Fall 2023 Course Descriptions
HC101H - Dogs, Past and Present
Professor: Lisa Wolverton
4.00 credits
CRN 12213: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201
CRN 12214: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201
As workers and companions, dogs have shared human history virtually from its origins. For dogs, the first domesticated animals, human society has always been their natural habitat. Understanding dogs therefore requires analyzing their relationships to and meaning for people. Read more
HC101H - U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Professor: Tobin Hansen
4.00 credits
CRN 12215: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 202
CRN12234: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 201
This course examines the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. We will question how borders separate, bring together, and thicken across nations, states, cultures, and geographic territories—and how these processes operate at the U.S.-Mexico border and in the broader borderlands. Read more
HC101H - The Garden and the Wall
Professor: Gantt Gurley
4.00 credits
CRN 12217: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201
CRN 12223: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201
Perhaps the most ubiquitous allegory in all of world literature is the garden, the locus amoenus, a concept that is often synonymous with paradise. The garden is both a metaphor of humankind’s contemplation and a location of human activity. Read more
HC101H - The Art and Science of Human Flourishing
Professor: Kate Mondloch
4.00 credits
CRN 12219: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201
CRN 12226: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201
For millennia, cultures have contemplated the question of human “flourishing:” an existence filled with deep satisfaction, well-being, resilience, and accomplishment. Read more
HC101H - Symmetry
Professor: Lindsay Hinkle
4.00 credits
CRN 12220: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 202
The symmetry of a pattern provides visual interest. The symmetry of a molecule affects its function. But what does it really mean to be symmetric or to have symmetry? Read more
HC101H - Making Space for Our Stories: Immigrant and Refugee Experiences of Coming to America
Professor: Yalda Asmatey
4.00 credits
CRN 12222: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ GSH 130
CRN 12227: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ MCK 123
This first-year seminar is an exploration of the depth and power of storytelling in our lives. The course will specifically look at graphic memoirs as creative and immersive experiences that share unique stories that all too often are suppressed, ignored, and devalued. Read more
HC101H - Global Problems of the 21st Century
Professor: Ellen Fitzpatrick
4.00 credits
CRN 12224: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 301
CRN 12236: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 301
This is an interdisciplinary exploration of 21st century global problems and opportunities. Read more
HC101H - Down the Rabbit Hole
Professor: Brian McWhorter & Lisa Munger
4.00 credits
CRN 12225: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202
In the opening chapter of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Alice’s riverbank reverie is interrupted by a white rabbit, anxiously muttering and checking its pocket watch as it hurries past. Read more
HC101H - Artificial Intelligence: The Culture of Minds and Machines
Professor: Casey Shoop
4.00 credits
CRN 12228: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 220
CRN 12229: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick’s titular question frames the concerns of this course on the relationship between minds and machines. Read more
HC101H - Poetry of Black Liberation
Professor: Courtney Thorsson
4.00 credits
CRN 12231: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ PLC 361
In this course, we will study poems about figures in the long struggle for Black liberation in the United States. Read more
HC101H - Media Unfiltered: What the Mass Media Should and Shouldn't Do
Professor: Nicole Dahmen
4.00 credits
CRN 12232: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ ANS 192
The mass media are one of the most powerful and pervasive institutions in our society, and it is paramount that we have a foundational knowledge of how mass media functions and how to take a critical lens to mass media content. Read more
HC101H - Misinformation
Professor: Nicole Dudukovic
4.00 credits
CRN 12233: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202
This course examines misinformation from an interdisciplinary, liberal arts perspective. Read more
HC221H - "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead": Narratives of Retribution and Revenge
Professor: Ulrick Casimir
4.00 credits
CRN 12238: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 202
CRN 12242: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ MCK 122
Focused on both narrative readings (mostly poetry, drama, and short fiction) and films, this course concerns how different cultures, over time, have examined through narrative the mechanics, potentialities, limitations, and consequences of retribution and revenge. Read more
HC221H - 12,000 Colors
Professor: Christopher Michlig
4.00 credits
CRN 12239: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 301
12,000 Colors is a transhistorical, interdisciplinary survey of color - this class will explore a constellation of scientific, theoretical, and cultural developments that shape our past, present, and future relationship to color. Read more
HC221H - Epic Influences: Poetry, Leadership, and You
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
4.00 credits
CRN 12241: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ CHA 301
Epic rules! In this course, we are sleuths, investigating the case for and evidence of the questionable theory that poetry is an instrumental aspect of leadership. Read more
HC221H - Music and Meaning
Professor: Lydia Van Dreel
4.00 credits
CRN 12243: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ ANS 192
In this seminar, we will explore music as a function of culture. Students will have the opportunity to learn how music expresses community and belonging, storytelling, mood and place, spirituality, individualism, counterculture, rebellion, and political discourse. Read more
HC231H - Oral Advocacy and Argument
Professor: Trond Jacobsen
4.00 credits
CRN 12246: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ LIB 041
This course teaches students the foundations of effective public speaking, the properties and structures that make oral arguments strong or weak, and the strategies and techniques that make speakers persuasive when engaging varied audiences. Read more
HC231H - Islam and Muslims in the US
Professor: Yalda Asmatey
4.00 credits
CRN 12249: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201
In this course, we will critically study the intersectionality of the production of Muslim otherness and we will find that as a construct, it is not unique once compared to the experiences of other racial, ethnic or religious communities throughout the U.S. and Europe. Read more
HC231H - Civil Rights in Higher Education
Professor: Jessica Price
4.00 credits
CRN 15402: Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-5:50pm @ ANS 195
Through a series of readings, guided discussions, and student-generated analysis of caselaw, this course examines the evolving standards of civil rights in higher education. Read more
HC231H - Native American Languages
Professor: Justin Spence
4.00 credits
CRN 12248: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 131
North America has always been home to an incredible amount of linguistic diversity, with an estimated 500 languages spoken in the region before the arrival of Europeans. This course provides students with a broad introduction to Native American languages, with special emphasis on languages of Oregon, California, and Washington. Read more
HC241H - Unusual Oceanographic Events
Professor: Lisa Munger
4.00 credits
CRN 12251: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ ED 276
CRN 12253: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202
In order to understand what is unusual, one must first understand what is “usual”. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of oceanography and data analysis via exploration of online data sets, readings from scientific literature, short analytical assignments, and other activities. Read more
HC241H - The Science of Learning and Memory
Professor: Nicole Dudukovic
4.00 credits
CRN 12254: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 130
Our memories shape our identities and give meaning to our lives, yet they are not always as reliable as we would like. In this course, we will explore the successes and failures of our memories by examining key concepts, theories, and methodological approaches for studying human learning and memory. Read more
HC241H - Making Mistakes and Creating Catastrophes
Professor: Robert Mauro
4.00 credits
CRN 12255: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ PETR 102
Overview In this course, we will apply physiology, psychology, and system design principles to analyzing accidents and making sense of mishaps to learn how to prevent problems and improve decisions. Read more
HC241H - Science of Climate Change
Professor: Jeffrey Cina
4.00 credits
CRN 12250: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ ANS 192
This reading and discussion-based course will delve into the science of human-caused climate change due to the widespread combustion of fossil fuels for energy, heating, and transportation. Read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Paty
Professor: Carol Paty
2.00 credits
CRN 12262: Monday, 10:00-11:20am @ CON 330
Thesis Orientation is two-credit class (graded pass/no pass) that introduces CHC students to the thesis process. The CHC thesis is the culmination of work in a major—a natural outgrowth from and expression of the ideas, problems, and approaches taught in that particular discipline or field of study. Read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Dudukovic
Professor: Nicole Dudukovic
2.00 credits
CRN 12264: Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ FEN 117
Thesis Orientation is two-credit class (graded pass/no pass) that introduces CHC students to the thesis process. The CHC thesis is the culmination of work in a major—a natural outgrowth from and expression of the ideas, problems, and approaches taught in that particular discipline or field of study. Read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Hinkle
Professor: Lindsay Hinkle
2.00 credits
CRN 12266: Tuesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ GSH 103
Thesis Orientation is two-credit class (graded pass/no pass) that introduces CHC students to the thesis process. The CHC thesis is the culmination of work in a major—a natural outgrowth from and expression of the ideas, problems, and approaches taught in that particular discipline or field of study. Read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Feddersen
Professor: Jesse Feddersen
2.00 credits
CRN 12261: Tuesday, 10:00-11:20am @ MCK 471
Thesis Orientation is two-credit class (graded pass/no pass) that introduces CHC students to the thesis process. The CHC thesis is the culmination of work in a major—a natural outgrowth from and expression of the ideas, problems, and approaches taught in that particular discipline or field of study. Read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Altman
Professor: Rebecca Altman
2.00 credits
CRN 12263: Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ FEN 105
Thesis Orientation is two-credit class (graded pass/no pass) that introduces CHC students to the thesis process. The CHC thesis is the culmination of work in a major—a natural outgrowth from and expression of the ideas, problems, and approaches taught in that particular discipline or field of study. Read more
HC301H - Research Methods in Environmental Studies and Sustainability
Professor: Ellen Fitzpatrick
4.00 credits
CRN 12269: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 301
Sustainability is a term that has been overused and co-opted to mean whatever the user wants it to mean. Read more
HC301H - How Universities Work
Professor: Ian McNeely
4.00 credits
CRN 12270: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ ED 176
Universities are complex, fascinating, ancient institutions, yet those of us who study, work, and live in universities typically spend little time investigating how they function. Read more
HC301H - Beneath the Surface Science
Professor: Rebecca Altman
4.00 credits
CRN 12271: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ LIB 322
CRN 12268: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ VOL 101
Surfaces are avenues for change. From the technology of our touchscreen devices to the evolution of our biological membranes, surface science determines how we relate to and manipulate our world. Read more
HC301H - The Art of the Interview and Writing News Profiles
Professor: Dave Austin
4.00 credits
CRN 12274: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 202
One of the most engaging and artful ways to bring someone to life is through profile writing. Read more
HC421H - Slime and Sliminess
Professor: Christopher Michlig
4.00 credits
CRN 12283: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ LA 143
What is slime? We are well acquainted with its qualities in conjunction with certain things from which we tend to recoil but to which we are also at times fervently attracted. Read more
HC444H/421H - Latine Testimonios
Professor: Catalina de Onís
4.00 credits
CRN 12284: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 301
Latine Testimonios centers on experiences, narratives, and reflections that communicate embodied knowledges and relationships. This “theory in the flesh” can challenge oppressive systems and structures, while also creating interconnections among peoples who are disproportionately harmed by extractivist logics and practices (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1981).Read more
HC421H - Emerson and Einstein, Interdisciplinary Artist Activists: An Inquiry into Genius
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
4.00 credits
CRN 12285: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:00-9:50am @ CHA 301
Poetry and science merge, converge, blur, and blend in this study of genius that rocked—and still rocks—our world. Bursting and bending disciplines, joyously defying definitions of field--Einstein the scientist playing the violin and encouraging humanities, Emerson the poet urging study of science and history. Read more
HC421H - Inside-Out Prison Exchange: The Ethics of Ambiguity, Studies in Fiction and Narrative Medicine
Professor: Dawn Marlan
4.00 credits
CRN 12286: Tuesday, 6:00-8:30pm @ LIB 322
This course is open only to CHC students. An an application and instructor approval are required to register for this course. If you are not familiar with the Inside-Out Program, please check out the information on the Honors College website here: http://honors.uoregon.edu/story/inside-out-prison-exchange-program and watch the Inside-Out documentary here: https://uoprisoned.org/inside-out. Students may only take one Inside-Out class in a given term. However, given the limited spaces available, students are encouraged to apply to multiple sections if their schedule allows.
Institutions manage and process people. Medicine, like many institutions, tends to define people in terms of their problems – disease, drugs, mental illness. Fiction inverts this structure, seeing character as something that transcends problems. Read more
HC421H - Written on the Body: Exploring Embodiment through Creative Nonfiction
Professor: Brian Trapp
4.00 credits
CRN 16103: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ PET 107
In this seminar/creative nonfiction workshop, you’ll (1) explore how creative nonfiction authors write the body in contemporary literature and (2) write and workshop your own embodied creative nonfiction. You’ll explore how embodiment intersects with identity in its many forms: race, ability, gender, and sexuality. Read more
HC421H - Book Love
Professor: Mai-Lin Cheng
4.00 credits
CRN 16108: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ GSH 132
In this course, we will analyze the connections between reading and writing as we explore what "book love" means...Read more
HC431H - Labor Organizing and the Struggle for Justice at Work
Professor: Gordon Lafer
4.00 credits
CRN 12288: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 301
This is an interdisciplinary course that will ask students to examine the dynamics of power relations in the workplace and introduce them to labor organizing. Read more
HC431H - Eighteenth-Century Things: Material Cultures of the Enlightenment
Professor: Daniel Rosenberg
4.00 credits
CRN 12289: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ GSH 132
The mundane objects of our world—the things we write with, eat with, play with—structure our every experience. They also reveal our interests, conflicts, and values. Read more
HC434H/431H - To Eat, or Not to Eat: Humans’ Complex Relationship with Animals
Professor: Hannah Cutting-Jones
4.00 credits
CRN 12293: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202
In what ways did our dependence on animals make us human? How did domestication, urbanization, industrialization, and organized religion change our relationship to animals and the natural world? Read more
HC441H - Volcanoes and Human History
Professor: Kathy Cashman
4.00 credits
CRN 12296: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ GSH 131
This course will introduce the topic of volcanology to non-specialists by viewing iconic volcanic eruptions of the past through the lenses of both the people who experienced these events and the scientists who studied them. Read more
HC441H - The Cyrosphere: Ice's Role in the Climate System
Professor: Dave Sutherland
4.00 credits
CRN 12300: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 202
The general public is faced daily with images from the cryosphere, whether it is a polar bear floating on a sea ice floe to a tidewater glacier calving off enormous chunks of ice. Read more
HC441H - Physics & Sports
Professor: Stanley Micklavzina
4.00 credits
CRN 12297: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ PSC B040
Sports do not require detailed knowledge of physics - athletes are able to make rapid judgements and accurate predictions about complex physical systems without the use of equations or computational analysis. Likewise, physics does not require athleticism nor even an appreciation of sports. Read more
HC441H - Listening to the Earth – interpreting patterns and extreme events in natural data
Professor: Leif Karlstrom
4.00 credits
CRN 12298: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ TYKE 240
Earth Science is undergoing a data revolution that stands to transform the way we observe and understand the natural world. But along with exciting new discoveries come challenges associated with an onslaught of information – What constitutes good data? Read more
HC444H/421H - Los Angeles and the Dreamlife of American Capitalism
Professor: Casey Shoop
4.00 credits
CRN 12305: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:50pm @ PETR 103
In Los Angeles, as Joan Didion once observed, “the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent. Read more
HC444H/421H - Black Feminist Literature
Professor: Courtney Thorsson
4.00 credits
CRN 12303: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ PLC 184
In this course, we will study works from the vast body of Black feminist literature. Our texts will be by African American women writers, activists, teachers, and intellectuals and will span the late-nineteenth century to the present. Read more
HC444H/431H - Continuing the Search for the Cayuse Five
Professor: Michael Moffitt
CRN 12304: Fridays, 10:00am - 12:50pm @ CHA 202
Note: Registration for this course requires permission of instructor. Please see below for instructions on how to apply.
In 1850, five Cayuse men were hanged and buried in or near Oregon City. Three years earlier, missionary Marcus Whitman and about a dozen others had been killed near Walla Walla, Washington. Read more
HC444H/431H - Decolonizing Knowledge & Power: The Black Radical Tradition as a Counter-Catastrophic Social Science
Professor: George Barganier
4.00 credits
CRN 16420: Friday, 10:00-12:50pm @ Online Synchronous
This is an intensive seminar on the Black Radical Tradition. This course takes a decolonial, transdisciplinary approach to the study of knowledge and power and considers possible modes of intervention to confront the problems around inequality in society. Read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - Casimir
Professor: Ulrick Casimir
2.00 credits
CRN 12306: Monday, 12:00-1:50pm @ MCK 471
CRN 12315: Wednesday, 4:00-5:50pm @ MCK 348
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus requires preauthorization before each term. To obtain preauthorization, you must complete an online Thesis Prospectus Application Form, which will route to your Primary Thesis Advisor for signature. You have the best chance of getting your first choice of H477H section if you submit this information by Friday of Week 6 of the term before you plan to take the course. Read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - de Onís
Professor: Catalina de Onís
2.00 credits
CRN 12307: Tuesday, 10:00-11:50am @ FR 217
CRN 12308: Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ FR 217
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus requires preauthorization before each term. To obtain preauthorization, you must complete an online Thesis Prospectus Application Form, which will route to your Primary Thesis Advisor for signature. You have the best chance of getting your first choice of H477H section if you submit this information by Friday of Week 6 of the term before you plan to take the course. Read more
HC477H - Thesis Orientation - Gallagher
Professor: Daphne Gallagher
2.00 credits
CRN 12310: Tuesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ STB 251
CRN 12313: Wednesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ MCK 345
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus requires preauthorization before each term. To obtain preauthorization, you must complete an online Thesis Prospectus Application Form, which will route to your Primary Thesis Advisor for signature. You have the best chance of getting your first choice of H477H section if you submit this information by Friday of Week 6 of the term before you plan to take the course. Read more
HC477H - Thesis Orientation - Hansen
Professor: Tobin Hansen
2.00 credits
CRN 12312: Mondays, 2:00-3:50pm @ MCK 345
HC 477H Thesis Prospectus requires preauthorization before each term. To obtain preauthorization, you must complete an online Thesis Prospectus Application Form, which will route to your Primary Thesis Advisor for signature. You have the best chance of getting your first choice of H477H section if you submit this information by Friday of Week 6 of the term before you plan to take the course. Read more