Sections offered SPRING 2024: 30755 JOSEPH MORGAN MW 3:00-4:15 pm BH 217 HON-H 211 prerequisite: completion of the English composition requirement Class subtitle: Anger: Sacred and Profane When people are angry today, they are often advised to control their anger or learn to manage it. As an emotion, we see anger unruly, potentially dangerous, and… Read more »
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HON-BM 299 (Gender, Sexuality & Pop Culture/Honors discussion)
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33490 BRENDA WEBER MW 3:00-4:15pm (GNDR-G 225) Th 11:30am-12:20pm (HON-H 299) GA 0001 LH 201H ***PLEASE NOTE: HON-BM 299 (4 cr) is a placeholder course number. It represents a combination of GNDR-G 225 (3 cr)and a 1-credit, HON-H 299 discussion section that meets separately. To earn honors credit for GNDR-G 225,… Read more »
HON-BM 299 (Gender, Sexuality & Pop Culture/Honors discussion)
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13715 JENNIFER MAHER TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm (GNDR-G 225) Tu 1:50-2:40pm (HON-H 299) MY 130 LH 328 ***PLEASE NOTE: HON-BM 299 (4 cr) is a placeholder course number. It represents a combination of GNDR-G 225 (3 cr) and a 1-credit, HON-H 299 discussion section that meets separately. To earn honors credit for GNDR-G… Read more »
HON-H 237 Cultural Heritage Law
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #6539 GABRIELLE GOODWIN MW 9:45-11:00 am LW 214 The area of cultural heritage law considers a developing jurisprudence that involves international treaties, laws, ethics, and policy considerations relating to cultural heritage and cultural property. Throughout the course we will explore issues such as current threats to cultural heritage, including armed conflict… Read more »
HON-H 303 Nabokov
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33767 JACOB EMERY MW 1:15-2:30 pm BH 231 This course provides an overview of Vladimir Nabokov’s work in both Russian and English. The focus is on his prose fictions, but we will also consider Nabokov as a poet, playwright, critic, translator, and puzzle constructor. In exploring Nabokov’s works, we will also… Read more »
HON-H 304 Luxury: From Mortal Sin to Market Sector
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #32852 REBECCA L. SPANG MW 4:45-6:00 pm HU 108 Luxury sells. The luxury sector’s value has more than trebled since 1994. There is a paradox here: businesses expect to grow, but luxury has historically been defined as rare, exclusive, or exceptional. Can luxury continue to expand and still be luxury? What… Read more »
HON-H 304 Politics of the U.N.
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #7925 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 7:00-8:15 pm WH 007 Interested students should contact the professor for permission to enroll as soon as possible in the fall semester (spechler@indiana.edu). Are you thinking about becoming a diplomat or an expert on international law? Are you hoping to study or work abroad? Do you have… Read more »
HON-H 304 Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #6066 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 1:15-2:30 PM WH 004 After decades of Cold War, for a while it seemed possible that the bitter enmity between Russia and the West might give way to an amicable partnership that could address many pressing world problems. Instead, hostility and suspicion between the two sides are… Read more »
HON-H 303 Minds, Brains, and the Contemporary Novel
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33743 JENNIFER FLEISSNER TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm LH 004 How does the contemporary novel relate to contemporary psychology? A 2009 essay called “The Rise of the Neuro-Novel” proposes that advances in brain science have had a significant effect on the way today’s fiction portrays human interiority, behavior, and decision-making. This class puts… Read more »
HON-H 303 Dostoevsky and His Demons
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33627 CRAIG CRAVENS TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm BH 229 “So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world.” — Nicholas Berdiaev This course is an examination of homicide, suicide, patricide, and redemption through a study of… Read more »