2023-2024 Supported Courses
In 2023-2024, there were numerous Center for Science and Society supported courses. Supported courses were developed by Center faculty and scholars as part of our curriculum development and may be partially funded by the Center.
Supported Courses
Course Information
- Course Instructor: Dilshanie Perera (ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow - Climate Humanities Fellow)
- Course Type: Seminar course offered in Fall 2023
- Course webpage
Course Description
- Just solutions to the climate crisis are only as capacious as the imagination of what the problems are, how the present came into being, who is most affected, and who gets to decide what futures are created.
- This course is argument against the fatalism of dystopia and asks students to imagine what reparative methods centering climate justice could look like.
Course Information
- Course Instructor: Hadeel Assali (Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University)
- Course Type: Seminar course offered Fall 2023
- Course webpage
Course Description
- The course explores environmental justice through an anti-colonial lens that centers the perspectives of dispossessed communities in different places around the world.
- The primary focus site is New Orleans communities working toward food sovereignty.
- Students will be trained in community-based research methods.
Course Information
- Course Instructors: Madi Whitman (Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Assistant Director of Curriculum Development at the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University)
- Course Type: Lecture class offered Fall 2023
- Course webpage
Course Description
- The lectures invites students to ask big questions about science and interrupt preconceived ideas about what science is and who does it.
- This course is an introductory dive into the interplay between science, technology, health, environment, and society.
- Will eventually serve as an introductory course for the forthcoming "Science and Society" minor.