HC 221H: The Velocity of Gesture or, Intro to Air Guitar

Professor: Brian McWhorter

4.00 credits

• CRN 26150: Monday & Wednesday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

As a phenomenological exploration of nuance and gesture, this class will look at body language in casual and performative modalities. We will explore how body language reflects and even engenders the understanding of music and other temporal art forms.

HC 221H: Playing with Poetry

Professor: Tze-Yin Teo

4.00 credits

• CRN 26153: Tuesday & Thursday, 1615-1745 @ REMOTE

"The toy,” wrote the French poet of modernity and decadence Charles Baudelaire, "is the child’s earliest initiation into art.” In this class, we approach poetry in the spirit of Baudelaire and other poets like him who worked through playful experimentation that pushed the boundaries of their time. Read more

HC 221H: Middle Eastern American Theatre

Professor: Michael Malek Najjar

4.00 credits

• CRN 26156: Tuesday & Thursday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

Middle Eastern American Theatre deals with the history, literature, and performances of Middle Eastern American playwrights, screenwriters, directors, and performers. Read more

HC 221H: Eco Literature and the Green Imagination

Professor: Barbara Mossberg

4.00 credits

• CRN 26158: Monday & Wednesday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

Is the green imagination intrinsic to being human? Since Gilgamesh scratched it on clay in cuneiform in 2700 BCE, eco literature has been a dynamic portrait of human engagement and concern with our world. Read more

HC 222H: Literary & Cinematic Noir

Professor: Ulrick Casimir

4.00 credits

• CRN 22591: Monday & Wednesday, 1615-1745 @ REMOTE

Mystery editor Otto Penzler once described noir as something that is “virtually impossible to define, but everyone thinks they know it when they see it.”  Situated at a crossroads of visual and print media—sped along by the consequences of one war, and solidified by observations made as another war ended—noir is a signifier that seems meant to avoid being pinned down. Read more

HC 222H: People and Their Images

Professor: Julianne Newton

4.00 Credits

• CRN 22593: Tuesday & Thursday, 1615-1745 @ REMOTE

People and Their Images explores seeing as a way of knowing as the basis for understanding how visual information affects our everyday lives and decision making. Read more

HC 231H: High School in America: Adolescence, Inequality and Education

Professor: CJ Pascoe

4.00 credits

• CRN 26161: Monday & Wednesday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

This class takes an in-depth look at a social institution with which many college students are intimately familiar: high school. Through tracing the history of high school in the United States, the role high school plays in contemporary society and the relationship between youth culture and schooling, this class will examine core sociological concepts and insights. 

HC 231H: Sustainability Movements Around the World

Professor: Derrick Hindery

4.00 credits

• CRN 26164: Monday & Wednesday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

It’s easy to get discouraged these days with daunting issues like environmental injustice, climate change, and biodiversity loss, particularly with sensationalized “negative news.” Read more

HC 231H: Peace Making in the Middle East

Professor: Farhad Malekafzali

4.00 credits

• CRN 26162: Monday & Wednesday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

This course takes a critical look at the causes and consequences of continuing conflict in the Middle East with an emphasis on conflict resolution and long-term peace building using two specific cases, Israel-Palestine and Iran-United States. Read more

HC 231H: Mental Illness in Ancient Cultures

Professor: Shoshana Kewesky

4.00 credits

• CRN 26167: Tuesday & Thursday, 0815-0945 @ REMOTE

This course explores a range of classical civilizations’ descriptions of mental health and mental illness, their physical and supernatural/religious explanations for emotional and behavioral deviance, and how people with non-normative experiences were treated by their communities. Read more

HC 232H: African Languages: History, Making Meaning, and Social Identity

Professor: Doris Payne

4.00 credits

• CRN 22609: Monday & Wednesday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

Africa has nearly 2000 languages, distributed into six or more major language families. The legacy of colonial activity means that certain European languages and Arabic overlay all the indigenous African languages. Read more

HC 232H: US Memoirs of Mental Illness

Professor: Shoshana Kerewsky

4.00 credits

• CRN 22612: Tuesday & Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

• CRN 22615: Tuesday & Thursday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

This course primarily uses memoirs and autobiographically-informed fiction to explore the experiences of people with mental illness diagnoses from the inception of modern diagnostic categories through the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Read more

HC 232H: Gentrification, Displacement, and the Right to the City

Professor: Lina Stepick

4.00 credits

• CRN 27102: Tuesday & Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

In 1968, Henri Lefebvre argued that “the right to the city is like a cry and a demand... a transformed and renewed right to urban life.” Read more

HC 241H: The Necessity for New Numbers

Professor: Chris Sinclair

4.00 credits

• CRN 26170: Monday & Wednesday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

The counting, or natural, numbers seem pretty fundamental to the nature of the universe. Read more

HC 241H: Plants and Society

Professor: Tobias Policha

4.00 credits

• CRN 26172: Monday & Wednesday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

Plants influence every aspect of our lives whether we realize it or not. They provide the basis of our food-webs, they provide the oxygen that we breathe and they provide many of the materials that we build with and the fibers that we clothe ourselves with. Read more

HC 241H: Science of Climate Change

Professor: Jeffrey Cina

4.00 credits

• CRN 26174: Wednesday & Friday, 0815-0945 @ REMOTE

This reading and discussion-based course will delve into the science of human-caused climate change due to the widespread combustion of fossil fuels for energy, heating, and transportation. Read more

HC 241H: The Making and Unmaking of Scientific Theories; a History of Science

Professor: Amy Connolly

4.00 credits

• CRN 26177: Tuesday & Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

You are confident that the sun sets when the earth rotates (even though the sun appears to revolve around us); you can be sure you have a bacterial or viral infection when you are sick (even though they are invisible to the naked eye); and you know that you have evolved over millions of years (even though you were not around to witness it). Explanations of the natural world are not necessarily intuitive and are frequently hidden from plain sight. So how did we arrive at these conclusions? Read more

HC 277H: Thesis Orientation, Winter 2021 - Dudukovic

Professor: Nicole Dudukovic

2.00 credits

• CRN 26319: Wednesday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

• CRN 26320: Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

Thesis 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

HC 277H: Thesis Orientation, Winter 2021 - Gallagher

Professor: Daphne Gallagher

2.00 credits

• CRN 26340: Tuesday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

Thesis 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

HC 301H: Computers, Crime, and Law

Professor: Bryce Newell

4.00 credits

• CRN 26369: Tuesday & Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

Over the past few decades, crimes conducted through the use of computers, or targeted at computers, have risen dramatically. Read more

HC 421H: Emerson and Einstein, Interdisciplinary Artist Activists: An Inquiry into Genius

Professor: Barbara Mossberg

4.00 credits

• CRN 22629: Monday & Wednesday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

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

HC 421H: Color as Cultural Labor

Professor: Esther Hagenlocher

4.00 credits

• CRN 22631: Monday & Wednesday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

This course borrows its title from the invitation, by the late Felix Gonzales-Torres, to look upon all creative practices simply as 'cultural labor,' regardless of specialization, is today more relevant than ever. This notion Read more

HC 434H/421H: Representing the Holocaust

Professor: Monique Balbuena

4.00 credits

• CRN 22632: Tuesday & Thursday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

Graduation Requirement:  This class will fulfill an Arts & Letters Colloquium and a Global Perspectives (GP) area of inquiry requirement.  If the student has already taken an Arts & Letters Colloquium, this class will fulfill both of the following requirements:  an Elective Colloquium and a GP area of inquiry. Read more

HC 441H: Oxygen

Professor: Victoria DeRose

4.00 credits

• CRN 22637: Tuesday & Thursday, 1415-1545 @ REMOTE

Oxygen, the breath of life, once poisoned the earth. The Great Oxygenation Event of over billion years ago that began an oxygenic atmosphere is also termed the Read more

HC 441H : Calderwood Seminars Public Writing: Public Science

Professor: Dare Baldwin

4.00 credits

• CRN 22639: Wednesday, 1415-1655 @ REMOTE

Scientific practices are currently undergoing radical change. Among other things, such changes alter best practice in scientific communication. One key source of changes that are afoot lies in growing recognition that many, and possibly even most, reported scientific findings are not reproducible. Read more

HC 444H/431H: Calderwood Seminars Public Writing: Writing for Social Justice

Professor: Carol Stabile

4.00 credits

• CRN 22643: Friday, 1015-1255 @ REMOTE

Graduation Requirement:  This class will fulfill a Social Science Colloquium and a US: Difference, Inequality, Agency (US) area of inquiry requirement.  If the student has already taken a Social Science Colloquium, this class will fulfill both of the following requirements:  an Elective Colloquium and a US area of inquiry. Read more

HC 444H/431H: Populism, Fascism, and Antifascism

Professor: Joe Lowndes

4.00 credits

• CRN 22645: Tuesday & Thursday, 1015-1145 @ REMOTE

Graduation Requirement:  This class will fulfill a Social Science Colloquium and a US: Difference, Inequality, Agency (US) area of inquiry requirement.  If the student has already taken a Social Science Colloquium, this class will fulfill both of the following requirements:  an Elective Colloquium and a US area of inquiry. Read more

HC 477H: Thesis Prospectus 2021 - Balbuena

Professor: Monique Balbuena

2.00 credits

• CRN 22646: Thursday, 1215-1345 @ REMOTE

HC 477H Thesis Prospectus requires preauthorization before each term and entails a completed online form Thesis Prospectus Application (Note: All users need to log in before using forms with electronic signature enabled. Read more