31128 ROBERT KUNZMAN TuTh 12:45-2:00 pm HU 111   If at first you don’t succeed…” Failure has many cliches.  But how do different fields (psychology, law, education, science, entrepreneurship, medicine, engineering and design, art, athletics) understand and navigate failure?  What does it mean to have a healthy relationship with failure?  How can we combat perfectionism, risk aversion, and… Read more »

11792 RICHARD GUNDERMAN Th 3:55-6:25 pm HU 217 Eugenics, the notion that it is possible to decrease suffering, increase happiness, and even enhance humanity itself by altering patterns of reproduction, once exerted powerful sway over scientists, intellectuals, and policy makers in the US.  IU’s seventh president, biologist David Starr Jordan, who was also the first… Read more »

10340 AMIT HAGAR TuTh 9:35am-12:05 pm (First Eight Weeks) EP 256 The purpose of this course is to provide a gentle, non-expert, introduction to Neuropharmacology with a historical perspective of psychedelic drug research, their use in psychiatric disorders, research restricting regulatory controls, and their recent emergence as potential breakthrough therapies for several brain-related disorders. In… Read more »

30253 MARK BAILDON MW 9:35-10:50 am HU 111 By most accounts, societies, their institutions, and citizens are not doing enough, and with the necessary urgency, to address climate crisis. This course examines the critical intersections between environmental studies, politics, and public communication strategies. The course will utilize an inquiry-based approach to explore climate change and climate… Read more »

11601 MARCO ARNAUDO MW 12:45-2:00 pm HU 217 This class investigates the concept of military leadership and its applications to the civilian context. We will start by discussing key concepts of leadership, and we will then move onto case studies from different periods in history, including ancient China, the European Middle Ages, the American Civil War, and recent and ongoing… Read more »

30231 MICHAEL WEINMAN MW 11:10 am — 12:25 pm HU 111 This course offers a semester-long engagement with Plato’s Republic in dialogue with the main works and movements that shaped its cultural and intellectual context. Republic offers a unique point of entry into the literary, philosophical, and political achievements of fifth and fourth century Athens;… Read more »

30228 STEVEN WAGSCHAL HU 108 This course explores Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, the two-part novel widely considered to be one of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written. We will read the novel within its socio-historical context of late Renaissance Spain, a turbulent time in which powerful monarchs and the Spanish Inquisition kept a… Read more »

10520 MONIQUE MORGAN TuTh 2:20-3:35 pm HU 108 This course considers the critical perspectives on our world offered by the imagined worlds of English-language science fiction in a variety of media. We will explore three case studies of adaptation and influence across media: from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, from H. G…. Read more »

32490 HERBERT MARKS TBA (First Eight Week course) TBA Meets with CMLT-C 200   What is happiness? How should we define a good life? The question of how one should live is at the center of a long tradition of practical philosophy. In the West, the principal approaches were sketched out by the ancient Greeks,… Read more »

30207 RICHARD CECIL MW 2:20-3:35 pm HU 108 PREREQUISITE:  COMPLETION OF THE ENGLISH COMPOSITION REQUIREMENT This fall we will focus on the qualities that make a person a hero(ine), in the eyes of ancient authors, and compare those qualities with ones we admire today.  Beginning with Gilgamesh’s heroic struggle to overcome death, and ending with… Read more »