Colloquia
HC421H: Fictionality and Authenticity
Professor: Martin Klebes
4.00 credits
• CRN 21092: Monday & Wednesday, 1200-1350 @ CHA 301
This colloquium undertakes an inquiry into the concepts of fictionality and authenticity and their representation across a range of disciplines. Read more
HC421H: Attention, Perception, and Contemplation in Contemporary Art
Professor: Kate Mondloch
4.00 credits
• CRN 24922: Friday, 1400-1650 @ CHA 202
As a range of artists, philosophers, and scientists have demonstrated in recent decades, visual attention is an active, embodied experience that far exceeds eyesight alone. Read more
HC421H: Emerson and Einstein: Interdisciplinary Artist Activists for Civil and Human Rights
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
4.00 credits
• CRN 24989: Monday, 1400-1650 @ CHA 201
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
HC434H/421H: Screening the Holocaust
Professor: Monique Balbuena
4.00 credits
• CRN 21095: Tuesday & Thursday, 1000-1150 @ VIL 101
Even before the end of WWII cinema had already begun to depict the violence and fascism coming out of Nazi Germany. Following the liberation of the camps, documentarians sought to represent the reality they encountered. Read more
HC434H/421H: African American Artists and Writers in France
Professor: Corrine Bayerl
4.00 credits
• CRN 21096: Friday, 0900-1150 @ CHA 301
This class will focus on the vibrant African-American community that emerged in Paris and Marseille between the end of WWI and the 1970s and included writers and artists such as Langston Hughes, Josephine Baker, Claude McKay, Jessie Fausset, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin. Read more
HC444H/421H: How the West Was Spun: Myth and History in the American West
Professor: Casey Shoop
4.00 credits
• CRN 24850: Tuesday & Thursday, 1200-1320 @ CHA 301
The mythic representation of the American West occupies an enduring place in American popular culture. For all its apparent familiarity, however, “the Western” remains an incredibly complex form that contains powerful and deep-seated assumptions about American national character and history, masculinity, race, class and gender. Read more
HC444H/421H: Data as Metamorphosis: Investigating with Art in Issues of Gender, Labor and Technology
Professor: Hiba Ali
4.00 credits
• CRN 25513: Tuesday & Thursday, 1400-1550 @ ED 117
In this course, we will examining the role of technology and labor as they intersect with art. Read more
HC431H: Coalitional Game Theory: An Investigation of Fairness Principles
Professor: Anne Van Den Nouweland
4.00 credits
• CRN 24877: Monday & Wednesday, 1000-1150 @ ANS 192
The words “equity” and “fairness” are often used colloquially. But what exactly do we mean when we use those words? Across different cultures and societies, we find different notions of “fairness” and “equity.” Read more
HC431H: Mental Health Screening in Schools
Professor: Randy Kamphaus
4.00 credits
• CRN 24878: Monday & Wednesday, 1200-1350 @ CON 360
Children in the U.S., and globally, are not routinely screened for mental health risk or disorder, leading to undetected problems worsening and resulting in poor interpersonal, school, career, and health outcomes. Read more
HC444H/431H: Decolonizing Knowledge & Power: The Black Radical Tradition as a Counter-Catastrophic Social Science
Professor: George Barganier
4.00 credits
• CRN 21103: Friday, 1000-1250 @ SYNCRONOUS REMOTE
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
HC444H/431H: Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: The Justice System Today
Professor: Michael Moffitt
4.00 credits
• CRN 21104: Fridays, 0900-1150 @ LIL 255
The justice system affects the lives of everyone in this country, but few have developed the ability to describe it accurately or persuasively to those without specialized training. Virtually every aspect of your liberal arts education has a role to play in predicting, understanding, and shaping the modern justice system. Read more
HC441H: Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Public Science
Professor: Dare Baldwin
4.00 credits
• CRN 21098: Wednesday, 1400-1750 @ CHA 101
Science is in the midst of radically reshaping itself in the direction of openness and transparency. This shift has widespread implications for scientists themselves, but also for all the many institutions and industries linked to science, including academia, publishing, health-care, technology innovation, educational practice, science-based policy-making, and science-oriented funding structures. Read more
HC441H: The Art of Data Manipulation
Professor: Rebecca Altman
4.00 credits
• CRN 21099: Monday & Wednesday, 1200-1350 @ VIL 201
Do you ever wonder what the numbers reported in the news actually mean, or where they come from? How do you know you can trust the story the numbers are telling... Read more
HC441H: The Art of Biology
Professor: Reyn Yoshioka
4.00 credits
• CRN 21100: Monday & Wednesday, 1400-1520 @ CHA 301
Often framed as separate and opposing disciplines, science and art are more similar than not. With science communication more important than ever, researchers are constantly working to find diverse and far-reaching ways to share their work. Read more
HC 441H: Sensation & Perception
Professor: Lindsay Collins
4.00 Credits
• CRN 24879: Monday & Wednesday, 1600 - 1750 @ ANS 192
Shared sensory experiences have the power to deepen interpersonal connections and to improve psychological well-being. However, the internal perception of sensory experiences and the way in which they are integrated into a meaningful worldview varies across individuals as well as cultures, throughout one’s life, and even on a moment-to-moment basis. Read more