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 »
Honors Courses
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 »
HON-H 240 Eugenics
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 »
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 »