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 »
Spring 2024
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 »
HON-H 236 Leadership: From War to Peace
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 »
HON-H 234 The Agnostic Bible
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 »
HON-H 234 Climate Change Fiction
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 »
HON-H 234 Literature of the Holocaust
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 »