Special Topics in Human Science and Culture ((3 Units))

Catalog description

This project-based course is for upper-level undergraduate students designed so practitioners, instructors, and community experts can design and teach classes in special topics related to the human condition and rooted in Institute collections. Special Topics represented in this content are professional discussions and hands-on applications of content that builds on general and entry level education from the IHSC and/or the student's home department. This course is used to explore issues and culture in human science and culture and to explore what it means to be human. Topics could include restoration of cultural artifacts, paper conservation, rapid mass digitization projects, research, education and outreach to local schools, traveling exhibitions, historic and modern sound and imaging techniques, and other topics that explore and expose the human condition. This course has particular emphasis on community needs and emerging trends that students, instructors, and experts work on experientially and collaboratively. (Formerly 1900:445)