These are the classes the Clark Honors College offers through the 2023-24 academic year. Course descriptions for Winter 2024 and Spring 2024 will be available at a later date.
Summer 2023
| Course Number and Name | Credits | Day, Time, Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HC 421H - Thinking Like the Sun: Stellar Knowledge of the Woods, Seeds, Swamps, and Infinity of You | 4 | CRN 41747: Mondays & Tuesdays (August 21 - September 17), 8:00am-12:00pm @ Remote synchronous (zoom) class meetings | Barbara Mossberg |
Fall 2023
| Course Number and Name | Credits | Day, Time, Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| HC 101H - Syzygy: The History and Science of Eclipse | 4 |
CRN 12221: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 301 CRN 12235: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ ANS 193 |
Jesse Feddersen |
| HC 101H - Dogs, Past and Present | 4 |
CRN 12213: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201 CRN 12214: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201 |
Lisa Wolverton |
| HC 101H - U.S.-Mexico Borderlands | 4 |
CRN 12215: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 202 CRN12234: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 201 |
Tobin Hansen |
| HC 101H - The Garden and the Wall | 4 |
CRN 12217: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201 CRN 12223: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201 |
Gantt Gurley |
| HC 101H - The Art and Science of Human Flourishing | 4 |
CRN 12219: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201 CRN 12226: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201 |
Kate Mondloch |
| HC 101H - Symmetry | 4 | CRN 12220: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 202 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 101H - Making Space for Our Stories: Immigrant and Refugee Experiences of Coming to America | 4 |
CRN 12222: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ GSH 130 CRN 12227: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ MCK 123 |
Yalda Asmatey |
| HC 101H - Global Problems of the 21st Century | 4 |
CRN 12224: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 301 CRN 12236: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 301 |
Ellen Fitzpatrick |
| HC 101H - Down the Rabbit Hole | 4 | CRN 12225: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202 | Brian McWhorter, Lisa Munger |
| HC 101H - Artificial Intelligence: The Culture of Minds and Machines | 4 |
CRN 12228: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 220 CRN 12229: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201 |
Casey Shoop |
| HC 101H - Poetry of Black Liberation | 4 | CRN 12231: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ ANS 192 | Courtney Thorsson |
| HC 101H - Media Unfiltered: What the Mass Media Should and Shouldn't Do | 4 |
CRN 12232: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CON 104 CRN12230: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ ALL 130 |
Nicole Dahmen |
| HC 101H - Misinformation | 4 | CRN 12233: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202 | Nicole Dudukovic |
| HC 221H - "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead": Narratives of Retribution and Revenge | 4 |
CRN 12238: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 202 CRN 12242: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ MCK 122 |
Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 221H - 12,000 Colors | 4 | CRN 12239: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 301 | Christopher Michlig |
| HC 221H - Epic Influences: Poetry, Leadership, and You | 4 | CRN 12241: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ CHA 301 | Barbara Mossberg |
| HC 221H - Music and Meaning | 4 | CRN 12243: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ ANS 192 | Lydia Van Dreel |
| HC 231H - Oral Advocacy and Argument | 4 | CRN 12246: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ LIB 041 | Trond Jacobsen |
| HC 231H - Islam and Muslims in the US | 4 | CRN 12249: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201 | Yalda Asmatey |
| HC 231H - Civil Rights in Higher Education | 4 | CRN 15402: Monday & Wednesday, 4:30-5:50pm @ ANS 195 | Jessica Price |
| HC 231H - Native American Languages | 4 | CRN 12248: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 131 | Justin Spence |
| HC 241H - Unusual Oceanographic Events | 4 |
CRN 12251: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ ED 276 CRN 12253: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202 |
Lisa Munger |
| HC 241H - The Science of Learning and Memory | 4 | CRN 12254: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 130 | Nicole Dudukovic |
| HC 241H - Making Mistakes and Creating Catastrophes | 4 | CRN 12255: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ PETR 102 | Robert Mauro |
| HC 241H - Science of Climate Change | 4 | CRN 12250: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ ANS 192 | Jeffrey Cina |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12262: Monday, 10:00-11:20am @ CON 330 | Carol Paty |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12264: Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ PLC 184 | Nicole Dudukovic |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12266: Tuesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ GSH 103 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12261: Tuesday, 10:00-11:20am @ MCK 471 | Jesse Feddersen |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12263: Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ FEN 105 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 301H - Research Methods in Environmental Studies and Sustainability | 4 | CRN 12269: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 301 | Ellen Fitzpatrick |
| HC 301H - How Universities Work | 4 | CRN 12270: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ ED 176 | Ian McNeely
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| HC 301H - Beneath the Surface Science | 4 | CRN 12271: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ LIB 322 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 301H - The Art of the Interview and Writing News Profiles | 4 | CRN 12274: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 202 | Dave Austin |
| HC 421H - Slime and Sliminess | 4 | CRN 12283: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ LA 143 | Christopher Michlig |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Latine Testimonios | 4 | CRN 12284: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 301 | Catalina de Onís |
| HC 421H - Emerson and Einstein, Interdisciplinary Artist Activists: An Inquiry into Genius | 4 | CRN 12285: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:00-9:50am @ CHA 301 | Barbara Mossberg |
| HC 421H - Inside-Out Prison Exchange: The Ethics of Ambiguity, Studies in Fiction and Narrative Medicine | 4 | CRN 12286: Tuesday, 6:00-8:30pm @ LIB 322 | Dawn Marlan |
| HC 421H - Written on the Body: Exploring Embodiment through Creative Nonfiction | 4 | CRN 16103: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ PET 107 | Brian Trapp |
| HC 421H - Book Love | 4 | CRN 16108: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ GSH 132 | Mai-Lin Cheng |
| HC 431H - Labor Organizing and the Struggle for Justice at Work | 4 | CRN 12288: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 301 | Gordon Lafer |
| HC 431H - Eighteenth-Century Things: Material Cultures of the Enlightenment | 4 | CRN 12289: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ GSH 132 | Daniel Rosenberg |
| ** HC 434H/431H - To Eat, or Not to Eat: Humans’ Complex Relationship with Animals | 4 | CRN 12293: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202 | Hannah Cutting-Jones |
| HC 441H - Volcanoes and Human History | 4 | CRN 12296: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ GSH 131 | Kathy Cashman |
| HC 441H - The Cyrosphere: Ice's Role in the Climate System | 4 | CRN 12300: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 202 | Dave Sutherland |
| HC 441H - Physics & Sports | 4 | CRN 12297: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ PSC B040 | Stanley Micklavzina |
| HC 441H - Listening to the Earth – interpreting patterns and extreme events in natural data | 4 | CRN 12298: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ TYKE 240 | Leif Karlstrom |
| HC 441H - The Art of Data Manipulation | 4 | CRN 12301: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50pm @ ANS 193 | Rebecca Altman |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Los Angeles and the Dreamlife of American Capitalism | 4 | CRN 12305: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:50pm @ PETR 103 | Casey Shoop |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Black Feminist Literature | 4 | CRN 12303: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ PLC 184 | Courtney Thorsson |
| * HC 444H/431H - Continuing the Search for the Cayuse Five | 4 | CRN 12304: Fridays, 10:00am - 12:50pm @ CHA 202 | Michael Moffitt |
| * HC 444H/431H - Decolonizing Knowledge & Power: The Black Radical Tradition as a Counter-Catastrophic Social Science | 4 | CRN 16420: Friday, 10:00-12:50pm @ Online Synchronous | George Barganier |
| HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus | 2 |
CRN 12306: Monday, 12:00-1:50pm @ MCK 471 CRN 12315: Wednesday, 4:00-5:50pm @ MCK 348 |
Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus | 2 |
CRN 12307: Tuesday, 10:00-11:50am @ FR 217 CRN 12308: Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ FR 217 |
Catalina de Onís |
| HC 477H - Thesis Orientation | 2 |
CRN 12310: Tuesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ STB 251 CRN 12313: Wednesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ MCK 345 |
Daphne Gallagher |
| HC 477H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN 12312: Mondays, 2:00-3:50pm @ MCK 345 | Tobin Hansen |
| HC 477H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | CRN12309: Mondays, 5:00-6:50pm @ Synchronous Online | Brian McWhorter |
Winter 2024
The following courses are tentative and could be subject to change. They will be finalized at a later date.
| Course Number and Name | Credits | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| HC 221H - "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead": Narratives of Retribution and Revenge | 4 | Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 221H - Eco Literature and the Green Imagination | 4 | Barbara Mossberg |
| HC 221H - Disability and Comedy | 4 | Brian Trapp |
| HC 221H - Encounters with God | 4 | Lisa Wolverton |
| + HC 221H/231H - Body Politic and the Art of Perception | 4 | Anita Chari, Kate Mondloch |
| HC 231H - Islam and Muslims in the US | 4 | Yalda Asmatey |
| HC 231H - The Environment, Disease, and Poverty | 4 | Ellen Fitzpatrick |
| HC 231H - Caring for One Another | 4 | Tobin Hansen |
| HC 231H - Oral Advocacy and Argumentation | 4 | Trond Jacobsen |
| HC 231H - Spaces of Modernity | 4 | Daniel Rosenberg |
| HC 241H - Atoms: Mother Nature’s Legos | 4 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 241H - Music to Your Ears: The Science of Song | 4 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 241H - Black Holes: From Fiction to Fact | 4 | Jesse Feddersen |
| HC 241H - Pick Your Poison | 4 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 241H - Neuroscience Perspectives on Drug Policy | 4 | Christina Karns |
| HC 301H - Environmental Racism and Justice | 4 | Catalina de Onís |
| HC 301H - The Interview | 4 | Christopher Michlig |
| HC 301H - Coral Reef Conservation | 4 | Lisa Munger |
| HC 301H - Loot and Forgeries | 4 | Roxann Prazniak |
| HC 301H - Experiential Anatomy and Somatic Therapies | 4 | Lydia Van Dreel |
| HC 421H - Lie to Me: Techniques in Prose Fiction | 4 | Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 421H - Louis Armstrong: The Sound of a Century | 4 | Brian McWhorter |
| HC 421H - Class Picture | 4 | Christopher Michlig |
| HC 421H - Attention and Perception in Contemporary Art | 4 | Kate Mondloch |
| HC 421H - Thinking Like the Sun: Stellar Knowledge of the Woods, Seeds, Swamps, and Infinity of You | 4 | Barbara Mossberg |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Translating Environmental Justice | 4 | Catalina de Onís |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Contemporary Native Theatre: Spinning New Worlds | 4 | Theresa May |
| HC 431H - Designing Sustainable Communities | 4 | Ellen Fitzpatrick |
| HC 431H - Solutions to our Wicked Problems | 4 | Nicole Dahmen |
| HC 431H - Psychology of Facism | 4 | Robert Mauro |
| HC 431H - Out in the Archives: Preserving LGBTQ History | 4 | Judith Raiskin |
| HC 431H - The Story of Inequality in the US | 4 | Ellen Scott |
| ** HC 434H/431H - Europe Today | 4 | Ian McNeely |
| ** HC 434H/431H - Modern Chinese History and the Art of Hung Liu (1948-2021) | 4 | Roxann Prazniak |
| HC 441H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Public Science | 4 | Dare Baldwin |
| HC 441H - Science on Social Media | 4 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 441H - Psycho-/Neurolinguistics | 4 | Nayoung Kwon |
| HC 441H - The Mystique of Marine Mammals in History, Science, and Culture | 4 | Lisa Munger |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | Various |
| HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus | 2 | Various |
Spring 2024
The following courses are tentative and could be subject to change. They will be finalized at a later date.
| Course Number and Name | Credits | Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| HC 101H - Poetry of Black Liberation | 4 | Courtney Thorsson |
| HC 221H - Writing Nonfiction, Gen Z Style | 4 | Nicole Dahmen |
| HC 221H - The Velocity of Gesture, or Intro to Air Guitar | 4 | Brian McWhorter |
| HC 221H - Playing with Poetry | 4 | Tze-Yin Teo |
| HC 221H - Black Women’s Short Fiction | 4 | Courtney Thorsson |
| HC 221H - Music and Meaning | 4 | Lydia Van Dreel |
| HC 231H - Music and Politics | 4 | Anita Chari |
| HC 231H - The Protein Wars | 4 | Hannah Cutting-Jones |
| HC 231H - When Language Sounds Like a Race | 4 | Tobin Hansen |
| HC 231H - [title pending] | 4 | Judith Raiskin |
| 2HC 41H - Music to Your Ears: The Science of Song | 4 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 241H - Black Holes: From Fiction to Fact | 4 | Jesse Feddersen |
| HC 241H - AI for Good | 4 | Stephen Fickas |
| HC 241H - Pick Your Poison | 4 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 241H - Law, Science, and Morality | 4 | Robert Mauro |
| HC 241H - Nature of Sound | 4 | Lisa Munger |
| HC 301H - "Build My Gallows High": Written and Cinematic Noir | 4 | Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 301H - Environmental, Climate, and Energy Justice in Latine/x Communities | 4 | Catalina de Onís |
| HC 301H - Assessing Social and Environmental Programs | 4 | Ellen Fitzpatrick |
| HC 301H - Backyard Soundscapes | 4 | Lisa Munger |
| HC 421H - Medical Humanities | 4 | Katherine Brundan |
| HC 421H - Lie to Me: Techniques in Prose Fiction | 4 | Ulrick Casimir |
| HC 421H - Opera and Modern Ethics | 4 | Abigail Fine |
| HC 421H - TB or Not to Be: Writing, Sickness and Death | 4 | Gantt Gurley |
| HC 421H - After the End of the World | 4 | Casey Shoop |
| HC 421H - Music is Identity | 4 | Lydia Van Dreel |
| ++ HC 444H/421H - Laboratories of the Everyday: Race, Science, and Literature | 4 | Angela Rovak |
| HC 431H - Inside-Out Prison Exchange: Autobiography as Political Agency | 4 | Anita Chari |
| HC 431H - Policing Masculinities | 4 | Tobin Hansen |
| HC 431H - Play Ball! A Social History of America | 4 | Trond Jacobsen |
| ** HC 434H/431H - [title pending] | 4 | Yalda Asmatey |
| * HC 444H/431H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: A House Divided: US in the 1860s | 4 | Tim Williams |
| HC 441H - Data Manipulation | 4 | Rebecca Altman |
| HC 441H - Neuroethics | 4 | Nicole Dudukovic |
| HC 441H - [title pending] | 4 | Jesse Feddersen |
| HC 441H - Water: A Deep Dive | 4 | Lindsay Hinkle |
| HC 441H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Chasing Planets | 4 | Carol Paty |
| HC 277H - Thesis Orientation | 2 | Various |
| HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus | 2 | Various |
+ HC 221/231: Students may decide to fulfill either the HC 221H or HC 231H requirement at the time of registration. They cannot fulfill both.
++ HC 444/421: Class will fulfill Arts and Letters colloquium and US: Difference, Inequality, and Agency cultural literacy requirements. If Arts and Letters has already been fulfilled, course will meet both elective colloquium and US: Difference, Inequality, and Agency requirements.
* HC 444/431: Class will fulfill Social Science colloquium and US: Difference, Inequality, and Agency requirements. If Social Science has already been fulfilled, course will meet both elective colloquium and US: Difference, Inequality, and Agency requirements.
** HC 434/431: Class will fulfill Social Science colloquium and Global Perspectives requirements. If Social Science has already been fulfilled, course will meet both elective colloquium and Global Perspectives requirements.