Engagements Program
Engagements Program

Engagements Course List

EGMT 1510: Engaging Aesthetics

Hands holding an empty bowl

EGMT 1510: Aesthetics of Hunger

This image includes lots of smaller images of things that would be perceived as "weird".

EGMT 1510: All Kinds of Weird

picture of UVA rotunda

EGMT 1510: Architecture and the Senses

Wanda R Ortiz Pieta

EGMT 1510: Art and Emotions

Yarn linked together to symbolize unity and collaboration.

EGMT 1510: Art of Collaboration

Image of three Bollywood films: "An Evening in Paris", "Shree 420", and "Om Shanti Om".

EGMT 1510: Bollywood Pleasures: Cinema, Difference, Nation

Canvas with bright colors

EGMT 1510: Creative Play

Fancy desserts on a gold-rimmed white plate

EGMT 1510: Exploring Taste

vector-illustration-of-happy-people-giving-high-five-friends-greeting-or-supporting

EGMT 1510: Female Friendship vs. Patriarchy

Close up image of a puppy.

EGMT 1510: How to Pay Attention IRL

Pink background with different color, fading hearts.

EGMT 1510: Latiné Love and Aesthetics

Flower of Yesterday by Miriam Tolke. Collage of two women pieced together so that half of their face makes one.

EGMT 1510: Mask and the Mirror: Aesthetic Representations of Self and the Search for Identity

Top view of production tools - headset, clapper board, notebook and pencil.

EGMT 1510: Music Video Analysis

"The Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh.

EGMT 1510: Mysticism

This image contains photos of a female tap dance band, a baseball player in a magazine, and a man in a plaid suit and hat who appears to be dancing.

EGMT 1510: Performing the Black Aesthetic

Photo of three books: "Poems" by Emily Dickinson, "Zone Journals" by Charles Wright, and "Time Is a Mother" by Ocean Vuong. There also appears to be a bowl of herbs and a coaster in the photo.

EGMT 1510: Poetic Voice in Humanities, Science, and Society

reading a book on a coach

EGMT 1510: Reading in the Age of Loneliness

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

EGMT 1510: Seeing the Light

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1510: Sounds of Resistance

students on theater stage

EGMT 1510: Suspending Disbelief; Creating Theater

Opened magic book with magic lights.

EGMT 1510: Telling Stories

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EGMT 1510: The Art of Energy

This cartoon image shows a group of four people. There is a man who is working on a painting, a woman who appears to be writing or drawing, another woman who appears to be reading, and another man who appears to be singing or talking.

EGMT 1510: The Art of Noticing: Creativity in Everyday Life

child drawing a rocket on a chalk wall

EGMT 1510: The Creative Act in Art & Life

Cameraman filming an iceberg in Antarctica.

EGMT 1510: The Documentary

Vandalized statue of Robert E. Lee

EGMT 1510: The Politics of Public Art

EGMT 1510: Things We Imagined: Black Performance Archives

Fancy clock with gold floral detailing around the rim.

EGMT 1510: Time and Memory in the Arts

Photograph of students at a Chinese calligraphy final exhibit.

EGMT 1510: Unlocking the Treasure Box of Chinese Calligraphy

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1510: What Does Democracy Look Like?

Image of a vintage microphone.

EGMT 1510: Why Do Songs Have Words

Photo of books stacked together on a shelf.

EGMT 1510: Why Read Fiction?

EGMT 1520: Empirical & Scientific Engagement

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1520: 2+2 is 10: Mathematical Ways of Knowing

colorful collage of people

EGMT 1520: Analyzing Inequality

Ethiopic healing scroll

EGMT 1520: Ancient Magic

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EGMT 1520: Beating the Clock: Measuring and Quantifying Time

Drawing of a skeleton in robes walking a rabid dog.

EGMT 1520: Bones and Burials

Chalk Drawing

EGMT 1520: Building Truth from Scratch

EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Representation

EGMT 1520: Corporate Utopias

Photo of business plan ideas over an open book.

EGMT 1520: Data’s Power & Perspective: What story is told?

Aerial view of two large ponds separated by a dirt road.

EGMT 1520: Discovering Nature

This is an image of fieldnotes from the work of anthropologist Ann Dunham.

EGMT 1520: Doing Fieldwork

Shiny neon question mark on a dark background.

EGMT 1520: Embracing the Question Mark

nebula-picture-on-dark-sky-full-of-stars

EGMT 1520: Exploding Stars: How, Why, What’s Next

Man standing on a hill with a purple galaxy in the night sky in the background.

EGMT 1520: His-story of Science

laying on of hands ceremony

EGMT 1520: How to See Spirits

Diagram of quantum model.

EGMT 1520: Is the vacuum really empty?

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1520: Just the Facts?

world and city in book

EGMT 1520: Language Meets Linguistics

A red pin on a map

EGMT 1520: Mapping Modernity

Europe map illustration.

EGMT 1520: Nationalism and Historical Lies

Statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Rotunda, a brick Roman-style building with white columns, in the background.

EGMT 1520: On These Grounds - UVA's Spatial History

informational interview

EGMT 1520: Prototyping Your Life and Career

An image of a stack of books and an open laptop are placed on the library desk.

EGMT 1520: Reading Archival Methodologies

Image of the sun peeking through the branches of a cherry blossom tree in bloom.

EGMT 1520: The Happiness Experiment

intense eyes

EGMT 1520: The Smell of Fear & Other Measures of Emotion

Clip art of people protesting

EGMT 1520: They Think WHAT? Visions of Politics

Cat looking at an equation on a chalkboard that reads: Two fish equals two fish skeletons.

EGMT 1520: Uncommon Sense and Mathematical Intuition

Image of an abstract piece of art with symbols of a question mark, a magnifying glass, and other various types of charts.

EGMT 1520: Understanding Your Liberal Arts Education

Photo of public housing.

EGMT 1520: What is Public Housing?

A laughing baby lying on their stomach.

EGMT 1520: Where Have All the Babies Gone?

hand holding

EGMT 1520: Why We Hold Hands

Image of a baby who appears to be in awe.

EGMT 1520: Wonder and Awe

EGMT 1530: Engaging Differences

Torso of a dilapidated Statue of Liberty along a shoreline

EGMT 1530: Apocalypse!

graphic of several body parts collaged together

EGMT 1530: Being in a Body

globe with graduation cap and plane

EGMT 1530: Belonging Across Borders

shadows on a concrete wall

EGMT 1530: Building Belonging: Storytelling of "Others"

paparazzi-shooting-through-car-window

EGMT 1530: Celebrity & the Social World

A wooden window of an old farming house.

EGMT 1530: Cinematic Classrooms: Pedagogy, Film and Society

Illustration of silhouette group of people with raised fists and protest signs in yellow evening sky background.

EGMT 1530: Critical Voices of Democracy

EGMT 1530: Debating Islams

typewriter on a bench outside

EGMT 1530: Do your own writing; use your own voice.

Large room with wooden beams with many collector's items like books and other trinkets around the room.

EGMT 1530: Encounter the World Through Collected Objects

Dog dachshund, black and tan, relaxed from spa procedures on face with cucumber, covered with a towel.

EGMT 1530: Food for Thought

friends and family sharing a meal

EGMT 1530: Friends With (Economic) Benefits

Forest with lakes that resembles the world map.

EGMT 1530: Global "Development" - The Great, the Good & the Ugly

Seoul cityscape

EGMT 1530: Korea in a Global Context

Image of old genealogy family history photographs and documents.

EGMT 1530: My Story, Everyone’s Story

This image has the text "Origin Story" in large lettering with lightning bolts behind it.

EGMT 1530: Origin Stories: Identity, Migration, and Homelands

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1530: Our Monsters, Ourselves

Painting of a shipwreck with people in pain

EGMT 1530: Passages of Hope and Survival

student class seated near UVA grounds

EGMT 1530: Performing Democracy on the Small Scale: Learning Cooperation from African Equatorial Forest People

Dirty American flag with thirteen stars.

EGMT 1530: Race, Racism, Colony & Nation

Abstract mural of two trees that resemble women with their roots holding hands.

EGMT 1530: Solidarity Beyond the Hashtag

A barren landfill next to green farmfields.

EGMT 1530: Talking Trash

Image of four people talking with text that says, "What's Your Story?".

EGMT 1530: Telling Our Stories! Our Words, Our Worlds

Vintage image of a man looking at a help wanted ad in a newspaper. There are words on the image that say, "There's always stead work for the steady worker. When times get tight! Sincere, steady, conscientious workers always get, and always earn the preference! What is "average"?

EGMT 1530: The Cultural Politics of Work

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EGMT 1530: The Names We Carry: Ancestry, Archives & Memory

This collage includes images of a hand in a fist, Martin Luther King Jr., a student riot with police force and a helicopter flying overhead.

EGMT 1530: Turbulent Times: 1968 and Beyond

Half of a man's torso in a suit with a measuring tape draped over his shoulder

EGMT 1530: Who Dressed You?

Swarm of Butterflies.

EGMT 1530: Who is an immigrant?

Photo of folklore dancers dancing in Mexico.

EGMT 1530: Why do we have Latinx festivals in the USA?

La Belle et la Bete - ill. by Walter Crane, 19th century. A woman and a warthog dressed in fancy clothes sit across from each other having tea.

EGMT 1530: Why Do We Keep Telling the Same Stories?

Neurodiversity symbol, rainbow infinity sign

EGMT 1530: Why Neurodiversity Matters

Cartoon image of earth with four different people who appear to be having conversations. There are text bubbles indicating different languages.

EGMT 1530: Words and Worlds: How Languages Shape Us

BJE Course

EGMT 1530: Your City is Still Segregated

This image is the cover of a book called "The Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq" by Al-Khatib Al-Baghdadi and translated by Emily Selove. The cover is yellow with the sketch of a man with high cheekbones and a beard.

EGMT 1530: ‘The Jokesters and Tricksters We Share!’ Buffoonery and Roguery in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic and Mediterranean Worlds

EGMT 1540: Ethical Engagement

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1540: Bridges and Boundaries: Ethical Dimensions of Intercultural Communication

Image of a plantation with a woman standing on the top deck holding a baby.

EGMT 1540: Building UVA: Memory, History, Descendant Community

planet earth from space

EGMT 1540: Decolonize Mars

Photo of woman climbing a mountain ridge.

EGMT 1540: God and Nature in America

Red background with dark paint strokes

EGMT 1540: Hateinnany: Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1540: Holding On: The Ethics of Memory

door to heaven

EGMT 1540: Is Utopia Possible?

Illustration of two people sitting side by side on the floor or ground resting their outstretched arms on their knees. Concept of friends talking and waiting together.

EGMT 1540: Mindful Communication and Conflict

Superhero Team Flying Silhouette in a City.

EGMT 1540: Mythology of the Superhero: Ethics of Difference in Pop Culture

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EGMT 1540: Saints and Superheroes

Side profile of a human-like robot with colorful dots surrounding them.

EGMT 1540: Sci-Fi Ethics

Illustration of a woman studying the instructions on a medicine bottle with phone in the other hand.

EGMT 1540: Should Scientific Discoveries be Objective?

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EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Collecting

dungeons and dragons

EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Dungeons & Dragons

world, bible, and jar of money

EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Proselytization

Fan at a soccer game cheering with both arms in the air

EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Sports

sesame street

EGMT 1540: The Moral Mirror: Youth Media Shaping Adulthood

Graphic of the Trial of Joan of Arc. A man orates before the Pope with many others watching.

EGMT 1540: What do we owe Joan of Arc?

Image of ancient sculpture of Hercules and Nessus. Florence, Italy.

EGMT 1540: What makes a hero?

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1540: You are on Monacan Land

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1540: “Would You Rather?”: Ethical Reasoning for Moral Dilemmas