Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13989 RICHARD GUNDERMAN W 4:45-7:15 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… Read more »
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HON-H 240 The War on Cancer
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #11902 AMIT HAGAR TuTh 9:45am-12:15 pm SY 108 This class meets the First Eight Weeks (01/08/2024 – 03/01/2024) Almost 50 years after a US president declared “a war on cancer”, it remains one of the top causes of death in the world, second only to coronary diseases. In this course we… Read more »
HON-H 240 Invention and Technology
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #7645 ANNE PYBURN TuTh 3:00-4:15 pm BH 238 Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur Schlesinger This is an archaeology class, so it is about ancient inventions and technologies. We will talk about the beginnings of tools that we take for granted… Read more »
HON-H 238 The Social Impacts of Big Data
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #11903 YOUNEI SOE MW 9:25-10:40 am HU 108 *This class meets during the Thirteen Week Session (01/29/2024-05/03/2024) Course Description Every day, billions of people interact with information technologies on the Internet and contribute to a world of valuable information. But the human brain simply cannot fathom the quantity of data generated… Read more »
HON-H 238 American Cinema of the 1970s: Hollywood’s Most Adventurous Decade
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #4943 CHRIS ANDERSON TuTh 1:15-2:30 pm HU 217 Between 1967 and 1979 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of movie censorship, the decline of the Hollywood studio system, economic changes in the film industry, and demographic shifts… Read more »
HON-H 237 The Attention Economy
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #34297 CHRIS ANDERSON TuTh 11:30am – 12:45pm HU 217 Course Description Tik Tok is certainly more than just a marketing tactic, but the bottom line is that the platform uses our fascination with short videos to capture our attention and then sell that attention to advertisers, who target us with messages… Read more »
HON-H 237 Human Aggression
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #30921 ANDREW WEAVER TuTh 3:00-4:15 pm HU 108 Our ultimate goal in this course will be to design successful interventions to reduce harmful aggressive behavior in our society. To accomplish this end goal, we will need to develop a thorough understanding of how violence works. Are humans, by nature, a violent… Read more »
HON-H 237 Failure: How We Learn From It
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #10730 ROBERT KUNZMAN TuTh 1:15-2:30 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,… Read more »
HON-H 237 Individual & Societal Well-Being
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #9909 DAWN KUTZA MW 3:00-4:15 pm HU 111 PLEASE NOTE: A personal laptop is required. We will begin the course by virtually exploring the beautiful countries of Iceland and New Zealand. Both countries consistently rank in the top 10 of the world’s happiest people and at the top of multiple international… Read more »
HON-H 237 Coffee, Culture & Global Trade
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #8512 CLARK BARWICK TuTh 11:30am-12:45 pm HU 108 Coffee is widely referred to as the world’s second most valuable legal commodity (behind oil) and is probably one of the world’s most consumed legal drugs. Beyond its status as such a massively traded product, coffee is central to the lives of most… Read more »