Courses Fall 2022

HUM 3990 001 11171
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Dicken’s Victorian England (In Person)
Bldg: Columbine Hall Room:
128
Cap: 124
Days: F
Time: 09:25AM-12:05PM
Instructor: Posusta, Rebecca Craft
Class Enrl Cap: 35

Orphans, thieves, and Scarlet Women in Victorian England & The Novels of Charles Dickens: Charles Dickens is one of the most revered and prolific writers to emerge from England. His novels transcend time and are still relevant today. Through the use of his most powerful weapon, his pen, Dickens portrayed a society far removed from the aristocratic and genteel classes which populated many novels of the early nineteenth century. His stories reveal the hidden truths about the lives of the neglected and forgotten people of the lower classes and on the darker underbelly of Victorian society.

HUM 3990 002 11172
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Dicken’s Victorian England (In Person)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: F
Time: 09:25AM-12:05PM
Instructor: Headle, Barbara Ann
Class Enrl Cap: 35

Orphans, thieves, and Scarlet Women in Victorian England & The Novels of Charles Dickens: Charles Dickens is one of the most revered and prolific writers to emerge from England. His novels transcend time and are still relevant today. Through the use of his most powerful weapon, his pen, Dickens portrayed a society far removed from the aristocratic and genteel classes which populated many novels of the early nineteenth century. His stories reveal the hidden truths about the lives of the neglected and forgotten people of the lower classes and on the darker underbelly of Victorian society. Meets with section 001 in Columbine 128.

HUM 3990 003 12353
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Consistency and Chaos (In Person)
Bldg: Dwire Hall Room: 121
Cap: 153
Days: Tu
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Instructor: Bannister, Bill Keith
ClassEnrl Cap: 35

Consistency and Chaos: The Nature of Cultural, Social, and Political Change in Western Culture This course will introduce students to several theories about culture, society, and politics in the Western tradition. Starting with the Ancient Greeks, we will look discuss the idea of social transformation as it relates to culture and politics, how change is effected, and the historical purposes and consequences of social change as presented and understood in the Western tradition.

HUM 3990 004 12354
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Consistency and Chaos (In Person)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: Tu
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Instructor: Feliu-Moggi, Fernando
Class Enrl Cap: 35 Meets with section 003 in Dwire 121.

Consistency and Chaos: The Nature of Cultural, Social, and Political Change in Western Culture This course will introduce students to several theories about culture, society, and politics in the Western tradition. Starting with the Ancient Greeks, we will look discuss the idea of social transformation as it relates to culture and politics, how change is effected, and the historical purposes and consequences of social change as presented and understood in the Western tradition.

HUM 3990 005 12539
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Unmaking the West (In Person)
Bldg: Centennial Hall
Room: 188
Cap: 112
Days: F
Time: 10:50AM-01:30PM
Instructor: Torres,Ian Andrew
Class Enrl Cap: 35

A Counterfactual History Class, which will detail the development of “Western Civilization” and the alternate historical ideas of how it could have been changed or destroyed. The class will read counterfactuals that cover decisive turning point in human history, such as Ancient Greece, Early Christianity and impact of Jesus, Roman Empire, the Reformation, English and American History, both World Wars, and even some parts on Islamic, and Chinese History. Students will read Counterfactual historical articles from historians, write a short 8 to10 page paper on an alternate history scenario of their choice, and write a review or critique that defends or refutes a counterfactual argument.

HUM 3990 006 12540
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Unmaking the West (In Person)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: F
Time: 10:50AM-01:30PM
Instructor: Huddleston,Stefan Scott
Class Enrl Cap: 35
 

A Counterfactual History Class, which will detail the development of “Western Civilization” and the alternate historical ideas of how it could have been changed or destroyed. The class will read counterfactuals that cover decisive turning point in human history, such as Ancient Greece, Early Christianity and impact of Jesus, Roman Empire, the Reformation, English and American History, both World Wars, and even some parts on Islamic, and Chinese History. Students will read Counterfactual historical articles from historians, write a short 8 to10 page paper on an alternate history scenario of their choice, and write a review or critique that defends or refutes a counterfactual argument. Meets with section 005 in Centennial 188.

HUM 3990 H01 12541
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/
22/2022 12/17/2022
3
The Transhuman Future
(Hybrid 99% - 50% Online)
Bldg: Centennial Hall
Room: 203
Cap: 290
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20 PM
Dt: 08/22/2022

Instructor: Kuzma, Joseph Dlaboha
Bldg: Centennial Hall
Room: 203
Cap: 290
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 10/10/2022

Instructor: Kuzma,Joseph Dlaboha
Bldg: Centennial Hall Room: 203
Cap: 290
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 11/28/2022

Instructor: Kuzma,Joseph Dlaboha
Bldg: Centennial Hall
Room: 203
Cap: 290
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 12/05/2022

Instructor: Kuzma,Joseph Dlaboha
Class Enrl
Cap: 35 HYBRID IN CLASS
MEETINGS: 8/22, 10/10. 11/28, 12/5.
 

This course aims to define and analyze the concept of transhumanism, and to consider its impact on the future of humanity. Through an exploration of contemporary visual culture, philosophy, and literature, this course examines both the nature of humanity’s fascination with creating transhuman futures, as well as the ethical, political, and aesthetic challenges posed by humanity’s merger with super-intelligent technology.

HUM 3990 H02 12542
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
The Transhuman Future
(Hybrid 99% - 50% Online)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 08/22/2022 I

Instructor: Steen,Michaela Lisa
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0 Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 10/10/2022
Instructor: Steen,Michaela Lisa
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 11/28/2022

Instructor: Steen,Michaela Lisa
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: M
Time: 04:45PM-07:20PM
Dt: 12/05/2022
Instructor: Steen,Michaela Lisa
Class Enrl Cap: 35
HYBRID IN CLASS MEETINGS: 8/22, 10/10. 11/28, 12/5.
Meets with section H01 in Centennial 203.

This course aims to define and analyze the concept of transhumanism, and to consider its impact on the future of humanity. Through an exploration of contemporary visual culture, philosophy, and literature, this course examines both the nature of humanity’s fascination with creating transhuman futures, as well as the ethical, political, and aesthetic challenges posed by humanity’s merger with super-intelligent technology.

HUM 3990 H03 12543
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Black & Brown Power Movements
(Hybrid 99% - 50% Online)
Bldg: Centennial Hall
Room: 188
Cap: 112
Days: Tu
Time: 01:40PM-04:20PM
Instructor: Archuleta,Alexander Thomas
Class Enrl Cap: 35
HYBRID IN CLASS MEETINGS:

This course compares the Black Nationalism/Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s with the Chicano Movement of the 1970s. After World War II, racial strains increased for a number of reasons. The result was the emergence of a multi-decade, multi-racial civil rights movement which then spawned the Black nationalism and Chicano movements. We will examine characteristics of each movement including, ideology, cultural nationalism, women in the movement, and literature and art of the movement as well as legal and societal oppression, economic and cultural exclusion from “mainstream” American society, police brutality and the mission of pushing back against white supremacy. The course will also examine the portrayal of these movements in popular media and though media expressions from within the movements and the communities they represented.

HUM 3990 H04 12544
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Black & Brown Power Movements
(Hybrid 99% - 50% Online)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: Tu
Time: 01:40PM-04:20PM
Instructor: Huddleston,Stefan Scott
Class Enrl Cap: 35
HYBRID IN CLASS MEETINGS:
Meets with section H03 in Centennial 188.

This course compares the Black Nationalism/Power Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s with the Chicano Movement of the 1970s. After World War II, racial strains increased for a number of reasons. The result was the emergence of a multi-decade, multi-racial civil rights movement which then spawned the Black nationalism and Chicano movements. We will examine characteristics of each movement including, ideology, cultural nationalism, women in the movement, and literature and art of the movement as well as legal and societal oppression, economic and cultural exclusion from “mainstream” American society, police brutality and the mission of pushing back against white supremacy. The course will also examine the portrayal of these movements in popular media and though media expressions from within the movements and the communities they represented.

HUM 3990 OL1 12016
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Hero to Super Hero
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Pearson,Sydney Claire
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Hero to Superhero Join us on a journey through time (3000 years or so) and space (from the ancient Mediterranean, across Europe, to the United States), through art and history, through literature and film, to explore the idea of the "hero." What is the purpose of a “hero?" How does a hero represent the values of specific peoples, cultures, and times? How has the hero morphed into the superhero - and what roles do superheroes play in modern mythologies?

Special Topics in Humanities: Ideologies and Isms
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Benson,Jared Lee
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** “Ideology and Isms” surveys the origination, development, and maintenance of social organization through ideological construction. Society informs the way people think, arguably playing the most prominent role in nurturing individuals’ identities. American historian Morris Berman argues that “an idea is something you have and ideology is something that has you.” Thus, to understand ourselves, why we think what we think, say what we say, and do what we do, we must delve into the ideologies that generate our societies.

HUM 3990 OL11 12545
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
U.S. Educ Syst Intersect Lens
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Clay, Sarah Elizabeth
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-
 

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** We will interrogate and examine the ways in which race, gender, class, citizenship status, disability, and region shape the educational system. Building on the Black Feminist scholars who developed the approach, we will deploy intersectionality in our analyses and reflection on course concepts. We will consider how people's social locations work simultaneously to shape the context of people's lives, as well as maintain inequalities in educational outcomes.

HUM 3990 OL12 12546
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
U.S. Educ Syst Intersect Lens
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Frischmann,Christina Marie
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** We will interrogate and examine the ways in which race, gender, class, citizenship status, disability, and region shape the educational system. Building on the Black Feminist scholars who developed the approach, we will deploy intersectionality in our analyses and reflection on course concepts. We will consider how people's social locations work simultaneously to shape the context of people's lives, as well as maintain inequalities in educational outcomes.

Special Topics in Humanities:
HUM 3990 OL13 34497
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Disability Tales (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Frischmann, Christina Marie
Class Enrl Cap: 25

Who do we ignore? How do we treat members of our society who have a disability? This humanities course explores these disability tales through an analysis of privilege, specifically ableist privilege, via the lenses of history, intersectionality, language, legislation, popular culture, psychology, and sociology. ***Online Asynchronous- This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.

*** HUM 3990 OL14 34498
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3

Special Topics in Humanities: Disability Tales
Disability Tales (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Dowds,Lori Kaye Aldridge
Class Enrl Cap: 25

Who do we ignore? How do we treat members of our society who have a disability? This humanities course explores these disability tales through an analysis of privilege, specifically ableist privilege, via the lenses of history, intersectionality, language, legislation, popular culture, psychology, and sociology. ***Online Asynchronous- This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.***

Special Topics in Humanities
HUM 3990 OL15 12306
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
The Nobel Prize (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Headle,Barbara Ann
Class Enrl Cap: 25
 

The Nobel Prize uses the world’s most famous award to explore the humanities. Through a series of guest lectures, class conversations, group activities and assignments, we will study the historical development of the prize as well as its impact on contemporary global politics and culture. Fulfills Compass Curriculum: Writing Intensive Requirements ***Online Asynchronous- This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.

*** HUM 3990 OL16 12307
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
The Nobel Prize (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Larkin,Michael Paul
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** The Nobel Prize uses the world’s most famous award to explore the humanities. Through a series of guest lectures, class conversations, group activities and assignments, we will study the historical development of the prize as well as its impact on contemporary global politics and culture. Fulfills Compass Curriculum: Writing Intensive Requirements

HUM 3990 OL2 12017
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Hero to Super Hero (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Sartin,Roy Jo
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Hero to Superhero Join us on a journey through time (3000 years or so) and space (from the ancient Mediterranean, across Europe, to the United States), through art and history, through literature and film, to explore the idea of the "hero." What is the purpose of a “hero?" How does a hero represent the values of specific peoples, cultures, and times? How has the hero morphed into the superhero - and what roles do superheroes play in modern mythologies?

HUM 3990 OL3 11807
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Medical Humanities (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Laroche,Rebecca Lyn
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Medical Humanities: More than 60 medical schools in the United States have programs in the Medical Humanities. This course introduces various approaches within the field of the Medical Humanities—Narrative Medicine, History of Medicine, and Medical Ethics—and the topics that arise around these approaches such as empathy, knowledge communities, complementary care, and the social meanings of disease. Students will conceptualize, explore, and evaluate how the Medical Humanities are transforming in the 21st century.

HUM 3990 OL4 11547
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Medical Humanities (Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Haggren,Wendy
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Medical Humanities: More than 60 medical schools in the United States have programs in the Medical Humanities. This course introduces various approaches within the field of the Medical Humanities—Narrative Medicine, History of Medicine, and Medical Ethics—and the topics that arise around these approaches such as empathy, knowledge communities, complementary care, and the social meanings of disease. Students will conceptualize, explore, and evaluate how the Medical Humanities are transforming in the 21st century.

HUM 3990 OL5 11548
Special Topics in Humanities
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Home
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Larkin,Michael Paul
Class Enrl Cap: 25

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Our relationships to Home have shifted this past year because of the “Stay at Home” orders related to the pandemic. But how have these orders changed our perceptions of home? This class explores a cross-cultural concept of home through time. How do we construct ideas of home? How has the idea of home changed through time and across space? How is home expressed through art, literature, and contemporary culture. And now how do we explore art, literature, and contemporary culture from home? Using anthropology, geography, and the humanities we will investigate these concepts of being AT HOME during a crisis. This on-line format allows students a unique opportunity to deeply explore the concept of home from within the comforts of home.

HUM 3990 OL6 11647
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Home
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Larkin,Karin Tonya
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** Our relationships to Home have shifted this past year because of the “Stay at Home” orders related to the pandemic. But how have these orders changed our perceptions of home? This class explores a cross-cultural concept of home through time. How do we construct ideas of home? How has the idea of home changed through time and across space? How is home expressed through art, literature, and contemporary culture. And now how do we explore art, literature, and contemporary culture from home? Using anthropology, geography, and the humanities we will investigate these concepts of being AT HOME during a crisis. This on-line format allows students a unique opportunity to deeply explore the concept of home from within the comforts of home.

HUM 3990 OL7 11846
Special Topics in Humanities
Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Resistance & Revolution
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Benson,Jared Lee
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** "Revolution is but thought carried into action" (Emma Goldman). This course explores the various constructs of resistance and revolution historically and sociologically by examining varying degrees of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural movements. Moreover, current economic, environmental, and social climates indicate change appears not only inevitable, but necessary, which motivates this course to examine lessons of both past and present and their applicability for all of us both now and moving forward.

HUM 3990 OL8 11847
Special Topics in Humanities
Lecture 08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Resistance & Revolution
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Lee,Nicholas Branden
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** "Revolution is but thought carried into action" (Emma Goldman). This course explores the various constructs of resistance and revolution historically and sociologically by examining varying degrees of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural movements. Moreover, current economic, environmental, and social climates indicate change appears not only inevitable, but necessary, which motivates this course to examine lessons of both past and present and their applicability for all of us both now and moving forward.

HUM 3990 OL9 12308
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
08/22/2022 12/17/2022
3
Ideologies and Isms
(Online Asynchronous)
Instructor: Lee,Nicholas Branden
Class Enrl Cap: 25
***Online Asynchronous-

This class will be conducted fully online and will be taught asynchronously with no required meeting day(s)/time(s). These sections have been strategically structured to be offered in an online format.*** “Ideology and Isms” surveys the origination, development, and maintenance of social organization through ideological construction. Society informs the way people think, arguably playing the most prominent role in nurturing individuals’ identities. American historian Morris Berman argues that “an idea is something you have and ideology is something that has you.” Thus, to understand ourselves, why we think what we think, say what we say, and do what we do, we must delve into the ideologies that generate our societies. >

HUM 3990 WK1 13242
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
09/10/2022 11/12/2022
3
70s Experience Through Film (HyFlex)
Bldg: Dwire Hall Room: 121
Cap: 153
Days: Sa
Time: 01:00PM-05:00PM
Dt: 09/10/2022-11/12/2022
Instructor: Feliu-Moggi,Fernando
Class Enrl Cap: 35
***HyFlex-

This course is offered as a combination of in-person and online content. Students should expect to be available for all of the days and times listed, and may be required to attend in-person class meetings dependent on the instructor's syllabus. Please reach out to the instructor/department for further details on how to expect this specific HyFlex course section to run.*** The course focuses on how cinema presented and explored the forces that made the 1970s a decade of pivotal social, cultural and political change in the United States. Through the screening of representative films from that decade, and critical and historical readings, the class looks at how events like the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Civil Rights Movement, and economic transformations affected American society and the nation´s role in the world, and offered new ways for understanding the challenges of the nation. The choice of the texts, films, and other resources for the course incorporate accounts of the developments of that era. **WEEKEND UNIVERSITY** Condensed Weekend University course, please refer to course dates because they differ from the traditional semester dates.

HUM 3990 WK2 13243
Special Topics in Humanities Lecture
09/10/2022 11/12/2022
3
70s Experience Through Film (HyFlex)
Bldg: See Room: NOTES
Cap: 0
Days: Sa
Time: 01:00PM-05:00PM
Dt: 09/10/2022-11/12/2022
Instructor: Von Dassanowsky,Robert
Class Enrl Cap: 35
***HyFlex-
 

This course is offered as a combination of in-person and online content. Students should expect to be available for all of the days and times listed, and may be required to attend in-person class meetings dependent on the instructor's syllabus. Please reach out to the instructor/department for further details on how to expect this specific HyFlex course section to run.*** Meets with section WK1 in Dwire 121. The course focuses on how cinema presented and explored the forces that made the 1970s a decade of pivotal social, cultural and political change in the United States. Through the screening of representative films from that decade, and critical and historical readings, the class looks at how events like the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Civil Rights Movement, and economic transformations affected American society and the nation´s role in the world, and offered new ways for understanding the challenges of the nation. The choice of the texts, films, and other resources for the course incorporate accounts of the developments of that era. **WEEKEND UNIVERSITY** Condensed Weekend University course, please refer to course dates because they differ from the traditional semester dates.