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8.00 Credits
Introduction to interdisciplinary study of literature and cultural theory addressing issues of power and ideology in various multicultural contexts. Fulfills the General Education Expository Writing and U.S. Diversity requirements and the Literary Perspective.
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4.00 Credits
Taken in conjunction with HS 102, develops skills in research, critical thinking, and writing. Stresses revision, relies on frequent workshops of student writing, and aims to sharpen ability to research, evaluate, and use evidence in a reasonable and convincing way. Write extended research paper on topic related to HS 102. Fulfills the General Education Research Writing requirement. (Spring semester)
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8.00 Credits
Engages critical thinking and research about philosophical, cultural, and scientific methods of generating knowledge and their ethical implications. Different areas of inquiry examined each year. Recent topics included environmental ethics, evolution, astronomy, and epistemology. Fulfills the General Education Ethics and Values Perspective and the Scientific Perspective.
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1.00 Credits
A one-credit series of workshops and special events that provide mentorship while students develop proposals for Honors theses.
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1.00 Credits
A one-credit series of workshops and special events that provide mentorship while students complete Senior Honors Theses/Projects. In both terms, students share their works-in-progress with the Honors Program Director and other Honors Program students.
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4.00 Credits
What is a mind? Does it set humans apart from machines? Twentieth-century views of computers as primitive kinds of minds and human minds as neurological machines has origins in modern philosophical, scientific, and popular views of nature as law-like, rational, and predictable that accompanied social and technological changes. The course examines the implications of this history for contemporary humans and machines, and how we understand and negotiate humanmachine relationships. Topics include evolution, the industrial revolution, the brain, robotics, and virtual reality.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses basic philosophical questions posed by Western civilization accustomed to unshakable faith in power of knowledge to provide solutions to fundamental challenges facing humanity. Addresses problem equating knowledge with power from its origins in Greek Judeo-Christian cultures to quintessential modern story of Frankenstein. Sources drawn from poetry (Goethe and Shelley), drama (Aeschylus), literature (Mary Shelley and Voltaire), and philosophy (Descartes and Rousseau) provide introduction to heritage of textual and visual material for contemplating meaning of knowledge for human existence.
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4.00 Credits
Love and eroticism were once the epicenter of philosophy. Yet, since the 19th century, love and eroticism have been secondary to "desire," whichsuggests more of a structure than an individuated experience. Many theorists repeatedly state that one cannot know desire. Course explores the relationship between this alienating structure and the ego-validating interpersonal encounters we call love so as to rethink the roles that love, desire, and eroticism play in our lived experiences.
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4.00 Credits
Development of modern city, vast migrations during industrial revolution of rural, agrarian populations to large urban centers of today. Impact of urbanization on politics, perception, and spiritual dimension of human life. Conceptions of postmodern city emerged late 20th century, collapse of modernist ideals of architecture, urban life (symmetry, rationality, political, intellectual enlightenment), emergence of brave new approach to politics, philosophy, design of the city. Primary texts from sociology, urban planning, and architecture. Weekly assignments, formal essay, and group project involving fieldwork in Boston.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to theory and practice of digital communication and new media technology. Topics in history of media and impact of digital technology on work, contemporary culture, knowledge creation and acquisition, and creative process. Online training in Internet navigation, information retrieval, multi-user interactive environments, hypertext, and hypermedia authorship. Practical understanding of technologies provide critical tools for evaluating social, political, and aesthetic decisions in digital media.
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