The hybrid courses are designed to bridge the Leadership Studies and Academic Honors tracks and may be counted toward either track requirements.
UNHL 3810 Understanding and Dealing with Uncertainty
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid (may be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Natural and Physical Sciences, Social Science, Humanities
This course discusses the concept of uncertainty from multiple perspectives. What is uncertainty? How does it relate to other notions such as ignorance or variation of risk? How do we deal with uncertainty? We will consider ideas from mathematics, science, philosophy, religion, law, and psychology, among other fields. Students will be required to develop their own ideas on uncertainty in written form and/or participate in group presentations.
UNHL 3815 Life in the Information Age
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid (may be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives
This course charts the contours, contradictions, and challenges of life in the Information Age. Adopting the perspective of techno-capitalism, it explores how advances in communication technologies and changes in our economic system are altering our daily lives. Although radical change is always disruptive and disorienting, this course does not naively deny or pessimistically lament these changes. Rather, it chooses to focus on how persons can confront, address, adapt to, and excel in our rapidly changing world.
UNHL 3820 The Economics of Life
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid (May be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Behavioral Science, Social Science, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives
Study of the economic approach to human behavior and its application to the analysis of markets and areas including politics, law, family life, and other social issues. Students will develop an understanding of how the economic approach differs from other approaches to analyzing these phenomena and of its possibilities and limitations.
UNHL 3825 Irish Music, Peace, Politics, and Popular Culture
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid (May be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives
This course explores traditional and contemporary music in Ireland, examines Irish politics and the peace process in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and considers ways in which various forms of Irish popular culture have represented Irishness and Irish identity. Course work includes reading and cybersleuthing activities, group discussions, reflective writing and brief essay assignments, listening and video-viewing, group Webliography projects, and a mini-conference which will serve as a final project.
UNHL 3830 Jazz in American Culture
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid Track
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Cultural Diversity
This class will explore the influence of jazz music (and related forms like ragtime and the blues) on American culture more generally. Specific topics to be explored include the Post-Reconstruction Race Politics, the Delta and the Great Migration, New Orleans, and the Harlem Renaissance. Important figures of African-American literature, and Jazz & Blues music will also be presented. Students will examine a multitude of literary and musical experiences through novels, short works, biographies, and listening.
UNHL 3835 Evaluating Contemporary Cinema
Credit Hours: 3
Prereq: UNHL 1100
Course Type: Hybrid (May be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives
This course focuses on the evaluation of contemporary film in national and international contexts. Approaching film as an art form, students learn to critically examine and evaluate the formal aspects of cinema, including narrative, cinematography, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, etc.
UNHL 3870 History and Culture of the Spanish-Speaking World
Credit Hours: 3
Prereqs: UNHL 1100; UNHL 2870, SPAN 2120 or demonstration of second-year Spanish language proficiency through placement exam
Course Type: Hybrid (May be counted toward either track)
Core Areas: Arts, Humanities, Cultural Diversity, International Perspectives
This course explores Spain's diverse legacy beginning with early Spanish culture, including the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim/Arab influences, and ending with a study of the current regional and linguistic differences of contemporary Spain. The course emphasizes the cultural and regional diversity of Spain and Spanish history through a variety of genres, including art, literature, and film.
Note: This course is required for students who wish to participate in the UHL Maymester in Spain.
UNHL 3910 Ideology and Revolution
Was ideology invented in the 19th Century? Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism and Socialism were all invented in the short span of 1789-1870. In this course we read works of Edmund Burke, Karl Marx, J.S. Mill, and others who reacted to the French and Industrial Revoluations, hoping to repair the social fabric.
UNHL 3995 Study Abroad