Sections offered SPRING 2024: 32685 Brenda Weber MW 3:00-4:15 pm GA 0001 ***IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ENROLL DIRECTLY IN THIS CLASS; TO ENROLL, PLEASE SEE HON-BM 299, CLASS NUMBER 33490***
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HON-BM 299 (Gender, Sexuality & Pop Culture/Honors discussion)
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33490 BRENDA WEBER MW 3:00-4:15pm (GNDR-G 225) Th 11:30am-12:20pm (HON-H 299) GA 0001 LH 201H ***PLEASE NOTE: HON-BM 299 (4 cr) is a placeholder course number. It represents a combination of GNDR-G 225 (3 cr)and a 1-credit, HON-H 299 discussion section that meets separately. To earn honors credit for GNDR-G 225,… Read more »
HON-H 237 Cultural Heritage Law
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #6539 GABRIELLE GOODWIN MW 9:45-11:00 am LW 214 The area of cultural heritage law considers a developing jurisprudence that involves international treaties, laws, ethics, and policy considerations relating to cultural heritage and cultural property. Throughout the course we will explore issues such as current threats to cultural heritage, including armed conflict… Read more »
HON-H 303 Nabokov
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33767 JACOB EMERY MW 1:15-2:30 pm BH 231 This course provides an overview of Vladimir Nabokov’s work in both Russian and English. The focus is on his prose fictions, but we will also consider Nabokov as a poet, playwright, critic, translator, and puzzle constructor. In exploring Nabokov’s works, we will also… Read more »
HON-H 303 Minds, Brains, and the Contemporary Novel
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #33743 JENNIFER FLEISSNER TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm LH 004 How does the contemporary novel relate to contemporary psychology? A 2009 essay called “The Rise of the Neuro-Novel” proposes that advances in brain science have had a significant effect on the way today’s fiction portrays human interiority, behavior, and decision-making. This class puts… Read more »
HON-H 240 The War on Cancer
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #11902 AMIT HAGAR TuTh 9:45am-12:15 pm SY 108 This class meets the First Eight Weeks (01/08/2024 – 03/01/2024) Almost 50 years after a US president declared “a war on cancer”, it remains one of the top causes of death in the world, second only to coronary diseases. In this course we… Read more »
HON-H 240 Invention and Technology
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #7645 ANNE PYBURN TuTh 3:00-4:15 pm BH 238 Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur Schlesinger This is an archaeology class, so it is about ancient inventions and technologies. We will talk about the beginnings of tools that we take for granted… Read more »
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 232 The Art and Skill of Writing
Sections offered SPRING 2024: #30937 POLLY GRAHAM TuTh 4:45-6:00 pm HU 108 HON‐H 232 Meaningful Writing: The Art & Skill of Written Communication will refine and enhance skills in written communication. We will read, analyze, and appraise a range of prose and poetry as a means of informing writing style and technique. We will… Read more »