Curriculum

DHC 140: Articulating Honors: Research Writing in the 21st Century

DHC 140: Culture and Cuisine

DHC 141: The Mountains' Call

DHC 140: Satan and Society

This course is a survey of how the figure "Satan" has beenadapted in various religious, historic, and cultural milieus. How Satan is represented says much about a culture and its values, fears, and sense of identity. Students are presented with religious writings, politicized caricatures, and aesthetic representations concerning Satan, comparing and analyzing how ideas of evil and otherness intertwine.

DHC 150: Opera is for Everyone?: Are the Fine Arts Still Relevant?

DHC 150: The Evolution of Music in Sports

DHC 151: The Aesthetics of Ugliness

DHC 151: Contemporary European Cinema

European filmmakers today face many challenges. Some of these are practical: securing financing, distribution, and finding an audience. Others are less tangible: squaring Europe's autear tradition with an increasingly market-driven industry, and defining national identities in ever more diverse cultural settings. This course introduces students to contemporary films from across Western Europe and considers the societal, cultural, and industrial contexts in which they exist.

DHC 160: The Nature of Beasts: Animals in History and Science

DHC 161: Consciousness

DHC 161: Astronomy & Mythology

DHC 160: Chemistry for Materials of Art

This course is an introduction to fundamental principles and topics in chemistry, including atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical bonds, metals, the nature of light, color, acids and bases, oxidation/reduction, and organic molecules and polymers. These chemistry fundamentals are introduced through -- and applied to -- historic and contemporary studio processes and materials including metal etching, ceramics, pigments, frescoes, photography, textiles, and dyes. This course includes a labratory component.

DHC 250: Difficult Decision-Making: Individuals, Groups, and States

DHC 250: Coalition Building and Solidarity

DHC 251: Society and the Politics of Nature

DHC 251: Conspiracism, Conspiracy Theories, and American Politics

DHC 250: Politics and Games

This course is an introduction to political philosophy through the use of primary texts from Plato and Nozick, lecturres on important mathematical results associated with democracy, and explanatory models in game theory that help explain why rational beings choose to tooperate and form governments. This includes examples (primarily from US history) that demonstrate some of these concepts.

DHC 260: American Youth Cultural Post-WWI

DHC 261: American Hemispheric Studies

DHC 261: Not Just Rocking the Cradle: How Women Shape Civilization

This course examines the role of women in shaping the world both collectively as a social force and individually as notable warriors, rulers, athletes, writers, activists, scholars, artists, businesswomen, adventures, scientists, and inventors. The purpose of the course is to bring to the surface the submerged -- often invisible -- contributions and achievements of women within the context of their status both in world hsitory and in the present era, especially in the US. 

DHC 270: Adaptation in a Time of Change

DHC 270: Ciphers, Secret Communication & Personal Privacy

DHC 270: It's About Time

This course examines the concept of time from many perspectives. These include ancient cultural conceptions of time (Hebrew, Greek, Hindu); measuring time (determining the length of a year or a seond); the major calendars in use today; philosophy (Descartes, Kant, and Euler); literature; physics (relatively and quantum mechanics); psychology (human perception of time); and sociology (moden society's obsession with time). Time travel in theory and literature is also discussed.

DHC 380: Science, Technology, and Society

This course will provide a history of the relationship between science, technology, and society. The course includes science from the early modern period through modern times, and emphaizes the historical and social contextualization of scientific issues from the past and the present. Historical and contemporary themes will includes the Scientific Revolution, exploration, the emergence of professional science, the Cold War, popular science, science education, and modern museums of technology.

DHC 480: International Peace and Security, Humanitarianism and Development

This course covers theories and policies related to the social, political, and economic aspects of humanitarianism, peacekeeping, development, and human rights. International structures for peace and security, and philosophical and legal approaches will be considered.