Intro to World Art

An introduction to art from around the world, including paintings, sculptural works, architectural sites, as well as ritual practices, performance, devotional objects, cultural artifacts, religious sites, memorials, and other diverse forms of creative expression. The course covered an immense period of human history and required students to become familiar with the cultural, political, and historical role that an art object played in its original context.

Honors Social Perception & Cognition

A systematic review of research and points of view in regard to major problems in the field of social cognition. The course covered major theories in the field and the empirical evidence in support of them. Students were challenged to understand the theories, to recognize their scholarly significance, to infer their implications, and to think critically about them.

Honors Invention:

A course asking how should we understand creativity, imagination, and invention? This course examined creativity in a variety of contexts, both scientific and artistic. It drew on the best work in a number of disciplines, principally rhetoric but also philosophy of science, literary theory, economics, and intellectual history. Students developed projects on case studies of their choosing. Read my paper here.