Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33626 LUKASZ SICINSKI M 4:45-7:15 pm BH 229 ***Knowledge of Polish language and culture not required** Why do we commit transgressive acts? Are the lines between good and evil always clear? How do we deal with moral conflict and moral ambiguity? Are we responsible for actions that are beyond our control?… Read more »
Entries by rsteele
HON-H 303 We Are Here: Minorities in the Post-Community Reality
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33625 JOANNA NIZYNSKA Th 4:45-7:15 pm GA 0009 All works in English. No prerequisites. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Europe—for over four decades divided by the “iron curtain” between the Eastern Bloc controlled by the Soviet Union and the so-called “West”—unified. Together with this unification came the violent breakdown… Read more »
HON-H 303 How to Write a Photograph
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13732 BILL JOHNSTON MW 3:00-4:15 pm BH 243 Photographs are everywhere: in books, on the Internet, on billboards and in brochures, in magazines and newspapers, on our laptops and in our phones. Often we don’t give them a second glance—it seems that what meaning they have can be comprehended instantly, in… Read more »
HON-H 303 Epic: Heroes, Gods and Rebels
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13729 SARAH VAN DER LAAN TuTh 11:30am-12:45pm BH 209 Why did the architects of the World Trade Center memorial choose a quotation from Virgil’s Aeneid, a two-thousand-year-old Latin poem, for its walls? Epic has lain at the heart of the Western literary tradition for twenty-seven hundred years. The most prestigious and… Read more »
HON-H 241 Language and Computers
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33679 SANDRA KUEBLER Th 4:45-6:00 PM IF 119 #BlackLivesMatter—and how we talk about this issue matters, too. Abusive language in social media is a serious issue, and because so many posts are made every day, we cannot remove abusive posts by hand—their removal must be automated. How does automatic detection work?… Read more »
HON-H 241 Exploring Politics with Data: Politics, Identity and Inequality
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #32633 WILLIAM BIANCO Th 4:30-7:00 pm HU 111 Inequality is manifest in American society, from differences in wealth to the ability to access quality health care. Research has established many institutional explanations for persistent inequality, including a political system that prioritizes middle- and upper-class concerns over those of the poor, administrative… Read more »
HON-H 241 Dementia
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #7867 RICHARD GUNDERMAN W 1:15-3:45 pm HU 217 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 ages are currently living with Alzheimer’s, which plagues one in 10 people aged 65… Read more »
HON-H 240 Who Owns the Natural World?
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #34325 DAVID POLLY TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm ARR ***THIS CLASS IS OPEN ONLY TO FRESHMAN WELLS SCHOLARS*** Description: The natural world is fundamentally important to us all, but how are its uses and fate decided? Using paleontology — the study of fossils and extinct life — as the focus, we will ask “who… Read more »
HON-H 240 Language, Intelligence & the Machine
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #31480 DAMIR CAVAR TuTh 9:45-11:00 am HU 111 Language, Intelligence, and the Machine Addressing state-of-the-art technologies in Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic and Natural Language Processing capabilities of advanced Large Language Models, and the perspectives of Machines becoming intelligent. This course addresses not just the technologies and applications of AI and possible Artificial… Read more »
HON-H 240 Medical Deserts of Rural America
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #31466 KEITH DAYTON TuTh 3:00-4:15 pm HU 217 In the medical desert that has become rural America, nothing is more basic or more essential than access to doctors, but they are increasingly difficult to find. The federal government now designates nearly 80 percent of rural America as “medically underserved.” It is… Read more »