Upper-Level BHP Courses Fall 2024
BHP 206 Politics and Literary Form
Professors Frank Rusciano (Politics) and Seiwoong Oh (English)
MW 2:50 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
Substitutions: CAS-Social or Lit | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
Students will analyze literary texts in the context of selected political periods and ideologies, going beyond literary content to understand how language, genre, and structure mirror, otherwise represent, or criticize the political order within which the author writes.
BHP 212 Children and the Media
Professors Cara Demant (Psychology) and Aaron Moore (Communications)
TTH 1:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Substitutions: CAS- Social | EDU- Social Science or General Studies | NBCB- Social Science or Liberal Arts
This course examines how children and adolescents use and understand media and analyzes the role of media in their social and cognitive development. After studying the socializing presence of the media, students will analyze how exposure to television programs, movies, magazines and the Internet shapes children’s socio-emotional development and their understanding of cultural norms. This course will also explore the effects that media use has on children’s health, aggressiveness, and academic performance.
BHP 305 Representations of Disability
Professors Laurel Harris (English) and Lauren Delisio (Education)
MW 1:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.
Substitutions: CAS-Lit | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
This course explores how literature, film, television, and other media (i.e., podcasts, blogs, etc.) portray disability in ways that contribute to –or challenge– clinical concepts. This course particularly attends to the representation of the education of students with disabilities, and to how literary and cultural texts aim to educate their readers and viewers about disability.
BHP 318 Bible as Literature and Philosophy
Professors Vanita Neelakanta (English) and Daniel Garro (Philosophy)
Wednesdays 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Substitutions: CAS-Lit or Philosophy | EDU-Lit | NBCB-Humanities or Liberal Arts
Discusses selections from the Old and New Testaments alongside philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the existentialists. Stories from the Old Testament such as the Fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the sacrifice of Isaac, the exile of the Israelites and their exodus from Egypt, the genesis of Satan, the trials of Job as well as New Testament passages on the miracles, the trial and execution of Jesus, the parables, and the foundation of the early church will be read alongside philosophical writings that engage with these texts.