Death is an event none of us can avoid—not our own deaths, the deaths of our beloveds, or the deaths of our co-workers, neighbors, and acquaintances. It is everywhere. This course not only explores the process of dying, but hot the investigation of dying informs the process of living and how we LIVE until the moment of our deaths.

This course examines several artistic, visionary expressions of cosmologies, some personal, others communal and cultural. Through reading, discussion, and creative explorations, the student will develop an appreciation of the artistic contributions that have proposed answers to the ultimate concerns of humankind.

UHON 351L, Sec. 1

An educational technique designed to enable anyone to discover and change habitual, harmful patterns of behavior. Benefits include a greater ease in movement, more freedom of action, improved coordination, and increased energy.

UHON 351F, Sec. 2
UHON 351I, Sec. 3
UHON 351U, Sec. 2

How did Paris’ cabaret culture change the face of 20th century art music? How did Scott Joplin influence Stravinsky? What effect did the Paris World Exposition have on Debussy? What do Kandinsky and Schoenberg have in common? This course examines how poetry, visual art, dance, film, and folk music influenced and interacted with the diverse styles of art music from the early 20th century.

Rise and fall of German Nazism, Versailles to Nuremberg. Emphasis on personal experiences of actual witnesses and current Nazi-inspired movements. SS, Gestapo, concentration camps, and technology and media as tools of control (2-3) films. Readings include Elie Wiesel’s Night and William Shirer’s Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

UHON 351I, Sec. 2
UHON 351O, Sec. 2
UHON 351U, Sec. 3

This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive look at the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the impact which Charles Darwin and his ideas made upon American thought and culture. To achieve this objective, students will read the works of nineteenth and twentieth century authors and will be graded each class period on their ability to discuss and synthesize the topics studied.

Focus on the impact of earth processes on our everyday lives. The course will cover earth system hazards including earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The honors course will provide the opportunity to present and discuss case studies and timely issues relevant to earth system science. The course will also include, through the use of web sites, discussion of recent research and development on methods of study and prediction.

An interdisciplinary seminar which examines the complexity of girls’ violent and aggressive behavior, including questions of trends, the nature of girls’ violence, the links between victimization and violence, and the girls’ experience of the justice system. The course will include a look at depictions of girls’ violence and aggression in fiction and film.

Segun Ojewuyi
Theater

This course is designed to freely apply the performative dimensions of Black Theater from its African ancestral past to the African American present, in tracing the origins, form and mission of “Black” as a participatory presence in the United States. What are the commonalities? What are the points of divergence? We shall inform the practical work with the theories of Wole Soyinka and August Wilson. Students will be guided toward the performance of their individual inventions—in drama, music, poetry, dance or a combination of styles that express their uncensored reactions to the issues and ideals of blackness in a post-Obama America. No previous performance experience is required.

By arrangement only.

By arrangement only.