Current Classes
Fall 2022
Elective Courses:
For a list of Fall 2022 elective courses and descriptions offered by the HLLC, peruse below
SPECIAL TOPICS I: JAZZ POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION
Tuesday & Thursday 10:00 AM -11:20 AM
Course Number: 21:526:295 | Professor: Simeon Marsalis
This course will survey jazz poetry from its antecedents to its present form and will include readings by Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, Jack Kerouac, and Tyehimba Jess as well as music by Ma Rainey, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Robert Glasper and others.
SPECIAL TOPICS II: RACE, ETHNICITY, RELIGION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN AMERICA
Section 1: Tuesdays 2:30 pm -5:20 pm
Course Number: 21:526:296 | Professor: Steven Diner
From its inception, the United States has been made up of people of diverse national, racial and religious backgrounds. If the American people cannot be defined through common ancestry, then what does it mean to be an American? And how should public policy balance the needs and beliefs of particular groups with those of the larger society? Ethnic, racial and religious diversity poses issues of public policy that have divided Americans for many years as well as issues that have emerged recently. The course will examine some of the issues being debated in America today: racial classification, affirmative action, bilingual education/English-only, immigration policy, religious beliefs and gay marriage, hate speech, voting rights, religion and public schools, religious rights and contraception, racial/religious profiling, and multiculturalism in school and university curricula. Class sessions will be devoted to discussion of assigned readings and student debates on policy issues.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRACTICUM (SE option)
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 AM -11:20 AM
Course Number: 21:526:405 | Section 1
Ted Baker
*Satisfies ProSocial Entrepreneurship Pathway Requirement
INTERGROUP DIALOGUE
Course Number: 21:050:488
Tuesday 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM
Marta Esquillin
*Satisfies Writing Intensive Core Requirement
*Satisfies Community Engagement & Social Action Pathway Requirement
SPECIAL TOPICS III: HEALTH DISPARITIES – URBAN COMMUNITIES
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM
Course Number: 21:526:395 | Section 1
Jennifer Bucalo
*Satisfies Community Engagement & Social Action Pathway Requirement
SPECIAL TOPICS I: JAZZ POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION
Monday & Wednesday 4:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Course Number: 21:526:295 | Section 1
Simeon Marsalis
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
SPECIAL TOPICS IV: MUSIC IN THE US: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN INFLUENCE
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM
Course Number: 21:526:396 | Section 1
Steve Colson
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
COMING OF AGE NOVELS
Monday & Thursday 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM
Section 1
Naomi Jackson
*Satisfies Writing Intensive Core Requirement
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
CIPHERS & SCRIBES: READING RACE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILM & FICTION
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM
Section 1
Elena Lahr-Vivaz
*Satisfies Writing Intensive Core Requirement
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
STORIES FROM THE PANDEMIC
TBA
Tim Raphael
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
RACE, ETHNICITY, & RELIGION IN THE PRE-MODERN MEDITERRANEAN
TBA
Mayte Green-Mercado
*Satisfies Cultural Citizenship & Engagement (Humanities) Pathway Requirement
HLLC Core Courses:
VOICE, CITIZENSHIP, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Course Number: 21:526:29 | Wednesdays 11:30 am –12:50 pm
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean of HLLC
Engelbert Santana, Assistant Dean of Advisement – HLLC
Tsihai Hanson, Director of Special Projects (HLLC) & National Director of BOLD Fellowship
TBA
Fall 2020
Elective Courses:
For a list of Fall 2020 elective courses and descriptions offered by the HLLC, click here.
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Tuesday & Thursday 4:00 PM – 5:20 PM
Prerequisite: English 102
Kurt Schock
URBAN POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
Thursday 6:00 PM -9:00 PM
Prerequisite: English 102
Domingo Morel
BRAVEN ACCELERATOR: DEVELOPING NETWORKS FOR A GLOBAL JOB MARKET (SE option)
Section 1: Monday 6:00 pm -8:20 pm
Alina Yang
Section 2: Tuesday 6:00 pm -8:20 pm
Alina Yang
Section 3: Friday 11:30 am -1:30 pm
Alina Yang
ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRACTICUM (SE option)
Monday & Wednesday 10:00 AM -11:20 AM
Section 1
Ted Baker
MARKETING AND SOCIETY
Monday & Thursday 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM
Section 2
Yla Eason
THE LENAPE WAY (Price-Humanities option)
Tuesday 2:30 PM – 5:20 PM
Jack Tchen
ISLAM IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Price-Humanities option)
Monday & Thursday 4:00 PM – 5:20 PM
Section 1
Wendell Marsh
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (Price-Humanities option)
Tuesday 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Ruth Feldstein
SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE: BLACK WOMEN’S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (Price-Humanities option)
Tuesday & Thursday 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM
Melanie Hill
THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF THE MUSEUM (Price-Humanities option)
Monday 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM
Wednesday 1:00 PM -2:20 PM
Lauren O’Brien
HLLC Core Courses:
Local Citizenship in a Global World
Timothy Eatman, Dean – HLLC
Mark Krasovic – Associate Professor of History
Negotiating Space, Place, and Identities
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean of HLLC
Engelbert Santana, Assistant Dean of Advisement – HLLC
Tsihai Hanson, Director of Special Projects (HLCC) & National Director of BOLD Fellowship
Gary Santos Mendoza, Director of the Intercultural Resource Center
Spring 2020
Voice, Citizenship, and Community Engagement:
Required (Cohort 19 Only: First-Year & Transfers)
HLLC Cohort Meetings:
Same time as the Fall 2019 semester.
Special Topics I: Our Planet Crisis Change, Justice, Urgency
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Director of the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience, Department of American Studies
Special Topics II: Braven Accelerator: Developing Networks for a Global Job Market
Department of the Honors Living Learning Community
Special Topics III: Health Disparities: Implications for Urban Communities (STEAM Option)
Dr. Jennifer Bucalo, Director of Student Engagement and Leadership Development for the HLLC
Special Topics IV: Entrepreneurship Practicum
Ted Baker, Department of Entrepreneurship
Core Topics in Video Production
Portraits of Climate Inequalities (STEAM Option)
Professor William Garcia, Department of Arts, Media, and Culture
*Satisfies Arts & Media Requirement
Intergroup Dialogue
American Studies
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean of HLLC, Department of American Studies
*Satisfies a Writing Intensive Requirement
Everyday Data
Computer Science
Lucille Booker, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Topics in American Film- Community FilmMaking
Video Production
Yvonne Shirley,Department of Arts, Media, and Culture
Fall 2019
Race and Ethnicity in Multicultural Societies (21:920:316)
Monday 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM | Wednesday 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Index: 19658
Prerequisite: English 102
Melissa Valle, Department of Sociology, Department of African American and African Sudies
*Satisfies Social Science Core Curriculum Requirement
Women’s Literature of The African Diaspora (21:014:370)
Monday 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM | Wednesday 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Index: 19658
Prerequisite: English 102
Belinda Edmondson, Professor of African American and African Studies
*Cross-Listed with English Department. Can be used for English or African American & African Studies Majors
Braven Accelerator: Developing Networks For a Global Job Market (21:526:296)
Section 1: Tuesday 6:00 pm -9:00 pm Index: 14541 | Section 2: Wednesday 6:00 pm -9:00 pm Index: 14629
Department of the Honors Living- Learning Community
Urban Politics and Public Policy (21:790:360)
Thursday 6:00 PM -9:00 PM
Index: 19838
Prerequisite: English 102
Domingo Morel, Department of Political Science
* Can be used for Political Science Major
Entrepreneurship Practicum (29:382:496)
Wednesday 10:00 AM -11:20 AM
Index: 21247
Ted Baker, Department of Entrepeneurship
Marketing and Society (29:630:428)
Monday 2:30 PM – 3:50 PM | Wednesday 1:00 PM – 2:20 PM
Index: 20333
Yla Eason, Department of Marketing
Spring 2019
Braven (21:526:296)
Braven Instructors
(Spots still available: Apply today!)
Everyday Data (STEAM) (21:526:396)
Professor: TBA
Intergroup Dialogue (21:050:488)
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean of HLLC
Islamophobia and the Law (43:600:112)
Newark and Urban America (21:526:405)
Steven Diner, University Professor
Showtime: The Business of Arts & Culture (21:083:301:05)
Sherri-Ann Butterfield, Executive Vice Chancellor, RU-N
John Schreiber, President & CEO of NJPAC
Urban Politics & Social Justice (21:526:395)
Jyl Josephson, Professor of Political Science
Voice, Citizenship, and Community Engagement (21:526:302)
Staff – HLLC
Fall 2018
Black Music & American Cultural History
Wayne Winborne, Director of Institute of Jazz Studies
Braven
Braven Instructors
Environmental Justice in the Ironbound
Julie Winokur, Instructor Professor of Arts, Media, & Culture
Hair: Culture, Politics, & Technology
Patricia Richard-O’Brien, Founder of Move It Nation Inc.
Local Citizenship in a Global World
Timothy Eatman, Dean – HLLC
Mark Krasovic – Associate Director of Price Institute & Associate Professor of History
Negotiating Space, Place, and Identities
Marta Esquilin, Associate Dean of HLLC
Tsihai Hanson, Director of Special Projects
Bil Leipold, Associate Vice Chancellor
Engelbert Santana, Assistant Dean of HLLC
Urban Innovation Solving Socioeconomic Disparities
Arturo Osorio-Fernandez, RBS-Management & Global Business
Guest Presenters: Rutgers School of Law, FASN-Social Work, & Policy Developers