360° Stories

Natural dyes, applique, batik and machine embroidery on cotton fabric

360°: Material Worlds

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Fungi

How do the materials we have impact the art we make?

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Image of a painting depicting the battle of Germantown

360°: Revolutions

How do different kinds of revolutions feed one another? How do art, culture and politics work together to form and normalize or defang the radicalism of the new order?

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A night view of bridges in Seoul

360°: K-Power

South Korea’s Rise from Ashes to Icons

This cluster explores three key dimensions of South Korea: Might (its politics, military, and diplomacy), Money (its economy), and Minds (its culture).

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hand-painted banner reading "feminismo" held by women at an outdoor march

360°: Feminisms in Latin America

As part of a genealogy of feminisms within the Global South, feminisms in Latin America have critically engaged with mainstream euro-centric feminist debates but also contributed theoretical, political, epistemological, and socio-cultural approaches and tools to identify, examine, interrogate, contest, and dismantle structural oppressions.

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Helen Christ (pictured left) with friends on May Day

New Year, New Perspectives: Helen Christ '24

Hometown: Bloomington, IN

"Don’t forget that Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is located in a unique place where you can explore new things and widen your horizons in ways you may not expect."

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Wind turbines and solar panels

360°: Renewable Energy

In an effort to shift focus toward a more scientific approach to renewable energy, this two-course 360° gave students the opportunity to explore energy alternatives from a data-driven perspective.

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Hiroshima

360°: Perspectives on Sustainability

Disasters and Rebuilding in Japan

We invite students to study the history of disaster rebuilding and the impact of the built environment on art and literature as part of broader networks of interactions both in East Asia and the West.

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Students pose in front of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

360°: Poetics and Politics of Race

The goal of this 360° is to unpack how meaning is made from representations of race—from artifacts in an anthropological context, to representations in literature, to how people teach and learn.

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360 students in Iceland

360°: Shakespeare in Global and Local Landscapes

In this cluster we approach Shakespeare as both a way of responding creatively to the contemporary world and as a way to create community and a context for learning.

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360 students in Hamburg

360°: Space and Identity

Psychological, Artistic and Spatial Approaches to Hamburg, Philadelphia and Beyond

This 360° brings together three different disciplinary perspectives to explore the notion of individual and group identity across time and space in urban environments. (Taught Spring 2013)

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Bags of grain

360°: Foodways and Migration

This 360° uses the frameworks of history, cultural studies, and archeology to examine the relationship between foodways and migration.

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