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Dear Class of 2018: WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA!

Undoubtedly, you have seen the words “Driven to Discover” around campus. The University is about discovery: the discovery of a brain cap that makes it possible to control computers with only your mind; the discovery that bacteria can be used to generate electricity; and the discovery of new technology such as the robots designed to protect troops from harm. But discovery at the U of M is also about the discovery you are embarking on to find your place in the world - who you are, what you want, what you will be. We are here to help you with these important discoveries.

This booklet will introduce you to an exciting array of small courses designed just for you, the Class of 2018. Studies from around the country have repeatedly shown that students do well in college and enjoy the experience when they get to know faculty members and other students. Freshman Seminars are designed to help you do just that. They are limited to about 15 to 20 students, so you will have a real opportunity to get to know other students in your class and to interact with a faculty member who will guide you and help you make the adjustment to college.

This is a wonderful opportunity to explore new areas or to test your interest in something you might eventually choose as a major. There are no prerequisites for any Freshmen just like you! of these courses–except a willingness to learn, participate, and be open to new ideas and approaches. If you are in the University Honors Program, any Freshman Seminar The photo above, along with all of the photos in this book, is part of a student initiative called the First-Year Photo Project. you take will count as an Honors experience. Throughout their first year, the project participants take images explaining their view of transitional issues facing first-year So open your mind, explore the richness the University has to offer, and discover students at different times. yourself! Since 2004 the First-Year Photo Project has worked to bring together a small group of students during their first year of college to photograph their experiences as they transition into the University of Minnesota community. To learn more, visit www.ofyp.umn.edu/photoproject. Laura Coffin Koch Associate Dean Office of Undergraduate Education What is a Freshman Seminar?

A Freshman Seminar is a small, discussion-oriented class that is designed just for first-year students. Faculty who teach Freshman Seminars have developed each class around their particular interests, and students are able to learn in a small class environment from an expert in the field.

What to expect in a Freshman Seminar: ›› A small class (15-20 students) of first-year students where it is easier to talk, participate, and engage in class discussions ›› Faculty who create these courses specifically for first-year students and are excited about the subject ›› An opportunity to work with faculty who will help you better understand how to succeed academically at the University of Minnesota

Tips for Success in a Freshman Seminar (and all your classes!): ›› Come to class prepared with readings and assignments completed ›› Express your thoughts and opinions by participating in group discussions ›› Visit your professor during office hours ›› Get to know your classmates ›› Ask plenty of questions

How to Search Online for Freshman Seminars

If you would like to search for a Freshman Seminar online, follow the steps below. The online course catalog will always contain the most up-to-date information on Freshman Seminars.

1. Visit onestop.umn.edu, and select “Class Search” under Quick Links 2. Enter Search Criteria: »» Select the term (Fall 2014 or Spring 2015) »» Under “Sections” select “All sections” »» Under “Class title” enter “Freshman Seminar” 3. Click the “Search” button

If you have questions about any of the Freshman Seminars, contact your adviser.

Important Websites

Freshman Seminars: www.ofyp.umn.edu/freshsem Learning Abroad Center: www.umabroad.umn.edu Libraries: www.lib.umn.edu Orientation & First-Year Programs: www.ofyp.umn.edu One Stop Student Services: www.onestop.umn.edu MyU Web Portal: www.myu.umn.edu Welcome Week: www.welcomeweek.umn.edu

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 1 Freshman Seminars Abroad

Several of the Freshman Seminars listed in this booklet also include a study abroad opportunity. Freshman Seminars Abroad are a great introduction to studying abroad! These seminars combine on-campus instruction during fall semester 2014 or spring semester 2015 with a study abroad component over winter break (fall seminar) or over spring break (spring seminars). You will receive three credits for a Freshman Seminar Abroad, and many fulfill a liberal education requirement.

To participate, apply through the Learning Abroad Center and register for the seminar on One Stop. There are deadlines to register for Freshman Seminars Abroad. For more information, visit: http://www.umabroad.umn.edu/programs/fsa.php or contact Sarah Tschida at [email protected] or 612-626-6712.

Fall 2014 Freshman Seminar Abroad:

PHYS 1904: Emerging Technologies in Israel, page 31 Marvin Marshak, Department of Physics Study Abroad in Israel

Spring 2015 Freshman Seminars Abroad:

BIOL 1905: Innovation and Imagination in Ireland, page 39 Nicole Letawsky Shultz, College of Biological Sciences Student Services Study Abroad in Ireland

BIOL 1905: Sowing Discord: GMOs in Europe and the U.S., page 40 Robert Brambl, Department of Biology Study Abroad in Germany and Switzerland

CFAN 1904: Coral Reef Management in Belize, page 41 Jim Perry, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Study Abroad in Belize

DES 1904: Impressionism in Paris and Southern France, page 42 Monica Fogg, Department of Graphic Design Study Abroad in France

DES 1909W: Design in Istanbul, page 43 James Boyd Brent, Department of Graphic Design Study Abroad in Turkey

GER 1905: Exploring Berlin Through the Silver Screen, page 44 Rick McCormick, Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Study Abroad in Germany

TH 1905: Backstage Pass to London: From the Guthrie to the Globe, page 46 Dennis Behl, Department of Theatre Arts and Dance Study Abroad in England

2 University of Minnesota CLA Humanistic Commons

Several courses in this booklet are Humanistic Commons Courses. They are all marked in the indices on the following pages with the acronym “H”.

So, what are “The Humanities” and why do we study them?

The humanities give us insight into everything. Through the study of the languages, literature, history, and cultures of humans, students develop the foundation for exploring and understanding the human experience. What does it mean to be a human being? How do we process and document the human experience? What do humans make, collect, exhibit, or discard and how does this shape our personal histories and those of our cultures? What can the study of the humanities teach us about ourselves and our interactions with the world both locally and globally? How do we understand the world we live in and how do we imagine the future?

These seminars offered for the first time by the College of Liberal Arts as part of the Humanistic Commons are uniquely designed to introduce first-year students to humanistic study and research. The study of the humanities is not limited to writings found in classic books. In these seminars, students will be introduced to media, music, images, motion pictures, recorded or broadcast sound, and performances to experience the depth and breadth of human culture and gain new insights into everything human.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 3 Fall 2014 Seminars Alphabetical by Designator

AEM 1905 High-Power Rocketry...... 12 AFRO 1902 Social and Cultural History of Blacks in Sports (DSJ)...... 12 ALL 1905 Bollywood and Beyond: Introduction to Indian Cinema...... 12 AMIN 1905 American Indians and National Parks...... 13 AMST 1905 Americans Abroad: Rethinking Travel, Culture, and Empire...... 13 ANTH 1902 Race and the Making of Humans (DSJ, H) ...... 13 APEC 1905 The “Ordinary” Business of Life: Issues in Business, Government, and Macroeconomics...... 13 APEC 1905 A Sustainable Global Food System...... 14 ARTS 1905 Art as Participatory Platform: Labor, Location, Community, and Transformation...... 14 ARTS 1905 Art and Language...... 14 ARTS 1905 Mississippi Flows...... 15 AST 1905 Cosmic Catastrophes: Things that Go Bump in the Night...... 15 AST 1905 Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Search for “Alien” Life...... 15 BIOL 1905 Photographing the University Community...... 15 BIOL 1905 Understanding the Evolution-Creationism Controversy...... 16 BIOL 1905 A Possibilist Agenda for the 21st Century and Beyond...... 16 BIOL 1905 Being Human...... 16 BIOL 1905 Curing Cancer...... 16 BIOL 1905 Genomics: Issues and Applications in Your Life...... 17 BIOL 1905 It Takes More Than a Good Idea...... 17 BIOL 1905 The Nature of Research: Is It For You?...... 17 BIOL 1905 Biology in Art and Art in Biology...... 18 BIOL 1905 Marine Microcosms...... 18 BIOL 1905 Stem Cells...... 18 BIOL 1905 Microbiomes...... 18 BIOL 1905 Genome...... 19 BIOL 1905 From Ebola to H1N1: Emerging Human Viruses...... 19 CFAN 1902 Ways of Knowing and Science (DSJ)...... 19 CHEM 1905 DNA...... 19 CHEM 1905 Science in the News...... 20 CHEM 1905 The End of the World As We Know It...... 20 CHEM 1905 How Do Chemists Study Biology?...... 20 CHIC 1902 Chicana/o-Latina/o: History, Culture, and Identity (DSJ)...... 20 CLA 1902 Media, Music, and Movement in Pop Culture (DSJ, H)...... 21 CLA 1904 Stories, Bodies, Border-crossings (GP)...... 21 CLA 1905 Living or Dead: The Performance of Things...... 21 CLA 1905 The Human as Writer: Trace, Memory, Self (H)...... 21 CLA 1908W Nature and Society in the Anthropocene (CLE, H, WI)...... 22 CNES 1903 Homer’s Odyssey and Early Greek Society (CLE)...... 22 CNES 1905 Silencing the Gods: Divine and Human in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East...... 22 COMM 1905 Communicating the Holocaust...... 23 COMM 1905 Social and Evolutionary Bases of Interpersonal Communication...... 23 CPSY 1904 International and Cross-Cultural Studies of Childhood (GP)...... 23 CSCL 1905 Punk, Hip-Hop, and Salsa...... 24 CSCL 1905 American Fiction into Film...... 24 CSE 1905 Tackling the World’s Biggest Problems: Designing Solutions with Impact...... 24 DES 1905 Homelessness: What it is and Why We Should Care...... 25 DES 1905 My Twin Cities: Urban Design and Public Space...... 25 DES 1905 Building Vision...... 25 DES 1910W Printing for Designers (WI)...... 26 ECON 1905 Strategic Thinking and Social Interaction...... 26 ENGL 1905 Novellas and Graphic Works...... 26

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ENGL 1905 Memoir and History: “On the Day I Was Born”...... 26 EPSY 1905 Chess and 21st Century Skills...... 27 ESCI 1901 Geology of Minnesota (E)...... 27 ESCI 1901 Geology and Civilization (E)...... 27 ESCI 1905 Waves Impacting Coastlines...... 27 FREN 1908W Camus and Sartre: Exploring a French Legend (CLE, WI)...... 28 FSCN 1905 Antioxidants: How Do They Protect Your Food and Your Body?...... 28 GEOG 1901 Understanding Climate Change (E)...... 28 HORT 1901 The Ten Plants That Changed Minnesota: Growing Solutions to How the World Lives Today (E)...... 28 HORT 1942 The American Lawn (TS)...... 29 JOUR 1904 The Symbolic Meanings of Money (GP)...... 29 MUS 1905 Shakespeare in Film and Music...... 29 MUS 1905 Creating Music: An Introduction...... 29 NURS 1910W Chronic Illness in the United States: From Cell to Society (WI)...... 30 PHIL 1905 Humanistic and Scientific Perspectives on Personhood (H)...... 30 PHIL 1905 What’s So Great About Classical Music?...... 31 PHYS 1904 Emerging Technologies in Israel (FSA, GP)...... 31 POL 1905 The Politics of Disruption: Violence and its Alternatives...... 31 POL 1905 Wars, Memory, and Political Identity in Israel and the Middle East...... 32 POL 1905 Constitutional Meanings and Movements from the Revolution to the Modern Tea Party...... 32 POL 1942 The Science and Politics of Genetics and Reproduction (TS)...... 32 PSY 1902 Asian American Experiences (DSJ)...... 32 PSY 1905 Psychology of Eating and Body Image...... 33 PSY 1905 What is the Human Mind?...... 33 PSY 1905 This is Your Brain on Drugs...... 33 PSY 1905 Psychological Perspectives on Working Women...... 34 REC 1905 Go Outside and Play!...... 34 SLHS 1942 Language and Communication Technologies (TS)...... 34 SOC 1905 Not Just Child’s Play: The Serious Side of Kids’ Culture and Activities...... 35 SPAN 1904 Arab Spain: Then and Now (GP)...... 35 SPAN 1905 Revolutions and Human Rights in Latin America...... 35 STAT 1905 Genes, Climate, Internet: The Information and Uncertainty of Big Data...... 36 TH 1905 Great Actresses and Divas of Theatre, Film, Opera, and the Musical...... 36 VPM 1905 Garbage, Government, and Globe ...... 36 WRIT 1908W What is College: the Past, Present, and Future of Higher Education (CLE, WI)...... 37 WRIT 1910W From Fashion to Fashioning a World: Magazines and Literacy (WI)...... 37

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 5 Spring 2015 Seminars Alphabetical by Designator

AEM 1905 Model Aircraft Design, Flight Test, and Analysis...... 38 AST 1905 Cosmic Catastrphes...... 38 AST 1905 Nothing...... 38 BIOL 1905 Writing for the Life Sciences...... 39 BIOL 1905 Genomics: Issues and Applications in Your Life...... 39 BIOL 1905 Innovation and Imagination in Ireland (FSA)...... 39 BIOL 1905 Sowing Discord: GMOs in Europe and the U.S. (FSA)...... 40 CFAN 1902 American Indian Ways of Knowing the Environmental (DSJ)...... 40 CFAN 1904 Coral Reef Management in Belize (FSA, GP)...... 41 CHEM 1905 DNA...... 41 CHEM 1905 Science in the News...... 41 CPSY 1905 Do Our Childhoods Control Our Destinies?...... 42 DES 1902 Housing Matters (DSJ)...... 42 DES 1904 Impressionism in Paris and Southern France (FSA, GP)...... 42 DES 1909W Design in Istanbul (FSA, GP, WI)...... 43 ENT 1905 Water Quality in the Czech Republic as Influenced by the European Union Water Framework Directive...... 43 GEOG 1905 Cities of the Future: Urbanization in the Developing World...... 43 GER 1905 Exploring Berlin Through the Silver Screen (FSA)...... 44 HIST 1903 From the Tea Party to 9/11: Historical Memory in the United States (CLE)...... 44 HIST 1909W The Revolutions of 1989 (GP, WI)...... 44 JOUR 1904 The Symbolic Meanings of Money (GP)...... 45 LING 1910W Linguistics and Biology (WI)...... 45 PHIL 1905 Socrates and Philosophy...... 45 PSTL 1910W Are We Free? Freedom, Race, and Incarceration in U.S. Literature (WI)...... 45 SOC 1905 Alpha Wives and Tiger Moms...... 46 TH 1905 Backstage Pass to London: From the Guthrie to the Globe (FSA)...... 46 VPM 1905 Aquatic Toxicology, Water Safety, and Society...... 46

Key to Abbreviations CLE: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Civic Life and Ethics DSJ: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Diversity and Social Justice in the United States E: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Environment FSA: Freshman Seminar Abroad GP: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Global Perspectives H: Humanistic Commons TS: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Technology and Society WI: Meets Liberal Education requirement for Writing Intensive

6 University of Minnesota Seminars by Interest Area

Arts ALL 1905 Bollywood and Beyond: Introduction to Indian Cinema...... 12 ARTS 1905 Art as Participatory Platform: Labor, Location, Community, and Transformation...... 14 ARTS 1905 Art and Language...... 14 ARTS 1905 Mississippi Flows...... 15 BIOL 1905 Photographing the University Community...... 15 BIOL 1905 Biology in Art and Art in Biology...... 18 CLA 1904 Stories, Bodies, Border-Crossings...... 21 CLA 1905 Living or Dead: The Performance of Things...... 21 DES 1904 Impressionism in Paris and Southern France * ◊...... 42 DES 1910W Printing for Designers...... 26 MUS 1905 Creating Music: An Introduction...... 29 PHIL 1905 What’s So Great About Classical Music?...... 31 TH 1910W Backstage Pass to London: From the Guthrie to the Globe * ◊...... 46

Biological and Environmental Sciences AMIN 1905 American Indians and National Parks...... 13 APEC 1905 A Sustainable Global Food System...... 14 BIOL 1905 Being Human...... 16 BIOL 1905 Curing Cancer...... 16 BIOL 1905 Genomics: Issues and Applications in Your Life †...... 17, 39 BIOL 1905 It Takes More Than a Good Idea...... 17 BIOL 1905 The Nature of Research Life: Is It For You?...... 17 BIOL 1905 Marine Microcosms...... 18 BIOL 1905 Stem Cells...... 18 BIOL 1905 Microbiomes...... 18 BIOL 1905 A Possibilist Agenda for the 21st Centruy and Beyond...... 19 BIOL 1905 Genome...... 16 BIOL 1905 From Ebola to H1N1: Emerging Human Viruses...... 19 BIOL 1905 Writing for the Life Sciences *...... 39 BIOL 1905 Innovation and Imagination in Ireland * ◊...... 39 BIOL 1905 Sowing Discord: GMOs in Europe and the U.S. * ◊...... 40 CFAN 1904 Coral Reef Management in Belize * ◊...... 41 CLA 1908W Nature and Society in the Anthropocene...... 22 ESCI 1901 Geology of Minnesota...... 27 ESCI 1901 Geology and Civilization...... 27 ESCI 1905 Waves Impacting Coastlines...... 27 FSCN 1905 Antioxidants: How Do They Protect Your Food and Your Body?...... 28 GEOG 1901 Understanding Climate Change...... 28 HORT 1901 The Ten Plants That Changed Minnesota: Growing Solutions to How the World Lives Today...... 28 HORT 1942 The American Lawn...... 29 LING 1910W Linguistics and Biology *...... 45 VPM 1905 Aquatic Toxicology, Water Safety, and Society *...... 46

Business APEC 1905 The “Ordinary” Business of Life: Issues in Business, Government, and Macroeconomics...... 13 ECON 1905 Strategic Thinking and Social Interaction...... 26

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Culture and People AFRO 1902 Social and Cultural History of Blacks in Sports...... 12 AMST 1905 Americans Abroad: Rethinking Travel, Culture, and Empire...... 13 CFAN 1902 American Indian Ways of Knowing the Environmental *...... 40 CHIC 1902 Chicana/o-Latina/o: History, Culture, and Identity...... 20 CLA 1902 Media, Music, and Movement in Pop Culture...... 21 CLA 1905 The Human as Writer: Trace, Memory, Self...... 21 CSCL 1905 Punk, Hip-Hop, and Salsa...... 24 DES 1909W Design in Istanbul * ◊...... 43 HIST 1903 From the Tea Party to 9/11: Historical Memory in the United States *...... 44 HIST 1909W The Revolutions of 1989 *...... 44 REC 1905 Go Outside and Play!...... 34 SPAN 1904 Arab Spain: Then and Now...... 35 SPAN 1905 Revolutions and Human Rights in Latin America...... 35 SOC 1905 Alpha Wives and Tiger Moms *...... 46 WRIT 1908W What is College: The Past, Present, and Future of Higher Education...... 37 WRIT 1910W From Fashion to Fashioning a World: Magazines and Literacy...... 37

Humanities and Social Sciences ANTH 1902 Race and the Making of Humans...... 13 COMM 1905 Social and Evolutionary Bases of interpersonal Communication...... 23 DES 1905 Homelessness: What it is and Why We Should Care...... 25 DES 1905 My Twin Cities: Urban Design and Public Space...... 25 DES 1905 Building Vision...... 25 GEOG 1905 Cities of the Future: Urbanization in the Developing World *...... 43 PHIL 1905 Socrates and Philosophy *...... 45 PSY 1902 Asian American Experiences...... 32 SOC 1905 Not Just Child’s Play: The Serious Side of Kids’ Culture and Activities...... 35

Literature and Film CNES 1903 Homer’s Odyssey and Early Greek Society...... 22 CNES 1905 Silencing the Gods: Divine and Human in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East...... 22 COMM 1905 Communicating the Holocaust...... 23 CSCL 1905 American Fiction into Film...... 24 ENGL 1905 Novellas and Graphic Novels...... 26 ENGL 1905 Memoir and History: “On the Day I Was Born”...... 26 FREN 1908W Camus and Sartre: Exploring a French Legend...... 28 GER 1905 Exploring Berlin Through the Silver Screen * ◊...... 44 MUS 1905 Shakespeare in Film and Music...... 29 PSTL 1910W Are We Free? Freedom, Race, and Incarceration in U.S. Literature*...... 45 TH 1905 Great Actresses and Divas of Theatre, Film, Opera, and the Musical...... 36

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Politics and Government BIOL 1905 Understanding the Evolution-Creationism Controversy...... 16 DES 1902 Housing Matters *...... 42 ENT 1905 Water Quality in the Czech Republic as Influenced by the European Union Water Framework Directive *...... 43 POL 1905 The Politics of Disruption: Violence and its Alternatives...... 32 POL 1905 Wars, Memor, and Political Identity in Israel and the Middle East...... 32 POL 1905 Constitutional Meanings and Movements from the Revolution to the Modern Tea Party...... 32 POL 1942 The Science and Politics of Genetics and Reproduction...... 32

Psychology CPSY 1904 International and Cross-Cultural Studies of Childhood...... 23 CPSY 1905 Do Our Childhoods Control Our Destinies? *...... 42 EPSY 1905 Chess and 21st Century Skills...... 27 JOUR 1904 The Symbolic Meanings of Money †...... 29, 45 PHIL 1905 Humanistic and Scientific Perspectives on Personhood...... 30 PSY 1905 Psychology of Eating and Body Image...... 33 PSY 1905 What is the Human Mind?...... 33 PSY 1905 This is Your Brain on Drugs...... 33 PSY 1905 Psychological Perspectives on Working Women...... 34

Science and Technology AEM 1905 High-Power Rocketry...... 12 AEM 1905 Model Aircraft Design, Flight Test, and Analysis*...... 38 AST 1905 Cosmic Catastrophes: Things that Go Bump in the Night...... 15 AST 1905 Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Search for “Alien” Life...... 15 AST 1905 Cosmic Catastrophes*...... 38 AST 1905 Nothing*...... 38 CFAN 1902 Ways of Knowing and Science...... 19 CHEM 1905 DNA †...... 19, 41 CHEM 1905 Science in the News †...... 20, 41 CHEM 1905 The End of the World as We Know It...... 20 CHEM 1905 How Do Chemists Study Biology? ...... 20 CSE 1905 Tackling the World’s Biggest Problems: Designing Solutions with Impact...... 24 NURS 1910W Chronic Illness in the United States: From Cell to Society...... 30 PHYS 1904 Emerging Technologies in Israel ◊...... 31 SLHS 1942 Language and Communication Technologies...... 34 STAT 1905 Genes, Climate, Internet: The Information and Uncertainty of Big Data...... 36 VPM 1905 Garbage, Government, and Globe...... 36

Key to Symbols † Offered in Fall and Spring * Spring 2015 seminar ◊ Freshman Seminar Abroad

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 9 10 University of Minnesota How to Read the Freshman Seminar Booklet

Arab Spain: Then and Now Seminar Title

Instructor & Michelle Hamilton, Spanish and Department Portuguese Studies

Term Offered Fall 2014 Course Designator & SPAN 1904, Section 001 Section Number Liberal LE: Global Perspectives Education 3 credits Requirement(s) MW, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Day(s) & Time(s) Offered Location Nicholson Hall 315 East Bank, Minneapolis 34868 Registration Number

Seminar Today, Spain is considered a part of Western Europe, but Description this has not always been the case. Spain was under Mus- lim rule for some 700 years—the only European country whose native language was Arabic and that shared more commonality with the Muslim East than with the Christian West. The history of Muslim rule in Spain continues to affect the way Spaniards (and other Europeans) think of themselves, Arabs, and the “East.” The centuries of Mus- lim presence on the Peninsula has left a lasting legacy in Spanish culture, and continues to shape contemporary Spanish attitudes to contemporary Muslim immigrants from North Africa, global politics, and their own position as a European nation. In this seminar, we will address the following questions: What does it mean to be a Western Muslim? Can Muslims and Christians live together in peace? What role do language, style of dress, and social customs have as indicators of a person’s religion? We will analyze historical and literary texts, films, and contemporary Spanish television shows, and the arts that address this issue.

Instructor Michelle Hamilton has taught and researched the Chris- Biography tians, Muslims, and Jews of Spain for over two decades. She has lived in Morocco, Israel, and Spain, as well as 20 years in Southern California, where the legacy of Mus- lim Spain can be found in local architecture, food, and agriculture. She regularly offers courses on the Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic literatures and cultures of Iberia.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 11 High-Power Social and Cultural Bollywood Rocketry History of Blacks in and Beyond: Sports Introduction to James Flaten, Aerospace Indian Cinema Engineering and Keletso Atkins, African Mechanics American and African Suvadip Sinha, Asian Studies Fall 2014 Languages and Literatures AEM 1905, Section 001 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 2 credits AFRO 1902, Section 001 ALL 1905, Section 001 Tuesday, 3:35 – 5:30 p.m. LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the 3 credits Akerman Hall 215 United States TuTh, 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis 3 credits Folwell Hall 121 20226 TuTh, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Blegen Hall 210 Kolthoff Hall 136 This hands-on seminar will take West Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis students beyond model rocketry and 26188 31727 into the realm of high-power rocketry, building rockets with H-size (or larger) Sports and games are about more Why do people sing and dance motors, some capable of reaching than “the fun of play.” The history around in Bollywood films? How is altitudes of several thousand feet! of sports, especially in this country, Bollywood masala different from Attending a day-long launch event offers a unique lens through which Hollywood cinema? What are the with a local high-power rocketry club deeper issues like racial politics and distinct features of Indian cinema? will be a required class activity for a social justice can be examined. In this This seminar provides historical and weekend date, to be announced at the seminar, we will explore how major critical understandings of these beginning of the semester. In addition events in contemporary sports history questions. By looking at various to learning basic rocketry physics, – Jack Johnson’s victory over Tommy cinematic cultures in Bollywood and FALL 2014 using rocketry computer simulations, Burns to become the first Black World other Indian film industries, we will constructing high-power rockets, and Heavyweight champion in 1908, or study how cinema as an art form SEMINARS flying them, this seminar will include Jesse Owens’ triumph over Hitlerism in and a medium of entertainment lectures, discussions, and activities the 1936 Berlin Olympics – not only has evolved during the last one associated with the past, present, and encapsulated critical social themes, hundred years. We will also study the future of real-spaceflight rocketry for but also dramatized those issues to characteristics of Bollywood genres manned and unmanned missions into oppressed people around the globe. like social melodrama, musicals, low-Earth-orbit and beyond. horror and action. Our discussions will Keletso Atkins was born and raised be supplemented with screenings of James Flaten is the associate director in Chicago, a city which during much a number of Bollywood blockbusters of the Minnesota Space Grant of the last century was considered and a few lesser-known films. Consortium, a NASA higher education the Black sports Mecca, as well as program whose goals include a center of radical political activism. Bollywood was a forbidden pleasure promoting interest in space science This dynamic tradition profoundly for Suvadip Sinha as a kid. When and space exploration. Though housed shaped her youthful experiences and he skipped school as a teenager to in the Aerospace Engineering and future academic interests. She is the watch a Shahrukh Khan film for the Mechanics department, his academic recipient of two national book prizes third time, little did he know that he background is actually in experimental on South African labor history, and is would be teaching and writing about physics and he has taught many currently completing a manuscript on Bollywood one day. His wish for this physics and astronomy classes in the historical links between Afro North seminar is to incite the same thrill and the past. He enjoys using high-power America and South Africa from 1670 passion for Bollywood cinema that rocketry and high-altitude ballooning to 1870. has made it extremely popular and as low-cost means of giving students influential the world over. hands-on experience building and flying space-related hardware.

12 University of Minnesota American Indians Americans Abroad: Race and the The “Ordinary” and National Parks Rethinking Travel, Making of Humans Business of Life: Culture and Issues in Business, Clint Carroll, American Empire Katherine Hayes, Government, and Indian Studies Anthropology Karen Ho, Anthropology Macroeconomics Fall 2014 Elliott Powell, American AMIN 1905, Section 001 Studies Fall 2014 Gary Cooper, Applied 3 credits ANTH 1902, Section 001 Economics Fall 2014 TuTh, 2:30-3:45 p.m. LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the AMST 1905, Section 001 Folwell Hall 28 United States Fall 2014 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis 3 credits APEC 1905, Section 001 Tuesday, 2:15 – 4:45 p.m. 34955 TuTh, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. 2 credits Smith Hall 121 West Bank, Minneapolis Thursday, 3:35 – 5:30 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis In this seminar, we will study the Blegen Hall 115 26735 origins of American conservation When Barack Obama was elected West Bank, Minneapolis against a backdrop of colonialism president of the United States, many 22578 This seminar examines Americans and dispossession of Native peoples people proclaimed our society to be (including ourselves) who travel from traditional territories, as well “post-racial.” Yet, the Supreme Court In this seminar, we will discover, reflect abroad and what our experiences as the contemporary practice of still routinely adjudicates affirmative on, and teach ourselves about a – both present and historical – tell conservation and the relationship action cases, and U.S. law prohibits selected group of topics in the fields of us about how we imagine others between U.S. national parks and “hate crimes.” Furthermore, the racial business management and economics. and ourselves. How do travel American Indian nations. We will wealth gap – especially between The first quarter of our meetings will experiences transform Americans explore these topics through the larger categories of “black” and “white” – be on business and economic history, and the countries and cultures that lenses of environmental history and has not declined but, rather, tripled and the second quarter of class will they interact with? This seminar geography while staying grounded in over the past twenty-five years. The be spent analyzing “macro” issues posits that paying careful attention the field of American Indian studies. U.S. Census now allows individual related to the domestic and world to the movements of Americans Some questions that will guide the respondents to check all the boxes that economies. The remainder of our time globally – as tourists, consumers, seminar are: What are the philosophical apply regarding race/ethnicity. What together will be “micro” related. We will workers, educators, military personnel, underpinnings of enclosing land for is race, exactly, and does it mean only read and solve The Fatal Equilibrium, performers and the like – will help conservation, and how has this ideology one thing? If race is one of the major a mystery novel that highlights several us understand the more abstract impacted Native peoples’ traditional ways we mark difference, should we basic economic principles. We will also elements of globalization, including practices? Conversely, how are Native recognize racial diversity or not? What investigate the field of business ethics the ever-stronger economic, political, people using conservation strategies good is race anyway? This seminar through a series of readings and films. cultural and commercial integration to advance their own goals of cultural will consider race through history, of the United States with the rest of revitalization and maintenance of evolution, migration, material culture, Gary Cooper is the undergraduate the world. This seminar explores how relationships to land? As a result language, contemporary society and program coordinator and an academic the real movement of people across of class readings, discussions, and policy, genetics, forensics, health care advisor in the department of Applied borders relates to these forces. assignments, students will gain critical and more, to ponder whether the Economics and the College of Food, insights on American Indian history and “post-racial” is possible, and what the Agricultural, and Natural Resource Elliott Powell is a popular music sovereignty in relation to environmental implications for humanity might be. Sciences. He has received university scholar whose work centers on the issues. teaching and academic advising global significance of jazz and hip- Like any self-respecting two-headed awards for his work with students and hop. During college, he interviewed Clint Carroll is an enrolled citizen of the monster, the anthropological team of faculty. a prominent London-based DJ, Cherokee Nation and a faculty member Karen Ho and Kat Hayes embodies rapper, and recording executive, and in the Department of American Indian past, present, and future perspectives. soon discovered the importance of Studies. His work with the Cherokee Together, their research spans from thinking transnationally about popular Nation government and with Cherokee tens of millions of years ago to tens culture in the everyday. He hopes communities in northeastern Oklahoma of seconds ago, from pre-human to that students who take his seminar addresses issues of tribal environmental non-human to post-human. Spend will also develop a passion for governance and the revitalization of a semester with them to consider thinking critically about our increasing traditional ecological knowledge and the questions: How has our (pre) interconnectedness and our ability to practices. He teaches classes on history shaped modern articulations collectively forge new ways of being, ecological perspectives, environmental of race? Why do we promulgate living, and moving in the world. policy, and natural resource incorrect and incoherent ideas about Education. management in Indian Country. racial categories? Can we imagine a post-racial future and what would that mean? Finally, what, exactly, is post- human?

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 13 A Sustainable Global Food System Art as Participatory Art and Language Platform: Benjamin Senauer, Applied Economics Labor, Location, Jan Estep, Art Fall 2014 require using advanced science and Community and Fall 2014 APEC 1905, Section 002 technology, as well as traditional and Transformation ARTS 1905, Section 002 LE: Environment organic farming approaches. Because 3 credits 3 credits of greater local weather extremes Christine Baeumler, Art Friday, 10:10 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. resulting from climate change, such Regis Center for Art W132 Kaufert Laboratory 302 as droughts, a globally interconnected Fall 2014 West Bank, Minneapolis Saint Paul system will be critical to responding to ARTS 1905, Section 001 25654 33846 regional food shortages through trade 3 credits and assistance. Wednesday, 1:25 – 4:25 p.m. This seminar will mix creative studio The current global food system is not Regis Center for Art W240 assignments with philosophical sustainable due to increasing regional Ben Senauer’s work has focused on West Bank, Minneapolis readings and in-class free writing water scarcity; its dependency on the U.S. and global food systems, with 25653 to explore the relationship between fossil fuels, other limited resources, research on topics like reducing global language and visual art. We will and industrial chemicals; distributional hunger and classes such as agricultural This seminar offers an introduction to look at the ordinary ways we use inequities; and the impacts of and economic development. He contemporary art as a platform for language (behaviorally in our daily environmental degradation and climate has become increasingly concerned social engagement. Socially-engaged lives and experientially as a means change. Meanwhile, the demand about the impacts of agricultural and art practice has become a powerful of communication), and investigate for food due to population growth economic growth on the environment, tool to address a myriad of pressing it philosophically (how language and rising incomes will continue and the effects of environmental concerns and many artists seek relates to the world, how the brain/ to increase. In this seminar, we will degradation, especially climate to connect their creative practice body processes language, the explore the structure and elements of a change, on agriculture. His most to social, economic, political, and connection between perception and truly sustainable system, which would rewarding activities at the University ecological need. Socially-engaged art interpretation). We will also view the provide food for all and protect, or even include his teaching and his work on includes a wide range of approaches work of artists who incorporate text enhance, the environment. The seminar major overseas development projects, such as site-specific community- and speech in their art to get ideas. will include videos from the BBC’s “The particularly those in Bangladesh, based projects, temporary on-site We will use what we discover in our Future of Food” and PBS’ “Food for 9 Morocco, and Poland. He enjoys just performances, and behavioral art. discussions as a base for further Billion”, taped interviews with experts, about any outdoor activity, including These various forms are often artistic exploration. This seminar is and carefully selected readings. hiking, biking, mountain skiing, sailing, collaborative and activist in nature, open to students who are willing to Developing a sustainable system will and international travel. and intersect with a range of issues experiment with creative practices; an and diverse audiences. The seminar arts background is welcome, but not will examine the history of the practice, necessary. as well as provide an introduction to contemporary artists working in the Jan Estep has always loved asking field. Additionally, it will be closely tied questions, curious about how we to the rotating exhibitions and projects relate to the world and to each at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery. other. This curiosity has led her to study many fields – art, biology, Christine Baeumler collaborates philosophy – and to develop different with community organizations, art ways of communicating her thoughts institutions, and government agencies and feelings. As an exhibiting to ecologically and aesthetically artist, published writer and trained transform urban sites and address philosopher, she wonders: is it water-quality challenges. She is a possible to combine a keen sense member of the international artist of philosophical inquiry with an network Mapping Spectral Traces, and equally-robust creative imagination? is currently the artist-in-residence for What does it mean to be an the Capitol Region Watershed District artistphilosopherpoet? She welcomes in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the others who might be curious about creator and lead artist for the Pollinator combining art, language, and Project at the Plains Art Museum philosophy. in Fargo, North Dakota and a past recipient of a McKnight Fellowship. Her work has also been funded by the Bush Foundation, ArtPlace and the Minnesota State Arts Board.

14 University of Minnesota Mississippi Flows Cosmic Exoplanets, Photographing Catastrophes: Habitability, and the University Diane Willow, Art Things That Go the Search for Community Fall 2014 Bump In the Night “Alien” Life ARTS 1905, Section 003 Robert Roon, 3 credits Charles Woodward, Charles Woodward, BioChemistry Wednesday, 9:05 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Astrophysics Astrophysics Alex Lange, BioChemistry Regis Center for Art W123 Fall 2014 West Bank, Minneapolis Fall 2014 Fall 2014 BIOL 1905, Section 001 26385 AST 1905, Section 001 AST 1905, Section 002 2 credits 2 credits 2 credits Wednesday, 2:30 – 4:25 p.m. As the Mississippi river flows through Thursday, 10:10 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. Thursday, 1:25 – 3:20 p.m. Smith Hall 111 the University campus, it shapes a Tate Lab of Physics 143 Tate Lab of Physics 143 East Bank, Minneapolis national park area in the Twin Cities. East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis 14628 What “happens” along these urban 22642 22643 edges of the Mississippi river, and This seminar will provide students how can we reveal the dynamic mix of This seminar will explore how the This seminar will explore which regions an opportunity to explore the art of nature and culture at its riverbanks? evolution of bodies in the solar system in the solar system may harbor life at photojournalism and/or documentary We will explore these questions while were affected by “cosmic impacts present or may have supported life photography. Students and faculty participating in an interdisciplinary, and other catastrophes,” with special in the past. The prime focus will be will take photographs on the collaborative process that begins with emphasis on how such events affected on Mars, Earth, comets, and satellite University campus or the surrounding urban field experiences at the river and the biosphere of the Earth. We will worlds of the Jovian planets. We will neighborhoods and then each person expands to include visits with artists, discuss the history of the solar system, explore the link between science will assemble their photographs into a urban planners, cultural historians, from its inception through the current and science fiction related to our coherent essay. The seminar will include geographers, community activists, epoch, and explore how comets, fascination with Mars as a planet social themes, and have a strong architects, microbiologists, civil asteroids, and collisions between large for human colonization and contact writing component, as well as the engineers, curators, and storytellers. and small objects “disturb” the solar with “alien” life forms. We will discuss obvious focus on photography. A series of walks, light rail transit system. We will also focus attention on the potential requirements of the trips, and a possible boat ride present the nature of scientific discovery and habitability zones in the exo-planetary Alex Lange received his Ph.D. in varied perspectives on the Mississippi debate by studying views on the great systems, necessary conditions for nutritional biology from Cornell river. This creative research project Cretaceous Extinction event. We shall supporting life, the historical evolution University and his research interests introduces techniques for observing, explore how this scientific conversation of this emerging branch of astronomy, include diabetes, metabolite sensing sensing, recording, and sharing the led to deeper insight into the evolution the roles of the “citizen scientist”, and and signaling, and metabolic enzyme experience of the Mississippi river. of complex terrestrial bio-systems and NASA missions designed to search for regulation. We will create an online mapping of our quest to identify which regions in alien worlds. the sights and sounds of the river and the solar system may harbor life at Robert Roon is a veteran of more propose new ways of portraying how present or may have supported life Charles “Chick” Woodward is an than 30 years of University teaching. the Mississippi river influences our in the past, as well as the necessary infrared astronomer whose primary His eclectic interests range from collective imagination. conditions for supporting life in the research activities comprise neuroscience and nutrition to the Universe. We will also explore the link observational research programs on origins of human life and Northwest Diane Willow is a multi-modal artist. between science and science fiction comets, evolved stars, and stellar Coast Native American art. He also “By any media necessary” best related to our fascination of cosmic populations using a variety of space- sings in a men’s choral group and describes her process. Her public impacts as seen through the eye of the based (e.g., Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, co-parents his eight-year-old grandson. installations, interactive environments, media and popular culture. Swift, XMM-Newton) and ground-based He has been taking photographs for 50 and evocative objects involve media as facilities. He serves as the principal years and in the past few years, he has eclectic as bioluminescent plankton, Charles “Chick” Woodward is an University of Minnesota representative averaged 20,000 photographs per year. found sound, and a rolling foot cam. infrared astronomer whose primary to various Large Binocular Telescope Focused on art as experience, she research activities comprise Consortium Committees, as well as invites people to engage in multi- observational research programs on serving as departmental coordinator for sensory explorations as participants comets, evolved stars, and stellar telescope time allocation. and choreographers rather than populations using a variety of space- simply as viewers. She is particularly based (e.g., Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, interested in the ways that we develop Swift, XMM-Newton) and ground-based and transform our sense of place facilities. He serves as the principal and how this process is influenced University of Minnesota representative by our contemporary views of nature, to various Large Binocular Telescope technology and community. Consortium Committees, as well as serving as departmental coordinator for telescope time allocation.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 15 Understanding A Possibilist Being Human Curing Cancer the Evolution- Agenda for the Creationism 21st Century and Jane Phillips, Biology Colin Campbell, Pharmacology Controversy Beyond Fall 2014 BIOL 1905, Section 004 Fall 2014 Randy Moore, Biology Clarence Lehman; 1 credit BIOL 1905, Section 005 Ecology, Evolution, and Science Teaching and Student Services 1 credit Fall 2014 Behavior 432B Tuesday, 1:25 – 2:15 p.m. BIOL 1905, Section 002 East Bank, Minneapolis Smith Hall 121 1 credit Fall 2014 15992 East Bank, Minneapolis Tuesday, 12:20 – 1:10 p.m. BIOL 1905, Section 003 16014 Smith Hall 121 1 credit There is nothing more fascinating East Bank, Minneapolis Thursday, 4:05 – 4:55 p.m. to humans than humans. From the The objective of this seminar is to 20160 Ruttan Hall B26 biology of our bodies to the spirituality develop a basic understanding of the Saint Paul of our minds, we spend a lifetime molecular origins of cancer, how it This seminar has two goals: 1) to 15991 investigating who we are. In this is currently treated, and the exciting help you succeed at the University seminar, we will explore a small subset efforts to develop new, more effective of Minnesota, and 2) to help you In this seminar, we will read the of all that it means to be human, anti-cancer drugs. The class will read develop your own understanding fascinating book The Alchemy of Air particularly focusing on the intersection and discuss two recent books, The and appreciation of the evolution- for what could have been foreseen of biology, evolution, and ethics. We will Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha creationism controversy. We’ll discuss then and how we can plan forward – explore where we came from to where Mukherjee and The Immortal Life of the many aspects of the evolution- envisioning a possibilist agenda for our we are going, how we study ourselves Henrietta Lacks. Each class session will creationism controversy, including century. and how we use the information we involve interactive discussions and a its history, legacy, relevance, and find to better our health, and how lively exchange of thoughts and ideas. key people. We will also discuss Clarence Lehman’s research focuses better self-awareness will lead us to a variety of issues related to the on theoretical ecology, habitat decisions we can live with. Colin Campbell is an associate controversy, including those involving restoration, biodiversity, and ecosystem professor of Pharmacology. His doctoral court decisions, public opinion, functioning. He wants to apply the Jane Phillips has been teaching and post-doctoral training occurred racism, politics, etc. Many people are strengths of post-genomic biology undergraduate courses for over 30 at Boston University, the University emotional and opinionated about to the problems of this developing years, both here at the University of of Illinois at Chicago, and the Albert the evolution-creationism controversy. century. Minnesota and at the University of Einstein College of Medicine in the Although this seminar is not focused Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught Bronx, New York. In addition to directing on opinions, we will talk about why so courses in molecular, cellular, and the graduate program in Pharmacology, many people feel strongly about this developmental biology; microbiology, he directs a cancer biology research issue, and why the controversy persists. mycology; organismal adaptation and group and teaches undergraduate, You will be interested in—and probably diversity; computing in biology; plant graduate, and professional students. surprised by—what you learn. Each pathology; and microbial physiology. week we will also talk about concerns and/or questions you have about life at the University. Although I can’t fix your parking tickets, I can offer advice about what you’ll need to do to succeed here.

Randy Moore has written many papers and books about the evolution- creationism controversy, and likes to use a variety of teaching styles and other approaches to learning, such as field trips.

16 University of Minnesota Genomics: Issues It Takes More Than a Good Idea The Nature of and Applications in Research: Is It For Your Life Kelaine Haas, CBS Student Services Yo u? Fall 2014 workforce, understanding and fostering Perry Hackett; Genetics, BIOL 1905, Section 007 your own personal creativity is more David Marks, Plant Cell Biology, and 1 credit important than ever. The exercises and Biology Development Thursday, 4:05 – 4:55 p.m. discussions in this seminar will give you Smith Hall 111 a jumpstart on overcoming personal Fall 2014 Fall 2014 East Bank, Minneapolis and societal barriers to innovation BIOL 1905, Section 008 BIOL 1905, Section 006 23789 and will stretch your definition and 1 credit 1 credit understanding of creativity. Monday, 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 2:30 – 3:20 p.m. Automobiles. Pacemakers. iPods. Our Biological Sciences Center 257 Nils Hasselmo Hall 4-101 world is continually shaped by great Kelaine Haas received her Saint Paul East Bank, Minneapolis ideas. Humans are naturally creative undergraduate degree from Wake 16013 16012 beings, but our brains can constrain Forest University, and in 2012 received innovative thinking though fear, the her Ph.D. from the University of There will be two parts to this seminar. DNA and genomes are discussed urge to conform, and the tendency to Minnesota. She has taught introductory In the first part, students will meet in just about every modern context, interpret information in familiar ways. biology courses and the College of with researchers from all levels—from from modern medical science We will explore different perspectives Biological Sciences (CBS) honors current undergraduates working in and biotechnology to crime scene of creativity and innovation through thesis writing series. Her research labs to faculty members, and we will investigation, law, medical insurance studying familiar examples and interests include active teaching discuss how and why each ended policies, and ethics. In this seminar, iconoclasts like Apple, Disney Pixar, and learning, content retention, and up in research. In the second part, we will consider interfaces between and Henry Ford, who do, or did, things scientific communication. When she students will participate in a research science, politics, religion, and the differently to achieve the impossible. isn’t thinking about how science and project funded by the National Science press. We will begin with recent As creative thinking is valued more education intersect, you might find her Foundation. Students will gain hands- findings of science and medicine and and more in the classroom and in the knitting and enjoying a cup of coffee. on experience and use state-of-the-art then consider some ramifications techniques to address basic scientific that you will encounter in your daily questions concerning cell biology. lives as genomics plays a larger role as applications develop. We will David Marks is an active researcher in discuss a variety of topics, including the field of plant developmental biology. bioethics, genetic counseling, and CSI He uses the development of plant hairs, in Minnesota, as well as DNA profiling called trichomes, as a model system in medicine, the future of retooling to study how cells in a multi-cellular of plant and animal genomes, and organism become different from one human evolution in the future. We will another. try to develop personal strategies that will allow us to evaluate controversies pertaining to recent findings and applications of DNA technologies.

Perry Hackett has been a professor for nearly 30 years at the University of Minnesota. He is also a co-founder of two local biotechnology startup companies that focus on genome engineering for human gene therapy and animal biotechnology. He is especially interested in conveying to students the awesome possibilities of modern genetics and the importance of seeking answers to questions raised by science.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 17 Biology in Art and Marine Microcosms Stem Cells Microbiomes Art in Biology Robin Wright; Genetics, Yasuhiko Kawakami; Kathryn Bushley, Plant Vanessa Pompei, Biology Cell Biology, and Genetics, Cell Biology, and Biology Program Development Development David Biesboer, Plant Biology Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 BIOL 1905, Section 009 BIOL 1905, Section 010 BIOL 1905, Section 011 Fall 2014 1 credit 1 credit 1 credit BIOL 1905, Section 012 Monday, 1:25 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, 4:40 – 6:20 p.m. Friday, 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m. 1 credit Science Teaching and Student Services Molecular and Cellular Biology 2-120 Smith Hall 121 Wednesday, 4:05 – 4:55 p.m. Building 512B East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis Ruttan Hall B22 East Bank, Minneapolis 21975 23803 Saint Paul 18545 24444 Coral reefs are among the most Stem cells are one of the rapidly How does biology relate to the making amazing ecosystems in the world, if not growing topics in biology. Research The unseen world of microbes is both a of art? Can biological research create the entire universe. Since we don’t live into stem cells involves a wide range fascinating and a dangerous one. Lurking art? Does art influence science near an ocean where we can explore of interests, from basic biology, in every square centimeter of soil are research? In this seminar, we will these amazing reefs in person, come regeneration, clinical applications, as billions of bacteria, protists, viruses, and explore the relationship between biology join me to do the next best thing. In well as ethics. In this course, we will fungi. The human body itself contains and art. We will discuss the ways in this class, you’ll learn how to set up, learn about and discuss the general over ten times more microbial cells which these two fields inform and maintain, and enhance artificial reefs features of stem cells: what they are, than human cells. Generally unseen influence one another, including how in a saltwater aquarium. We’ll use our what scientists do with them, what stem by the human eye, microbes constitute artists use biological research to create reef microcosms to explore aspects of cell therapies are available, and how the largest biomass of any group of Bio-Art. We will also look at how our own marine biology, such as the impact of they might be used in the future. We organisms on earth and perform such human biology affects the way we make climate change and acidification on reef will also learn the difference between vital functions as producing the earth’s art and the way we experience art. These organisms. It’s the next best thing to embryonic stem cells, which exist only in atmospheric nitrogen and decomposing issues will be explored by examining scuba diving in the Caribbean! laboratory cultures, and tissue-specific much of the organic matter produced individual pieces of art, by learning stem cells, which exist in our bodies. By by plants. Advances in genome about topics within different fields of Robin Wright is a professor in the the end of this seminar, you will have a sequencing technologies are revealing an biology (from ecology to biotechnology), Genetics and Cell Biology Program, deeper insight into stem cells. unprecedented diversity of microbes in and by discussing the intersections as well as an Associate Dean in the the environment and ancient symbiotic between them. College of Biological Sciences. She has Yasuhiko Kawakami is a faculty relationships between microbes and a bachelor’s degree in biology from member in the Department of Genetics, most other organisms on earth. Human Vanessa Pompei is an assistant the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. Cell Biology, and Development, and activities that disturb this intricate education specialist in biology in the from Carnegie-Mellon University. She is Stem Cell Institute. He is interested relationship often lead to disease, College of Biological Sciences. She has passionate about student success and in understanding how stem cells ecological disturbance, or the evolution of a bachelor’s degree in zoology and a undergraduate education and is also or progenitor cells contribute to dangerous pathogens. This sseminar will master’s degree in conservation biology. an avid scuba diver. development and regeneration of the explore this hidden world of microbes by She is interested in scientific literacy animal body. examining “microbiomes,” defined as all and teaching biology to non-scientists, of the microbes, their genetic elements as well as teaching biology majors. (genomes), and their interactions in a particular environment. We will examine a variety of habitats/hosts ranging from soil to the human gut.

Kathryn Bushley has a Ph.D. in molecular plant pathology and mycology from Cornell University and has taught courses in introductory biology, microbiology, and mycology. While her first passion is fungi, she is fascinated by all types of microbes. Her research is focused on secondary metabolites produced by fungi and their roles in regulating symbiotic and pathogenic interactions with plants, animals, and insects.

18 University of Minnesota Genome From Ebola to Ways of Knowing DNA H1N1: Emerging and Science David Matthes; Genetics, Human Viruses Michael Bowser Cell Biology, and Craig Hassel, Food Fall 2014 Development Science and Nutrition Sue Wick, Plant Biology CHEM 1905, Section 001 Karl Lorenz, CFANS Fall 2014 2 credits Fall 2014 Student Services BIOL 1905, Section 013 Wednesday, 2:30 - 4:10 p.m. BIOL 1905, Section 014 2 credits Smith Hall 111 1 credit Fall 2014 Monday, 1:55 – 3:50 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis Thursday, 3:35 – 4:50 p.m. CFAN 1902, Section 001 Ruttan Hall 143 21030 Science Teaching and Student Services LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the Saint Paul Building 131A United States 26022 DNA is found in every known living East Bank, Minneapolis 3 credits organism, yet is the very molecule 26023 Thursday, 3:00 – 5:30 p.m. In this seminar, we will explore the Peters Hall 145 responsible for the incredible diversity nature of the human genome at an found in life. Considering the central In this seminar we will examine aspects Saint Paul introductory level, discovering how role DNA plays in biology, its impact of human culture, human behavior, world 20787 our chromosomes are organized, on science, industry, and society is not population, and the environment that what genes look like, and how the surprising. What may be surprising is that relate to the emergence of infectious Every human society has developed instructions therein give rise to a it is only in the past several decades that and sometimes deadly viral diseases. its own knowledge of food and health human being. We will use Matt Ridley’s technological advances have allowed Our emphasis will not be so much on relationships, but until very recently, Genome: The Autobiography of a us to begin to fully realize the potential diagnosis and treatment of the deadly researchers at large universities have Species in 23 Chapters as a guide. An of genomics research. As with many diseases that these viruses cause, but paid little attention to this knowledge. essential second text for this course is advances in science, this quickly growing rather on social and environmental Most scientists do not accept your own genome sequence. While it field has raised a number of social and changes that have contributed to the indigenous, ancestral, or ancient is not yet inexpensive enough for each ethical challenges. This seminar will emergence of these viruses in human knowledge systems as valid. When of us to get the full sequence of all examine a range of DNA-related topics populations, often from a natural such knowledge is considered, it is six billion nucleotides of our genome, considering scientific, historical, social, reservoir in wild or domesticated studied through the lens of “science” to students will be expected to order (for and ethical perspectives. Topics will animals. Students will have the determine its legitimacy. Diverse food about the price of a textbook) their include the discovery of DNA, DNA in opportunity in groups to examine one of practices and understandings may be “personal genome service” from the forensics, technology of DNA sequencing, several viral diseases, explore possible acknowledged as cultural artifacts, genomics company 23andme by July genetically modified foods, and personal solutions to solve problems caused but are seldom seen by scientists 15. It is important that you read the genomic testing. by viral outbreaks, and present their as legitimate on their own merit. We terms of service and privacy statement findings and recommendations to the will attempt to take a more culturally at 23andme before registering for Michael Bowser has been a member class. competent “inside look” at diverse ways this seminar, as you need to consider of knowing. We will explore indigenous of the Chemistry faculty at the University carefully the possible effects of of Minnesota since 2000. He has taught Sue Wick has taught introductory knowledges, Ayurveda, Chinese gaining such personal information graduate and undergraduate courses, biology courses at the University of Medicine, Western/biomedical, and about yourself. By the end of this including those related to analytical Minnesota for more than 25 years. Her African American perspectives. Each of seminar, you will have a deeper insight chemistry and biotechnology. His research is in the areas of plant cell these “ways of knowing” is grounded into your ancestry, physical traits, research interests include discovery of biology and plant development. She in distinct and divergent ancestral and predispositions, and genetic risk for functional DNA molecules, neurochemical enjoys promoting learning in class by cultural orientations. disease. You will also have explored the analysis and microfluidics. guiding students to identify topics of scientific, medical, ethical, and societal interest to them and helping them to Craig Hassel works on food and issues that we face as we enter the delve into these topics from various health issues in partnership with era where access to individual genome angles. She is intrigued by and terrified communities who bring knowledge that sequences becomes commonplace. of the kinds of viruses we will study in is incongruent with western/scientific this seminar! perspectives. David Matthes has been a professor for the last 18 years, focusing his Karl Lorenz leads the work of the research on the semaphorin protein Diversity Catalyst Team and is family and cell migration in the immune responsible for implementing college- system, exploring the scholarship of wide diversity initiatives. teaching and learning, and teaching courses in genetics, cell biology, and bioinformatics.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 19 Science in the The End of the How Do Chemists Chicana/o- News World as We Study Biology? Latina/o: History, Know It Culture and George Barany, Chemistry Mark Distefano, Identity Chemistry Christy Haynes, Fall 2014 Chemistry CHEM 1905, Section 002 CHEM 1905, Section 004 Edén Torres, Chicano- 3 credits Latino Studies 2 credits CHEM 1905, Section 003 Tuesday, 1:25 - 4:10 p.m. Friday, 2:30 - 4:10 p.m. 2 credits Smith Hall 111 Fall 2014 Smith Hall 111 Thursday, 1:25 – 3:05 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis CHIC 1902, Section 001 East Bank, Minneapolis Smith Hall 111 21033 LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the 21031 East Bank, Minneapolis United States 21032 This eclectic seminar offers In this seminar, we will do three 3 credits things. First, we will read and discuss TuTh, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. freewheeling discussions and analysis Dystopian literature focuses on the book The Billion Dollar Molecule Nicholson Hall 355 about modern scientific developments controlled or repressed projections that describes how a pharmaceutical East Bank, Minneapolis and historical contexts, with the point of society, often enabled by either company was started based on new 26661 of departure being the “Science Times” technological development or research developments. In reading the section of The New York Times, which is catastrophe. In this seminar, we will book, you will learn about all of the published every Tuesday. read several dystopian novels and It might be argued that everyone in types of people who contributed to delve into the scientific concepts today’s world struggles to understand getting the company off the ground. George Barany is a Distinguished introduced, debate social implications, and articulate multiple cultrual Second, I will assign articles for McKnight University Professor who has and reflect on the works in both written identities. For Chicana/o and Latina/o students to present in class that cover been on the Chemistry faculty of the and oral forms. people whose ethnicity or race University of Minnesota since 1980. recent discoveries at the interface of separates them from the dominant chemistry and biology. Students will Previously, he was mentored at The Christy Haynes has been a member of culture, identities must be formed have an opportunity to select the topics Rockefeller University by Nobel laureate the Chemistry faculty at the University without adequate representation in they present as well. Finally, we will visit R.B Merrifield. Barany has well over of Minnesota since 2005. She earned popular culture. Instead, we must look my research lab each week and follow 350 scientific papers, reviews, and her Ph.D. at Northwestern University past mainstream depictions and into several projects as they progress over patents on his research in organic and was a NIH postdoctoral fellow history, home cultures, and languages, the semester. Students will have an chemistry and chemical biology, and at the University of North Carolina, and ethnic literature and film, in opportunity to perform some simple has also published several New York Chapel Hill before coming to UMN. Her order to understand, express and/ experiments along the way. Times crossword puzzles. research interests include single cell or construct an affirmative vision of measurements relevant in immunology what it means to be a Chicana/o or Mark Distefano is currently and toxicology as well as biomaterials Latina/o in a contemporary culture. Distinguished McKnight Professor of development. Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry at Edén Torres is a Mexican American who the University of Minnesota. He was makes her home in two places: the born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew Rio Grande Valley of south Texas and up in California and Paris, France and Minnesota. Before going to college she received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts thought she knew what it meant to be Institute of Technology in 1989. He Mexican/American, and how she fit (or teaches courses in organic chemistry didn’t fit) into the history and culture of and chemical biology, and his the United States. That understanding research interests focus on the use of was challenged, solidified, broadened, organic chemistry to study important and changed as she began to explore problems in biology and biotechnology. the meaning of “Chicana” and “Latina” Currently, his laboratory is focused through the eyes of writers, historians, on understanding protein lipid artists, activists, filmmakers, and modification for applications in cancer theorists. She’s discovered that the therapy and protein-based drugs. definition of who she is in terms of ethnicity, race, and class is often socially constructed and an every- shifting, politically-charged process.

20 University of Minnesota Media, Music, and Stories, Bodies, Living or Dead: The The Human as Movement in Pop Border-crossings Performance of Writer: Trace, Culture Things Memory, Self Rachmi Diyah Larasati, Catherine Squires, Theatre Arts and Dance Jani Scandura, English Andy Gallia, MJ Maynes, Communication Studies Richa Nagar; Gender, Margaret Werry, Theatre and Tom Wolfe; History Cindy Garcia, Theatre Women, and Sexuality Arts and Dance Matt Carlson, Arts and Dance Studies Anthropology Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 CLA 1905, Section 002 Fall 2014 CLA 1902, Section 002 CLA 1904, Section 001 3 credits CLA 1905, Section 003 LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the LE: Global Perspectives Monday, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. 3 credits United States 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis MW, 12:20 – 1:10 p.m. 3 credits Thursday, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. West Bank, Minneapolis MW, 1:25 – 2:40 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis We live in a world of things. This Tate Lab of Physics 236A 35467 seminar explores the life and death This seminar will examine the power East Bank, Minneapolis of everyday stuff, the contexts that of writing in different cultural contexts 35452 This seminar explores narrative, animate, transform, and display things and historical eras. In particular, we will dance, and performance as imagined, – or kill them off. What happens when study the place of writing in helping This seminar will explore the race/ practiced, and transformed by people we don’t take things for granted or human beings to define, explore, and class/gender/sexuality controversies who cross borders in multiple sites when we ask questions of them? What understand themselves and their and breakthroughs in pop music and of struggle. We will engage with the histories do they tell? How do they societies. We will take up a number of performance in the Americas. We concepts of “mobility” and “political speak or feel? What do things want? topics and themes: the history of writing will cover recent controversial, cross- economy of culture” in relation to the Through examinations of a range of technologies, the relationship between cultural appropriations of music and idea of “the margins” as applied to literary texts, films, art, design, museum writing and memory, the concepts of performance practices associated with and/or claimed by minority groups, displays, advertising and objects literacy and illiteracy, the role of writing marginalized groups. For example, we activists, and others. In exploring these themselves, we will consider the ways in the constitution and conduct of will provide students with case studies, intersections, twe will discuss migration that things have been produced, personal, political, social, and cultural such as Miley Cyrus’ performance of and dis-location as sociopolitical, understood and arranged: as relics or power, and the place of writing in twerking, a dance form associated with economic, and spatial phenomena, icons, exemplars or anomalies, as part contemporary culture. Among the traces working class black women in New particularly in relation to struggles of of series or typologies, collections or we will explore are personal narratives Orleans, through a mix of scholarly land and water, labor and livelihood, hoards, as object lessons, freaks or – especially letters, autobiographies, and popular texts. After completing asylum/refugees, and terrorism/ fetishes. We will pay particular attention and diaries – as self-constructions readings and viewings of these texts, security. We will examine the nature of to the worlds of toys, clothes, props, of subjectivity and personhood. Not students will engage in discussions so-called ethnic (immigrant) practices prosthetics, wax models, and relics, only will we examine writing in history and performance exercises to explore and diaspora, as well as the binary and to the multiple ways that they are and culture, we will engage with the controversy and related material of rural/urban in the context of the put on display. If, as we will see, these writing via a number of exploratory via embodied, creative forms, such as narrative and transmission, internal modes of display train audiences exercises that will encourage us to ask dance or video production. Through the and external cultural exchange, political in fundamentally different ways to questions about the complicated knot case studies and production of original resistance, and “multiculturalism.” understand the world, then how do of interconnections between the self, performances, students in this seminar things train us? narration, story, and text. will explore the multifaceted, often- Richa Nagar grew up in Lucknow, contentious claims regarding culture, India. After moving to Minnesota to Jani Scandura teaches courses on M.J. Maynes is interested in history as authenticity, power and identities that begin graduate study 25 years ago, she modern North American and European seen through personal narrative. She punctuate cross-cultural borrowing. became interested in identifying how literature and culture; visual and mass specializes in modern European social everyday stories can be brought into culture; cultural theories of modernity and cultural history. Andrew Gallia is an Cindy Garcia and Catherine Squires conversation with traditional academic and matter. Margaret Werry teaches historian of the Ancient World, focusing joined the University of Minnesota work so that academia, activism, and courses on anthropological approaches on Roman culture and politics. He is faculty in 2007. Dr. Garcia’s work in art better inform knowledge-making. to performance, cultural policy, and the interested in the way cultures connect to ethnography, dance, and identities and performance of ethnicity, nationalism, the past, particularly the role of writing Dr. Squires’ work on media, politics, Rachmi Diyah Larasati grew up in and trans-nationalism, cultural politics in that process of recollection. Thomas and identity provide them with lots to East Java, Indonesia, raised by a of tourism, particularly in the Asia- Wolfe is an historian and anthropologist talk about. Dr. Garcia’s first book, Salsa grandmother who taught her how Pacific region, critical pedagogy, critical of communication, who focuses on Crossings, was recently published to dance. Dancer, migrant, and race theory, and museum studies. the intersection between politics, by Duke University Press. Dr. Squires’ author of The Dance that Makes You technology, and communications in latest book, The Post-racial Mystique, Vanish, Larasati brings a passion for the 20th century. Matthew Carlson is was published by New York University knowledge-making through theorizing a graduate student in the Department Press in March 2014. the act of crossing “borders.” of Anthropology and the College of Education and Human Development.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 21 Nature and Society in the Anthropocene Homer’s Odyssey Silencing the Gods: and Early Greek Divine and Human Kate Derickson; Geography, Environment and Society Society in the Hebrew Charlotte Melin and Kiley Kost; German, Scandinavian, Bible and Dutch S. Douglas Olson, Classical and Near Eastern Fall 2014 and humanities perspectives, this Bernard Levinson, Studies CLA 1908W, Section 001 seminar explores the relationship Classical and Near Eastern LE: Civic Life and Ethics, Writing between nature and the society Studies Intensive that has produced such profound Fall 2014 CNES 1903, Section 001 3 credits environmental transformation. Most Fall 2014 LE: Civic Life and Ethics MW, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. importantly, we will consider how to CNES 1905, Section 001 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis rework that relationship in the future. 3 credits MW, 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. 35724 TuTh, 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Folwell Hall 104 Kate Derickson is an assistant Rapson Hall 15 East Bank, Minneapolis For those of us who spend winters professor in the department of East Bank, Minneapolis 35036 in Minnesota, the specter of global Geography, Environment, and Society. 25703 warming seems remote (if not She has worked with a range of Homer’s Odyssey is the story of a desirable). Evidence about climate historically marginalized communities This seminar attempts to “get behind” man who returns from war to find a change and environmental degradation seeking to shape their environment. the overlay imposed by modern culture world much different from the one he more broadly can be difficult to Kiley Kost is a graduate student in upon the Old Testament/Hebrew left ten years earlier—and one that interpret from an everyday perspective, German, Scandinavian and Dutch. Her Bible and to read it on its own terms. seems to have no place for him. On especially when the public gets time spent in the green city of Freiburg, In order to do so, we will explore the his way home, he lies to some, robs information through an increasingly Germany and hiking the mountains fascinating literature and religion of and murders others and—arguably wide range of competing sources. Yet of Austria has influenced her studies the ancient Near East by reading texts through his own negligence—loses while environmental change on a global on literature and the environment. from ancient Mesopotamia, Canaan, all his men. Once back on his native scale can feel remote and difficult to Charlotte Melin, a professor in the and Israel, and discussing the ideas island of Ithaca, he re-establishes his understand, the human transformation Department of German, Scandinavian found in them and their literary artistry. authority as local strong-man through a of the environment is so profound and Dutch, specializes in foreign After investigating the literature of mass killing of rivals. He is nonetheless that it is the defining feature of a new language education policy, postwar Israel’s neighbors, we will read biblical emphatically a “hero” and the moral geological era: the Anthropocene. literature, and environmental literature in dialogue with these stories, and political center of the story: what Through a blend of the social sciences humanities. intellectually analyzing the narratives Odysseus does is (in the storyteller’s of the creation of the world, the origin eyes, and those of most readers ever of life, the great flood story, the idea of since) right and just. This seminar will divine revelation, and the significance use a close reading of the Odyssey, of law. Specific topics to be dealt and a selection of modern reactions with include: God, creation, fate, the to it, to ask what sort of political and point of human life, and the meaning social world the poem imagines; how of history. it formulates and discusses power and justice; and how it encourages its Imagine climbing up to an unmarked audience to accept judgments about cave in the desert where some of the human behavior and “what is right” that most famous of the 2000-year old it may upon reflection find horrifying. Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. Bernard Levinson, just back from Israel Ever since he was a boy growing up in where he led an international team of small-town Illinois, S. Douglas Olson scholars at a famous research institute, has been interested in the world’s did just that. He has taught at the oldest books and the languages in University of Minnesota for the past which they are written. Most of his sixteen years. One of his students won research as a Distinguished McKnight the most prestigious undergraduate University Professor involves ancient scholarship in the country, the Rhodes manuscripts and lost Greek plays and Scholarship. Come study with a poems. He still believes that Homer’s professor who will challenge you Odyssey is among the richest and intellectually and help you learn how to most exciting stories ever told. Don’t become a better student. worry if you’ve read the book before; it’s going to be different this time.

22 University of Minnesota Communicating the Holocaust Social and International and Evolutionary Bases Cross-cultural Alan Gross, Communication Studies of Interpersonal Studies of Fall 2014 tormentors speak candidly about their Communication Childhood COMM 1905, Section 001 experiences. These riveting accounts 3 credits are not about unnamed millions, but Ascan Koerner, Michael Maratsos, Child TuTh, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. about the temptations and tragedies of Communication Studies Development Ford Hall 155 real people, victims and perpetrators East Bank, Minneapolis who were as Nietzsche says, human, all Fall 2014 Fall 2014 33966 too human. COMM 1905, Section 002 CPSY 1904, Section 001 3 credits LE: Global Perspectives Schindler’s List turns the Holocaust Alan Gross studies the ways in which MWF, 9:05 a.m. – 9:55 a.m. 3 credits into Hollywood. But the Holocaust pictures persuade. He is especially Ford Hall B60 Tuesday, 10:10 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. was nothing like that. Rather, it was interested in the way war and terrorism East Bank, Minneapolis Lind Hall 216 a double tragedy: for the German are depicted and teaches courses 34058 East Bank, Minneapolis people and the Jews of Europe. The in both subjects. His interest in the 19423 first descended from the heights of Holocaust was piqued after he saw What accounts for the way we culture to the despicable barbarism of Schindler’s List. He was so angry at communicate? Is it because of our In this seminar, students will be which the second were the victims. In the film, he engaged in a public and upbringing and how we are culturally introduced to a variety of experiences this seminar, in such films as Shoah, private exchange of letters with its socialized (nurture), or because of that comprise human childhood and memoirs like Survival in Auschwitz, defenders and wrote and published a social instincts shaped by evolution across a wide variety of geographical, you will hear these victims speak in long review of Holocaust literature. For (nature)? This fundamental question of economic, and cultural circumstances. their own voices. In such films as The the second time in his life, he was the human behavior has fueled academic Students will learn about the Wannsee Conference and such books recipient of hate mail. and societal controversy for much of basic course of childhood and the as Ordinary Men, you will hear their our history. We will explore both views development into adult roles in human and weigh evidence in support of each. societies ranging from modern states We will also consider the possibility through technologically primitive that both are right and that nature and cultures. This seminar seeks to develop nurture are complementary influences, an appreciation of the variety of human rather than mutually exclusive. In the childhoods, and how the changes that process, we will learn what it means humans themselves make can affect to be human in relationship to other this at both familial and societal levels. humans – including how to be better At a broader level, this seminar seeks to communicators in our own relationships. help students examine what it means to develop as a human being, and the Ascan Koerner went to college ethical issues humans face in guiding to become a journalist, but soon children’s development. realized that the most interesting and important communication takes Michael Maratsos’ interests include place in interpersonal relationships. problems in the broader history and As an international student and ardent theory of childhood. In particular, he traveler, he also learned that much is interested in the general analysis of of what we think is natural behavior how economic, technological, and other is actually determined by culture. Yet, societal conditions affect the practices much of what we think is unique to our and personalities of children and adults, culture is actually universal. Exploring and the general nature of childhood. the tension between natural social instincts and cultural influences on how we communicate and relate to others is what motivates his teaching and scholarship.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 23 Punk, Hip-Hop, and American Fiction Tackling the World’s Biggest Problems: Salsa into Film Designing Solutions with Impact

Michael Gallope, Cultural Hisham Bizri, Cultural Julian Marshall, Civil Engineering Studies and Comparative Studies and Comparative Literature Literature Fall 2014 clean water, and computer security CSE 1905, Section 003 via their connection to our everyday Fall 2014 Fall 2014 1 credit experiences. CSCL 1905, Section 001 CSCL 1905, Section 002 Thursday, 2:30 – 3:45 a.m. 3 credits 3 credits Science Teaching and Student Services During the second half of the semester, MW, 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Thursday, 2:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Building 420B teams will work with other first-year Nicholson Hall 355 East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis students from the Carlson School of East Bank, Minneapolis 34450 15611 Management to identify a problem and 34449 propose a solution. Via a competition, American fiction has long been This seminar is about solving big teams will seek up to $1,000 in This seminar will explore the adapted into film for various reasons, problems, learning by doing, and funding to implement their idea. relationship between music and culture including the desires to bring fiction identifying actions to find out whether through a study of New York City in to the masses, to elevate the appeal a solution will work. During the first Julian Marshall is an Associate the 1970’s, a famously grim period of cinema and to shed new insights half of the semester, student teams Professor of Environmental Engineering in the city’s history. The subways were into society through the use of the will learn about and practice “design in the Civil Engineering department. dysfunctional, unsafe, and covered in film medium. These social, industrial, thinking,” a framework for identifying His teaching and research are in air graffiti, unemployment and crime were and intellectual needs have shaped problems and potential solutions, pollution and public health. Via the at an all-time high, police corruption much of the debate concerning film listening to others, brainstorming, and Acara program, he teaches social was rampant, and some of the city’s adaptation. Some of the questions rapid prototyping. Those approaches entrepreneurship in India and at the most vulnerable populations had that we will ask include: Do we get are lifelong skills, applicable to many University of Minnesota. His passion is taken up residence in filthy abandoned different meaning from films that we types of problems. The class aims to helping students launch social ventures buildings. Amid these ashes of urban do from novels? Do different means of focus on problems that matter: “grand to address global grand challenges. decay, three remarkable genres of expression therefore express different challenges” such as climate change, music arose, all of which would soon things, or do film and literature spread across the globe: punk rock express an ideal form (Plato) that (largely from middle-class white kids transcends materiality? How does film in the Lower East Side), hip-hop (from embody the thought and feeling of African-Americans at block parties the “concretized form” of the novel? in the South Bronx) and salsa music We will analyze novels, screenplays, (from Puerto Ricans and other Latino and films, and we will write two short groups across New York). We will scripts adapted from American fiction. discuss how these three genres were central to parties, spectacles, and Hisham Bizri is a film director, writer, public celebrations, how they helped and producer, born in Beirut, Lebanon. consolidate a sense of collective He has directed 24 short films which identity for cultural groups while have been shown at the Sundance, also serving as vehicles of critical Cannes, Abu Dhabi, Berlin, Beirut, and resistance, and how they were linked Moscow International Film Festivals, with practices in other media – visual as well as at MoMa, Centre Pompidou, art, dance, poetry, and film. Reina Sofia, and the Louvre museums. He is Professor of Cinema and Michael Gallope worked as a musician Filmmaking in the Department of for several years while attending Cultural Studies and Comparative graduate school in New York City. Literature. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and teaches humanities courses that integrate a variety of different media: music and sound, philosophy, visual art, film, literature, and cultural history.

24 University of Minnesota Homelessness: My Twin Cities: Urban Design and Building Vision What it is and Why Public Space We Should Care Monica Fogg, Graphic Paul Bauknight; Design, Housing, and Apparel Design underpinnings begin with William H. Marilyn Bruin, Housing Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Whyte’s work on observing public Studies DES 1905, Section 002 DES 1905, Section 003 spaces, and connects with the current 2 credits 3 credits Fall 2014 work of Jan Gael and Paco Underhill on Thursday, 1:25 – 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, 2:30 – 5:15 p.m. DES 1905, Section 001 the use and design of public spaces. Rapson Hall 109 Rapson Hall 109 2 credits It addresses history, urban design, East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis Monday, 3:35 – 5:30 p.m. architecture, culture and cultures, 35323 35324 Rapson Hall 109 public transit and more. East Bank, Minneapolis A significant element in a new student’s The desire to succeed and do well 35322 Paul Bauknight is President and university experience is the experience can sometimes circumvent one’s CEO of a minority-owned urban of a new city or metropolitan area. willingness to embrace challenge in The seminar provides opportunities for development, planning, and Similarly, designers understand the order to safely achieve an outcome students to explore the complex causes architectural firm. He specializes in challenges and opportunities of (not fail). This seminar aims to and consequences of homelessness. the development of urban community design first through their own personal break down barriers and fears while In this seminar, the focus is on families based projects. His work includes experiences. This seminar will use developing processes toward new and youth experiencing homelessness. the design of the Minneapolis Urban exploration of the metropolitan ways of seeing. It builds and expands Through readings, engagement, League Headquarters in North area to introduce ideas of design, connections to a larger world of discussion, and written reflections Minneapolis, Plymouth Christian Youth planning, and community. Students ideas and disciplines. Through weekly students will understand and develop Center in North Minneapolis, Lucey will undertake a series of investigations exercises in visual story-telling, empathy for children, youth, and Laney School in North Minneapolis, as to how public and urban space participants will sharpen their ability parents experiencing the continuum Seed Academy, and Heritage Park in is used. As all students have ready, to see (the real world as well as the of homelessness from street life, North Minneapolis. He has been a inexpensive access to a monthly bus imagined). Projects are constructed temporary shelters, and transitional community activist on the Minneapolis pass, this gives them access all over to challenge perceived personal and supportive housing. By critically north side for 20 years. the Twin Cities area. The theoretical limitations in ideation and process examining research literature, collecting and to build a way of communicating and analyzing interview data from in a visual manner. This seminar is for homeless youth and housing providers, individuals interested in expanding and site visits, students will develop personal ways of seeing, thinking, and evaluate their own innovative and doing, individuals interested in proposals to solve homelessness. If developing a personal process in the approved, the course will be submitted evolution of ideas. for designation as a service-learning course. Monica Fogg is an artist (watercolor, encaustic, acrylic, woodcut, and Marilyn Bruin is a faculty member in lithography) and designer/fabricator. Housing Studies in the department She has taught courses in watercolor, of Design, Housing, and Apparel. Her drawing, painting, color theory, design, areas of expertise include affordable visual presentation, and art history. Her housing, housing policy, low-income work is in collections throughout the neighborhoods, residential satisfaction, United States. and family housing decisions.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 25 Printing for Strategic Thinking Novellas and Memoir and Designers and Social Graphic Works History: “On the Interaction Day that I was James Boyd Brent; Design, Maria Fitzgerald, English Born” Housing, and Apparel Itai Sher, Economics Fall 2014 Shirley Garner, English Fall 2014 Fall 2014 ENGL 1904, Section 001 DES 1910W, Section 001 LE: Global Perspectives ECON 1905, Section 001 Fall 2014 2 credits 3 credits 3 credits ENGL 1905, Section 001 Thursday, 11:45 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Monday, 4:40 - 7:40 p.m. MW, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. 3 credits McNeal Hall B9 Lind Hall 302 Blegen Hall 105 TuTh, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. McNeal Hall B22 East Bank, Minneapolis West Bank, Minneapolis Lind Hall 302 Saint Paul 26469 East Bank, Minneapolis 19157 Although this is a freshman seminar 25563 Game Theory is a field of economics in the English Department, the focus In this freshman seminar we will look is more on comparative literature than that studies strategic interaction. This Focusing on autobiography and at how designers print, and why they on English Literature: we will read, may be important in any situation memoir, this seminar offers students might choose one particular method talk, and write about short works of where a group of people interact and the opportunity to explore their identity of printing rather than another, and fiction from South America, Africa, and the decisions made by each person and place. It asks them to set their what the effect of this choice on their Europe and the Middle East as well as depend on the decisions made by memories and impressions against creativity might be. The how component the United Kingdom and the United others. Game Theory is relevant in many the history of their time and place will be addressed mainly by actually States. Some of the work, especially situations including nuclear deterrence and, by so doing, to enhance their making prints in the creative production the graphic work, will be recent, but and warfare, the theory of auctions, understanding of both. The works part of the course; the why component we will also read novellas that were the analysis of different voting systems, that we read will treat in various will be addressed mainly by researching written more than 100 years ago, and political campaigns, competition ways the experience of “growing up,” aspects of printing—and this part explore some of the connections in among firms, and the formation of the relationship between history will also include writing. The creative time between very different authors, social networks. Game Theory is also a and memory, and the meaning of production part of the course will center and some of the differences between useful tool for studying concepts that place—within a family, town or city, or on hands-on screenprinting in the countries and times. are relevant to many social interactions as otherwise understood and defined. Surface Design Studio in McNeal Hall, such as reputation, threats, promises, We consider the lives of recognized and will also include monoprinting, Maria Fitzgerald was born in New York, cooperation, coordination, and memoir writers and their understanding letterpress printing, relief printing, and raised in Italy, educated in the United incentives. This seminar will provide of the ways history and culture shape digital printing. A variety of printing Kingdom, and moved permanently to an informal introduction to the basic their lives and, in turn, the way their surfaces will be used, including paper the United States when she took up concepts of Game Theory, which does lives make an imprint on those around and fabric. The research component will the appointment at the University of not require any advanced mathematics. them. This seminar prepares students focus on how designers reproduce ideas Minnesota. Her son, Robert, is from Readings and discussions will focus on to write a culminating essay in which in print, and will include looking at how Vietnam, and her partner Brian is from the many areas in which these notions they look at the beginning of their lives contemporary printing technologies are Wisconsin. She considers herself a true apply. from a local perspective as well as a changing, and the effect these changes a global citizen. broader one. are having on creative production in the Itai Sher came to the University of design world, and will also include a Minnesota in 2007 because he was Shirley Garner was born in Waxahachie, brief overview of the history of printing. drawn by the U’s “…seriousness Texas, a small town, Southern in about and enthusiasm for economic atmosphere. She spent her young life James Boyd Brent is a practicing research.” He received his Ph.D. from in Amarillo, Texas, popularly recognized printmaker who has received multiple Northwestern University and his B.A. as part of the “Wild West.” The child awards for his work, including the from Reed College, and specializes in of a working, single parent, she spent McFarland Outstanding Teaching Award microeconomic theory. a great deal of time alone—mainly in the College of Design. In addition to reading. In literature, she discovered graphic design and surface design, he a “world more attractive.” Her love of has taught freshman seminars for more literature took her to the University of than ten years. Texas at Austin, Stanford University graduate school, and finally to the University of Minnesota. Shakespeare and contemporary writers are the mainstay of her current intellectual life.

26 University of Minnesota Chess and 21st Geology of Geology and Waves Impacting Century Skills Minnesota Civilization Coastlines

William Bart, Educational Harvey Thorleifson, Earth Donna Whitney, Earth David Yuen, Earth Psychology Sciences Sciences Sciences

Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Fall 2014 EPSY 1905, Section 001 ESCI 1901, Section 001 ESCI 1901, Section 002 ESCI 1905, Section 001 3 credits LE: Environment LE: Enivronment 2 credits Monday, 11:30 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. 1 credit 3 credits Wednesday, 1:25 – 3:20 p.m. Peik Hall 325 Wednesday, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Monday, 10:10 – 11:50 a.m. Pillsbury Hall 209 East Bank, Minneapolis Rapson Hall 15 Pillsbury Hall 121 East Bank, Minneapolis 18566 East Bank, Minneapolis Friday, 10:10 – 11:00 a.m. 31595 17749 Pillsbury Hall 121 In this seminar, we will examine the East Bank, Minneapolis This seminar will be concerned with basic components of chess, computer- Understanding interactions between 35003 waves developed in the ocean by based chess, how chess players think the Minnesota environment, natural a variety of causes. We will focus (including visual-spatial thinking and resources, ecosystems, and human In this seminar, we discuss the especially on tsunami waves generated critical thinking), the psychology of activity requires a grasp of the structure interaction and interdependency of by large earthquakes, landslides, critical thinking and other twenty-first and history of our landscape, from the humans and the physical environment: volcanic eruptions, and meteoritic century reasoning skills, and research Mississippi River basin to the Red River past, present, and future. For example, impacts. We will also discuss other on chess cognition. Valley and the Lake Superior basin. we consider how climate change, related phenomena, such as tidal Underlying and shaping this landscape earthquakes, volcanoes, and floods bores, breakers, surges, and waves William Bart has published research are ancient rocks in the north and affect human civilizations, and the excited by winds and hurricanes. on the psychology of chess. He has in the deep subsurface, younger mechanisms and consequences of We will use case studies taken from received the Distinguished Teaching limestone and sandstone in the human attempts to “control nature.” We historical events Award from the College of Education south, and the deposits of the Ice Age also discuss mineral, energy, soil, and and Human Development. He is also that our soils have formed in. These water resources; including how early David Yuen is a geophysicist with long a fellow of the American Educational deposits host our principal drinking humans and ancient civilizations used experience in numerical simulations Research Association and a fellow water sources, so we must understand materials, how we use materials today and theoretical studies of the Earth. He of the Association for Psychological them in order to protect and wisely use (example topics: conflict minerals, has been working on tsunami waves Science. our water. Reading assignments will be resource geopolitics), and how humans since 2004 and has written a dozen papers, brochures, and web content. have found, used, and modified papers on this subject matter. He is The first full-day field trip will examine sources of fresh water through time. organizing an international conference the water resources of our rivers and on waves impacting the coastline for lakes, and a second full-day field trip Donna Whitney studies how mountains fall 2014. will examine how geology controls our are formed and destroyed at tectonic well water supply. plate boundaries. Her current field sites are in Turkey, Norway, France, and Harvey Thorleifson is a Minnesota state western North America. geologist. He has previously carried out research on gold, diamonds, offshore mapping, climate change, shoreline erosion, and water supply across much of Canada.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 27 Camus and Sartre: Antioxidants: How Understanding The Ten Plants Exploring a French Do They Protect Climate Change That Changed Legend Your Food and Minnesota: Your Body? Kurt Kipfmueller; Growing Solutions Bruno Chaouat, French Geography, Environment, and Society to How the World and Italian Studies A. Saari Csallany, Food Lives Today Science and Nutrition Fall 2014 Fall 2014 GEOG 1901, Section 001 FREN 1908W, Section 001 Fall 2014 Mary Meyer, Horticultural LE: Environment LE: Civic Life and Ethics, Writing FSCN 1905, Section 001 Science 3 credits Intensive 2 credits Wednesday 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. 3 credits Tuesday, 1:55 – 3:10 p.m. Fall 2014 Blegen Hall 130 TuTh, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Saint Paul HORT 1901, Section 001 East Bank, Minneapolis West Bank, Minneapolis LE: Environment 35027 34399 This seminar will review how changes 3 credits take place in food and biological Thursday, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Climate change is one of the world’s Camus and Sartre are two writers and systems in the absence and presence Alderman Hall 310 most pressing problems. Human- thinkers at the crossroads of French of antioxidants. We will concentrate Saint Paul induced increases in greenhouse gases modernity. Their names resonate with on what antioxidants are, how they 24267 are widely thought to be responsible for political causes: resistance against act, and how they protect food from increasing atmospheric temperatures Nazi Germany, anti-fascism, and deterioration and the body from This seminar will focus on the impact with cascading effects on quality of life, anti-colonial struggle. Their names deteriorative changes. of the ten plants that have made also resonate with the philosophical water scarcity, biodiversity, and rising the most difference in Minnesota, sea levels. This seminar explores the movement known as “existentialism.” In A. Saari Csallany has a long history including plants that changed history, science behind climate change and this seminar, students will explore the in the research related to the function the economy, culture, health, food, uses the topic as a vehicle to introduce works of these legendary figures of the of antioxidants, both in food and arts, and the environment. Educational college freshmen to critical thinking French intellectual landscape through in biological systems. Her research information about the ten plants will be and writing. Of particular importance all the genres of writing that they focuses include food chemistry; free presented by a variety of lectures and is the development of critical thinking have mastered: philosophy, polemics, radical induced oxidative degradation activities, engaging faculty from applied skills needed to weigh the complex theater, and prose. Students will also of fatty acids, edible oils, and other economics, history, horticulture, arguments of a complex and crucial understand what made them at times lipids; isolation and identification of agronomy, and literature. We will topic often carried out in the twenty-four so close and what separated them, degradation products with special examine how plants have changed our hour news cycle, blogosphere, or on especially through their approach to reference to toxic compounds; and state and shaped Minnesota into what social media. The recent release of the the question of violence, ethics, and protective effects of antioxidants in it is today. The seminar will take place Intergovernmental Panel on Climate politics. Sartre’s and Camus’s work and lipid peroxidation and degradation. at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum lives spread over the Second World War, Change 5th Assessment Report (AR%) in Chanhassen. Students will be the Algerian War, and part of the Cold offers an excellent starting point to provided with weekly transportation War. Thus the seminar will engage with discuss the important, yet sometimes from the Saint Paul and Minneapolis issues of Nazism and totalitarianism misunderstood, issue of climate change campuses to the Arboretum. and responses to those two ideologies, and its potential societal impacts. Educational information about the ten as well as with the debates surrounding plants will be presented by a variety of the end of the French colonial empire. Kurt Kipfmueller is a broadly-trained lectures and activities, some involving geographer with interests in the guest lectures. Students will be Bruno Chaouat is a professor of French natural environment and wilderness engaged in thinking about how plants and Jewish Studies. The author of landscapes. His research focuses on have changed our state and shaped two books, three edited volumes and the relationship between climate and Minnesota to what it is today. numerous articles on French literature, the biosphere, particularly with respect intellectual history, Jews in modern to forest fires and forest ecology. Kurt’s Mary Meyer is responsible for the France and the theory of anti-Semitism, research focuses on reconstructing development and coordination of he is currently teaching a seminar on past environments (including climate) statewide multi-media educational the question of evil in French literature, using the information contained in tree programs in environmental and and working on a book-length rings. His interest in climate change consumer horticulture, including manuscript on French responses to the first emerged upon recognizing his sustainable home landscapes. Her new anti-Semitism. outdoor hockey season was growing main office is at the Minnesota shorter. In his spare time, Kurt enjoys Landscape Arboretum, where one the outdoors and is particularly of the largest ornamental grass interested in Bigfoot. Kurt is also an collections is on display for the public. Arthur “Red” Motley Award winning instructor in the College of Liberal Arts.

28 University of Minnesota The American The Symbolic Shakespeare in Creating Music: Lawn Meanings of Film and Music An Introduction Money Erik Watkins, Adriana Zabala, Music Dean Sorenson, Music Horticultural Science Kenneth Doyle, Fall 2014 Fall 2014 Journalism and Mass MUS 1905, Section 002 Fall 2014 MUS 1905, Section 001 Communication 3 credits 3 credits HORT 1942, Section 001 MWF, 1:25 – 2:15 p.m. LE: Technology and Society Fall 2014 TuTh, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Ferguson Hall 123 3 credits JOUR 1904, Section 001 Ferguson Hall 225 West Bank, Minneapolis Monday, 12:50 – 3:20 p.m. LE: Global Perspectives West Bank, Minneapolis 35016 Alderman Hall 405 3 credits 35015 Saint Paul MW, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Music is an integral part of our society. It accompanies everything from 35206 Murphy Hall 25 Think you don’t know Shakespeare? important life events to the mundane East Bank, Minneapolis Chances are that today alone tasks of daily life. Where does all This seminar will examine the American you’ve uttered a dozen words 26249 this music come from? It must be Lawn in terms of its history, impact or phrases that he invented. In created before it can be downloaded, addition to being an integral on society and the environment, Do you ever wonder why some people streamed, or otherwise consumed. and future. We will examine both the run away from money, while most element of the English language, In this seminar, we will study and environmental and economic impact people chase after it? Or why some Shakespeare’s work has discuss music from the ground up – of lawns. We will also discuss several people who could afford better buy transcended its original form in including the meaning of lyrics, the technologies related to the lawn and their clothes at Savers while others spectacular array in the worlds of form and structure of a song and other how they affect society. Some of the (who maybe can’t afford it) prefer film and music. In this seminar, elements that make a song unique. The music that we will study will be topics we will cover include low-input to shop at Gucci or Armani? Or why we will explore the breadth and contemporary and modern. Students lawns, pesticide fate, nutrient run-off, husbands and wives, and parents and depth of the countless ways in will regularly supply songs and music genetically modified lawn grasses, which artists have found inspiration children, so seldom agree on what to for class discussion. Assignments will and mowing technology. Students in Shakespeare by viewing and do with money? Understanding the include creating and recording original discussing major plays as film will explore these topics through field symbolic messages money sends to songs using songwriter apps or other trips, readings, class discussions, and people is the key to learning how to adaptations, and listening to available software. Understanding of interactions with people working in answer these questions. Whether your Shakespeare in music genres from music notation or music theory is not areas related to the American Lawn. interest is business, liberal arts, or Punk and Classical to Bluegrass required. Writing and in-class presentations a particular profession, this seminar and Opera. will give students opportunities to ought to be interesting and useful for Dean Sorenson is Associate Professor improve critical communication skills. you. Adriana Zabala has been a moth, and Director of Jazz Studies at the Students will be exposed to important a fairy princess, an indolent University of Minnesota as well as a prolific and highly sought-after technologies, learn about the science There’s truth to the rumor that aristocrat, a sword-fighting boy, and composer, arranger, trombonist, behind the technologies, and discuss a hapless, confused lover... and this Kenneth Doyle is a maverick. A former educator, and clinician. His most recent how these technologies can impact is just in her operatic experience monk, retired financial planner and work is First Place for Jazz, a new with Shakespeare! When she’s society. investment advisor, and a licensed and innovative method for beginning financial psychologist, he comes at not busy playing dress up and jazz players published by the Neil A. Eric Watkins’ research focuses on the the meanings of money from many shattering glasses, she is usually Kjos Music Company. He is frequently development of new low-input turf angles. Especially interested in cross- reading, writing, listening, watching, featured at festivals and conventions grasses for use in the northern United cultural meanings of money, he is speaking, singing, and moving in around the country and abroad, and States. His program is attempting to president of the Minnesota chapter of endless quest of enjoyment and maintains a full schedule of concert and recording dates as a Yamaha provide consumers with grasses that the Circumnavigators Club (limited to understanding of the great arts performing artist. need less water, fewer pesticides, people who have circumnavigated the of music, poetry, drama, film, and less fertilizer, and less mowing than globe), and has visited 55 countries. visual art. She finds Shakespeare typical lawn grasses. He teaches a generous companion in this several courses related to turfgrass endeavor, and even more rewarding management. with travel mates on the journey!

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 29 Chronic Illness in the United States: Humanistic and Scientific Perspectives From Cell to Society on Personhood

Joseph Gaugler, Adult and Gerontological Health Valerie Tiberius, Philosophy Fall 2014 clinical experts, and patients and their Melissa Koenig, Child Development NURS 1910W, Section 001 family members, we will obtain greater Fall 2014 together. We focus on specific content LE: Writing Intensive awareness of how to treat chronic PHIL 1905, Section 002 domains that allow us to investigate 3 credits illnesses. 3 credits how philosophical theory and empirical Tuesday, 12:20 – 3:20 p.m. TuTh, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. data are useful to each other in Weaver-Densford Hall 4-130 A developmental psychologist with East Bank, Minneapolis answering big questions about human East Bank, Minneapolis an interdisciplinary research focus, agency. 23240 Joseph Gaugler’s interests include the How do children develop the ability to longitudinal ramifications of family care decision-make? Do we enter the world Valerie Tiberius is Professor of As health care treatment and science for disabled adults, the effectiveness with built-in assumptions that others Philosophy. Her work explores the ways has advanced over the past century, of community-based and psychosocial will behave rationally, or morally? If so, in which philosophy and psychology the primary causes of death in the services for chronically ill adults and are these assumptions correct? These contribute to the study of well-being United States have shifted from acute their caregiving families, the social questions are partly psychological and and virtue. She is the author of illnesses to chronic diseases. This integration of residents in nursing partly philosophical. How we develop The Reflective Life: Living Wisely seminar will explore four of the most homes and other emerging models of is a question for psychologists; what With Our Limits (Oxford 2008) and common chronic illnesses among long-term care (e.g., assisted living, counts as a better way of thinking or Moral Psychology: A Contemporary the adult U.S. population with the family care homes), and developmental acting is a question for philosophers. Introduction (Routledge 2014). goal of understanding the biological methodology. When he isn’t working, Historically, philosophy and psychology mechanisms of, clinical treatment Joe spends time with his basset hound, were intimately related, but since the Melissa Koenig is Associate Professor strategies for, and psychosocial Bruizer, and his beagle, Samantha, fields have split, each gets criticized of Child Psychology. Her research ramifications of each type of chronic volunteers, and avidly follows the for having moved too far from the focuses on how children acquire illness. Relying on current scientific Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State other: philosophers are criticized for knowledge from other people. findings as well as interactive Nittany Lions football squads. not knowing enough about the real She leads the Early Language and presentations from basic scientists, world; psychologists are criticized for Experience Lab and writes on how lacking rigor and theoretical depth. children identify candidate sources In this seminar, we investigate the of knowledge, the conditions that contours of human agency by putting undermine their trust, their moral philosophy and psychology back cognition, and folk epistemology.

30 University of Minnesota What’s So Great Emerging Technologies in Israel The Politics About Classical of Disruption: Marvin Marshak, Physics Music? Violence and its Fall 2014 Alternatives Michael Kac, Philosophy PHYS 1904, Section 001 LE: Global Perspectives Anoop Sarbahi, Political Fall 2014 3 credits Science PHIL 1910W, Section 001 Tuesday, 2:30 – 4:25 p.m. LE: Writing Intensive Tate Lab 157 Fall 2014 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis POL 1905, Section 002 Friday, 1:25 – 3:55 p.m. 35011 3 credits Blegen Hall 225 MW, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. West Bank, Minneapolis Technological innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies. Social Sciences Building 278 34282 This Freshman Seminar Abroad will focus on challenges that people West Bank, Minneapolis face and how emerging technologies can work to address these 34611 Despite what you may have heard, challenges We will look at Israel as a “startup nation,” as it has classical music isn’t just a dry, arid the most new technological companies in the world relative to its This seminar introduces students to landscape of interest only to culture population. Students will explore themes of cultural comparison— the politics of disruption. It will cover snobs. The great masterpieces are differences between Israeli and US Upper Midwest Culture and both violent and non-violent struggles supreme products of the human how culture impacts perspective; how history, religion, and beliefs aimed at undermining the existing imagination touching on all aspects influence development; and how stereotypes and disparities political order and bringing about of the human condition — comic, displayed in the media compare to life in Israel. Over spring political change. We begin with an tragic, sacred, profane. This is music break, we will travel together to Israel to examine these themes examination of alternatives to political that has moved generations of and observe firsthand cutting-edge technologies in areas such as violence, comparing and contrasting

listeners to laughter and to tears, LEARNING ABROAD seawater desalination, biomedical devices, computer and Internet the approaches of three iconic figures while at the same time inviting security, military applications, solar energy, and more. By interacting of the 20th century: Mahatma Gandhi, them to contemplate and reflect with professionals and visiting cultural sites such as Old City Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. on its inner order and architectural Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, students will experience innovation at Nelson Mandela. Students will be grandeur. This seminar will present its source while developing more complex perspectives on culture familiarized with definitional, conceptual some of the great works of the and its impact on technology. and practical distinctions between classical tradition along with an various forms and manifestations of explanation of what makes them In addition to teaching introductory physics classes for first-year violent and non-violent struggles. Our so remarkable. No prior knowledge students, Marvin Marshak does research on the existence of discussion on political violence will be about music is required — just bring antimatter in the universe by studying the properties of subnuclear structured around four broad themes: a) an open mind. particles known as neutrinos. He is currently Director of the causes; b) conflict dynamics including University’s deep underground laboratory at Soudan, Minnesota, participation in, organization, use and Michael Kac is a musician and and the new neutrino detector facility at Ash River, Minnesota. He pattern of violence; c) consequences; composer with extensive experience has visited approximately sixty countries and has taught six previous and d) prevention and termination. in both the classical and popular Global Seminars, including three seminars in the Middle East. fields. From 1967-69 he played Anoop Sarbahi developed an interest electric harpsichord with the rock in political violence as a result of his band Mandrake Memorial, with close encounters with communal and whom he recorded two albums. sectarian violence in India. Ironically, More recently, he spent a number of India, where non-violence has deep years as part of a duo with guitarist cultural and historical roots, inspired Linda Cohen performing music in the world with its mass-based, non- an eclectic blend of styles. He also violent struggle for independence under performs regularly on the Twin Cities Mahatma Gandhi. Yet the country folk-music circuit. continues to suffer from violence rooted in gender, caste, class, communal, revolutionary, and secessionist sentiments. Anoop’s academic interests took him to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, UCLA, Harvard, and Stanford before he moved to Minnesota. When not engrossed in mundane matters, Anoop enjoys spending time with his non-violent “feline predators.”

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 31 Wars, Memory, and Constitutional The Science and Asian American Political Identities Meanings and Politics of Genetics Experiences in Israel and the Movements from and Reproduction Middle East the Revolution to Rich Lee, Psychology Murray Jensen, the Modern Tea Fall 2014 Postsecondary Teaching Ido Zelkovitz, Political PSY 1902, Section 001 Party and Learning Science LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the United States Fall 2014 Elizabeth Beaumont, Fall 2014 3 credits POL 1905, Section 001 Political Science PSTL 1942, Section 001 Friday, 10:10 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. 3 credits LE: Technology and Society Fall 2014 Elliott Hall N227 MW, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. 3 credits POL 1905, Section 003 East Bank, Minneapolis Blegen Hall 210 MW, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 3 credits 25764 West Bank, Minneapolis Science Teaching and Student Services TuTh, 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. 25577 Building 420A Blegen Hall 310 East Bank, Minneapolis This seminar examines the nature and West Bank, Minneapolis meaning of being Asian American in How do wars impact public opinion 23737 34901 the United States, with a particular in the Middle East? Is the Arab- focus on immigrant, refugee, second- Israeli conflict the only armed In this seminar, students will read, This seminar invites us to explore generation, and adoptee communities conflict in the region? And what was discuss, debate, and generally American constitutionalism from the that are unique to Minnesota and the the Arab Spring about, anyway? In engage with a myriad of issues American Revolution and 18th-century Midwest. Students will learn about this seminar, we will explore the surrounding the science of genetics founding to the disputes of the Tea the history, struggle, and success question of building political identity and the application of revolutionary Party and Occupy Movements in our of Asian Americans. Drawing upon in realities of national and religious technologies to human reproduction. own era. Along the way, we will examine psychological theory and research, as struggles and will discuss how those Students will explore topics and significant developments in rights, well as interdisciplinary ethnic studies struggles reflect in comparative controversies relating to the past, the boundaries of citizenship, and scholarship, the seminar engages narratives. The seminar will develop present, and future of human sexual the scope of political power, including students in a critical analysis of the methods from the historical school activity and human reproduction, and the abolitionists, the woman suffrage ways in which race, ethnicity, and of thoughts and will extend students’ how reproductive technologies (such movement, the labor movement, migration affect the everyday lives understanding of modern Middle as in vitro fertilization) have helped and the civil rights movement. In of Asian American individuals and East politics. shape our modern society. Through doing so, we will be particularly the use of both fiction and non- fiction families. interested in thinking about the role On the faculty at the University of literature, students will learn the details of constitutional ideas and conflicts Rich Lee’s research examines the Haifa, Ido Zelkovitz is the American- of current scientific breakthroughs such in shaping the American landscape; ways in which race, ethnicity, culture, Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) as “designer babies.” This seminar aims how the constitutional past shapes and migration affect the psychological Visiting Professor at the University of to engage students in an exploration our world, and the various roles that and social lives of Asian American Minnesota in 2014-15. An historian of their personal beliefs about the citizens, social movements, and individuals and families. He is most who studies wars in the Middle roles of science, the government, and political officials and institutions play in fascinated by how parents talk (or East, the Arab-Israeli conflict and also religious institutions on human constitutional dynamics. don’t talk) to their children about racial Palestinian politics and social history, reproductive rights. and ethnic issues, how individuals he has published widely on these Elizabeth Beaumont is Associate develop racial and ethnic identities, topics and frequently serves as a Murray Jensen is a Horace T. Morse Professor of Political Science. Her and how people experience and media consultant. He hopes that this Distinguished Teaching Professor of research and teaching focus on confront racism and discrimination in seminar will be a new and exciting Biological Sciences in the College of American constitutionalism, civic everyday life. His current work involves experience for students. Education and Human Development. engagement, and democratic theory. His teaching areas include entry- helping Hmong American parents Prior to joining the University of level biology and human anatomy become better parents. When not at Minnesota, she was a Research and physiology, and graduate level work, Rich spends time with his wife Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation courses in STEM teaching and learning. and two young children and, when time for the Advancement of Teaching, Jensen’s research areas focus on permits, rides his bike, sings karaoke, where she helped lead two national developing teaching strategies within and cooks meals without recipes. studies of civic education. She holds active learning environments, and a Ph.D. in political science from in 2007 he earned the Society for Stanford University and is recipient of College Science Teacher’s Outstanding a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, Undergraduate Science Teacher Award. Minnesota’s highest research award honoring junior faculty.

32 University of Minnesota Psychology of What is the Human This is Your Brain on Drugs Eating and Body Mind? Image Scott Burwell, Psychology Chad Marsolek, Rachel Clark, Psychology Traci Mann, Psychology Psychology Fall 2014 benzodiazepines, sleeping pills, and PSY 1905, Section 004 stimulants prescribed for ADHD. We Fall 2014 Fall 2014 3 credits will discuss their effects, prevalence, PSY 1905, Section 002 PSY 1905, Section 003 Thursday, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. and potential for misuse, focusing 3 credits 3 credits Elliott Hall N227 particularly on the college population. Friday, 10:10 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis Although we will occasionally discuss Wulling Hall 240 Elliott Hall N227 34343 these topics from a neurobiological East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis standpoint, prior detailed 26144 26145 This seminar will examine the mental understanding of neuroscience is not and societal consequences of drug necessary. This seminar covers the continuum of You are reading the description of a and alcohol use, both from the media’s human eating behavior, from hunger, seminar. That is, some part of you is and government’s perspective as Rachel Clark and Scott Burwell are starvation, and restraint, to binge eating capable of taking a series of shapes well as from the viewpoint of brain part of the psychology department’s and obesity, as well as body image. I as visual input, abstracting intended and behavior researchers. We begin Biological Psychopathology program. hope that during this seminar we can meaning from them, organizing the with the history of acceptance and Both teach introductory biological call into question several myths about information, and evaluating what prescription of certain substances in psychology and have ongoing research eating and obesity that you may believe. you’ve organized (e.g. “fascinating the United States. Then, we discuss projects that directly pertain to the We will discuss the media’s influence on seminar!” :). Your mind accomplishes the short- and long-term medical and topic of substance use and abuse. body image, as well as the development this task, not your lungs or heart, but psychological impacts that commonly Working at the Minnesota Center for of body image concerns. We will read what is this thing – “mind” – that is used substances such as cannabis, Twin and Family Research, Burwell’s about the famous starvation study capable of such complex internal nicotine, and alcohol pose for the research aims to understand how conducted on this very campus over information processing? Is it just individual. Psychological risk factors for the development of brain function 60 years ago, as well as the causes a flurry of activated brain cells? Is addiction will be a central theme (e.g., throughout adolescence influences and consequences of obesity. We will it something non-physical? When are people genetically hard-wired to decision making and how substance learn about the effectiveness (or not!) you think about it, one of the most become addicts?), and we will touch use may affect this developmental of diets, and about the little things that intriguing aspects of the universe on the relationship between mental trajectory. Clark’s research focuses on may be influencing our eating without us is that you can think, that minds illness and drug abuse. In the second genetics and neuroimaging, involving realizing it. We will talk about solutions operate as entities that appear to be half of the seminar, we will delve externalizing disorders (such as to these problems, and about what crucially tied to physical brains but into discussion of psychotherapeutic substance use disorders) and delay of healthy eating really is. that are also importantly different. drugs, such as anti-depressants, gratification In this seminar, we will examine Traci Mann’s research focuses on how conceptions of the human mind from people control and change their health- psychological, philosophical and related behaviors, and in particular, their neuroscientific perspectives. Can eating. She has conducted research science and critical analysis offer a on whether diets are effective, eating concrete and compelling specification disorder prevention, psychological of the human mind? factors that influence dieters’ eating, and whether comfort food actually Chad Marsolek investigates human makes people feel better. She is memory, vision and learning (as well currently doing research on ways to get as how emotional and social factors astronauts to eat more, which includes influence these abilities), from the a study that will be conducted on the perspective of how the brain underlies International Space Station. Her book, these abilities. His most influential Secrets from the Eating Lab, published work has been in uncovering by HarperCollins, will be released in important aspects of unconscious early 2015. versus conscious memory and left/ right hemisphere differences in the brain. His most important form of “sanity maintenance,” for both of his hemispheres, is live music, although he’s not quite sure how conscious or unconscious he is of such maintenance.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 33 Psychological Go Outside and Language and Communication Perspectives on Play! Technologies Working Women Connie Magnuson, School Yang Zhang, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Kristen Kling, Psychology of Kinesiology Fall 2014 decipherment, automatic speech SLHS 1942, Section 001 recognition and synthesis, text-to- Fall 2014 Fall 2014 LE: Technology and Society speech systems, human-machine REC 1905, Section 001 PSY 1905, Section 005 3 credits dialog systems, machine translation, 3 credits 3 credits MW, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. hearing aid and cochlear implant as Thursday, 9:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Shevlin Hall 110 well as assistive technologies that East Bank, Minneapolis Elliott Hall S160 East Bank, Minneapolis support users with language and 24407 East Bank, Minneapolis 35181 communication disabilities. Students 34597 will have opportunities to watch in- Do you like to play? This seminar is The interdisciplinary field of speech- class short videos and demos, conduct designed to introduce students to Are you male or female? Your answer language-hearing sciences has been speech analysis and synthesis labs, the great outdoors right here in the to this simple question will influence at the forefront of driving technological evaluate online text-to-speech systems Twin Cities. There are tremendous your experiences in the workplace. changes in our modern society. and machine translation systems, and resources available within an easy In this seminar, we will examine the In this seminar, we will study the observe brain imaging experiments in walk, bike, or bus ride/light rail of empirical studies that document history of language technology and small groups. This is an introductory- campus including local parks, state important gender differences in the relationship between language level course that does not require parks, and even a national park! There work. We will begin by learning about and technology that have shaped computer programming skills. are also outstanding agencies and gender differences, with a focus on and continue to shape our day-to- programs on and around campus with personality traits and cognitive abilities. day lives. We will discuss the social Yang Zhang is an Associate Professor opportunities for involvement and Next, we will focus on specific issues impact of technological developments in the Department of Speech- becoming connected and engaged such as the wage gap, prejudice from the invention of writing systems Language-Hearing Sciences and in the community. This is a hands-on, and discrimination in the workplace, to the cutting-edge applications of a faculty member of the Center in-the-field class where students work gender differences in leadership, the brain-computer interface. We will for Neurobehavioral Development together to develop and lead day trips impact of motherhood on women’s also examine the ethical implications at the University of Minnesota. He around the Twin Cities finding fun careers, and the influence of child of advances in language and specializes in auditory neuroscience outdoor activities to try. This seminar care on psychological development. communication technologies. Topics and the neural bases of language and meets all day for six Thursdays. We are This seminar will provide students include signs and symbols, script speech communication. with an important perspective on their off and playing on day one. I’ll plan the upcoming experiences as members of first few trips…the rest of the trips are the workforce. up to you. Are you up for an adventure?

For Kristen Kling, nothing is more Connie Magnuson is the director of the interesting than gender. She is Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies interested in both how men and program in the School of Kinesiology. women differ from each other, and how She is an avid outdoor person who men and women are treated differently believes in practicing what she teaches by others based on their gender. As and a world explorer who leads a senior in college she took a course learning abroad trips to Kenya, Costa titled, “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Rica and Belize. She also is the race Women,” which inspired her to pursue director for the Gopher Adventure Race. graduate studies that include a focus on gender.

34 University of Minnesota Not Just Child’s Play: The Serious Side of Arab Spain: Then Revolutions and Kids’ Culture and Activities and Now Human Rights in Latin America Teresa Swartz, Sociology Michelle Hamilton, Fall 2014 well as the ways in which they reflect Spanish and Portuguese Luis Ramos-Garcia, SOC 1905, Section 001 and reproduce inequalities. We will Studies Spanish and Portuguese 3 credits read both popular and accessible Studies Fall 2014 TuTh, 9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. academic sources that examine youth SPAN 1904, Section 001 Social Sciences Building 278 sports, schools, families, toys and Fall 2014 LE: Global Perspectives West Bank, Minneapolis consumer culture, media, friendships, SPAN 1905, Section 001 3 credits 26015 pageants, competitions, and other 3 credits MW, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. relevant topics. This seminar will be TuTh, 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Nicholson Hall 315 Soccer practice, hockey games, Lego largely discussion-based, and students Folwell Hall 123 East Bank, Minneapolis leagues, dance recitals, cartoons, will have the opportunity to develop East Bank, Minneapolis 34868 toys, friends, school, and video their critical thinking, analysis, writing, 34870 games – these are the activities and oral communication skills. Today, Spain is considered a part that fill children’s days, and that This seminar will examine how a of Western Europe, but this has not we often remember fondly. But Teresa Swartz is a sociologist series of revolutions in Latin America always been the case. Spain was under children’s activities and culture also interested in families and social (including those in Argentina, Muslim rule for some 700 years—the have a serious side. While providing support networks across diverse Chile, Columbia, Cuba, El Salvador, only European country whose native opportunities for fun, socialization groups. She is currently working Nicaragua and Peru) triggered a bloody language was Arabic and that shared and development, children’s everyday with a team of faculty collaborators response from military and civilian more commonality with the Muslim pursuits also teach them important and students on a project exploring dictatorships and how those, in turn, East than with the Christian West. lessons about values, goals, children’s extracurricular activities, were responded to by human rights The history of Muslim rule in Spain competitiveness, inclusion-exclusion, why kids participate in them, and how discourses, truth and reconciliation continues to affect the way Spaniards consumption, race, class, gender, and they affect children’s and family’s well- commissions, and methodologies (and other Europeans) think of much more. In this seminar we will being and lives. She is the Director of of historical memory. Although the themselves, Arabs, and the “East.” The explore children’s culture and activities, Undergraduate Studies in the Sociology major themes of this seminar will be centuries of Muslim presence on the paying close attention to the ways Department and is also a faculty based in Latin American economics, Peninsula has left a lasting legacy in they influence identity formation, member in the Asian American Studies culture, and politics, material will be in Spanish culture, and continues to relationships, priorities, aspirations, as Program. oriented toward the relation between shape contemporary Spanish attitudes the first and third worlds, and between to contemporary Muslim immigrants culturally (resistant) independent from North Africa, global politics, and communities and neocolonial their own position as a European multinational global discourses. nation. In this seminar, we will address the following questions: What does it Luis Ramos-Garcia is Associate mean to be a Western Muslim? Can Professor in the Department of Muslims and Christians live together in Spanish and Portuguese Studies and peace? What role do language, style adjunct Professor in the Human Rights of dress, and social customs have Program. He is an internationally as indicators of a person’s religion? recognized researcher, critic and author We will analyze historical and literary in the areas of cultural studies, human texts, films, and contemporary Spanish rights and theatre. Recent publications television shows, and the arts that include The State of Latino Theater in address this issue. the U.S. (London: Routledge, 2002); Homenaje al Festival Internacional de Michelle Hamilton has taught and Teatro de Cadiz (FIT of Cadiz, Sevilla- researched the Christians, Muslims and Spain, 2009); and Posmodernismo Jews of Spain for over two decades. y teatro en América Latina (Latin She has lived in Morocco, Israel American Theater Review, University of and Spain, as well as 20 years in Kansas, 2013). Southern California, where the legacy of Muslim Spain can be found in local architecture, food and agriculture. She regularly offers courses on the Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic literatures and cultures of Iberia.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 35 Genes, Climate, Internet: The Great Actresses Garbage, Information and Uncertainty of Big Data and Divas of Government, and Theatre, Film, the Globe Ansu Chatterjee, Statistics Opera, and the Fall 2014 will try to tease out the information. As Musical Ashok Singh, Veterinary STAT 1905, Section 001 with anything scientific, we must guard Population Medicine 3 credits against only hearing what we want to Elizabeth Nash, Theatre Wednesday, 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. hear. This is especially important when Fall 2014 Arts and Dance Amundson Hall 158 working with big data because of the VPM 1905, Section 002 MW, 9:05 – 10:00 a.m. East Bank, Minneapolis volume of voices that tend to speak at Fall 2014 VPM 1905, Section 003 35267 once. Hence, our main challenge will TH 1905, Section 001 MW, 6:05 – 7:45 p.m. be to learn how to quantify uncertainty 3 credits 2 credits What is “big data” and where does it and scientific skepticism while working MW, 9:05 – 11:00 a.m. Science Teaching and Student Services grow? How can we understand what with big data. Social Sciences Building 278 Building 420A it’s saying and, more importantly, West Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis what it isn’t saying? In this seminar, When Ansu Chatterjee was a 25799 we will explore several of the ways in freshman, biologists, physicists, It’s garbage: items we don’t need which modern massive data sets are computer scientists and statisticians This seminar highlights actresses anymore, the junk we think is useless. generated, with specific examples from rarely interacted with each other. But and divas from Byzantium’s Empress It’s the rejects we don’t want to genetics, climate studies, astronomy, then the big data tsunami hit, and Theodora in the sixth century to deal with. It comes from our homes, social networks and other internet- suddenly the need to collaborate was America’s Barbra Streisand in the businesses, government agencies, based phenomena. Big data can take born. Massive data sets show patterns 21st. The activities of their male and institutions like schools and many forms: tables of numbers, images that can only be revealed with modern contemporaries are well documented, hospitals. Every year, the United from satellites and neuro-imaging statistics, and the research of the field but the female performers have been States generates about 230 million machines, “likes” and “dislikes” and has subsequently morphed in new sadly neglected. The names of Sarah tons of garbage—about 4.6 pounds responses on internet-based social and unanticipated ways, which excites Bernhardt, Maria Callas, Meryl Streep, per person. What do we do with the media, download rates and website Professor Chatterjee. The intersection and Julie Andrews are generally garbage? Approximately 25 percent visit rates. In all these cases, there between computer science and recognized, but what about Isabella is recycled and the rest is buried, is much data, but is there significant statistics is where he spends most of Andreini, Lillian Gish, Marian Anderson, discarded, or burned. Does out-of- information? By employing basics of his time. and Josephine Baker? All have made sight mean it disappears and we statistics and computer science, we unique contributions to theatre, film, don’t have to worry about it anymore? opera, and the musical as leading Definitely not. It persists, remains female performers of their time. They in the environment and adversely were and are the role models who affects our health. In this seminar, inspire future generations. students will retrace the history of garbage from the Stone Age to For ten years, Elizabeth Nash was the Information Age; research the a leading coloratura soprano in economic, cultural, and environmental European opera houses. Currently, she impact of garbage disposal; and teaches Speech, Singing for Musical study possible futures of “waste” in Theatre, and Textual Analysis in the a sustainable economy. The issues Theatre Arts and Dance department. addressed are important because, for She is the author of the biographies the first time in Earth’s 4.7 billion-year Always First Class: The Career of history, a single species has radically Geraldine Farrar; The Luminous Ones: changed the Earth’s environment that, A History of the Great Actresses; if not reversed, may make the planet Pieces of Rainbow; The Memoirs of unsuitable for all living forms. Sylvia Olden Lee: Premier African- American Classical Vocal Coach; and Ashok Singh’s research focuses on Autobiographical Reminiscences of environmental and developmental African-American Classical Singers, toxicology. He is also interested in 1853-Present. establishing possible relationships between the evolution of human society and the increase in environmental pollution.

36 University of Minnesota What is College: The Past, Present, From Fashion to Fashioning a World: and Future of Higher Education Magazines and Literacy

Patrick Bruch, Writing Studies Tom Reynolds, Writing Studies Fall 2014 activities. Designed specifically for Fall 2014 “composed” objects, help us with WRIT 1908W, Section 001 first-year students, this seminar will WRIT 1910W, Section 001 our own writing? How is the rise of LE: Civic Life and Ethics, Writing combine academic skill building with LE: Writing Intensive the zine and e-zine responding to the Intensive personal and collective reflection on 3 credits evolving digital age? We will examine 3 credits the actual and possible purposes MW, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. all aspects of the magazine, including Tuesday, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. and values of higher education for Nicholson Hall 115 its art, political statements, target Lind Hall 320 individuals and society. East Bank, Minneapolis audience, and history. East Bank, Minneapolis 25522 25521 As a kid, Patrick Bruch got into trouble Tom Reynolds’ research and teaching for questioning authority. When he In this seminar, we will study examines ways that magazines and This seminar will introduce students went to college, he was happy to find magazines and other smaller other popular forms of writing “teach” to the intellectual projects of studying that questioning authority is central publications – some of which you’ve us how to live our everyday lives and and participating in higher education to the university’s mission of creating already read, some of which you with what cultural assumptions. He as a participatory institution by inviting new knowledge. This background haven’t – to discuss and write about is interested in exploring written and freshman into critical dialogue with informs his current research into the their significance as cultural artifacts. visual elements. He particularly enjoys past, present, popular, and academic ways that regular people influence How can magazines, when seen as working with first-year students. representations of higher education and shape powerful institutions, such and its civic purposes. We will examine as education. He studies writing, the shifting role of the university in the teaching of writing, and higher public life and the roles that students education, all with an eye on the power and other constituencies have played of regular people to create a world that in shaping the character of higher serves the interests of justice, fairness, education through writing and other and democracy.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 37 Model Aircraft Cosmic Nothing Design, Flight Test, Catastrophes and Analysis Lawrence Rudnick, Lawrence Rudnick, Astrophysics Astrophysics Brian Taylor, Aerospace Spring 2015 Engineering and Spring 2015 AST 1905, Section 002 Mechanics AST 1905, Section 001 2 credits 2 credits Thursday, 3:35 – 5:30 p.m. Spring 2015 Tuesday, 3:35 -5:30 p.m. Tate Lab of Physics B49 AEM 1905, Section 001 Tate Lab of Physics B49 East Bank, Minneapolis 2 credits East Bank, Minneapolis 53439 Tuesday, 3:35 – 5:15 p.m. 49777 Akerman Hall 313 Is “nothing” too wonderful to be true, East Bank, Minneapolis As if you didn’t have enough to worry as the great 18th century physicist about, this seminar will introduce you Michael Faraday pondered? Following Now ubiquitous, powered aircraft flight to many of the threats we face from the Bard, in this seminar we will make is only little more than a century old. In the Earth and space, from earthquakes much ado about “nothing.” From the this hands-on seminar, we will explore and volcanoes to asteroid impacts and birth of the Universe ex nihilo, to the the fundamentals of flight through supernova explosions. We will explore philosophies that find meaning in the design, flight test, and analysis some of the potential threats for which nothing, to the tangled history of zero of small, remote-control aircraft. we ourselves are responsible, such as over the centuries, to our beginnings as Initially, we will cover the history and climate change and nuclear war, and seen by theologies when even nothing fundamentals of flight through lectures others that we just make up, like alien was not. In our journey through the and discussion, answering questions invasions. Also on the agenda are how teeming vacuum, “nothing” is sacred, such as, “how do aircraft fly?” and we assess and respond to risk, and and will be both ventured and gained. “why do aircraft look so similar?” SPRING how to sleep at night with all of this Caution is advised, however, in telling Then, working in small teams, you will hanging over our heads. people that you’ve signed up for 2015 design, build, and flight test an electric “nothing”! remote-control aircraft. You will analyze Lawrence Rudnick is a Distinguished the flight tests to see if your aircraft SEMINARS Teaching Professor of Astronomy, Lawrence Rudnick is a Distinguished performed as expected, write reports, who still can’t believe he gets paid Teaching Professor of Astronomy, and present on the results. for thinking deep thoughts about the who still can’t believe he gets paid Universe. He enjoys teaching and for thinking deep thoughts about the Brian Taylor is a research specialist learning with students from freshmen Universe. He enjoys teaching and in the Aerospace Engineering and through Ph.D. candidates. His research learning with students from freshmen Mechanics department and is involves the observation of high energy through Ph.D. candidates. His research the director of the department’s objects, such as exploded stars and involves the observation of high energy Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV) lab, enormous structures with the mass of objects, such as exploded stars and which develops and operates several a quadrillion suns. He uses telescopes enormous structures with the mass of small, uninhabited aircraft in support around the world and in space, and a quadrillion suns. He uses telescopes of a range of research activities. He is also involved in a variety of public around the world and in space, and previously worked at the NASA Dryden outreach activities. is also involved in a variety of public Flight Research Center conducting outreach activities. and leading research in controls and dynamics including aircraft modeling, air data calibration, and optimal control allocation.

38 University of Minnesota Writing for the Life Genomics: Issues Innovation and Imagination Sciences and Applications in Ireland in Your Life James Curtsinger, Ecology, Nicole Letawsky Shultz, College of Biological Evolution, and Behavior Sciences Perry Hackett; Genetics, Spring 2015 Cell Biology, and Spring 2015 BIOL 1905, Section 001 Development BIOL 1905, Section 003 2 credits 3 credits Spring 2015 Monday, 3:00 – 4:55 p.m. Tuesday, 2:30 – 4:25 p.m. BIOL 1905, Section 002 Saint Paul East Bank, Minneapolis 1 credit 58755 52960 Wednesday, 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. East Bank, Minneapolis Issac Asimov said “No one suggests Sundials, Color Photography, Stethoscopes, iPods. Our world is 56213 that writing about science will turn the continually shaped by great ideas. Humans are naturally creative entire world into a model of judgment beings, but our brains can constrain innovative thinking through fear, DNA and genomes are discussed and creative thought. It will be enough the urge to conform, and the tendency to interpret information in in just about every modern context, if they spread the knowledge as widely familiar ways. This Freshman Seminar Abroad will explore biological from modern medical science as possible.” The goal of this seminar and social perspectives of creativity and innovation through studying and biotechnology to crime scene is for each student to spread a little familiar examples such as Apple and Disney Pixar. As a class we will investigation, law, medical insurance knowledge by writing a polished move beyond our natural constraints and travel abroad over spring policies, and ethics. In this seminar, 10-page paper on a biological topic break to Dublin to understand the rich Irish history of innovation we will consider interfaces between of their choice. To prepare for this across disciplines, including art, science and technology. Dublin is science, politics, religion, and the task, we will analyze examples of the emerging “heart of technology in Europe”—home to a slew of press. We will begin with recent technical and popular science writing, start-ups and to proven juggernauts such as Google, Facebook, and findings of science and medicine and LEARNING ABROAD talk about defining and researching Amazon. Learn why and how this shift from an agricultural-based then consider some ramifications topics, discuss voice, plagiarism, and economy has occurred. that you will encounter in your daily structure, and interview on-campus lives as genomics plays a larger role science writers. Peer review of student Nicole Letawsky Shultz is the Assistant Dean of College of Biological as applications develop. We will writing will be a major part of the Science’s Student Services. Her research interests include college discuss a variety of topics, including course. student development and organizational culture and innovation. She bioethics, genetic counseling, and CSI is an avid college sports fan who loves to run and do hot yoga. She in Minnesota, as well as DNA profiling James Curtsinger is interested in has taught this Freshman Seminar Abroad previously. in medicine, the future of retooling genetics, evolution, and the biology of plant and animal genomes, and of aging. He has published over 100 human evolution in the future. We will scientific articles and book chapters on try to develop personal strategies that various topics in evolutionary biology. will allow us to evaluate controversies He is a co-founder of Minnesota pertaining to recent findings and Citizens for Science Education, a non- applications of DNA technologies. profit organization devoted to improving K-12 science education. Perry Hackett has been a professor for nearly 30 years at the University of Minnesota. He is also a co-founder of two local biotechnology startup companies that focus on genome engineering for human gene therapy and animal biotechnology. He is especially interested in conveying to students the awesome possibilities of modern genetics and the importance of seeking answers to questions raised by science.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 39 Sowing Discord: GMOs in Europe American Indian Ways of Knowing the and the U.S. Environmental

Robert Brambl, Plant Biology Jay Bell; Soil, Water, and Climate Mark Bellcourt; College of Food, Agricultural, and Spring 2015 Natural Resource Sciences BIOL 1905, Section 004 Spring 2015 to control what is studied and how. 3 credits CFAN 1902, Section 001 Students will examine the historical, TuTh, 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the contemporary, and often adversarial East Bank, Minneapolis United States relationship between Native American 60803 3 credits and the traditional Western views of Tuesday, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. earth sciences to understand the social Logic, emotion, arrogance, apathy, and fear all play a role in how Coffey Hall 120 constructs that legitimize one set of American and European publics form opinions of genetically Saint Paul scientific protocols and beliefs over modified organisms (GMOs). This seminar will evaluate why only 55612 another. a minority of the American public rejects GMOs in the market and then compare American attitudes to GMOs to those of Europeans, American Indian peoples have Jay Bell is Associate Dean of Academic where opposition is far more widespread and intense. As a class, occupied “Turtle Island” or North Programs and Faculty Affairs for the we will travel to Germany and Switzerland over spring break to America for more than 20,000 years. College of Food, Agricultural, and explore these opinions by visiting research institutions, laboratories, Today, more than 800 American Indian Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). and connecting with scientists on both sides of the issue. We will nations have been recognized by the He has worked in such diverse areas consider the science and technology behind GMOs, their current federal government and more than as wetland ecology, mine reclamation, and possible future applications, an evaluation of the marketing 250 distinct languages are used. soil conservation, remote sensing, soil of GMOs in the US and elsewhere, and a consideration of risk Despite the great diversity, American salinization, soil mapping, and climate

LEARNING ABROAD assessment of GMOs in the context of public health. Both on Indian people share many common change. campus and while abroad, we will assess why the most extreme worldviews of the environment. They opposition to GMOs appears to be among German-speaking rely almost exclusively on Grandmother Mark Bellcourt is an enrolled member Europeans, possibly as a remnant of the German Romantic Earth to provide for their needs, and of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, movement’s tendency to connect human welfare with the purity of their worldviews tend to be more Mississippi Band of Ojibwe from White the natural world. holistic and inclusive than conventional Earth. His research has focused on Western science. However, Western indigenous ways of knowing math and Robert Brambl is a molecular biologist whose research is in the science has the prestige, privilege, science. He also coordinates a program areas of gene expression and the molecular responses of cells to and power to generate grants and for first-year students. physical stresses. He regularly teaches an undergraduate course in cell biology and has taught undergraduate seminars on diverse topics, such as the nature of scientific discovery and the history of the pseudoscientific eugenics movement. In 2013 he received the College of Biological Sciences’ Stanley Dagley-Samuel Kirkwood Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.

40 University of Minnesota Coral Reef Management in Belize DNA Science in the News Jim Perry; Fisheries, Wildlife, and Michael Bowser Conservation Biology George Barany, Chemistry Spring 2015 Spring 2015 CHEM 1905, Section 001 Spring 2015 CFAN 1904, Section 001 2 credits CHEM 1905, Section 002 LE: Global Perspectives Wednesday, 2:30 - 4:10 p.m. 2 credits 3 credits Science Teaching and Student East Bank, Minneapolis Tuesday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Services Building 530B 68012 Saint Paul East Bank, Minneapolis 56252 This eclectic seminar offers The overall goal of this Freshman Seminar Abroad is to help you freewheeling discussions and analysis integrate a scientific, managerial and cross-cultural experience into DNA is found in every known living about modern scientific developments one synthetic whole. We will learn about societal goals for coral reef organism, yet is the very molecule and historical contexts, with the point management, ways we put those goals into policies and practices, responsible for the incredible diversity of departure being the “Science Times” and ways we restore damaged reefs. The class blends a classroom found in life. Considering the central section of The New York Times, which is experience with field work on the Mesoamerican Reef in Belize. role DNA plays in biology, its impact published every Tuesday. on science, industry, and society is Jim Perry is a H.T. Morse Distinguished Professor of Water Quality not surprising. What may be surprising George Barany is a Distinguished and Environmental Management. His current research focuses on is that it is only in the past several McKnight University Professor who has climate change and the ways it interfaces with the concept and decades that technological advances been on the Chemistry faculty of the application of heritage at both the local and global levels. have allowed us to begin to fully University of Minnesota since 1980. realize the potential of genomics Previously, he was mentored at The research. As with many advances in Rockefeller University by Nobel laureate LEARNING ABROAD science, this quickly growing field R.B Merrifield. Barany has well over has raised a number of social and 350 scientific papers, reviews, and ethical challenges. This seminar will patents on his research in organic examine a range of DNA-related chemistry and chemical biology, and topics considering scientific, historical, has also published several New York social, and ethical perspectives. Topics Times crossword puzzles. will include the discovery of DNA, DNA in forensics, technology of DNA sequencing, genetically modified foods, and personal genomic testing.

Michael Bowser has been a member of the Chemistry faculty at the University of Minnesota since 2000. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses, including those related to analytical chemistry and biotechnology. His research interests include discovery of functional DNA molecules, neurochemical analysis and microfluidics

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 41 Impressionism in Paris and Do Our Childhoods Housing Matters Southern France Control our Destinies? Becky Yust, Housing Monica Fogg, Graphic Design Studies Megan Gunnar, Child Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Development DES 1904, Section 001 DES 1902, Section 001 LE: LE: Diversity and Social Justice, No LE: Global Perspectives Spring 2015 3 credits 3 credits CPSY 1905, Section 001 Tuesday, 2:30 - 5:15 p.m. Friday, 9:35 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis McNeal Hall 258 TuTh, 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. 67621 Saint Paul Institute of Child Development 105 59067 East Bank, Minneapolis Housing directly affects our physical 68296 This Freshman Seminar Abroad will explore the revolution and and mental health, our children’s educational attainment, our economic evolution of French Impressionism. We will examine how the “art Does what happens to you in the opportunities, our transportation climate” as well as developments in science and technology led to earliest years of your life affect who patterns and dependencies, and the a movement that transformed the art world with fresh depictions you are today? Some might say those environment. However, not all people of daily life. We will travel as a class to Paris and southern France early years are the most important are able to achieve the same levels over spring break to visit sites that served as inspirations for in your life, setting the course for life of well-being because of disparities impressionist painters, finding our own inspiration in bustling cafés, long physical and mental health. due to race, ethnicity, and class as tranquil gardens, the alluring Mediterranean Sea, olive groves, and Others have argued that those years they seek to obtain stable, secure, other notable landscapes. In both the Twin Cities and France, we will do not matter because we write over and affordable housing in supportive visit museums and discuss how and why Impressionism captured them like one might write over an the immediacy of experience. We will consider parallels in current neighborhoods and communities.

LEARNING ABROAD old file on a computer. What do we We will explore issues of power and technology advances and how these might influence creative really know about the importance privilege that contribute to those visuals. No previous art or art history experience is required, only an of those years? This is what we will disparities. Public policy at the local open mind and a willingness to learn and participate in the process. explore in this freshman seminar. We and national levels will be examined will touch on what we know about the as it both creates and minimizes social Monica Fogg is an artist (watercolor, encaustic, acrylic, woodcut, impact of early poverty, maltreatment, inequities in housing. This seminar and lithography) and designer/fabricator. She has taught courses deprivation, and poor care on the helps students to think ethically about in watercolor, drawing, painting, color theory, design, visual developing architecture of the human important challenges facing our society presentation and art history and led a Freshman Seminar Abroad brain. We will also consider how less and the roles and responsibilities of last year to France. Her work is in collections throughout the traumatic early experiences may affect the students to influence and maintain United States. the way we approach life and the an equitable community. We use expectations we have for ourselves and housing as the focus for this discussion others. Next, we will discuss why some because shelter is a basic right of all. people are resilient even in the face of Unfortunately, not all housing is created very serious early life adversity, while equal and we will discuss how this has others seem to succumb to even minor occurred. problems. Becky Yust has interests in housing Megan Gunnar, Regents Professor adequacy and affordability, housing and Distinguished McKnight University decisions and theory, energy Professor, is the current Director of the consumption and conservation, and Institute of Child Development. She has homeownership initiatives. She is also spent her career studying the effects currently the editor of Housing and of early life stress on neurobehavioral Society, the Journal of the Housing development in children. She is Education and Research Association. the principal investigator for The International Adoption Project. She is also co-principal investigator of The Early Experience, Stress Neurobiology, and Prevention Science Network.

42 University of Minnesota Water Quality Cities of the Design in Istanbul in the Czech Future: Republic as Urbanization in the James Boyd Brent, Graphic Design Influenced by the Developing World Spring 2015 European Union DES 1909W, Section 001 Water Framework Nikhil Anand, Geography, LE: Global Perspectives, Writing Intensive Environment, and Society 3 credits Directive Wednesday, 9:35 – 11:30 a.m. Spring 2015 McNeal Hall B9 Leonard Ferrington Jr., GEOG 1905, Section 001 Saint Paul Entomology 3 credits 59078 TuTh, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Spring 2015 West Bank, Minneapolis Discover design and its impact and significance in everyday life. This ENT 1905, Section 001 68429 Freshman Seminar Abroad will focus on design in Istanbul, Turkey, 2 credits where we will travel over spring break 2015. While on campus Wednesday, 6:30 – 8:20 p.m. With cities in developing countries set throughout the semester, we will form a comparative perspective by Saint Paul to absorb 95% of urban population looking at design trends in Minnesota and the Midwest. In Istanbul 60721 growth over the next twenty-five years, we will examine design in a broad context of design innovation, this seminar examines the unstable graphic design, architecture, surface design, and more and visit In this seminar we will (1) learn the future of urbanization in most of the the Grand Bazaar, the Blue Mosque, Hagia Sophia, and other parts geography and geology of major world. We will investigate the plans, of the city. In the aftermath of the Istanbul Design Biennial 2014, river systems of the Czech Republic imaginations, spaces and social we will critically examine the potential for design as a means of and the surrounding countries that experiences of this dramatic urban articulating meaning in our lives and culture. We will also explore the rivers flow through, (2) become century. How do proliferating urban the relevance of ethical and socially responsible design practice familiar with types and origins of populations sustain themselves in LEARNING ABROAD and the importance of design thinking and design creativity as water pollutants, (3) and read specific the cities of Latin America, Africa, responses to pressing issues in our times. goals and implementation activities and Asia? What kinds of effects do of the European Union Water Quality these populations have on urban James Boyd Brent is a practicing printmaker who has received Directive in relation to rivers in the politics, ecology and struggles for multiple awards for his work, including the McFarland Outstanding Czech Republic. We will read research justice? Instead of looking back on Teaching Award in the College of Design. In addition to graphic papers, study maps and google earth the past experiences of European design and surface design, he has taught freshman seminars for images, maintain a course moodle and American cities, we will explore more than ten years. site, and periodically interact with ongoing experiments in urban planning, students in the Czech Republic infrastructure development and using electronic media. Students will environmental governance in cities independently develop questions of the Global South. In so doing, we and explore concepts introduced in will discover new forms of citizenship, class, and will develop social networks development and sustainability that with students at Charles University in are currently unfolding in these cities Prague to better understand how local, of the future. national, and international policies influence opinions about managing Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the environmental resources. political and ecological relations that form and are formed by cities. In his Leonard Ferrington’s research interests first book project, he describes how the deal with biological monitoring and everyday management of urban water water quality assessments. His networks produce particular kinds of research is intended to develop government, cities and citizenship. His models that relate the kinds and new research explores the uncertainties abundances of aquatic insects to of climate change and management of specific environmental pollutants such waste in coastal cities. as increased organic enrichment, presence of toxic heavy metals and/ or acidification. He anticipates that students desiring to study abroad in the Czech Republic will benefit from topics covered in this seminar.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 43 Exploring Berlin Through the From the Tea Party The Revolutions of Silver Screen to 9/11: Historical 1989 Memory in the Rick McCormick; German, Scandinavian, United States Gary Cohen, History and Dutch Spring 2015 Spring 2015 Jean O’Brien, History HIST 1909W, Section 001 GER 1905, Section 001 LE: Global Perspectives, Writing Spring 2015 3 credits Intensive HIST 1903, Section 001 Tuesday, 4:00 – 6:30 p.m. 3 credits LE: Civic Life and Ethics Thursday, 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, 3:35 – 6:05 p.m. 3 credits East Bank, Minneapolis West Bank, Minneapolis Tuesday, 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. 67613 Explore Berlin and its history while studying German film in this West Bank, Minneapolis 67991 Freshman Seminar Abroad. Spend spring break in Berlin, the vibrant The communist dictatorships of East- cultural, political, and film capital of Germany. Learn about the Central Europe all collapsed within How do people arrive at their German film industry, a serious rival to Hollywood in the Roaring one amazing year without the action understandings of what happened in 1920s, and how it fell under state control, first under the Nazis and of organized mass movements or the past? This seminar focuses on how then in Communist East Germany. Later Germany was re-unified, military conflict. Even a year before, historical interpretations are negotiated the Soviet Union collapsed, and there was more prosperity--and no one would have expected these through commemorations, monuments, problems. While in Berlin, explore the Olympic Stadium, the Film developments to occur in 1989. This museums, reenactments, film, and Museum of Berlin, the Holocaust Memorial, remnants of the Berlin seminar will examine what caused the other access points to history for the Wall, Sans Souci Castle, and the famous Ufa and Defa film studios. end of the communist dictatorships general public. Foregrounding issues At home and abroad, you will discuss how German film has been in East-Central Europe, of Soviet intertwined with German history and politics, and how that role has of race, class, ethnicity, and gender, we

LEARNING ABROAD domination of the region, and of the will explore debates surrounding the evolved over time. Cold War division of Europe. With the production of historical memory. Very help of historians’ accounts, newspaper public contests over historical meaning Rick McCormick is a professor in the department of German, reports, and documents from East- in relation to events including the Civil Scandinavian, and Dutch, where his teaching and research have Central Europe, we will examine War, World War II, 9/ll and even over focused on German film, culture, and politics. He has been an various understandings of how and the naming of significant places such enthusiastic fan of Berlin since the 1980s, when he had a Fulbright why these remarkable events took as battlefields highlight the contested to do dissertation research in West Berlin. Over the years he has place. Assignments will include two nature of history as well as the powerful continued to do research in Berlin and he has led two Global essay exams, one short paper on how hold of historical interpretation across Seminars there. Western press media reported events a broad spectrum of society. in communist East-Central Europe during the Cold War, and another paper Jean O’Brien is fascinated with the analyzing a document from an East- problem of how people know what Central European critic or opponent they think they know about history. of communist government from the That fascination translated into 1970s or 1980s. books that tackled the question of the myth of Indian extinction in New Gary Cohen has been teaching about England – painstakingly documenting Central and Eastern Europe since the Indian survival in Massachusetts in late 1970s. Dissertation research her first, then in debunking that myth first brought him to Prague in 1972, a through an analysis of historical writing particular low point after the Soviet-led in her second. This has led to her invasion of 1968. Later in the Cold War current interest in historical memory, era, he visited Czechoslovakia, Hungary, particularly in grappling with how and Yugoslavia repeatedly, living with access points to history for the general police surveillance and seeing the public such as museums, monuments, weaknesses of the communist systems, commemorations, documentaries, and but never expecting them to fall. His Hollywood films shape understandings writings on modern Central and East- of history. Central European history have been published in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Russia, and France as well as the United States.

44 University of Minnesota The Symbolic Linguistics and Socrates and Are We Free? Meanings of Biology Philosophy Freedom, Race, Money and Incarceration Jeanette Gundel, Sandra Peterson, in U.S. Literature Kenneth Doyle, Linguistics Philosophy Journalism and Mass Spring 2015 Spring 2015 K.C. Harrison, Communication LING 1910W, Section 001 PHIL 1905, Section 001 Postsecondary Teaching and Learning Spring 2015 LE: Writing Intensive 3 credits 3 credits WF, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. JOUR 1904, Section 001 Spring 2015 Friday, 1:00 – 3:30 p.m. West Bank, Minneapolis LE: Global Perspectives PSTL 1907W, Section 001 East Bank, Minneapolis 67469 3 credits LE: Diversity and Social Justice in the 60704 TuTh, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. United States, Writing Intensive Socrates was executed in 399 B.C. on Murphy Hall 25 3 credits Before the Chomskian revolution in a charge, among others, of corrupting East Bank, Minneapolis East Bank, Minneapolis linguistics in the early 1960s, the the youth of Athens. In his defense 60162 60087 connection between linguistics and speech at his trial as depicted by biology was largely restricted to the Plato in the Apology, Socrates says he Do you ever wonder why some people From the time of the nation’s founding study of the anatomical properties spent his life questioning others about run away from money, while most on the premise that “all men are of the human vocal tract involved in what was the best way to live. This people chase after it? Or why some created equal” – while excluding the articulation of speech sounds. In seminar will examine the depiction of people who could afford better buy African Americans, American Indians, recent decades, however, the relation Socrates in some dialogues of Plato their clothes at Savers while others and other people of color from the between linguistics and biology has and other writings of Xenophon. Both (who maybe can’t afford it) prefer rights of citizenship – the relationship begun to focus on the biological were younger friends of Socrates. to shop at Gucci or Armani? Or why between race and freedom in the basis of human language, including One question that we will consider is husbands and wives, and parents and United States has been complex and connections between evolution of whether the descriptions of Plato and children, so seldom agree on what to contradictory. In this seminar, we will language and that of the human of Xenophon help us to understand do with money? Understanding the explore the experience of incarceration brain, and possible existence of why Socrates –who is considered a symbolic messages money sends to from the perspectives of a diverse array “language genes.” In this seminar, founding figure of Western philosophy people is the key to learning how to of twentieth-century American authors, we will examine the connection and and whose ideas have been influential answer these questions. Whether your including Angela Davis, Ernest Gaines, relationship between linguistics and for the centuries that followed his interest is business, liberal arts, or Jimmy Santiago Baca, Mitsuye Yamada, biology over time, with specific focus death – could be charged with a particular profession, this seminar Luis Valdez, Moustafa Bayoumi, and on how this reflects development corrupting young people. ought to be interesting and useful for Michelle Alexander. We will engage of the field of linguistics as well you. with the origins of racial thought and as more generally the nature of Sandra Peterson’s main research area the impact of social constructions of interdisciplinarity. is ancient philosophy. Currently, she is There’s truth to the rumor that race on historical and contemporary working on the way the ancient writer Kenneth Doyle is a maverick. A former events such as Jim Crow, the Japanese Jeanette Gundel has been teaching Xenophon, who was Socrates’ friend, monk, retired financial planner and Internment, the War on Drugs, and the linguistics at the University of depicts Socrates’ relation to philosophy. investment advisor, and a licensed War on Terror. financial psychologist, he comes at Minnesota for over 30 years. Some of her thoughts about Socrates She has always been interested are in her book, Socrates and the meanings of money from many K.C. Harrison teaches American in how language interacts with Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato angles. Especially interested in cross- and global literature in addition to other cognitive systems and in its (Cambridge University Press, 2011). cultural meanings of money, he is interdisciplinary First Year Experience biological basis. She has published president of the Minnesota chapter of courses. Her research addresses over 60 articles and currently the Circumnavigators Club (limited to the use of audiobooks and podcast serves as Director of the Institute of people who have circumnavigated the technology in the classroom. Her Linguistics and Associate Director of globe), and has visited 55 countries. interest in literatures of immigration the Center for Cognitive Sciences. and global perspectives intersects productively with her work in the classroom emphasizing the power of multiple voices in a collaborative learning environment.

Freshman Seminars 2014-2015 45 Alpha Wives and Backstage Pass to London: From Aquatic Toxicology, Tiger Moms the Guthrie to the Globe Water Safety, and Society Ann Meier, Sociology Dennis Behl, Theatre Arts and Dance Ashok Singh, Veterinary Spring 2015 Spring 1905 Population Medicine SOC 1905, Section 001 TH 1905, Section 001 3 credits 3 credits Spring 2015 TuTh, 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Thursday, 9:30 – 9:30 p.m. VPM 1905 Section 001 West Bank, Minneapolis West Bank, Minneapolis 2 credits 67655 68102 MW, 9:05 – 10:00 a.m. East Bank, Minneapolis In recent decades, women have Since the time of Ancient Greece, people have gone to the theater— 67658 entered the workforce en masse, once- the crown jewel of the performing arts. Cast, crew, and audience rigid gender roles have loosened, and work together to create a world for a night, and then it vanishes, Water-sediment interaction in the the marriage bargain has changed. remaining only in the memories of those who shared the experience. environment sets the boundary Still, longstanding cultural ideas about Theater can’t be recorded in the same way that literature or film conditions for life, as water and the women’s unique nurturing capabilities can, one reason going to see a play is such a magical experience. nutrients extracted from rocks are and amped-up expectations for In this class, students will not only see great performances but will essential to all known life forms. parenting result in an unsustainable learn about the many components that make a great performance. Therefore, pollution of water and proposition for women: a time- Students will travel from the Twin Cities—America’s biggest theater sediments may adversely affect their intensive career + intensive parenting. hub outside New York—to London and get a backstage experience in dwellers as well as the humans. Water- This seminar will explore the historical two of the greatest theater cities in the world. Along the way they’ll sediment interaction may also affect underpinnings and contemporary state learn about artists from Tyrone Guthrie to William Shakespeare the fate and transport of pollutants of couple dynamics, family roles, and and explore Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon. No

LEARNING ABROAD that distribute between soil and water, the intersections between work and experience or knowledge of theater is required. Students should depending on the properties of the family. We will investigate typical and bring an eagerness to experience, explore, and enjoy the subject toxin, sediment characteristics and alternative family work and parenting matter. water chemistry. This may also pollute arrangements, and consider the effects the surface and/or underground of current arrangements on women, Dennis Behl has worked in the theatre as an actor, director, scenic drinking water supply. The overall aim of men, and their children. We will read painter, documentary film advisor, public relations consultant, this seminar is to discuss anthropogenic and critique a series of important producer, and dramaturg. He has served a number of arts pollution of the environment, sediment books on these topics, and we will talk organizations including the Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Opera, Jungle and surface/underground water and via web chat with the books’ authors. Theatre, Theatre in the Round, Weisman Art Museum, and KTCA– ensuing toxicity in aquatic animals and Public Television. His theatre studies have taken him to England, humans After completing this course, Ann Meier has been a professor in Ireland, and Russia. His Freshman Seminar in London draws upon students will be able to apply toxicology the Department of Sociology for over his academic research in design for the stage and fifteen years of principles to global environmental 10 years. Her research focuses on professional experience at the Guthrie Theater. issues, identify factors affecting toxicity contemporary families and adolescent in aquatic/sediment organisms, culture including topics such as understand pollution of drinking water family conflict, family influences on and water safety, describe modes adolescent health and well-being, of action of toxic chemicals, types children’s influences on their parents, of effects from the molecular to the adolescent sexuality, and relationship ecosystem level, and understand the similarities among straight and gay/ scientific basis for and limitations of lesbian or bisexual people. Two current environmental remediation. projects examine 1) the role of families in children’s out-of-school activity Ashok Singh’s research focuses on participation; and 2) the changing environmental and developmental nature of men’s and women’s roles in toxicology. He is also interested in the family. establishing possible relationships between the evolution of human society and the increase in environmental pollution.

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