Sections offered FALL 2019: #13128 GARETH EVANS TuTh 11:15am-12:30pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit “Modern Madness” examines how various forms of madness have been defined and treated between 1800 and the present. We will see madness described as the result of heredity, moral degeneracy, upbringing, trauma, fatigue, and… Read more »
Fall 2019
HON-H 234 – Literature of Time and Place: 21st Century American Fiction
Sections offered FALL 2019: #6920 #11719 GARETH EVANS MW 11:15am-12:30pm MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 108 HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit In this course, we will read six 21st-century American novels. The novels we read vary in style and content, just as the authors vary in their… Read more »
HON-H 233 – Great Authors, Composers, and Artists: Accident, Catastrophe, and Trauma in Literature and Film
Sections offered FALL 2019: #31979 JOHANNES TURK MW 9:30-10:45am HU 217 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit Accidents and catastrophes are dramatic and always possible events that challenge individual and collective life. They break the protective shields that ward off the threats surrounding us. Their traumatic impact calls upon… Read more »
HON-H 241 – Scientific Uncertainty and Discovery – Quick and Dirty Mental Operations: The Price of Adaptive Cognition
Sections offered FALL 2019: #6922 LEAH SAVION TuTh 8:00am-9:15am BH 236 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science Human survival depends on effective gathering of huge amounts of information, adequate processing, fast learning, and controlling the environment to secure predictability and adjustment. Our brain selects what to… Read more »
HON-H 211 – Ideas and Experiences I: Images of Women in the Ancient World
Sections offered FALL 2019: #2365 #9813 RICHARD CECIL MW 1:00-2:15pm MW 2:30-3:45pm HU 108 HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit In this section of H211 we will read ancient to early modern dramas and epics with a special focus on the roles women… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experiences II: The Pursuit of Happiness
Sections offered FALL 2019: #31980 FREDERIC LIEBER MW 11:15am-12:30pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement; COLL Intensive Writing section, COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The Declaration of Independence considers the pursuit of happiness a right along with life and liberty. Two hundred-plus years later, happiness is still a popular pursuit. Happiness… Read more »
HON-H 212 – Ideas and Experience II: What is a Good Education?
Sections offered FALL 2019: #5885 ROBERT KUNZMAN TR 9:30am-10:45am HU 111 CLASS NOTES: Satisfaction of the English composition requirement, COLL Intensive Writing section, COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit For education majors, this course also counts as a substitute for H205: Introduction to Educational Thought – a requirement for both Elementary Education and Secondary Education majors. What… Read more »
HON-H 234 – Literature of Time and Place: What is the Good Life?
Sections offered FALL 2019: #33855 HERBERT MARKS SECOND EIGHT WEEKS TR 4:00pm-6:30pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit. This class meets with CMLT-C 200. How do you define the “good life”? How can one live “authentically”? These questions engaged the ancient Greeks, who developed such concepts as… Read more »
HON-H 233 – Great Authors, Composers, and Artists: Utopia/Dystopia (Utopias & Dystopias in Fact, Fiction & Film)
Sections offered FALL 2019: #33529 EDWARD GUBAR TR 4:00pm-5:30pm R 7:15pm-10:00pm HU 111 WH 003 COURSE ATTRIBUTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit. Class includes film showings on Thursday evenings. What do you expect your future to be like? What would you like it to be? Do you want to… Read more »
HON-H 303 – Interdepartmental Colloquium: The Modern Self
Sections offered FALL 2019: #1422 EYAL PERETZ MW 4:00pm-5:15pm WH 104 COURSE ATTRIBUTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit. This class meets with CMLT-C 347. Who are we (that is, who are we human beings, what is our nature) and how do we BECOME who we are? This is the guiding question that this class… Read more »