Professor: Rebecca Altman 4.00 credits CRN 12301: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50pm @ ANS 193 Have 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor: Catalina de Onís 4.00 credits CRN 16609: 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

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

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