Sections offered FALL 2019: #33941 CHRISTOPHER LUBIENSKI MW 1:00pm-02:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course weighs the possibilities and pitfalls with using education as a mechanism for social change. School reforms such as charter schools, equitable funding, and… Read more »
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HON-H 238 – Politics and Communication: Global Intelligence
Sections offered FALL 2019: #13465 BRENDA BAILEY-HUGHES MW 4:00pm-5:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: Service Learning Course; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd S&H credit Global Intelligence is a service-learning course that partners you with the Burmese American Community Association (BACI) where you will mentor resettled refugees going to high school in central Indiana. You… Read more »
HON-H 304 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: American Foreign Policy in the Nuclear Age
Sections offered FALL 2019: #13134 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 4:00pm-5:15pm WH 003 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; meets with POLS-Y 360. Contrary to once widely held expectations, the end of the Cold War has not eliminated the threat to national and planetary survival posed by nuclear weapons. Both the US and Russia retain huge… Read more »
HON-H 228 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: Modern Madness
Sections offered FALL 2019: #13128 GARETH EVANS TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit “Modern Madness” examines how various forms of madness have been defined and treated between 1800 and the present. We will see madness described as the result of heredity, moral degeneracy, upbringing, trauma, fatigue, and… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experiences II: The Pursuit of Happiness
Sections offered FALL 2019: #31980 FREDERIC LIEBER MW 11:15am-12:30pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section, COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The Declaration of Independence considers the pursuit of happiness a right along with life and liberty. Two hundred-plus years later, happiness is still a popular pursuit. Happiness… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experience II: What is a Good Education?
Sections offered FALL 2019: #5885 ROBERT KUNZMAN TR 9:30am-10:45am HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement, COLL Intensive Writing section, COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit For education majors, this course also counts as a substitute for H205: Introduction to Educational Thought – a requirement for both Elementary Education and Secondary Education majors. What… Read more »
HON-H 304 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: The Politics of the UN
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #12897 DINA SPECHLER ARR ARR CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit Are you thinking about becoming a diplomat or an expert on international law? Are you hoping to study or work abroad? Do you have a strong interest in international affairs?… Read more »
HON-H 304 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #8666 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm WH 121 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit 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… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experience II: Liberty, Equality, and Democracy in the United States
Sections offered SPRING 2019: #9363 NORMAN FURNISS TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit We will orient our seminar around the complexities and interactions among these three ideas. Our first aim is to develop their… 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 »