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Huda Hagos

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Experience:
Veteran 3
Hometown:
Philadelphia, PA
About:
I love TRAC because of the different type of students and professors that I get to meet, help, and hopefully learn from.

Courses TRACed:

SPRING 2025

AAS/ANTH/GS 317
So You Want to Save the World

African American Studies and Anthropology and Global Studies

We are often motivated by the desire to “give back”-- feed the hungry, heal the sick, and help those less fortunate than ourselves. Anthropological research on humanitarian aid, development projects, and other interventions meant to improve human lives in various contexts shows us why these efforts often go awry. Focusing primarily on settings outside the U.S., students will consider the pitfalls of developmental and humanitarian interventions as well as the crucial role of local knowledge in addressing complex global problems.

FALL 2024

AAS 16
Sociology of Black Families

Africana Studies

The objective of this course is to help students learn more about Black family experiences within the United States and globally. In approaching the course with an intersectional lens, students will learn about the varied experiences of Black families, and the ways in which these experiences are embedded in empowerment, disempowerment, and self-actualization. Students will leave the course understanding Black families at the intersection of fatherhood, motherhood, marriage, singlehood, childrearing, LGBTQ families, interracial families, transnational families, and aging.

SPRING 2024

SOC 397
Identity & Social Media

Sociology

Who are we? How do we understand ourselves? From Mead’s theory of the “looking glass self” to the feminist mantra of “the personal is political,” sociologists have wrestled with how our identities are created and interpreted vis-à-vis our relationships and social context. In the digital age, with the explosion of new ways to interact with one another and to display, perform, and curate our identities online, identity has only become more salient. In this course, we will read canonical and contemporary sociological theories of identity. We will then consider how those theories can be extended to online contexts to develop a better understanding of identity in the 21st century. This is a writing-intensive seminar: class meetings will be discussion-based, and students will write several short essays throughout the term as well as a longer paper that will undergo a peer review and revision process.