Sections offered FALL 2019: #31981 FREDERIC LIEBER MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry Credit Walking is a mobile platform of the arts, sciences, and humanities. We consider the theme of walking in literature, developmental psychology, philosophy, anthropology, law, and public policy, history, business, and sculpture…. Read more »
Fall 2019
HON-H 238 – Politics and Communication: Witnessing War and Terrorism
Sections offered FALL 2019: #11689 STEVE RAYMER MW 11:15am-12:30pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit H238 examines the journalistic, political, and cultural context of conflict and terrorism from the mid-19th century to the present day. Readings, videos, and classroom discussions analyze how conflicts have been reported, censored, or ignored… Read more »
HON-H 228 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: Historic Filmmaking Methods
Sections offered FALL 2019: #13199 RON OSGOOD TR 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course will cover how to use archival media, such as photos, film, and audio/video tape in film documentaries. The class will research archival and public domain music, photographs, film, and other archival media used to… Read more »
HON-H234 – Literature of Time and Place: Literature of the Holocaust
Sections offered FALL 2019: #6921 ALVIN ROSENFELD TR 2:30pm-3:45pm WH 007 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit; meets with JSTU-J 203 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… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experience II: Education Policy and Reform
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 »
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 226 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
Sections offered FALL 2019: #8638 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON TuTh 2:30-3:45pm Tu 7:15-9:15pm HU 108 TBA CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, includes film showings on Tuesdays This course will explore the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, the Academy-Award winning filmmakers responsible for such classic American films as No Country for Old Men, Fargo,… Read more »
HON-H 226 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: The Production of Culture
Sections offered FALL 2019: #34558 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm HU 217 We may watch The Daily Show for its award-winning satire of contemporary politics and media, but that isn’t why a network like Comedy Central produces and broadcasts the program. From a business perspective, The Daily Show attracts viewers ages 18-34, who are… Read more »
HON-H 304 – Interdepartmental Colloquium – Comparative Foreign Policy: Why Nations Go to War?
Sections offered FALL 2019: #10508 DINA SPECHLER TuTh 1:00pm-2:15pm WH 004 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; meets with INTL-I 300 and POLS-Y 363 Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam, and why did it stay in the war long after U.S. leaders knew we could not win? Why did the… 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 »