(The topics are college course titles at various universities around the nation)
-Women and Incarceration
-Food Deserts
-Single Motherhood
-Latina Beauty Standards
-Women in Hip Hop
-African American Art and the Political Dissent During the
Harlem Renaissance
-Electric Motors for Renewable Energy, Robotics, and Electric
Vehicles
-Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border
-Endangered and Minority Language
-Anthropology of Death and Dying
-Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
-Cybersecurity
-Design and Development of Games for Learning
-E-Sports
-A Global History of Commodities
-Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
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Women and Incarceration
Women's Mass Incarceration
The Marshall Project - COVID and women's prisons
Subtopic ideas:
Reproductive health
Separation from children
Mental health
Sexual abuse
Drug/alcohol abuse
Education
Food Deserts
Food Empowerment Project
Food Deserts and Health
Food Deserts and COVID
Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic
Single Motherhood
Pew Research
Praise for Single Moms
Single Moms by Choice
Evolving the Narrative of Single Motherhood
Stigma of Single Motherhood
Latina Beauty Standards
Harmful Latina Beauty Standards
When You Are Never Enough
Globalizing Latin American Beauty
Women in Hip Hop
How Women Reclaimed Hip Hop
Female Rappers Who Shaped Hip Hop
History of Women in Hip Hop
Is Rap Ready to Embrace Women
African American Art and the Political Dissent during the Harlem Renaissance
Britannica: Harlem Renaissance
National Gallery of Art - Harlem Renaissance
Race, Resistance, and Revolution
Electric Motors for Renewable Energy, Robotics, and Electric Vehicles
Course Description: An introduction to electric motors and the principles of electromechanical energy conversion. Students will learn about, design, and build an electric motor system, choosing from one of three application areas: renewable energy (wind turbines), robotics (drones and precision manufacturing), or electric vehicles (cars, ships, and airplanes). Topics covered include ac and dc rotating machines, power electronics inverters and drives, and control techniques.
Wind Energy
Advantages and Challenges of Wind Energy
Wind Explained
Demand for Drones
New Robotics and Drones
Agriculture and Drones
Electric Ships and Planes
Electric Flight
Norway's Plan - 2040
Migration, Asylum, and Human Rights at the Border
You Don't Have Any Rights Here
Asylum Seekers at Risk
Course Description:
This community engaged learning workshop is open only to students who are concurrently enrolled in SPANLANG 108SL. Through the HUMRTS 108 units, students will have the opportunity to apply their advanced Spanish language skills and knowledge from the class as remote volunteers with immigrant rights advocacy organizations. Students will be trained to work remotely to staff a hotline through with they can help monitor detention conditions, report abuse, and request support on behalf of detainees and their loved ones. They will also have a commitment to work on more projects such as providing interpretations or translations for attorneys or mental/health professionals working remotely with detainees or their families, and/or conducting basic internet research regarding/compilation of news articles or government reports to substantiate asylum claims or fear of persecution.
Endangered and Minority Languages
Why We Must Save Dying Tongues
The Death of Languages
The Internet and Threatened Languages
Anthropology of Death and Dying
Anthropology of Death
Death and Dying as we Know It
The End of Life
Anthropology of Death During COVID
Course Description:
This course explores how different cultures imagine death and the afterlife, drawing on insights from the anthropology of religion, politics, and medical anthropology. Based on readings that range from classical ethnographies of death and dying to contemporary debates on the politics of death, we will discuss cultural theories on what constitutes the moment of death and what happens after, as well as investigate the political lives of dead bodies. The topics covered include conceptualizations of the body and mind, ideas of the spirit world, witchcraft, mortuary rituals, relic veneration, royal and communist corpses, organ donation, end-of-life care, and concepts of biopolitics and bare life.
Course Description:
Explores how different societies, including our own, conceptualize death and dying. Topics include the cultural construction of death, the effects of death on the social fabric, mourning and bereavement, and medical issues relating to the end of life.
Cybersecurity
Definition and Types
Hackers - COVID
Apps and Hacking
Top Cyber Threats
Cyber Threats 2020
Cyber Attacks
Design and Development of Games for Learning
MIT Course Description
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E-Sports
What is E-Sports
League of Legends
E-Sports and Diversity
Amdani
A Global History of Commodities
Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century