Sections offered SPRING 2019: #12683 RICHARD GUNDERMAN Th 5:30pm-08:00pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science; COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit Alzheimer’s dementia is the only disease in the 10 leading causes of death of Americans that cannot be prevented, slowed, or cured. An estimated 5.5 million Americans of all… Read more »
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HON-H 241 – Scientific Uncertainty and Discovery: The Self-Organizing Planet
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #9542 PETER ORTOLEVA TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm CH 203 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science; COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit Develop the concepts and techniques needed to understand the origins in the laws of physics and chemistry regarding the mechanisms by which our planet has become organized on many… Read more »
HON-H 240 – Science and Society: The Autobiography of Dying
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #12025 FREDERIC LIEBER MW 11:15am-12:30pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Thanks to advances in medical science, many people with terminal illness are living reasonably well in the last months and years of their lives. One way they have found meaning in the… Read more »
HON-H 238 – Politics and Communication: The New Global Communication
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #6730 JEFFREY GODDIN MW 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The New Global Communication is an international communication class designed to help students critically evaluate the accepted wisdom of how to communicate with people of other cultures in an atmosphere of… Read more »
HON-H 237 – Law and Society: Inevitable Judicial Biases
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #9545 LEAH SAVION SECOND EIGHT WEEKS TuTh 8:00am-10:30am PH 10 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Rational decision-making is the cornerstone of justice and fairness. The decisions made along the continuum of the legal system, from police officers to the DA, lawyers, prosecutor, jury, and… Read more »
HON-H 233 – Great Authors, Composers and Artists: “Mamma Mia!” Feeling Ethnicity in the Works of Italian American Women Artists
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #10693 COLLEEN RYAN TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm SY 004 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit At times a single expression like “Mamma mia!” can be a metaphor for its whole culture of origin – stimulating the senses and conjuring an array of images, maybe even stereotypes, as… Read more »
HON-H 233 – Great Authors, Composers, and Artists: Young Adult Fiction
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #9526 GARETH EVANS MW 4:00pm-5:15pm HU 108 #10738 GARETH EVANS MW 2:30pm-3:45pm 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. What’s… Read more »
HON-H 233 – Great Authors, Composers, and Artists: Evil in Literature and Film
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #8521 LUKASZ SICINSKI MW 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The question of the existence of evil has been a concern for philosophers, scholars, and everyday people for centuries. What is evil? How does it emerge and reproduce? Do human beings have… Read more »
HON-H 228 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: A History of Consumer Culture
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #8101 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit If you made the decision to purchase the latest generation of the Apple iPhone, then you’re aware of how deeply consumer culture permeates our lives. The smartphone is foremost among many material possessions of the… Read more »
HON-H 226 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: The Production of Culture
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #9550 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit We may watch The Daily Show for its award-winning satire of contemporary politics and media, but that isn’t why a network like Comedy Central produces and broadcasts the program. From a business perspective, The Daily… Read more »