Sections offered SPRING 2020: #10261 CRISTOPH IRMSCHER MICHAEL HAMBURGER W 6:00pm-7:15pm HS 122 CLASS NOTES: Open to Wells Scholars only through Thursday, November 7, 2019; open to Hutton Honors College students by permission beginning Friday, November 8. This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the most exciting—and often terrifying—manifestations of life on a dynamic planet. We will… Read more »
Spring 2020
HON-H 304 – Politics of the UN
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #11242 DINA SPECHLER ARR ARR CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit; meets with POLS-Y 399, NELC-N 389 and INTL-I 310 Are you thinking about becoming a diplomat or an expert on international law? Are you hoping to study or work… Read more »
HON-H 304 – Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8055 DINA SPECHLER TR 1:00P-02:15P WH 121 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit; meets with POLS-Y 368, INTL-I 300, REEI-R 300, and REEI-R 500 After decades of Cold War, for a while it seemed possible that the bitter enmity between… Read more »
HON-H 303 – Virtue Ethics: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Foot, Hursthouse, and Annas
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #12524 REGA WOOD MW 4:00pm-5:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; meets with PHIL-P 371 and PHIL-P 541 An introduction to “Virtue Ethics.” Virtue Ethics emerged in the second half of the 20th century as an alternative to deontology and consequentialism, beginning with Elizabeth Anscombe’s seminal… Read more »
HON-H 300 – Cultural Foundations of Peace: Business, Sports, and the Arts
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #30936 TIMOTHY FORT TR 11:15am-12:30pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: Meets with BUS-L 333 Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek once argued that the key to global morality is international trade. In The Fatal Conceit, he argued that we are able to better satisfy our wants by promise-keeping, truth-telling, and delivering high quality… Read more »
HON-BD 299 (MUS-Z 280/HON-H 299) – Music of the Silk Road/Honors Discussion
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #13499 AIDA HUSEYNOVA MW 11:15am-12:30pm T 1:25pm-2:15pm MA 454 M 263 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd World Culture credit; IUB GenEd A&H credit This course focuses on historical and current authentic music traditions of the Silk Road and their impact on music of today. The Silk Road was the network of… Read more »
HON-H 241 – Answering the Call of the Healthcare Professions: The Opioid Epidemic
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #30932 RICHARD GUNDERMAN R 5:30pm-8:00pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science; COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit The opioid epidemic is resulting in tens of thousands of deaths per year, with tens as many overdoses as deaths, and millions of lives of family members, coworkers,… Read more »
HON-H 241 – Answering the Call of the Healthcare Professions: Cancer
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #11111 RICHARD GUNDERMAN R 2:30pm-5:00pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science; COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit Cancer is the leading cause of death of Americans under age 85. Answering the Call of the Healthcare Professions: Cancer examines the physical, psychological, social, economic and spiritual… Read more »
HON-H 241 – The Self-Organizing Planet
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8799 PETER ORTOLEVA TR 11:15am-12:30pm CH 203 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd N&M credit – Natural Science; COLL (CASE) N&M Breadth of Inquiry credit Develop the concepts and techniques needed to understand the origins in the laws of physics and chemistry regarding the mechanisms by which our planet has become organized… Read more »
HON-H 240 – Language as a Hidden Force
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #30943 STEVEN FRANKS TR 9:30am-10:45am HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course surveys the broad question of the complex relationship between language and thought, both in the individual and the species, from diverse perspectives. The course is loosely organized around… Read more »