Fall 2015 Honors Colloquia Last Updated: 4/30/15 Notes American Studies Honors Students: Beyond any major credit indicated in this document, certain courses may count for credit in American Studies. Determination is made on a case-by-case basis. Consult your academic advisor for details. Anthropology Honors Students: Beyond any major credit indicated in this document, certain courses may count for credit in Anthropology. Determination is made on a case-by-case basis. Consult your academic advisor for details. KSB Honors Students: Colloquia designated as “major credit” will count toward “free electives” and/or the 12-credits required for “University Honors in Business.” Colloquia may not be substituted for Kogod core courses. Religious Studies Honors Students: Please see your Religious Studies advisor for approval to apply a religionrelated colloquium to your major. SIS Honors Students: You are encouraged to speak with your SIS academic advisor to determine whether a colloquium might be considered for another functional area or regional field. SOC Honors Students: Many of these course offerings may meet the “hours outside of SOC” or the “Liberal Studies” requirement. Please check with your SOC academic advisor to determine applicability. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Honors Students: Beyond any major credit indicated in this document, certain courses may count for credit in WGSS. Determination is made on a case-by-case basis. Consult your faculty academic advisor for details. _____________________________________________________________________________________ HNRS-300-001H Oral Histories of the Civil Rights Movement Distinguished Adjunct Professor Julian Bond M 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm This class surveys 1960s civil rights movement figures and instructs students in oral history techniques. Students conduct a tape-recorded interview with a 1960s civil rights figure to construct an oral biography. MAJOR CREDIT: AMERICAN STUDIES; ANTHROPOLOGY ; CLEG (Government Component); EDUCATION (Elementary Education); HISTORY; LAW AND SOCIETY (Related Elective); LITERATURE; POLITICAL SCIENCE (Race, Gender and Politics Concentration); SIS (Identity, Race, Gender, Culture; Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights); SOC (Satisfies the SOC U.S. History Requirement); SOCIOLOGY 1 HNRS-300-002H Dying, Death, and the Afterlife Dr. Martyn Oliver TF 11:45 am – 1:00 pm How do we die? What happens when we die? Is there something after death? These questions have inspired the human imagination like few others. This course will examine texts from a variety of religious traditions-as well as philosophical, personal, and scientific accounts-of the dying and after-death experience, tracing the contours of how humans have navigated and imagined our mortality across different cultures. We will explore how depictions of the passage through the end of life, and then visions of both eternal comfort in Paradise and unceasing punishment in Hell, reflect the religious and philosophical anxieties about what it means to live. MAJOR CREDIT: ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH PROMOTION; LITERATURE; PHILOSOPHY HNRS-301-001H Physics of Public Policy Dr. Gregg Harry MTh 1:10 pm – 2:25 pm This course will cover energy as a physical quantity from the point of view of how it influences public policy decisions on energy sources, energy distribution, and energy use in transportation, industry, households, etc. The physics of mechanics, thermodynamics, nuclear interactions, electricity, and magnetism will be touched on. Specific topics will include fossil fuels, nuclear power and weapons, alternative energy sources like solar, hydroelectric, wind, hydrogen as a storage medium, and energy conservation. Guests who are knowledgeable both in physics and policy will speak to the class. MAJOR CREDIT: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (BA and BS major credit); PHYSICS (Physics BA, BS, or Applied Physics Minor); POLITICAL SCIENCE (Policy Concentration) 2 HNRS-302-001H Digital Culture: Humanity in the Digital Age Anthropologist in Residence Dr. Sibel Kusimba TF 1:10 pm – 2:25 pm Humans and our culture are increasingly becoming digital - through our interactions with internet, mobile phones, and other digital technologies. This course seeks to understand the impact of new media technologies on contemporary culture and society. This course will explore defining digital and new media technologies and their histories. It will approach the subject through comparative cultural contexts, such as mobile phones and internet use cross culturally in everyday life. Other topics include studying the social relationships created and revealed by the digital and digital currency in the developing world and Bitcoin. The politics of the digital, including political engagement, access privacy and control, and the concept of the “digital cyborg” – the identification of the self with the digital – will also be covered. Students will explore the digital through a series of ethnographic projects examining new media in the lives of their peers, families, fellow students and social networks. We will conduct ethnographic study of online communities; draw social networks created by social media and online communication; and examine the linguistic anthropology of texting. MAJOR CREDIT: AMERICAN STUDIES; ANTHROPOLOGY ; ART (Graphic Design major only); POLITICAL SCIENCE (major related social science requirement); SIS (Identity, Race, Gender, Culture); SOC HNRS-302-002H Legal Issues in Globalization Professor Michael Mass T 2:35 pm – 5:15 pm This course examines the legal aspects of international trade and investment. It explores the nature of international investment law, the private customary law of trade, and both domestic and international schemes for the regulation of international trade. Students become familiar with the legal mechanics of engaging in direct foreign investment, as well as questions surrounding the choice of law issues in national regulation. Special emphasis is placed on the trade protection laws of the United States and the development of the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Although the course examines these issues from a legal perspective, it also deals with the political, social, economic, and environmental aspects of trade regulation and economic regulation in this era of globalization. MAJOR CREDIT: CLEG (Economics component); ECONOMICS; KOGOD (International Business); LAW AND SOCIETY (elective); POLS (Major Related Social Science Requirement); SIS (The Global Economy; Global Inequality and Development; Global and Comparative Governance); SOCIOLOGY; WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (Language and Area Studies: French/Europe, German/Europe, Russian/Area Studies, Spanish/Latin America - fulfills a Social Sciences requirement); 3 HNRS-302-003H The Responsibility to Protect: How, Where and When? Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence Anthony Quainton Th 2:35 pm – 5:15 pm The course will explore the relatively new international concept of the responsibility to protect. Students will explore a series of historical and contemporary examples where the international community failed in this responsibility: the holocaust, India/Pakistan independence, Rwanda, the Balkans, Syria as well as places where the doctrine has been asserted with mixed results: Kosovo, Libya and Iraq. The course will explore the moral, legal and practical issues involved and will seek to challenge students to understand the ambiguities and competing national priorities that make implementation and enforcement possible or likely. MAJOR CREDIT: CLEG (Law component); POLITICAL SCIENCE (major related social science requirement); SIS (Foreign Policy and National Security; Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights; Global and Comparative Governance) HNRS-302-004H Environment and Development Dr. Robin Broad W 2:35 pm – 5:15 pm This course is an overview of the multi-disciplinary field of environment and development. It focuses on debates concerning various human-made or development-related root causes of natural-resource degradation in the South. Special attention is paid to the relationship between the rural poor and the environment. The course also looks critically at current innovative policy initiatives -from local to global levels - attempting to resolve the linked problems of environment and development. Students learn "root-cause analysis" to assess both the debates and the policy initiatives. NOTE: This course is not for students who have taken Professor Broad’s SIS-338-course. MAJOR CREDIT: ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (BA in Environmental Studies only; credit is not granted for the BS in Environmental Science or for the Environmental Studies minor); POLITICAL SCIENCE (Major Related Social Science Requirement); SIS (Environmental Sustainability and Global Health; and Global Inequality and Development; WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES (Language and Area Studies: Spanish/Latin America - fulfills a Social Sciences requirement) HNRS-302-005H Women in Prison: Is Orange the New Black? Dr. Robert Johnson W 11:45 am – 2:25 pm This course is a study in the popular images and private realities of prisons for women. Students examine women, crime, and imprisonment as presented in popular media—in particular, the series, Orange is the New Black—in concert with an examination of the scholarly research on these topics. Providing a creative voice for those who may wish to write about women’s justice issues is a secondary theme of the course. MAJOR CREDIT: AMERICAN STUDIES; CLEG (Law component) JUSTICE AND LAW (elective); POLITICAL SCIENCE (Major Related Social Science Requirement); SIS (Identity, Race, Gender, Culture); WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES 4 HNRS-302-006H The Critical Media Consumer/Participant Visiting Distinguished Journalist in Residence Ron Elving T 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Consumers are bombarded daily with news and information from outlets that are considered conservative or liberal or balanced. And social media has become the tool of the “everyman” who wants to reach audiences directly. A savvy consumer can separate opinion from fact, hype from news, and entertainment from information by critically examining the information, its source, and its purpose. In this class, which is taught by the Senior Washington Editor at National Public Radio (NPR), students will focus on critical thinking skills to evaluate and understand both the purpose and the performance of the mass media, as well how they themselves can become active participants in the media. Assignments will include critiques of news coverage, movies, plays, music, and other cultural phenomena. Students will be encouraged to generate their own ideas for assignments and will become more comfortable critiquing themselves as well as others. MAJOR CREDIT: ANTHROPOLOGY; CLEG (Communication); HEALTH PROMOTION; KSB (Business Elective Credit); POLITICAL SCIENCE (Major Related Social Science Requirement); SIS (Identity, Race, Gender, Culture); SOC (Major Credit with Advisor Approval) 5