Honors Courses

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #13663 MARCO ARNAUDO TuTh 1:15-2:30 pm HU 108 The class analyzes the topic of military leadership and its applications to civilian contexts such as business and management. We read classic works by military thinkers such as Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz, and we focus on the issue of leadership. How do these thinkers conceive of leadership? How… Read more »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #30943 HERBERT MARKS W 4:10-6:40 pm GY 1042   There is arguably no book of world literature that has been more embroidered, distorted, and misread than the Hebrew Bible. As the ultimate source of Jewish law and the foundation of Christian theology, it is held up even today as a moral… Read more »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #9914 GARETH EVANS TuTh 11:30am-12:45 pm HU 111   Reading List Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower. Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves. Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island. Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future. Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones. Excerpts from the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA). NOTE: Please buy real copies of each of the books…. Read more »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #4938 ALVIN ROSENFELD TuTh 3:00-4:15 pm BH 331   Among the most compelling literatures of our day is that which records and seeks to interpret the Nazi war of genocide against the Jews. This course will introduce students to this literature and encourage them to reflect upon many of the profound… Read more »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #34006 VINCENT BOUCHARD MW 1:15-2:30 pm LI 048 and HU 217   Monday class meets in Wells library screening room (048); Wednesday class meets in HU 217 Taking a comparative, transnational approach, this course offers an overview of European cinema as an evolving art and as a means of tracing the evolution of… Read more »

Sections offered SPRING 2024: #12152 HALL BJORNSTAD MW 9:45-11:00 am HU 217   What do we mean when we say that an event is “tragic”? Is a death more tragic if it is the result of a murder than if it happened by accident or from natural causes? Do we say it is “tragic” in… Read more »