| Course Number |
Course Title |
Credit Hours |
Syllabus |
| 137.01 |
Urban Education in the 21st Century |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3747 |
SEM |
11:00 AM-12:18 PM |
W |
Arps Hall |
0243 |
Dixson,Adrienne D |
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This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of urban education through an examination of academic and popular media and literature. The course will illumine the significant relationship between schooling and society through critical readings of historical and contemporary literature and film on urban schools. The course texts and discussions will pay particular attention to the ways in which schooling is racialized, gendered, sexualized, and classed in academic literature, film, television, and other visual media texts. Students will be encouraged to bring to class and share their own examples of texts that reference course themes and concepts. |
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| 137.02 |
From National Treasure to the Da Vinci Code: Freemasons, Fact, and Fiction |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3748 |
SEM |
9:30 AM-11:18 AM |
W |
Science And Engineering Lib |
0090 |
Diaz,Jose Oscar |
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In November 2004 Touchstone Pictures released a motion picture titled National Treasure. The movie's plot line was that Freemasons had amassed a huge amount of priceless treasure and hidden it away. Its sequel, National Treasure II: Book of Secrets placed a Freemason, Gutzon Borglum, at the center of a gigantic conspiracy to protect a Native American treasure. Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is laden with Masonic imagery and it is assumed that American Freemasonry will be the focus of his next novel. Who are the Freemasons and is it true what critics say about them? Is this a benevolent society or a powerful secret group? Where does Freemasonry fit within America’s establishment? How is Freemasonry connected to the Greco-Roman religious cults known as the mysteries? How influential is Freemasonry in the world’s stage? |
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| 137.03 |
Utilizing A Scientific Perspective In Evaluating Current Biology/health Issues |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25936 |
SEM |
11:30 AM-12:18 PM |
F |
Aronoff Laboratory |
0522 |
Cline,Morris George |
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This seminar is designed to help you become familiar with the scientific view in examining current critical biology/health issues such as stem cell research, genetically modified foods, dietary/weight-loss programs, air pollution/global warming, the potential bird flu pandemic, extending life (when to pull the plug), use and treatment of animals in research, and pain-killer medicines. A sound scientific evaluation of these urgent issues requires an understanding of how science works, its scope and limitations and how relevant fundamental data are generated and analyzed. We will apply scientific criteria to the above-mentioned issues to assist you in evaluating them. We will help you become aware of the great need and opportunity for further exciting research on these topics at all levels of biological organization down to the molecular level. |
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| 137.04 |
Headless Body Found in Topless Bar: Researching Tabloid Journalism |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25938 |
SEM |
2:00 PM-2:48 PM |
R |
Library, Wm Oxley Thompson |
150B |
Greenberg,Gerald Stuart |
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How do you view the tabloids? Guilty pleasure? Car wreck journalism? Slander and defamation? Why do National Enquirer stories end up in the New York Times? If it’s trash, why do so many people care? This course will address these issues and more. Academically, the tabloids have a place in folklore, anthropology, history, and law as well as journalism. We will examine the phenomenon of tabloid journalism as it appears in print and electronic media, and demonstrate the use of research tools for discovering information on the subject. Readings will investigate the tabs from several academic and popular perspectives. Students will search for, examine and discuss tabloid journalism’s place popular culture. |
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| 137.05 |
Brazil: Continental Country |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25939 |
SEM |
3:30 PM-5:18 PM |
R |
Library, Wm Oxley Thompson |
322B |
Riedinger,Edward Anthony |
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This course will explore the geographic, demographic, economic, and socio-cultural aspects that distinguish Brazil as a developing region of Latin America and the world. Students will obtain experience engaging in objective, critical discussion on the country and will learn the factors that have made Brazil one of the leading developmental regions of the world along with Russia, India, and China (the BRIC countries). |
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| 137.06 |
Zombies, Chainsaws, and Screams: Horror Films and Culture |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3749 |
SEM |
10:30 AM-12:18 PM |
R |
Scott Lab |
N0044 |
Kattelman,Beth A |
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This course examines the way in which horror films reflect the cultural anxiety of their time. Students will watch seven influential American horror films, from a period spanning four decades, and analyze how each film reflects what was happening in America during its creation. Students will also look at how advertising campaigns for the films revealed cultural attitudes and influenced audience reception. Primary source materials from the collections of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute (press books, lobby cards, etc.) will be used to enhance discussions and learning. Class periods will include additional videos and discussions about the films and reading materials. **You need to be “o.k.” watching horror films in order to take this class. |
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| 137.07 |
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Rocket Fuel for Creative Minds |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25942 |
SEM |
10:30 AM-11:18 AM |
F |
Hitchcock Hall |
0346 |
Schlosser,Philip A |
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Innovation and entrepreneurship combine to form an explosive mixture with the power to propel new technologies into the marketplace. But why do companies with seemingly invincible market dominance fail? Why are innovations typically the brainchild of a single inventor or a small group of individuals? Why do innovators need zeal, salesmanship, charisma, and business savvy to be successful in driving their inventions to the marketplace? This seminar embarks on a quarter-long journey to explore, question, and understand how technologies, innovators, entrepreneurs, and companies succeed and fail in the global marketplace. |
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| 137.08 |
The Great Healers: A Condensed History of Medicine |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25943 |
SEM |
2:30 PM-4:18 PM |
W |
Graves Hall |
5068 |
Rotter,Andrej |
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There are few more fascinating subjects in human history than man’s age-long efforts to cure the sick, heal the wounded, and nurse the ailing. Since men first walked the earth, they have sought to prolong life-with prayer and magic, with natural remedies discovered by accident, and with increasingly modern medicine. How did medical science advance from its dim beginnings in herbalism and sorcery to the modern lucidity of its electron microscopes? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, led an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But this theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human people but also very much the products of their own times and places. In this course compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, will give us the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine – presented through the lives of the physician-scientists whose deeds and determination paved the way. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original “blue baby” operation, this is a story filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery. This course will familiarize students with some of the great physicians throughout history and an understanding of what they achieved. |
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| 138.01 |
Exploring the Music of Johnny Cash through a Sociological Perspective |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25953 |
SEM |
1:30 PM-3:18 PM |
T |
Scott Lab |
E0241 |
Curry,Timothy Jon |
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Murder. Love. God. Any fan of Johnny Cash knows that these themes appear frequently in his music. In this seminar we approach the music of J.R. Cash from a sociological perspective to discover how events in his life influenced his music. We focus particularly on his recordings made at Folsom and San Quentin prisons, and compare the songs performed in those settings to songs he performed earlier and later in his career. Discussions and presentations in the seminar relate sociological concepts such as gender, class, and ethnicity to his music. Weekly discussion worksheets will be collected—these help focus our discussion by drawing attention to the lyrics of key songs and important aspects of the readings. Additional written work for the class is a term paper—an analysis of the 2004 popular film about Johnny Cash Walk the Line. The readings for the course provide a background to his life, the social climate of his times, an account of his visit to Folsom prison concert, and writing about film from a sociological perspective. |
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| 138.02 |
The British Country House: a Social, Economic, Architectural, and Cultural History |
2. |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3755 |
SEM |
1:30 PM-3:18 PM |
R |
Scott Lab |
E0241 |
McGurr,Melanie S. |
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The British Country House is an integral part of the history of Great Britain. This course will study the country house from the Elizabethan Period through the Industrial Revolution to the present. Throughout the course of the seminar, we will study the art, architecture, economies, social history, and culture of the British Country House by concentrating on specific houses each week. There are three writing assignments of the course. Two are short papers, and the final research paper can be on a topic of your choosing (a particular house, an art collection, gardens and grounds, the history of a family, ghost stories and tales, etc.). |
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| 138.03 |
American Indians: Who, Where, and Why |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3756 |
SEM |
4:00 PM-4:48 PM |
T |
Scott Lab |
N0044 |
Morris,Christine Ballengee |
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This Freshman Seminar offers a brief tour through the interdisciplinary field of American Indian Studies. American Indian Studies became organized as an academic field in the late 1960s and 1970s, and its subject matter includes aspects of historical and contemporary American Indian cultures, the study of history, language and linguistics, anthropology and other social sciences, literature, music, art, other media, politics, the various sciences, and so on. In order to focus our ten weeks together, we will concentrate on a few central questions: Who is an American Indian—what factors determine identity? How are contemporary American Indian identities related to American Indian history? How has and does visual culture depict American Indians? What do we learn about each other and what should we forget? |
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| 138.04 |
Droppin’ Science: Introduction to Rap Music Research |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3757 |
SEM |
1:30 PM-3:18 PM |
F |
Campbell Hall |
0252 |
Hendricks,Leta |
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Droppin’ Science employs the theme of rap music research to instruct students on the use of modern innovative research methods and resources. The course focuses on how to find, identify, evaluate, and manage information and to uncover the history, genres, and artists of rap music. Students passionate about rap music will have an opportunity not only to find out more about the art form, but also to develop research skills for lifelong learning. |
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| 138.05 |
Bugs to Bombs: Are We Safe Yet? |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25956 |
SEM |
12:30 PM-1:18 PM |
T |
Starling Loving Hall |
M0010 |
Crawford,John Mac |
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This a discussion-based class concentrating on current issues and topics in preparedness (on-going effort for safety) and bioterrorism. It only takes a daily reading of the newspaper to find instances of breakdowns in our efforts to make the world more secure. It is hoped students come away with resolve to become involved in the world's affairs with energy and a sense of duty to improve it. |
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| 138.06 |
(Hi)stories of a Dread Disease: Chronicling Cancer in 20th Century America |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25957 |
SEM |
3:00 PM-4:48 PM |
W |
Scott Lab |
E0241 |
Jones,Jeffrey Alan |
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"Cancer may be the cost of modern life style" reads a recent headline from the New York Times. Indeed, while cancer was known and described by ancient physicians, its significance as a cause of human suffering dates to far more recent times. Beginning in the later 19th century, cancer emerged as not only an important source of morbidity and mortality but also a touchstone for the successes and failures, fears and hopes of a newly scientific medicine. We will trace the story of cancer in 20th century America from wide-ranging points of view, including traditional medical history, cultural studies, and literature. What stories do we tell about cancer, and what do these stories say about our society's views of not only science and medicine but also our bodies, relationships, and sense of self? |
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| 138.07 |
The Historical Jesus |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 25958 |
SEM |
4:00 PM-5:00 PM |
M |
Hagerty Hall |
0451 |
Reff,Daniel Timothy |
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As a discipline, Comparative Studies focuses in part on the “stories” we tell ourselves -- stories about everything from who God is, to what a man or woman is, to what it means to be happy or French -- and how these stories influence, and are influenced by our lives as lived. One of the most influential stories told during the past two millennia (just think of Western history) is the story of Jesus [the] Christ. Whether Jesus was God is a matter of faith (as Jesus himself noted); it is not something that can seemingly be proved or disproved. In this class we will not focus on matters of faith. We will instead focus on the “historical Jesus” -- the Jesus who emerges from the gospels when they are read along with contemporary sources from the perspective of historical anthropology. |
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| 138.08 |
Drug Discovery: Where Chemistry and Biology Meet |
1 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3758 |
SEM |
2:30 PM-3:18 PM |
M |
Parks Hall |
0544 |
Kvaratskhelia,Mamuka |
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Have you wondered how long it takes to develop a new medicine and why drugs are so expensive? The first half of the seminar course will provide an overview of a lengthy and challenging path for discovery and development of a new drug before it is ready for human use. The presented seminars will emphasize the importance of chemistry and biology in successful outcome of a new medicine. In the second half of the seminar course we will analyze the 25 years history of fighting HIV/AIDS. The worst pandemic in the human history is still expanding with an alarming rate and has reached every corner of the world claiming millions of lives each year. What have we learnt so far and what can we do in future to eradicate HIV/AIDS? The course will particularly suit the undergraduates who are thinking to further their education in medicine, pharmacy and life sciences. |
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| 138.09 |
Love, Sex, and Disability |
2 |
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| Call Number |
Type |
Time |
Days |
Building |
Room |
Instructor |
Bio |
Syllabus |
| 3759 |
SEM |
3:30 PM-5:18 PM |
R |
Derby Hall |
0060 |
Brueggemann,Brenda Jo |
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This course will analyze the many ways in which disability, sexuality and gender intersect, and will pay special attention to the areas of difference and diversity, culture and representation, and political contexts and social change. Topics and issues to be addressed include: the construction and politics of identity (and multiple identities); historical perspectives on disability and sexuality; the medicalization of disability and/or sexuality; rights and activism around disability and sexuality; intimate relationships and disability; and sex education. |
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