Sections offered SPRING 2020: #12025 JEFFREY GODDIN MW 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 111 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The Paranormal Realm is designed to provide an introduction to paranormal entities and ideas, past and present. This is a vast topic, so the course will concentrate on certain areas…. Read more »
Spring 2020
HON-H 238 – Education Across Time and Culture
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #32006 BRADLEY LEVINSON MW 1:00pm-2:15pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course is designed for students to explore the nature of education as a perennial human endeavor, in its myriad historical and cultural forms, including contemporary mass schooling. Three fundamental sets… Read more »
HON-H 238 – Film Genre: From Europe to Hollywood (and Back)
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #6336 VINCENT BOUCHARD TR 1:00pm-02:15pm Mandatory film showings Tuesdays, 7:15pm-9:15pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Taking a comparative, transnational approach, this course offers an overview of 20th-century European cinema as an evolving art and as a means of tracing the evolution… Read more »
HON-H 237 – Black Gold: Coffee, Culture, and Global Exchange
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #12802 CLARK BARWICK TR 9:30am-10:45am HU 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Coffee is widely referred to as the world’s second most valuable legal commodity (behind oil) and is probably the world’s most consumed legal drug. Beyond its status as such a massively… Read more »
HON-H 237 – Law and Society: Hot Topics
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8802 JOSEPH HOFFMAN MW 9:30am-10:45am LW 125 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd S&H credit; COLL (CASE) S&H Breadth of Inquiry credit This course is designed to introduce students to the fascinating and diverse world of law. Through the close study of selected judicial opinions in legal cases covering a wide range of… Read more »
HON-H 234 – Hitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the Representation of Evil and Good
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #6331 ALVIN ROSENFELD TR 2:30pm-3:45pm SY 001 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit. Meets with JSTU-J 203 Well known as historical figures, both Hitler and Anne Frank long ago began to take on symbolic dimensions—he as the 20th century’s leading personification of evil, and… Read more »
HON-H 233 – The Pen and the Paintbrush
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #9830 NICOLAS VALAZZA TR 2:30pm-3:45pm SY 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit The purpose of this course is to explore the relationship between painting and literature from an interdisciplinary perspective (literary, art historical, and philosophical), while developing a critical approach that questions the… Read more »
HON-H 303 – Global American Fiction
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #30867 GARETH EVANS TR 11:15am-12:30pm HU 108 CLASS NOTES: COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Reading Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah. Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker. Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing. Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants. Manfred Steger, Globalization: A Very Short Introduction…. Read more »
HON-H 233 – Young Adult Fiction
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #8778 #9861 GARETH EVANS MW 11:15am-12:30pm MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 108 HU 108 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit Young Adult Fiction (YAF) is all the rage these days. While roughly 3,000 Young Adult titles were published in 1997, 10,276 were published in 2012…. Read more »
HON-H 233 – An Interdisciplinary History of Empathy
Sections offered SPRING 2020: #7928 FRITZ LIEBER MW 2:30pm-3:45pm HU 217 CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit, COLL Intensive Writing section Our working definition of empathy is the feeling of other people’s feelings. As we study the history of this idea from ancient Greece to the present,… Read more »