CCS Course Offerings

2023 Fall CCS Undergraduate Courses

BG Perspective Guide:
BGP-HA= Humanities and Arts
BGP-HA+CD= Humanities and Arts AND Cultural Diversity in U.S.
BGP-HA+IP= Humanities and Arts AND International Perspectives
BGP-SBS= Social and Behavioral Sciences
BGP-SBS+CD=Social and Behavioral Sciences AND Cultural Diversity in U.S.
BGP-SBS+IP=Social and Behavioral Sciences AND International Perspectives
MDC=Multidisciplinary Component

Course Description:
Introduction to theories of culture, race, and gender and the relations among them. Open to ACS, ETHN, POPC, and WS majors and minors or by permission of instructor.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
CCS 3030/1001/ Jessica Birch TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm

Course Description:
Introduces students to modes of qualitative research commonly used in the fields of American culture studies, ethnic studies, popular culture, and women's studies. Focus on data gathering processes as well as data analysis. Open to ACS, ETHN, POPC, and WS majors and minors or by permission of instructor. Junior status required.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
CCS 4850/1001/ Rebecca Kinney
TuTh 2:30pm-3:45pm

Course Description:
Regional, ethnic and economic aspects of American national experience as reflected in verbal, visual and material artifacts. Culture theory and models used to examine selected topics and problems. Required of all American culture studies majors.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ACS 2000/1001/1002/71929/71930   MWF 10:30am-11:20am
ACS 2000/1003/1004/72035/70659   MWF 12:30pm-1:20pm

Course Description:
Interdisciplinary exploration of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation in the United States, emphasizing imaginative expressive forms, such as fiction, poetry, film and the visual arts.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ACS 2500/1001/72265   MWF 9:30am-10:20am
ACS 2500/1002/70681 Freimuth Tues./Thurs. 9:30am-10:45am
ACS 2500/1003/70683 Kivari MW 4:30pm-5:45pm
ACS 2500/1004/71558   MWF 11:30am-12:20pm
ACS 2500/1005/71392   Tues./Thurs. 6:00pm-7:15pm
ACS 2500/107W/73637   Online
ACS 2500/108W/73206   Online
ACS 2500/7E1 ECAM/DIST 409W/73709   Online

Course Description:
The course gives an examination into four of rock music's most prominent subcultures including rap, reggae, punk and heavy metal music.  This course gives a historical breakdown of these four genres and examines their cultural impact on popular music, popular culture and humanity. A series of films, 
music/sound recordings, websites and other media related to the genres will be analyzed from a historical and cultural point of view.
Combined with POPC 3800/1001/72278

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ACS 3000/1001/71723 Matt Donahue
Tu 6:00pm-9:00pm

Coure Descripion:
This course is an introduction to the study of the comic books, graphic novels, and sequential art and storytelling in American popular culture.  It shall introduce students to some of the major topics, themes, creators, characters, and issues that have led to the creation of and continued success of the superhero genre.  We shall explore the role of heroism in our society and concepts dealing with race, ethnicity, gender, politics, and more as they are presented within the superhero context.  This class will rely on a mixture of lecture and discussion of the material we are reading.  Students are encouraged to actively participate in our discussion and analysis.  The emphasis of the course will be to get students to think critically about the issues that are raised in the readings and class discussions.  We shall consider why this genre, which was once viewed merely as juvenile, disposable “literature,” has had such a profound impact upon our popular culture.
Combined course with POPC 3700/1001/76180

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ACS 3000/1002/75243 Chuck Coletta TuTh 7:30pm-8:45pm

Coure Description:
This course surveys the American experience with drugs and alcohol, from the colonial era to the present. Topics include: colonial drinking, origins or opiate and cocaine addiction, drug control and regulation, Prohibition, LSD and the 1960s, and the War on Drugs. Approved for distance education.
Combined with HIST 3365/1001/75941

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ACS 3000/1003/77272 Scott Martin TuTh 2:30-3:45pm

Course Description:
This gateway course to the field of Ethnic Studies introduces students to interdisciplinary analyses of race and ethnicity in the U.S. It explores the social construction and ideologies of race in colonial conquest, slavery, and immigration, and the intersections of race with other hierarchies such as class, gender, and sexuality. Approved for Distance Education. Students cannot take ETHN 1010 and ETHN 1920 or 1930 on the topic "Introduction to Ethnic Studies."

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 1010/1001-2/70715/70716 Moreno MWF 1:30pm-2:20pm
ETHN 1010/1003-4/70717/70718 Moreno MWF 2:30-3:20pm
ETHN 1010/1005-06/72346/73501 Stokely MW 4:30-5:45pm
ETHN 1010/1007-08/72044/70719 Birch MWF 11:30-12:20pm
ETHN 1010/1009-10/73503/73503 Bhalla Tues./Thurs. 9:30-10:45am
ETHN 1010/1011-12/73509/73510   Tues./Thurs. 6:00-7:15pm
ETHN 1010/1100/73510 Edge MW 12:30-1:20pm
ETHN 1010/1101/73512 REC Scott F 11:30am-12:20pm
ETHN 1010/1102/77029 REC
Kindelt F 11:30am-12:20pm
ETHN 1010/1103/77030 REC Scott F 12:30-1:20pm
ETHN 1010/1104/77031 REC Kindelt F 12:30-1:20pm
ETHN 1010/1105/77032 REC Iswat F 1:30-2:20pm
ETHN 1010/7E2 421W/422W/74757/74758   Online

Course Description:
Latina/o experience in the United States: cultures, life experiences, and the limited political, education, socio-economic opportunities of this minority. Students cannot take ETHN 1100 and ETHN 1920 or 1930 on the topic "Introduction to Latina/o Studies."

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 1100/1001/70656 Luis Moreno MWF 10:30-11:20am

Course Description:
An introduction to the history of black studies, tracing it from its origins in the social, cultural, and political struggles for human and civil rights to the various intellectual currents which have defined the field as a discipline. It places special emphasis on the United States but also considers key authors, historical figures, and social movements from the black Diaspora. Students cannot take ETHN 1200 and ETHN 1920 or 1930 on the topic "Introduction to African American Studies."

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 1200/1001/70685 Edge MWF 3:30-4:30pm
ETHN 1200/1002/70697 Edge Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:15pm

Course Description:
Similarities and differences of the various components of the Asian American category with reference to their individual histories and collective situation from the 19th century to the present. Students cannot take ETHN 1300 and ETHN 1920 or 1930 on the topics "Introduction to Asian American Studies."

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 1300/1001/70700 Menon TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm

Course Description:
An interdisciplinary examination of the Native American Diaspora in the context of European discovery and conquest. A general overview and comparative analysis of the diverse native people and cultures of North America, effects of colonialism and U.S. policy on Native American communities, federal Indian law and policy, and cultural negotiation. Students cannot take ETHN 1600 and ETHN 1920 or 1930 on the topic "Introduction to Native American Studies."

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 1600/1001/70704 Michelle Stokely MWF 1:30-2:20pm
ETHN 1600/1002/72198 Michelle Stokely MWF 2:30-3:20pm

Course Description:
This course explores the cinematic representation of Native American themes and characters from 1950s to the contemporary period, including commercial Hollywood productions and independent film. Particular focus on the relationship between literature, history, and film as well as the relevance of indigenous aesthetics.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 2300/1001/77036 Stokely Tues./Thurs. 2:30-3:45pm

Course Description:
Special ethnic topics of interest to students provided as a part of regular offering. May be repeated. Approved for distance education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3000/101W/ 75863 Jackson Online

Course Description:
This course offers a focused examination of racial, ethnic, and gendered representations as they have appeared within the context of popular culture and mainstream media in the United States. It critically investigates the history of a wide range of stereotypes within the context of theatre, film, music, television, and radio, analyzing the social and ideological processes and practices that have given them such widespread currency since the nation's founding.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3030/1001/75864 Menon Tues/Thurs 1:00pm-2:15pm

Course Description:
This course explores how race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion intersect and converge in shaping the lives of women of color in the United States. It emphasizes the diversity of experience of women of color as they resist and contest the material and cultural constraints that limit them. The course also focuses on women of color as agents of social and political change, and provides perspectives on the ways in which women of color shape and define American institutions and society.
Combined course with WS3050/1001/71076 and WS3050/1002/71860

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3050/1001/70713 Stanley
Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45am
ETHN 3050/1002/71872 Menon Tues./Thurs. 2:30-3:45pm

Course Description:
Mexican American culture in the U.S. Topics include family structure and roles, religion, education, and immigration, among other topics.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3120/1001/74535 Luis Moreno MWF 4:30-5:45pm

Course Description:
An exploration of women's lives and experiences in global/local contexts. Emphasis on analytical and methodological frameworks to examine different histories, activism, borders, and ideologies shaping women's lives. Focus on Third World Critiques of Western feminism in relation to social, economic, and political structures of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class. Prerequisite: Any ETHN 1000-level course, ETHN 2010, ETHN 3050 or any WS course. Credit allowed only for ETHN 3130 or WS 3130. Approved for Distance Education.
Combined course with WS3130/1001/75975

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3130/1001/75945 Bhalla Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:15pm

Course Description:
This is an introductory course on Africa from the earliest times through the colonial and modern eras. Themes include origins, myths and stereotypes, artistic expressions and cultural values, socio-political and economic development, colonial experience and contemporary conditions. Credit allowed only for one of HIST 3173, ETHN 3173.
Combined course with HIST 3173/1001/77023

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 3173/1001/77043 Apollos Nwauwa Tues/Thurs 4:30-5:45pm

Course Description:
This interdisciplinary course offers a broad introduction to the study of U.S. Latina/o/x history and culture focusing on the period from the 1960’s to the present. We will engage a wide range of texts, including critical theory, poetry, documentary, music, documentary and film, and performance, to address the history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, transnational migration, the biopolitical force of nation-state borders, cultural productions of resistance, revolutionary nationalisms, queer Latinx experience, and identity formation through art and literature. Combined course with POPC 4700/1001/77127

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 4200/1001/77044 Walsh Tues/Thurs 11:30am-12:45pm

Course Description:
This course examines the history of residential segregation and housing discrimination in the United States. Focusing on the period from the late-19th century to the present, we will examine phenomena such as urbanization, (im)migration, redlining, white-flight, industrialization and deindustrialization, urban renewal, gentrification, and wealth and poverty as it relates to the establishment of racial hierarchy in American society. We will also focus on social movements around race and housing, including collaborations with the Toledo Fair Housing Center.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
ETHN 4350//77045 Thomas Edge   Tues./Thurs. 4:00pm-5:15pm

Course Description:
Basic theories and approaches to the scholarly study of popular culture, including various media, folklore, and everyday life.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 1600/1100/71517 Brown MW 1:30pm-2:20pm
POPC 1600/1101/71518   Friday 1:30pm-2:20pm
POPC 1600/1102/71519   Friday 1:30pm-2:20pm
POPC 1600/1103/71520   Friday 1:30pm-2:20pm
POPC 1600/1104/73549
  Friday 2:30pm-3:20pm
POPC 1600/1105/71521   Friday 2:30pm-3:20pm
POPC 1600/1106/71522   Friday 2:30pm-3:20pm
POPC 1600/1107/71550   Friday 9:30am-10:20am
POPC 1600/1108/72523   Friday 9:30am-10:20am
POPC 1600/1109/72533   Friday 8:30am-9:20am
POPC 1600/1112/72534   Friday 1:30-2:20pm
POPC 1600/1001/1002/72045/72046 Forquer Tues./Thurs. 9:30am-10:45am
POPC 1600/1003/1004/71513/71514 Miller Tues./Thurs. 11:30-12:45pm
POPC 1600/1005/1006/71993/71994 Minniear MWF 12:30-1:20pm
POPC 1600/1007/1008/70281/70282 Scherff MWF 10:30-11:20am
POPC 1600/109W/110W/71995/71996   Online

Course Description:
Some of the ways in which mass media (TV, film, recording industry, print, radio) have affected modern American culture. Media relationships and interactions.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 1650/1001/1002/71639/71640 Coletta MW 6:00pm-7:15pm
POPC 1650/1003/1004/715067/71646 Coletta MW 7:30pm-8:45pm
POPC 1650/1005/1006/72338/72339 Knoell MWF 12:30-1:20pm
POPC 1650/1007/1008/77112/77113 Knoell MWF 2:30-3:20pm
POPC 1650/109W/110W/ Donahue Online
POPC 1650/7E1 411W/412W Donahue Online  

Course Description:
Basic theories of approaches to 20th century and 21st century African-American popular culture. Trace ways black popular culture has shaped and is shaped by national and global contexts. Examine relationship of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Provide an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the significance of black popular culture in contemporary U.S. and global societies. Approved for distance education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 1700/7E1 401W/74505 Cornelius Fortune Online

Course Description:
Study and collecting of folklore; ballads, myths, tall tales, heroes, folk medicines, superstitions, proverbs and crafts.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 2200/101W/71642 Montana Miller Online
POPC 2200/102W/71864 Montana Miller Online

Course Description:
Popular film as mass entertainment medium; Hollywood studios, popular film formulae, genres, relationships between popular films and movie-going audience; viewing of appropriate films. Extra fee.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 2500/1001/73559 Tiffany Knoell   MW 4:30-5:45pm
POPC 2500/1002/73561 Tiffany Knoell MW 6:00-7:15pm

Course Description:
Relationship between music world and listening-viewing audience; musical styles, trends in popular music, popular performers and entertainers and what they reveal about popular culture; appropriate music listening. Approved for Distance Education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 2800/1001/72141 Matthew Donahue Tues/Thurs 2:30pm-3:45pm

Course Description:
Relationship between popular television programming and American society; viewing of appropriate television.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 2900/1001/76116 Charles Coletta Tues/Thurs 6:00pm-7:15pm

Course Description:
Study and analysis of nonverbal folklife; theory and methods of analysis of such forms of expressive folk culture as arts, crafts, architecture, foodways, festivals, customs and folk rituals; emphasis on modes of description and analysis commonly used by folklorists to understand and explain such materials.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 3210/1001/75954 Montana Miller   MW 4:30pm-5:45pm

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the study of the comic books, graphic novels, and sequential art and storytelling in American popular culture.  It shall introduce students to some of the major topics, themes, creators, characters, and issues that have led to the creation of and continued success of the superhero genre.  We shall explore the role of heroism in our society and concepts dealing with race, ethnicity, gender, politics, and more as they are presented within the superhero context.  This class will rely on a mixture of lecture and discussion of the material we are reading.  Students are encouraged to actively participate in our discussion and analysis.  The emphasis of the course will be to get students to think critically about the issues that are raised in the readings and class discussions.  We shall consider why this genre, which was once viewed merely as juvenile, disposable “literature,” has had such a profound impact upon our popular culture.
Combined with ACS 3000/1001/71723

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 3700/1001/76180 Charles Coletta Tues/Thurs 7:30pm-8:45pm

Course Description:
The course gives an examination into four of rock music's most prominent subcultures including rap, reggae, punk and heavy metal music.  This course gives a historical breakdown of these four genres and examines their cultural impact on popular music, popular culture and humanity. A series of films, music/sound recordings, websites and other media related to the genres will be analyzed from a historical and cultural point of view.
Combined with ACS3000/1001/75243

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 3800/1001/72278 Matthew Donahue Tues. 6:00pm-9:00pm

Course Description:
This course will teach students about the most common ways that violence is represented in narratives of detection, and how these representations (as well as the realities of crime) are shaped by inequalities of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Combined with WS 4000

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 4600/101W/73106 Becca Cragin Online

Course Description:
This interdisciplinary course offers a broad introduction to the study of U.S. Latina/o/x history and culture focusing on the period from the 1960’s to the present. We will engage a wide range of texts, including critical theory, poetry, documentary, music, documentary and film, and performance, to address the history of U.S. imperialism in Latin America, transnational migration, the biopolitical force of nation-state borders, cultural productions of resistance, revolutionary nationalisms, queer Latinx experience, and identity formation through art and literature. Combined with ETHN 4200 1001 770044

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
POPC 4700/1001/77127 Walsh Tues./Thurs. 11:30-12:45pm

Course Description:
Interdisciplinary survey of the new scholarship on women. Emphasis on the interconnectedness of gender, class and ethnicity in women's experiences and viewpoints. Approved for distance education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 2000/1100/75233 Rainey-Smithback MW 11:30am-12:20pm
WS 2000/1101/75234 Ola Friday 11:30am-12:20pm
WS 2000/1102/75235   Friday 9:30am-10:20am
WS 2000/1103/75236   Friday 11:30am-12:20pm
WS 2000/1104/75237   Friday 9:30am-10:20am
WS 2000/1105/75238   Friday 11:30am-12:20pm
WS 2000/1106/75239   Friday 9:30am-10:20am
WS 2000/1107/75240   Friday 11:30am-12:20pm
WS 2000/1108/75241 Ola Friday 10:30am-11:20am
WS 2000/1001-2/71300/72178   Tues./Thurs. 4:00-5:15pm
WS 2000/1003-4/72162/72179 Cline Tues./Thurs. 1:00-2:15pm
WS 2000/1005-6/72163/72180 Phillips MWF 10:30-11:20am
WS 2000/107W/108W/72164/72184 Zongo Online
WS 2000/109W/110W/72165/72182   Online
WS 2000/DIST/109W/110W/72293/72314 Zongo Online
WS 2000/DIST/ECAM2 411W/412W/73468/73469 Birch Online

Course Description:
Reacting to the Past (RTP) uses an intense, fun, role-playing format to replicate historical contexts in which major ideas acquired significance. RTP fosters historical empathy, feeling how people in the past felt, especially people very different from us; and a sense of contingency, comprehending that events could have taken many turns, rather than only the path we now know them to have taken. We’ll be playing two games: Greenwich Village 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman and Changing the Game: Title IX, Gender, and College Athletics. Combined with HIST 2250/1001/77001 and HIST 2250H

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 2400/1001/77051 Schocket MW 4:30-5:45pm

Course Description:
Exploration of a range of topics and issues emerging in the interdisciplinary area of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender/Transexual) Studies.  Course engages in cultural and textual analysis as well as consideration of specific components of LGBT Studies, including (1) major concepts and theories, (2) political, economic, and social constructs which institutionalize homophobia and heterosexism, (3) diversity issues within LGBT communities, and (4) the impact of LGBT scholarship on specific academic disciplines.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 2610/1001/71629 Julie Haught Tues./Thurs. 11:30am-12:45pm

Course Description:
Historical survey of feminist theorists who have challenged and advocated changes in traditional ways of thinking about women's diverse social, sexual, racial, theological, class-specific status in society. Prerequisite: WS 2000 or permission of instructor.  Approved for Distance Education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 2730/101W/71074 Julie Haught Online

Course Description:
Women's creativity and cultural production in the visual, literary and performing arts, and their relationships to broader cultural issues, including cross-cultural perspectives. Prerequisite: WS 2000 or consent of instructor.  Approved for Distance Education.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 3010/1001/77052 Jess Birch Tues/Thurs 11:30-12:45pm

Course Description:
This course explores how race, gender, class, sexuality, and religion intersect and converge in shaping the lives of women of color in the United States. It emphasizes the diversity of experience of women of color as they resist and contest the material and cultural constraints that limit them. The course also focuses on women of color as agents of social and political change, and provides perspectives on the ways in which women of color shape and define American institutions and society. Credit allowed only for one of ETHN 3050 or WS 3050.
Combined with ETHN3050/1001/70713 and ETHN3050/1002/71872

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 3050/1001/71076 Stanley Tues/Thurs. 9:30-10:45am
WS 3050/1002/71860 Menon Tues/Thurs. 2:30-3:45pm

Course Description:
An exploration of women's lives and experiences in global/local contexts. Emphasis on analytical and methodological frameworks to examine different histories, activism, borders, and ideologies shaping women's lives. Focus on Third World critiques of Western feminisms in relation to social, economic, and political structures of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and class. Prerequisite: Any WS course, any ETHN 1000-level course, ETHN 2010, or ETHN 3050. Credit allowed only for ETHN 3130 or WS 3130. Approved for distance education.
Combined course with ETHN 3130/1001/75945

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 3130/1001/75975 Bhalla Tues/Thurs 1:00-2:15pm

Course Description:
An interdisciplinary examination of violence against women, including etiology and intervention, in the US and globally. Feminist and cultural perspectives will be used to interpret the research on interpersonal violence.

Class/Section/Call Number Instructor 
Day and Time
WS 3350/1001/74495 Ferrell-Snyder Tues/Thurs 4:00pm-5:15pm

Updated: 04/06/2023 10:17AM