T4SG Course Guide - Google Drive


1		Hello from the Curricular Advocacy Team of Tech for Social Good (T4SG) at the University of Michigan, and thank you for checking out our course guide!
2	We created this resource as part of our mission to incorporate ethics in the core curriculum of U-M's more technical departments.
3	We have consolidated classes across all departments that critically rethink technology in the broader social context, and we hope that these suggestions can help everyone to develop a more socially informed mindset in and beyond the technical field.
4	While we have worked hard to make this list extensive, it is by no means finished. If you have a question about any of the listings, would like to suggest a course, professor, or program in the university that we should include, or have questions about anything we've listed:
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1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	MECHENG 433	Advanced Energy Solutions	3	Introduction to the challenges of power generation for a global society using thermodynamics to understand basic principles and technology limitations. Covers current and future demands for energy; methods of power generation including fossil fuel, solar, wind, and nuclear; associated detrimental by-products; and advanced strategies to improve power densities, efficiencies and emissions.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320MECHENG433002&termArray=w_21_2320
3	EECS 498-001	Ethics for AI and Robotics	3	First, like any other powerful technology (e.g. nuclear power, genetic engineering), there are important ethical questions about how AI and robotics technology can and should be deployed, and what its impact will be on society. This topic includes regulations, and the processes by which regulations are proposed, adopted, and enforced. Second, unlike other technologies, AI (and thus intelligent robotics) involves creating agents that make their own decisions about how to act in the world. Ethics is a kind of foundational knowledge that humans use to decide how to act. We need to understand the structure of that knowledge, so the AIs we create will have the knowledge they need to act appropriately. Do we mean that humans must be ethical as we design and deploy intelligent systems? Do we mean that the systems we design and deploy must be capable of deciding what is ethical for them to do? Most likely, the answers to both questions will turn out to be “Yes!” The follow-on question is “How do we do that?”	https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/teaching/eecs598-W21.html
4	EECS 495	Software Development for Accessibility	4	Using established software development methodology, build software system that combines new technology and also addresses disability or illness. Gain understanding and empathy for existing software/device approaches for accessibility. Frequently work with UM-affiliated hospital and/or specific disabled customer. Emphasis given to team-based development of large, complex, software system.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320EECS495001&termArray=w_21_2320
5	EECS 498 - 005	Applied Machine Learning for Affective Computing	4	This course covers the concepts and techniques that underlie machine learning of human behavior across multiple interaction modalities. Topics include: speech/text/gesturalbehavior recognition through applications of machine learning, including deep learning. The course will also includediscussions of the cybersecurity challenges associated with this domain. Fluency in a standard object-oriented programming language is assumed. Prior experience with speech or other data modeling is neither required nor assumed.	https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/EECS_598_Applied_ML.pdf
6	EECS 598 - 011	Technologies to Optimize Human Learning	3	The advances in computing have changed the ways people learn. In this seminar, we will review educational technologies that draw a wide range of techniques from Augmented Reality, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Crowdsourcing, etc. We will also discuss how these systems are guided by theories of how humans learn and the HCI methods used to design and evaluate them.	https://eecs.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EECS_598_HL.pdf
7	BIOMEDE 550	Ethics and Enterprise	1	Ethics, technology transfer and technology protection pertaining to BiomedE are studied. Ethics issues range from the proper research conduct to identifying and managing conflicts of interest. Technology transfer studies the process and its influences on relationships between academia and industry	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/BIOMEDE%20550/
8	CLIMATE/SPACE 320	Earth Systems Evolution	3	An overview of the most pressing issues in Earth's climate. Introduction to the physics and chemistry of Earth and space. Gravitational energy, radiative energy, Earth’s energy budget and Earth tectonics are discussed along with chemical evolution and biogeochemical cycles. The connections among the carbon cycle, silicate weathering and the natural greenhouse effect are discussed.	https://bulletin.engin.umich.edu/courses/clasp/#subnav-2
9	EECS 598 (not sure which section)	Human-Computer Interaction	3	This course will teach students principles and methods of technical Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. It will also include a survey of important research threads. Short individual assignments will give students exposure to existing research methods in HCI. Midterm and final exams will test the student knowledge of the topic.	http://www.nikolabanovic.net/
10	ENGR 100: Section 750	Engineering for Social Impact: Making a Better World	4	A great introduction to the socially-engaged design process and principles, especially for freshman. This course teaches students how to make good design choices and effectively prototype using various materials. The TechComm portion of this course involves writing technical reports, conducting a stakeholder interview, and group presentations.	https://adue.engin.umich.edu/eng-100-information-for-students/
11	MECHENG 499	Mechanical Engineering and Racial Justice
12	CEE 265	Sustainable Engineering Principles


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	EDUC 444	Teaching with Educational Technologies K-8	3	This is a course designed to bring together understandings of current trends and research around digital technologies and how these studies can be put into practical use for learning across the K-8 academic subjects: mathematics, science, language arts, literacy, social studies, and the arts. We will examine the complexities between technology, teaching and learning. We will look at technology from multiple perspectives to assess its potential benefits and challenges to different audiences. We will integrate foundational theories from literacy, assistive education and multicultural education while we are considering all the facets of integrating technology in K-8 classrooms. Given the speed of change in technology, we will emphasize the affordance of new and developing educational media, online and blended learning, mobile learning, social networking, as well as more traditional classroom tools.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/EDUC%20444/
3	EDUC 446	Teaching with Educational Technologies 6-12	3	This is a course designed to bring together understandings of current trends and research around digital technologies and how these studies can be put into practical use for learning across the secondary academic subjects: mathematics, science, language arts, English language arts, world languages and social studies. We will examine the complexities between technology, teaching and learning. We will look at technology from multiple perspectives to assess its potential benefits and challenges to different audiences. We will explore how secondary teachers develop blended classrooms through virtual teaching tools. Given the speed of change in technology, we will emphasize the affordance of new and developing educational media, online learning, mobile learning, social networking, as well as more traditional classroom tools.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/EDUC%20446/
4	EDUC 504	Teaching with Technology	3	Prepares secondary education students to critically examine the teaching and learning applications of a variety of technology tools and resources, situating this examination in the context of contemporary and historical issues related to technology use, access, and the broader purposes of schooling. Explores notions of what it means for both a teacher and learner to have a digital presence by developing an understanding of oneself as a professional, and offers hands-on experience and opportunities for engaged reflection.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/EDUC%20504/
5	EDUC 601/SI 549	Transformative Learning and Teaching with Technology	3	What role does technology play in high-performance learning and teaching environments? What are the most common mistakes schools, parents, and communities make when integrating technology into learning and teaching? How does policy at the federal, state, local, and institutional level affect what is possible with technology? We will explore the answers to these questions in this class as we examine ways technology has been used successfully (and not so successfully) in a variety of educational contexts. Students are encouraged to develop critical perspectives about the uses of technology for learning and teaching.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/EDUC%20601/
6	EDUC 605	Internship in Learning Technologies	3	Students enrolling in Internship in Learning Technologies will be paired with area educational institutions where they will focus on solutions to real, ongoing issues and challenges in the uses of technology to support learning. A University instructor and an on-site internship director/mentor will supervise interns. A reflective analytical paper must be completed.	https://soe.umich.edu/academics-admissions/course-syllabi/internship-learning-technologies
7	EDUC 626/SI 548	Principles of Software Design for Learning	3	Students are introduced to the process of designing computer-based learning environments. Students work in groups to design and prototype learning environments for real classrooms. Attention is focused on ensuring designs are based upon sound pedagogical theory and that learning environments are embedded into curriculum. If possible, this course should be taken in conjunction with EDUC 603.	https://soe.umich.edu/sites/default/files/2020-10/ED626Syllabus-W19-v1.pdf
8	EDUC 728	Practicum in Learning Technology Design	1-4	Focuses on the design and production of interactive multimedia materials for education, using resources from the Prechter Laboratory for Interactive Technologies and the Multimedia Classroom. Team projects will be encouraged. Theory and research on learning from multimedia will also be emphasized.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/EDUC%20728/


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	HISTORY 285 / RCSSCI 275	Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society	4	From iPhones to intelligence testing to immunizations, technology, science, and medicine permeate our modern lives. In this course, students will learn to think critically about technology, science, and medicine and analyze how they have transformed the world in spectacular and mundane ways. We explore questions such as: How has the development of the medical profession shaped debates about inoculation or the AIDS epidemic? How have culture and politics affected the goals and designs of such technologies as guns, washing machines, and electrical systems? How have science, technology, and politics interacted in debates over climate change? And, ultimately, how should we manage the tension between popular democracy and technical expertise?	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HISTORY285001&termArray=w_21_2320
3	ENVIRON 465	Interdisciplinary Environmental Topics - Technologies and Policies for Decarbonization	2	This special topics course seeks to examine environmental problems and issues from a interdisciplinary perspective. Specific interdisciplinary topics will vary by term. The course is being created primarily for interdisciplinary experimental courses, meet togethers and/or crosslistings with other LSA departments.	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ENVIRON465002&termArray=w_21_2320
4	ALA 118	Programs, Information and People	4	Introduction to programming with a focus on applications in informatics. Covers the fundamental elements of a modern programming language and how to access data on the internet. Explores how humans and technology complement one another, including techniques used to coordinate groups of people working together on software development.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/ALA%20118/
5	AMCULT 358.001/ DIGITAL 358.001	Digital Visual Culture	3	Every two minutes, Americans take more photos than were printed in the entirety of the 19th-century. In 2014 alone people took over one trillion pictures. As citizens of a brave new digital world, we are increasingly called upon to produce images and to be produced as images—to willingly make ourselves into technologies of surveillance of our lives and those around us. How has the everyday ubiquity of digital technologies, from smart phone cameras to NSA surveillance, transformed the way we look and how we are seen? In an era saturated with screens, from Facetime to Google images to Snapchat, we increasingly experience and negotiate the world through a digital frame. This course explores what it means to examine our contemporary digital condition through its native visual vernacular (fashion blogs, selfie sticks, Instagram feeds, gifs, pirated videos), its popular representations in popular fiction and reality TV, its role in the operations of state and corporate power and as tools for activism, and its relationship to shaping art practices. Together we’ll ask: If to be is to be visible today, how might we confront the pleasures and risks of the digital traces we leave in our wake? How has the Internet given rise to new visual practices, whether in everyday digital culture or experimental art?	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320AMCULT358004&termArray=w_21_2320
6	AMCULT 358.002 / DIGITAL 358.002	Topics in Digital Studies	3	This course allows students to think through the concept of “code” from several critical vantage points, focusing particularly on both how codes carry politics and how those politics determine and define relationships of power. Code, as we will see, can be based on a wide variety of phenomena, from coding as categorization to coding as passwords, and to coding as computer programming languages and software. These varied understandings of code force us to consider how exactly the politics of code may interact with—and determine—our daily lives.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320AMCULT358002&termArray=w_21_2320
7	AMCULT 410 / SI 410	Ethics and Information Technology(ULWR)	4	Applies an emergent philosophy of information to a variety of new technologies that are inherently social in their design, construction, and use. Learning modules include: social media interaction; remembering/forgetting; and game design ethics. By collaborating on building a wiki community, students explore ethical/unethical information behaviors and test information quality metrics.	https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/courses/410
8	ARCH 411.001 / DIGITAL 411.001	Becoming Digital	3	Becoming Digital serves as an introduction to the pressing concerns sparked by the embeddedness of architecture and design in ubiquitous networks of digital technology that have reshaped our surroundings and ourselves. The course teaches students digital literacy - characterized by a broad understanding of how technology works, its inherent biases and ethical implications, and its transformative effect on people's lives - with an emphasis on a more healthful, equitable, and just world. Weekly topics include software, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, virtual reality, games, and 'smart cities'.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ARCH411001&termArray=w_21_2320
9	CEE 265.001	Sustainable Engineering Principles	3	Sustainable engineering principles including calculations of environmental emissions and resource consumption. Mass and energy balance calculations in context of pollution generation and prevention, resource recovery, and life-cycle assessment. Economic aspects of sustainable engineering decision-making. Social impacts of technology system design decisions including ethical frameworks, government legislation, and health risks.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320CEE265001&termArray=w_21_2320
10	CLIMATE 172/ EARTH 172.001 ENVIRON 111.001 GEOG 111.001	Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century	4	Increasingly, millions of human-initiated and natural activities are altering our planet. Over the past century, through our ever-increasing population and mastery of technology, we have been changing our planet’s environment at a pace unknown in Earth’s natural history. In 'Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century' students will study the impacts of modern human society on land, ice, freshwater, ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems, resources, and human well-being. We will also consider practical, local, and every-day considerations relevant to a sustainable human future.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320CLIMATE172001&termArray=w_21_2320
11	DIGITAL 258	Humanities Themes in Digital Studies - Technologies of Liveness	3	This course explores the relationship between live performance and media technology. We will ask how technology facilitates everyday encounters between people as well as the significance of technology to live arts such as theater, dance, music, and comedy. Faced with the difficulties of gathering in person in our current moment, this course turns to histories and theories of media that shed light on the problems and possibilities of communicating across distance.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320DIGITAL258001&termArray=w_21_2320
12	DIGITAL 358	Global Digital Activism	3	This seminar focuses on global digital activism, defined broadly as activism associated with the use of digital media technologies (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones). The goal is to provide students with a tool-kit for analyzing digital activism and to develop a critical understanding of the role of digital technologies in contemporary activism and its implications for global social change. Major cases to be examined include Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the US, feminist activism, the Arab Spring, and the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320DIGITAL358001&termArray=w_21_2320
13	CMPLXSYS 250 / ENVIRON 250.001 / PUBPOL 250.001	Energy and Climate Change: Technology, Markets, and Policy	3	Energy is an incredibly complex topic by virtue of the inter-linkages of science, technology, public policy, economics, and human behaviors. This course will examine all aspects of energy: supply and demand, technical and social, with a concerted look at the natural place of social science (behavior, pricing, externalities, social norms) in the energy sphere.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ENVIRON250001&termArray=w_21_2320
14	HISTORY 304.001	Interdisciplinary Topics in History - Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East	3	By engaging ancient writings, handling and discussing ancient objects, experimenting with ancient mathematical problems or techniques, and qualitatively considering the role of technology in life, students will question the notions of modern and Western (or alien) supremacy or the definitions of science, consider how they would solve ancient problems, and experience the importance of scientific developments and technological advancements in both ancient and modern life.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HISTORY304001&termArray=w_21_2320
15	ORGSTUDY 450.001	Technological Innovation	3	The intention of the course is to provide a theoretical basis for understanding innovation, anchored by both historical and current empirical examples, applied case studies that require the application of existing theory, and guest speakers whose jobs involve technological innovation.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ORGSTUDY450001&termArray=w_21_2320
16	COM 362	Digital Media Foundations	4	This class is for those interested in practical skills and critical intellectual foundations relevant to the internet and new media. Using context of Web-based applications, mobile applications, online multimedia, social media, and gaming, this course covers topics fundamental to understanding digital media forms, including an introductions to operation of the Web, Internet, Web development, search engines, digital formats, online media distribution platforms and networks, online communities, audiences, online advertising and user interfaces.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320COMM362001&termArray=w_21_2320
17	PHIL 340	Minds and Machines	4	Minds, machines, the relationships between them, and the relationships they encourage and discourage. Considering questions like: Could a machine have a mind? Could a machine be conscious, or think in the ways that people do? How do machines and our interactions with them influence how humans think, learn, reason, and know? What are the promises and perils of artificial intelligence, big data, and gargantuan networks, especially when the underlying mechanics of machine and network reasoning are not transparent to us?	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/PHIL%20340/
18	PHYSICS 210	Energy for Our Future	3	Energy and energy policy is becoming an increasingly important component of our civilization. We explore the physics, politics, economics, and environmental impact of the production, distribution, and use of known sources of energy including fossil fuels, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric. Students work in groups to craft viable energy plans for the future weighing cost, environmental and human risk, and larger geopolitical impacts. Written reports, based on these plans are distributed to the class and groups defend their plans in front of the class.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360PHYSICS210001&termArray=f_21_2360
19	ALA 315	Popular Science	3	Popular-science writing attempts to present scientific ideas to a general audience, informing the public about science and interpreting what science means for politics, education, philosophy, religion, and culture. The purpose of this course is to help you develop the ability to critically discuss the context, meaning, and significance of science, questioning how science might fit into a broader view of the world, as you grapple with popular-science writing across many scientific fields.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360ALA315001&termArray=f_21_2360
20	AMCULT 103-003	#TweetLikeANeurotypical: Disability and Digital Activism	3	Social distancing isn’t new: Disabled and chronically ill people have long navigated the world at a remove. Inaccessible environments, institutionalization, discriminatory social policies, and educational inequities have had profound consequences on how disability communities engage in public life. For these reasons, and more, disability cultures often intersect with digital cultures, highlighting ways of moving through the world that harness and hack technology for social justice. In this class, we’ll examine how disabled activists deploy protest tactics online, paying particular attention to histories and pre-histories of online activism as well as current social media campaigns and digital accessibility advocacy. Among other topics, we’ll think about how disability wisdom might help us better understand (and dismantle!) our so-called “new normal.”	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360AMCULT103003&termArray=f_21_2360
21	AMCULT 347	Politics of Code	3	This course will allow students to think through the concept of “code” from several vantage points, focusing particularly on how codes carry politics and how politics determine and define relationships of power. Code, as we will see, can be based on a wide variety of phenomena, from coding as categorization, to coding as passwords, to coding as computer programming languages and software. These varied understandings of what code can make us consider how exactly code can have politics, and how that politics might interact with—and determine— our daily lives.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360AMCULT347001&termArray=f_21_2360
22	AMCULT 301 - 002	Topics in American Culture: Critical digital visualization	3	The course is a combined theory and practice exploration of creative data visualization methods through the lens of critical data questions. We will address issues of data equity, bias, privacy, and colonialism, whilst exploring an array of visualization techniques, including experimentation with immersive data visualization through extended reality technology. We will explore emerging critical data frameworks that look at data feminism, the ethics of machine learning, decolonizing data, and data humanism. We will look at the work of artists, designers, and activists and analyze their visual strategies and practice-based approaches. Students will gain critical insight and creative data techniques to use in their future work.	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410AMCULT301002&termArray=f_22_2410
23	ANTHRCUL 237	Digital Futures: Media Technologies and Social Transformation Around the World	4	Our futures seem increasingly digital. From politics to work, from romance to family, people around the world are grappling with how digital media technologies seep into the nooks and crannies of their everyday lives. The dominance of the digital both provokes panic about the harmful corporate and political forces they are unleashing and inspires hope about the capacity of activists to create better futures. In either case, the emphasis is on the power of technology. But how do communities and social movements around the world think and do about digital media’s promises or perils? This course goes beyond both the hysteria and the hype to examine the social life and futures of digital technologies from Ghana to Venezuela to Iran to the United States and beyond. We look at the relationship between technology, culture, and power differentials across different world regions, whether those related to race, ethnicity, gender, class, or religion. What assumptions about self and society do technologies encode as universally valid and “culture-free”? What role do media play in shaping our sense of what is right, true, or just? How are digital technologies implicated in shoring up existing systems of oppression or in creating space for resisting them? Each week, we answer these questions through reading about concrete case studies from a wide array of global contexts and watching documentaries about media activism and experiences. Throughout, we explore what an anthropological, people-centered approach offers to understand our digital futures.	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410ANTHRCUL237001&termArray=f_22_2410
24	ENGLISH 313 - 001	TOpics in Literary Studies: The Novel and Virtual Realities	4	Long before our digital lives, the novel was a key technology and art form for immersing readers in real and imagined worlds. Then and now, the novel has held out the promise of encounters with historical actors and far-away spaces, and of opportunities to know the inner lives of others and strangers. In the context of racial and social justice reckonings in the 21st-century U.S., and of our increasingly digital lives, these have only become more alluring. This course considers the durable power of the project of “knowing” lives other than our own, in both textual and virtual reality (VR) forms. Working with earlier texts (including Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Richard Wright’s Native Son) and contemporary novels (Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine), we’ll consider them in relation to VR titles that also aim to put us “inside” real-time experiences of displacement, migration, racial and social inequality, and radical change. Across media, we’ll explore what it means to attempt to know or connect imaginatively with lives beyond our own. What kind of immersive experience have novels aimed to create? How do the aesthetics of VR world-making mimic or challenge the strategies of the novel? We’ll focus on works that aim to create--and sometimes resist—the cultivation of empathy in our encounters with other subjects and worlds, and we’ll explore critical understandings of empathy and immersion and their limits in readings on the novel and VR environments and practice. A significant portion of our work will take place in a virtual reality lab, where we’ll develop collaborative strategies for exploring VR and multi-media texts, accounting for that experience, and responding critically to it.	http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410ENGLISH313001&termArray=f_22_2410

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Course Number

Course Name

Credits

Course Description

Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus

2

HISTORY 285 / RCSSCI 275

Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society

4

From iPhones to intelligence testing to immunizations, technology, science, and medicine permeate our modern lives. In this course, students will learn to think critically about technology, science, and medicine and analyze how they have transformed the world in spectacular and mundane ways. We explore questions such as: How has the development of the medical profession shaped debates about inoculation or the AIDS epidemic? How have culture and politics affected the goals and designs of such technologies as guns, washing machines, and electrical systems? How have science, technology, and politics interacted in debates over climate change? And, ultimately, how should we manage the tension between popular democracy and technical expertise?

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HISTORY285001&termArray=w_21_2320

3

ENVIRON 465

Interdisciplinary Environmental Topics - Technologies and Policies for Decarbonization

2

This special topics course seeks to examine environmental problems and issues from a interdisciplinary perspective. Specific interdisciplinary topics will vary by term. The course is being created primarily for interdisciplinary experimental courses, meet togethers and/or crosslistings with other LSA departments.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ENVIRON465002&termArray=w_21_2320

4

ALA 118

Programs, Information and People

4

Introduction to programming with a focus on applications in informatics. Covers the fundamental elements of a modern programming language and how to access data on the internet. Explores how humans and technology complement one another, including techniques used to coordinate groups of people working together on software development.

https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/ALA%20118/

5

AMCULT 358.001/
DIGITAL 358.001

Digital Visual Culture

3

Every two minutes, Americans take more photos than were printed in the entirety of the 19th-century. In 2014 alone people took over one trillion pictures. As citizens of a brave new digital world, we are increasingly called upon to produce images and to be produced as images—to willingly make ourselves into technologies of surveillance of our lives and those around us. How has the everyday ubiquity of digital technologies, from smart phone cameras to NSA surveillance, transformed the way we look and how we are seen? In an era saturated with screens, from Facetime to Google images to Snapchat, we increasingly experience and negotiate the world through a digital frame.

This course explores what it means to examine our contemporary digital condition through its native visual vernacular (fashion blogs, selfie sticks, Instagram feeds, gifs, pirated videos), its popular representations in popular fiction and reality TV, its role in the operations of state and corporate power and as tools for activism, and its relationship to shaping art practices. Together we’ll ask:

If to be is to be visible today, how might we confront the pleasures and risks of the digital traces we leave in our wake?
How has the Internet given rise to new visual practices, whether in everyday digital culture or experimental art?

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320AMCULT358004&termArray=w_21_2320

6

AMCULT 358.002 /
DIGITAL 358.002

Topics in Digital Studies

3

This course allows students to think through the concept of “code” from several critical vantage points, focusing particularly on both how codes carry politics and how those politics determine and define relationships of power. Code, as we will see, can be based on a wide variety of phenomena, from coding as categorization to coding as passwords, and to coding as computer programming languages and software. These varied understandings of code force us to consider how exactly the politics of code may interact with—and determine—our daily lives.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320AMCULT358002&termArray=w_21_2320

7

AMCULT 410 / SI 410

Ethics and Information Technology(ULWR)

4

Applies an emergent philosophy of information to a variety of new technologies that are inherently social in their design, construction, and use. Learning modules include: social media interaction; remembering/forgetting; and game design ethics. By collaborating on building a wiki community, students explore ethical/unethical information behaviors and test information quality metrics.

https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/courses/410

8

ARCH 411.001 / DIGITAL 411.001

Becoming Digital

3

Becoming Digital serves as an introduction to the pressing concerns sparked by the embeddedness of architecture and design in ubiquitous networks of digital technology that have reshaped our surroundings and ourselves. The course teaches students digital literacy - characterized by a broad understanding of how technology works, its inherent biases and ethical implications, and its transformative effect on people's lives - with an emphasis on a more healthful, equitable, and just world. Weekly topics include software, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, virtual reality, games, and 'smart cities'.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ARCH411001&termArray=w_21_2320

9

CEE 265.001

Sustainable Engineering Principles

3

Sustainable engineering principles including calculations of environmental emissions and resource consumption. Mass and energy balance calculations in context of pollution generation and prevention, resource recovery, and life-cycle assessment. Economic aspects of sustainable engineering decision-making. Social impacts of technology system design decisions including ethical frameworks, government legislation, and health risks.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320CEE265001&termArray=w_21_2320

10

CLIMATE 172/
EARTH 172.001
ENVIRON 111.001
GEOG 111.001

Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

4

Increasingly, millions of human-initiated and natural activities are altering our planet. Over the past century, through our ever-increasing population and mastery of technology, we have been changing our planet’s environment at a pace unknown in Earth’s natural history. In 'Climate Change and Sustainability: Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century' students will study the impacts of modern human society on land, ice, freshwater, ocean, atmosphere, ecosystems, resources, and human well-being. We will also consider practical, local, and every-day considerations relevant to a sustainable human future.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320CLIMATE172001&termArray=w_21_2320

11

DIGITAL 258

Humanities Themes in Digital Studies - Technologies of Liveness

3

This course explores the relationship between live performance and media technology. We will ask how technology facilitates everyday encounters between people as well as the significance of technology to live arts such as theater, dance, music, and comedy. Faced with the difficulties of gathering in person in our current moment, this course turns to histories and theories of media that shed light on the problems and possibilities of communicating across distance.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320DIGITAL258001&termArray=w_21_2320

12

DIGITAL 358

Global Digital Activism

3

This seminar focuses on global digital activism, defined broadly as activism associated with the use of digital media technologies (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones). The goal is to provide students with a tool-kit for analyzing digital activism and to develop a critical understanding of the role of digital technologies in contemporary activism and its implications for global social change. Major cases to be examined include Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the US, feminist activism, the Arab Spring, and the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320DIGITAL358001&termArray=w_21_2320

13

CMPLXSYS 250 / ENVIRON 250.001 / PUBPOL 250.001

Energy and Climate Change: Technology, Markets, and Policy

3

Energy is an incredibly complex topic by virtue of the inter-linkages of science, technology, public policy, economics, and human behaviors. This course will examine all aspects of energy: supply and demand, technical and social, with a concerted look at the natural place of social science (behavior, pricing, externalities, social norms) in the energy sphere.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ENVIRON250001&termArray=w_21_2320

14

HISTORY 304.001

Interdisciplinary Topics in History - Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East

3

By engaging ancient writings, handling and discussing ancient objects, experimenting with ancient mathematical problems or techniques, and qualitatively considering the role of technology in life, students will question the notions of modern and Western (or alien) supremacy or the definitions of science, consider how they would solve ancient problems, and experience the importance of scientific developments and technological advancements in both ancient and modern life.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HISTORY304001&termArray=w_21_2320

15

ORGSTUDY 450.001

Technological Innovation

3

The intention of the course is to provide a theoretical basis for understanding innovation, anchored by both historical and current empirical examples, applied case studies that require the application of existing theory, and guest speakers whose jobs involve technological innovation.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320ORGSTUDY450001&termArray=w_21_2320

16

COM 362

Digital Media Foundations

4

This class is for those interested in practical skills and critical intellectual foundations relevant to the internet and new media. Using context of Web-based applications, mobile applications, online multimedia, social media, and gaming, this course covers topics fundamental to understanding digital media forms, including an introductions to operation of the Web, Internet, Web development, search engines, digital formats, online media distribution platforms and networks, online communities, audiences, online advertising and user interfaces.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320COMM362001&termArray=w_21_2320

17

PHIL 340

Minds and Machines

4

Minds, machines, the relationships between them, and the relationships they encourage and discourage. Considering questions like: Could a machine have a mind? Could a machine be conscious, or think in the ways that people do? How do machines and our interactions with them influence how humans think, learn, reason, and know? What are the promises and perils of artificial intelligence, big data, and gargantuan networks, especially when the underlying mechanics of machine and network reasoning are not transparent to us?

https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/PHIL%20340/

18

PHYSICS 210

Energy for Our Future

3

Energy and energy policy is becoming an increasingly important component of our civilization. We explore the physics, politics, economics, and environmental impact of the production, distribution, and use of known sources of energy including fossil fuels, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric. Students work in groups to craft viable energy plans for the future weighing cost, environmental and human risk, and larger geopolitical impacts. Written reports, based on these plans are distributed to the class and groups defend their plans in front of the class.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360PHYSICS210001&termArray=f_21_2360

19

ALA 315

Popular Science

3

Popular-science writing attempts to present scientific ideas to a general audience, informing the public about science and interpreting what science means for politics, education, philosophy, religion, and culture. The purpose of this course is to help you develop the ability to critically discuss the context, meaning, and significance of science, questioning how science might fit into a broader view of the world, as you grapple with popular-science writing across many scientific fields.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360ALA315001&termArray=f_21_2360

20

AMCULT 103-003

#TweetLikeANeurotypical: Disability and Digital Activism

3

Social distancing isn’t new: Disabled and chronically ill people have long navigated the world at a remove. Inaccessible environments, institutionalization, discriminatory social policies, and educational inequities have had profound consequences on how disability communities engage in public life. For these reasons, and more, disability cultures often intersect with digital cultures, highlighting ways of moving through the world that harness and hack technology for social justice.

In this class, we’ll examine how disabled activists deploy protest tactics online, paying particular attention to histories and pre-histories of online activism as well as current social media campaigns and digital accessibility advocacy. Among other topics, we’ll think about how disability wisdom might help us better understand (and dismantle!) our so-called “new normal.”

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360AMCULT103003&termArray=f_21_2360

21

AMCULT 347

Politics of Code

3

This course will allow students to think through the concept of “code” from several vantage points, focusing particularly on how codes carry politics and how politics determine and define relationships of power. Code, as we will see, can be based on a wide variety of phenomena, from coding as categorization, to coding as passwords, to coding as computer programming languages and software. These varied understandings of what code can make us consider how exactly code can have politics, and how that politics might interact with—and determine— our daily lives.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360AMCULT347001&termArray=f_21_2360

22

AMCULT 301 - 002

Topics in American Culture: Critical digital visualization

3

The course is a combined theory and practice exploration of creative data visualization methods through the lens of critical data questions. We will address issues of data equity, bias, privacy, and colonialism, whilst exploring an array of visualization techniques, including experimentation with immersive data visualization through extended reality technology. We will explore emerging critical data frameworks that look at data feminism, the ethics of machine learning, decolonizing data, and data humanism. We will look at the work of artists, designers, and activists and analyze their visual strategies and practice-based approaches. Students will gain critical insight and creative data techniques to use in their future work.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410AMCULT301002&termArray=f_22_2410

23

ANTHRCUL 237

Digital Futures: Media Technologies and Social Transformation Around the World

4

Our futures seem increasingly digital. From politics to work, from romance to family, people around the world are grappling with how digital media technologies seep into the nooks and crannies of their everyday lives. The dominance of the digital both provokes panic about the harmful corporate and political forces they are unleashing and inspires hope about the capacity of activists to create better futures. In either case, the emphasis is on the power of technology. But how do communities and social movements around the world think and do about digital media’s promises or perils? This course goes beyond both the hysteria and the hype to examine the social life and futures of digital technologies from Ghana to Venezuela to Iran to the United States and beyond.

We look at the relationship between technology, culture, and power differentials across different world regions, whether those related to race, ethnicity, gender, class, or religion. What assumptions about self and society do technologies encode as universally valid and “culture-free”? What role do media play in shaping our sense of what is right, true, or just? How are digital technologies implicated in shoring up existing systems of oppression or in creating space for resisting them?

Each week, we answer these questions through reading about concrete case studies from a wide array of global contexts and watching documentaries about media activism and experiences. Throughout, we explore what an anthropological, people-centered approach offers to understand our digital futures.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410ANTHRCUL237001&termArray=f_22_2410

24

ENGLISH 313 - 001

TOpics in Literary Studies: The Novel and Virtual Realities

4

Long before our digital lives, the novel was a key technology and art form for immersing readers in real and imagined worlds. Then and now, the novel has held out the promise of encounters with historical actors and far-away spaces, and of opportunities to know the inner lives of others and strangers. In the context of racial and social justice reckonings in the 21st-century U.S., and of our increasingly digital lives, these have only become more alluring.

This course considers the durable power of the project of “knowing” lives other than our own, in both textual and virtual reality (VR) forms. Working with earlier texts (including Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Richard Wright’s Native Son) and contemporary novels (Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine), we’ll consider them in relation to VR titles that also aim to put us “inside” real-time experiences of displacement, migration, racial and social inequality, and radical change. Across media, we’ll explore what it means to attempt to know or connect imaginatively with lives beyond our own. What kind of immersive experience have novels aimed to create? How do the aesthetics of VR world-making mimic or challenge the strategies of the novel?

We’ll focus on works that aim to create--and sometimes resist—the cultivation of empathy in our encounters with other subjects and worlds, and we’ll explore critical understandings of empathy and immersion and their limits in readings on the novel and VR environments and practice. A significant portion of our work will take place in a virtual reality lab, where we’ll develop collaborative strategies for exploring VR and multi-media texts, accounting for that experience, and responding critically to it.

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2410ENGLISH313001&termArray=f_22_2410


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	RCIDIV 341	Science and Technology in the Ancient Middle East	3	Pyramids and ploughs. Planetary motion and Pythagorean concepts. Thousands of years before the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment, the Arabic mathematicians and Hindi scholars, and the earliest records of Chinese astronomy or Greek philosophy, the people of the ancient Middle East and Egypt developed robust methodologies and tools for dealing with both cosmic curiosities and pragmatic need. Archaeological remains attest to the implementation of important agricultural and military advancements, such as aqueducts, the wheel, or siege machines. Ancient texts discuss creating glass, making beer (without hops), prescribing medicine, and predicting the movements of Jupiter using geometric algorithms.	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/RCIDIV%20341/
3	RCHUMS 150	Introduction to Film, Television, and Media	4	FTVM 150 provides an introduction to film, television, and media studies. You will learn the critical vocabulary and methods of analysis of these media, and then use the knowledge to make your own voice heard in written essays and other small assignments. The course is designed to develop strong writing skills in order to make effective arguments. We also examine representations of race, gender, class, and sexual identities in order to become more attuned to how film, television, and digital media construct meanings, norms, and expectations in everyday life. We are very committed to a model of student-centered learning, so your experience will not resemble a typical, large-lecture format. In addition to lectures, you will be engaging in peer learning activities such as group discussions, making- and defending -arguments and debates.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2360RCHUMS150001&termArray=f_21_2360
4	RCSSCI 275	Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society	4	From iPhones to intelligence testing to immunizations, technology, science, and medicine permeate our modern lives. In this course, students will learn to think critically about technology, science, and medicine and analyze how they have transformed the world in spectacular and mundane ways. We explore questions such as: How has the development of the medical profession shaped debates about inoculation or the AIDS epidemic? How have culture and politics affected the goals and designs of such technologies as guns, washing machines, and electrical systems? How have science, technology, and politics interacted in debates over climate change? And, ultimately, how should we manage the tension between popular democracy and technical expertise?	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/RCSSCI%20275/
5	RCIDIV 391	Sustainability and the Campus	4	This “hands-on” interdisciplinary course explores sustainability in higher education generally and at the University of Michigan specifically in a dynamic, interactive way. Drawing upon theory and practice in sustainability, environmental management, organizational change and social advocacy, students conduct a substantial, hands-on group project in conjunction with a university sponsor. Past projects have led or helped lead to the creation of the “Welcome to Planet Blue” guide, the planting of a campus garden, formation of the UM Sustainability Foods Program, planning for a Waste-Free Big House and many other direct outcomes. Through guest lectures, discussions, simulations, lectures, and the group project, this course addresses the real-life challenges of campus environmental sustainability. The focus is on active, participation-based learning; students leave the course with an understanding of the campus as a lever for environmental change and with the personal tools to act as change agents. Beyond directly impacting the campus, this course helps develop professional skills in sustainability project management.	http://sustainability.umich.edu/events/sustainability-campus-environrcidiv-391-semester-presentations-0


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	HONORS 230.010	Honors Core in Social Science - Violent Environments: Oil, Development, and the Discourse of Power	4	This course examines violence and its relationship to oil as a non-renewable natural resource. The course will focus on the close examination and comparison of discourses and practices concerned with resource extraction, resource distribution, energy security, and ‘modernity’ in the United States, North America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HONORS230010&termArray=w_21_2320
3	HONORS 232.001	Honors Core in Natural Science - The Anthropocene	4	Scientists have been debating whether we have entered a new epoch called the Anthropocene. In this course, we will look at the scientific data surrounding human-induced changes in planet Earth, delving into the fields of geology, ecology, biology, climate science, chemistry, and engineering. In addition, we will examine how different cultures and places are experiencing these changes, as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by living in the Anthropocene. We will ask whether we have a moral and ethical obligation to change the course. And we will consider the issues of who would pay the costs, reaching into the fields of economics and law.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320HONORS232001&termArray=w_21_2320
4	INTLSTD 401.001	International Studies Advanced Seminar - Time, Space, and Power	3	This course is divided into three parts: calendars and embodied sociocultural time; the standardization or commodification of time and its relation to economic and political systems; and what happens to the experience of space and time as a result of enhanced communication and transportation technology that accompany globalization and post-modernity.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320INTLSTD401001&termArray=w_21_2320
5	SOC 476.001	Sociology of Bioethics	3	The Sociology of Bioethics explores a sociological approach to understanding bioethics. It is not a course in bioethics itself, that is, debating the merits of a position (e.g., “Is assisted suicide ethical?” “Is prenatal gene editing ethical?”). In this course, we will use sociological inquiry to explore the development of the bioethics profession, the movement of questions from medicine, law, and religion to bioethics, and how bioethical issues are reflected in policy.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320SOC476001&termArray=w_21_2320
6	SLAVIC 470.002	Topics in Cultural Studies of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe	3	This course surveys the historical avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, presenting them as a rich interconnected network that encompassed East and West. Italian Futurism, German Dadaism, French Surrealism and their impact on East-European avant-gardes will be discussed in detail; in turn, the impact of Soviet Constructivism and Czech Surrealism will be examined. Special issues will include the role of language, new mass media, and technology	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320SLAVIC470002&termArray=w_21_2320
7	UC 410.001	Evolution of Warfare	3	Introduction to the history, development and innovations in warfare. The student acquires a general background and insight into the effect that society and technology has had on the evolution of warfare. There is a critical analysis of the changes in warfare, the changes in the views on war, and the thoughts and actions of military leaders and writers.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320UC410001&termArray=w_21_2320


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	FIN 625	Impact of Financial Markets on Social Welfare	2.25	This course aims to provide a broad understanding of social costs and benefits of financial markets. The course begins with core benefits of financial markets, such as optimal risk-sharing, liquidity and amp; maturity transformation, and resource allocation. This is followed by conceptual frameworks of market failures and costs borne by the society as a result. Topics include racial and gender disparity in access to finance, fraud in consumer financial markets, costs of bank failures, financial advisor misconduct, and costs and benefits of financial engineering. The course is case-based and targeted at students who wish to acquire a deeper understanding of why and when do markets fail and what can be done to correct these failures.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/impact-financial-markets-social-welfare-2840
3	STRATEGY 562	Innovation in Global Health Delivery	1.5	This course will examine how innovations in business models, operations, financing and supply chains are allowing far more people to access better quality healthcare. The course draws extensively on real-world case studies and latest research in this field. Class sessions will feature thought leaders from the field of global health delivery and involve lively debates on important topics. This course is divided into two modules: The first part of the course will focus on design of systems that ensure access to medicines, vaccines and other health technologies, as well as what factors influence the adoption of new health technologies. The second part of the course will focus on design of systems for health service delivery, where you will discover high impact opportunities for social entrepreneurship and operational innovation to improve global health delivery.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/innovation-global-health-delivery-10162
4	BL 509	Intellectual Property Law	2.25	An introduction to legal options available to protect intellectual property, including international aspects of intellectual property law. Topics covered include: patent law (including general policies and procedures, application processes, infringement and remedies, and international patent protections issues); trade secrets (including the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, protective measures, and international issues); copyright law (including ownership and acquisition, infringement and remedies, technology issues, and international copyright protection issues); and trademark law including general principles, federal procedures, infringement, dilution, remedies, and international aspects of trademark protection.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/intellectual-property-law-9733
5	MO 605	Leading Inclusive, High Performing Organizations	1.5	Organizations reap competitive advantages when they fully engage and utilize the talents of people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives. Studies show that leveraging those differences can ignite learning, innovation, problem solving and critical thinking. However, leaders must have requisite knowledge and skills to transform diverse potential into excellent performance. In this course, we explore factors at every level (e.g., C-suite, policy, management, teams and individuals) that impede or enable inclusive, high performing organizations. Gain insights and skills that strengthen your capacity to lead yourself and others to achieve mission critical goals.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/leading-inclusive-high-performing-organizations-6446
6	EMBA 632	Leading Organizational Change	1.5	What makes change agents effective? What practices, capabilities, and approaches enable organizations to transform themselves appropriately? This course addresses these questions with focus on change management tools and approaches. Successful and unsuccessful change cases will be studies, along with an exploration of factors that shape the outcomes of change agent's efforts. Participant's experiences with organizational change from a variety of perspectives will be reviewed. The course will also consider the challenge of timing change in fast-paced industries and explore what the systems thinking perspective offers change agents.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/leading-organizational-change-6863
7	MKT 614	Nonprofit and Social Marketing	1.5	This course embraces an action-based learning paradigm where interdisciplinary teams of students partner with nonprofits and social enterprises to collaborate on the design of behavioral change communication campaigns. The social change objectives can be on an individual level, community level, state or regional level, or even social issues of national interest. The social change agenda addressed may include public health and safety (e.g. HIV prevention, teen pregnancy, gun safety, childhood obesity, etc.) to other major public policy initiatives common to governments and NGOs (e.g. climate change, conservation, water quality, literacy, community science, women in engineering and technology, etc).	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/nonprofit-and-social-marketing-6960
8	STRATEGY 564	Strategies for Sustainable Development I: Competitive Environmental Strategy/Enterprise Integration	1.5	This course deals with environmental issues from a strategic perspective. It focuses on how environmental pressures (e.g. sustainable development) and environmental problems (e.g. global warming, air pollution, waste-disposal), impact corporate mission, competitive strategy, technology choices, product development decisions, and production processes. Basic concepts of ecology and environmental science are discussed and contrasted to those associated with the traditional economic paradigm.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/strategies-sustainable-development-i-competitive-environmental-strategy-7061
9	STRATEGY 565	Strategies for Sustainable Development II: Managing Social Issues/Market Transformation	1.5	The pressure for sustainable development has significant implications for firms, particularly large multinational corporations. With free trade on the rise, long-term opportunities exist for firms able to identify, develop, and deploy technologies, products, and services that contribute to sustainable practices and resource use in the developing world. This course examines how long-term competitive positioning can be secured through strategies such as environmental partnerships, technology cooperation, and collaborative planning.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/strategies-sustainable-development-ii-managing-social-issues-7114
10	BE 401	The Economics of Sustainability	3	This course will explore the larger context of environmental economics, and the economics of sustainability more broadly. The goals of the course are three-fold: (1) To give students a solid foundation in the economics of the environment and sustainability; (2) to apply economic fundamentals to crucial sustainability issues of climate change and energy policy; and (3) to examine critically the business case for sustainability, and the place of sustainability within corporate strategy.	https://michiganross.umich.edu/courses/economics-sustainability-11822


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	EHS 510	Responsible Conduct In Research And Scholarship	1	Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship --- This course provides training in 8 modules: (1) Research and Academic Misconduct; (2) Intellectual Property; (3) Responsible Authorship and Publications; (4) Human Subject Research and IRBs; (5) Animal Use and Care; (6) Mentor/Mentee Relationships; (7) Conflict of interest; and (8) Research and Scholarship in Society and the Global Marketplace.	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EHS510
3	EHS 596	Climate, Justice, Health & Sustainability	2	Effective climate action that simultaneously acts to reduce inequalities must focus on climate justice if climate action is to result in resilient communities. We will focus on the science of climate change and health impacts through the lens of climate justice and environmental justice (EJ) for disproportionately impacted communities.	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EHS596
4	EPID 530	Public Health Communication With Diverse Audiences	1	Students will learn the structure, conventions, and styles associated with selected communication formats, appropriate for scientific discourse in public health. During the course, students will produce a scientific poster with a "conference-style" abstract, develop and present an oral presentation and explore one practice-oriented writing format in depth.	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EPID530
5	EPID 591	Social Epidemiology: From Frameworks To Policy	3	Why are some groups healthier than others, and how do these differences emerge and persist over the life course? How do social policies (e.g., housing, transportation, employment) relate to health and health inequalities? Why are there health disparities even in countries that have free universal health care? This course will address conceptual models for understanding health disparities in the US and internationally, how population science identifies the main sources of these disparities, and how public health can inform policy efforts to address these disparities.	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EPID591
6	EPID 666	Health And Socioeconomic Development	3	Reviews links between health conditions and socioeconomic development in low-income countries and trends in health and development indicators; socio-economic determinants of health, including poverty and income, education, nutrition, fertility, and culture and behavior; impact of globalization in terms of neo-liberal policies, trade and capital flows and the urbanization and their growth of the informal economy; examines the effects of health changes on economic growth and development.	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EPID666
7	EPID 889	Responsible Conduct Of Research And Scholarship Seminar	1	This seminar will cover the Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS) training for all incoming EPID PhD students and other individuals who are affiliated with a training grant. The seminar will also expose students to cutting-edge epidemiologic research topics through departmental talks by experts in the field as well as provide additional professional development training. RCRS is defined by National Institutes of Health as "the practice of scientific investigation [and academia] with integrity. It involves the awareness and application of established professional norms and ethical principles in the performance of all activities related to scientific research [and academia]."	https://sph.umich.edu/admissions/courses/course.php?courseID=EPID889


1	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	PUBPOL 474	Values & Ethics: Science, Technology & the Social Good	3	Private philanthropic foundations in the U.S. are fundamentally private organizations that operate within the public arena, and have long played central roles in advancing social change and shaping public priorities, yet exist as autonomous institutions that are unconstrained by democratic accountability mechanisms. While this autonomy allows foundations to achieve effective outcomes by taking risks, innovating with new programs, and moving with more agility than the bureaucratically constrained state, it may also result in amplifying elite voices outside of democratic processes, leading to normative concerns about power and control by the wealthy within the public realm. The core framework of the course will engage with these questions by utilizing an experiential approach, wherein students will participate in a hands-on process of making actual grants to nonprofit organizations.	https://fordschool.umich.edu/courses/fall/2020/pubpol-474
3	PUBPOL 495	Policy Seminar	4	Each section offers different seminar topics, ranging from global financial markets to energy and climate to apologies in response to social conflict. Check out the link for a list of all those sections!	https://fordschool.umich.edu/courses?combine=495&sort_bef_combine=weight_ASC&field_semester_target_id=All&field_course_year_target_id=All&field_instructor_target_id=All&field_course_level_value=All&field_policy_topics_target_id=All
4	PUBPOL 475 001	Topics: The Role of Courts in International Human Rights	3	This course will explore the legal enforcement of those human rights that are fundamental and are the birthright of all human beings. We will review the international political and legal framework established over the past fifty years to protect human rights. We will home in on how effectively those universally-accepted legal norms are enforced. Conventional legal wisdom holds that where there is a right, there is a remedy. We will explore whether this is, indeed, true in the international human rights context. Specifically, the central inquiry of this course is what needs to be done to give legal effect to the moral norms that embody human rights and fundamental freedoms? Of those institutions of government charged with the responsibility of enforcing these moral norms, we will explore the particular role of the courts- international and certain domestic ones. In the area of human rights and liberties, the United States has traditionally been a beacon of hope. And so, we will be particularly attentive to the special role of the Supreme Court of the United States in giving meaning to the words of the Constitution and laws that guarantee basic rights	https://atlas.ai.umich.edu/course/PUBPOL%20475/
5	PUBPOL 587 003	Public Management: Leading Across Difference	1.5	All three sections of 587 emphasize common themes such as performance management, strategic planning, and inter-institutional network development. But they will offer distinct differences in terms of applied content, reflecting the growing diversity of the FS student body. Indeed the original course was developed at a point when almost all FS students headed to public service in the US federal government. That obviously has changed and so this revised set of offerings is intended to respond to that diversity and give students greater ability to tailor core course selection to their own interests and needs. Winter 2013 sections: Public Management 587.001: Comparative and International Perspectives. Dr. Matthew S. Mingus will focus this section on the use of international case materials and by comparing those cases to the American model of governance. The course should be most useful for students with prior exposure to international systems and those who hope to develop careers focused on multiple systems of governance. Each student will be assigned to a group that will develop an international case for an assigned country. Public Management 587.002: American Bureaucratic Politics. Barry Rabe will teach this section and use public management case material drawn from the federal and sub-federal levels of the United States. The course is designed for students who have prior expertise in American politics and governance and will have a strong intergovernmental emphasis. Public Management 587.003: Non-Profit Organization. Megan Tompkins-Stange will teach this section and use case material drawn primarily from the non-profit sector. The course will consider the evolving role of non-profits in both the United States and abroad.	https://fordschool.umich.edu/courses/winter/2013/pubpol-587


1	School	Course Number	Course Name	Credits	Course Description	Link to Course Descripton/Syllabus
2	LSA	AMCULT 103 - 004	Digital Feminisms	3	This class will address creative and political practices and scholarly dialogue surrounding current themes in new media and digital culture from an interdisciplinary feminist perspective. We will examine the histories and cutting-edge scholarship on feminism and technology produced through art, design, science, and visual media. Topics include cyberfeminism; social change and political activism through digital media; post-digital reproductive technologies and feminist futures; digital sexualities and intimacies; virtual/real-world ideas across cultures; and the role of digital technologies in social inequalities. In addition to digital and new media theory, key readings will come from women’s, gender and sexuality studies and critical race and ethnicity studies; examples will come from art, culture, and politics.	https://www.lsa.umich.edu/cg/cg_detail.aspx?content=2320AMCULT103004&termArray=w_21_2320
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