First-year Kilachand students enroll in one seminar each semester. All Kilachand seminars carry BU Hub units and if you plan to use your Kilachand coursework as your BU Hub pathway, we recommend choosing seminars that fulfill Hub units unique from those offered by your major.<\/p>\n
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, such as \u201cfake news\u201d, to serve the needs of the artists\u2019 patrons, usually ruling elites.<\/p>\n
BU Hub Areas: Historical Consciousness, Aesthetic Exploration<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Based partly on ancient questions and long-debated ideas, and partly on new observations, experiments, and experiences of humans with animals at home, in institutions like zoos and parks, and in the \u201cwild,\u201d this course examines ways animals seem to experience humans, and ways they interact when under human influence.<\/p>\n Bu Hub Areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking <\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n This course leverages the relationship that students, who are not averse to STEM fields, have with music in order to turn them into GEEKS! It uses the electric guitar as a gateway to musical acoustics, electroacoustics, psychoacoustics and hands-on projects. No formal music training is required; the only prerequisites are the ability to appreciate music in some vaguely defined sense, and to try understand this appreciation with precise terms. The course will be supported by field trips, demos and projects.<\/span><\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Quantitative Reasoning II, Creativity & Innovation\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Prerequisites: High school calculus and physics<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Historical Consciousness, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thinking <\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral\/Signed Communication, Teamwork\/Collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Scientific Inquiry I, Quantitative Reasoning II, Critical Thinking<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n \u201cEnergy powers the world.\u201d This seminar explores that pithy statement, beginning with basic concepts and definitions. Students examine the history of human uses of energy, how energy arises in different realms (physical, chemical, biological), the primary sources of energy, how to transmit and store energy, and the politics of energy, seeking to answer the ultimate question: \u201cWhat should be the path forward to a sustainable, environmentally sound, equitable energy future?\u201d Students will demonstrate their understanding through problem sets\/short essays, a mid-term exam, and a final project.<\/span><\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Scientific Inquiry II, Ethical Reasoning, Critical Thinking<\/em><\/p>\n Prerequisites: Familiarity with high-school algebra is recommended, as is experience with any combination of high-school physics, chemistry, and\/or biology. Previous college-level course knowledge is not required and is not expected.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n What can the social and political ferment of the Sixties teach us about the issues of the present day? Do the ideals of 1960s radicals still ring true? Why did the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1965 lead to racial unrest rather than reconciliation, and how does this history resonate in the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter? Why did foundational American beliefs like Free Speech place idealists at odds with mainstream American society, and what lessons does the campus free speech movement of the 1960s have for student activists today?<\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Historical Consciousness, Individual in Community, Critical Thinking <\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n What is happiness? Can we hope to achieve it and how should we pursue it? We will study how happiness has been understood by different cultures over time, and students will engage with diverse authors and genres from scripture, philosophy, and social science. Students will write three essays, and keep a reading journal.<\/p>\n BU Hub Areas: Philosophical Inquiry and Life’s Meanings, Digital\/Multimedia Expression, Critical Thinking<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n Comparative approach to sacred space in world religions, examining pilgrimage, shrine architecture, literary and artistic representations, living saints, and violent incidents<\/p>\n BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Critical Thikning<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nKHC AN103: Animals among Humans<\/h5>
\nParker Shipton<\/a>, CAS Anthropology <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC EK104: Appreciation of Music in a STEM Context<\/h5>
\nRobert Kotiuga, ENG Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nKHC HI104: Urban Youth in the Middle East<\/h5>
\nBetty Anderson<\/a>, CAS History <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC IR102: Spies and Terrorists of Boston<\/h5>
\nJohn Woodward<\/a>, Pardee School of Global Studies<\/strong><\/p>\nKHC PY102: Chance, Fluctuations and Their Relevance to Our Daily Lives<\/h5>
\nWilliam Klein<\/a>, CAS Physics <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC PY104: Energy & Society<\/h5>
\nDavid Campbell, CAS Physics<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC RH102: A Nation Riven: Turbulence and Transformation in 1960s America and Today <\/h5>
\nCharles Henebry, CGS Rhetoric<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC RH104: The Pursuit of Happiness
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\nMatthew Parfitt<\/a>, CGS Rhetoric <\/strong><\/p>\nKHC RN102: Sacred Spaces<\/h5>
\nDavid Frankfurter, CAS Religion<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n