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Spring 2027 Seminars

Course Title Description Time Hours Instructor
HON 301 - H01 Conspiracy Theories Who built the pyramids? Did we land on the moon? Are birds real? Explore the history, rhetoric, and impact of conspiracy theories. M 2:40-3:35 1.0 Elizabeth Hardin
HON 301 - H02 History for Decision-Making

This course considers how historical knowledge and historical skills can be used to better understand the policymaking process. It’s not so much a history course but a course about historical reasoning—inference
from experience applied to formulation of policy and decision making.

M 4:20-5:15

 1.0 Brian Odom

HON 301 - H03

 The Professionalization Of Youth Sport

Examine the transformation of youth sports from informal neighborhood play into a professionalized, billion-dollar industry.

T 1:00-1:55

 1.0 Amanda Aguilar

HON 301 - H04

 Can We Trust Science? Definitive answers are hard to come by, but there is good reason to believe there are better and worse answers to the question, “can we trust science?” Let's discuss.

W 11:20-12:15

 1.0 Deborah Heikes

HON 301 - H05

 Global Grand Theft Auto

This class will examine how GTA functions as a high-profile example of the satirical crime genre, and specifically interrogate the ways in which its hyperbolic violence, sexualization, and extravagance critique political and economic trends post globalization.

W 4:20-5:15

 1.0 David St. John
HON 301 - H06 Data Centers: Multiple Perspectives Every day there are online postings in the media about data centers. But what really is a data center? How do they work? Are they good or bad? R 2:40-3:35 1.0 Harry Delugach
HON 301-H07 I Am Not a Robot: AI and the Human Condition

For all of history we've pointed to language, reason, art, empathy, and self-reflection as proof of our uniqueness. AI unsettles nearly all of those claims at once. This seminar asks a question underneath them: what are humans actually for?

R  1:00 -1:55

 1.0 Philip Kovacs
HON 399-H01 Speculative London This interdisciplinary Honors seminar will survey speculative representations of the London metropole from the late nineteenth century to the present and explore both how and why it has so persistently served as a site for figuring catastrophe as well as transformation. TR 11:20-12:40 3.0 Eric Smith
HON 321-H01 Honors ISE 321 Supplement Discuss aspects of engineering economy. Combines with ISE 321 for 4 HON hours. Prereq/Coreq: ISE 321. M 2:40-3:35 1.0 Andrew Davis
MAE 345-H01 Honors Thermodynamics Colloquium Explore the history of thermodynamics. Combines with MAE 341 for 4 HON hours. Prereq/Coreq: MAE 341.   1.0 Keith Hollingsworth