This course, taught in English, focuses on the cultures of the German-speaking world. Specially designed for the Kentucky Institute for International Studies, the course will combine traditional coursework with carefully planned excursions and Place as Text exploration of sites in Austria and Germany.
Antibiotics are essential to modern medicine, but growing resistance threatens them. Microbes remain a key source for new discoveries. This course examines antibiotic discovery and resistance development, using Argentina’s One Health framework (linking human health, agriculture, food systems, and the environment) to compare local and U.S. resistance monitoring strategies. Open to all backgrounds; no microbiology…
Food ties into culture, agriculture, place, and health. Using Argentina as a living classroom, students will explore food systems from farm to plate through hands-on field experiences. The course examines how agriculture, culture, and economics shape diet while exploring links between food, the gut microbiome, and health. Students will compare Argentine and U.S. food systems.…
Students will explore migration, culture, and social change through guided walks, market visits, tango lessons, neighborhood tours, and site visits to Plaza de Mayo, ESMA, Punta Querandí, The Jesuit Block, Puerto Madero, La Boca, Palermo, and Recoleta. Each excursion includes observation, discussion, and reflection to connect place, migration, memory, inequality, and social change.
The course will introduce students to Latin America through sites of history, culture, memory, finance, and public life. Visits to museums, neighborhoods, markets, and historical landmarks will help students connect Latin American history and contemporary social change with lived experience and contemporary Latin American cultures. Together, the excursions will deepen intercultural understanding and critical observation.
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