Courses that are associated with IHP project sites or supported by the IHP Teaching Fund play a crucial role in advancing the IHP’s mission to study and share a more inclusive history of U-M.
Scroll through the courses listed below to see what’s coming up in academic year 2026-27, with courses offered in various schools and colleges across the Flint, Dearborn, and Ann Arbor campuses, and check back for updates.
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
Ann Arbor campus
AMCULT 311, Section 002: Food in American Culture
Jessica Walker
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
This course explores the changing cultural and social value of food in American life through a range of different sources, disciplines, and case studies. We will be guided by how convenience, responsibility, and identity shape our relationship to a dynamic American food industry, while paying attention to how immigration, trauma, and appropriation constitute the industry itself. By doing so, this course seeks to help students connect the food histories, policies, and myths that converge to define American belonging.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
AAS 201, Section 001: Introduction to Afro-American Studies
SaraEllen Strongman
*This course is funded through the IHP Teaching Fund.
This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the field of African American Studies through careful attention to the social, cultural, political, economic and historical realities of Black life in the U.S. In addition to providing a foundation in African American Studies as a disciplinary field, we will examine how Black communities have affected, and been affected by, the development and growth of the United States as a democratic, social, and cultural project.
Initially brought to North America as enslaved persons, Africans and their descendants have affected every facet of U.S. politics, culture and society. There has never been a time that Black people, whether as descendants of enslaved persons, or as recent immigrants from Africa and its diaspora, have not had an outsized influence on the political imagination and cultural practices that we understand as “American.” Yet, there remain significant myths and misconceptions about Black communities, Black history, and Black life, as well as long-standing forms of racial power that contribute to significant inequalities in Black lived experience. In this course, we will gain an understanding of the historical, sociological, political, economic and cultural realities that shape Black experience in the United States, and develop rigorous critical tools for understanding how race, gender, sexuality and class shape possibilities and power in the present day.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
ADM 527, Section H1: Cultivating Communities of Belonging
Emma Davis
*This course was developed with support of the IHP Teaching Fund.
Examination of community-based and theoretical frameworks within arts and nonprofit organizations. Considers how organizations build a sense of community belonging within their institutions. Engagement in original research to better understand how practices in cultivating diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities have changed over time.
Dearborn campus
HIST 300, Section 001: The Study of History
Georgina Hickey
*This course was developed with support of the IHP Teaching Fund.
A study of the theories of historical analysis, styles of historical writing, and approaches to historical research.
Ann Arbor campus
ALA 298, Section 001: Inside the Local Music Community
Garrett Schumann
*This course was developed with support of the IHP Teaching Fund.
In this community-engaged course, students explore the network of practitioners, institutions, and audiences that shape the local music scene in Washtenaw County. Students study key systems, attend and review concerts, and also connect with local music practitioners through interviews and guest visits.
The Literature, Science, and the Arts Course Guide linked below requires University of Michigan login credentials.
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