Spring 2026 Colloquia

DWC 202 C01: M: 10:30am-12:30pm 2:30-4:20
Voices of Empire- Publius to Putin

Francesca Silano, Jessica Blum-Sorenson

DWC 202 C02: M: 11:30am-1:20pm, S03 & S04: W: 11:30am-1:20pm Environmental Health
Peter Rogers, Rachel Lyons

DWC 202 C03: W 1:30pm-3:20pm, S05 & S06: M 1:30pm-3:20pm
History of Families & Parenting

Alex Orquiza, Kelly Warmouth

DWC 202 C04: T 8:30am-10:20am, S07 & S08: F: 8:30am-10:20am
Apocalypse

Vance Morgan, Rob Stretter

DWC 202 C05: T: 10:30am-12:20pm, S09 & S10: W: 10:30am-12:20pm
Judaism as an Idea of Western Civilization

Arthur Urbano, Benny Bar-Lavi

DWC 202 C06: T: 12:30pm-2:20pm, S11 & S12: R: 12:30pm-2:20pm
Gaming Civ

Alyssa Lopez, Elyse Oakley

DWC 202 C07: T: 2:30pm-4:20pm, S13 & S14: R:2:30pm-4:20pm
Our Monsters, Our Selves

Elizabeth Bridgham, Sharon Murphy

DWC 202 C08: M: 8:30am-10:20am, S15 & S16: W: 8:30am-10:20am
Exploring Middle Ages through Modern Games

Aaron Colaiacomo, Chris Beard

DWC 202 C09: W: 10:30am-12:20pm, S17 & S18: F: 10:30am-12:20pm
Ancients & Moderns

Bill Hogan, Chris Parrott

DWC 202 C10: W: 12:30pm-2:20pm, S19 & S20: M: 12:30pm-2:20pm
Care for Creation and the Western Tradition

Dana Dillon, Bill Patenaude

DWC 202 C11: M: 8:30am-10:20am, S21 & S22: R: 8:30am-10:20am
Consciousness, Contemplation and Conviction

John Allard, Peter Costello

DWC 202 C12: R: 10:30am-12:20pm, S23 & S24: T: 10:30am-12:20pm
Me, Myself and I: The Reading and Writing of Autobiography

Alison Espach, Cristina Rodriguez,

How do we write ourselves? This interdisciplinary course will ask students to examine the autobiography from both sides of the page, as authors and as critics. Autobiography as a category insists on identifying the author as the speaker: the class readings will interrogate who gets the privilege to speak for themselves, and how and why writers from different backgrounds – social, religious, ethnic, racial, national – might tell their stories differently. We will also study autobiography’s other major claim: that it’s true. We will examine this claim by asking the following questions: What is literature’s relationship to truth? What is memory’s relationship to truth? What is an individual’s relationship to the truth? And can anything crafted really be true?

In addition to studying multiple genres of autobiography, including memoir, personal essay, and autobiographical fiction, we will also practice writing in these genres: students will write and workshop original pieces that imitate an author’s prose style and form. The art of imitation is one practiced by many great thinkers and writers throughout history because there is no better way to engage with the specific choices made by each author. It also gives students the rare opportunity to “try on” a prose style and format as they develop and discover their own. “Me, Myself, & I” is grounded in the belief that reading and writing are acts of self-creation, as well as direct ways of engaging with the world. This course aims to give students the necessary tools to better understand and express their own identity in an increasingly global and complicated world. Authors include St. Augustine, Frederick Douglas, Richard Wright, Thomas Merton, Anne Sexton, Richard Rodriguez, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others.

DWC 202 C13: R: 12:30pm-2:20pm, S25 & S26: R: 12:30pm-2:20pm
Me, Myself and I: The Reading and Writing of Autobiography

Alison Espach, Cristina Rodriguez,

How do we write ourselves? This interdisciplinary course will ask students to examine the autobiography from both sides of the page, as authors and as critics. Autobiography as a category insists on identifying the author as the speaker: the class readings will interrogate who gets the privilege to speak for themselves, and how and why writers from different backgrounds – social, religious, ethnic, racial, national – might tell their stories differently. We will also study autobiography’s other major claim: that it’s true. We will examine this claim by asking the following questions: What is literature’s relationship to truth? What is memory’s relationship to truth? What is an individual’s relationship to the truth? And can anything crafted really be true?

In addition to studying multiple genres of autobiography, including memoir, personal essay, and autobiographical fiction, we will also practice writing in these genres: students will write and workshop original pieces that imitate an author’s prose style and form. The art of imitation is one practiced by many great thinkers and writers throughout history because there is no better way to engage with the specific choices made by each author. It also gives students the rare opportunity to “try on” a prose style and format as they develop and discover their own. “Me, Myself, & I” is grounded in the belief that reading and writing are acts of self-creation, as well as direct ways of engaging with the world. This course aims to give students the necessary tools to better understand and express their own identity in an increasingly global and complicated world. Authors include St. Augustine, Frederick Douglas, Richard Wright, Thomas Merton, Anne Sexton, Richard Rodriguez, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others.

DWC 202 C14: R: 2:30pm-4:20pm, S27 & S28: T: 2:30pm-4:20pm
Civic Engagement in the USA: Constitutional Principles, History and Turning Points
Chris Arroyo, Darra Mulderry

DWC 202 C16: F: 11:30am-1:20pm, S31 & S32: W: 11:30am-1:20pm
Colonial Legacies and Modern Manifestations; African, American and the Occupied Territories
Ruth Ben-Artzi, Luz Colpa

DWC 202 C18: M: 9:30am-11:20am, S35 & S36: R: 9:30am-11:20am
Cosmic Connections : Reenchanting the World
Chris Sauder, Colum Dever

DWC 202 C19: M: 11:30am-1:20pm, S37 & S38: F: M: 11:30am-1:20pm
Dark Psychology and Literature
Olga Limnios. Greg Charpentier

DWC 202 C20: M: 1:30pm-3:20pm, S39 & S40: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm
A National Artistic Experiment: FDR & the Federal Theatre Project

Erin Schmidt, Sharon Murphy

DWC 202 C21: T: 8:30am-10:30am, S41 & S42: F: 8:30am-10:30am
Race and Identity in Contemporary America

Iain Bernhoft, Jiyoom Im

DWC 202 C22: R: 10:30am-12:20pm, S43 & S44: F: 10:30am-12:20pm
Percussion, Rhetoric and Judgement
Iain Bernhoft, Jiyoon Im

DWC 202 C23: T: 12:30pm-1:20pm, S45 & S46: R: 12:30pm-1:20pm
The Sound of Painting
Bing Huang, Sang Woo Kang

DWC 202 C24: T: 2:30pm-4:20pm, S47 & S48: R: 2:30pm-4:20pm
Islam, Reason and Reform

Emann Allebban, Bilal Ibrahim

DWC 202 C25: W: 9:30am-11:20am, S49 & S50: F: 9:30am-11:20am
Caught Between Hope and Despair: Questioning Existence

Rob Miner, Bruno Shah

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DWC 202 C26: W: 11:30am-1:20pm, S51 & S52: F: 1:30am-1:20pm,
Harmony & Discord: Cold War Politics in Science, Education & Music

Lin Zhang, Jo-Ann Thomas

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DWC 202 C27: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm, S53 & S54: F: 1:30pm-3:20pm
Ancients and Moderns

Bill Hogan, Chris Parrott

DWC 202 C28: R: 8:30am-10:20am S55 & S56: M: 8:30am-10:20am
War & Peace

John Lawless, Liz Palazzolo

DWC 202 C29: R: 10:30am-12:20pm S57 & S58: T: 10:30am-12:20pm
Philosophy and Poetry in East and West

Colin King, Chun Ye

DWC 202 C30: R: 12:30pm-2:20pm, S59 & S60: T: 12:30pm-2:20pm
The Holocaust and the Philosophical Significance of Evil

Chris Sauder, Jackie Satlow

DWC 202 C31: R: 2:30pm-4:20pm, S59 & S60: T: 2:30pm-4:20pm
The Holocaust and the Philosophical Significance of Evil

Chris Sauder, Jackie Satlow

DWC 202 C33: M 11:30am-12:20, S66: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm, S65: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm
Islam and the West: A History of Conflict and Coexistence from Muhammed to the War on Terror

Vefa Erginbas, Sandra Keating

DWC 202 C34: F: 1:30pm-3:20pm, S67 & S68: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm
Dark Psychology and Literature

Olga Limnios, Greg Charpentier

DWC 202 C36: M: 3:30pm-5:20pm, S71 & S72: R: 3:30pm-5:20pm
We can…but should we?

Vance Morgan, Robert Camp

DWC 202 C35: M: 2:30pm-4:20pm, S69 & S70: R: 2:30pm-4:20pm Experiencing Art

Licia Carlson, Amy Foley

DWC 202 C37: R: 11:30am-1:20pm, S73 & S74: M: 11:30am-1:20pm
From “Idiots, Imbeciles and Morons” to Neurodiversity: Perspectives on Disabilities throughout the 20th Century

Heather Allcock, Anthony Rodriguez

DWC 202 C38: M: 4:30pm-6:20pm, S75 & S76: R: 4:30pm-6:20pm
Comparative History of Retail

Guolin Yi, Courtney Bouzigian

DWC 202 C39: W: 3:30pm-5:20pm, S77 & S80: M: 3:30pm-5:20pm
History of Sports

Fr. John Vidmar, Sean Holley

DWC 202 C40: R: 4:30pm-5:20pm, S81 & S82: M: 4:30pm-5:20pm
How the Right Became the Right

Jim Keating, Pat MacFarlane

DWC 202 C41: M: 1:30pm-3:20pm, S83 & S84: W: 1:30pm-3:20pm
Clinical Bioethics

Gina Noja, Amy Delaney