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This course will explore Australia's multiple histories, creative expressions as well as ethnic and racial formations. How have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people interacted with immigrants, starting in early colonial times? The creative arts will provide our lens on Australia's many, often competing traditions.

Take a journey through the vibrant artistic landscape of Kingston, Jamaica, including public art, visual arts, music, dance, storytelling, DJing and sound systems, theater, and culinary traditions. Emphasizing the themes of knowledge production, community, and resistance, students will analyze how artistic expressions in Jamaica have historically shaped representations of Black identity, liberation, and cultural heritage through theoretical exploration, field trips, and sustained interaction with local artists, scholars, and students. This course invites students to deepen their understandings of Jamaica by immersing themselves in its rich culture and history, engaging critically with its artistic expressions and traditions, and appreciating how art can be used as forms of knowledge production, community-building, and resistance in their own lives.

The main principle for this course will be to use Accra as a way to illuminate cities of the student's own choice, wherever they might be located.? This means that the course will be inherently comparative and that features of Accra will be used to ignite students' understanding of details of the urban in general.? Features of other African cities such as Cairo,?Lagos, Kinshasa, and Johannesburg will be introduced primarily through literary, anthropological, and other humanistic texts. Spatial concepts such as spatial morphology, spatial traversal, means of locomotion, space-time anamorphism (for science fiction), topoanalysis (from phenomenology), and chronotypes?(from Bakhtin) will be progressively introduced and applied to different urban features.? There will also be trips to Elmina, and Cape Coast Castles, old seats of the European trading presence on the Gold Coast/Ghana and sites of the slave trade.? From 1877 to 2015 Christiansborg was the seat of both colonial and post-colonial governments.

This course will examine the evolution and nature of Taiwan's democracy and the challenges and opportunities it confronts as a maturing and innovating post-industrial democracy in a very difficult part of the world. Among themes to be covered in the course are: generational change in Taiwan and its relationship to the evolution of the party system, the economy, culture, and the arts; Taiwan's role as the global leader in semiconductor manufacturing and new frontiers of economic innovation in Taiwan; the social and economic policy challenges of adapting to an aging society; and evolving defense and security policies in the face of growing geopolitical and military pressure from the PRC.

This arts ethnography intensive trains students in methods of gathering, exploring, analyzing, and presenting ethnographic data based in creative arts. Sketching, photography, and improvisation methods will be used by students in their observation, engagement, documentation, integration, and presentation of their findings on aspects of culture in Mexico City. In this course, students will extensively engage with Mexico City's material culture and history, and in tandem with hands-on arts training and development, will develop an independent or small group project culminating in a final presentation. The course combines critical and practical learning through activities such as seminars and site visits, as well as interactive workshops in creative writing, sketching, photography, and improvisation.

Interdisciplinary seminar emphasizing two major areas of study: biological sciences (ecology) and culture (the human dimensions of conservation and use of natural resources based on indigenous traditional knowledge). Challenges and opportunities of interacting with researchers and students from other cultures; analysis of the ways in which academic institutions and rural, indigenous institutions are, jointly, undertaking the challenge of sustainably managing biological resources. Location: Mexico City and Oaxaca, Mexico.

Argentina is a vast country with a diverse geography and population. It has a rich cultural, scientific, and technological history, with a strong art and humanities scene. Argentina is the only South American country with Nobel Laureates in science, and it also has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem with multiple unicorns. This Bing Overseas Studies Program will provide students with a unique insight into the technology and culture of one of South America¿s strongest countries, which was once an emblem of economic power and is now on its way back into strong sustainable growth.