models and theories include Milton Bennett’s Cultural Sensitivity Model, Geert Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory, and Edward T. Hall’s theories of proxemics, context, and chronic time. At the end of the course students will have knowledge of theory and the ability to transfer that knowledge into practice abroad.

The ability to analyze and represent data using multiple platforms is a key skill for students to possess in their analytical “toolbox.” Students and faculty at Colorado College have been requesting an introductory course to the programming and data visualization language R. Especially as R becomes more widely used in an array of disciplines and professions, this new Half Block course will be designed to help students either begin or improve their skills coding in R, and then analyze and present data visualizations in R. The course will include either individual students or student pairs using datasets of interest to them to analyze, represent, and interpret an aspect of the dataset using R. 0.50 unit. Offered Pass/Fail Only. 0.50 unit – Chui, Getty.

An interactive workshop for anyone who has been or would like to be an activist or leader in a movement for social change. Students work in small groups to develop media strategies for social movements or change organizations. Students investigate the movement’s vision, values, strategy, and organization. Groups then innovate and develop a toolbox of online campaigning techniques that integrate real world activism with digital on-line strategies.

In this course students will explore, discover, and evaluate their values, interests, strengths, and skills. Students will identify how these connect to their academic and professional journeys. This course is appropriate for any student who is undecided and/or interested in exploring connection between personal and professional development. Students will leave confident in their ability to make career-related decisions using tenets of design thinking within their Liberal Arts experience and throughout their journeys.