Fall 2022 Course Descriptions
HC101H - Symmetry
Professor: Lindsay Hinkle
4.00 credits
CRN 11133: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 301 CRN 11135: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201The 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 - Philosophy of Food
Professor: Hannah Cutting-Jones
4.00 credits
CRN 11237: Monday & Wednesday, 2-3:20pm @ CON 330In this class we will examine philosophical questions about what we eat and why we eat it, a fascinating and interdisciplinary exploration of humans’ complex relationship with food. The class will be wide-ranging in historical and geographic scope. read more
HC101H - The Garden and the Wall
Professor: Gantt Gurley
4.00 credits
CRN 11233: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201 CRN 11229: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CON 330 I'd like to beUnder the sea
In an octopus' garden
In the shade
- Ringo Starr
Perhaps the most ubiquitous allegory in all of world literature is the garden, the locus amoenus, a concept that is often synonymous with paradise. read more
HC101H - Down the Rabbit Hole
Professor: Brian McWhorter & Lisa Munger
4.00 credits
CRN 11134: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201In 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. “Burning with curiosity,” she pursues it down the rabbit hole and finds herself in an unfamiliar, fantastical world where she must develop new knowledge in order to get around and meet her goals—much like a new student in a liberal arts college. read more
HC101H - Artificial Intelligence: the Culture of Minds and Machines
Professor: Casey Shoop
4.00 credits
CRN 11235: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ ESL 193 CRN 11228: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick’s titular question frames the concerns of this course on the relationship between minds and machines. Computers increasingly talk to us, make book recommendations, drive cars; they are even said to paint pictures and compose poetry. But what does it mean to think about an android’s dreams or desires or capacity for love? Is this a category mistake? What is the line between the human and the machine? read more
HC101H - The Art and Science of Human Flourishing
Professor: Kate Mondloch
4.00 credits
CRN 11234: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ LIB 322 CRN 11223: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ LIB 322For millennia, cultures have contemplated the question of human “flourishing:” an existence filled with deep satisfaction, well-being, resilience, and accomplishment. This course will explore perspectives from the humanities and the sciences about what it means to flourish and what the key components might be. read more
HC101H - Bondage & Freedom
Professor: Timothy Williams
4.00 credits
CRN 11136: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 201This course takes its title from Frederick Douglass’s second autobiographical narrative, My Bondage, My Freedom (1855). Douglass’s title underscores the greatest contradiction of American life: The United States was founded on the ideals of freedom but nevertheless has supported and benefited from the bondage of others. read more
HC101H - The Cryptographic Imagination
Professor: Corinne Bayerl
4.00 credits
CRN 11137: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 201 CRN 11225: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ MCK 123QEFP ZIXPP TFII YB CRK! Not sure what this means, but curious? Then join this class and find out how and why people across various cultures and centuries have invented ciphers and codes to communicate secret information. read more
HC101H - Malaria
Professor: Melissa Graboyes
4.00 credits
CRN 11230: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ CON 301 CRN 11224: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ ANS 193This course examines the vector-borne disease, malaria, from an inter-disciplinary liberal arts perspective. We will consider malaria and its corresponding technologies in Africa from many different disciplines and perspectives, recognizing how these different approaches contribute to more complex and accurate understanding of a challenging disease. read more
HC101H - Misinformation
Professor: Nicole Dudukovic
4.00 credits
CRN 11227: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ GSH 130 CRN 11226 Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 131This course examines misinformation from an interdisciplinary, liberal arts perspective. We will explore the nature of truth and knowledge and apply these concepts to our current struggle to separate facts from alternative facts and legitimate news from fake news. We will investigate the psychological processes that make us vulnerable to believing misinformation and why it can be challenging to correct these beliefs. read more
HC101H - Epic Influencers: Leadership, Poetry, and You
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
4.00 credits
CRN 11139: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201Epic 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. From Homer to Cervantes, Nelson Mandela to Amanda Gorman, Churchill to Richard Feynman to Harry Styles, Lincoln to Mao to Obama, Nikki Giovanni to George Lucas to Cameron Awkward-Rich, we cite chapter and verse, working independently and in teams, researching diverse leaders’ use of poetry across fields and disciplines and cultures. read more
HC101H - Psychology of Pilgrimage
Professor: Shoshana Kerewsky
4.00 credits
CRN 11231: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ GER 303 CRN 11138: Tuesday & Thursday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 201What is a pilgrimage, and why are so many people drawn to explore its variations? For some, pilgrimage is a religious phenomenon, while for others, it is a meaningful secular experience. read more
HC221H - Shakespeare & Politics
Professor: Brent Dawson
4.00 credits
CRN 11219: Tuesday & Thursday, 5:00-6:20pm @ MCK 348This course focuses on Shakespeare’s second set of history plays, known as the Henriad. read more
HC221H - Gender in the Greco-Roman World
Professor: Lowell Bowditch
4.00 credits
CRN 11218: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ GSH 130This course will explore the construction of gender and norms of sexuality in Greco-Roman antiquity. We shall consider attitudes toward the body, homo-, bi-, and heterosexuality, the household, privacy, and religious ritual as it reflects issues of gender. read more
HC221H - Religion After Atheism
Professor: Jeff Schroeder
4.00 credits
CRN 11141: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ MCK 121It is said that we live in a secular age, an age of disenchantment. For some, this signifies the triumph of reason over faith and superstition, for others, loss and despair. Previous generations “beheld God and nature face to face,” but modern men and women are left groping for a new connection to the divine. And yet God is not dead, at least for the world’s billions of religious followers. read more
HC221H - The Limits of Utopia
Professor: Casey Shoop
4.00 credits
CRN 11217: Tuesday & Thursday, 4:00-5:20pm @ TYKE 240How do we imagine a world otherwise, a community built to the specifications of our ethical and political dreaming? Such a question seems both urgently necessary and yet fraught with difficulty: utopia at once names a promissory desire for social perfection and the minatory danger of its fulfillment. read more
HC221H - Philosophy of Sport
Professor: Peg Weiser
4.00 credits
CRN 11140: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 202 CRN 11215: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ ANS 193We will study sport—professional, intercollegiate, and amateur/post-amateur—throughout history as well as current, controversial topics such as the nature of games, the ethics of athletic competition...read more
HC231H - Advocacy and Argumentation
Professor: Trond Jacobsen
4.00 credits
CRN 11213: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ PLC 189Rhetoric and argument have been the foundation of a liberal education for more than 2000 years. Students in this class will enhance their abilities in oral advocacy and critical thinking by participating in academic debates. Students will engage leading scholarship on a given topic in order to create and present sound arguments informed by that scholarship, in ways that honor a diversity of perspectives and that is intended for educated but non-specialized audiences. read more
HC231H - Fashion and Media
Professor: Donnalyn Pompper
4.00 credits
CRN 11143: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202This course invites students to develop and apply their critical thinking skills to consider fashion’s political, environmental, and economic effects – and ways media professionals and broader society may navigate and interrogate complex outcomes. read more
HC231H - The Lives of Languages
Professor: Allison Taylor-Adams
4.00 credits
CRN 11142: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 201 CRN 11144: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 201Language is part of everything we do, and each individual language has a metaphorical life of its own. read more
HC241H - Atoms: Mother Nature's Legos
Professor: Rebecca Altman
4.00 credits
CRN 11150: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202By engaging with the three-dimensional nature of molecules, we will learn why their shapes are crucial to some of the most important parts of our lives, such as food, technology, and our DNA. read more
HC241H - Statistical Reasoning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Professor: David Levin
4.00 credits
CRN 11147: Monday & Wednesday, 8:30-9:50pm @ CHA 202Over the past twenty years, the explosion of computing power, coupled with the growth of networked communication and information systems, has allowed for the unprecedented collection of many types of information. read more
HC241H - Nature of Sound
Professor: Lisa Munger
4.00 credits
CRN 11148: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 202Sound is an essential component of natural habitats, and it is critical to the survival of many organisms. In this course, we will take an interdisciplinary approach to explore the role of sound in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. read more
HC241H - Knowing and Saving our Relatives: Primate Ecology and Conservation
Professor: Larry Ulibarri
4.00 credits
CRN 11206: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 301Primates are our closest relatives, and many are on the edge of extinction. Conserving primates and their habitats requires an understanding of their ecology. We will explore the diversity and complexity of primate ecology and behavior, including elements of social, feeding, and reproductive ecology, as well as features of primate life history and how primates interact with their environments. read more
HC241H - Neuroscience Perspectives on Drug Policy
Professor: Christina Karns
4.00 credits
CRN 11149: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:20pm @ CHA 202Psychoactive drugs are a pervasive part of modern life. As the lines blur between recreational drugs and pharmacological treatments, a neuroscience perspective on these issues may clarify policy and public health implications of the changing times. read more
HC277H - Thesis Orientation - Munger
Professor: Lisa Munger
2.00 credits
CRN 11151: Friday, 10:00-11:50am @ PLC 361 CRN 11199: Monday, 4:00-5:50pm @ MCK 473Thesis 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 11205: Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ GSH 132Thesis 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 - Paty
Professor: Carol Paty
2.00 credits
CRN 11202: Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ UNIV 205Thesis 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 - Mossberg
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
2.00 credits
CRN 11204: Wednesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CON 360Thesis 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 - Environmental, Climate, and Energy Justice in Latinx Communities
Professor: Catalina de Onís
4.00 credits
CRN 11198: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:20am @ TYKE 202 CRN 11154: Tuesday & Thursday, 4:00-5:20pm @ CHA 202Our world is profoundly shaped by precarity, intersectional injustices, and policies and practices that threaten life on Earth. With such high stakes for struggling for a more livable, just, and equitable present and future, in Environmental, Climate, and Energy Justice in Latinx Communities our primary goal is to research and respond to possibilities for co-existences that foreground the experiences of Latina/o/x people. read more
HC301H - Issues of the Nineties
Professor: Rebecca Schuman
4.00 credits
CRN 11153: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:20am @ CHA 301In this introduction to interdisciplinary research methods, students will explore multiple facets of the decade that has (re)captivated the imagination: the 1990s. read more
HC301H - Conspiratorial Thinking in American History
Professor: James Breen
4.00 credits
CRN 11196: Monday & Wednesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ PLC 361 CRN 11156: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ MCK 121From the colonial era to the twenty-first century, Americans have turned to conspiracy theories as a way to explain the unexplainable—from mysterious phenomena to large-scale social changes. read more
HC421H - Written on the Body: Exploring Embodiment through Creative Nonfiction
Professor: Brian Trapp
4.00 credits
CRN 11162: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 301In 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 - Lie to Me: Techniques in Prose Fiction
Professor: Ulrick Casimir
4.00 credits
CRN 11195: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00-3:50pm @ PLC 248The goals of this course are deceptively simple: to refine your understanding of the rudiments and mechanics of fiction writing, and to foster the development of habits vital to the future production of solid, expressive prose (which includes but is not limited to literary prose), beyond the confines of this course. read more
HC421H - Inside-Out Prison Exchange: Mercy and The Rule of Law
Professor: Kristen Bell
4.00 credits
CRN 11194: Thursday, 6:00-8:50pm @ KNL 42 The Week 1 class meeting will be in KNL 42, subsequent class meetings will be held at OSP or OSCI in Salem.Philosophers and legal scholars generally define the rule of law as a state of affairs in which law, rather than the whim of individuals, is “in charge” in a society. The first part of the class will delve into what the rule of law is, whether/why it is valuable, and what conditions are needed to maintain the rule of law. read more
HC421H - Mark Twain's America
Professor: Harry Wonham
4.00 credits
CRN 11192: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ CON 330In Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s 1910 obituary, the San Francisco Examiner wrote that he was “curiously and intimately American . . . He was our very own.” Twenty years earlier, Mark Twain had gone even further in identifying himself with the nation, writing to himself in a personal notebook, “I am not an American. I am the American.” Students in this course will explore the works of Mark Twain with a special interest in the meaning of this seemingly simple, but ultimately inscrutable, assertion about his identity. read more
HC421H - The Labor of Care: Gender and Identity in "Domestic" Literature and Cinema
Professor: Dawn Marlan
4.00 credits
CRN 11193: Monday & Wednesday, 4:00-5:50pm @ CHA 301How is the domestic both a refuge and a prison? How does home “work” blur the public/private distinction that undergirds the separation of spheres? read more
HC431H - Planning the City
Professor: Eleonora Radaelli
4.00 credits
CRN 11163: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 202The course examines the praxis of planning the city focusing on plans as text. It is a seminar aiming to discover and produce scholarship on this topic. During the course we will analyze plans of American cities and read scholarly articles about planning. read more
HC431H - Out in the Archives: Preserving LGBTQ History
Professor: Judith Raiskin
4.00 credits
CRN 11164: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ LIB 201Much LGBTQ history has been suppressed by the imperatives of the closet and rendered invisible by library cataloging traditions embedded in systemic homophobia and heterosexism. read more
HC431H - Social Media and Democracy
Professor: Beck Banks
4.00 credits
CRN 11165: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 301At the beginning of social media, the prospect of a real democracy emerged. Perhaps everyone’s voice could be heard? read more
HC434H/431H - Biography as History: Analyzing African Political Leadership since the 1950s
Professor: A.B. Assensoh
4.00 credits
CRN 11167: Thursday, 2:00-4:50pm @ CHA 301In African political History, a nation on the second largest continent (Africa) was often considered both stable and progressive if there had not been a military intervention – i.e. coup d’etat -- in its national politics. read more
HC441H - Bitcoin: What Could Possi-blye Go Wrong?
Professor: Micah Warren
4.00 credits
CRN 11186: Monday & Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ PLC 361Proponents of Bitcoin have hailed cryptocurrency as tool for resisting authoritarian governments, disrupting economic hegemony, defying censorship, banking the unbanked, disintermediating corrupt or self-dealing actors, and enabling powerful and useful technologies to bring third-world nations out of poverty and into prosperity. read more
HC441H - Cosmology
Professor: James Schombert
4.00 credits
CRN 11168: Tuesday & Thursday, 8:30-9:50am @ CHA 301Cosmology, the study of the formation and evolution of the Universe, has progressed from its origins in early man’s ideas of Nature, to Chinese and Greek world views, to Dante’s vision of Heaven and Hell, to Newton’s Clockwork Universe. read more
HC441H - Physics of Sports
Professor: Ben McMorran
4.00 credits
CRN 11184: Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ PSC B006Sports 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. read more
HC441H - The Art of Data Manipulation
Professor: Rebecca Altman
4.00 credits
CRN 11169: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ PLC 248Do 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... or the story the authors are saying the numbers are telling? In this course, we will take a deep dive into the world of data manipulation, both in our general society and in scientific reporting. read more
HC444H/431H - The Black Panthers in the Pacific Northwest
Professor: Marc Robinson
4.00 credits
CRN 11171: Wednesday, 2:00-4:50pm @ Synchronous OnlineTake this class to learn about the Black Panther Party, a militant political organization of the Black Power Movement, and its activities in Portland and Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s. For instance, did you know that Seattle had the first Black Panther Party chapter outside of California? read more
HC444H/421H - Reading Experiments: Race, Power, and Identity in Literature
Professor: Mai-Lin Cheng
4.00 credits
CRN 11183: Tuesday & Thursday, 10:00-11:50am @ CHA 301This course asks how literature represents and transforms our understandings of race, power, and identity. We will read a range of poetry and prose by writers whose experiments with language challenge conventional notions of reading, race, and power. read more
HC444H/421H - Black Feminist Literature
Professor: Courtney Thorsson
4.00 credits
CRN 11182: Tuesday, 2:00-4:50pm @ TYKE 340In 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. Our readings will be diverse in form and genre, including poetry, fiction, anthologies, manifestos, and scholarly essays from a variety of disciplines. read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - Gallagher
Professor: Daphne Gallagher
2.00 credits
CRN 11172: Monday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 102 CRN 11179: Tuesday, 10:00-11:50am @ CHA 102HC 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. You may submit the form and be preauthorized to register for HC 477H until the first week of the term in which you are taking 477 as long as there are seats available. More information on registering for HC 477H can be found on Canvas. Please contact Academic Thesis and Programs Manager Miriam Jordan (mjordan@uoregon.edu) with questions about registering for Thesis Prospectus. read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - McWhorter
Professor: Dare Baldwin
2.00 credits
CRN 11180: Wednesday, 10:00-11:50am @ CHA 102HC 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. You may submit the form and be preauthorized to register for HC 477H until the first week of the term in which you are taking 477 as long as there are seats available. More information on registering for HC 477H can be found on Canvas. Please contact Academic Thesis and Programs Manager Miriam Jordan (mjordan@uoregon.edu) with questions about registering for Thesis Prospectus. read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - Jacobsen
Professor: Trond Jacobsen
2.00 credits
CRN 11178: Thursday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 102 CRN 11181: Wednesday, 2:00-3:50pm @ CHA 102HC 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. You may submit the form and be preauthorized to register for HC 477H until the first week of the term in which you are taking 477 as long as there are seats available. More information on registering for HC 477H can be found on Canvas. Please contact Academic Thesis and Programs Manager Miriam Jordan (mjordan@uoregon.edu) with questions about registering for Thesis Prospectus. read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - Moffitt
Professor: Michael Moffitt
2.00 credits
CRN11174: Monday, 2:00-3:50pm @ CHA 102 CRN11175: Monday. 10:00-11:50pm @ CHA 102HC 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. You may submit the form and be preauthorized to register for HC 477H until the first week of the term in which you are taking 477 as long as there are seats available. More information on registering for HC 477H can be found on Canvas. Please contact Academic Thesis and Programs Manager Miriam Jordan (mjordan@uoregon.edu) with questions about registering for Thesis Prospectus. read more
HC477H - Thesis Prospectus - Mossberg
Professor: Barbara Mossberg
2.00 credits
CRN 11173: Tuesday, 12:00-1:50pm @ CHA 102HC 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. You may submit the form and be preauthorized to register for HC 477H until the first week of the term in which you are taking 477 as long as there are seats available. More information on registering for HC 477H can be found on Canvas. Please contact Academic Thesis and Programs Manager Miriam Jordan (mjordan@uoregon.edu) with questions about registering for Thesis Prospectus.