HUMA 260 - GENOMICS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Credits: 3 Course will critically examine the transformative potential attributed to emergent genomic technologies in medicine and biomedical research. The course is intended for students in the humanities and natural sciences who want to learn more about the social and cultural meanings attributed to genomics. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 261 - COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF HEALTH AND DISEASE Credits: 3 Examine a variety of folk and popular health belief systems known as complementary and alternative medicine. Drawing on works of narrative, legal sources, and articles in the medical literature, we will compare the different health belief systems with conventional biomedicine and discuss society's response to them. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 262 - PLURALISM AND BIOMEDICINE Credits: 3 Examine from a cross-disciplinary perspective the significance of pluralism in contemporary life through in-depth consideration of a series of recent clinical controversies (e.g. the Schiavo case and parental refusal of standard treatment) and research debates (e.g. stem cell research, sex/gender selection). College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 263 - HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN THE UNITED STATES Credits: 3 Course reviews changes in health and medicine since the 18th century. Inventions from imaging technologies to antibiotics have changed the experience of disease, while emerging epidemics, health disparities, and challenges of end of life care illustrate the limits of medicine and the importance of social conditions to health. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 280 - POVERTY, JUSTICE, & HUMAN CAPABILITIES Credits: 3 This course provides an introduction to the study of poverty, justice, and human capabilities. The course considers theory and policy oriented towards improving human well-being in the US, Asia, Africa, and other countries. Readings address not just material deprivations but also gender, racial and ethnic disparities, health status, education, human rights, and political freedoms. To be considered for the course, please email pjhc@rice.edu the week of pre-registration to complete a brief questionnaire. Preference is given to those that have declared the PJHC minor. Cross-list: SOCI 280. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 295 - CURRENT ISSUES IN THE WORKPLACE Credits: 1 Humanities majors will complete 100 hours at an approved internship site and meet 4 times with the instructor. Focus is on their experiences as it relates to their academic studies and career goals. Readings on workplace issues such as diversity and organizational culture will be assigned. Grading will be based on internship performance evaluations, a midterm paper based on a workplace issue of their choice, and a final portfolio. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 301 - RHETORICAL CRITICISM Credits: 3 This course emphasizes the study of historical and contemporary speech texts and other forms of public communication and surveys the major approaches in scholarly rhetorical criticism from ancient to contemporary times. The course will focus on learning and applying the methods to communication artifacts. Because rhetorical criticism is an interdisciplinary endeavor, the course will survey material from many fields. The goal of the course is to come away with basic knowledge of several approaches and detailed knowledge of at least one approach. A better understanding of the construction of public communication is an important outcome of the course. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 302 - THEORIES OF RHETORICAL COMMUNICATION Credits: 3 This course will survey major theorists of speech and public communication ranging from classical to contemporary thinkers. Emphasis will be on understanding speech and public communication from consumer and scholarly perspectives. Students are expected to read and discuss material with the goals of gaining basic understanding of major rhetorical theorists specifically engage a particular topic in rhetorical theory. Our central questions involve the nature of and relationship between speaker, text, and audience. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 303 - PERSUASION AND POLITICAL RHETORIC Credits: 3 This course will survey research and writing in the fields of persuasion and political communication. Of particular interest will be explanations of political communication based in rhetorical theory. Students will study historically important political speeches, debates, and advertisements. Emphasis will be on academic exploration of political rhetoric as human expression. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 305 - ADVANCED PUBLIC SPEAKING Credits: 3 Designed for students with at least two prior years of instruction or public speaking experience. Will address the ancient origins of speech theory and will require students to apply contemporary speech theory in the presentation of four in-class speeches. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 306 - RHETORIC OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Credits: 3 This course will explore the rhetoric of science and technology through examination of historically important speeches, campaigns, and other persuasive expression that has contributed to contemporary scientific and technological culture. Emphasis will be on the communication associated with scientific and technological culture rather than on the science or technology. The primary question for the course is, "How are science and technology expressed and persuasively promoted as human activities? College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 308 - BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING Credits: 3 Practical application of communication theory with emphasis on oral presentations, interviewing and small group dynamics. The course will consider many aspects of the business and professional sphere as they pertain to public speaking and public discourse. Through a series of four or more in-class speeches, in-class group exercises, outside speaker presentations, reading, and writing, the course will serve as basis of instruction to ready the student for the public or private sphere. Class will focus particularly on aspects of business and professional leadership communication, and business and office communications both written and oral, toward a greater mastery of authentic organizational, management, competitive, and community discourse. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 309 - ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE Credits: 3 Designed to help students develop communication, analysis, and research skills through the construction and presentation of arguments on questions of fact, value, and policy. Debate assignments will explore current issues. The course emphasizes argumentation exercises and in-class debates. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 310 - ADVANCED FORENSICS PRACTICUM Credits: 1 This course will focus on varsity intercollegiate speech and debate competition. Students will be required to prepare speeches and debate material for local, regional, and possibly national competitions. Participation in intercollegiate competition is mandatory. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 311 - THE RHETORIC OF LEADERSHIP Credits: 3 This course will examine the relationship between leadership and communication within organizations. Explore leadership as a communication phenomenon. Emphasis will be on leadership as a set of relationships that manifest themselves in practices that arise from the implementation of theory. Historical and contemporary leadership and communication theory will be surveyed. An important outcome is an increased understanding of the relationship between communication and leadership. Cross-list: LEAD 320. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 312 - HISTORICAL AND INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF LEADERSHIP Credits: 3 The focus of this course is to construct a historically informed philosophy of leadership that encompasses not just what leadership is but why it is valued, when it is legitimate, what its moral purpose is, and how it both shapes and reflects societal norms. Cross-list: LEAD 301. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 321 - EUROPEAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS Credits: 3 Filmmaking has celebrated its first hundred years. Women's contributions were significant and deserve to widen the film canon for all filmgoers. This course will concentrate on films by European women directors, taking into account historical pioneering, cultural identities, aesthetics particularities, gender commitment, subject orientations and post-feminist attempts. Importance will also be given to the contexts and conditions of women's film production. All films subtitled in English. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 321, HART 385, SWGS 358. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 322 - MARX, FREUD, EINSTEIN: FOREBEARERS OF MODERNITY Credits: 3 Like no others, these three thinkers of the 19th and 20th century have influenced the intellectual, historical, social, and cultural development not only of Germany, but of the entire world. The course examines the works of these authors in the context of their own time as well as their continued importance in the present. Works by Brecht, Christa Wolf, Schnitzler, Kafka will also be considered. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 322. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 324 - BERLIN, RESIDENCE, METROPOLIS, CAPITAL Credits: 3 The course offers an introduction to German history, politics, and culture as mirrored in the history of the old and new German capital. Berlin has always been a city of contradictions: from imperial glamour to proletarian slums, from the Roaring Twenties to Hitler's seizure of power. Emerging from the ruins of WWII Berlin became both the capital of Socialism and the display window of the Free World. After the fall of the wall, Berlin is still looking for its role in the center of a reshaped Europe. Readings and discussions encompass fine arts and literature from the 18th century to the present, including film. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 324. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 328 - GERMAN ADAPTATIONS: TEXT TO FILM Credits: 3 Prominent novels of the 20th century will be studied for their possibilities or impossibilities of rendition from print medium to cinematic medium. From the myriad of adaptations we will concentrate on Thomas Mann: Tod in Venedig; Franz Kafka: Das Schloss; Klaus Mann: Mehisto; Gunter Grass: Die Blechtrommel; H. Boll: Katharina Blum; Jurek Becker: Jacob der Lugner. All films are subtitled in English. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 328. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 329 - LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST AND EXILE Credits: 3 Most of the authors from Germany and Austria, who were persecuted and fled into exile, used literature to search for meaning in life that apparently had been stripped of all meaning. Among these authors are the most distinguished writers of time, i.e. Th. and H. Mann, Brecht, Benjamin, Werfel, Doblin, J. Roth, S. Zweig, N. Sachs, Celan, Auslander. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 329. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 330 - MEDIEVAL COURTSHIP, LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY Credits: 3 The literature of the High Middle Ages is the first since antiquity to probe the hazards and potentials of romance between men and women, as well as single-sex friendship and love. This course will show how the literary ideal of love emerged in a society that was torn apart by war and rivalry. The poems and stories we will read belong to the treasures of medieval literature from the German lands. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 330, MDST 335, SWGS 330. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 340 - WALTER BENJAMIN: AESTHETICS, HISTORY AND POLITICS Credits: 3 Benjamin has been celebrated as a revolutionary Marxist, a theologian of Jewish Messianism, and as an essayist and literary critic. The course offers an introduction to his writings by way of situating them in the historical background of the Weimar Republic and the crises of European society on the eve of WWII. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 340. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 344 - KOREAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE Credits: 3 Exploration of selections from modern Korean literature and watching Korean films. Includes background survey of Korean history, philosophy and religion. All texts and films in English translation. No previous knowledge of Korean required. Cross-list: ASIA 344, KORE 344. Instructor permission required College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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HUMA 372 - THE GERMAN FAIRY TALE: OLD AND NEW Credits: 3 Discussion of several prototypes from the fairy-tale collection of the Brothers Grimm and the subsequent development of the "literary" fairy tale from Goethe and the Romantics to the 20th century. Taught in English. Cross-list: GERM 326. College: School of Humanities Department: Humanities
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