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Manually adding a bunch of GENED data to the AY 2023 classes.wtf dataset
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Course # Faculty Title What's it about? Category Books Lotteried?
GENED 1023 Robichaud, Christopher Ignorance, Lies, Hogwash, and Humbug Fake news, echo chambers, conspiracies, propaganda, information pollution--what are these and other features of the post truth era and how can we successfully navigate them? E&C yes
GENED 1025 Rinard, Susanna Happiness Should we pursue happiness, and if so, how should we do it? E&C yes
GENED 1027 Lieberman, Daniel Human Evolution and Human Health How did the human body evolve to be the way it is, and how does that evolutionary history influence how we can promote health and prevent disease? STS no
GENED 1028 Hsieh, Nien-hê Work, Life and Purpose in an Uncertain World Almost everyone must work, so how will you choose what work to do, avoid ethical pitfalls at work, and shape the world of work for others? E&C yes
GENED 1030 Damrosch, David The Philosopher and the Tyrant In a time of rising authoritarianism and polarized debate, what role can the love of wisdom have in tempering the pursuit of power? E&C yes
GENED 1032 Carpenter, Daniel Res Publica -- A History of Representative Government What is a democratic republic, and can such a regime — one that trusts citizens to capably choose and monitor those in power, and one that trusts those in power to restrain themselves and each other while attending to the public good — survive and protect us from tyranny? E&C, HSI no
GENED 1037 Sadler, Philip Experiments That Changed Our World In what ways does reliving 12 groundbreaking scientific experiments teach us how our own efforts can remake the world? STS yes
GENED 1039 Klemencic, Manja Higher Education: Students, Institutions and Controversies Why do we seek higher education, how do we experience and conduct higher education and what do we do with higher education? HSI yes
GENED 1049 Li, Jie East Asian Cinema How can we critically analyze and creatively respond to films, meanwhile letting cinema open up a window to other cultures and histories while serving as a mirror for ourselves and our own times? A&C yes
GENED 1052 Hochschild, Jennifer Race in a Polarized America Is the United States a beacon of liberal, democratic, diverse values and practices, that also has a pattern of racial injustice – or is the US at its core a white supremicist society, in which some people aspire to creating a genuinely tolerant liberal democracy? HSI no
GENED 1059 Weir, Justin Moral Inquiry in the Novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky How can the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky help us think differently about everyday moral dilemmas that are often seen as the prerogative of religion, politics, or philosophy? E&C yes
GENED 1063 Goldie, Sue World Health: Challenges and Opportunities How do we analyze the health of global populations in a time of unprecedented crisis, and create new policies that address the social, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of health in an increasingly interdependent world? STS yes
GENED 1064 Hyman, Steven Brains, Identity, and Moral Agency Can we reconcile the scientific 'brain as a machine' view with our strong experience of moral agency? E&C, STS yes
GENED 1067 Atherton, David Creativity Where does creativity come from, how does it work, and how can we deepen its role in our own lives? A&C yes
GENED 1072 Pandian, Karthik Video Commune From gifs and memes to confessions and controversies, what can the riotous festival of contemporary expression in video teach us about living together? A&C yes
GENED 1083 Kim, Jinah; Wang, Eugene Permanent Impermanence: Why Buddhists Build Monuments Why do Buddhists build monuments despite the core teaching of ephemerality, and what can we learn from this paradox about our own conception of time and space? A&C yes
GENED 1084 Haig, David The First Nine Months What is a human individual deserving of rights? STS yes
GENED 1090 Stern, David What is a Book? From the Clay Tablet to the Kindle What is the nature of the object that has been the focus of your education since you began to read--and at the core of Western culture since its inception-- and why is it important to understand and appreciate its presence before your eyes even if it's all but transparent? A&C yes
GENED 1098 Meade, Brendan Natural Disasters What makes our planet so dangerous? STS yes
GENED 1099 Manuelian, Peter Pyramid Schemes: What Can Ancient Egyptian Civilization Teach US? How does ancient Egypt enlighten our times about what defines a civilization, and were those ancient humans, with their pyramids, hieroglyphs, and pharaohs, exactly like or nothing like us? HSI no
GENED 1110 Love, Rachel Classical Mythology: Myth in Antiquity and Today Why do some stories get told over and over for thousands of years, and how do those ancient tales still shape (and get shaped by) us today? A&C no
GENED 1112 Goodman, Alyssa Prediction: The Past and Present of the Future How and why do humans try to divine their own futures? STS no
GENED 1113 Bernstein, Robin Race, Gender, and Performance How do the performances we see every day--on screens, on stages, and in everyday life--make race, gender, and sexuality real? A&C yes
GENED 1115 Patterson, Orlando Human Trafficking, Slavery, and Abolition in the Modern World Why do slavery, human trafficking and other forms of servitude thrive today globbally, including in the USA, and what can we do about it? E&C, HSI no
GENED 1121 Risse, Mathias Economic Justice How can we understand and make progress on disagreements about matters of economic and racial justice that are divisive to the point of making societies fall apart? E&C no
GENED 1123 Zeghal, Malika Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East What is the role that religion plays in the political life of Middle Eastern Muslim-majority societies today, and how does our understanding of that compare with conventional wisdom, including what we are often exposed to in the news media? HSI no
GENED 1125 Murthy, Venkatesh Artificial and Natural Intelligence What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent, how does current artificial intelligence compare with animal intelligence, and should we be worried? STS no
GENED 1133 Stauffer, John Is the Civil War Still Being Fought? How and why does the U.S. Civil War continue to shape national politics, laws, literature, and culture---especially in relation to our understanding of race, freedom, and equality? HSI no
GENED 1134 Asani, Ali Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies How does one understand a major global religion in a highly polarized and fragmented world? HSI yes
GENED 1137 McElroy, Michael The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change: Transitioning to a Post Fossil Fuel Future What can we do now to avoid the most serious consequences of climate change, which poses an immediate problem for global society? STS no
GENED 1162 McLaughlin, Katie The Science of Stress What are the causes and consequences of stress, and what are the most effective strategies for coping with stress? STS yes
GENED 1177 Caton, Steve Language in Culture and Society How are language, culture, and society related? A&C yes
GENED 1178 Carballo, Jennifer Mexico and the Making of Global Cuisine What does the food we eat tell us about ourselves—as individuals, communities, and countries—and how has humanity’s relationship with food changed over time? HSI yes
GENED 1179 Lunbeck, Elizabeth Psychotherapy and the Modern Self How can we understand the appeal of psychotherapy, widely recognized as the preferred antidote to human unhappiness and misery, and what does it offer that friends, family, self-help, and psychopharmacological remedies do not? STS no
GENED 1182 Kim, Annabel Novel Thought: Being (In)Human How can the novel enable us to think in ways that other forms of knowledge production cannot and what does that allow us to understand about the world? A&C yes
GENED 1050 Levine, David Act Natural How do we draw the line between acting and authenticity? A&C Butler, The Method; Stanislavsky, An Actor's Work; Cole & Krich Chinoy, Actors on Acting; Potolsky, Mimesis; Brecht, Brecht on Theater; Trilling, Sincerity and Authenticity yes
GENED 1114 Saunders, Matt Painting's Doubt How does a hands-on practice of image making (painting) lead us to perceive, represent and inhabit our world differently? A&C No required texts. yes
GENED 1130 Bronski, Michael Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation How does understanding political activists and movements in the past help us radically change the world today? A&C Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle; Brown, Taste of Power; Cleaver, Soul on Ice; Firestone, Dialectic of Sex; Greenlee, Spook Who Sat by the Door; Jay, Out of the Closets; Jong, Fear of Flying; Khan-Cullors, When They Call You a Terrorist; Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X yes
GENED 1033 Shapiro, Daniel Conflict Resolution in a Divided World From the interpersonal to the international, are we destined to live in a world of destructive conflict—or can we negotiate our way out? E&C Fisher, Beyond Reason; Fisher, Getting to Yes; Shapiro, Negotiating the Nonnegotiable yes
GENED 1166 Eck, Diana Pluralism: Case Studies in American Diversity How does our society deal with religious, ethical, and cultural diversity, and what challenges do we face as people of different faith communities encounter one another in cities and public institutions, schools and businesses, neighborhoods and families? E&C Coming soon! yes
GENED 1076 Merseth, Katherine Equity and Excellence in K12 American Schools How does the U.S. K12 education system reflect, reinforce, and reshape American society? E&C, HSI Coming soon! yes
GENED 1140 Lewis, Mary Borders How have borders been formed historically, and what are the ethics of border construction, defense, expansion or transgression? E&C, HSI No required texts. yes
GENED 1044 Smail, Dan; Liebmann, Matt Deep History Who are we, how did we get here... and how far back in time do we have to go to start asking the question? HSI No required texts. yes
GENED 1103 Carvalho, Bruno; Davis, Diane Living in an Urban Planet How did the world become so urban, and how can we build more sustainable, just, and livable cities? HSI Coming soon! yes
GENED 1181 Sandel, Michael Meritocracy and Its Critics If a society achieved truly equal opportunity, so that everyone could rise as far as their effort and talent would take them, would it be a just society? E&C Coming soon! yes
GENED 1105 Flad, Rowan; Ur, Jason Can We Know Our Past? In a time when histories are being contested, monuments removed, and alternative facts compete with established orthodoxy, how do we evaluate competing narratives about what really happened in the past? HSI, STS Renfrew & Bahn, Archaelogy Essentials; Renfrew & Bahn, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice yes
GENED 1053 Lee, Richard The Global Heart Disease Epidemic What are you willing to do for the health of others? STS No required texts. yes
GENED 1080 Wood, Robert How Music Works: Engineering the Acoustical World Music and technology are two dimensions of humanity that have been interdependent for tens of thousands of years; what can this intersection teach us about our past and our future? STS No required texts. yes
GENED 1104 Weitz, David; Sorensen, Pia Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science How can science make us better cooks, and how can cooking make us better scientists? STS McGee, On Food and Cooking (2nd Edition); Brenner, Sorensen, Weitz, Science and Cooking yes
GENED 1038 Czeisler, Charles; Scheer, Frank Sleep How does sleep affect your health, your safety, and our society? STS No required texts. yes
GENED 1012 Rentschler, Eric The Art and Politics of Propaganda: The Nazis and Their Legacy Why did Nazi sights, sounds, and propaganda prove to be so captivating and compelling for German audiences of a modern nation and how do we explain the continuing impact of Nazi images and fantasies to this very day, which is to ask, what do “they” have to do with “us”? A&C Doherty, Projections of War; Ellul, Propaganda; Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler; Spielvogel, Hitler and Nazi Germany no
GENED 1042 Yoda, Tomiko Anime as Global Popular Culture What can anime’s development in Japan and its global dissemination teach us about the messy world of contemporary media culture where art and commerce, aesthetic and technology, and producers and consumers are inextricably entangled with each other? A&C Coming soon! no
GENED 1069 Lamberth, Courtney; Lamberth, David Faith and Authenticity: Religion, Existentialism and the Human Condition How do the possibilities of faith and the demands of living authentically square with the developments of the modern west and its threats of nihilism? A&C Buber, I and Thou; Camus, Fall; Camus, Myth of Sisyphus +; DeBeauvoir, Ethics of Ambiguity; Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground; Kierkegaard, Fear+Trembling+Repetition; Kierkegaard, Works of Love; Marino, Basic Writings of Existentialism; O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh; Plato, Five Dialogues; Sartre, No Exit +; Soloveitchik, Halakhic Man; Tillich, Dynamics of Faith; Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich; Wright, Eight Men no
GENED 1074 Nagy, Greg The Ancient Greek Hero How did ancient Greek heroes, both male and female, learn about life by facing what all us have to face, our human condition? A&C Coming soon! no
GENED 1097 Mitchell, Stephen Tradition, Performance, Culture Does folklore inhibit or inspire individual expression? A&C Brunvand, The Study of American Folklore; Tatar, The Classic Fairy Tales no
GENED 1131 Coleman, Kathleen Loss How are we to cope with the inevitability that some of what we most love in life we will lose? A&C Deraniyagala, Wave; Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking; Genova, Still Alice; Lewis, A Grief Observed no
GENED 1144 Thornber, Karen Mental Health and Mental Illness through Literature and the Arts How have mental illness and mental health been understood across time and space, and how have literature and the arts both perpetuated and undermined stigmas against individuals with mental illness? A&C Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted; Mailhot, Heart Berries; Nam-Joo, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982; Nevatia, How to Travel Light; Restrepo, Delirium; Wood, Azanian Bridges no
GENED 1091 Puett, Michael Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory What if many of our assumptions about the self and about how to live fully are limiting and even dangerous, and what other possibilities might we be able to find in classical Chinese philosophy? E&C Coming soon! no
GENED 1146 Shelby, Tommie Race and Justice What is racial justice, and through what justifiable means might it be achieved in the United States? E&C Appiah & Gutmann, Color Conscious; Loury; Race, Incarceration and American Values; Fredrickson, Racism: A Short History; Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning no
GENED 1174 Oreskes, Naomi Life and Death in the Anthropocene What does it mean for us --both as a society and as individuals -- to live in a world radically remade by the human hand? E&C Coming soon! no
GENED 1102 Sunstein, Cass Making Change When Change Is Hard: The Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change How does social change happen? E&C, HSI Heath, Switch; Hirschman, Rhetoric of Reaction; Mullainathan, Scarcity; Thaler, Nudge no
GENED 1120 Summers, Lawrence; Lawrence, Robert The Political Economy of Globalization How can a globalizing world of differing countries – rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian – best promote inclusive growth and human security by meeting the challenges of inequality, climate change, rising populism, and global disease? E&C, HSI No required texts. no
GENED 1011 Khanna, Tarun; Balsari, Satchit Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Problems How do you successfully design and implement solutions to intractable social and economic problems in the developing world? HSI Khanna, Trust no
GENED 1019 Patterson, Orlando The Caribbean Crucible: Colonialism, Capitalism and Post-Colonial Misdevelopment in the Region How does the growing inequality between and within nations—which is the major global issue of our times—impact the Caribbean region and, in turn, its U.S. neighbor? HSI Coming soon! no
GENED 1071 Olupona, Jacob African Spirituality and the Challenges of Modern Times What can African spiritual traditions contribute to human flourishing in the contemporary age? HSI Coming soon! no
GENED 1089 Soto Laveaga, Gabriela The Border: Race, Politics and Health in Modern Mexico What can histories of tension and cooperation at the U.S.-Mexico border tell us about our own nation's public health programs and national racism? HSI Coming soon! yes
GENED 1148 Carrasco, David; Fash, William Moctezuma's Mexico, Then and Now: The Past, the Present and Pandemics in North America How does Mexico's rich cultural past shape contemporary Mexico and the US in the face of today's pandemics, protests and other challenges of the borderlands? HSI Coming soon! no
GENED 1183 Donoghue, Daniel The English Language Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow How does the English language shape our world, and how does the world shape English? HSI Coming soon! no
GENED 1018 Langmuir, Charles How to Build a Habitable Planet The relationship between human beings and Earth is the central problem of our time; can an understanding of Earth’s history reveal a place for us in a process of planetary evolution that might influence our behavior? STS Crystal, Stories of English no
GENED 1079 Cutler, David Why Is There No Cure for Health? Let’s solve the US’s and the world’s health problems. STS No required texts. no
GENED 1093 Kleinman, Arthur; Keshavjee, Salmaan; Becker, Anne Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Cares? Reimagining Global Health How can health care systems be restructured to provide high quality care even to the poorest and most vulnerable people on our planet? STS Farmer, Reimagining Global Health; Farmer, Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds; Keshavjee, Blind Spot; Kleinman, Illness Narratives; Kleinman, Soul of Care; Richardson, Epidemic Illusions no
GENED 1094 Schrag, Dan Confronting Climate Change How can we address the issue of climate change, reducing the damages by preparing for impacts already underway and fixing the problem by transforming our energy system? STS Coming soon! no
GENED 1175 Alter, Galit; Brandt, Allan; Katz, Ingrid Vaccines: History, Science, Policy Can vaccines solve the problem of infectious global pandemics? STS Coming soon! no
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