Spring 2024 Honors Courses – Campus Honors Program

ARCH 199 SHA: Sustainability and Healthy Architecture

Prof. Mohamed Boubekri

CRN 67522 | TR | 11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | 301 Arch Bldg | 3 Hours

In this lab/discussion course, students will learn about the basic principles of the use of natural light (daylighting) and how daylight impacts visual comfort and building occupants’ health and well-being. We will use the building occupants as the primary focus in this course in terms of success or failure of an architectural design solution. To do so, the course will feature a series of lectures as well as roundtable discussions led by students focusing on daylighting strategies, and on how daylight informs the health and well-being of building users. Topics include light and circadian rhythm, sleep disorders, vitamin D, and daylighting and human performance. Another portion of the course is lab-based: students will design a small building (e.g. small office, small-town library, etc.) with a sub-focus on daylighting, using computer and scale model simulations.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social & Behavioral Sciences: Behavioral Science*

Instructor: Mohamed Boubekri earned his Ph.D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University in 1990. His work focuses on sustainable architecture and the intersection of the built environment and human health. Through numerous publications (including two recently published books), he explores the impact of the lack of daylight inside buildings on people’s health, behavior and overall well-being. More generally, his work also examines the relationship between architectural design, sustainable technologies and building energy/environmental performance.

ARTJ 301: Manga: The Art of Image and Word

Prof. Lindsey Stirek

75868 | TR | 11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

This course offers an immersive exploration of manga (Japanese comics) and anime, delving into their significance within both Japanese and global contexts. Throughout this class, you will trace the evolution of these art forms and examine their relationship with Japan’s cultural heritage, while also observing their departures from traditional norms and how they represent the concept of “Otherness.” By collaborating with fellow classmates to collectively craft your own manga magazine, you will delve into the fundamental aspects of manga as an artistic medium and experience how manga and anime mutually influence and are influenced by individual and societal perceptions. This course will not only introduce you to the captivating realms of manga and anime but also prompt thoughtful exploration of their cultural, societal, and artistic dimensions and their profound impact on the broader global landscape.

*Campus has approved this course for Cultural Studies: Non-Western Cultures, Humanities and the Arts: Literature and the Arts gen ed credit*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: Dr. Lindsey Stirek is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design and the Assistant Director of Academic Programming at Japan House. She began studying chadō (the Way of Tea) in 2009 and has spent several years in Japan studying Japanese language and culture. She teaches courses on manga, anime, and Japanese tea ceremony and her current research focus is on the convergence of traditional Japanese arts and contemporary and localized modalities ranging from performance to media to three-dimensional art.

BADM 199 CHP: Creativity and Social Control

Prof. Jack Goncalo

54976 | MW | 11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

Social influence regulates and directs behavior in groups and organizations, but the role that social control plays in the creative process has been controversial. In this course we consider a perspective in which social influence are tools that can be leveraged to facilitate creativity in teams. We will begin by identifying aspects of social control that might stifle the free expression of creative ideas (e.g. conformity; hierarchy; obedience). We will then learn about five key behaviors that support creative collaboration—the PIECE (s) of team creativity—Participation, Independence, Elaboration, Communication, and Exploration. We will also identify specific norms that can encourage the emergence of each of the five critical behaviors, the conditions that make these norms salient, and the underlying psychological and behavioral mechanisms through which norms impact creativity. We will conclude with suggestions for how to manage creative work groups.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social & Behavioral Sciences: Social Science*

Instructor: Jack Goncalo is Professor of Business Administration and the Robert and Helen P. Seass Faculty Fellow at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining the University of Illinois, he was Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Cornell University ILR School where he was the Proskauer Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Goncalo’s research is focused on individual and team creativity, the evaluation of new ideas and more recently, the dark side of engaging in creative work. His research spanning the fields of Management and Psychology has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Management Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Psychological Science. His research has been featured in numerous media outlets such as CNN, Time Magazine, The New York Times and Forbes Magazine.

LAST 180 (Previously CHP 199 ON): Immigration: A Global Phenomenon with Local Implications

Prof. Gioconda Guerra Pérez

76026 | MW | 12:30 – 1:50 p.m. | 140 Henry Admin | 3 Hours

The course provides a historical perspective on the issue of immigration and discusses immigration to the U.S. and its historical implications (voluntary immigration, involuntary immigration, forced immigration). We will study the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) from 1790 to 2017 and review some immigration laws and policies. Current immigration policies and how non-U.S. citizens are affected, immigration issues in the context of K-16, refugees and asylum and DACA/undocumented immigrants will also be studied.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Cultural Studies: U.S. Minority Cultures*

Instructor: Born and raised in Panama, Gioconda Guerra Pérez joined La Casa in August 2013. Before joining La Casa, she served as visiting assistant professor in the School of Education and as Socio-Cultural specialist for the New Neighbors Center at Indiana University Southeast. She has taught courses on Multicultural Education, Current Social Issues in Education, and Intercultural Relations. She has developed professional development workshops on issues related to institutional barriers affecting Latino/a college students; undocumented/DACA students: policies and practices; as well as intersectionality & identity. She has developed curricula for K-12 schools to work with Latino families and English Language Learners (ELL). She has provided professional development for K-12 teachers on issues related to ELL and Latino/a students and their cultures. She received a M.A. in Sociology and Communication and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Organizational Development from the University of Louisville. She attended the Universidad de Panamá, Panama, where she studied Journalism. Her professional and personal interest has been finding ways to help Latino/a students achieve higher education.

CHP 395A: Journalists in Popular Culture

Prof. Matthew Ehrlich

31307 | MW | 2:00 – 3:20 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

Why should we care about the image of the journalist in popular culture? The main reasons are simple: First, journalism is supposed to provide us with the stories and information that we need to govern ourselves. Second, journalists have long been familiar characters in popular culture, and those characters are likely to shape people’s impressions of the news media at least as much if not more than the actual press does. Third, popular culture is a powerful tool for thinking about what journalism is and should be. This class will examine depictions of journalists in movies, TV shows, and other media over the past century – depictions that are at once repellent and romantic, villainous and heroic—and it will consider their implications for the news media, the public, and democracy. It is intended as a provocative and entertaining way of generating insight into not only journalism, but also ourselves.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social & Behavioral Sciences: Social Science*

Instructor: Matthew Ehrlich is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and the Institute of Communications Research. He has won the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Illinois. He also has appeared on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students 42 different semesters, including multiple times for this Campus Honors Program class. Professor Ehrlich’s latest book is The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine; he also has written books on audio documentary, professional sports, and journalism and popular culture. Before becoming a professor, he worked for several years as a public radio journalist, including at Illinois Public Media.

CHP 395C: Gender Communication

Prof. Grace Giorgio

31308 | MWF | 1:00 – 1:50 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

This course investigates how gender and sexuality are communicated. Language, our statements as well as our demeanors, both explains and defines us. It sends covert as well as overt messages about us and our culture. In a complicated and not generally symmetrical fashion, our gender and sexuality inform our language and our language informs our gender and sexuality. This course focuses on the ways in which we discuss and enact – the ways in which we verbally and physically speak – gender and sexuality. This course interrogates social and cultural notions of gender and sexuality and examines the way in which language serves to both reinforce and challenge these notions.

Students will: develop a fundamental understanding of how gender and language interface in contemporary social and political contexts; analyze and critique how gendered language shapes individual subjectivity in social, cultural, and political spheres; increase skillfulness in analysis, theory, and praxis; and apply qualitative research methods to the study of gendered communication.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social and Behavioral Sciences: Social Science*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: Grace Giorgio has been teaching in the Department of Communication since she arrived on campus as a graduate student in 1995. In 2001, she began teaching full-time for the University, developing and teaching courses in popular media, gender communication, public policy and sustainability, and the geography of culture. Dr. Giorgio began teaching for Campus Honors in the fall of 2012, launching a course on place making entitled Communicating Public Policy: Our Cities/Ourselves (CMN 220). She also taught Gender Communication for CHP in the fall of 2015 and 2019. In 2013, Dr. Giorgio received the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Award. In the fall of 2015, she received two Provost Office grants to develop and launch Writing Fundamentals, an online, interactive grammar program for Illinois writing courses. In concert with Engineering faculty, Dr. Giorgio received a Strategic Innovations Instructional Program grant to support Engineering students with public speaking. Her research interests include an experimental use of qualitative research methods to investigate the intersection of self, culture, and the public sphere. Dr. Giorgio is a recipient of the CHP’s Broadrick Allen award for outstanding faculty.

CLCV 444: The Archaeology of Italy

Prof. Brett Kaufman

75708 | TR | 2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. POT A | 164 Noyes Lab | 3 Hours

CLCV 444 not only introduces students to the realities of the past within the specific historical context of Italy and Rome, but also connects these issues with our own societal challenges to demonstrate the fullness, and in some ways, the consistency of the human experience. This includes framing disease including pandemics within our own time as an evolving issue spanning the three epidemiological transitions, cultural appropriation, refugee crises from climatic and political situations, the integration of migrant communities, the evolution of “imperial democracy” and the Roman legacy of Euro-American empire and government, writing and literature and how these can be used for political purposes, and how religion and society were connected in the past and how they are today. Prof. Kaufman encourages the students to actively engage with the materials in a way that dovetails with their own interests. Suggested readings include primary readings from Roman political figures such as Tacitus and Caesar. Students are required to research a topic of their choosing and to create a recorded presentation. Therefore, the outcome of the class is to refine your research and writing skills and help you learn how to present research for evaluation or to a non-academic audience.

This course will meet during the first eight weeks of the Spring 2024 semester (= POT A).

*This course was petitioned and approved for General Education credit for Humanities and the Arts: Historical & Philosophical Perspectives and Cultural Studies: Western Comparative Cultures*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: Brett Kaufman is an assistant professor in the Department of the Classics, and joined the Illinois faculty in 2018. He is an archaeologist specializing in the Mediterranean and Near East, ancient engineering and design, the formation and maintenance of sociopolitical hierarchy, and reconstructing ecological management strategies of ancient and historical societies. He has directed or supervised archaeological excavations in Tunisia, China, Italy, Israel, and New York. He received a BA from Brandeis University, and a MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UIUC Classics, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University and a faculty appointment at the University of Science and Technology Beijing where he still maintains a visiting affiliation. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

EPSY 199A: Understanding Adolescent Development Through Literature

Prof. Christopher Napolitano

46232 | TR | 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. | 376 Education Bldg | 3 Hours

Is adolescence inevitably a period of “storm and stress?” Are all adolescents bound to rebel against their parents, challenge social norms, and engage in problem behaviors? In this class, we complicate popular – and inaccurate – perceptions of adolescence. Students will complete this course with an understanding of the dynamic changes that take place during adolescence across four core developmental concepts: identity, autonomy, intimacy, and achievement.

We explore each of these concepts along three core tracks: (1) deeply debating contemporary theoretical and conceptual work; (2) unpacking contemporary empirical research; and (3) closely reading popular middle-grades fiction novels written for adolescents. This seminar also presents a unique opportunity for students to interview active middle-grades fiction writers during seminar meetings to better understand how they integrate adolescent concepts into their books. To conclude the seminar, students will link information from theories and research by selecting a middle-grades (or young adult) fiction book and leading a discussion on that book’s core adolescent developmental concepts and the contemporary research.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social & Behavioral Sciences: Behavioral Science*

Instructor: Chris Napolitano is a life-span developmental psychologist. His primary research interest is in the development of adaptive self-regulatory action across the life span, and how to best translate this research into programs that promote positive development. His work explores how people produce their development through striving for dynamic, unpredictable goals, and is now particularly focused on the self-regulatory actions that maximize gains from unexpected, positive events and the actions that often minimize losses from expected shortcomings. Chris was trained at Tufts University’s Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development. At Tufts, he worked on the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development and Project GPS, a mentoring-based intervention to promote adolescent self-regulation. In August 2017, he became an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology (Developmental and Counseling divisions) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich in the Developmental Psychology: Adulthood lab.

EPSY 199B: AI and the Science of Accelerating Human Learning

Prof. H. Chad Lane

62885 | TR | 10:30-11:50 a.m. | CIF 0036 | 3 Hours

This course will explore the cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes involved in human learning and review what science tells us about how we can optimize and improve teaching and learning. Students will gain a deeper appreciation for both how to structure and design their own learning (e.g., studying for an exam) and what strategies and support mechanisms are most effective for classrooms, museums, and the workplace (e.g., feedback, tutoring, collaboration). In addition, students will also gain important insights into the impact of Artificial Intelligence on education and learn about emerging research that uses AI to assess, monitor, and support learners in nuanced ways.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Social & Behavioral Sciences: Behavioral Science*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: H. Chad Lane is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Computer Science and Associate Chair of the Department of Educational Psychology. Prof. Lane’s research focuses on the design, use, and impacts of intelligent and entertainment technologies for science learning. Prof. Lane is also Director of the NSF AI Institute for Inclusive and Intelligent Technologies for Education (INVITE), based at UIUC. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004.

FAA 110D: Exploring Arts and Creativity

Profs. J.W. Morrissette and Brad Mehrtens

69421 | R | 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | 156 English Bldg | 3 Hours

High and street art, tradition and experimentation, the familiar and unfamiliar, international and American creativity provide this course’s foundation. Students will attend performances and exhibitions, interact with artists, and examine core issues associated with the creative process in our increasingly complex global society. Faculty from the arts, sciences, humanities, and other domains will lead students through visual arts, music, dance, and theatre experiences at Krannert Center and Krannert Art Museum to spark investigation and dialogue. The class meets twice per week: once a week for discussions, and a second time to attend performances and/or exhibitions at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and/or Krannert Art Museum. Event dates will vary. Admission to all events will be provided without charge to students enrolled in the course.

*Campus has approved this course for General Education credit for Humanities and the Arts: Literature and the Arts*

Instructor: J.W. Morrissette is Assistant Head of the Department of Theatre, where he has worked for 21 years. He has also served as the chair of the BFA Theatre Studies Program as well as the assistant program coordinator for Inner Voices Social Issues Theatre. He earned his BFA in Acting at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, and both his MFA in Acting and MA in Theatre History at the University of Illinois. J.W. has taught and directed for the past 17 years with the summer Theatre Department at Interlochen Center for the Arts, has directed and taught at Parkland College, and teaches acting, directing, and Introduction to Theatre Arts at Illinois. He has been integral in developing components for the online course offerings in the department, as well as supervising all senior Theatre Studies Thesis Projects.

Instructor: Brad Mehrtens is Instructor and Advisor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Brad earned his bachelor’s in biology from Truman State University, and his master’s in microbiology from Illinois. His research interests include educational pedagogy, course design, and assessment; his advising interests include transitions for freshmen and transfer students, preparing for professional or graduate programs, understanding the undergraduate research experience, and acknowledging and addressing academic or personal issues. Brad also enjoys acting, theatre, movies, music, and sports.

HIST 293A: The President and the People

Prof. Marsha Barrett

68644 | TR | 3:30-4:50 p.m. | 1068 Lincoln Hall | 3 Hours

This course is a chronological survey of the American presidency, with a focus on the changing nature of the office and Americans’ expectations for their presidents. The course pays particular attention to the ascendancy of the presidency in American political culture and the ways in which the office has been transformed by changes in party politics, campaigning, and media representations. Individual presidents are studied to assess the ways in which they shaped the office and exercised executive power. To put the office in broader cultural and historical perspective, presidents are examined within the context of their times. Additionally, the course explores the ways in which the study of presidents and political leaders has changed in the past one hundred years.

*Campus has approved this course for General Education credit for Humanities & the Arts: Historical Perspectives and Cultural Studies: Western*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist*

Instructor: Marsha Barrett is an Assistant Professor of History who specializes in United States politics, African American history, policy generation, and social movements. She teaches courses on U.S. political history and public policy. Her forthcoming book examines moderate Republicanism, racial politics, and the intensification of partisan politics after the modern civil rights movement.

IS 390 RGS: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Comics

Prof. Carol Tilley

72304 | TR | 2:00-3:20 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

Comics reflect and shape our understanding of who we are, much as other forms of literature and media do. In this course, we will explore a variety of US comics from the past 150 years—including editorial cartoons, comic strips, graphic novels, comic books, and webcomics—to gain insights on how these texts have affirmed and challenged social and cultural norms around race, gender, and sexuality. We will read and discuss comics that depicted the fight for women’s suffrage, early coded queerness, Black / Native American / Asian stereotypes, and more before moving to a discussion of more contemporary and intersectional depictions. You will learn to apply a variety of analytic strategies to engage with these comics in creative and critical ways.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Humanities: Historical & Philosophical Perspectives and Cultural Studies: U.S. Minority Cultures*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist.**

Instructor: Carol Tilley is Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences. She is also an affiliate faculty member in Gender and Women’s Studies and the Center for Writing Studies. Her research focuses on US comics, libraries, and readership in the mid-20^th century. She has been a judge for two important comics awards, the Eisner and the Ringo Awards, and served as President of the Comics Studies Society. A long time ago, she was a student in the Honors program at Indiana University.

LING 199 CHP: Hittite Language and Culture

Prof. Ryan Shosted

50888 | MWF | 1:00 – 1:50 p.m. | 217 Gregory Hall | 3 Hours

In this course, students explore the grammatical structure of the oldest‐attested Indo‐European language. They use clay and reeds to master the art of composing texts in cuneiform, one of the world’s oldest writing systems. They read and comment on primary texts relating to the decipherment of the language, as well as cuneiform ‘autographs’ of Hittite inscriptions. They investigate how nineteenth‐century orientalists with a thirst for empire used the re‐discovery of Hittite to promote themes of racial supremacy. They observe how the earliest predictions of modern linguistics were borne out once Hittite was dec3iphered and fully understood. They reflect on the truly ancient nature of multilingualism and multiculturalism by better understanding how Mesopotamian cultures strongly influenced the language, religion, and culture of the Hittite world. For an article with more information about this class, go to https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/804992

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Humanities and Arts: Historical Perspectives, Cultural Studies : Non-Western.

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: Prof. Shosted studied Czech language and literature at the College of Wooster and Beloit College before transferring to Brigham Young University and graduating in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in Linguistics. He was a Student Fulbright Fellow at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, where he studied Changana. He then began his post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. He was a Visiting Professor at the State University of Campinas, Brazil in 2015 and was promoted to the rank of Professor at Illinois in 2020. He is interested in phonetics, phonology, and the development of sound-symbol correspondences, particularly in cuneiform.

LING 199 RB: English Across Cultures

Prof. Rakesh Bhatt

52895| TR | 12:30 – 1:50 p.m. | 212 Honors | 3 Hours

The specific goal of this course is to invite students to appreciate (English) linguistic diversity: how this diversity comes about, its social and cultural production; what social functions do diverse linguistic forms enable; and to what extent do innovations in English language use reflect linguistic and literary creativity and expressions of solidarity and identity. This course is organized as a seminar, where readings of texts and audio-video clips will be used as starting points for discussions and interpretations of various issues introduced through the course of the semester. Furthermore, some classic works will be selected and each student will have the opportunity to pick one of them, deeply analyze it, and present the analysis to the class. The class then discusses and critiques the information presented. Finally, students will be required to write 4 response papers, one for each section (II-V), that together will highlight the value of cross-cultural study of language (English) in the understanding of the total range of human experience.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Humanities & the Arts: Literature and the Arts, Cultural Studies : Non-Western.

Instructor: Rakesh M. Bhatt is a Professor of Linguistics specializing in sociolinguistics of language contact, in particular, issues of migration, minorities and multilingualism, code-switching, language ideology, and world Englishes. The empirical focus of his work has been on South Asian languages; particularly, Kashmiri, Hindi, and Indian English. His study, Verb Movement and the Syntax of Kashmiri (1999, Kluwer Academic Press), was published in the series, Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. He has also co-authored another book, World Englishes (2008, Cambridge University Press). He is the author of essays in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Annual Review of Anthropology, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Lingua, World Englishes, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, English Language and Linguistics and other venues. He is working on a book-length manuscript, under contract with Cambridge University Press, on the sociolinguistic patterns of subordination of Kashmiri language in Diaspora.

MATH 199 CHP: Conversations in Mathematics

Prof. Alexander Yong

46559 | MWF | 2:00-2:50 p.m. | 164 Noyes Laboratory | 3 Hours

This course is for those who wish to experience mathematics through experimentation, reflection, intuition, and conversation. We will explore a number of provocative, interesting, and important ideas from the canon of mathematics. The goal of this course is to offer the student memorable, lifelong topics of conversations about math. Assessment will be through evaluation of student journal entries.

A number of different mathematical topics which are of broad interest will be presented and the student will experiment with the concepts and write up a journal entry that will describe what they discovered. For example, one of the topics will be the Nobel Prize-winning “marriage algorithm” which is a process for pairing two groups of people according to their stated preferences among the other group such that the pairings are “stable.” The student will have a chance to try to discover the algorithm themselves, describe failures and mistakes, and also check the reasoning of the prize-winning algorithm.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for Quantitative Reasoning I*

Instructor: Alexander Yong is Professor in the Department of Mathematics. He has won awards

for both teaching and research. His particular interests include combinatorics in relation to algebra, geometry, Lie theory, probability, algorithms, and other areas of mathematics. He has been on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent every academic year he has been at Illinois, going back to 2008. He hails from Toronto, Canada.

PSYC 144A: Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination

Prof. Chadly Stern

70435 | MWF | 3:00 – 3:50 p.m. | 11 Psych Bldg | 3 Hours

This course is intended for undergraduate students who are broadly interested in learning about behavioral science methods and questions related to inequality. This class will introduce students to the basics of utilizing behavioral science methods, methods ca be applied to understand factors that shape societal inequality. Throughout this course, students will have opportunities to experience the inner workings of behavioral science research process through gaining information about UIUC behavioral science laboratories, discussing measures of stereotyping and bias employed in the behavioral sciences and proposing how behavioral science can be used to address questions related to inequality. A particular focus will be given to research methods that span across multiple areas of inquiry in the behavioral sciences (e.g., social, psychology, organizational behavioral). Additionally, students will learn basic skills of how to read, analyze, and critique behavioral science research, as well as how to convey their ideas in written and oral formats and provide critical feedback on others’ ideas. In doing so, student will build critical thinking skills and gain competence in communicating their ideas to others.

*Campus has approved this course for General Education credit for US Cultural Studies: U.S. Minority Cultures and Social and Behavioral Sciences: Behavioral Science*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**

Instructor: Dr. Stern’s research broadly examines how belief systems and motivations guide the way that people perceive and interact with the world. One central line of work concerns how political belief systems (e.g., whether a person is liberal or conservative) shape the way in which people evaluate and categorize others based on group membership (e.g., race, sex, and sexual orientation). Another line of work examines consensus in political groups, and the implications of both perceived and actual attitude consensus for individual behavior (e.g., voting) and large-scale societal outcomes (e.g., levels of societal stability).

SOCW 425A: Queer Visibility

Prof. Ryan Wade

75904 | TR | 3:30 – 4:50 p.m. | Online |3 Hours

This course examines a broad scope of key LGBTQ topics from a social science perspective, and addresses such themes as identity development, critical social movements, community characteristics, sub-cultures, public policy, resilience, and health disparities within queer communities. The course applies a social justice, sex-positive, and health promotion lens to the topics addressed. This course also explores issues related to intersectional identities (i.e., the overlap of multiple [often marginalized] group membership, such as race/ethnicity, gender identity, age, ability, sexual orientation, etc.) within this population. Students will learn the ways in which the helping professions (e.g., social work, public health, etc.) engage with the LGBTQ community using both research and practice, in order to promote the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ persons.

This course will meet online in Spring 2024.

*This course was petitioned and approved by all colleges for General Education credit for US Cultural Studies: U.S. Minority Cultures*

Instructor: Dr. Wade is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work. His research includes a broad focus on social determinants of health, structural and community-level racism, the racial patterning of sexual/social networks within LGBTQ+ communities, and health disparities among sexual and gender minorities. He is particularly interested in examining the ways in which stressors (e.g., discrimination, stigma, etc.) across multiple socioecological levels contribute to poor mental health outcomes among young sexual minority men of color. Much of his research is grounded in minority stress theory, intersectionality, and ecological systems theory.

THEA 110 CHP: Broadway Musicals

Prof. J.W. Morissette

74646 | TR | 3:30 – 4:50 p.m. | 4506 KCPA| 3 Hours

This course provides cultural context for the uniquely “American” Broadway musical through an introduction to the art form, an analysis of the pertinent time period, and historical and critical placement of the work as a reflection (and development) of the identity of the United States. The course introduces the collaborative artistry of the musical, surveys specific iconic works, and explores the socio-economic impacts of the Broadway musical.

*Campus has approved this course for General Education credit for Cultural Studies: Western Cultures and Humanities and the Arts: Literature and the Arts*

**This course is now full. Chancellor’s Scholars should contact Anne Price to be added to the waitlist**