2019-2020 BSC Catalog
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186 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS<br />
HON 249 IA Literature, Visual Arts, and Digital Images (1)<br />
A survey of various approaches to the relationship between verbal and visual arts from<br />
the Middle Ages to the present, including emerging relationships between literature and<br />
digital media. Study includes works in one medium inspired by those of another, works in<br />
visual and verbal media from the same period, and artists of multiple forms. An<br />
Interpretation or Analysis designated course. Prerequisite: Harrison Honors Program.<br />
HON 250 GP History of Documentary Film (1)<br />
An introductory survey of documentary film. The course will focus on some of the major<br />
developments in documentary practice, while also considering a number of theoretical<br />
issues in the documentary tradition, including the problem of objectivity, the relationship<br />
between the documentary image and reality, and the mixing of fiction and nonfiction<br />
modes. The goals of this course are to introduce students to the important historical<br />
trends and concepts and to help develop the critical and analytical skills needed to<br />
understand the structure, style, and rhetorical strategies of documentary film. A Global<br />
Perspectives and Leadership Studies designated course. Prerequisite: Harrison Honors<br />
Program.<br />
HON 282 GP Disputers of the Dao: Major Texts in the Confucian, Buddhist, and<br />
Daoist Traditions in East Asia (1)<br />
The historical development of the major philosophical and religious traditions of East<br />
Asia (Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) taught through the reading of a selection of<br />
their fundamental texts. The focus will be the texts, the major doctrines and schools of<br />
these traditions, and the patterns of their historical development in China, India, Japan,<br />
and Korea. A Global Perspectives designated course. Prerequisite: Harrison Honors<br />
Program.<br />
HON 284 CI Psychology of Mass Media (1)<br />
A seminar examining the intersection between mass media and human psychology. The<br />
course explores how children, adolescents, and adults process and respond to mass media<br />
with emphasis on cognitive, social, behavioral, and personality theories. Topics include<br />
the impact of media on identity development; the ways that media representations of<br />
gender, race, and class affect our social and cognitive constructions of groups; the<br />
influences of media exposure on human behavior; and the role of the active audience in<br />
media consumption and creation. This course will highlight the interaction between the<br />
media and audience, focusing not only on how mass media shapes human psychology,<br />
but also how the psychology of the audience shapes media. A Community Interests<br />
designated course. Prerequisite: Harrison Honors Program.<br />
HON 285 Why People Believe Weird Things (1)<br />
An interdisciplinary examination of how we come to believe a range of extraordinary<br />
(“weird”) and rather ordinary claims about human behavior. Students will learn how to<br />
use the philosophy and methods of science to address the question of how we know what<br />
is and is not so, tackling a host of odd, paranormal, and popular (but erroneous) claims<br />
along the way. The aim is to show why these principles are so powerful, how anyone can<br />
put them to use, and why they are good “whys” to begin with. We will examine how a<br />
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