Courses
The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.
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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 & Change - Writing Intensive
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 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 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 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? Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: 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. 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 103: Exploring our Visual System
This course takes you through the history of thought, art, experiments, and models that have explored the visual system, from seminal physiological studies and inspiring artworks to present day theories and controversies that exist in the vision community. The course is centered around an exploration of diverse journal articles, chosen to be representative of particularly notable epochs in the progression of our understanding from different aspects of seeing, perceiving, and the way our brain represents them. There is a lecture component, and then in the vision lab and discussion sessions, students are encouraged to explore the ideas put forth in the articles suggested, as a sort of curated journal club and lab exploration. Students also replicate and modify a selection of the models and appealing visual phenomena. -
KHC PH 103: Seeing Poverty
How do we understand poverty in modern America? Images of poverty might lead us to believe poverty is exclusively a problem of urban people of color, but what do historic and modern depictions of poverty in popular culture -- reality TV shows, or films tell us? How is data on poverty calculated and understood? This course will explore the ever-changing and ever-political sociological and public health issues of measuring poverty in America today. Using literature, film, photography, and public data sets, the course will explore the true meaning of "poverty." Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, The Individual in Community, Critical Thinking. -
KHC PH 104: Planning to Fix Health Problems
U.S. health care suffers anarchy because market competition and competent government action fail. Costs rise. Coverage and quality fall. You'll learn to prepare a plan to ameliorate a health problem by analyzing both its real causes and the efficacy/cost/political feasibility of possible remedies. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry I, Quantitative Reasoning I. -
KHC PO 102: How to Change the World
Explores how everyday people shape global politics, drawing on classic studies of political anthropology as well as more recent examples of transnational and digital activism. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Historical Consciousness, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Research and Information Literacy. -
KHC PO 103: Democracy and Capitalism in the United States
In this class, we will look at the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the United States. In what ways are capitalism and democracy complementary? In what ways are they in contraction? To address these questions, we will explore some of the philosophical and historical roots of both concepts through a series of case studies. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Digital/Multimedia Expression, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Teamwork/Collaboration. -
KHC PY 102: Chance, Fluctuations and Their Relevance to Our Daily Lives
Randomness is ubiquitous in our lives, from attending an outdoor concert when there is a 40% chance of rain to understanding the role of chance in income inequality. The purpose of this course is to introduce concepts and methods that will foster an understanding of chance and to provide the tools to draw informed conclusions from incomplete information. Effective Fall 2019, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking. -
KHC RH 101: Serious Comics: Graphic Narrative and the Representation of History
This course explores the use of nonfiction comics (also known as graphic narrative) to represent catastrophic history. Assigned texts include book- length works that use the comics form to depict the Holocaust, the Islamic Revolution, Hiroshima, the Bosnian War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Hurricane Katrina, the AIDS epidemic, and 9/11. Throughout, we will consider the impact of the comics form on our understanding of devastating history. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Creativity/Innovation.
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