What is the value of writing about love? From the romantic, the sacred, the erotic, the familial, and the platonic, we will read works that explore many different facets of love. We will examine how the love poem form has been used across time to make sense of self, violence, and death. We will study common forms of the love poem and pay particular attention to how contemporary poets from marginalized communities are complicating and commandeering these inherited forms.
As Jericho Brown reminds us, "When I say I love you, I mean for you to understand that I exist in relation to you." Through poetry, we will seek to make sense of our own constellations of relations. We will work to understand the relationships we've made at K and prepare for new relationships post-graduation. We will learn from the love poem how to cultivate a place for love in our lives and understand that as anti-fascist work. No prior poetry background is needed for this course. Poetry novices are welcomed and encouraged!
This course, after all, rests on the conviction that poetry belongs to all of us. In our class we will work hard to destabilize the myth that poetry is an inscrutable mystery. We will be writing our own poetry as part of this course. Through this work, we will improve our ability to make connections and reflect deeply on our experiences. Our poems will teach us how to make meaning from these experiences and craft narratives that communicate this meaning to others. We will think about how these skills in language and narrative can be applied in other arenas of our lives, including our future lives post-graduation.
As Jericho Brown reminds us, "When I say I love you, I mean for you to understand that I exist in relation to you." Through poetry, we will seek to make sense of our own constellations of relations. We will work to understand the relationships we've made at K and prepare for new relationships post-graduation. We will learn from the love poem how to cultivate a place for love in our lives and understand that as anti-fascist work. No prior poetry background is needed for this course. Poetry novices are welcomed and encouraged!
This course, after all, rests on the conviction that poetry belongs to all of us. In our class we will work hard to destabilize the myth that poetry is an inscrutable mystery. We will be writing our own poetry as part of this course. Through this work, we will improve our ability to make connections and reflect deeply on our experiences. Our poems will teach us how to make meaning from these experiences and craft narratives that communicate this meaning to others. We will think about how these skills in language and narrative can be applied in other arenas of our lives, including our future lives post-graduation.
- Teacher: Isabela Agosa
Today 4.3 billion people, 60 per cent of the world’s population lives on less than $5 per day. While we are told that poverty will be eradicated by 2030, we also know that the richest eight people now control the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world combined. What is causing this growing inequality between and within nations? This course will introduce students to key analytical tools from anthropology, sociology, and geography relevant to development. Using a cross-disciplinary social science approach, the course will cover three intersecting political, economic, and cultural dimensions of development.
1) The first addresses the different ways of defining and measuring development and the political implications entailed.
2) the second provides a critical overview of the history and competing political economic theories of development.
3) the third explores contemporary development interventions and their effects on poverty and other forms of inequality.
*This syllabus has been adapted from Dr. Sapana Doshi, Julian Hartman’s and my syllabi from the International Development seminar that we offered at the University of Arizona. I thank both!
1) The first addresses the different ways of defining and measuring development and the political implications entailed.
2) the second provides a critical overview of the history and competing political economic theories of development.
3) the third explores contemporary development interventions and their effects on poverty and other forms of inequality.
*This syllabus has been adapted from Dr. Sapana Doshi, Julian Hartman’s and my syllabi from the International Development seminar that we offered at the University of Arizona. I thank both!
- Teacher: Nupur Joshi
