Pop Culture Classics - 17261 - HONR 39900 - 002 Link Id: A1  Linked Sections Required(A2) |
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The mythological traditions of ancient Greece and Rome have had a lasting effect on western civilization, to the extent that modern popular culture is suffused with references to classical themes. In "Pop Culture Classics," we will examine how pop culture—including movies, literature, music, art, and digital media—has interpreted, re-imagined, and re-contextualized the literary and material record of classical Greece and Rome. We will explore themes in the contemporary reception of classical works such as Herodotus' Histories and Orientalism in Frank Miller's 300; the Pygmalion myth and sci-fi horror; and epic journeys from Homer's Odyssey to Mad Max: Fury Road. For the final project, the class will collectively produce a blog juxtaposing classical and pop culture media.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Mar 06, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type Hybrid Instructional Method 2.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Jazz - 17265 - HONR 39900 - 004 |
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Jazz artists “speak to each other in the language of music.” in Jazz we will explore the nature of this artistic conversation with many of its cultural influences, geographical variations, and temporal iterations. Throughout our time together we will interrogate varying facets of the social impact such a conversation facilitates. Furthermore, we will explore the musical language of jazz with its power to make collective performance stronger both within and beyond music. And we will investigate the ways in which this artists' talk became the "talk of the town" and country as a medium through which people could break from dominant cultures. We will make sense of and process our journey by creating our own metaphorical jazz ensemble, featuring the complex and layered textures of our lives as inspiration for the note and lyric. **You do not need to be a musician to take this course**
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Superheroes - 17271 - HONR 39900 - 007 Link Id: A5 Linked Sections Required(A6) |
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Superheroes and American Culture examines the historical and social influences on and effects of superheroes as a part of American culture. Materials examined mainly will consist of superhero comic and graphic novels with references to other media along with critical texts. Students will analyze and discuss works, looking at such things as visual rhetoric, history, philosophy, religion and science.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Mar 06, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type Hybrid Instructional Method 2.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Fugitivity - 17316 - HONR 39900 - 008 |
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Some people want to run things, and some things just want to run. This is a class about the latter, or better yet, it is a class about the way in which these two imperatives—to exact control and to imagine flight—are inextricably bound up with one another. In pursuing this topic, we will attend to a specific historical circumstance and its many afterlives. In the thirty or more years preceding the American Civil War, enslaved men and women of African descent made use of an elaborate network of transit and shelter to escape from the slave economy of the southern states. Referred to as the Underground Railroad, the passage has remained a persistent concern of black cultural expression. We will study its movement across time and media, from the slave narrative to the serial poem, from the folk ballad to the chopped sample, and from scissored silhouette to spliced footage. We will consider the invisible road to freedom in its historical context and as a conceit for liberatory theories of social life. Joining us along the way for an in-class visit will be Colson Whitehead, author of the National Book Award Winning novel The Underground Railroad (2016). All aspects of the course are designed to feed into the final assignment. Students will have an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the study of the Underground Railroad through working collaboratively on a plan for a digital humanities project that maps the emancipatory routes that ran through Indiana.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Spacetime! - 17328 - HONR 39900 - 009 |
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This course will boldly go where no course has gone before, providing students the chance to explore strange new ideas about space and time. Want to write a sequel to Interstellar or your own episode of Star Trek? Want to see how our idea of spacetime has evolved in response to religion, philosophy, and physics? Want to hear Purdue scientists talk about science fiction that matters to them? To study spacetime requires that we engage a variety of perspectives from the past and present. In that sense, HONR 399: Spacetime! is deeply historical and philosophical in its approach. The course also takes an active interest in creative processes behind scientific thought. To that end, students will explore how arts and symbolic thought have played significant roles in scientific discoveries, including Einstein’s. Students will also practice creative modes of inquiry firsthand, as course projects will be based in creative writing practices. [Note: projects will be assessed on critical and creative thinking, not artistic quality.]
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Im/Mortality - 17329 - HONR 39900 - 010 |
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This interdisciplinary course introduces you biological, psychological and social theories of aging to provide foundational knowledge regarding how and why we age. Given new medical technologies, is it possible that humans will stop aging together? Would that be desirable? What would it mean to be “immortal,” and why do are we drawn to the idea? The biological question of lifespan opens up to (and is informed by) issues of population, resources, policy, family dynamics, and personal well-being. Do you want to live forever? What would the world be like if we did?
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| The Holocene - 17338 - HONR 39900 - 011 |
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The Holocene is the geologic epoch of the last 11,700 years. It is a period of stable and warm climate that has witnessed the growth of human civilizations worldwide – all written history, cities and urban life, complex technologies, and states and empires have arisen exclusively during this period. Why? The favorable environmental conditions of the Holocene have allowed us to transform the environment and exploit its resources to an extreme degree, principally through production practices based in agriculture. In this course, we will explore this relationship between climate, environment, and the development of human societies throughout the geologic epoch of the Holocene. A principle focus will be the critical role that agriculture has played in the development of our species and in accelerating our impacts on Earth’s ecosystems. In addition to surveying this deep history, students will engage in new knowledge creation about the Holocene through ethnographic research and writing. Together as a class, we will address the current debate about the Holocene’s end – the idea that humanity’s abilities to transform the environment have become so significant and so extreme that they are driving the Earth system into a new epoch. In particular, students will observe and consider agriculture’s ongoing evolution and impacts on the environment and its role in broader systems of anthropogenic change.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Crime Sleuthing - 17341 - HONR 39900 - 013 |
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History is replete with cases that have challenged the forensic scientists and investigators. Often, this is due to the limits of the available technology. In this course, students will examine the role technological advancements have played in facilitating (more robust) answers to baffling, complex crime scene questions. Specifically, you will investigate old cases that challenged scientists at the time and evaluate how these cases might be solved using contemporary technology and discipline frameworks (e.g.—standard operating procedures). You will gather data on cases using original case files, newspaper accounts, documentaries, etc. The overarching goal of the course is for you to evaluate how forensic techniques have grown over time, with an eye toward an understanding of evidence collection, analysis, and testimony used by disciplines within forensic science. Emphasis will be placed on a broad range of research strategies to recover primary and secondary literature supporting the cases chosen.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Life On Mars - 17358 - HONR 39900 - 014 |
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The course focuses on the technical and societal needs for human habitats beyond the Earth. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams, at the interface of humanities and science and engineering, to develop detailed plans for a sustainable Mars habitat. Topics to be investigated include risk, governance, human and economic factors, living conditions, and technologies that will influence everyday life in a permanent extraterrestrial habitat. The course includes learning modules, lectures and team activities designed to encourage thorough consideration of the needs, the risks, and the solutions that will lead to the establishment of such habitats on Mars. Speakers will be invited to present topics relevant to the course objectives. The course also includes guided class discussions and presentations.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 3.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| For The Love Of Animals - 17388 - HONR 39900 - 015 |
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What can be said of the remarkable artworks of buffalo, rhinoceroses, lions, and dark-maned horses found in the caves of early man? What was their purpose? Who created them, and how? Cats were sacred in Ancient Egypt, and some were mummified. Harming a cat could result in a harsh punishment. In this course students with an interest in these, and many other questions, will study the early origin of man’s fascination with animals from the Paleolithic era, Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, and East and South Asia. Particular attention will be paid to works of art that help demonstrate man’s fascination with animals, and the course of hunting, herding, and domestication. What is domestication, and how did it occur? This course is appropriate for students with no previous study of history or art history. What is required is an interest and curiosity in the subject.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 1.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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| Sports Materials & Tech - 17395 - HONR 39900 - 016 |
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This course introduces students to the fundamental mechanics, materials, and technology of popular sports and pushes the students to critically evaluate the future direction of sport technology development. This lecture-based course is organized into three primary sections; an introduction to mechanics and materials fundamentals, an assessment of the science and technology of a variety of popular sports, and discussions on the sustainability and the future of sport technology. The course also introduces the typical interdisciplinary nature of technology development in the sporting equipment industry through integration of material properties with design parameters to achieve specific performance requirements.
Associated Term: Spring 2019 Registration Dates: Oct 22, 2018 to Jan 13, 2019 Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Attributes: Honors, Upper Division, Variable Title West Lafayette Campus Lecture Schedule Type 1.000 Credits View Catalog Entry Course Materials
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