Courses by CIRA Affiliates

There are over 75 CIRA Affiliated courses offered for both graduate and undergraduate courses. The courses are offered through different departments and affiliates.

We have  a complete list of CIRA Affiliated courses on our website. If you would like to have your course affiliated with CIRA, please submit a CIRA Affiliated Course Form.

Spring Course Highlight:

COMM 668H (formerly 669), The Ethnographic Return, will continue to pursue connections among community development, political action, and critical performance ethnography in partnership with St. Joseph C.M.E. on Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill.  The course is available for both service-learned and Experiential Education credit.  It will involve students in significant participation in the field, which is our primary classroom!

This semester we will focus on a broad-scale, multi-mediated project "Facing Our Neighbors"--which will include engaging with many of the friends and neighbors just beyond the walls of St. Joseph--folks at the IFC men's shelter, sharing in the bounty of the church's Food Ministry, identifying as Latino/Latina or Hmong, and generally living in the neighborhood.  All will be invited to have their portraits taken, each of which will be returned in kind and framed/mounted as part of a combined performance/life narrative/interactive sound and DESSERT event at the end of the semester.  Throughout, we will address issues of assets-based community research, engage student talents and visions, and  continue to learn from doing what must be done.

Fall 2009 New Course Highlight:

New CIRA Affiliate Jean Dennison is offering "Visual Anthropology" on Tuesdays from 5-7:45pm.