Courses

Index#: 07589

Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR

Course description.

Does education have a role to play in creating a more just and equal society? Is the grand project of… Continue Reading – Education and Democracy

Index#: 07586

Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR

This course shall explore the twentieth-and twenty-first-century African American essay traditions by a representative number of the best-known African American essayists in the US: W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph… Continue Reading – Speech and Power: The Art and Ethics of the African American Essay

Index#: 07585

Will Count Towards Anthropology MAJOR

Will Count Towards Anthropology MINOR

The practice of slavery has risen and faded a number of times, and even exists in some regions today. Its most extensive practice took place during the colonial era, in the Age of Mercantile… Continue Reading – Historical Archeology of Slavery

Index#: 07588

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Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR… Continue Reading – Reading in Slow Motion

Index#: 07577

Will Count Towards Philosophy MAJOR

Will Count Towards Philosophy MINOR

“A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought,” Coral… Continue Reading – Making the Climate Greta Again: Changing Everything, Everywhere, Beginning at Rutgers

Index#: 07580

Will  Count Towards History MAJOR

Will (?) Count Towards History MINOR

SYNOPSIS

About Professor McCormick

Richard L. McCormick is president emeritus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He served as the… Continue Reading – The Roosevelts of Twentieth-Century America: What We Can Learn from Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor about the Presidency, Democracy, War, and Race

Index#: 07582

Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR

In the Iliad, perhaps the greatest war story ever told, Homer writes: “How can I picture it all? It would take a god to tell the tale.” War is profoundly difficult to convey. It reconfigures nations,… Continue Reading – Telling Stories of War—From Trench Letters and Diaries to Video Games and Films

Index#: 07578

Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR

This interdisciplinary seminar, which crosses the boundaries of literary criticism, history, and philosophy, will examine Shakespeare’s role in the “Renaissance cult of friendship,” a nearly obsessive… Continue Reading – Shakespeare and the Philosophy of Friendship

Index#: 07587

Will Count Towards English MAJOR

Will Count Towards English MINOR

Unsurprisingly, in several recent graphic memoirs, the memoirist includes episodes of going to a psychotherapist—e.g., David Small’s Stitches, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and Alison Bechdel’s Are You My… Continue Reading – Graphic Novels & Psychoanalysis

Index#: 07581  

Will Count Towards Political Science MAJOR

Will Count Towards Political Science MINOR

For the last century or so most economic systems around the world have called themselves capitalist or socialist, while most political systems have called themselves democratic.  The number of democracies rose… Continue Reading – Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Index#: 07590

Will Count Towards Psychology MAJOR

Will NOT Count Towards Psychology MINOR

Throughout history, and certainly during the history of the United States and Rutgers University, progress has been synonymous with leadership. The contemporary understanding of leadership is evolutionary—… Continue Reading – Past Leaders Speak to Us About Shaping Our Future

Index#: 07579

Will NOT Count Towards Chemistry MAJOR

Will Count Towards Chemistry MINOR

The proposed SAS Honors seminar will cover a broad swath of subject material from the 20th century physics developments that led to the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb, the military and… Continue Reading – Existential Threats to Humanity: Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, and Connections Between Them

Index#: 07574

Will NOT Count Towards Physics MAJOR

Will Count Towards Physics MINOR

This course  is  primarily  directed  at  non-physics  majors.… Continue Reading – Essentials of Quantum Mechanics

Index#: 07584

Will Count Towards Japanese MAJOR

Will Count Towards Japanese MINOR

In this Honors seminar, we will be reading and discussing primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, short fiction, poetry, a novel, and feature-length films by and about survivors of the 1945 U.S.… Continue Reading – Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Learning from the Atomic Bombings of Japan

Index#: 07576

Will Count Towards Political Science MAJOR

Will Count Towards Political Science MINOR

This seminar will focus on the life and legal cases of U.S. Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The “Notorious RBG,” as she is known, has been critical to the… Continue Reading – The Notorious RBG

Index#: 07593

Will NOT Count Towards Biology MAJOR

Will NOT Count Towards Biology MINOR

What do proteins, DNA, and RNA look like? Where do these molecules fit in your body and how do they work? This seminar will introduce you to the basics of structural… Continue Reading – Molecular View of Human Anatomy: Mechanisms of Drug Action in the Central Nervous System

Index#: 07575

Will Count Towards Sociology MAJOR

Will Count Towards Sociology MINOR

Fukushima and Sandy are bell-weather events for modern society. Climate change will continue to be a point of political and… Continue Reading – Disaster, Culture and Society

Course description

This class, an introductory honors seminar on some of the most influential and most debated texts in Western culture, is based on the sense that it is still urgent for us to reflect together on forms of human expression that have shaped culture for centuries, whether drawn from the canons of philosophy, tragedy, religion, political theory, or political debate.

From the wars of ancient Greece to ongoing… Continue Reading – Civilization and its Discontents

The socialist state of China has risen spectacularly as the world’s second economic and political superpower in the past several decade. Yet much of the news about China in the rest of the world is about religion: state suppression of the Tibetan Buddhist culture, the Uighur Islamic faith, and the Falungong meditative practice in pursuit of healing, health and spirituality. Meanwhile, we are baffled as to how and why Chinese… Continue Reading – Religion and Society in Modern China