Courses
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KHC HC 302: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Challenges II
68.5 million people were displaced from their homes by wars and persecution by the end of 2017. What disciplines and methodologies will help us understand this unprecedented global crisis' A premise of this course is that any understanding of the contemporary refugee crisis requires interdisciplinary study, and the most effective solutions are developed by teams like the interdisciplinary groups you will form in this class. The refugee crisis will provide a lens through which to understand nation/states, culture, identity, technology, trauma, and human resilience. Effective Spring 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Teamwork/Collaboration. -
KHC HC 451: Kilachand Keystone Proposal Workshop
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120), 3.0 cumulative GP A, B or better in prior Kilachand coursework. - KHC HC 451 will take students through the process of writing a research question or goal, doing preliminary research and writing an annotated bibliography, designing a feasible project, securing an advisor, and producing a convincing Keystone Project Proposal. Students will learn how to present the significance of their projects in clear language that non-specialists can understand. The Keystone Project Proposal is required of all students pursing the Kilachand Keystone Project, and is optional for students fulfilling the Kilachand Research Requirement through other pathways. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course. -
KHC HC 501: People in Process: Lives & Works
Students discuss case studies that highlight the impact of innovative research on culture and examine the major challenges that face our society, from access to higher education to health care to race and gender in the workplace. The course also supports students ongoing work on their senior projects. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following Hub area: Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings. -
KHC HC 502: People in Process: Choice and Change - Writing Intensive
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120) - Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions by crafting written arguments with attention to modes of expression and range of genres. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Writing- Intensive Course. -
KHC HC 503: Keystone Independent Study I
All Kilachand students complete a substantial work of empirical or scholarly research, creativity, or invention by the close of their senior year. Kilachand students enroll in KHC HC 503 as an independent study with their Keystone Project advisor in the fall of their senior year. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation. -
KHC HC 504: Keystone Independent Study II
All Kilachand students complete a substantial work of empirical or scholarly research, creativity, or invention by the close of their senior year. Kilachand students enroll in KHC HC 504 as an independent study with their Keystone Project advisor in the spring of their senior year. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation. -
KHC HC 512: People in Process: Choice & Change - Oral/Signed Communication
Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions through oral communication with attention to argumentation and public speaking. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Oral and/or Signed Communication. -
KHC HC 522: People in Process: Choice & Change - Digital/Multimedia Expression
Explores the challenges, choices, and influence of an individual who has had an impact on the student's educational decisions through digital/multimedia design with attention to argumentation and communication technologies. Effective Spring 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Digital/Multimedia Expression. -
KHC HI 102: The Culture of World War I
Studies World War I through works of literature, art, and music. Themes include initial optimism, the brutal reality of the trenches, and consequences of the peace. Works by Owen, Sassoon, Brooke, Kandinsky, Picasso, Grosz, Stravinsky, Butterworth, Freud, West, Junger, Celine. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
KHC HI 104: Urban Youth in the Middle East
Examines social, economic, political, religious, and gender issues urban youth in the Middle East face in the 21st century given the escalation of violence and the stark economic inequalities impinging upon them, but also the many new opportunities available. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. -
KHC HI 105: The Zapatista Rebellion
This course will study the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico, 1994--2010. Out of what processes and conditions did it grow, with what actions and imaginaries on the part of indigenous activists and communities, as well as their allies and opponents' Studying one major historical event in depth will enable us to consider different ways of seeing and interpreting the event and to consider what it means to undertake wide-ranging social inquiry. Effective Fall 2023, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas Digital/Multimedia Expression, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. -
KHC HI 106: Solving the Problem of Cornerville' Street Corner Society
This seminar will examine ¿The Problem of Cornerville¿ (Boston¿s North End) as formulated by William Foote Whyte in his 1943 ethnography Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. In the process we will explore a variety of topics including immigration policy and history, the early Progressive movement, `slumming,¿ urban sociology, theories of crime and deviance, racial formation, and gentrification. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. -
KHC HI 107: Global History of a Movement
It is difficult for us in our historical moment to discern the degree to which the social, political, economic, and intellectual life of the world was riven by conflicts between competing ideologies/movements as they imagined the future of the global system. Through careful attention to our shared archives of art, fiction, and primary-source texts, this course will explore movements like communism, feminism, and decolonization across time and space in order to understand these movements as global phenomena that continue to structure the unfolding of history in our present. Effective Fall 2023 this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy. -
KHC IR 102: Spies and Terrorists of Boston
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will examine various important, impactful, and, in some ways, underappreciated espionage activities and terrorist events that germinated, received support, or otherwise occurred in the Boston metropolitan area. Please note: This course requires students to (1) take a mandatory four-hour field trip of Boston spy sites with the professor on a weekend and (2) participate in three one-hour oral briefing practice sessions with the professor to be scheduled in the evenings outside of class. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Oral and/or Signed Communication, Ethical Reasoning, Teamwork/Collaboration. -
KHC IR 104: The Ethics of War and Political Violence
This course surveys key debates in the ethics of war and political violence. When, if ever, is resorting to war justifiable' How should wars be fought' Are these two questions at all interrelated' Does it even make sense to speak of the ethics of war and political violence' Are arguments for pacifism or nonviolence, for example, more compelling' Are these hopelessly political questions, unsuitable for ethical consideration' Throughout this course, we will study a range of perspectives on these issues¿many of which have informed international law, including the Charter of the United Nations and the Geneva Conventions. In the process, we will also address topical debates in international ethics, including the ethics of self-defense and preemptive war; humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect; combatant liability and noncombatant immunity; ¿proportionality¿ in collateral damage; guerrilla warfare and terrorism; and more. Course materials draw widely from political philosophy, international law, literature, and film. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Critical Thinking, , Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings. -
KHC LW 102: Marriage, Families & Gender: Contemporary Legal and Social Controversies
This seminar will critically examine the family, marriage, and gender by asking several basic questions: What is family' What is marriage' Why do family and marriage matter to individuals and to society' What role does or should law have in supporting and regulating families and marriage' In defining parenthood' How do new technologies that provide new pathways to parenthood (assisted reproductive technology, or "ART") and new forms of control over reproduction (such as genetic testing and screening) pose ethical and legal challenges and how should law address those challenges' Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking. -
KHC LW 104: Citizenship, Immigration, and the Constitution
In this seminar, we will examine constitutional questions concerning (1) the acquisition and loss of citizenship status, and (2) the privilege or right of entry into the United States. Throughout, we will consider the ethical and constitutional principles that have shaped rules governing national membership and entry into the United States. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. -
KHC MU 104: Race, Gender, Music, and the Making of Latin America
Students will examine the relationship between musical practice and ideas of race and gender in Latin America from the 16th century to the present day, with particular focus on the process by which music is enlisted in nationalist projects. They will consider the ways in which music dramatizes gender roles and relations -- of attraction, repulsion, and separation -- among people of European, African, Amerindian, and mixed descent in Latin American societies and discover music's role in projects of missionization, racial "whitening," cultural nationalism, and cultural tourism. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Research and Information Literacy. -
KHC NE 102: Reading, Language, and the Brain
This course explores the scientific study of reading and language development--a richly multidisciplinary effort that bridges psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, and education--emphasizing the modern scientific effort to understand "the reading brain", the coordination of neural systems for vision, hearing, language, and memory. Specific topics include the history of writing, how different writing systems produce different reading brains, how brain injuries can result in specific impairments in language and reading, and how brain imaging is helping unravel the mystery of reading impairment. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking. -
KHC NE 104: VISION & ART
The course will guide students to learn about the neuroscience and neurology of eye and brain functions and disfunction and will discuss their relationship paintings. We will discuss the effect of eye and retinal diseases on the painting of Degas, Monet, ElGreco, Georgia O'Keefe, and the blind Turkish painter (E.Armagan) who sees by touch. Impairments of cortical visual functions will be associated with discussion of the paintings of great masters such as Rembrandt, Bacon, and Van Gogh. Virtual and real visits to Art Museums. Effective Spring 2022, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Scientific Inquiry I, Teamwork/Collaboration.
