Course Offerings for Academic Year 2025-2026

These are the classes the Clark Honors College offers through the 2025-26 academic year. These courses are tentative and subject to change. They will be finalized at a later date. 


Fall 2025

For all course TIMES and LOCATIONS, visit the UO Class Schedule site for Fall 2025

Course Number and Name

credits

Instructor

HC 101H - Codes and Ciphers: The Cryptographic Imagination

4

Corinne Bayerl

HC 101H - Media Unfiltered

4

Nicole Dahmen

HC 101H - The Art and Science of Human Flourishing

4

Kate Mondloch

HC 101H - Poetry of Black Liberation

4

Courtney Thorsson

HC 101H - Making Space for Our Stories: Immigrant and Refugee Experiences of Coming to America

4

Yalda Asmatey

HC 101H - Global Issues

4

Ellen Fitzpatrick

HC 101H - Human Care and Intimacy

4

Tobin Hansen

HC 101H - Deep Dive

4

Dare Baldwin

HC 101H - Misinformation

4

Nicole Dudukovic

HC 101H - Science of Zombies

4

Marisa King

HC 101H - Exploration STEAM

4

Kristen Rahilly

HC 101H - Biodiversity

4

Jesse Wilson

HC 221H - "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead:" Narratives of Retribution and Revenge

4

Ulrick Casimir

HC 221H - Poetics of Failure

4

Gantt Gurley

HC 221H - Ecoliterature

4

Barbara Mossberg

HC 231H - Oral Advocacy and Argumentation

4

Trond Jacobsen

HC 241H - Pick Your Poison

4

Lindsay Hinkle

HC 241H - Geology of Campus

4

Kristen Rahilly

HC 241H - The Habitable Earth

4

Jesse Wilson

HC 241H- Making Food with Microbes

4

Milo Cummings

HC 277H - Thesis Orientation

2

Yalda Asmatey

Nicole Dahmen

Marisa King

Lizzy LeRud

Larissa Stiglich

HC 301H - The Natural Environment

4

Jean Faye

HC 301H - Theory of Myth

4

Gantt Gurley

HC 301H - Hazardous Waste

4

Michael Moffitt

HC 301H - Creative Research                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

4

Christopher Michlig

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 - Slime and Sliminess

4

Christopher Michlig

HC 421H - Emerson, Einstein, and ?: Transformational Leadership for the 21st Century

4

Barbara Mossberg

HC 421H- Apply Design Thinking and Design Research to Creative Problem Solving

4

Steve Boswell

HC444H / 421H - Black Feminist Literature

4

Courtney Thorsson

HC 431H - Psychology of Fascism

4

Robert Mauro

HC 431H - Religion, Money, and Climate Change

4

Jeff Schroeder

HC 431H - Cooperative Game Theory: An Investigation of Fairness Principles

4

Anne van den Nouweland

HC 431H- Launching New Ventures

4

Peter Thorsson

HC 434/431H- The Disease Chasers: Foundation of Epidemiology and Global Health

4

Ellen Fitzpatrick

HC 441H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Neuroscience Journalism

4

Nicole Dudukovic

HC 444H/421H - Music and Identity

4

Lydia Van Dreel

HC 444H / 441H - Flint Water Crisis

4

Lindsay Hinkle

HC 441H - Bread 101

4

Karen Guillemin

HC 441H - Listening to Earth

4

Leif Karlstrom

HC 477H – Thesis Prospectus

2

Kristen Rahilly

Daphne Gallagher

Michael Moffitt

Brian McWhorter

Tobin Hansen

Ulrick Casimir

HC 101H- "Wait, What Do You Mean?"

4

Lizzy LeRud

HC 101H- Identity Documents

4

Marcel Brousseau

HC 221H- Writing Crime on the Border

4

Marcel Brousseau

HC 231H- Reform, Repression, and Revolution

4

Larissa Stiglich

HC 241H- Environmental Problem-Solving

4

Jean Faye


Winter 2026

For all course TIMES and LOCATIONS, visit the UO Class Schedule site for Winter 2026

Course Number and Name

Credits

Instructor

HC 221H - "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead:" Narratives of Retribution and Revenge

4

Ulrick Casimir

 

Brian McWhorter

HC 221H - Black Women’s Short Fiction

4

Courtney Thorsson

HC 221H - 12,000 Colors

4

Christopher Michlig

HC 221H - Gender in Greco-Roman World

4

Lowell Bowditch

HC 221H - Exploration and Media, or Explore-Encounter-Exploit

4

Marcel Brousseau

HC 221H - TBD

4

Lizzy LeRud

HC 231H - Medicine, Health, and Storytelling

4

Yalda Asmatey

HC 231H - Curiosity!

4

Nicole Dahmen

HC 231H - Migrant Belongings

4

Tobin Hansen

HC 231H - Public Speaking

4

Trond Jacobsen

HC 231H - Africa's Environment, Health and Development

4

Jean Faye

HC 231H - War and Peace: Understanding Conflict in the 21st Century

4

Ellen Fitzpatrick

HC 241H - Making Food with Microbes

4

Milo Cummings

HC 241H - Thinking and Deciding

4

Robert Mauro

HC 241H - Avian Ecology: The Birds of UO

4

Marisa King

HC 241H - TBD

4

Lindsay Hinkle

HC 241H - Geology of Campus

4

Kristen Rahilly

HC 277H - Thesis Orientation

2

Nicole Dahmen

Marisa King

Lizzy LeRud

Larissa Stiglich

Courtney Thorsson

HC 301H - "Build My Gallows High:" Written and Cinematic Noir

4

Ulrick Casimir

HC 301H – Data Storytelling: Data Analysis, Visualization, and Storytelling with R

4

Jesse Wilson

HC 301H - Autobiographical Memory

4

Nicole Dudukovic

HC 301H - Stories and Maps

4

Marcel Brousseau

HC 301H - The Local and the Global

4

Larissa Stiglich

HC 421H - Memoir

4

Barbara Mossberg

4

Lydia Van Dreel

HC 421H - The Essay Film

4

Christopher Michlig

HC 421H - Thinking Like the Sun: Stellar Knowledge of the Woods, Seeds, Swamps, and Infinity of You

4

Barbara Mossberg

HC 434 / 421H - The Black Atlantic: Literature, History, Theory 

4

Bohls

HC 431H - The Disease Chasers: Epidemiology and Climate Change 

4

Ellen Fitzpatrick

HC 431H - Foster Equitable and Resilient Food Systems Through Planning and Community-Based Approaches

4

Yang

HC 431H - TBD

4

Larissa Stiglich

HC 444H / 431H – The Justice System

4

Michael Moffitt

HC 444H / 431H - TBD

4

Yalda Asmatey

HC 441H - Psychological Science and Law

4

Robert Mauro

HC 441H - Ecophysiology and Extreme Environments

4

Marisa King

HC 441H - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Public Science

4

Dare Baldwin

HC 441H - Changing Landscapes

4

Kristin Rahilly

HC 441H - Verifying the Viral: Investigating Science on Social Media

4

Lindsay Hinkle

HC 441H - TBD

4

Milo Cummings

HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus

4

Kristin Rahilly

Tobin Hansen

Corinne Bayerl


Spring 2026

For all course TIMES and LOCATIONS, visit the UO Class Schedule site for Spring 2026

Course Number and Name

Credits

Instructor

HC 101H - Human Care and Intimacy

4

Tobin Hansen

HC 221H - Ancient Drama

4

Corinne Bayerl

HC 221H - Russian Literature and the Politics of the Fantastic 

4

Jenifer Presto

HC 221H – TBD

4

Nicole Dahmen

HC 221H - Writing Musically 

4

Fine

HC 221H - Velocity of Gesture

4

Brian McWhorter

HC 221H - TBD

4

Lizzy LeRud

HC 231H - War and Peace: Understanding Conflict in the 21st Century

4

Ellen Fitzpatrick

HC 231H - Muslims in the U.S.

4

Yalda Asmatey

HC 231H - Repression, Reform, and Revolution

4

Larissa Stiglich

HC 241H – Geology of Campus

4

Kristin Rahilly

HC 241H - Music to Your Ears: The Science of Song

4

Rebecca Altman

HC 241H - Avian Ecology: The Birds of UO

4

Marisa King

HC 241H – Making Mistakes and Creating Catastrophes

4

Robert Mauro

HC 241H - Solving Environmental Problems

4

Jean Faye

HC 241H - Making Food with Microbes

4

Milo Cummings

HC 277H - Thesis Orientation

2

Yalda Asmatey

Casey Shoop

Lindsay Hinkle

Elizabeth Raisanen

HC 301H - TBD

4

Jean Faye

HC 301H - “Build My Gallows High”: Written and Cinematic Noir

4

Ulrick Casimir

HC 301H - TBD

4

Gantt Gurley

HC 301H – Comedy

4

Corinne Bayerl

HC 301H - Data Storytelling

4

Jesse Wilson

HC 301H - The Local and the Global

4

Larissa Stiglich

HC 421H - TB or Not to Be: Writing, Sickness, and Death

4

Gantt Gurley

HC 421H - The Anarchist Imagination

4

Casey Shoop

HC 421H - Textualities of Air Travel

4

Marcel Brousseau

HC 421H - TBD

4

Lizzy LeRud

HC 434H / 431H - Displacement & Health 

4

Yalda Asmatey

HC 444H / 431H - Bordering the U.S. and Mexico

4

Tobin Hansen

HC 434H / 431H – Global TV & Media

4

Bish Sen

HC 434H / 431H - Race and Biotechnology

4

Valiani

HC 441H - Data Manipulation

4

Rebecca Altman

HC 441H - TBD

4

Milo Cummings

HC 441H – TBD

4

Kristin Rahilly

HC 441H - Microbial Ecology: Tiny Life, Big Impact

4

Jesse Wilson

HC 441H -  Soil-Human-Environment

4

Jean Faye

HC 477H - Thesis Prospectus

2

Corinne Bayerl

Trond Jacobsen

Ulrick Casimir

Daphne Gallagher

Tobin Hansen

Lindsay Hinkle

Brian McWhorter

Angela Rovak

Marcel Brousseau


Summer 2026

The following courses are tentative and could be subject to change. They will be finalized at a later date. 

Course Number and Name

Instructor

TBD

TBD

 

+ 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.

~ HC 434H/421H: Class will fulfill Arts and Letters colloquium and Global Perspectives cultural literacy requirements. If Arts and Letters has already been fulfilled, course will meet both elective colloquium and Global Perspectives requirements.