OSUN Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs) are co-designed and taught simultaneously across partner institutions. They challenge students to examine the ideas and practices of being a global citizen in the twenty-first century. The courses bring students at different campuses together for discussions and online collaborations. NCC's aim to strengthen a set of learning perspectives among participating students, including Global Learning (understanding of global systems and how diverse perspectives impact the framing of global and local issues) and Intercultural Competence (curiosity and open-minded consideration of others’ ideas and increased ability to embrace cultural diversity). All Network Courses address current global challenges by getting to know other perspectives from the inside in a collaborative environment.
Please check our course list to see which BCB-based NCC's are offered in the current semester:
For a full list of OSUN online courses (OCCs), check here:
Please check our course list to see which BCB-based NCC's are offered in the current semester:
For a full list of OSUN online courses (OCCs), check here:
Examples of current and previous Network Collaborative Courses
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In today's interconnected world, migration affects everyone and has transformed most contemporary nation states into “pluralist,” “post-migrant,” and/or “super-diverse” polities. This course examines the history of migration and traces the emergence of new modes of border regulation and migration governance as well as novel forms of migrant cultural production and representation. -
Civic Engagement and Community-Based ResearchReflecting a balance between theory and practice, in this course students develop the engaged research skills needed to guide effective social action.
Students address issues related to political participation, civil society, associational life, social justice, and personal responsibility. -
Digital TheatersWhat happens when theaters go digital? This course addresses how theater and performance as live embodied practices and forms of communal encounter have permanently changed due to pandemic restrictions. This course investigates the new dispersed digital formats—WhatsApp and Instagram performances, VR/AR experiences, Zoom Theaters—that have expanded our idea of theater and asks how these new networked performance experiences alter common social and cultural functions of theater. -
Feminism and CommunityThe course explores a variety of feminisms across time and place through the concept of community. The course focuses on transnational theories of community, global feminism, early twentieth-century feminism, Black feminism, intersectional communities, feminist communities, and projects in Berlin. Students discuss how different concepts of feminism have generated different forms of communities, and asks whether a community is necessarily premised on notions of similarity and shared values. -
Research CreationThis cross-campus course explores how art making generates new kinds of knowledge about migration and displacement. Taught in collaboration with Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Columbia) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa) student's research becomes impactful when they translate their findings into artistic projects and showcase their findings at a public exhibition.
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Transnational FeminismThe course enables students to outline the histories and uses of transnational feminism and identify the challenges feminism faces across various political contexts. Students connect across campuses to critically evaluate the subject of feminist inquiry and analyze case studies with a focus on social justice. The course fosters feminist collaborations and offers a platform to engage in academic work, inspire through artistic practice, and work closely with local and international initiatives to further the feminist agenda for social justice. -
Visual PoliticsThis course increases student's visual literacy by examining how film, photography, media, and art shape how we process and deal with political and social phenomena as diverse as war, disease, border violence, migration and displacement, the securitization of states, and global financial crises. It gives students the practical tools and theoretical knowledge to understand how institutions as diverse as governments, political and humanitarian organizations, culture industry, and civil society shape what images people see and how they make sense of them.
