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Milica Kolarevic, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Public and Environmental Health, ����vlog����

When beauty is engineered, what happens to our bodies- and our sense of self?

This seminar delves into how cosmetic interventions- from surgical enhancements to non-invasive treatments- reflect and reinforce cultural ideals of beauty and gender. It considers how medical technologies reshape not only bodies but also identities, creating new forms of inequality and power dynamics. Students will critically examine how aesthetic medicine blurs the line between health and desire, questioning what it means to alter the body in pursuit of beauty.

Chelly Crouch, Scholars Program Coordinator, ����vlog����

Learn how to build soft skills and valuable experiences outside of the classroom.

Ramesh Adhikiri, Assistant Professor of Physics, ����vlog����

Technology is central to the operation of the modern world. Whether we are in the middle of our busy day or asleep in the middle of the night, technology is always around us. In fact, technology has become an indicator of whether a society in this world is advanced or not. For example, a society that has climate-controlled spaces is considered more advanced than one that does not. For a country to be advanced, its people and institutions must have the ability to produce and access the best technology that is available. While following the development in science and technology behind the construction of computer microchips, this seminar series will focus on how nations drive the sciences and, as a result, how the resulting technology drives how countries behave and interact in the international arena.

Seth Coluzzi, Associate Professor of Music, ����vlog����

This course explores the history and development of K-Pop from its origins in South Korea to its global popularity as part of the Korean Wave. Throughout this journey, we will continue to reexamine the questions of what defines K-Pop and what sets it apart from other types of global pop.

Students in this class will eat from 5:40-6:25 for each class meeting.

Nicole Blidy, Assistant Director of Haven, ����vlog���� and ����vlog���� Students from The Network

This 3-part course will bring in age-appropriate media examples and activities to explore healthy relationships. Together, we will work to define healthy and unhealthy relationships, understand consent, and imagine what a culture of consent looks like. We will work to validate one another's feelings and experiences, as well as establish practices and tools for healthy relationships. 

Esther Rosbrook, Director of ALANA Cultural Center, ����vlog����

This is a practical, strategy-based seminar designed to help students strengthen their everyday communication skills. Participants will learn effective ways to start conversations, recognize shared interests, and steer discussions toward meaningful, mutual connections. They will also gain insight into how to follow up after a conversation in order to build a lasting and supportive network. In addition, the workshop introduces key elements of public speaking, helping students create clear and confident communication moments across academic, social, and personal settings. Active participation is essential, as students will practice these skills through guided activities and real-time dialogue. By the end of the session, students will walk away with practical tools they can immediately apply in school, friendships, and future professional environments.

Michael Coyle, Professor of English, ����vlog����

This seminar will explore poetry by some of America’s most important modernist poets: Robert Frost, Amanda Gorman, T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, and Mina Loy, among others. Each of these poets struggles to come to terms with what it means to be human, to give form to human experience and explore our relation to meaning and purpose. What makes this struggle “modernist” is twofold. First, pursuing their work in the wake of Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud, these poets endeavor to find both meaning and truth but do so knowing these two things are not necessarily synonymous. Second, knowing that meaning and truth are not necessarily the same thing leads them to the conviction that experience can only be modeled in aesthetic terms. Students should leave this seminar with a clearer understanding of not just what these poems mean but also how they mean.  You will also have begun thinking about why poetry matters—not just in the terms of the poets we read together but also in our own.