CORE 100 Thinking through COVID-19

This free one-unit interdisciplinary course invites current and incoming students to think through interdisciplinary approaches to understanding COVID-19, pandemics and their interactions with the impacts on the social, political and natural world. Occidental College professors, Oxy students, and Community experts will think through the problem of the viral pandemic, exploring issues raised in political, social, economic, scientific, historical, emotional, intellectual, ethical terms. In this course, students, faculty, staff, and the larger community will work through this crisis together to address the multiplicity of the pandemic. Finally, COVID-19 will function as a lens through which we focus on ways in which societies must change to relieve the inequitable burdens imposed and exposed by COVID-19.