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This course will explore both the history and science of the brain as told through tales of trauma, mental illness, and remarkable healing. We will begin our tour of the brain as storytellers, diving

This course proposes an experiment: what happens when we look at books that we cannot read? If we can no longer access books through their content, we can instead study books as cultural artifacts, an

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Arts of War is an introduction to military history and philosophy, and encourages students to think critically and in an informed fashion about the topic of war. The insights from this class apply t

As experienced navigators of the image-saturated space of social media, members of Gen-Z have a sophisticated understanding of how beauty standards in our visual culture influence our self-perception.

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This course will explore an Africanist worldview by interrogating dance, power, and privilege in America. Over a series of directed readings, videos, lecture-discussions, master classes and a live per

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Blood, Babies, and Chainsaws: Gender in/As Horror" will orient students to a variety of critical approaches—literary, anthropological, historical, sociological—on the study of gender in a genre (t

Have you ever wondered why someone is involved with the criminal justice system? How did they get there? What barriers exist to escaping the criminal justice system? Where do we disrupt these injustic

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The description for this course is forthcoming. This course is eligible for honors credit through the Hutton Honors College.

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Paris in the late 19th century was the site of a cultural and political revolution that created the world we live in today. War, bloody battles between the classes, and an on-going struggle over the r

The course will examine the connections between the biology of epidemics, human responses, and economic consequences. We will consider questions like: What are the direct economic consequences of epid

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What does one wear to a climate emergency? This course asks you to more carefully consider: What does what you wear mean for citizens, communities, nations, the planet and you? Environmentally, the f

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In this course students will explore the communication of identity as it relates to culture, throughout history and today, through the lens of fashion and dress. Readings and discussion will cover top

Are you concerned about the environment? Do you recognize the urgent need to address global poverty? Are you curious about international development and finance? This is the course for you. In 201

The essential question of this course is: Why do people eat what they eat? In an effort to answer this question, we will examine a variety of economic, ecological, sociological and political dimension

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The United States can seem like a very confusing place to international students and visitors. If Americans are supposed to be oriented to progress and the future, why do they seem obsessed with the W

This course critically analyzes select cases from the United States Supreme Court’s First Amendment jurisprudence and contemporary free speech issues. Some of these issues relate directly or indirec

Who doesn't want to be a Happy Hoosier! In this course, we will investigate the role that nature and the heritage - the world we live in - plays in health and happiness. We will investigate human hea

Our ultimate goal in this course will be to design successful interventions to reduce harmful aggressive behavior in our society. To accomplish this end goal, we will need to develop a thorough unders

We spend our lives trying to get a grasp on "reality", but anyone who has ever seen a rubber pencil, read a Magic-Eye kids book, been tricked by a stage magician's sleight of hand, or watched a blockb

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This course explores the intellectual, cultural, and literary development of the “pre-modern” period through canonical literature, philosophy, drama, and theology from the beginnings of the Common

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What do Jesus, Alexander the Great, and Genghis Khan have in common? In Western popular imagination these important individuals – the emblem of Christianity, the founder of a vast Greek Empire, and

Language is a quintessential aspect of human life. How we think and act to a great extent relies on the language we use. This course introduces the cognitive processes underlying human language and u

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Do you feel that? That's the powerful hand of culture, poking you with a pointed finger, reminding you that it's time to leave your youth behind and become--gasp--an adult. But even as it prods you

Music is pervasive in our lives, and not just for trained musicians. Consider some of the contexts in which we encounter music: ceremonies and rituals, social gatherings, private listening, formal pe

In 2011, the famous Puerto Rican band Calle 13 released the song “Latinoamérica”, an epic piece that not only skyrocketed the transnational popularity of the band, but that became somewhat of

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In the film The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist by profession, is also a cannibalistic serial killer and a psychopath. In A Clockwork Orange, Alex is a teenage sociopath

Queer activism about public issues sometimes strives to persuade audiences in mainstream ways. Sometimes, however, queer activism is more radical about love, family, political organization, and commun

This course examines  (A) The domains of human rationality: belief acquisition, inference, and actions; (B) The deductive method of inference, translations, and basic concepts (C) Some prevalent f

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Judges, lawyers, policy makers and others who work in and with the law have a tough job. They must often wade into the most controversial topics on sex and reproductive rights, medical decision making

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As a STEM+Social Science course, Social Simulations offers an integrated learning journey to develop a solid foundation in three domains that you can readily apply to many majors: social science, c

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How can we learn to be more effective innovators? What exactly makes a technology innovative? What is the process for taking a technological innovation and building a financially viable startup based

Stories and storytelling are as old as mankind. Stories sustain us, we tell them, we live through them. Stories are an integral part of identity building and shape our understanding of events. Stories

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We will begin the course by virtually exploring the beautiful country of Iceland and its people. Icelanders have consistently ranked in the top 5 of the world’s happiest people, even after being on

We are surrounded by media in our modern world. But what is it about some streaming shows that make them really binge-worthy. What gets you so excited when you play your favorite video game? How does

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The past couple of decades have seen a spike in portrayals of Vikings in a variety of media from television and movies to comic books, manga, and video games. But who were the Vikings? Do the images o

Over the last few decades, growing calls for compulsory education have ensured that nearly 1 billion children are enrolled in schools worldwide. In the U.S., young children spend, on average, 180 days

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Statistics are awesome; seriously. This course is designed to introduce students to the style of analytic thinking required for conducting research in the social sciences, the methods used in the cond

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We all like music. The goal of this course is to talk about why. My primary objective is to introduce you to the study of music through the fundamental vocabulary of music, outlining the most critica

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Together we can ruin the world or make it better. The purpose of politics is said to be the latter – to enable us to care for interests that we share in common and foster effective citizenship throu

The birds and the bees do it, so do octopuses, dolphins, kittens, humans, and maybe even dinosaurs. It’s an essential drive across many species, is culturally important, and too often missing from y

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