Scribner Seminar Program
Fall 2024
Below is a listing of the Scribner Seminars offered in Fall 2024. Descriptions of the seminars are linked to the titles, and the number to the left is the section number of the course; during registration, these numbers distinguish each seminar within the SSP 100 class listing.
Please keep in mind that the below information is subject to change and that some Scribner Seminars may have a class time or 4th credit hour session in the late afternoon or early evening.
(001) Buzz: Art and Design of Caffeine
Instructor: Mimi Hellman
W/F 10:10a-12:00p
(002) Walking Saratoga: Taking Steps to Discover "Home" in New Places
Instructor: Tammy Owens
T/TR 9:10a-11:00a
(025) Making Mathematics
Instructor: Csilla Szabo
W/F 8:40a-10:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a
(003) My Online Friends: Digital Cultures and Navigating the Metaverse
Instructor: Bernardo Rios
M/W 12:20p-1:40p
F 12:20p-1:15p
(026) Our Planet, Our Business
Instructor: Chaoping Li
T/TR 2:10a-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p
(004) Durable Objects
Instructor: John Galt
T/TR 3:40p-5:30p
(027) Industry and Innovation
Instructor: Timothy Harper
M/W 2:30p-3:50p
M 11:15a-12:10p
(005) Connecting Threads: Exploring the History of Textile Art
Instructor: Sang-Wook Lee
T/TR 9:40a-11:00a
T 6:30p-7:25p
(028) The Business of Food- Section 1
Instructor: Caroline D'Abate
W 10:10a-11:30a
F 11:00a-1:20p
(006) LatinX Expression: Color in Culture
Instructor: Fabian Lopez
T/TR 9:10a-11:00a
(029) The Business of Food- Section 2
Instructor: Caroline D'Abate
W 12:20p-1:40p
F 11:00a-1:20p
(007) In the Light of Death
Instructor: Benjamin Bogin
W/F 8:40a-10:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a
(030) Music on the Move
Instructor: Charlotte D'Evelyn
T/TR 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p
(008) Plagues and Their Power on Human Society- Section 1
Instructor: Sylvia McDevitt
W/F 10:10a-12:00p
(031) Making Things Right
Instructor: Larry Jorgensen
T/TR 2:10p-3:30p
T 6:30p-7:25p
(009) Plagues and Their Power on Human Society- Section 2
Instructor: Sylvia McDevitt
T/TR 9:10a-11a
(032) Soldiers, Diplomats, and Spies: The Art of Politics by Other Means
Instructor: Yelena Biberman-Ocaklie
T/TR 9:40a-11:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a
(010) Power, Protest, and Embodied Resistance: The Body, Image, and Identity
Instructor: Kieron Sargeant
M/W 2:30p-3:50p
TR 6:30p-7:25p
(033) The Killing State: Capital Punishment in America
Instructor: Beau Breslin
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(011) Our World on the Move
Instructor: Smriti Tiwari
T/TR 2:10a-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p
(034) My Therapist is a Robot: Technology and Psychotherapy
Instructor: Lucas LaFreniere
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
T 6:30p-7:25p
(012) Competition
Instructor: Patrick Reilly
M/W 8:10a-10:00a
(035) Beliefs About Social Identity
Instructor: Leigh Wilton
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
W 5:00p-5:55p
(013) Ekphrasis: Creative Writing About Visual Art
Instructor: April Bernard
W/F 12:20p-2:10p
(036) Psychology and Law
Instructor: Daniel Peterson
T/TR 9:40a-11:00a
M 3:00p-3:55p
(014) Timely
Instructor: Barbara Black
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
W 7:00p-7:55p
(037) Reading Minds: The History and Science of Literacy
Instuctor: Rebecca Johnson
W/F 10:10a-11:30a
M 10:10a-11:05a
(015) Sexualities/Textualities
Instructor: Mason Stokes
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
W 6:30p-7:25p
(038) Imagination, Innovation, and the Impossible
Instuctor: Kendrah Murphy
W/F 12:20p-1:40p
M 12:20p-1:15p
(016) Extraordinary Bodies
Instructor: Susannah Mintz
M/W 2:30p-3:50p
W 6:00p-6:55p
(039) Nonhuman Worlds
Instructor: Alexandra Prince
W/F 12:20p-2:10p
(017) Myth and Modernity
Instructor: Joseph Cermatori
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
W 6:30p-7:25p
(040) Freedom Dreams and the Black Radical Imagination
Instructor: Jennifer Mueller
M/W 2:30p-4:20p
(018) Nature With and Without Us
Instructor: Bakary Diaby
T/TR 3:40p-5:30p
(041) Eating and Being: Food, Culture, and Identity
Instructor: Xiaoshuo Hou
T/TR 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p
(019) Environmental Advocacy Bootcamp: A Toolbox for Saving the World
Instructor: Andrew Schneller
T/TR 3:40p-5:30p
(042) Robots, Cyborgs, and A.I., Oh My!: Theater and Technology
Instructor: Dennis Schebetta
T/TR 3:40p-5:30p
(020) Transnational Women of Color Feminisms
Instructor: Gwen D'Arcangelis
W/F 12:20p-2:10p
(043) Being Your Self
Instructor: Catherine Talley
T/TR 12:40p-2:00p
M 12:20p-1:15p
(021) Sport, Self and Society
Instructor: Jeffrey Segrave
T/TR 11:10a-12:30p
M 11:15a-12:10p
(044) Migration, Memory, and Mourning
Instructor: Abel Arango
T/TR 8:10a-9:30a
M 8:00a-8:55a
(022) Sailing the Seas with Captain Cook
Instructor: Tillman Nechtman
W/F 8:40a-10:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a
(045) Nanocultures
Instructor: Maria Lander
W/F 10:10a-11:30a
M 11:15a-12:10p
(023) Brasilidade: Contestations and Culture in Brazil
Instructor: Rachel Cantave
W/F 10:10a-12:00p
(046) Chaos Finds a Voice: The Politics of Identity in the US/Mexico Borderlands
Instructor: Diana Barnes
T/TR 2:10p-3:30p
M 1:25p-2:20p
(047) Famine, Plague, and Warfare in 14th Century London
Instructor: Erica Bastress-Dukehart
W/F 8:40a-10:00a
M 9:05a-10:00a
London- First Year Experience
The World Through Maps (London Edition)
Instructor: Jordana Dym
No Place to Hide: Surveillance in Bentham's and Orwell's London
Instructor: Scott Mulligan