Interdisciplinary Studies

当我们倾听人们讨论个人面临的关键问题时, communities, countries and the planet, what do we see happening? Is communication occurring? 即使意见不一致，双方是否能相互倾听并寻求理解另一种观点? Is the goal truth or the best policy or victory For a side? 什么样的技能、方法和条件会导致真正的讨论和富有成效的争论? How can we cultivate these as individuals and communities? This Argument and Inquiry seminar addresses these questions in both theory and practice by allowing students the opportunity to read, 视图, discuss, 并分析从过去和现在的一系列有争议的话题的理论讨论和案例研究.

数据可视化(将证据转化For图像)和行动主义有一个共同的目标:让不可见的更可见. How can graphs be used For activist work? Through discussion, reading, production, and reflection, 本课程将教导学生如何批判性地阅读和思考图表, produce graphs For public audiences, 并考虑数据访问和表示的道德层面. We will learn from data visualization pioneers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, 他将1900年巴黎世界博览会的图表和照片结合在一起，讲述了该机构的复杂故事, sophistication, 以及解放后美国对非裔美国人的压迫. As we discuss the role of data viz in activism, we will learn to experiment with creating our own visual arguments; our final project will be in partnership with a local community organization. 以前没有统计或绘图软件的经验是必要的.

In this seminar, we will use games (both by studying them and by playing them) as a lens through which we can explore all manner of fascinating questions. 我们玩的游戏是如何塑造我们的文化和社区的? 是什么让游戏有趣、吸引人、上瘾、无聊、残酷或平庸? 游戏是如何在我们不再玩游戏的情况下鼓励某些行For的? 如果我们把这里生活的某些方面游戏化，我们能不能让菲律宾十大彩票平台本身变得更好一点——或者至少更有趣一点? To aid our exploration, 我们将借鉴多种类型的内容，并使用各种研究方法来分析社交游戏, textual, and design perspectives. 本课程还包括每周三晚上(下午6:15-8:30)的实验课。. 学生将被要求参加至少八次的十次实验.

From Starbucks’ failed “Race together” initiative to debates about Rachel Dolezal’s racial identity to the Black Lives Matter movement, it is clear that race still matters in America. 这些事件也表明了讨论种族问题的困难, especially across racial lines. Drawing on texts from multiple disciplines, this course will examine the history of racial categories with a particular emphasis on how race matters in higher education. This course will also incorporate readings and activities that will help students develop further their skills to have productive discussions about race, especially in the context of a small residential college.

在这门课程中，学生们参与了菲律宾十大彩票平台关于多样性和社区的同龄人主导的对话. Students complete readings and engage in experiential exercises that invite them to reflect on their own social identities and their attitudes toward race, 性别, class, and sexuality. 通过承担风险，进行诚实的对话和自我反省, students work together to understand differences and to explore how to build communities that are welcoming and open to diversity. 学生们每周写日记，并写两篇反思性文章，由教师评分.

This course will enhance students’ quantitative skills and provide opportunities to apply those skills to authentic problems. Topics covered will vary depending on students in the class; possible topics include unit conversions, significant figures and estimation, exponents, logarithms, algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics. We will explore how these skills are relevant in contexts ranging from making personal finance decisions to understanding medical research reports.

本课程将讨论与计算机的广泛性别背景相关的一系列主题. 故事的起点是艾伦·图灵本人:他在战争期间因破译密码而成For英雄, Turing was also a gay man chemically castrated by the British government who (likely) died by suicide after enduring that treatment. 这门课程将从图灵开始向外延伸，包括与计算机中的性别和性行For有关的更广泛的主题, ranging from Turing’s era to the present. 具体的主题将根据可用的专家在性别和计算方面的兴趣而变化.

我们每周聚一次，阅读和讨论修昔底德的第一和第二卷 History of the Peloponnesian 战争 in Thomas Hobbes’s famed translation of 1628 (subsequent books will be discussed in courses offered in the Winter and Spring terms). 我们会关注文学艺术，以及原始希腊的政治和社会背景, 以及霍布斯对1620年代英格兰的重新语境化. 这种双焦点的方法可能会激发我们对当前困境的见解. 

我们每周聚一次，阅读和讨论修昔底德的书3-5 History of the Peloponnesian 战争 在托马斯·霍布斯1628年的著名译本中(后续的书将在春季学期的课程中讨论). 我们会关注文学艺术，以及原始希腊的政治和社会背景, 以及霍布斯对1620年代英格兰的重新语境化. 这种双焦点的方法可能会激发我们对当前困境的见解. 

我们每周聚一次，阅读和讨论修昔底德的第6-8卷 History of the Peloponnesian 战争 in Thomas Hobbes’s famed translation of 1628. 我们会关注文学艺术，以及原始希腊的政治和社会背景, 以及霍布斯对1620年代英格兰的重新语境化. 这种双焦点的方法可能会激发我们对当前困境的见解. 

This colloquium is designed to give students participating in the Focusing on Cultivating Scientists program an opportunity to learn and use skills in scientific study, reasoning, and modeling. 这个专题讨论会的主题每学期都会有所不同, 并允许学生在与多个科学学科相关的领域发展能力.

本课程帮助学生在批判性对话项目中促进以同伴For主导的关于多样性的对话. 学生将学习与社会认同相关的分类和理论, 权力, and inequality, and explore how identities including race, 性别, class, 性取向影响个人经历和社区结构. Students engage in experiential exercises that invite them to reflect on their own social identities and their reactions to difference, diversity, and conflict. 要求学生每周写日记，参加班级领导活动. 本课程的学员可申请协助IDSC 103的部分内容, a 2-credit student-led course in winter term.

This course will explore the many dimensions of public health within the United States and provide an introduction to community based work and research. Public health is by nature interdisciplinary and the course will address local public health issues through the lenses of social, biological, and physical determinants of health. In addition to readings and discussions, the course will incorporate the expertise of visiting public health practitioners and include site visits to local public health agencies. Students will work collaboratively with a community partner on a public health-related civic engagement project selected during Fall term and continued during Winter Break. 这是两门寒假课程的第一门.

本课程是从公共卫生视角开始的两学期课程的第二部分. Over the winter break, 学生们将花两周时间探索当地的各种公共卫生组织(明尼阿波利斯/圣. Paul) and nationally. During the winter term, 学生将与社区伙伴合作完成与公共卫生有关的公民参与项目, 将他们的个人项目重新置于更广泛的公共卫生背景中, 并准备向更广泛的观众展示他们的经验.

疫苗经常被吹捧For人类最伟大的生物医学成就之一. 毫无疑问，自从它们被发现以来，已经防止了数亿人死于传染病. 然而，仍有许多障碍妨碍它们的更广泛发展和传播. 其中包括与疫苗开发有关的技术挑战, 资金充足的反疫苗运动常常依靠并传播错误信息, 以及影响疫苗生产和公平分配的经济障碍. 通过跨学科的视角，结合生物学的材料, psychology, and economics, 本课程将使学生对疫苗有一个全面的了解.

如果你必须向一个盲人解释颜色的本质，你会如何描述它? Is it a property of objects, oscillations of an electric field, 眼睛如何产生电化学信号并将其发送到大脑的特征, or perhaps a property of the experiences themselves? 这个团队授课的课程采用多学科的方法来研究颜色, drawing from physics, psychology, and philosophy. We will explore topics such as the nature of light, visual anatomy, the process by which light is converted to a neural code, color mixing, linguistic differences in color processing, 以及色彩如何引导我们面对有时存在于表象与现实之间的紧张关系.

This project is a collaboration between two courses—Grassland Ecology and Field Drawing—that will foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem. Students will work together to develop a project that explores how ecological study and artistic expression can deepen their understanding of this landscape. 本课程将包括在菲律宾十大彩票平台植物园的实地考察, guest speakers, directed readings and culminate in a gallery exhibition.

人类面临的几乎每一项全球性挑战都需要一定程度的科学和技术参与. However, For我们最紧迫的问题寻找解决方案也需要理解科学是如何在其社会中运作的, political, and cultural context. This course will explore the relationship between science and society by examining a series of controversies in science from both the past and the present. 我们将研究种族的生物学和社会概念等主题, the use of unethically obtained scientific results, the ethics of genomics research, legislation over vaccination mandates, “parachute” science, and climate change denial. 研究科学在社会中的作用将有助于我们理解与证据使用有关的问题, expertise, and the relationship between science and politics. 通过与当前和历史上的科学争议作斗争, we will examine the ways in which scientific disagreements are often as much about values as they are about research methods.

Carleton does not grant credit For internships, 但有价值的校外学习经验可以融入学术课程. 尽管实习经历的具体性质会有所不同, 实习是在非学术环境中应用和扩展个人学术技能和兴趣的机会. 本课程将包括精心监控的工作经验，学生在其中有明确的学习目标. 这些目标的实现将通过反思性写作作业来衡量, as well as written work in connection with assigned readings.

本课程探讨在学术公民参与实践中提出的令人烦恼的伦理问题. With structured reflection on students’ varied civic engagement experiences and a group project aligned with the instructor’s work, 学生将考虑由权力不对称引起的问题, the relationships between scholarship and advocacy, scholarly and community knowledges, empathy with others and a student’s own moral commitments, and practices of civic engagement and community organizing. 每两年轮流授课，课程主题也会有所不同. The 2023 theme is Indigenous engagement in Minnesota.