Slavic 471/Arch 603 "Non-governmentality: Designs, Cultures, Politics" will be a seminar taught concurrently at the University of Michigan, by Associate Prof. Andrew Herscher, and at Syracuse University, by Assistant Professor Yutaka Sho. The course will explore a new model of co-teaching; instead of a team of teachers teaching a lecture class, as in the conventional co-teaching model, we will teach the same seminar at different universities. Staging a co-taught course as a seminar in separate locations, our model combines the pedagogical benefits of multiple teachers with those of a limited-enrollment seminar. Our model also has a particular relationship to non-governmentality, the subject of our course, as the form of co-teaching we are exploring is based not upon top-down administrative decisions but peer-to-peer initiatives between course faculty and students. We will establish two links between the seminars at Michigan and Syracuse: one, web-based video conferencing and blogging that will connect the seminars during and between class meeting and, two, two field trips during the semester that will allow the seminars to physically meet.