Engagements Program
Engagements Program

Engagements Course List

EGMT 1510: Engaging Aesthetics

This is a painting with many things going on at once. There are two people. One of them is holding a frog that is dancing. Their faces are framed by a curtain so that they appear to be on a stage. There are birthday candles at the bottom of the image.

EGMT 1510: "Paying" Attention

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

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

Image of an iridescent shape, resembling a blooming flower.

EGMT 1510: Bringing Ideas to Life: Play, Listen, Imagine

Screenshot of an economics game.

EGMT 1510: Crafting Economics

Examples of Chinese calligraphy.

EGMT 1510: Engaging Aesthetics through Chinese Calligraphy

A table of food including a pizza, salad, and glass of red wine.

EGMT 1510: Feasting! The Culinary Side of Religion

A drawing with representations from the Middles Ages: a knight riding a horse, a king, swords, and other like artifacts.

EGMT 1510: Getting Medieval on Literature and Film

Image of a homeless encampment in West Oakland, CA.

EGMT 1510: House, Home, Shelter: Architecture and Aesthetics of Living

Two children with superhero capes raising their arms up with hands in fists, pretending that they are flying.

EGMT 1510: How Plays, Films, and Games Captivate Us

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

Photograph of a succulent plant.

EGMT 1510: Living with Plants

Five human senses concept: smell, touch, sight, taste, hearing. 3d rendering parts of face sense organs and hand of white sculpture.

EGMT 1510: Making Sense

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

Homer Statue, facing the UVA Rotunda

EGMT 1510: Mythmaking: What Do Myths Do for Us—and How?

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

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

EGMT 1510: Seeing the Light

A side view photograph of a several multi directional round electronically amplified emergency siren or noon time horns or speakers on top of a wooden pole in a small town in Wisconsin.

EGMT 1510: Sound beyond music

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EGMT 1510: Sounds of Resistance

Opened magic book with magic lights.

EGMT 1510: Telling Stories

Abstract drawing of a half-man and half-horse figure.

EGMT 1510: The Art & Politics of Dreaming

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EGMT 1510: The Art of Attention: Finding Our Focus through Art

Line drawing of people lying down in pain, represents illness.

EGMT 1510: The Art of Illness

Building mural that reads "The world called, and I answered."

EGMT 1510: The Art of Looking

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

Cameraman filming an iceberg in Antarctica.

EGMT 1510: The Documentary

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

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

Vandalized statue of Robert E. Lee

EGMT 1510: The Politics of Public Art

Graphic of "DO NOT CROSS CRIME SCENE" yellow tape across the image.

EGMT 1510: The Truth About True Crime

Fancy clock with gold floral detailing around the rim.

EGMT 1510: Time and Memory in the Arts

An image of an unfinished drawing.

EGMT 1510: Unfinished Masterpieces: The Art of the Draft

Photograph of students at a Chinese calligraphy final exhibit.

EGMT 1510: Unlocking the Treasure Box of Chinese Calligraphy

Gray video game cases scattered with colorful logos

EGMT 1510: Videogames and Videography

Image of flower stems stuck in a piece of mud alongside a small figurine.

EGMT 1510: Visual Storytelling and Expression

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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

Technology-themed side profile of a human.

EGMT 1520: "Big Data" is coming for you

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

Group of people. Vector characters - silhouettes. Unrecognizable portraits of women and men.

EGMT 1520: Analyzing Inequalities

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?

Drawing of a bust of Socrate's

EGMT 1520: Did Socrates Exist?

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

Variety of vegetables laid out on a table

EGMT 1520: Fact-Checking Food Systems

White Chess King among lying down black pawns on chessboard

EGMT 1520: Gaming the Competition

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

EGMT 1520: His-story of Science

Man climbing a gigantic ruler with a ladder

EGMT 1520: How Do You Measure a Life?

Letter with a restricted data stamp

EGMT 1520: Information and Democracy

Diagram of quantum model.

EGMT 1520: Is the vacuum really empty?

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EGMT 1520: Just the Facts?

The First Vote - A queue of African American men, the first, dressed as a laborer, casting his vote, the second is dressed as a businessman, the third is wearing a Union army uniform, and the fourth appears to be dressed as a farmer, post Civil War America, circa 1867

EGMT 1520: Making History: How Historians Use Evidence

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

Top down view of an orange brain with arrows pointing into the brain and arrows pointing out of the brain.

EGMT 1520: Outsmart your Brain

Graphic of a skull with a variety of poison jars around it, with the title "Pick Your Poision"

EGMT 1520: Pick Your Poison

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

EGMT 1520: Reading Archival Methodologies

Pomponius Mela Map of the World

EGMT 1520: Secret Life of Maps

Loaves of Sourdough Bread

EGMT 1520: Sourdough

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

EGMT 1520: The Happiness Experiment

Collage of numbers, equations, and words arranged in a circle.

EGMT 1520: The Numbers Are Not What They Seem!

Image of federal government department seals.

EGMT 1520: The U.S. Intelligence Community

Image of two street signs pointing in opposite directions. One sign is labeled as "Trust" while the other is labeled as "Mistrust".

EGMT 1520: Trust in science and distrust of scientists

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

Graphic of an notification bell with a message that reads "NEW UPDATE"

EGMT 1520: Updates Available!

This is an image of two books next to a hand writing on a sheet of paper.

EGMT 1520: What is a word?

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?

Image of a baby who appears to be in awe.

EGMT 1520: Wonder and Awe

EGMT 1530: Engaging Differences

Red background with dark paint strokes

EGMT 1530: "Hateinnany": Fascism, Antifascism, and the Global Far Right

Newspaper page from 1859 of a crowd looking in amazement at two giraffes

EGMT 1530: Africa Is Not a Country

Torso of a dilapidated Statue of Liberty along a shoreline

EGMT 1530: Apocalypse!

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1530: Borders, Belonging, and the Politics of Difference

Child in a chef's hat playing in a toy kitchen

EGMT 1530: Childhood & Becoming

A wooden window of an old farming house.

EGMT 1530: Cinematic Classrooms: Pedagogy, Film and Society

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EGMT 1530: Cinematic Crossings

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

EGMT 1530: Critical Voices of Democracy

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

Forest with lakes that resembles the world map.

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

Image of army men wearing their uniforms standing around a military vehicle.

EGMT 1530: How do we report war?

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EGMT 1530: How to Learn through History

Image of France's flag with a red circle around it and a line through it.

EGMT 1530: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?

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

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

EGMT 1530: Other People's Music

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1530: Our Monsters, Ourselves

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EGMT 1530: Pilgrimage: Religion, Travel, and Encounter

Photograph of a building that has been abandoned.

EGMT 1530: Politics of Absence: Ghost Towns, Memory & Ruins

Dirty American flag with thirteen stars.

EGMT 1530: Race, Racism, Colony & Nation

Sketch of a UVA student from 1853.

EGMT 1530: Reading UVA

American flag flying with a church steeple's cross in the background

EGMT 1530: Religion in the Public Square

A marble bust with a third of its skull edited out to match the background.

EGMT 1530: Selective Memory

Line art of the profiles of three women

EGMT 1530: Sexual Objectification

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

EGMT 1530: Solidarity Beyond the Hashtag

Rotunda at UVA

EGMT 1530: Sounds Like a Cult to Me: Religious Freedom, Difference, and Dissent in America

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

DNA-helix made with clocks.

EGMT 1530: The Age of Antiaging

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

Image of a human hand reaching out and grazing fingers with the hand of a gorilla.

EGMT 1530: The Nonhuman

Image of a city aerial shot.

EGMT 1530: The Slums

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

An image including photos of many famous athletes with filming tools surrounding them.

EGMT 1530: What Sports Docuseries Teach Us About Humanity

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

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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

A sculpture of a head as a flower vase.

EGMT 1540: Ancient Environmental Ethics

Photo of woman sitting on floor while eating bowl of fruit and granola while wearing workout clothing.

EGMT 1540: Big Wellness

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

Clip art of people placing votes in a ballot box

EGMT 1540: Democracy: What's the Problem?

Photo of woman climbing a mountain ridge.

EGMT 1540: God and Nature in America

Painting depicting a battle with a larger man carrying a gun in one hand and a book in another. The American and Confederate flags wave on the two sides as a fire and tornado wage in the background.

EGMT 1540: God Told Me To

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EGMT 1540: Holding On: The Ethics of Memory

Image of a tent with the phrase "HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT" painted on the tent in bold red lettering.

EGMT 1540: Housing Is a Human Right.

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

An image of icons signaling natural and organic.

EGMT 1540: Is Ethical Consumption Possible?

Collage of past images of law including a historic courtroom, a snippet of the Declaration of Independence, a screenshot of a scene from "This is Sparta" with a man being kicked into a bottomless pit.

EGMT 1540: Law and You: The world of law and how we inhabit it

Painting of three people laying down after eating a feast.

EGMT 1540: Laziness

Image of a student reading on a bench at UVA.

EGMT 1540: Learning to Read Again: Joy, Ethics, and Attention

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

EGMT 1540: How Do We Remember?

EGMT 1540: Paranoia, Conspiracies, & Fake News

Woman swallowing a pill

EGMT 1540: Psychedelics -- Enlightenment in a Pill?

People holding up signs that read "CHANGE"

EGMT 1540: Rebels With a Cause

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

EGMT 1540: Sci-Fi Ethics

Plastic figure of a wealthy man laughing carrying a gold piggy bank.

EGMT 1540: Should People be Wealthy?

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

EGMT 1540: Should Scientific Discoveries be Objective?

Image of someone stealing credit card information.

EGMT 1540: The Anatomy of a Con

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

EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Sports

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EGMT 1540: The Ethics of Work and Leisure

Man walking in front of a memorial in a grassy field.

EGMT 1540: The Ideology of Slavery: A Cautionary Tale

Clip art of people protesting

EGMT 1540: They Think WHAT? Visions of Politics

Drawing of Bobby Seale being bound and gagged.

EGMT 1540: Trials of the Century

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?

Cartoon image with the question: "What Is a Scam?". Image includes dollar signs, question marks, and the words "scam", "fake", "legit" in bright, bolded lettering.

EGMT 1540: What is a Scam?

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

EGMT 1540: What makes a hero?

An image of a ground plan for a garden by Virginia Richards.

EGMT 1540: Why Garden?

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EGMT 1540: You are on Monacan Land

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