HDV102.1: Human Nature And Harry Potter
Nancy Franklin, Psychology
Nancy.Franklin@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 10:40am-11:35am
Location: Psychology A 113
The complex characters, society, and ethical dilemmas of the Harry Potter series present us with a unique opportunity to explore human nature from the point of view of the wizarding world. With Dr. Nancy Franklin of the Psychology Department, you will develop a better understanding of the Muggle condition by discussing the life experiences of Harry and the other characters.
HDV102.2: The New Comparative Literature
Milind Wakankar, English
Milind.Wakankar@stonybrook.edu
Day: MF 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: Dewey College 010
This course examines themes in the literature of global migration, taking into account issues of language change and the nature of collective memory. Our key historical point of entry will be history and effects of colonialism. Dohra Ahmad's edited volume, BROKEN ENGLISH, will be a central text. But before we enter into these themes, we will fall back on some of the pedagogic tools of the HDV program in order to hone our skills in argument and debate.
Note: This class meets on Monday and Friday for 1 hour each for the first 7 weeks of the semester.
HDV102.3: Nation Building, Human Rights and Poverty: The Case of East Timor
Jakob Schmidt, Biochemistry
Jakob.Schmidt@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 9:50am-10:45am
Location: Library N3090
Description TBA
HDV102.4: Seeing is Believing
Craig Evinger, Neurobiology
Leslie.Evinger@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Dewey College 010
Students will learn how the brain creates a perception of the visual world from limited information. Students will actively explore and discuss how artists, advertisers, and propagandists use the brain’s processing of visual information to influence our interpretation of what we see.
HDV102.5: What it Means to Be Human
Kathleen Wilson, History
Kathleen.Wilson@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 9:50am-10:45am
Location: SBS N 303
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.6: What it Means to Be Human
Mary F. Kritzer, Neurobiology
Mary.Kritzer@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Hamilton College 010
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.7: What it Means to Be Human
Charles Taber, Political Science
Charles.Taber@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Baruch College 020
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.8: What it Means to Be Human
Andreas Mayr, Chemistry
Andreas.Mayr@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Hamilton College 010
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.9: What it Means to Be Human
Joel M. Levine, Neurobiology
Joel.Levine@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.10: What it Means to Be Human
Paul Bingham, Biochemistry
Joanne Souza, Centers for Molecular Medicine
Paul.Bingham@stonybrook.edu, Joanne.Souza@stonybrook.edu
Day: TH 3:50pm-4:45pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.11: What it Means to Be Human
Dale G. Deutsch, Biochemistry
Dale.Deutsch@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 6:50pm-7:45pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.12: What it Means to Be Human
Dale G. Drueckhammer, Chemistry
Dale.Drueckhammer@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 12:50pm-1:45pm
Location: Baruch College 020
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.13: What it Means to Be Human
John B Parise, Geosciences
John.Parise@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 9:35am-10:30am
Location: Hamilton College 010
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.14: What it Means to Be Human
David Gilmore, Anthropology
David.Gilmore@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.15: What it Means to Be Human
Hector Sepulveda, Medical School, Living/Learning Centers
Hector.Sepulveda@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 6:50pm-7:45pm
Location: Schick College 035
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.16: What it Means to Be Human
Ellen I. Broselow, Linguistics
Ellen.Broselow@stonybrook.edu
Day: TU 2:20pm-3:15pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.17: What it Means to Be Human
Deborah Brown, Biochemistry & Cell Biology
Deborah.Brown-Spielman@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 8:30am-9:25am
Location: Hamilton College 010
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.18: What it Means to Be Human
William Lennarz, Biochemistry
William.Lennarz@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 9:35am-10:30am
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.19: What it Means to Be Human
Susan Hinely, History
Susan.Hinely@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 11:45am-12:40pm
Location: Library N3090
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.20: What it Means to Be Human
Richard Gerrig, Psychology
Richard.Gerrig@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 9:35am-10:30am
Location: Psychology A 256
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.21: What it Means to Be Human
Stephanie Dinkins, Art
Stephanie.Dinkins@stonybrook.edu
Day: M 5:20pm-6:15pm
Location: Library S1410D
This course offers students the opportunity to work in small teams with classmates and some of the University’s best faculty in mastering approaches to solving real-world problems in diverse areas. The central tool of the knowledge enterprise is critical doubt and students will work together in learning to question, explore and add to the knowledge base. Students will work towards developing critical thinking and advanced communication skills as well as the most important skill of all, mutually respectful debate and disagreement. They will have the opportunity to sample diverse academic disciplines, while expanding awareness and informing choice of major.
HDV102.22: Controversies in Anthropology
John Shea, Anthropology
John.Shea@stonybrook.edu
Day: W 10:40am-11:35am
Location: TBA
This course will examine current controversies in the field of anthropology (cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, physical anthropology) by reading and discussing papers by the key figures in major debates. Through these discussions, we will work towards understanding the assumptions underlying anthropological research, the "how we know what we think we know" about human behavioral variability in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives.
