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FIRST SEMINARS
FSNA | 104 | Archaeastronomy | Earle | Luck | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Explore how astronomical practice and knowledge is central to ancient civilizations. | |||
FSNA | 111 | Chemical Aspects of the Aging Mind | Michael | Zagorski | MW 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Wed) | The seminar will examine lifestyle changes that are implicated in preventing or slowing down Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. | |||
FSNA | 113 | Fact and Values in Environmental Decisions | Beverly | Saylor | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Evaluate the evidence, uncertainties, and value judgments pertinent to some of the world’s pressing environmental issues. | |||
FSNA | 116 | Cities (Under Construction) | Bernie | Jim | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Mon) | Through lecture, discussion, textual analysis, computer simulations, and writing assignments, gain a deeper understanding of remaking and sustaining the built environment. | |||
FSNA | 120 | The Impact of Materials on Society | Peter | Lagerlof | MWF 3.00-3.50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine the impact of engineering materials on societal development through human history using a few specific materials of interest as examples: concrete, steel, and semi-conductors. | |||
FSNA | 120 | The Impact of Materials on Society | James | McGuffin-Cawley | TuTh 8.30-9.45 (4th Hour – Mon) | Examine the impact of engineering materials on societal development through human history using a few specific materials of interest as examples: concrete, steel, and semi-conductors. | |||
FSNA | 124 | The Challenge of Sustainability | John | Ruhl | TuTh 8:30-9:45 (4th Hour – Wed) | This course will review some of the current and future impacts of environmental changes, and explore alternate paths forward and how they might be forged. | |||
FSNA | 128 | Naturally spicy | Rekha | Srinivasan | MWF 2:00-2:50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Understand the influence spices and the spice trade had on the history, culture, and cuisines of different parts of the world and explore the chemistry of active components of spices and their health benefits. | |||
FSNA | 129 | Engineering design for the World’s Poorest | Dan | Lacks | TuTh 1:15-2:30 (4th Hour – Wed) | Address ways that engineering solutions can improve peoples’ lives within these severe economic constraints. A hands-on component of the course will involve designing and building affordable devices to meet specific needs. | |||
FSNA | 133 | Engineering Innovation and Design | Malcolm | Cooke | TuTh 2:45-4:00 (4th Hour – Wed) | Discover how innovation and design are cornerstones of the engineering profession and are responsible for many of the improvements in the quality of life that have taken place over the last century | |||
FSNA | 133 | Engineering Innovation and Design | Gary | Wnek | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Discover how innovation and design are cornerstones of the engineering profession and are responsible for many of the improvements in the quality of life that have taken place over the last century | |||
FSNA | 134 | Fuel Cells | Bob | Savinell | MW 4:00-5:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Study and critically analyze the prospects, technical and economic barriers, and impact of broad implementation of fuel cells, focusing on the transportation sector and portable power. | |||
FSNA | 135 | Introduction to BioDesign | Colin | Drummond | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Wed) | Focus on acquiring and refining the underpinning critical thinking skills needed to identify and articulate unmet clinical patient needs in contemporary healthcare settings. | |||
FSNA | 136 | Saving the World from Poverty, Disease, Injustice and Environmental Exploitation | Andrew | Rollins | MWF 2:00-2:50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Half of the world’s population lives in poverty. Through reading, analysis, writing, and rigorous discussion the class will investigate issues surrounding poverty and disparities in health and opportunity. | |||
FSNA | 144 | Is Mind what the brain does? | Lee | Thompson | MWF 2:00-2:50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Explore neurological and psychological case studies, empirical research studies, direct experimentation, and readings and films about brain structure and function, to form hypotheses about the relationship between the mind and the brain | |||
FSNA | 145 | Hostile Waters | Aaron | Jennings | MWF 3.00-3.50 (4th Hour Mon) | This course will examine how historical “hostile water” events such as floods, storms and hurricanes have altered our social perceptions and legal institutions. | |||
FSNA | 150 | Hobbies – Engineering Fun | Jeff | Capadona | TuTh 2:45-4:00 (4th Hour – Mon) | Work under the instructors’ guidance to analyze how principles of engineering can be used to understand the successes and failures they have encountered in their own hobbies. | |||
FSNA | 154 | The Green Energy Transformation in Germany | Peter | Yang | MWF 2.00-2.50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Consider the ongoing energy revolution in Germany driven by technological advances in renewable energy and energy efficiency. | |||
FSNA | 155 | The Engineering of Things | Francis | Merat | MWF 2.00-2.50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine what engineers do, the skills needed to be successful in engineering and many other professions, how some things work, and how to actually design and build something. | |||
FSNA | 156 | The Chemistry, Physics and Engineering of Chocolate | David | Schiraldi | MW 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Investigate the science of chocolate, and learn the engineering behaviors of other materials, especially polymers … as well as fully considering chocolate’s other virtues. | |||
FSNA | 157 | Plastics Recycling: Re-use of Plastic Waste | John | Blackwell | MWF 11.30-12.20 (4th Hour – Mon) | Address the scientific, economic, environmental, and political issues involved in plastics recycling. | |||
FSNA | 158 | Making and Manufacturing Today |
Jeffrey Lisa |
Duerk Camp |
TuTh 8:30-9:45 (4th Hour – Wed) | Through both a hands-on and historical approach, this course will explore the commonalities between today’s makers and yesterday’s manufacturers, and arrive at an understanding of innovation. | |||
FSNA | 159 | Nanotechnology in Medicine: The Fantastic Voyage | Anirban | Sen Gupta | TuTh 1.15-2.30 (4th Hour – Mon) | Examine the scientific, engineering, ethical, economic, and social implications of current and future applications of nanotechnology. | |||
FSNA | 160 | Technological Development and Popular Perception | Richard | Bachmann | MWF 2.00-2.50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Discuss how to characterize the basic physical principles at work in the design of automobiles, airplanes and electricity generation, and see how popular opinion can affect the adoption or abandonment of sound technology. | |||
FSNA | 161 | Making Sense of Place | Eric | Chilton | MW 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Examine how concepts of space and place affect the way we interact with the physical environment and with each other. | |||
FSSO | 119 | Philanthropy in America | Barbara | Burgess-Van Aken | MWF 2.00-2.50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Conduct a broad but intellectual inquiry into the systems and ethics of giving time and money to charitable causes. | |||
FSSO | 120 | Social Policy | Brian | Gran | TuTh 1:15-2:30 (4th Hour – Wed) | In this class, we will examine different conceptualizations and measures of poverty. We will then examine short-term and long-term poverty experiences and their potential consequences. | |||
FSSO | 123 | Ten Developments that are Shaking This World | Elliot | Posner | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | An introduction to some of the most important global developments of our times, examined through political, historical, economic, cultural, sociological, scientific and ethical lenses. | |||
FSSO | 128-100 | Movers and Shakers: Leadership | Anita | Howard | TuTh 2.45-4.00 (4th Hour – Wed) | Explore the socio-emotional and motivational characteristics of effective leaders and their ability to create positive change. | |||
FSSO | 128-101 | Movers and Shakers: Leadership | Anita | Howard | TuTh 4.30-5.45 (4th Hour – Wed) | Explore the socio-emotional and motivational characteristics of effective leaders and their ability to create positive change. | |||
FSSO | 137 | Telling War Stories | Jim | Sheeler | MWF 2:00-2:50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Analyze tales of wartime through the journalists and historians who have learned to listen and the people who lived the stories behind the words. | |||
FSSO | 143-100 | Living With and Making Decisions Concerning Injustice | Barbara | Clemenson | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine how people live and make decisions when they are perpetrating, enduring, or fighting injustice. | |||
FSSO | 143-101 | Living With and Making Decisions Concerning Injustice | Barbara | Clemenson | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine how people live and make decisions when they are perpetrating, enduring, or fighting injustice. | |||
FSSO | 146 | The Past and Future in Art: Architecture and Museums in Cleveland | Henry | Adams | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | What makes a great city? How can the artistic and cultural life of a great city be developed and sustained? How can the social and economic collapse of a great city be reversed? | |||
FSSO | 149 | Creativity in the Arts, Sciences and Engineering | Sandra | Russ | TuTh 2.45-4.00 (4th Hour – Mon) | What are the similarities and differences in the creative process in the three different broad fields of the arts, sciences and engineering? |
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FSSO | 151 | Border Crossings | Kristine | Kelly | MWF 3.00-3.50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Explore how individuals, including ourselves, define themselves in personal, local, and national contexts and how we redefine ourselves and our world as we cross geographical borders. | |||
FSSO | 152 | Decision Making in Everyday Life | Jennifer | Butler | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Wed) | Use a multi-disciplinary approach to decision making, including topics such as personality factors, incentive-based decision making, cognitive biases, automatic information processing, and theories of mind | |||
FSSO | 157 | Being in Touch: Animal and Human Considerations | Susan | Ludington | MW 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Refine skills of critical thinking and reading, listening, learning. writing and verbal presentation while considering the topic of touch. | |||
FSSO | 158 | The Symphony Orchestra |
Eric | Charnofsky | TuTh 2:45-4:00 (4th Hour – Wed) | Using the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra as a paradigm, this seminar will examine the role of the orchestra in ascertaining a city’s cultural health. | |||
FSSO | 159 | Gender and Adolescence | Renee | Sentilles | TuTh 1.15-2.30 (4th Hour – Wed) | This course explores the creation and depictions of adolescence in the United States as a means of understanding how such ideologies becomes naturalized. | |||
FSSO | 160 | Brazil Inside Out | Katia | Almeida | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Wed) | An academic and experiential introduction to Brazil’s history, society, and culture from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. | |||
FSSO | 161 | The Craft of Cloth: Textile Production Since the Industrial Revolution | Erika | Olbricht | MWF 2.00-2.50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Consider the human relationships and institutions that support the production of textiles and cloth (especially silk and cotton) and how they create global and local economies that influence social organization. | |||
FSSO | 164 | Social Change, Genes and Environment | Dale | Dannefer | TuTh 4.30-5.45 (4th Hour – Wed) | Consider the wide and future implications of gene-environment interactions for politics, the economy, and culture. | |||
FSSO | 165 | Intersections of Inequality | Camille | Warner | TuTh 10.00-11.15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Analyze and critique social institutions, belief systems, and practices that promote inequality and social justice through data-based dialogue and writing | |||
FSSO | 171 | Prediction | Justin | Buchler | MWF 11:30 -12:20 (4th Hour – Mon) | An interdisciplinary examination of predictions about social events, how we make them, why they go wrong, and how we respond. | |||
FSSO | 172 | Muslims in South Asia | Anaya | Dasgupta | TuTh 4:30-5:45 (4th Hour – Wed) | What variety of religious practices and traditions of debate characterize Muslims in South Asia? | |||
FSSO | 173 | Attitudes in Jazz | Paul | Ferguson | MW 9.00-1.015 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine the history of the development of jazz, what makes the music so important in American culture, and some of the reasons why, despite this importance, few people listen to it anymore. | |||
FSSO | 174 | Smartphones: Bane or Boon? | Michael | Kenney | TuTh 8.30-9.45 (4th Hour – Mon) | Consider ways we can use technology for effective communication, personal growth and professional development while reflecting on the impact of technological tools on our personal and social interactions. | |||
FSSO | 176 | Savor: The Ethics and Politics of Eating | Narcisz | Fejes | TuTh 4.30-15.45 (4th Hour – Mon) | Examine the environmental and social consequences of our food choices by interrogating both our individual habits as well as current (often controversial) food policy issues. | |||
FSSO | 177 | Urban Renewal in Cleveland | Matt | Feinberg | MW 9.00-10.15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Investigate how the arts have contributed to the physical rehabilitation of some of Cleveland’s most popular neighborhoods like Tremont, Ohio City, Collinwood, and University Circle. | |||
FSSO | 178 | Crafting Your Own Freedom | Jeremy | Bendik-Keymer | TuTh 10:00-11:15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Work as in a laboratory to style your lives critically, articulating stratagems and ideals of liberation | |||
FSSY | 112-100 | Shakespeare – Still a hit | Marshall | Leitman | TuTh 1:15-2:30 (4th Hr – Tue 4.30-5.15) | Students will read approximately six Shakespeare plays, including at least one history, comedy, and tragedy. In addition, they will view at least one film version or adaptation of each play. | |||
FSSY | 112-101 | Shakespeare – Still a hit | Marshall | Leitman | TuTh 2:45-4:00 (4th Hr – Tue 4.30-5.15) | Students will read approximately six Shakespeare plays, including at least one history, comedy, and tragedy. In addition, they will view at least one film version or adaptation of each play. | |||
FSSY | 154 | The Imagination Project | Brad | Ricca | TuTh 4.30-5.45 (4th Hour – Mon) | Look at how the imagination has been understood by various thinkers and artists, and we will consider how the physical world interacts with the imagination in stories, music, film, and scientific ideas. | |||
FSSY | 157 | Pursuits of Happiness | Michael | Householder | MW 9:00-10:15 (4th Hour – Wed) | What is happiness? Why is it so important for us to pursue it, but so hard to retain? | |||
FSSY | 162 | The Mind of the Warrior | Cristián | Gómez | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Mon) | Understand the origins and representation of traditional martial arts through movies, novels, and comics. | |||
FSSY | 166 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Marie | Lathers | MWF 11:30-12:20 (4th Hour – Mon) | Explore Hugo’s intentions in writing this novel, its place in 19th-century French literature, and why it continues to capture the imaginations of readers today | |||
FSSY | 167 | Films and Novels about 9/11 | Thrity | Umrigar | TuTh 1:15-2:30 (4th Hour – Wed) | How do novels and movies influence our cultural and political understanding of the epochal events of 9-11? | |||
FSSY | 168 | Fly Fishing: The Sport, the Metaphysics, and the Literature | John | Orlock | MW 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Wed) | Examine the appeal and cultural significance of fly fishing, especially as a site for understanding an individual’s relationship to the natural world. | |||
FSSY | 169 | What’s in a Face? | Maggie | Popkin | MWF 3:00-3:50 (4th Hour – Wed) | Explore how portraits, from statues of political leaders to selfies, mediate how we construct power relations, fame, and even group and individual identities. | |||
FSSY | 171 | Gender and Seclusion: Exploring the Women’s Quarters | Lisa | Nielson | TuTh 4.00-5.15 (4th Hour – Mon) | Study the harem as a real and symbolic locale in the Eastern and Western imagination, exam similar questions related to diversity and gender in our contemporary culture. | |||
FSSY | 173 | Fictions of Empire | Suhaan | Mehta | MWF 11.30-12.20 (4th Hour – Mon) | Examine different fictional texts that highlight the human cost of building and sustaining different empires in the twentieth century. | |||
FSSY | 175 | God and the American Writer | Scott | Dill | MWF 3.00-3.50 (4th Hour – Mon) | Discuss the ways American writers have created and critiqued the religious value of individuality, as well as how the category of “personal experience” can both hinder and help us in understanding American culture. |
UNIVERSITY SEMINARS
USNA | 211 | Einstein, Space and Time | Jeff | Kriessler | TuTh 1.15-2.30 | Explore the profound changes in our conception of space and time brought about by Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity. | |||
USNA | 226 | Evolution of Human Behavior | Marianne | Reeves | TuTh 8.30-9.45 | Review the history of evolutionary theories of mind and behavior, as well as current ideas about the ecological and genetic components of behavior. | |||
USNA | 249 | Restoring the Great Lakes: Opportunities and Challenges | Glenn | Odenbrett | TuTh 4.30-5.45 | Focus on the issues and methods of restoring the Great Lakes, with particular emphasis on public action and decision-making processes. |
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USNA | 262 | How I Learned to Love the Bomb | Amy | Absher | MW 9.00-10.15 | Understand the work of the scientists who developed the atomic bomb, as well as their motivations, travails, internal conflicts, and the ramifications of their achievement. |
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USNA | 287G | Genes, Genomes and Society | Helen | Salz | MW 12.30-1.45 | Explore the science behind the news and discuss the philosophical, ethical and societal concerns raised by advances such as GM crops, genetic testing, personalized medicine, and issues of genetic privacy. | |||
USNA | 287H | Plants in Medicine | Erika | Olbricht | MWF 10.30-11.20 | Investigate how plants are used medicinally through time, and come to understand the cultures that used them and how they conceived of health in relationship to nature | |||
USNA | 287P | Women and Science: Changing Paradigms | Barbara | Burgess-Van Aken | MW 4.00-5.15 | Examine the scientific evidence that has supported assumptions about gender in various philosophical paradigms from the Enlightenment philosophy to the postmodernist era. | |||
USNA | 287T | Conflicts and Controversies in American Science and Technology | Peter | Shulman | TuTh 1:15-2:30 | Explore how changes in science and technology affect American life, and how cultural ideas shape scientific practice. | |||
USNA | 288I | Beyond Silicon Valley | Michael | Goldberg | TuTh 10.00-11.15 | Explore how communities around the world support entrepreneurship, and learn about the rapidly developing field of online learning and MOOCs. |
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USNA | 288J | Sustainable Energy: Resources, Technologies and Impact | Alexis | Abramson | TuTh 11.30-12.15 | Evaluate, from a scientific, mathematical and societal perspective, the trade-offs and uncertainties of various energy systems and assess possible solutions. |
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USNA | 288K | Burn, Baby, Burn! | David | Schiraldi | MW 9.00-10.15 | Investigate exactly what happens when materials burn, read about the history of fire and society. |
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USNA | 288L | Future Energy: @home&abroad | Daniel | Scherson | See Main Entry | Investigate means of meeting our energy requirements without jeopardizing the environment or fostering geopolitical conflicts. | |||
USNA | 288M | Spirits and Synapses | Michael | Decker | TuTh 10:00-11:15 | Explore how a basic understanding of neurophysiology helps us understand sleep and its importance for health. | |||
USSO | 203 | Law and Literature | Laura | Tartakoff | TuTh 1.15-2.30 | Focus on law in literature by examining representations of the legal process in poems, plays, short stories, and novels. | |||
USSO | 285I | Spectacle in American Culture | Bernie | Jim | MWF 9.30-10.20 | Understand the power of remarkable visual experiences to awe, entertain, persuade, and create meaning from the colonial period to the present day. | |||
USSO | 285N | Globalization and American Culture | William | Marling | TuTh 2.45-4.00 | This course investigates the role of the US in globalization – Americanization, the resistance of local cultures and the role of American technologies in spreading culturally specific ways of working and behavior | |||
USSO | 286E | Global Tourism | Narcisz | Fejes | TuTh 10.00-11.15 | Gain insight to the motivations of tourists, the inhabitants of the places being visited, and international organizations as well as governments who oversee this industry. | |||
USSO | 286L | Exploring Non Profit Organizations | Barbara | Clemenson | TuTh 11.30-12.45 | This seminar enlightens students concerning the opportunities and challenges faced by non-profit organizations. | |||
USSO | 286V-100 | Management of chronic disease | Amy | Zhang | MW 12.30-1.45 | This course covers substance-based, mind-body, spiritual and social approaches used to manage chronic diseases and promote wellness in various cultural settings. | |||
USSO | 286V-101 | Management of chronic disease | Amy | Zhang | MW 2.00-3.15 | This course covers substance-based, mind-body, spiritual and social approaches used to manage chronic diseases and promote wellness in various cultural settings. | |||
USSO | 287E | Economic, Industrial and Social Trends for the 21st Century | Joao | Maia | TuTh 8.30-9.45 | Develop an educated argument as to whether the US will continue in its prominent leadership role, or whether one or both of the emerging Asian economic powerhouses will become dominant. | |||
USSO | 288Y-100 | The Secret History of Corporate America | Ted | Steinberg | MW 12.30-1.45 | The corporation is the most powerful economic institution of our time. How did it come to reign, and how does its power affect us economically, politically, and socially? | |||
USSO | 288Y-101 | The Secret History of Corporate America | Ted | Steinberg | MW 9.00-10.15 | The corporation is the most powerful economic institution of our time. How did it come to reign, and how does its power affect us economically, politically, and socially? | |||
USSO | 289C | Ethics for the Real World | Susan | Case | MW 9.00-10.15 | Explore sources of personal values and standards of behavior using moral conversations, leading to developing an ethical code to guide decision-making in difficult contexts. | |||
USSO | 289K | Stuggles for Justice in Complex Globalizing Environments | Paul | Hanson | TuTh 10.00-11.15 | This course looks at globalization and justice in two sites – Madagascar and Cleveland, both places in which the professor has done research. | |||
USSO | 290I | Understanding Patient Behavior | Erin | Lavik | TuTh 2.45-4.00 | Using a mix of first-hand accounts and scholarly secondary sources, we will investigate the factors that influence patient psychology and their implications for designing effective, patient-centered treatments. | |||
USSO | 290L | The Big Story of Small Things | Gillian | Weiss | TuTh 1.15-2.30 | Look at ordinary people, prosaic objects, mundane places, single incidents and fleeting moments, and the ways we might interpret micro cases to make sense of macro developments in our world | |||
USSO | 290M | The Effects of Race, Class and Education: A Dialogue on Current Issues | Benjamin | Sperry | MW 3.00-4.15 | Examine the impact of race, class and educational levels in determining how people fare in society, hold workshops and teleconferences with students incarcerated at Lorain Correctional Institution. | |||
USSO | 290N | Perspectives on Dying and Death: Normalizing the Inevitable | Maryjo | Prince-Paul | TuTh 1.15-2.30 | Review the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, cultural, ethical, and economic perspectives of dying in America to create thoughtful and reflective dialogue about dying and death. | |||
USSO | 290P | Is the Audience Listening?: The Ethos of Experiencing Live Music | Christopher | Bagan | TuTh 4.30-5.45 | Make sense of the complex phenomenon of experiencing live music by incorporating perspectives drawn from scholarship, the media and personal experience. | |||
USSY | 249 | Paris: From Revolution to Globalization | Miriam | Levin | MW 12:30-1:45 | Explore the history of Paris as it became the center of French national life, international culture and politics in the 19th century. | |||
USSY | 250 | Medical Narrative | Athena | Vrettos | TuTh 11.30-12.45 | This course examines the narrative conventions that have been used to understand and communicate the experience of illness. | |||
USSY | 287X | Paris in the Arts | Annie | Pecastaings | MW 9.00-10.15 | Paris has been a favorite subject for visual artists and writers alike. This course explores the broader relationship between art, the city, and the plight of modern man. | |||
USSY | 288Y | Investigating Crime Films | Terri | Mester | TuTh 2.45-4.00 | By identifying, collecting, analyzing and interpreting evidence, we’ll investigate what makes the crime genre so enduring. | |||
USSY | 289A | Do We Have Free Will? | William | Deal | MW 12.30-1.45 | Use classic and contemporary texts, taken from multiple cultural traditions, to explore the problem of free will and related issues of body/mind dualism and personal identity. | |||
USSY | 289Y | Reading and Writing Biography | Brad | Ricca | TuTh 10.00-11.15 | Study important and contemporary biographies, and learn how researchers build a narrative that tells a story of a life in a way that engages with important issues of self, audience, and the location of truth. | |||
USSY | 290N | Django Chained | Amy | Absher | MW 3.00-4.15 | Join the historical narrative with the science fiction narratives of Octavia Butler to arrive at a deeper understanding of the human experience of subjugation and oppression. | |||
USSY | 290Q | Great Nineteenth Century Novels | William |
Siebenschuh |
MWF 11.30-12.20 | Read novels by Balzac, Flaubert, Turgenev, and Tolstoy in modern translations, taking our time with them. | |||
USSY | 290U | Poetry for People who Hate Poetry | David | Lucas | TuTh 1.15-2.30 | What can our individual attitudes about poetry reveal about what and whom we value on a cultural scale? | |||
USSY | 291P | Social Justice Literature | Kaysha | Corinealdi | MW 2.00-3.15 | Use selections of poetry, short stories and books by winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as a framework to discuss diversity, social justice and identity. | |||
USSY | 291Q | PR, Spin and Inventing Reality | William | Doll | MW 4.00-5.15 | Explore the origins and uses of P.R. today in business, politics, and popular culture to shape our values, democracy and even the ways we view reality. | |||
USSY | 291R | The Roles of Acquisition | Noelle | Giuffrida Armhold | MWF 11.30-12.20 | Examine the development of museum collections of Asian materials, consider the complex motives museums have had for acquiring them. | |||
USSY | 291S | Control Shift: Making Meaning Across Media | Allison | Schifani | MW 12.30-1.45 | Explore the ways in which communication media (from painting, to print volumes, to websites, to mobile applications) impact, shape, change, and encourage or prohibit certain ways of knowing about the world. | |||
USSY | 291T | Demystifying the Guerrilla Fighter | Kaysha | Corinealdi | MW 5.00-6.15 | Examine some of our assumptions regarding what it means to be a guerrilla fighter, and investigate what this understanding can do for us as we tackle questions of change and possibility. | |||
USSY | 291U | Live Rust: The Industrial Midwest in Art and Culture | David | Lucas | TuTh 4.30-5.45 | Seek to understand the socioeconomic conditions from which the Rust Belt rose, fell, and address the history of the region and present efforts to remake it. | |||
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