The Honors Academic Program

Previous Honors Seminars

 

Fall 2011

Ithaca Seminars in Honors

ICSM 11000-01, 11000-04 The Golden City: The Rhetorical Construction of Classical Athens (3a, h)
Instructor: Robert Sullivan
CRN 21823, 23541
MWF 2:00 - 2:50, F noon, MWF 10:00 - 10:50, M noon
This seminar will consist of a multidisciplinary investigation of the myths and realities of Classical Athens. We will inquire critically into the city’s political and social structures, its aesthetic monuments, its intellectual milieu and its everyday life. The seminar will not, however, be a conventional historical accounting of who did what when in ancient Greece. We will examine Athens as an instance of rhetorical self-creation and examine the material of Athenian history as rhetorical artifacts. A rhetorical approach to Classical artifacts foregrounds the rich political, social, and cultural contexts that underlie historical and aesthetic self-portraiture. Accordingly, we will re-engage the disputes that vitalized Athenian life - and in doing so may well come to see the contemporary American experience through a radically different lens.

ICSM 11000-02, 03 Why Are We Here? Student Culture and the Problem of College (1)
Elizabeth Bleicher
CRN 21824, 21825
Section 2: TuTh 10:50-12:05, W noon 
Section 3: TuTh 2:35-3:50, W noon
What does it mean to be educated? Are you here to get a job or to get a life? To answer these questions, we will explore competing rationales behind collegiate study and engage in advanced literary and cultural analyses. We will study historical precedents, scholarly and journalistic articles, social critiques, and fictional collegians. We will conduct primary research into youth culture and attitudes toward education, develop rhetorical skills by sharing our findings, and write extensively across a variety of genres. Individually, you will articulate your personal philosophy of education and develop your own personal goals. Collaboratively, we will analyze the extent to which our readings and writings fit with our evolving understanding of the goals for collegiate study

ICSM 11800-01, 02 Language and Power in Classical Athens (3a, g, h)
David Flanagan
CRN 21826, 21827
Section 1: MWF 1:00-1:50, F noon
Section 2: MWF 3:00-3:50, F noon
This honors seminar will combine the study of history, political philosophy, and rhetorical theory and practice. It will explore canonical texts, such as Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Apology, that have generated Western traditions of literature and political philosophy and secondary sources such as Irving F. Stone’s The Trial of Socrates. This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG 10600 or WRTG 10800 (Academic Writing I).

ICSM 11800-03 Tribes and Scribes HU, LA (3a)
Ron Denson
CRN 22790
TuTh 1:10-2:25, W noon
This seminar considers the lives of American Indians today as revealed in stories they tell about their history in North America, their ongoing relations with mainstream culture, and the cultural traditions and values that have sustained them since the arrival of Columbus over 500 years ago. We will focus on the American Indian future such as, how do Native Americans respond to the challenge of "living in two worlds"? How do they resist both stereotyping and mythologizing by a mainstream culture? What relation to the natural world are they committed to, and how do they envision our common environmental future? This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy departmental and school requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG-10600 or WRTG-10800.

ICSM 11800-04 Facing Nature (1, 3a)
Marlene Kobre
CRN 23517
TuTh 2:35-3:50, W noon
In this seminar we consider our human relationship with the natural world. Discussion focuses on the complex, often contradictory, ways Americans have addressed questions about nature from the days of exploration and colonization to the present. Students read works by American writers who have struggled to articulate the meaning of nature and its relation to the human experience. This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy departmental and school requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG 10600 or WRTG 10800 (Academic Writing I).

Honors Special Topics Seminars

IISP 21000-01 A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper  * NEW SEMINAR *
Thomas Pfaff

1 credit

CRN 20501

F 3:00-3:50 
We will look at the common uses and the misuses of quantitative information in the media. For most of the semester will discuss current media articles and how quantitative information has been used properly or improperly along with the impact it has on the actual story.

IISP 21001-01 The Little Dickens  * NEW SEMINAR *
Elizabeth Bleicher
1 Credit – Block II
CRN 23243
W 5:45-7:00 
As we kick off the year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth, join us for a ripping read through David Copperfield, the semi-autobiographical account of an impoverished child’s rise from factory worker to best-selling author. Dickens called David Copperfield his “favourite child” among all his literary offspring. This reading-intensive seminar includes a preliminary introduction to the father of the modern literary blockbuster, without whom there would be no Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Twilight, or Hunger Games series. N.B.: It is also a fitting but optional foundation for the intermediate honors seminar, “Dickens’s London” (offered Spring 2012), an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the author and his city that includes an Honors trip to London.

Honors Intermediate Seminars

IISP 20000 – International Scholarly Conversation (gen ed TBD) * NEW SEMINAR *
Rachel Wagner
CRN 20500
TuTh10:50-12:05 
The International Scholarly Conversation is intended to be a unique, important, and ongoing feature of the intellectual life of the Honors Program. Over the course of the semester a number of international scholars, representing a great variety of disciplines, will visit the seminar. Before they come, they will share with the seminar a set or core readings or media that will allow an informed colloquy. When they come to campus they will lead the seminar. Professor Wagner will act as convener and coordinator of the seminar and lead discussions around the careers and interests of the visiting scholars. A particular focus of the seminar will be to examine the dialectical relationship between cosmopolitanism and parochialism in the lives of international scholars.

IISP 20002 – London-As-Text (gen ed TBD)
William Sheasgreen
Offered at London Center
This seminar is the centerpiece of the Program's London Honors Semester. Bill Sheasgreen, director of the Ithaca College London Center will lead participants in a multi-perspectival investigation of the city of London. Every day, participants will be sent out on guided explorations of every aspect of that fascinating metropolis. The city of London itself is the text the seminar will be "reading."

BIOL 22045 – Playing God: From Genetic Engineering to Personal Genomics (2b) *NEW SEMINAR*
Marina Caillaud
CRN 23410
TuTh 9:25-10:40
This course will examine what genetic engineering and genomics are, and how they impact our society. We will consider such topics as genetically modified organisms, personal genomics, gene therapy, genetic testing, reproductive technologies, and pharmacogenomics. Following a general introduction into the science underlying the technology, we will focus on the ethical, financial, political and sociological impact of advances in biotechnology on society.

CNPH 21800 – Digital Cultures: Theories, Practices, Interventions (3b) *NEW SEMINAR*
Patricia Zimmerman
CRN 23444
Day/Time Tu 6-8:30pm
This course explores international contemporary cybercultures and digital theories across technologies, forms, platforms, genres, industries, theories, debates, policies and constituencies. It will traverse a wide range of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, including political economy, aesthetics, social theory, music theory, and new media theory, and will investigate international digital visual cultures. In this exploration, the course will take up the history, economics, theory, and criticism of digitality across commercial, non-profit and artistic modalities.

ENGL 20003 – Science and Poetry (3a, h) * NEW SEMINAR *
James Swafford
CRN 23393
MWF 11:00-11:50 
This seminar will take its cue and its challenge from C. P. Snow’s claim that modern society has split into the two cultures of the sciences and the arts/humanities: “There seems to be no place where the cultures meet,” Snow lamented. If there is such a meeting place, we’ll find it. We’ll consider the ongoing “two cultures” debate, glance at the long history of relations—sometimes friendly and collaborative, sometimes downright hostile—between science and poetry, and study closely a generous number of modern poems that are informed by science and mathematics. The latter part of the term will be devoted to team projects in which we search out additional math- and science-connected poetry, analyze and evaluate the poems, and construct our own anthology after determining our target audience and purpose. Among the poets whom we’ll read and whom you might know: Lucretius, Donne, Darwin, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Jeffers, Updike, Holub—and, with Ithaca connections, Ammons, Ackerman, and Hoffmann.

ENGL 20004 – American Breakdown (3a)
Hugh Egan
CRN 23185
MWF 10:00-10:50
In this seminar, we will investigate some of America’s literature of madness and psychological instability, beginning with a Puritan sermon and proceeding more or less chronologically through the 20th century. American literature is often viewed in terms of its self-reliant and “sane” male narrators and characters (including Benjamin Franklin and the founding fathers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others), but there is another, equally powerful and counterbalancing literary strain that records narratives of breakdown, psychosis, and suicidal descent. These two literary traditions are not mutually exclusive, and indeed might best be seen as weirdly co-dependent. A number of discrete themes will emerge in the course of our reading, including: the importance of the Puritan tradition to America’s volatile self-image; how “madness” in America is inflected in terms of race and gender; how the process of going mad is recorded in language; and how psychological interpretations of literature unearth buried assumptions about self and nation. Authors will include Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ken Kesey, Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, and Susanna Kaysen. There will be three required essays and a final project.

MATH 26500 – Chance: Insights into the Unknown (2b)
John Maceli
CRN 23262
MWF 12:00-12:50
People have long been both fascinated and terrified by randomness. The uncertainties we face are both a source of freedom and anxiety. While obviously no one can predict uncertain events with certainty, this honors seminar will explore the nature of the uncertainty itself in a wide variety of contexts. This is an area full of both concepts and controversies. What are the strengths and weaknesses, assumptions and misconceptions of polls, ratings and surveys? Why are conflicting health and medical claims so prevalent? In this age of overwhelming information, how can we sort out noise and coincidence from valuable observations? The seminar will explore how we are profoundly informed by chance and chaos and how misinterpretations cause us to misjudge our world.

POLT 22002 Shame, Apology, Reparation: The Theory and Global History of Reparation (1, g,h)

Naeem Inayatullah

CRN 23464
MW 4:00-5:15

Enrollment: 20

This seminar will consist of a survey of the global history of apology and reparation with an emphasis on conceptualizing the problems and opportunities of reparation. Almost every student lives in a society that has either apologized to another society for past harms (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and genocide), lives in a society that has asked for an apology and for reparations for past harms, or both. Students don’t often understand that their relations with other members of their nation or their relations with global others are mediated by different interpretations of such past harms. This course will ask each student to assess the placement of their self and their society within the context of past social and historical harms. The course ask students if unearthing the shame, apology, and reparations embedded within their self and society allows them to change their understanding of how the world works and their role in it.

POLT 22003 – The Politics of The Wire (1)
Tom Shevory
CRN 20730
TuTh 10:50-12:05
The course involves critical analysis of the first season (13 episodes) of the acclaimed HBO series, The Wire. The series focuses on Baltimore's drug trade and the police department that attempts to control it. The series has been labled as the best television program ever produced. It raises a set of interconnected, interdisciplinary issues, related not just to the drug trade and the "war on drugs," but also to poverty, crime, violence, legal rights, bureaucracy, free markets, social and economic class, and race, and gender equality. Such issues will be considered in the context of the program, but will also be explored through a variety of supplemental readings. Course includes screenings and discussion. Critical papers (4), readings, and class participation.

PSYC 24700 – Culture and Psychology (1, g)
Judith Pena-Shaff
TuTh10:50-12:05
Through the exploration and discussion of debatable themes in the field of cross-cultural psychology, this seminar’s focal point will be on the relationship between the cultural context where individuals grow and develop and the behaviors that become established in the repertoire of individuals growing up in a particular culture. This seminar will try to bring to light how universal as well as culture-specific phenomena influence human behavior.

THPA 26800 - A Tale of Two Theatrical Cities: Visual, Performing, and Literary Artistic Responses to the French Revolution (3a, g, h)
Jack Hrkach
Offered at the London Center
In this course, we will attempt to discover how and why the arts and particularly performing arts react to this dramatic event in world history. We will encounter and ask questions of paintings, plays, films, operas, dances, and novels that attempt, in manners that range from the clownish to the deadly serious, to come to terms with the Revolution. When we’ve finished we should have developed a more comprehensive notion of the questions artists from the late 18th century to the beginning of the 21st have asked about the French Revolution in particular, and to understand how artists use an historic event to hold a mirror up to their own times.

Two prime course materials are the novels A Tale of Two Cities and The Scarlet Pimpernel as well as the plays, musicals and films based on them. Other plays include Danton’s Death, Marat/Sade, and Ariane Mnouchkine’s 1789; operas featured include Andrea Chenier, Dialogues of the Carmelites and The Ghosts of Versailles; films featured include silents Napoleon and Orphans of the Storm, two versions of Marie Antoinette, and Scaramouche. We will examine the works of the painters Jacques-Louis David and Elizabeth Vigée LeBrun, among others. Also included are a classics illustrated comic book, a Blackadder episode, even a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

WRTG 27001 – 2012: The End of Time? (3a)
Ron Denson
CRN 21152
MW 4:00-5:15
This seminar examines the phenomenon of Americans’ fascination with what is purported to be the Mayan prediction of the end of the current creation on Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of their “great” calendar cycle of 5,126 years. The flurry of books, articles, and big-budget Hollywood films, the proliferation of sites devoted to the “Y12” question on the internet, the bemused curiosity of even self-professedly “rational” people, all attest to the interest that the end of the Mayan Long Count has generated in recent years. The seminar addresses the various kinds of significance—and nonsignificance—attached to the event by orthodox and dissenting scholars, scientific popularizers, religious leaders, and activists intent on hastening the collapse of the American empire and ushering in a new age. It pursues this inquiry in a historical context that takes into account Christian millenarian movements of the last 2000 years as well as more recent technological fantasies such as the Y2K meltdown.

WRTG 27002 – Women and Fairy Tales (3a)
Kathryn Machan
CRN 21153
MWF 3:00-3:50
Steady reading and discussion/workshop will inform scholarly and creative writing, culminating in a final portfolio and a 20-minute oral presentation. Each student will be encouraged to enter into the study of fairy tales from his or her own career perspective and to contribute openly to classmates’ understanding of the material from diverse points of view. 
This course combines lecture, discussion, and workshop. Letter grades based on reading (quizzes), four papers, one formal oral presentation, and attentive attendance/participation.

WRTG 27004 – The Science and Philosophy of Sex and Love (3a) *NEW SEMINAR*
Cory Brown
CRN 23445
MW 5:25-6:40
A critical assessment of conventional perspectives of love and sex. We will consider more progressive perspectives from the fields of history, anthropology, evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, and literature.

Honors Senior Seminar

IISP 40000 Global Bodies/Embodied Globes

Zillah Eisenstein

CRN 20503

W 4:00-6:30

This course will ask students to think or re-think the static/NATURALIZED ways they think about sexes, races and genders. At the core will be attempts to de-naturalize and de-normalize the constructions of these categories to see what is known and unknown; what is historical construction and what is biological necessity; whether there is such a thing as biology or sexual and/or racial difference to `begin with’—so-to-speak. The framework of the course is to open up the newest possibilities for questioning and knowing why and what and how we see/view notions of biology, culture, politics, history, etc. In the course we travel the globe, examine the `08 election, think about the biological body and then revamp it, etc… We will read a book a week and the books cover a wide interdisciplinary spectrum. There are two required analytic papers which are based on these course readings.

 

Honors Senior Seminar

IISP 40000 Global Bodies/Embodied Globes

Zillah Eisenstein

CRN 20503

W 4:00-6:30

This course will ask students to think or re-think the static/NATURALIZED ways they think about sexes, races and genders. At the core will be attempts to de-naturalize and de-normalize the constructions of these categories to see what is known and unknown; what is historical construction and what is biological necessity; whether there is such a thing as biology or sexual and/or racial difference to `begin with’—so-to-speak. The framework of the course is to open up the newest possibilities for questioning and knowing why and what and how we see/view notions of biology, culture, politics, history, etc. In the course we travel the globe, examine the `08 election, think about the biological body and then revamp it, etc… We will read a book a week and the books cover a wide interdisciplinary spectrum. There are two required analytic papers which are based on these course readings.

 

Spring 2011

FIRST YEAR SEMINAR EXTENSION: 3 Credits

IISP 15000: A Cultural Encounter with Ithaca College 
Instructor: James Pfrehm
CRN: 42698
MWF 1:00-1:50pm (Friends 302)
Open only to First-year students in the Honors Program, this seminar will immerse its participants in the amazing array of cultural events being offered at Ithaca College during the spring semester. The seminar will meet in a classroom to contextualize and discuss the events that they will attend. The heart of the seminar, however, will take place in attending the events themselves, theatrical productions, musical performances, poetry readings, film viewings, art openings, and anything and everything that happens this spring. Participants should be aware that they will need to attend a number of events during the evening hours.

SPECIAL TOPICS SEMINARS: 1 Credit

Block I  

IISP 21000-04: Tony Kushner and Angels in America.
Instructor: Claire Gleitman
CRN: 41895
T 5:25-6:40 (Friends 308)
Angels in America is widely considered to be one of the most important American dramatic works of the late 20th century, engaging as it does profound questions about politics, sexuality, and the authentic life during the AIDS epidemic. This special seminar on Angels in America will be taught by Claire Gleitman, an authority on the text. Tony Kushner, the author of Angels, will be the 2011 Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities at Ithaca College and will work with the seminar during his visit. This seminar may culminate in a staged reading or performance of parts of this important text.

Block II 

IISP 21000-05 
David Stork: Optics and Aesthetics.
Instructor: TBA
CRN: 41896
T 7-8:15pm (Williams 224)Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University as well as an Artist-in-Residence for the New York State Council of the Arts. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and has published six books including Seeing the Light: Optics in nature, photography, color, vision and holography(Wiley), Computer image analysis in the study of art(SPIE), Pattern Classification (2nd ed., Wiley), and HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s computer as dream and reality (MIT). This seminar will investigate the relationship between optics, computer imaging, and aesthetics. Prof. Stork will be the 2011 C. P. Snow Speaker at Ithaca College and will lead the seminar when he visits the campus.

INTERMEDIATE HONORS SEMINARS: 3 Credits

WRTG 27003-01: Highway 61 Revisited.  HU 3b, h (New Seminar!)
Instructor: Flanagan
CRN: 42700
MWF 12-12:50pm (Smiddy 112)
In this seminar we will study the historical development of the quintessential American musical genre, the blues, and critically investigate scholarly reception and interpretation of that music. We will also examine how mainstream majority culture has reacted to the culture of African-Americans in the Deep South during the early 20th century. The overarching theme for the seminar will be the intersection of music, commerce, and technology. The music is an expression of individuals and their communities. Like all popular music, it is also a commercial product offered for sale to consumers. And like all popular music, the blues and its commercial dissemination are in turn influenced by technological innovation. Since this music continues to be a active area of musicological research, the seminar will critically interrogate still-controversial research issues for this music.

IISP 20001-01: Beyond Bollywood – Indian Cinema  (New Seminar!)
Instructor: Nagarkar
CRN: 41894
TR 10:50-12:05 (Williams 323)
The Indian film industry is the largest in the world. Unfortunately, most Westerners only know Indian cinema through the genre of Bollywood - gaudy, romantic musicals with scant enduring value. This seminar examines a broader and more inclusive conception of the Indian cinema. While paying proper attention to the popularity of Bollywood spectaculars, this seminar will focus on many instances of serious, progressive, and experimental Indian cinema. The seminar will view many films. The seminar will be led by Kiran Nagarkar, Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Honors. Mr. Nagarkar has had extensive experience as a screenwriter in the Indian film industry.

ENGL 20010-01: Ithaca: The Art of Place.  (New Seminar!)
Instructor: Kramer
CRN: 41479
MW 4-5:15pm (Friends 309)
The writers in the small city of Ithaca have produced acclaimed novels of tragedy, comedy, mystery, and scandal; prize-winning poems of landscape and meditation; a writing handbook that defines modern style; and an anthology that tells us what qualifies as “literature.” Ithacans have written and produced legendary television programs that have recounted an African-American family’s journey from slavery to freedom; revealed the immensity of the cosmos; and thrown a ray of light on some of its twilit zones. Ithacans have made popular films seen by millions, featuring the greatest actors of their age.
Why did all this happen here?

The seminar would consider Ithaca as a locus of artistic production. Writers, scientists, artists, historians, composers, and film makers of global fame have lived and worked here. Focusing primarily on literature but branching out in many directions, the course would examine how these artists came to Ithaca, the traces that the city and landscape left upon their works, and, in turn, the way these artistic productions have affected the cultural, built, and “natural” landscape.

RLST 22200-01: The Spiritual Journey  HU, 1, g 

Instructor: Rachel Wagner 
CRN: 41095
TR 9:25-10:40am (Williams 224)
Objectives: This Honors Seminar will invite students to consider how different religions relate to one another in the contemporary world. The backbone of the course is Diana Eck’s, Encountering God: Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banares. In this book, Eck discusses the problem of religious dialogue and outlines three approaches to religious positions different from one’s own: exclusivism (they are wrong; I am right); inclusivism (I am right, and they are right too insofar as they are like me); and pluralism (everyone is right if we see things properly). We will put Eck’s paradigm into action as we explore the travel narratives of real people who attempt to understand other cultures and religions through actual pilgrimage to other places and as they engage in dialogue with other people. Along the way, we will explore what is at stake in thinking about the overlap in different religious positions, and consider both why some people avoid such dialogue and why others seek it out.


SPCM 22200-01: American Eloquence.  3a, h
Instructor: Robert Sullivan
CRN: 42701
MWF 9-9:50am (CNS 117)
Objectives: This seminar will encounter systematically the masterpieces of American rhetoric, focusing in particular on great speeches. We will encounter our history's greatest, most famous, and most infamous speeches, reading, listening to, and viewing speeches from every historical era and situation, spoken by men and women of every conceivable circumstance. The study of rhetorical discourse forces us to confront several important matters, including the historical exigency towards which such discourse is aimed, the character and position of the speaker or writer, and the rhetorical culture of the era. Accordingly, we will investigate speeches not merely as examples of aesthetic excellence but as historical artifacts. Speech texts, considered in this way, are voices in historically situated arguments, and by encountering these texts we re-engage important, and often unresolved, conflicts central to the American experience. This course then is not merely a survey of masterpieces but an entry into the American (and historical) spirit of controversia.

HIST 20100-01: The Ocean of Stories: Sanskrit Literature in Translation. 3a, g, h  
Instructor: Jason Freitag
CRN: 41533
Objectives: Titled after the Kathāsaritsāgara, one of the most important and popular works in the classical Sanskrit canon, this seminar will be an intensive introduction to the classic texts of the Sanskrit literary world. The seminar will consider works within a range of genres from fables and fairy tales to court poetry to princely didactic texts and ending with an extended consideration of the major epics of the Indian tradition, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa. This seminar will take a fully multidisciplinary approach to the analysis of these texts. The works will be examined for what they are as individual expressive works, they will be placed in their contexts, both historically and as representatives of their genre within the history of Sanskrit literature, and students will explore the connections between these texts and larger currents in Indian society and culture. Further, the seminar will introduce students to aspects of the Sanskrit language and the distinctive features of Sanskrit that have made it one of the world’s premier literary languages. Finally, students in the seminar will consider the role of translation as both an historical and a literary process through an examination of selected excerpts from alternate translations of the texts under study.

HIST 26930 Power and the Fate of Republics: The Early American Legacy  1, h  
Instructor: Vivian Bruce Conger
CRN: 42672
Objectives: In this course you will examine the experience of Americans from the time of first permanent settlement by English colonists in 1607 to the American Revolution (1770s). You will explore historical analysis and argument through the examination of the planting, growth, and development of American societies. You will learn not only the basic data of early American history but also to express that knowledge in written and oral argument that employs evidence to prove historical theses. Most importantly, you will immerse yourself in primary source documents and play historically accurate roles in order to comprehend the complexities of Puritan life and thought in Massachusetts through the trial of Anne Hutchinson and of revolutionary America in New York City, 1775-76. You will be randomly assigned different roles derived from each historical setting. Your roles are defined largely by the "game objectives." However, you will write (literally) your own scripts, derived from important texts in the history of ideas. The heart of each game is persuasion. For nearly every role to which you're assigned, you must persuade others that "your" views make more sense than those of your opponents. Your views will be informed by the texts cited in your game objectives.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
• Identify the changing meaning and significance of power and resistance to authority in American society and politics, and relate that to current American ideological issues;
• Understand at a visceral level the fundamental ideologies of Puritans and American revolutionaries;
• Organize and consolidate material provided in lectures and readings in order to answer essay questions which require comparative analyses, synthetic thinking, and cause/effect linkages.

PSYC 23701-01: The Cultural Production of Sex, Gender, and Desire. 1 
Instructor: Carla Golden
CRN: 40980
 

Objectives: The question posed by this seminar is one that many people never bother to ask because they assume they know. But answering the question “what is gender?” and considering the implications of living in the world as gendered beings, is not as straightforward as it might seem. In this seminar, we will explore gender and its relation to biological sex and to sexual desire. We will consider whether there are only two genders, and look at the functions and consequences of adherence to binary conceptualizations of sex and gender. We will look at how other cultures conceptualize gender, as well as how gender has been constructed across historical time. Are there only two sexes? Is sex itself a social construction? How is sexual desire produced and constrained by culture? What does sexual desire have to do with biological sex and with gender? What does resistance to sex and gender categorization look like? What is the contemporary transgender movement about? What are the implications of thinking about genders and sexualities as fluid rather than fixed? In sum, this seminar will examine gender and its multiple expressions, and consider the implications for individuals, relationships, and culture.

MATH 26502-01: Oil, Energy, and the Future of Society. 2a, g, h    
Instructor: Thomas Pfaff
CRN: 40944
Objectives: This course will examine why past societies have collapsed and scientifically examine our current energy consumption, with special attention to oil, and how this consumption may impact our future. We will be using Jared Diamond's book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, to provide scientific criterion to analyze past societies and to provide some historic perspective. At the same time we will analyze our current energy consumptions with a focus on peak oil to try and decide if we are currently choosing to fail or succeed. Students will gain a scientific perspective of past societies and gain data analysis skills to understand our current energy situation.


HONORS SENIOR SEMINAR: 3 Credits

IISP 40000 What a Piece of Work: Changing Narratives of What It Means To Be Human – From Below the Angels to Homo Gestalt
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Instructor: 
Bruce Henderson
 

Course Description: The seminar will be an interdisciplinary approach to a question that has challenged scholars, artists, scientists, philosophers, and other thinkers through recorded history—what does it mean to be a human being? We will begin our consideration of this topic with the English Renaissance and move forward topically and chronologically to present-day arguments and imaginings of the future of “human” as a concept and experience. Readings will be drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, history, biology, psychology, sociology; students will be encouraged both to integrate the interdisciplinary approaches to learning that have marked their experience in the Honors Program as well as to bring the specialized knowledge of their advanced work in their own majors and minors.

 

  FALL 2010

First Year Seminars : 4 Credits

ICSM 11000-01 The Golden City: The Rhetorical Construction of Classical Athens HU, LA, 3a, h

CRN: 21901
MWF 11:00-11:50 & F 12:00-12:50
INSTRUCTOR: Robert Sullivan

OBJECTIVES: This seminar will consist of a multidisciplinary investigation of the myths and realities of Classical Athens. We will inquire critically into the city’s political and social structures, its aesthetic monuments, its intellectual milieu and its everyday life. The seminar will not, however, be a conventional historical accounting of who did what when in ancient Greece. We will examine Athens as an instance of rhetorical self-creation and examine the material of Athenian history as rhetorical artifacts. A rhetorical approach to Classical artifacts foregrounds the rich political, social, and cultural contexts that underlie historical and aesthetic self-portraiture. Accordingly, we will re-engage the disputes that vitalized Athenian life - and in doing so may well come to see the contemporary American experience through a radically different lens.



ISCM 11000-02, 03 Why Are We Here?: Youth Culture and the Problem of College HU, LA
02: CRN: 21902, TR 10:50-12:05 & W 12:00-12:50
03: CRN: 21903, TR 2:35-3:50 & W 12:00-12:50
INSTTRUCTOR: Elizabeth Bleicher

OBJECTIVES: What does it mean to be educated? Are you here to get a job or to get a life? To answer these questions, we will explore competing rationales behind collegiate study and engage in advanced literary and cultural analyses. We will study historical precedents, scholarly and journalistic articles, social critiques, and fictional collegians. We will conduct primary research into youth culture and attitudes toward education, develop rhetorical skills by sharing our findings, and write extensively across a variety of genres. Individually, you will articulate your personal philosophy of education and develop your own personal goals. Collaboratively, we will analyze the extent to which our readings and writings fit with our evolving understanding of the goals for collegiate study.



ICSM 10800-06 Tribes and Scribes HU, LA 3a
CRN: 22943
TR 1:10-2:25 & W 12:00-12:50
Instructor: Ron Denson
This seminar considers the lives of American Indians today as revealed in stories they tell about their history in North America, their ongoing relations with mainstream culture, and the cultural traditions and values that have sustained them since the arrival of Columbus over 500 years ago. We will focus on the American Indian future such as, how do Native Americans respond to the challenge of "living in two worlds"? How do they resist both stereotyping and mythologizing by a mainstream culture? What relation to the natural world are they committed to, and how do they envision our common environmental future? This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy departmental and school requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG-10600 or WRTG-10800.

ICSM 11800-01 The Art of Politics: Language and Power in Classical Athens HU, LA, 3a, g, h

CRN: 21904
MWF 2:00-2:50 & F 12:00-12:50
Instructor: David Flanagan

Objectives: This honors seminar will combine the study of history, political philosophy, and rhetorical theory and practice. It will explore canonical texts, such as Sophocles’ Antigone and Plato’s Apology, that have generated Western traditions of literature and political philosophy and secondary sources such as Irving F. Stone’s The Trial of Socrates. This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG 10600 or WRTG 10800 (Academic Writing I).



ISCM 11800-02 Writing about Nature and the American Experience HU, LA, 3a
CRN: 21905,
TR 2:35-3:50 & W 12:00-12:50
Instructor: Marlene Kobre
Objectives: In this seminar we consider our human relationship with the natural world. Discussion focuses on the complex, often contradictory, ways Americans have addressed questions about nature from the days of exploration and colonization to the present. Students read works by American writers who have struggled to articulate the meaning of nature and its relation to the human experience. This course will be writing-intensive and will satisfy departmental and school requirements for a 100-level writing course equivalent to WRTG 10600 or WRTG 10800 (Academic Writing I).

SELECTED TOPICS IN HONORS: 1 Credit

IISP 21000-01 Selected Topics in Honors: Experiencing Teatro
CRN: 20529
W 4:00-5:15 
Instructor: Annette Levine
Enrollment: 30 
Objectives: The object of the course is to stage a chosen play from the Spanish, Latin American, or US Latino Spanglish traditions, with the highest possible production values given limited time and budget. All students registered in the course will be expected to participate in some aspect of the staging of the performance. Students do not need to have previous theater or theater production experience. In the course of the semester, we will meet to discuss the selected play as a literary text, and will then rapidly break up into production groups. The course is open to students of all levels of Spanish proficiency. The course will be conducted in English and the amount of Spanish used will be determined by the play that is selected. Work schedules may be uneven, depending on the task. For some members of the group (for example--but not exclusively--lights, sound, makeup, costumes) there are two periods of intense work: (1) at the design stage and (2) during the final rehearsals and play production.

HONORS INTERMEDIATE SEMINARS: 3 Credits

IISP 20000–01 Honors Intermediate Seminar: Kiran Nagarkar
CRN: 20528
TR 10:50-12:05
Instructor: Kiran Nagarkar
Enrollment: 20 
Course Description: This will be a seminar taught by the Honors Program’s International Visiting Scholar, Kiran Nagarkar. This seminar will consist of an intensive study of the literary and intellectual career of one of the most important authors in contemporary India, Kiran Nagarkar. His works, which address many of the issues that mark the post-colonial experience – the weight of tradition, religion, subalternity, and language – have won the highest literary prizes on the sub-continent. Many of his works address matters of powerful political import, such as terrorism and the roles of religion in culture and politics. Others, such as his play Bed-Time Story are considered dangerous enough to be the object of censorship. will be several guest speakers, field experiences, and cultural outings associated with this seminar.

BIOL 22040-01 The Evolution of Evolution: Society and the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection LA 2a 
CRN: 20880
MWF 10:00-10:50
Instructor: Leann Kanda, CNS 159, 43986, lkanda@ithaca.edu
Enrollment: 20
Objectives: We will address both the theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation of the natural world and as a concept that has shaped and been shaped by society. Students will learn about what the theory entails, and a brief history of the social reactions to the concept, including the long-standing conflict with western religion. We will explore how our understanding of evolution has, and has not, itself evolved from Darwin's formulations. Finally, the application of evolutionary theory in modern society will be considered, from its relevance to racism to its role in the internet. 
Requirements and Grading: Essays, midterm and final papers, and participation.

HIST 26901-01 Microhistories: Individuals in Modern Europe 1, h, g  LA 
CRN: 21062
TR 9:25-10:40
Instructor: Karin Breuer, Muller 418, Ext. 4-1489
Enrollment: 25
Objectives: This is a class about individuals in modern Europe. All of our seminar readings are about individuals – and almost entirely of ones who are disenfranchised from historical narratives (i.e., women and people of the lower and middling classes).Textbooks say almost nothing of such individuals, because they are supposedly not the ones who cause historical change. By studying little-known individuals, we can discover a great deal about the values, beliefs, and practices of previous generations.
Course Requirements and Grading: Readings, active participation, a short response paper, a 15 page research paper based on primary and secondary source material, and a reflective journal.

MATH 26500-01 Chances LA NS 2b
CRN: 21512
MWF 12:00-12:50, in Williams 317
Instructor: Jim Conklin, Williams 402C, X43570, Conklin@ithaca.edu
Enrollment: 25
Objectives: People have long been both fascinated and terrified by randomness. The uncertainties we face are both a source of freedom and anxiety. While obviously no one can predict uncertain events with certainty, this honors seminar will explore the nature of the uncertainty itself in a wide variety of contexts. This is an area full of both concepts and controversies. What are the strengths and weaknesses, assumptions and misconceptions of polls, ratings and surveys? Why are conflicting health and medical claims so prevalent? In this age of overwhelming information, how can we sort out noise and coincidence from valuable observations? The seminar will explore how we are profoundly informed by chance and chaos and how misinterpretations cause us to misjudge our world.

POLT 22003 The Politics of The Wire 1
CRN: 20763
TR 10:50-12:05
Instructor: Thomas Shevory
Enrollment: 20 
Objectives: The course involves critical analysis of the first season (13 episodes) of the acclaimed HBO series, The Wire. The series focuses on Baltimore's drug trade and the police department that attempts to control it. The series has been labled as the best television program ever produced. It raises a set of interconnected, interdisciplinary issues, related not just to the drug trade and the "war on drugs," but also to poverty, crime, violence, legal rights, bureaucracy, free markets, social and economic class, and race, and gender equality. Such issues will be considered in the context of the program, but will also be explored through a variety of supplemental readings. 
Course Requirements and Grading: Screenings, discussion. Critical papers (4), readings, and class participation. Standard grading: A-F

POLT 22002 Shame, Apology, Reparation: The Theory and Global History of Reparation 1, g,h
CRN: 20761
MWF 12:00-12:50
Instructor: Naeem Inayatullah
Enrollment: 20
Objectives: This seminar will consist of a survey of the global history of apology and reparation with an emphasis on conceptualizing the problems and opportunities of reparation. Almost every student lives in a society that has either apologized to another society for past harms (e.g. colonialism, imperialism, slavery, and genocide), lives in a society that has asked for an apology and for reparations for past harms, or both. Students don’t often understand that their relations with other members of their nation or their relations with global others are mediated by different interpretations of such past harms. This course will ask each student to assess the placement of their self and their society within the context of past social and historical harms. The course ask students if unearthing the shame, apology, and reparations embedded within their self and society allows them to change their understanding of how the world works and their role in it.

WRTG 27001-01 2012: The End of Time? LA ( General Education designation pending)
CRN: 21205
TR 10:50-12:05
Instructor: Ron Denson, Smiddy 416, X3567, denson@ithaca.edu
Enrollment: 22
Prerequisites: WRTG 20100 or WRTG 20500.
Objectives: This seminar examines the phenomenon of Americans’ fascination with what is purported to be the Mayan prediction of the end of the current creation on Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of their “great” calendar cycle of 5,126 years. The flurry of books, articles, and big-budget Hollywood films, the proliferation of sites devoted to the “Y12” question on the internet, the bemused curiosity of even self-professedly “rational” people, all attest to the interest that the end of the Mayan Long Count has generated in recent years. The seminar addresses the various kinds of significance—and nonsignificance—attached to the event by orthodox and dissenting scholars, scientific popularizers, religious leaders, and activists intent on hastening the collapse of the American empire and ushering in a new age. It pursues this inquiry in a historical context that takes into account Christian millenarian movements of the last 2000 years as well as more recent technological fantasies such as the Y2K meltdown.

WRTG 27002-01 Women and Fairy Tales 3a LA
CRN: 21206
MWF 11:00-11:50
Instructor: Katharyn Machan, Smiddy 424, X3325, machan@ithaca.edu
Enrollment: 15
Objectives: Steady reading and discussion/workshop will inform scholarly and creative writing, culminating in a final portfolio and a 20-minute oral presentation. Each student will be encouraged to enter into the study of fairy tales from his or her own career perspective and to contribute openly to classmates’ understanding of the material from diverse points of view. 
Course Requirements and Grading: Lecture, discussion, and workshop. Letter grades based on reading (quizzes), four papers, one formal oral presentation, and attentive attendance/participation.

HONORS SENIOR SEMINARS: 3 Credits

IISP 40000 What a Piece of Work: Changing Narratives of What It Means To Be Human – From Below the Angels to Homo Gestalt
CRN: 20531
W 4:00-6:30 Friends 306
Instructor: Bruce Henderson
Enrollment 20 
Course Description: The seminar will be an interdisciplinary approach to a question that has challenged scholars, artists, scientists, philosophers, and other thinkers through recorded history—what does it mean to be a human being? We will begin our consideration of this topic with the English Renaissance and move forward topically and chronologically to present-day arguments and imaginings of the future of “human” as a concept and experience. Readings will be drawn from literature, philosophy, religion, history, biology, psychology, sociology; students will be encouraged both to integrate the interdisciplinary approaches to learning that have marked their experience in the Honors Program as well as to bring the specialized knowledge of their advanced work in their own majors and minors.

 

SPRING 2010 

New this year: special one credit Block I and II selected topics seminars in Honors

Block Courses: 1 Credit

Capable World Citizens: Martha Nussbaum and Cosmopolitanism IISP 21000-01 CRN 43615
Block: I
Instructor: Craig Duncan
Objectives: Martha Nussbaum is a leading contemporary political philosopher, known for her defense of cosmopolitanism (and criticism of nationalism), as well as for her defense of the “capabilities approach” within political philosophy. This course will examine Nussbaum’s cosmopolitanism and the capabilities approach, and the critical challenges these doctrines have faced. The seminar will meet once a week in 75 minute sessions during Block I. The purposes of the seminar will be to help students understand Nussbaum’s political philosophy and to prepare the seminarians to have a full and informed engagement with Professor Nussbaum, who will be visiting Ithaca College as the 2010 Distinguished Speaker in the Humanities. Professor Nussbaum will lead the final session of the seminar.

The Brain as Text- A Journey into Consciousness IISP 21000-02 CRN 43644
Block: II
Instructor: Jean Hardwick
Objectives: Jonah Lehrer, an important new voice in explaining neuroscience to the public, will be the 2010 CP Snow Speaker at Ithaca College. This seminar will examine Lehrer’s two most recent works, Proust Was A Neuroscientist, and How We Decide, within the context of current scientific knowledge about the brain and consciousness. The seminar will meet one evening a week in 75 minute sessions during Block II. The purposes of the seminar will be to help students fully understand Lehrer’s works and to prepare the seminarians to have a full and informed engagement with the author, who will lead one of the sessions of the seminar when he comes to campus.

Honors Intermediate Seminars: 3 Credits

The Spiritual Journey RLST 22200-01 CRN 43582 HU, 1, g
Instructor: Rachel Wagner
Objectives: This Honors Seminar will invite students to consider how different religions relate to one another in the contemporary world. The backbone of the course is Diana Eck’s, Encountering God: Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banares. In this book, Eck discusses the problem of religious dialogue and outlines three approaches to religious positions different from one’s own: exclusivism (they are wrong; I am right); inclusivism (I am right, and they are right too insofar as they are like me); and pluralism (everyone is right if we see things properly). We will put Eck’s paradigm into action as we explore the travel narratives of real people who attempt to understand other cultures and religions through actual pilgrimage to other places and as they engage in dialogue with other people. Along the way, we will explore what is at stake in thinking about the overlap in different religious positions, and consider both why some people avoid such dialogue and why others seek it out.

Culture and Psychology--Debatable Themes Psych 24700-01 CRN 43319 HU, G, LA 1
Instructor: Judith Pena-Shaff
Objectives: Through the exploration and discussion of debatable themes in the field of cross-cultural psychology, this seminar’s focal point will be on the relationship between the cultural context where individuals grow and develop and the behaviors that become established in the repertoire of individuals growing up in a particular culture. This seminar will try to bring to light how universal as well as culture-specific phenomena influence human behavior.

Enacting the Past ENGL 20002-01 CRN 43231 H, 3a, 3b
Instructor: Claire Gleitman
Objectives: In this course, we will examine numerous 20th century dramas that fit (with varying degrees of neatness) within the general category we will call “the history play.” It is worth admitting from the start that this category is a slippery one, and we will devote a fair bit of energy to defining and redefining its borders. The problem is surely connected to the question of how one defines “history,” a concept that is itself not static. It was not until the 19th century that historians came to regard themselves as scientists engaged in a particular discipline detached from other humanist enterprises, one dedicated to the rigorous uncovering of “facts.” And of course, the very instant that modern history was born, philosophers and artists set about rebelling against its certainty, denying the possibility that the past could be recaptured “as it really happened.”

Very much in this spirit, our plays do not simply represent history; they challenge our assumptions about the act of understanding the past. Again and again, they invite us to ask: What constitutes “history?” How does one go about representing it accurately? From whose vantage point is it most objectively or feelingly told? Since many of our plays are written in the shadow of the two World Wars, we will begin our analysis by considering the impact of World War I on the century’s collective imagination. From there, we will proceed to examine the shape that these and other horrors take on the modern and postmodern stages of Europe and America. Because our focus is on dramas, we will consider our texts both as literary artifacts and as blueprints for theatrical events, drawing their performative nature into our discussion wherever possible Authors will include: George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Sean O’Casey, Brian Friel, Caryl Churchill, Peter Weiss, Frank McGuinness, Anna Deavere Smith, Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard.

The Moral Basis of Politics POLT 22001-01
CRN: 43380
Instructor: Alex Moon
Objectives: Liberals, Marxists, critical theorists, and postmodernists give different accounts of the central values underlying political life. These values derive from different viewss of the meaning of life, human nature, dynamics of social life, and the sources of moral knowledge. The course will focus on determining what these values are and judging them. To this end, we will examine how the different schools of thought resolve controversies surrounding the morality of war, terrorism, human rights, national and global distributive justice, and multiculturalism.

Relativity & Quantum Physics in Society PHYS 23200-01 LA, NS, 2a
CRN: 43404 
Instructor: Matthew C. Sullivan
Credits: 3
Objectives: Special relativity and quantum mechanics are the backbone of modern physics and the basis for one-third of our current economy, yet are poorly understood and often misinterpreted by the general public. This course will examine the mathematical and physical basis for special relativity and quantum mechanics such that all students in the course have a basic understanding of the phenomena and how to use them. We will then explore how society views these phenomena: in news reports, fiction, and pseudo-scientific and neo-religious texts. However, even the mathematically and physically correct application of the theories lead to real (and unresolved) scientific and philosophic quandaries, which we will also explore in this course.

Creativity and Madness: An Investigation WRTG 27000-01 HU, 3a
CRN: 43594
Instructor: Mary Beth O’Connor
Objectives: Much has been written on the apparent relationship between creativity and madness at least as far back as the Socratic Dialogue Ion, in which Plato describes the inspired artist as inhabiting a state of “divine madness.” Taking up C.G. Jung’s warnings against reductionism, specifically his admonition that we remember that “a work of art is not a disease,” we will problematize such terms as “madness,” “mental illness,” and “creativity,” and then proceed to investigate psychoanalytic theories including the following: that the artist creates in order to heal her or himself, that the mood disturbances present in a high percentage of artists and writers may be related to cognitive processes associated with certain emotional states, and even that there is no real link between creativity and madness. We’ll also view and read the works of visual artists and writers identified as having suffered from “madness,” as well as accounts by these artists and writers themselves regarding their motivations for creating art, their use of suffering in their work, and their self-destructive tendencies.

The course is designed as an exploration into an issue fraught with a long history of philosophical assumptions, scientific theories, and personal narratives, as well as a rich body of artistic work. It is a necessarily interdisciplinary investigation, with important implications especially for those who wish to pursue art themselves, as well as for those interested in aesthetics, psychology, literature, and visual art.

The Mathematics of Art and Architecture MATH 26500-01 H, G, NS, 2b
CRN: 41635
Instructor: Osman Yurekli
Objectives: The course will use the student's interest in art or architecture as motivation for learning the mathematics in particular geometry needed to construct or to understand the work of art throughout history. Furthermore, the course will attempt to use student's interest in geometry as motivation for learning about art and art history. It will also show that mathematics in particular geometry is a dynamical field that is related to many other human endeavors in particular art and architecture.

The course will emphasize multicultural aspects of mathematics. This approach helps to promote a holistic view of mathematics. For example, we will explore Islamic art, design, and architecture. This will give students a chance to see the mathematical, historical, aesthetic and religious dimensions of Islamic World. Students will able to connect other liberal art subjects such as art, religious studies, history and social studies.

The seminar will emphasize experimental and investigative mathematics not just proofs. For instance, we will investigate how numbers, arithmetic, and mathematics are invented and how these concepts helped create geometrical designs and beautiful architecture.

As a result of this course, the student should learn to view mathematics more broadly and to appreciate the varied roles mathematics has played in people’s lives throughout the world.

The Cultural Production of Sex, Gender, and Desire PSYC 23701-01
CRN: 43400
Instructor: Carla Golden
Objectives: The question posed by this seminar is one that many people never bother to ask because they assume they know. But answering the question “what is gender?” and considering the implications of living in the world as gendered beings, is not as straightforward as it might seem. In this seminar, we will explore gender and its relation to biological sex and to sexual desire. We will consider whether there are only two genders, and look at the functions and consequences of adherence to binary conceptualizations of sex and gender. We will look at how other cultures conceptualize gender, as well as how gender has been constructed across historical time. Are there only two sexes? Is sex itself a social construction? How is sexual desire produced and constrained by culture? What does sexual desire have to do with biological sex and with gender? What does resistance to sex and gender categorization look like? What is the contemporary transgender movement about? What are the implications of thinking about genders and sexualities as fluid rather than fixed? In sum, this seminar will examine gender and its multiple expressions, and consider the implications for individuals, relationships, and culture.

Cultural Encounters: Force and Resistance in Cultural Contact IISP-30000-01 G, 1
CRN: 42362
Instructor: Naeem Inayatullah
Objectives: Most cultural encounters fail to treat others as valuable and necessary resources. Instead, cultural differences are primarily seen as threats against which we must defend ourselves. Or they are regarded as deficiencies that require us to preach, teach, and assimilate others. No doubt we have reasons for these two responses – as various forms of realism and idealism remind us. Yet cultural encounters can reveal richer possibilities, deeper motivations, and alternative postures. They can be seen as opportunities that heal an internal wound or fulfill an inner emptiness. We will use the junior year seminar as a means to assess our response to the differences and cultural encounter.

Newest Sexes/Genders/Races IISP 40000-01
CRN: 42363
Instructor: Zillah Eisenstein
Objectives: This course will ask students to think or re-think the static/NATURALIZED ways they think about sexes, races and genders. At the core will be attempts to de-naturalize and de-normalize the constructions of these categories to see what is known and unknown; what is historical construction and what is biological necessity; whether there is such a thing as biology or sexual and/or racial difference to `begin with’—so-to-speak. The framework of the course is to open up the newest possibilities for questioning and knowing why and what and how we see/view notions of biology, culture, politics, history, etc. In the course we travel the globe, examine the `08 election, think about the biological body and then revamp it, etc… We will read a book a week and the books cover a wide interdisciplinary spectrum. There are two required analytic papers which are based on these course readings.

 

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