In 2021, we expanded our faculty for online courses and added Jacob Baker, Cynthia Andal, Leisl Westfall and Dr. Yuri Cowan to our stable of instructors. And we offered an impressive array of seven courses (up from three in 2020), most of which are available as free podcasts.
Our spring offerings were:
- Thirteen Lectures on Original Doctor Who: This course was developed for the Institute and taught by Stuart Parker. It is a series of essentially stand-alone lectures on some of the instructor’s favourite episodes of the original (1963-89) Doctor Who TV series. You can view the full syllabus here, along with links to download each class.
- Dune: Frank Herbert’s Timeless Vision: This course was developed for the Institute and taught by Leisl Westfall. The course pays special attention to questions of gender and patriarchy in the original novels and is taught from a materialist feminist perspective. You can view the full syllabus here, along with links to download each class.
- The Holy American Empire: This course taxonomizes and historicizes the idea of a “holy empire,” and then applies these criteria to analyze the present-day United States of America. The course was developed and taught by Stuart Parker. You can view the full syllabus here, along with links to download each class.
Our summer term offerings were:
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- Yoga and Social Justice: This highly innovative course was designed and taught by Cynthia Andal, uniting abstract teaching of yogic principles with a biweekly yoga practice with class members. Cynthia has chosen to disaffiliate from the Institute and so we will not be making the classes available online but the syllabus can be viewed here.
- Artist, Writer, Socialist, Interior Decorator: The Work of William Morris: This course was developed by one of the leading scholars of William Morris, the nineteenth-century utopian writer and artist, Dr. Yuri Cowan of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Because of the relationship of the content to Dr. Cowan’s teaching and research practice, we are unable to make classes available online at this time but the syllabus can be viewed here.
Our fall/winter offerings were:
- Failed Utopias of the Americas: This course was taught and developed by Jacob Baker and Stuart Parker, examining utopian political projects in the Americas since the Enlightenment. The course focuses on Mormon or “Latter-day Saint” projects, projects in the Pacific Northwest but also casts its eye to Latin America. You can view the full syllabus here, along with links to download each class.
