Spring '10 Courses
Registration for Spring 10 Honors classes begins in the Honors Office at 8am, Tuesday, September 15th, 2009. Students must reserve a seat an Honors course by picking up a Reservation Card. Registration for both Honors and non-Honors courses is completed with the student’s by the student using Banner. Students should, however, check with their academic advisor before registering.
Spring Reservation Cards are valid only until November 12th. Students who fail to register by November 12th will forfeit their seat in any Honors class. Waitlisted students will be contacted after the November 12th deadline.
Africa in African Cinema
New course! An introduction to African culture and history through films by African filmmakers. Students will watch a variety of popular movies, auteur films, documentaries, and music videos from Africa. We will learn the aspects of African history, ethnology, and contemporary culture, while also gaining the aesthetic and intellectual tools to appreciate African cinema. Class discussion and analytical essays.
John McCall, Anthropology
Wednesday, 2-4:30 pm, Faner 3515
UHON 3510-003, Social Science
UHON 351U-005, Humanities
August Wilson and the African American Experience
New course! This course focuses on the plays of African American playwright August Wilson whose probing portraits chronicling Black America and the African American experience over the course of the 20th century distinguishes him as a much-revered American playwright. Wilson’s plays are examined within multiple contexts.
Mary Bogumil, English
Monday, 3:30-6 pm, TBA
UHON 351F-001, Fine Arts
UHON 351I-001, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351M-002, Multicultural/Diversity
Church, State and Injustice
New course! What should be the relationship between “the church” and “the state”? Does this relationship change when the state promotes injustice? This course examines the relationship between religion and government through a focus on the major approaches to church and state in Christian political thought. Includes case studies and independent research on contemporary issues.
J. Tobin Grant, Political Science
Tuesday, 1-3:30 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351I-004, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351M-001, Multicultural/Diversity
UHON 3510-002, Social Science
Emperors, Assassins, and the Fool
Intrigues, passions, and politics of the early Roman emperors from Augustus to Nero. We view one episode from I, Claudius each week, and read poetry and history written in those bloody years in ancient Rome.
Rick Williams, Classics, UHP Director Emeritus
Monday, 6-8:30 pm, Faner 2061
UHON 351I-005, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 3510-004, Social Science
UHON 351U-004, Humanities
(The) Great War in Popular Imagination
This course emphasizes material (poems, fiction, film, music, propaganda, government documents, etc.) from the time of WWI that reveal the impact of the war on both the population that stayed home as well as the solders who fought in the trenches. The course is designed to give contemporary students insight in to the physical and psychological impact this devastating war had on those who lived through it in an effort to reveal how and why the First World War exists in the imagination of Europeans then and now.
Michael Molino, English
Thursday, 1-4 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351I-006, Interdisciplinary Studies
Intelligence in Minds and Machines
New course! Provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the field of robotics and artificial intelligence from a multidisciplinary perspective. Survey how robots and computers are portrayed in popular media. Explore how thinking, planning, and other cognitive/emotional capacities are defined and studies in psychology, biology, philosophy and artificial intelligence. Combine the approaches of media and science to develop a proposal for an intelligent robot or computer program.
Matt Schlesinger, Psychology
Monday and Wednesday , 3-4:15 pm, Morris 112
UHON 351I-003, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351O-001, Social Science
(The) Irrationality of Western Science
The traditional ideal of rationality in science comes from Euclid, Aristotle, and Plato. But recent work questions this ideal and asks us to rethink scientific practices in cultural context. The result: the irrationality of western science.
Robert Hahn, Philosophy
Thursday, 1-3:30 pm, TBA
UHON 351U-002, Humanities
Sound Empowerment
New course! Being alive means perpetual immersion in a sound environment where silence does not exist. Understanding sounds and its uses brings us to a place of appreciate for all sounds (language, music, and noise) and will alter our everyday life experience. We have the power to change sound and sound has the power to change us; understanding this is sound empowerment.
Ron Coulter, School of Music
Monday, 6-8:30 pm, Altgeld 112
UHON 351F-002, Fine Arts
UHON 351I-002, Interdisciplinary Studies
UHON 351U-001, Humanities
Theater Performance and Feminist Theory
New course! This class is a unique blend of challenging concepts from the world of literary criticism, the history of (women’s) playwriting and dramaturgy, specific feminist theater readings. Live Theater Department productions and film clips of seminal theater events will be used.
Anne Fletcher, Theater
Tuesday and Thursday, 9:35-10:50 am, TBA
UHON 351F-003, Fine Arts
UHON 351U-003, Humanities
Yoga and You
New course! In recent years, the practice of Yoga has expanded throughout the country, becoming a popular mode of both exercise and stress relief. This course, in looking back at the history, tradition and tenets of yoga practice, presents a ground breaking stress relief program that aids the student in identifying the sources of stress in their lives and managing the effects of it.
Molly Edwards-Britton, Theater
Tuesday, 3-5:30 pm, TBA
UHON 351L-001, Human Health