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360掳: Constraints: Storytelling in the Digital Age

This cluster is based on the theoretical and interdisciplinary work that suggests that humans think in the form of stories.

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360掳: Eco-Literacy

This Eco-Literacy 360掳 cluster considers our participation in the environment from the perspectives of economics, education, and various forms of literary and visual expression. Our goal is to develop a vocabulary for thinking, feeling and talking about the ways in which the places we live affect each of us, and how each of us affects the places we live.

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360掳: Contemplative Traditions

This 360掳, taught by professors of chemistry, psychology, and East Asian Languages and Cultures (formerly East Asian Studies), examined the history, science and practice of meditation and other mindful practices.

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360掳: Identity Matters

This cluster of courses, which have been co-designed by professors with shared interests in disability studies, gender studies, human development, literature, social work, visual studies and writing, will consider how multiple systems of identity, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson says, 鈥渋ntertwine, redefine, and mutually constitute one another.鈥

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360掳: Nicaragua: Places and Names

This cluster focuses on the rich geologic and linguistic history and present of Nicaragua to explore the ongoing interconnectedness between landscape and language.

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360掳: Empires

This 360 cluster consists of three courses that examine different aspects of 鈥渆mpires.鈥 It brings together historical, linguistic, and scientific perspectives in the study of imperial experiences and their present-day implications.

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360掳: Arts of Resistance

This cluster of three courses is about the constraints and agency of individual actors in social spaces, with a particular focus on the institutional settings of colleges and prisons and the 鈥渃ritical spaces鈥 that can open up within them.

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360掳: Mirroring the Self

Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.

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360掳: Transplants

This cluster uses multidisciplinary tools from language and culture, literature, and environmental science to reveal histories hidden in and around the city of Angoul锚me, France.

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360掳 Symposium: Flourishing Beyond the Legacy of Oil

The symposium brought together students, academics, government, legal, and planning representatives, and industry professionals, to talk about the future of cities like Philadelphia, as they deal with the transforming influence of oil and other energy sources.

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360掳: Children's Books

Through the College鈥檚 Ellery Yale Wood Collection of children鈥檚 and young adult books, students will investigate childhood, explore literature, and creatively engage in the process of writing children鈥檚 literature.

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360掳: Eurasia in Flux: Trans-Siberian Perspectives on Russia and China

This 360掳 cluster focuses on the unique ties between Russia and its largest neighbor to the East, China.

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