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 »
Spring 2024
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 »
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 »