2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST 312 - History of Spain and Portugal
This course examines the history of the Iberian peninsula from pre-historic times through the modern era. Topics include Roman Iberia, Islamic, and Catholic Spain in the Middle Ages, the Iberian Empires, Spain’s decline as a great power, and contemporary Spanish and Portuguese society. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 313 - Modern British History
This course traces the rise and development of British civilization from the glorious revolution of 1688 to the present. Topics include the British Empire, the Industrial Revolution, the development of parliamentary institutions, the changing role of the monarch, Britain in the World Wars, and British foreign relations. (Offered alternative years.) 3 credits
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HIST 315 - Archaeology of Ancient Israel
(Same as REL 315 .) 3 credits
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HIST 317 - Migration in World History
Why do people move? This courses examines various migrant groups including African slaves, British colonizers, Palestinian refugees, Chinese workers. Students will trace why they moved and how they adapted on arrival. Primary sources include memoirs, songs, laws, interviews. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 319 - Israel/Palestine: 3000 Years
(Same as PCST 319 , POSC 319 .) This course provides a long view on the conflict by exploring the historical background and showing the deep roots of both nations. Students encounter the ancient world through archaeology, explore Palestine through the ages, and witness the lives of real people on all sides. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 320 - History on Trial: African Struggles for Truth and Justice
(Same as PCST 324 .) This course examines colonial and postcolonial state violence and the search for historical justice in its aftermath. Through investigation of selected case studies (primarily in Africa), we will explore the diverse ways in which individuals and communities have pursued legal remedy, public apology, and/or reparation for colonial-era massacres and genocide, targeted structural oppression, and counterinsurgencies gone violently awry. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 322 - Global History of U.S. Civil Rights Era and Decolonization 1940s-1980s
This course investigates the relationships between the U.S. Civil Rights and Black Power movements and decolonization in the African Diaspora and Africa, focusing on transnational links, relationships, strategies, and political ties between people of African descent in the Atlantic world between the 1940s and 1980s. (Offered as need.) 3 credits
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HIST 324 - African History through Film, Literature and Music
This course explores the relationship between the creative genres of film, literature, and music and the history of colonialism, land and labor struggles, religious change, gender and the family, urbanization, African nationalism, and postcolonial conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 325 - Politics of the Contemporary Middle East
(Same as POSC 326 .) 3 credits
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HIST 328 - American Colonial History
This course studies the period of American colonial history from the earliest contact between native tribes and Europeans to 1763. Emphasis will be placed on studying the period from multiple perspectives including political, cultural, and economic points of view, and interaction between Indian, European, and African peoples. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 329 - Experimental Course
May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
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HIST 330 - America and Its Revolution: The Bonfires of Change
Students examine one of the most tumultuous times in American history and analyze and interpret the events that form the foundation of, not only our system of democracy, but of much of our identity as Americans. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 332 - Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction
This course examines the institution and experience of slavery, the causes of the Civil War, the roles that generals, politicians, and ordinary citizens played in the conflict, key battles, why the South lost the war, the eradication of slavery, and the incorporation of freedmen into civic life in the postwar period. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 333 - Images of American History
A picture tells a thousand words, but does it tell the truth? This course investigates the rich and complex catalog of historical images created by documentary photographers over the last 160 years by using historical photography to examine American history from the 1840s to the present. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 336 - Conflict and Change in America: 1920-1945
Covering the prosperity and cynicism of the Roaring Twenties, the poverty of the Great Depression and the New Deal’s response to it, and the violence of the Second World War, this course examines and interprets the culture and politics that shaped this era. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 337 - World War II
A comprehensive review of the great mid-twentieth century catastrophe that consumed the world and forever altered history. Major topics include the diplomatic and economic background and the roles of propaganda, non-combatants, and the home fronts, as well as a wide-ranging review of the military aspects. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 338 - America After the War, 1945-1960
This course examines this critical period in American history, which featured the rise of the Cold War and rock and roll. Topics include the American economy, politics, culture, and social structure. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 339 - Immigration, Border Consciousness and the Chicano/a Experience
This course seeks to understand some of the issues that concern the contemporary United States immigrant population, in general, and the Mexican and Central American immigrant population, in specific. The historical experiences of the diverse immigrant populations that created and continue to create the economic and social foundation of the United States will be surveyed, along with the legal steps an immigrant must follow in order to achieve citizenship, in an effort to bring awareness to the contemporary human crisis. This course investigates through art, popular culture, and mass media, the histories of immigration, and the production of transnational identity in the geographic and cultural spaces of the United States. The course will explore immigration policy and its effects on the Chicano/Mexicana/Latino communities, in specific, and U.S. society as a whole. Special attention will be paid to border consciousness and border communities as historical sites of conflict and resistance. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 340 - American Diplomatic History and Foreign Policy
This course focuses on the origin and development of United States foreign policy. Topics include the role of ideology in foreign policy, economics and foreign affairs, isolationism, American dominance of the Western Hemisphere, and the consequences of increasing international interdependence. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 342 - The History of Everyday Life in America: Cooking, Cleaning, Life and Death
History is not just something presidents and Supreme Court justices do; rather, it is something that our ancestors lived in the past. This course takes an interpretive look at how and why many of our most basic rituals and activities have changed over the years. Includes such topics as childbirth and children’s games. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 345 - Popular Music, History, and Culture
This course explores the relationship between popular music, world-historical relationships, and the dynamics between the histories of race, gender, sexuality, and class across the twentieth century. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 346 - Travel Course: Topics in Historical Tours
An extended tour of another country or countries, or a part of the United States, with a concentrated study of the history and culture of that country or countries, or United States region. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 346i - A Tale of Two Cities
The Tale of Two Cities is a famous novel by Charles Dickens about Paris and London at the time of the French Revolution. In this travel/study course by the same name students will spend ten days in each of these two cities during the interterm period. Instructors knowledgeable about these cities will offer tours, museum visits and theatre outings on a regular basis. However, at the center of this course is a self-chosen and self-designed research project that looks at some aspect of the life in and history of London and Paris. Alternatively, History majors can arrange to do research on their Senior Seminar papers. In both cases, students will closely coordinate their research with the faculty member directing the course in each city. Fee: TBD. (Offered interterm.) 3 credits
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HIST 352 - Chinese Civilization
A study of China from earliest times to the mid-1990s from five broad perspectives: the composition of the Chinese people, elite thought and behavior, family life, popular culture, and the economy. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 354 - From Samurai to Pokemon: A Social History of Modern Japan
What did modernity mean for the Japanese people? Topics include the way of the warrior, the fall of feudalism, Westernization, gender, male-male sexuality, epidemics and modern medicine, war, empire, occupation, economic recovery, and the decadent 1980s. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 355 - Disease, Power and Sex: Medicine and the Body in East Asia
This course focuses on the effects of disease, medical limitations, and popular practices in East Asia. Cholera, the plague, western medicine, the medicalization of sex, and the relation between science, war, and imperialism are examined to uncover the history of medicine and the body. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 357 - History of Jewish Migration
This course explores Jews on the move, from antiquity to the present. Topics include Biblical and medieval migration, Holocaust refugees, migration to New York, Zionism, migration from Iraq. Primary sources include the Bible, letters, posters, websites, films. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 358 - Jewish Life from Napoleon to Hitler
What was it like to be Jewish in modern Europe? This course tells the story of Jews in Germany, France, and Italy, from the 19th century to the Holocaust; and how Europeans today mis-remember the Holocaust. Sources include memoirs, laws, artwork, and films. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 359 - Elie Wiesel: Life and Works
(Same as REL 359 .) This course is an intensive study of selected writings by Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. Readings will include works of fiction and non-fiction. In addition, students will read a brief history of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen and an interpretive work on oral and written memory by Lawrence Langer. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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HIST 363 - The Arab World: Colonialism to Revolution
(Same as POSC 363 .) This course surveys the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa from Napoleon’s invasion in 1798 to the revolutionary turmoil of 2011. Students will explore the unique cultures and character of each region, and specific challenges they face in the transition to modernity. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 365 - Topics in the Holocaust
(Same as REL 365 .) This course examines selected topics within the study of Holocaust history, such as the roles of doctors, theologians, and religion under Hitler, the persecution of non-Jewish groups (including homosexuals and gypsies), and the experiences and choices of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Courses that treat different themes May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 365a - Perpetrators, Witnesses, and Rescuers
(Same as REL 365a .) Within the context of Nazi Germany, World War II and the Holocaust, this course examines the choices that individuals faced and the decisions that defined them as perpetrators or rescuers. Includes the stories of those who survived the Holocaust to become witnesses to the truth. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 365b - The Holocaust: Memoirs and Histories
This course explores the complex history of the Holocaust from the perspective of selected memoirs written by survivors and examines the contributions and limitations of memoirs in shaping the historical record. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 366 - Capitalism and the Modern World
This course examines the development of modern capitalism from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism to postindustrial globalization. Themes include the connection between capitalism and colonialism, imperialism, the Atlantic slave system, the enlightenment, nationalism, the global economy, and environmental consequences. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 367 - The Holocaust in Eastern Europe
This course examines the Holocaust in Eastern Europe during World War II, with emphasis on historical events in German-occupied regions of Poland and the Soviet Union. Themes include prewar social and political developments that shaped ethnic relations during wartime. (Offered spring semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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HIST 369 - History of Terrorism in the United States
This course examines the major acts of terrorism in the United States from the American Revolution to the present by critically analyzing the major political, intellectual, economic, and cultural impact of these events. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 371 - U.S. Business and Entrepreneurial History
(Same as ECON 371 .) 3 credits
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HIST 372 - California History
An in-depth examination of California from its discovery in 1542 to the present. Topics include how the Golden State has changed, the roles of mining, Indians, agriculture, high technology, Japanese-American relations, and the mission system. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 373 - U.S. Economic History
(Same as ECON 373 .) 3 credits
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HIST 374 - European Economic History
(Same as ECON 374 .) 3 credits
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HIST 388 - Technology and the Media in the United States
This course considers the impact of technology change on the United States from the Industrial Revolution to the Computer Age. Topics include the role of the media and mass communications in economic and political change, the shaping of utopian visions, gender relations, and the West’s relationship with the non-Western world. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
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HIST 392 - Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America
This course covers the Native American-European encounter of the early 16th century and colonial control and establishment of European institutions in Latin America. Topics include politics, the economy, diplomatic and military affairs, and the intellectual life of the colonies. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 398 - The Historian’s Craft
Prerequisite, HIST 296 , or consent of instructor. This course introduces students to the philosophy of history and historical thought, historical methodology, and the craft of doing history. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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HIST 399 - Individual Study and Research
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Designed to meet the specific needs of superior students, this course provides students with an in-depth study of a specific area of research. Course content and goals are chosen in conference between the instructor and student. May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) 1-6 credits
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HIST 490 - Independent Internship
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. P/NP. May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) ½-6 credits
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HIST 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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HIST 495 - Holocaust Minor Research Seminar
Prerequisites, holocaust minor, consent of instructor. This course is an intensive research course for junior and senior Holocaust history minors culminating in a major, original research project that serves as a capstone project for the minor. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HIST 496 - Advanced Research Thesis I
Prerequisites, HIST 398 , history major, consent of instructor. Students will design and research an advanced research thesis. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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HIST 498 - Advanced Research Thesis II
Prerequisites, HIST 496 , history major. Students will write, revise, and present an advanced research thesis. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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HIST 499 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Designed to meet the specific needs of superior students, this course provides students with an in-depth study of a specific area of research. Course content and goals are chosen in conference between the instructor and student. May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) ½-6 credits
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HON 202 - On Being Ethical in the World
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course surveys the history of ethics, with particular attention to the history of philosophical approaches to ethics as well as to the process of moral decision-making in major religious traditions. These philosophical and religious perspectives are then critically examined in light of some contemporary moral problems. Among the moral problems considered are abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, sexuality and marriage, the moral status of animals, and the environment. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 206 - Media, Self and Society
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. An analysis of mass media as a social institution. This course is an interdisciplinary approach to the origins, history, evolution, and social functions of the mass media. It addresses the impact of the media on the social self. Though it addresses the transitions from oral to print to electronic media the emphasis is on the electronic media and its impact on the social construction of reality. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 207 - Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory: The Science and the Controversy
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course will address the topic Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection and its place in scientific thought, and explore the controversy surrounding it for many in the general public. We will explore the options for finding comfort with both the science of evolution and one’s personal religious beliefs. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 208 - Universal Geometry
Prerequisite, MATH 104 , or equivalent, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Students will learn elements of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries in the context of axiomatic systems. The main objective of this course is to help students develop quantitative and logical skills of mathematical reasoning. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 209 - Death, Self and Society
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Students participate in an interdisciplinary investigation of death, dying, and the grieving process. Topics include: The American way of death as a social institution, dying as a psychological process, how society conditions us to deny death and repress grief, how students relate to their own death, and the death of significant others. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 210 - Monsters and Monstrosities
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will investigate and interpret the stories we construct about ourselves and the Other by exploring works from east/west involving the vampire, the specter, and the witch. We will particularly focus on cultural, literary, and political representations from various periods and locations. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 215 - Art and Anthropology
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course will use anthropological approaches to analyze artistic movements and the ideological construction of “art” itself as cultural constructs. It will take both western and non-western art as its subject, situating them within larger issues of taste, class, politics, identity, and economy. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 216 - Twilight of the Gods
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course examines the history of thought on agnosticism, atheism, and skepticism by studying a selection of classical writings from some of the most celebrated thinkers in the West - from Lucretius to Carl Sagan. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 218 - Social Movement in the Sixties
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. Through film, literature and direct commune-experimentation this course will be a fresh look, with beginner’s eyes, at the 60’s: that most outrageous decade, that most idealized and despised decade, that most creative and anarchic decade. The course is structured around Theodore Roszak’s The Making of a Counter-Culture and the PBS 6-part documentary Making Sense of the 60s. We will examine the cultural trance we are caught up in, in reference to social movements and social change. As a culture, our definition of social change has been deeply inhabited by a belief in progress, achievement, betterment. Change was progress, especially economic and technical progress. The social movements of the 60’s counter-culture contested that concept of social change and have provoked a change in our concept of social change itself. We will be looking at social movements and social change on a personal, societal, and global-planetary level. We will be examining our values in reference to change and in reference to politics, democracy and freedom-particularly whether those values come consciously out of our understanding or unconsciously out of our conditioning. We will contrast the movements and forces at work in the 60’s youth with the movements and forces at work in today’s youth. Education is a journey, not a destination, hence students will be highly encouraged to integrate their formal book reading with their direct, personal, on-the-spot life experiences. There will be various “exploriments” and “exercises” designed to provoke us into doing sociology rather than merely learning about it. Our dominant, established educational tradition is that your acquire knowledge through collecting stuff and knowing it-especially for exams. We will attempt to contest the authority of that tradition and celebrate thinking, experiencing, and creating rather than collecting, memorizing, and grading. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 220 - Disney: Gender, Race and Religion
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course examines Disney’s portrayal of gender, sexuality, race, and religion by employing interdisciplinary methods such as cultural criticism, narrative criticism, feminist theory, and deconstruction to animated film and related products. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 222 - Honors Composition: Rhetorical Agency Across Genres
Prerequisite, acceptance to University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Honors Composition prepares students to write effectively in response to on-going academic discussions in a number of different genres. This class is about writers learning to “situate” themselves in relation to texts and ideas, learning to analyze for rhetorical effect, and writing through those processes. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 240 - Anime and War
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Japanese animation or anime has become much more popular in the United States over the last three decades, and today Japan State policy sees the medium as an important “cultural asset.” However anime is not new, nor is it a medium exclusive to Japan. One might even argue that many technologies of visual animation pre-date its live-action cinematic cousin. As Paul Virilio and others have argued, the history of both animated and live-action film are intimately related to the parallel histories of 20th century warfare. This course will trace the development of mid- and late-20th century Japanese animated films in terms of their relationship to war. Analyzing Japanese films on historical, narrative, diegetic, and formal levels, we will consider relations among image production and viewing, in terms of economic, cultural, social, and political parameters. Readings will include classic theoretical texts on war and cinema, as well as more recent historical and sociological readings specific to Japanese and Pacific contexts. This course will focus upon the following four sub-units; 1) “animation theory and modern Japanese visual history 2) the Pacific War and politics of memory 3) the Cold War, ideological alliances, and cultural-economic empires and lastly 4) animated projections and the War on Terror.
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HON 242 - Beyoncé, Madonna, Nina Simone
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. In a New York Times conversation following Beyoncé’s explosive 2016 Superbowl performance, critic Wesley Morris suggested that Beyoncé “lands somewhere between” Madonna and Nina Simone. This course brings these three artists from different generations together, situating their work historically, within contemporary critical discussions around race/gender/sexuality and cultural appropriation, and in dialogue with one another. The course offers a cultural studies-based examination of the work of the three artists; our method is not primarily sociological or biographical, though relevant biographical and sociological evidence may inform our analysis. We listen to the music of the three artists, watch their music videos, and read scholarship in critical race studies and feminist cultural criticism. Students develop collaborative oral presentations on each of the three artists and a final critical or creative mashup or disentangling of Beyoncé /Madonna/Nina Simone. Discussion-based seminar. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 254 - Symmetry
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. Symmetry is everywhere. The human fascination with it originates from our observations of the natural world where symmetric forms appear abundantly. Nature’s symmetries range from very simple to extremely complex, from very concrete to very abstract, and they extend over scales ranging from subatomic to cosmological distances. For millennia symmetric forms have inspired artists, architects, musicians and scientists. Artists have explored symmetries of the natural world and the human body to create masterpieces that look harmonious and appeal to our senses of beauty, harmony and perfection. Observing symmetries in nature and developing their own symmetric standards, architects have learned to design beautiful buildings and ornamental art. Ancient Greeks associated rhythm, harmony and patterns in music with periodicity and variations of forms in mathematics. In more recent developments symmetry emerged as one of the deepest ideas of modern mathematics and science responsible for our significant advancement in understanding the world. In this course we will explore historical origins of symmetry and its wide applications by examining how the quest to understand symmetry leads to beautiful science describing the beautiful natural world. We will also briefly mention entertaining aspects of symmetry and demonstrate its use in games and puzzles, mostly in Rubik’s Cube and mathematical tricks with playing cards. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 255 - Serving to Learn: Learning to Serve
This course serves as an introduction to service and cross-cultural engagement, and is heavily based in classroom discussion and local, external civic opportunities. Learning takes place in the context of supportive communal activity and social awareness. This course aims to foster global citizenship and academic, political, and social diversity within the University Honors Program. At least three community service trips/events are required for this course. (Offered as needed.) 1 credit
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HON 266 - Sound and Spirit
Prerequisite, admission to the University Honors Program. This course will explore the relationship of music and spirituality focusing on important questions: What is the unique quality of music that makes it the art form most essential to transcendent experience? How have different religions used music to achieve transcendence and express the divine? How are significant works in the western classical canon related to their roots in communal spiritual practice? And how do non-western traditions articulate the music / spirituality connection? The course will consider major works of the western classical tradition that span over 250 years and reflect different approaches to this relationship. We will also engage in experiential learning, as students engage with music in various spiritual contexts. Each week we will engage in one of Pauline Oliveros’s Sonic Meditations (1974) - a way of connecting to each other and more deeply with the musical experience as well as critiquing conventional religious practices. Additionally, students will attend a musical event and make a class presentation.
(Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 275 - Thinking and Risk Taking from Outside the Box
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. An introduction to advanced-level critical inquiry, on thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, evaluating preconceived ideas, risk taking, and dealing with failure using scientific concepts and examples. P/NP. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 277 - Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course situates George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones in contemporary dialogues about, multiple perspectives of, and various theoretical approaches to the literary, the visual, the political, and the historical. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 280 - Honors Forum
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. The Honors Forum meets three times a week to familiarize students with the academic and civic dimensions of the University Honors Program. 1. The academic component of Honors Forum introduces the theory and practices of interdisciplinarity, basic inductive and deductive logic, and theories on the civic responsibility of democratic citizenship. 2. The civic component of Honors Forum introduces not only theories regarding civic responsibility but also opportunities for practical application of those theories through engagement in efforts to address different needs in our local community. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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HON 282 - Evolution, Morality, and Ethics
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course challenges the current and common belief that morality and ethics remains purely in the realm of theology, philosophy, and metaphysics. Morality and ethics are not only woven into the very fabric of life, they are also, in part, a product of evolution itself. The topics of evolutionary biology, evolutionary ethics, and different social and political systems and theories will be considered concurrently with the ethical theories of Divine Command Theory (Augustine), Deontology (Kant), Moral Emotions/Sentiments (Hume and Smith), Utilitarianism (Bentham and Mills), Virtue Ethics (Aristotle), Egoism (Rand), Ethical Relativism (Benedict), and Social Contract Theory (Rawls), in light of recent developments that attempt to integrate facts and values, science and ethics. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 286 - Origins
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Where did the universe come from? Why complexity? How did life originate? Was life inevitable? How does evolution work? Why did humans evolve? Were we inevitable? This is an honors class for students of all disciplines, science and non-science majors. It is a class that will explore origins at a reductionist scientific perspective, as well as from a philosophical perspective. P/NP. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 288 - Close Reading
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course focuses on small and subtle elements in a wide range of texts. Specific texts vary by semester but generally include a mix of visual images, television commercials, music videos, short films, short stories, op-ed pieces, stageplays, and feature-length films. In considering all of these texts, the objective is to delve into the details, observing and analyzing aspects of the text that often go unnoticed and unexamined. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 292 - The Art of Revenge
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course focuses on representations of revenge from classical antiquity to contemporary times. Specific texts vary by semester but typically include a mixture of stageplays, short stories, short films, and feature-length films, along with contextualizing religious writings and philosophical treatises. Our objective in considering these texts will be to analyze the ethical and aesthetic “grammar” of revenge. In other words, how do various authors and directors tell revenge stories in such a way as to shape, satisfy, modify, and/or confound our notions of right and wrong, offense and punishment, and justice and mercy? (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 295 - Freshman Bridge
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course will consist of weekly activity-based classes comprised of introductory concepts about college life, success strategies, library use, exploration of programs and majors, career building, mapping 4-year plans, projecting forward upon graduation and to explore on-campus resources and the City of Orange. This course will be led and conducted by Chapman upperclassmen (Juniors and Seniors). P/NP. (Offered fall semester.) 1 credit
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HON 307 - Topics in the Great Operas of the Western Tradition
Prerequisites, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. An exploration of both the literary and the musical traditions of the finest operas written in western tradition (Italian, German, French and American) and their relationship to other literary genres and performing arts. Class will feature performances by invited faculty and students and field trip(s) to LA Opera. Class may be repeated for credit up to 6 credits, as the topic and operas covered will change each time it is offered. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 308 - Consciousness and Cognition
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. How is it possible that in a universe made of mindless atoms following physical laws, some of those atoms have the capacity to produce a first-person, subjective, conscious experience of the world? How can a hunk of brain matter produce an “inner life” of thoughts, perceptions, and “Feelings? In short, how does mindless matter become mind? The existence of consciousness is a profound scientific mystery and our inability to explain it is arguably the biggest gap in our scientific understanding of reality. This course will focus on the problem of consciousness from the perspective of philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. The course will be organized around the following major questions from each discipline. Philosophy: What is consciousness, and what is the problem? Can our current laws of physics account for consciousness? What would a scientific explanation of consciousness entail? Cognitive neuroscience: How does consciousness emerge from non-conscious matter? How do my conscious cognitive experiences of thinking, Feeling, remembering and perceiving relate to the physical processes going on in my nervous system? Cognitive Science: Are all cognitive processes conscious? Artificial Intelligence: Can computers be conscious? What would it take for a machine to be conscious? Get ready for an adventure as we attempt to understand the single most shocking and amazing feature of the universe! Come along for the ride as we use our consciousness to understand consciousness (how meta). “The almighty human brain: the only hunk of matter in the universe that can reflect upon its own existence.” –Me.
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(Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 310 - Experiencing Forms and Colors: Goethe’s Approach to Science
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Is it possible to imagine a science that has subjective experience at its core, that acknowledges the primacy of daily experiences as mediated by the senses, all along without diminishing its own rigor, objectivity and predictive power? In this course we will attempt to find answers to these questions by taking Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s scientific work as a starting point. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 311 - Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. All around us we see the rising tide of ethnic, racial, and national conflicts. From terrorist acts in New York City to war in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda, we see people divided along ethnic, religious, and national identities. Is this inevitable? What are the possible causes and consequences of these conflicts? We will explore what we mean by identity and its various representations such as ethnic, religious, and national identities today. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 313 - Golden Opportunities: Immigration and the Arts in Southern California, 1900-1950
Prerequisite, acceptance to University Honors Program. Artists and intellectuals converged on southern California from all directions in the first half of the 20th century. Initially drawn by the landscape, the climate, and the promise of economic opportunity, and soon joined by refugees from oppression and war in Europe, they discovered a human landscape already rich with social and ethnic diversity. The resulting convergence of personalities and perspectives shaped an environment of cultural innovation, replete with challenges to received notions about modernity vs. tradition and elitism vs. populism. By midcentury, many of the immigrants had left, but their legacy still resonates today. This course will consider those who were here, those who came, and how their interactions changed the world. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 314 - Dante’s Afterlife
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course is devoted to one of the most fascinating and influential masterpieces of Western literature, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Dante’s poem relates one man’s journey from the dark wood of error to the vision of truth, but readers do not only observe the pilgrim’s journey through the afterlife, they participate in it as well. They encounter questions about the nature of evil, the possibility for spiritual improvement, and the experience of true happiness, and discover surprising parallels with their own time. While situating Dante’s work within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, the course also challenges students to recognize Dante’s presence in modern and contemporary global culture and mediascape. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 315 - Power and Imagination in the Italian Renaissance
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. The European Renaissance marked a time of a heightened quest for truth in different fields and of a conscious and deliberate attempt to change the way people thought and acted in the world. During this revolutionary period, Italy served as the crucible for the formation of new ideals and values as well as a new understanding of the role the intellectual, writer, and artist should play in society. By analyzing and contextualizing a variety of representative texts-including poetry, visual arts, and scientific and political treatises-we will examine the complex relationship between imagination and power dynamics of a political and religious nature. The dilemmas of caution and resoluteness, simulation and dissimulation, heroism and conformity, orthodoxy and innovation, will be considered as some of the themes shaping early modern western literary and cultural production. The emphasis will focus upon epoch-making thinkers and artists such as Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Bruno, and Galileo. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 317 - Visual Literacy in a Generation of Visible Surplus: Its Theory, Practice and Applications
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. The generation of online social networking, competitive commerce, instantaneous global and local media, and excessive visual diversion is changing the way we filter, access, and understand the world around us. This course will explore the histories, theories, and strategies of visual literacy and apply them to personal experience as well as professional case studies, including business, social, political, and cultural applications. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 324 - Modern Political Argument
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. An upper division seminar that combines the study of history, politics and rhetoric and examines key moments in the development of modern political argument. Close reading of writers who combined great ideas and artistic prose in the service of a political cause, beginning with examination of 17th and 18th century England and Ireland and the two giants of political argument: Jonathan Swift and Edmund Burke; continuing with early liberals Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine and the call for a communist revolution from Karl Marx; and ending with modern reform liberalism and the libertarian ideas of F.A. Hayek and Barry Goldwater, the intellectual and rhetorical foundation for today’s Tea Party radicals. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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HON 327 - Revolution and Philosophy
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of Honors Program Director. Often inspired and preceded by great thinkers, revolutions shape the thinking of those who watch the flames. This course examines, in turn, four of the world’s great political revolutions - the English Revolution of 1640-1660 that unleashed the modern revolutionary in the personality of the Puritan zealots, the American Revolution sparked by civic republican ideas about civic virtue and corruption, the French Revolution of 1789, which, after being inspired by Rousseau, resulted in the Rights of Man, the terror and the rise of Napoleon, and the Russian Revolution of 1917 which could not have taken place without the writings of Marx and leadership of Lenin. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 329 - Experimental Course
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit with different topic. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 333 - Creativity and the Human Condition
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course will explore the human creative process as it has developed in various cultures around the globe throughout history. Representative works from many disciplines will be examined with an emphasis placed on how various historical, environmental, philosophical, sociological, and biological factors have helped to shape creative thought and the expression of the human condition. This course is writing intensive. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 334 - Rhetoric of the Western World
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Through this course, students will engage with major themes and epistemologies in the history of Rhetoric. Beginning with the pre-Socratics and ending with post-modernism, students will explore the theoretical shifts and major figures that define a modern study of Rhetoric. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 335 - The Enigma of Being Awake: Zen Buddhism
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course will involve a three-part study: 1) “we will explore the history of Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular, 2) “”we will investigate the central concept of anatta, along with attendant Buddhist concepts and critically examine the Zen claim of immediacy, and 3) we will experimentally engage in dharma practices employed by Zen.
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(Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 338 - ThanaTourism: Traveling the “Dark Side”
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will focus on diverse travel narratives, literary works, and theoretical approaches to investigate the increasing allure of various tourist and historical sites that are associated with collective traumas and that raise questions about memory, commemoration, and exploitation. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 339 - Body, Flesh, Subject
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course analyzes emerging political and ethical considerations of the body - how we care for and how we interpret the body - in contemporary visual culture. We consider how technology has intervened on our understanding of the ‘natural’ body and subsequent influences on our construction of self and other. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 344 - Illustrating History/the World: Graphic Memoirs, Novels, and Reportage
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will explore the ways in which history and culture, the “Other” and the “Self,” are conveyed and/or challenged through visual texts, such as graphic memoirs, novels, and reportage. We will examine the relationship between text and image as well as the efficacy of representing individual and collective histories and experiences in “comic” form. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 345 - Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy explores the causes and effects of illegal immigration, legal responses to immigration, challenges faced by immigrant communities, challenges faced by states and localities with high immigrant populations, the development and implementation of refugee law, and human trafficking. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 347 - Listening to Time: Area Studies in Ethnomusicology
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course examines various musical traditions from non-western cultures. Topics are approached with an emphasis on the sociohistorical climate at the time of each tradition’s inception and throughout the path of its evolution. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 349 - Discontented Culture: Fantasy, Intimacy and The Talking Cure
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. Our lives are constantly engaged with negotiating conflict between our inner self and outer world. Why does trauma hold our cultural and individual attentions so readily? Why is talking and hearing about ourselves so seductive? We use 3 core psychoanalytic concepts as a methodology for cultural analysis against examples from popular culture (film, novels, music) - to ultimately ask are we contented only through our discontent?
(Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 350 - Scientific Prediction: Information, Technology and Progress
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. This course examines the philosophy and techniques for creating forecasts and making predictions. Historical context of prediction is discussed. Qualitative and quantitative techniques are covered. Traditional quantitative methods and probabilistic approaches will be applied. Evaluation of forecast accuracy and its implications are considered. Prediction applications include, but are not limited to economics, science, social science, business, sports and weather. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 354 - Origin and Evolution of the Universe and Life
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course will cover the modern scientific understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe and life, beginning with the Big Bang and ending with the evolution of life on earth and the possibilities for life on exoplanets. We will cover the history and evolution of the universe from a fraction of a second to the present day and to its possible futures as governed by physical laws ascertained through the scientific method. We will discuss the creation of matter and the elements through Big Bang nucleosynthesis and stellar nucleosynthesis and characterize the evolution of large scale structures including planets, stars and galaxies. We will describe the evolution of our understanding of the concept of space and time, highlighting Einstein’s Special and General Relativity and its implications on the fundamental nature of space-time and the recent experimental evidence. We will then proceed to build the earth, characterizing its geological evolution and the concomitant emergence of life and its evolution into the sentient beings capable of understanding the universe to the degree that it can modify its own evolution. This course is the story of our existence and the evolution of our understanding of physical reality through scientific rationalism. This course will require a qualitative and quantitative understanding utilizing basic math skills that will be reviewed during the course though a conceptual understanding will be emphasized. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 359 - Fundamentals of Deductive and Inductive Logic
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. A study of methods to distinguish good and bad reasoning. Students will learn how to “translate” natural language arguments into formal languages of sentential and predicate logic, to construct proofs in the language, and to understand the semantics (or model theory) for the language.
(Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 360 - Performing Americas: Celebrating American Identities
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. As a public platform, the stage has long been a site for expressing or challenging individual, national, or group identities. Students will examine primary materials including plays, vaudeville, minstrel, and circus entertainments from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, in conjunction with multidisciplinary critical and theoretical scholarship, to develop an understanding of the history of U.S. performance as a tool for political and social agency. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 362 - Philosophical Themes in the Films of Ingmar Bergman
Prerequisite, acceptance into the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. The films of Ingmar Bergman offer a range of jumping-off points for some traditional debates in philosophy in areas such as the philosophy of religion, ethics, and value theory more broadly. Bergman’s oeuvre also offers an entry point for a critical examination of existentialism. This course will investigate some of the philosophical questions posed and positions raised in these films within an auteurist framework. We will also examine the legitimacy of the auteurist framework for film criticism and the representational capacity of film for presenting philosophical arguments. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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HON 363 - The Castaway Narrative in World Literature
Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program, or consent of instructor. While stories of drift and survival at sea are certainly as old as humanity’s first attempts to float, the literary and cultural form of castaway narrative has its own history that is tied directly to the world-historical conditions of trans-oceanic travel and the accompanying geo-political relations between colony and colonizer. It is therefore possible to also see the castaway narrative, not as simply the result of any national cultural development, but instead a literary form that emerges simultaneously in various sites of cultural production. From a historical perspective, we might argue that the castaway narrative emerges throughout the globe at the very moment that circumnavigation is made possible and thus can be read an important transnational literary form in which competing ideas and visions of the newly imagined world are proposed and contested. As such, these stories of survival at sea, tend to also be fascinating ideological texts that allow us to see the interplay between concrete world historical conditions and more abstract categories of language, geography, ethnography, race, gender, and national identity. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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