Relevant Classes

• PSYCH 388: Negotiations

  • Course Description: ​"Merging theory and practice, this course aims to provide students with the theoretical perspective and practical skills they need to become effective negotiators. By the end of the term, students will have learned the fundamentals of distributive and integrative bargaining as well as an array of social influence tactics in order to succeed as a negotiator" (Garcia, 2019)

• PSYCH 395: Organizational Psychology

  • Course Description: "​Organizational psychology is the subfield of psychology devoted to the study of human thought and action in organizations, and it aims at describing, explaining, predicting, and influencing the experiences and actions of people at work. This course offers a broad-ranging introduction to the field and aims to help students to develop understanding and practical skills related to managing behaviors in organizations. Topics covered in the course include, for instance, individual differences at work, motivation, stress and well-being at work, group dynamics, communication in organizations, culture in organizations, and leadership" (Kira, 2019)

• ANTHRCUL 344: Medical Anthropology

  • Course Description: ​"Medical Anthropology examines illness and healing in cross-cultural perspective. How do people make meaning of their suffering? What determines what is normal and what is pathological? How are morality and medicine intertwined? We will examine the ways in which individuals experience illness and seek (and provide) care in the context of local understandings of the body and self; consider the roles of social, political, and economic processes in the shaping of suffering and care; examine a variety of healing systems—including biomedicine—as social institutions that both reflect and influence what people 'know' to be true" (Peters-Golden, 2019)

• PHIL 355: Contemporary Moral Problems

  • Course Description: ​"Globalization is now understood as a driver not merely of opportunity but of new forms of inequality, turning certain regions of the world into low wage production sites for the centers of concentrated capital in Europe, America and parts of Asia, abandoning longstanding markets for new and cheaper ones, producing global insecurity and joblessness. The arts and humanities are increasingly celebrity and market-driven, scripted by branding, which is also true of politics. The genuineness of moral culture, its capacity for honesty, is under threat. On the other hand, the world has never had a deeper experience of cosmopolitanism, the sharing of cultural and moral values, the fusion of diverse forms into new art and literature, the vast expansion of information and partnerships across distances thanks to new technologies. These social issues cannot be solved by philosophy (or any other academic or public discipline), but philosophy can play a significant role in their straight and honest articulation, and in drawing on its significant moral legacies in seeking ways to make the problems more tractable. This course will focus on human rights, contemporary art and political culture in an age of globalization, and on the politics of terror. And we will discuss the cosmopolitan stance." (Herwitz, 2016)

• UC 270: Global Scholars Program: Defining Critical Global Issues

  • Course Description: ​"'What makes a problem a problem?' and 'How do we decide when a problem is bad enough that it needs a solution?' We will utilize the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN MDG’s) as a framework to explore problems that reflect global disparities between, and sometimes within, developing and developed nations. We will follow methods used to identify the extent and nature of these disparities through research conducted by major global organizations. We will critically examine the socio-political complexities of how problems arise, are identified as problems, and are then categorized as needing solutions" (Routenberg, 2016)

• UC 227: Practicum: Facilitating Global Engagement

  • Course Description: ​"In this course, Peer Facilitators will explore foundational readings that will enhance their understanding of facilitation as a pedagogical practice. These readings will expand their knowledge content and challenge their critical thinking capacities through exposure to concepts rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Feminist Theory, as well as educational development concepts. Students will build upon this theoretical foundation and learn important facilitation skills through constructive dialogues, role-playing, and writing assignments. By participating in structured meetings that culminate in a group weekend camping trip, students will engage in knowledge construction, leadership training, community building, and conflict-resolution exercises" (Wiseman, 2017)

• ALA 470: Organizing for Global Justice

  • Course Description: ​"Sustainable social change requires a strategic vision that balances multiple stakeholders' interests, encourages collaborations, cultivates high levels of motivation, and accesses necessary resources. This class will focus on challenges and strategies inherent to organizing for global justice, and how this knowledge can influence your own practice as a 'global citizen'" (Wiseman, 2018)

• PSYCH 318: Media and Violence

  • Course Description: ​"This course examines the psychological causes of aggressive violent behavior and the theoretical and empirical connections between violence in society and portrayals of violence in the mass media. It surveys the research on the physiological, psychological, and environmental factors implicated in the development of habitual aggressive and violent behavior and examines the theories that explain how exposure to violence in the mass media adds to the effects of these other factors causing aggressive and violent behavior" (Huesmann, 2018)

• PSYCH 401: Special Problems: Intro to Body Studies

  • Course Description: ​"Students will learn about and use identity, embodiment, intersectionality, and social constructionist theories to understand the relevance and experiences of a number of different identities such as race, gender, ability, and age. Students will make connections between the body, how the body is viewed by others (through media, law, social beliefs,etc.), and how society's views can get under the skin (discrimination, laws, embodiment, etc.). While this is a psychology class, students will read materials from a number of different academic areas including sociology, law, and philosophy" (Blazek, 2018)

• ENGLISH 320: Literature & Environment: Writing in a Time of Extinction

  • Course Description: ​"In 'Prayer for the Mutilated World,' Sam Sax wonders 'what will be left after we’ve left,' and offers a tender and weary answer to his own question: 'i dare not consider it // instead dance with me a moment / late in this last extinction // that you are reading this / must be enough.' How are contemporary writers imagining the world and the role of literature in the midst of the change, destruction, and dislocation associated with what has been termed the sixth mass extinction event? How do they define 'environment,' their relation to it, and their place within it? From climate fiction ('cli-fi') to necropastoral poems and beyond, we will read literary works, as well as academic scholarship and popular writing, that respond to these questions" (Chakraborty, 2019)

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Source: University of Michigan. (2020). 2016-2020 LSA Course Guide. https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/default.aspx