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HON-H 237 – Black Gold: Coffee, Culture, and Global Exchange

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #12802 CLARK BARWICK TR 9:30am-10:45am HU 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Coffee is widely referred to as the world’s second most valuable legal commodity (behind oil) and is probably the world’s most consumed legal drug. Beyond its status as such a massively… Read more »

HON-H 237 – Law and Society: Hot Topics

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8802 JOSEPH HOFFMAN MW 9:30am-10:45am LW 125 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course is designed to introduce students to the fascinating and diverse world of law. Through the close study of selected judicial opinions in legal cases covering a wide range of… Read more »

HON-H 234 – Hitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the Representation of Evil and Good

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #6331 ALVIN ROSENFELD TR 2:30pm-3:45pm SY 001 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit. Meets with JSTU-J 203 Well known as historical figures, both Hitler and Anne Frank long ago began to take on symbolic dimensions—he as the 20th century’s leading personification of evil, and… Read more »

HON-H 233 – The Pen and the Paintbrush

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #9830 NICOLAS VALAZZA TR 2:30pm-3:45pm SY 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The purpose of this course is to explore the relationship between painting and literature from an interdisciplinary perspective (literary, art historical, and philosophical), while developing a critical approach that questions the… Read more »

HON-H 303 – Global American Fiction

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #30867 GARETH EVANS TR 11:15am-12:30pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit   Reading Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker. Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing. Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants. Manfred Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction…. Read more »

HON-H 233 – Young Adult Fiction

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8778 #9861 GARETH EVANS MW 11:15am-12:30pm MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 108 HU 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit   Young Adult Fiction (YAF) is all the rage these days. While roughly 3,000 Young Adult titles were published in 1997, 10,276 were published in 2012…. Read more »

HON-H 233 – An Interdisciplinary History of Empathy

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #7928 FRITZ LIEBER MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, COLL Intensive Writing section   Our working definition of empathy is the feeling of other people’s feelings. As we study the history of this idea from ancient Greece to the present,… Read more »

HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experience II: Education Policy and Reform

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #31884 CHRISTOPHER LUBIENSKI TR 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 211 CLASS NOTES:  Completion of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course weighs the possibilities and pitfalls with using education as a mechanism for social change. School reforms such as charter… Read more »

HON-H 211 – Ideas and Experience I: Images of Women in the Ancient World

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Sections offered SPRING 2020: #4763 #7257 RICHARD CECIL MW 1:00pm-2:15pm MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 108 HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Completion of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit In this section of H211 we will read ancient to early modern dramas and epics with… Read more »

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