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HUB CC 161: Cocurricular: The Innovation Pathway: Discovering and Validating Innovative Ideas
Students explore the innovation pathway process and apply the tools embedded in this process towards creating a product or service. Students can apply these tools to a non- profit or for-profit venture, or to an idea they would like to explore. As part of the process, students identify a market need, conduct customer interviews and market research to validate the need, propose and validate a solution, pitch and refine the idea, and present their product or service. In addition, students reflect on the creation and learning process. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation. -
HUB CC 162: Cocurricular: Innovation for Social Impact: Applying the Design Thinking Process Towards Social Challenges
This cocurricular experience allows students to investigate social challenges and develop impactful solutions. Through activities, discussions, readings, and reflections, students explore creativity and innovation methods, examine individual and collective behavior, and engage with diverse communities. Students also complete a capstone project in which they draft a design challenge, apply the design thinking process, and set personal and project goals. In addition, students assess personal and institutional factors that support or inhibit creativity. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation. -
HUB CC 180: Cocurricular: Living History: Discovering, Processing, and Curating Archives in the Gotlieb Center
Students explore the rich resources of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and make discoveries in the archives. Through activities, discussion, and reflection, students evaluate archival materials, assess their condition, gather information related to their content and context, and present the materials in an online exhibition. Students learn how to gather and analyze information and interpret their findings to a broader community. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Research and Information Literacy. -
HUB CC 181: Cocurricular: The Core Docent Program I
The Core Docent Program allows students to explore and share their understanding of how works at the Museum of Fine Arts and other Boston museums engage with the texts studied in CAS CC 101 and CAS CC 102. Core Docents learn to look, reflect, interpret, organize, design, and articulate visual art by participating in, assisting with and finally designing and leading guided tours for Core students and other selected populations. As the first semester of a year-long cocurricular experience, HUB CC 181 is a prerequisite for HUB CC 182 and does not carry a BU Hub unit. -
HUB CC 182: Cocurricular: The Core Docent Program II
The Core Docent Program allows students to explore and share their understanding of how works at the Museum of Fine Arts and other Boston museums engage with the texts studied in CAS CC 101 and CAS CC 102. Core Docents learn to look, reflect, interpret, organize, design, and articulate visual art by participating in, assisting with and finally designing and leading guided tours for Core students and other selected populations. Students must have taken HUB CC 181 as a prerequisite for HUB CC 182. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB CC 192: Cocurricular: Collegiate Publishing Workshop: The Journal of the Core Curriculum
In this hands-on publishing experience, students produce The Journal of the Core Curriculum--the annual anthology of the Core Curriculum--while reflecting on how social and professional aspects of publishing mediate the relationship between individuals and communities. Students must have taken at least one Core Curriculum course as a prerequisite for HUB CC 192. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB CC 282: Cocurricular: Public Health Education and Identity with the Boston Student Community
Students explore the relationship between global and community public health issues through experiential and service learning. As part of this experience, students facilitate public health lessons for youth participants in Boston Area Health Education Center programs. Through workshops, discussion, and reflection, students enhance their understanding of how their identities impact their work, how they perceive global health challenges, and how communities interact with the world at large. This Hub cocurricular fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: The Individual in Community. -
HUB XC 433: Cross-College Challenge (XCC) Projects
The Cross-College Challenge (XCC) is a unique project-based learning experience in which interdisciplinary student teams from across BU's undergraduate colleges tackle real-world problems and develop marketable leadership, team work, and communication skills. Students from any major collaborate with both on and off campus sponsors exposing students to current challenges impacting BU and the City of Boston in areas such as arts management, technology, entrepreneurship, environmental justice, and beyond. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Teamwork/Collaboration, Creativity/Innovation, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. -
KHC AH 101: (MIS)REPRESENTING HISTORY IN ART
An examination of the ways that historical events have been depicted by artists from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on the intentional misrepresentation of events ("fake news") to serve the needs of the artists' patrons, usually ruling elites. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
KHC AN 103: Animals among Humans
This course, "Animals among Humans," complements a hitherto existing course, KHC AN 101, Human among Animals." Comparing and contrasting humans and (other) animals, It explores the relations between them, with emphasis on the experiences of the nonhuman animals themselves. [The other course, Humans among Animals, also explores human-animal comparisons, contrasts, and interactions, but it does so with emphasis on the experiences of the humans involved.] This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking. -
KHC AS 101: The Pluto Saga: Interactions Between Science, Society, Art and Religion
The change in Pluto's status as a planet generated controversies within the non-science community that far exceeded those among astronomers. This seminar explores the science behind the decision and the varied roles of evidence in reaching conclusions. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking. -
KHC AS 102: Energy: The history of a concept
Traces the development of the concept of energy from the 17th century till today. Explores how the concept of energy and the conservation of energy are central to our current understanding of the physical and biological worlds and the universe. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Scientific Inquiry I. -
KHC BI 101: Climate Change Biology in Massachusetts: What Would Henry Say?
This course will place Thoreau and Walden within the context of modern climate change biology research. Students will read Walden concurrently with papers on climate change and recent books to appreciate how Thoreau anticipated many modern climate change issues. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Quantitative Reasoning I, Critical Thinking. -
KHC CH 140: The Material World
Discussion of how matter (gas, liquid, solid) is cycled within the earth's systems in the context of human use of the earth's resources and contemporary concerns about sustainability e.g. ozone layer, rare-earth elements, hydrocarbon combustion, potable water, plastic recycling This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking. -
KHC EK 103: Mechanics on the Charles River Esplanade
An introduction to mechanics, the science of motion, using examples visible on the Charles River Esplanade. Introduction to the concept of force, and to the concepts of mass, momentum, and energy, and their conservation. Students will learn to apply these conservation laws together with dimensional analysis, scaling, and order of magnitude estimation, to a variety of physical systems in and around the Charles River Esplanade. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Quantitative Reasoning I. -
KHC FT 102: UnAmerican Cinema
This course seeks to understand American film history in light of one set of events: the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on communism in the film industry and the resulting industry blacklist. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy. -
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, J?nger, C?line. This course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness. -
KHC MD 101: Fractured Lives and Bodies: Forensic Anthropology, Disasters, and Human Rights
This course will explore the roles and responsibilities of forensic anthropology - a sub-discipline of anthropology that addresses medico-legal issues - in the context of global disasters, forced and voluntary displacements and migrations, and human rights. Namely, what are the varied geopolitical contexts in which forensic anthropologists participate in humanitarian response? What are the ethical issues involved in humanitarian work? How does forensic science in global human rights contexts differ from local applications? How can forensic anthropology contribute to post- disaster recovery? This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area(s): Scientific Inquiry I, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, 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. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area(s): 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. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area(s): Scientific Inquiry I, Social Inquiry I, Critical Thinking.
