Honors College Distribution
CAS:  CAS elective credit
GSB: Social Science
CALS:  Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

Improving the quality of communication in healthcare is a national priority, particularly in the context of suffering. Medically-related suffering happens when the experience of illness or the treatments for that illness threaten the intactness of our sense of self. Relieving suffering requires clinicians to understand how the person defines who they are, where they find meaning, what is threatening and what is not. Conversational narrative is one powerful way to share these insights with one another and listening is how we understand.

Advances in computational linguistics and machine learning offer extraordinary opportunities to systematically measure, analyze and understand clinical conversations in epidemiologic studies of sufficient sample sizes to better understand the complexity of these dynamic, relational and multidimensional phenomena. Students in this course will gain experience with conceptual, methodological and practical aspects of large-scale study of healthcare conversations.

Using our own stories, as well as those from NPR's StoryCorps, UVM's Bereavement StoryListening and Dartmouth's ICU StoryWeb, learners will explore empirical methods for studying important characteristics of listening amid different types of narratives. Students will become familiar with computational methods for describing a large corpus of conversations and gain experience generating a research question, conducting analyses, interpreting findings and communicating their scientific work in both written and oral settings. Students will develop familiarity with the JMP software package to visualize story data, but neither coding experience nor statistical knowledge is necessary prior to this course. Diverse disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged, regardless of interest in healthcare careers.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  CAS elective credit
GSB:  Elective Credit Only 
CALS:  Natural Science
CEMS:  ENGR: Gen Ed Elective; Math/Stat/CS/DS students consult with your advisor
RSENR: Consult with academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with academic advisor
CESS: Consult academic advisor 

Animal agriculture is a significant portion of our national agricultural economy and foods of animal origin play a significant role in our global food system. A striking but lesser known fact is that animal-derived food products have been an important factor in human evolution (e.g., eating meat has led to increases in the size of both the human body and brain). Current dietary patterns derive from the changes in food production that started with the industrial revolution and from the more recent construction of a global food economy. With increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, obesity, and food-borne diseases, animal products are coming under increasing scrutiny. Broad areas of focus reflect global patterns of consumption of meat, dairy, eggs, fish, and their products.

We will explore the connection between animal products, their nutritional attributes, and human and public perception. Particular emphasis will be placed on functional and value-added foods, biotechnology in animal agriculture, as well as animal product quality and safety issues. The course utilizes an interactive approach, involving a broad spectrum of methods including lectures to build fundamental knowledge, student forums to stimulate debate and understanding, individual and group assignments to develop key skills in writing and presenting, and the use of computer-aided learning.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  Humanities
GSB:  Humanities Core
CALS: Humanities 
CEMS: ENGR: Gen Ed Elective; Math/Stat/CS/DS students consult with your advisor
RSENR: Consult with academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with academic advisor
CESS: Consult with academic advisor

This seminar will examine the intersection of war, race, and identity in America focused around two critical sites.  Firstly, the racialized othering of Native America from the wars of colonial conquest to the defeat of the Plains Indians; and secondly the Civil War, viewed as war for the overthrow of slavery and as it was transformed in memory into a valorous war between brothers in which questions of race were marginalized.  These sites are critical to race and race relations in America, working to define who is, and who is not included with its racialized boundaries.

Based in the discipline of History, the seminar will embrace approaches drawn from gender studies, critical race theory, anthropology and film studies. Seminar discussions will be based on academic monographs and on cultural products, particularly in film.  I also plan to organize a visit to the “Dreaming of Timbuctoo” exhibit at the John Brown Farm in Lake Placid as part of a discussion on Civil-War era Black settlement in the Adirondacks.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  No CAS credit
GSB: Social Science OR Humanities
CALS:  Humanities, Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

Students will gain a general understanding of the experience of disability through critical analysis of a broad range of socio-cultural artifacts and expression. Though not an exhaustive list, these artifacts will include literature, visual art, performance art, dance, film, television, and resources from the web. By interpreting differing points of view, concepts such as ableism, implicit bias, cultural appropriation, and intersectionality will be discussed through course assignments and in-class discussions.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  CAS elective credit
GSB: Natural Science
CALS:  Social Science, Physical & Life Sciences
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

Qualitative and quantitative study of renewable energy sources in comparison to fossil fuels: methods of harvesting, applications, environmental and financial sustainability. Assessment of current national and international energy mixes, considering challenges and opportunities in the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  non-lab Natural Science
GSB: Social Science
CALS:  Physical & Life Sciences
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

The objective of this course is to explore the ecological, economic, and social footprints of civilization.  We will begin our explorations with the dawn of agriculture, when the cultivation of plants and rearing of animals allowed permanent settlements to replace gathering and hunting as the primary means of feeding human populations.  A key component of our examination will be to investigate similarities and differences in agricultural systems in different regions of the globe where agriculture began independently.  Furthermore, we will investigate how changing technologies have impacted the ecological footprint of cities, and how they continue to do so in an increasingly globalized world.  Our aim is to use scientific principles to evaluate in different modes the sustainability of cities, states, and nations.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  Humanities
GSB: Social Science
CALS:  Humanities, Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans continues to bear the effects of one of the worst disasters in U.S. history. On the one hand, the Katrina disaster laid bare for all to see, in newspapers and on TV screens, the gross inequality indicative of all American cities, where the city’s largely Black and poor populations who lived in the areas most vulnerable to flooding suffered the greatest. The storm made manifest the ways in which years of policymaking and urban planning had effectively dispossessed whole segments of the population. On the other hand, the recovery efforts, and debates about them, were also grossly uneven, ushering in new forms of “disaster capitalism” (Klein, 2017) that benefit elites at the expense of the most vulnerable. This course takes stock of what has happened in New Orleans since the Katrina event, with a particular focus on the uneven effects of the storm and strategies of recovery. Drawing from a multidisciplinary approach in fields of cultural, urban, and media studies, students will learn about the causes and aftermath of the storm, the cultural politics of recovery and renewal efforts, and the significance of art, media, and culture in representing and reconstructing post-Katrina New Orleans. The course enjoins students to reflect on what we can learn from the effect of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on New Orleans, particularly as it pertains to understanding the broader implications of urban inequality (especially within the contexts of race, class, and gender), disaster recovery, and the cultural politics of representation and resistance.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  No distribution credit,  Non-European Cultures
GSB:  Humanities Core – Catalogue 2016+
CALS:  Social Science
CEMS:  ENGR: Gen Ed Elective; CS, STAT,MATH: consult with your academic advisor
RSENR: Consult with your academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with your academic advisor
CESS: Consult with your academic advisor
 Major/Minor Requirements

This course counts toward the Environmental Studies major and minor in the College of Arts and Sciences (other colleges: please consult your advisor).

This course counts toward the Latin American & Caribbean Studies major and minor

Contemporary Latin-American artistic representation is as diverse as its peoples, and encompasses a plurality of cultural expressions and complex relationships.  This course will explore the interdisciplinary landscape of “ecocriticism” as an emerging field in the environmental humanities and address how Latin American representation engages with the multidimensional aspects of environmental issues.  Case studies from Amazonia, Mexico and Easter Island will enable observations of how some of these issues manifest in specific time and scale.  We will discuss fictional and non-fictional texts, oral narratives, film and other expressive forms that reflect on diverse cosmologies from the region.

Honors College Distribution
CAS: Social Science
GSB: Social Science (gen ed field), Political Science (dist)
CALS: Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR: Consult with your academic advisor
CESS: Consult with your academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with your academic advisor

This is an historically-structured inquiry into the American constitutional law of equality. Cases decided by state and federal courts are essential, but we also devote considerable time to the ways legislatures, political parties, interest groups, and private citizens have shaped American law. Much of the course focuses on race and racism in the law of equality in the U.S.; we also study discrimination based on gender, socioeconomic class, religion, and sexual orientation. In addition to judicial decisions, readings include excerpts from state constitutional-convention debates, party platforms, speeches, and social-science texts interpreting law and legal change. Assigned reading will include a constitutional-law textbook supplemented by an instructor-designed course-pack, plus occasional some materials online.

Honors College Distribution
CAS: Humanities
GSB: Humanities Core
CALS: Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor
Major/Minor Requirements
Counts towards the European Studies major/minor "European History and Society" category
Counts towards the History Major/Minor in the "European" category
Counts towards the Holocaust Studies minor

This seminar is situated at the nexus of history, German and European studies, and international relations. It will explore a range of social, political, and cultural developments in the two German states that emerged from the rubble of the Second World War. Major themes will include how the German states coped with the legacies of the past and the political realities of the present. The division of Germany embodied the division of the world into two hostile blocs during the Cold War. Having unleashed a brutal war of conquest, and having perpetrated murder on a massive scale, Germany stood morally bankrupt in 1945. Therefore, the class will analyze how the legacy of the Holocaust affected German politics East and West, influenced the relations of the two German states with other countries, and shaped both German societies internally. We will explore to what extent Nazi and extreme rightwing political movements have re-emerged in Germany since 1945. The end of the Cold War brought about the collapse of East Germany and paved the way for German unification. Ever since, the Germans also have to come to terms with the history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), leading to a situation termed doppelte Vergangenheitsbewältigung – coping with the legacies and memories of two German dictatorships.

Honors College Distribution
CAS: Social Science
GSB: Social Science core
CALS: Social Science
CEMS: Consult with your academic advisor
RSENR: Consult with your academic advisor
CESS: Consult with your academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with your academic advisor

Sports are an increasingly central part of our globalized world. We see this in many ways: the building of new arenas and infrastructure, the multibillion-dollar expansion of professional sporting leagues, the increasingly lucrative nature of athletic content in broadcasting, the multimillion-dollar contracts signed by star athletes, the growing participation of children in organized sports, the emergence of virtual games and fantasy sports, and the changing nature of unstructured play, among many others. The significance of stadiums, infrastructure, and mega-events are also a key element of the race by urban sites worldwide to gain the title of ‘the global city.’ And the deep identification that many people have with sports teams and athletes tell us much about the continued importance of place in increasingly interconnected societies. This course looks at sports through a spatial lens, focusing specifically on the geographic concepts of place-making, urban development, and geopolitics. In particular we will explore the ways that affinities with sports teams are often a means to create and strengthen ties to specific regions and places, the centrality of mega-events and arena construction in the urbanization plans of many cities, and the ways and the ways in which sports and international competition can be a way of expressing political ideologies and positions.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  Social Science
GSB:Social Science
CALS:  Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

This course will be organized around five important papers in the experimental economics literature, taken from a list of eighteen top papers that is the basis of a forthcoming book.  These works span five decades and present fascinating insights into human behavior related to donating to charities, negotiating, cheating, buying, and selling.  Collectively, the papers relate to three major topics in economics: markets and the supply-and-demand model; utility theory; and public goods.  For each paper, we will cover the basic economic theory that is being tested in the experiment and the statistical methods used for testing the results.  In some cases, there are good online systems for the students to participate in a similar experiment.  In the second section of the course, students will research other papers that represent further work inspired by the seminal papers that we studied.  Students will present their selected papers to the class and write a 5-8 page paper describing the selected papers and summarizing the findings in the literature.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  Social Science
GSB: Social Science
CALS:  Social Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

The course will focus on the interaction of political economy, toxic waste, history, and place. In particular we will look at complex constellations of inequality and identity shaped by large-scale historical forces; the way those translate into positions within global markets; and the way those positions translate to exposure to various toxins that fit into those markets, whether for cellphones or automobiles or power plants. We will look at mining, informal waste, including dismantling and scavenging, environmental pollution, and disasters. Through this lens we will examine how worldwide formations and forces can be present in cells, homes, and personal lives. Particular toxins of interest will include coal, nickel, bauxite, copper, lead, mercury, chromium, cadmium and more. Particular critical historical sites may include West Virginia, the Marshall Islands testing grounds, Chernobyl, Bhopal, EPA superfund sites, and India's corridor of intense mineral extraction. 

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  Humanities
GSB:  Humanities Core
CALS:  Humanities
CEMS:  ENGR: Gen Ed Elective; Math/Stat/CS/DS students consult with your advisor
RSENR: Consult with your academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with your academic advisor
CESS: Consult with your academic advisor
This course introduces students to the comparative study of religion, spiritual, and psycho-physical practices - exercises by which individuals and groups deepen, develop, challenge, and transform their perceptions and capacities for action in harmony with religious, moral-ethical, or philosophical ideas.  The course covers a range that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman philosophers (Stoics, Epicurians, Skeptics and Neoplatonists), the yogis and monks of ancient medieval South and East Asia, medieval Christian ascetics and Renaissance mages, to practitioners of modern forms of westernized yoga, martial arts, ritual magic, and forms of "civil religiosity" such as environmental activism.  Readings of ancient texts and contemporary philosophical writings will be complemented by practical exercises and writing and presentation assignments.

Honors College Distribution
CAS:  non-lab natural science
GSB: Natural Science
CALS:  Social Science, Physical & Life Science
CEMS: ENGR: Gen. Ed. Elective or Free Elective; CS/CSIS/DS/MATH/STAT students consult with your academic advisor
RSENR:  Consult with Academic Advisor
CNHS: Consult with Academic Advisor
CESS:  Consult with Academic Advisor

This course integrates scientific knowledge, communications and policy regarding climate change. Climate literacy requires understanding the physical science basis for climate change, which is where this course begins. From there, we explore the global, national and local impacts of climate change, giving rise to options and issues in climate mitigation, adaptation and vulnerability of communities and the unevenness of climate impacts. We explore current and potential policy solutions, as well as options for local action, and modes of communication about climate change (e.g., scientific vs. social messaging). Students will research a climate change topic through review of primary literature or data, practicing and applying their climate knowledge, citing information sources, engaging in peer-review and multiple-drafts, and utilizing research methods.

Honors College Distribution

CAS:  Fine Arts 
GSB:  Humanities Core
CALS: Humanities or Fine Arts
CEMS: ENGR: Gen Ed Elective; Math/Stat/CS/DS students check with your advisor
RSENR: Consult with your academic advisor
CNHS: Consult with your academic advisor
CESS: Consult with your academic advisor

Major/Minor Requirements

This course counts toward the Theatre major/minor - elective

In this class we will examine theories developed across the arts that help to conceptualize a study of time: relational aesthetics, seriality, silence, endurance and durational art, theories of “liveness” in theatre and television, repetition, the life of form, and multidimensional perspective. We will use these theories to explore the work of a diverse range of artists across time, space and discipline. In exploring how artists have investigated our relationship to time, we will consider how their work creates a tear in the fabric of time through which we might perceive of another kind of reality. Artists may include Hildegard of Bingen (music), Eleanora Duse (theatre), Hilma af Klint (painting), John Cage (music), Sol LeWitt (sculpture), Tatsumi Hijikata (Butoh/Dance), Marina Abramović (performance art), Kara Walker (painting), Edward Muybridge (photography), Anna Deveare Smith (theatre), and Samuel Beckett (theatre).